Here Eber, which name signifies to pass over from a country beyond, points to the birth of Shem, meaning the place of a new sign or name. I give this meaning in its connection. The name signifies a sign or name. As Terah marks a new era in the church, as the father of Abram, and having separate generations, so his father Nahor points to the division of the land, and fall of Jericho, in 2717. He brings us to a fraction over the main captivity. Jerusalem in.......... ... 3557 2 Kings xxv., 1. In the ninth year, tenth month, he came against Zedekiah in.......... 3566 2 Kings xxv., 8. In the nineteenth year, fifth month, In Jeremiah xxv., 11, we read: "These nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years." This makes the seventh servitude foretold by Moses, and in 2 Chron. xxxvi., 21, this is explained; to fulfil the word of the Lord through Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath to fulfil "seventy years," showing that the seventy years. has reference to the cycle of 430; and we will find that both seventy years and seventy men, when mentioned in Scripture, designate the cycle of 430 years. Israel took seventy souls into Egypt, that is for 430 years. Seventy is sometimes so expressed as to refer to the prolonged cycle of 479, that is the addition of seven sevens, a Jubilee period of forty-nine years; it then usually reads seventy princes or elders of the people. As Moses took with him seventy elders of Israel into the Mount in 2668, Numbers xi., 16, who indicated the length of life of the house of that tabernacle, 479 years, to 3147, the year of the Temple. Again Gideon had seventy sons of his body begotten.-Judges viii., 30. His time began in 2928+479-3407, which is the beginning of Israel's captivity. Tiglath-pileser carried away the two tribes and a half the other side of Jordan, Reuben, Gåd, and the half tribe of Manasseh, in the beginning of the reign of Pekah, 3407.-2 Kings, xvi., 10; 2 Chr. v., 26. He also had a son Abimelech, by a con cubine, who killed his seventy brethren. This is from his day before his reign, which began in 2968, and the 479 brings us to the end of the rule in Samaria, for this was at Shechem of Samaria. The temple was destroyed in..... Whiston. The subsequent reign of Nebuchad nezzar.... Rollin. The reign of Evil Merodich. 3577 25 2 The reigns of Neriglissor and Laborcaidad. 5 17 49 3626 This ends the cycle, being the second of 479 from the exodus in 2668, and brings us to the first of Cyrus, which marks a new era, one of restoration. This ends the captivity; the period, however, The six servitudes of judges Making in all .... 70 years. 94 years. 430 years. 594 years. The exact number of Sabbaths in 4163 years, the year of the birth of Jesus, showing them all to be compensation periods-for non-observance of Sabbaths. This, however, does not include Jubilees, for that was a Mosaic institution, whereas, the Sabbath obtained from the beginning. Thus 4163-7-596. In the first of Cyrus, 3627, which was a Sabbatic year, he made a decree concerning the building or rebuilding of the house of God, with three rows of great stones, and new timber.-Ezra vi., 3, 4. And it was finished in the sixth year of Darius II. This restoration was by Judah and Benjamin, and immediately under Zerubbabel, who commenced in the second year the work, because the first was a rest. Ezra iii., 8. Therefore, the temple was finished in 3647. Before proceeding, I will give the reader another species of numbering-although it may more properly belong to the next chapter-where will be amplified and shown how there are forty-two builders named in the record from Adam to Jesus; these were builders of the temple the real temple, "The stone cut out of the mountain, without hand." This number, 42, represents six working periods, as six sevens are forty-two, and the seven constitute one, as one Sabbath above is equal to seven below. Now, in the account of the symbolic temple, there were employed 70,000 bearers of burdens; these represent the edifice before Noah built the ark and organized the church. Divide 70,000 by 42 and we have 1666). Then there were 80,000 workers in the mountain; these are in the church as organized; and divided by 42 gives us 1907, reaching to the year 3574, the captivity, or end of the temple. Add to that the servi tudes when they could not work, or the Sabbaths as compounded, and we have the year 4168, the week of the birth of Jesus. But the Sabbaths are otherwise added for us; thus we are told there were 3300 overseers, or setters in place, rulers of the people. Now, to get Sabbaths from that number, we divide by six, instead of forty-two, as that is one-seventh of it-and we have 550 Sabbaths (see 1 Kings ix., 23 for 550 rulers and v., 16), which add to 3574 and we have 4124. Now, there were seventy years in Babylon when they were out of the land, i. e., out of the whole church edifice; that is not counted in this computation, but is in the chronology; hence we must add it and we have Jesus as the Messiah. The reader may ask: But there should be 594 rests. Why are there only 550 here? The reason becomes obvious: 550 Sabbaths represent 3850 years, during which they had rests. During the times of the judges there are two hundred years, when the land had her rests. These are the first four. There were 94 years of servitude, and 99 of judges without rest, and 47 from Egypt to the first servitude, making altogether, with seventy in Babylon, 310 years; which add to 3850, and we have 4160, the week of Jesus' birth. When calculating by sevens, it should as in this case approximate by half a week. We will now note the times of building and finishing the temple. It is comprised in the cycle of 2520 years, or seven years of 360 years, which the reader will hereafter frequently see used in this manner. A month of this year is 210 years; a week 49, and a day 7. |