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Sabbatical and Jubilee Years

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Luke 4

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

The Spirit of the YHWH is upon me; because YHWH hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to PROCLAIM LIBERTY to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF YHWH…

20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Yeshua was quoting directly from Isaiah 61

Isaiah 61
The Spirit of YHWH is upon me; because YHWH hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to PROCLAIM LIBERTY to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF YHWH…

Isaiah is referring to the YEAR OF JUBILEE.  According to Leviticus 25, the YEAR OF JUBILEE is the year to PROCLAIM LIBERTY.

Leviticus 25

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.

3 SIX YEARS thou shalt sow thy field, and SIX YEARS thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

4 But in the 7TH YEAR shall be a SABBATH of rest unto the LAND, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

5 That which grows of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourns with thee.

7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

8 And thou shalt number 7 SABBATHS OF YEARS unto thee, 7 TIMES 7 YEARS; and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee 49 YEARS.

9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the JUBILEE to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

10 And ye shall hallow THE 50TH YEAR, and PROCLAIM LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a JUBILEE unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

11 A JUBILEE shall that 50TH YEAR be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

12 For it is THE JUBILEE; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

13 IN THE YEAR OF THE JUBILEE ye shall return every man unto his possession.

14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbor, or buy ought of thy neighbor’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

15 According to the number of years after THE JUBILEE thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the Lord your God.

18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat THE 7TH  YEAR? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and EAT YET OF OLD FRUIT until the ninth year; until her fruits come in YE SHALL EAT OF THE OLD STORE.

The Year of Jubilee is a BIG DEAL!

When is the next Year of Jubilee?

Let’s go back into history and find all of the historical references we can for both the Sabbatical Year and the Year of Jubilee.

Leviticus 25

And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, WHEN YOU COME INTO THE LAND which I give you, THEN SHALL THE LAND KEEP A SABBATH unto the Lord.

3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

5 That which grows of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

6 And THE SABBATH OF THE LAND SHALL BE MEAT FOR YOU; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourns with thee.

7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

8 And thou shalt number SEVEN SABBATHS OF YEARS unto thee, SEVEN TIMES SEVEN YEARS; and the space of the SEVEN SABBATHS OF YEARS shall be unto thee 49 YEARS.

9 Then shalt thou cause THE TRUMPET OF THE JUBILEE TO SOUND on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make THE TRUMPET SOUND throughout all your land.

10 And ye shall hallow THE 50th YEAR, and PROCLAIM LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a JUBILEE unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Joshua 5

10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

11 AND THEY DID EAT OF THE OLD CORN OF THE LAND on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.

12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but THEY DID EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT YEAR.

Joshua 6

1 Now Jericho was straightly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

2 And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor.

3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark 7 TRUMPETS of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city SEVEN TIMES, and the priests shall blow with the TRUMPETS.

5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear SEVEN TRUMPETS of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.

7 And he said unto the people, pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord.

8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the SEVEN TRUMPETS of rams’ horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the TRUMPETS: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.

9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the TRUMPETS, and the rearward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the TRUMPETS.

10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.

11 So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.

13 And seven priests bearing SEVEN TRUMPETS of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the TRUMPETS: and the armed men went before them; but the rearward came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the TRUMPETS.

14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner SEVEN TIMES: only on that day they compassed the city SEVEN TIMES.

16 And it came to pass at the SEVENTH TIME, when the priests blew with the TRUMPETS, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city.

17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.

20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the TRUMPETS: and it came to pass, when the people heard the SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

1443 B.C. = Year of the Israelites Entrance into the Holy Land

= Jubilee Year

2 Kings 18:13 Now in the 14th  year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

2 Kings 19:29 And this shall be a sign unto thee (Hezekiah), Ye shall eat THIS YEAR such things as grow of themselves, and in THE SECOND YEAR that which springs of the same; and in THE THIRD YEAR sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

709 B.C. = 14th Year Hezekiah

= Sabbatical Year

708 B.C. = 15th Year Hezekiah = Jubilee Year

Jeremiah 34

13 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 39:1  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

590 B.C. = 9th Year Zedekiah = Sabbatical Year

Haggai 2

10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying…

15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:

16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.

18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.

19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

520 B.C. = 2nd Year Darius = Sabbatical Year

Nehemiah 5-8 tells us that Ezra read out of the Book of the Law in the 7th month during the 32nd Year of Artaxerxes.  Deuteronomy 31 tells us that this was to be done during the 7th month of the Sabbatical Year.

