DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
About three and a half years. Forty-two months and 1,260 days come to the same span, and Revelation 12:14 gives it a third way: "a time, and times, and half a time."
Why it’s interesting
The span comes from Daniel, where a king holds power "for a time, two times, and half a time" (Daniel 7:25). In Daniel that phrase means three and a half years.
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