Now the important point is this, that if we take the prophetic reckoning of 360 days to the year, we have the following significant Biblical numbers:—
In the first place, we already have the 70 ± Sari divided into two portions of 33 + 37.
A perfect cycle is accomplished in 33 Sari, or 595 years, when the eclipse, by a series of unbroken [pg 181] Sari, has accomplished a passage through the year of 360 days; or, if we reckon only the whole numbers, i.e., the 18 completed years, we have for the 33 Sari the period of 594 years, while the remaining portion of 37 Sari makes 666 years (37 x 18) ; and the whole 70 ± Sari makes 1,260 years (594 + 666).[79]
We have then the following figures:—
18 x 33 = 594 years.
18 x 37 = 666 years.
18 x 70 = 1260 years.
Independently of this, we also know that 1,260 years is a soli-lunar cycle, so exact that its epact, or difference, is only 6 hours!
There must, therefore, be something significant in these numbers, e.g., 70; in the number 1,260, with its divisions, not into two equal parts, but into 594 and 666; as also in its double, 2,520.
There must be something to be learned in the occurrence and repetition of these heavenly cycles, which for nearly 6,000 years have been constantly repeated in the heavens, especially when we find these same numbers very prominently presented in the Word of God in connection with the fulfilment of prophecy.