Die Verbindung zwischen Daniel 4 und 1914 hängt davon ab, dass die „sieben Zeiten“ mit den „bestimmten Zeiten der Nationen“ aus Lukas 21:24 gleichgesetzt werden und dass „Jerusalem“ dort als Sinnbild für Gottes Herrschaft durch die davidischen Könige gelesen wird und nicht als die buchstäbliche Stadt.
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Die Position der Organisation oder ihre spätere Erklärung: Einsichten räumt ein, dass andere Daniel 4 nur auf Nebukadnezar bezogen sehen und „keine Beziehung zu irgendeinem besonderen Zeitabschnitt oder einem göttlichen Plan“ erkennen, und antwortet, das Zeitelement sei im ganzen Buch Daniel auffallend.
1988 · p.133 · under “Beginning of ‘trampling’” · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“It began centuries earlier with the Babylonian overthrow of that dynasty in 607 B.C.E. when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took captive the dethroned king Zedekiah and the land was left desolate.”
The article argues that the ‘trampling’ of Jerusalem in Luke 21:24 refers not to the literal city in 70 C.E. but to the interruption of the Davidic kingship, and that the “appointed times of the nations” are therefore a fixed period with “a definite beginning and a definite end”.
Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, Appointed Times of the Nations
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1988 · pp.134-135 · under “Seven Symbolic Times” · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Only by applying the formula there expressed of “a day for a year” to the “seven times” of this prophecy can the vision of Daniel chapter 4 have significant fulfillment beyond the day of now extinct Nebuchadnezzar, as the evidence thus far presented gives reason to expect. They therefore represent 2,520 years.”
The chain is: “times” in Daniel means years; a prophetic year is 360 days because three and a half times equal 1,260 days at Revelation 12:6, 14; “seven times” is therefore 2,520 days; and Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6 supply the day-for-a-year rule. The article acknowledges that others “do not see it as relating to any specific time period or divine schedule”.
Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, Appointed Times of the Nations
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2005 · pp.215-218 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“The 2,520 years began in October 607 B.C.E., when Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians and the Davidic king was taken off his throne. The period ended in October 1914. At that time, “the appointed times of the nations” ended, and Jesus Christ was installed as God’s heavenly King.”
The appendix to the organisation’s principal Bible-study textbook of 2005-2015 sets out the chain in five steps: Luke 21:24; Jerusalem as a symbol of Jehovah’s rulership; Daniel 4’s felled tree; 1,260 days x 2 = 2,520 days from Revelation 12:6, 14; and the day-for-a-year rule from Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6. A footnote adds the arithmetic (606 + 1,914 = 2,520, there being no zero year) and refers readers to the article “Chronology” in Insight on the Scriptures.
Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for What Does the Bible Really Teach?, Appendix: 1914—A Significant Year in Bible Prophecy
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