Ezekiel 4.

The master key to unlock the Bible’s chronology

Abraham binds Isaac (Akedah)

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David king 0
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Jeremiah Jerusalem’s 120 abomination 430
prophetises destruction years 3368 AM
about … 3403 AM
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Destruction of the 1st Temple & Jerusalem
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If the only achievement of this book was the discovery of these

patterns, I would be satisfied. But there is so much more.. Yves Peloquin
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"Make the mind of this people dull, and
stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that
they may not look with their eyes, and
listen with their ears, and comprehend
with their minds, and turn and be healed.”
Isaiah 6:10
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;
to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Prov 25:2 NIV

Dédié à Marie-Paule mon épouse, sans

qui je n’aurais jamais pu m’investir avec
autant d’énergie dans cette recherche, et
à mes trois enfants :
Jeanne, Émile, Évelyne
qui ont si souvent été privés de ma
présence.

Also dedicated to my father Leo

(1921-1994 AD) from whom I learned the
names of Jacob’s children. I believe he
was one of the great…great grandsons of
Leah, first wife of the patriarch Jacob.

Knowing the past

is the key
to know the future
God's 7,000-Year Plan

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The First Part
The house of Judah sin that lasted 40 days (years) page 13
The house of Israel sin that lasted 390 days (years) page 17
A siege that last 430 days (390 days + 40 days) .... page 27
Why an iron wall page 35
Left side/Right side page 39
The feeding of Ezekiel during his siege page 44
The need to have Ezekiel tied up ............................. page 45
Prophesying against the siege of Jerusalem page 50
Ezekiel’s bare arm page 58
Ezekiel eating defiled food page 67
The 430 years and 400 years to Exodus ............... page 78
Ezekiel shaves his hair page 90
Ezekiel is weighing and dividing the hair page 98
Ezekiel’s hair growing again page 105
Daniel 70-week & post exile chronology …………. page 113
Ezekiel’s fasting page 133
Ezekiel’s famine of words page 135
Conclusion of first part page 140
Second Part
Setting a true chronology of the Bible page 141
The timeline of Joseph page 142
Sabbath and Jubilee page 146
Yeshua’s ministry .................................................... page 149
The 2nd Temple became redundant page 157
The time of Joshua page 158
Oppressions and Judges page 161
Pilgrimage of fathers and sons page 175
When did Abraham marry ........................................ page 177
Did the Israelites wait 19 y. in Kadesh Barnea? page 173
Understanding Judah & Israel EXILE page 178
Numbers 37-73 and the timing of Samson page 192
Was Solomon 17 years old when he became king? page 194
Unseal chronological patterns in 28 charts page 195
Conclusion of second part page 224

Appendix A From Adam to Abraham (the basic timeline) page 227

Appendix B Abraham’s family tree page 230
Appendix C Timing of Levi, Kohath, Amram and Moses page 233
Appendix D Akedah Exodus Crucifixion page 234
Appendix E Synchronizing the calendar page 256
Appendix F The Bible’s timeline page 257
Appendix G Daniel 8:14 ‘2300 evenings & mornings’ .. page 266
Appendix H Daniel 12:11-12 1,290 days & 1,335 days page 268
Appendix I Daniel 70th week page 271
Appendix J King of Israel page 279
Appendix K 77 People of authority (11 + 22 + 44) page 280
Appendix L The 12 symbolical acts of Ezekiel 4-5 page 281
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 Ezekiel 4. The master key to unlock the Bible’s chronology

By Yves Peloquin Created Dec 2004

Montréal, Canada (Year 5966 AM)
http://www.EzekielMasterKey.com
Email: Last update Nov 01, 2018
Yves.Peloquin@bell.net (Year 5979 AM)

Several solutions have been proposed to explain the 390 and the 40 years symbolized
by Ezekiel’s 390 and 40 days. None has been very convincing so far.

The following observation is therefore indisputable: in spite of the fact that Ezekiel
spent a very long period (430 days) on his sides to perform a sign to the house of Israel, no
one has ever come up with any hidden interpretation that could match (and justify) the
prophet’s amazing task? This book shall propose a fresh new way to understand Ezekiel 4.

The Siege of Jerusalem prophesied

Ezek 4:1-13

4:1 "Now, son of man, take a clay tablet, put it in front of you and draw the city of
Jerusalem on it. 2 Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it,
set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. 3 Then take an iron pan, place it
as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under
siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 "Then lie on
your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their
sin for the number of days you lie on your side. 5 I have assigned you the same number
of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the house of
Israel. 6 "After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and
bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. 7
Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bare arm prophesy against her. 8 I
will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you
have finished the days of your siege. 9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet
and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to
eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out twenty shekels of food to
eat each day and eat it at set times. 11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and
drink it at set times. 12 Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the
people, using human excrement for fuel." 13 The LORD said, "In this way the people of
Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them."

It is certain that some important chronological information can be obtained by correctly

interpreting the sign performed by Ezekiel. After all, we already know that when he was lying
for 390 and 40 days, he was then symbolically portraying one period of sin that lasted 390
years and another that lasted 40 years. No doubts that these two values will lead us to the
discovery of some solid markers in the Bible chronology once we have them correctly
understood.

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But there is more information to be obtained from Ezek 4-5 than what has been suggested
until now. We will see in the following pages that while he was lying on his sides Ezekiel was
performing more than a dozen different symbolical acts each one portraying an independent
set of events that had or would take place over distinct periods of either 390, 40, or 430 years.

From a few basic sequences of events whose timeline are well known, we are going to, while
identifying each Ezekiel 4-5 symbolical act, find out the timing of every meaningful biblical
event. Figuratively speaking, this book has been designed like a
ladder. Where each rung allow a workman to go higher and
higher, here most chapters will introduce a new Ezekiel 4-5
symbolical act and consolidate it by using the chronological
information validated in the previous chapters. As we move on,
several paths of reliable events will keep expanding until it
becomes possible to merge them into a tightly interconnected
network.

A unique feature pertaining to the development of this work will be obvious in the first part of
the book. I decided that no biblical event would be associated to a specific date. Indeed, each
event will be featured in its relationship with other. Thus similar to what is done in the Bible’s
narration, the emphasis will be exclusively over the length of time (# of years) separating the
events between themselves (i.e. relative dating). No matter how destabilizing it will feel, this
approach is necessary to establish a fundamental timeline that owes nothing to any material
found outside the Bible.
Like many of you already know, once the chronology of the patriarchs
has been figured out it is impossible to move on in a straight manner
to reach the time of Moses, Aaron, Joshua and Caleb. This is why I
believe the bible chronology should be handled like a jigsaw puzzle
where it is sometime more efficient to complete different areas
according their color or form than trying fitting individual piece
directly on the main picture. We will see how it can be done.
In the second part of the book, dates will be anchored to each biblical event (i.e. absolute
dating). This is a prerequisite to adequately discuss about the occurrence of the sabbatical
years, highlight the use of palindromic dates (Ex. Destruction of the first Temple in 3443
AM), to project the likely timing of the future re-emergence of the Lost-Tribes of Israel, and
of course to produce the detailed biblical timeline expected in this kind of work.

By the end of the book more than 180 biblical events will have been firmly dated and
presented in spectaculars patterns. Truly, never before was a biblical chronology elaborated
around so many markers and with such an abundance of self-validating mechanisms.
I just mentioned that this chronology will display some spectacular patterns. In fact patterns
are a major outcome of this chronology. They come in so many forms and they involve so
many events that one could ask ourselves: Why were all those events inscribed in such a vast
network of patterns? The likely answer is that the patterns, by their sole presence, are a proof
of the accuracy of the dates leading to them. Given that a random set of dates would rarely
lead to a harmonious and spectacular pattern, finding a large number of them, interacting
between each other, compels us to accept the involvement of a Master Designer.
Let’s start with four examples of spectacular patterns to show evidence of design.
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 First example: The age of the last four patriarchs / followed by my own 2000 years pattern
Abraham 175 Gen 25:7 Part of the following was observed by
Isaac 180 Gen 35:28 Stanley Gevirtz in an article called ‘The
Jacob 147 Gen 47:28 Life Spans of Joseph and Enoch and the
Joseph 110 Gen 50:26 Parallelism’
Here the age of these four closely related and most central patriarchs of the Bible are used to
produce the following mathematical relationship.
Life span of Age’s factors & Getting 17 from
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph factors’ composite the age factors

Abraham = 175 y. 7 * 52 7 + 5 + 5 = 17
beget

Isaac = 180 y. 2 5 + 6 + 6 = 17
5* 6
beget

Jacob 2 3 + 7 + 7 = 17
= 147 y. 3* 7
beget

7+7+6+6
Joseph = 110 y. 1* ( 52 + 62 + 72 ) - 5 - 5 + 1 = 17
Age total = 612 y.

612 = 4 * 153 or 17 is the highest integer in

4 * (1+2+3+ .. +17) the ‘Summation’ repre-
senting the average age
One can say that 17 (153 years) of the 4
the mean value for or patriarchs.
i years
these four indivi-
i=1
duals’ age is 153

Each of the following

3 Joseph Isaac 3 value will be vali-
The following 35 53 3 3
in Jail dies
3 dated in this book
numbers are 62 26
J
palindromes 13 31 Joseph Jacob J
O
17 to 10 3 10 to 17 A
Abraham Abra.. goes Covenant bet- S Saul End of 2nd
Egypt Egypt C
marry to Egypt ween the parts E King Temple
O
2033 AM 2088 AM 2093 AM P 7 years 2923 AM 4033 AM
H 2 * 19 19 B
famine
born dies
Abra- Jacob Start 2315 Jo-
Isaac 2258
AM seph
ham starts AM 7 years
marry 35 62 for 13 31 26 53 dies
2148
dies of
2183 2368
AM
AM Laban plenty AM 555
+
55 5 55 55 + 55 55 + 55 555 555

2000 years

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Second example : Genesis 1:1
The very first verse of the Bible tells us that God created the universe
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
TIME ENERGY SPACE MATTER

Gen 1:1 in Hebrew with the Gematria1 value expressed for each letter of the 7 words.

7 letters 7 letters
14 letters 14 letters

The 7 words use 28 letters (i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 letters)

The forth word ‘ ’ (i.e. central word) is untranslatable. Its two letters (Aleph and
Tav ) are the very first and the very last letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet and the sum of the gematria
values of the first letter of each words of Gen 1:1 is ( 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 6 + 5 ) = 22

The gematria value of the 7 Hebrew words of Gen 1:1 leads to some fascinating information2.

Total gematria = 913 + 203 + 86 + 401 + 395 + 407 + 296 = 2701

2701 = 37 * 73 (37 & 73 are Mirror Numbers i.e. MN)

th
37 is the 12 prime number
th 12 & 21 are MN
MN 73 is the 21 prime number.

3773 = 1072 + 2701 (Note: 3773 = 7 * 7 * 77 )

There are 3 * 7 * 73 verses in Genesis (i.e. 1533)

In Gen 1:1 the 1st word + 3rd word = 913 + 86 = 999

gematria of 2nd word + 4th word + 5th word = 203 + 401 + 395 = 999
6th word + twice the 7th word = 407 + 296 + 296 = 999

1
In the Hebrew alphabet each character has a value. A gematria of a word is the sum of these characters values.
2
This information should be credited to Vernon Jenkins Ref ‘The other bible code’ on Internet
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 2701 is a triangular number and
The outline 73
can be expressed like this:
of the 2701 = i p.
triangle has i=1 1 + 2 + 3 +...+ 71 + 72 + 73
216 blue
pebbles. To visualize the value 2701, we
i.e. 6 * 6 * 6 will build a triangle by aligning
small pebbles (p) the following
73 way:
rows 2701
there will be
(37 * 73)
pebbles
1 pebble on the first row,
2 on the second,
3 on the third
…
th
73 pebbles on the 73
row.
There are 2701 pebbles in all.

73 units

Without adding or loosing any pebble, we can transform the

previous geometric structure in four perfectly fitting new ones.

666 A geometrical Notice

6*6
+ i p.
arrangement The first 5 words (gem-
666 i=1 to represent atrica value of Gen 1:1)
+ Gen 1:1 i.e. (913, 203, 86, 401, 395)
666 add up to 3 * 666
+ 37
703 i p. 666 The last two words
= i=1 pebbles
‘and the earth’
2701 Row 36 (gem.. value of Gen 1:1)
i.e. (407, 296)
add up to 703
19 * 37 37*3 + Row 37
373
18 * 37 Interesting:
+ 3*73 Row 73
666 = (6 + 6 + 6) * 37
666 703 666 6 6 6
666 = 1 - 2 + 3
2 2 2 2
666 = 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 +
2 2 2
11 + 13 + 17
(i.e.Sum of the
square of the first
7 prime numbers)
GEN
1 :1 666 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 567 + 89
= 123 + 456 + 78 + 9
Earth the and heaven the God created beginning the In = 9 + 87 + 6 + 543 + 21

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Third example : The High Priest’s Breastplate3
In Exodus 28 we are told that the High Priest was going to wear a piece
of garment called the Breastplate. Over this garment was disposed, on 4
rows, 12 precious stones on which were engraved the names of each
tribe of Israel, one name on each stone. Now lets see some surprising
facts found by Ian Mallett and Vernon Jenkins. Independantly of its
power, the breastplate was hiding the absolute cleverness of God.
To demonstrate this we need to see the breastplate as a mathematical
matrix in which the name of each tribe of Israel is replaced by its
gematria value4. The following table gives us the gematria’s values corresponding to each
tribe’s name. (The tribe’s order can be found in Gen 29:32-Gen 20:20, Gen 41:51-52)

# Tribe Hebrew gematria

1 Reuben 259 7 Asher 501
2 Simeon 466 8 Issachar 830
3 Judah 30 9 Zebulun 95
4 Dan 54 10 Benjamin 162
5 Naphtali 570 11 Manasseh 395
6 Gad 7 12 Ephraim 331

3 2 1 Here we have each matrix’s row filled

30 466 259 from right to left with the name of each
Judah Simeon Reuben tribe according the order of their birth.
6 5 4 Notice two important rules:
7 570 54
The name of ‘LEVI’ is not used in the
Gad Naphtali Dan
matrix. The Breastplate was weared by
9 8 7 a Levite therefore there was no need to
95 830 501 represent that tribe with a stone.
Zebulun Issachar Asher
12 11 10 The name of Joseph is not used either.
Instead we replace it with the names of
331 395 162
his two sons (Manasseh & Ephraim)
Ephraim Manasseh Benjamin
who were adopted by Jacob (Gen 48:5).

= 259 + 466 + 30 + 54
The first interesting fact in this matrix is that + 570 + 7 + 501 + 830
the sum of all the gematria value = 3700. + 95 + 162 + 395 + 331

3700 = 10 * 10 * 37

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The following description should be entirely credited to two individuals, one is called Ian Mallett and the
other is Vernon Jenkins whose work can be seen at http://www.whatabeginning.com/ under ‘AN ORACLE
RESTORED’
4
In the Hebrew alphabet each character has a value and the gematria of a word is the sum of these values.
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 3 2 1
30 466 259
Judah Simeon Reuben

7 570 4
54
Gad Naphtali Dan Lets divide the matrix
in 6 perfectly fitting
5 and harmonious parts.
95 830 501
Zebulun Issachar Asher

6
331 395 162
Ephraim Manasseh Benjamin

To each part we
associate the
combined ge-
matria values of
all the names
And here is an incredible discovery
found in them
brought to light in the research of
Vernon Jenkins: the number 37 is
the main factor in each of the 6 parts
of the new arrangement.
3 2 1
1 259 = 37 * 7
259

37 1036 2 1036 = 37 * 28
4

3 37 = 37 * 1
555
5 4 555 = 37 * 15
925
5 925 = 37 * 25
6
888 6 888 = 37 * 24

But it doesn’t stop here, next page will show more stunning properties of Jacob’s sons matrix.
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 3 2 1 3 2 1
/ 30 466 259 30 466 259
Judah Simeon Reuben Judah Simeon Reuben

6 5 4 6 5 4
7 570 54 7 570 54
Gad Naphtali Dan Gad Naphtali Dan

9 8 7 9 8 7
95 830 501 95 830 501
Zebulun Issachar Asher Zebulun Issachar Asher

12 11 10 12 11 10
331 395 162 331 395 162
Ephraim Manasseh Benjamin Ephraim Manasseh Benjamin

The combined value The combined value The combined value The combined value
of the greens of the oranges of the blues of the yellows
Squares squares squares squares
(259+30+570+501+ (466+54+7+830+ (30+7+830+95+162 (259+466+54+
95+395) 162+331) +395+331) 570+501)
= 1850 = 1850 = 1850 = 1850
or or or or
50 * 37 50 * 37 50 * 37 50 * 37

30 466 259 30 + 466 + 259

Judah Simeon Reuben + 57 0 + 54 + 95
Interesting: + 501 + 331 + 395
7 570 54
The gematria of Gen 1:1 Gad Naphtali Dan = 2701 = 37*73
(i.e. 2701) is found in the 95 830 501
Breastplate’s matrix Zebulun Issachar Asher
7 + 830 + 162
331 395 162 = 999
Ephraim Manasseh Benjamin

Now lets take the Gen 1:1 values and the Breastplate’s values and sum each number’ digits the way
it is done here 296 = 2 + 9 + 6 = 17 and 17 = 1 + 7 = 8 (Ref Matrix of the Breastplate by Leo Tavares)
The Gen 1:1 numbers are The Breastplate numbers are
( 296 407 395 401 86 203 913 ) ( 259 466 30 54 570 7 501 830 95 162 395 331 )
296= 8, 407= 2, 395= 8, 401= 5, 86= 5, 259= 7, 466= 7, 30= 3, 54= 9, 570= 3, 7= 7,
203= 5, 913= 4 501= 6, 830= 2, 95= 5, 162= 9, 395= 8, 331= 7
then we add all the ‘single digit’ obtained then we add all the ‘single digit’ obtained
8 + 2 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 4 = 37 7 + 7 + 3+ 9 + 3 + 7 + 6 + 2 + 5 + 9 + 8 + 7 = 73

Isn’t it remarkable that the final values obtained by summing theses numbers are 37 and 73 ?
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Fourth example: The seven resurrections.
There are plenty of example showing that the number ‘7’ has a special meaning in the Bible
At the creation of the world, the seventh day was set apart from the previous six days. This is
the only day which does not mention any new creative elements. Day 7 is also the only day
that does not have the repeated formula, “And there was evening and there was morning. It is
obvious that the seventh day is special.
Special too was the 7th patriarch ‘Enoch’ (Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
Enoch). Gen 5:24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

Joshua and Israel marched around Jericho seven times while seven priests blew seven
trumpets before the walls came crashing down (Joshua 6:3-4).

On a recommendation of the prophet Elisha, Naaman, commander of the army of the king of
Aram, was cure of leprosy by going to wash himself 7 times in the Jordan (ref 2 King 5:1-14)

God instituted 7 feast days. There are 4 in the spring : Passover, Unleavened bread, First
fruits, Feast of Weeks. And there are 3 in the fall: Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), Atonement
(Yom Kippur), Tabernacles (Sukkot).

Yeshua was the 7th individual brought back to life in the Bible. His resurrection is especially
special giving that the 6 previous one are part of an unexpected pattern5 organized around the
post mortem stage of those who died.
A double sequence of
three post mortem stages

1 king Elijah resurrected the son of 1st stage of death

1 17:17-24 Zarephat’s widow. Body is still warm
2 king Elisha resurrected the son of the 2nd stage of death
2 4:35 Shunammite women Body is cold
The corpse of a man is back to li- 3rd
2 king stage of death
3 13:21
fe when he touches Elisha’s bone
Body is in sepulchre
at the bottom of a sepulchre

Yeshua resurrected the young 1st

Matt stage of death
4 daughter of Jairus, the ruler of
9 :18-26 Body is still warm
the synagogue of Capernaum
Luke Yeshua resurrected the widow’ 2nd stage of death
5 7 :11-17 son in the village of Nain Body is cold
Yeshua resurrected his friend 3rd
John stage of death
6 11 :1-45
Lazarus from a sepulchre in
Body is in sepulchre
the village of Bethany

7 Unlike these previous six, Yeshua raised for an eternal life

5
I learned about this pattern in ‘The Resurrection Pattern’ by Darek Barefoot
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Apart of the second half of the first example, I have nothing to do with the previous four
examples. I have included them at the beginning of this book with one goal in mind, to show
the readers that patterns are an integral part of the biblical content and therefore they should
be sought as if they were precious gems. I know by experience that when they are found they
are often awe-inspiring. It is the way of the Bible: The right understanding leads to great
discoveries.

Let’s try to understand what we are told in Ezekiel 4-5

The 40 years imputed to the house of Judah

The logical start for the ‘40 years of sin’ of Judah should be 40 years before the destruction
of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar’s army, but this solution presents a major flaw and is
therefore totally unacceptable.

2 Kings 22:1 2 Kings 23:36 2 Chron 36:11

King Josiah Jehoiakim Zedekiah
Josiah reigned reigned reigned
* 1-12 13 14-30 31 31 years 11 years 11 years
King
Jehoiakim
* 1-10 11
King
Zedekiah
* 1-10 11

Wrong Jerusalem
prospect destruction
1-17 18 19-28 29 30-39
* 40

Could this period possibly be Judah’s 40 years of sin ? No

As we can see, going backwards 40 years from Jerusalem’s destruction in the 11th year of
Zedekiah brings us to the 13th year6 of Josiah. Why would the “40 years of sin” start in the
kingship of one of the few kings who really sought God’s approval? King Josiah was
responsible for major reform that brought the people of his kingdom closer to God:
Jer 22:15-16 Did not your father [Josiah] have food and drink? He did what was right and just,
so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy...
2 Kings 23:25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD
as he did-with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength...

Have you considered this? Before Josiah’s reign, many of the previous kings had led the
people astray for the whole duration of their reign. Weren’t these ‘years’ also years of sin?
Why should they be ignored? Why did God restrict the period of sin to 40 years when we
could easily count hundreds of years of sinful reign?

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Jeremiah started prophesying the same year : Jer. 25:3 For twenty-three years--from the thirteenth year of
Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day--the word of the LORD has come to me and I have spoken
to you again and again, but you have not listened.
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 Given that the 40-year of sin (alluded by the 40 days of Ezek 4:6) represents
a fixed period, we can deduce that it was preceded and followed by a period
A premise
without sin. If this were not the case it wouldn’t be possible to mark the
beginning and the end of that 40 years.

Here is a new way to look at it:

When Ezekiel was told to bear the sin of the house of Judah, he was not told to bear all
the sins of Judah; the request was much more specific than that. He was going to bear
ONLY one sin, a single sin that lasted 40 years. All other sins committed by Judah
could have lasted hundreds of years, or they could have been preceded and followed by
years without sin; in the end these other sins were irrelevant to Ezekiel’s 40 years of Sin.

HOUSE OF JUDAH HISTORY

Solomon dies X years 40 years Y years

Jerusalem’s
Kingdom
destruction
splits Absence of Absence of
Special Sin
(Ref 1 King 12:16) the special sin the special sin

What was Judah’s special Sin?

Ezek 5:11-12 Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because
you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I
myself will withdraw my favor; I will not look on you with pity or spare you. A third
of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall
by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with
drawn sword. See also 2 Kings 21:7, Jer 7:30, 2 Chron 33:4-6, 2 Chron 33:7

Defilement of God’s Temple

Defiling the Temple (His dwelling place) was certainly an abomination in the eyes of God,
something worse than anything else the people could have done.
We have now to answer three questions:
1. Who did it?
2. How and when was it stopped?
3. When did it start?

Who did it?

2 Kings 21:7-9 He took the carved Asherah pole he had made and put it in the temple
…. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD
had destroyed before the Israelites.
See also Jer 15:3-4, 2 Kings 23:26-27, 2 Kings 24:2-4

So who did it? King Manasseh defiled the Temple.

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How and when was it stopped?

2 Kings 23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the
doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and
Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the
Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:21-23 The king gave this order to all the people: "Celebrate the Passover to
the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant." Not since the days
of the judges who led Israel, nor throughout the days of the kings of Israel and the kings
of Judah, had any such Passover been observed. But in the eighteenth year of King
Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem

See also 2 Kings 23:1-3, 2 Kings 23:7, 2 Kings 23:11-12

When was it stopped? The Temple was purified in Josiah’s 18th year.

When did the ‘40 years of sin’ start?

We know from 2 Kings 23:23 that Josiah cleansed the Temple in the 18th year of his kingship:

We also know from Ezek 4:6 that the Sin lasted 40 years (expressed as 40 days).

King
King Josiah
King Amon
Manasseh * 1-17 18 19-31
* 1 2
* 1-34 35 36-54 55 2 King 2 King
21:19 22:1
2 King
21:1

Manasseh
Josiah
sets some 2 Kings 23:23
Temple is left desecrated cleanses But in the 18th
abomination
Right the Temple year of King
in the Temple Josiah ...
prospect
* 1 - 19 20 21 22 23-39 40

Is-it Judah 40 years of sin? YES

It’s a simple matter to go back 40 years from the 18th year of Josiah and find out that the
starting point of the desecration (abomination) happened in Manasseh 35 th year of reign.
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AH’s 40 year
s of SIN

Ark in the Holy of Holies

430 years

355 years 40 years of sin 35 years

Temple cleansed Temple Temple cleansed

A desecrated C
B Temple
Ark L
O Ezekiel’s &
brought
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into
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Josiah ends lem’s
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8 * 40 40 Years of Sin
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20 20

35 20 2 18 13 11 11
This paper shall
show on page 30
that the Ark was
brought into the Kingship of Kingship of
Temple 430 years
before the des- Amon Josiah Jehoiakim Zedekiah
truction of that Manasseh 2 y. 31 y. 11 y. 11 y.
Temple by
Nebuchadnezzar 55 years 55 years

2 Kings 21:1 2 Kings 21:19 2 Kings 22:1 2 Kings 23:36 2 Chron 36:11
Manasseh … Amon …, and Josiah … , Jehoiakim … Zedekiah …
and he reigned he reigned 2 and he reigned he reigned 11 and he reigned
55 years in years in 31 years in years in 11 years in
Jerusalem. Jerusalem. Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem.
NKJV NKJV NKJV NKJV NKJV

Figure 1. Judah's 40 years of Sin

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The 390 years imputed to the house of Israel

The house of Israel’s sin that we are looking for needs to satisfy the following 5 requirements:

#1. Unique and never done before

#2. Started at a specific time
#3. Ended at a specific time
#4. Lasted 390 years (and involve the same people from the start to the end)
#5. Inflamed God

Here, contrary to the house of Judah’s very unique sin that we have identified earlier, no such
sin can be found in relation to the house of Israel. We have to consider the only other
alternative: the ‘390 years of sin’ refers to a time in which numerous sins were
committed. Given that it is very unlikely that all those sins started on the same day, the
beginning that we are looking for must be linked to an event involving the 12 tribes and must
have been so disgraceful to God that it became the start of the 390 years of sin.
Unsurprisingly, there is such an event.

Hos 9:9 They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will
remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.

Hos 10:9 "Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have
remained.

Judges 19 describes what happened in Gibeah. It can be summarized the following way:

A Levite and his concubine found shelter for the night in an old man’s house in Gibeah.
During the night the concubine was abused by some of the wicked men of the city while this
Levite showed no concern for her. The woman was found lying on the threshold of the
house in the morning. Later, the Levite dismembered his concubine (while she might have
been still alive) and sent one part to every tribe of Israel:

Judg 19:29 When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by
limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.

The disastrous outcome of this event was that the 12 tribes were involved in a fratricidal war
for the first time.

Among the 11 tribes who fought against Benjamin there was more than 40,000
victims.

Benjamin’s tribe was nearly exterminated7. Among all the men, woman and children
of that tribe only 600 soldiers survived by hiding for 4 months8.

7
Judg 20:48 The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals
and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.
8
Judg 20:46-47 On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters. But
six hundred men turned and fled into the desert to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months. NIV
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The incident at Gibeah is the perfect candidate for the start9 of the 390-year period.

Hosea (10:9) called the days of Gibeah the start of a period of sin (Since the days of
Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel). This is exactly what we are looking for.

What happened was unique. 10

Notice that the original intent of the men of Gibeah (Benjamites) was to commit an
abomination prescribed by the law of God. Compare11 Judge 19:22 and Lev 18:22.
Therefore, both periods of sin (390 years and 40 years12) are associated with abominations.

When did the Gibeah incident happen?

Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron, was officiating when it happened. It situates the incident in
the period following the arrival in the Promised Land:

Judg 20:27-28 And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the
covenant of God was there, with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron,
ministering before it.)

Israel served the Lord until all the elders who had witnessed the Exodus died. That makes it
unlikely that the Gibeah incident happened before the death of Joshua:

Josh 24:31 Israel served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the
elders who outlived him and who had experienced everything the LORD had done
for Israel.

If we speculate that the elders who outlived Joshua were at least 15 years old at the time of the
Exodus (old enough to have understood what was going on) but younger than 20 years old
(otherwise they would have died before reaching the promised land, a direct outcome of the
spies’ event as stipulated in Num 14:29) we have a group of people aged at least 60 years old
at the division of the land. All those elders could have died during the next 30 years after the
division of the land.

Note that Josh. 24:31 implies that Israel stopped serving the Lord not long after the death of
all those witnesses.

9
There is no doubt that Israel was already sinning long before the event of Gibeah but the ABOMINATION
that was committed at that time was worse than everything else.
10
Judg. 19:30 Everyone who saw it said, "Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the
Israelites came up out of Egypt
11
Judg 19:22 "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him."
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
12
2 Kings 21:11 "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly
than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols),
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Chronology of the Exodus period.

Moses born 1) Acts 7:23 When Moses was forty years

old, he decided to visit his fellow ..
40 1
Moses escape from Egypt
2) Acts 7:30 After forty years had passed,
an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of
1 a burning bush in the desert near Mount
Sinai.
40 2 Caleb born
NIV
39 3) Num 14:33-34 For forty years--you will
1 suffer for your sins
2 Exodus 40
0 1
4) Deut 34:7 Moses was a hundred and
9 twenty years old when he died,
4 Tabernacle NIV
7 setup 5,6) Josh 14:10 "Now then, just as the
40 3 Land spied LORD promised, he has kept me alive for
6 85
forty-five years since the time he said this to
39 Moses, while Israel moved about in the
desert. So here I am today, eighty-five years
Moses dies 45 5 old! NIV
Promised Land 7) Num 10:11-12 On the twentieth day of the
second month of the second year, ….. Then the
8 6 Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai …
Land The land was spied in the second year.
Death of divided
8) Land was divided 6 years after coming in
- Joshua Range of 10 the Promised Land.
- Caleb to 30 years?
- elders 9) Josh. 14:7 I was forty years old when
Moses the servant of the LORD sent me
Hos 10:9 Days of Gibeah
from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land.
Figure 2. Land divided

We are told in Ezekiel 4. that the ‘390 years of sin’ are associated with the ‘House of Israel’,
however the event of Gibeah involved the 12 tribes of Israel. Could Ezekiel have used the
term ‘House of Israel’ with the 12 tribes13 in mind? Yes, the two Hebrew words (beeyt-
Yisraa'eel) transliterated as ‘the House of Israel’ in Ezekiel 4:4 were also used to point to the
twelve tribes in other instances14 and this, a long time before the split of the two Kingdoms.

Ex 16:31 And the house of Israel called its name Manna. NKJV
Nobody will contest that Moses is referring to the 12 tribes of Israel in the next verse:
13
‘House of IsraeI’ is the term often used to point to the group of 10 tribes who chose Jeroboam as King after
Solomon’s death. Ref 1 King 12:20.
14
Strong #1004 = beeyt- and Strong # 3478 = Yisraa'eel are also found together in Ex 40:38, Lev 10:6,
Lev 17:3, :8, :10, Lev 22 :18, Num 20 :29, Josh 21 :45, Ruth 4 :11, 1 Sam 7:2 , :3, 2 Sam 1:12

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 Ruth 4:11 The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and
like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: NKJV
After the Gibeah incident the Israelites kept sinning for several hundred years and during that
time:
They were often oppressed in response to their worshipping of others gods.
The Ark was captured.
They rejected God their true King and asked for Saul.
God rejected Saul their first king.

It would have been an amazing change if the people had suddenly succeeded in reforming
themselves after all these years, yet, according to Ezekiel the period of sin lasted no more than
390 years. A very important event must have happened to justify that the count of years of sin
came to a stop after 390 years?
This event seems to be directly related to God’s dwelling place:
Deut 12:4-5 You must not worship the LORD your God in their way. But you are to
seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put
his Name there for his dwelling.

At the time of the Gibeah incident God’s “permanent” dwelling place was at Shiloh (under
the jurisdiction of Ephraim15), however He abandoned it and chose Zion instead.

Ps 78:59 he rejected Israel completely.

Ps 78:68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
If it can be shown that God’s dwelling place was moved to Zion exactly 390 years
after the Gibeah incident, we would have a very strong argument to explain why Israel’s years
of Sin did not go over the 390’s mark; the logic would be that by moving to a new dwelling
place, God was heralding an important change: Offering a new beginning (see p. 24) to the
people by bringing to an end the counting of the years of their sins would be in harmony with
the notion of an important change.

Paying attention to the location of the Ark of covenant

God rejected the House of Israel (He left Shiloh)
1 Sam 4:22 The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured."

We have something truly unique here: as a sign that He had rejected the House of Israel
and His dwelling place in Shiloh, God sent the Ark into captivity:
1 Sam 3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel: "See, I am about to do something in
Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.

God chose the House of Judah (He came to Zion)

Years later the Ark would again be used, but this time to show that God was coming to
His new dwelling place in Zion.
15
Jer 31:9 because I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son. NIV
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 Gibeah’s The Gibeah’s incident marks the
sin start of the 390 years of Sin.
390
years
of sin
Ark removed
At the end of the ‘390 years of Sin’ the Ark
from Abina-
was removed from Abinadab’s house and
dab’s house
brought to Jerusalem by King David.
on the hill

When the time came to bring the Ark into Jerusalem David had to fetch it from the house of
Abinadab. In 2 Sam 6:3 we are told that Abinadab’s house was on a hill. Why are we told this
seemingly useless detail? It doesn’t appear to bring anything to the story and from the reader’s
perspective that ‘hill’ could have been any hill.
The Hebrew word translated as ‘hill’ in 2 Sam 6:3 is the very same word used in Judges 19 to
designate the Benjamite town of ‘Gibeah’. Interesting, isn’t it? The implication here is that
we were not merely informed that the house of Abinadab was on an ‘unknown’ hill,
impossible to identify, but we were rather told that this house was at Gibeah, the same
‘Gibeah’ that was involved with the start of the 390 years of Sin. Notice that while most
English translations of the Bible have the house of Abinadab on a hill, the KJV has located it
at ‘Gibeah’:
2 Sam 6:3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house
of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: KJV

Obviously ‘Gibeah’ and ‘hill’ are from the same Hebrew word. Which one the author of 2
Sam 6:3 had in mind when he wrote the verse is hard to determine but we can speculate in
favor of ‘Gibeah’.
The town of Gibeah was where King Saul (the first king of Israel) lived during his whole
kingship. Therefore, it would be reasonable to think that Saul, at one time during his kingship,
had the Ark brought to Gibeah so that it could be close to him. Was not David going to do
exactly the same when he moved to Jerusalem?
2 Sam 6:12 O David went down and brought up the ark of God from the house of
Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing. NIV
As we can see, the start and the end of the 390 years of sin are both related to Gibeah
somehow.

Gibeah’s sin The Gibeah’s incident marks the

(Levite’s wife is abused) start of the 390 years of Sin.
390
years See
of sin page 42

Ark removed Ark removed After ‘390 years of Sin’ the Ark was re-
from Abina- from Gibeah moved from a house in the town of Gibeah
dab’s house and brought to or from a ‘hill’ (Hebrew’s word Gibeah) and
on the hill Jerusalem. brought to Jerusalem by King David.

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The following 7 points will highlight some interesting parallels between the
Start (S1-S7) and the End (E1-E7) of that 390-year period. They confirm that
the two events are related somehow.

S1 There was no King in Israel at that time:

Judg 19:1 In those days Israel had no king.
David was the first king to reign over all Israel. E1

S2 The Levite wouldn’t go to Jerusalem for sanctuary:

Judg 19:12 No We won't go into an alien city, whose people are not Israelites.
The Ark could not be brought to its new sanctuary without the participation of the
Levites:
1 Chron 15:12-13 "You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your
fellow Levites are to consecrate yourselves and bring up the ark of the LORD,
the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. It was because you, the
Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the LORD our God broke out in
anger against us. E2

S3 The Levite wouldn’t go to Jerusalem because it was occupied by the Jebusites:

Judg 19:11-12 "Come, let's stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the
night." His master replied, "No.
When David came to Jerusalem, a few years before he brought the Ark, the first thing
he and his army did was to remove the Jebusites from the city:
2 Sam 5:6 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites,
who lived there. E3

S4 The Levite dismembered his concubine in 12 parts:

Judg 19:29 When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine,
limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.
The last Benjamite king over Israel was Ish-Bosheth and he was killed by two of his
own compatriots. The surprising thing about this is that all three Benjamites men were
dismembered and the total number of their limbs was also 12.

Ish-Boseth’s head was cut off: = 2 parts.

2 Sam 4:7 After they stabbed and killed him, they cut off his head.
Recab and Baanah, Ish-Boseth’s murderer: 5 parts each = 10 parts
2 Sam 4:12 They cut off their hands and feet and
hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. E4

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S5 The people of Israel who came to fight at Gibeah didn’t want to go to war against the
whole tribe of Benjamin. They sent men among the Benjamites to negotiate the surrender
of the wicked men of Gibeah who had abused the Levite comcubine:
Judg 20:13 Now surrender those wicked men of Gibeah so that we may put them
to death and purge the evil from Israel."
Unexpectedly the Benjamites refused to listen to their brother and chose to protect
those who were guilty.
All the Benjamite woman and children were killed during the following war. (Jud 20:48)
Of all the people gathered in Jerusalem for the bringing in of the Ark, the only one (we are
told) who didn’t show a joyful heart during the event was Michal, the King’s wife. She
despised David because he was dancing before the Ark:
2 Sam 6:16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal
daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping
and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.
Unexpectedly Michal, a Benjamite (daughter of Saul) refused to humble herself.
This Benjamite woman didn’t have any children until the day of her death. (2 Sam 6:23) E5

S6 After having fought and won against the Benjamites, the people of Israel went to Bethel
(‘house of God’) to repent of the gravity of their action.
The people fasted:
Judg 21:2 The people went to Bethel, where they sat before God until evening,
raising their voices and weeping bitterly.
Presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings:
Judg 21:4 and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.
After the Ark was brought to Zion (its new dwelling place)
David presented burnt offerings and fellowship offering:
1 Chron 16:2 After David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and
fellowship offerings
And the people were fed:
1 Chron 16:3 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to
each Israelite man and woman. E6

S7 One outcome of the Gibeah incident was the near extinction of the Benjamites. Of the 600
men who survived 200 needed to find a wife among the other tribes. It was agreed that
they could pick one from among the girls that were dancing at Shiloh. (see Jud 21:20-22)
When the Ark came to Zion David was seen leaping and dancing before the Lord:
2 Sam 6:16 and when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD E7
NOTE: In each case the dancing was very special and the person doing it would
never have to do it again.
-- The girls of Shiloh were dancing to find a husband (otherwise the author of Jud
21:22 would have used a much stronger word than ‘complaint’ to describe the
people’s protestation. Notice also that only the girls’ fathers and brothers were
involved, if the matter had been dramatic the whole town would have joined in.).
-- The King was dancing in the street (a very unusual sight) because the Ark was
coming to Zion. He would never have to do it again.
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It was previously said (on page 20) that the count of years was stopped in the 390th year
because that year (when the Ark was brought to Jerusalem) the Israelites were offered a new
beginning. Were they really offered a new beginning?

Consider this: Bringing the Ark to Jerusalem was a

major event in the history of the 12 tribes and it was
done with the approbation of God and every leader of
Israel16.

When the right time came, everybody17 in Israel

was mobilized to bring the Ark and each one had
the proper attitude for transforming that day into a
grand celebration.

Holiness
1 Chron 15:12-13"You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites; sanctify
yourselves, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of
Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

Respect
2 Sam 6:13 And so it was, when those bearing the ark of the LORD had gone six paces,
that he sacrificed oxen and fatted sheep.

Humility
2 Sam 6:14 Then David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was
wearing a linen ephod.

Joy
2 Sam 6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with
shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

When the Ark reached its new Tabernacle in Zion (the tent used at the previous location was
not brought with the Ark) David offered a peace offering 18 to God in the name of all the
people19.

And then David blessed20 all the people in the name of God.

16
1 Chron 13:1-3 Then David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let us
send out to our brethren everywhere who are left in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites
who are in their cities and their common-lands, that they may gather together to us; and let us bring the ark of
our God back to us NKJV
17
1 Chron 15:3 David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had
prepared for it.
18
Peace Offering. This sacrifice celebrated covering of sin, forgiveness by God, and the
restoration of a right and meaningful relationship with God and with life itself. (from Nelson's
Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright (c)1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
19
2 Sam 5:1-2 All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "We are your own flesh and blood. …
And the LORD said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.'"
20
2 Sam 6:18 he blessed the people in the name of the LORD Almighty. NIV
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David’s blessing is the key element in my belief that the count of ‘year of sin’ was then
stopped. In those days the people were not collectively blessed on a regular basis and the last
time they had been was on Mount Gerizim (Josh 8:33-34) when Joshua did it (400 years
earlier). Therefore, David’s blessing was so exceptional that its implication cannot be
neglected.

There would have been no point in God allowing David

to pass special favours to the 12 tribes if at the same time
He intended to keep cumulating the years of their sin.

When was the Ark brought to Jerusalem?

David first 7 years as King were in Hebron:

2 Sam. 5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in
Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah for thirty-three years.

So the Ark did not come to Jerusalem before David’s 8th year of reign. In fact, we will see a
little further in this paper (on page 65) that the Ark was probably brought to Jerusalem 3
years after David came to the city.

* 1-17 18 19 20 21 - 399 400

David in
David Jerusalem
King of
Judah
Entrance Learn more on * 1-6 7 8 9 10 11-40
in the this 400 years David
Promised on next page. moves to
David in ? ? ?
Land Jerusalem
Hebron
* 1 2 3

? ? ? Depending if the Ark was

* 1-17 18 19 20 brought in the first, second
or third year after David
came to Jerusalem, the
Gibeah incident happened
in the 18th, 19th or 20th year
after the Israelites came to
the promised land.
Ark
Gibeah brought to
incident Jerusalem
Israel 390 years of sin

The 390 years of sin associated with the House of

Israel is the time period between the Gibeah
incident and the ‘arrival’ of the Ark in Jerusalem.

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David’s reign

The following chart shows that David began to reign 400 years after the Israelites came
to the Promised Land. For more explanation, read my paper
“The 44 Hebrew monarchs (A Chronology of two kingdoms)”

400 y. Saul's reign

E
40 y. Acts 13:21 and 1 Chron 29:27 In the last 4 years of his
X 480 - 40 - 40
he gave them He ruled over reign, David completed
* 1 .. 39 40
Saul ... who ru- Israel forty all the preparation for
O led forty years. the future Temple.
years
Num NIV
D 14:33

U 480 - 40 - 40
PRO-
MIS-
The last 4 years
S 40 y. 400 y. of David overlap
ED David’s reign
the first 4 years
LAND of Solomon reign
40 y (My own
deduction)
* 1..36 37 38 39 40

1 Kings 6:38 In
ù the 11th year …
1 2 3 4 the temple was
finished NIV

Solomon's reign
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 -

y. y. y. y. y.
1 2 3 4 11

1 Kings 6:1 In the 1 Kings 6:37-38 In the 4th

480th year after the year [of Solomon] the
Israelites had come out foundation of the house of the
of Egypt …he began to LORD was laid So he was 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
*
build the temple… seven years in building it
E 7 y.
X
O Temple’s
480 y. (40 + 400 + 40)
D construction
U
S

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Ezekiel’s 430-year SIEGE of Jerusalem

Ezekiel was asked to symbolize a siege that would end with the destruction of Jerusalem.
Ezek 4:1-3 … and portray on it a city, Jerusalem. Lay siege against it, build a siege
wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place
battering rams against it all around. Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it
as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be
besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. NKJV
Ezek 5:14 Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that
are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by. NKJV

To do it, he had to lie on his side in front of an image of the city for 430 days, a number
obtained by combining the 390 days assigned to the House of Israel with the 40 days assigned
to the House of Judah:
Ezek 4:5-7 … So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the house of Israel. "After you
have finished this, …. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.

A major point has to be understood about the duration of Ezekiel’s siege. No matter that the
430 days are a composite of the 390 days and 40 days, it would be erroneous to deduce that
Ezekiel performed two different sieges (one 390-day siege associated with Israel and one 40-
day siege associated with Judah.). Ezekiel’s siege had nothing to do with the side on which
he was lying on. During the whole 430 days of the act, Ezekiel had been continually facing
the image of Jerusalem; therefore he was portraying a single and uninterrupted siege.

Using the rule that a day stands for a year 21 Ezekiel portrayed a siege that lasted 430
years. As we know, it was Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, who achieved the destruction
of Jerusalem. He came to Jerusalem in the 9th year of the reign of Zedekiah (King of Judah),
he laid a siege in front of the city and, in the 11th year of the reign of the King of Judah,
succeeded in piercing the wall. Jerusalem was then burned down and the Temple destroyed.
Nebuchadnezzar’s siege lasted less than 2 years:

2 Kings 25:1-4 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth
month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole
army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. The city was
kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. …..Then the city wall was
broken through

Why did the symbolic siege that Ezekiel was portraying had a duration of 430 years (day =
year) when it is so obvious that Nebuchadnezzar’s siege only lasted 2 years? There could be
only one possible explanation. Even though those two sieges ended with the destruction of
Jerusalem,
Ezekiel’s siege was not depicting Nebuchadnezzar’s siege at all.

Was Jerusalem under siege for 430 years? Yes it was.

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As explained in Ezek. 4:5 I have assigned the same number of days as the years of their sin.
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Who was holding the siege and when?

By lying on his side during 430 days, in front of an image of Jerusalem, Ezekiel was
symbolizing ‘somebody else’s siege’.

Now, if we understand correctly the role of a prophet (Ezekiel in this particular case) we can
say that he is a substitute for the word of God and we could venture to say that he is also a
substitute for God himself:

Ezek 7:1-2 The word of the LORD came to me:

Amos 3:8 the Sovereign LORD has spoken- who can but prophesy?

Jer 20:9 his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of
holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

Ezekiel’s symbolic action is a sign that mirrors a real action:

The symbolic action The real action

Ezekiel held a siege in front of an God held a siege in front of

image of Jerusalem for 430 days. Jerusalem for 430 years.

Did God keep Jerusalem under siege22 for 430 years?

A siege is established when a foreign army comes to a fortified city, builds a camp and, no
matter how long it takes, pressures this city until its people capitulate. This is the military
concept of a siege.

But let’s suppose that Ezekiel was not portraying the human military siege that everybody has
assumed, but instead a divine siege. Do we have the three basic elements: army, camp, city?

What is the mighty army? The ark of covenant, of course:

Josh 3:4 But keep a distance of about a thousand yards between you and the ark; do not
go near it."

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If this siege lasted 430 years and ended with Jerusalem’s destruction, it must have started during Solomon’s
reign.
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 1 Sam 4:6-7 when they learned that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp, the
Philistines were afraid.

1 Sam 5:3 When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen
on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD!

1 Sam 5:10 the people of Ekron cried out, "They have brought the ark of the god of
Israel around to us to kill us and our people."

1 Sam 6:19 But God struck down some of the men of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy of
them to death because they had looked into the ark of the LORD

Did it come to a new location? It was brought to the Temple:

1 Kings 8:3-4 When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark, and
they brought up the ark [in the temple]

Do we have a fortified camp? Yes, the Holy of Holies inside the Temple:

Ezek 24:21 I am about to desecrate my sanctuary-the stronghold in which you take

pride,

1 Kings 6:19-20 He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the
covenant of the LORD there.

2 Sam 6:2-3 the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the LORD
Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on the ark.

Ezek 43:6-7 I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple. He said: "Son of
man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet.

Ezek 9:3 Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where it
had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple.

1 Kings 8:11 for the glory of the LORD filled his temple.

1 Kings 8:12-13 "The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; I have indeed
built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever."

The ark of the covenant, sitting in the inner sanctuary of the

Temple was, for the people of Jerusalem, a constant reminder
(430 years) of the alliance they had agreed with God.

Ex 34:10 Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you.

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 Jer 25:6 Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not provoke me to
anger with what your hands have made

Jer 44:4-6 Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, 'Do not do this
detestable thing that I hate!' But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn
from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods. Therefore, my fierce anger
was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and
made them the desolate ruins they are today.
Jer 44:10 To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have
they followed my law and the decrees I set before you and your fathers.

The whole Temple was filled with the power of God:

1 Kings 8:10-11 When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the
temple of the LORD. And the priests could not perform their service because of the
cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled his temple.

Ezek 24:21 I am about to desecrate my sanctuary- the stronghold in which you take
pride,

Symbolic action Real action

Ezekiel lay in his house Ark brought

(in Tel Abib, see Ezek 3:15) into the Temple
Ezekiel lay in front of an (in the house of God)
image of Jerusalem (in front of Jerusalem)

4
4 3
390 days 3
on left side SIEGE
0
0
+ of 430 y
40 days d years e
a
on right side a
y
s
r
s

Ezekiel leaves his house and Jerusalem’s

crosses the city [Tel Abib] destruction
(see Ezek 5:2) House of God
‘Ezekiel is not anymore in [Temple] is not
front of an image of Jerusalem’ accessible anymore

Figure 3. God’s 430 years SIEGE

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The Temple

The Temple built by Solomon was the third stage of a design conceived by God. Five of those
stages are known, the first one was used in the book of Genesis and the last one belongs in the
book of Revelation.

#1. The Garden of Eden’s layout (Genesis) It is outside the scope of this paper to discuss
#2. The Tabernacle of Moses (Exodus) how each structure mirrors a unique pattern but
under a different form. Suffice it to say that
#3. Solomon’s Temple (King) from the first structure to the last, elements had
#4. Ezekiel’s Temple (Ezekiel) been evolving from their physical representation
#5. The heavenly Throne of God (Revelation) toward a spiritual counterpart in heaven.

It is important for the comprehension of ‘Ezekiel 4-5’ to realize that because each structure
shares the same design, we can borrow information supplied in one stage and apply it to the
next stage (and vice versa).

North The Garden of Eden was

The in the Land of Eden. In
the middle of the garden
W The Land E
Middle was a very spe-cial place
E A
S
1 of the S where two unique trees
T Garden Garden of T were found. One was
called the Tree of Life
Eden and the other the Tree of
South Good and Evil

In the tabernacle of
Same layout Moses, in the inner room
called the Holy of
Holies, was the Ark, that
North contained the Pot of
Holy of Holies I Manna and Aaron’s staff.
n
Table n In the 2nd structure the
e pot of manna and
r
2
Manna
Aaron’s staff typify the
W E
A 3 Bread 5
A
tree of life and the tree of
E
S
R Law C S good and evil of the first
K 4 T structure. We know that
T o
Aaron’s Staff 6 8 Aaron’s staff is related to
7 u
r almonds (Num 17:8-9)
t so it is probably the case
for one of the two trees
Holy found in the middle of
Place the garden.
South

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1 Gen. 2:9 In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.

2 In the Temple the Ark contained only the Law:

1 Kings 8:9 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone
tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made
a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

But at Sinai there was also some manna and Aaron’s staff:

Heb. 9:4 This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron's staff
that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

A representation of the manna and Aaron’s staff will be kept in the

following schemas for their symbolic value.

3 Ex 16:34 Aaron put the manna in front of the Testimony,

Ex 16:33 So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an omer of manna in
it. Then place it before the LORD to be kept for the generations to
come."

NOTE 1 : That was in Moses’ Tabernacle

NOTE 2 : The Manna is situated on the north side since this is the side
where the bread will be. See item 4.

4 Num. 17:8 Aaron's staff, which represented the house of Levi, had not
only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds.
NOTE 1 : That was in Moses’ Tabernacle.
NOTE 2 : Aaron’s staff is situated on the south side since this is the
side where the lamp will be. See item 5.

5 Ex. 26:35 Place the table outside the curtain on the north side
Ex. 40:23 and set out the bread on it before the LORD
Lev. 24:6 Set them in two rows, six in each row,

6 Ex. 26:35 put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.

Ex. 25:32-33 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand-
-three on one side and three on the other. Three cups shaped like almond
flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the
next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the
lampstand.

7 2 Chron. 3:14 He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and
fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.

8 Two of the structures were facing ‘EAST’ and it must be the case for the
others.

Garden of Eden: Gen. 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the
east, in Eden;

Ezekiel Temple : Ezek. 8:16 With their backs toward the temple of the
LORD and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun
in the east

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Now, instead of visualizing Ezekiel in his home, we will depict him in the Temple23 of
Solomon..

North
Most Holy Holy Place

W E
E A
S TEMPLE S
T T

Ezekiel

South

Figure 4. Temple of Solomon24

It is indisputable that Ezekiel was physically in his home when he lay on his side for 430
days, but he then was portraying the siege that was going on in the Temple of Solomon. With
that in mind it is natural to symbolically represent Ezekiel in the Temple 25, the intended
location of his action.

To help us analyze this siege we need a small artifice. We are going to borrow some of the
features of Moses’ Tabernacle and transpose them into Solomon’s Temple; they will occupy
the same position. Can we do that? Yes. Remember that Ezekiel’s action is highly
symbolic; it is a sign26. Surely we are allowed some digression as long as it helps us
understand the message we are being told.

N.B. The Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon are two different structures sha-
ring an identical design conceived by God.27 Every piece of furniture found in them have a
counterpart in the Heavenly Throne of God and occupy a very specific location in the design.
To transpose them from one structure to the other28 is not going to alter their symbolic value.

