Sir Robert Anderson KCB (29 May 1841 – 15 November 1918) was the second Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1888 to 1901. He was also an intelligence officer, theologian and writer. In The Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ, Harold Hoehner concludes that the additional number of days is 25 days.[5] Professor Hoehner assumed 365.24219879 days per solar year in the Gregorian calendar for his calculation. His estimate of the number of days in the Gregorian calendar is closer to the solar calendar than that used by Sir Robert Anderson. Consequently, his estimate is more accurate and equals 476 years and 25 days.

WStS Note: The original Prefaces to the Tenth and Fifth Editionsare placed at the end of the book, for continuity's sake, in the belief that thereader will be better introduced to "The Coming Prince" by Anderson's initialremarks in Chapter 1. The Coming Prince states that the additional days are 24 days. Consequently, Sir Robert Anderson concludes that Daniel’s prophecy of 483 biblical years is 476 years and 24 days in the Julian calendar.[4] The 1st Nisan in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes (the edict to rebuild Jerusalem) was 14th March, B. C. 445.

Earnest thinkers will not allow the wild utterances of alarmists, or the vagariesof prophecy-mongers, to divert them from an inquiry at once so solemn and so reasonable.It is only the infidel who doubts that there is a destined limit to the course of"this present evil world." That God will one day put forth His power toensure the triumph of the good, is in some sense a matter of course. The mysteryof revelation is not that He will do this, but that He delays to doit. Judged by the public facts around us, He is an indifferent spectator of the unequalstruggle between good and evil upon earth. "I considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and, behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter." (Ecclesiastes 4:1) Anderson's "Coming Prince" was written many years before the Balfour Declaration(1917) made plain Britain's guarantee of a Jewish national home in Palestine; thus,establishing the modern framework for Israel to not only be re-birthed as a modernnation (1948), but a nation which will have a Temple to be prophetically desecratedby the "prince that shall come" (the Antichrist), who "shallconfirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shallcause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominationshe shall make it desolate" (Daniel 9:26-27). Even thoughthe subject matter and title of the book dealt mainly with the Antichrist, it wasthe Second Advent of Messiah the Prince (Daniel 9:25) for Whom Sir Robert Andersonlonged and anticipated. " 10 That at the Name of Jesus everyknee should bow, of things in Heaven, and things in Earth, and things under the Earth; 11 And that every tongueshould confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:10-11).

I remember being impressed by the apparent accuracy of fulfillment (to the day) provided by this interpretation. For this reason many who believe in the literal fulfillment of Bible Prophecy accept Anderson’s calculation. However as we shall see, when one looks at the calculation in more detail, one finds it is in error on practically every level. Anderson, Robert (1910). "The lighter side of my official life". London, Hodder and Stoughton . Retrieved 26 August 2022. It was Sir Edward Denney who discerned the brilliant solution. According to v24, Jesus Christ was ready to fulfil the whole prophecy in 490 years which involved purchasing our salvation and establishing His Kingdom of righteousness on earth (the suffering and the glory). However Israel’s rejection of Him as their Messiah-King meant that although He could fulfil the Salvation aspects in His First Coming by His death and resurrection (and did so on time), He was unable to establish His Kingdom at that time. This is indicated in Daniel 9:26: “He shall be cut off but have nothing”, that is, His Kingdom shall be unrealised. Thus He fulfilled the first 3 (Salvation) aspects of v24, but He will only fulfil the second 3 (Kingdom) aspects at His 2nd Coming at the end of the future 70th Week described in v27. How can the 70th Week be past and future, fulfilled and unfulfilled? How can we explain this paradox?

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That science and criticism, acting – thanks to the liberty of opinion won by political effort – with a freedom never known before, have delivered us from a mass of dark and degrading superstitions, we own with heartfelt thankfulness to the deliverers, and in the firm conviction that the removal of false beliefs, and of the authorities or institutions founded on them, cannot prove in the end anything but a blessing to mankind. But at the same time the foundations of general morality have inevitably been shaken, and a crisis has been brought on, the gravity of which nobody can fail to see, and nobody but a fanatic of materialism can see without the most serious misgiving. Now the end date of the prophecy is easily determined by using either sophisticated astronomy software[1] or a quality Hebrew/Gregorian calendar converter[2] to determine when Nisan 14 occurred on a Friday during a full moon between the years of A.D. 26 to A.D. 36. A Hebrew-Gregorian calendar converter reveals that Nisan 14 occurred on a Friday in only the years of A.D. 26, A.D. 33 and 36. The astronomy software confirms that a full moon did occur on those dates on a Friday. Thus Nisan 14, A.D. 26, A.D. 33 or A.D. 36 are the only potential end dates for the prophetic fulfillment between the years of A.D. 26 and A.D. 36. Serving with Scotland Yard until his retirement in 1896, he was knighted by QueenVictoria. His many friends included Handley G. Moule, Henry Drummond, James M. Gray,and C. I. Scofield. "I am a companionof all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts" (Psalm 119:63). It was Horatius Bonar who first taught Anderson the precioustruths concerning the Second Coming of the LORD Jesus Christ. "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and untothem that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto Salvation" (Hebrews 9:28). As a Christian writer, he authored seventeen major books,among them his "Human Destiny" was accounted by C. H. Spurgeon as the "most valuable contribution on the subject" that he had ever seen. Sir Robert Anderson remained active and useful tohis LORD until his death in 1918. "I havefought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith" (2Timothy 4:7). Thus in 445 BC, Nisan would have begun after the new moon of April, not after the new moon of March, making April 13 the true Nisan 1, not March 14. It is questionable if the barley could have been ripe enough for the wave sheaf offering on Nisan 16 if Nisan 1 was as early as March 14. That date is just too early in the year. Anderson took as his starting point Artaxerxes' 20th year of reign, when Nehemiah requested and received permission from the King to continue the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. His date for 20th Artaxerxes was 445 BC. Nehemiah 2:1 says it was in the month Nisan that Nehemiah received his commission from Artaxerxes. Anderson assumed this meant Nisan 1, and then calculated it as March 14th, BC 445 (Julian) based on it being a New Moon. He counted 173,880 days from this date of March 14th. He did this by converting this to 476 (Gregorian) years and 24 days (a Gregorian year is 365.242 days), which the reader can easily verify ends on April 6th AD 32 (Julian), which he claimed was Nisan 10th AD 32, the date of the Triumphal Entry (4 days before the Cross)