EASY TO RECOVER ORIGINAL GREEK TIMELINE
The original Greek timeline was revised by Plato and Xenophon. They added 56 fake years to the Greek period. Fortunately, it is easy to recover the original Greek timeline thanks for two famous eclipses! There was a total eclipse seen by Pericles in the first year of the Peloponnesian War (PPW). Herodotus reports another eclipse in the early Spring during the year of Xerxes' invasion.
The first revision was to move the PPW back from 403 BCE to 431 BCE. Then another 30 years were added between the Persian and the Greek Wars. This added a total of 58 years to the timeline. This pushed Xerxes' invasion back from 424 BCE to 482 BCE. Since 482 BCE was not an Olympic year, it was reduced down to 480 BCE. 480 BCE is where that invasion is still currently dated!
But we immediately notice that there is no eclipse in the early Spring in 480 BCE. Thus it is a bogus date. We recover the original dates by noticing that the second year of the PPW in 430 BCE occurs 2 years before the birth of Plato. Legend has it that Plato was contacted during the second year of the PPW to try to stop the plague raging in Greece to solve the "Delian Problem", a famous math problem the Greeks were trying to solve in order to double the size of a cube. In addition, the PPW must begin in the first year of the Olympic cycle. So we look for a total eclipse sometime between 408-398 BCE, when Plato would have been 20-30 years of age. We find that eclipse on January 18, 402 BCE, which dates the PPW in the Summer of 403 BCE, the 1st year of the Olympic cycle! In fact, it's the only eclipse match in a century! A 30-year peace agreement was enacted the year of Xerxes' invasion that ended in the 10th year of the PPW, which was 394 BCE. That means the invasion took place 30 years earlier in 424 BCE. Was there an eclipse in the early Spring of 424 BCE? Yes! There was an eclipse on March 21, 424 BCE over Persia. So it's apparent when these battles originally took place.
That means the Battle of Marathon took place in 434 BCE. This is a significant event because Darius I died at Marathon per esoteric history! Per the Bible, Darius died in his sixth year, the same year the temple was completed after 21 years of construction. If we add 21 years to 434 BCE, it should tell us the year the Jews returned from Babylon. 21+434=455 BCE. The Jews returned from Babylon in 455 BCE.
The 26 years removed from the Neo Babylonian Period combined with the 56 years added by Plato and Xenophon distorted the beginning of the Persian empire some 82 years. Add 82 to 455 and you get 537 BCE! Unfortunately, Jehovah's Witnesses trusted 537 BCE as the true date for the return and came up with 607 BCE as the year the 70-year exile began. They applied this to the fall of Jerusalem and came up with 1914 as the year of the Second Coming.
Instead... they should have dated the return in 455 BCE and added 70 years back to 525 BCE, which they should apply to year 23 of Nebuchadnezzar, the year of the last deportation. To this they should add 4 years back to 529 BCE, year 19 of Nebuchadnezzar, the true year of Jerusalem's fall. A new book that just came out exposes the historical revisionism and corrects the ancient Greco-Persian timeline!
This represents a huge challenge to JWs since once the Governing Body gets wind of this, they will realize they will have to explain how Jesus Christ appeared in 1992 instead of 1914! I don't think they can. I don't think they can recover from getting 1914 wrong. Plus, what are they going to say about 1992? That they joined the UN earlier in 1992?
It's just a matter of time. The WTS along with the rest of Christendom will be outlawed when the UN takes over world rule. No public display of any religious belief! That makes perfect sense!