1 Cubit = 25 inches
It will be noted that the entire length of the linen curtains surrounding the courtyard (Shown in green) beginning from the south side of the gate (B.C. 4126) traveling all the way around until we come back to the north side of the gate (A.D. 2874) is exactly 280 cubits or 7000 inches, representing the 7000 years from “Paradise Lost” to “Paradise Regained”, 1000 years beyond A.D. 1874.
Please note also that the date of 1874 A.D. is marked by the post on the north wall which stands directly opposite the center of the “Brazen Altar” (which primarily represents the sacrifice of the Savior at his first advent), thus closely associating both advents.
The date (at the southwest corner) B.C 1251, comes within the judgeship of Jair (Judges 10:3) whose name means, “Jehovah Enlightens”. Jair had 30 sons, all prominent men and rulers of cities, thus seeming to typify Christ and the Church, who shall enlighten and judge the world in due time, when Jehovah shall restore also the earthly “Judges as at first” (Isa 1:26) this is right in line with the date B.C. 626 (at the middle post of the western side), which date marks the year of the last typical Jubilee and the center of Jehovah’s rest day.
Likewise the date of the second advent (A.D. 1874) is further corroborated by the distance from the court gate (the “entrance curtain”) to the center of the Most Holy (the blue line), which is 75 cubits or 1875 inches, this represents the exact number of years from the advent of Jesus in the flesh in B.C. 2 to the second advent of “the Lord from heaven” as a spirit being, invisible to mortal eyes, in A.D. 1874 (the violet line).
With no other chronology including that of the Jehovah's Witnesses (another reason for them dropping the study of the Tabernacle) can this architectural symmetry be maintained.
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