"…Verse 24. "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities thereof." In verses 22, 23, it is written, "For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight AS he had said by ALL his servants the prophets. SO was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day." Thus in 2Kings xvii, is found the inspired record of the fulfillment of what God has said by his servant Isaiah, Chap.x,5,6, and by Moses in Lev. xxvi, and by David in Ps. lxxviii, 59-62, and 1Kings xiv,15,16. It is in fact the inspired historical record of the fulfillment of what God had said by ALL his servants the prophets on this point of giving Israel over into captivity to be trodden down of the Gentiles like the mire of the streets."

The validity of the above testimony cannot be invalidated or impeached; hence there can be no room left for further doubt on this so clear a point. This, then, is the inspired historical event; and its chronology, which is 723 B. C., is the point from which to reckon the 2520 years captivity. Instead of reckoning from the taking of Manasseh, the King of Judah to Babylon in the year 677 BC., we reckon from the shutting up and binding in prison Hoshea, the king of Israel, which was 723 BC… From whatever point in the year 723 BC we must reckon, the same corresponding point in the year 1798, must be reached to fill up 2520 full years; the same as in the case of the 2300 days, dating from the Fall of 457 BC and ending in the Fall of 1844 AD. The year 723 BC is the true beginning, and 1798 is the true terminus of the 2520 years captivity of the people of God. And we have a historical record of a corresponding event transpiring in the year 1798, which perfectly answer the fulfillment of the predictions of the prophets which have foretold the events which mark the end of the 2520 years indignation and captivity." Hiram Edson wrote but never completed an article titled: THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES. RH January 10, 1856. We are completing this prophecy for Bro. Edson.

Hoshea, the 19^th and last king of Israel (2 Kings 15:30; 17:1-6; 18:1,9-10). Hoshea became king after he assassinated the former king, Pekah. Hoshea did evil in God's sight, but not to the extent of former kings. While he did not wipe out idolatrous worship, he at least did not give official approval to the practice. When Hoshea took the throne, he served as a puppet king under Assyria. But he eventually quit sending tribute money to Assyria and began negotiating an alliance with Egypt. When the Assyrian king, Shalmaneser V, learned of Hoshea's rebellion and conspiracy, he advanced toward Israel. Hoshea tried to buy off the king with tribute, but the capital city of Samaria was besieged and Hoshea was captured and imprisoned. After two years, Assyria finally captured Samaria, and its inhabitants were carried away to new locations in the Assyrian Empire (2 Kings 17:18-23}. Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright © 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers

BOTH MILLER AND EDSON WERE CORRECT! This is what they did not understand, they were BOTH RIGHT and we can prove it through scripture!

JEREMIAH 50:17-20 Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first [northern king Hoshea] the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last [Manasseh, southern king of Judah] this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall be] none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

The Bible says that 1^st-the king of Assyria; and Last-the king of Babylon; that is first Assyria and second Babylon, two breaking of the covenants and two 2520s! And this is not all—it ties it together even tighter.

2 Kings 17:1-6 "In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. (SAMARIA: the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel) And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes."

The first six verses here tell about the siege of Samaria, but the rest of the chapter tells us why this happened.

17:7,8 "For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods. And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made."

17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city…

17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

17:14-16 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal."

They had left ALL THE COMMANDMENTS and followed the ways of the heathen—so what happened?

17:18, 19 "Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made."

So the Bible first shows the Northern tribes—10 tribes gone—taken by Assyria, then it leads us to the understanding that Judah did the same thing.

First 2520 years starts at 723 BC and extends to 1798 AD. Northern Kingdom.

Second 2520 years starts at 677 BC and extends to 1844 AD. Southern Kingdom.

JUDAH’S 2520 TIME STARTS WHEN MANASSETH IS TAKEN PRISONER 46 YEARS LATER.

2 Chronicles 33: 9-11 and 2 Kings 21:1-16

33:9-11 "So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon."

Now because of Mannasseh’s wicked reign, the Southern Tribe was now carried to Babylon.

2 Kings 21:1-16 tells the story of Manasseh’s wickedness:

"Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

"And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel."

