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The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

An historical and biblical refutation of 1914, a favorite year of Jehovah's Witnesses and other Bible Students. By Carl Olof Jonsson.

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<strong>The</strong> History of an Interpretation 37<br />

Above: <strong>The</strong> Albury Park residence, near Guildford, south of London, the<br />

place of the Albury Park Prophetic Conferences, 1826–1830. At these<br />

conferences certain ideas were developed that 50 years later were to<br />

become central parts of the message of the Watch Tower Society, viz.,<br />

the <strong>Gentile</strong> times as a period of 2,520 years, and the idea of <strong>Christ</strong>’s second coming<br />

as an invisible presence.<br />

Below: Henry Drummond, owner of Albury Park and host of the<br />

conferences, who also published annual reports on the discussions<br />

(Dialogues on Prophecy).<br />

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