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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  I correctly state on that page that it was near rather than in the year the temple was completed. I also clearly state, as does Zechariah, that 70 years of fasting is reached in Darius’ 4th year. None of this is particularly difficult.

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  Being 'near' is not good enough for it raises ambiguity. Zechariah does not say that the 70 years of fasting is reached in Darius' 4th year but only that he received the vision in that year referring to 70 years in the past. That is your problem.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  Pointless misdirection indicating you don’t understand this type of literature. The author wasn’t writing a diary as it happened. It was all written later. The ‘vision’ is a narrative device framing the period of ‘denunciation’. Chapter 7 is quite clear about the timing of when 70 years of fasting were reached.

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  Yes the author was writing a diary as at the beginning of chapters 1 and 7 he gives the time as to when he received the oracle or vision on each occasion then narrates to refers to the past 70 years and current situation with an inquiry about a future relief. Both chapters are quite clear that the 70 years was a past event with a known beginning and end, unlike your thesis which amounts to an unclear end for Zechariah's 70-year period of indignation.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  It is entirely mundane that two or more people saying something correct will say similar things.

  Maybe ‘scholar’ can only get correct answers by copying. 😂 As far as neo-Babylonian chronology is concerned, he’s yet to provide any. He should stop copying from the dumb WTS kid next to him.

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  But coincidences do raise suspicions as to the source of such similar things.

  Scholar does not need to copy but does the research, reads what others say even opposing views and carefully considers scholarship on the subject. NB Chronology is falsified by Jeremiah's and Zechariah's seventy years and the fact of the Jewish Exile of 70 years. I am unaware of any dumb WTS kid next to him but I find it strange that all of Jeffro's website is all about trying to critique so-called dumb WT Chronology.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  I’m sorry that you’re too stupid to count back 70 years from Darius’ 4th year (518BCE). And I know you might struggle with the fact that 587-518 is a span of 70 years. I guess ‘pretty charts’ can only do so much for people with your inadequacies

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  It is certainly true that if you count back from 518 to 587 you have a duration of 70 years but according to your website you state "The period of denunciation ran from the destruction of the temple in 587 BCE to near its completion" - the temple was completed in 515 BCE. However, Zech 1: 12; 7:5 clearly show that the context or timing of the oracle was in Darius' 2nd and 4th years and has nothing to do with an end of the 70 years. If it was in the 4th year- 518 BCE then why was avision received two years earlier. Did the period have two endings? Was there two separate 70 years beginning at the same time but ending two years apart?

  Your thesis along with that of Jonsson makes no sense at all.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  Luckily for you this continued libel is trivial.

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  Let me put it this way, your views on this subject are similar or identical to that of Carl Jonsson and other critics.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  Zechariah 1

  Zechariah 7

  It is no wonder to refuse to provide a specific chronology for Zechariah's 70 years of indignation/denunciation as your website's explanation on the foreclosed is unclear to any readerr even with thaid of your pretty chart featured in the middle of the explanation. It is much the same with Jonsson's explanation which you have either directly or indirectly copied. Further, your explanation fails to cite any scholarship unlike Jonsson's explanation of these two passages.

  WT scholars interpret these two verses as the Exilic Period of Jeremiah's 70 years beginning with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 607 BCE to the Return of the Exiles in 537 BCE. Zechariah receives two oracles dated in Darius' 2nd and 4th years which shows that the Jews were still fasting and mourning lamenting the past fact of the Exile. The texts clearly show that 'these 70 years' or 'those 70 years' had expired and were not 70 years of Temple rebuilding as you and Jonsson claim.

  The Temple was finished in 515 BCE- 6th Darius's year and the Temple was destroyed according to your thesis in 587BCE which gives a figure of 72 years and not 70 years. Clearly, you cannot provide a chronology for Zechariah's 70 years of denunciation and as this period is presented in the past tense and having already expired in both the 2nd and 4 th year of Darius it must represent an historic period and the only 70 years that would match all of the attendant facts is that of the biblical 70 years of Exile.

  Go figure and use some plain common sense!!!

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  The ‘event’ was that it was then that they asked the question. It is directly stated in the passage. Some people really are thick.

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  Evasion at its best so let me put this question to you:

  Zechariah 1:12

  What was the date and event that marked the beginning and end of these 70 years?

  Zechariah 7:5

  What was the date and event that marked the beginning and end of these 70 years?

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  ozziepost

  Hi!

  Scholar just cannot help himself
  

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  Your waffling circumlocutory aside, it is indeed a separate period. It’s not really ‘my interpretation’, it is clearly indicated in Zechariah 7:1-7. It specifically indicates 70 years of fasting that had continued until Darius’ 4th year (518 BCE). So it obviously isn’t referring to Babylon’s 70 years that ended decades earlier in 539 BCE. And of course it’s not referring to a nonexistent ‘70-year exile’ found nowhere in the Bible. It’s only nutty religious types like yourself who are desperate for it to mean something other than what it directly states.

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  Your interpretation makes no sense for Zech. 7:3,5 clearly states that the Jews had fasted in both the fifth and seventh months for 70 years this was due to the simple fact that during that period the Jews were in Exile hence the reason for their fastings and mourning.. You state that this verse began in 587 with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple ending in 518 BCE. My question is that if this 70-year period of fasting began with a definite event such as the destruction of Jerusalem then what event marked its ending in 518 BCE?

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Bruce X

  W don't talk like that. So I think you are not a JW. One more reason to stop the conversation.

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  This is a robust conversation but you are most wise to stop the conversation. I have to reply to many responses so I simply missed your original post but as you indicate your lack of participation then I will not respond to that inquiry. All the best!!!

  scholar JW