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"THE APPOINTED TIMES" 69
tions render the expression "seven years" . Moff . ;
AAT Seven literal years of loss of reason did
pass over King Nebuchadnezzar in miniature fulfillment
of the prophetic dream ; but the full-scale
fulfillment of the uninterrupted mad Gentile domination
of the earth proved to be a much longer
period .
14 The "seven times" that Nebuchadnezzar spent
were seven years of twelve lunar months, or of
360 days to a year . That would multiply up to
2,520 days 7 X 360 days for the seven literal
times . Such 2,520 days of his "seven times" of
beastlike madness were symbolic of the period of
Gentile world-domination during which Jerusalem
or what it represented was trodden underfoot
by the non-Jewish nations . Jehovah himself
gives us the rule for interpreting the symbolism
by saying regarding punishment upon Israel :
"Each day for a year ." Numbers 14 :34 "I have
appointed thee each day for a year." Ezekiel
4 :6 So calculated, the 2,520 days of Jerusalem's
destroyer in beastlike madness symbolized 2,520
years counting from 607 B .C.-Compare Revelation
12 :6 and 14 .
15
So the "seven times" did not end in 537 B .C .
when the land of Judah and Jerusalem had finished
its seventy sabbath years of lying desolate
without man or domesticated beast and when the
Israelite captives returned from Babylon and rebuilt
Jerusalem and Jehovah's temple there. Centuries
later when Jesus Christ was predicting the
15 . How did Jesus show those times had not ended in
537 B.C .?