"GENTILE TIMES ENDED IN 1914 On file first day of October, 1914, Brother Russell walked into the dining room at Bethd and, clapping his hands, announced in stentorian tones, "The gentile times have ended! The kings of earth have had their day!" Brother Russell was right then. He was right when he wrote Volume II concerning the gentile times. If the contention of his opponents concerning chronology is right, then everything that transpired in 1914 and since must be disregarded as evidence of Messiah’s kingdom. It is admitted by them that the tenure of office of Israel’s kings must be changed in order to agree with some historians who were agents of Satan. Such a change would put out of joint all our chronology, and destroy the value of the dates 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, and 1918. Such would be equivalent to saying, "Where is the proof of Ins presence?" "My Lord delayeth his coming."--2 Peter 3:4:; Matthew 24: 48. -- The WATCHTOWER, May 1, 1922, page 139, "THE GENTILE TIMES"
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==========="The chronology of present truth might be a mere happening if it were not for the repetitmns in the two great cycles of 1845 and 2520 years, which take it out of the reahn of chance and into that of certainty. If there were only one or two corresponding dates in these cycles, they might possibly be mere coincidences, but where the agreements of dates and events come by the dozens, they cannot possibly be by chance, but must be by the design or plan of the only personal Being capable of such a plan--Jehovah himself ; and the chronology itself must be right.
In the passages of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh the agreement of one or two measurements with the present truth chronology might be accidental, but the correspondency of dozens of measurements proves that the same God designed both pyramid and plan--and at the same time proves the correctness of the chronology." -- The WATCHTOWER, June 15, 1922, page 187, "SEVENTY YEARS’ DESOLATION (PART II)"
In these marvelous discoveries in chronology and in those yet to be described, four things are disclosed:==========
First, that so symmetrical and exact an arrangement of stupendous ages betokens foreknowledge of all features from the beginning to the end;
Second, that the overruling of these great times and seasons was by none other than Him who alone has foreknowledge, Almighty God;
Third, that a chronological system which is knit together in so amazing a fashion has the internal evidence that it is of God and is the correct chronology ; and
Fourth, that this system reveals the foundation for the true science and philosophy of history, which must ultimately be taught everywhere and to everyone. -- The WATCHTOWER, November 15, 1922, page 357, "DIVINELY-GIVEN CHRONOLOGICAL PARALLELISMS (PART I)"
Parallehsms of this nature are proof of divine origin of present-truth chronology, because they show foreknowledge. In the instance cited, the division of Israel and that of Christendom, 2520 years apart, are evidence that when the first division was permitted, the latter one was foreknmwn. This is true because of the relationship between the two events as regards both time and nature.
When it is found that there is a series or system of parallel dates composed of pairs of dates 2520 years apart, the foreknowledge becomes obvious. It would be absurd to claim that the relationship discovered was not the result of divine arrangement. -- The WATCHTOWER, July 15, 1922, page 219, "THE STRONG CABLE OF CHRONOLOGY"