Does the Bible Support a Year-Day Principle?
While most SDA’s readily acknowledge that there is no explicit statement of the Year-Day Principle in Scripture, they usually go on to say, “We get it from Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:4-6. First, lets look at Numbers 14:34. If you have accepted, or are on the verge of accepting, the Year-Day Principle, you may do yourself a big favor by spending a few moments thoroughly examining this verse. “According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you shall know my opposition.” (NAS) The following things are true about this Numbers 14:34: (1) “Days” means “days.” (2) “Day” means “day.” (3) “Years” means “years.” (4) “Year” means “year.” (5) The words “days” and “day” are not even involved in the predictive prophecy part of the verse. What is explicitly predicted is not forty days, but forty years, of suffering in the wilderness. That’s what is meant. And that’s what it says forty years. (6) If you s
