The Seventy-year Desolation

A reference to the book “Babylon the Great Has Fallen!” God’s Kingdom Rules! It points out on page 164 that the number seventy is figurative. Further, checking in the Index for 1930-1960 draws your attention to the book “The Kingdom Is at Hand,” where you learn:
“During the times that the Israelites were faithful to their covenant, they observed these land sabbaths as they fell due. How many all together is not disclosed. But the number seventy represents completeness, it being a multiple of 10 x 7; 10 symbolizing earthly completeness, and 7 symbolizing spiritual completeness. Hence Jehovah God let the number 70 stand as a figure to represent comprehensively all the sabbath-year rests of the land they had failed to observe. Then he let 70 years of enforced desolation of the land offset or make up for all those unkept sabbath-years.”—Pp. 169, 170.
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