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here is a question from readers.. this was in the days when they were truly from the public.. in establishing the length of the seven times of the gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when ezekiel 4:6 is applied.

yet when we figure from 607 b.c.

down to a.d. 1914, the 2,520 years are solar years of 365 1/4 days each, and not lunar years of 360 days each.

Masterji

Room215

Striving for the connection.

Please look at the original post and give me your thoughts on the
last two paragraphs.

The lunar and the solar connection.

Thanks,
M

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Gentile Times

by Masterji in

jw
friends

here is a question from readers.. this was in the days when they were truly from the public.. in establishing the length of the seven times of the gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when ezekiel 4:6 is applied.

yet when we figure from 607 b.c.

down to a.d. 1914, the 2,520 years are solar years of 365 1/4 days each, and not lunar years of 360 days each.

Masterji

AlanF,
When I mentioned deep thinkers, I was thinking of you. Am happy that
such a top-notch mind resopnded with such insight. Carl Jonsson has
covered it well.

Your comments on the lunar and the solar years. If you please.

Really, you are on the edge of being a genius.
I know, it takes one to know one.

Best to you AlanF,
M

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WT lawyers

by TweetieBird in

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friends

does anyone know how many lawyers the society has working for them now?

Masterji

sf
Don't believe it.

M

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WT lawyers

by TweetieBird in

jw
friends

does anyone know how many lawyers the society has working for them now?

Masterji

OUTLAW
Philippians 1:7 "...I lie in prison or appear in the dock to vouch for the truth of the Gospel." (The New English Bible)
"Defending and legally establishing the good news." (NWT)
Campare Hebrews 6:16.
The Greek word (be.bai'o.sis) rentered "legally establishing" has a legal flavor and in Hebrews 6:16 is translated "legal guarantee."
(NWT)
The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament by Moulton and Milligan
shows it is a techincal word with the flavor of jucicial courts as in
Phillipians 1:7. As one person said: "The word must always be be read with the technical sense in mind."

God dosn't need lawyers. But for now, we still have the "higher powers."

Yes, gold helps. They hire the best lawyers.

Thanks,
M

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Gentile Times

by Masterji in

jw
friends

here is a question from readers.. this was in the days when they were truly from the public.. in establishing the length of the seven times of the gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when ezekiel 4:6 is applied.

yet when we figure from 607 b.c.

down to a.d. 1914, the 2,520 years are solar years of 365 1/4 days each, and not lunar years of 360 days each.

Masterji

Here is a question from readers.
This was in the days when they were truly from the public.

In establishing the length of the seven times of the Gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when Ezekiel 4:6 is applied. Yet when we figure from 607 B.C. down to A.D. 1914, the 2,520 years are solar years of 365 1/4 days each, and not lunar years of 360 days each. Is this proper?—N. N., New Zealand.
June-15-51 Watchtower page 383

The Bible records ignore the solar year of 365 1/4 days as far as measuring natural time and prophetic time. The moon was used for fixing the months, and then the spring growing season for determining the beginning of the year in relation to the moon, making necessary 7 times every 19 years the addition of an intercalary month or Ve-Adar month, a thirteenth month. So since the length of the Jewish year was not stabilized to 365 days plus a leap year of 366 days, prophecy fixed a system of measurement of its time periods at 360 days for a year or time, calculating 30 full days to a month instead of the actual 29 1/2 days to a lunation. Genesis 7:11, 24; 8:3, 4 shows Noah calculated 30 days roughly to a month. Further confirmation of this unit as a prophetic norm of time is given us at Revelation 11:2, 3, where 42 months are run parallel with 1,260 days, making a year of 12 months equal 360 days. Note also that when Revelation 12:6, 14 parallels 3 1/2 years or times with 1,260 days it takes each time or symbolic year as equal to 360 days, and not 365 1/4 days by saying that the 3 1/2 times equal 1,278 and a fraction days. In 3 1/2 years or times there would be at least one and possibly two intercalary months, as explained by The Watchtower, March 15, 1948, pages 91, 92; yet Revelation ignored such intercalary months in giving the days of the 3 1/2 times. So we figure according to God’s Biblical way and are on firm foundation in saying that the symbolic seven times equal 2,520 years.

And these 2,520 years should be counted as solar years, because the Jewish lunar years of 360 days, over long periods of time, kept pace with the solar years by means of the intercalary months added at set intervals, thereby always maintaining the necessary harmony between the year’s beginning and the seasons.
That this method of calculating is correctly used to bring us to A.D. 1914 from 607 B.C. is confirmed for us by the physical facts that have become manifest from that year 1914 on, in fulfillment of Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13, Luke 21, and other prophecies concerning Christ’s second presence, in the time of the end.

There are some deep thinkers on this board and I would appreciate your commentary. Special attention to the last two paragraphs if you would please.
Or, feel free to comment on any portion.

Thanks,
M

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