The Watchtower, “A Conversation With a Neighbor: When Did God’s Kingdom Begin Ruling?—Part 2”
“If we apply the rule of a day for a year, the seven times would amount to 2,520 years. Counting forward from 607 B.C.E., 2,520 years takes us to the year 1914.”
The paragraph opens: “Sometimes in Bible prophecy, a day symbolizes a year.” The second half of the scripted conversation. It argues that the “seven times” cannot be seven literal years because “seven literal years would take us to the year 600 B.C.E. But nothing significant happened in that year with regard to God’s rulership.”
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