These three chapters present Daniel living in Babylon and are rich in knowledge for us. They are easy to understand. Daniel is the perfect example of how we are supposed to live in a relationship with our Abba Father, including a healthy diet.

Prophetic Time

To go any farther in understanding time prophecies, we must understand the concept of prophetic time itself in the Scripture, expressed as days and years. The ancient Jewish calendar has 360 days in a year. Numbers 14:33-34 introduces to the Exodus generation the concept of a year of punishment for a day of sin, “And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.“

Now you know why they wandered for forty years. Forty days of sin produced forty years of punishment, and most of the Exodus generation died in the wilderness. Those that went into the promised land led by Joshua are called the Entrance Generation.

A prophetic day is a prophetic year which in the Jewish calendar is 360 days with twelve 30-day lunar months. Daniel has four prophesies of 490 days, 1260 days, 1290 days, and 1335 days that we interpret to mean prophetic years. Many interpretation theories ignore prophetic time or apply it inconsistently. One of the keys to using prophetic time is when the time is a punishment, which is all of Daniel.