The 1,290 Days

15. In what way can we calculate the beginning of the 1,290 days? When did this period end?

¹⁵ The angel said to Daniel: “From the time that the constant feature [“the continual sacrifice,” footnote] has been removed and there has been a placing of the disgusting thing that is causing desolation, there will be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.” (Daniel 12:11)

What, then, was “the disgusting thing”​—the second feature to look for? It was the League of Nations, promoted by the victorious powers at the end of World War I.b It was disgusting because the leaders of Christendom put it in the place of God’s Kingdom, representing the League as man’s only hope for peace. The League was proposed in January 1919.