23
Ezekiel was a priest. Ezek. 1:3 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest
24
Of all the furniture found in Solomon’s Temple only the Ark is shown here.
25
Some years later Ezekiel was shown the future Temple. Ref : Ezek. 43:5 Then the Spirit lifted me up and
brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
26
Ezek. 4:3 This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
27
Ezek. 43:11 make known to them the design of the temple-its arrangement, its exits and
entrances-its whole design and all its regulations … so that they may be faithful to its design

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Before we continue with Ezekiel we need to alter our representation of the Temple of
Solomon a little more and get closer to what it really looked like. The following
representation is the subject of an entire paper, ‘Secrets of the Holy Ark’ by Tony Badillo 29.

According Mr Badillo the plan of the whole floor of the Temple depicted a human body
whose face was located in the Holy of Holies.

From Tony Badillo’s paper we learn that:

- The two cherubims standing behind the Ark, represented the eyes of
the face
- The Ark with its poles on each side was the nose and its two nostrils
- There were two protuberances30 indented in the veil by the two poles
- There was a stair separating the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place
(This stair portrays the mouth of the Temple face YP)
- The Golden Altar was at the bottom of the stair

Holy of
Holies
Cherubims are the eyes

Notice how the human

mouth features two A
indentations similar to R Ark and poles
the two protuberances K
featuring the nose
formed by the poles on
the veil
Stair between the
Holy of Holies and
the Holy Place
becomes the mouth

Smoke from the in-

cense burning on the
Holy
Golden Altar, rises
Place
toward the Ark-nose

Figure 5 Temple Face

28
The two structures are also directly linked to the 12 tribes of Israel. The Tabernacle of Moses was created at
the start of the Exodus; it was eventually replaced by Solomon’s Temple which lasted until all the 12 tribes had
finally been sent into captivity.
29
Use a search engine like Google.com to do a search with the following keywords:
Ark of the Covenant Secrets badillo
30
1 Kings 8:8 These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner
sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place;
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WALL OF IRON

There is an aspect of Ezekiel’s re-enactment (Ezek. 4) that has been quite puzzling and came
as a complete surprise when I finally understood it. We first read that Ezekiel was told to
draw ‘carve’ on a clay tile the city of Jerusalem (and its wall) and have all the military
equipment needed for a siege leaned up against it:
Ezek 4:1-3 "Now, son of man, take a clay tablet, put it in front of you and draw the city of
Jerusalem on it. Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it,
set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.
And then we read this very unexpected statement:
Ezek 4:3 Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and
turn your face toward it.
s i e
e g
B e
If the tile with the carving of
Jerusalem, the city’s wall and the d
military apparatus, form a whole,

why was there a Camp

need to further
add another wall
City
(the iron pan)
Ramp &
between Ezekiel wall
and that ‘model
siege’ on the tile?
m
Ezekiel sketched e
Ezekiel the city of Jeru- l
salem, the wall a
Iron pan and the military s
arsenal on a J r u
e
fresh newly ma-
Tile de clay brick.

No matter how you look at it, if the iron wall (iron pan) was meant to be part of the military siege, it
is wrongly located. But suppose the real purpose of the iron wall (‘qiyr’) was to bring to mind a
separation between two rooms ( the Hebrew word ‘qiyr’ refers to the internal or external wall of a
house and has nothing to do with the wall of a city (chowmat))

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Let’s remember that although Ezekiel was physically lying in his home it was meant to repre-
sent him symbolically lying in the Jerusalem Temple. Doesn’t this fact directly point to the
real purpose of the ‘iron pan’?
It is not an overstatement to say that the Temple’s Holy of Holies was the most inaccessible
location of Israel. The high priest was the only one to enter it and for a single day each year.
However, the only thing that separated the most holy from the holy room was a veil. Parochet
Ex 26:33 Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the
curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place
2 Chron 3:14 He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with
cherubim worked into it.

That veil was as efficient as an IRON WALL.

Isn’t it ironic that Ezekiel was told to use an ‘IRON PAN’ to represent the Temple’s veil? Iron
was among the hardest material to be found at the time of Ezekiel while the curtain offered
hardly any resistance.

And there is more. Notice that Ezekiel was asked to turn31 his face toward the iron pan in
front of him. By doing this he was portraying the Temple’s face, in front of the veil, as
depicted32 by the furniture in the Holy of Holies.

Notice also that during his siege Ezekiel was tied up in front of the iron pan (representing
the veil). Isn’t it quite appropriate that the veil separating the Holy of Holies from the Holy
Place was crisscrossed with gold chains ?

1 Kings 6:21 Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended
gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.

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Ezek 4:3 Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it.
32
See page 34 about the Temple’s floor plan and Tony Badillo.
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Ezekiel went through a cleansing ritual

Even though there is no direct reference to support it, we do have here a strong indication
that Ezekiel’s action was really intended to show what was going on in the Temple.

No commentator seems to have noticed it but Ezekiel, just before lying on his side
for 430 days, went through the cleansing ritual that he described in Ezek. 44:26-27.
This ritual was prescribed to the priests before they entered the Temple.

Ezek. 44:26-27 After he is cleansed, 1

they shall count seven days 2

for him. And on the day that he goes to the sanctuary 3

God’s house
to minister in the sanctuary,
he must offer his sin offering 4

in the inner court," says the Lord GOD 5

Now see how Ezekiel fulfilled each point:

Ezek. 2:1-3 Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my
feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me. And He said to me: "Son of man, I am
1 sending you to the children of Israel,
Ezek. 3:3 "Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it."
So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Ezek. 3:15 Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar;
2
and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Ezek. 3:24 Then the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me
and said: "Go, shut yourself inside your house.
3 Note: Just before that, Ezekiel had been in the presence of the Glory
Ezek 3:23 And the glory of the LORD was standing there... and I fell face
down

4 Ezek. 4:10 Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.

Ezek. 4:3 Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city.
5 The iron pan represents the veil and given that the pan was between Ezekiel and the city,
Ezekiel’s action put him symbolically in the Holy of Hollies.

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We have here Ezekiel in his symbolic location with all the Temple’s features in place

TEMPLE
composite North

Lev 24:5 Ta-

Holy Place ke fine flour
and bake twel-
Most Holy ve loaves of
bread,

Ex 37:16
pitchers for the
food pouring out of
12 loaves
drink offerings
VEIL

Manna drink
W A E
E R Ex 26:35 Place A
Law Shewbread the table outside
S K table S
Aaron’s staff the curtain on the
T north side of the T
tabernacle and put
the lampstand
Ezekiel becomes lampstand opposite it on the
the mouth of the south side.
Temple’s face
light

Ex 25:31 "Ma-
ke a lampstand
South of pure gold

Notice that Ezekiel stands in front of the curtain, at the top of the stair, exactly where the
‘Temple’s mouth’ (see Temple Face on page 34) happens to be. This detail is of some
importance given the number of times Ezekiel had previously been warned about speaking
when it would be time:

Ezek 2:4 I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them … NKJV
Ezek 2:7 You shall speak My words to them, NKJV
Ezek 3:1 "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house
of Israel."
Ezek 3:4 "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.
Ezek 3:11 and speak to them and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,'
Ezek 3:26 I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth …

It is very meaningful to have Ezekiel (the “Prophet” of YHWH) the future Watchman of
Israel (Ezek 33:7) becoming the mouth of the Temple’s face.
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LEFT SIDE / RIGHT SIDE

The house of Israel represented the 12 tribes and, since the 390 years of sin is
Two attributed to the house of Israel (not the kingdom of Israel), the 390 years of sin
houses involved the 12 tribes. The house of Israel was somewhat under the leadership of
Joseph’s son Ephraim, who was blessed profusely by Jacob:
Jer 31:9 For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is
My firstborn. NKJV
And Ephraim is associated with a calf (a bull, an ox):
and Jer 31:18 "I have surely heard Ephraim's moaning:
'You disciplined me like an unruly calf, Ephraim

The house of Judah represented the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, since the 40 years
of sin is attributed to the house of Judah, the 40 years of sin involve only those two
tribes. The tribe of Judah assumed leadership of the house.
Two Judah is associated with a lion:
animals Gen 49:9 You are a lion's cub, O Judah;
Judah

At the beginning of Ezekiel a creature with four faces was seen. This creature
Two gives us the key to understand why the left33 side was attributed to the house of
animals Israel and the right side to the house of Judah:
Ezek 1:10 Their faces looked like this: … and on the right side each had
the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox;

Grazing Crowned
animal mouth animal head

R
and L
I Lion
Bull E
G
F
H
T
T
Ephraïm Judah
House of Israel House of Judah
Notice that the left side is associated with a grazing animal (bull, cow, calf) whose
Two distinctive feature is the activity of its mouth. However, for obvious reasons, the
sides distinctive feature of the lion, associated with the right side, is its head (crowned
with a mane, a symbol of majesty).

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The ancient usage of such terminology was based upon the proposition that one faced the East (the rising sun);
and thus the left stood for the North, the right stood for the South; and the East was always considered "the
front." Since Northern Israel (Samaria) lay north of Jerusalem, the "right" and "left" designation applied to the
Ten Northern tribes and to Judah, respectively. See Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible
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Ezekiel is lying on his left side for 390 days
For the first 390 days of his siege’s re-enactment Ezekiel was lying on his left side:
Ezek 4:5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days,
three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. NKJV

TEMPLE North Ezekiel on his left side

featuring Ephraim’s
Manna & loaves
Most Holy & drink: food grazing ox
of the 12 tribes

12 loaves

Pitchers
for drink
offering

Shewbread
W Manna V table E
E E A
Law I
S S
L
T Aaron’s staff T

South Holy Place

Figure 6. Ezekiel on his left side for 390 days (mouth toward north)

Notice: Ezekiel’s mouth34 on the north side with ‘the food’ of the temple
The first 390 days of Ezekiel’s siege are characterized by his access to food35 & water.
Ezek 4:9-10 Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a
storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days
you lie on your side.
Ezek 4:11 1 Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times. NIV
The two items36 on the north side (borrowed from the Tabernacle) are related to food and
charactherize the 12 tribes as abundantly blessed by God..
34
The ‘mouth’ is the distinctive feature of the grazing ox representing Ephraim.
35
There is no mention of food in the second part of Ezekiel’s siege (40 days). This will be discussed later.
36
Manna food of the 12 tribes at Exodus. And the 12 loaves representing the 12 tribes.
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Ezekiel is lying on his right side for 40 days

For the second part of his siege, the last 40 days, Ezekiel was lying on his right side:
Ezek 4:6 "After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and
bear the sin of the house of Judah.

TEMPLE North
Most Holy
Holy Place

12 loaves

Shewbread
table

W Manna V E
E E A
Law
S I S
L
T Aaron’s staff T

7 lamps

Scepter & lamp

Ezekiel on his right featuring David’s
side featuring Judah’s permanent royal
dynasty in Jerusalem
powerfull royal lion
South

Figure 7. Ezekiel on his right side for 40 days (head toward south)

Ezekiel’s head37 on the south side with the Temple’s objects symbolizing ‘authority’.

Notice: Ezekiel was not fed during the 40 days and as we should expect there is no trace of food on
the south side.

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The ‘head’, is the distinctive feature of the crowned lion representing Judah.
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The two items on the south side (borrowed from the
Tabernacle) characterize Judah38 as a guide.
Sceptre
The STAFF emblem
and sign
Ezek 19:11 Its branches were strong, fit for a ruler's of power
scepter.
Gen 49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah Lamp =
Monarch
The LAMP 2 Sam 1:17

1 Kings 11:36-37 I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always
have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.
2 Kings 8:19 Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the LORD was not willing
to destroy Judah. He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants
forever.
Judah had to keep the scepter and by association, the law.
The start of the 40 years of sin is directly connected with the abandoning of the law:
2 Kings 21:8-9 if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will
keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them." But the people did not listen.
Manasseh led them astray,
The end of the 40 years of sin came with the rediscovery of the book of the law:
2 Kings 22:3,11 In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah … When the king heard
the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes.

During the 390-year period of sin the Ark was under the care of the 12 tribes whose leader-
ship was assumed (symbolically) by Ephraim. The symbol of Ephraim is an ox.
At the end of the 390 years of sin the Ark was removed from the house of Abinadab39 and
David attempted to bring it to Jerusalem by putting it on a cart that was drawn by oxen. It was
a failure and the Ark was left at the house of Obed-Edom.
Three months later the Ark was successfully brought to Zion. This time the Ark was carried
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on the Levites’ shoulders while they were following King David, a man crowned like a lion
(Judah’s symbol).
The Ark coming to Jerusalem
marks the end of Israel 390-year of sin

3
months
Ark
later
drawn by oxen
Ark on Levites shoulders following
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According Jacob’s blessings (Gen 49:10) Judah is forever a ruler. David, the Lion-king of Judah
39
See 2 Sam 6:3
40
The Ark went from the Ox to the Lion, another way to show that it was leaving Ephraim to come to dwell in
Judah.
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We have already seen many small details to back up our deduction that Ezekiel’s performance
was meant to be set in the Temple (although it was physically held in his home). Here is a
final piece of evidence to strengthen this conclusion.

Prior to going to his house for 430 days, Ezekiel was engulfed in a celestial vision of the
Lord’s throne (or celestial Temple). At one point in this vision, while he was (A) in the
Lord’s dwelling place, Ezekiel heard from (B) behind him the noise of flapping (D) wings
belonging to (C) four living creatures:

Ezek 1:5 Also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures. NKJV

Ezek 3:12-13 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous
voice: "Blessed is the glory of the LORD from His place!" I also heard the noise of the
wings of the living creatures that touched one another, NKJV

Now, with the description of Ezekiel’s vision in mind, let’s see how each element of that
vision can also be found in the Temple’s composite that became Ezekiel’s symbolic
surroundings while he was lying in his own house.

T E M P L E composite
Most
Holy
A : Ezekiel stands
(symbolically)
in the Lord’s
VEIL place
C: There are four
living creatures
in the composite
Temple
A
R
2 Cherubim stand
K B : Ezekiel
behind the Ark
(1 King 6 :23) stands
2 cherubim stand right in front
over the Ark of the veil
(Ex 25:18-21) therefore the
Cherubim
are behind
him

D: The four cherubim's

main attributes are
their ‘Wings’

Can there be any doubts left when so many pieces point in the same direction?

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Food and no food
A major difference between the two periods enacted by Ezekiel, while laying on his sides, has
to do with food. For the first 390 days he was told to eat some food, which was not the case
for the following 40 days. It is strange, isn’t it? Why was Ezekiel not offered any food
during the 40 days he was lying on his right side? No doubt Ezekiel had access to a supply of
food; he had filled the jar himself at the beginning of the first period:
Ezek. 4:9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a
storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.
His access to all the water he wanted is even more obvious. Ezekiel was asked to measure it
just before he drank it, but nowhere was he told that he had to stock it:
Ezek 4:11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.
It is clear that God instructed Ezekiel to eat in the 390 days41 of the first period and not in the
following 40 days 42, even though, as I believe, there was food and water available. There is
only one word that can give light to the whole situation: FASTING.
40 days of fasting for the sin of Judah
This is a very interesting thought and it becomes quite convincing when we realize that the
food on the first 390 days had a dual purpose. It was used to feed Ezekiel - he wouldn’t have
survived without food - but its main purpose was to be used as a SIN OFFERING.
A sin offering offered 390 times for the sin of Israel

According Lev 5:11-13 a sin offering couldn’t have any oil and it was given to a priest.
Ezekiel, a priest, didn’t put any oil in his food. Notice also that Ezekiel had to eat at ‘set time’,
as if he was following a ritual.
Ezek 4:9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a
storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.
Ezek 4:10-11 And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day;
from time to time you shall eat it.

Ezekiel’s food (sin offering) was corrupted when it was cooked over dung (Ezek 4:12-13).
Unsurprisingly the 390 years period associated with it was also characterized by corruption:
Hos 9:9 They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah.

There is much more to say about the 390 days of food and the 40 days without any. We will
see later that these two periods were also among Ezekiel major symbolical acts.
Ref: Ezekiel ate defiled food for 390 days on page 67
Ezekiel fasts during 40 days on page 133

41
Have you notice that while on his left side, the side associated with the grazing animal, Ezekiel cooked his
food (Eze 4:15) over a fire fueled with cow manure?
42
Another interesting fact: the left side is associated with grazing animals who feed and drink most of the time.
Ezekiel on his left side had access to food and water every day. It was not the case when he turned on his right
side and had to fast for 40 days. And what was the animal associated with the right side? A lion, an hunting
animal that could go days without food and water.
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Why was there a need to tie Ezekiel during the 430 days of his
siege?
Ezek 4:8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other
until you have finished the days of your siege.

It is obvious in Eze 4:8 that Ezekiel was physically tied43 for the whole 430 days (390 + 40)
of his siege. But to be tied for 430 days is an awfully long time and we should seek an hidden
meaning behind this very harsh treatment. Why did it have to be done that way? Was God
afraid that Ezekiel wouldn’t hold his position on each side and therefore needed to be tied?
Absolutely not, Ezekiel was a priest whose entire life had been devoted to God.
Ezek 4:14 Then I said, "Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From
my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals.
No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."

He didn’t weep or lament when he lost his wife because he was told not to do so:
Ezek 24:18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died.
The next morning I did as I had been commanded.

If the ropes were not used to force Ezekiel to obey then we have to conclude that they were
used for a symbolical purpose. It is said in Ezek 4:8 that the prophet could not turn on the
other side before the right time. Thus Ezekiel was first portraying somebody tied for 390 days
and then someone tied for 40 days. A two parts symbolical act that brought freedom at the
end. Without surprise the Bible has nothing to say about anybody that could have been tied
for 430 years (390 + 40). But then, did we correctly understand what was meant by the rope
symbol?

What if the ropes that were put on Ezekiel were not meant to symbolize somebody tied? What
if those ropes were no more than an artifact used to symbolize somebody held prisoner?
Wasn’t the binding of Ezekiel the proper way to symbolically represent somebody confined in
a specific location? (Keep in mind that Ezekiel was confined in his house for the whole
duration of this ordeal)
Ezek 3:25 And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes; you will be bound so that
you cannot go out among the people.

If we are right about this we should be able to find an important individual who had been in
prison for 430 days44 and did recover his freedom at the end of a siege. Don’t we have the
perfect candidate in the person of Jeremiah the prophet?
Jer 38:6 So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern NIV
Jer 38:28 Now Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that
Jerusalem was taken.

43
The reader is already aware that Ezekiel was tied in front of an iron wall which symbolised the veil of the
Holy of Holies. That veil was also criss-crossed by chains. See discussion on Iron Wall on page 36.
44
in this context we discard a 430-year period as it wouldn’t make any sense
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 Ezekiel lying on his
left and right sides Jeremiah’s imprisonement
while being tied up
430 days 430 days ?
390 days 40 days 390 days ? 40 days ?
food no food Feed with bread No food / not feed

In a cistern In the prison’s yard

Jer 38:6 Jer 38:13,28

Jer 38:13So they drew up Jeremiah

Ezek 4:8 I will tie you
with cords, and took him up out of the
up with ropes so that Jer 38:6 They dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in
you cannot turn from lowered Jere- the court of the prison. KJV
one side to the other miah by ropes Jer 38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the
until you have finished
into the cistern court of the prison until the day that
the days of your siege.
Jerusalem was taken: and he was there
NIV
when Jerusalem was taken. KJV

Jeremiah’s story doesn’t specify that he was held prisoner exactly 430 days but a careful reading of
the book of Jeremiah and an understanding of the sequence of events surrounding Nebuchadnezzar’s
siege against Jerusalem, do strengthen this belief. Furthermore Jeremiah was held captive in two
different locations. First in a cistern in which he was feed (Jer 37:21) every day, then in the court of
the prison at a time where there was no more food in the city (Jer 38:9)

The timeline of Jeremiah’s actions

#1. Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem in Zedekiah’s 9th year, 10th month, 10th day. (This is
about 560 days before Jerusalem was captured in the 11th year, 4th month, 9th day of
Zedekiah): See Jer 52:4 and 2 Kings 25:1

#2. While Jerusalem and a few other cities were still resisting, Jeremiah told King Zedekiah that
he and the city would be captured but the King would die peacefully: (Jer 34:2-7). Zedekiah
made a covenant to free all the slaves (Jer 34:8-9). Then Nebuchadnezzar ended the siege of
Jerusalem (Jer 37:5). The King didn’t maintain the covenant and everybody took back their
slaves: (Jer 34:11, Jer 34:16). Jeremiah announced that Nebuchadnezzar would be back (Jer
34:21-22, 37:7-8)
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 IN PRISON - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

#3. Jeremiah wanted to leave Jerusalem but was arrested and accused of trying to join the then
leaving Babylonian army ( Jer 37:4, 37:11-12, 37:15-16).
#4. As prophesied earlier (see #2) the Babylonian army came back.

#5. King Zedekiah who was worried about what was going to happen to him, had Jeremiah
brought to the palace for questioning: See Jer 37:17. Jeremiah was fearing for his life in the
dungeon (Jet 37:20-21). While a prisoner Jeremiah bought a field (Jer 32:1-3, 32:6-7)

#6. Turning point No more bread - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Zedekiah inquires from Jeremiah (Jer 21:1-2) and was told about the imminent destruction of
Jerusalem (Jer 21:7, 38:2). Pashur and his men had previously lowered Jeremiah in a dungeon
(cistern) to kill him (Jer 38:6). The Cushite Ebed-Melech rescued Jeremiah after telling the
King that Jeremiah would die if he was kept in the dungeon since there was no more bread
in the city:

Jer 38:9 ... For there is no more bread in the city." NKJV

#7. With the bread gone, the famine started.

Ezek 4:16-17 Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall
eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread,
that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another,

Lam 4:9 Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked
with hunger, they waste away for lack of food from the field.
Lam 2:20 Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for?

#8. People dying everywhere. The food was completely gone, the wall was broken and the city
was captured:

Jer 52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so
severe that there was no food for the people to eat

Jer 38:28 Now Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem
was taken. And he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

Jer 39:2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the
month, the city was penetrated.

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Given that the length of Ezekiel’s siege is divided into two periods of
time (390 and 40 days), we can speculate that Jeremiah’s stay in prison
was also divided in a similar way.

During the first 390 days Ezekiel had access to food o

3 n
E 9
Ezek 4:9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; h
Z 0
put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. i
E days
You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side s
K
I Turning point (Ezekiel starts fasting) s
E i
L 4 d
During the following 40 days Ezekiel was fasting (already discussed in this e
0 work)
days s

In each case the turning point is related to food.

In the first part (points #3, #4, #5 of the previous chronology of Jeremiah)
3 there was food in Jerusalem and we are told that Jeremiah received his
9 daily bread:
0
days Jer 37:21 King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed In
??
in the courtyard of the guard and given bread from the street of the
the bakers each day until all the bread in the city was gone.
C
Turning point (No more bread) I
S
J In the second part (points #6, #7, #8) the famine progressed in the city. T
E E
R This period started when Jeremiah was put in a dungeon and the King was R
E told that there was no more bread in the city: N
M
I Jer 38:9 and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he then
A is. For there is no more bread in the city." NKJV
H 4 in
0 At the end of the period (which corresponds to the end of Jeremiah’s the
days imprisonment) there is no more food in the city:
?? Y
Jer 52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city A
had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. R
d
We know that this period had to be short (40 days?); point #7 describes the
terrible conditions that prevailed in the city once the food started to
become scarce.

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As mentioned a few pages back we won’t find in Jeremiah’s writing any confirmation that his
imprisonment lasted exactly 430 days and it was divided into an initial period of 390 days
followed by a period of 40 days. We got those numbers by recognizing in Ezekiel’s
binding a symbolic reference to Jeremiah’s imprisonment. Nevertheless, not having a
direct statement from Jeremiah about those numbers doesn’t mean he left us clueless.

We are told that Jeremiah was arrested during the period of Nebuchadnezzar’s interrupted
siege (see #3 earlier). We are also told that the people abandoned the covenant they had made
when they realized that Nebuchadnezzar was not threatening them anymore. This betrayal of
the covenant led to the return of Nebuchadnezzar, which in turn led King Zedekiah, in the 10th
year of his kingship, to consult Jeremiah.

All those events happened in a short time and given that we are told that King Zedekiah met
Jeremiah sometime in the 10th year of his Kingship45, we know they all happened between the
480th and the 98th day before the capture of Jerusalem46.

Fixing Jeremiah’s whole imprisonment to 430 days

is in agreement with ‘between 480 and 98 days’.

The famine that prevailed toward the end of Nebuchadnezzar’s siege started when the bread
became unavailable and ended when the food was gone completely. This progression couldn’t
have evolved in just a few days; it had to last several weeks. Indeed, Ezekiel implied that the
famine would be progressive:
Ezek 5:16 I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of
food.

Another important fact about this famine is that one third of the population died from
starvation and sickness:
Ezek 5:12 A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you

Before they started dying from starvation the people had been desperately eating any possible
scrap of food they found. In the end they even ate their own flesh (see #7). We shouldn’t
doubt that it must have taken weeks of privation and starvation before they persuaded
themselves to do such a terrible thing:
Ezek 4:17 They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away
because of their sin.
Lam 4:9 Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked
with hunger, they waste away for lack of food from the field.

Fixing Jeremiah’s second part of imprisonment to 40 days

is in agreement with the progression of the famine just described.

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Jer 32:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah,
which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
46
Not knowing in what part of the 10th year of Zedekiah those events took place we use the earliest (First day of
the 10th year) and the latest (last day of the 10th year). Zedekiah was captured in the fourth month of his 11th year.
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 Prophesying against the siege of Jerusalem

Ezek 4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. KJV

By using the words ‘against it’ the translators of Ezek 4:7 may have misled us into believing
that Ezekiel was going to prophesy about (against) Nebuchadnezzar’s future siege of
Jerusalem. This is doubtful that it was the purpose. What would he have accomplished by
prophesying for 430 days about the coming destruction of Jerusalem? Who would have
benefited from it? Ezekiel was confined in the privacy of his home where he might have been,
as far as we know, alone most of the time.

As an alternative to the words ‘against it’ I suggest using ‘upon it’. At once it introduces the
possibility that Ezekiel was simply asked to
perform an act of prophesying while he was
looking toward the sketch he had drawn on T H E P R O P H E T
a tile (which represented the siege of Jerusa-
lem). E

We don’t know what Ezekiel was prophesying Z

about, there is no message recorded. But it message
doesn’t matter given that E cannot be
he was not doing it to inform anybody. heard
What nobody understood until now is the fact K
that Ezekiel’s prophesying was done as an
independent symbolic act. In this particular I
case it was the act of ‘prophesying’ in itself
that was used to reveal something hidden E
rather than the information that was
Mute
prophesied. L

Similar to the other symbolic acts47 that Ezekiel had performed during the period of 430 days,
this new one was also done according to familiar pattern: during the first 390 days the prophet
prophesied while lying on his left side (House of Israel), and during the following 40 days he
prophesied while lying on his right side (House of Judah).

As we will see in the following pages, we can point to two different periods (390 years and
40 years) of Israel’s history during which prophetic communication was a major
characteristic.

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Like lying on his sides, eating food, being tied.
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 390 years of prophecy for the House of Israel (North side)

In all likelihood the first period portrayed by “Ezekiel’s prophesying” starts with “Moses’
escapes from Egypt” and ends with the ‘capture of the Ark’.

Ezekiel pro- Ezekiel

phesises on his Ezekiel’s message cannot be heard for 390 days
turn over
left side

Ezekiel becomes dumb : Ezek 3:26 I will make your tongue stick to the
roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them,

Three times Samuel wrongly assumed to be

Ex 4:10 I am
called by Eli. (1Sam 3:4-8) And God told
slow of
him: 1 Sam 3:11"See, I am about to do
speech and
something in Israel that will make the ears of
tongue."
everyone who hears of it tingle.

Moses
non-verbal ‘Start’ and ‘End’ of a 390-year Ark is
escapes
from Egypt
period of prophetic events. captured

Moses saves an Israelite The Ark is brought to save

from the hand of his
Notice the perfect contrast between the
start and the end of this 390-year period the Israelites from the hand
ennemy but he has to of their ennemies but it was
escape to avoid being ESCAPE - CAPTURE captured (see 1 Sam 4:11)
captured (see Exo 2:12)

Escape from Egypt : Was Moses’ escape a prophetic event and does it qualify for the start of any
period? The answer to both questions is yes. In fact, we will see that “Moses’ escape from Egypt” not
only started ‘390 years of prophetic events’ it also marks the beginning of a series of events that
went on for 40 years and whose echo can be heard during the next 40 years of Exodus. An
appropriate way to view these first 40 years of what I call the ‘390 years of prophetic events’ would
be to see them as the 40 years of Moses’ phantom Exodus.

Non verbal Acts 7:25 Moses thought that his own people would realize Non verbal
prophetic act that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. NIV prophetic act

A 390-year period of prophetic events

ECHO 1 Sam 4:18 When he mentioned

Moses the ark of God, Eli fell backward
off his chair by the side of the gate.
escapes Moses’ phantom Israelites’ His neck was broken and he died, Ark is
from exodus Exodus for he was an old man and heavy. captured
Egypt He had led Israel forty years. NIV

Promised Eli
Exodus land judge 40 y.
40 y. 40 y. 270 y.

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Here we have 10 events that took place during Moses’ phantom exodus and
are echoed during the Israelites’ Exodus.

Moses sees his people’s hardship:

Ex 2:11 and it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown,
1 that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens KJV

God see his people’s hardship:

Ex 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which
are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows; KJV.

Moses rescues one Israelite:

Ex 2:11 and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. KJV
2

Moses rescues every Israelite:

Ex 3:10 and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my
people the children of Israel out of Egypt. KJV

Moses kills an Egyptian soldier and buries him in the sand:

3 Ex 2:12 he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. KJV

Moses would bury the whole Egyptian army in the water:

Ex 14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen,
and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not
so much as one of them. KJV

Moses is told by an Israelite that he isn’t his Judge:

4 Ex 2:14 Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? KJV

Moses becomes ruler and Judge over every Israelite:

Ex 18:13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people:
and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening. KJV

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 Pharaoh plans to kill Moses but he will never see him again:

5 Ex 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.

Pharaoh [a different one] threatens Moses that he will kill him next time he sees him
but they will never meet again:
Ex 10:28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself,
see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die. KJV

Moses flees from Egypt to avoid being captured:

Ex 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But
6 Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian KJV

Moses helps all of Israel to flee from Egypt and regain their freedom:
Ex 12:31-33 … Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye
and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. .. And the
Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the
land in haste; KJV
Note: Pharaoh authorized Israelites to take a three-day journey to worship their
God. Pharaoh never authorized them to leave permanently. We can therefore say
that Moses and all the Israelites escaped from Egypt.

Moses leaves Egypt and crosses a desert.

7 (It is here assumed that the Medianites’ land borders a desert.)

The Israelites leave Egypt and cross the sea:

Ex 14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the
dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on
their left. KJV

Moses goes to the Sinai and talks to God:

Ex 3:4 God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses,
8 Moses. And he said, Here am I. KJV

The Israelites go to the Sinai and hear God talking to Moses:

Ex 19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick
cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for
ever. KJV
Ex 19:18-19 and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the
trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God
answered him by a voice. KJV

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 At the end of ‘Moses’ phantom exodus’ one of his sons (it could be both), born
in the wilderness, is circumcised:

Ex 4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her
9
son, KJV

At the end of the Israelites’ Exodus, all those born in the wilderness are
circumcised:

Josh 5:3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at
the hill of the foreskins. KJV
Josh 5:5 but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came
forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised. KJV

Moses’ phantom Exodus could have lasted 40 years:

Acts 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit
his brethren the children of Israel. KJV
Ex 7:7 And Moses was [80] years old, and Aaron [83] years old, when they
spake unto Pharaoh. KJV

10 NOTE: To those who might be reticent to accept any reference from the book of Act, I
suggest that they postulate from here on that Moses was 40 years old when he fled
from Egypt and that the Exodus occurred 40 years later. At the end of this ‘paper’ they
will be in a much better position to evaluate the soundness of this postulate.

Israel’s Exodus lasted 40 years:

Num 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
KJV

Ark captured (End of the 390 years)

We have seen that the start of the 390 (prophetic) years was initiated by the ‘escape of Moses
from Egypt’, an event symbolizing the exodus that was about to occur for the twelve tribes.

At the opposite end of the period, 390 years later, a calamity that must have been felt by every
member of the twelve tribes took place. At the time, some of the tribes were engaged in a
battle against their oppressors, the Philistines. Expecting that it would bring them some divine
help, the Israelites brought the Ark of the Covenant onto the battlefield. They were defeated
and the Philistines took the Ark with them.

Before saying more about the ‘capture of the Ark’, here is a cursory layout that shows how
these 390 years (of prophecy) relate to others events.
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 This chart is the chronological
embryo from which my Bible
Timeline will grow. (self-explanatory
Moses’ escape from Egypt when reading from A,B,C…J,K,L)
•D 40
Acts 7:23 "When
EXODUS Ex 7:7 Moses was
Moses was 40
•A years old, he deci- eighty years old
•L (A 390
ded to visit his fel- and Aaron eighty-
3 310 - D 40 - E 40)
low Israelites... three when they
9 1 Sam 4:18 spoke to Pharaoh.
Eli fell back- Eli Judge
0
y. ward off his
Ezekiel chair …He 20 20
prophesises had led Israel •E Philistines Judg 13:1 ….so
390 days on 40 years. 40 the LORD delive-
oppression
his left side red them into the
20 hands of the Phi-
listines for 40 y.
ARK captured & returned ARK cap. 40
•F 20 •I
20 1 Kings 6:1 In the
4
1 Sam 7:2 ... 20 480th year after the
Samuel judge 8
years in all, that Israelites had co-
the ark remained at 60 (J130 - B30 I 480 - L 310 0 me out of Egypt
Kiriath Jearim - C7 - K33) - E 40 - F 20 … he began to
30
- G 40 - H 40 build the Temple
(D 40 +I 480
- A 390) Saul King
•J 10
David born •G Acts 13:21 … and
130 2 Sam 5:4-5 David 40 he gave them Saul
was 30 years old •B 30 who ruled 40 y.
when he began to David King
reign, … In •C 7 of Judah
Hebron he reigned David moves 1 Chron 29:27 He
over Judah 7 years to Jerusalem •H
ruled over Israel
40
forty years
•K 33 (H 40 - C 7)

Temple construction
From 4th to 11th 7
year of Solomon. Temple ready
See Ki 6:1,38

Besides having conveniently happened 390 years48 after “Moses’ escape from Egypt”, did the
‘capture of the Ark’ mark the end of this ongoing ‘prophetic’ period? We need to keep in
mind that there was a break after Ezekiel’s first 390 days of prophesying. When he turned
over, his action was fully accomplished in regard to the House of Israel. The finality
expressed in Ezekiel’s action (turning over) had to be found also at the end of the 390 year
period that we are looking at.
But to our question we can answer a strong ‘yes’. The Capture of the Ark was nothing less
than God’s proclamation that He was leaving his dwelling place in Shiloh:
1 Sam 4:22 She said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured."

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This is part of the hidden information found in Ezekiel 4.
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The Ark never came back to Shiloh after its capture. The departure was permanent. The
capture of the Ark was a prophetic event that had been hinted to Samuel some time earlier:
1 Sam 3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel: "See, I am about to do something in Israel
that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.

Samuel was informed of the future capture of the Ark while lying in the Temple. We can
hardly fail to see the connection with Ezekiel ‘symbolically’ lying in the Temple while
indirectly portraying Samuel in the same situation:

1 Sam 3:9,15 So Eli told Samuel, "Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, 'Speak,
LORD, for your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place…
Samuel lay down until morning and then opened the doors of the house of the LORD.

Ezek 4:4 "Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel upon
yourself.

Parallels between Moses and Samuel

The start of the 390 years began with a prophetic sign performed by Moses (his escape
from Egypt) and ended with a prophetic sign revealed to Samuel some time before it
occured (Ark’s capture).
Both prophets (Moses and Samuel) were highly regarded in the eyes of God:
Jer 15:1 Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me,
My mind would not be favorable toward this people.
Moses was the first judge of Israel. (He is the one who anointed the first High Priest
[Aaron].)
Samuel was the last Judge. (He is the one who anointed the first king [Saul].)

Both of them owe their life to the unusually strong will of their mother (not their
father):
Ex 2:3 Then she placed the child [Moses] in it and put it among the reeds along
the bank of the Nile.
1 Sam 1:11 "O LORD Almighty, if you will only look upon your servant's misery
and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son[Samuel],
Surprisingly neither of them was raised by his strong mother.
Moses was raised by Pharaoh’s daughter after having been weaned by his mother.
Samuel was raised by Eli in the Temple at Shiloh after having been weaned by his
mother.
Each one stood on Holy ground.
Moses went up the Sinai and Samuel used to lie down in the Temple.

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 40 years of prophecy for the House of Judah (South side)

Ezekiel Ezekiel
prophesies on
Ezekiel’s message cannot be heard leaves
his right side 40 days his house

40 years
Jeremiah Jeremiah’s message heard but not believed
Fall of
starts
Jer 5:12-13 No harm will come to us; we will Jerusalem
prophesying never see sword or famine. The prophets are
but wind and the word is not in them;

Exactly 40 years before the destruction of Jerusalem, the prophet Jeremiah was mandated to
prophesy against Jerusalem:

1- 6- 19- 23- 31-

* 5 18 22 29 30 40
4 17 21 28 39
Jeremiah
When Ezekiel prophesied for 40 days Fall
starts
(facing south) he was then portraying of
prophe-
Jeremiah prophesying for 40 years. Jerusalem
sying

Jer 25:1-3 The word came to Jeremiah concerning all

the people of Judah in the 4th year of Jehoiakim..
For 23 years--from the 13th year of Josiah son of
Amon king of Judah until this very day
2- 7- 20- 2 Kings 2 Chron
1 6 19 23 2 Kings 23:36
5 18 22 22:1 36:11
Jehoiakim …
King Josiah … Zedekiah
and he
Josiah and he reigned in … and he
reigned in Jerusalem reigned in
1- 14- 19-
* 13 18 31 Jerusalem eleven years. Jerusalem
12 17 30
31 years. 11 years.
Josiah King
cleanses Jeho-
the iakim
Temple
2 Kings 23:23 * 1-3 4 5-10 11
But in the 18th King Exile
year of King Zedekiah of
Josiah, this Josiah’s Judah
Passover was Passover * 1 2-10 11
celebrated Fall of
Jerusalem
1- 14- 18- 26-
* 12 13 17 23 24 25 34 35
15

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 With bare arm ... (390 + 40 days)

Besides prophesying while lying on his side Ezekiel was instructed to do it with his arm
uncovered:
Ezek 4:7 Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bare arm prophesy
against her.

The request seems so unimportant that the casual reader doesn’t give it a second thought and
if he does he probably fails to understand the purpose of it.

Some commentators rightly associated ‘the bare arm’ of Ezekiel as a

sign of power or fighting. In biblical times, it was customary for a
soldier about to engage in a fight to uncover his right arm. This was
done to prevent his garment being in the way while manipulating the
sword. Aware of this information, we should refrain from assuming
that Ezekiel’s bare arm was a sign of the imminent siege49 coming
against Jerusalem. If it had been intended that way, it would have
been lessened by Ezekiel’s appearance, as he was lying and tied
during the whole time. And besides that, the siege had already been
portrayed on a tile; there was no need to call our attention to it again.

The only other reference where the two words, ‘Chaasap’ and ‘et- zªrowa’ (translated ‘bare’
and ‘arm’) appear together is in Isa 52:10:

Isa 52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all
the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

It is obvious here that the subject of Isa 52:10 is God’s powerful accomplishment for his
people.

Now, since Ezekiel was specifically chosen by God to act in the present performance and
since he was doing it in his capacity of a prophet, we may conclude that Ezekiel’s ‘bare arm’
was a substitute for God’s ‘bare arm’. Ezekiel, by having his arm bare, was performing yet
another symbolic act, which was also dependent on the time that he lay on his sides. However,
in the present case there is no need to differentiate between what was going on during the first
390 days and what was going on during the last 40 days. In the end Ezekiel had been laying
bare arm for 430 days, even50 if he had to turn over at one time.

Ezekiel’s portraying of God’s powerful arm for 430 days was intended to remind us of the
430-year period that started at the Exodus.

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Nebuchadnezzar’ siege
50
When Ezekiel turned to the other side at the end of the first 390 days, it did create a break for many symbolic
acts that were currently going on but it was not the case with the ‘bare arm’ one. Laying South-north facing East
rather than laying North-south facing East had no impact on Ezekiel’s bare arm. The symbolic act kept going on
until the 430th day.
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Sym- Ezekiel lie bare arm
bolic Ezekiel goes Ezekiel leaves
action 430 days
in his house his house

Death
EXODUS 430 years of Samuel

Israel under God’s protection

Real God’s powerful arm Ps 77:10-11 But I will

Ex 14:14 the LORD will fight for you remember the years
Action Ex 32:11 Your people whom You have of the right hand of
brought out of the land of Egypt with the Most High." I
great power and with a mighty hand? will remember the
works of the
Deut 26:8 So the LORD brought us out LORD;Surely I will
of Egypt with a mighty hand and with remember Your
an outstretched arm, with great terror wonders of old.
and with signs and wonders. NKJV

Before the Exodus, God’s manifestations of power had been extremely rare and were never
witnessed by more than a few individuals if at all. At the Exodus, God’s mighty power was
manifested in such a spectacular way that nobody could have pretended not to have heard
about it. In the space of a single day every family51 in Egypt lost a son, a father or a brother
while tens of thousands52 of Israelites, untouched by the tragedy, left the country:
Ex 12:12 "On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn
Ex 13:3 "Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery,
because the LORD brought you out of it with a mighty hand
Ex 7:4 Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my
divisions, my people the Israelites.
By his mighty power God opened the sea and allowed the 12 tribes to cross it on dry land:
Ex 14:13-14 Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the
deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see
again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."
Isa 43:16-17 he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew
out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together,

In the 40 years following the Exodus the 12 tribes witnessed almost every day the manifest-
tation53 of God’s power:
Ex 13:22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from
before the people.
51
There was a dead in every house (Ex 12:30). The first born of all the livestock was put to death. (Ex 12:29)
52
See “The Good Torah Sense of the Alpha-Eleph: How the Torah Counts the Tribes and Why“
by Rabbi Michael S. Bar-Ron
53
See also Deut 2:7, Num 11:31, Num 9:15-16
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 Deut 8:16 He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known,

Ex 17:6 Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink."

Deut 8:4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty
years.

After the Israelites had entered the Promised Land their prosperous and their adverse fortunes
in that land were all miraculous.
Josh 23:10 One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you,
just as he promised.
Judg 2:14-15 In his anger against Israel the LORD handed them over to raiders who
plundered them. He sold them to their enemies all around, whom they were no longer
able to resist. Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the LORD was against
them to defeat them,
Judg 2:18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and
saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived;

The 430 years under God’s special protection ended at Samuel’s death, the last and one of the
greatest of the judges. During Samuel’s lifetime the Ark was captured54, the Philistines were
permanently subdued55, and two kings were anointed56.

The people rejected God. There was a good reason to end the 430 years of God’s
protection (mighty arm) at the time of Samuel’s death. The Israelites in their blindness,
voluntarily rejected that special protection by asking for a king:

1 Sam 8:6 But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel;
1 Sam 8:7 And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it
is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

There was no equivocation, they didn’t need God’s arm to fight for them anymore, their new
king would protect them:

1 Sam 8:19-20 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want
a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and
to go out before us and fight our battles."

At the end of Samuel’s life (the last Judge of Israel), all ties with the past were done away
with. God’s manifestation of power became again extremely rare.

54
1 Sam 3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel: "See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears
of everyone who hears of it tingle.
55
1 Sam 7:12-13 "Thus far has the LORD helped us." So the Philistines were subdued and did not invade
Israelite territory again.
56
Saul (see 1 Sam 15:17) & David (see 1 Sam 16:13)

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 The 3 blocks view

Moses’ escape from Egypt

40
Exodus Exodus
/ 40 40
3 Promised land
* 2 Gibeah’s sin
3
1 *
3 30 I
0
4 330 s
3
Eli Judge
r
0 40 2 a
ARK captured * 4 e
30 3 0 l
Samuel * 0
4 2 30
Judge 3
8 *
40 30 9
/ 0 Saul 0
70 y.
Samuel Samuel King
died died 40 77
1 40 o
10
3 f
0 David King Ju
7 7 s
David in i
50 n
Jerusalem 4
40 40 X
0
years
33 33
Ark in
Jerusalem
Temple Construction
7
Temple is ready
X
years
Ark in the Temple References
3 ‘prophesying’ symbolic
430-40-35 355
9
4 S act (390 & 40 years)
Manasseh’s abomination 0
3 i ‘bare arm’ symbolic act
0 e Judah’s 40 y. of sin Jeremiah
prophesies (430 years)
g
e Josiah’s Passover 390 y. & 40 y. of Sin
4
0 + 430-year Siege
Page 57 35
y.
Jerusalem’s destruction

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The previous figure combines all the information obtained from Ezekiel 4. so far. As we can
see, the chronology of the period from “Moses’ escape” to “Jerusalem’s destruction” can be
divided into three blocks of information. Now, we will try to link those three blocks together.

Between block 1 and block 3

By postulating that the Ark was brought into the Temple three years after the end of its
construction, one observes (see Figure 8. Blocks 1 and 3 reunited on page 63’) that many
events can now be linked together by either meaningful values or by original patterns.

Most of us took for granted that the Ark was brought into the Temple right at the end of the 7
years of its construction, which cannot be the case.

According 1 King 6:38 the Temple was ready in the month of Bull (the 8th month), 7 years
after the start of its construction:
1 Kings 6:38 In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the
temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent
seven years building it.

But the Ark was brought in the month of Ethanim (the 7th month):
1 Kings 8:2-4All the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the time of
the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month. When all the elders of
Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark, 4 and they brought up the ark of the
LORD
The Ark could not have been brought to the Temple one month before this one was
ready. Therefore the only way to reconcile the information we are given is to recognize
that the Ark was brought the following year at the earliest. In fact, the following figure
shows that a delay of three years generates a vast collection of patterns and represent the
best possible solution.

A three-year wait is quite acceptable given that the Temple, once its structure was completed
(after 7 years), needed to be properly dressed before becoming operational. Thousands of
people had worked on the structure, but only a few and exceptionally skilled workers were
involved with the temple furnishing:

1 Kings 7:13-14 King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram … Huram was highly skilled and
experienced in all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to
him.

1 Kings 7:48-50 Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the Lord’s temple:
the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; the
lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner
sanctuary); the gold floral work and lamps and tongs; the pure gold basins, wick
trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold sockets for the doors of
the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and also for the doors of the main hall of the
temple.

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 Moses born
40
Joshua
born
See
Moses’ escape
P. 160
from Egypt
40
100
EXODUS 4 E.
3 4
0 0
y.
Prom. land
Land
divided
Gibeah’s sin
Eli Judge
4 330
3 ARK
0 60 captured 4 480
3 0
Samu. ju. * Samuel Judge 0
20

60 David 3
born 70 9
4
20 4 0
1000 Samuel 77
years dies 4
David King
of Judah
7
David in Jeru.. 4
0 X years
60 33 33 Ark in
3
* Jerusalem
20
Temple Construction
4
7
9 480
0 Temple
is ready 10
3 y.
4
0
Ark in the Temple 0

3
4 9
3 0
0 Jeremiah
y. prophetises
4
40 0
Jerusalem’s destruction

Figure 8. Blocks 1 and 3 reunited

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On a chronological point of view, an extremely important piece of information is obtained
from the previous figure. There were 490 years between Samuel’s death and Jerusalem’s end.

EXODUS 1 The 430 years obtained from the 430

days of Ezekiel’s bare arm.
430 1 4
2 1 Kings 6:1 In the 480th year after the
8 2
Samuel’s death Israelites had come out of Egypt, … he
0
490 began to build the temple of the LORD
st
1 Temple This is deduced by earlier speculation
Period Construction
3
of when it was shown that the Ark was
490 ignored 10 3 brought into the Temple 3 years after the
Sabbatical structure was completed.
Ark in the Temple
years
4 4 The 430 years portrayed by the total 430
430
days that Ezekiel had been lying on both
Jerusalem’s destruction sides. (Siege of the Ark)

70 y. Following the destruction of Jerusalem

of (and the Temple) we are told that the
land’s No Crop land was going to enjoy all the sabbatical
rest rest it hadn’t received in the past …
2 Chron 36:21 The land enjoyed its
Sabbath rests; all the time of its
Land’s desolation is now over desolation it rested, until the seventy
Figure 9. Samuel's death
years were completed in fulfillment
of the word of the LORD
… and the number of sabbatical years that have been ignored was 70. At a rate of one
sabbatical year, every 7 years, the people had been disobeying the sabbatical law for 490
years. With the help of the previous figure, it is easy to see that going back 490 years from the
‘Destruction of Jerusalem’ we reach the time of Samuel’s death. Should we be surprised? The
people stopped observing the sabbatical year as soon as Samuel, their last judge, died.
Going back to the earlier discussion of Ezekiel’s ‘bare arm’ on page 59, we concluded that it
portrayed the mighty hand of God that operated from ‘EXODUS’ to ‘Samuel’s death’, a
period of 430 years. We can now also say that the mighty hand of God operated from
‘Exodus’ to the time the Israelites started ignoring the sabbatical years.
By choosing to ignore57 God’s important warning the Israelites brought to an end the
unmatchable superiority they had over other people around:
Deut 5:15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God
brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the
LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

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The sabbatical law didn’t limit itself to the weekly cycle; there was also a counterpart that has to do
with the 7 years cycle.
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 Moses born
40 20 Joshua
20 born
Moses
Likely, there are also 80
escapes
40 3 years between 1
100
block 1 and 2. 4
Exodus
4 0
40 40
3
0 Entrance in Promised land
20
30 Page
163
Gibeah’s sin
300 300
4 Opp.
8 Chushan
330
0 Samuel
born 370
300
Ark
captu.. 30

Samuel judges
4
9 3
4 100 9
0 4 David
70 70 70 70 0
0 born
77
David David king
k. of Judah of Judah 37
4
7 7 7 7 3
10
0
1 David moves to Jerusalem
4 3 3
0 33 33
Ark in
33
30
Jerusalem
30
4 Temple Construction
8
0 43
7 43
10 40
Temple
10 is ready
4
4 3
0
Ark in the Temple
4 100
Page
3 Samaria 71 430 430
0 330
Jerusalem’s destruction 3

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 The ark was brought
David kingship in Jerusalem 3 years
after David settled
Did David wait Author: I believe the 37th, 38th, 39th,
three years to bring F and 40th years of David’s reign over- down in that city
the Ark in r lap with Solomon’s first 4 years of
reign. This has been discussed in my
Jerusalem? It is o 1 Kings 6:37 The 1 Kings 6:38
Paper “The 44 Hebrew monarchs” foundation of the In the 11th
quite conceivable if
he was planning to m temple of the
LORD was laid
year in the
month of
2 Sam 5:5 In Hebron
bring it into the he reigned over Judah in the 4th year, Bul,
new palace that he Heb- seven years
ron
was building during
that time. * 1-6 7 8-9 10 11-36 37 38-39 40

F
1 Chron 15:1 David r
built houses for o
himself in the City of Solomon kingship
David; and he pre- m
* 1-2 3 4-9 10 11-12 13 14-22 23 ..
pared a place for the
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pitched a tent for it. lem
1 Chron 15:3 David * 1-2 3 1 Kings 7:1 It
assembled all Israel took Solomon
y1 y2-y3 y4 y5-y10 Y11 thirteen years,
in Jerusalem to however, to
bring up the ark of Temple
complete the
cons- construction of
the LORD to the Ark truc-
Temple
his palace
place he had prepa- in tion ready
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born 1-26 27 28-29 30 31-36 37 38-39 40
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* Figure1910. Ark
20 in Jerusalem
29
30 36 39

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Ezekiel ate defiled food for 390 days
Among the numerous symbolic acts described in Ezekiel 4.
there is the profanation of his food:
Ezek 4:12-15 … and bake it using fuel of human waste
in their sight." Then the LORD said, "So shall the
children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the
Gentiles, where I will drive them." Then he said unto
me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung,
Notice the correlation between the ‘Bull’ (north side’s
ani-mal) associated with the House of Israel’s 390 days,
and the “cow’s dung” used by Ezekiel.
Ezekiel used cow’s dung as fuel
Ezekiel was asked to cook his food in a way that would defile it. He was previously told to eat
the food for 390 days (Ezek 4:9). Obviously we have here another symbolical act that was meant
to portray a specific 390 years period.

Human dung VS cow dung

God first asked Ezekiel to cook his food using human dung but consecutive to Ezekiel’s
objection that he had never defiled himself in the past, God proposed an abatement: Ezekiel
was going to used cow dung to fuel the cooking fire.
Keeping in mind that Ezekiel had to eat defiled food in order to portray the Israelites eating
defiled food, Ezek 4:13 The LORD said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat
defiled food among the nations where I will drive them." NIV

the following point can therefore be deduced: It didn’t matter which of the ‘human dung’
or ‘cow dung’ was to be used. In the end Ezekiel food had to be defiled to properly create the
symbolical act.
But because Ezekiel vehemently protested that he had never been defiled in the past.
Ezek 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for
from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or… KJV
we can also deduce the following point: Using cow dung didn’t defiled Ezekiel, if it had, it
would have defeat the purpose of the abatement.

Hunan waste as fuel Cow dung as fuel

Using cow dung as fuel defiled
the food but not Ezekiel Food Defiled Defiled
Ezekiel Defiled Not defiled

But what is it with human waste that would have defiled Ezekiel? Could it be that human
waste, contrary to cow dung, which can be found over the ground, had to be dug out from the
ground? It seems that Ezekiel understood that if he had to dug out the human excrement he
would have defiled himself and it was intolerable.

