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VOL. XXVI ALLEGHENY, PA., JUNE 15, 1905 No. 12REMARKABLE CHRONOLOGICAL PARALLELSBY J. EDOAE, M.D., AK EMINENT amml~,OF BCOTLAHDDEAR BsoTn~lr R~ss=:-The Lord has enabled me to see kingdom was 674 B. C. I cannot find this date specified dianotherremarkable confirmation of the Parallel Dispensations, reetly in the history of the typical kingdom, but it is significantteaching that 1914 A. D. is the date when Christendom will lose that at this time tl~e wicked King Blanasseh had reigned 42its crown, will be finally overthrown, and when he. "whose out of his total 65 years, 674 B. C., therefore, probably correrightit is," mill take his power and reign.sponds to the d5te of his repentance and eonsequent cleansingWe recognize tbat the kingdom of fleshly Israel typified of the wctuary.Christendom in many respects. Two prominent events, the di-KING JOSIAHvision of the kingdom into Judah and Israel and its-final over- ~h~ of the good ging ~ ~ activib ~ i ~ h ~throw as a kingdom, were undoubtedly types, the former of from 651 till 641, land-consisted of a cleansing and reformingthe division of Christendom at the time of the Reformation, the work. ~t ended in 641 with the finding of the ~~k of the L~~latter of its final overthrow. The remarkable feature which and the of the ~~~~t passover. ~h~ periodhas now come to ligl~t is that we have in this a time-parallel. in the hpel qe from l 8 till ~ 1879, the period whenunder ~aul, nnd Solomon, the typical kingdom was most of your cleansing and reforming work was done. So farundivided for the sprree of 120 Years. DAWN 11.9 Page 503 a, Ishows that the wl~ole period of the kings, inclucling tbeae three,&,her, it was &out 1869 that you began to inquirewns 513 yrars. The length of time, therefore, from the division wm into in the 1879 bching you of the founded creeds z and of ~ the ~ ~ ~ % it~~ iW A T TO-, ~ for theof the tvpicnl kingdom on tlie death of solomon till the re- purp, of upholding the doctrine of raneom in all its fulnlovnlof the crown from Zdekiah wns 613 minus 120, equal ness against the attacks of M~. ~~~b~~ and others, and ofto 393 years. The dnte of the division of Christendom inh ,nouncing the G~~~~ passover, the resurredion of the qead inl'apaey and rotes st ant ism was 1521 A. D. merefore, 393years Intel., i. e., in 1914 A. D., we should ex.pt the flnal over-Christ" in the year 1878 A. D. and the pms*gdver of the feetmemberssince that dab at the moment of death.throw of "Christendom."'EHEThe evidence that 1521 A. D. is the dab when the splitNUMBER FORTYinto Papacy and Protestantism occurred is elear. In June, When we tarn back the mrly history of the typical king-1520, Luther received from Pope I& X. the fir& bull of ex- dom~ we And fiat hul* and Solomon each reigned 40communication, commanding him to confess his faults within Ye&'& It is clear that the reign of Saul re~reaente the ~ewishsixt days, or be cast out of the church. On 10th Deemher, that of David the Gospel age, and that of Solomon thel52d (the third munth of the year 1521 by the Jewish mode of aenniE1 .gC The fact that the duration of each reignreckoning), Luther publicly burnt this bull with s co 7 of the 40 Years indicates that it a cm~lete period of test-Canon Law, and on 4th Janusry, 1.521, the second bui was is. ing and sifting- This would appear to be the underl~suedexpelling hirn fro,,, the ~ ~ church. ~ ~ & i k blodem ~ i ~ ~ h ~ ing the number 40 in all the instance8 in which it is used inCyclopedi& states with regard to this: "From this time Luther the smiptures. For instance,-there were the 40 Pars' temptsformallyseprrnted from the Roman church, and mmy of the tion of the children of Ism1 in the wilderness, Christ's 40principal German nobles, the most eminent echolare, and the days' temptation, ek. They dl seem to foreshadow the 40University of Witternberg, publicly declared in favor of the re- years hi%rveSt at the end of the Jewish, *f the andformed doctrines and discipline. Luther'a bold refusal to re ( ~ ~ the ~ Mil1ennia1 ~ ~ ages- ~ ~ y )cnnt at the Diet of Worms (17th April, 1521) gave him in-THBEE DAYS THEEE 1PTGIHTscreased power, while the Edict of Worms and the ban of the It is clear from the Scriptures that Jesua rose on the firetEmperor made his cause a political matter."day of the week (Mark 16:2), and also that this was "theTIMZ OF TBE E.JObthird day" aftm his death (Luke 24:21, 46; 1 Cor. 15:4; alsom a DAWN, Vol. I=, proves from a study of 1.e~. 