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273 count was to begin from the day when “regular offering is abolished and an appalling abomination is set up” in the Je- rusalem temple; we have established that such an abominable act indeed took place one day in 167 B.c.E. With the sequence of those events in mind, the count of days given to Daniel must have applied to the specific events at the Temple: its defiling in 167 B.c.£. (“when the regular offering is abolished and an appalling abomination is set up”), the cleansing of the Temple in 164 B.c.z. (after “a thou- sand and two hundred and ninety days’), and Jerusalem’s complete liberation by 160 B.c.£. (“happy is the one who waits and reaches one thousand three hundred and thirty five days”). The numbers of days, 1290 and 1335, basically match the sequence of events at the Temple. According to the prophecies in the Book of Daniel, it was then that the clock of the End of Days began ticking. The imperative of recapturing the whole city and the removal of uncircumcised foreign soldiers from the Temple Mount by 160 B.c.E. hold the key to another clue. While we have been using the accepted count of B.c.E. and .p. for dating events, the people of those past times obviously could not and did not use a timetable based on a future Christian calendar. The He- brew calendar, as we have mentioned earlier, was the calendar begun in Nippur in 3760 B.c.E.—and according to that calen- dar, what we call 160 B.C.E. was precisely the year 3600! That, as the reader knows by now, was a SAR, the original (mathematical) orbital period of Nibiru. And though Nibiru had reappeared four hundred years earlier, the arrival of the SAR year—3,600—the completion of one Divine Year— was of unavoidable significance. To those to whom the bibli- cal prophecies of the return of Yahweh’s Kavod to His Temple Mount were unquestioned divine pronouncements, the year we call “160 B.c.E.” was a crucial moment of truth: no matter where the planet was, God has promised to Return to His Temple, and the temple had to be purified and readied for that. That the passage of years according to the Nippurian/He- brew calendar was not lost sight of in those turbulent times is Jerusalem: A Chalice, Vanished