The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

306 THE GENTILE TIMES RECONSIDERED
When Did the "Seven Times"
Really End?
Some people argue that even if the "seven
times" are prophetic and even if they last 2,520
years, Jehovah’s Witnesses are still mistaken
about the significance of 1914 because they use
the wrong starting point. Jerusalem, they claim,
was destroyed in 587/6 B.C.E., not in 607
B.C.E. If true, this would shift the start of "the
time of the end" by some 20 years. However, in
1981 Jehovah’s Witnesses published
convincing evidence in support of the 607 B.C.E.
date. ("Let Your Kingdom Come," pages 127-40,
186-9) Besides, can those trying to rob 1914
of its Biblical significance prove that 1934—or
any other year for that matter—has had a
more profound, more dramatic, and more
spectacular impact upon world history than
1914 did?
From The Watchtower of November 1, 1986, page 6.
Watch Tower Society want to keep it that way. This is clear from
the warnings repeatedly published in the Watch Tower publications
against reading literature by former Witnesses who know the facts
about their chronology. The leaders of the Watch Tower Society
evidently fear that if Witnesses are allowed to be exposed to these
facts, they might discover that the basis of the prophetic claims of
the movement is nothing but a groundless, unbiblical and
unhistorical chronological speculation.
Thus, although the Watch Tower organization probably uses the
word “Truth” more often than most other organizations on earth,
the fact is that truth has become an enemy of the movement.
Therefore it has to be resisted and concealed.
Anybody, of course, be it an individual or an organization, is
fully entitled to believe whatever he/she/it prefers to believe, as