The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 3
V. Girdlestone-2300 Years Applied to Mohammedan Rule
WILLIAM E. GIRDLESTONE (1786-1840), rector of Kelling cum Salthouse, Norfolk, was born in Norwich. Educated at Gonville and Caius College, where he was an honor student, he afterward spent a period in the army. Ordained a deacon, and then becoming a priest in 1814, he served continuously as rector of Kelling cum Salthouse from 1821 till his death, in 1840. 90 PFF3 432.4
1. MOHAMMEDANISM, LITTLE HORN OF Daniel 8
In his Observations on the Visions of Daniel, and on ... the Revelation of St. John (1820), 91 Girdlestone holds the standard view of the four prophetic empires of Daniel 2 and 7, Babylon dropping out of the depiction in Daniel 8. But the tyrannical power of the “exceeding great” horn, Girdlestone applies to Mohammedanism. 92 In Daniel 9 the prophet cheers his people with the promise of the Messiah, and specifies the time of His coming. In Daniel 11, the power of the Romans is stressed, and Antichrist in his Roman as well as his Mohammedan phases is depicted. 93 PFF3 433.1
2. 2300 YEARS MOHAMMEDAN RULE END 1965
His time calculations were quite unusual. Holding, orthodoxly enough, to the 1260-, 1290-, 1335-, and 2300-day periods as years, Girdle-stone applies the first three periods to Mohammedanism. Be ginning them together in 630, he ends the 1260 years in 1890, the 1290 in 1920, and the 1335 in 1965, when the 2300 years of Mohammedan dominance would also end, and the sanctuary be cleansed. 94 This curious calculation is premised on beginning the 2300 years when Alexander was made captain of the Grecian army against Persia, which would lead to 1965 as the terminus of the 2300 in the “blessed time” and the cleansing of the sanctuary. 95 PFF3 433.2
Picture 3: PRINCIPALS AT THE ALBURY PARK PROPHETIC CONFERENCE
Banker Henry drummond (left), in whose spacious Albury park Villa the first prophetic conference was held (upper center).The presiding officer was hugh M’Neile (right). Below (center) is the catholic apostolic church later erected by drummond’s funds
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