Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, “Appointed Times of the Nations”
“Only by applying the formula there expressed of “a day for a year” to the “seven times” of this prophecy can the vision of Daniel chapter 4 have significant fulfillment beyond the day of now extinct Nebuchadnezzar, as the evidence thus far presented gives reason to expect. They therefore represent 2,520 years.”
The chain is: “times” in Daniel means years; a prophetic year is 360 days because three and a half times equal 1,260 days at Revelation 12:6, 14; “seven times” is therefore 2,520 days; and Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6 supply the day-for-a-year rule. The article acknowledges that others “do not see it as relating to any specific time period or divine schedule”.
Official source (opens in new tab)
Provenance and verification note for Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, Appointed Times of the Nations
Confidence note. Full article fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the quotation and the page were confirmed against the text and its embedded page markers. Insight on the Scriptures is undated on the Online Library; the 1988 publication year is the work’s own imprint date.
Corroborated by. src-chr-o-dp-1999-seven-times, src-chr-o-bh-2005-appendix
Notes. “Only by applying” marks this as an inference the article says is required, not a statement Daniel 4 makes.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chr-o-it1-appointed-times-2520