The times of the gentiles

by Freeholyspirit 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Freeholyspirit
    Freeholyspirit

    Same thing over here too?

    "Never said he didn't"

    Never said you said he didnt

    Read again.

    I would have to reiterate words written by a certain Philip Mauro From "The Chronology of the Bible" written in 1922, whom I will quote here. "But, after much study of the entire subject, we are convinced that the Scriptures do not leave us in uncertainty as to those necessary matters of fact....Furthermore, it has become quite clear to us that the differences of opinion, to which we are referred, have arisen altogether from the fact that some of our able chronologists and expositors have adopted the mistaken estimates of Ptolemy as the foundation of their systems of dates, instead of grounding themselves upon the chronology of the Bible. Having committed themselves to a chronological scheme which makes the era of the Persian Empire about 80 years too long, they have been compelled to construe the statements of Scripture in such wise as to force them into agreement with that scheme; and inasmuch as the measure of 483 years from the first year of Cyrus would, if Ptolemy's table be accepted, come short, by many years, of any event in the lifetime of Christ, one must either abandon that table, or else must search for a decree of a Persian king, many years nearer to Christ, to serve as the starting point of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel. The trouble, therefore, is not because of any uncertainty in the Scriptures, but that expositors have turned aside from the Scriptures, and have accepted for the 500 years immediately preceding the coming of Christ, a defective chronology based upon heathen traditions."

  • AnnOMaly
    AnnOMaly

    "Never said he didn't"

    Never said you said he didnt

    Glad we're clear.

  • Pterist
    Pterist

    From a preterism perspective the Gentiles Times that Jesus said continued in his time as he mentions the "disgusting thing that caused desolation" in Daniel and Luke explained it was the presence of the Roman armies around Jerusalem, ended in 70 AD when Jerusalem was destroyed and the first fruits of a new Spiritual Israel, a new creation was transferred to the heavens.

    The legs on the statue in Daniel are not stretched past 70 AD, the spiritual Kingdom of God in Christ was setup during the Roman Empire as a New Creation NOT OF THIS WORLD !

    Shalom

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