Jay
(3 Aug
2010)
"Sorry Mr. Holler, but Bruce Warner's posts seem much more consistent with other evidence :)"
Mr. Holler wrote a post titled "Sorry
Bruce Warner, Ron Reese is right"
That's
a rather strong title he used, yet Mr. Holler's post itself just came
down to the same 360 vs 365.25 calendar day discrepancy we've seen
before.
Let's set aside that most of Mr. Reese's posts
consist of his claims of "God told me" "God called me" and similar
unprovable claims that do not add any real weight to what he claims.
Let's focus on the important thing:
In examining the sabbath
years calculation, a calculation that is somehow two years off from
everything else, and insisting that it alone is "right", one is forced
to throw out all the other textual evidence, date-related, and
generational calculations people have been discussing for the past few
years, all of which line up with 2017.
Everything seems to line up with 2017/8-- except the "Sabbath
years" calculation, which is off by two years. That's the ONLY thing
that doesn't line up with the time-frame!
The reasonable mind
would then suspect the one thing that doesn't line up and investigate
it further to see if it is even legit, and if it is legit, then examine
further to uncover where the error was made that is causing it to not
line up with everything else.
On first examination, there appears little to no concrete evidence
that such seven-year periods are even significant beyond the sum of
7x7=49 in order to get to the 50th Jubilee year. In other words, to
place so much emphasis on a so-called "sabbath" year seems an
over-emphasis at best, and most likely a result of those who presuppose
us to already be in the 70th week and who are then looking for any
evidence at all to support that presupposition.
To accept the questionable sabbath years
calculation done by 360-day years, as your standard for when the 70th week ends, one must choose to
ignore the vast evidence pointing to 2017.
If
you want to convince us of the 2015 time-frame, you will need to
re-examine all the evidence pointing to 2017 and show us why that
should be discarded or subjected to the "sabbath weeks" 2015
calculation.
And please don't fall back on "God told me so" but actually give evidence.
Thank you, brothers!.
Grace and peace.