Greetings Cal (and All):

I don't know about the validity of everything in the article you posted,
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2006/calw512.htm
but I do know that when I diagrammed the Seals of Revelation, what the author of the article says about the 3-1/2 period of time is absolutely true!  There was no way, as I charted the events, that they are unrelated.  They are so very related that I also reached the conclusion they had to be happening at the same time.

What is written by him is what I found to be true Revelation:
"The sealed book of Daniel 12:9 now becomes the open book in Revelations 10:9-11 as John launches into the explanation of events transpiring during this 3½ year period of time beginning in Revelations chapter 11.  Direct references to this time period are:

a) Rev 11:2 - for 42 months (3 ½ years) the holy city is trodden underfoot
b) Rev 11:3 - for 1,260 days (3 ½ years) two witnesses prophecy
c) Rev 12:6 - for 1,260 days (3 ½ years) a woman is preserved in the wilderness
d) Rev 12:14 - for a time, and times, and half a time (3 ½ years) a woman is preserved in the wilderness from the face of the serpent
e) Rev 13:5 - for 42 months (3 ½ years) a beast rules in the world system and persecutes the saints."

"The 3 ½ years are described in different manners but are so intertwined as to be inseparable, and form a composite.   The woman preserved in the wilderness for 3 ½ years uses 2 descriptors of a time, and times and half a time as well as 1,260 days to describe the 3 ½ years to avoid confusion."

"Revelations 13:5 describes the 3 ½ years as 42 months when the beast rules and persecutes the saints bringing us back full circle to the first mention of this period of time in Daniel 7:25 where the beast rules and persecutes the saints for a time, and times, and half a time (3 ½ years)."
 

Dianne
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PS  Anyone out there with a copy of the Revelation Seals chart see the same thing?