With the abatement Ezekiel was not defiled even though he was eating defiled food.
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How to interprete this symbolical act?
We have to keep in mind three important elements when analyzing it:
1. It lasted 390 years: Ezekiel was allowed to feed himself only during the first 390
days of his siege. Therefore, according to the rule that ‘a day equals a year 58’,
whatever was portrayed by the defiled food had to last exactly 390 years.
2. It applied to the 12 tribes: Any symbolical act associated with the first 390 days that
Ezekiel lay on his side involve the 12 tribes and ‘indirectly’ connects to the north
side of the Temple. This point has already been shown twice in this paper.
3. It was going to involve other nations:
Ezek 4:13 "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among
the nations where I will drive them." NIV
In short, we are looking for a period of 390 years during which the people of Israel (12 tribes)
supposedly ate defiled food among other nations. If we accept this most simplistic 59
interpretation, we will find only three possible ‘starts’ for the period.
First Exile ? When Jacob brought his whole family in Egypt. The sojourn lasted exactly
225 years. (See page 176). This period is way to short to be the right one.
Second Exile ? When the 10 northern tribes were deported to Assyria at the end of King
Hoshea’s reign. Unfortunately they never came back to the land and are still
in exile to this day. (there will be much more to say about that exile later in
this book, ref p.178). This period cannot be used either.
Third Exile ? When Judah went into Exile in Babylon. This exile lasted only 70 years and
is therefore too short to be the period we are looking for.

The 390-year period could not have started with any of the previous three exiles, on the other
hand Ezek 4:13 does say that the Israelites shall eat their defiled food among the nations. It
can hardly be more unambiguous: the Israelites had to be in exile to fulfill this description.
Now wouldn’t it bring a whole new perspective to our interpretation if, instead of assuming
that our ‘period of defiled food’ was initiated by the beginning of an EXILE we would
postulate that it was rather concluded by the ‘return from an exile’? A quick review shows
that the return from the first or second exile cannot be good candidates. Going backward 390
years from the coming out of Egypt (end of first exile) would bring us to a time when the 12
patriarchs were not even born. Neither can we use the end of the second exile given that this
exile is not over yet (author absolute belief).
That leaves us with the possibility that the 390 years period ended at the time the exiles of
Judah came back from Babylon (the third exile in the previous list).

Israelites ate defiled food for 390 years Judah returns from
Event X
First 320 years Judah 70 years of Exile Babylonian Exile
We will see why this is the correct understanding.
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Ezek 4:5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days NKJV
Note: People have been ill-advised to replace ‘days’ by ‘years’ every time they found it convenient in their
research on chronology but to do it with Ezekiel 4 is quite appropriate.
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Remember that Ezekiel’s symbolic acts are never what they appear to be.
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Defiled food = False word
The Israelites were told that along with their bread they also needed to feed themselves with
the ‘word of God’:
Deut 8:3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which
neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but
on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. NIV

Jeremiah and Ezekiel were fed by the words of God before being sent to the people:
Jer 15:16 When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's
delight, NIV

Ezek 3:3 Then he said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your
stomach with it." So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth. NIV

The role of the prophets was to feed the people with food for the mind60. Therefore, by
analogy, when the prophets were lying and gave words that did not come from God, they
were feeding the people with defiled food. Ezekiel’s unclean food symbolized the false
words given to the people by most of the prophets after the foundation of Samaria.

Cooking bread The prophet Ezekiel Ezekiel stops

Food was defiled eats defiled food eating and turns
Symbolic
by cooking it on the other side
act 390 days
over manure.

In Hebrew
Dung = gelalim

390 years Return of the

Portrayed Foundation Exposure to 42,360 exiles of
events of Samaria falses prophets Judah from
& Idolatry Babylon

In Hebrew Gelalim & gullilum seems to

idols = gullilum share the same Hebrew origin

We will see later that the Foundation of Samaria coincide with the start of the most corrupted
(defiled) period of Israel’s history, a period also characterized by the introduction of the
worship of Baal (a foreign nation’s deity) by the Israelites.

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Notice in the following verse from Amos that the ‘absence of word’ (from God) can be equated to a famine.
[Amos 8:11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a
famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD. NKJV]
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Was Samaria founded 390 years before the return of the 42,360 exiles from Babylon? Yes,
and to justify this affirmation, I will show that King Omri, the one who founded Samaria, was
the one reigning 390 years before the return of the exiles of Judah from Babylon.
The return from the Babylonian exile happened 60 years after the temple destruction:

1 2 3-9 10 11 12 13-24 25 Ezek 40:1 In the

25th year of our
2 Kings 24:13-17 Fall of exile, … in the
Jerusalem 14th year after the
He [Nebu..] car- fall of the city
EXILE ried into exile all
Jerusalem * 1 2-13 14
of
Judah Return
Zede- 10 years 60 years of
kiah 42,360
King * 1 2-8 9 10 11 12-23 24 25 - 69 70

* 1 2 3-9 10 11
Jer. 29:10 After 70 years
2 Kings 24:13-17He made Notice: Zedekiah are completed at Babylon,
Mattaniah, .. and changed became king … and cause you to return
his name to Zedekiah. NIV before the Exile to this place.

Omri became king of Israel (and built Samaria) 100 years after the Ark was brought in
the Temple.

1 Kings 11:42 Solomon 1 Kings 14:20 1 Kings 15:25

reigned in Jerusalem He reigned he reigned over
over all Israel 40 years. for 22 years Israel 2 years.

Solomon 1 Kings 15:33 1 Kings 16:8

40 years and he reigned and he reigned in
Readers: Notice 24 years. Tirzah 2 years.
that I start Solo- King Jeroboam
mon ‘40-year reign’ 22 years
when his Palace K. Nadab
was completed. From 27th to 31st
2 years year of Asa.
I will address that
on page 104. K. Basha See 1 King 16:10
24 years and 1 King 16:23
K. Elah
2 years
K. Tibni
5 years

40 + 21 +1 + 23 +1 +4
Palace K. Omri
ready
Ark +10 + 90 Founding
in of
Temple Samaria
100 years

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Using the information found up to now, we can deduce that there are 390 years between
‘the founding of Samaria’ and ‘the return of the exiles’. i.e. (A430 + B60) – C100 on the
following figure.

/ Ark in Temple Ark in Temple

•C
3 See previous 100
Ark doing
9 p 61 page
a siege of
Samaria’s 0 Samaria’s
•A Jerusalem
foundation 6 foundation
4 Ref Ezek 4 * Jeremiah
3 70 prophetises
3 * 70
0 D
Exile of Israel Ezek 4:13
See E
2 110 p 92 Israel will
* eat defiled 3 F
60 Exile of Judah food among 9 I
100 the nations
Jerusalem’s Jer. 29:10 After 70 0 L
destruction years are comple-
ted at Babylon, … 70
E
•B and cause you to
previous D
60 page return to this place.

Return Return of 42,360

Figure 11. Defiled food

Initiating the period of 390 years with the foundation of Samaria is quite judicious. Samaria
hadn’t only become the capital61 of the northern kingdom it also became the seat of all the
corruption that prevailed in Israel:
Jer 23:13 "Among the prophets of Samaria I saw this repulsive thing: They prophesied by
Baal and led my people Israel astray.

With the start of Samaria a new dynasty of kings (Omri, Ahab, Ahaziah, Jehoram [Joram]
began to reign over the people. They introduced changes that would have a profound effect on
the people:
1 Kings 16:25 But Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD and sinned more than all those before
him.
1 Kings 16:30-32 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those
before him. He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but
he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and
worship him.
1 Kings 22:53 He [Ahaziah] served and worshiped Baal and provoked the LORD, the God of
Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
2 Kings 3:2 He [Joram son of Ahab] did evil in the eyes of the LORD,

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from then on Samaria would be the residence of all the kings of the northen kingdom until the Exile
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Legacy of Omri’s dynasty

New deity, New prophets, Corrupted shrines, A Temple of Baal in Samaria:

1 Kings 18:18 "I have not made trouble for Israel," Elijah replied. "But you [Ahab] and your
father's family [Omri] have. You have abandoned the LORD's commands and have followed
the Baals.
The corruption in Israel became so critical that it was almost impossible to hear the words of
God anywhere in the whole territory. There came a time when there was only one prophet of
God left:
1 Kings 18:22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of the LORD;
but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. NKJV
1 Kings 22:22-23 The LORD said to him, 'In what way?' So he said, 'I will go out and
be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And the LORD said, 'You shall
persuade him, and also prevail. Go out and do so.' 23 "Therefore look! The LORD has
put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has
declared disaster against you." NKJV
Hos 4:7 "The more they increased, The more they sinned against Me; NKJV
Hos 5:3 For now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry; Israel is defiled. NKJV

Meanwhile Judah didn’t do any better. Its land was also filled with corruption:

Jer 23:16 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets
who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own
heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD. NKJV

Jer 23:26 "How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies?
Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, NKJV
Jer 27:9-10 Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers,
your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the
king of Babylon." 'For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land;
and I will drive you out, and you will perish. NKJV
Ezek 22:26 Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have
not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the
difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from
My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. NKJV
Zeph 1:4 "I will stretch out My hand against Judah, And against all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place, The names of the
idolatrous priests with the pagan priests-- NKJV
Zeph 3:1,4 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, To the oppressing city! 4 Her
prophets are insolent, treacherous people; Her priests have polluted the sanctuary,
They have done violence to the law. NKJV

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The people of every tribes were fed with lies

After the foundation of Samaria, the idolatry, the deception, the violation of God’s law spread
like a disease across Israel. For hundreds of years, people of every tribe, showing an obvious
lack of judgment, had been listening and believing false teaching, thus succeeding in
alienating their one true God. Each Kingdom (North, South) was independently sent in exile
and the land was emptied of any descendant of Jacob.
The 390 years period ended when the first groups of Samaria’s
Israelites came back to the land. These had been exiled in foundation
Babylon for 70 years. The people were then offered a new
start, their sins were forgiven and they received a new 3 * 70
spirit: Exile of Isreal
(never came back) 390
Jer 29:13-14 You will seek me and find me when
you seek me with all your heart. I will be found 2* 110 y.
by you," … , "and will bring you back from 60 Exile of
captivity. NIV Jerusalem’s Judah
destruction
Ps 85:1-2 Lord, You have been favorable to Your 70 y
land; You have brought back the captivity of 60 y
Jacob. You have forgiven the iniquity of Your Return of Judah’s exiles
people; You have covered all their sin. NKJV

The Israelites didn’t need to go among other nations for the whole 390 years.
Some readers will also argue that Ezekiel 4:13 imply that the Israelites would have to eat their
food (hearing lies) among other nations for the whole 390-year period and not, as I suggested
for the Southern Kingdom, during only the 70-year portion of their Exile.
Ezek 4:13 The LORD said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among
the nations where I will drive them." NIV
Although the objection is legitimate it cannot be retained for the following raison. When told
about the way he should cook his food, Ezekiel protested vehemently and as a result, received
‘partial’ abatement for his assignment
Ezek 4:15 "Very well," he said, "I will let you bake your bread over cow manure instead
of human excrement." NIV
It is only logical that the events portrayed by this symbolical act should also reflect a convin-
cing form of abatement. Thus, as we will see, the Israelites didn’t immediately go abroad to eat
the defiled food from other nations. In the 210 years before Israel’s exile (Northern kingdom),
and the 320 years before Judah’s exile (Southern kingdom), it was the people of other nations
who came to Israel and changed (corrupt) their traditions.
After the foundation of Samaria the Israelites were inclined to mix with other nations:

1 Kings 20:34 "I will return the cities my father took from your father," Ben-Hadad
offered. "You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in
Samaria." NIV
Hos 7:8-9 "Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake
unturned. Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; NKJV

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King Ahab’s wife Jezebel, who was not an Israelite, brought with her the deity of her own
nation and introduced the worship of Baal on a large scale in the northern kingdom. (It is
quite conceivable that she brought also her own prophets with her when she came to
Samaria.)
1 Kings 16:31 but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians,
and began to serve Baal and worship him. NIV
1 Kings 18:19 And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four
hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."
2 Kings 15:29 In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria
came and … NIV
Foreign armies invaded Judah’s territory and the people were subdued by others nations for
years before being sent into captivity, thus sharing the same fate as their brothers from the
northern kingdom.
2 Kings 16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to say to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, "I am
your servant and vassal.
2 Kings 24:1 During Jehoiakim's reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the
land, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. NIV

Coking every day while tied up would have been impossible

Did Ezekiel really cook his food every day over the 390 day period?
Most commentators don’t hesitate to answer ‘yes’ to this question and then argue that the
daily cooking (gathering dung, starting the fire, food preparation) is a confirmation that
Ezekiel wasn't required to be on his side 24 hours a day.
The only problem is that the Bible’s text is not ambiguous, Ezekiel was going to be tied until
the end of his siege and there is no mention of any relaxing.

Ezek 3:24 Go, shut yourself inside your house. NIV

Ezek 3:25 And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes; you will be bound so that
you cannot go out among the people. NIV
Ezek 4:8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other
until you have finished the days of your siege. NIV
The full textual meaning of this is that Ezekiel was tied up and had to lie on his side without
interruption for 430 days (390 + 40).

What about the daily cooking then? Well, there couldn’t have been any daily cooking.

Notice that Ezekiel was told to cook but he was also order to go in his house for the
his food in the sight of the people? ? duration of the whole period (textually implied)

Ezek 4:12 bake it in the Ezek 3:24 Go, shut your-

sight of the people NIV incompatibility self inside your house.
NIV
The only way to reconcile this apparent contradiction is to have the ‘whole’ cooking done
just before Ezekiel went inside the house and lied on his sides for 430 days.
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Ezekiel couldn’t have cook more than one bread
Given that Ezekiel didn’t cook any food while he was laying down, does it mean that he
cooked a stack of 390 bread the very first day and ate one of these every day thereafter? I
don’t think so. I believe Ezekiel cooked only a single bread right in front of the people at the
very beginning of his ordeal and ate from it every days, at set time, during the following 390
days. Obviously we are forced to conclude that God miraculously increased Ezekiel’s bread
somehow and made it possible for the prophet to eat a 20 shekels part from it every day..

The widow at Zarephath received an inexhaustible supply of oil from God

1 Kings 17:11-14 As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece
of bread." "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any
bread-only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few
sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it-and
die." Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first
make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then
make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of
Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry
until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.'" NIV

Ezekiel as mentioned before, was portraying actions from the Temple’s perspective.
Isn’t it interesting that the food he ate for 390 days was associated with Israel north
side of the Temple. And what was the food on the northern side of the Temple? The
12 loaves of bread on the shewbread table.
According the Jewish sages the Temple’s 12 loaves of bread were miraculously
preserved. They say that when they were replaced during each Sabbath, although 7
days had passed since they were brought in, the loaves were ‘still hot as if freshly
baked' (BT Menachot 29:A) Besides, these 12 loaves, once removed from the table,
were given in very small bite portion to each Levites priest to be eaten (the bread was
not stale). Each one hunger was fully satisfied.

So, because of the correlation between Ezekiel’s food and the food on the North side of the
Temple we have a strong indication that Ezekiel food didn’t become stale in spite of the long
period it was kept. And because an ‘inexhaustible supply of material’ is not something
unheard of, it is quite possible that Ezekiel’s bread was miraculously renewed during the 390
days of his enactment.

But there is still an ultimate proof that Ezekiel cooked only a single bread and only at the very
beginning of his ordeal. Each Ezekiel’ symbolical act portrayed a period of time and the pair
of events that bookended that period of time. If you accept that the real events portrayed by
those symbolical acts can supply back some details about the symbolical acts themselves you
will have to agree with me on the following point:

The people of Israel ate defiled food for 390 days. That period started with the Foundation of
Samaria and ended with the Return of the 42,350 exiles from Babylon. The foundation of
Samaria was a single event that had to be matched by an unique event no matter that it
was a symbolic one. Therefore there couldn’t have been more than one single bread cooked.

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 The foundation of Samaria and the baking of a bread were acts of creation. In each case
something that didn’t exist was made.

Foundation of Samaria 390 years Return of the

Portrayed 42,360 exiles of Judah
Capital of the Israelites are exposed
events from Babylon
Northern tribes to falses prophets
No more exposure
A one time event & corrupted priest
to idolatry

Baking of a
single bread Ezekiel eats defiled
Ezekiel stops
Symbolic food every day
cooking over manure eating and turns
act
on the other side
390 days
A one time event

If Ezekiel had cooked a different bread each day for more than a year then the foundation of
Samaria would have had to be repeated 390 times, which it didn’t. Also, as Samaria was
founded only one time, to portray it by baking (i.e. creating) 390 breads in a single day would
have greatly weaken and ruined the value of the symbolical act.

We are now left with the following questions:

Did Ezekiel spend 430 days without relieving himself?
Was his food protected from spoiling during the 390 days he was allowed to eat?
Could Ezekiel have survived the following 40 days period without eating?
Was Ezekiel’s body protected from bed sores while laying down for so long?
I say ‘YES’ to all these questions. Ezekiel had been given a mandate from God. Anything
outside the symbolical realm of that mandate should be view as irrelevant (which would
explain why these miracles are not even mentioned in the text).

Is it rational to faithfully accept while being suspicious of the way a major prophet
the miracles described in Deu 8:4 like Ezekiel fulfilled God’s instructions?
Deut 8:4 Your garments Ezek 4:8 And surely I will restrain
did not wear out on you, you so that you cannot turn from one
nor did your foot swell side to another till you have ended
these forty years. NKJV the days of your siege.
NKJV
Hardcore sceptics would like to convince us that the 10 plagues of Egypts were a chaining of
natural phenomena and their consequences. As if a natural phenomena could selectively target
every first born of a population? What would have been the point to tell Ezekiel what to do if
he had had no means to do it?
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 Moses born
40
Moses’ escape from Egypt
2 * 60 40
3
1 Exodus 9
[House of
Israel] 0
0
years of 0
3 Promised 4
9 prophesying land 9
0 Gibeah sin 0
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[House 0 0 David 80 born
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of Israel] Samuel
0
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Start
40 40 40 const. of
1st Temple
Ark in the Temple Ark in the Temple 160
140
1 Hos 7:1 whenever I 1
0 would heal Israel, 3 0
0 the sins of Ephraim 9 0
are exposed and the 0
crimes of Samaria
S. revealed. Samaria Samaria
4
f. foundation foundation 3
D Jeremiah 0
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F Ezek 4:13 0
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3 Israel 3
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9 food among 1 9
0 L the nations 0 120 0
0 Exile of
E Dest.. of Judah
Jerusalem
D 70
60
Return of 42,360 exiles to Jerusalem
st
1 year of Cyrus (Ezra 1:1)

Figure 12. Ezekiel defiled food

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The 430 years and 400 years countdown to Exodus
Anybody who has studied the Bible’s chronology for some time will agree. There is only one
way to obtain the date of the Exodus and it is by properly identifying the origin of the 430
years mentioned in Exodus 12:40 and in Galatians 3:17. These two verses are fundamental to
the building of an elaborate and consistent chronology of the Bible.

Ex 12:40-41 Now the sojourn of the children

of Israel who lived in Egypt was four Event ' X '
hundred and thirty years. … all the armies of
the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
NKJV 30
430 - 400
years
Gal 3:17 What I mean is this: The law,
introduced 430 years later, does not set aside Event
the covenant previously established by God
and thus do away with the promise NIV
'Y'

430
In the following pages we will years
Exo
1. identify the covenant alluded to in 12 :40
Galatians 3:17 EVENT X 400
years
2. determine the right date for the Exodus, Gen
15 :13
3. and finally find out what happened 400 years
before the Exodus. EVENT Y

Gen 15:13 and they will be enslaved and

mistreated four hundred years. NIV
Exodus

The Exodus started when the Israelites left Egypt and according to Exo 12:40 it was at the end
of a period of 430 years62. The verse doesn’t say anything about the beginning of the period.
Fortunately, we are not left without a clue as Galatians 3:17 supplies us with an important
clarification: the 430-year period originated at the time of a covenant. In Galatians 3:16, one
verse before, we learn that the covenant was known to Abraham, the first patriarch of Israel.

Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. NKJV

Our initial approach will be to build a timeline of the important events in Abraham’s life. One
of those events is more likely to have triggered the 430-year countdown to the Exodus. We
have to keep in mind that we don’t know yet if we are looking for a covenant that was
enunciated, confirmed or activated.

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Here many people have been lured into thinking that the Israelites spent the whole 430 years in Egypt. Even
though the verse seems to say so it wasn’t the case and we will see later that there is an alternate way to
understand Ex 12:40.
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 Year Abraham Terah was Abraham
0 born 130 years old born
10
Gen 12:4 And
Abram was [75] Sarai
S.
75 years old when 3 born
he departed from b
*
Haran.
25
Year Abraham leaves Terah dies
75 Haran and goes to (aged 206)
See App A
Canaan on page 229

Gen 16:3-4 …, Abraham was 5

after Abram had childless at the * Gen 17:17
dwelt [10] years time of the 15 Will Sarah
10 in the land of Covenant, bear a child
Canaan. So he Sarai must at the age 2
went in to Hagar, have conceive of ninety?" *
and she conceived shortly after. 38

Year
85 Covenant between the parts
90
1 (cutting into parts)
(Gen 15:8-11)
7
Hagar conceives
5 25
1
Gen 15:18 the Ishmael Year
Gen 16:16
LORD made a born 86
Abram was [86]
covenant with
years old when
Abram and said,
Hagar bore him
"To your
Ishmael.
descendants .. 13 15
13
Gen 17:25 And
Ishmael his son
was [13] years Covenant Year
old when he was of circum- 99
circumcised in Gen 23:1
the flesh of his cision Sarah lived
foreskin. to be [127]
1 years old.
Gen 17:24 Abra- Isaac Year ( 127 - 90 ) 38
ham was [99]
Gen 17:17 born 100
years old when
he was circumci-
"Shall a 37
child be born
sed in the flesh
to a man 3 5
of his foreskin.
who is [100] Sarai dies
75 * *
Gen 25:7 ... 25 15
Abraham's life 38
which he lived:
[175] years.
Abraham Year Abraham
dies 175 dies

Figure 13 Abraham timeline

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 Should we start the 430 years … (see the previous figure for references)

When Abraham left Haran at age 75? He was certainly obeying God in doing that.
When Abraham received the covenant between the parts (Land being given) at age
85? This is the first time a sign is introduced to confirm that the land will be given
(the cutting into part, Gen 15:8-11).
When Abraham was circumcised at age 99? By marking his own flesh and the flesh
of his people Abraham was ratifying a very special agreement with God.
When 100-year-old Abraham became the father of Isaac? This was the fulfillment of a
promise received the previous year and the beginning of an important dynasty.

Only one possibility can be right, and one looks more promising already.
st nd rd th
1 2 3 4
POSSIBILITY POSSIBILITY POSSIBILITY POSSIBI..

Abraham born

75 See
85 prev.
Abraham page
leaves Haran 99
(goes to Canaan) Covenant 100
545 to Canaan between
y. the parts
? 430 land is given
Covenant of
years 5*5*5 circumcision
555
years
? 430
? +
years 430 Isaac’s birth
?
Exodus
? ? 430
Exodus
years ?
430
Return to years
40 the land
Exodus
By de- See
Promised duction 40 Num Exodus
land 32:1 569
40 y.

Promised land 40 570

y.
Promised
land
Promised
This chart shows how the Exodus’ date is a land
tributary to the origin of the 430-year period.
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 Intuitively, it seems right to start the 430 years leading to the Exodus at the ‘Covenant
between the parts’ when the land was given. One could say that the period started with
God’s promise to give the land (and the covenant that goes with it), and ends 430 years later
with the return of all the people to that land after escaping slavery in Egypt.
--- Unfortunately, that argument wouldn’t be strong enough to convince everyone that those
events are absolutely complementary. But there is more…
Have you noticed that the strange ritual performed by Abraham when he learned of the
covenant between the parts (cutting into parts), was echoed in several points at Exodus? Look
at the following two events and compares A & A’ B & B’ C & C’ D & D’

Gen 15:10-11 Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two
(A), down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other (B);
but he did not cut the birds in two. And when the vultures came down
Covenant on the carcasses, Abram drove them away(C). Splitting
between the
the parts parts
Gen 15:17 And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was
dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning
torch that passed between those pieces (D).
430 430

years years
Ex 14:16 But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea
later and divide it (A’). later
Ex 14:19-20 … and the pillar of cloud … So it came between the camp
(B’) of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and
darkness to the one, and it gave light [like a burning torch] by night Splitting
Exodus to the other … the
sea
Ex 14:22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a
wall of water on their right and on their left (D’). NIV

Ex 14:24 the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the
Egyptian army and threw it into confusion (C’). NIV

Cutting into parts Exodus

Abraham cut the animals in two A – A’ Moses splits the sea in two

Abraham placed the pieces the camp of Israel faced the

opposite to each other B – B’ camp of the Egyptians

Abraham drove away the vultures God threw the Egyptian army
C – C’
in confusion.
A burning torch passed between pillar of fire following the Israelite
D – D’
the pieces while they crossed the split sea.

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 A journey that lasted 430 years (in 6 steps)
(Covenant between the parts to Exodus)

(1) For the first time Abraham received a covenant

Gen 15:18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To
your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river
(2) that was accompanied by a sign
Gen 15:9-10 So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old
female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." Then he brought
all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite
the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. NKJV

(3) And in order to inaugurate (and seal) this covenant, God blazing torch went through the
animal parts.

(4) And 430 years went by

Ex 12:40-41 Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four
hundred and thirty years. … all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of
Egypt.
NOTE: Ex 12:40 seems to say that the children of Israel lived in Egypt for 430 years
but with the proper punctuation the expression ‘who lived in Egypt’ become a
distinctive mark that should be associated with the ‘children of Israel’ rather than the
‘sojourn’.
Now the sojourn of the children of Israel, who lived in Egypt, was 430 years…

Here the word used by the translators to describe what the children of Israel were doing
for 430 years is ‘sojourn’ (or ‘dwelling’). Wouldn’t the text be better served with a
word like ‘journey’?
Now the ‘journey’ of the children of Israel, who lived in Egypt, was 430 years…

(5) God remembered the covenant and was ready to give the Israelites their land:
Ex 6:4-5 I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of
Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers. And I have also
heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and
I have remembered My covenant. NKJV
Ex 6:8 and I will give it to you as a heritage NKJV

(6) Prior receiving the object of the covenant63 that was sealed when God went through the
parts, the Israelites went through the sea, which had been physically split. (We have here a
clear reminder of the true origin of this covenant.)
Ex 14:16 But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it.
And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. NKJV

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that is : the land
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 The Exodus also echoed another event that occurred during the very same year of the
covenant between the parts.

The second event: The dismissal of Hagar, the Egyptian’s slave

D
I of An (A) Egyptian slave was (B) mistreated by her (C) Hebrew mistress. She (D) fled
S
H into the (E) desert where she was met by an (F) angel while she rested near a (G)
M
I A spring on the road to (H) Shur .
S G Gen 16:6-7 " Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her. The angel of
S A
A the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is
R beside the road to Shur NIV
L

The slave (Hagar) ran away but was

430 told to go back.
in in
years
Canaan Egypt Gen 16:9 The Angel of the
LORD said to her, "Return to
Egyptian slave A – A’ Hebrew slave your mistress, and submit
yourself under her hand."
mistreat B – B’ cry out
430 years
430 Hebrew mistress C – C’ Egyptian master The slaves (Israelites) ran away but
years fled D – D’ fled wished they could be back.

desert E – E’ desert road Ex 14:12 Is this not the word

that we told you in Egypt,
Angel F – F’ Angel of God saying, 'Let us alone that we
may serve the Egyptians?'
spring G – G’ Red Sea For it would have been better
Shur H – H’ Wilderness of Shur for us to serve the Egyptians
than that we should die in the
wilderness."

Ex 3:7 "I have indeed seen the misery of my people [A’ Hebrew slave] in Egypt.
I have heard them B’ crying out because of their slave drivers
E
[C’ Egyptian master], and I am concerned about their suffering.
X
Ex 13:18 So God led the people around by the E’ desert road toward the Red Sea.
O
Ex 14:5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people D’ had fled,
D
Ex 14:19 Then the F’ angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's
U
army, withdrew and went behind them.
S
Ex 15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the G’ Red Sea; then they went out into the
H’ Wilderness of Shur.
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 A subordinate journey that lasted 400 years
(From Akedah to Exodus)
With the link between ‘Covenant between the parts’ and ‘Exodus’ now established we are
well positioned to determine with absolute certainty the origin of the 400 years of Gen 15:13.
Gen 15:13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land
that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. NKJV

Knowing that this period ended at the Exodus, it is a simple matter to go backwards 400 years
and see where it brings us. From the previous material (p.79) we deduce that Isaac was 15 at
that time, which in itself is a non event and wouldn’t qualify as a meaningful start for the 400
years. But suppose Isaac was 15 years old when he was sacrificed by Abraham! (The Jews
refer to this event as ‘the binding of Isaac’ and call it by the Hebrew word ‘AKEDAH’)
The Bible doesn’t give any direct chronological link to Isaac’s binding. Isn’t it surprising
when we think about it? Isn’t it quite inconceivable that the biggest act of obedience and faith
ever described in the Bible, the most important symbolic act, an act that would be mirrored at
Yeshua’s death, wouldn’t be accurately dated when more than 300 chronological references
are available to chart all kinds of other events? Isn’t it possible that the 400-year period had
its origin in the year of Isaac’s binding? Is there any other event that could be more
meaningful to mark the beginning of this important period?

430 years

See
75 years p 143 75 Moses
Jacob Joseph Moses escape
Cove- born 200 dies from E
born
nant Egypt
40 40 X
bet-
ween Gen 22:1-2 God tested Abraham, … And He said, "Take O
now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and
the go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt D
offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
parts U
Binding Isaac, the son of the free Ex 12:3 each man is
S
of the 15 woman, goes to a mountain to take a lamb for his
years old [Moriah] to be bound. family, NIV
Isaac Isaac
15 born 15 400 years
AKEDAH
See Gen 22:8 "God himself The Israelites, the sons of
p 79 will provide the lamb for the slaves, are freed and
the burnt offering, NIV go to a mountain [Sinai].
No
Altar Altar Altar

Gen 22:9 In Egypt the Israelites didn’t have a common altar but
But use of sacrificial Abraham on the last night of their stay, Hyssop was used to ex-
animals : Heifer, goat, built an piate each house with blood and transform them into
ram, pigeon, dove individual altar. (see commentary of Keil & Delitzch on Ex 12:11)
altar there

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In Gen 15:13 we are told that the 400-year period has to do with the whereabouts of
Abraham’s descendant. It goes without saying that we should have argued that Isaac’s birth,
the first Abraham’s legitimate son, was the rightful event to start the 400-year period.
Unfortunately the preceding chart shows that it is not possible, Isaac was already 15 years old
when the 400-year period started. This is why the ‘binding’ of Isaac is the next best choice if
not in fact a better one? Here is why.

First a few facts to show that Isaac was neither an infant nor an adult at the time of the
binding. One can say that at 15 years old, he was in the right age range.
Old enough to worship
Gen 22:5 We will worship and then we will come back to you." NIV
Strong enough to hold all the wood
Gen 22:6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son
Isaac, NIV

Still young enough to be called “boy”

Gen 22:5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy
go over there. NIV
NOTE: wªhana`ar the Hebrew word translated here as “the boy” could describe Isaac
at any period from the age of infancy to adolescence.

We are told that God would establish a covenant with Isaac.

Gen 17:19 I will establish My covenant with him [Isaac] for an everlasting covenant,
and with his descendants after him. NKJV
Gen 17:21 1 But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, NKJV
We are also told that Abraham and Isaac would be involved (together?) in a covenant and a
promise.
1 Chron 16:16 The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,
NKJV

Ps 105:9 the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. NIV

We know that a covenant was confirmed to Abraham at Akedah.

Gen 22:15-17 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time
and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and
have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you.. NIV

Could it be that Isaac was also chosen during Akedah?

Isaac’s relationship with his father Abraham culminated at Akedah. The only bonding activity
between them that was ever documented in the Bible was the three days’ journey to Mt.
Moriah. During this trip Abraham’s sadness must have been almost unbearable. How could it
have been different? He had just been asked to do the most difficult thing ever: to show his

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unfaltering obedience to God by voluntarily killing the unexpected son of his old age, the only
son he shared with Saraï, a son that he loved 64 very much. At age 15, Isaac was old enough to
understand what was going on and if he had ever witnessed his father making a sacrifice to
God in the past, he must have sensed that this time something was quite different.
Gen 22:7 "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt
offering?"

Whether he had known for some time or had only learned at the last minute that he would be
the Sacrificial lamb, it didn’t make any difference. Isaac never offered any resistance and he
followed his father, unrestrained, to the top of the mountain where an altar would be built.
Gen 22:5 Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there.
Thirty years after the Covenant ‘between the parts’ Abraham was 115 years old (see Figure 13
Abraham timeline on page 79) and would never have been able to bind his 15 year old son if
this one had refused to cooperate. Isaac was a consenting victim who could have found many
opportunities to run away, but he didn’t. On the contrary, he even walked the last stretch to
the altar by himself.
Gen 22:9 He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

The sacrifice of Isaac was a request so well chosen that it allowed both, Abraham and Isaac,
to independently prove to God their worthiness during the same event.
Abraham demonstrated his total submission by offering his son in sacrifice.
Isaac demonstrated his total submission by accepting to be the sacrifice.
At Akedah Isaac didn’t object to his father’s plan and he fully accepted that he was going to
die. In fact, he came so close to death that one can say that symbolically he did die that day.
But then, if there was a symbolic death, it had to be followed by a symbolic resurrection and
the opportunity of a new beginning. Indeed, that day, Isaac inherited his father’s covenant.
Gen 15:13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be
strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them
four hundred years. NKJV

The only remaining question before one can fully accept that Akedah is at the origin of the
400-year period is the following. Did Isaac, the new born descendant, begin this new journey
by being a stranger in a land that was not his? The answer is: Absolutely! Have you noticed
that Isaac never returned home with his father?
Gen 22:19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for
Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba. NIV

In fact 25 years65 will pass before we hear (Gen 24:62) that Isaac had been living in the Negev
and is about to meet his future wife. It seems that, after Akedah, Isaac’s whole life was spent
in the wilderness.

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Gen 22:2 "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love
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we just saw that Isaac was 15 at Akedah and according Gen 25:20 he was 40 years old when he married
Rebekah.
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Abraham leaves Haran Abraham went for a 3
The 400 years of Gen 15:13
days journey to offer a
and goes to Canaan sacrifice . Gen 21:4
40
Binding Instead of dying during the sacrifice, Isaac was saved
of Isaac at the last second. This symbolic rebirth is the most Heb 11:19 Abra-
appropriate start for the 400 years found in: ham reasoned that
God could raise the
Gen 15:13 "Know certainly that your
dead, and figura-
descendants will be strangers in a land that is tively speaking, he
not theirs, and will serve them, and they will did receive Isaac
afflict them 400 years. back from death.

Gen 28 :3 May God Almighty To God, the whole com-

bless you and make you munity of Israel is viewed as
fruitful and increase your a firstborn son: Ex 4:22-23
numbers until you become a Israel is my firstborn son, and I
community of peoples told you, "Let my son go

The ‘Childbirth Metaphor’ While the first born

The On the night before they left Egypt, the Israelite’s of the Egyptian
houses became like the womb of pregnant women were dying, those
‘rebirth’ ready to give birth after 40 weeks. (40 w. VS 400 y.) of the Israelites
of Isaac 1. Pharaoh had increased the people’s labor. Ex 5:9 were miraculously
4 protected.
2. In Ex 3:10 Moses is told to bring them (i.e. Abraham’s
0 leads descendants, see Gen 15:13) out of Egypt When water Figuratively spea-
0 breaks, a woman knows the birth of her child is near. king and similar to
to the Isaac, one can say
3. Men waited with the loins girded (legs free) Ex 12:11
y. 4. Eating in haste Ex 12:11, (impending event). Unlea- that they were also
birth vened bread picturing the urgency of the situation received back
of and the lack of time for the leavening process. from the dead.
Israel 5. Through Egypt ‘wailing’ was heard Ex 11:6 Period
of active labor for a woman
6. Nobody would leave his house before the appointed Metaphor
time Ex 12:22 delivery’s time cannot be shorten of a child delivery
7. Early in the morning, people went out through a
bloody entrance. Ex 12:7 Birth of the child 1 Labor increase
8. That day God delivered the nation Ex 14:13 The 2 Water breaks
midwife helps the baby during the birth 3 free the legs
9. Any meat left over had to be completely burned 4 Impending
before the morning (Ex 12:10) . Women’s event
afterbirth need to be disposed of (buried or burned). 5 Wailing
10. That morning the Egyptians gave the Israelites 6 Appointed time
women pieces of clothing for their children. Ex 3:22 7 Bloody exit
11. The day, similar to a child birthday, would be 8 Delivery
commemorated in the future Ex 13:3 9 Disposal of
12. God took care of his first born (Israel) and He fed afterbirth
Exodus them in the desert. Ex 8:16 (40 y. VS 40 weeks) 10 Gift received
11 Day to
The child delivery meta-
40 remember
phor took place on the
Moses requested an authoriza-
vey night every Egyp- 12 Nursing the
Nation of Israel comes tion to make a 3 days journeys baby
to the Promised Land to offer a sacrifice. Ex 3:18 tian first born died.

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 Abraham b. A
on b
The 430 years and 400 years P. 177 2 Sarah
5 7 born
countdown from Exodus Abraham 5 15
marries
5 65
60 4
0
*
Abraham
15
Covenant between (Cutting leaves Haran
the parts Into -2- parts
Gen 15:18 To your descen- Gen 15:10)
dants I give this land
1
2 2 4
Blazing
torch
5 5 15 0
A God binding part A Gen 15
covenant of the covenant covenant 15:17

involves involves 65
2 Abraham binding pouring Isaac born
parties part of the cov.. blood

15
Gen Fire on
22:10 the altar 15
Gen 22:9 4
60 *
Binding 7 15
of Isaac 5
‘Akedah’ 3 Isaac
* marries
4 15
3 Jacob
0 born 35
60
Ex 12:40 Now the so- 15 15
journ of the children 1
Abraham
of Israel who lived in Abraham d. dies 4
Egypt was 430 years. 2 0
2* * 2
4 Rebirth 35 60
*
Gen 15:13 and they of Isaac
will be enslaved and
0 Reuben 35

mistreated 400 years. 0 born

Israel 35 35
Isn’t Isaac’s binding the becomes Isaac
most obvious way to
Isaac dies dies
God
start this 400 years of firstborn
‘mistreatment’?
Pillar of fire
Exo.14:16 Exo 14:24

00 EXODUS
(Cutting the sea
in 2 parts)

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 Awesome Abraham
complementarity Covenant between
the parts Gen 15:18 On that day the
between 4 periods LORD made a covenant with
portrayed by Ezekiel Abram

4
Ex 12:40 Now the length of
Moses’ escape from Egypt 4 3 time the Israelite people lived
9 0 in Egypt was 430 years.
0
1
0
3 0 EXODUS
Ezekiel prophe-
9 syses for 390 days
0 True
y Gibeah’s sin
prophesying
-Ezekiel bare arms
for 430 days-
4
God’s 3
mighty power 0
ARK 3 y
captured 4
9
4 9
0
1 3 0
0 0
0 Samuel
died
Ark in Jerusalem

40 40

Ark in the Temple Ark in T.

1
0
0
4
Samaria’s 9
foundation 3 0
9
4 Ark’s
False 0 3 mighty power
prophesying y. 4 0 -Ezekiel holds a
9 y siege for 430 days-
-Ezekiel eats
3 defiled food 0
9 for 390 days-
0 Jeremiah
y prophesies

1 Jerusalem’s destruction
0
0
Return of the 42,360 R.
exiles of Judah …

Figure 14. Covenant between the parts

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Ezekiel shaves his hair

Ezek 5:1-3 "And you, son of man, take a sharp

sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over
your head and your beard; then take balances to
weigh and divide the hair. You shall burn with fire
one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of
the siege are finished; then you shall take one-
third and strike around it with the sword, and one-
third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out
a sword after them. NKJV

We learn in Ezekiel 5:12 that everything that was done with the hair (i.e. Burn, Strike,
Scatter) would also be done to the population of Jerusalem:
Ezek 5:12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine
in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter
another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. NKJV

Ezekiel lays
A, B, C A
for 430 days
would
The purpose of having Ezekiel shave
his hair was to use the hair to show have
how the people of Jerusalem would been Ezekiel shaves
B
be punished. The whole action could his hair
have been done without interruption a more
right after Ezekiel’s 430-day siege. natural
sequence Ezekiel scatters the
C hair to portray future
of events
events

Unexpectedly it was done differently

Ezekiel was told to shave all his hair Ezekiel shaves

B
and (see Ezek 5:2) wait until the end the his hair
of his siege before using the hair to
portray future events. Why can we be biblical
confident that it was done in that order?
Because there wouldn’t have been any sequence Ezekiel lays
point in telling him to wait until the A
for 430 days
end of his siege to dispose the hair if given
that siege had already been mimicked.
is
Ezek 5:2 You shall burn with fire one-
third in the midst of the city, when the Ezekiel scatters the
B, A, C C hair to portray future
days of the siege are finished; NKJV
events
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Why was a ‘delay of 430 days’ introduced between the shaving and the scattering of the hair?
What could possibly justify that the shaving was done so early and the ‘disposing’ much
later? In this paper, we have previously seen that many symbolic acts took place at the
beginning of Ezekiel’s siege. Was there also a symbolic act associated with the ‘shaving’
itself? Yes.

In order to find out where the ‘shaving action’ is meant to lead us, we first need to understand
how deeply humiliating the shaving of his head and beard must have been felt by Ezekiel:
Lev 21:5-6 They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the
edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh. They shall be holy to their
God NKJV
2 Sam 10:4-5 Therefore Hanun took David's servants, shaved off half of their beards,
cut off their garments in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away. When they
told David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the
king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return." NKJV
To have his beard and hair shaved was a humiliating experience for a priest and even though
he was only performing a symbolic act there is no reason to believe that Ezekiel would have
felt differently at the start of his 430-day siege. The keyword to understand this new symbolic
act is ‘humiliation’. We have to find a period of 430 years, initiated by an event that turned
out to be greatly humiliating for the whole House of Israel. This event can be found without
too much difficulty for it had a tremendous effect on the Israelites:

It is the capture of the Ark by the Philistine (1 Sam 4:10-11):

1 Sam 4:13 And when the man came into the city and told
it, all the city cried out.
What should have been a day of victory for the people of Israel
turned out to be a day of great stupefaction, confusion and
humiliation. This was prophesied earlier by Samuel:
1 Sam 3:11 Then the LORD said to Samuel: "Behold, I will
do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who
hears it will tingle66. NKJV
The daughter of Eli, who gave birth that day, named her child in relation to this event:
1 Sam 4:21 Then she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from
Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured
Notice here the perfect relationship between

Ezekiel losing his glory Israel losing its glory

A priest (his hair) (the Ark) The nation
mourning went into
symbol a sword instead of The Philistines’ army (of mourning
a razor is involved sword’s man) is involved mourning
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According to Strong’s definition (6750) tingle carries the idea of ‘vibration’ of the ears in reddening with
shame.
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Searching for the end of the 430 years ‘shaving act’

Ark
Ark captured captured
50 50 S
100 •F H
140 •C Saul king
•A 50•G
E A
Ark in z V
Ark in Jerusalem e I
Temple k N 430
190 Deduced
140 •D years
•H i G from the 450 •N
100 •B
e A timing of
events
Samaria’s foundation l C already
T seen
190 •I
‘unknown
event’
Exile of Israel

100
65 •S
•K 45
•O

Manasseh’s Manas.’s 110

abomination abomi.. •P
390 120
•E Jeremiah •R
prophetises
75
•L Exile
of Judah
Temple &
100 Jerusalem
•J
destruction
70
•Q
60
60 •M

st
Return of the 42,360 exiles / 1 year of Cyrus Return

Figure 15. Shaving act

References:
a See on page 63 i 430 – f 50 – h 190 o see page 92
b See on page 71 j see page 71 p see page 92
c See on page 77 k e 390 – i 190 – j 100 q see page 71
d See on page 77 L see page 61 (40 + 35) r o45 + L75
e See on page 77 m see page 70 S a 140 + b 100 +e 390
f See on page 55 n see page 77 - 430 – L 75 – m 60
g C100 – f50 (100 + 140 + 210)
hh c 100 + d 140 – f 50
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 In the preceding figure we very same period referred by
have established that the end Unknown Isaiah’s Isaiah in this important prophecy
of the ‘430-year period’ event foretelling
symbolized by Ezekiel’s Isa 7:8-9 Within sixty-five
shaving, happened 65 years 65 65 years Ephraim will be too
before Manasseh’s dese- y. y. shattered to be a people.
cration of the Temple. This The head of Ephraim is
65-year connection would Manasseh’s Ephraim Samaria, and the head of
be meaningless if there was abomination shattered Samaria is only Remaliah's
not a possibility that it is the son. NIV
very
The following figure shows that Isaiah’s prophecy (refered by me as Isaiah’s foretelling) was told,
very likely, 65 years before the Temple’s desecration by Manasseh. The prophecy was told at the
beguinning of king Ahaz’s kingship in answer to the threat represented by king Pekah.
Isa 7:3-4 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, to meet Ahaz at the end
of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field. 4 Say to him, 'Be careful, keep
calm and don't be afraid. NIV
And it could not have been told after the 20th year of Pekah given that this king reigned only 20 years.

2 Kings 15:27 Isaiah’s foretelling 2 Kings 18:10

Pekah …became could only have So Samaria
king over Israel been done in the was captured
in Samaria, and 17th or 18th or 19th King in Hezekiah's
reigned twenty or the 20th year of Hoshea 6th year, which
years. NKJV Pekah’s reign was the 9th
* 1-8 9 year of Hoshea
Land
became Exile
King of
waste for
Pekah 9 years Israel
* 1-16 17 18 19 20 * 1-44 45 46 - 109 110

2 Kings 16:1-2 In
the 17th year of 2 Kings 17:1 in the 12th
Pekah the son of year of Ahaz king of
Judah, Hoshea the son
Exile
Remaliah, Ahaz the of
son of Jotham, king of Elah became king of
of Judah, began to
Israel NKJV Manasseh’s Judah
reign. NKJV abomination
King
Ahaz
* 1-64 65
* 1 2 3 4-11 12
Temple
Ark Isaiah’s
fore- dese-
capt- 430 years 1 2 3-10 11 12-19 20 cration
tel-
ured
ling
1 2 3-10 11 12-19 20 21-64 65

In the preceding figure, in spite of the fact that it could also have been told in the second or third year
of Ahaz, it is ‘postulated’ that Isaiah’s prophecy was delivered in the first year of King Ahaz. Note
that Isa 7:16 implies that between the time the prophecy was delivered and the end of King Pekah’s
kingship, a boy would have matured enough to know right and wrong.
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If the ‘capture of the Ark’ is an event that could match the humiliation suffered by Ezekiel
when he had to shave, we haven’t yet justified that ‘Isaiah’s foretelling’ is the appropriate
event to close the 430-year period. This is what we are going to do shortly.
When Isaiah told King Ahaz that within 65 years Israel (i.e. Kingdom of Israel) wouldn’t be a
‘people’ anymore, he was certainly not referring to the time Israel would go in exile. If the
reader looks at the preceding figure he will notice that Israel went into exile only 20 years
after Isaiah’s foretelling. The question that should be asked is: Why then did Isaiah allude to a
time that was 45 years (65 – 20) after the Exile of Israel? The answer is that even though
Israel was sent into Exile 20 years later (in the 9th year of Hosea) it is assumed that many
people (from the northern tribes) had been left in the land and it would take another 45 years
to remove their identity.
In 2 Chron 30:5-6 King Hezekiah of Judah, in preparation for a very special Passover (5 years
after Israel went in captivity) is sending couriers all over Israel’s territories to invite people to
the feast in Jerusalem:
2 Chron 30:5-6 They decided to send a proclamation throughout Israel, from
Beersheba to Dan, calling the people to come to Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover
to the LORD, the God of Israel. It had not been celebrated in large numbers according
to what was written. At the king's command, couriers went throughout Israel and
Judah NIV
Two important facts have to be kept in mind:
1. Hezekiah wouldn’t have dared to send couriers into the northern territories if King
Hoshea had still been ruling over the land. Therefore, we can only conclude (without
the need of any timeline) that the Exile had already taken place.
2. Hezekiah wouldn’t have sent couriers if nobody had been living in these territories at
that time. Therefore we can deduce that not all the northern Israelites were gone.
The Exile of Israel (northern ten tribes) that took place in the 9th year of Hoshea was not
enough to completely eradicate the name of Ephraim’s kingdom; many people (Israelites)
were still living in the territory after that Exile. Isaiah was in fact predicting that it would take
another 45 years after the Exile to fully erase the Northern Kingdom’s identity once and for
all. How did it happen? It is believed that at the time of Manasseh’s captivity (following the
desecration of the Temple):
2 Chron 33:10-11 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no
attention. So the LORD brought against them the army commanders of the king of
Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze
shackles and took him to Babylon. NIV
the King of Assyria took that opportunity to resettle (exchange) people all over the territory:
Ezra 4:2-3 they came [people living in the land at that time] to Zerubbabel …and said,
"Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing
to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here." But
Zerubbabel, Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, "You
have no part with us in building a temple to our God. NIV
Now that the connection between Isaiah’s foretelling and Manasseh’s captivity is better
understood, we can investigate why this ‘foretelling’ is the appropriate event to close the 430-
year period (symbolized by the shaving of Ezekiel) initiated with the capture of the Ark.
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The scattering of Ezekiel’s hairs is matched by Isaiah’s foretelling

Ezekiel Lost
Ark captured
Humi- cuts his hair of glory Humi-
liation liation
430 430
days years

Ezekiel scatters Isaiah’s

wrath the hair Proclaiming foretells wrath
to portray hardship for future events
future events the future

The “disposing” done to Ezekiel’s hair has a Isaiah is predicting that the northern
double symbolical meaning. kingdom
(Isa 7:9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria)
A) It represents what will happen later,
during Ezekiel lifetime, to the people will loose their identity.
of the southern kingdom. Here the
Bible is quite explicit (ref Eze 5:12): Isa 7:8 Ephraim will be too shattered to be
a people
A third will die of famine and
plague but it won’t happend immediately.
A third will die of the sword
A third will be scattered Isa 7:8 within sixty-five years

NOTE: It won’t happend immediately. Isaiah gives us more details here:

Isa 7:19-20 In that day the Lord will use a
B) It also parallel the event that will
razor hired from beyond the River--the
mark the end of the 430-year king of Assyria--to shave your head and
period portrayed by the present the hair of your legs, and to take off your
symbolical act beards also.
i.e. Isaiah’s foretelling
This is a clear parallel to the symbolic
language used in Ezekiel. (Shave, razor, hair, beard).

If Jeremiah can equate ‘scattering’ (casting the hair) with

‘rejecting Judah’
Jer 7:29 Cut off your hair and throw it away ... for the LORD
has rejected and abandoned this generation.

then, when Isaiah tell us that God will reject Israel

Israel won’t be a people
The King of Assyria will be a razor

we can picture him (Isaiah) scattering some hair too.

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Contrary to the other symbolic acts of Ezekiel that we have seen in this paper, the shaving act
(i.e. cutting & disposing of) was not continuously carried on over the whole period of time
that Ezekiel lay on his side. Even though it is true that the two actions (cutting & disposing of)
were separated by the 430 days of his siege67, each action was fully completed on the day it
was initiated. For instance, once he had cut off his hair (first part of the shaving act) it started
growing again.

This is an important point to keep in mind while we are looking at the 430-year period
following the capture of the Ark. The humiliation of Ezekiel (losing his hair) was never
intended to become a permanent attribute68 of the period he lay on his side. Therefore, there
is no need to look for traces of ‘humiliation’ during the whole 430-year period that followed
the capture of the Ark.

The second part of the shaving act (i.e. disposing of the hair to portray future events) and its
counterpart, ‘Isaiah’s foretelling’, mirror each other adequately. When God asked Ezekiel to
dispose of his hair He was sealing the fate of the people of Judah (southern kingdom). When
Isaiah said that Israel would lose its identity within the next 65 years, God was also sealing
the fate of the northern 10 tribes (Ephraim). Notice that in both cases there would be many
years before the things announced came to pass. Shavingact

Shaving act

Real
Symbolic
Ark being
humi- captured
Ezekiel humi- liation
cutting (loosing the Ark)
liation
his hair

Ezekiel
lying
on his side 430 years
430 days

Ezekiel uses Foretelling

the hair to por- the fate of Foretelling Isaiah prophesies
tray the future the people the fate of (Israel will lose
the people its identity)

67
Thus establishing the duration of this [‘430 days of shaving’] symbolic act.
68
If it had been meant that way Ezekiel would have had to shave every few days during the next 430 days.
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 Cov. bet-
ween parts Moses born
4
0
3 Moses’ escape
740 9 1
4 0 0
3 0
0 3
9 Gibeah sin
Eli judge Eli judge 0
Oppression of 20 4
Phillistines 0
20
Ark captured 3
2 9
* 50 0
S 1
50 Saul King
150 H 0
David
A 0
Samuel born 50
dies 470 V
I 4 Ark in Ark in
50 N 3 Jerusalem Jerusalem
G 0
Const. of 370 4 4
st A 0
1 Temple 0
C
2 T Ark in A.
* Temple T.
150 4
3
Isaiah’s foretelling
3 0
(Israel is doomed)
9
10 65 1 0 4
* Manasseh’s 0 3
50 0 0
abomi..
65 Jeremiah prophesies
Exile of 4
Judah 1 0
640 0 End of
70 0 1st Temple
See See
Return of the 730 p 156 p 127 1
42,360 exiles 0
See 40 0
p 156
End of Nehemiah wall’s repair

Herod renova-
tes 2nd Temple

046

Yeshua mini-
nd
2 Temple stry starts
destroyed renoves the
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Ezekiel weighs and divides the hair
It is only when the shaving of his hair is understood as a symbolic act that we can grasp why
Ezekiel had to do the ‘cutting of his hair’ at the beginning of the 430-day siege but wait until
the end of that siege to use the hair and portray future events.

