A Bird’s-Eye View of Bible Chronology
“A Bird’s-eye View of Bible Chronology,” which has come to our table, professes to give the true chronology for a period of 3,500 literal years. It is, however, in some places, enough to discredit it all; man’s opinion of Bible chronology. The author tries to work out the problem by the means of jubilees that were never kept. He makes the “seven times” of Lev. 26: 18, 21, 24, 28, 2,520 literal years, whereas the expression merely refers to the intensity of the punishment, and not to the time. There is really no word meaning “time” or year in the original. He makes it 486 years from the first of Cyrus to the cross, whereas it was not less than 567 years. Some theories seem good, but like those of perpetual motion, they do not work out well.