Therefore,

443 B.C. = 32nd Year Artaxerxes

= Sabbatical Year

The Apocrypha

1st Maccabees 6:49

“But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace:  for they came out of the city, because they had no victuals there to endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the land.”

163 B.C. = 150th Year Seleucid Era

= Sabbatical Year

The Apocrypha

1st Maccabees 6:53

“Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals, (for that it was the 7th YEAR, and they in Judea, that were delivered from the Gentiles, had eaten up the residue of the store)”

163 B.C. = 150th Year Seleucid Era

= Sabbatical Year

Josephus

Jewish Antiquities

Book 12, Chapter 9, Section 5

“But then their provisions failed them;  what fruits of the ground they had laid up were spent, and the land being not plowed that year, continued unsowed, because it was the 7th YEAR, on which, by our laws, we are obliged to let it lie uncultivated.”

163 B.C. = 150th Year Seleucid Era = Sabbatical Year

Josephus

Jewish Antiquities

Book 13, Chapter 8, Section 1

“…and as the siege was drawn out into length by this means, that YEAR on which the Jews use to REST came on;  for the Jews observe this REST every 7th YEAR, as they do every 7th day; so that Ptolemy being for this cause released from the war…”

135 B.C. = 178th Year Seleucid Era = Sabbatical Year

Josephus

Wars of the Jews

Book 1, Chapter 2, Section 4

“And as the siege was delayed by this means, the year of rest came on, upon which the Jews rest every 7th Year as they do on every 7th Day.”

135 B.C. = 178th Year Seleucid Era

= Sabbatical Year

Josephus

Jewish Antiquities

Book 14, Chapter 10, Section 5

  “Caius Caesar, consul the 5th time, hath decreed, that the Jews shall possess Jerusalem, and may encompass that city with walls; and that Hyrcanus, the son of Alexander, the high priest and ethnarch of the Jews, retain it, in the manner he himself pleases;  and the Jews be allowed to deduct out of their tribute, every SECOND YEAR the land is let, in the Sabbatical Period, a corus of that tribute;  and that the tribute they pay be not let to farm, nor that they pay always the same tribute.”

44 B.C. = 5th Time Consul of Caius Caesar = Sabbatical Year

Josephus

Jewish Antiquities

Book 14, Chapter 10, Section 6

“Caius Caesar, imperator the 2nd time, hath ordained, that all the country of the Jews, excepting Joppa, do pay a tribute yearly for the city of Jerusalem, excepting the 7th Year, which they call the Sabbatical Year, because thereon they neither receive the fruits of their trees, nor do they sow their land;  and that they pay their tribute to Sidon on the second year of that Sabbatical period, the fourth part of what was sown:  and besides this, they are to pay the same tithes to Hyrcanus and his sons which they paid to their forefathers.”

44 B.C. = 2nd time imperator of Caius Caesar = Sabbatical Year

Josephus

Jewish Antiquities

Book 14, Chapter 16, Section 2

“They also erected new works when the former were ruined, and making mines under ground, they met each other, and fought there; and making use of brutish courage rather than of prudent valor, they persisted in this war to the very last; and this they did while a mighty army lay round about them, and while they were distressed by famine and want of necessaries, for this happened to be a Sabbatical Year.”

37 B.C. = 185th Olympiad = Sabbatical Year

Josephus

Jewish Antiquities

Book 15, Chapter 1, Section 2

“They also searched the dead, and whatsoever was found, either of silver or gold, or other treasure, it was carried to the king; nor was there any end to the miseries he brought upon them; and this distress was in part occasioned by the covetousness of the prince regent, who was still in want of more, and in part by the Sabbatical Year, which was still going on, and forced the country to lie still uncultivated, since we are forbidden to sow the land in that year.”

37 B.C. = 185th Olympiad = Sabbatical Year

Josephus

Jewish Antiquities

Book 15, Chapter 9, Section 1

“Now on this very year, which was the 13th year of the reign of Herod…When therefore the fruits of that year were spoiled, and whatsoever they had laid up beforehand was spent, there was no foundation of hope for relief remaining, but the misery, contrary to what they expected, still increased upon them; and this, not only on THAT YEAR, while they had nothing for themselves left at the end of it, but what seed they had sown perished also, by reason of the ground not yielding its fruits on THE SECOND YEAR.”

Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews
William Whiston, A.M., Ed.

