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The Watchtower tells you that Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 607 BCE. This began the start of the Gentile Times, and therefore produces the date - through some argument - of 1914 as the end of the Gentile Times.
However, all archaeological evidence and over 10,000 identified Cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia (found in the 1950s) all put the date of the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon in 587 BCE, a full 20 years later. In fact, no scholar today would ever put the date of 607 BCE on the fall of Jerusalem when it is so certain that it could not have been this date.
Is it not true that C.T.Russell initially forgot to consider that there is no year number "0" and the 1914 date originally started with the year of the fall as 606 BCE? Only when C.T.Russell's mistake was realized, they "adjusted" the date of the fall to 607 BCE.
Why has the Watchtower gone to such great lengths to squash the understanding that the 607 BCE date is proven inaccurate?
2007-12-29
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