Great Tribulation Timeline Deception
Numbers 14:34 - According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.
Ezekiel 4:6 - And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year.
Genesis 5:5 - So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
Genesis 6:3 - And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 25:7 - And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Genesis 5:5, 5:8, 5:11, 5:14, 5:17, 5:20, 5:23, 5:27, 5:31, 6:3, 25:7
Reformation scholars from the 1500-1800 not only applied the Day-for-a-Year principle to the 70 weeks prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27, but also to the 3.5 years of Daniel 7:25, to the time of antichrist.
And they applied it to papal Rome.
3.5 years / 42 months / 1,260 days = 1,260 Years of Antichrist Papal Rule.Most early Church believers knew that the Caesar (Roman Emperor) was the Restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7, which held the antichrist beast back.
2 Thessalonians 2:6 - And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 - For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
Once the Roman Emperor was removed, they surmised that the Son of Perdition, the antichrist, would rise to power and reign for 1,260 years.
After the last Roman Emperor was removed in 476 A.D, the Popes of Rome took power shortly in 538 A.D, when they were given authority by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian.
And they reigned for 1,260 years until 1798 A.D when Napoleon's army to take the Pope captive.
There are many descriptions of the time frame in which the antichrist beast would reign, all of which point to the 1,260 year period that the Popes of Rome reigned from 538-1798 A.D.
Notice how they all describe the Popes of Rome, who historians note, killed over 50 million saints during their reign.
Torture Chair
Torture Instrument
Skull Cracker
Torture Saw
Tongue Cutter
The Torture Museum provides a vivid image of the painful painful Inquisition Torture unleashed on Protestants by the Pope.
Catholic Church Torture Museum in Amsterdam
Instruments of Torture employed by Pope
Catholic Church Torture Museum in Carcassonne
The Little Horn of Daniel 7 who persecuted the saints for "a time and times and the dividing of time".
Daniel 7:25 - and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
After the Roman Empire collapsed, it split into ten civil kingdoms (10 heads). Satan caused the Popes of Rome (the Little Horn) to rise to power, who caused three of the kingdoms to be plucked out.
The period during which the holy city is trodden under foot by the Gentiles for "forty and two months" in Revelation 11.
Revelation 11:2 - ...and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
The period during which the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11 prophesy for "thousand two hundred and threescore days".
Revelation 11:3 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
The Church of Christ escaping to the wilderness for "a time, and times, and half a time" in Revelation 12.
Revelation 12:14 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
The reign of the sea beast for "forty and two months" in Revelation 13.
Revelation 13:5 - And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
History unveils that these prophecies all point to the same 1,260 year time period of Great Tribulation, from 538-1798 A.D., during which the Papacy was the reigning power in the world.