such a field that God’s witnesses must bravely step. The aggressors have authority only “for forty-two months.” This period is also the equivalent of three and a half years and 1,260 days, a term limit that is often assigned to the raging of an oppressor. It is derived from Daniel 9:27 and 12:7, where its primary reference is to the time of defilement of the temple by the “abomination that desolates” set up by Antiochus IV from 167 to 164 BC. It is during this term, and under these conditions, that