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The
larger scheme
Look at the years
1437, 457, 34, 1798 and 1994.
Notice that all of these except
1437 are Jubilee years. Is it
just a coincidence that each of
these five dates marks the
beginning of a new trusteeship of
God’s truth? When God called
Israel out of the bondage of
Egypt in 1437 B.C., He made them
trustees of His everlasting
gospel.
They were to be a
light on a hill, the salt of the
earth. BUT, they failed. God then
turned to the Christians. In A.D.
34 the trusteeship of the
everlasting gospel was
transferred and God marked the
transition by converting Saul
into an apostle to the Gentiles
(Acts 9) and by sending Peter to
the home of a Gentile (Acts 10). These
things happened in the Jubilee
Year of A.D. 34.
After a while, the
Christians repeated the same
mistakes as their Jewish
forefathers. The persecuted
became the persecutor. And in
February 1798, according to
divine decree (Daniel 7:25), the
rule of the Catholic Church was
broken when Napoleon took the
pope captive. This happened in
the Jubilee year of 1798!
From this time, Protestantism has
had unrestricted freedom to
accomplish the task of carrying
the everlasting-gospel to the
entire world.
But, the
Protestants have lost their
mission and purpose. They have
fallen away from the truths of
the everlasting gospel just as
their forefathers did and their
trusteeship is about to be taken
from them and given to the final
generation: the remnant. But as
we have seen, the upcoming
Jubilee year of 1994 has come and
gone, and now we are 15 years
beyond in a period of delay until
the 144,000 servant prophets are
sealed.
If we add up the
trusteeships in units of Jubilee
cycles, we find an interesting
balance. The Jew received 30 full
Jubilees of opportunity.
Christians received 36 full
Jubilees of opportunity.
Protestants, I believe, will
receive four full Jubilees of
opportunity and finally, the
144,000 will achieve in a mere
1,260 days what the others failed
to do. Could this be a
Gideon-like miracle?
The $6.40
question
When all of the
above are added together, we are
left with one uncertainty. If our
dating scheme of the calendar is
correct, we have to account for
the years between 957 B.C. (the
building of the temple which
began in Solomon’s 4th
year, 1 Kings 6:1) and 586 B.C.
(the year Zedekiah was taken
captive, II Kings 25). This is a
total of 371 years.
It is impossible
to precisely account for the 371
years between these two events
because of co-regent reigns. A
co-regent reign occurs when two
kings reign at the same time. For
example, the old king may
continue his reign while the
young king is getting
established. Even more, sometimes
an ascension year is counted and
at other times, we cannot be sure
if the ascension year is counted
as part of the reign of kings or
not.
Scholars who have
painstakingly reviewed the
Biblical list of forty kings in
Judah and Israel during the time
generally concur that the
allotted time period between
building of the temple and the
capture of Zedekiah falls
somewhere between 369 and 389
years. This variance is very
simple for our need because 371
years falls within that range.
Further, we can reduce some of
the uncertainty of the 371 years
by reaching back to 703/702 B.C.
This reduces the time in question
to only 254 years. The Bible says
that Hezekiah was in his 14th
year when the Year of Jubilee
took place and only one that
happened during his reign is 702
B.C. Isaiah 36:1.
When the data is
brought together, the 1437 B.C.
date easily falls within widely
accepted dating schemes for the
Exodus. In addition, 1437 B.C.
date of the Exodus compliments
the synchronous operation of the
weekly cycles of seven years that
God put in motion at the time of
the Exodus. If we accept the
presence and operation of the
Jubilee calendar, we have as
simple but profound explanation
for why some prophecies use the
day/year mechanism and others do
not. This little key opens up a
whole new world of discovery
about the timing of the end-time
events.
Summary
No one can prove
something that has not happened.
Neither does God ask us to
believe something without first
giving us substantial evidence
upon which to build our faith.
Therefore, we have a wonderful
opportunity to study these things
and see if they are of any value.
In spite of all that has been
said, this point is true: 1994
has come and gone and we are 15
years beyond 1994 into 2009 and
climbing. We’ll soon know if
God’s patience with human
beings and the beginning of the
seven trumpets of Revelation will
begin! Be watching and waiting!
Click image
below to view the
Jubilee Calendar
Click image below to view the
Jubilee Chart 2
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