so-called time of the judges. This, counting in the first 8 years of servitude under the king of Mesopotamia (Judges 3:8), also allows (60-23-8) 45 years for that generation following the death of Joshua to grow up and be punished for their idolatry before the first judge, Othniel, appears on the scene.

From the above we learn that the 480 years began 69 years after "the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt," and that Joshua like Moses was in his 81st year when he took charge of them.

We have now arrived at the fifth link of our chain-the 430 years from the foundation of the Temple in the fourth year of Solomon to its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B. C., which is known as the time of the kings.

Solomon reigned 37 years (1 Kings 11:42; 2 Chron. 9:30).
Rehoboam reigned 17 years (1 Kings 14:21; 2 Chron.

12:13.

Abijah reigned 3 years (1 Kings 15:2; 2 Chron. 13:2). Asa reigned 41 years (1 Kings 16:29; 22:41; 2 Chron. 16:13).

Jehosaphat reigned 25 years (1 Kings 22:42; 2 Chron. 20:31).

Jehoram reigned 8 years (2 Kings 8:17; 2 Chron. 21:20). Ahaziah reigned 1 year (2 Kings 9:26; 2 Chron. 22:2).

Athaliah reigned 6 years (2 Kings 11:1-17; 2 Chron. 22:12).

Jehoash reigned 40 years (2 Kings 12:1; 2 Chron. 24:1). Amaziah reigned 29 years (2 Kings 14:12; 2 Chron. 25:1). Uzziah reigned 52 years (2 Kings 15:2, 3; 2 Chron. 26:34). Jotham reigned 16 years (2 Kings 15:32; 2 Chron. 27:1). Ahaz reigned 16 years (2 Kings 16:2; 2 Chron. 28:1). Hezekiah reigned 29 years (2 Kings 18:12; 2 Chron. 29:1). Manasseh reigned 55 years (2 Kings 21:1; 2 Chron. 33:1). Ammon reigned 2 years (2 Kings 21:19; 2 Chron. 33:21). Josiah reigned 31 years (2 Kings 22:1; 2 Chron. 34:1). Jehoiakam reigned 11 years (2 Kings 23:36; 2 Chron. 36:5).

Zedekiah reigned 11 years (2 Kings 24:18; 2 Chron. 36:11).

Total-430 years

Our next link is the 586 years from the ending of the kings. at the destruction of Jerusalem, to the birth of Jesus, which date may be verified from the standard cyclopedias.

A summary of the six links in our chain from Adam to the birth of Jesus is:

1656 years to the end of the flood.

377 years to the covenant made with Abraham.

430 years to the giving of the Mosaic law.

549 years to the building of Solomon's Temple.

430 years to the burning of the same.

586 years to the birth of Jesus.

4028 years. This deducted from 6000 will end with 1972 A. D., which forms the seventh and last link composing our chain of 6000 years.

The week-cycle, composed of six days of a thousand years each, if the deduction is correct, closes in 1972 and is followed by the thousand-year Sabbath, called the millennial age, "The one divine event to which our whole creation moves," and which, since His star appeared in the East, has never been wanting from the firmament of truth, proclaiming with grow – ing clearness to the wise, and ever-gathering mystery to the uninitiated, that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

B. F. MICKLEY

"And the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch" (Acts 11:26). This was in the year A. D. 41. There had been "disciples" since Pentecost, A. D. 33, and before, and yet the name was not known to them until eight years after Pentecost. If Pentecost was the time, and Jerusalem was the place, of the establishment of the kingdom of God, as some claim, why were the citizens of that kingdom nameless for eight years? And how is it that the new name was not adopted at Jerusalem? The champions of the Pentecost kingdom usually cite Isa. 2:3: "The law shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem," in favor of their contention. Many disciples died a natural death, and others at the hands of their enemies, without ever hearing the name "Christian." Who "called" those brethren Christians? It is not stated by whom this was done, but it is evident from the language of the apostle Peter (1 Peter 4:12-16) that "reproach" attached to the name Christian, because the name Christ, from which it was derived, was bitterly hated by many, both Jews and Gentiles. Hence we are led to the conclusion that it was applied to them by their enemies, especially since it was not applied to them until so long a time after Pentecost.-A. H. Z.

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