I think so-called "Bible Chronology" is ridiculous. I think that the concept that God left all these hidden messages that require all kinds of mathematics, symbolic time periods, coded references, antitypicals, classes of people, lesser and greater fulfillments, and so forth, really stretches credibility.
Why would God do that? Why would he make it so complicated and confusing to serve him in true worship? Why would these things be so squishy, so interpretive, so fragile, that his own "spirit-directed organization" would interpret them incorrectly and have to reexamine them so many times in a row? Why would repeated tests of faith be necessary?
Does any of that seem logical? Make sense? Or, alternatively, why can't we just adopt Occam's Razor for Bible interpretation?
There is this perennial tendency to argue 607 this, 587 that, 1914 this, 1919 that, and every time I crack one of those arguments open, I get halfway through the post (whether for or against) and my brain just starts to boggle. Perhaps I'm just not in tune with the "deep things of God," but I simply can't imagine that God really wanted people to try and apply every single word in that Bible of his to themselves, everyone they know, and the current political climate of whenever they lived. I mean, isn't the Bible iconic enough, and full of enough archetypes, that it really could probably apply to any given time period?
If the Bible means anything (something I'm still trying to decide,) I think it probably most likely means what was neatly summarized by Jesus at Matthew 22:34-40 (NIV):
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."