However, this new interpretation is not really new. When discussing Daniel 12:7 but also citing Revelation 11:3-10, the Society’s 1977 book Our Incoming World Government--God’s Kingdom speaks of, “the end of the foretold three and a half years on June 21, 1918. Thus this period began on December 28, 1914” (page 131). It explains that "...on June 21, 1918. On that day the American federal court sentenced the president and the secretary-treasurer of the Watch Tower ..." (page 128) So, the dates published in the Revelation Climax book were actually a departure from what had been taught immediately prior to its release, and the 1993 and 1994 Watchtower articles brought the official interpretation back to that previously held view. Years earlier, however, in the days when the Watchtower Society used to teach that “the time of the end” began in the year 1799 (rather than 1914), the 1260 days of Revelation 11:3 were applied to that lengthy period: “1260 years from A.D. 539 to 1799” (1917 book The Finished Mystery page 173). It was Judge Rutherford who abandoned that broader view of the prophecy as applying to significant world events, and made the Bible verses appear to foretell his own personal circumstances and those of his close associates. The Watchtower's changing views of the "1260 days" are difficult to follow. But the various interpretations and dates are easier to compare when viewed in the following table: