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Emperor Constantine

Reigned 306 - 337

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42 months (Daniel 7) …1 day = 1 year42 x 30 = 1 260 years

a time and times and the dividing of a time (Revelation 13) …3 ½ x 360 = 1 260 years

same length of time as Israel in the wilderness in Revelation 12

3 ½ times = 1 260 yearsa ‘time’ = 360 years

538 AD – Emperor Justinian elevates Bishop of Rome to position of Head of all Churches

1798 – French General Berthier, under Napoleon, leads pope into captivity – end of papal power to enforce decrees

1 260 years

606 AD – Emperor Phocas bows in submission to Pope Boneface III in Rome declaring him the “true and lawful head over all the churches of Christendom”

1866 – Austria is subdued by non-Catholic Prussia on July 3rd being the last papal power following the overthrow of France, Spain etc

1 260 years

754 – 756 King Pepin of the Franks, after invading Lombard territory, gave the pope temporal power of the papal states – now no longer a subject of the Byzantine Empire but an independent head of state …

2014 ??

1 260 years

II Thessalonians 2 v 3 …