The Watchtower determines 607 B.C. as the destruction of Jerusalem by accepting the historical records used to calculate when Babylon fell, and then working back 70 years from there. Archaeologists that prove when Babylon fell are the same people that have proven Jerusalem fell in 587 B.C.
Seven Times : 607 : 1914 Daniel’s prophecy of the Seven Times is key to the existence of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This is used to determine that Jesus started ruling in 1914 and subsequently chose the Watchtower organization in 1919 to be his sole means of salvation before the battle of Armageddon.
607 BCE is the date that the Watch Tower publications pick for the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by Nebuchadnezzar. The way in which the 1914 doctrine is defined requires the date 607 BCE although a combination of Biblical and secular evidence points to 587/586 BCE as the date for that event.
Jehovah’s Witnesses arrive at the year 607 BCE for the beginning of the alleged 2,520 years based on their interpretation of scriptures that mention periods of seventy years in the Bible books of Jeremiah, Daniel, 2 Chronicles and Zechariah. They assert that their stance is to put their trust primarily in the Bible rather than to accept the word of historians.
This page assumes a basic understanding of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ teachings about 607 BCE. For more information, see 607 for Beginners and Jehovah’s Witnesses and 1914. Some Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that a website, http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/607/* (purportedly compiled by an individual calling himself “thirdwitness”), contains “irrefutable” proof for their 607 BCE doctrine.
Response to 607 website | Jeffro’s ‘607’ Pages, Facts about 607 B.C.E. and whether Jesus started ruling in 1914, Response to 607 website | Jeffro’s ‘607’ Pages, Facts about 607 B.C.E. and whether Jesus started ruling in 1914, The October and November 1st 2011 Watchtower attempt to prove that Jerusalem fell in 607, rather than the historically accepted 587. Click here for Carl Jonsson’s brilliant examination in PDF format, which shows the intellectual dishonesty of the Watchtower by including inaccurate information and misquotes.], Add 1 for the year naught and abracadabra you get 607. Or you do countless archaeological digs discover thousands of cuneiform tablets all of which tell you that king Nebcadnezor came to the throne in 605 and destroyed Jerusalem in 587bc this is substantiated by astrological charts that record the exact locations of planets and stars.
587 vs 607: JW sources only. The latest JW Podcast has inspired me to update the copypasta comment that I post anytime this topic comes up. I have formatted it to more closely follow the wonderful www. jwfacts .com table. I have also added a few more links directly to the JW online library.
According to the Watch Tower Society , October 607 BC is derived by counting back seventy years from Tishrei of 537 BC, based on their belief that Cyrus’ decree to release the Jews during his first regnal year may have been made in late 538 B.C. or before March 4–5, 537 B.C.
So with 607 B.C.E. as dependably fixed on our Gregorian calendar as the absolute date of 539 B.C.E. we are prepared to move farther back in the count of time, to the dating of other important events in Bible history. w68 8/15 pp. 494-501 – The Watchtower—1968