Ezek 5:1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword,

take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head
and your beard; then take balances to weigh and
divide the hair. NKJV
Ezek 5:2 You shall burn with fire one-third in the
midst of the city, when the days of the siege are
finished; then you shall take one-third and strike
around it with the sword, and one-third you shall
scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them.
NKJV
Unfortunately, this knowledge doesn’t explain why Ezekiel had to ‘weigh and divide’ the hair
immediately after the ‘cutting’ when it would have been much more practical to perform these
two actions just before the ‘dismissal’ of that hair at the end of his siege.

Ezekiel cut his hair Ezekiel cut his hair

then Ezekiel lies then he weighs

A, B, C A 430 days and divides B the
would on his side all the hair
Unexpec- biblical
have tedly it
then he weighs was done then Ezekiel lies sequence
been
B and divides differently 430 days A
a more all the hair given
on his side
natural is
sequence
and he scatters and he scatters B A C
of events C C
the hair in thirds the hair in thirds

Other questions should also be asked. For instance did God ask Ezekiel to make three bundles
of hair of the same weigh with a scale?

IMPORTANT: At the time of Ezekiel ‘scales’ were not very sophisti-

cated. An object could be weighted against a reference mass placed on
the other side of the scale.
One could also establish that an object was lighter or heavier than
another by placing each one on a different pan of the scale..
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It is very unlikely not to say impossible that Ezekiel could have created three bundles of hair
of identical weight with the type of scale available at that time. It should be obvious that the
‘scale’ in Ezek 5:1 was needed for a different purpose. NOTE: Ezek 5:2 introduces the three
bundles of hair only after mentioning the 430-day siege, therefore it is speculative to say that
they were weighted on the scale before that siege begun.
Another thing that seems questionable is the shaving of the beard. What did it brought that
wasn’t already portrayed by Ezekiel’s humiliation when he shaved his head? More hair for
the scale? I doubt there was such a need. While ‘hair’ from the head are physiologically the
same as ‘hair’ from the beard both are from opposite (upper vs lower) but adjacent areas of
the head. Isn’t it interesting that many symbolical acts described in this book are related to
either the Northern Kingdom or the Southern Kingdom of Israel, two opposite but adjacent
territories?
I suggest that the scale was meant to accentuate Hair
Hair
the separation between Ezekiel’s hair from his from
from
beard and the hair from his head. The weighting head
beard
was symbolic and any quantitative value
obtained was irrelevant.

But how do we reconcile the fact that, according Ezek 5:2, the hair was separated in thirds?
By simply recognizing that after his 430-day siege, Ezekiel, without the scale, must have
separated the hair a second time. This scenario is quite interesting as it introduces a new
symbolic act ‘Weigh & Divide’ subtly imbedded in the ‘Shaving’ symbolic act seen on p. 96.

Ezekiel cuts his hair

Using a scale Ezekiel
S weighs and divides
W the hair in two parts
H e
i
g
A
h A
Ezekiel lies A
&
V on his sides C C
d 430 DAYS T
i T
I
v
i
N d
e The hair is gathered
G and separated
in thirds
Hair are scattered to portray
the fate of the people

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 In the symbolism used by Ezekiel ‘hair’ represents ‘people’:
Ezek 5:12 One-third of you shall … ; and one-third shall … ; and I will scatter another
third …. NKJV
And ‘weighing’ could stand for ‘evaluating’:
Prov 16:2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the
spirits. NKJV
We have enough here to discern the two events that perfectly match the start and the end of
the new ‘Weigh & Divide’ symbolical act.

START The division of Solomon’s kingdom

Solomon had been judged (evaluated, weighed) and found guilty; he was then told
that his kingdom wouldn’t survive him:

• 1 Kings 11:10-11 Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you

have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I
have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and
give it to your servant. NKJV
• 1 Kings 11:13 However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give
one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David, NKJV
W
e • 1 Kings 11:30-31 Then Ahijah took hold of the new garment that was on
i him, and tore it into twelve pieces. And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for
g yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Behold, I
will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to
h you NKJV
t
4
3 &
0
D The 70 years of Babylon imperialism was the time allowed for the domination by
y. i Babylon over the surrounding nations:
v Jer. 25:9-11 I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant
i Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon," declares the LORD, "and I will bring
d them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding
e nations. …. and these nations will serve the king of Babylon 70 years

Darius (the Mede) took over the Babylonian kingdom and divided the territory
between three governors.
Dan 5:30-6:3 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years
old. It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty
satraps, to be over the whole kingdom; and over these, three governors, of
whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that
the king would suffer no loss. NKJV
END Fall of Babylon (i.e. End of the 70-year of Babylonian imperialism)
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 x‘Weigh & divide’ Symbolic actx

Symbolic action Real action

Hair are Solomon’s Kingdom

Ezek 5:1-2 weighted is splitted in 2
"And you, son & divided
House of Israel
of man, take a in 2 parts 1 Kings 11:31
Reuben, Gad,
sharp sword, Issachar, Dan, 'See, I am
take it as a Zebulun, Asher, House going to tear
barber's razor, Benjamin, of Judah the kingdom
and pass it over Hair Naphtali,
Hair Judah out of Solo-
your head and from Ephraim,
Simeon
from Manasseh mon's hand
your beard; then head
beard and give you
take balances to ten tribes. NIV
weigh and
divide the hair. Israel
NKJV

Judah

W 4
D
e 3
i
i 0
v 430
g d i years
h a d
y e
& s
Ezek 5:2 When the Dan 5:26-28
days of your siege MENE: God has
come to an end, numbered your
burn a third of the kingdom, And fi-
Hair is gathered Fall of Babylon
hair with fire in- nished it; TEKEL:
and separated
side the city. Take You have been
in thirds Darius divides his territory
a third and strike weighed in the
it with the sword (no need of a scale) between three governors balances, and found
all around the city. wanting; PERES:
And scatter a Your kingdom has
third to the wind. been divided,

Solomon lost the whole kingdom because of his idolatry

1 Kings 11:4-6 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully
devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been. He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did
not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done. NIV
Belshazzar lost the ‘Babylonian’ kingdom because of his idolatry
Dan 5:23 You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or
understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life NIV
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 From the timing of Nebuchadnezzar we can
anchor the period of Babylonian imperialism
Start to the destruction of Jerusalem. Fall
of of
Babylon Babylon
* 1 2 3 -8 9 10-18 19 20 21-69 70

Jer 25:1 in the 4th year of Jer 32:1 The word that came to
Nebu.. Jehoiakim … which was Jeremiah from the LORD in the
th
in charge Nebu- the first year of Nebuchad- [10 ] year of Zedekiah king of
of the th
chad.. nezzar king of Babylon) Judah, which was the [18 ]
babylo- year of Nebuchadnezzar.
nian become
army but king
he is not * 1 2 -7 8 9-17 18 19 20-x
King king yet
Jehoiakim
* 1 2 3 4 5 -10 11

1 2 3 King
Zedekiah
1 2 -7
* 1-9 10 11 50
Jerusalem years Fall of
destruct.. Babylon
by
deduction
2 Kings 24:1 Dan 4:31-32 The words
Nebuchadnezzar king were still on his lips Why did Jehoiakim rebeled after 3 years?
of Babylon invaded when a voice came from Could it be because Nebuchadnezzar
the land, and heaven, "This is what is became incapacitate (for 7 years) by God?
Jehoiakim became his decreed for you, King If it is the case then, going backward, we
vassal for three Nebuchadnezzar: Your can deduce that Nebuchadnezzar made a
years. But then he royal authority has been vassal of Jehoiakim one year before he
changed his mind and taken from you. … became himself king. So lets start the
rebelled against Ne- Seven times will pass by Kingdom of Babylon at that time (i.e.
buchadnezzar. NIV for you until .. NIV Jehoiakim 2nd year)

140
(see p.97)

2 * 120 120 20 Destruction 50

Israel is Start of of
doomed
Babylon Jerusalem
Jer 25:11 Fall
Solomon’s Empire
360 y. 70 of
Kingdom
splits
Babylon

430 years (symbolic act ‘Weight & Divide’)

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We know now that the ‘end of the 70- Ark brought into first Temple
year Babylonian imperialism’ happened
50 years after the ‘destruction of 10 3
Jerusalem’ (by Nebuchadnezzar’s Solomon’s
army), and we know that Solomon’s Palace
kingdom split happened 430 years is ready 50
before the Fall of Babylon, we have
enough
m to show that Solomon spent as
430 + 50
much as 40 years in his new Palace. 40
- 10 - 430
From ‘Ark in Temple’ to 430 1
1 Jerusalem’s destruction Kingdom’s split
= 430 years (see page 30) (right after Solomon’s death)
From ‘Jerusalem’s destruction’
2 to ‘Fall of Babylon’
Ezekiel’s
= 50 years (see previous page)
Weight
From ‘Ark in Temple’ to
& 4 430
3 ‘Solomon’s palace ready’
Jerusalem’s divide
= 10 years (see page 66)
destruction act
From ‘kingdom’s split’ to
50 2
4 ‘Fall of Babylon’
= 430 years
(hair devided symbolic act) Fall of Babylon

How long did Solomon reign?

Now that the ‘kingdom’s split’ has been accurately fixed we have enough to invalidate the
widespread belief that Solomon’s kingship lasted only 40 years. We will see that in fact
Solomon had been king for 63 years.

Solomon’s death occurred shortly before the ‘kingdom’s split’ and we have just learned in the
previous figure that this ‘split’ occurred 40 years after Solomon’s palace became available.
It follows therefore that Solomon’s reign had been longer than 40 years. Many readers would
find it outrageous if they were asked to question the authenticity69 of 1 Kings 11:42 where it is
mentioned that Solomon reigned over Israel for a total of 40 years. Fortunately, they won’t be
asked such a thing. According to the previous figure, from the completion of his palace to his
death (shortly before the kingdom’s split) there is a period of 40 years. This has to be the
same ‘40 years’ as the one mentioned in 1 Ki 11:42. But before accepting this convenient
interpretation, one point needs to be clarified. Why would 1 Ki 11:42 emphasizes only the
last 40 years of Solomon’s reign and choose to ignore the first 23 years during which
Solomon built the Temple and his Palace?

The answer is found in

1 Kings 3:14 So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My
commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days." NKJV
69
1 Kings 11:42 And the period that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty
years. NKJV
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 Among all the things God told Solomon He would give him, there is only one that came with
a condition attached. Solomon would first have to walk in God’s way before he received a
long life. In other words, there would be a period of evaluation before the promise would be
delivered. God appeared to Solomon right after the completion of the Palace. This would be
23 years after the beginning of Solomon’s reign (see on page 66 or below).
2 Chron 7:11-12 ... and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his
heart to make in the house of the LORD and in his own house. Then the LORD
appeared to Solomon by night, NKJV
The Theophany of 2 Chron 7:12 is a proof that Solomon’s reign had reached a turning point.
Up to that time Solomon had been on ‘probation’ as he needed to demonstrate that he was a
worthy king. By appearing to Solomon a second time God acknowledged that the king had
done well and he would be allowed a long life. Isn’t it quite revealing that all this happened
at the very time the new Palace became available? As if, symbolically, Solomon’s reign was
given an official start at the very time he was going to occupy his newly built palace.
Saul rejected
David king 20 + 7
Solomon’s kingship 3
3
p.181 & 55
of Judah lasted 63 years David to Jerusa..
His reign was divided in
two parts : 23 & 40 years
3
Ark to Jerusalem
3
40 3
st 1 Kings 6:1 in
Solomon becomes king 1 the 4th year of
2nd Solomon's
50 3 reign over
King 3rd Israel, … , that
p David dies th he began to
T. 10 4 build the house
r Temple’s
c. year of the LORD.
o const.. starts

23 b Temple S 1 Kings 9:10

y. a ready o …at the end of
100 t l 20 years, when
years i 3 o Solomon
A. 20 o Ark in 20 m had built the
o two houses, the
T. 63 y. n Temple n house of the
Solomon period LORD and the
10 king's house
kingship r
Palace ready e
P. i turning
r. God confirms Solomon g point
(theophany) n
50 s

a 1 Kings 11:42
2 And the period
Official reign l
40 40 * that Solomon
o reigned in
20 n Jerusalem over
e all Israel was
forty years.
Solomon Solomon dies
dies + Kingdom’s split
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Ezekiel’s hair growing again

Before directly addressing this new topic we first need to identify what happened at the end of
Jerusalem’s 70 years of desolation.

Destruction The destruction of Jerusalem was

of Jerusalem followed by 70 years of desolation:
The destruction of
Jerusalem and the Dan 9:2 in the first year of his
destruction of the
first temple are 70 years reign I, Daniel, understood by the
tied together of books the number of the years
desolation specified by the word of the
LORD through Jeremiah the
prophet, that He would
accomplish seventy years in the
Desolation desolations of Jerusalem. NKJV
is over

We learn from Chronicles that during the (70 years) desolation the land enjoyed its Sabbaths:
2 Chron 36:21 to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the
land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill
seventy years. NKJV

And we also learn that the 70 years of desolation were equivalent to the 70 sabbatical years
that had not been previously observed:
Lev 26:35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest--for the time it did not rest on your
Sabbaths when you dwelt in it. NKJV

When the Israelites came into the Promised Land God instructed them to allow the land to rest
for a full year every 7 years. That rule was known as the Sabbath law and it was enforced
until the death of Samuel (see on page 64). After Samuel’s death, during the next 490 years,
the Israelites never let the land rest and by the time Jerusalem was destroyed a total of 70
years (one year for every 7 years) had been disregarded. The Israelites deliberately chose to
ignore the divine law, unfortunately for them God did not forget it.

There is an important point to understand here. The 70 years of desolation that came after the
destruction of Jerusalem were not years of ‘punishment’70 against the Israelites, but rather
years of ‘restitution’ to a land that had been denied some of its Sabbath rest.

70
In fact the punition had been handled 10 years before when the Israelites (tribe of Judah) were sent into Exile.
105
 IMPORTANT Samuel
dies
The 70 years of exile
& Period
during
the 70 years of desolation 70 which the
Exile of Judah
* sabbatical
q are two different periods (King Jehoiakin and most 7 years were
of the people of Jeru- ignored.
salem go to Babylon) See p. 64
10
E
Destruction
x st
Jer 29:10 of 1 Temple

70 i start of ‘land’
desolation
l
D
Ezra 2:1 2 Chron 36:21
60 e
e The land en-
s
joyed its Sab-
o
bath rests; all
Return of the 42,360 l
70 the time of its
(from Babylon) a
desolation it
t
rested, until the
There shouldn’t be any concern that i
seventy years
the land had been inhabitated during 10 o
were completed
this last 10 years stretch of the n
desolation; what mattered was that the
land was still resting and wouldn’t end of ‘land’
produce any crops until the whole desolation
70-year Sabbath was over. ?? Event X ??

We have two important clues to identify the event ‘X’ that marked the end of Jerusalem’s
desolation.

#1. The return of the exiles71 (42,360) is not linked to the end of desolation.
#2. Once the 70 years of rest were completed the land would give useful crop yields for the
people again.

The timing of the event ‘X’ that we are looking for was clearly invoked by Haggai:

The land was going to produce again:

Hag 2:18-19 Give careful thought: Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the
vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit.
"'From this day on I will bless you.'"
71
Ezra 2:1 Now these are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been
carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to
Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his own city. NKJV
106
 The event that would mark the end of the desolation of the land was the resuming of the
construction of the second Temple:

Hag 1:9-11 "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy
with his own house. Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew
and the earth its crops. I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the
grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and
on the labor of your hands."

Three important things to note from Hagai 1:9-11:

#1. Haggai clearly identified a time when the Israelites were building their house 72
while the Temple lay in ruins.

#2. The land was not producing any useful crops. (In fact the land had until then
been enjoying its 70 sabbatical years of rest.)

#3. Obtaining any crops of the land was directly related to the construction of
the second Temple.

For Haggai to suggest the third point could only mean that the 70 years of desolation had just
been reached. There was nothing preventing 73 the construction of the second Temple
anymore.

Hag 1:7-8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house,
so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored

Destruction of the first Temple Note

Destruction of Jeru-
According Hag 1:9 salem & destruction
there was a period st
of the 1 Temple
when people were 60 y. 70 are used interchan-
building their years geably in this paper
house while the Return of of
Temple lay in ruin. the 42,360 No crop ‘land’
exiles desolation
10 y.

Construction of
Event X = nd
the 2 Temple

Land starts producing crops again

72
This is not surprising given that according to our hypothesis the Israelites came back to the land 10 years
before.
73
A few years back the people (from the 42,360 who came back with Zerubabbel) had laid the foundation of the
new Temple but they were not allowed to start any construction at that time.
107
 Exodus

450 - 400 50
See p.161 40 + 20 + 10 70
Joshua dies See p.163
O. Chushan
300 4
5 4 * 70 9
0 0
0 Ark captured

50 2 * 70
Saul king
Ark brought
9 100
into the temple
0
Solomon’s Solomon’s
0
palace ready palace ready

.
4 * 70
/ Three distinct ccurrences
300
of a 70-year period
Isaiah’s
foretelling
Exile of Israel

100

1 Start of Babylon
2 * 70 5
10 0
4 Jer 25:11
Babylon 0
9
imperialism Exile of Judah 2
0
10
70
Dest.. of Destruction of
Jerusalem Jerusalem 3 Jer
29:10 9
50 Exile 0
70
70 1 Fall of Babylon
70 10
2 Chro 36:21
land Return of the 2
desolation 42,360 exiles
10

Construction of
second Temple 3

Figure 16. Construction of the second Temple

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As mentioned earlier, Ezekiel had to shave his head and beard at the beginning of his siege.
What is not emphasized, however, is the fact that his new baldness didn’t last long.

430 days later

In truth, the hair of his head and beard started

growing again immediately after the shaving. This
may not have been apparent in the first few hours
of Ezekiel’s reenactment but let’s not forget that he
lay more than a year (430 days). We have here the
first part of a new symbolic act.

This act is associated with no specific house 74 and it lasted the whole 430 days of Ezekiel’s
siege. Surprisingly the act was not concluded by Ezekiel shaving his head again 75. However,
it is more than likely that the prophet rushed to make some proper hairdressing as soon as the
siege reenactment was over and he was set free 76:

Ezek 44:20 They [priest] shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long;
but they shall keep their hair well trimmed. NKJV

Ezekiel
Hair growing act

Ezekiel’s hair
start growing ????
again

430 430
days years

Ezekiel had to
????
trim his hair
starts growing

74
The side on which Ezekiel was lying didn’t alter the meaning of the act. Whatever side Ezekiel was lying on,
his hair was growing independently of it.
75
There is absolutely no indication that he would have done it any time during the siege. And it is quite unlikely
that he would have gone through the humiliation (shaving his head) a second time after the siege.
76
Ezekiel was tied during 430 days.
109
No matter how inadequate the following allegation will sound, I believe the event portrayed
by Ezekiel’s ‘growing hair’ is the ‘construction of the second Temple’. Notice that in each
case (“hair starts growing” and “construction of the second Temple”) a slow process is
initiated and will eventually bring back something that had been ‘dramatically’ removed 77.
The construction of the second Temple took place at the end of a 70-year period during which
the land was left completely desolated. We have already (on page 107) seen that ‘the day’ the
Israelites returned to the construction of the (second) Temple the land started producing food
again:
Hag 1:7-8 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways! Go up to the
mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and
be glorified," says the LORD. NKJV
Hag 2:19 Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate,
and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day forward I will bless you.'
Could it be more plain than that? The land started growing food the same day the
construction78 of the second temple began. We have here a direct connection with Ezekiel’s
‘growing hair’.

It was inferred earlier that after his siege was over, Ezekiel needed to trim his hair. Wouldn’t
it be also expected that after 430 years the second Temple was in dire need of some major
repairs? John 2:20 confirms that some major repairs were done to the 2nd Temple79

Ezekiel ‘hair growing’ symbolic act

Head was Bare land

completely starts
shaved Ezekiel’s hair Construction growing
nd food again
starts growing of 2 Temple
Right after the
end of the 70-
430 430 year desolation
days years

Ezekiel trims Herod renovates

his hair nd nd
Priest hair the 2 Temple 2 Tem-
should be starts growng le is ‘trim-
short med’ i.e
Ezek 44:20 refreshed
According the historian
Josephus, Herod the
Great lengthened each
side of the 2nd Temple

77
Ezekiel felt humiliation at losing his hair; the Israelites felt despair at seeing their Temple destroyed.
78
We will see in the coming pages of this book that the construction of the 2nd Temple happened 3 years after its
foundation was layed out. It is important to keep in mind that these two events are not the same.
79
John 2:20 The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, NIV
110
 Covenant between the parts
370
5
* Joshua
0740
740 born
90
P 163
370
Leave Kadesh
Eli judge
430 See
years p 174 2
0470 *
Ark brought 90
in Jerusalem 6
Ark brought 0
5 Israel in 1st Temple 0
* doomed
90
Start of Babylon’s 430
70 y. of imperialism 500
Exile
of Judah
st
End of 1
90 Temple

70
640
Const. of the Land starts Cons.
2nd Temple growing 2nd Te.
starts food again starts 500

430 portrayed by the

430
years ‘hair growing’ act

Herod 6
Herod renovates
reno.. 0
the 2nd Temple
2nd Te. 0
John 2:20 "It has Notice that
taken 46 years to 046
build this temple
Herod renovated
Yeshua’s the second Tem-
Ministry starts ple exactly 500
Ministry lasted 4 years after the
90 years, clues will 04 90
be presented on destruction of
p. 149. Yeshua dies the first one.
A coincidence or
prophesied by God’s will?
Jonah P155 40

nd
Destruction of 2 Temple
(by the Roman legions of Titus)

Figure 17. Hair growing act

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 Here are the 3 symbolic acts associated with Ezekiel’s hair (ref p 90, 98, 105)

1
Ezekiel cuts his hair

Using a scale Ezekiel 2

S weighs and divides Ezekiel Ark is
the hair in two parts cuts his hair captured
W
H e
i Hair starts 3 real

g G growing S 4
A r S 3
h
4 h
y 0 1
& o Ezekiel a
w 3 m 430
V lies on v b
i 0 d years
d his sides i o
i n days n l a
I g y
v Ezekiel trims g
i his hair s
real
N d
e The hair is gathered Hair is scattered Isaiah
and separated to portray the foretells the
G
in thirds people’s fate fate of Israel

Hair are scattered to portray

the fate of the people

Hair is weighted Israel’s Hair Construction

& divided Kingdom is starts of 2nd Temple
in 2 parts divided in 2 growing starts
real real
W 4 4
e G
S 3 3
2 3
r S
i y 0 y 0
g m o 430
430 m
h b d w years
years b d
o i o
i l a a
n y n l
y
g s g
s
real real
Hair is Territory divi- Ezekiel Herod reno-
separated ded between trims vates the
his hair nd
in thirds 3 governors 2 Temple

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 Daniel 70-week & post exile chronology
Dan 9:24-27 24 "Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the
transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both
vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. 25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth
of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven
weeks ‘A’. Then for sixty-two weeks ‘B’ it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the
prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there
shall be war; desolations are decreed. 27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week ‘C’; and
for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come
one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator." RSV

This prophecy covered a period of 490 years (70 weeks of 7 years each) separated into 3 parts (A, B, C).
The prophecy is solely concerned by the years of these three specific periods as they are the one that will
contribute an active role to bring an end to the transgression in the holy city of Jerusalem. The 3 divisions
form a ‘time allotment’ and therefore don’t need to be continuous. (More on page 130)

Daniel’s 70 weeks (70 weeks are ‘set aside’)

7 weeks 62 weeks 1 week D
e
Going Event X A ‘discarded’ c
Part Part Gap of years Part
Anointed A prince r
forth ?Anointed (to be reviewed)
One e
A one B These years C e
don’t involve ‘Who is
of the A prince? Cut off d
Daniel’s people to come’ (3 ½ + 3 ½)
and Jerusalem.
word 49 years 434 years Dan 9:24 7 years e
n
483 X years 7 d
483 + 7 = 490 years

Any gap of years between part B and C should be viewed as irrelevant to the prophecy total
count of years. It is therefore wrong to conclude that God has been stopping a so called clock
in order to justify the gap. There is a gap because it covers a period of time that has nothing to
do with any of the three active parts described in the prophecy. (We will see in p. 130 why
parts A & B are continuous while part C stands apart.)

The first80 two periods (A & B), although described separately, are consecutive:
Dan 9:25 there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks RSV
Daniel’s prophecy starts with a ‘word’ to restore Jerusalem:
Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to
restore and build Jerusalem RSV
Isa 44:28 … he will say of Jerusalem, "Let it be rebuilt," and of the temple, "Let its
foundations be laid." '

80
The last period ( C ) will be review in Appendix I on page 271.
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While most chronologers take the position that the 70-week period started at the time when
‘the word’81 was prononced, which compel them (these chronologers) to search for the
specific decree associated with that word, I have a very different approach.

It is obvious to me that the ‘going forth of the word’ (Dan 9:25) can only
mean the time of the ‘EXECUTION’ of that word, i.e. the start of the 70-
week of Daniel has to coincide with the point in time when the very first
‘concrete’ action to restore Jerusalem was laid down on the ground.

Ezra 3:10-11 When

the builders laid the
foundation of the
temple of the LORD,
the priests in their “Dan 9:25 from the
vestments and with going forth of the
trumpets, and the word to restore and
Levites (the sons of build”
Asaph) with =
cymbals, took their Ezra 3:10-11 When
places to praise the the builders laid the
LORD, as prescribed foundation… And
by David king of all the people gave
Israel. 11 With praise a great shout
and thanksgiving
they sang to the
LORD:
"He is good; his love
to Israel endures
forever." Laying the
Temple’s
And all the people
foundation
gave a great shout
of praise to the
LORD NIV

In this paper there is no doubt that laying Isa 44:28 he will say of Jerusalem, "Let it be
the nd rebuilt," and of the temple, "Let its
the Foundation82 of the 2 Temple
foundations be laid." ' NIV
was the first step to rebuild Jerusalem
and therefore it coincided with the rebuilding laying the 2nd
=
start of Daniel’s 70 weeks. Jerusalem Temple’s foundation

81
Or ‘going forth of the commandment’ KJV (see Dan 9:25)
82
This is the very first step toward the Temple’s construction and thereby the first step to restoring and
rebuilding Jerusalem. It doesn’t matter that the Israelites had erected an altar in Jerusalem 6 or 7 months before
given that it was made with earth or by piling a few stones one over the others. (see Ezra 3:1)
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 Jerusalem & 1ST Temple destruction
50 y. P.101
Daniel revceived the 70-week
prophecy exactly 17 years (10 + 7) End of Baby..
1st y. of Darius Dan 9:2 in the first year of
before its enactment his reign [Darius], I, Daniel,
10 y. understood … that the
st desolation of Jerusalem
1 year of Cyrus / Return of the 42,360 exiles
would last 70 years. NIV
70
7 y. d
y.
2 Chron 36:21 The land en-
Foundation of Fo. 10 y. e joyed its sabbath rests; all the
nd nd time of its de-solation it res-
2 Temple 2 ted, until the 70 years were
T. 3 y. g completed in fulfillment of
the word of the LORD spo-
Const. of ken by Jeremiah. NIV
nd
h 7 y. 2 Temple
Daniel
a 4 y. f
7 weeks Notice
(49 years) nd nd
4 2 T. 2 Temple
b
9 re.. is ready
0
483 42 y. st
y. 1 Temple
years construction
Ev.
Event ' X ' 7 y. i
' X'
st
1 Temple
ready
Daniel
500 j
62 weeks years
(434 years)
c The end of Daniel first 69 nd
2 Temple
weeks is associated with foundation
the death of Yeshua:
Yeshua dies 7 y. h
Dan 9:26 After the sixty-
two 'sevens,' the Anointed 2
nd
Temple
One will be cut off and ready
will have nothing.

Figure 18. Second Temple period

A: p 108 & 111 (10 + 430 + 46 + 4)

J: From Figure 8 on page 63
B: 7-week = 49 years
C: 62-week = 434 years ‘Temple ready’ to ‘Temple’s dest..’ = 433
From Figure 11 on page 71
D: A490 – C434 – B49 = 7
E: See Figure 16. On page 108 ‘Temple’s destruction .’ to ‘Return’ = 60
F: See Ezra 6:15 ‘Return’ to ‘Foundation’ = D = 7
G: F10 – D7 = 3
H: G3 + E4 = 7 I : See page 55 500 y.

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Here are two sequences of events using the 2nd Temple construction

* 1 2 3 From the previous page

Sequence we know that the Foun-
#1 Start nd
Foundation dation of the 2 Temple
nd 3 construction occured 3 years before the
of 2 Temple of 2nd Temple start of its construction

Start
Sequence Darius 2nd Temple
2 construction 4
#2 king of 2nd Temple
is ready

* 1 2 3 4 5 6

Ezra 4:24... the work ... came Ezra 6:15 The temple was
to a standstill until the second completed ... in the sixth year
year of the reign of Darius of the reign of King Darius.

Darius sequence : obtained by merging the previous two sequences of events

* 1 2 3 4 5 6

Foundation Start
Darius construction 2nd Temple
of
nd king of 2nd Temple is ready
2 Temple

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Now we will take a closer look at the Nehemiah’s period:

Nehemiah Part 1 Neh 1:1-2 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.
Connecting It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in 20th year, as I
from an un- was in Shushan the citadel, that Hanani one of my
Event known event Y brethren came with men from Judah; NKJV
'Y' Note: This happened in the month of Chislev
* 1-19 20th and it was in the 20th year of an event ‘Y’ that
Nehemiah re- is not mentioned by name.
ceives some
news from Note: The unknown event (Y) referred to by Nehemiah
Jerusalem must have had great importance given that
Nehemiah is still remembering it 20 years later.

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Nehemiah Part 2 Connecting from Neh 2:1 And it came to pass in the month of
king Artaxeres Nisan, in the 20th year of King Artaxerxes, NKJV
King
Neh. Note: Here an event is connected with the 20th
Arta- meets year of king Artaxerxes, in the month of Nisan.
xeres K. Ar.. Three months have gone since Neh 1:1 (Chislev –
* 1-19 20th 21-31 32th Tebeth – Adar – Nisan). Given that Nisan is the
Wall Wall start of the new year (my working hypothesis in
Nehemiah asks
the King to be started 12 years ended this book) we can rule out that this ‘20th year’ of
sent to Jerusalem to repair? Artaxerxes (Neh 2:1) is the same ‘20th year’
referred earlier in Neh 1:1.
The wall was large (people walk on it), long
(many huges gates), very high (to offer full Nehemiah built Jerusalem’s wall from the 20th to
protection). It had been unattended for almost 90 the 32th year of Artaxerxes.
years beside being partly damaged or destroyed Neh 5:14 from the time that I was
by Nebuchadnezzar’s war (Jer 52:14). appointed to be their governor in the land
Neh 4:19 "The work is extensive and of Judah, from the 20th year until the 32th
spread out, and we are widely sepa- year of King Artaxerxes, twelve years,
rated from each other along the wall. NKJV
Should we be surprised that it took 12 years to Neh 5:16 Instead, I devoted myself to the
repair? NO work on this wall. NIV

NOTE: Neh 6:15 seems to suggest that the work on the whole wall took only 52 days but we will
see that it is not the case.
Neh 6:15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days. NIV
In Neh 6:1 we are told that the wall is completed but without the gates.
Neh 6:1 When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our
enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it-though up to that time I had
not set the doors in the gates- NIV
However, in Neh 6:3 the work is not stopped yet (in spite of having said in Neh 6:1 that the wall was
already rebuilt.
Neh 6:3 "I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop
while I leave it and go down to you?" NIV
Why not? Because once the wall was completed (after 12 years) the people started to work on the
gates. So, when Neh 6:15 claims that the work was completed in 52 days we need to understand that
it took an additional 52 days to repair all the gates.
Merging Nehemiah Part 1 & 2
* 1 2-19 20th
Event 'Y' Nehemiah re-
ceives news 3 months
20 years after later
N
event Y Neh.. meets Art..
E King
H in the king’s 20th
Arta- year, then goes
E
M xeres to Jerusalem.
I * 1-18 19 20th 21-31 32th Neh 7:4 the city was large..
A
Wall Wall It took 12 years to repair the
H
’s sequence started ended whole wall and its towers
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When Nehemiah came to Jerusalem to “repair” the wall, Jerubabel and the 42,360 exiles had
already returned. We deduce this from the presence of many people (priest, nobles, officials)
in the city when Nehemiah inspected the wall three days after his arrival:

Neh 2:12-13 I set out during the night with a few

men. ... There were no mounts with me except the
one I was riding on. ... By night I went out ...
examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been
broken down, NIV
Neh 2:16 And the officials did not know where I had
gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews,
the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others
who did the work. NKJV

nd
Also, when Nehemiah came to Jerusalem the 2 Temple had already been rebuilt:

Neh 6:10 … and he said, "Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple,
and let us close the doors of the temple, NKJV

Nehemiah couldn’t have met anybody at the Temple if it hadn’t been already rebuilt. Also
notice83 that the sadness expressed in Neh 2:3 occurred just before Nehemiah came to
Jerusalem. He was then overwhelmed by the knowledge that the city lay in ruins and its gates
had not been repaired yet. There is no mention that Nehemiah grieved for the Temple; it can
nd
only be explained by the fact that the 2 Temple had already been reconstructed.

Now, knowing how concerned Nehemiah was when he learned, from his brother, about the
awfully neglected condition84 of the city, also knowing that Nehemiah took upon himself to
repair the wall around Jerusalem and once it was done, he took some measures to repopulate
the city85, knowing all that, wouldn’t it make a lot of sense if the mysterious ‘Event Y’ (Neh
nd
1:1) still remembered by Nehemiah 20 years later, happened to be the ‘Foundation of the 2
Temple’?

The first 7 weeks of Daniel’s 70-week prophecy are mostly concerned with the restoration of
the city and we have already made the ‘foundation of the Temple’ the very beginning (see page
114) of those 7 weeks. Should we be surprised if Nehemiah the ‘builder’, who loved Jerusalem
to the point of crying for it, had always kept track of the years since the ‘foundation of the
nd
2 Temple’ (rebirth of the city) and used them as the origin86 of his personal timeline?
As we will see, this conclusion allows us to untangle the sequence of events that occurred
during the first 7 weeks of Daniel’s 70 weeks of prophecy.

83
Neh 2:3 "May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'
tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire? NKJV
84
Neh 1:2-4 and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and
concerning Jerusalem. … The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire." So it
was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned NKJV
85
Neh 11:1 … the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, NKJV
86
See Neh 1 :1-2
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 * 1 2 3 4-6 7 8-19 20
End
Event 'Y' Nehemiah
of
receives news
= first
Nehemiah King Start Wall
Foundation Artax-
Sequence nd of fini- 7
of the 2 erxes Wall shed weeks
Temple * 1 2 3-5 6 7-18 19 20 21-31 32 Event
Daniel first 7 Weeks of 70 weeks’ prophecy 'X'

* 1 2 3 4-6 7
Exile of Israel
Event 'Y'
Const. 2nd 2 * 55
= nd
Darius King of 2 Temple
Foundation Exile of Judah
Sequence nd Darius Temple is ready
of the 2 10
Temple * 1 2 3-5 6 70 End of
st
1 Temple
Return 77
66
Ezra 3:1-2 When the seventh of Judah New altar
month came and the Israelites
had settled in their towns, the 07 01
2
people assembled as one man Foundation T#2
*
in Jerusalem. Then Jeshua
….Zerubbabel …. and his 55 03
associates began to build the T#2
altar of the God of Israel NIV
21
const..
(see C on next page) 33
Repair
Merging 30 wall
Nehemiah’s sequences 12
& Nehemiah’s Wall
Darius’ sequence finished

* 1 2 3 4-6 7 8-19 20 21 22-32 33 34-48 49

Nehemiah
receives
It is now obvious that
news
King Artaxerxes and
Foundation Neh 1:1-2
Darius are the same End
King of
of Artax- Start End Nehe- first
erxes Start nd of miah asks
2 of 7 weeks
nd = const. Temple wall’s wall’s people to
2 nd move in
King of 2 is repairs repairs event
Jerusalem
Temple Darius Temple ready 'X'
* 1 2 3-5 6 7-18 19 20 21-31 32
16
Daniel’s first 7 Weeks (of 70 weeks’ prophecy)
Figure 19 Post Foundation

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 What does Ezra have to say about the second Temple period?

Going through the book of Ezra for the first time could be a confusing experience. But, as we
will see, once we have the proper sequence of events, Ezra becomes crystal clear.

In the following pages

we will scrutinize the
A C B D sequence of events
A —> K
King
nd
2
C
Return in the Temple’s
y
r of 7th foundation
u 42,360 month laid out
s exiles an altar
is set
* 1 2-6 7 8 9

F K
E G H I
J
King
nd Temple
Darius 2 Temple
(Artaxerxes) construction is
starts ready
* 1 2 3-5 6 7-19 20 21-?

A Cyrus, in the first year of his reign, allowed the exiles to return to Jerusalem and build their
temple:
Ezra 1:1-2 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, ….. the God of heaven, has given
me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at
Jerusalem in Judah. NIV

B According to Figure 18 on page 115 the foundation of the second Temple was laid 7 years
after the ‘return of the exiles’.

C The people came to Jerusalem in the 7th month to erect an altar:

Ezra 3:1 And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the
cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. NKJV

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This happened before the foundation of the Temple was laid
Ezra 3:6 But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid. KJV
nd
In Ezra 3:8 we are told that the Israelites laid the foundation of the Temple (B) in the 2 year
of their coming to the house of God”
Ezra 3:8 Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of
God at Jerusalem, NKJV
When was that? It couldn’t be the second year since the exiles had return in the land,
because we already know (see B) that 7 years had passed since then. To be consistent, we
nd
must conclude that they laid the foundation of the Temple the 2 year after having erected the
Altar. So, when Ezra 3:8 alludes to ‘coming to the House of God’, we have to understand that
he is talking about the site where the Temple had stood before. Only ruins stood there now.
Could the Israelites have postponed coming to Jerusalem to erect an altar (and celebrate the
Feast of Tabernacles as required) for 6 years? Yes. Have you notice that Ezra 3:1 does
specify that the people came from their cities87 implying that they had already settled down?
nd
D Zerubbabel’s plan was to construct the 2 Temple right after the foundation had been laid,
but then the enemies88 of Judah came and discouraged the people, a situation that started
during the time of Cyrus and prevailed until Darius (King of Persia):
Ezra 4:4-5 Then the people of the land tried to discourage the people of Judah. They
troubled them in building, and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose
all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. NKJV

Important: The enemies of Judah did their obstruction (and prevented the construction of the
Temple) without involving King Cyrus. They (the enemies) knew very well that Cyrus was
favorable89 to the construction of the Temple and it would have been foolish to address him
with any request to prohibit any work by the Israelites. This explains why Cyrus never
received any letters of complaint from the enemies.

E It is only when Artaxerxes became king that the enemies wrote to the king. In their letter
they complained to the new king that the people were rebuilding the city90 (meaning that some
houses were being repaired by a few Israelites while they were waiting to work on the
Temple):
Ezra 4:6-7 At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes, they lodged an accusation against
the people of Judah and Jerusalem. And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia,
Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes.

Note: The ‘Xerxes’ of Ezra 4:6 is another name for Artaxerxes and should not be confused
with the ‘Xerxes’ of the book of Esther.

87
Given that it was 6 years after the return from exile, the people had had enough time to settle down in their
ancestral cities.
88
The enemies could be those ‘few’ who were already occupying the land when the exiles came back home.
89
Ezra 1:2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given
me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. NKJV
90
Because of the bad counselors, the re-construction of the 2nd Temple was still being delayed and some of the
returned exiles had started working on their homes instead.
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So at the beginning of his reign Artaxerxes received a letter91 informing him that the Jews
were rebuilding the rebellious city of Jerusalem:

Ezra 4:12 The king should know that the Jews who came up to us from you have gone
to Jerusalem and are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are restoring the
walls and repairing the foundations [of the city].

Upon receiving this letter King Artaxerxes had a search made in the royal archives and it was
found that the city had indeed a long history of revolt:

Ezra 4:19-20 and a search was made, and it was found that this city has a long history
of revolt against kings and has been a place of rebellion and sedition.

F King Artaxerxes sent back a letter forbidding any rebuilding in Jerusalem (no houses,
no wall):

Ezra 4:21 Now issue an order to these men to stop work, so that this city will not be
rebuilt until I so order.

Notice that Artaxerxes at this point was not aware that the previous king (Cyrus) had decreed
the construction of the Temple. The only purpose for the search in the archives was to verify
the allegation that the city had been rebellious in the past. Upon confirmation of it, Artaxerxes
(Darius of Persia) ordered the returned exiles not to build anything in Jerusalem.

G In the second year of Darius (that is to say ‘Artaxerxes’) Haggai confronted the people of
Judah and told them not to delay the construction of the Temple any more. As a result the
people stopped building their houses92, came back to Jerusalem and at long last started
nd
building the 2 Temple:

Hag 1:14-15 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the
spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house
of the LORD Almighty, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the
second year of King Darius.

91
Ezra 4:8 Rehum the commanding officer and Shimshai the secretary wrote a letter against Jerusalem to
Artaxerxes the king
92
We have two strong indications that the people at that time were not building their houses inside the city of
Jerusalem:

1) King Artaxerxes had forbidden any construction in the city. See F

2) More than 30 years later, after the completion of the wall we will see that there were still no houses in
the city (Jerusalem) and Nehemiah had to take some measures to change this situation:
Neh 7:4 Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses
had not yet been rebuilt.
Neh 11:1 Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots
to bring one out of every ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were
to stay in their own towns.

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H The enemies then sent a new letter to Darius (Artaxerxes) telling him the people had started
the construction of their Temple:

Ezra 5:7-8 The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: Cordial
greetings. The king should know that we went to the district of Judah, to the temple of
the great God. The people are building it

In this letter it was also mentioned that the people who were rebuilding the Temple,
pretended that they had been authorized to do so by the late King Cyrus:

Ezra 5:17 Now if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal archives of
Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree to rebuild this house of God in
Jerusalem

I King Darius had a new search done in the archives, but this time it was to verify whether
King Cyrus (the previous king) had ordered the construction of the Temple:

Ezra 6:1-3 King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives ….and
this was written on it: In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree
concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:

Upon receiving the confirmation that Cyrus had previously authorized the work, Darius
(Artaxerxes) issued a final edict that would quench all oppositions to the construction of the
Temple once and for all.

Ezra 6:7 Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. Let the governor of the
Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site.

J The construction of the Temple lasted 4 years (from the second to the 6th year of Darius):

Ezra 4:24 Thus the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem ceased, and it was
discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. NKJV

Ezra 6:15 Now the temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, which
was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. NKJV

K Important: No matter that he allowed the Temple to be rebuilt, King Darius (aka
Artaxerxes) didn’t lift the interdiction (ref F) to construct any houses (or walls) in Jerusalem.
However, it all changed in the king’s 20th year when he changed his mind and granted
Nehemiah the authorization to rebuild the wall. Subsequently Nehemiah asked the people to
come and live in Jerusalem and build houses.

Neh 7:4 Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were few, and the
houses were not rebuilt.

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Identifying the end of the first 7 weeks of Daniel’s prophecy

The first 7 weeks (49 years) of Daniel were dedicated to the rebuilding of Jerusalem:

Dan 9:25 It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench

Nevertheless, when Nehemiah finished the full restoration of the wall, 33 years after the
beginning of Daniel first 7-week, not much had been done to reconstruct the city.

Neh 7:4 Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the
houses had not yet been rebuilt.

However, Nehemiah did something that would dramatically improve Jerusalem’s situation by
making sure that the city would become adequately populated:

Neh 7:1 Then it was, when the wall was built and I had hung the doors,

Neh 7:5 So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the
common people for registration by families.

Neh 11:1-2 Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the
people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city,
while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns. The people commended all
the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

In the previous figure (on page 119), the end of the first 7 weeks occurred 16 years after
Nehemiah completed the restauration of the wall. No doubt the new population of Jerusalem,
introduced by Nehemiah when he finished the wall, had been quite busy during those 16
years. The rebuilding of the city could not have been completed without repairing the streets,
cleaning the city93, and the construction of hundreds of new houses.

How do we end the first 7 weeks?

Given that Daniel’s first 69-week are separated into two periods (7 and 62 weeks) and that the
second period does end with the death of the anointed one, we are justified to seek an
important event that would mark the end of the first period of 7 weeks. Are we supposed to
assume that sometime during the 49th year (i.e. year ending the first 7 weeks of years)
Jerusalem’s last house was built and therefore this important division of Daniel’s prophecy
was over? Isn’t there a stronger event that would justify in a more obvious way, why those
first 7 weeks (of years) needed to be separated from the next 62 weeks (of years)?

Dan 9:25 there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.'

There is an important aspect of the ‘7 weeks’ that has been neglected so far:

Dan 9:25 It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.

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Let’s keep in mind that when Nehemiah finished the wall, Jerusalem had been almost continually deserted for
100 years.
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 Nobody ever paid attention to this very important clue: DAN 9:25 plainly says
that the period covering the reconstruction of Jerusalem would be a period
of fear, violence and intimidation against the Jews.

Notice what was going on during the construction of the second Temple:

Ezra 4:4 Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and
make them afraid to go on building.
Ezra 4:6 At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes, they lodged an accusation against the
people of Judah and Jerusalem
Ezra 4:23 they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and compelled them by
force to stop.

And notice how things hadn’t changed by the time they rebuilt the wall:

Neh 4:1 When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and
was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews,

Neh 4:8 They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up
trouble against it.

Neh 4:12 "Wherever you turn, they will attack us."

Neh 4:16 From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were
equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor.

Neh 6:2 But they were scheming to harm me;

Neh 6:14 remember also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who have
been trying to intimidate me.

Since the whole of the first 7 weeks was going to be marked by anguish, we can deduce that
something of major importance must have happened to end these 7 weeks and make the
violence stop. If this had not been the case, the word ‘trouble’ wouldn’t have been singled
out as the major characteristic of those first 7 weeks.
There is an event in the chronology of the post-exile that fits like a glove. This event is
described in the book of Esther.

In the 12th year of King Xerxes (King Ahasuerus) the Jews from all the provinces of the
Persian Empire (that would have included Jerusalem and the region around) were going to be
annihilated according a king’s decree obtained by the evil Haman (see Est 4:13-14).

Est 3:8-9 it is not in the Est 9:24 For Haman son of Hammedatha,
king's best interest to tole- the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews,
rate them. If it pleases the had plotted against the Jews to destroy
king, let a decree be them and had cast the pur (that is, the lot)
issued to destroy them, for their ruin and destruction. NIV

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For many months afterwards it had been known that on the 13th day of the 12th month (Jewish
month known as Adar) people would be encouraged to kill all the Jews they could:
Est 3:13 Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with the order to
destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews-young and old, women and little children-on a
single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder
their goods.
Notice that Haman didn’t contend with the immediate execution of the genocide, he rather
made it known, months ahead, what was going to happen in order to better terrorize his future
victims.
Est 4:3 In every province to which the edict and order of the king
came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting,
weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes. NIV

This psychological warfare fits perfectly well with the spirit of Daniel first 7-week.
Fortunately, due to a miraculous reversal of the original plan, the massacre didn’t happen.
King Xerxes authorized all the Jews of his kingdom to get organized and to destroy all their
enemies. That day (which has been known ever since as the Day of Purim and has been
celebrated by the Jews from all around the world), the 13th of Adar, and the next day, more
than 75,000 enemies of the Jews were killed:
Est 9:1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar , the edict commanded
by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to
overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over
those who hated them
Est 9:16 Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also
assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed
seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder

Could there be a better event to mark the end of the first 7 weeks of Daniel? – seven weeks
(49 years) that had been characterized by troubles (against the Jews) right from the start?
Let’s see how we can integrate this new information with our timeline and learn even more.

The exiles are de- Jews are being

moralized and stop threatened and
* 1-19 20 21-31 32 33-35 36 they became
all the work (they
were doing) on the King Start End demoralized
new Temple. Arta- of of King Ref Est. 4:3
Ref Ezra 4:4 xerxes wall wall Xerxes
(Darius)
* 1 * 1-11 12
Est 3:7 in the End of 7 weeks
Foundation 12th year of Event 'X'
nd King Ahasuerus
of 2 =
NKJV
Temple Esther’s
Purim
Daniel’s first 7 Weeks (49 years) of the 70 weeks’ prophecy

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 Exile of Judah
10 y.

End of
K. Darius Jerusa..
Post Exile
(the Mede)
70 chronology
9 y.

K. Cyrius King Cyrus *

Return of 42,360
exiles from Babylon 1
70 2
9 y. 7 7

Foundation of the
10 8 *
2nd Temple
K. Darius
Artaxeexes * 14 9 1 F
(the Persian) Outcome of i
1 2 Cyrius’ decree r
See Ezra 1:3; 3:8 s
nd 7 t
2 Const. of 2 3
Temple start 28 7
3 4
5 40 6 Dan. 9:25 w
From issuing e
nd of the decree e
6 Const. of 2 7 to restore and
Temple end rebuild Jeru-
k
salem Times s
4*9 7 14 8
y. 19 20 Dan. 9:25 of o
there will be
20
Const. of 21
7 'sevens, …. f
wall start It will be trouble
rebuilt with
streets and a D
21 22 trench, but in
31 32 a
Est 9:21-22 to times n
ha-ve them of trouble.
Const. of i
32 celebrate ... as 33
wall end e
the time when l
28
33 the Jews got 34
35 relief from their 36 70
enemies, ... when
Outcome of
K. Xerxes 36 *
their sorrow was
37 Xerxes’ decree w
turned into joy See Esth 8:8 e
1 38
11 48 e
k
Genocide prevented s
12 First Purim 49
Mordecai is the anointed Prince

Figure 20 Post Exile chronology

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Let’s revisit Daniel 9:25-26.

No linguist will contest this: to really understand the structure of Daniel 9 one have to be
fluent in Hebrew. Unfortunately I don’t have any rudiment of this language. However I do
have an invaluable tool that compensate this shortcoming: a solid post exile chronology.
A few facts to keep in mind

Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the
word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a
prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be
built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. 26 And after the
sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing;
and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the
sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be
war; desolations are decreed. (RSV translation)

1. This establishes that the 7 weeks and the 62 weeks follow each other without any
intervening gap.
2. the coming of an anointed one, a prince is associated with the end of the first 7 weeks.
3. Contrary to what is said in the RSV translation we have seen earlier that ‘the time of
trouble’ fits perfectly well with the first 7 weeks. Therefore we can doubt that it has
anything to do with the 62 weeks period.
4. An individual is associated with each period

There is an “anointed one, and there is an If you read further you will see
a prince” at the end of the “anointed one” at the that there is also a “prince”
first 7 weeks end of the 62 weeks. associated with the last 7 weeks

Anointed one
Anointed one A prince
a prince
Dan 9:24 Dan 9:26 A Dan 9:26 B

In the previous page we have associated the end of the first 7 weeks of Daniel with the
establisment of Purim. We can now point to the real identity of the ‘Anointed one, the Prince’
mentioned in Daniel 9:24. Without doubts it can be no one else than Mordecai (Queen
Esther’s uncle).

Est 8:15 Mordecai left the king's presence wearing royal garments of blue and
white, a large crown of gold and a purple robe of fine linen. NIV
Est 9:4 Mordecai was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces,
and he became more and more powerful. NIV

Est 10:3 Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes

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 First Purim Daniel Yeshua’s crucifixion
Anointed one a prince = Mordecai Anointed one Cutt off = Yeshua
62 weeks

Mordecai uncovers and reveals a Judas Iscariot waits for an opportunity to

conspiracy against the king betray Yeshua and hand him over to the chief
Ref Est 2:21-23 priest and the elders of the people who will
crucify him Ref Mat 26:14-15

The king honored Mordecai The crowd welcomed Yeshua

by giving him a royal treatment with a royal treatment

Est 6:11 So Haman took the robe and the On the day the Passover lamb were selected,
horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on Yeshua, sitting on a colt, make a grand entry
horseback through the city square, and in Jerusalem under the praise of the crowd.
proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be Luke 19:38 " 'Blessed is the King who
done to the man whom the king delights comes in the name of the LORD!' Peace in
to honor!" NKJV heaven and glory in the highest!" NKJV

Mordecai wore royal clothes Yeshua is dressed up as a king

Est 8:15 So Mordecai went out from the Mark 15:17 And they clothed Him with
presence of the king in royal apparel of blue purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns,
and white, with a great crown of gold and a put it on His head, NKJV
garment of fine linen and purple NKJV

Because of one man (Mordecai) To save all the Jews they plotted to kill
they plotted to kill all the Jews one man (Yeshua)
John 11:50-51 Nor consider that it is
Est 9:24 Haman, the son of Hammedatha the expedient for us, that one man should die for
Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had the people, and that the whole nation perish
plotted against the Jews to annihilate them, not. And this spake he not of himself: but
NKJV being high priest that year, he prophesied
that Jesus should die for that nation; KJV

Slaughtering of the Jews prevented Slaughtering of Yeshua took place

Est 9:5 Thus the Jews defeated all their Isa 53:6-7 And the LORD has laid on Him
enemies with the stroke of the sword, the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and
with slaughter and destruction, and did He was afflicted, … He was led as a lamb to
what they pleased with those who hated the slaughter, NKJV
them. NKJV Mark 15:20 and led Him out to crucify Him.

434 years
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 Daniel’s 70 Weeks: A time allotment fully overlapping the 2nd and 3rd Temple era
In this book you have learned that the first 7-week starts with the ‘Foundation’ of the second Temple.
We already know that the 62 weeks ends with Yeshua’s death. Less obvious is the fact that the end of
those 62-week coincides also with the SYMBOLICAL end of the second Temple? Here is how:

John 2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I

a Temple of God will raise it again in three days." NIV
When was also destroyed John 2:21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. NIV
Yeshua
Matt 27:51-52 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn
nd
died the 2 Temple in two from top to bottom
lost its legitimacy Matt 23:38 Your house is left to you desolate; NKJV
more on p. 156 The need for an human high priest and a physical Temple was eliminated.
Heb 9:11-12 “when Christ appeared as a high priest …, He entered throught
the greater and more perfect tabernacle … through his own blood.

