1 There is no zero year nor does this affect this calculation ..not sure why you think it does there are 596 years before Christ....... lets pretend the year ended in December in 1 bc the next month January is now 1AD and will be 1 AD until the next December....... 596 + 70 =666 years. I think you are confused about the whole Zero year thing these numbers have nothing to do with the error you are addressing 596 years before Christ is still 596 with or without a zero year...if I was counting a zero year then 596+70 +1(zero year would equal 667 but the error here is not mine. 2 Sorry if anyone feels the post are hard to read but they do require more then just a courtousy look at scritpure. You must first ID the What in the context before you can validate any method for any kind of counting. You ignore context and attempt to approach this with a count first which is all backwards. Rather you should attempt ot understand the subject first so you would know ?what you are counting? to enable you to know ?how to count it ? via wisdom. The color is necessary & important so to see the same identical language being used Luke 21:21 that all things which are written may be fulfilled. All the prophesies had been fulfilled except that last half of the week?. Matthew Mark and Luke are parallel here?.. Matthe 24:15. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,???.. 21. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. (There can only be one of those by definition) 28?for your redemption draweth nigh. Daniel 12:1. And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, (Daniel 12:1 every one that shall be found written in the book. 2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. ??????. 6. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7. And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; ( Revelation 12:6, 14 & 11:3) and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. ( 42 months = 1260 days relation to times time and half a time) Mark 13:14. But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not,??.. Luke 21:20. And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. ??.. 22. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days!..... (Luke 23:27. And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. 28. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. 30. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. Revelation 6:16. And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17. For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?) ???.for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Revelation 11: 2. ?.for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months).????? 27. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ????? 31. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. Now Daniel ..The only place where Jerusalem is destroyed by armies not just ?Set up? and ?Placed? as in Daniel Ch 8 & 12 but rather Daniel Ch 9 talks about the destruction of the City and 70 weeks Daniel 9:24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince ???. ( Nehemiah 6: 15. So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.) shall be seven weeks, this is after Daniel vision see Chart on Persian kings 70 years desolation via Jeremiah 36 years to( Nehimiah 2: in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king see previous charts,) leaves 490 years to Christ (70 weeks) and 70 years to final desolation total 666Years for the only man that is reckoned as a beast (Daniel Ch 2 & 7) anywhere in scripture??. Anywhere!... exactly 666 years from the first year of Neb to Ad 70 when the beast that was and is not and yet is ( Revelation 17:8)did it (Vespasian) via the prince of the people who came? his son Titus? The number of a man and of a beast???? that beast & man is what destroyed Jerusalem not the children of Adonikam !? ??. and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. 2. I have demonstrated that verbatim Revelation Jesus and Daniel are all using the same language and talking about the same things events albeit different degrees of detail and such. 3. That language ID ?the City trampled? via ?the gentiles? which as Jesus stated himself would take place in that generation ? Jesus further relates it as the Days of vengeance and the Abomination of desolation and Jerusalem surrounded by armies the same things Revelation discuses The city being trampled by the gentiles for 42 months or 1260 days or until/for a time times and half a time that was accomplished just as prophisised bgiinen with the 70 weeks TIME 7 & 62 weeks TIMES midst of one week a end to sacrifice and offering on the wing of Abominations is one who make desolate the destruction of the city and trampled by the gentiles until there time was complete.HALF A TIME The whole outline of Revelation is Revelation 1: 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. ????.19. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; The things tho hast seen ( past tense) the things wich are (present tense) and the things that will shortly take place after this (future tense) note: The time is at hand in verse 3! When you learn what you are to count, then and only then can you know how to count it!