1260 Days Clothed in Sackcloth

Just as Christ triumphed in and through His sufferings, and purchased redemption for us, even so His Church will triumph, in and through her sufferings, and finally be victorious with Christ's cause, on this greater level that we are speaking of, among the nations. What is the goal? It is that holiness will prevail among the many nations of the world. This is predicted in many places in the word of God; especially in the Prophets, but also in picture form in the book of Revelation. What are these time periods in the book of Revelation? The 1260 years and the 42 months? They both refer to the spiritual reign, in years, of the Antichristian powers. How do we know that the days are years here? It is because they are referring to a divine judgment which came upon the visible church, the people of God, for compromising the word of God concerning what the true gospel was, and what true and godly worship was; what was to be believed in order to become a Christian, and also how worship was to be conducted by Church leaders. This divine judgment could not simply be completed in 3 and a half literal years, but it would be worked out over many generations. I want to give you two examples of this in the Old Testament Scriptures.