Book 15 Chapter 9 Footnote 3

“This famine for two years that affected Judea and Syria, the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Herod, which are the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years before the Christian era, seems to have been more terrible during this time than was that in the days of Jacob, Genesis 41., 42. And what makes the comparison the more remarkable is this, that now, as well as then, the relief they had was from Egypt also; then from Joseph the governor of Egypt, under Pharaoh king of Egypt; and now from Petronius the prefect of Egypt, under Augustus the Roman emperor. See almost the like case, Antiq. B. XX. ch. 2. sect. 6. It is also well worth our observation here, that these two years were a Sabbatical year, and a year of jubilee, for which Providence, during the theocracy, used to provide a triple crop beforehand; but became now, when the Jews had forfeited that blessing, the greatest years of famine to them ever since the days of Ahab, 1 Kings 17., 18.”

23 B.C. = 13th Year Herod

= Sabbatical Year

22 B.C. = 14th Year Herod

= Jubilee Year

Leviticus 25

8 And thou shalt number 7 Sabbaths of years unto thee, 7 times 7 years; and the space of the 7 Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee 49 years.

9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the 10th day of the 7th month, in the Day of Atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

We learn from Leviticus 25 that we are to count 7 Sabbaths of years or 49 years.  In the 49th year in the 7th month on the 10th day of the month, we are to sound the trumpet of the Jubilee in order to announce the upcoming Year of Jubilee in the 50th Year.

Leviticus 25

10 And ye shall hallow the 50th YEAR, and PROCLAIM LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a JUBILEE unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

We also learn from Leviticus 25 that the 50th Year is the Jubilee Year and it is also the year that we “Proclaim Liberty.”

Isaiah 61

 The Spirit of the YHWH is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to PROCLAIM LIBERTY to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF YHWH…

We learn from Isaiah 61 that the Jubilee Year is also called the “Acceptable Year of YHWH.”

Yeshua quoted from Isaiah 61 in Luke 4.

Luke 4

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

The Spirit of the YHWH is upon me; because YHWH hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to PROCLAIM LIBERTY to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF YHWH…

20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

We know from Luke 3:1 that this was “in the 15th Year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.”

28 A.D. = 15th Year of Tiberius Caesar

= Jubilee Year

An ancient text of a loan deed known as Mur 18 found in the caves of the Wadi Murabbat near Bethlehem, bears a date in “year two of Nero Caesar.”  Farther along in the text, it also says, “in this year of release.”  “In this year of release” is a reference to a Sabbatical Year.

55 A.D. = 2nd Year of Nero Caesar = Sabbatical Year

There are about a dozen rental contracts that were found at Wadi Murabbat near Bethlehem known collectively as Mur 24E.  They mention a Sabbatical Year or the year of “the liberation of Israel.”   The contracts also expired on the next Sabbatical Year or “until the end of the eve of Shemitah.” In the Chronicle of Eusebius we find out that the year of “the liberation of Israel” was in the 16th Year of the Roman Emperor Hadrian or 132 A.D.

132 A.D. = 16th Year of Hadrian

= Sabbatical Year 139 AD. = Sabbatical Year also

We have learned from history that the next Sabbatical Years are 2022, 2029, and 2036.

We have also learned from history that 1443 B.C., 708 B.C., 22 B.C. and 22 A.D. were Jubilee Years.

Therefore, the next Jubilee Year is 2037 A.D.

Be Ready!

THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES

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Luke 21:24

 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and JERUSALEM shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES be fulfilled.

When did THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES begin?

Daniel 2

31 Thou, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

32 This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

34 Thou saw till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. THOU ART THIS HEAD OF GOLD.

We know from Daniel 2 that Nebuchadnezzar and his Kingdom of Babylon is the HEAD OF GOLD and therefore the start of the TIMES OF THE GENTILES.

The HEAD OF GOLD is Nebuchadnezzar and his Kingdom of Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar’s first year of sole reign was 604B.C., so this is when the TIMES OF THE GENTILES began.

How long does THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES last?

Daniel 4

10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:

12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;

14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:

15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:

16 Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let SEVEN TIMES pass over him.

17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will, and sets up over it the basest of men.

18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, for as much as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.

20 The tree that thou saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;

21 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:

22 IT IS THOU, O KING, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reaches unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew THE TREE down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till SEVEN TIMES pass over him.

According to Daniel 4, THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES is to last for SEVEN TIMES.

