6000 Years of Human Existence
*** Studies in the Scriptures Vol. 2, 1906 ***
Six Thousand years from the creation of Adam were complete in A.D.
1872, and hence that since A.D. 1872,
we chronologically entered upon the seventh
thousand or the Millenium.
[Emphasis Added]
*** Daily Heavenly Manna, inside cover page ***
[This is a summary, not a quote]
[6000 years from Adam ended in A.D. 1872]
[Emphasis Added]
*** The Time Is at Hand, page ii, (forward) 1916 ***
The Bible chronology herein presented shows that the
six great 1000 year days beginning with Adam are ended,
and that the great 7th Day, the 1000 years of Christ's Reign, began in 1873.
[Emphasis Added]
*** The Time is at Hand, Page 33 ***
[This is a summary, not a quote]
[6000 years of human history ended in 1873]
[Emphasis Added]
*** The Truth Shall Make You Free (book, 1943) page 152 ***
[Complete book (digital version) available on WT Bookshelf CD]
[Scan available: page 152]
[6000-5971 = 29; 1943+29 = 1972]
So, putting together the three great periods of time from
Adam's creation onward, we get the following
table:
From Adam's creation
to the Flood |
was |
1,656 years |
From the Flood to the
Abrahamic covenant |
was |
427 years |
From the Abrahamic covenant
to end of B.C. 1 |
was |
1,945 years |
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|
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From Adam's creation to
the end of B.C. 1 |
was |
4,028 years |
Thereafter the so-called Anno Domini or A.D.
period began.
From the beginning of A.D. 1, or Year of the
Lord 1, to the beginning of A.D. 1944 is 1,943
full years, which, being added to the above
table, give the time measurement from Adam's
creation to date:
From Adam's creation to
the end of B .C. 1 |
was |
4,028 years |
From beginning of A .D. 1
to the end of 1943 |
is |
1,943 years |
|
|
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From Adam's creation to
the end of 1943 A.D. |
is |
5,971 years |
We are therefore near the end of six thousand
years of human history, with conditions
upon us and tremendous events at hand foreshadowed
by those of Noah's day.--Luke 17:26-30.
[Emphasis Added]
*** Awake! October 8 1968 pp. 14-15 ***
6,000 Years Nearing Completion... The fact that
fifty-four years of the period called the 'last days' have already gone by
is highly significant. It means that only a few
years, at most, remain before the corrupt system of things dominating the
earth is destroyed by God. Today, many years later, we may ask,
What does the phrase 'the immediate future' mean?
How many years are 'a few years at most'? .. According to
reliable Bible chronology, Adam and Eve were created in 4026 B.C.E.. There
is another way that helps confirm the fact that we are living in the final
few years of this 'time of the end.' (Dan. 12:9)
The Bible shows that we are nearing the end of a full 6,000 years of human
history. What significance does this have? When God gave his
laws to ancient Israel, one of those laws involved keeping the sabbath day
holy. On the seventh day of the week there was to be no labor. The people
were to rest from all their toil. (Ex 20:8-11) The Bible states that 'the
Law has a shadow of the good things to come.' - Heb. 10:1. Revelation
chapter 20, verse 6, shows that God's heavenly kingdom will rule over the
earth for one thousand years after the end of this system of things. That
millennium will bring a sabbath-like rest to the
earth and all those then inhabiting it. Hence, the first six thousand
years since man's creation could be likened to the first six days of the
week in ancient Israel. The seventh one-thousand-year period could be
likened to the seventh day, the sabbath, of that week. - 2 Pet. 3:8.
How fitting it would be for God, following this
pattern, to end man's misery after six thousand years of human rule and
follow it with His glorious Kingdom rule for a thousand years! … only
seven more years from the autumn of 1968 to complete 6,000 full years of
human history. That seven-year period will evidently finish in the autumn
of the year 1975… Concerning
political instability, former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said in
1960: 'I know enough of what is going on to
assure you that, in 15 years from today (or, by 1975), this world is going
to be too dangerous to live in.' .. [Chart] 1975 C.E. END OF
6,000 YEARS .. In the book Famine - 1975! food experts W. and P. Paddock
state: .. 'I forecast a specific date, 1975, when the new crisis will be
upon us in all its awesome importance.'
[Emphasis Added]
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