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Bible prophecy clearly indicates 1914?
by gringojj 11 Replies latest jw friends
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dorayakii
aPPARENTLY,THERE IS ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH 1914,namely the jews had a 360 day calender,meaning the jw date is about 20 years out!
The WTS takes into account the Jewish 360 Calender when it talks about the weeks of years. 7 x 360 = 2520... but it uses the Gregorian Calender when it measures those 2520 years from 607 to 1914. I actually don't think that that is really an issue though, because many calenders compensate for the differences, by adding one or two days here and there... we add a day to February every 4 years (called the leap year) and the Jews would have have to add 21 days every 4 years or an extra week for 3 years in a row, then one year with no addition. I'm not sure how they did it, but there must have been some system to ensure that the seasons always lined up with the months. (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/100695/1.ashx)