Here is a commentary about Daniel 8 which gives the fulfilment of the prophecy in OT times and also the probable fulfilment in the future when the final antichrist comes. It is longish but can be skimmed fairly fast if you are interested.
We can see that in the OT fulfilment the 2300 evenings and mornings does not refer to that many years. IOW there is no reason to apply any day for year interpretation.
xDavid Guzik commentary on Daniel 8, where Belshazzar has another vision, which Daniel again interprets after having the angel Gabriel explain it to him.
enduringword.com
Yes the prophecy of Daniel 8 and the prophecy of Daniel 9 are in different years and are about different things. The Daniel 9 prophecy begins at the time the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, but the Daniel 8 prophecy does not begin there and anyway the Daniel 9 prophecy is not a year for a day interpretation imo.
Yes it is all smoke and mirrors and it is reliant on people being amazed that the 2300 ends up at 1844.
When I look at a quote from a Baha'i site below I see that the Baha'is think it is OK to go from lunar to solar years in their analysis of the prophecy. I guess this is because doing that makes the numbers fit the years they start and end at.
But the prophecy speaks about beginning when the daily sacrifice is taken away. This has nothing to do with Muhammad.
Then we see that the 1290 days ends when the abomination that makes desolate is set up. This has nothing to do with Baha'u'llah's declaration to be a prophet unless Baha'u'llah is the abomination that makes desolate.
Also we can see that the Baha'is have again used the day for a year idea in this prophecy when the prophecy imo seems to be about the Temple in Jerusalem in the latter times and what is going to happen there and then over a literal 1290 day period. This same sort of thing happened when the temple was destroyed in 70AD and when Antiochus IV Epiphanes set up an abomination in the Temple, but that was not the time of the end (as Daniel 12:13 indicates it will).
So Baha'is just use the numbers in the prophecies and manipulate them to arrive at a conclusions they want, and of course they say that Baha'u'llah at the end of the age is a Prophet and has been given the power to understand the Book of Daniel which has been sealed until the time of the end.
Daniel 12:9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end."
But when we actually check out what they say about Bible prophecies etc, we see that it makes no sense at all, even if to Baha'is it is obviously all true because it comes from Baha'i. (Whether Baha'u'llah actually worked all these prophecies out or not, I don't know, but it makes no difference)
It is interesting that the 1335 days of Daniel 12:12 might actually correspond to the end of the 2300 evening and morning time period in Daniel 8:14 when the sanctuary will be reconsecrated. imo
From this site:
A New Understanding of the Perplexing Prophecies of Daniel
In other verses, Daniel also offered the number 1,290 to ponder:
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And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.” – Daniel 12:11-12.
There are
1,290 lunar years in the Islamic calendar from the date of Muhammad’s declaration of his station as a prophet of God in the year 613, to Baha’u’llah’s declaration of his station as a prophet of God in 1863.
Reverting to solar years, Daniel gives his final numerical prophecy and is then told that his mission on Earth is finished:
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But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.” – Daniel 12:13.
Prophetically, the 1,290 and the 1,335 days/years go together, the first logically following the second. The 1,335 solar years begin with the year 628, the year Muhammad signed a treaty with his enemies in Mecca that signified that recognized the Muslim community in Medina not only as a legitimate force, but also one to be respected and accorded contractual or diplomatic status.
The 1,335 solar years added to 628 equals 1,963 years, or the calendar year 1963, a momentous period in Baha’i history. That was the year when members of the world’s National Spiritual Assemblies cast their ballots to elect the first
Universal House of Justice – the global administrative body of the Baha’i Faith.
The declaration of Baha’u’llah in 1863 (the 1,290 years) was followed in 1963 (the 1,335 years) by completion of the three-tiered Baha’i administrative order at the local, national and international levels, devised by Baha’u’llah for the internal governance of the Baha’i Faith.
