Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY HENRY PROCTOR, F. R. S. L., M. R. A. S.
(LONDON)
sqkfkqbgg BOUT 30 years ago Grattan Guinness, in his
.P Q exceedingly able work entitled "Light for
-fe 41' the Last Days" wrote thus as to the "Char-
-Er *I* acter of 1917, A. D.," the year upon which
*'f**f*'¥*¥ we have just entered: "It was the year B.
C. 606 that Nebuchadnezzar first came against Judah,
and carried away 'Daniel and the Hebrew child: en'
among other captives. At this time he was acting on behalf
of his father, and it was not until two years later,
B. C. 604, that he himself acceded to the throne." This
year is consequently, properly speaking, the iirst of Nebuchadnezzar;
and it was probably also the year in which
he saw the vision of the Great Image, in connection with
which it was said to him "Thou art this head of gold."
This year (B. C. 604) has some special claims to be
considered as a very principal starting point of the
"times of the Gentiles."
runs out in
Measured from it the period
A. D. 1917
and it is a very notable fact that a second most remarkable
period does the same.
The 1335 years of Daniel xii.
12, the ne plus ultra of prophetic chronology which is
evidently eastern in character and consequently lunar in
scale, measured back from the year 1917, lead up to the
great Hegira era of Islam, the starting point of the Mohammedan
calendar, the birthday of the power which has
for more than twelve centuries desolated Palestine and