The Seven Last Trumpets

The late Dr. Bengel Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752) was a famous German Lutheran theologian whose chronological calculations regarding the Second Coming were highly influential in the 18th and 19th centuries. writes that it consists of 4 common days; however, just as the entire Revelation has remained covered and misunderstood—specifically because it was never intended to be understood until our present time—so it is with this passage. Since this half hour concerns the Lord Christ, as we shall hear hereafter, it is neither a prophetic half hourA system where one biblical "day" represents one calendar year. nor a common one, but rather it is a divine half hour.

Since a divine day consists of a thousand years, according to 2 Peter 3, v. 8 and Psalm 90, v. 4; it follows that a divine hour consists of 41 2/3 years, and a half hour consists of 20 years, 43 weeks, and 2 days. original: "2. Petri 3, v. 8. und Ps. 90. v. 4." These verses state that "with the Lord one day is as a thousand years."

However, since the text says, about a half hour, it is either slightly more or slightly less than a half hour; but it is slightly more than a half hour. In the Prophet Daniel, the matter is fully revealed in his 10th Chapter, in the 13th verse, where the Lord Christ himself speaks: "but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days." By the "prince in the land of Persia," the Prince of Darkness is understood, for no earthly prince can offer resistance to the Lord Christ; and Daniel himself speaks, in the 2nd verse of this 10th chapter, saying that when these great things were revealed to him, he was mournful for 3 weeks; these 3 weeks also consist of 21 days. In Daniel, however, these are no common—