And the 70th week of Daniel will overlap a third Temple period in Jerusalem.
th
According Dan 9:26 the end of the 70 week of Daniel will come with the suddenness of a flood
therefore it cannot be equate with the physical end of the 2nd Temple which happened in 70 AD after a 3
years war with the Roman army. In fact the whole 70th week is better represented by a 7-year end time
during which a third Temple will stood. Notice the reference to a Temple in
Dan 9:27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an
end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] …. "

Daniel’s 70 weeks (70 weeks are ‘set aside’)

th
7 weeks First 62 weeks Irrelevant Covenant 70 week
Crucifixion G
Purim years confirmed
Foun- o
dation Anointed Anointed These years don’t A prince d
involve Daniel’s
A one B one people and Jeru- C
of the A prince salem. ‘Who is W
Cut off Dan 9:24 to come’
= r
Second = =
Yeshua Man of Sin a
Temple 49 y. Mordecai 434 y. Gap = 2000 y. (3 ½ + 3 ½) y. t
h
483 years (will be reviewed) 7 years

from Start to ‘symbolical’ End A ‘gap’ is essential from Start to End

nd
to separate the 2 and
nd rd rd
2 Temple the 3 Temple’s periods 3 Temple

483 + 7 = 490 years

Remarkable The first 69 weeks are related to the second Temple while the 70th week points to a
third Temple era. A gap is totally legitimate given that the second and third Temple era are not conti-
guous. Never before have the 70 weeks of Daniel been associated with the 2nd and 3rd Temples period
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There is another good raison to insert a gap between the first 69 weeks and the 70th. We are
told in Dan 9:24 that 70 week are necessary to accomplish the following 6 majors goals:
Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, (1)
to finish the transgression, and (2) to make an end of sins, and (3) to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and (4) to bring in everlasting righteousness, and (5) to
seal up the vision and prophecy, and (6) to anoint the most Holy.
The first three goals were completed during Yeshua first coming (i.e. at Yeshua’s death when
He was cut off at the end of the first 69 weeks.)
Goal Ref Timing
Isa 53:5 But he was pierced for our
To finish the transgressions, NIV
#1
transgression Isa 53:8 for the transgression of my people he
was stricken. NIV
1 John 2:1-2 we have one who speaks to the
Father in our defense-Jesus Christ, the
Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for
To make our sins, and not only for ours but also for the Yeshua
#2 an end of sins sins of the whole world. NIV death
Heb 9:26 But as it is, he has appeared once on the
for all at the end of the age to put away sin by tree
the sacrifice of himself. RSV
Isa 53:5 he was crushed for our iniquities;
To make reconciliation
for iniquity Isa 53:6 and the LORD has laid on him
#3 the iniquity of us all. NIV
("to make atonement
Rom 3:25 God presented him as a sacrifice
or expiation")
of atonement, NIV

But the last 3 goals can only be achieved with the second coming

Goal Ref
To bring in
#4
everlasting righteousness
See below for 3 short extracts relating Yeshua
To seal up to goals #4, #5, #6 in
#5 Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum article second
the vision and prophecy
The seventy sevens of Daniel coming
To anoint
#6
the most Holy

#4 To Bring in an Age of Righteousness

“to bring in an age of righteousness.” This is the real meaning of the Hebrew word for
everlasting. This age of righteousness is called the Messianic Kingdom or the
Millennium. This is the same point made by Isaiah 1:26; 11:2-5; 32:17;
Jeremiah 23:5-6; and 33:15-18. (Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum)
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 #5 To Cause a Cessation of Prophecy

“to bring completely to fulfillment.” The word vision refers to oral prophecy such as the
prophecies of Elijah and Elisha. The word prophecy refers to prophecy found in
written form in the writing prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and in the
twelve Minor Prophets. The fifth purpose of the Seventy Sevens is to cause a
cessation of both oral and written prophecy, because the program of the Seventy
Sevens will contain the final fulfillment of all prophecies. (Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum)

#6 To Anoint the Most Holy Place

From the Hebrew, it should actually read “to anoint a most holy place.” It is not a most
holy person, but a most holy place that is to be anointed. The most holy place is the
Temple. (Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum)

th
69 weeks Covenant 70 week
Crucifixion Gap G
confirmed
Foun- o
For obvious
dation Part Anointed A prince Part d
reason Yeshua
one st nd
of the A & B “1 &2 “ ‘Who is C W
Cut off coming are to come’
= = r
Second separated by a
49 + 434 years Yeshua Man of Sin 3½ + 3½
Temple thousands of t
years h
483 7

Yeshua’s Yeshua’s
departure return

At the end of Daniel first 69 At the end of Daniel 70th week

nd
weeks (with Yeshua’s death) .. (with Yeshua 2 coming) ..
Accomplishment is Accomplishment is

finish the N P bring in everlasting

1 transgression E O righteousness 4
G S
make an A I seal up the vision
2 and prophecy 5
end of sins T T
I I
make reconcilia- V V anoint the
3 6
tion for iniquity most Holy
E E
related to SIN related to Kingdom of God

.. Daniel 9:24 first 3 goals .. Daniel 9:24 last 3 goals

have been reached will be achieved

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Ezekiel fasts during 40 days
(this symbolical act is the counterpart to ‘Ezekiel ate defiled food for 390 days’ on p. 67)

God originally intended to have Ezekiel cook his food over human excrement. However, this
ordeal was lightened following Ezekiel’s objection that he had never defiled himself in the
past.
Ezek 4:14 So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my
youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has
abominable flesh ever come into my mouth."
Ezekiel’s food was cooked over cow manure, an acceptable compromise to the prophet.
Ezek 4:15 Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human
waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it."
Apparently Ezekiel’s food was still symbolically defiled, no matter how it was cooked.
Ezek 4:13 "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,
So, after 390 days of eating defiled food, Ezekiel turned over and fasted94 for a period of 40
days. We saw earlier (see page 67) that the prophet eating defiled food was a symbolical act
portraying a period during which Israel would only hear lies instead of the true words of God.
In a way Israel was given poisonous food for the mind. What then should we think of the
prophet fasting during 40 days? There is such a powerful contrast between Ezekiel two
successive actions (eating defiled food – fasting) that we should also find a similar contrast
between the two periods portrayed by them.
Symbolically, Ezekiel’s 40 days fast (while lying on his right side) was like cleansing
‘purging’ his body. This is the characteristic that we will use to identify the intended period
associated with the house of Judah. Indeed, at one point the people of Judah must have gone
through a radical change that literally initiated what would become a ‘40 years cleansing
period’. And, to mark the end of that 40 year period, we should also find the occurrence of
another event that will ‘metaphorically’ denote how Judah’s cleansing ended and how the
people were reintroduced to a proper diet for the mind.
The period portrayed by the symbolical act “Ezekiel fasts during 40 days” will have to meet
the following criteria:
Should start with an important change: (lies and idolatry ceased)
Keep in mind that we have to contrast
‘Ezekiel feeding from defiled food during 390 days’
with ‘Ezekiel fasting during 40 days’.
Absence of any ‘indoctrination’ during 40 years. (portrayed by Ezekiel’s fasting)
Should end with an important change: (i.e. adequate learning was provided again)
Also keep in mind that after his 40 days fast, Ezekiel started feeding himself again.

The ‘Return of the 42,360 exiles’ points to the time when Judah (under the leadership of
Zerubbabel) came back from the Babylonian captivity. This event is the perfect candidate to
mark the start of the 40 years cleansing period we are looking for. Indeed, as illustrated in the
next figure, the return of the exiles marked the end of a 390 year period characterized by the

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This is implied by the absence of food during the time Ezeliel lied on his right side.
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proliferation of false prophets and the spreading of idolatry. The people of Judah spent the last 70 years
of this 390 year period in Babylon, an environ-ment associated with paganism.

390 years of ‘eating defiled food’

* 1-319 320 321-329 330 331-389 390 391-429 430
Foundation Exile Destruction Return Nehemiah Ezra
of Samaria of Judah of Jeru.. of Judah ends the reads
* 1-9 10 11 - 69 70 wall’s repairs the law

* 1 - 39 40
See
p. 127 40 years of cleansing

When they came back from captivity, the 42,360 exiles of Judah didn’t receive any teaching of the law of
God for a very long time (40 years). What preoccupied them at the time was rebuilding the country, the
cities, the houses, the Temple, and to repair the wall of Jerusalem that Nebuchadnezzar’s army had left in
ruin 60 years before. This 40 years without exposure to idolatry and hearing any law of God can be
viewed as a 40 years of cleansing.
A very short time after the wall was fully repaired, the law of God was read by Ezra. It was the first time
in centuries that the people of Judah heard it.
Neh 7:11 After the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place NIV
Neh 7:73-8:1When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, all the
people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the scribe to
bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel. NIV
The reading of the law (about 6 days after Nehemiah completed the repairs on the wall) marks the end of
the 40 years of cleansing that the people of Judah went through after the return from Exile. Notice how
Ezekiel two consecutive symbolical acts (eating defiled food during 390 days, fasting during 40 days)
portray two successive periods.

Ezekiel lies Ezekiel lies Ezekiel feeds

Sym-
bolic on left side 390 days of on his 40 days again but with
action & cooks defiled food right side of fasting proper food
over dung and fasts

foundation 42,360 exiles Ezra

of 390 years 40 years
return from reads
Samaria of idolatry of cleansing
Babylon the law
Real
Action

People are feed Teaching

Absence
false words of the
of words
from bad prophets right words

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Ezekiel’s famine of words
Right from the beginning of his priesthood Ezekiel was given an absolutely clear mandate. He
would be sent among his brothers Israelites as a prophet and would have to tell them that their
ways were doomed:
Ezek 2:4 and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' NKJV
Ezek 2:7 You shall speak My words to them NKJV
Ezek 3:1 and go, speak to the house of Israel. NKJV
Ezek 3:4 "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.
Ezek 3:11 … and speak to them and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD NKJV
Ezek 3:18 When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no
warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, NKJV
Ezekiel was not allowed to refuse God’s call. No matter what, he would be accountable
should he fail to relay the appropriate warning to the wicked:
Ezek 3:20 because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his
righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require
at your hand. NKJV

As we can see from the previous references, Ezekiel was reminded again and again that he
would have to talk to his people. But then, just when Ezekiel should have started to fill his
assignment, the most unexpected thing happened. Ezekiel was asked to go and shut himself
in his house (Ezek 3:24). And the Spirit deliberately stuck Ezekiel’s tongue to Ezekiel
the roof of his mouth to incapacitate the prophet in such a way that it became
impossible for him to orally communicate with others:
Ezek 3:26 I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, Mute
so that you shall be mute and not be one to rebuke them
.
From then on Ezekiel would be allowed to talk only after being spoken to by the spirit:
Ezek 3:27 But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to
them,
Notice that Ezekiel was sent to his home as soon as he became mute. Given that the Spirit
didn’t speak to him again until (see Ezek 8:1) the 5th day of the 6th month of the 6th year, we
can rightly deduce that Ezekiel didn’t talk to anybody during the time he was lying on his
sides:
Ezek 8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of
the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, NKJV
Ezek 8:5 Then He said to me, NKJV
So to stress what is now obvious: Ezekiel, the prophet, specially commissioned to talk to his
brothers the Israelites, spent 430 days lying on his side, being unable to speak. During these
430 days, Ezekiel didn’t receive and didn’t deliver any word from God. Doesn’t this strange
situation make a lot more sense if we recognize that Ezekiel’s period of silence was yet
another symbolic act? Ezekiel’s 430 days of silence are screaming to draw our attention to a
famine of words that was going to prevail for some 430 years.

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 Amos 8:11-12 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a
famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the
words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They
shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it. NKJV
Now, starting at the time of the ‘Covenant between the parts’ and moving forward, using
some of the indicators previously seen in this paper, can we pinpoint a 430-year period during
which there was, in all likelihood, no communication from God? Yes, and it can be done
without any difficulty. The following timeline shows six successive periods obtained by the
use of 7 events already seen in this paper. The easiest way to isolate the period of silence we
are looking for is to disqualify each period during which God maintained some form of
communication with the Israelites. Inevitably95 only the right period will remain.

Cov. God G. Arrival to G. G. Destruc G. Return

Ex- Const..
of the -tion of the Yeshua
the o-
Promised
of first
of first 42,360
? dies
word dus Temple
parts w. land w. w. Temple w. exiles
430 years 40 y. 440 y. 440 y. 60 y. 490 y.

A B C D E F

References to each period:

From what we know, there was
A : Figure 14. Covenant between the parts on page 89 communication from God or His prophets
B : Land divided on page 19 during period (A,B,C,D,E). This leave
C : Figure 8. Blocks 1 and 3 reunited on page 63
period ‘F’ as the only period worthy of
D : Figure 8. Blocks 1 and 3 reunited on page 63
investigation. Was there a 430-year
E : Figure 15. Shaving act on page 92
‘Famine of the words’ at some point du-
F : Figure 17. Hair growing act on page 111
ring the 490-year period F ? I believe so.

We saw (p. 127) that 56 years after the return of the exiles one reachs the very first occurrence
of the Jewish Purim96. In the book of Esther97 an amazing sequence of coincidences conspire
to save the Jews from annihilation. It is obvious to any readers that God was behind the scene
to help his people right from the start. Yet, what followed is beyond comprehension.
The day after they had killed all their enemies, the Jews of the Persian Empire
had an opportunity to collectively thank God and to exalt His name, but none of this
happened. Instead, Esther and Mordecai, two of the four98 characters of the story’s,
institutionalised a new feast to mark the time of the Jewish’s salvation from Haman national
holocaust. They called that new festival ‘PURIM’, a name that commemorates “LOT” (or
cast lot) the exact opposite of acknowledging God’s genuine involvement. Since then, each
year, the Jews across the world commemorate what happened to their ancestors by
exchanging gifts between themselves and by remembering what Mordecai and Esther had
done for the people (as opposed to what God had done for them).
95
We rule out that there was more than one ‘famine of words’ that could have lasted 430 years.
96
I seems an appropriate name for the very first occurrence of that feast
97
Trivialized by everybody, there is a shocking absence in the book of Esther: the name of
God is never mentioned. It is the only book of the Hebrew Bible that doesn’t mention God. According to
the Jewish sages there is a play of words using the name Esther in Hebrew that could mean ‘hiding of the face’).
98
King Xerxes, Haman the Agagite, Mordecai the Jew and his niece Esther.
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 One tradition, still in force nowadays, when listening to the
book of Esther being read, is to drown out the name of
Haman whenever it is heard with noise and “booing”.

Noise & Masks

Another tradition is to wear mask. In the book of Esther the
story starts with the king exposing in every possible way the
wealth of his kingdom and ordering his wife to exhibit in front
of everybody. Later he take a new wife, Esther, who hides her
true identity; finally it is all the Jewish people who will wish to
hide because Haman wanted to kill all of them.

In some surprising way the author of the book of Esther highlighted a string of incredible
coincidences whose outcome culminated with the unexpected salvation of the Jewish people at the
exact time they were supposed to be slaughtered. Then why, in spite of God’s perceptible
involvement in every circumstance or people’s action of the story, did the author chose to never
mention His name?
Even though the story culminates with the days of triumph it doesn’t stop at that point. The
second half of Esther 9 tells us that Mordecai sent letters everywhere in the kingdom asking the Jews
th th
to commemorate the days of Purim (14 & 15 Adar) every year. Under Mordecai’s insistence this
new festival, featuring a ‘theme’ of concealment, was thus initiated. Could there have been a
divine but hidden agenda put in motion at that very same time? I say ‘yes’ to that.
Given that the absence of the name of God is a major characteristic of the book of Esther it is
not unreasonable to assume that the 430 years of silence portrayed by Ezekiel had its true origin right
at the time of the first day of Purim (the turning point of the Megilat Esther story).

Esther came at
A holiday during
a special time which people
First
Est 4:14 Yet who knows whether Purim hide their face
you have come to the kingdom
for such a time as this?
2 Cor 3:13-14 unlike Moses, who put a veil
over his face so that the children of Israel could
not look steadily at the end of what was passing
away. But their minds were blinded.

God Yeshua came to remove the veil

Deut 32:20
hides So we can now understand the
“I will hide my
face from them”
(words of the) Father.
430 years 2 Cor 3:14 or until this day the same veil re-
mains unlifted in the reading of the Old Tes-
tament, because the veil is taken away [only] in
Christ.
John 14:9 Anyone who has seen me has seen
Yeshua came at the Father.
a special time Start of
Yeshua’s Yeshua came to
Gal 4:4-5 But when the fullness
ministry reveal the father
of the time had come, God sent
forth His Son (no more hiding)

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 According to the Jewish belief, after the Megillat
Esther there were no more prophets, no more miracles,
no more communication from God. “only silence”

Ezekiel Jewish
stops first
Mute
talking Purim
E
Z G
E O
K D Amos 8:11 "The days are
Ezek 3:26 I will I coming," declares the
make your E Sovereign LORD, "when I
F will send a famine through
tongue stick to L A the land-
the roof of your F M
mouth so that A I but a famine
you will be M 430 430 N of hearing
silent and un- I days years E the words of
N the LORD.
able to re- O
E
buke them, F
O
though they are F Ps 74:9 We are given no
W miraculous signs; no prophets
a rebellious hou-
W O are left, and none of us knows
se. O R how long this will be. NIV
NIV
R D
D S
S
Ezekiel Start of
starts Yeshua’s
talking ministry

Did the start of Yeshua’s ministry’ brought back the

prophets and some communication from God? Yes it
did and here are a few references of the change that
happened:
Luke 4:18,21 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me to preach good news to
the poor. ---"Today this scripture is fulfilled in your
hearing."
Luke 3:22-23 And the Holy Spirit descended in
bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came
from heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son;
in You I am well pleased." Now Jesus Himself began
His ministry at about thirty years of age..
Luke 4:24 Then He [Yeshua talking about himself]
said, "Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is
accepted in his own country. NKJV
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 Many wept Ezra
aloud 3 :12
Foundation and mournothers shou-
of the ted for joy
nd
2 Temple
With praise and
trumpets, cymbals
thanksgiving Day of happiness
they sang to the They praised God
Lord Ezra 3:11 for His goodness
Who do you
49 y. think was held
(7 weeks) A celebration in No public men- in great esteem
D joy and with gi- tion of God in because he wor-
A ving food to one spite that He had ked for the good
N another and the saved them all of his people??
poors. Esth 9 :22 GOD? Not at all.
I
It was Mordecai See Esth 10:3
E
L
First Casting lot involved First Esther brought Mordecai to the
Purim Est 3:7 Purim king’s attention. (ref Est 2:22)
The king Est 3:2 But Mordecai would not kneel
Est 7:10 So
elevated down or pay him [Haman] honor. NIV
they hanged
Haman Haman on
F Est 3:6 he scorned the idea of
above the gallows
I God’s killing only Mordecai. Instead
all the
R Haman looked for a way to destroy
nobles
famine all Mordecai's people the Jews NIV
S Est 5:11 Ezekiel
T muted Mord.. a father figure to Esther Est 2:7
for of
430 God a father figure to Yeshua Matt 3:17
days Mute words
Gal 1:3-4 our Lord Jesus Christ,
69 430 who gave Himself [died] for our
434 y. years
sins, that He might deliver us from
(62 weeks) this present evil age,
Matt 4:9 "if you [Yeshua] will bow
down and worship me [Satan]." NIV
W Start of John brought Yeshua to the nation’s
E Yeshua’s
E attention (ref Luke 3:16, John 1:15).
ministry
K
S The king
ridiculed
Luke 4:18
Acts 5:30 he has a-
Yeshua whom ye
in front nointed me
slew and
of the hanged on years to preach
priests
a tree. KJV good news Day of sorrow
Luke 23:11
earthquake, veil torn
Yeshua Casting lot involved Yeshua You will weep
dies Mat 27:37 dies and mourn
John while the
16 :20 world rejoices
Not convinced that they ignored God? How did the Jews call
` of their deliverance? “God with us” ? “Saved by God” ? Nope.
the day
They called it Purim from the Hebrew word “PUR” meaning LOTS.
Is there a concept more alien from divine providence than LOTS?
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 CONCLUSION (of first part)

The first part of this paper has convincingly (my wish anyway) demonstrated that Ezek 4-5
was symbolically taking place in the Temple.

Should we be surprised that the very first verse of Ezekiel (Ezek 1:1) ties in the prophet’s
‘personal calling’ to the exact year that the Temple was cleansed by King Josiah?

Jeremiah prophesises

*-4 5 6-29 30 31-33 34 35 36-39 40

See See
King p. 57 p. 57
Josiah
* 1-17 18 19...

Josiah
cleanses
the
Temple

1 2-25 26 27-29 30
Ezek 1:1-2
In the
30th year,
… I was among
the exiles …
it was the
5th year
of the exile of
King Jehoiachin

1 2-4 5 6 7-10 11 12-24 25

Exile Fall of Ezek 40:1

In the
of Jerusalem 25th year
Judah End
of our exile, …
in the
of first 14th year
Temple after the fall
of the city

* 1-13 14

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 Second part

Setting a true chronology of the Bible

I believe, like many other who study the Day 1 2,000 No
Bible’s chronology, that God has allowed = Talmudic

Creation week
Day 2
years Torah
humankind to evolve according to a 7,000- Tradition
year Master Plan. In all likelihood this Day 3
= 2,000 Torah The Jews
Master Plan is mirrored in the creation years
Day 4 abandoned
week. If this interpretation is right, we
haven’t reached year 6,000 AM yet, Day 5 Mes- this view
= 2,000
otherwise we would be living now during years sianic and failed
Day 6
the millenial rest, which is not the case.. to recognize
In the following pages I am going to Yeshua as
associate a ‘date’ to each important event Millen- the Messiah
Day 7 = 1,000 nial they were
of the Bible, this will bring the discovery years
of some stunning patterns never exposed rest expecting
until now.

The AM mode of dating

This chronology uses the AM mode of dating instead of our more familiar Gregorian
calendar. In the AM system (Anno Mundi) year ‘0’ coincides with the creation of the world
and the new year’s day occurs around the time of each new spring equinox. (See Ex 12:1-3).
Using Abraham year of birth ‘2008 AM’ (see Appendix A on page 227) as a starting point you
can figure out the date of each event displayed on the left side of the next figure. This is done
by going backward or forward a specific number of years (obtained from the Bible) from a
known date (2008 AM). This process consolidates a new date at each step.

Abraham Relative Abraham born

Sarah Sarah born
born dating 2008 AM
born 2018 AM
Gen
100 17:17 Absolute 100 2008 AM
90 90
dating led us to
Isaac born 140 Isaac born
2108 AM
40 2018 AM
40 Gen
Isaac 25:20 60 Isaac ma. 60 2108 AM
marries 2148 AM
Gen 100 2148 AM
25:26 Jacob 1 20 Jacob b. 2
born 8 2168 AM * 2168 AM
Gen 40 0 40 40 90
26:34 140 2 2208 AM
Esau Esau m.
marry 2208 AM *
60 2288 AM
Gen 80
35:28
Isaac dies
Isaac dies 2288 AM

This method was used to revisit every figure previously displayed in this work. As expected,
this unlocked the date if every events of the Bible. See Appendix E on page 256)
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 The timeline of Joseph For an easier understanding follow the
path in the numerical order. 1,2,3,..., 25

Stepping
Operation Reference Years Event
stones path
1 Appendix A 2008 AM Abram born

3 2108 - 90 Gen 17:17 2018 AM Sarah born

4 2008 + 85 See page 76 2093 AM Covenant between the parts
2 2008 + 100 Gen 17:17 2108 AM Isaac born
6 2018 + 127 Gen 23:1 2145 AM Saraï dies
7 2108 + 40 Gen 25:20 2148 AM Isaac marries
8 2108 + 60 Gen 25:26 2168 AM Jacob/Esau born

9 2008 + 175 Gen 25:7 2183 AM Abraham dies

21 2265 - 20 Gen 31:41 2245 AM Jacob hired by Laban

22 2245 + 7 Gen 29:20 2252 AM Jacob marries

Gen 29:31-
23 2252 + 1 2253 AM Reuben born
32
16 2288 - 30 Gen 41:46 2258 AM Joseph born
Jacob completes 14 years of
19 2258 + 1 Gen 30:25 2259 AM
work for Laban
20 2259 + 6 Gen 31:41 2265 AM Jacob leaves Laban
24 Next pages 2268 AM Benjamin born
17 2258 + 17 Gen 37:2 2275 AM Joseph in Egypt

15 2288 - 2 Gen 41:1 2286 AM Joseph helps the baker

2108 + 180 Gen 35:28 Isaac dies/
14 2289 - 1 Gen 41:25 2288 AM
Joseph meets Pharaoh
13 2296 - 7 Gen 41:53 2289 AM Start of 7 years of plenty

12 2298 - 2 Gen 45:6 2296 AM Start of 7 years of famine

2168 + 130 Gen 49:9
11 2298 AM Jacob meets Pharaoh
2315 - 17 Gen 47:28
10 2168 + 147 Gen 47:28 2315 AM Jacob dies
18 2258 + 110 Gen 50:26 2368 AM Joseph dies

25 2093 + 40 – 123 Num 33:38 Aaron born

From end of Exodus
2440 AM

5 2093 + 430 Ex 12:40 2523 AM Exodus

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 Jacob born 2168 AM
There is nothing in the
Bible to pinpoint the exact 77 77
date of the following four Jacob start
events: 1 for Laban
2245 AM
Reuben born 0
Benjamin born 2253 AM 0
Joseph sent to prison Joseph born 2258 AM 23
Manasseh birth 10
Ephraim birth Benjamin born
? 2268 AM ?
Benjamin was born some
7
years after Jacob left 27 Joseph sold &
Laban in 2265 AM and sent in Egypt 28
before Joseph was sold 2275 AM
and sent to Egypt in 2275 35
10
AM. See Gen 34-35.
Joseph put in
In Gen 39 we learn that jail ? 2285 AM
Joseph became the 1?
intendant of Potiphar in 23
Joseph help the baker
Egypt. No doubt it took 37 2286 AM
many years before
Potiphar would entrust Isaac dies Joseph meet 70
everything he owned in 2288 AM Pharaoh 2288
the hands of Joseph.
Therefore we can rightly Start of 7 years
1 11
deduce that Joseph was of plenty 2289
0
sent to prison (by 2
0
Potiphar) at least several Manasseh born
years after his arrival in ? 2291 AM ?
Egypt. 4
27 Ephraim born
From Gen 41:50 we learn 82
? 2295 AM ?
that Manasseh and
Ephraim were born during 1
the 7 years of plenty. Start of 7 years of fam..
2296 AM
In the following pages we 77
will see why, in all Jacob to Egypt 73
likelihood, these 4 events 2298 AM
can be con-nected to the 72
Jacob dies Jacob dies Jacob
following dates
2315 AM 2315 AM dies
Benjamin born 2268 AM 53
Joseph sent Joseph dies Joseph dies 2368 AM 77
to prison 2285 AM
24
Manasseh birth 2291 AM 72 Levi d. 2392 AM
Ephraim birth 2295 AM 48
Aaron born Aaron born
2440 AM 2440 AM

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 Jacob hired
Rachel’s sons by Laban
2245 AM
.

Joseph born 20
2258 AM
7
Jacob leaves
Laban
10 2265 AM
17 3 3 .

Benjamin born 10
3
3 2268 AM
7 7
Joseph in Egypt Jo.
2275 AM Eg.
17
10
2 10 10
*
19 Joseph in jail Jo.
2285 AM pr. 70
3
3
3 3 3
Joseph meet Pharaoh
(Isaac dies)
2288 AM
3 10
Manasseh born
2291 AM 7
10 4
Ephraim born Ep.
3 born
3 2295 AM
7 y. of 3
3 3
famine
2296 AM (Jacob in Egypt)
Jacob meet Pharaoh
2298 AM 20

19 17 17

Jacob dies Jacob

2315 AM dies

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 Isaac marries 2148 AM

35 A 60
2
Abra.. 5
* Esau marries
dies 2183 97
Palindromes 2208 AM
62 B
& 2245
Laban 44 AM Laban
Symmetry
hires hires
Jacob Jacob marries Jacob
55 2252 AM *
22
13 C 06
Joseph born 2258 AM

07 07
55 22
10 Jacob leaves *
Laban
2265 AM
27
28 03 44
Benjamin 30
born
31 C’
2268
33
Joseph
in jail 37
Joseph 2285 AM
helps
30 Isaac
baker 3
2286 AM dies
3 2288
7 years 27 7 years
of plenty 30 03 of
2289 AM 07 plenty
11 Manas-
seh born
2291
Ephraim
B’
born
26 07
82 2295 AM
01 03
7 years 03
famine 79
2296 AM Jacob goes Jacob 77
to Egypt to
Jacob 2298 AM 73 Egypt
dies 72
2315 AM 72 *
70 70 5 70
53 A’ 2

Joseph dies 2368 AM

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 Was Yeshua’s ministry first year (3989 AM) a jubilee year?
To answer this question we first need to examine how the sabbatical cycle is integrated in the
chronology.
After the Israelites came to the Promised Land (2563 AM) they went to war against all the
kings of the land to conquer their territories. It took six years (see Land divided on page 19)
before Joshua could divide the land between the tribes. This was done in year 2569 AM (2563 +
6) and in that year the Israelites started farming their new land. As we should know, the
primary benefit of the sabbatical cycle99 was to allow the land to rest for one year in every 7
years, therefore it is only logical to have the first sabbatical cycle to coincide with the time
that the land was exploited for the first time (2569 AM) by the Israelites.

First sabbatical cycle

‘Conquest of the land’ First
under the command Land
sabbatical
of Joshua divided
year
2563 25 25 25 25 25 2569 2570 2571 2572 2573 2574 2575
AM 64 65 66 67 68 AM AM AM AM AM AM AM
Promised
st nd rd th th th th
land 1 year 2 3 4 5 6 7

So the first sabbatical year was 2575 AM and up to the time of Daniel’s death a new one was
observed every 7 years. Having God’s 7,000 years Master Plan in mind, it is interesting to
note that if we count the number of sabbatical cycles that was originally intended, that is to
say if they hadn’t been interrupted at Daniel’s death in 2953 AM, we obtain a total of exactly
490 (or 7 * 70) sabbatical years before the start of the 7th millennium.

List of all
Observed Sabbatical Years Non-observed
sabbatical sabbatical
years years

Samuel’s
death

2575 AM 2582 2953 AM 2960 5991 5998 AM

st nd th th th
1 2 55 56 489th 490

At the time they started counting for the first sabbatical cycle the Israelites also began
counting for the occurrence of a jubilee year100.
99
Ex 23:10-11 "Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, 11 but the seventh year you shall let
it rest NKJV
100
This is the most logical time to start counting the Jubilee years. Both conepts are closely related.
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The JUBILEE
Lev 25:8-10 And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and
the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the
trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you
shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year,
We have already S J
1 2569 1 2569 .. 2575 U
seen that there A
B
are 7 years in a 2 2570
B
2 2576 .. 2582 BI
sabbatical cycle.
A L
(a sabbath of years) 3 2571 3 2583 .. 2589 E
T
H E
4 2572 4 2590 .. 2596
of C
5 2573 5 2597 .. 2603 Y
The 7th year of Y C
the sabbatical 6 2574 E 6 2604 .. 2610 L
cycle is called a A E
R 7 2611 .. 2617 S
sabbatical year. 7 2575
S

Layout of the very first jubilee cycle

Sab. Cy.. #1 Sab. Cy.. #2 Sab. Cy.. #3 Sab. Cy.. #4 Sab. Cy.. #5 Sab. Cy.. #6 Sab. Cy.. #7
Y1 2569 AM Y8 2576 Y15 2583 Y22 2590 Y29 2597 Y36 2604 Y43 2611
Y2 2570 Y9 2577 Y16 2584 Y23 2591 Y30 2598 Y37 2605 Y44 2612
Y3 2571 Y10 2578 Y17 2585 Y24 2592 Y31 2599 Y38 2606 Y45 2613
Y4 2572 Y11 2579 Y18 2586 Y25 2593 Y32 2600 Y39 2607 Y46 2614
Y5 2573 Y12 2580 Y19 2587 Y26 2594 Y33 2601 Y40 2608 Y47 2615
Y6 2574 Y13 2581 Y20 2588 Y27 2595 Y34 2602 Y41 2609 Y48 2616
Y7 2575 Y14 2582 Y21 2589 Y28 2596 Y35 2603 Y42 2610 Y49 2617

When do we start the Jubilee year?

On the 10th day of the 7th month of the 49th year of the
Jubilee cycle (Lev 25:8-10), the jubilee year would be consecrated. It means that the Jubilee
year doesn’t start at the very beginning of the 49th years of the Jubilee cycle. The ‘jubilee
year’ starts only when the 7th month of the 49th year of the jubilee cycle is reached and ended
on the 7th month of the next year (which is part of the next jubilee cycle.

First Jubilee Second Jubilee Third Jubilee

2569 2570 2571 - 2615 2616 2617 2618 2619 - 2665 2666 2667 2668 -
1 2 3 - 47 48 49 1 2 - 48 49 1 2 -
Ju Ju
th
The jubilee year starts on Y. 50 and ends in the 10 Y. 50 These overlapping
th th th th
the 10 day of the 7 day of the 7 month 50 years are the
th st
month of the 49 year of the 1 year consacrated years

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 The Jubilee year is also known as
the YOVEL year. The name
comes from the fact that on Yom
--- 69th Ju. 70th Jubilee th Kippur of the fiftieth year, a
7
- 5948 5949 5950 5951 - 5997 5998 5999 Millen yovel (ram’s horn) is blown
-nium throughout the
- 48 49 1 2 - 48 49 land to dedica-
Ju Ju this new
Y. 50 Y. 50 jubilee
year.

List of the 70 Jubilee years that will occur up to the Day of the Lord

2617- 3303- 3989- 4675- 5361-

Ju 1 Ju 15 3304
Ju 29 3990
Ju 43 4676
Ju 57 5362
2618
2666- 3352- 4038- 4724- 5410-
Ju 2 Ju 16 Ju 30 Ju 44 Ju 58
2667 3353 4039 4725 5411
2715- 3401- 4087- 4773- 5459-
Ju 3 2716
Ju 17 3402
Ju 31 4088
Ju 45 4774
Ju 59 5460
2764- 3450- 4136- 4822- 5508-
Ju 4 Ju 18 Ju 32 Ju 46 Ju 60
2765 3451 4137 4823 5509
2813- 3499- 4185- 4871- 5557-
Ju 5 Ju 19 Ju 33 Ju 47 Ju 61
2814 3500 4186 4872 5558
2862- 3548- 4234- 4920- 5606-
Ju 6 Ju 20 Ju 34 Ju 48 Ju 62
2863 3549 4235 4921 5607
2911- 3597- 4283- 4969- 5655-
Ju 7 Ju 21 Ju 35 Ju 49 Ju 63
2912 3598 4284 4970 5656
2960- 3646- 4332- 5018- 5704-
Ju 8 Ju 22 Ju 36 Ju 50 Ju 64
2961 3647 4333 5019 5705
3009- 3695- 4381- 5067- 5753-
Ju 9 3010
Ju 23 3696
Ju 37 4382
Ju 51 5068
Ju 65 5754
3058- 3744- 4430- 5116- 5802-
Ju 10 Ju 24 Ju 38 Ju 52 Ju 66
3059 3745 4431 5117 5803
3107- 3793- 4479- 5165- 5851-
Ju 11 Ju 25 Ju 39 Ju 53 Ju 67
3108 3794 4480 5166 5852
3156- 3842- 4528- 5214- 5900-
Ju 12 3157
Ju 26 3843
Ju 40 4529
Ju 54 5215
Ju 68 5901
3205- 3891- 4577- 5263- 5949-
Ju 13 Ju 27 Ju 41 Ju 55 Ju 69
3206 3892 4578 5264 5950
3254- 3940- 4626- 5312- 5998-
Ju 14 3255
Ju 28 3941
Ju 42 4627
Ju 56 5313 Ju 70 5999

NOTICE: Yeshua died in 3993 AM at age 33 (born in 3960 AM), therefore he was 29 years old
when he announced the 29th jubilee in the 7th month of 3989 AM. See next few pages for a
convincing proof that Yeshua’s ministry lasted 4 years.
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 Did Yeshua’s ministry last 4 years?
In the absence of any explicit Bible’s references to confirm a 4-year ministry we could try to
build a limited timeline that would include each action performed by Yeshua and his apostles
and see how things add up. However, it is quite possible that this information has already
been supplied but in a symbolic way. Here are 7 points directly and indirectly related to
Yeshua in which the number ‘4’ is linked to a notion of ‘duration’.

st
1 clue 4 days in the Temple

At age 12 Yeshua spent 4 days in the Temple:

Luke 2:44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day.
Luke 2:46 After three days they found him in the temple courts
The 4 days in the Temple could mirror a future 4-year ministry.

nd
2 clue wait four years for the fruit

Luke 13:6-9 "A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for
fruit on it, but did not find any. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard,
'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't
found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?' "'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave
it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next
year, fine! If not, then cut it down.'"
The man who took care of the vineyard was allowed a total of 4 years. Wasn’t Yeshua
taking care of Israel during his ministry? Could he have been given a fourth year too?

rd
3 clue Passover lamb chosen 4 days before

Yeshua’s crucifixion can be equated to the killing of the Passover lamb.

Yeshua was described as a lamb:
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! NKJV
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He
was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He
opened not His mouth. NKJV
The Passover lamb had to be without a fault:
Ex 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish NKJV
Yeshua was also without a fault:
Luke 23:4 So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, "I find no fault in this
Man." NKJV

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 1 Peter 1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot. NKJV
2 Cor 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, NKJV
John 8:46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not
believe Me? NKJV
The Passover lamb was chosen 4 days before being killed:
Ex 12:3 'On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb,
Ex 12:6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. NKJV
Could a four-year ministry parallel the last four days of the Passover lamb?
If Yeshua’s ministry lasted four years, it would perfectly match the four days during
which the blemishless lamb had been known and expressly kept to become the Passover
lamb.

th
4 clue Timing of the of the jubilee year

At the beginning of his ministry, Yeshua

was baptized
spent 40 days in the desert
spent some time teaching in the various synagogues around.
And then Yeshua announced the jubilee:
Luke 4:18-21 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach
good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and
recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the
Lord's favor." Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.
The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began by saying
to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
The text that Yeshua read in the synagogue was a description of a jubilee year and at the end
of his reading, he told everybody that what he had just read was happening on that very
day. We even know the date of that day:
Lev 25:9-10 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the
seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its
inhabitants.
At no other time would it have been more appropriate to announce a jubilee than at the start of
a ministry that would bring the same kind of relief as was expected during a jubilee year. See
the following report that was transmitted to John the Baptist later on:
Matt 11:4-6 Jesus answered and said to them, "Go and tell John the things which you
hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf
hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. NKJV

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According to the timeline given in Appendix E on page 256, Yeshua died in 3993 AM. If the
ministry lasted four years, as we are trying to demonstrate, it had to start at 3989 AM. Was
3989 AM a jubilee year? Absolutely. See list of jubilee years on page 148.
There was a jubilee year starting in the 7th month of 3989 AM.

3989 AM 3990 AM
M1 M7D10 M12|13 M1 M7D10 M12|13

th
49 year of a 49-year cycle First year of the next 49-year cycle

Jubilee year #29

It is also called the fiftieth year
in Lev 25:8-10

It is quite possible that, contrary to M = month

the popular belief, the very start of D = day
Yeshua’s ministry coincides with the
proclamation of the Jubilee year.

We saw earlier that a jubilee starts in the 7th month of the 7th year of the 7th sabbatical cycle
and terminates in the 7th month of the first year of the next cycle. (See page 148)

th
5 clue Four months before the harvest

John 4:35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you,
open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
A careful review of John indicates that the timing of John 4:35 could be a few weeks after the
first Passover of Yeshua’s ministry which was held in the first month (M1) of 3990 AM:
John 2:13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
There were four Passovers (P1, P2, P3, P4) during Yeshua’s ministry (if it lasted 4 years as
assumed by the author).

3989 AM 3990 AM 3991 AM 3992 AM 3993 AM

M1 M7D10 M1 P1 M7D10 M1 P2 M1 P3 M1 P4

Ministry star- First

ted with the Passover Second Third Fourth Passover/
jubilee of Passover Passover Death of Yeshua
3989-3990.

Jubilee year

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In John 4:35-38 Yeshua is telling his disciples that the fields are ready to be harvested (spring
harvest) but people say “four months more and then the harvest”.
Why would the people wait 4 months if those fields were ready to be harvested? Why would
it be a saying? Four months after the spring brings us into the fall, the fact that it was a saying
could only mean that those circumstances had been encountered in the past and they would
happen again in the future.

There is only one possible explanation here. At the time Yeshua was talking, during the spring
of 3990 AM , there was still 4 months to wait for the end of the current jubilee year and this is
why the people were not harvesting even though the crop was ready. (It would have been
unlawful to do so.)

3989 AM 3990 AM
M1 M7D10 12|13 M1 P1 1 2 3 4 M7D10 M12|13

Start of
Yeshua’s John’s first Yeshua tells the 4 months
ministry passover (P1) harvest is ready to wait Harvest can be
done, jubilee year
is over.
Jubilee year See Lev 25:11

th Queen Esther wait four days before

6 clue going to the king uninvited

There are strong similarities between Yeshua’s ministry and what can be seen to some extent
as Queen Esther’s 4-day plan.

Here I specifically point to the 4-day period during which Queen Ester held a three days’ fast
with all the Jews of Susa and then presented herself, uninvited, to the King and ended-up (on
the fourth day during her second banquet) pleading for her own safety. Note that by
imploring the king to save the only life he cared for, the life of his queen, Esther brilliantly
fought for the fate of all the Jews.

Est 4:16 Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast
for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day.
Est 5:2 So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the
Queen court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther
Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand.
Est 5:8 then let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will
prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said."
4-day
Est 7:2 And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again
ministry said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther?
Est 7:3 O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at
my petition, and my people at my request.

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The parallel between Yeshua’s ministry and Esther’s ministry come in several levels.

Both individuals face violent death twice.

(In each case a king was involved)

Esther could have died when she presented herself to the King uninvited.
Est 4:11 All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that any
man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he
has but one law: put all to death,

As a Jewish she was also targeted by Haman’s planned genocide.

Est 3:8-9 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered
and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; … If it pleases
the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed,

Note: The date of the genocide was obtained by casting lots.

Yeshua was directly targeted when Herod had all the children under two killed.
Matt 2:13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to
Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt,
and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy
Him.

Yeshua was crucified.

Mark 15:22-24 And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, … . And when they
crucified Him,
Note: The distribution of Yeshua’s garments was decided by casting lots
(Ref Mark 15:24)

Both started their ministry with an unusual fast.

Esther unexpectedly fasted during three days before meeting the King. Notice that by doing
so, her appearance was likely to repel the King when he saw her.
Est 4:16 Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither
eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise.
Yeshua when 40 days in the desert
Matt 4:1-2 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by
the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was
hungry.
Both offer their lives to save a multitude
Est 4:8-9 that he [the king’s eunuchs] might command her [Esther] to go in to the king
to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people.
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
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 th
7 clue The last four years of Absalom

The last 4 years of Absalom are a TYPE of Yeshua’s ministry

In the case of Absalom the four years started when he received the authorization from his
father (King David) to leave his own house in Jerusalem and circulate in the city:
2 Sam 14:33 Then the king summoned Absalom, and he came in and bowed down
with his face to the ground before the king. And the king kissed Absalom. NIV
And it ended when Absalom tried to usurp the crown and replace his father on the throne:
2 Sam 15:7 At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, NIV
Here are 7 points showing that a parallel can be established between Absalom and Yeshua.
P1 The last 4 years in each man’s life started with freedom.
Absalom: At first Absalom was confined101 to his own house and was not
allowed to see his father: See 2 Sam 14:24
Then he recovered his freedom and was allowed to see his father
during the last 4 years of his life. See 2 Sam 15:7
Yeshua: At the start of his 4 year ministry Yeshua declared a jubilee year
(freedom) : See Luke 4:16-18
P2 Each man had an opposite way to resolve conflicts.
Absalom was seeking justice: See 2 Sam 15:4
Yeshua was promoting ‘forgiveness’ See Luke 6:37
P3 The king’s son and God’s son were both impaled by the spear of a soldier
while hanging on a tree.
Absalom was impaled (2 Sam 18:14 ) by Joab (a soldier 1 Chron 27:34)
Yeshua was impaled by a soldier. See John 19:34
Note: Author’s belief: Yeshua was crucified on a tree.
P4 The king’s son and God’s son died with a crown on the head.
Absalom See 2 Sam 18:9
Yeshua See Matt 27:29
P5 Each man’s death was followed by a loud sound.
Absalom See 2 Sam 18:16
Yeshua See Mark 15:38-39, Matt 27:51
P6 The king’s son and God’s son were buried beneath a rock.
Absalom See 2 Sam 18:17
Yeshua See Matt 27:59-60
P7 Following each death the people hurried home.
After Absalom’s death See 2 Sam 18:17

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The fact that Absalom was confined to his own house is not in doubt. It was in response to a specific order
[let him return to his own house] from the king. Also notice that Absalom sent his servant twice to ask Joab to
come to see him. Why didn’t Absalom go to see Joab himself given that they were close neighbors:
2 Sam 14:29 And when he sent again the second time, he would not come. NKJV
2 Sam 14:30 So he said to his servants, "See, Joab's field is near mine, NKJV
And how can we explain that Absalom would have been better if he had stayed in Geshur unless he was free to
move around in Geshur:
2 Sam 14:32 "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." NKJV
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 After Yeshua’s Can
deaththere be any
See doubts
Luke left?
23:54,56

Start of Start of
Yeshua’s ministry Yeshua’s ministry
3989 AM 3989 AM
. Yeshua’s Yeshua’s ministry
ministry started 44 years
years before the physical years
lasted destruction of
4 years the 2nd Temple

Yeshua’s death
3993 AM End of 2nd Temple
4033 AM

Yeshua’s ministry started in the 7th month of 3389 AM Total

# of
and ended in the 1st month of 3993 AM. # of
Year months
The ministry lasted exactly 44 months. months
M1- M2- M3- M4-
3989 M5- M6- M7-Thisri M8-Mach..
6
AM M9-Kislev M10-Tevet M11-Shevat M12-Adar I
M13-Adar2

M1-Nissan M2-Lyar M3-Sivan M4-Tammuz

3990 M5-Mena M6-Elul M7-Thisri M8-Mach.. 12
AM
M9-Kislev M10-Tevet M11-Shevat M12-Adar I

M1-Nissan M2-Lyar M3-Sivan M4-Tammuz 44

3991 M5-Mena M6-Elul M7-Thisri M8-Mach.. 13 Months
AM M9-Kislev M10-Tevet M11-Shevat M12-Adar I
M13-Adar2

M1-Nissan M2-Lyar M3-Sivan M4-Tammuz

3992 M5-Mena M6-Elul M7-Thisri M8-Mach.. 12
AM
M9-Kislev M10-Tevet M11-Shevat M12-Adar I

3993
M1-Nissan 1
AM

Yeshua’s Yeshua’s Ex 12:3 on the

Yeshua
tenth day of this
month each man the Yeshua’s
ministry ministry is to take a lamb chosen death
starts for his family lamb days
months ends
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 John 2:20 Then the Jews Less than 30 days before the Passover David born
46 said, "It has taken 46 years to festival people begin concentrating on 2933 AM
build this temple their pesach offering.
According Luc 3:23 Yeshua Ref : footnote 20, The ArtScroll Series Babylonian
was about 30 years old at the
37
Talmud (Shekalim 20a), Mesorah Publications, Ltd
start of his ministry. 370
And the lamb was closely observed during
(The pattern on this page infers 29 4 days before the slauthering. -- Ex 12:3-7 David to
that He was 29 years old and Jerusalem
borned in 3960 AM.) Yeshua was choosen by God when he was 2970 AM
less than 30 years old; and was observed
by God during His 4 year-ministry Israel
doom
3303 AM
(Neh 12:31-39) At the dedication of Return of 42,360 exiles
the wall, two choirs of people walk 3503 AM
the top of the wall in opposite
directions and meet again. 40
Jerusalem’s Nehemiah’s wall 44
wall symbolically fully repaired 640 i y.
divided in two 3543 AM 440 i=1
Neh 12:43 And on that day ….
The sound of rejoicing in 400
Jerusalem could be heard far
away.
Herod renovates the
Opposition to the wall’s repairs 2nd Temple 3943 AM
Neh 6:9 They were all trying to 17
frighten us, thinking, "Their hands
will get too weak for the work, and
Yeshua born Yeshua
3960 AM born
it will not be completed." 730
450 46 12 046
Yeshua at 12
Opposition to the son’s work in Temple 29
Mark 12:10 "'The stone the builders 3972 AM
rejected has become the capstone; 17
Matt 27:54 When the centurion Start of Yeshua’s ministry
and those with him who were 3989 AM
73
guarding Jesus saw the
4
earthquake and all that had 44
happened, they were terrified, y.
44
Temple’s veil is Yeshua’s dies y.
divided in two 3993 AM
Mark 15:38 The curtain of the temple 40
was torn in two from top to bottom.
nd nd
2 Temple is destroyed 2 Temple
4033 AM is destroyed

God sent Jonah to Nineveh to proclaim that the city would be overturned in 40 days. The people repented and
40
the city was saved. Yeshua was sent to Jerusalem to proclaim the kingdom of God, nobody repented and they
killed him. If only the people had remembered the message of Jonah they could have saved Jerusalem. The city was
destroyed 40 years later. Matt 12:39 "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none
will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. Ref Jerren Lewis “Evidence, Jesus is the Messiah”
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Did the second Temple lose its “raison d’être” when Yeshua died? Yes

Yeshua associated his death with the end of something.

John 19:30 Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Matt 27:51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The
earth shook and the rocks split.
What was finished? Right after Yeshua’s death comes the tearing of
the Temple’s veil. The ‘outer’ veil marked the separation between God
and humanity (only priests were allowed inside the Temple). We have
here a powerful symbol informing us of a change: There would be no
more need to bring sacrifices at the Temple, worshipping would be
done in spirit.
John 4:21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is
coming when you will worship the Father neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem
Contrary to the popular belief, it was not the inner veil but the outer
curtain of the Temple that was torn in two. Here is why. The soldier
standing at the site of the crucifixion (Luke 23:47) witnessed the event.
(It would have been impossible for him to see the inner curtain installed
way inside the Temple). Also, according Josephus's Jewish war the mo-
tif on the outer curtain represented a depiction of the Heaven. This last detail has a great importance
when associated to the following: At his baptism (beginning of Yeshua’s ministry) the heaven was
torn in two (Mark 1:10) and at his death a Temple’s curtain102 was torn in two (Marc 15:38).

The Jewish Talmud says that 40 years before the Temple was destroyed the gates of the
temple opened by themselves, until Rabbi Yohanan B. Zakkai rebuked them (i.e., the gates)
saying, "Hekel, Hekel, why do you alarm us? We know that you are destined to be
destroyed" (Yoma 39b).
Zech 11:1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars!

This happened every day for 40 years

Josephus - Moreover, the eastern gate of the inner, [court of the temple,] which was of
brass, and vastly heavy, and had been with difficulty shut by twenty men, and rested upon
a basis armed with iron, and had bolts fastened very deep into the firm floor, which was
there made of one entire stone, was seen to be opened of its own accord about the sixth
hour of the night. (Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, IV: iv, 3)

Knowing that the tearing of the veil and the opening of the gates symbolize the same fact: the
Temple had become redundant, we can conclude that the ‘40 years’ supplied by the Talmud
represents the period between the death of Yeshua and the physical destruction of the second
Temple103.
102
We have here a bracket around Yeshua’s ministry but it fully works only if the curtain
being torn from top to bottom was the ‘outer’ one, i.e. the one picturing the Heaven. See The
heavenly veil torn: Mark’s cosmic "inclusio" by David Ulansey
103
the second Temple was burned down by the soldiers of Titus, the son of Emperor Vespasian
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 Where does Joshua fit into this chronology?
The following reference will lead us to the answer:

Acts 13:17-20 The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers; he made the people
prosper during their stay in Egypt, … he overthrew seven nations in Canaan and gave
their land to his people as their inheritance. All this took about 450 years. "After this,
God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. NIV

Here Paul singles out ‘[God] chose our fathers104’ as the event that starts his 450-year time
span. And even though he doesn’t tell us what event brought the period to a close he informs
us that it happened shortly before the beginning of the Judges’ period. But what does it mean
‘to choose the fathers’? Were those fathers chosen together and who were they? According to
Act 13:16 the fathers were chosen before the Israelites went to Egypt. This brings us back to
the time of the three patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Let’s suppose that Paul implied that the fathers were chosen as the result 105 of an action they
had performed. Already, from that premise, we can exclude Jacob from any group chosen.
Elsewhere it is clearly written that Jacob’s destiny was settled even before he was born:
Gen 25:23 And the LORD said to her: "Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples
shall be separated from your body; One people shall be stronger than the other, And
the older shall serve the younger." NKJV

This leaves only Abraham and Isaac in the role of the chosen fathers.

Our fathers were chosen106 at the sacrifice (Akedah) of Isaac!

Nothing more difficult to accept could have been asked to

Abraham but he didn’t hesitate:
Gen 22:2 Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you Abraham & Isaac
love, chosen at the same time
Gen 22:3 3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and
saddled his donkey. Abraham's willingness
to sacrifice Isaac
Isaac offered no resistance and it should be credited as faith.
Most difficult
Isaac learned at the last minute he would be the sacrifice and decision of
he hardly had any time to meditate on the situation. Thus, his their life
reaction had to come from an inner conviction that whatever
his father requested from him was the right thing to do. Isaac's willingness
Gen 22:7 "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but to be sacrificed
where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
104
Plural form, more than one father was chosen.
105
If it were not the case why would they have been chosen in the first place?
106
The expression ‘The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers’ does convey the idea that the ‘choosing’
was done following some actions of the ‘fathers’. Also, given that Paul used this ‘choosing’ as the start of the
450 years we can deduce that the fathers’ actions were done at the same time.
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Isaac was not under restraint from anybody; he was alone with his father:
Gen 22:5 Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there.

