QUESTIONS BY BRO. FRISBIE by John B. Frisbie

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Apr 28, 1853

QUESTIONS BY BRO. FRISBIE.

By John B. Frisbie

1. I want to know how you reconcile the 70 years captivity, prophesied of by Jeremiah, [chap. xxv, 12,] which Daniel [chap. ix, 2] understood to be 70 years of desolation of Jerusalem, when the beginning was in B. C. 606, [2 Kings xxiv, 1,] and the end was in B. C. 536, [Ezra i, 1,] in the first year of Cyrus. Jer. xxv, 12, margin. Now we are told that the commandment did not go forth until the seventh year of Artaxerxes, B. C. 457. This was 79 years longer, which in all, made 149 years desolation, or captivity, instead of 70. This does not appear to agree with Dan. ix, 23, “at the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth,” &c. This appears to have been the first year of Darius B. C. 538. Dan. ix, 1, margin. And this vision appears to reach from the building of the city until its destruction by the Romans. Dan. ix, 26, 27. I do not know but it is all straight enough, when it is explained. But I have never seen any thing about this 79 years extra, and this vision reaching to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. I do not throw this out as a puzzle, but as a real difficulty in my own mind. I do not know but I am alone in this.

2. How do you know that the Sanctuary in Dan. viii, 14 is the one in heaven to be cleansed at the end of the 2300 days?

3. As you believe in type and antitype, how do you account for Jesus' stay in the most holy place (if he went in there in 1844) more than one year, answering to the day in the type?

Chelsea, Mich., March 29, 1853. J. B. FRISBIE.