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The Three and a Half Years of Elijah

The Three and a Half Years of Elijah THE THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF ELIJAH BY B. E. THIERING Sydney "... In the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months." (Lk. iv 25) "Elijah ... prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth." (Jas. v 17) Both the time span, and the association with Elijah, link these two passages with Rev. xi 2-3: "(The nations) will trample over the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for 1260 days, clothed in sack- cloth". The two witnesses "have power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall, during the days of their prophesying" (v. 6); they also "went up to heaven in a cloud" (v. 12). There is a further link with Rev. xii 6 and 14 : the mother of the Messiah was nourished in the wilderness for 1260 days, or "a time, and times, and half a time"; also with xiii 5: "(the beast) was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months". In all cases, there is a link between a period of three and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novum Testamentum Brill

The Three and a Half Years of Elijah

Thiering, B.E.
Novum Testamentum , Volume 23 (1): 41 – Jan 1, 1981
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© 1981 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0048-1009
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THE THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF ELIJAH BY B. E. THIERING Sydney "... In the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months." (Lk. iv 25) "Elijah ... prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth." (Jas. v 17) Both the time span, and the association with Elijah, link these two passages with Rev. xi 2-3: "(The nations) will trample over the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for 1260 days, clothed in sack- cloth". The two witnesses "have power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall, during the days of their prophesying" (v. 6); they also "went up to heaven in a cloud" (v. 12). There is a further link with Rev. xii 6 and 14 : the mother of the Messiah was nourished in the wilderness for 1260 days, or "a time, and times, and half a time"; also with xiii 5: "(the beast) was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months". In all cases, there is a link between a period of three and

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Published: Jan 1, 1981

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