How long is a TIME?

Revelation 12:14

And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a TIME, and TIMES, and HALF A TIME, from the face of the serpent.

Revelation 12:6

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there 1260 Days.

Therefore,

3 ½ TIMES = 1260 DAYS

1260 DAYS ÷    3 ½ TIMES = 360 DAYS

Therefore,

1 TIME = 360 DAYS

1 Day = 1 Year

Ezekiel 4

1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the DAYS that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

5 For I have laid upon thee the YEARS of their iniquity, according to the number of the DAYS, three hundred and ninety DAYS: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the House of Israel.

6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty DAYS: I have appointed thee each DAY FOR A YEAR.

According to Ezekiel 4

1 DAY = 1 YEAR

TIMES OF THE GENTILES

1 TIME = 360 DAYS

Also, 1 DAY = 1 YEAR

THEREFORE,

1 TIME = 360 YEARS

7 TIMES = 7 X 360 YEARS = 2520 YEARS

Nebuchadnezzar’s first year of sole reign was in 604 B.C.

604 B.C. + 2520 YEARS = 1917 A.D.

The TIMES OF THE GENTILES lasted from 604 B.C. To 1917 A.D.

1917 A.D.

The TIMES OF THE GENTILES ended in 1917 A.D.  Some very important events happened in 1917 A.D.

The Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

The text of the letter was published in the press one week later, on 9 November 1917.  The “Balfour Declaration” was later incorporated into the Sevres Peace Treaty with the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate for Palestine.

The Balfour Declaration states

“His Majesty’s government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

Liberation of Jerusalem

British General Edmund Allenby won the Third Battle of Gaza on November 7, 1917 by surprising the defenders with an attack at Beersheba . His force pushed northwards towards Jerusalem. The Ottomans were beaten at Junction Station on November 14, 1917 and Jerusalem was captured on December 9,1917.

The victorious General Allenby dismounted his horse and entered Jerusalem on foot out of respect for the Holy City on December 11,1917

The Muslim Calendar

The Hijri calendar, also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

This calendar enumerates the Hijri era, whose epoch was established as the Islamic New Year in 622 CE. During that year, Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina and established the first Muslim community (ummah), an event commemorated as the Hijrah. 

1917 AD = 1335 on Muslim Calendar

In the Muslim year 1335 (A.D. 1917) Jerusalem was delivered from the Muslim Turks. 

Daniel 12:12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the 1335 days.

This Egyptian coin of 1917 bears the Muslim 1335 date, given by YHWH in DANIEL 12:12, in answer to Daniel’s prayer in Chapter 9 on behalf of Jerusalem and the Jewish people.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there 1260 days.

The year 1844 is recognized as being the year in which the Western Powers compelled the Sultan of Turkey to sign the decree of Toleration, abolishing the death penalty for the conversion from Muhammadanism.

1844 AD was 1260 on the Muslim calendar.

1 Week = 7 Years = 7 Times
7 X 360 = 2520 Years

Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the MIDST OF THE WEEK he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

The Siege of Jerusalem was part of a military conflict which took place in the year 637 between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate.

Caliph Omar ibn al Khattab was advised by his associate, Ka’ab al-Ahbar, a Jewish Rabbi who converted to Islam, that the Night Journey, which is mentioned in the Quran and specified by the hadiths of being located in Jerusalem, took place at the site of the former Jewish Temples. Accordingly the Dome of the Rock was erected between 689 and 691 CE.

2520 Years / 2 = 1260 Years

604 BC + 1260 Years = 657 CE

Midst of the Week 657 AD

Siege of Jerusalem 637 AD

Dome of the Rock 691 AD

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PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE

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Matthew 24:32 Now learn a PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE; when his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that SUMMER IS NEAR:

33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Truly I say unto you, this GENERATION shall not pass, until all these things be fulfilled.

Who or what does the FIG TREE represent?

Hosea 9:10

I found ISRAEL like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the FIG TREE…

ISRAEL = FIG TREE

When is SUMMER?

In Israel and all of the Northern Hemisphere, SUMMER begins on either June 20th or 21st at the Summer Solstice.

How long is a GENERATION?

Genesis 15

13 And He said unto Abram, Know of a surety that THY SEED shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them 400 years;

14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the 4th GENERATION they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

The Israelites will be “a stranger in a land that is not theirs” for 400 years.

This includes both the years spent in Canaan & Egypt.