Notice that Manasseh got caught up in the occult, witchcraft, enchantments, necromancy (talking with the ‘dead’), and wizardry! He caused Israel to take part in satanic rituals. He did worse than the heathen! And it is the same today—if Advent Believers turn from the light they have and go out into the world—they do WORSE than the people of the world. Remember, when an angel falls—he becomes a demon!

21:10-13 "And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying, Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

Now God declares that because of this wickedness, He is going to do something so terrible to the Southern Kingdom that it would make the ears tingle to hear about it - He was going to lay the LINE OF SAMARIA over the line of the Southern Kingdom. The Bible says that the 2520 of the Northern Tribe is going to be laid over the Southern Tribe. The Bible ties the two together.

21:14-16 "And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day. Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD."

God said he would stretch the one line over the other and we can see it as we draw it out. Not only does Jeremiah say there was two, there was the Assyrian captivity and the Babylonian captivity, the first and the second, but 2 Kings 21 says there was going to be a line stretched over them both and it ties it all together.

Notice also these clues from the Spirit of Prophecy concerning our last message:

"The judgments of God are in the earth, and, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, we must give the message of warning that He has entrusted to us. We must give this message quickly, line upon line, precept upon precept. Men will soon be forced to great decisions, and it is our duty to see that they are given an opportunity to understand the truth, that they may take their stand intelligently on the right side. The Lord calls upon His people to labor—labor earnestly and wisely—while probation lingers." {9T 126.3}

"Prophecy has been fulfilling, line upon line. The more firmly we stand under the banner of the third angel's message, the more clearly shall we understand the prophecy of Daniel; for the Revelation is the supplement of Daniel. The more fully we accept the light presented by the Holy Spirit through the consecrated servants of God, the deeper and surer, even as the eternal throne, will appear the truths of ancient prophecy; we shall be assured that men of God spake as they were moved upon by the Holy Ghost. Men must themselves be under the influence of the Holy Spirit in order to understand the Spirit's utterances through the prophets. These messages were given, not for those that uttered the prophecies, but for us who are living amid the scenes of their fulfillment." {2SM 114.2}

2 KINGS 21:13

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down.

2 Kings 14-16 "And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; Because they have done [that which was] evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day. Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD."

Now let’s look at what Isaiah 7 tells us—and by the way, this is something that we just haven’t seen in the past. This doesn’t mean that it wasn’t there—for hundreds, even thousands of years it was there in the Bible—it was read time and time again—but God had His hand over it and over the 1843 chart. That means until His hand was removed it could not be understood. Right now we are living in the time when God is removing His hand off the chart. We are living in the time when God is empowering the message again and He is using the same FOUNDATIONAL message that was used in the 1840s. It hasn’t changed—it’s the same message that brought them out of the churches in 1842-44 and it is right there on the 1843 chart.

Isaiah 7:1-9 "And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

"Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of Tabeal: Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established."

Now when Isaiah uttered this prophecy, it was in the year 742 BC. Nineteen years later in 723 BC Samaria was broken. According to the prophecy, he said ‘within 65 years’ Ephraim would be broken and 19 years was within the 65 years.

Now both William Miller and Hiram Edson recognized what we are seeing here, but they could never tie the two together, again God was waiting for a specific point in time, and we are living in that time period.

William Miller:

"Isaiah prophesied that within sixty-five years Ephraim should be broken and be not a people. Is.vii..8. This was in the days of Pekah and Rezin, 742 years before Christ.

Sixty-five years afterwards, BC 677, Esarhaddon, king of Assyria and Babylon, came with a large army into the land of Israel and Judah, carried away the last remnant of Israel, and they have not been a nation since. Then he also made war against Jerusalem, took Manassh and carried him to Babylon; which begins the "seven times"

Judah was to be in bondage to the kings of the earth, and also the "seven years" Israel should be a captive, robbed and spoiled people; both beginning and ending at one time, 2520 years, beginning BC 677, ending AD 1843. To 1843 add 677, and the sum equals 2520." Miller’s Works, vol. 1, 80

Hiram Edson:

"Instead of reckoning from the taking of Manasseh king of Judah to Babylon, 677 BC, we reckon from the shutting up and binding in prison Hoshea king of Israel, which was 723 BC. This was 19 years after Isaiah’s prophecy, record in Chap. vii. 8, which was 742 BC; hence Ephraim was broken from being a people literally within three-score and five years." Hiram Edson, The Times of the Gentiles, RH January 10, 1856

So they both saw it and couldn’t tie in the two. The Bible texts show that there were two ‘scatterings’—two 2520s. Then we saw that God said He was going to lay the lines over. Now we can tie them in by what Isaiah says that within that time, Samaria would be broken. The Bible just ties it all together for us.

