[geocentrism] Re: 666
- From: "Martin G. Selbrede" <mselbrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:29:49 -0500
On May 22, 2007, at 9:13 AM, j a wrote:
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There is a zero on the timeline - it is the imaginary space between
year 1BC ending and 1AD beginning. All of 1BC plus all of 1AD
equals 2 years. Therefore, from the beginning of 596 BC to the end
of 70 AD is 666 years.
JA
.... For which reason I was very specific: I picked a given month in
each of the years. July 1 BC to July 1 AD is one year (or, as I put
it, there's twelve months between the two months, not twenty four).
The Vespasianic War didn't end on December 31 of 70 AD, nor did
Zedekiah's eye-gouging occur on January 1 of 596 BC. When you
measure year-to-year, you pick the same measuring point for both
termini -- you don't artificially goose the termini to get a
nonrepresentative result. Failing that even-handed approach, you
would use the ACTUAL historic termini, and then we're far removed
from the artifice of the example you provide. The Romans destroyed
the Jerusalem temple on August 29-30 of the year 70 AD. The primary
wall was destroyed in mid-summer, the secondary wall shortly
thereafter, prior to the temple razing in August.
The problem with the 596 BC date is that the deportations were staged
in three separate events, under Jehoiachin, Zedekiah, etc. God
promised that the land "would enjoy her sabbaths," namely, the land
sabbaths that had been deliberately neglected after 490 years in
Israel. There's no question the land is not enjoying her sabbaths up
through the reign of Zedekiah, and the deportation under his reign,
and the razing of the city by the Babylonians, is dated to 586 BC,
not 596 BC (the second deportation, the largest of them all). Allen
wants to use the 70 sabbath-years for the land, but the land was
still being sown and reaped until the deportations prevented the Jews
from violating God's law concerning it. You can't point at miles of
fields being planted and harvested and say "the 70 years is being
honored at this time." Absolutely, positively no way. The entire
point of the deportation/exile was so that God's law concerning the
land would finally be honored by Force, since it was spat upon by
those who should have voluntarily obeyed it.
That said, I'm pleased that Allen didn't split the seventy sevens but
kept them together. That strategy is correct, although
dispensationalists would bristle at it, since they prefer to chop off
the 70th week of Daniel and transport it into the 19th century... oh,
I mean, 20th century... oh, I guess now they transport it into the
21st century. Quite a yardstick there -- it stretches to fit our
failed predictions. Not too shabby, eh? But Allen has this part
right: the 490 years run sequentially without a break. That
circumstance is commendable.
Martin
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