Dear "Scholar",
My earlier posts 325 & 326 confirm that I was NOT seriously suggesting Josiah was alive in 605 B.C.E. Post 333 was an attempt to show you that a scriptural reference to people and places can be twisted to "confirm" nonsense. How about some of these:
***w22 11/15 p.357 [bracketed material in original]
The Protestant Reformation, which split professing Christians into two hostile parts, was foretold through the prophet Daniel in these words: "Now when they [true Christians of the dark ages] shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many [professedly Protestant rulers and others] shall cleave to them with flatteries. And some of them [Protestant leaders] of understanding shall fall, to try them [the true ones], and to purge thenl lot the evil ones], and to make them white, even to the time of the end [1799]."--Daniel 11 : 34, 35.
The Harp Of God p.230
398 The most important thing to which all the prophecies point and for which the apostles looked forward has been the second coming of the Lord. It is described by the Prophet as a blessed time. Daniel then says: “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty [1335] days”. (Daniel 12: 12) The watchers here, without question, are those who were instructed by the Lord to watch for his return. This date, therefore, when understood, would certainly fix the time when the Lord is due at his second appearing. Applying the same rule, then, of a day for a year, 1335 days after 539 A. D. brings us to A. D. 1874, at which time, according to Biblical chronology, the Lord’s second presence is due.
*** w22 5/15 CHRONOLOGY
WE HAVE no doubt whatever in regard to the chronology relating to the dates of 1874, 1914, 1918, and 1925. [...]
Using this same measuring line, beginning with the entry of the children of Israel into Canaan, and counting the full 70 cycles of 50 years each, as clearly indicated by Jehovah's sending of the Jews into Babylon for the full 70 years, it is an easy matter to locate 1925, probably the fall, for the beginning of the antitypical jubilee, There can be no more question about 1925 than there was about 1914.
*** w22 6/15 SEVENTY YEARS' DESOLATION (PART II)
The chronology of present truth might be a mere happening if it were not for the repetitions in the two great cycles of 1845 and 2520 years, which take it out of the realm of chance and into that of certainty. If there were only one or two corresponding dates in these cycles, they might possibly be mere coincidences, but where the agreements of dates and events come by the dozens, they cannot possibly be by chance, but must be by the design or plan of the only personal Being capable of such a plan -- Jehovah himself; and the chronology itself must be right. In the passages of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh the agreement of One Or two measurements with the present truth chronology might be accidental, but the correspondency of dozens of measurements proves that the same God designed both pyramid and plan-and at the same time proves the correctness of the chronology.
The agreement of the chronology with certain measurements of the Tabernacle and the Temple of Ezekiel further stamps the chronology as true.
It is on the basis of such and so many correspondencies -- in accordance with the soundest laws known to science -- that we affirm that, Scripturally, scientifically, and historically, present-truth chronology is correct beyond a doubt. Its reliability has been abundantly confirmed by the dates and events of 1874, 1914, and 1918. Present-truth chronology is a secure basis on which the consecrated child of God may endeavor to search out things to come. -- 1 Peter 1:11-12; John 16:13.
***w23 4/1 p.106
There was never at any time any intimation to the Pilgrim brethren that they should cease talking about 1925.
Anyone who has made the statement that such an instruction was sent out has made it without any authority or excuse or cause.
Our thought is, that 1925 is definiteIy settled by the Scriptures, marking the end of the typical jubilees.
Their previous chronology having been nonsense, why believe the following:
*** w90 3/15 p. 15 Cooperating With the Governing Body Today ***
4 In 1918 the enthroned King Jesus Christ found a small group of Christians who had previously left Christendom’s churches and were busy caring for their Master’s earthly interests. After refining them as with fire, Jesus gave his slaves increased authority in 1919. (Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 19:16-19) He appointed them “over all his belongings.”—Luke 12:42-44.
Now then, scholar, you did write:
I have spent many decades studying this subject and have read numerous commentaries and scholarly journals on the subject ...
I have done the maths and considerd all of the references to the seventy years by Josephus and his summation of matters agrees totally with that of the 'celebrated' WT scholars. As I said; Poor history equals poor chronology so one cannot do accurate chronology unless one gets the history right.
Now, then: Please explain how Josephus' summation of matters in Apion 1:20 agrees with that of 'celebrated' WT scholars.
Sincerely, bennyk
