The following diagrams, copied by permission, from Z.W.T., Nov. 15, 1904

[R3459], will be both interesting and helpful in gaining a clear understanding of how carefully certain times and certain events have been marked so that the careful student of the inspired Word might be able to understand as promised in Dan. 12:10.

“The lesson of the accompanying diagrams is that no such parallels would be possible were a single one of our prominent dates altered.”

DIAGRAM NO 1. shows that the period from the time of the Fall to A.D. 36, 4162 years, was marked exactly at its center by the Oathbound Covenant made to Abraham, “In thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”

MATHEMATICAL DEMONSTRATION OF DIAGRAM 2.

(See Dawn, vol. II, pp. 42-54.)

“DIAGRAM NO. 3. This diagram pre-supposes that in the divine plan the day of Adam (Gen. 2:17) and the ‘day of Christ’ were each one thousand years long: as the Apostle declares, ‘a day with the Lord is a thousand years,’ and views the Millennium as beginning with the end of ‘Gentile Times,’ October, 1914, and shows that the intervening space, 5040 years, is exactly twice ‘seven times’; and more than this, it marks the turning point as B.C. 606, as well as the ending point A.D. 1914.”

“DIAGRAM NO. 4 in some particulars resembles No. 3, yet it is quite different as a whole. It views matters from another Scriptural standpoint, taking A.D. 1874 for the date of the Millennium, as shown by the Jubilee cycles and various other prophecies.” See Dawn, vol. II, chap. 6, and vol. III, chap. 5.