The full consent of Isaac was mandatory. Abraham at 115 years old (2123 AM – 2008 AM)
would never have been able to bind his 15 year-old son (2123 AM – 2108 AM) if this one had
refused to fully cooperate. Isaac was a consenting victim here; he could have found an
opportunity to run away but he didn’t. On the contrary, he walked by himself to the altar:
Gen 22:9 He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

As a result God did choose our fathers:

Gen 22:16-18 and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have
done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and
make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the
seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and
through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have
obeyed me."

Important: After this event neither Abraham nor Isaac were ever asked to prove their
obedience again. No doubt the binding episode should be viewed as the most important event
in both men’s lives.
With the near certainty that the 450 year period of Act 13:20 started with the “binding of
Isaac’ in 2123 AM we can conclude that it ended at 2573 AM, This is 4 years after the land
was divided by Joshua in 2569 AM and 10 years before the Gibeah event.

What happened in 2573 AM that could logically mark the end of the 450 year period?

According to Acts 13:16-20, at the end of the 450 years, the seven nations of Canaan had been
conquered and the era of the Judges was soon to follow.

Joshua was chosen to lead the people to their inheritance:

Josh 1:6-7 "Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit
the land I swore to their forefathers to give them.
Josh 23:4-5 Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the
land of the nations that remain-the nations I conquered-between the Jordan and the
Great Sea in the west.
The whole of the Exodus period is under the leadership of two individuals, Moses at the
beginning and Joshua at the end. Therefore, it is quite reasonable to terminate the 450-year
period with the death of Joshua (in 2573 AM).

450 years 450 years

Akedah ? Joshua dies ?
Binding Palace ready
of Isaac inheritance &
Ark captured Solomon
Fathers were Act 13:20 received Israel will be was chosen
chosen
2573 AM rejected
2123 AM 2873 AM 3023 AM
3 * 150 2 * 150 150

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 Abram leaves Acts 13:20 All Josh 24:29 Joshua
Haran 2083 AM this took about son of Nun, … died
450 years. at the age of 110.
40
Akedah
4 2123 AM
9
0 4
Joshua born 2463 AM
5
0 110 1
2
0 4
Joshua dies Joshua dies 4
3
2573 AM 2573 AM 7 3 4
Gibeah’s 0
* 5 0 9
sin y.
70 0 0
0 2583 AM
Samuel judge
2893 AM
4
0 Sam. Samuel
4 0 dies
dies
3 2953 AM
0 David
4 King of 4
5 Judah 3 1
4 0 2963 AM 0 2
9 Ark to 0
0 Jerusalem
2973 AM
70 4
5
0 3
Temple #1
0
Const..
3003 AM
Ark Ark in the 4
in the Temple 9
4 Temple 3013 AM 0
Palace
3 Pala..
ready 0 ready
3023 AM 4
0
Kingdom 0
4 4
splits
3 3 Exile of
3063 AM 5
0 0 Israel
4 0
7 3323 AM
0
9 Jeremiah *
1
4 0 prophetises 70
2
5
3403 AM 0
0
110
Dest.. of 1st Temple
and Jerusalem 3443 AM
nd
Construction Const.. 2 Temple
of 2nd Temple 3513 AM

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 Joshua born 2463 AM
60
1 99
Exodus
0 2523 AM
0 Aaron dies
40
2562 AM
Promised land
2563 AM
06
1 Land 11
0 divided
2569 AM
04
Joshua dies 2573 AM

Figuring the chronology of the ‘oppressions and judges’ period

The first part of the ‘judges’ period’ includes all the oppressions and all the judges from Cushan
up to the end of the Philistine oppression107. This period couldn’t have started before the death of
Joshua in 2573 AM and neither could it have ended after the start of Samuel’s judgeship. The
maximum time span available
to fit in all the judges (but Judge’s period (sequential layout)
Samuel) and all the Oppression Judge
oppressions is therefore 320 Judge 3:8 Opp. Cushan 8
years (2573 to 2893 AM, see Judge 3:11 Ju Othniel 40
Judge 3:14 Opp. Eglon 18
next page). Judge 3:30 Ju Ehud 80
Before figuring out the Judge 4:3 Opp. Jabin 20
chronology of this period we Judge 5:31 Ju Deborah 40
have to find out if the Judge 6:1 Opp. Median 7
sequence of judges and Judge 8:28 Ju Gideon 40
oppressions could have Judge 9:22 Opp. Abimelech 3
Judge 10:2 Ju Tola 23
overlapped somehow. The
Judge 10:3 Ju Jair 22
following table shows, in Judge 10:8 Opp. Ammon 18
sequence, each judge and each Judge 12:7 Ju Jephthah 6
oppressor with the number of Judge 12:9 Ju Ibzan 7
years they apparently rule. Judge 12:11 Ju Elon 10
The total obtained this way is Judge 12:14 Ju Abdon 8
390 years. Judge 13:1 Opp. Philistines 40

114 + 276

We will see next

Total years = 390
page that this
number is too high

107
Samuel’s judgeship started at the end of the Philistines’ 40 years of oppressions.
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 The 390 years judges’ period
as laid out on the previous
page cannot be fitted in the
limited 320 years period
found between the ‘death of Binding of Isaac
2123 AM
Joshua’ and the ‘start of
Samuel’s judging’ 4
4
5 0
0 0
y.
Op. Cushan 8 Exodus
Ju. Othniel 40 2523 AM
J Op. Eglon 18
Joshua dies
U Ju. Ehud 80 2573 AM
D Op. Jabin 20
G
E
Ju. Deborah 40
S Op. Median 7 3 4
Ju. Gideon 40 3 0
Op. Abim.. 3 9
2 0
P Ju. Tola 23 0
E Ju. Jair 22 y. 0 y.
R Op. Ammon 18
I Ju. Jephthah 6
O Ju. Ibzan 7
D
Ju. Elon 10 Samuel judge
Ju. Abdon 8 2893 AM Saul King
Op. Philistines 40 2923 AM

4 4
3 0
0 0
y.

Exile of Israel
3323 AM

As it is clearly shown in the above figure, even if we start the oppression of Cushan the same
year that Joshua died, there wouldn’t be enough time to fit all the judges and all the
oppressions before the start of Samuel’s judgeship.

The 320 years between Joshua’s death and the start of Samuel’s judgeship cannot be
increased. Therefore the only way out is to reduce the 390 year period previously obtained
for the judges and oppressions. That can only be done by overlapping some and reducing the
value of others. It may seem an impossible challenge given all the possibilities, but
fortunately, as we will see, most of the judges and oppressions clearly didn’t overlapped 108.
Our first step to resolve this difficult puzzle is to find out when the Oppression of Cushan
started. The following figure gives us a very strong indication that it was at 2593 AM.

108
«it is decidedly contrary to the meaning of the book, to represent any two of the judges as ruling in different
parts at the same time. At the commencement of each new section, it is always the nation collectively which is
spoken of » Ref : John Kitto (1804-1854) The Pictorial Bible
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 Covenant 2093
AM
between parts Joseph 2368
AM
dies
2443 Moses 75
AM
born Joshua 2463
80 born
AM
2523 5
AM Exodus 0
40 0 1
Promised land 2563 AM 150 4
10 Two facts to keep in mind: 0
130 1) According Jud 13:5
20 Joshua dies 2573
70 #1
Samuel’s birth was a
30 10 30 response to the 2853 AM
2583 Philistines oppression.
AM
G. S. Gibeah sin
10 2) While still an infant (1
10
Sam 3:2-17), Samuel was
O. Cus. Oppression of Cushan 2593 AM told about the future
capture of the Ark (2873
#4
2 AM). From theses two 2
240 * facts we know that … 8
2833 Eli 3 130 0
AM Eli judge *
4 judge Opp.. of Phillistines
90 3
* 300 2853 AM
30 0
70 10
40 0
Samuel born
Samuel b.
2873
2863 AM 40 20 y after
AM Eli Ju.
Ark
captured #3 30 Page 55
120 Samuel judge Samuel Sa. More on
2893 AM judge Ju. next page 70
90
30 30 1
80 Saul king 130 40
2923 AM 4
David born 0
30 2933 AM
Samuel dies 40
8
2953 AM Ark in Jeru. 70
*
30 6 2973 AM
70 Solomon
#2 0 David dies
160 born 2983 AM
60 0 40 3003 AM
30 6 10
*
Ark in Temple 90 Ark in Temple 3013 AM
3113
AM Samaria
#5 Samuel was born between
320 2853 and 2873 AM. From
480
3433 the patterns (on this page
Exile Ju.
AM and next) we deduce that
End of Babylon’s imperialism 3493 AM he was born in 2863 AM.

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 Eli judges
2833 AM Samuel born
2863 AM
10
60 Ark capt.
2873 30
20 2
Samuel Sanuel Samuel Ju.
80 *
Judge Judge 2893 AM 50
40
David born P 181
2933 AM 77
77 Saul rejected
2943 AM
David
K. Ju.
David to 2963 AM
Jerusalem
600 2970 AM
40
03
4 Ark to See
3 Jerusalem P194
33 2973 AM
0 80 Solomon born
600 6 2983 AM
6 30 20 50
6 st
1 Temple
Construction
7 3003 AM
7 1st Temple 3003
ready AM
3010 AM 10
3 03
st
Ark brought in 1 Temple 3013 AM
Exile Israel
3323 AM Exile
Judah
3433

60
6 More amazing patterns
Fall of Baby.
6 involving Samuel on
3493 AM 1st Purim
6 page 220
3559 AM Ezekiel’s 430-day
4 famine of words
3 symbolizes God’s
430-year silence
0
Yeshua ministry
3989 AM

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The date of Jephthah’s judgeship can be fixed.

After 18 years of oppression, Ammon claimed a part of Israel’s territory pretending that it
belonged to the Ammonites. Jephthah, a warrior, answered back that this territory had been
under the control of Israel for the last 300 years:
Judg 11:25-26 For 300 years Israel occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding
settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn't you retake them during that
time?

If we can find out the origin of these 300 years we will be able to figure out the year that
Jephthah became Judge.
The Bible tells us that just before the year before Moses died (i.e. 2562 AM), the territory
around the Arnon was captured and given to the tribe of Reuben:
Num 21:24 Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the
Jabbok,

Deut 2:36 From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as
far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

Deut 3:16-17 But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead
down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok
River, which is the border of the Ammonites.

This territory of Reuben’s is the same land that would be claimed by Ammon 300 years later,
thus making Jephthah’s judgeship start in 2862 AM (2562 + 300).

In the year before co- Capture

ming to the Promised of Arnon 300 years Jephthah
Judge
Land, Reuben started territory
occupying the territory
along the Arnon. (Moses
would die later that year.

2443 2483 2563

AM
2523 2562 2593 2862 2893

Moses Moses fled Exodus Promised Opp. Ju.

40 y. 40 40 30 300 y.
born from Egypt Land Cushan Samuel

We now have three important dates to help us chart the chronology of the period of
Oppressions and Judges. From those dates (2593, 2862, 2893) we are going to move
forwards and backwards and lay down as many events as possible.

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 Judges conflicting chronology

going Op. Cushan Ju. Othniel Op. Eglon

forwards 2593 AM 8 y. 2601 40 y. 2641 18 y.

Ju. Ehud Op. Jabin Ju. Deborah Op. Median

2659 80 y. 2739 20 y. 2759 40 y. 2799 7 y
?

Problem :
The progression of the sequence
of events at the top of this page, Median
which goes forward from the in
Opp of Chushan, sets the 2799 AM
Opp of Median in 2799 AM

but then
it creates an obvious conflict
Median with the sequence of events
in found at the bottom of this page
2749 AM which goes backwards from
Samuel and sets the
Opp of Median in 2749 AM.

? Op. Median Ju. Gideon Op. Abimelech

2749 7y 2756 40 y. 2796 3y

Ju. Tola Ju. Jair Op. Ammon Ju. Jephthah

2799 23 y. 2822 22 y. 2844 8 y 2862 6 y.

Ju. Ibzan Ju. Elon Ju. Abdon Ju. Samuel going

2868 7 y. 2875 10 y. 2885 8 y. 2893 AM backwards

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 Judges right chronology

Going
Op. Cushan Ju. Othniel Op. Eglon
forwards 2593 8 y. 2601 40 y. 2641 18 y.

Solution : rejecting the unlikely 80 years of Ehud

This solution may
The solution to harmonise the ‘forwards’ and the
seem innocuous
‘backwards’ sequence is to recognize that the 80 years of
but, as you will
Ehud is highly suspicious and could have been inflated as the
discover in the
result of a scribal error. (Notice that this number, 80, is twice
following pages,
the hightest value, 40, reached by three other Judges). The
it is going to
suggested solution will reduce that value from 80 to 18 and
transform the
will introduce a gap of 12 years at the end of Deborah’s 40-
Judge’s period
year judgeship.
inconsequential
It is worth noting that we could have tried to overlap the 80 sequence of num-
years of Ehud with the judgeship of other Judges but this bers into a stun-
possibility has been rejected on the grounds that the Bible’s ning series of
text doesn’t suggest any overlapping before the introduction pattern, imprinted
of the double oppressions of Ammon and the Philistines. by the Divine
Judg 10:7 and He sold them into the hands of the Finger.
Philistines and into the hands of the people of Ammon.

Ju. Ehud Op. Jabin Ju. Deborah GAP

2659 80 18 y. 2677 20 y. 2697 40 y. 2737 12 y.

Op. Median Ju. Gideon Op. Abimelech

2749 7 y 2756 40 y. 2796 3 y

Ju. Tola Ju. Jair Op. Ammon Ju. Jephthah

2799 23 y. 2822 22 y. 2844 18 y 2862 6 y.

Ju. Ibzan Ju. Elon Ju. Abdon Ju. Samuel Going

2868 7 y. 2875 10 y. 2885 8 y. 2893 backwards

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Judges’ period Reuben occupies the
land along the Arnon 2562
AM
(Num 32:1-23)
2563 Promised Land
AM
From Opp of Cushan
Notice
to Samuel’s judgeship
there is 300 years 30

8 Opp. #1 Cushan 2593 AM

2601 AM Ju. Othniel 40
18 Opp. #2 Eglon 2641 AM
2659 AM Ju. Ehud 18
20 Opp. #3 Jabin 2677 AM
2697 AM Ju. Deborah 40

2737 AM GAP 12

7 Opp. #4 Median 2749 AM

2756 AM Ju. Gideon 40
3 Opp. #5 Abimelech 2796 AM
2799 AM Ju. Tola 23
2822 AM Ju. Jair 22
Opp #6
Ammon 9 2844 AM Judg 11:26 for
(Part 1) 300 300 years,
18 why did you
Opp. #7 not recover
O. Ammon 9 2853 AM them within
(Part 2)
Philistines
(Part 1 = 9 y.) that time?

Je. 40 2862 AM Ju. Jephthah 6

Last 9 years of
Ammon overlap Ib. O.Philistines 2868 AM Ju. Ibzan 7
31
with the first 9 El. (Part 2 = 31 y.) 2875 AM Ju. Elon 10
years of Philistines
Ab. 2885 AM Ju. Abdon 8
Last 31 years of 2893 AM Judge Samuel
Philistines overlap Note : Philistines
with Jephthah, Ibzan, oppression started 30
Elon and Abdon. 40 years before
Samuel became 2923 Saul king
judge. AM

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 Judges’s period (perfect setting & emergence of amazing patterns)

8 Opp. #1 Cushan 2593 AM

48 48
2601 AM Ju. Othniel 40
18 Opp. #2 Eglon 2641 AM 1
4 122
2659 AM Ju. Ehud 18 47 2 4
+ *
20 Opp. #3 Jabin 2677 AM 49 48
2697 AM Ju. Deborah 40

2737 AM GAP 12 12

7 Opp. #4 Median 2749 AM

47 3
2756 AM Ju. Gideon 40 0
3 Opp. #5 Abimelech 2796 AM 0

2799 AM Ju. Tola 23 48

2822 AM Ju. Jair 22

Opp. #6
9 2844 AM 3 1
Ammon (P1)
* 4 122
18 Opp #7 48 4
O. Ammon
9 Philistines 9 2853 AM
(P2)
(P1)

6 2862 AM Ju. Jephthah 6 49

4
See how this 40 0
years of Philis- Opp. 7 2868 AM Ju. Ibzan 7
tines is perfectly Philist..
mapped by the se- (P2) 10 2875 AM Ju. Elon 10
quence 6,7,8,9,10.
8 2885 AM Ju. Abdon 8

2893 AM Judge Samuel

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 In the previous figure we can see how the ‘assumed’ 12-year gap, introduced before the 7-
year oppression of Median, is dividing the whole 300-year period of the judges into three
strongly related parts (122 , 12, 122). This strategic positioning of the gap may seem
conveniently opportunistic, but it is not. In fact, there are only a limited number of locations
where such a gap could have been introduced without violating the Bible’s record. The gap
couldn’t have come after any oppression or between two successive judges. A careful reading
of the Book of Judges will show that the judges were introduced either immediately at the end
of an oppression (in these cases the judge was himself responsible for ending the current
oppression) or shortly following another Judge (like Tola, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon).

In the end there is only four locations where an ‘undocumented’ gap of years could have
possibly taken place during the sequence of judges and oppressions. These locations are
before the oppression of Eglon, Jabin, Median and Ammon. Notice that in each case the
Book of Judges introduces the coming oppression with ‘Once again the Israelites did evil in
the eyes of the LORD’ (Judg 3:12, Judg 4:1, Judg 6:1, Judg 10:6). Technically, a delay could
have took place before any of these oppressions. Because of all the patterns that suddenly
emerge with this choice, I settled for a single gap before the oppression of Median.

One more layer of “stunning” patterns from the Judge’s timeline.

Opp. #1 Cushan 8
48
Ju. Othniel 40 2
Opp. #2 Eglon 18 *
52
Ju. Ehud 18 56
Sequence
Opp. #3 Jabin 20 of 5
numbers
Ju. Deborah 40
52 52
Gap 12 48
50
Opp. #4 Median 7 52
Ju. Gideon 40 50 54
2 56
Opp. #5 Abimelech 3
*
Ju. Tola 23 52
Ju. Jair 22 54
Opp. #6 Part 1 9
Ammon Part Part 2 of Ammon
Part 2 9 2 9 Sequence
18 years 1 Part 1 of Phili..
of 5
2 * 6 Ju. Jephthah numbers
Opp #7
Philistines * 8 7 Ju. Ibzan 6
Opp. #6 & #7 31 Part 7
overlapped 40 years
2 8 10 Ju. Elon 8
for 9 years
9
8 8 Ju. Abdon 10

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In the next pattern the timeline values are separated in 5 distinct groups (G1, G2, G3, G4, G5)

G1 G2 G3 G4 G5
Total
1 Judges 3:8 8 Cushan 8
2 Judges 3:11 40 Othniel 40
3 Judges 3:14 18 Eglon 18
4 Judges 3:30 ? 18 Ehud 18
5 Judges 4.3 20 Jabin 20
6 Judges 5:31 40 Deborah 40 3
7 No ref. 12 Gap 12 0
8 Judges 6:1 7 Median 7 0
9 Judges 8:28 40 Gideon 40
Y
10 Judges 9:22 3 Abimelech 3 e
11 Judges 10:2 23 Tola 23 a
12 Judges 10:3 22 Jair 22 r
13 9 Ammon P1 9 s
Judges 10:8
14 9 Ammon P2 9
15 Judges 12:7 6 Jephthah 6
16 Judges 12:9 7 Ibzan 7
17 Judges 12:11 10 Elon 10
18 Judges 12:14 8 Abdon 8

In each of the first four groups (G1, G2, G3, G4) the values add up to 66.

G1 = 8 + 40 + 18 = 66
Notice that
G2 = 18 + 40 + 8 = 66
each one of
G3 = 12 + 7 + 40 + 7 = 66
the 18 values
G4 = 3 + 23 + 22 + 9 + 9 = 66
has been used
G5 = 20 + 6 + 10 = 36 one time only.

Unexpectly, the values in Group G5 add up to 36 (instead of 66). Does this invalidate the
pattern? Not at all, we can preserve the integrity of this pattern by representing the value 36
by its factors: 6 * 6.

G1 = 8 + 40 + 18 = 66 Could such a thing

be possible without
G2 = 18 + 40 + 8 = 66 God’s involvement?

=
NO
G3 = 12 + 7 + 40 + 7 66
If any of the Judges or Oppressions
G4 = 3 + 23 + 22 + 9 + 9 = 66 had lasted a single year longer or
ended a single year earlier, none of
the previous amazing patterns would
G5 = 20 + 6 + 10 = 6*6 have been possible.
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Here is another way to express the singularity of each individual period of time imputed to the
Judges and theirs oppressors. We can group all the value found before and including the 12
years gap (i.e. 8,40,18,18,20,40 - 12)
in 3 fully reflective arrangements of numbers
and then do the same with all the values found after and including the 12 years gap
(i.e. 12 - 7,40,3,23,22,9,9,6,7,10,8).

Cushan 8
12 Gap
Othniel 40 7 Median
Reflective 40 Gideon
Eglon 18 arrangements 3 Abime..
that use each Reflective 23 Tola
Ehud 18 value and the arrangements 22 Jair
gap on the left. that use the gap 9 Ammon P1
Jabin 20 and each value 9 Ammon P2
on the right. 6 Jephthah
Barak 40 7 Ibzan
Gap 10 Elon
12 8 Abdon

40 = 40 40 = 7 + 10 + 23

8 + 12 + 18 = 18 + 20 7 + 9 + 22 = 3 + 6 + 8 + 9 + 12

Note: Most of the patterns in the last few pages couldn’t have been found without reducing
Ehud’s 80 years to 18. I am well aware that invoking a scribal error to invalidate a value
found in the biblical text is a serious matter and shouldn’t be done without serious
consideration. Below is a Hebrew representation of both numbers 80 and 18. Reading from
right to left, we can see that the first 4 letters in each box are almost identical, however the
writing of 80 involves only one word (eight in its plural form) while the writing of 18 is done
with two words (‘eight’ in its singular form followed by ten).

eighty eighteen

The partial similarity of the two numbers doesn’t prove that a scribe, a long time ago, wrongly
transcribed 80 instead of 18 on his manuscript while copying Judge 3:30. It does however
show that it is not absolutely unthinkable. In the light of the previous few charts and the fact
that Ehud could have hardly judged for 80 years, ‘18’ is therefore a very appealing solution.
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 Did the Israelites wait 19 years in Kadesh Barnea? Yes

The
2 faithful
Joshua born spies
After leaving Egypt the Israelites went
2463 AM
to Kadesh Barnea where God told them 2
to take possession of the land. But 0
because they were afraid of the
inhabitants of the land they sent 12 21 Moses esc.
6 2483 AM
spies to explore the region and report
back what they saw. Unfortunately 10 0 1
Caleb born
of the 12 spies brought negative reports 2484 AM
and discouraged the whole assembly.
19
(See Deut 1:28-31) Because of this lack 2 * 19 38
+
of faith in God’s protection they had to 39
19
wander in the desert for 38 years. Burning bushes
Deut 2:14 And the time we took to 2522 AM
1
come from Kadesh Barnea until we
crossed over the Valley of the Zered Exodus
Ex.
was ‘38’ years, 2523 AM 2*1
Interestingly they didn’t leave 1
Kadesh immediately after the re- 21
Spies sent 2524 AM
turn of the spies and here is what 2
the Bible has to say about it: 0 Deut
Deut 1:46 So you remained in 1:46 19
Kadesh many days, according to
39
the days that you spent there. 4 Leave Kadesh 2543 AM 38 Deut
Isn’t it a very cryptic way to say 0 2:14
that they spent some more time in
Kadesh before turning their back 1 * 19 19
to the land? 2
The highly esteemed medieval 0 Aaron dies
French rabbi known as Rashi 2562 AM
6
thought that the clause 1
0
‘according to the days that you 1*1
spent there’ meant that they spent Promised 21 Promised
as much time in Kadesh Barnea land land
2563 AM 39
as the amount of time spent in all
the other locations visited. 2 38
Therefore out of their 38 years 0
Gibeah sin
wandering in the desert, nineteen years 2583 AM Judge Othniel
would have been spent in Kadesh. Not (Caleb’s nephew)
all the Jewish sage believe the 2601 AM
interpretation of Rashi but I found many Caleb was 40 : Spies sent
strongs patterns to vindicate his theory. Joshua was 80 : Leaves Kadesh
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Sequence starts Joshua born
with a Joshua send spies 2463 AM
spying event 2524 AM Sojourn
in Kadesh 120
19 Barnea

L. K. 2543 AM Leave Kadesh Leave Kadesh

4 4
0 2 * 190 0
4 Gibeah’s G. sin
3 sin Saul King 2583 AM
0 2923 AM
3 * 120 4
8
4 Saul rej.. 0
Ark brought 3 2943 AM
in Jerusalem 0 4 P.
2973 AM 8 181
4 0
0 1
190 120
Ark in Temple 0
0 Solomon en-
3013 AM
4 dorsed 3023 AM
0
3 4
0 50 0
Kingdom splitted
4 3063 AM
3 Samaria 50
Jeremiah 0 3113 AM
prophe.. 3 * 120
3403 AM
4 4
4
3 8
0 Start of
0 2 * 190 Babylon 0
Jeru..’s wall
3423 AM
broken down
3443 AM
50
st Fall of Babylon 4
1 Temple
3493 AM 8
destroyed 4 0
2 3
Sequence ends * 0
19 Return
with a spying 120
of exiles
event: Without 50 Nehemiah starts 3503 AM
telling anybody the wall’s repairs
Nehemiah went 3531 AM
to inspect the 4
12
Jerusalem’s wall 0
in the middle of
the night. Nehemiah’s Wall fully Restored
Neh 2:13 3543 AM
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 Pilgrimage of fathers and sons
Abraham There is no specific statement in
born the Bible to help us figure out
2008 AM Sarah born
when Abraham left Ur and started 2018 AM
55 his pilgrimage …

45
Abraham Abraham A.
P leaves Ur leaves l.
2063 AM Ur Ur
5*5 30
I
Ab. to Egypt
2088 AM 45
L 5 Cov. bet-
ween parts
60 2093 AM 15
G
Isaac born
( 30 2108 AM
55
5
R 15
+ Akedah
555 5 2123 AM
I + 75
Isaac marries 60
2148 AM 5 500
2
)
M 35
Abraham dies
Abr. dies
2183 AM
A
70 75
Reuben born
G 2253 AM ... However we can speculate that Joseph born
it happened in 2063 AM as it is 2258 AM
35 strongly suggested by this figure.
E Isaac dies This new date (2063 AM) will
2288 AM lead us to some surprising
discovery.

5 * 55 For instance, we saw earlier that

the northern tribes of Israel went
Promised into Exile in Abra. Leaves Ur
3323 AM. This Promised
Land 2063 AM
land
2563 AM is exactly 20 *
63 years after 20 * 63 500
Abraham own Kingdom
Exile from Ur Exile of Israel splits
in 2063 AM. 3323 AM 3063 AM

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 Abram leaves Ur (and goes to Haran) 2063 AM

2*15
3 45
*
Cov.. parts 15 Jacob’s
2093 AM father’s 15
Isaac born pilgrimage i y.
2108 AM i=1
15
5*15 Akedah
2123 AM 60
3
*
Jacob born 15 Jacob born
2168 AM 2168 AM

15 15
180 225
Abraham 2 Abraham dies
4 2 2183 AM
dies * 15
*
60 45
5*15 15
1 i y.
3 i=1
0 Joseph born
2258 AM
Joseph
meets See
2*15 Pharaoh p 143
Isaac dies
3
2288 AM
Manasseh born
10 4
Jacob in Egypt Ephraim born
2298 AM 3
Gen 47:9 The days of the years
of my pilgrimage are [130 Jacob
years] … and they have not meets
145
attained to the days of the years Pharaoh
of the life of my fathers in the
days of their pilgrimage." NKJV 225
Moses born
2443 AM
Why did Jacob contrast the short
duration of his ongoing
pilgrimage with that of his 80
fathers? Was he then cryptically
and prophetically revealing to his Exodus
sons that their journey (225 y.)
Jacob’s
end of the sons’
would last as long as his fathers’ pilgrimage children’s
pilgrimage had (225 y.). 2523 AM pilgrimage

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 When did Abraham marry?
Establishing which year Abraham got married to Sarah is a very speculative task, there is
absolutely no direct information to clarify the point. However, we have seen in this
chronology that each biblical event always fits in a strong network of patterns and by finding
many of these around the year 2033 (wedding year?) should be a clue in itself. You decide.

Abram born Abram born

2008 AM 2008 AM

Sarai born
25 2018 AM 25
25 15 15 15
Abram Abram marries
marries 2033 AM

30 30
50
50
Abram leaves Ur
2063 AM 60
Abram
leaves Haran 75 30 30
2083 AM 2
* Cov. between the parts
25 45 2093 AM
15
Isaac born
30 30
2108 AM
2 15
15 150
AKEDAH
100 2123 AM
25
45 45
75 Isaac marries
2148 AM
60
Jacob born
2168 AM
15
Abraham dies Abraham
2183 AM 2 dies
*
75 45
Note : We will see some spectacular
patterns (charts #9 and #10 on page 204-
Joseph born 205) that would not have been possible if
2258 AM Abraham had married at any other time.

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 Understanding Judah & Israel EXILE

About Judah’s Exile

God had clearly told Judah (collective name for the two tribes of Benjamin and Judah) that
she wouldn’t be spare for her sins. Contrary to some commentator’s belief, Ezekiel portraying
of Judah 40 years of sin was not a way to erase their fault. Judah would have to pay some
price itself.

Jer 29:10 "When seventy

Manasseh’s
years are completed for
S abomination
Babylon, I will come to
3368 AM
you and fulfill my gracious
I 40 Sins promise to bring you back
Josiah cleanses generate to this place. NIV
N the Temple punishment
3408 AM Exile of P
Judah U
N
Ezek 5:11 because you 3433 AM I
have defiled my sanctuary S
70 H
with all your vile images
M
and detestable practices, I Return of the E
myself will withdraw my 42,360 exiles N
favor; 3503 AM T

Problem: According Isaiah 40:2 the ‘penalty time’ generated by the 40 years of sin should
have been twice that time (i.e. 80 years instead of 70 years)
Isa 40:2 proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been
paid for, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins. NIV
Are we missing something?

If you look carefully at the next chart you will see that Judah’s suffering was not over at the
end of the 70-year captivity (exile). When the people came back from exile in 3503 AM, they
had to go through 10 years (3503-3513 AM) of privation because the land was then in the 60th
year of her 70-year rest (desolation of the land) . (In others words even though the people
were back to a land that had flowed with milk and honey in the past, they were going to wait a
further 10 years before they could see any new crop in the fields)
Understand the following two very important points:
1. The 70-year of Exile (3433-3503 AM) and the 70-year of land desolation (3443-3513
AM) are two different period that partially overlap.
2. During the 70-year desolation, the land was not producing any crop. This inactivity
was a compensation for the previous 490 years of ‘non stop’ exploitation..

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 Therefore the people of Judah were punished during 80 years and it came in two parts: 70
years of exile (3433-3503 AM) followed by 10 years of privation (3503-3513 AM).

Dan 9:11 Yes, all Israel Jer 16:18 I will repay them
has transgressed Your Judah received double for their wickedness and
law, and has departed so DOUBLE (i.e. 80 years) their sin, because they have
as not to obey Your voice; for her defiled my land with … and
therefore the curse and 40 years of sin have filled my inheritance with
the oath written in the their detestable idols."
Law of Moses the ser-
vant of God have been
poured out on us, becau-
se we have sinned against
Him. NKJV Samuel’s death
( Israel stopped observing to the sabbatical cycle )
2953 AM

Palace 70
2 Chron 36:21 to Judah’s punishment is ready
fulfill the word of came in 2 parts
6 God confirms
the LORD by the Judah Judah
mouth of Jere-
* Solomon
4 in being 80
miah, until the Exile hungry
3023 AM
land had enjoyed 9
her Sabbaths. As 0 P1 P2
long as she lay
desolate she kept
Sabbath, to fulfill Exile of Judah
seventy years. 3433 AM
10 Ju-
Destruction of dah
the first Temple 70
Return of the
3443 AM y.
42,360 exiles
Isa 40:2 "Speak 4
3503 AM L DE- ex 9
i comfort to
Hag 2:17 I struck a SO- 60 0
Jerusalem, ….
all the work of n LA- le For she has
7 your hands with d 80 received from
blight, mildew TI- Return of the
ON 42,360 exiles the LORD's
and hail
1 70 3503 AM hand Double
Foundation of y. of
nd 0 for all her sins."
2 Temple y. No
3510 AM r
the 10 c
e r 10
Hag 1:9 "Because y.
s o
3 of my house, which
remains a ruin, t land p

Const.. 2nd Temple nd

Construction of the 2 Temple starts
3513 AM 3513 AM
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 About Israel’s Exile and its later disappearance
Much has been said about the fact that Israel (northern 10 tribes) was punished ‘7 times over’
for its evil behaviour. It is doubtful anybody ever understood it correctly.
Lev 26:18 If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for
your sins seven times over.
When Lev. 26:18 uses ‘7 times over’ we should ask ourselves ‘7 times over’ what? And the
obvious answer that should come to mind is: ‘7 times over’ the previous period of time during
which ISRAEL HAD ALREADY been PUNISHED. We need to understand that the full
punishment is given in two parts. There was to be a punishment during an initial period of
time and, if it didn’t work (they still didn’t return to YHVH), then, the people would be
punished again but this time the ‘penalty time’ would be increased 7 times over.
I am going to speculate that King Saul was rejected at the exact midpoint –2943 AM– of his
40-year reign (2923-2963 AM). This event had initiated a 380 year period of punishment
whose end (3323 AM) should have brought some forgiveness from God but instead was
marked by the northern tribes going into exile. Did those Israelites from the northern tribes
ever come back from their exile? If you are among those who believe, as I do, that these
northern Israelites are still in exile, and that they should be distinguished from the ‘exiles’ of
Judah who came back with Zerubbabel in 3503 AM (page 178), then, ask yourself the
following question: Why haven’t they come back yet to reclaim their109 land? I suggest
that God had prevented them to do so because they never repented during the initial ‘380-
year’ phase (2943 AM - 3323 AM) of the punishment (see Amos 4:6-12). They are now
serving the second phase of that punishment and they won’t be back until the whole ‘7 times
over’ had elapsed.
Southern tribe’s punishment came
Saul rejected in two parts: 7*10 & 10
2943 AM
Lev. 26:18 If after Northern tribes’s punishment came
all this 380 also in two parts : 380 & 7*380
you will not
listen to me, Exile of Israel Isa 27:8-9 In measure,
I will punish you 3323 AM by sending it away,
for your sins You contended with
seven times over. G & it… Therefore by this
Hos 2:6 I the iniquity of Jacob
o 7 L will wall her will be covered; NKJV
* o in so that she
n cannot find
Zech 10:8-9 "I will whistle 380 s Ezek. 37:21 I will
her way
for them [wake them] to e t take the Israelites
gather them together, For I out of the nations
have redeemed [forgive] Recall of the where they have
them; And they will be as lost 10 Tribes gone. I will gather
numerous as they were 5983 AM them from all
before. [many millions] around and bring
And they …will … come them back into their
back own land.

109
Gen 17:8 Also I give to you[Abraham] and your descendants [southern and northern tribes] after you the
land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."
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 Abram leaves Ur By postulating that Saul
2063 AM Abraham was rejected in 2943 AM we
400 dies come across many patterns.
Moses born 2183 AM
2443 AM Joshua born
2463 AM Exodus
2523 AM
400 70
430 O.Chushan
4 2593 AM
* Samuel born 4 * 70
5 190 2863 AM
Ark captured 0 480 Ark
2873 AM 0 captured
1 Sam
50 15:23 he
has rejec- 80
Saul King 70
ted you
70 2923 AM as king."
20
Saul rej.. Saul rejected 2943 AM Saul re..
Re-
20 20 jected
70 David K. Ju. 60
2963 AM
40
David dies 80
50
3003 AM
2 20
7
Ark brought *
5 *
into Temple 70
0 60 190 God confirms
3013 AM
0 Solomon 3023
Kingdom splits
3063 AM Exile Israel 400
430 3323 AM Start of Baby..
3423 AM Exile
of Judah
Sent 3433 AM
End of 190 away
1st Temple 480 70
brought
3443 AM
back Return of
42,360 exiles
Const. T#2
3503 AM
Nehemiah ‘s 3513 AM
5
Important: When 0 wall fully repaired
3543 AM Saul rejected
Saul was rejected by 0 2943 AM
3 7
God it didn’t mean 400 3 *
he wouldn’t reign David in Jeru..
Herod renovates 2970 AM
70
some more years. 3
Rejection was about the 2nd Temple Ark to Jeru..
his posterity not rei- 5 3943 AM 2973 AM Re-
3 jected
gning over the 12 0 3
Yeshua dies Solomon King Yeshua dies
tribes. 3993 AM 3000 AM 3993 AM

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 The promise : Gen 15:14-15 they shall
Abraham come out with great possessions.
Acts 7:17 "But when the dies Now as for you [Abraham], you shall
time of the promise 2183 AM go to your fathers in peace
drew near which God
had sworn to Abraham, F p
the people grew and u r
l o
multiplied in Egypt NKJV 380 Lev 26:13 I am
f m
years i the LORD your
i
l s God, who brought
l e you out of the
Ps 78:56-58 land of Egypt
Promised Land
But they put 2563 AM
God to the test
and rebelled 7 oppressions D
i Lev 26:14 But if
against the Cushan, Eglon, Jabin, you do not obey
s
Most High; Median, Abimelech.,
o 380 Me, and do not
they did not Ammon, Philistines.
b observe all these
keep his statu- and no matter what, peo- e commandments
tes. Like their ple kept rejecting God y
fathers they
were disloyal Saul is rejected
and faithless (first king of Israel) Lev 26:17 I will
2943 AM set My face against
P you, and you shall
Hos 7:13 I long to u be defeated by
redeem them but n your enemies
they speak lies i Initial
s 380
against me. punishment
And the northern h
kingdom became e
lost (10 tribes), d Lev 26:18 If
they even forgot after all this
their own identity
Exile of Israel
3323 AM you will not
listen to me,
D
Hos 12:14 But And God rejected them i
Ephraim has s
Extended Lev 26:18 I will
bitterly provoked a 7 punishment punish you for
him to anger; ... p *
Hos 1:10 'You are 7 your sins seven
and [the Lord] p 380
not my people,' times over times over.
will repay him e
for his contempt a
r

? Recall ? Jer 31:18 I have surely heard

Hos 6:2 After two days he Ephraim's moaning: 'You
will revive us; on the third of the 10 tribes disciplined me like an unruly
day he will restore us. calf, and I have been disciplined.
if day = 1000 years, on the 3rd 5983 AM Restore me, and I will return,
day could be after 2660 years

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 Abraham leaves Haran (and goes to Canaan) 2083 AM
100
Abraham dies 10 * 390 years
2183 AM after Abraham
The Northern Ten Tribes of Israel
380 went to Canaan,
initial punishment (2943-3323 AM)
the northern 10
lasted exactly 380 years because it was
Promised land tribes will return
5 then mirroring 2563 AM
the previous
* This period of
period of 380 380
390 years (2563- rebelliousness
2943 AM) du- Saul rejected
beget 1 Sam 15:23 Be-
ring which the 2943 AM cause you have
Israelites diso- this initial rejected the word
beyed God 380 of the LORD,
punishment
continually.
Exile of Israel
End of 3323 AM
nd Where are the wandering
2 Temple Can we reasonably be-
4033 lieve that the northern children (Lost tribes) of the
exiles will ever be back? northern 10 tribes today?
The people of the northern kingdom of While there is no definite consensus
Israel were carried away by Assyrians. some researchers point to England,
The people of the southern kingdom of USA, Canada, France, Netherlands,
Judah were carried away by Babylonians. 10
Scandinavia, Ireland, Switzerland,
*
God promised that He Belgium, Australia, New Zealand.
(Of course not all the people of these 390
would gather His people
countries would be descendants of
Paid special attention to Jeremiah: Israelites.).
23:3 I myself will gather the remnant
The Hebrew word ‘Brit-Am’ means
of my flock out of all the countries
"Covenant of the people" (Isa 42:6).
where I have driven them.
7 Is it why the British got the name
23:4 ‘none would be missing’.
5 * Great-Britain? Notice that they also
We know that the tribes of Judah &
* 380 call themselves Anglo-Saxons.
Benjamin came back from Babylon
390 after their 70-year exile (see p 179). Are the ‘Saxons’ from ‘Isaac’s
sons’?
But the Northern 10 tribes never came
back from the Assyrians’ captivity. It is Are names like Denmark, London,
even believed that in due course they Danube, Dardanelles, Edinburgh,
were scattered into many nations. the Don’s river in Scotland and so
Nevertheless God said many others, a testimony for the
‘none would be missing’ tribe of Dan as it was leaving his
trail across Europe?
N.B. This ‘exile’ will end only when
the people will collectively ‘and mira- Gen 49:17 Dan will be a
culously’ learn who they really are. serpent by the roadside
For more on the subject:
Rom 11:25 that blindness in part -Judah’s Sceptre and Joseph’s
is happened to Israel, until the ful- birthright by J. H. Allen.
ness of the Gentiles be come in. -Yair Davidy’s researh

Recall of the 10 Tribes 5983 AM

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 The repetitive usage of the number ‘38’ between the
‘Covenant of Circumcision’ and the ‘Recall of the Lost
Tribes’ is a powerful argument that add credibility to the
following chronological structure.

Covenant
of
Circumcision See Abraham
timeline on
2107 AM
page 79
38
Sarai dies
2145 AM
76
3876 38
years
Abraham dies
2183 AM
st
1 Promise
380 being
Leave
Kadesh fulfilled
2543 AM Promised Land 760
2563 AM
nd
2
100 Period of
380
430 * disobedience
38
Saul rejected
(first king of Israel)
Ark 2943 AM
rd
brought 3 Initial
in Jeru.. 380 period of
2973 AM punishment
Exile of Israel
3323 AM
Jer 31:7-8 'O
7 LORD, save your
* 4th period of
people, the remnant punishment
430 of Israel.' See, I 7 * 380
increased
will bring them
from the land of the 7 times over
north and gather
them from the ends
Recall of the earth. Recall
Jer 31:10 proclaim
of the it in distant coast-
10 lands 'He who scat-
Tribes tered Israel will
gather them
5983 5983 AM

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 A very attractive supposition
Part 1: When did Abraham go to Egypt?
Abraham left Haran to go to Canaan in 2083 AM. The Coven-
-ant of the parts was ratified in 2093 AM. Sometime between
2083 and 2093 AM Abraham went to Egypt (Gen 12:10).
Gen 12:10 Now there was a famine in the land, and
Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while
Suppose Abraham went to Egypt in 2088 AM Sarai born
(the following patterns are very meaningful)
2018 AM
Abraham born 2008 AM 2
* 70
35
5*5
Abraham marry Abraham to Egypt
55 2033 AM
5 * 15 2088 AM
06
30
Abraham Ishmael b.
leaves Ur 2094 AM 35
80 Abraham 60
2063 AM 55 29
leaves Haran
2083 AM 55 Akedah
2123 AM
5*5 25
.
5 170 Isaac
60 marry
Abraham goes to Egypt 2148 AM
? 2088 ? Abra. dies . 3
60
2183 AM *
5 5 5 . Esau 70
marry
20 2208 AM
Covenant 7
of the parts Joseph b. *
92 35
60
2093 AM 2258 AM
Isaac Benja..
born 52
borrn
80 2108 AM 17
55 2268 AM

Sarah dies Joseph 30

2 to Egypt
5 * 15 2145 AM
* 2275 AM Jacob
20 03
to Egypt
Isaac marry 2298 AM
2148 AM
20 70

Jacob born 2168 AM Joseph dies

2368 AM
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 Abraham
goes to
Egypt
? 2088 ?

If, as suggested here, 19

Abraham really went Covenant
to Egypt in 2088 AM, of Circum-
then one can say the cision
Israelites will symbol- 19 2107 AM
lically come out of it +
3895 years later 19 38
(2088-5983). Sarai dies
2145 AM
Notice how you can
reverse 3895 and
obtain 5983, the year 38 95
of the recall.
Abraham dies
2183 AM

380
3895
Promised Land
2563 AM
Ezek 36:24 "'For I will take you out of the
nations; I will gather you from all the
380
countries and bring you back into your own
land. NIV
Saul rejected
It has not happened so far. (first king of Israel)
2943 AM
Even today, in spite of a massive return to
Israel, Jews can still be found all over the 380
world. Why should it be different for the
descendant of the others 10 tribes. There is
Exile of Israel
absolutely no raison to believe that the Lost 3323 AM
Israelites are already occupying the land of
their ancestors.
7 * 380
Unless Ezek 36:24 is erroneous and the word
of God doesn’t matter any more,
? Recall of
A change greater than Exodus the 10 tribes ?
will occur very soon. 5983 AM

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 Gen 11:9 the People re- God intervenes
A very attractive supposition ‘forced’
Whole world fused God's and brings
to leave
Part 2: Figuring out Babel’ s timing sovereignty confusion
God
Unfinished
To the previous sequence of events punishes city & tower
associated with the Sin of Israel, let’s people left to waste
graft a second 95 years segment by People Babel
postulating that the scattering at loses their
Babel took place in 1993 AM. 1993
identity

People being 95
Babel scattered all
over the earth Abraham
? 1993 AM ? goes to 190
(see Gen 11:8)
15 Egypt
Abra. born 2088 AM
2008 AM Gen 11:9 From there 95
the LORD scattered
75 95 them over the face of
the whole earth.
Abraham dies
Abraham 2183 AM
leaves Haran 2 Kings 17:23 So 1330
2083 AM the people of 380 2 * 190
Israel were taken
5 from their home-
Abraham goes to Egypt land into exile in Promised Land
? 2088 ? Assyria, 2563 AM
5
Amos 9:14 380
Covenant I will bring
between parts back my Saul rejected
2093 AM exiled peo- (first king of Israel)
ple Israel; 2943 AM
75 95

Jacob born 380

2168 AM
The
Exile of Israel
15 3323 AM
‘disperses’ are
Abraham dies recalled from
2183 AM Mixed
all over the with 7 Remnant 2
earth (Jer 31:8) other * extracted
Hos 7:8 Jer 23:3 *
380 Jer 31:7
1330
On the right side there are 7 events People re-
separated in time by either 380 years, gains their Recall
one of its multiples (7*380) or one of identity of the 10 tribes ?
its divisors (95). Notice that the God ends 5983 AM
sequence starts when God sent the punishment
people all over the earth (at Babel)
Jer 31:8 God inter- They shall
and ends when He will recall the 10
A great People ‘Accept’ venes and build the
tribes of Israel to bring them back brings en-
multi- willingly God's so- waste cities
from their ‘all over the earth’ exile. tude return vereignty lightenment Amos 9:14

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From Babel to Daniel’s 70th week 1 over
everything Gen 11:4 "Come, let
us build ourselves ... a
2 tower that reaches
People together to the heavens,
in one place.
(Gen 11:2) Each one so that we may make
got a new BABEL a name for ourselves
tongue 1993 AM
A tower that
reaches to the hea- Gen 11:7
vens (Gen 11:4)
Gen 11:7 Co-
me, let us go
At Babel down and
New tongues
created Barrier of confuse their
(Gen 11:7) language so Gen 11:5 But
language
they will not the LORD
erected understand
God confuses the came down
language to force each other."
to see
people to spread
all over the earth 2000
years Acts 1:9 he
Acts 2:4 All was taken up
of them were before
filled with the Pentecost their very eyes
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit NIV
and began to Barrier of
incited the early speak in other language
Christians to spread tongues as
Yeshua’s gospel all removed
the Spirit ena-
over the earth bled them.
New tongues
understanding
(Act 2:4) Yeshua dies
Tongue (Resurrection)
A sound that of fire on Pentecost
came from heaven each one
Act 2:3 3993 AM
(Act 2:2)

People all toge-

Dan 9:26 the A-
ther in one place. nointed One will
(Act 2:1) Sinless be cut off and will
2000 man have nothing.
1 years leaves was rejected
2 Thess 2:4 ...and will
exalt himself over 2 make a man will be accepted
everything that is cal- name for
himself
of sin Dan 9:27 He will
led God or is wor-
shiped, so that he sets appears confirm a cove-
himself up in God's nant with many
temple, proclaiming
Start of Daniel’s for one 'seven.'
himself to be God. 70th week
5993 AM

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 Babel Here is some information kindly supplied by my very
1993 AM knowledgeable friend Noel Rude on the connection between
Babel, the exile of Israel, and Pentecost
7
* The rabbis noticed a play on words (with the Hebrew
70 lal) connecting the confusion at Babel with the mingling
1330
2000 Moses of Ephraim (and his fellows) with the nations.
years escapes
2483 AM Genesis 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel;
because the LORD did there confound [ / ]
Exile of
the language of all the earth: and from thence did the
Israel
3323 AM
LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Yeshua dies 7
Pentecost * Hosea 7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself [ ]
3993 AM 500 2 among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
*
1330 The miracle of Pentecost (3993 AM) exactly 2000 years
2000
years later is linked by verb ( ) from the Septuagint:
Recall of 10 tribes
5983 AM Acts 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the
Start of Daniel multitude came together, and were confounded
70th week ], because that every man heard them speak in
5993 AM his own language.

Noel Rude also drew to my attention 1Kings 11:31 which connects ten men (ten tribes?) and “all the
languages of the nations”:
Zechariah 8:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men
shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that
is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
This latter connection could well mean that the Lost Sheep of Israel, (ten tribes from ten men) after
mingling among the nations for more than two thousand years, will come out of them with the know-
ledge of every language of the world. This would be a remarkable denouement, even if it was only
meant to be taken at a symbolic level, of a drama that happened well before Israel was even born. At
Babel, God gave to men the seed of every language and send them away from him to discover the
world. At the ‘recall’, those of the ten tribes, no matter what language they will individually
understand, will hear God’s call and will come back to renew the close relationship that men could
have had from the very beginning.

BABEL RECALL of the Northern Ten Tribes

People wanted to make a name The Lost tribes have become many nations
for themselves. God confused speaking many languages . God will remove

their language . And God the confusion about their identity . And God
scattered them over the world. will gather them from all around . Eze 37:21

This ended up in an exile The whole world will witness the

involving the whole world. lost tribes being recall from exile.

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Babel Babel 1993 AM Babel
100
130 Cov. parts
4 2093 AM
Akedah 4 4
5 9 430
2123 AM 9
550 0 0
0 Exodus 600
2523 AM
Moses b. 9
2443 AM Moses esc. 0
2483 AM 0
Leave
Kadesh
2543 AM 400 Opp.
4 Chushan
4 2593 AM
9 5
0 4 300
0
9
400 Samuel ju.
0
1 2893 AM
Saul king
3 2923 AM 1
David b.
0 2933 AM 5
90
Saul rej. 0 0
2943 AM 0
Ark in J.
2973 AM Solomon
400 born
2983 AM
4 4 40
9 9
4 Solomon 600
0 0
5 accepted
0 Exile Is. 3023 AM
550
3323 AM 4
0
100
0

Start of Babylon 3423 AM

70
Fall of Fall of Babylon Fall of
Babylon 3493 AM Babylon

5
0
From 0
Babel to
Babylon Yeshua d.
3993 AM
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 Noah Noah
born dies
950 y.
1056 AM 2006

Shem Shem
born dies
600 y.
1558 2158

Arpha. Arpha.
born dies
438 y.
1658 2096
1
6 Shela Shela
5 born dies
6 433 y.
1693 2126
AM
Eber Eber
born dies
464 y.
1723 2187

F
BABEL Why would the separation of
L languages that occured at
O Babel be specifically associa-
236 y. 3 ted with Peleg?
O
Peleg Peleg Gen 10:25: One was
D named Peleg, because in
born 1993 AM dies his time the earth was
divided;
239 y.
1757 1996
AM AM
Notice that Peleg was the first
patriarch to die (among the 10
alive) after the flood. This in
itself justifies the association.

