This is the Historicist view and it is THE View of the Protestant reformation held for 300 years by Protestants.
One excellent example of this - showing why it was done is found in Dan 9 - the 70 weeks = 490 days - = 490 years of Dan 9 accurately predicted the first coming of Christ. So the day-for-year model has been tested and found to be accurate.
We see that same apocalyptic time-rule in apocalyptic literature such as Dan 7 , Rev11, Rev 12, Rev 13 -- all of them point to that same 1260 year period of dark ages.
During that 1260 year period we have this.
And they will tread the holy city underfoot
for forty-two months. 3 And I will give
power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand
two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” 4 These are
the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.
They are prophesying under persecution - clothed in sackcloth.
DHK quotes Robertson admitting that this 1260 day period is the same in Dan 7, Rev 11, Rev 12, Rev 13
[FONT="]DHK quotes Robertson
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Forty and two months (
mênas tesserakonta kai duo). Accusative of extent of time. This period in
Da 7:25;
12:7. It occurs in three forms in the Apocalypse (forty-two months, here and
Re 13:5; 1260 days,
Re 11:3;
12:6; time, times and half a time or 3 1/2 years,
Re 12:14 and so in Daniel). [/FONT]
[FONT="]Robertson -
"This period, however its length may be construed, covers the duration of the triumph of the Gentiles, of the
prophesying of the two witnesses, of the sojourn of the
woman in the wilderness." [/FONT]
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Day Year – and Methodists. Adam Clarke etc.
Methodists
Adam Clarke's commentary published in 1831 supports the interpretation that the little horn is Papal Rome by this comment "Among Protestant writers this is considered to be the popedom."[15]
He stated that the 1260-year period should commence in 755, the year Pepin the Short actually invaded Lombard territory, resulting in the Pope's elevation from a subject of the Byzantine Empire to an independent head of state.[16] The Donation of Pepin, which first occurred in 754 and again in 756 gave to the Pope temporal power of the Papal States. His time line, which began in 755 will end in 2015. But his introductory comments on Daniel 7 added 756 as an alternative commencement date [17] Based on this, commentators anticipate the end of the Papacy in 2016:
“As the date of the prevalence and reign of antichrist must, according to the principles here laid down, be fixed at A.D. 756, therefore the end of this period of his reign must be A.D. 756 added to 1260; equal to 2016, the year of the Christian era set by infinite wisdom for this long-prayed-for event. Amen and amen!" [18][19]
History
This view was recognized by the Jews[5] as seen in Daniel 9:24-27, and as seen in Jesus' use of the day-year principle in Luke 13 verses 31-33, and in the early church.[6] The day-year principle was first used in Christian exposition in 380 AD by Tychonius, who interpreted the three and a half days of Revelation 11:9 as three and a half years, writing 'three days and a half; that is, three years and six months' ('dies tres et dimidium; id est annos tres et menses sex').[7] In the 5th century Faustus of Riez gave the same interpretation of Revelation 11:9, writing 'three and a half days which correspond to three years and six months' ('Tres et dimidius dies tribus annis et sex mensibus respondent),[8] and in c. 550 Primasius also gave the same interpretation, writing 'it is possible to understand the three days and a half as three years and six months' ('Tres dies et dimidium possumus intelligere tres annos et sex menses').[8] The same interpretation of Revelation 11:9 was given by the later Christian expositors Bede (730 AD), as well as Anspert, Arethas, Haymo[disambiguation needed], and Berengaud (all of the ninth century).[8] Primasius appears to have been the first to appeal directly to previous Biblical passages in order to substantiate the principle, referring to Numbers 14:34 in support of his interpretation of the three and a half days of Revelation 11:9
.[9] Haymo and Bruno Astensis "justify it by the parallel case of Ezekiel lying on his side 390 days, to signify 390 years ; — i. e. a day for a year. — ".[10] Protestant Reformers were well established on the day/year principle and it was also accepted by many Christian groups, ministers, and theologians.[11][12][13]
Others who expounded the Historicist interpretation are John Wycliffe, John Knox, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Phillip Melanchthon, Sir Isaac Newton, Jan Huss, John Foxe, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards,[14] George Whitefield, Charles Finney, C. H. Spurgeon, Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Albert Barnes, E. B. Elliot, H. Grattan Guinness, and Bishop Thomas Newton as exponents of this school.[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-year_principle
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Sorry, but I view this as fanciful Catholic Doctrine.
And I might be being a little bit facetious on that, though still not trying to be a smart-aleck, lol.
God bless.
how is it that all of these classic Protestants
John Wycliffe, John Knox, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Phillip Melanchthon, Sir Isaac Newton, Jan Huss, John Foxe, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards,[14] George Whitefield, Charles Finney, C. H. Spurgeon, Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Albert Barnes, E. B. Elliot, H. Grattan Guinness, and Bishop Thomas Newto
are "catholic" in your view?
Do you have some actual historic source showing that Catholics hold to historicism that points to the Catholic church as the beast and persecuting power for 1260 years of the dark ages??
I find your logic "illusive" at that point.
in Christ,
Bob
