They had many kings, some good and some
bad. Zedekiah was their last king, and because of his wickedness God
said concerning him: "Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because ye have
made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are
discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I
say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when
iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem,
and take off the crown: this shall not be the same; exalt him that is
low and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it:
and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will
give it [to] him,"--Ezekiel 21:24-27.
[430]In the year 606 B.C. Zedekiah was overthrown. He was taken a
prisoner, carried away to Babylon, and Nebuchadnezzar established in the
earth the first universal empire and the gentile times dated from that
time forward. The length of the gentile times is definitely fixed in the
Scriptures as a period of seven symbolic times of 360 years each, or a
total of 2,520 years. This period beginning with the year 606 B.C.
necessarily must end in 1914 A.D. God had declared that he would
overturn the right of the descendants of Abraham to rule, thereby
permitting the gentiles to have an uninterrupted sway until he should
come whose right it is.
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