A HAND WAS HELD OVER THIS SO THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IN THEIR DAY.

1798 AD Pope a prisoner John 2:20 1798 to 1844 is 46 years.

THE TIME FRAME (2520) OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM IS A PLUMMET FOR THE (2520) LINE OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM! 2 Kings 21:13

Isaiah utters prophecy of Isaiah 7:8 in 742 BC to Ahaz

19 yrs. to 723- 46 yrs. to 677 BC

677 BC Manasseh a prisoner

Prison door of knowledge unlocked!

BOTH THESE THEMES ARE MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE IN CONNECTION WITH THE 2520

Ellen White referring to the 1843 chart, wrote this statement in EARLY WRITINGS page 74.

"September 23, the Lord showed me that He had stretched out His hand the second time to recover the remnant of His people, and that efforts must be redoubled in this gathering time. In the scattering, Israel was smitten and torn, but now in the gathering time God will heal and bind up His people. In the scattering, efforts made to spread the truth had but little effect, accomplished but little or nothing; but in the gathering, when God has set His hand to gather His people, efforts to spread the truth will have their designed effect. All should be united and zealous in the work. I saw that it was wrong for any to refer to the scattering for examples to govern us now in the gathering; for if God should do no more for us now than He did then, Israel would never be gathered. I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and that it should not be altered; that the figures were as He wanted them; that His hand was over and hid a mistake in some of the figures, so that none could see it, until His hand was removed."

We are living in the Gathering Time—when the message WILL have its effect!

LEVITICUS 26:33 "And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste."

But the promise was—here in verse 40-45:

"If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:"

"Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for [am] the LORD their God. But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD."

The Bible promises, ‘Yes, they broke My covenant and I’ll scatter them! But if they repent, if they come back to My covenant and keep My commandments, I’ll gather them back to Me.’

The Bible teaches two themes in the 2520—the ‘Scattering and the Gathering’.

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN

Now Belshazzar saw the message that the Hand had written on the wall, and the message troubled him. Now why did it trouble him? Could he understand the message on the wall? In part he did. It wasn’t just the hand writing on the wall, it was the message that he wanted to understand because it was written in his language. What was actually written there was a number.

Each of the words written there was a measurement of weight.

The four words stood for MENE- 50 SHEKELS= MENE=50 SHEKELS= TEKEL= I SHEKEL, UPHARSIN=25 SHEKELS…

THE TOTAL EQUALED 126 SHEKELS….

The Bible says in Ezekiel 45:12, "And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs:…"

Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; Numbers 18:16; Ezekiel 45:12;

20 TIMES 126 IS 2520 GERAHS, OR SEVEN TIMES

He saw the number on the wall and he didn’t understand what it meant. Daniel comes in and he saw that this was not a good thing. You see, Daniel understood what the 2520 meant—scattering. He knew it meant God’s judgment on the kingdom. That’s why he said, ‘Your kingdom is weighed and wanting, divided, numbered and finished!’

…THAT NIGHT BELSHAZZAR’S KINGDOM WAS FINISHED.

He had transgressed passed the point of return. His kingdom would be rent from him.

But the Gathering is also shown in the book of Daniel in chapter 4:10-17. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream.

"Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men."

He was told that the tree would be cut down and around the stump would be wrapped bands of IRON and BRASS.

Iron in the Bible represents severe servitude. Some say that IRON represents the Civil Power—but under the Civil Power what do you have? Severe Servitude!

