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the Wilderness forty years."— Acts 7:23, 30, 36;Z.'11-215.""Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to thethousand three hundred and five and thirty days."(Dan. 12:12; C83.)"Then shaft thou cause the trumpet of the jubileeto sound on the tenth day of the seventh month,in the day of atonement." (Lev. 25:9; B187.) "Aslong as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, tofulfil threescore and ten years." (2 Chron. 36:21;B195.) "In that day shall there be an altar to theLord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and apillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And itshall be for a sign and for a witness unto theLord of hosts in the land of Egypt." (Isa. 19:19,20; C315.)"The like figure whereunto even baptism dothalso now save us." (1 Pet. 3:21; Z.'05-181,Diagram.)"In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, hemade a proclamation." (Ezra 1:1; Z.'05-185.)"This house was finished on the third day of themonth Adar, which was in the sixth year of thereign of Darius the king." (Ezra 6:15; Z.'05-185.)"This Ezra went up from Babylon. . . . And hecame to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which wasin the seventh year of the king." (Ezra 7:6-8;Z.'05-185.)"In the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king."—Neh. 2:1; Z.'05-185.Besides the above Scriptures, time-proofs of theLord's Return, are the fulfillments of thepromised signs: The Gospel has been preachedin all the world for a witness: (Matt. 24:14;A91); the abomination has been seen in the holyplace (Matt. 24:15; D572); the fight of the saintsfrom the antitypical "Judea" has occurred (Matt.24:16; D573); the great tribulation hascommenced (Matt. 24:21; D540); the falseChrists are with us (Matt. 24:23; D580); theeagles have gathered to the carcassFM70