23: 11 ). It follows tbst he must have been crucified on aDaniel's prophecy of the 1260 days that the Time of the End Friday. That thia is of im-nce in estimating the datesis a period of 115 years, beginning with 1790 and ending with of J~IE' birth and death, is POinM out in n-9 P- 80.1914 A. D. Wondering whether there might be a timeparallel Some object to this that Jesus in ssying (Mstt. 12:40) thathere dm, 1 reckoned back 115 yeara from 806 B. C., and reached he Would be three days md three nigfite in the heart of thethe year 721 B. C. as corresponding with the year 1709 A. D. contradicted the statement by the Apostle Paul that heThis date I found to be exactly five years before the death of on the third day. Those who reason in this way haveKing Hezekiah. Teaiah 38:6 tells us that the dab of Heze- failed to note that the phrase used by Jesus was purely idiokiah's"bickne~s unh death," from which he mimculously re matic, and implied that Be would be in the heart of the earthcovered, was fifteen years prior to his death, and was, there- ''till the third day." The proof of his is h be found in M e rfore, ten years before the date 721 B. C., or, in other words, 125 4:16; 6: I ; k. 42:17, 18; 2 Chron. 10:5, 12. God is hieyears before GO6 B. C. Reckoning a similar ~eriod back from own inhvreter.1914 A. D. brings us to 1750 A.D., the year of the French THE YEA= Of J'TlBILl3ERevolution, from which Christendom recovered, though it must I had always taken it for granted that the year of Jubileehave seemed to be a "sickness unto death."wae an ecclesiastical year; but on studying this subject reWe are told tllat, after his recovery, Hewkiah gave Way cently, I noticed that the trumpet ww to sound MI the day ofonce more to-his vain-glory and received the Babylonian am- atonement, the 10th by of the 7th month (Lev. 25:9), andbaesadors, iuat France once more favored Pa aV. We also presumably, therefore, began on that day. Aceordingly, theread that he afterwards led water into ~eruaagm for the re- y m of Jubile r~ not an ecelesia&d ymr, i. e., from sprkfreshing of the Lord'a people. This seems to Shadow forth to spring, but a civil year from Auhmn to Autumn.the founding of the various Bible Soeietiea at the beginning of As e w 7th year a WWh yesr, it follows that thethe last eenturg, mentioned in Dam m., page 51.49th year was a Sabbath year. It would seem aa if these wereTHE SUB-DIAL OF ARBecclesiastical yeera If so, then the Jubilee year be@m in theWhat struck me in -mining the above was that the year middle of the 49th year. But it wae called the 50th ye!of the French Revolution, typified by Heeekiah's sickness, waa Should one resson from thi~ that it wm called the 60th ymten yenrs back from the end of the 1260 days of Daniel, the because it waa the 50th civil year? The entrance into Canaanbeginninp of the Time of the End. Can it be that the sign of took plw in the Spriwime at the beginning of an ecclesinstithesun-dial given to Haekiah (IBIL. 38:7, 8, 22) should be eal year. Six months afterwards their 2nd civil year Wan,taken tau a prophecy of this, the ten degrees (or steps, R v.) while it was atill the middle of the 1st ecclesiastical year. Canrepresentingten vears? Did the sign indicate symbolically sequently, their 50th civil year began, while it waa still thethrt, just as the shadow on the sun-did, on account of Heze- middle of their 49th ecclesiastics1 year. If this be in the interkiah'srepentance, was set back ten steps, so the date of the pretation, it is evident that the land had rest on these occa-French Revolution would be eet back ten years, i. e., that after sions, not two yew, but only eighteen months.this revolution would break out in 1780 A. D.. ten perm would It would seem aa if this were a wise provision of the Morequireto elnpse before the beginning of the Time of the End? saic Law. It provided that at the beginning of each yenr ofThe fact that the rophet Isniah immediately proceeds (ch. 40) Jubilee, owing to the suspension of work on the land duringtp refer to this &me of the End would seem to support this the previous sir months. the restitution of all things waa renmew.dered easier of accomplishment; and also after the JubileeTRg 2300 DAY8 OF DMTELwas over, and each had returned to his own land, an opportu-The year 1848 A. D., which ended the 2300 days of Daniel, nity was given to him to prepare the land and get his crophas been shown in DAWN, Vol. nr., to be the date of the cleans- ready for the Spring harvest and the celebration of the Paaeingof the sancturuy. The corresponding date in the typical over and of Pentecost.(179-180) [3574]