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against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the 

 houses rifled, and the women ravished,- and half of the city shall 

 go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not 

 be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth and figiit 

 against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. 

 And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Ohves, 

 which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives 

 shall cleave in the midst thereof toward to east and toward the 

 west, and there shall be a very great valley, and half the mountain 

 shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south." 

 Thus we see Gentile thrones and dominations overthrown in the 

 coming of the long-expected Messiah, who will be acknowledged 

 by all Israel as the One whom they pierced, and the kingdoms 

 of the earth shall be the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ. 



Have we any indication as to what year the " times of the 

 Gentiles " come to an end, and when the Lord Jesus is likely 

 to come again? Daniel gives us dates — do they mean anything 

 to us? In Daniel xii. 10 he is informed that a day shall come 

 when " the wise shall understand " the significance of these 

 dates. When, then, are these hgures likely to be understood? 

 Surely these dates are to be understood in the closing days of 

 this age just immediately preceding the Second Advent of Christ. 

 Practically everybody will agree that the " times of the Gentiles " 

 began about 587 B.C., when the Temple was burned and the last 

 king, Zedekiah, was led away into exile. The length of the 

 period of the ' ' times of the Gentiles ' ' is given to us in Leviticus 

 xxvi. 18, 21, 24, 28, " I will punish you seven times more for 

 your sins. I will bring seven times more plagues upon you. 



.... I will punish you yet seven times for your sins I 



will chastise you seven times for your sins." A " time " is equal 

 to the Jewish calendar of 360 days. In Daniel vii. 25, we have 

 the oft-repeated phrase, a time and times and the dividing of 

 time." This is equal to 1,260 days. Thus the " seven times " 

 of Israel's punishment are 360 by 7; 2,520 prophetic days. 

 Numbers xiii. 33-34, " And your children shall be wanderers in 

 the wilderness forty years and shall bear your whoredoms, until 

 your carcases be consumed in the wilderness. After the number 

 of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for 

 every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, 

 and ye shall know my alienation." These verses tell us that a 

 " day " of Israel's punishment equals a year. The same year 

 " day " is to be found in the sixty-nine weeks of Messiah, the 

 Prince, in Daniel ix. 25. These 69 weeks multiphed by 7 equal 

 483 prophetic days, which was the exact number of years from 

 Artaxerxes decree (Neh. ii. 5) to the Crucifixion; or 2,520 days of 

 Israel's punishment equals 2,520 solar years. If we add 2,520 to 

 587 B.C. this conducts us toA.D. 1934. 587 b.c. was the year of 



