ka chap. 14 pp. 260-261 pars. 9-11 Earthly Subjects of the Kingdom of God
- Thus the “seven times” of Gentile domination began in 607 B.C.E., and yet it was more than a year afterward that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon got his dream about those “seven times.” (Daniel 4:16, 23, 25, 32) Another thing: this dream had a typical fulfillment upon Nebuchadnezzar when he became mad for seven literal “times” (years) and chewed grass like a bull in the field. Does this mean that the “seven times” of Gentile domination could not have begun in 607 B.C.E., before the prophetic dream? Did those Gentile Times first have to begin when the king was recovered from those seven years of madness? No! So, the year of his recovery not being known, this does not require that the “seven times” of Gentile domination of the world must begin first at the fall of Nebuchadnezzar’s dynasty in the year 539 B.C.E. If we count the prophetic “seven times” (2,520 years) from Babylon’s fall to the Medes and Persians in 539 B.C.E., then those “seven times” would end in the fall of the year 1982 C.E., still in the future. On that basis, what would be the logical thing to expect in that coming year? The opposite of what took place in 539 B.C.E., namely, the restoration of the dynastic throne of King Nebuchadnezzar, the restoration of the Babylonian Empire with a descendant of Nebuchadnezzar on the throne!
10 However, that is absolutely contrary to what the inspired Word of God foretells. Ancient Babylon on the Euphrates River has perished forever! The dynasty of King Nebuchadnezzar has been overthrown forever. The Babylonian Empire has ceased eternally as the third world power. But what is it that Jehovah God, whose representative throne was at Jerusalem, promised to restore? It is the Messianic kingdom in the hands of a descendant of David that the God of the heavens has promised to restore. (Ezekiel 21:27; Luke 1:30-33) The desolating of Jerusalem and the land of Judah by the Babylonians in 607 B.C.E. marked the overthrow of the Messianic kingdom of David, and hence this is what marked the beginning of the “seven times” of the Gentile domination of the world of mankind. Unalterably, then, the 2,520 years of the Gentile Times began then, and, because of beginning there, they ended in early autumn of the year 1914 C.E.
11 So, the fact that King Nebuchadnezzar had his seven years of madness after he overthrew David’s throne at Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E. served to show how long those Gentile Times, already begun, were to last. World events indicated that they lasted till 1914 C.E.
Issue
- The year after 607 B.C.E is 606 B.C.E. Jerusalem fell in the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar, the following year would be the 20th year of Nebuchadnezzar's rulership, not the 2nd.
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- Nebuchadnezzar's Tree Dream How It Relates To God's Kingdom
Sometime after 606 B.C.E Nebuchandezzar loses his sanity and is unable to rule.
Jerusalem is destroyed interrupting the line of Israelite kings Oct 607 B.C.E
Issue
- What you are saying is that after 606 B.C.E, your 2nd-come-20th year of Nebuchadnezzar's rulership is at some point followed by Nebuchadnezzar going mad for 7 years.
- This has a larger fullfilment in 607 B.C.E your 1st-come-19th year of Nebuchadnezzar which is immediately followed by the 7 Gentile Times ending in 1914 when Nebuchadnezzar's recovery of his sanity is prophetically fulfilled on a larger scale by Jesus Christ, coming as Shiloh but not coming because he hasn't come, rather becoming invisibly present and starting to rule by inspecting and then appointing you.