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The day-year principle, year-day principle or year-for-a-day principle is a method of interpretation of Bible prophecy in which the word ''day'' in prophecy is symbolic for a ''year'' of actual time. It is used principally by the historicist school of prophetic interpretation. It is held by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, some Pentecostals and the Christadelphians.〔Roberts, Robert, Thirteen Lectures On The Apocalypse, (Lecture 10 ), 1921.〕 The day-year principle is also used by the Bahá'í Faith. == Biblical basis == Proponents of the principle, such as the Seventh-day Adventists, claim that it has three primary precedents in Scripture: # . The Israelites will wander for 40 years in the wilderness, one year for every day spent by the spies in Canaan. # . The prophet Ezekiel is commanded to lie on his left side for 390 days, followed by his right side for 40 days, to symbolize the equivalent number of years of punishment on Israel and Judah respectively. # . This is known as the Prophecy of Seventy Weeks. The majority of scholars do understand the passage to refer to 70 "sevens" or "septets" of years—that is, a total of 490 years. Jon Paulien has defended the principle from a systematic theology perspective, not strictly just from the Bible.〔Jon Paulien, "(A New Look at the Year-Day Principle )", talk at the 2008 Evangelical Theological Society meetings〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Day-year principle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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