The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

IV. 1335 Years End Simultaneously With 2300

A remarkable pamphlet called The Mysteries of God Finished: or an Essay toward the Opening of the Mystery of the Mystical Numbers deals with Daniel’s 2300 Days, 1290, and 1335, with the time of the witnesses prophecy of 1260 days, and the Beasts reign of 42 months. It, too, is based on the clear premise of “A Day for a year, as is usual in Scripture.” ⁵⁹ Of the 2300, the author states: PFF2 596.7

“I conceive this Number of 2300 was headed, or doth take its beginning from the Year God translated the Babylonian Monarchy to the Medes and Persians, which was the third and last of Belshazzar’s Reign, who was also the last of the Babylonian Kings.” ⁶⁰ PFF2 596.8

Several reasons are set forth for fixing upon the year the vision was given as the initial year. The 2300 years are therefore dated, by the writer, from the first year of Medo Persia on to the “Churches Deliverance.” ⁶¹ Moreover, the relationship of the 1335 years is described thus: “Whenever these 1335 Years begin, they end with the 2300 Years also.” ⁶² Of the 1260 and 1290 year-days, this unknown writer likewise says, “Though they may end together, yet they cannot begin together.” ⁶³ This would imply that he meant to begin the 1290 years in 395 with the terminus in 1685, for he reckons the 1260 years of the papal Antichrist as beginning in 425 and ending in 1685. ⁶⁴ PFF2 597.1

The 2300 years nearly cover the time of Daniel’s four monarchies—perhaps from 601 B.C.—which would lead possibly to 1699, when the reign of Antichrist would be accomplished. ⁶⁵ Thus, he adds, the 1260, 1290, and 1335 all fall within the sweep of the 2300 years. Thus the 2300 years are increasingly a subject of earnest study. PFF2 597.2