Reu Reu
born dies
239 y.
1787 2026

Serug Serug
born dies
230 y.
1819 2049

Nahor Nahor
born dies
148 y.
1849 1997

Terah Terah
born dies
205 y.
1878 2083

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 What is the timeline of Samson?
Samsom time
Joshua born Judg 13:5 …[Samson was] set apart to God from
2463 AM birth, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from
the hands of the Philistines. NIV
37
3 The following chart shows how Samson spent his
+ Exodus
7 2523 AM whole life during the Philistines Oppression.
73
0
Joshua Start of Phil. opp.. to Samson dies-- = 37 y.
dies
2573 AM
Samson born to End of Phil oppress.. = 37 y.
Eli
Judge 333
2833 AM
Start Philistines opp.
2853 AM
30
Samson born Samson born
2856 AM 2856 AM
37 07 17
Samuel 14 Samuel b.
born 2863 AM 20
Samson’s 17
07
07 life
3 Samson juge 37 midpoint
7 2870 AM
0 03
A. 37
Ark captured
c. 2873 AM
20
Judg 17 Philistines
70 16:31
73 73 oppres.. 20
70 Samson dies midpoint
140 2890 AM
Philistines op-
73 pression ends
Saul rejected Saul 2893 AM
2943 AM rejected
David K. Ju. truly 73
30 2963 AM staggering
David K. Israel
Ark brouht 2966 AM
37
in Jerusalem
2973 AM 37
Solomon K.
3000 AM T#1 const..
37
3003 AM
Temple ready
70
3010
03
Ark Ark brough in
in 1st 1st Temple
Temple 3013 AM
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Covenant between parts
2093 AM
Notices how
Samson‘s birth is truly
30 30 indirectly related staggering
Akeda to David king of Israel
2123 AM
with these sequences
of palindro- 34
730 730
mic numbers 03 77 37 and notices how
Opp. Phil 30 33 73 Samson‘s death is
2853 AM 43 indirectly related to
03 03
Solomon king of Israel
Samson born Samson born
2856 AM 2856 AM with a perfect reversal of
the same se-
07 quences of 43
07 73 33 30
Samuel b. palindromic
numbers 37 77 03
34 2863 AM
34 34

037 37
S. Samson 30 Samson dies
7 d. dies 2890 7 2890 AM
7 03 7 03
70
End Phil. Opp.. 70 End Phil opp
3
Samuel juges Samuel ju.
3
43 2893 AM 2893 AM 43
73
30
Saul k S.
2923 AM k.
70 70 73 70
David born D. David b.
2933 AM b. 2933 AM
7 30
30 7 30
43
David K. 3 David K. Judah
of Judah 3 2963 AM
7
03 03
7
07 David King of Israel 37 07 Da. K. I
2966 AM 2966
037 David moves
to Jerusalem
34
2970 AM
30 30
3
3 Solomon King of Israel
3000 AM
03 03
Start of T#1 construction
3003 AM
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 Was Solomon 17 years old when he became king? Yes.
Abraham dies Soon after David’s death, Solomon said: Abraham dies
2183 AM 2183 AM
1 Kings 3:7 But I am only a little child and
do not know how to carry out my duties. 340
400
The language strongly suggests that Exodus
Solomon had barely reached adulthood at 2523 AM
Gibeah’s sin the time. Could he had been only 17 years
2583 AM
340
old when he became King?
Samuel born
1 Chron 22:5 "My son Solomon 2863 AM
is young and inexperienced
According the following patterns
the answer is yes 80

Saul is rejected by God Saul 1

2943 AM reject.. 0
0
400 10 10
Samuel dies 20 Samuel dies
2953 AM 23 2953 AM
page 10
13 40
222 David K. of Judah 40 David k
2963 AM Judah
David k. of Israel
2966 AM
20 20
17 17
Solomon Solomon born Solo..
born 2983 AM born
17 17
20 20
Solomon k. 1 Kings
3000 AM 3:14-15
David dies And if you 1
40 3003 AM walk in my
0
40 13 ways and obey
10 0
23 my statutes
Ark in A. in T#1 and ommands
st 20 as David your
1 Temple 3013 AM 80
father did, I
10 10 will give you a
long life."
God confirms God confirms Solomon (Theophany)
Solomon 3023 AM

40 40

Solomon Solomon dies

dies
Solomon dies / Kingdom splits 3063 AM
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 The Bible timeline unsealed in 28 charts

Pattern

The open mind christians will need to assess

what make more sense:

195
196
197
 Abram born 2008 AM 3
Sarah born 2018 AM
25 25 5*5 25 15
Abram marries 3 Abram
2033 AM * marries 45 45
25 75
30 30 80
50
Abram leave Ur 5 Abraham 75
2063 AM
5 4 leave Ur
Abram leaves * 2063
25
2 Haran 2083 AM 5 15
30 * 30
1 Ab. to Egypt
2088 AM 45
5
25 25 5 5
Cov. between Covenant
parts 2093 AM 20 of the parts
1 15
5
30 Isaac born Isaac born 30
2108 AM 2108 AM
5
15 80 15
Akedah 4 5 75 40 Ake.. 75
2123 AM * 4
25 1 3 3 *
5 * * 15 45 45
Isaac marries 2148 15 25
20
Jacob born 2168 AM
15 15
15 40
Abraham dies Ab. 3
2183 AM 2 dies Esau marries *
* 2208 AM 21
5 1 23
8
5 70 0 Ishmael dies
* 70
1 75 0 2231 AM
5 21 21
Jacob marries
Reuben b. 2252 AM
2253 AM
Joseph born 15 23
35 2258 AM 3
Benjamin b. 45
Joseph to *
2268
2 Egypt 2275 21
Isaac dies 2288 AM 1 * 1 Jacob to
1 5 Egypt 2298 40
0
0 5 0 70 Jacob dies
2315 AM
Joseph dies Jo.
2368 AM dies
75
Moses born
2443 AM

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Abra. Abraham born 4
born 2008 AM Sarai born Sarai
2008 2018 AM born
25 25
15
Abraham 45
Abraham
marries marries
2033 AM
80 2 Abraham
50 * leaves Ur
25 75 2063 AM
Abra..to
2 Canaan 4
* 2083 AM *
70 15
Abra.. goes
to Egypt 45
2088 AM 25
Covenant between
the parts 2093AM
100 15 270
Isaac born Isaac
80 2108 AM born
75
Isaac
marries 60
2148 AM

Jacob born
Abra. 2168 AM
dies 4
2183 AM *
2 45
75 * 2
70 *
Joseph 60
born
2258

Isaac dies Isaac

2288 AM dies
57
See in next page the same
palindromics numbers
(75-57) but from 27
Abraham’s birth

Jacob dies 2315 AM

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 Abraham born 5
Abr. born
2008 AM
Sarai born
Sarai born
2018 AM
15
75 75 15 Abra-
2 75
ham
* marries
40 70
Abraham 50 2033 AM
to Canaan 75 75
2083 AM
5 05
Abraham Abraham
goes to Egypt goes to
2088 AM 1 Egypt
6 5 Cov. of parts
25 0 2093 AM
Ishm.
57 born 1 15 15
2 2094 5
* 0 Isaac born
100 51 2108 AM
40
Sarah dies
2145 AM 4
*
75 75 15
Jacob born Jacob
2168 AM born
15 15 3
40 Abraham dies *
2183 AM 70
Esau marries 75 75
2208 AM

Joseph born
2 2258 AM
*
40
– Amazing –
Abraham & Sarah’s birth directly linked
Isaac dies to Abraham’s death
2288 AM to Isaac’s birth & death (p. 199)
to Jacob birth & death (p. 199) Jacob to
to Joseph’s birth & death Egypt
2
* Abraham’s birth connects to Sarah’s death 2298 AM
40 Sarah’s birth connects to Abraham’s death
70

Joseph dies
2368 AM

200
Abraham born 6
2008 AM
55

Abraham leaves Ur
2063 AM

5 *5 + 5
Covenant between the parts
(land is being given)
P 2093 AM

I 55
2 2 2
5 +5 +5
L Isaac
marries
G 2148 AM Jacob born
2168 AM
R 2
555 5+5+5 (5+5+5)
I
2 Abraham dies
M 2183 AM
*
A 55
2 2 2
G 5 +5 +5

E
Joseph born
2258 AM

5 *5 + 5

Isaac dies
2288 AM

5 * 55

Promised Land
2563 AM
– Amazing –
Here is a very unique
and surprising pattern.

201
 Abraham born 7
2008 AM

55

Abraham 5
leaves UR 1
5 5
2063 AM
5
5
y.
Exodus
2523 AM
555
Promised Land +
55 3 * 73
2563 AM +
5 +
+ 37 + 3
3 * 73
55 5
* + * 77 + 1
6 66
37 * 3 + 37 * 3 5
6 5
+ 1
Samuel Judge 66 Samuel Judge
2893 AM + 2893 AM
666

5
1
5

6
6
6 +
End of
Babylon’s
70 years 1 – Amazing –
3493 AM 5 See how this con-
1 text highlights the
66 connection bet-
ween Samuel’s
First Purim judgeship and the
End of Daniel first 7 weeks Exodus | Promi-
3559 AM sed land events.

202
Abram Abram 8 Joseph Joseph
born Abraham’s life dies born Joseph’s life dies
* A m 25 I.b 100 I.m 140 Ja.b 160 175 * B.b 10 I.d 30 J.d 57 110

Abra. Isaac Joseph

marry 75 born 75 years 75 y. born

Abram Jacob J
35 dies
75 57 dies 53
O
S
Joseph E
Isaac 110 y. born 110 y.
P
Benja H
marry Esau
60 y. marry 60 y. -min 20 4 * 20 dies
born

Abram
35 dies 2 * 35 Reuben
born
35
Isaac
dies
140 y. 140 y.

100 100 80 80

A Isaac Isaac’s life Isaac

born dies
I.m 40 Ja.b 60 A.d 75 E.m Jo.b 150 B.b 160 180
B * 100
J
R Esau
2 * 50 marry
50 O
Joseph
A born
Isaac S
2 * 30 Jacob 3 * 30 30
H born Isaac
born 40 2 * 40
dies E
A 60 y. 2 * 60 y.
P
M Jacob Jacob
born
Jacob’s life dies
H
born * A.d 15 E.m 40 Re b 85 Jo.b 90 B.b 100 I.d 120 147 dies

100 years Benja 100 years

Jacob -min
born born
Esau
4 * 40 y. 40 y. marry 4 * 40 y.
y

2008 2208 2268

2033 2108 2148 2168 2183 2253 2258 2288 2315 2368
AM

203
 Abram marries 9
2033 AM

430 430

2 490 490 490

* Joshua Joshua
280 born born
2463 AM 2463 AM

Exodus Exodus
2523 AM 2523 AM
1st opp.
(Cushan)
2593 AM
430
490
280
430
Ark 490 490
captured
2873 AM
Samuel 2
judge
2893 AM Samuel 0
dies 0
2953 AM 0
2 Ark in Ark in
* 430 y.
Temple Temple
280 3013 AM 3013 AM

Exile
of Israel 490 490
3323 AM
430
490
Exile
of Judah
3433 AM
st
End of 1 Temple
3443 AM Return of
42,360 exiles
3503 AM

– Amazing –
Abraham’s mariage is di- 490
rectly linked to:
The 2 main exiles Yeshua dies
The two Temple’s 3993 AM End of
nd
destruction 2 Temple
The Messiah’s death 4033 AM

204
10 Abraham marries 2033 AM
50
Abraham goes
2
to Canaan
*
2083 AM
280
440
Exodus
2523 AM Opp. Cushan
2593 AM

440 280

Ark Captured
David king of Judah 2873 AM
2963 AM
40
50
7 Temple’s years
* const.
3003 AM
280 Ark in Temple 100
20 years
2
3013 AM *
God confirms
280
Solomon
3023 AM 50
years
40
Solomon dies
( Kingdom’s split )
3063 AM
440 Exile of Judah
3433 AM
Return of
42,360 exiles
3503 AM

440 2
*
Herod renovates
280
the 2nd temple
3943 AM
50
Yeshua dies 3993 AM

205
 11

Abraham leaves Ur (goes to Haran) Abraham

2063 AM leaves Ur
60 60 60

Akedah Akedah
2 * 60
400 400 400 2123 AM
y. 60
Abraham Abraham
400 400 dies dies
Joshua born Joshua 2183 AM 2183 AM
2463 AM born
6
60 60 *
EXODUS 60
2523 AM
400 Leave
400 kadesh
2543 AM
60 60
30
Joshua d.
Gibeah Gibeah sin 2573 AM
400 400
Samuel sin 2583 AM
born
2863 AM 6
*
60 60
Saul king Saul king
400 400 400
2923 AM David b.
2933 AM
60 60 60 30
David K.
Judah
Solomon born 2963 AM
2983 AM 6
*
60
Exile
of Judah.
3323 AM
2 * 60
End of T#1
3443 AM

206
 Abraham leaves Ur Abraham leaves Ur Abraham
12
2063 AM 2063 AM leaves Ur
45
2 Isaac born
15 2108 AM
180
Jacob’s
father’s Isaac dies 3
pilgrimage 2288 AM 4 8
4 10 0 0
6 0 480
Jacob goes 5 5
0 Jacob’s to Egypt years
children’s 0 0
2298 AM
pilgrimage 0 0
145
2 Moses born Moses born
15 2443 AM 2443 AM
Joshua
80 born
2463 AM
Exodus
2523 AM 5 Leave
40 0 Kadesh
Promised land 0 Promised land 2543
2563 AM 4 2563 AM
9
0 3
4
8
6
400 0
0
Saul rejected 480
Samuel 2943 AM 5 y.
dies 0
David k. of Judah 2953 AM 0
2963 AM
20
Solomon born
40
2983 AM
20
1st temple const.. 5 5
3003 AM Solomon
4 0 0 confirmed
9 0 0 Kingdom
4 3023
400 0 splitted
6 3063 AM
0
Jeremiah prophe.. 3 480
3403 AM 8 y.
40 0
st st
End of 1 Temple 3443 AM End of 1 Temple
Return of the
42,360 exiles
3503 AM

207
Abraham leaves Haran Abraham Abraham leaves Haran Abraham
Leaves
13 (goes to Canaan) leaves (goes to Canaan)
2083 AM Haran 2083 AM Haran
40
3 Akedah 4
8 2123 AM 4
0 0
4 4 4 4
Joshua b. 400
9 9 9 9
0 2463 AM 0 500
0 Exodus 0 Exodus
2523 AM 2523 AM
40
4 Promised land
Joshua dies 9 2563 AM Joshua dies
2573 AM 0 2573 AM Gibeah
3 sin
8 400 4 2583 AM
0 9
Samuel dies 4 0
2953 AM David k Judah 5
4
4 2963 AM 4 *
0 3
9 9
40 430 9
0 0
David dies 0
3003 AM
Ark in
4 4 1st Temple
9 9 400 3013 AM
Kingdom 0 0 Kingdom
splitted splitted
3063 AM Jeremiah starts 3063 AM
prophetising 4 4
3 500
3403 AM 4 9 9
8
40 4 0 0
0
End of 1st Temple End of 1st Temple 0
3443 AM 3443 AM
Return of the 42,360 exiles
3503 AM Const.
of T#2
3513 AM
37*73 End of 2nd
+ Temple
3*7 4033 AM
5 * 390
years
Recall of the 10
Tribes 5983AM
208
 14
Abraham covenant between the parts
2093 AM

3 3
9 9 4 4
0 0 3 3
4 4 0 0
5 5 4
0 Moses escape 0 8
2483 AM
0
EXODUS
2523 AM

Leave 3
Kadesh 9
2543 AM 4 0
5 3 Joshua dies
0 * 2573 AM
4
3 110 3
9 Ark 0 4
0 captured 8
2873 AM 0
4
David born 3
2933 AM 0
Samuel dies
4 2953 AM
4
5 5
3 3 0 0
9 9 David dies
0 0 Temple const.
3003 AM
4
8
0
Exile Israel 4 4
3323 AM 3 3
0 0
110

Exile of Judah
3433 AM

209
 Covenant between the parts 15
2093 AM
55
Isaac marries
2148 AM
4 4
2 * 55
3 3 430 4
4 Joseph born
0 0 9
9
490 2258 AM
0 500 500 0
2 * 55
Joseph dies
Exodus Exodus 2368 AM
2523 AM 2523 AM

Gi.. sin Gi.. sin Gibeah’s sin

2583 AM 2583 AM 2583 AM
Opp. Opp.
Chushan Chushan
4 2593 AM 2593 AM 555
3 2
4 0 * 300
4 9 490
140
3 0 430
Ark capt Samuel 4
0 2873 AM 8
juges
2893 AM 0 Saul king
Samuel 2923 AM
dies 140
2953 AM

Ark in Temple Ark in Ark brought

3013 AM 4 Temple in the Temple
2
4 4 9
* Kingdom
3 3 0
0 0
300 split 3063 AM
480
End of 1st Temple 500 500
3443 AM 4 2
8 *
Fall of
555
Babylon 0
Const. 3493 AM Const. 2nd
2nd Temple
3513 AM
Nehemia’s
Temple
500 wall is fully
500 repaired 3543
480
4
Yeshua dies 9
3993 AM 0
End of 2nd Temple
4033 AM

210
 16 Covenant between the parts – Amazing –
2093 AM
Exodus & ‘Promised Land’
7 * 37 3 ( 3+7 ) *3 770 are connected to the
+ 7
Akeida destruction of both Temples
37 * 3 0 2123 AM
Joshua born
2463 AM 73 * 7 Exodus
370
370 2523 AM
73 +
7 * 37 + 7 * 37 37+3
+ 37 Promised land
37 * 3 2563 AM
Joshua d.
(37+3)
2573 AM 37)
370
370
i y.
Eli Judge i=1 3 * 73 3
2833 AM Samuel born + 3 7 * 37
7 * 37 2863 AM 37 * 3 0 +
37 37 * 3
+
Samson Ju. 37 * 3
2870 AM Samuel Ju.
73 2893 AM
73 David born
+ 73 2933 AM
Saul rejected Saul 37 370
2943 AM rejected David king 37
of Israel
3 ( 3+7 ) *3 2966 AM
David
0 to Jeru..
4 Ark brought 37 2970 AM 7 * 37
0 to Jerusalem st
1 Temple +
3520 2973 AM 9
/ construc.. 37 * 3
330 9
7 + 37 3003 AM 0
3 * 73
* + 73 + 37
37 * 3 (7+37)
73 + 7 Samaria
(3 + 73) 3113 AM i y.
Israel doom 3 * 73 3 i=1
*
(Northern + 3
Israel
(37 + 3) kingdom) doom
37 * 3 0
3303 AM
End of 730
2680 st
1 Temple Yeshua
Isaiah predicted 3443 AM born 3 * 73
that Israel (NK) 37*73 3960 AM +
would be too shat-
- 73 73 * 7
tered to be a peo-
ple. (ref Isa 7:8) 3*7
End of
nd
2 Temple
Wakup 4033 Am
5983 AM

st nd
– Amazing – The 2 exiles (p. 209) 1 Temple const. (p. 193) 2
Temple const. (p.210)
Abraham’s Covenant The Ark brought in Jerusalem (p. 212) the Ark brought in the Temple (p.212)
of the parts linked to The two Temple’s destructions (p. 210) the Messiah’s death (p. 210)
10 majors events: the wakup ‘recall’ of the Lost 10 Tribes

211
 Covenant between the parts 2093 AM 17
14
1 Cov. circ.
* 2107 AM 075 D
Amazing
55 41 PALINDROMES
Isaac marries 2148 AM Jacob born
2168 AM
35 C
15 C
Abraham dies Abraham dies Abraham dies 2183 AM
48
2 62 B
* 75 Ishmael dies 69 B
70
Laban hired 2231 AM 72
2 55
5 Jacob 2245 22 Jacob marries
Reuben b. Reu. b. 2252 AM
* 27
2253 AM 13 A 2253 Levi born
05 2255 AM
11 13 A
Joseph born 2258 AM Jo. b.
35
07 07 33
Jacob lea.. 31 A’ 84 Ja. l. L Jacob leaves 2
5
Laban 2265 Isaac dies Laban 2265
57 Isa. d.
7 y. of plenty 2288 33 2288 AM 31 A’ *
2 2289 AM 7 years of
* 50 Jacob 11
27 27 famine 2296
55 26 B’ to Eg.
2298
Jacob dies Jac. d. Jacob dies
2315 70 2315 AM 96 B’
53 C’ 53 77 77
Joseph dies 2368 AM Jo. dies Jo. d.
Levi dies 2392 AM
30
72 48 72 Kohath b.
95 051 2422 AM 51 C’
14 18
* 154 Aaron b. 2440 AM Aaron born
11 03
5 44 Moses born
Joshua born Moses b.
55 2443 AM
2463 AM 84
* * Caleb b.
81
11 59 2484 AM 150
2
11 Burning bushes 2522 AM Land spied Land spied
2524 AM 2524 AM
444 11 77 Op.Chushan
* 451 Ju. Othniel 2593 AM 570 D’
David K 41 2601 AM
Israel 2966
David dies
7
3003 AM
Ark brought in Jerusalem 2973 AM
30 Temple ready
7 3010 AM
03 Ark brought in the Temple
3013 AM
212
 Covenant of circumcision 18
2107 AM
Abraham & Sarah’s
name are changed

151
191
462
Joseph born
11 * 6 * 1 1 363 2258 AM
7 +
Jacob to Egypt * 242
2298 AM 66 +
121
Land divided 22
2569 AM * 575
33
535 – Amazing – 4
*
Symmetry 66 264

Eli judge 12 * 121

2833 AM

– Amazing –
535 Palindromes
575

King Manasseh 121 660

Abomination +
3368 AM 242
+ 10 Josiah’s
* passover
11 * 6 * 1 1 363 66 3408 AM
Fall of Babylon
191 3493 AM
1 151
066 *
66

(Esther) First Purim

3559 AM
People ignore God’s name

213
 Binding of Isaac (AKEDAH) 19
2123 AM

4 4
0 0
0 0 400

Exodus
2523 AM
4 4
40 7
0 0
* 770
Promised
800 73 + 37
Land
2563 AM
300
Samuel
born
330
2863
30 1
Samuel Samuel judge 2
4
judge 2893 AM 0
Saul 0
king 0 50 0
2923 70
Saul 73
rejected 77
2943
David king
of Judah David king
2963 AM of Israel
80
7 2966 AM David moves
4
to Jerusalem
0 37
33 2970 AM

st st
1 Temple 1 Temple 43
const.. const..
3003 AM 3003 AM
500 Ark in Temple
3013 AM
Exile of
4 4
Israel
400 0 0 3323 AM
0 0 4
*
Jeremiah 73 + 37 430 1
prophesies 2
3403 AM 0
40 4 4
0 0
st
End of 1 Temple
3443 AM

214
 20
Two servants shared the AKEDAH: Binding of Isaac 2123 AM At the last instant, the angel
first part of Isaac’s journey. (a ram “with head in a thicket of thorns” call out from heaven, Abra-
Gen 22:3,6 ham, Abraham Gen 22:11
replaced Isaac)

Abraham grieved Isaac’s The apostles grieved

4 death for 3 days because he Yeshua’s death for 3 days
0 believed he would have to because they didn’t believe
0 kill his son. 202 he would resurrect.
4
Grieving suddenly ends Grieving suddenly ends
5
0 7
EXODUS 7
2523 AM 0
20
Leaves Kadesh
4 2543 AM
1 0 Joshua dies
2 2573 AM
0
0 20 2 300
0 Ark captured Samuel judge
Saul king 2873 AM
2893 AM
2923 AM Saul rejected 77
2943 AM
David move
to Jerusalem
Isaac was sacrificed in God stop Abraham from 4
4 2970 AM
Moriah Gen 22:2 slaying his son Heb 11:19 5
0 0 93
0 Yeshua was crucified in 7 Goe raised Yeshua from the
Moriah 2 Chr 3:1 * deads Rom 6:4 Kingdom
70 splits
3063 AM

Exile of .. Israel 3323 AM

120 Exile of Judah
3433 AM
End of Isaac & Yeshua ac- Isaac was chosen 4
1st Temple cepted to die for the 70 days before akedah.
3443 AM sake of their father. See Gen 22:3-4 ‘early
Return of the 9
the next.. + on the 3rd
5 Both came to Jeru- 42,360 exiles day’ = 4 day 3
0 salem on a donkey 3503 AM 0
0 Both were bound on Yeshua the ‘passover
the wood they had lamb’ was chosen 4
Herod days before the cross.
carried on their back 7
renovates Thus the entry in Jeru..
for their own *
2nd Temple on a donkey Matt 21:10
3943 AM sacrifice. 70
50

Two robbers shared the last Yeshua dies 3993 AM At the last instant, Jesus
part of Yeshua’s journey. (Yeshua “with a crown of thorns on his head” cried out to heaven, My
Matt 27:38, John 19:32 replaced the Passover’s LAMB) God, my God Mark 15:34

215
 Abraham dies
2183 AM
21

280
380 380
Joshua
400 born
400 400
years 2463 AM
Promised land Promised land
2563 AM 2563 AM

4
380 9 380
2 Gibeah Sin
Gibeah Sin 0
* 2583 AM
440 Saul rejected Saul rejected
2943 AM 2943 AM
3 Israel’s
9 390 y.
Samuel
0 of Sin dies
400 4 2953 AM
3 Initial
0
Ark in Jerusalem 380
380 2973 AM years

Solomon b. punish-
40 ment
2983 AM
Kingdom Ark in Temple
3013 AM
split
3063 AM Israel’s exile Israel’s exile
3323 AM 355 3323 AM
4
Manasseh’s 9
450
abomination 0
4 3368 AM
Judah’s
2 3 40 40 years
* 0 of Sin Extended
60 Josiah’s Passover 7
440
3408 AM *
Judah’s
380
exiles 35
3433 AM punish-
ment
st st
End of 1 End of 1 Temple
Temple 3443 AM
60
Return of – Amazing –
Judah’s exiles Abraham’s death is linked to: Recall of
3503 AM Jerusalem’s destruction Israel’s exiles
Exile & return of Judah 5983 AM
Exile & recall of Israel (2021/2022 AD)

216
 Moses born 2443 AM 22
40
1 Moses’ es-
0 cape 2483
140 3 0 40
9 Exodus
0 Leave 2523 AM 4
7 Kadesh 8
5 Gibeah 0
* 2543 AM
0 2583 AM
70
0
2 Eli judge
* 2833 AM 3 400
140 2483 9
1 0
Samuel 0
born 2863 Saul 1
0 king 0
David born 2923 AM 0
2933 AM 4 0
Saul 40 0
rejected 140
2943 AM David k.
70
of Judah
40 2963 AM
David st
5 Construction of the 1 Temple.
dies 3003 AM 4
0
0 8
430
0
Exile of Judah
st
3433 AM st
End of 1 Temple 3003 End of 1 Temple
3443 AM 70 3443 AM
Return of the
42,360 exiles
3503 AM Moses born 2443 AM
500 80
– Amazing – Notice
Exodus
Moses’ birth is directly Saul rejected 2523 AM
linked to 2943 AM 3003
Construction of the 30
7 Ark to Jerusa..
1st Temple *
Destruction of the 2973 AM
70 800
1st Temple 50 3003
Exile of Israel Solomon conf..
3023 AM
Death of Yeshua 300 3003
Exile Israel 3323 AM
Yeshua dies
3993 AM
217
 23
Joshua Joshua born Joshua
born 2463 AM born

110

Joshua dies Joshua

4
2573 AM dies 4
3
9
0 2 0 500
*
150
Ark captured 4
Samuel 2873 AM 560
3
Judge
2893 AM 0 Samuel
dies
2953 AM David k.
Judah
150 2963 AM

st
1 Temple 50
construct. Ark in
4 3003 AM
3 Temple
God confirms 3013 AM
0 Solomon
3023 AM
280
2 4
* 4 9 Israel
150 3 0 doomed
0 3303 AM
Exile of Exile of Israel
Israel 3323 AM

500
110
140
Exile of Judah Exile of
3433 AM Judah

st
End 1 Temple
– Amazing – 3443 AM
Joshua’s birth & death Joshua’s birth 70
are directly linked to is also directly linked to
Construction of
Exile of Israel End of 1st Temple
2nd Temple
Exile of Judah Const.. of 2nd Temple 3513 AM

218
 24
Exodus 2523 AM Sarai dies 2145 AM
38
20 Abraham dies 2183 AM
Leave Kadesh
2543 AM 380
20
Promised land Promised land 2563 AM
2 30
4 God * 300
mighty
Op. Chushan
3 150 2593 AM
power
0 330
Samuel Samuel b.
born 2863 AM 300
2 4
20 30
6
4
0 Samuel judge 2893 AM
9
0 50
70 Saul reject..
Samuel 70 2943 AM
dies
2953 AM David k. Judah
500
2963 AM 7
07 150 David to
20
Jerusalem
Solomon born 2970 AM
2983 AM 033
20
Const. of T#1 Const..
43
3003 AM T#1
4 500
9 20 Ark in T#1 Ark in
0 3013 AM T#1
4 God confirms
6 Solomon
0 3023 AM Kingdom
split
2 Ark 4 430
20 mighty
3063 AM
3
power 4
Start of Baby.. 0
3423 AM
9
0
20 430
End of 1st Temple st
End of 1 Temple
3443 AM
50
E. End of
990 990 Return 500 B. Baby. 3493
y. y.
44 Ju. exile
i y. 3503 AM
Const. of T#2 =
Herod re-
i=1
3513 AM 4 pairs T#2 500 500
9 3943 AM
990 nd
Exodus Const. of 2 Temple 0 50
st Yeshua’s death
Const. of 1 Temple Yeshua dies 3993 AM
990
219
 Eli judge E
25
2833 AM j
30
30
Samuel Sa. Samuel born
born
4 born 07 07 2863 AM
0 1 Samson Juge
1 0 10
2870 AM
ARK captu. 0
30 03 03 ARK 30 30
(Eli dies) 30 Cap-
2873 AM tured
70
70 10
Samuel Samuel ju.
judge 73 2893 AM *
70 70
30 10
Saul king
2923 AM D 70 David born
30 1 b Saul rejected 2933 AM
Samuel dies 0 2943 AM
10 77 30
2953 AM 0 77 * 33
David King of D. K.
10 Judah 2963 AM Ju..
03
4 07 David K. Is.
0 30 30 2966 AM
David move 10
30 to Jeru.. 07
2970 AM
07
03 03
03
Ark Ark Ark brought in Jerusalem
in Jeru.. in Jeru.. 2 2973 AM
Solomon
born Samuel judge 2893 AM
2983 AM
30 30 30
40
Saul king 70 70
Amazing 73
2923 AM David b.
Eli & 37 2933 AM David K Jud.
st 43
Samuel 1 Temple 2963 AM
constr.. David K 33 03
linked to 77 07
the 3 most 3003 AM Israel.
30 2966 AM 04 David to Jeru..
critical 7 2970 AM
77 07
Ark’s st
03
1 Temple
37 34
episodes. ready 30 Ark to Jeru..
3010 AM 33 2973 AM
Solo.. King
03 03 30
3000 AM 30
03
03 03
Ark brought in the Temple A David dies / Const. of 1st Temple 3003 AM
3 3013 AM T

220
 26 Eli judges
2833 AM
40
Ark captured Ark is captured 40 1
A. c.
2873 AM 2873 AM 1
50 0
70 Saul king 80
100 4
Saul rejected 2923 AM S.
2943 AM 9 Samuel d. r.
Ark in Jeru... 70 0 2953 AM
2973 AM Ark in Temple 6
3013 AM 400 160 0
14
* Samaria 0
430 40 3113 AM 4
7
* Exile of Israel E 9
Jeremiah 70 3323 AM I 0
Prophes.. 100 320
3403 AM 7 1
* Start of Babylon
1
70 3423 AM
10 0
Exile of Judah
100
3433 AM Exile of Judah
3433 AM
10
70
End of 1st Temple 1
Return of 42,360 exiles 3443 AM 1
3503 AM
100 0
40 40
Nehemiah … … wall is completed w
440 3543 AM c
3543 AM
400 400
Herod renovates T#2 14
… the 2nd Temple *
3943 AM 3943 AM
17 40
4 Yeshua born 6
9 3960 AM 0
0 12
12 y. old Yeshua 0
4 4
in the Temple 9 50 9
3972 AM 0
17 0
Start of Yeshua’s
Ministry 3989 AM
4
Yeshua’s dies Yeshua dies
44
3993 AM 3993 AM
40 40 40
nd
End of 2 Temple End of
4033 AM 2nd Temple
221
 King of Isr
27 Ish-Bo- Ish- 2 Sam. 2:10 Ish- 1 Chron. 29:27 He ruled – Amazing –
sheth 2 Bo.. Bosheth …, and over Israel forty years- Each event of David’s
y. he reigned two seven in Hebron and
King of dies life is part of a network
2965 years. thirty-three in Jerusalem.
Israel of patterns
2963

40 Start 7
David of 1st
king of Solo.. Temple
Judah 20 born 20 const..
2983 3003 1ST
2963 AM Temple
7 33 7
Ready
In David
moves to 3010
Hebron
Jerusalem
7 2970 AM 40
30 03 04 40

33 44
years years
David
King of Ark in
Israel Jeru-
2966 salem
3 7 2973 30 3
7

30 03 4 03 30

David
33 4 33 dies
y. y. y.

3003
David
born
30 7 30 Solo- 3 7 3
2933 mon
king Ark
Ark 3 3000 in
3 3 3 Temple
in
Jeru- 3013
salem
40 2973 40

It is often assumed that David become king of Israel at the time he moved to Jerusalem in 2970 AM. This
is unlikely. In the second year of Ish-Bosheth all Israel were eager to become David’s subjects (2 Sam
3:17-18). Eventhough it could have been slightly delayed by the murders of Abner (2 Sam 3:27) and Ish-
Bosheth (2 Sam 4:7) we read nothing that could have justify an additional five years wait (2965-2970).

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 28 1st Temple const.. T – Amazing –
3003AM e Perfect integration
st
7 y. m of Daniel ‘s
1
p 70 weeks
First Temple ready l
3010 AM e

500
nd
Foundation of the 2 Temple
3510 AM

21 Dan 9:25 Ezra 3:11 and all 21

… from the the people
Start of issuance First gave a Start of
wall’s repairs of the word 7 great shout wall’s repairs
3531 AM Weeks 3531 AM
to restore and of praise to the
12 rebuild Jerusa- of Daniel LORD, because
wall repairs end lem.. (49 y.) the foundation of
3543 AM (Tanakh the house of the
Translation) LORD was laid. T
12 e
* Anointed one, Prince
nd = Mordecai 21
2 m
2 (21 + 12)
st First Purim 3559 AM p
+ l
21 e
Dan 9:26 If He shall be
Yeshua born "And after the cut off ‘not for
3960 AM sixty-two weeks 62 himself’ one
12 Messiah Weeks can say that
Yeshua in shall be cut of Daniel this Messiah Yeshua in
Temple at 12 off, but not for (434 y.) would Temple at 12
3972 AM Himself; NKJV die for other 3972 AM
21 21
Anointed one cut off (Yeshua dies)
The 2nd Temple loses its legitimity
3993 AM

4 * 500
th
Start of Daniel’s 70 week
Prince appears
Isa 53:8 … for 5993 AM John 11:51-52 1 John 2:2
he was cut off Jesus would He is the ato-
out of the land T die for the ning sacrifice
of the living th e Jewish nation, for our sins,
KJV
70 Week m and not only
rd and not only
3 of Daniel for that nation for ours but
p
(7 y.) but also for also for the
l
the scattered sins of the
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th God
End of Daniel’s 70 week
6000 AM

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 Conclusion
Could anyone still doubt the Bible’s numeric information after having seen how it can
be organized and presented in such a spectacular manner? In the light of all the patterns
shown in this book we can deduce with some confidence that for almost 6000 years now,
YHVH, the great architect of our universe, the God venerated by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
has patiently and subtly stirred mankind’s progression across time, allowing some selected
events to become special markers in His grand design.

In the present book Ezekiel 4-5 has been used to unlock the Bible’s chronology in so many
ways that we have now the proper date of more than 190 different events. Yet, during the
reading of this book did you notice that a few events became much more highlighted than the
st
others? They are Abraham’s covenant, Akedah, Exodus, both exiles, events related to 1
nd
and 2 Temple and Yeshua’s death. Isn’t it surprising and quite revealing to have Yeshua’s
death among such a limited group? Who could deny that Yeshua’s death occupies a major
place in history when so many patterns exalt it? Among other thing this book has shown that
his death stands on a direct numeric path with Adam and David.

Did you also notice that while Yeshua’s death (and resurrection) was emphasized several
times, his birth appeared to have been downplayed and kept out from most of the patterns?
That was not a deliberate ploy from the author to minimize its weight. All the information
related to Yeshua’s birth was used in the best possible way, unfortunately in the end, oddly
enough, there was very little to present. Is YHVH’s chronology showing us, in a subtle way,
that Yeshua’s birth, by itself, was not that important? If that is the case, and the previous
pages seem to claim it, then many people who believe in Yeshua’s pre-existence or in his
supposedly innate ‘divinity’ should see it as a clue that something doesn’t add up. Why
wouldn’t a major event, like the ‘incarnation’ of God among us, generates some of the
strongest, most captivating and relevant connections whereas his death does just that?

Isa 43:10 Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.

Deut 4:35-36 the Trinity is irrational & unbiblical. 1 Cor 8:4-5 We

LORD is God; To say it is a mystery is to admit that the church’s know that …
besides him there fathers, who formulated it more than 300 years and that there is
is no other. after Yeshua’s death, didn’t understand it either. no God but one.

Deut 6:4 Hear, O At most, trinity is speculative and a superfluous Gal 3:20
Israel: The addition to the fundamental characteristic of but God
LORD our God, the Supreme Being known as the God of is
the LORD is one. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ezekiel, Yeshua… one.

James 2:19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that-and shudder.

In a paper called ‘Unweaving The Trinity’, Noel Rude said: ‘The mother of all Christological
heresy, let me suggest, was the Virgin Birth – If it falls this does not take away from what is
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central to the New Testament, namely the resurrection.”

The plain truth is that Yeshua was born

‘a son of man’ and became ‘the first Paul said (Act 13:33)
son of God’ at the resurrection. that when He raised You are my son
Yeshua [from the Today I have
Why are there so many people who have it deads] God fulfilled
backwards and persist in believing that Yeshua become your
the promise written father Ps 2:3
was first ‘a son of God’ and became ‘a son of in the Psaumes:
man’ at his birth?
The following verse, also from Paul, says it in no uncertain terms:

Rom 1:3-4 concerning His

Son Jesus Christ our Lord, At of the seed According
who was born of the seed of birth of David to the flesh
David according to the flesh,
and declared to be the Son of
God with power according to At to be the According
the Spirit of holiness, by the death Son of God the spirit
resurrection from the dead.
No matter that Yeshua’s birth was foretold, that he was continuously filled with the spirit of
God (John 3:34), that he manifested a perfect knowledge and observance of the Law, he
couldn’t have assumed the role of Messiah Ben Joseph if he hadn’t carried the seed of
Abraham. Let’s remember that ‘seed’ is transmitted from father to son during human
conception. It is clear that a virgin birth110 would have broken the chain and disqualified
Yeshua. Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say,
"And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ. NKJV
To those who recognize the importance of the seed, but argue that God could have
miraculously planted the seed (or an embryo) in Mary’s womb, it should be asked: What was
then achieved with that pregnancy? Was there any need for it given that the unique
characteristics of a human conception were all bypassed? YHVH created Adam from the dust
of the earth; He could have as easily created the last Adam the same way:
Matt 3:9 For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these
stones. NKJV
Noel Rude asks: ‘Why would the Bible preserve father to son genealogies from Adam to
Joseph only to have Jesus adopted into this genealogy?’ And he adds: ‘The Virgin Birth
doesn’t square with the Torah and the Prophets, but fits perfectly with the paganism of the
period.’
The only scenario who could truly justify a virgin birth would be the one that would allow a
celestial entity (God or whoever else) to transit from the spirit world to our physical one. But
if you believe that this is what happened and that Yeshua was the personification of one of
these spiritual being you need to explain, in a convincing way, the following: Why did
Yeshua had to go through a testing phase after his baptism.

Mark 1:12-13 At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert, and he was in the desert forty
days, being tempted by Satan.

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For more on “rejecting’ the Virgin birth googles ‘The Fiction of the Virgin Birth Wayne Simpson’ .
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It is obvious that this sojourn in the desert was to test his character. Three times he was
pressured (Matt 4:3, 4:6,4:8) and had he indulged himself he would have been disqualified as
our future savior. Notice that just before he was sent into the desert to be tempted the voice of
God was heard (Mark 1:11). A similar thing happened about 1900 years before when
Abraham heard God and was then challenged to offer Isaac as a sacrifice.
But contrary to Abraham, if Yeshua was the incarnation of God or some other pure and
irreproachable spirit worthy to become our Savior, there was no need to test him. How could
he had failed with his pre-existing background? When you think about it the testing in the
desert makes sense only if Yeshua was a simple mortal who was not immune against
failure. In this context the virgin birth was useless and could only have become part of the
canon as the result of some well planned alteration of the text.
About the 6000 years. Nobody can deny that science is very good at refuting the timeline
proposed in the Bible. To the creationists’ 6000 years, science counters with an
astronomically proven 14 billion year-old expanding universe. Science by definition
extrapolates from what can be seen and what can be formulated. There is no room for faith in
any of its equations. If it cannot be confirmed experimentally it cannot be.
That being said, Genesis never proclaimed that the Universe was created in its early stage.
Was Adam created as an infant? Certainly not and any scholar who would have met Adam
during the 6th day of the creation, would have concluded, from his own observation, that
Adam had a mature physical body fully formed and therefore was in his adulthood, much
older than the few hours that he really was. The point here is that both the Universe and men
were created the way, and at the stage the creator wanted them to be.
If you believe the Bible, but nevertheless choose to confine the Genesis account to the domain
of mythology (and many brilliant people do) how do you address the following few issues:
Without the Creation Week Adam has no special origin and Yeshua’s genealogy is
meaningless.
But then, was Luke being credule and perpetuing a huge lie when he
gave any credence to the origin of man as told by the book of Genesis?
Acts 17:26 And He has made from one blood every nation of
men to dwell on all the face of the earth, NKJV
If God never rested on the seventh day what was the purpose of asking the Israelites to
keep The Sabbath? (see Exodus 20:11)
Without the sin introduced in Eden what was the purpose of Yeshua’s death?
If Cain & Abel story is a myth, why did Yeshua believe it? (Luke 11:51)
If the Flood never happened why were Matthew, Luke and Peter refering to it?
Ref Matt 24:38, Luke 6:48, 1 Peter 4:4).
If the Flood was only local, how do we justify that God told Noah that never again a
flood would destroy the earth? (Gen 9:11) We hear about local floods on a regular
basis, therefore, in order to never happen again, Noah’s flood had to have been global.
And the flood was a judgement of mankind, it had to be global.
If the numbers mentioned in Genesis are meaningless where do we start accepting
those we read at their face value? In Exodus? In Kings? In Ezekiel?

If you don’t accept the straighforward reading of Genesis then you must be relating to science
to explain our origin. Have you ever wonder what could have initiated the big bang? Do you
really believe it is possible to have an ‘effect’ without a primary ‘cause’? Yves Péloquin
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 Appendix A From Adam to Abraham (the basic timeline)

Gen 5:3 Adam lived 130

years, and begot a son …
and named him Seth.
NKJV
Gen 5:6 Seth
Adam lived 105 years,
born and begot Enosh.
* 1-129 130
Gen 5:9 Enosh
Seth lived 90 years,
born and begot Cainan.
* 1-104 105
Gen 5:12 Cainan
Enos lived 70 years, and
born begot Mahalalel.
* 1-89 90

Cainan Gen 5:15 Mahalalel

born lived 65 years, and
begot Jared.
* 1-69 70

Maha- Gen 5:18 Jared lived

lalel 162 years, and begot
born Enoch
* 1-64 65
Gen 5:21 Enoch lived
Jared 65 years, and begot
born Methuselah
* 1-161 162
Gen 5:25
Enoch Methuselah lived
born 187 years, and
* 1-64 65 begot Lamech.

Methu-
selah
born
* 1-186 187

Lamech
born

0 1- 131- 236- 326- 396- 461- 623- 688-

AM 129 130 234 235 324 325 394 395 459 460 621 622 686 687 873 874

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 Gen 5:28 Lamech lived 182 Gen 7:6 Noah was
years, and had a son. And 600 years old when
Lamech he called his name Noah the floodwaters were
on the earth.
born
* 1-181 182
Gen 11:10 Shem was
Noah
100 years old, and
born begot Arphaxad two
* 1-501 502 503-599 600 years after the flood.

Flood Gen 11:12 Arphaxad

lived 35 years, and
Shem * 1 2 begot Salah
born
* 1-97 98 99 100 Gen 11:14 Salah
lived 30 years,
and begot Eber
Arpha-
xad Gen 11:16 Eber
born lived 34 years,
and begot Peleg.
* 1-34 35

Shelah
born Gen 11:18 Peleg
lived 30 years,
* 1-29 30 and begot Reu.
Eber
born
* 1-33 34

Peleg
born
* 1-29 30

Reu
born

874 875- 1057- 1558 1559- 1656 1657 1658 1659- 1693 1694- 1723 1724- 1757 1758- 1787
AM 1055 1056 1557 1655 1692 1722 1756 1786

Noah
Noah
born 4 *120 build 120 Flood
the ark

Gen 6:3 Then God is not limiting life span of humankind to but
the LORD said, 120 years,
"My Spirit will ‘Targum Onkelos’ rendered it to mean that God would
not contend allow but another 120 years for teshuvah (repentance)
with man before God would unleash a universal flood: "And God
forever, for he said that this evil generation shall not endure before me
is mortal; his forever; for they are flesh and their deeds are evil. I will
days will be a
grant them an extension of 120 years, [to see] if they
hundred and
twenty years." repent (James T. Kugel, The Bible As It Was, p. 113)."
1056 1536 1656

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1056 1057 1758 1788 1820 1850 1879 1997
- 1757 - 1787 - 1819 - 1849 - 1878 - 1996 - 2006
AM
1756 1786 1818 1848 1877 1995 2005

Noah Noah Gen 9:29 all the

born died days of Noah
were 950 years
* 1- 701 702- 731 732- 763 764- 793 794- 822 823- 940 941- 950
700 730 762 792 821 939 949

Peleg Peleg Gen 11:18-19

born dies Peleg had lived
30 years, …
1- 30 31- 62 63- 92 93- 121 122- 239 after lived 209 y.
*
29 61 91 120 238

122- 206 207-

205 238

Gen 11:18 Peleg Babel

lived 30 years,
and begot Reu. 1879 1994
- 1993 -
1992 AM 1995
Gen 11:20 Reu
lived 32 years,
Reu and begot Serug.
born
1- Gen 11:22 Serug
* 32
31 lived 30 years,
and begot Nahor.
Serug
born
Gen 11:24 Nahor
1-
30 lived 29 years,
* 29 and begot Terah
Nahor Gen 11:32 So the days of
born Terah were 205 years, and
1-
29
Terah died in Haran.
* 28
See Appendix A
Terah
born
1- 119- 131-
* 118 128 129 130 205
117 127 204

Gen 12:4 Abram

was 75 years old Terah
when he departed dies
from Haran.
(at Terah’s death) Abram
leaves
Haran
Abram
born
1-
* 74 75

1057 1758 1788 1820 1850 1879 1997 2009

1056 1757
AM
- - 1787 - 1819 - 1849 - 1878 - 1996 - 2006 2007 2008 - 2083
1756 1786 1818 1848 1877 1995 2005 2082

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Appendix B Abraham’s family tree
When was Abraham born?

Gen 11:32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

Gen 12:4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was
seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.

According the previous two verses Abraham was 75 years old when he left Haran “at his
father’s death”.

First conclusion : Abraham was born when Terah was 130 years old (205 – 75).

However, according to the next verse, Abraham was born when Terah was 70 years old.
Gen 11:26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Sec. conclusion : Abraham could have been born when Terah got 70 years old.

Given these two conclusions cannot be right at the same time there must be a way to reconcile
Gen 11:32, 12:4 and 11:26?

First, unless Terah was the father of triplet, and it is very unlikely given the absence of any
Bible’s comment on such an extraordinary fact, you have to admit that Gen 11:26 only say
that Terah got his first son when he was 70, the other two sons came to him in the latter years.
But, if this is the case, wouldn’t it mean that Abraham, the first name to be listed, was born
when Terah was 70? No. Being the first in the list doesn’t mean that he was the first born.
There is a precedent worth to be examined.
From the following two verses you could be inclined to think that Shem was Noah first son,
after all he is listed first 111 in both cases.

Gen 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and
Japheth.
Gen 10:1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, NIV

However, here it is clearly said that Japheth, not Shem, was the oldest son of Noah.
Gen 10:21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth;

Back to Abraham. The readers would correctly point to the fact that Gen 11:32,12:4 don’t
especially say that Abraham left Haran at the death of Terah. I agree with the reader, Gen
12:4 doesn’t say it, but, Stephen, under inspiration did.
Acts 6:5 They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit;
Acts 7:4 "So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After the death of
his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.

In 2008 AM, the 130 years old Terah (born in 1878 AM), got his son Abram.

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Could have been done as a sign of the future prominence of the individual.
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Terah had 3 children: Abam, Nahor, Haran
Gen 11:26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he Terah
became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Haran, Abram’s brothers, had also three

children: Lot, Milcah and Iscah Haran Nahor Abram
Gen 11:27 And Haran became the father
of Lot.
Gen 11:29 ... Haran, the father of both Milcah Lot Iscah
Milcah and Iscah.

It is believe among jewish sages that Iscah is none other than Sarai112 (the girl who
would become Abraham’s wife). Both names, Iscah and Sarai, means “princess”.
Sarai is therefore the sister of Milcah and the niece113 of Abram.

Immediately after mentionning Haran’s death the Terah

Bible tell us that Abram took a wife called Sarai and
Nahor took also a wife called Milcah.
Gen 11:28-29 And Haran died before his Haran Nahor Abram
father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur
of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took
them wives: the name of Abram's wife was
Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, Iscah
the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, Milcah Lot =
and the father of Iscah. Sarai

Beside this strange situation (two brothers marrying their nieces), we also learn that Abraham
developped a father-son relationship with his nephew Lot.
Gen 12:5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot,
Gen 13:1So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his
wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
It is clear here that, after their father’s death, the three childrens of Haran became the respon-
sibility of their two uncles Abram and Nahor. But why?
Now woudn’t it shed more light on the whole situation if Haran had been the eldest son of Terah,
the one born when he was 70 years old? If it was the case we could argue that the two youngest
brothers (Nahor and Abraham) assumes the ‘unwritten moral obligation’ to provide for their
oldest brother’s posterity.

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The structure of Gen 11:29 also imply that Iscah and Sarai are the same one.
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Doesn’t it contradict Gen 20:12 where Abram says that Sarai was his half sister?
Gen 20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not
the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. KJV
I asked the opinion of Rabbi David Foreman about this question and here is his answer:
<< its a euphemism of niece; i.e. she is his "sister" in the sense that she is the daughter of his
brother. You find a similar expression with Lot, when Abraham says "anashim achim anachnu" we
are brothers. It doesn't mean literally brothers, it means we have a "brother like" relationship, in
the sense that you are the son of my brother >>
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 Terah

Haran Nahor Abram

Milcah Lot Iscah

(Sarai)

Terah born
1878 AM
Milcah Nahor Sarai Abram
70 Gen 11:26 After
Haran Terah had lived 70 1
born years, he became the 3
father of Abram, Bethuel Isaac
1948 Nahor and Haran.
0

70 Abram born
3 2008 AM Laban Rebekah
*
Sarai 25
70
born
2018 AM Sarai
marry
80 2033 Rebekah Isaac
70 50
2
Terah
° ° ° dies * Jacob Esau
Abraham goes 2083 1
to Egypt 3 Leah Rachel
2088 AM 0
80 100
Jacob
3 born Jacob
* 2168 Abra.. Leah marry Rachel
70 dies 2252 AM
100 2183
2253 Reuben Joseph 2258
Benjamin born
Jacob goes 2254 Simeon Benjamin 2268
2268 AM
to Egypt 2255 Levi
2298 AM 2255 Judah
100 2257 Issachar
70
2258 Zebulon
Joseph dies
2368 AM 2256 Gad Dan 2245
2257 Asher Naphtali 2245

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 Appendix C Timing of Levi, Kohath, Amram and Moses
Ex 6:16 Levi lived 137 years. NIV Ex 6:18 Kohath lived 133 years.
Ex 6:20 Amram lived 137 years. Deut 34:7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years …

Beside the fact that Kohath was born before the exile (Gen 46:8,11) to Egypt in 2298 AM, there is nothing to
help us pinpoint the year he and his son Amram were born. There are more than 3000 potentials solutions to
this problem, fortunately for us, only one reveals a cluster of unexpected and meaningful patterns. See below
the very stunning connection between Levi, Kohath, Amram and Moses. Could there be any doubts left?

Levi Levi My friend Noel Rude observed:

137 “The Torah gives only these
born dies
lengths of life (137, 133, 137,
2255 2392 120) but does not tell us in which
year of the father each was born.
Kohath Kohath Why? Maybe so we might
search out for a pattern.”
born 133 dies
2289 2422

J Amram Amram
Jacob A born 137 dies
Levi C 2366 2503
O
Kohath B
Amram to Moses Moses
Moses Egypt born 120 dies
2298 2443 2563

4 * 77 Prom.
land
Levi
born Kohath Amram Moses Moses
2255 34 born 77 born 77 born 77 + 43 dies
2289 2366 2443 2563

Abra. 555
born
2008 414 141
Kohath
Ja. to Levi dies Moses
2422 21 dies
77 Laban 70 Jacob 77 dies 120
2245 2392
dies Moses 2563
Jacob 2315 born
26 51 26 51
born Kohath
Born 2443
7 years Amram Amram
2168 2289 07 famine 70 born 60 dies 60
2296 2366 2503

Levi Isaac
87 born 33 died 78
2255 2288
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Appendix D Akedah Exodus Crucifixion
We are so familiar with the story of Abraham going to Moriah to ‘bind’ and sacrifice his son
Isaac (the Jews call this ‘binding’ AKEDAH), that we never pause to question the
incongruity and meaning of some details in the narrative.

Gen 22:2-4 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and
go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the
mountains I will tell you about." Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled
his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut
enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. NIV

Why is-it said that Abraham started ‘early’ the next morning?
I read somewhere that “Abraham eagerly awake the next morning anxious to embark on his
religious mission”. Really? I think that only a sociopath would have been ‘eager’ to get up
that first morning. Was it more pleasing to God that Abraham express zeal and show no
concern for Isaac instead of some hesitation and perceptible reluctance to start such dreadful
and excruciating pilgrimage?

Why did Abraham cut the wood 3 days ahead of time?

It doesn’t make sense when you think about it. Why did he bother to bring this heavy and
cumbersome payload with him when he knew that on the mountain he was going to, as on any
other mountain for that matter, he could have found plenty of wood to feed the fire of the burn
offering.
Gen 22:2 … and go to the region of Moriah. … on one of the mountains I will tell you
about." NIV

Why did Abraham saddle the donkey himself?

Wasn’t it the task of a servant 114 to saddle his master’s donkey? Why did Abraham took care
of such a meaningless task on one of the worse day of his life? Beside that, isn’t it a little
peculiar that the author of Genesis thought it was an essential fact to transmit to us while he
kept so much more information under silence?
Gen 22:3 … Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. NIV

Why did Abraham use only one donkey for an expedition of four people?
Gen 22:5 "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there.

