Le lien entre Daniel 4 et 1914 dépend de l’identification des « sept temps » avec les « temps fixés des nations » de Luc 21:24, et d’une lecture qui voit dans « Jérusalem » non la ville littérale mais un symbole de la domination de Dieu exercée par les rois de la lignée de David.
Claim ID claim-chronology-luke-21-24-linkConcerns 1988Déclaration explicite
Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : Étude perspicace reconnaît que d’autres lisent Daniel 4 comme ne s’appliquant qu’à Neboukadnetsar et « ne considèrent pas qu’elle puisse avoir un rapport avec une période de temps précise ou un calendrier divin », et répond que, dans l’ensemble du livre de Daniel, « le facteur temps est partout accentué ».
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Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
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”.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, Appointed Times of the Nations
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Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
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”.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, Appointed Times of the Nations
Note sur la fiabilité.Full article fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the quotation and the page were confirmed against the text and its embedded page markers. Insight on the Scriptures is undated on the Online Library; the 1988 publication year is the work’s own imprint date.
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.
Note de provenance et de vérification for What Does the Bible Really Teach?, Appendix: 1914—A Significant Year in Bible Prophecy
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