What Does Bible Chronology Indicate About the Year 1914? Conclusion

 What does the tree of Daniel chapter 4 represent?  In the Bible, trees sometimes represent rulership.  (Ezekiel 17:22-24; 31:2-5) In the greater fulfillment of Daniel chapter 4, the immense tree symbolizes God's rulership.

What does the tree's being chopped down mean? Just as the chopping down of a tree represented an interruption in Nebuchadnezzar's kingship, it also represented an interruption in God's rulership on earth. This happened when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem, where the kings of Israel sat  on "Jehovah's throne" as representatives of God himself. - 1 CHRONOCLES 29:23.

What do the "seven times" represent? The "seven times" represent the period during which God allowed the nations to rule over the earth with out interference from any kingdom that he had set up. The "seven times" being in October B.C.E., when according to Bible chronology, Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians. - 2 KINGS 25:1, 8-10.

How long are the "seven times"?  They could not be merely seven years as in Nebuchadnezzar's case. Jesus indicated the answer when he said that "Jerusalem is  [a symbol of God's rulership]will be trampled on by the nations until the appointed times of the nation." (Luke 21:24) "The appointed times of the nations," the period during which God allowed his rulership to be  "trampled on by the nations," are the same as the "seven times of Daniel chapter 4.  This means that the "seven times" were still under way even when Jesus was on earth.

The Bible provides the way to determine the length of those prophetic "seven times."  It says that three and a  half "times equal 1,250 days, so "seven times" equal that number, or 2, 520 days represent 2,520 years.  Therefore, the "seven times," or 2,520 years, would end in October 1914. - NUMBERS 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6. 

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