the Bible did put a timeline on certain prophecies, though it uses prophetic language. For example, Daniel 9:
Dan 9:24-27 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. (25) Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. (26) And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (27) And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
This was during the Babylonian captivity, and thus the timeline begins with the reconstruction of Jerusalem. Of course, it doesn't work if it's literal weeks, but it does if you see it as years. Christ, speaking of this prophecy, also said that "this generation shall not pass away till all things that are written are fulfilled" when He had told the Apostles the temple would be utterly destroyed. That was where Smith got his parody as mentioned in the video regarding the Mormon temple.
Josephus' The Jewish War contains a detailed history of the events leading up to the destruction of the temple in 70ad. It's worth noting that the war lasted 7 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War
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