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I've been trying to find out has Christ really become king in 1914. Can anyone prove that he did?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Well, to start with, you can't prove anything to someone who does not want to know it.

    You can't prove God exists or that Jesus ever lived to an atheist or non-Christian/Muslim.

    The 7 Gentile Times ending in 1914 is not known only to JWs. A number of Protestant groups know it (though it is not commonly talked about in those faiths).

    Jesus would start to rule "in the midst of his enemies" after a long wait following his human life. So Satan and his demons would still be on earth and the last days going on. Jesus' rulership beginning, his "coming into his kingdom" is synonymous with the last days/time of the end. Matthew 24:3, Psalms 110:1, 2. Acts 2:34, 35, Hebrews 1:13, 10:12, 13.*** When Satan/demons are confined to earth (Rev. chap. 12:3, 4, 9, Matthew 24:29), is when Jesus' enemies are placed as a stool for his feet (earth is the footstool for heaven. Isaiah 66:1).

    So whenever the last days or latter days starts (which many churches teach we are in now), that is the start of his rulership in the midst of his enemies.

    Debbie

  • 1 decade ago

    No one can prove this doctrine or concept or whatever you want to call it. Here's why:

    1. None of the prophecies about Israel being restored to its former glory, with a king, ever came true. Jesus Himself is going to be the King (see Matthew 24-25) and He has never returned to this earth, yet, to begin this kingdom.

    2. The Church, collectively, is still on this earth. The Kingdom of God, where Jesus Christ reigns as King, won't be set up until after the Rapture and the Great Tribulation.

    3. Besides, the temple hasn't been rebuilt, yet, in Jerusalem and there hasn't been an image of anything placed there. According to many prophecies (Daniel, 2 Thessalonians, and Matthew, to name 3) this was one of the clearest signs that Jesus is coming soon.

    So, no, Jesus didn't become king of anything in 1914.

  • 1 decade ago

    DECADES in advance, Bible students proclaimed that there would be significant developments in 1914. What were these, and what evidence points to 1914 as such an important year?

    As recorded at Luke 21:24, Jesus said: “Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the appointed times of the nations [“the times of the Gentiles,” King James Version] are fulfilled.” Jerusalem had been the capital city of the Jewish nation—the seat of rulership of the line of kings from the house of King David. (Psalm 48:1, 2) However, these kings were unique among national leaders. They sat on “Jehovah’s throne” as representatives of God himself. (1 Chronicles 29:23) Jerusalem was thus a symbol of Jehovah’s rulership.

    How and when, though, did God’s rulership begin to be “trampled on by the nations”? This happened in 607 B.C.E. when Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians. “Jehovah’s throne” became vacant, and the line of kings who descended from David was interrupted. (2 Kings 25:1-26) Would this ‘trampling’ go on forever? No, for the prophecy of Ezekiel said regarding Jerusalem’s last king, Zedekiah: “Remove the turban, and lift off the crown. . . . It will certainly become no one’s until he comes who has the legal right, and I must give it to him.” (Ezekiel 21:26, 27) The one who has “the legal right” to the Davidic crown is Christ Jesus. (Luke 1:32, 33) So the ‘trampling’ would end when Jesus became King.

    When would that grand event occur? Jesus showed that the Gentiles would rule for a fixed period of time. The account in Daniel chapter 4 holds the key to knowing how long that period would last. It relates a prophetic dream experienced by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He saw an immense tree that was chopped down. Its stump could not grow because it was banded with iron and copper. An angel declared: “Let seven times pass over it.”—Daniel 4:10-16.

    In the Bible, trees are sometimes used to represent rulership. (Ezekiel 17:22-24; 31:2-5) So the chopping down of the symbolic tree represents how God’s rulership, as expressed through the kings at Jerusalem, would be interrupted. However, the vision served notice that this ‘trampling of Jerusalem’ would be temporary—a period of “seven times.” How long a period is that?

    Revelation 12:6, 14 indicates that three and a half times equal “a thousand two hundred and sixty days.” “Seven times” would therefore last twice as long, or 2,520 days. But the Gentile nations did not stop ‘trampling’ on God’s rulership a mere 2,520 days after Jerusalem’s fall. Evidently, then, this prophecy covers a much longer period of time. On the basis of Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6, which speak of “a day for a year,” the “seven times” would cover 2,520 years.

    The 2,520 years began in October 607 B.C.E., when Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians and the Davidic king was taken off his throne. The period ended in October 1914. At that time, “the appointed times of the nations” ended, and Jesus Christ was installed as God’s heavenly King.*—Psalm 2:1-6; Daniel 7:13, 14.

    Just as Jesus predicted, his “presence” as heavenly King has been marked by dramatic world developments—war, famine, earthquakes, pestilences. (Matthew 24:3-8; Luke 21:11) Such developments bear powerful testimony to the fact that 1914 indeed marked the birth of God’s heavenly Kingdom and the beginning of “the last days” of this present wicked system of things.—2 Timothy 3:1-5.

  • Moi
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Wll that is a JW belief. And their computations are flawed, though there is no way to either prove or disprove their assertions. They are not biblical though.

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  • 1 decade ago

    That would make him about 2000 years old, almost as old as the Pope.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, He did, and it is not just a Witness belief.

    Steve

    Source(s): Bible
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    1 decade ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    um, no

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