Genesis 15

14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the 4th GENERATION they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

In the “4th GENERATION”, the Israelites would return to Canaan.  Therefore, the Israelites would spend 3 GENERATIONS in Egypt.

If we can determine how long the Israelites spent in Canaan before going down to Egypt, then we can subtract this number from the total 400 years that they would be “a stranger in a land that is not theirs.”

Genesis 21:5

And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son ISAAC(THE SEED) was born unto him.

THE SEED of Abraham is born in Canaan.

Genesis 25:26

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called JACOB: and ISAAC was 60 years old when she bare them.

ISAAC is 60 when JACOB is born in Canaan.

Genesis 47:9

And JACOB said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

JACOB is 130 when he leaves Canaan and the Israelites enter into Egypt.

The Israelites will be “a stranger in a land that is not theirs” for 400 years.

ISAAC is 60 when JACOB is born in Canaan.

JACOB is 130 when he leaves Canaan and the Israelites enter into Egypt.

60 + 130 = 190 Years in Canaan

400 – 190 = 210 Years in Egypt

The Israelites spend 210 years in Egypt.

The Israelites spend 3 GENERATIONS in Egypt.

210 Years ÷ 3 GENERATIONS = 70 Years

Therefore, 1 GENERATION = 70 Years

PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE

Matthew 24:32 Now learn a PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE; when his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that SUMMER IS NEAR:

33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Truly I say unto you, this GENERATION shall not pass, until all these things be fulfilled.

3 THINGS WE HAVE LEARNED:

1) Fig Tree = Israel

2) Summer starts June 20th

3) Generation = 70 Years

REVISED:  PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE

Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of ISRAEL-THE FIG TREE; when his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that SUMMER (JUNE 20th) is NEAR:

33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Truly I say unto you, a GENERATION of 70 YEARS shall not pass, until all these things be fulfilled.

ISRAEL BECOMES A SEEDLING OF A NATION

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared “the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel,” a state independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15 May 1948.

Israel becomes a seedling of a nation in 1948.

ISRAEL PUTS FORTH LEAVES

“when his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves”

The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, or 1967 Arab-Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring 3 states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

Within 6 days, Israel had won a decisive land war.

Israeli forces had taken control of 5 territories – Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.

SUMMER is near.

“when his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that SUMMER IS NEAR”

The 6 Day War concluded on June 10, 1967.

This is exactly 10 days from the Summer Solstice on June 20, 1967, which is the beginning of SUMMER.

“This GENERATION Shall Not Pass”

A GENERATION is 70 Years.

1967 + 70 = 2037

Be Ready!

Genesis 15

14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the 4th GENERATION they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of th Amorites is not yet ful

Chronology of the Bible/World

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The Study of Time from the Beginning of the World until 2012C.E.

Isaiah 46

 9Remember the former things of old: for I am Elohim, and there is none else; I am Elohim, and there is none like me,

   10Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of Elohim to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

Daniel 12 

9And He said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

   10Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Daniel 2 

20Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of Elohim forever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

   21And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings: he gives wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

   22He reveals the deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures forever.

Genesis 5

3And Adam lived 130 years and begat Seth:

6And Seth lived 105 years and begat Enos:

9And Enos lived 90 years and begat Cainan:

12And Cainan lived 70 years and begat Mahalaleel:

15And Mahalaleel lived 65 years, and begat Jared:

18And Jared lived 162 years and begat Enoch:

21And Enoch lived 65 years and begat Methuselah:

25And Methuselah lived 187 years and begat Lamech.

28And Lamech lived 182 years and begat Noah:
Genesis 7:6And Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Total years from creation until flood is 1656.

Found in the histories of the Toltec Indians of ancient Mexico is a story of the first world that lasted 1,716 years and was destroyed by a great flood that covered even the highest mountains.  Their story tells of a few men who escaped the destruction in a “toptlipetlocali,” which means a closed chest.  Following the great flood, these men began to multiply and built a very high “zacuali,” or great tower, to provide a safe place if the world were destroyed again.  However, the languages became confused, so different language groups wandered to other parts of the world.

The Toltecs claim they started as a family of seven friends and their wives who spoke the same language.  They crossed great waters, lived in caves, and wandered 104 years till they came to Hue Hue Tlapalan (southern Mexico).  The story reports that this was 520 years after the great flood.

