w07 7/1 p. 13 Highlights From the Book of Ezekiel—I

In the seventh year of exile, 611 B.C.E., the elderly ones of Israel come to Ezekiel “to inquire of Jehovah.” They hear a long history of Israel’s rebellion and a warning that ‘Jehovah will bring forth his sword’ against them. (Ezekiel 20:1; 21:3) Addressing the chieftain of Israel (Zedekiah), Jehovah says: “Remove the turban, and lift off the crown. This will not be the same. Put on high even what is low, and bring low even the high one. A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it. As for this also, it will certainly become no one’s until he comes who has the legal right [Jesus Christ], and I must give it to him.”—Ezekiel 21:26, 27.

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it-2 p. 929 Shiloh

In the centuries that followed, Jesus Christ is the only descendant of David to whom kingship was promised. Before the birth of Jesus, the angel Gabriel said to Mary: “Jehovah God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule as king over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end of his kingdom.” (Lu 1:32, 33) Therefore, Shiloh must be Jesus Christ, “the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah.”—Re 5:5; compare Isa 11:10; Ro 15:12.

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Only if your arithmetic is correct could you say Shiloh, Jesus Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah came invisibly in 1914.

w62 7/1 pp. 394-395 Fellow Rulers with the “Lion of the Tribe of Judah”

SHILOH 10 Why is this permanent Ruler called Shiloh? Because this name plays up his right, as the name means “He Whose It Is,” or, “He to Whom It Belongs.” Hence the Catholic Confraternity Version renders the verse: “Until he comes to whom it belongs.” Certainly to no other one would the obedience of the people rightfully belong. 11 The name of the one who proved to be this promised Shiloh was really Jesus, the Son of God. He came from heaven and was born as a Jew in King David’s line of descent. By his mother Mary he had a natural right to David’s royalty; by his foster-father Joseph he had a legal right to David’s scepter and commander’s staff. But when God anointed Jesus with holy spirit from heaven, this both confirmed the right of Jesus and also appointed him to a kingdom greater than David’s, the kingdom of the heavens. 12 The tribe of Judah began wielding the scepter in David, and for almost five hundred years the commander’s staff rested between the knees of him and his sons as they sat on the throne. In 607 B.C.E. the family of David was interrupted in holding the scepter and the commander’s staff. This happened when the world power, Babylon, overthrew the kingdom, destroyed its capital city Jerusalem and demolished the temple built by King Solomon for Jehovah’s worship and Israel lost its national sovereignty. This did not mean that the scepter and commander’s staff had turned aside from Judah. The right to these still stayed in Judah, in David’s royal family. Jehovah God indicated this when he inspired his prophet Ezekiel to say to Zedekiah, the last reigning king in Jerusalem: “Remove the turban, and lift off the crown. This will not be the same. Put on high even what is low, and bring low even the high one. A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it. As for this also, it will certainly become no one’s until he comes who has the legal right, and I must give it to him.”—Ezek. 21:26, 27. 13 When the angel Gabriel announced to the virgin Jewess Mary the coming birth of Jesus, Gabriel declared that God would give Jesus the throne of his forefather David. (Luke 1:31-33) At the age of thirty years Jesus was baptized in water and anointed with God’s spirit, and so he could say even to his Jewish enemies: “The kingdom of God is in your midst.” (Luke 17:21) After he was resurrected from a martyr’s death and exalted to heaven, he sat down on God’s right hand to wait for God’s time to crown him heavenly king and to authorize him to use the scepter and commander’s staff. 14 In the year 1914, according to Bible timing, he came into his heavenly kingdom and began ruling, against the wishes of his enemies in heaven and earth. (Heb. 10:12, 13; Ps. 110:1, 2) The prophecy of Daniel 7:13, 14 foretold this coming, in these words: “See there! with the clouds of the heavens someone like a son of man happened to be coming; and to the Ancient of Days he gained access, and they brought him up close even before that One. And to him there were given rulershi

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On the one hand you say 607 B.C.E is the 1st year of Nebuchadnezzar, on the other hand you say it is the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar. Unless you can provide scriptural support for the two missing timelines how can you say "in the year 1914, according to Bible timing"? It bears no relation to the arithmetic in the Scriptures.
If they exist, please point me to the scriptures which show when the years of Nebuchadnezzar AS WORLD RULER took place, together with the INCOMPLETEL rule of Jehoiakim AS A VASSAL OF BABYLON.

Rbi8 p. 1577 5B Christ’s Presence (Parousia)

The word parousia, “presence,” is different from the Greek word eleusis, “coming,” which occurs once in the Greek text, in Ac 7:52, as eleuseos (Lat., adventu). The words parousia and eleusis are not used interchangeably. TDNT, Vol. V, p. 865, noted that “the terms [pareimi and parousia] are never used for the coming of Christ in the flesh, and παρουσία never has the sense of return. The idea of more than one parousia is first found only in the later Church [not before Justine, second century C.E.] . . . A basic prerequisite for understanding the world of thought of primitive Christianity is that we should fully free ourselves from this notion [of more than one parousia].” Concerning the meaning of this word, Israel P. Warren, D.D., wrote in his work The Parousia, Portland, Maine (1879), pp. 12-15: “We often speak of the ‘second advent,’ the ‘second coming,’ etc., but the Scriptures never speak of a ‘second Parousia.’ Whatever was to be its nature, it was something peculiar, having never occurred before, and being never to occur again. It was to be a presence differing from and superior to all other manifestations of himself to men, so that its designation should properly stand by itself, without any qualifying epithet other than the article,—THE PRESENCE. “From this view of the word it is evident, I think, that neither the English word ‘coming’ nor the Latin ‘advent’ is the best representative of the original. They do not conform to its etymology; they do not correspond to the idea of the verb from which it is derived; nor could they appropriately be substituted for the more exact word, ‘presence,’ in the cases where the translators used the latter. Nor is the radical [root] idea of them the same. ‘Coming’ and ‘advent’ give most prominently the conception of an approach to us, motion toward us; ‘parousia’ that of being with us, without reference to how it began. The force of the former ends with the arrival; that of the latter begins with it. Those are words of motion; this of rest. The space of time covered by the action of the former is limited, it may be momentary; that of the latter unlimited . . . .

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Jehovah's Witnesses do not teach that Jesus Christ, Shiloh, the Lion of the tribe of Judah CAME invisibly in 1914.
The above quote by Israel P. Warren, D.D found in the old New World Translation (Appendix 5B) shows that Christ's invisible COMING was not taught when this 1984 version of the NWT Bible was being used. The NWT was revised in 2013 and replace by the grey Bible, sometimes known as the Silver Sword. This quote from Appendix 5B is not in the Silver Sword (NWT revised 2013).