What Can the Bible Teach Us?, “Endnote 22: Why Is the Year 1914 So Important?”
“The “seven times” lasted for 2,520 years. If we count 2,520 years from the year 607 B.C.E., we end up at the year 1914. That was when Jehovah made Jesus, the Messiah, King of God’s Kingdom in heaven.”
The simplified successor to the 2005 textbook keeps the same chain in plainer language: “Jerusalem was destroyed in the year 607 B.C.E. That was the start of the ‘seven times.’” and “The 2,520 days are equal to 2,520 years because of the prophetic rule ‘a day for a year.’”
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Confidence note. Full document fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the quotation, the paragraph and the page were confirmed against the article text and its embedded page markers (span class=“pageNum”). The endnote runs over two pages: the sentence quoted here is on page 217 and the arithmetic quoted in the context note is on page 220 (pages 218-219 carry no page marker in the library text).
Corroborated by. src-chr-o-bh-2005-appendix
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chr-o-bhs-2015-endnote