Source:  Dinosaurs by Design

Genesis 11:10Shem begat Arphaxad 2 years after the flood:

12And Arphaxad lived 35 years and begat Salah:

14And Salah lived 30 years and begat Eber:

16And Eber lived 34 years and begat Peleg:

18And Peleg lived 30 years and begat Reu: And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

20And Reu lived 32 years and begat Serug:

22And Serug lived 30 years and begat Nahor:

24And Nahor lived 29 years and begat Terah:

32And the days of Terah were 205 years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed, as Yahweh had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran.

Genesis 21:5And Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born unto him.

TOTAL YEARS FROM CREATION UNTIL ISAAC IS BORN 2108.

Genesis 25

26And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was 60 years old when she bare them.

Genesis 47

1Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

8And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years.

Total years Israelites sojourn in Canaan  60 + 130 = 190.
Total years from creation Until  Israelites  enter  Egypt  2298.

Genesis 15

13And He said unto Abram, know for sure that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them 400 years.

Total years Israelites sojourn in Canaan  60 + 130 = 190.
Total years ISRAELITES SOJOURN in Egypt 400 – 190 = 210.
Total years from creation until exodus is 2508.

1 Kings 6

1And it came to pass in the 480th year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the 4th year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.

Total years from creation until temple started 2987.

1 Kings 11:42 Solomon reigned 40 years in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 14:21 Rehoboam reigned 17 years in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 15:1-2 Abijam reigned 3 years in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 15:9-10 Asa reigned 41 years in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 22:42 Jehoshaphat reigned 25 years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 8:16-26 Jehoram reigned 8 years in Jerusalem.

Ahaziah reigned 1 year in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 11:1 Athaliah reigned 6 years.

2 Kings 12:1 Jehoash reigned 40 years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14:1-2 Amaziah reigned 29 years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15:1-33 Azariah reigned 52 years in Jerusalem.

Jotham reigned 16 years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 16:1-2  Ahaz reigned 16 years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 18:1-2 Hezekiah reigned 29 years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 21:1-19 Manasseh reigned 55 years in Jerusalem.

Amon reigned 2 years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 22:1 Josiah reigned 31 years in Jerusalem.

Jehoiakim reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. Zedekiah reigned 11 years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25

 2And the city was besieged unto the 11th year of king Zedekiah.

8And in the 19th year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan,

9And he burnt the house of Yahweh.

Total years from Solomon until Zedekiah is 420.
Total years from creation until temple burned 3405.
The temple was burned in 586 b.c.e., making the year of creation 3991 b.c.e.

Some important dates in history:

Creation 3991 B.C.E.

Enoch translated to heaven 3004 B.C.E.

Noah’s Flood 2335 B.C.E.

Exodus 1483 B.C.E.

Solomon starts Temple 1004 B.C.E.

Nebuchadnezar Burns Temple 586 B.C.E.

Year 6000 = 2010-2011C.E.

The ancient Sanskrit writings of the Hindus of India record that Krishna ascended to heaven in 3102 B.C.E.

Biblical chronology records that  Enoch was translated to heaven in 3004 B.C.E.

The ancient Mayans start their calendar in 3114 B.C.E.  This is just 12 years from the year that the Hindus have Krishna ascending to heaven.

Biblical chronology records that  Enoch was translated to heaven in 3004 B.C.E.

The ancient Chinese date the Great Flood to 2357BCE during the time of Yao (YHWH).

Lieh  Zi, a Taoist who lived in the 5th century BCE; tells of an ancient Chinese  legend of one named Nuwa who repaired the heavens after a great flood.

Biblical chronology has Noah’s Flood at 2335 B.C.E.

Alexander the Great captured Babylon in 331 B.C.E.

The Chaldean priests showed Alexander all their astronomical records going back to the founding of Babylon.

The records went back 1903 years.

331 B.C.E. + 1903 years = 2234 B.C.E. for the founding of Babylon.

This was recorded in the sixth book of De Caelo (“About the heavens”) by Simplicius, a Latin writer in the 6th century AD. Porphyry (an anti-Christian Greek philosopher, c. 234–305 AD) also deduced the same number. Ussher J., Annales Veteris Testamenti, Flesher and Sadler, London, p. 5, 1654. (This work is in Latin. I am preparing a new English translation, which is scheduled to be published in September 2000. The paragraph number for this footnote is 49 in that revised work.)

The Byzantine chronicler ConstantinusManasses (d. 1187) wrote that the Egyptian state lasted 1663 years. If correct, then counting backward from the time that Cambyses, king of Persia, conquered Egypt in 526 BC, gives us the year of 2188 BC for the founding of Egypt. Ussher J., AnnalesVeterisTestamenti, Flesher and Sadler, London, p. 5, or paragraph 51 in the revised work, 1654.

