Not sure how this relates to the greater ransom of Numbers 3!
45 Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the domestic animals of the Levites in place of their domestic animals; and the Levites must become mine. I am Jehovah.
46 And as the ransom price of the 273 from the firstborn of the sons of Israel, who are in excess of the Levites,
47 you must take 5 shekels for each individual. In the shekel of the holy place you should take it. A shekel is 20 Gerahs.
48 And you must give the money to Aaron and his sons as the ransom price of those who are in excess of them.
49 So Moses took the money of the redemption price from those who were in excess of the ransom price of the Levites.
50 From the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money,
1,365 shekels, in the shekel of the holy place.
51 Then Moses gave the money of the ransom price to Aaron and his sons according to the order of Jehovah, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses (Numbers 3).
On 66Tishri26 the Roman General Cestius moved his camp to Scopus, which means 'Watchtower', we don't know about you but we find this sort of thing astounding. 1365 days after that (counting inclusively) was 70Ab10, the day that the Roman General Titus burnt the temple in Jerusalem.
66Tishri26
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Today we do not worship in a place anymore although many brothers think that we do. We worship not in buildings of bricks, but in spirit and truth, and the vessel for our spirit is our body, not the Church or the Kingdom Hall. Paul said:
Flee from fornication. Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body. What! Do you not know that the body of you people is the temple of the holy spirit within you, which you have from God? (1 Corinthians 6:18,19).
Whilst it is true that Paul is talking about the body of the whole remnant in the last sentence, one cannot divorce this sentence from the first sentence where he is talking about each brother's individual body. And if one commits fornication then one has defiled one's temple, one does not defile the church of the kingdom hall when one commits fornication. In fact fornication joins two fleshes illegally and therefore brings in an unclean thing into the temple of one's body. Then the temple of one's body is a part of the temple of the true church. So you have defiled the true church. That is why true fornication (defilement with semen) must be reported. Then both parties are unclean until the next period. The uncleanness is a constructive pregnancy. For more on this see Joining.
45 Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the domestic animals of the Levites in place of their domestic animals; and the Levites must become mine. I am Jehovah.
46 And as the ransom price of the 273 from the firstborn of the sons of Israel, who are in excess of the Levites,
47 you must take 5 shekels for each individual. In the shekel of the holy place you should take it. A shekel is 20 Gerahs.
48 And you must give the money to Aaron and his sons as the ransom price of those who are in excess of them.
49 So Moses took the money of the redemption price from those who were in excess of the ransom price of the Levites.
50 From the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money,
1,365 shekels, in the shekel of the holy place.
51 Then Moses gave the money of the ransom price to Aaron and his sons according to the order of Jehovah, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses (Numbers 3).
In the Columbus Ohio convention of the International Bible Students from July24-30 1931, the Watchtower took the name Jehovah's Witnesses (in fact on July 26th). The true God, Jehovah, Yahweh, must have brought his sanctuary into the right condition by July 1931 because if he had not done so then we would be in a situation where his name would have been given to something which was not in the right condition and this is impossible. For the Witnesses did not take Jehovah's name in July 1931, he gave it to them.
14 So he said to me: Until 2300 evenings [and] mornings; and [the] holy place will certainly be brought into its right condition (Daniel 8:14).
Fine, so the earthly holy place was in its right condition then - see [157], and 1365 days after this guess what happened? Judge Rutherford, the second president of the Watchtower, identified the great crowd at the Washington DC convention from May30 - June3 1935. And the way that he identified them was having invited especially the "Jehonadab's" (2Kings10), he said to them: 'All those with the hope of living on the earth please stand up' and then when they stood up he said: 'Behold the great crowd' or words to this effect.
This archetypical period of 1365 days gives us confidence that the antitypical period of 1365 days is correct. Finally here is the Hebrew calendar calculation:
| Passover/Memorial 1931 | April1 BLC & Watchtower Society information |
| Passover/Memorial 1935 | April17 |
| July24-30, 1931 | Ab7-Ab13, 1931 |
| May30-June3, 1935 | Iyyar28-Sivan2, 1935 |
1931Ab13 to 1935Iyyar28 is 3 years and 9 months and 15 days, or 1365 days. So here is the pretty picture:
1931Ab13 (July 30th)
1935Iyyar28 (May 30th)
Columbus Ohio Convention last day
Washington DC convention first day
Jehovah's Witness name adopted Great Crowd Identified and told to stand up!
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Judge Rutherford's actions at the Washington DC convention in asking the Great Crowd to stand up were inspired. The story goes, as can be seen on some anti Jehovah's Witness sites, that Judge Rutherford, the second president of the Watchtower, had no idea what he was going to talk about at this convention. And the night before his speech he decided to tell the Great Crowd that they were Jehonadab to the New Covenant Saint's Jehu (2 Kings 10).