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Using the same frame of reference for the second coming, as was used for the first coming (the decree of Artaxerxes).. Bible scholars made the following calculations: (20:2) 1.The decree was issued in 457.. 457 from 2300 (equals) 1843. Thus the year 1843.. would mark the beginning of the end of the "abomination of desolation." (20:3) 2..from the issuing of the decree unto the birth of Christ there were 456 years, not 457 (since Christian time proceeds from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. - no year zero -ed) therefore.. 456 from 2300 (equals) 1844.... (20:4) (the 2300 days) E.P. Cachemaille, sometime scholar of Cambridge University, in a new edition of H.G. Guiness's book 'Light for the Last Days', maintains that this book had been recognized for over thirty years as a standard work of chronological prophecy. He quotes Guiness.. "The decree (Edict of Toleration) was published in the 1260th year of the (Muslim) calendar. It is dated March 21st, 1844. This date is the first of Nisan in the Jewish year, and is exactly twenty three centuries (2300 years) from the first of Nisan, B.C. 457, the day on which Ezra states that he left Babylon in compliance with the decree given in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes." (March 21st is also the beginning of the Baha'i Year -ed).
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