According to the 4th Century bishop and historian Eusebius of Caesarea, Egialeus, king of the Greek city of Sicyon, west of Corinth in Peloponnesus, began his reign in 2089 BC, 1313 years before the first Olympiad in 776 BC. Ussher J., Annales Veteris Testamenti, Flesher and Sadler, London, p. 6, or paragraph 54 in the revised work, 1654.
Eusebius, Chronici Canones, Humphredurn Milford, London, Preface pp. 1–14, 1923. (This Latin copy was prepared by Johannes Knight Fotheringham.)

Rome conquered King Philip of Macedonia in 197 B.C.E.

Ancient Roman historians record that from the time of Ninus (Nimrod) until King Philip was 1995 years.

197 B.C.E. + 1995 years = 2192 B.C.E.

Nimrod co-reigned 62 years with his father Cush.

2192 B.C.E. + 62 years = 2254 B.C.E.

The ancient Chinese record that their first king Shun (Nimrod) was the son of Cush.  They record the start of his reign as 2254 B.C.E.

Ancient Roman historians record that nimrod began his reign in 2254 b.c.e.

The ancient Mayans record that the current age of this world ends in 2012 C.E.

Biblical chronology records the Year 6001 as the year 2011-2012 C.E.



The Exodus Comet

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Luke 21:25

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…

Luke 21:11

… fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Acts 2:19

And I will shew wonders in heaven above…

“In the year of the world 2453, according to certain authorities, a comet was seen in Syria, Babylonia, India, in the sign of Jo, in the form of a disc, at the very time when the Israelites were on their march from Egypt to the Promised Land.”

 – Johannes Hevelius, Cometographia (1668)

“In the year of our world 2453 – as many trustworthy authors, on the basis of many conjectures, have determined – a comet appeared which Pliny also mentioned in his second book. It was fiery red, of irregular circular form, with a wrapped head; it was in the shape of a globe and was of terrible aspect. It is said that the King Typhon ruled at the time in Egypt. Certain authorities assert the comet was seen in Syria, Babylonia, India, in the sign of Capricorn, in the form of a disc, at the time when the children of Israel advanced from Egypt toward the Promised Land, led on their way by a pillar of cloud during the day and a pillar of fire at night.”

– Abraham Rockenbach, De Cometis Tractatus Novus Methodicus (1602)

Many other authors, Lydus, Servius, Hephaestion and Juctinus also mentioned the comet Typhon. They all described it as an immense globe of fire, who’s movement was slow and close to the sun. Its color was bloody; “It was not of fiery, but of bloody redness.” They said the object caused destruction with its rising and setting and was the cause of many plagues, evils and hunger. They also said that if the earth were to meet with Typhon again, a four day encounter would suffice to destroy the world.

“A terrible comet was seen by the people of Ethiopia and Egypt, to which Typhon, the king of that period, gave his name; it had a fiery appearance and was twisted like a coil, and it was very grim to behold: it was not really a star so much as what might be called a ball of fire.”

– Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 2,    Section 91(ca. 80 A.D.)

“OVER SHOOTING-STARS [ZIKIN]. What are ZIKIN? Samuel said: A comet. Samuel also said: I am as familiar with the paths of heaven as with the streets of Nehardea, with the exception of the comet, about which I am ignorant. There is a tradition that it never passes through the constellation of Orion, for if it did, the world would be destroyed…”

– Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Berakoth, Folio 58b (ca. 500 A.D.)

The Comet Hale-Bopp passed through the constellation of Orion from April 23, 1997 until June 11, 1997.

The Comet Hale–Bopp had its closest approach to Earth (perigee) on March 22, 1997- the day before the First Day of the Feast of Passover/ Unleavened Bread.

The Comet Hale-Bopp had its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) on March 31, 1997- the day after the Last Day of the Feast of Passover/ Unleavened Bread.

Just as the Israelites witnessed the comet at the time of the Exodus/Passover 3500 years ago, so did modern Israelites witness the comet at the time of the Passover in 1997.

Just as the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for 40 years before being allowed to enter into the Promised Land, so are modern Israelites wandering in the wilderness for 40 years until they are allowed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven here on Earth.

1997 A.D. + 40 Years = 2037 A.D.

Be Ready!