What is so difficult about this? Nathan told David that his offspring would rule on Jehovah's throne forever, leading to Jesus on the throne. Jesus never became king on the throne so that tells us that something must have happened to prevent the prophesy from failing. This is why those who do not believe Dan 4 means anything bigger than to Babylon are wrong because if it is not real, it is calling Nathan false.
Daniel was told that the kingdom was put on pause for 7 times or 2520 years in the tree dream. This is not a JW interpretation or even a Russell thing. That interpretation preceded them.
That kingdom was put on pause when the kings in the line of David lost their sovereignty. It was not about the destruction of Jerusalem. Nathan didn't say the destruction of Jerusalem was anything. People don't think about it was Nathan's prophecy that started it all, because they are too focused on what the Watchtowers have said over the years because they were focusing on those men.
2 Chron 36:3 ", the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and fined the land 100 silver talents and a gold talent. Furthermore, the king of Egypt made Je·hoʹa·haz’ brother E·liʹa·kim king over Judah". Sounds like they lost their sovereignty.
2 Kings 24:2 "Then Jehovah began to send against him marauder bands of Chal·deʹans, Syrians, Moʹab·ites, and Amʹmon·ites. He kept sending them against Judah to destroy it. 3 Surely it was by the order of Jehovah that this happened to Judah,". Think about it, if the kings were still sitting on Jehovah's Throne, why would Jehovah send enemies against his own king on his thrown.
Dan 1:1 "In the third year of the kingship of King Je·hoiʹa·kima of Judah, King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it" That is when Daniel was taken to Babylon. Daniel 9:2 " in the first year of his (Darius) reign I, Daniel, discerned by the books the number of years mentioned in the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet to fulfill the desolation of Jerusalem, namely, 70 years". Daniel knew the end of the 70 because he knew the beginning of it because he was there.
If Jerusalem was destroyed in 587, Zedekiah reigned for 11 years ending in 587 then so he started 598, Jehoiachin was for 3 months, and before him, Jehoiakim was king for 11 years which would be around 609-610. The 3rd year according to Daniel would be around 607. 607 - 70 = 537. 607 - 2520 = 1914 but the pause of the kingdom could have started at the beginning of Jehoiakim in 610 as 2 Chron 36:3 says. 610-2520 years = 1911. I say around because we don't need to be like Russell declaring Oct 1, 1914 as special. We don't need exact dates. The war in heaven occurred and satan was cast out. That sounds like a good time to start WWI. While in the past QfR said the war's starting in August before October, was the devil's preparing; but I think that is rationalizing. It could have been a year or 2 before.
It was Nelson Barbour in 1881 that added the 20 years because he thought 587 would lead to a 50 year desolation. But he, like so many others like Carl Oloff Jonsson, can't see the forest because they are looking too closely at the trees. They keep thinking of destruction of Jerusalem when that didn't have the meaning.
