God established a specific time to terminate Israel's punishment, as outlined in Leviticus 26, where He uses the phrase "seven times more" to refer to the duration of punishment. This phrase, repeated in verses 18, 21, 24, and 28, indicates a period of seven prophetic times, each time being a 360-day prophetic year. Calculating seven times as 2,520 days (7 x 360), and applying the year-for-a-day principle, this duration translates to 2,520 years. The punishment began with the fall of Israel in 718 BC and concluded in AD 1802, marking the end of the 2,520-year period during which God withheld the fulfillment of His conditional promises to Israel. This specific timeframe serves as a vital search criterion for identifying modern-day Israel.

The handwriting on the wall in Daniel 5:25, with the words mena, mena, tekel, and upharsin, represents weights totaling 126 shekels, equivalent to 2,520 gerahs. This symbolizes that God had weighed Belshazzar's kingdom and found it wanting, leading to its fall to the Medes and Persians that night. Additionally, in prophecy, as seen in Daniel 4, seven times of punishment equate to 2,520 days, and in certain contexts, each day represents a year. Thus, Babylon was to be punished for a period of 2,520 years. This period, having expired in 1982, suggests the rise of modern Babylon in this present generation, as also foretold in Revelation 18.

God foretold, about forty years before Israel entered the Promised Land, the consequences of turning from His commandments. As recorded in Leviticus 26, the prophecy stated that Israel would endure punishment for seven prophetic times, equivalent to 2520 years, if they strayed from His ways. This period began when Israel was overrun by the Assyrians in 721-718 BC and concluded in AD 1800-1803. True to the prophecy, during those concluding years, Great Britain and the United States began their ascent to global prominence, marking the fulfillment of the promised timeframe.

Within the context of God's warnings and punishments for Israel, as outlined in Leviticus 26, there is a significant prophetic time element associated with the phrase "seven times for your sins." Prophecy enthusiasts interpret this not merely as an indicator of intensity but as a specific duration. They consider a "time" to represent a year, akin to the expressions found in Daniel 7:25 and Revelation 12:14, such as "time, times, and half a time." By applying a prophetic year of 360 days, seven times equates to 2520 literal days, which, using the day-for-a-year principle seen in Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6, and Daniel 9:24-27, translates to 2520 years. This 2520-year period is viewed as a time of Israel's destitution in the wilderness, beginning from their original fall around 720 BC. Calculating forward, this duration brings us to just after AD 1800, a period coinciding with the rise of England and America to world power, marking the restoration of the blessings promised to Abraham's descendants. Similarly, for Judah, starting from 604 BC, when Nebuchadnezzar first besieged Jerusalem, adding 2520 years leads to 1917. This year is notable for British General Edmund Allenby's capture of Jerusalem from the Turks, which facilitated Palestine becoming a British mandate and ultimately contributed to the return of the Jews to the Holy Land in 1948. Thus, the 2520 years symbolize a prolonged period of punishment and scattering for Israel and Judah, culminating in their restoration and rise to prominence at specific historical junctures, aligning with the broader prophetic narrative of God's justice and eventual redemption of His people during the time of Jacob's Trouble and the Great Tribulation.

Britain grew slowly, protected by her geography and by the hand of God, who, more than once miraculously saved her from destruction. Her power grew slowly, as if by fits and starts. All that changed, however, in the early 1800s, when the 2,520-year punishment had reached its term. God was now prepared to bestow the birthright blessings on Ephraim. After defeating the French dictator Napoleon at Waterloo in AD 1815, Britain virtually redrew the boundaries of Europe. Never before had a European nation wielded such unquestioned control over the Continent as a whole and got away with it for so long. Moses prophesied that Joseph would push the peoples to the ends of the earth (Deuteronomy 33:17). Push is exactly what England did, for the birthright blessings included far more than domination over Europe. They included economic (and in some cases, political and military) dominance over much of the world. Answering the call of the white man's burden, the British, through its maritime supremacy, created a worldwide Empire an order of magnitude larger than that of Rome. Her folk pushed to India, Africa, North (and, to a lesser degree, South) America, China, Australia, New Zealand, and various islands around the globe. Britain's Empire came to include a number of African nations, some South American ones, many Caribbean islands, as well as many of the islands of Oceania and, of course, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and India! Moreover, Britain maintained a heavy economic influence over China for years. It was a fact the sun never set on the British Empire. As time went by, Britain assumed control of a large number of gates located in or near her enemies' territories, this in fulfillment of Genesis 22:17 and 24:60. These strategic positions placed her, geopolitically, on the top of the world, ensuring her of military and commercial hegemony. Some people spiritualize away the promises of God to the Patriarchs. It is certainly true that many of those promises have spiritual meaning and will have spiritual fulfillment. For example, the promise of the eternal possession of the land certainly has reference to spiritual Israel's inheriting the entire world. However, it is unfair to limit God's promises in this way. The promise that Israel would possess the gates of those who hate them (Genesis 24:60) is a good example of a physical blessing, one that cannot be spiritualized away. In Genesis 22:17, the reference is to the gate of their enemies. However, in God's Kingdom, all that offends will have passed away. All the spirit beings there will enjoy rich, eternal relationships with the children of God. There will be no enemies; no one will hate others. Clearly, the gate promise has its clearest fulfillment in this age; it is a physical blessing God bestowed on Israel after the completion of her 2,520 years of punishment.

The words of the handwriting on the wall symbolized that God had weighed Belshazzar kingdom and found it wanting. The empire would be given to the Medes and Persians who entered and captured the city of Babylon that same night. God was about to punish Belshazzar's Babylonian realm for 2,520 years the equivalent of the 2,520 gerahs. This is confirmed by another prophesy found in Daniel 4. God told king Nebuchadnezzar that a total of 7 times of punishment would befall Babylon. That is mentioned in Daniel 4:16, 25. In prophesy, a time equals a year of 360 days. This can be seen by noting that three and a half times equals 42 months, or 1260 days, as we find in Revelation 12:6, 14 and Revelation 13:5. Seven times therefore equals 2,520 days, and Nebuchadnezzar himself spent 7 years without human reason, living like a beast. In certain prophesies however, such as Daniel 5, each day represents a year in prophetic fulfillment. These back-to-back prophesies in Daniel 4 and 5 show the type: Nebuchadnezzar and the anti-type- Babylon, the fulfillment of many biblical prophesies. This is the prophetic principal of duality. So then from the experiences of both Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar it is evident that Babylon would be punished for a period of 2,520 years. In addition to the literal word-for-word interpretation that Daniel offered Belshazzar, mentioned in Daniel 5:26-28, he also prophesied that the Babylonian kingdom would be punished for 2,520 years. Its fulfillment begins in verses 30-31, after which it was to rise again one final time before the return of Christ.