"God had said that His people should be saved, that the yoke He would lay upon them should be light, if they submitted uncomplainingly to His plan. Their servitude was represented by a yoke of wood, which was easily borne; but resistance would be met with corresponding severity, represented by the yoke of iron." 4T 172

Brass in the Bible represents affliction and judgment.

So what is being said here is that during this ‘scattering’ time, the 2520, there would be severe servitude, affliction and judgments, but there would be a time when God would gather them back.

Now look what it says about what would happen in the Gathering Time:

Daniel 4:33-37 "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws]. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from generation to generation: And all the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase."

1 HE WAS ENLIGHTENED AT THE END OF THIS 2520 PERIOD.

2. EXCELLENT MAJESTY WAS ADDED TO THE KINGDOM.

3. 1798 REPRESENTS THE END OF THE SCATTERING.

MOSES:

In Deut. Chapter 28 verse 45-58: MOSES WAS REFERRING TO THE BLESSINGS AND THE CURSES THAT WOULD COME FOR BREAKING THE COVENANT.

The power he gives as trampling down the people is a yoke of iron. This power has a strange language and would come from afar, destroy Jerusalem and besiege it…Moses proclaimed the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD! Moses was teaching the trampling down of Pagan Rome continuing into Papal Rome. Moses understood this and prophesied what would happen from breaking the covenant.

PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS p. 467.

"By the Spirit of Inspiration, looking far down the ages, Moses pictured the terrible scenes of Israel's final overthrow as a nation, and the destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Rome: "The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young." {PP 467.1}

"The utter wasting of the land and the horrible suffering of the people during the siege of Jerusalem under Titus centuries later, were vividly portrayed: "He shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed. . . . And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land. . . . Thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee." "The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, . . . and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates." {PP 467.2}

PART ONE SUMMARY:

We have seen the basic structure of this prophecy of the 7 Times. The Word of God just ties things together and how cryptically it has all been laid out in the Word. Mene, Mene, Tekle, Upharsin, something not understood for many years is made plain to us. The deeper meaning of the story of Nebuchadnezzar is brought together now. We now see BOTH the Scattering and Gathering brought together. Never before in history has this understanding been made plain. We are clearly in the very end time where we can start understanding clearly the role of the 144,000 in the last events of this world’s history.

Deut 28:45-58

45 "Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

"The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: "And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

54 "So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

56 "The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

58 "If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;"

Now in Great Controversy chapter 1, the Fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 is referred to as the fulfillment of this prophecy of Moses in Deuteronomy 28. Moses understood that when they would break the covenant, one of these scourges would be Rome. Rome would come upon God’s people and trample the sanctuary. We can show from the Bible that this refers to Rome. Notice the similarities between what Moses said and what Daniel said.

Daniel 8:23-25 "And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand."

This is Rome, the Roman language was Latin and the majority of the world at that time did not know that language. It was a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; A nation of fierce countenance;(Moses) a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(Daniel) They came from ‘afar’ because according to where Jerusalem was, they were further away than the nations. They would come and besiege and destroy the city.

When Moses was speaking of this particular power he was dealing with the scattering and trampling down of God’s people. Daniel 5 gave us a greater understanding of these things. How the message on the wall stood for 2520 and meant the scattering.

Da 5:25,26 "And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it."

We can connect chapter 5 with what we are shown in chapter 9

Da 9:24 "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy."

They were given time, their kingdom was numbered. Then in verse 27 of Daniel 5:

Da 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

And again this is what happened to Israel. In Daniel 9 verses 25-26

"Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined."

This is referring to what would happen when their kingdom was numbered, at the end they were weighed in the balances and found wanting. They did not do what they were supposed to do.

Now in Daniel 5:28 "PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

Daniel 9:27 "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

At the end of this time Israel was destroyed, scattered, divided, done, divorced from God. Daniel was showing what would transpire during the scattering, the trampling down.

***Hiram Edson wrote of this time as the Great Indignation, the scattering of God’s people.

We are going to look at more evidence in the Bible that ties these things together. Usually we prove the importance of the 1844 date by using the 2300 day prophecy. Now by using the 2520 we can show TWO WITNESSES to the importance of this date in Prophecy in even a more spectacular way.