PURE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH RESTORED AT LAST! p 124
- Ezekiel 613–c. 591 B.C.E.
Issue
- 613 B.C.E would be the 30th year of Ezekiel and therefore the 35th year of Jeremiah's preaching. Jeremiah started preaching in the 13th year of Josiah. This is the 13th year of Nebuchadnezzar's rulership. By your own dates, the 2nd year of rulership (Dan 2:1) would have been 624 B.C.E. But you change the very logic and arithmetic of your own dates to say that the 2nd year of Nebuchadnezar was not 624 B.C.E but 606 B.C.E. This could only be true if there is a timeline in the Bible called 'the years of Nebuchadnezzar's rulership AS WORLD RULER' and you can prove that Daniel 2:1 is refering to it.
- (Daniel 2:1) . . .And in the second year of the KINGSHIP of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit began to feel agitated, and his very sleep was made to be something beyond him.
w07 7/1 p. 11 Highlights From the Book of Ezekiel—I
- THE year is 613 B.C.E. The prophet Jeremiah is in Judah, fearlessly proclaiming the impending destruction of Jerusalem and the desolation of the land of Judah. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has already taken many Jews into captivity. Among them are young Daniel and his three companions, who are serving in the Chaldean court. Most of the Jewish exiles are by the river Chebar in “the land of the Chaldeans.” (Ezekiel 1:1-3) Jehovah does not leave those captives without a messenger. He appoints 30-year-old Ezekiel as prophet.
Issue
- Ezekiel 1:1-3 does not say Ezekiel is 30 years old. It just says it was the 30th year. You are saying he is 30 years old.
- This would be the the 5th year of Jehoiachin's exile. It is the This is the 13th year of Nebuchadnezzar's rulership. In 6 years' time Jerusalem will fall. That will be the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar. You say his 19th year of rulership was his 1st year of rulership AS WORLD RULER. Furthermore, you place a date on this 1st-come-19th year of Nebuchandezzar's rulership. That date is 607 B.C.E. Then you count 2520 years from 607 B.C.E. and arrive at the date 1914. Please would you supply a scriptural cross reference to show that there is such a timeline in the Bible as the "years of Nebuchadnezzar's kingship AS WORLD RULER". If there is no such timeline then you are 18 years out by your own logic.
kj chap. 3 pp. 36-37 par. 3 God’s Chariot Is on the Move!
- 3 Accordingly, the year 613 B.C.E., the year in which Ezekiel first had the vision of the chariot of God, was the “fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin.” Ezekiel himself was in the thirtieth year of life. All that took place was, not imaginary or mythical, but actually historical, and so as a historian Ezekiel dated matters definitely in the opening words of his prophetic book, writing: “Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month [the lunar month Tammuz], on the fifth day of the month, while I was in the midst of the exiled people by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I began to see visions of God. On the fifth day of the month [Tammuz 5], that is, in the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, the word of Jehovah occurred specifically to Ezekiel the son of Buzi the priest in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar, and upon him in that place the hand of Jehovah came to be.” (Ezekiel 1:1-3) So this was near the close of spring of 613 B.C.E.
Issue
- Tammuz is June/July.