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Of course he didn't. 1914 was when Jesus became King of the heavenly kingdom. The Bible is expertly accurate when it comes to dates and events prophesied. You just have to do a bit more investigating to see this. No one taught me this idea. I can see it quite clearly myself.

Read this and also look up the quoted scriptures:

1914â€”A Significant Year in Bible Prophecy

DECADES in advance, Bible students proclaimed that there would be significant developments in 1914. What were these, and what evidence points to 1914 as such an important year?

As recorded at Luke 21:24, Jesus said: â€œJerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the appointed times of the nations [â€œthe times of the Gentiles,â€ King James Version] are fulfilled.â€ Jerusalem had been the capital city of the Jewish nationâ€”the seat of rulership of the line of kings from the house of King David. (Psalm 48:1, 2) However, these kings were unique among national leaders. They sat on â€œJehovahâ€™s throneâ€ as representatives of God himself. (1 Chronicles 29:23) Jerusalem was thus a symbol of Jehovahâ€™s rulership.

How and when, though, did Godâ€™s rulership begin to be â€œtrampled on by the nationsâ€? This happened in 607 B.C.E. when Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians. â€œJehovahâ€™s throneâ€ became vacant, and the line of kings who descended from David was interrupted. (2 Kings 25:1-26) Would this â€˜tramplingâ€™ go on forever? No, for the prophecy of Ezekiel said regarding Jerusalemâ€™s last king, Zedekiah: â€œRemove the turban, and lift off the crown. . . . It will certainly become no oneâ€™s until he comes who has the legal right, and I must give it to him.â€ (Ezekiel 21:26, 27) The one who has â€œthe legal rightâ€ to the Davidic crown is Christ Jesus. (Luke 1:32, 33) So the â€˜tramplingâ€™ would end when Jesus became King.

When would that grand event occur? Jesus showed that the Gentiles would rule for a fixed period of time. The account in Daniel chapter 4 holds the key to knowing how long that period would last. It relates a prophetic dream experienced by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He saw an immense tree that was chopped down. Its stump could not grow because it was banded with iron and copper. An angel declared: â€œLet seven times pass over it.â€â€”Daniel 4:10-16.

In the Bible, trees are sometimes used to represent rulership. (Ezekiel 17:22-24; 31:2-5) So the chopping down of the symbolic tree represents how Godâ€™s rulership, as expressed through the kings at Jerusalem, would be interrupted. However, the vision served notice that this â€˜trampling of Jerusalemâ€™ would be temporaryâ€”a period of â€œseven times.â€ How long a period is that?

Revelation 12:6, 14 indicates that three and a half times equal â€œa thousand two hundred and sixty days.â€ â€œSeven timesâ€ would therefore last twice as long, or 2,520 days. But the Gentile nations did not stop â€˜tramplingâ€™ on Godâ€™s rulership a mere 2,520 days after Jerusalemâ€™s fall. Evidently, then, this prophecy covers a much longer period of time. On the basis of Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6, which speak of â€œa day for a year,â€ the â€œseven timesâ€ would cover 2,520 years.

The 2,520 years began in October 607 B.C.E., when Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians and the Davidic king was taken off his throne. The period ended in October 1914. At that time, â€œthe appointed times of the nationsâ€ ended, and Jesus Christ was installed as Godâ€™s heavenly King.â€”Psalm 2:1-6; Daniel 7:13, 14.

Just as Jesus predicted, his â€œpresenceâ€ as heavenly King has been marked by dramatic world developmentsâ€”war, famine, earthquakes, pestilences. (Matthew 24:3-8; Luke 21:11) Such developments bear powerful testimony to the fact that 1914 indeed marked the birth of Godâ€™s heavenly Kingdom and the beginning of â€œthe last daysâ€ of this present wicked system of things.â€”2 Timothy 3:1-5.

[Footnote]

From October 607 B.C.E. to October 1 B.C.E. is 606 years. Since there is no zero year, from October 1 B.C.E. to October 1914 C.E. is 1,914 years. By adding 606 years and 1,914 years, we get 2,520 years.
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#102

What I'm wondering is why this compassionate god would spend so much time making logical puzzles to confound his beloved. Seems more like a hacker to me.

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I can see it too. Good catch!

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