# **The Gentile Times Ended??

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Posted by Leastofthese [Leastofthese] on November 17, 1999 at 18:33:25 {xx2d.1sWpQYIiNdpPK7.di7nyYLfJI}:

In Reply to: *The Gentile Times Ended?? posted by Bibleman on November 17, 1999 at 16:55:18:

Bibleman,
You wrote:

"The 2520 years began at the fall of Jerusalem which was in 529BCE so it ended in 1992."

While chatting with a local elder the other day he mentioned the discrepancies between current archeoloical findings as to the date of Jerusalems fall not matching properly with the WTBTS's 607 BCE.

Still he brought up a valid point that I have no answer for and wonder if you or someone else here does...

What he stated is that there still had to be seventy years for the Jews to have been in exile in Babylon and that the date shown for the ending of that exile is shown everywhere as being 537 bce, Now the key point is this - How do we get 70 years of exile when they are considered to have been released from Babylonian captivity in 537 or ten years before the date you show them going into captivity.

Your figures would have them returning from exile in the year 459, which is without a doubt disputable from all the archeological evidence in the chronicles and archeological finds related to thier return from exile in Babylon.

So how do we reconcile the two dates and leave the seventy years of prophetic timing left for thier exile?

As to other possible dates more fitting to your date as shown I can't reconcile your date - period!

"Later, more captives returned to Palestine. In 468 B.C.E., Ezra was accompanied by more than 1,750, which figure apparently includes only adult males. (Ezr 7:1-8:32) A few years later Nehemiah made at least two trips from Babylon to Jerusalem, but how many Jews returned with him is not disclosed.-Ne 2:5, 6, 11; 13:6, 7."

So Bibleman, How will you reconcile the seventy weeks of the Jews captivity in Babylon with your date, without discrediting the prophecy of the seventy weeks of desolation?

Least of these!

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