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All the more so since two servants were going to be part of the journey
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Abraham had been blessed with a great wealth. He could have provide an animal for
everybody.

Gen 12:16 and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys,
menservants and maidservants, and camels. NIV

The journey between Beersheba and Jerusalem (Mont Moriah) had to cover about 74 km (46
miles). Abraham must have had a very serious raison to
decide that most of them would walk the whole distance.
Was anybody going to ride the ass? The 115 years old
Abraham maybe? Or the young 15 years old Isaac?
Probably not one of the servants but then it could have been
used to carry the heavy payload of wood, the water, the
food, some kind of shelter for the nights. Nobody make a 6
days round trip without the proper supplies. Isn’t it a fact
that a small caravan of 5 or 6 camels would have been justified to make this journey? Yet
Abraham judged otherwise and brought no more than one donkey.

As I have pointed out several elements of the story look peculiar. It would be easy to ignore
these oddities if each one was isolated in the text but here they are so closely related that one
keep wondering if the text is not trying to tell us something more, something that would be
hidden.

Here are the basic facts that don’t make sense in the Akedah’s story
Eagerness to start the journey
Chopping the wood on the first morning and carrying it all the way to
Moriah.
Not asking a servant to saddle the donkey.
Selecting only one donkey when several would have been handy.

I have given much thought to these discrepancies and I would like to propose the following
interpretation which has the merit to clarify and integrate all the facts. Unfortunately this
will also add a new layer of horror to a story that is already awful.
Let’s suppose that after he had laid down the saddle on the ass, Abraham took the pieces of
wood that he had cut and he secured them on each side of the animal then asked Isaac to sit
and travel on it. You are probably thinking that there is nothing unusual at all here. Wasn’t it a
good way to resolve two problems? Carrying the heavy and ‘important’ load of wood and
pampering his young son for the next three days! This is probably how it was done but if so,
Abraham must have been continually miserable. Imagines that you are the old Abraham
slowly walking behind the ass, what do you see in front of you if not a constant reminder of
the purpose of the whole journey. Indeed, each time Abraham lifted his eyes it was not to
watch a nice scenery in which the son of his old age was riding on an ass, unfortunately what
he saw in front of him was a moving altar with his son sitting directly over a pile of burn
offering wood. Keep in mind that Abraham was carrying the firestone and the knife generally
use to perform an animal sacrifice, and that the goal of the expedition was to sacrifice his only
son on a somewhat similar altar. Abraham had to ‘look up’ each time to see his son on the

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donkey, a subtle reminder that he had been asked to bring Isaac on the top of a mountain115.
Could the scene have been more explicit? It must have drove Abraham constantly mad with
grief. The three days journey was never meant to alleviate Abraham distress before the
sacrifice took place, on the contrary, every thing was designed to accentuate his mental
suffering and test, to the limit, his resolve.

Doesn’t it explain, in an obvious way, why three of the elements we found so strange in the
story had to be handled the way they were?

Abraham cut the wood at the beginning of the journey because it was needed
immediately to transform the saddle into an altar.
When Abraham lifted the saddle on the donkey at the start of the journey he was then
erecting the symbolical altar. No servant could have done that chore for him given its
symbolical nature. God had asked Abraham to do the sacrifice, therefore it would have
been inappropriate to let anybody else build the altar no matter it was only a type of
the real one.
Only one animal was part of the voyage because once the ‘symbolical’ altar was
erected on it, that animal would become, for the next three days, the focal point of
every one following on foot behind it.

Have you notice how the ‘wood’ play such an important role in the whole Akedah story?
1. Abraham cut the wood,
2. Isaac sit over the wood,
3. Abraham place the wood on Isaac,
4. Isaac carry the wood
5. Isaac lay down on the wood.
6. A lamb get caught by the horn in the wood
7. The lamb took the place of Isaac on the wood, and the wood is lighten.

It is the wood of the burn offering, placed on each side

of the saddle that creates the mental association with an
altar. Of course other elements of the story are needed to
accentuate this association. For instance, having Isaac,
the future victim, sitting on that saddle, following the
animal while carrying the knife and the fire, having the
people lift their eyes to see an ‘elevated’ Isaac. And
what about the sadness and the silence of Abraham?
Don’t they bring solemnity to the scene, the way it
should be around an altar when a sacrifice is about to be
performed?

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Gen 22:2 sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains NIV
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Abraham suffered in silence116 while going through his ordeal. He never complained or
lamented to God as he understood that his character was being tested one more time.
Gen 22:18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you
have obeyed me." NIV

It is true that Abraham could have decide to spare his son at any time and return home
immediately. If he had done so, God master plan would have been applied through somebody
else117. But Abraham overcame the distress felt during the last three days and he went up the
mountain to bound Isaac. This moment marks a turning point in Abraham’s determination. If
he had not fully intend to sacrifice Isaac, he would never have let Isaac become aware of that
goal. As for Isaac, who was never ambushed by his father in any ways, and whose
collaboration was essential118, the bounding became a turning point for him too. It doesn’t
matter how long Isaac took to really make up his mind. It is at the time of the binding, when
he offered no resistance, that he fully committed himself to the will of his father119.

At the ultimate instant God prevented the killing, He never needed a human sacrifice, it was a
test to validate that they both really fear Him.
Gen 22:1 Some time later God tested Abraham. NIV
Gen 22:12 Now I know that you fear God, NIV

Let’s explain why Abraham got up and left so ‘early’ that first morning. Instead of associating
Abraham’s behavior to some eagerness to please God (dismissing his own pain in the process)
I propose a more rational interpretation. What would make someone start a journey early if
not to make sure that this journey would be completed in a specific period of time?

Abraham had to cover about 46 miles by foot and offer a sacrifice. Suppose it was important
that the journey was done in three days 120, no less and no more. The only way to accomplish
that was to leave early every morning. This explanation leads to a more interesting question,
why three days? And the answer is because the binding of Isaac was a type whose echo would
resonate 1870 years later during the crucifixion week.

Many parallels connect the ‘binding of Isaac’ and the ‘crucifixion of Yeshua’.
Both accepted to die for the sake of their father.
Both came to Jerusalem (or the vicinity) on a donkey
Two servants shared the first part of Isaac’s journey, two robbers shared the last part
of Yeshua journey. (Gen 21:3, Luke 23:32)

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Isaac didn’t have any clue of what was going on until he and his father left the two servants behind
117
Est 4:14 relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's
family will perish. NIV
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A 115 years old Abraham wouln’t have been able to bind a resisting 15 years old Isac.
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Because Isaac, at that instant, submitted to his father’s will he would receive all the blessing (notice that a ram
took Isaac’s place on the altar). Jacob however, got all Isaac’s blessing by resisting his father ‘s will. (notice
how Jacob took Esau’s place at Isaac’s couch. Ref Gen 27:19 please sit up..).
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Gen 22:4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. NIV
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 Both carried the wood for the sacrifice on their back. (Gen 21:6, John 19:17)
Both were bound and lead to a specific location.
Isaac (Gen 22:9) / Yeshua (John 18:12)
At the last instant, the angel call out from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham”
( Gen 22:11). At the last instant, Yeshua cried out to heaven,
“My God, my God” (Mark 15:34)
Abraham grieve for three days in anticipation of sacrificing Isaac. (He must have
thought that he was going to do it all the time)
The apostles grieved for three days following the sacrifice of Yeshua.
(They didn’t believe that he would resurrect)
Both grieving ended unexpectedly when an unanticipated resurrection (symbolical for
Isaac, real in Yeshua’s case) took place.
A ram, whose head was caught ‘IE surrounded’ in a ticket of thorns, replaced Isaac;
Yeshua, with a crown of thorns around his head, became the Passover’s Lamb
Both were sacrificed on an altar.
Abraham built an altar ‘of stones’ for Isaac (Gen 22:9)
During 3 hours, Yeshua was stoned almost to death while nailed to the tree. The
accumulation of small pebble at the foot of the tree symbolically transformed the
site into an altar.

The last parallel could be surprising and very shocking to most people therefore I will digress
to explain a little more about that.

Was Yeshua nailed to a tree?

Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead-whom you had killed by
hanging him on a tree. NIV
Acts 10:39 They killed him by hanging him on a tree, NIV
1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, NIV
Gal 3:13-14 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us,
for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."

In his book ‘Secrets of Golgotha’ Ernest L. Martin argue that Yeshua and the two robbers
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were not only crucified on a tree, they were crucified on the same tree .

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If one robber was crucified on a separate cross on Jesus’ left side, and the other robber on another cross on his
right (so there were three crosses placed side by side with one another with Jesus situated in the middle), we then
have a major problem with the death of the two robbers. This is because the soldiers killed first the two robbers
and last of all they came to Jesus in the middle to slay him. Being in the middle should have made Jesus the
second to be killed. There is no raison to assume that it was more convenient to go from the first ‘cross’ to the
third one and then come back to the one in the middle. However if the three prisoners were around a common
tree then the soldiers acted in a natural way.

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In her amazing book122 ‘A Book of Evidence: The Trials and Execution of Jesus’ Nancy L.
Kuehl argues that the yoke carried by Simon of Cyrene (Mark 15:21) was not a Roman cross
neither the cross beam of a cross. It was a piece of wood that could be fitted around a neck
like the yoke of an ox. Yeshua’s hands were later nailed to that yoke before it was lifted and
fixed to a living tree. According Mrs. Kuehl Yeshua’s feet were not nailed to anything and
this is why in John 20:20 Yeshua identified himself by showing only the holes in his hands
and his side. The words ‘and feet’ in Luke 20:40 don’t appear in the early Greek manuscript
as they are late addition to conform to a crucifixion on a Roman cross.

Was Yeshua really stoned?

Look at some of the facts. He predicted that he would be stoned (Matt 23:37, Luc 13:34) and
on several occasion the people tried to do it without success (John 8:59, 10:31, 11:8). It could
only mean that the prediction was fulfilled at his death. Keep in mind that Yeshua was living
in a Jewish culture at a time when Caiaphas (the high priest) and his father in law Annas (see
John 18:13) were very powerful in Jerusalem (a very corrupted priesthood). They had Yeshua
brought in front of the Sanhedrin (Jewish criminal court) with a charge of blasphemy.
According to the law someone guilty of blasphemy should be stoned to death. (Lev 24:16
"And he that BLASPHEMES the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all
the congregation shall certainly STONE HIM). Pilate didn’t want to condemn Yeshua as he
found no fault in him123 but under pressure he had to surrender him to the accusers. (Luke
22:24, John 19:6). Yeshua was condemned under the Jewish law.

Many who came near the cross still remembered what he had said in the past (Matt 27:39-40
Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, …, save yourself!
Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!" NIV)

There are documented cases of people who survived a full week on the cross. Why did
Yeshua die after 6 hours but not the two thieves that were crucified with him? (John 19:32-
33) Pilate was so surprised when he learned that He was already dead that he sent a centurion
to verify the fact. (see Mark 16:44-45.) The stoning more than anything else would explain
Yeshua’s quick death.

Nancy Kuehl has the following comment about Ps 22:16-17

Ps 22:16-17 Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they
have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones; NIV
“the only manner in which a man’s bones might view him is if they were no longer
enclosed in flesh --- the word ‘pierced’ doesn’t mean ‘pierce through’ The Hebrew
word here is ‘aryeh’ … and it means ‘to pluck away skin’ … a stone, especially if sharp,
would have the same effect.”

John 19:32-33 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with
him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: KJV
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If I had to recommand a single book about the crucifixion that would be the one
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Matt 27:24 he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he
said. "It is your responsibility!" NIV
Luke 23:20 Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again. NIV
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And what about the appearance of Yeshua after the resurrection, doesn’t it conform to a man
that have been stoned?

Isa 52:14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him-- his appearance was so
disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness--
NIV

Wouldn’t the ‘stoning’ explain more than anything else why his followers or apostles weren’t
able to recognize him?
John 20:14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not
realize that it was Jesus. NIV
John 20:27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out
your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." NIV

Isn’t it peculiar that the land became dark at the exact 12

midpoint of the 6 hours that Yeshua was nailed to the 11 1
tree (Mark 15:25,33-34)? Why didn’t God sent this
unnatural darkness right at the start of the crucifixion 10 2
(09h00 AM) or at the very end of it (03h00 PM) when
Yeshua died? In both cases the emphasis would have 9 3
been more ‘dramatic’, don’t you think? Could the
removal of the light at that specific time of the day be
justified? I believe the purpose of sending the darkness 8 4
was to make the stoning of His ‘beloved son’ impossibe
to be carried on and force the abusers to retreat in fear. 7 5
6

Notice the following two interesting parallels:

In the garden of Eden, the first thing Adam and Eve did after the original sin was to
hide in fear124. And 3993 years later, if I am right, just before Yeshua gave his life for
that very same ‘original sin’ people were also retreating in fear.

Let’s start with Melito of Sardis very appropriate quote125 :

'Just as from a tree came sin, so also from a TREE came salvation' (New
Fragment, III. 4)

In Eden, the snake incited Adam and Eve to eat a fruit from the tree and to sin against
God. And who was behind the scene and condemned Yeshua to be hanged on the tree?
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The Pharisees (and the Sadducee) whom Yeshua had associated earlier in his
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ministry to a bunch of vipers (Snake) belonging to Satan

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Gen 3:8-10 … and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
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I learn about this quote in the article “The Messiah’s Crucifixion Tree” of John D. Keyser
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Matt 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said
to them: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? NIV
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John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a
murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. NIV
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Exodus.

The Bible is clear, the killing of the Passover lamb, was to be done on the 14th day of the first
month. (Ex 12:6, Lev 23:5128, Num 9:3129, Josh 5:10130, 2 Chr 35:1131). What is less obvious is
to establish when the Passover lamb was to be killed during that day: a little time after sunset
at the start of the day or some time before sunset at the end of the day?

The Bible’s day, as we all know, starts at Sun Set and ends at the next Sunset.

Bible day

Sun set Sun rise Sun set

Night Time Day Time

twilight

Did the killing Or did it

took place at ? ? took place at
this time? that time?

Ex 12:6 And ye shall keep it [the lamb ] up until the fourteenth day of the same month:
and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. KJV

It is said here that the lamb must be killed on the 14th day in the ?evening?. The Hebrew for the
words "in the evening" is beeyn haa’arbaayim which literally translate between the two
evenings (B2E).

There are two schools of thought for the exact meaning of ‘between the two evenings’

First solution: Most of today scholars (and late Samaritans) believe this idiom means the time
between sunset and complete darkness (about 45-minute) at the very beginning of the Jewish
day.

Second solution: According to modern Jewish rabbis, the Talmud and the late Pharisees, B2E
target the period when the sun begin to decline ‘noon’ until sunset. (3 o’clock would be right in
the middle of the period).

From a Bible point of view, only one understanding can be right..

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Lev 23:5 The LORD's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. NIV
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Num 9:3 Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month NIV
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Josh 5:10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho,
the Israelites celebrated the Passover. NIV
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2 Chron 35:1 Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was
slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month. NIV
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 th st
14 day of 1 month
Sun set
Kill
1st Full
Sun Sun set
darkness
Solution rise
B2E Midnight
About
twilight 60 min.

th st
14 day of 1 month
Kill
Sun set Sun Sun set
2nd rise
Solution
Noon B2E

3 4 5 6

The following three cases will show us that there is only one good way to understand the
timing meant by the expression between the two evenings ‘B2E’ and it is the one
presented in solution #2 (in afternoon, before Sunset).

First case: In the book of Numbers the Bible give instructions to sacrifice two lambs every day.
Num 28:3-4 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which
ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day,
for a continual burnt offering. The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and
the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; KJV

Note: ‘even’ is translated from the Hebrew “haa`arbaayim” which means ‘between
the two evenings’

The first lamb was to be sacrificed in the morning. The second lamb would be sacrificed
‘between the evening’. In order to have both lambs sacrificed the same day, the second lamb
had to be sacrificed before the next sunset. If the expression ‘between the two evenings’ had
meant after sunset then the second lamb would have been sacrificed in the part of the day that
belong to the next one. (Remember in the Bible each new day starts at Sunset). Of course I
grant you that in the end two lambs are sacrificed every day. But if you give any importance
to the sequence used in the Bible’s text, it clearly say two lambs every day, with the first one
in the morning. Whatever the expression used, the second one had to be before next sunset.

Second case: Here Flavius Josephus describe that hundreds of thousands of lambs were
slaughtered before sunset (Solution 2).
“So these high priests, upon the coming of their feast which is called the Passover, when they
slay their sacrifices, from the ninth hour to the eleventh, but so that a company of not less
than ten belong to every sacrifice, (for it is not lawful for them to feast singly by
themselves,) and many of us are twenty in a company, found the number of sacrifices was
two hundred and fifty six thousand five hundred;” (The Complete Works of Josephus,

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Flavius Josephus, translated by Whiston, La Sor, Wars of the Jews, Chapter 9 part 3, page
588)
Clarification: Counting from 6 o’clock in the morning, the 9th hour to the 11th should
be understood as from 3 o’clock to 5 o’clock in the afternoon.

Third case: The following verses tell us that Elijah wait for the time of the Evening sacrifice
before he intervene at Mount Carmel. As you will see, the ‘evening sacrifice’ couldn’t have refer to
the period after Sunset.
1 Kings 18:29-30 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying
until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one
answered, no one paid attention. Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come here to
me."

Now notice what took place once the time of the ‘evening sacrifice’ was reached and while
there was still light to see around:
1. Repaired Yahweh’s altar 1 King 18:30-32
2. Dug a trench around the altar 1 king 18:32
3. Laid wood on the altar 1 King 18:33
4. Cut up the bull and laid it on the wood 1 King 18:33
5. Had several jars filled of water three time and emptied on the altar
6. Prayer to Yahweh 1 King 18:36
7. Elijah had the 450 prophets captured and brought down from Mount Carmel to the
Kishon Valley where they were killed. 1 King 18:40
8. Send Ahab away 1 King 18:41
9. Go back to Mount Carmel from the Kishon valley 1 King 18:42
10. Send the servant 7 times to SEE if the rain was coming 1 King 18:43-44

Now, could have all these actions took place in the short 45 to 75 minutes between Sunset and
total darkness? In the end, would it have been possible to Elijah’s servant to distinguish (in an
almost dark sky) a cloud not bigger than an hand (1 King 18:44)? However, if the time of
the ‘evening sacrifice’ was meant to be in the afternoon, similar to the expression ‘between
the two evenings’, there would have been plenty of time to accomplish the previous 10
actions and see a small cloud in a bright late afternoon sky.

Let’s build a timeline

Ex 12:3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month
each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

Nisan Nisan Nisan

Nisan 10 Nisan 14
11 12 13
Kill Ex 12:6 take
Choose the lamb care of them
the lamb in the until the
afternoon fourteenth day
of the month

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The day after the killing of the lamb was the first day of unleavened bread.

Num 28:16-19 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven
days eat bread made without yeast. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do
no regular work. NIV
Lev 23:6-7 On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD's Feast of Unleavened
Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. NIV

Here we learn that the Unleavened bread

would start on the 15 for 7 consecutives days.

7 days festival of the unleavened bread

Nisan 10 11 12 13 Nisan 14 Nisan 15 16 17 18 19 20 Nisan 21
Chose Kill the lamb First day of Last day of
the in the Unleavened Unleavened
lamb afternoon bread bread

Let’s look at another verse:

Ex 12:18-19 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the
evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. For
seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses.

It is quite confusing, now the unleavened bread should start on the evening of the 14, which
logically points to the beginning of the 14 (remember that a day start at sunset, therefore
darkness come before the daylight’s part of the day). But Ex 12:18 doesn’t really say ‘on the
evening of the 14th day’ it says ‘at even on the 14th day’. Is it possible that ‘at even’ here
simply mean toward the end of the afternoon? If it is the case Ex 12:18-19 is only telling the
Israelites to stop eating bread with yeast a little time before the end of the day in anticipation
of the start of the Festival of the unleavened bread. As expected, the Bible doesn’t contradict
itself.
Nisan 14 & 15

Nisan 14 Ex 13:7 nothing with yeast in it is to be seen Nisan 15

among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere
within your borders. First day of
Remove al the Feast of Unlea-
Renove the yeast - - - - - - - - - - - No more yeast
yeast from your vened bread
living area
Ex 12:17 Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, because it was on this very day that I
=
brought your divisions out of Egypt.
Israelites
Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the
leave Egypt
generations to come.

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 Nisan 14 Ex 12:8-9 That same Nisan 15
night they are to eat First Day of
Get rid of yeast Ex 12:6 Take care of them the meat roasted over Unleavened
until the fourteenth day of the fire, along with bread
the month, when all the
bitter herbs, and
people of the community
of Israel must slaughter bread made without EAT the lamb
Kill the lamb them at twilight. yeast. NIV at night with
NOTICE: They killed the
unleavened
lamb toward the end of bread
the afternoon of the 14,
In the afternoon cook it for a few hours
and ate it that night.
Ex 12:7 Then they are to
At midnight
take some of the blood
and put it on the sides and the first borns
tops of the doorframes of Ex 12:29 At midnight of Egypt are
the houses where they eat the LORD struck down killed
the lambs. all the firstborn in
Egypt, NIV

Israelites
leave Egypt
Ex 12:9 … but roast it
over the fire--head, legs Ex 12:33 The Egyptians
urged the people to hurry
and inner parts. NIV and leave the country.
"For otherwise," they
said, "we will all die!"

Notice this important point:

The Israelite were told to eat the passover lamb with bread without yeast (Ex 12:8). For obvious
raison that meal was taken in the early hours on the night of the 15, ie a few hours after the killing
of the lamb in the afternoon of the 14. It would be quite peculiar and incoherent if the passover
meal, whose lack of yeast is among the important feature, would have been taken just before the
start of a 7-day feast whose main characteristic was a total absence of leavened bread.
Lev 23:6 On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD's Feast of Unleavened Bread
begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.

The Passover, the phantom day of the Bible.

Any study of the Passover must start with this important distinction of the following 3
elements.

#1. The original ‘Pass over’ meal. A few hour before132 the first born were killed, and on
the same day (Nissan 15), the Israelites ate a special meal (meat of a lamb roasted over
fire, bitter herbs, bread without yeast, sandal on the feet, staff in the hand. See Gen

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Ex 12:8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made
without yeast. NIV
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 12:8,11). They ate that meal while they were secluded in their house. The blood of the
Lamb they ate had been used to seal the door of that house.

#2. The ‘passing over’ in Egypt that occurred around midnight on the 15 of Nissan;
Ex 12:12-13 "On that same night [night of Nissan 15 at midnight 133] I will pass
through Egypt and strike down every firstborn--both men and animals--and I will
bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. The blood will be a sign
for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over
you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. NIV

#3. The ‘future’ observance to commemorate the ‘passing over’ in Egypt.

They would have to kill a lamb (that was done until the end of the second Temple) in
the afternoon of the 14, have a meal early in the evening of the 15. The meal would
consist of the Lamb, bitter herbs, bread without yeast. The people would do it to
remember134 that God had ‘pass over’ and spared their house while He stroke down
the Egyptian.

NOTE: The killing of the lamb was done in the afternoon of the 14. The original ‘pass over’
meal took place in the early evening of the 15. The killing of the first born happened at
midnight on the 15. The thing to remember is that the OBSERVANCE (memorial) for the
‘pass over’ has two parts: The killing of the lamb on the afternoon of the 14 and the meal in
the early evening of the 15.

If you paid enough attention when reading every verse that mention the word ‘Passover’ you
will discover something quite surprising. The Bible talk about the Passover’s
sacrifice135, feast136, offering137. But most of the time, even though the Hebrew Bible uses the
word ‘Passover’ alone it does imply one of these: lamb138, meal139, sacrifice140 or both141
(lamb and sacrifice). The Bible never uses the expression ‘Passover day’. Then why do
everybody assume that ‘Passover’ designs the whole day of 14 of Nissan? The answer is
probably because the following misunderstood three verses :
Numbers 28:16 Numbers 33:3 Ezek 45:21

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Ex 12:29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, NIV
134
Ex 12:26-27 And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' 27 then tell them, 'It
is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our
homes when he struck down the Egyptians.'" NIV
135
Ex 12:26-27 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' 27 then tell them, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the
LORD, NIV
Deut 16:2 And you shall offer the passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, RSV
136
Ex 34:25 and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning. NIV
137
2 Chron 35:9 the leaders of the Levites, provided five thousand Passover offerings NIV
138
Ex 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb
according to your families, and kill the passover [LAMB]. KJV
Deut 16:5 You must not sacrifice the Passover [LAMB] in any town the LORD your God gives you NIV
2 Chron 30:15 Then they killed the passover [LAMB] on the fourteenth day of the second month: KJV
139
Ex 12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover[MEAL] : There
shall no stranger eat thereof: KJV
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Ex 34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of
the passover[SACRIFICE] be left unto the morning. KJV
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Num 9:12 They must not leave any of it [LAMB] till morning or break any of its [LAMB] bones. When they
celebrate the Passover[sacrifice] , they must follow all the regulations. NIV
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Num 28:16 "'On the fourteenth day of the first month the LORD's Passover is to be held. NIV
Now let me prove142 to you that Num 28:16 is saying without any doubts that:
“On the 14th day … the Lord’s Passover Lamb is to be offered.”

Notice first that in Num 28:1-2, God tells Moses what food should be offered over fire;
Then let’s review the content of Num 28:3-35
Numbers The offering
28:3-8 Continual burnt offerings 2 lambs daily
28:9-10 Sabbaths 2 lambs
28:11-15 New moons 2 bullocks, 1 ram, 7 lambs, 1 goat
28:16 The fourteenth day the Passover
28:17-25 Feast of Unleavened Bread 2 bullocks, 1 ram, 7 lambs, 1 goat
(each day)
28:26-31 First Fruits 2 bullocks, 1 ram, 7 lambs, 1 goat
29:1-6 Feast of Trumpets 1 bullock, 1 ram, 7 lambs, 1 goat
29:7-11 Day of Atonement 1 bullock, 1 ram, 7 lambs, 1 goat
Feast of Tabernacles 13 bullocks (number
29:12-34 (each day) decreases by 1 each day of the feast),
2 rams, 14 lambs,1 goat
29:35 Last great day 1 bullock, 1 ram, 7 lambs, 1 goat
Isn’t it obvious, that when Num 28:16 says: ‘The 14th day – the Passover’ it could only
mean that on the 14th day the Israelites had to sacrifice a Lamb (call here the ‘Passover’).
The verse has nothing to do with a so called Passover day on Nissan 14.

Num 33:3 The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day
after the Passover. NIV
"And they journey from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first
month, on the morrow of the Passover have the sons of Israel gone out with a high
hand, before the eyes of all the Egyptians" (Num 33:3, Young's Literal Translation)
When it is understood that the word ‘Passover’ is here a reference to the real event ‘the
passing over’ in Egypt, which happened at midnight on the night of the 15th day of Nissan,
the morrow can only be a few hours later, on the morning of the same day (15 of Nissan).

Ezek 45:21 "'In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a feast
lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast. NIV
But see here how the Tanak translate the same verse in two parts:
"On the fourteenth day of the first month you shall have the Passover sacrifice;
and during a festival of seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten." (Eze 45:21,
Tanakh)
None of the last three verses can be used to prove that Nissan 14 is the ‘Passover day’,
The Passover could be many things depending of the context where is mentioned but it has
never been meant to point to a whole day.
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It is very confusing to try to understand how the Bible uses the word ‘Passover’. I learn a great deal reading
Ray Foucher very useful e-book ‘Is Nisan 14 the Feast of Passover?’ The e-book give an exaustive list of every
occurrence of the word ‘Passover’ and explains how to understand each one of them. His explanation on Num
28:16 and reproduced on this page, is ome more proof that the Bible is full of surprise for those who study it.
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Back to Abraham.

I gave earlier a list of many parallels (page 237) that connect the ‘binding of Isaac’ and the
‘crucifixion of Yeshua’. I would like to elaborate on the parallel of the ‘three days’, I believe
we have here nothing less than the key to understand the timing between the crucifixion and
the resurrection of Yeshua.

Here are a sequence of events that occurred over several days:

- Abraham is told to go to the region of Moriah Does this
- The following day the expedition start ? sequence spread
- On the third day Moriah is reached and the sacrifice take place over 3 or 4 days

Did the words ‘on the third day’ refer back to the day of departure or to the day Abraham was
asked to go to Moriah? If the ‘third day’ include the day Abraham was asked to go to Moriah
then it would mean that the travelling took place in only two days!

First day Second day Third day The sequence on the left
is impossible.
Abraham couldn’t have walk
Abraham is asked Araham and others Moriah is reached
to go to Moriah leave Beersheba Sacrifice take place
46 miles and still have time
to go up the mountain, build
an altar and offer the Ram in
Did Abraham walked 46 miles in two days ?
sacrifice

On the other hand the ‘third day’ could still refer back to the day Abraham was asked to go to
Moriah but with the understanding that the preposition ‘after’ is inferred from the text.

On the day before he left, Abraham was told to go to Moriah. The following days (day #1, #2,
#3) he traveled the distance. On the third day (IE day #3) ‘after he was asked to go to
Moriah’, his son was symbolically resurrected.

after after after

First day Second day Third day
day #1 day #2 day #3
N. D. Nightime Daylight N. D. Nightime Daylight

Sacrifice
Sometime Leave Leave Leave on the
during the early early early altar late
day Abraham & & & that day
is asked to go
Walk Walk walk
to Moriah

Three days journey (they had to cover 46 miles)

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 Yeshua was put on the cross (tree) during the day of preparation and he died later in the
afternoon.
John 19:31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special
Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the
Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. NIV

What was the ‘special Sabbath’ mentioned in John 19:31? During Exodus Moses had
instructed the Israelites about 7 special ‘holy’ convocations (high Sabbath).

Spring Feasts Fall Feasts

First day of unleavened bread Lev 23:6 Feast of Trumpet Lev 21:24
Last day of unleavened bread Lev 23:8 Day of atonement Lev 21:27
First day of Tabernacles Lev 21:35
Feast of weeks (Harvest) Lev 23:21 Heighth day of Tabernacles Lev 21:36

Part #1
The preparation day was the day before the ‘first day of
unleavened bread’. It was called ‘preparation’ because during Preparation’s 1st day of
that day the Israelietes would search for any trace of ‘yeast’ day Unl. bread
(see Ex 13:7) in the house and make sure it was removed Yeshua killed Hight day
before the start of the first day of unleavened bread.
Part #2
Yeshua was resurrected on the first day of the week.
st
Matt 28:1 28:1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the 1 day of
Weekly
first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the the week
other Mary went to look at the tomb. Sabbath
Resurrection
which is to say that the day before was the weekly Sabbath.

The preceding two partial timelines (#1 & #2) allows us to elaborate the next three timelines
scenarios of what could have happened between the crucifixion and the resurrection. (To
make it easier I will transpose our traditional days of the week naming convention (Sunday
….) into these timelines. Keep in mind that a day in the Rabbinic Hebrew calendar runs from
sunset to sunset. In each scenario the first day of the week is Sunday, therefore we can go
backward and name each preceding days, we also know that the ‘preparation day’ was Nissan
14, thus we can move forward and put a date on each succeeding day)

Scenario 1 1st day of Unleavened bread and Weekly Sabbath coincide

Nissan 14 Nissan 15 Nissan 16 This scenario won’t be

Nightime Daytime Nightime Daytime Nightime Daytime retained. It fails to provide
st the 3 perods of daytime
Preparation’s day 1st day of unl.. bread 1 day of & the 3 period of nightime
Hight day + the week
Yeshua killed required by
Weekly Sabbath Resurrection
Matt 12:40 so the Son of Man
Friday Saturday Sunday will be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.

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Scenario 2 One day is inserted between ‘First day of Unleavened bread’ and ‘Weekly Sabbath’.

Nissan 14 Nissan 15 Nissan 16 Nissan 17 Nissan 18

Preparation’s day 1st day of Ordinary st

1 day of the week
Unleavened bread work Weekly
Yeshua killed Hight day day Sabbath Resurrection

Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Although there are three full days between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection I won’t retain
this scenario for the following two raisons.
A) According Mark 16:1 143 some women came to the tomb on Sunday morning with spices to anoint
Yeshua. They were prevented to do it after the crucifixion on this ‘hypothetical’ Wednesday because
they didn’t have enough time to perform the task before the start of the ‘High Sabbath’. Here is the
problem. Why didn’t they do it on Friday? They would have had enough time to buy, prepare the
spices and go to the tomb to anoint Yeshua’s body. Lets not forget that Nicodemus managed144 to find
75 pound of a mixture of myrrh and aloes and apply then on Yeshua body in the few hour before
sunset at the end of Wednesday.
B) To subscribe to this scenario we have also to believe that the women (previous point) came to the
tomb to anoint someone that had been dead for four days. Who could see any relevance in such a futile
action? A few weeks before, Martha had warned145 Yeshua against coming near Lazarus’ tomb
because this one had been dead for four days and the smell was strong.

Scenario 3 The 1st of Unleavened bread and the Weekly Sabbath are two successive days.

Nissan 14 Nissan 15 Nissan 16 Nissan 17

st
1st day of 1 day of
Unleavened bread Weekly the week
Hight day (Sabbath) Sabbath
Nightime Daytime
Preparation’s
day
Yeshua killed “After the Sabbath” (Matt 28:1): In the Greek Resurrection
manuscript the word ‘Sabbath’ is in its plural form. during the Spices
Thus, the two successive Sabbaths of the present night brought
scenario are in agreement with that plurality. to the tomb

Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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Mark 16:1-3 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought
spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise,
they were on their way to the tomb NIV
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John 19:39-40 Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. 40 Taking
Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish
burial customs. NIV
145
John 11:39 "Take away the stone," he said. "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time
there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days." NIV
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The riddle of the spice’s preparation.

Mark 16:1-2 Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the
mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint
Him. Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the
tomb NKJV
Luke 23:56 Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they
rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment. NKJV
Do we have a contradiction between these two accounts? Marc says that the spices were
bought after the Sabbath was over. But Luke implies that the spices were prepared before the
Sabbath. How could these women have prepared the spices before buying them?

For the tenant of the Wednesday crucifixion the solution is obvious. Right after the
crucifixion and before the beginning of the High Sabbath the women (see Luke 23:56) used
the few minutes they still had (keep in mind that they had previously spent a considerable
amount of time following Joseph of Arimathea from the cross to the tomb, seal the entrance of
the tombs and then had to return home) to prepare some spices they presumably already had.
Then they rested from Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset to observe the Passover High
Sabbath. The next day, i.e. Friday, they went to buy more spices as told by Marc 16:1.Then
they rest again Saturday to observe the regular weekly Sabbath. Sunday morning they went to
the tomb to anoint Yeshua’s body. This chronology doesn’t explain why the women didn’t
hurry to the tomb on Friday when they could have anointed Yeshua’s body while it was in a
much earlier state of decomposition.

To the tenants of a Thursday crucifixion like me, there is a more banal explanation. People
wrongly interpret Luke by saying that the woman prepared the spices before the Sabbath.

Luke 23:56 says these two things:

1. Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils.

2. And they rested on the Sabbath

Could it be possible that Luke merely enumerate two different actions and never intended to
create a chronological sequence with them? I believe so. The women returned home with two
objectives; to prepare the spices, to rest on the Sabbaths. Given the little time that they still
had before the beginning of the high Sabbath it should be obvious to us, readers that the
women couldn’t have returned home with the immediate intent to buy and prepare spices.
This has had to be delayed for when the two Sabbaths would be over.

Here is the likely sequence of events: The women return home at the end of Thursday
afternoon without any time to spare. They rested the next two days (Friday for the High
Sabbath then Saturday for the regular Sabbath). It is only at the end of the Saturday Sabbath,
when all the shop opened back after sunset, that they went out to buy the spices they needed
and returned home to prepare them before getting some sleep. Very early Sunday morning
they went to the tomb not knowing that Yeshua was already resuscitated.

Next we will see an elaborate layout of the Passover week and the following page will show
that Yeshua was chosen at the save time the Jews selected their Passover lamb.

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 Yeshua was killed in the afternoon
Using scenario #3
of the preparation day. The fol-
This solution is retained because it is the only one that generates
lowing Days (I.E. Day #1, #2, #3) the same 3 days pattern that we have seen at Akedah on p. 246.
he was in the tomb. And on the
third day (Luke 24:21) He was
resurrected. Luke 24:21 it is
the third day since all this
took place

after after after

First day Second day Third day
after all these thing after all these thing after all these thing
Day #1 Day #2 Day #3

Arrest,
cruci.. Resurrection
death during
the night
On the road
to Emmaus

Night d #1 n #1 d #2 n #2 d #3 n #3 daylight
Matt 12:40 so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth. I.E. days #1, #2, #3 & nights #1, #2, #3

Luke 24:46 He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and
rise from the dead on the third day (since all this happened see Luke 24:21)
Nisan 14 Nisan 15 Nisan 16 Nisan 17
Passover
lamb killed John 20:1 while it was
Ye.. in the tomb Mark 16:1
Luke 23:54 It was When the Sab- still dark, Mary M. went
Yeshua to the tomb and saw that
crucified dies preparation Day, bath was over,
and the Sabbath Mary M., .. the stone had been remo-
was about to begin. bought spices ved from the entrance.
Yeshua so that they
last Not the 3h 3h Passover might go to S he a f
Passov da anoint Jesus' (omer)
er meal rk body.
supper meal o ffer i ng
ness

P r e p a r a t io n d a y High Weekly
First day of the week
(before Passover) Sabbath Sabbath
Feast of Un- Mark 16:2 Very
leavened bread Matt 28:1-2 After the
early on the first
Sabbath, at dawn on
day of the week,
the first day of the
just after sunrise,
week… An angel of
they were on
tearing the Lord … rolled
their way to the
of the back the Stone
tomb
temple
veil Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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John 12:1 High Sabbath day
Six days Ex 12:3-7 Tell the whole community of Israel that on Feast of un-
[ N15 – N9 ] the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb leavened bread
before the for his family …. The animals you choose must be year-
Passover, old males without defect … Take care of them until the People eat
Jesus arrived fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the the Passover
at Bethany, community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. lamb

Lamb chosen Lamb killed

Nisan 9 Nisan 10 Nisan 11 Nisan 12 Nisan 13 Nisan 14 Nisan 15

Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Yeshua chosen Yeshua killed

Four days before the crucifixion, Yeshua, the lamb

of God, was chosen by the people of Jerusalem.

John 12:12-13 The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that
Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet
him, shouting, "Hosanna!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"

Yeshua’s birth. According to Micah 5:2, Matt 2:1, Luke 2:4, John 7:41, Yeshua (the bread of life,
John 6:35) was born in Bethlehem (house of bread). But where146 exactly in Bethlehem? Few people
are aware of the following possibility. According Micah 8:2 147 the ‘Messiah’ would be born at the
watch tower of the flock (known as Migdal Eder in Hebrew). This is the tower where Rachel148 died
while giving birth to Jacob’s youngest son, Benjamin (see Gen 35:21). A passage of he Talmud 149
associates the tower ‘Migdal Eder’ with the lambs that were needed for the sacrifices at the
Temple150. While the flocks were kept in the fields year around, the ewes were brought to the lower
portion of the tower when it was time for birthing.
Once birthed, the priestly shepherds would routinely place the lambs in the hewn depression of a
limestone rock known as "the manger" and "wrap the newborn lambs in swaddling clothes,"
preventing them from thrashing about and harming themselves "until they had calmed down" so they
could be inspected for the quality of being "without spot or blemish" (the Jewish oral tradition)
The night Yeshua was born, there was shepherds (see Luke 2:8-16) living out in the fields at
Bethlehem and keeping watch over their flocks. Suddenly the glory of the Lord shone around them
and the shepherds were told by an angel that a ‘Messiah’ had just been born. And they were given
this sign: you will find the baby wrapped in ‘swaddling clothes’ and lying in a manger . How could
these shepherds have known were to go to find the newly born baby? Here is a fascinating theory151.
They knew exactly where to go because, as the priestly shepherds of the Migdal Eder, they were
familiar with Micah 4:8 prophecy. The sign would have been useless to help anybody else but to them
it could only means one place, their tower. (Also see Cooper P Abrams152 very good article)
146
Around year 330 AD, Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, identified a cave and had a church built over
it. This church was destroyed in the 6th century and the Basilica of Nativity was rebuilt over it.
147
Mic 4:8 As for you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion, the former dominion
will be restored to you; kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem." NIV
148
OT:7353 Rachel (raw-kale'); from an unused root meaning to journey; a ewe [the females being the
predominant element of a flock] (as a good traveller): KJV - ewe, sheep.
149
Babylonian Talmud Book 2 Tract Shekalim chapt VII
150
Each year the Temple’s rituals and the Passover required thousands of perfect animals.
151
I learned all about this from Ray Foucher (http://www.jesus-resurrection.info)
152
‘Where was the birth place of the Lord Jesus’
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A surprising deduction about the last supper.

The last supper (taken at the start of Nisan 14) could not have been a Passover meal knowing
that Yeshua died at 03h00 near the end of that day. At the very same time of His death,
thousands of Passover lambs were killed for the Passover meal that would take place a few
hours later (but on the next day) during the feast of unleavened bread (Nissan 15).

At first glance the following verse conveys the idea that Yeshua sent some of his disciples to
prepare the Passover meal at the start of Nisan 15 (i.e. at the start of the feast of Unleavened
Bread).
Matt 26:17 “Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus,
saying unto Him, Where will You that we prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
But remove these important keywords (day, feast) added by the translator153 and consider an
alternative choice to the word ‘first’ and the verse don’t point to the start of Nisan 15
anymore.
Matt 26:17 “Now before the unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto Him,
Where will You that we prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

There are no doubt that the disciples went to make some preparation because of the coming
Passover meal but it had nothing to do with preparing the Passover meal itself. Remember
what was said about the day of preparation on page 244. It was the custom during the day of
preparation, i.e. Nissan 14, to remove154 any trace of yeast from the room or house where the
Passover meal would be consume the following day. Yeshua didn’t own a house but
nevertheless he made some arrangement to have a guess room available for the purpose of
having a Passover meal the next day. Given that the disciple were sent to remove the yeast in
that guess room, we know it must have been the start of the preparation day and therefore the
start of Nisan 14.

Keep in mind this sequence of event.

Nissan 14 Nissan 15
A) At the beginning of the Preparation day (Nisan 14) Yeshua Preparation day High Sabbath
sent some disciples to prepare a guess room for the Passover
meal that would take place 24 hours later on Nisan 15.
B) Some time later during the same evening (14th of Nisan.), the
A
disciples gathered together with Yeshua for a meal that would
B
be remembered as the last supper. C
C) After the meal they went to the garden of Gethsemane and D D
Yeshua was arrested later on that night. E
D) During the night and early in the morning Yeshua was judged F
and condemned. (Nisan 14) G
E) At 09h00 in the morning (still Nisan 14) Yeshua is hanged on the tree. (Nissan 14)
F) At 03h00 in the afternoon He died (at the same time that the lamb were killed).
G) Early in the evening of the new day (Nissan 15) the people ate the Passover meal.

153
These words don’t appears in the original text as they were added by the translators for better
readability in the English. The problem with that practice is that the translator could have
misunderstood the original sense of a verse and oriented his translation accordingly.
154
Ex 12:15 on the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it
from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. NIV
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Three hints that the last supper was not a Passover meal:
1. During the meal they ate leaven bread and we know that the Passover meal was eaten
with unleavened bread.
Matt 26:26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread155, gave thanks and broke it,
and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body." NIV
2. During that last supper Yeshua told Judas to do what he had to do quickly, hearing this
some of the apostles thought that He was sending Judas to buy what was missing for
the Feast. (See John 13:27-30) The deduction of theses apostles make sense only in a
context where they were not already participating in a Passover meal. It would have
been strange and inappropriate to send Judas buy some things for the most important
meal of the year if that meal was almost already over.
3. Yeshua said that he wouldn’t share the Passover meal with them.
Luke 22:15-16 And he said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover
with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again156 until it finds
fulfillment in the kingdom of God." NIV
Once the word ‘again’ is removed from the verse the meaning become quite different.
Let’s me paraphrase: Yeshua told the disciple that He would have like to share the
Passover meal of the next day but now He knew that it wouldn’t be possible.

And here is something that nobody realize before: Because the guess room had been ridden of
any trace of yeast by the disciples sent by Yeshua, and because leaven bread was eaten157
during the last meal, we have the certitude that THE LAST MEAL WAS NOT TAKEN IN
THAT GUESS ROOM. It is inconceivable that they would have polluted that room with
leaven bread before the feast of unleavened bread was over 8 days later.

We could still argue: Why did Yeshua send John and Peter to prepare a room for a meal that
wouldn’t take place? And my answer would be: Ignorance. Although He knew that His death
would happened real soon, Yeshua must have believe that he would be allowed to take part of
the next Passover meal. (maybe He thought that His death had to coincide with the time when
the first born were killed in Egypt, i.e. after the Passover meal at midnight on the 15 of
Nisan). I believe the timing of his death was only reveal158 to Him sometime during ‘the last
supper’.
John 13:21 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, "I tell you
the truth, one of you is going to betray me." NIV
Interesting isn’t? Right after He was troubled in spirit He told the others about Judas betrayal.
Wouldn’t we be troubled in spirit too if we suddenly had a vision of our imminent death?
Make me think that Isaac also learned at the last minute that he would be sacrificed, no matter
that his father had known for the last three days.

155
the Greek word (artos) refers to an ordinary loaf—not to the unleavened flat bread or matzos that Jews eat
with their Passover meals. From James Tabor ‘Jesus Died on a Thursday not on Friday’ on the ‘Tabor blog’
156
A later copyist of the manuscript inserted the word “again” to make it say “I won’t eat it again,” since the
tradition had developed that Jesus did observe Passover that night and changed its observance to the Christian
Eucharist or Mass. (From James Tabor ‘Jesus Died on a Thursday not on Friday’ on the ‘Tabor blog’ .)
157
Eating unleavened bread before Nisan 15 would have trivialize the Unleavened bread festival
158
We always assume that Yeshua knew everything a long time in advance, but what if it was not the case? I
don’t believe in his pre-existence or any form of incarnation. Yeshua was a mortal until his death.
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Appendix E
Synchronizing the Hebrew and the Gregorian calendar

It is only once the whole internal Bible’s chronology has been figured out, when each event is
properly positioned on the timeline 0 to 6,000 AM, that an external Gregorian date is needed
but for the sole purpose of synchronizing both the ‘AM’ and the ‘Gregorian’ calendars. We
saw on page 156 that Yeshua was born in 3960 AM of the Hebrew calendar. According to a
research of Ernest Martin159, based on the apparent motion of several celestial bodies (Sun,
Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Regulus) Yeshua was born in 3/2 BC on the Gregorian
calendar. Using it (3960 AM = 3/2 BC) as an anchoring point, we can, without difficulties,
figure out the Gregorian date of every event addressed in the present book.

If 3960 AM = 3 BC 0 AM
3960 = -3 3963 \ 3962 BC
3960 – 3960 = -3 - 3960
0 = -3963
Creation
0 AM = 3963 BC of the world

The following facts show that ‘3963’160 is not a meaningless value:

Is-it also a coincidence that the highest

Is it a coincidence that
peak in Israel, Mount Meron in the
the earth's radius at the
upper Galilee, is 3,963 feet high.
equator is 3963 miles?
3963
(same as year of creation) miles
3,963
feet
By rotating the two
middle digits of 3963 3 96 3
we still obtain 3963.

On his webpage, Tony Badillo

makes a convincing case that Jachin
2963 AM David King of Judah 1000 / 999 BC
and Boaz, the two pillars of the
Temple (1 King 7:21) represent
David and Solomon. As shown here,
these two kings have also a role of 3000 AM Solomon King of Israel 963 / 962 BC

pillar in the present chronology.

159
The birth of Christ recalculated by Ernest Martin.
160
German protestant mathematician and historian ‘Philip Melanchthon’ came to the same conclusion
in his Chronicle: "The world was created in 3963 B.C." - Philip Melanchthon 1497-1560
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 Appendix F The Bible’s timeline

Gregorian Calendar More

AM EVENT Bible Ref.
BC/AD details

0 3963/3962 BC Adam born

130 3833/3832 BC Seth born Gen 5:3
235 3728/3727 BC Enosh born Gen 5:6
325 3638/3637 BC Kenan born Gen 5:9
395 3568/3567 BC Mahalalel born Gen 5:12
460 3503/3502 BC Jared born Gen 5:15
622 3341/3340 BC Enoch born Gen 5:18
687 3276/3275 BC Methuselah born Gen 5:21
874 3089/3088 BC Lamech born Gen 5:25
930 3033/3032 BC Adam dies Gen 5:5
987 2976/2975 BC Enoch dies Gen 5:23
1042 2921/2920 BC Seth dies Gen 5:8
1056 2907/2906 BC Noah born Gen 5:28
1140 2823/2822 BC Enosh dies Gen 5:11
1235 2728/2727 BC Kenan dies Gen 5:14
1290 2673/2672 BC Mahalalel dies Gen 5:17
1422 2541/2540 BC Jared dies Gen 5:20
Gen 6:3
1536 2427/2426 BC Noah starts building the Ark (1656 -120)
1558 2405/2404 BC Shem born Gen 11:10
1651 2312/2311 BC Lamech dies Gen 5:31
Methuselah dies Gen 5:27
1656 2307/2306 BC
Flood Gen 7:6
1658 2305/2304 BC Arphaxad born Gen 11:10
1693 2270/2269 BC Shelah born Gen 11:12
1723 2240/2239 BC Eber born Gen 11:14
1757 2206/2205 BC Peleg born Gen 11:16
1787 2176/2175 BC Reu born Gen 11:18
1819 2144/2143 BC Serug born Gen 11:20

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1849 2114/2113 BC Nahor born Gen 11:22
1878 2085/2084 BC Terah born Gen 11:24
1948 2015/2014 BC Haran born This work P. 232
1993 1970/1969 BC Babel Inference P. 187
1996 1967/1966 BC Peleg dies Gen 11:19
1997 1966/1965 BC Nahor dies Gen 11:25
2006 1957/1956 BC Noah dies Gen 9:29
2008 1955/1954 BC Abram born Gen 12:4 P. 141
Gen 17:17
2018 1945/1944 BC Sarai born 2108 - 90
P. 142

2026 1937/1936 BC Reu dies Gen 11:21

2033 1930/1929 BC Abram marries Inference P. 177
2049 1914/1913 BC Serug dies Gen 11:23
2063 1900/1899 BC Abram leaves Ur (goes to Haran) Inference P. 175
Terah dies / Abram leaves Haran Gen 11:32/12:4
2083 1880/1879 BC
and goes to Canaan 2008 + 75

2088 1875/1874 BC Abraham goes to Egypt Inference P. 186

Pregnant Hagar ran away Gen 16:3-4

2093 1870/1869 BC P. 79
Covenant between the parts 2083 +10
2094 1869/1868 BC Ishmael born This work P. 79
2096 1867/1866 BC Arphaxad dies Gen 11:13
Gen 17:24
2107 1856/1855 BC Covenant of circumcision P. 79
2008 + 99
Gen 17:17
2108 1855/1854 BC Isaac born P. 142
(2008 + 100)
2123 1840/1839 BC Binding of Isaac (AKEDAH) 2523 - 400 P. 84
2126 1837/1836 BC Shelah dies Gen 11:15
Gen 23:1
2145 1818/1817 BC Sarai dies
2018 + 127
Gen 25:20
2148 1815/1814 BC Isaac marries P. 177
2108 + 40
2158 1805/1804 BC Shem dies Gen 11:11

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Gen 25:26
1795/1794 BC Jacob / Esau born P. 141
2168 2108 + 60
Gen 25:7
2183 1780/1779 BC Abraham dies P. 79
2008 + 175
2187 1776/1775 BC Eber dies Gen 11:17
Gen 26:34
2208 1755/1754 BC Esau marries
2168 + 40
Gen 25:17
2231 1732/1731 BC Ishmael dies
2094 + 137
Gen 31:41
2245 1718/1717 BC Jacob hired by Laban P. 144
2265 – 14 - 6
Gen 29:20
2252 1711/1710 BC Jacob marries Leah and Rachel
2245 + 7
Gen 29:31
2253 1710/1709 BC Reuben born P. 198
2252 + 1
(third son)
2255 1708/1707 BC Levi born
2253 + 2
Gen 41:46
2258 1705/1704 BC Joseph born P. 176
2288 - 30
Gen 30:25
2259 1704/1703 BC End of first 14 years
2258 + 1
Gen 31:41
2265 1698/1697 BC Jacob leaves Laban
2245+7+7+6

2268 1695/1694 BC Benjamin born Inference P. 142

Gen 37:2
2275 1688/1687 BC Joseph goes to Egypt P. 142
2258 + 17

2285 1678/1677 BC Joseph sent to jail Inference P. 142

Gen 41:1
2286 1677/1676 BC Joseph helps the chief baker P. 142
2288 - 2
Gen 35:28
Isaac dies
2108 + 180
2288 1675/1674 BC P. 176
Gen 41:25
Joseph meets Pharaoh
2289 - 1
Start of 7 years of plenty Gen 41:53
2289 1674/1673 BC P. 142
Kohath born (Appendix C) 2296 - 7

2291 1672/1671 BC Manasseh born Inference P. 142

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2295 1668/1667 BC Ephraim born Inference P. 142

Gen 45:10
2296 1667/1666 BC Start of 7 years of famine P. 142
2298 - 2
Gen 47:28
2298 1665/1664 BC Jacob in Egypt P. 144
2315 - 17
Gen 47:28
2315 1648/1647 BC Jacob dies P. 198
2168 + 147

2366 1597/1596 BC Amram born Appendix C

Gen 50:26
2368 1595/1594 BC Joseph dies P. 142
2258 + 110
Exo 6:16
2392 1571/1570 BC Levi dies
2255 + 137

2422 1541/1540 BC Kohath dies Appendix C

Ex 7:7
2440 1523/1522 BC Aaron born
2443 - 3
Deut 34:7
2443 1520/1519 BC Moses born P. 161
2563 – 120
Josh 24:29
2463 1500/1499 BC Joshua born P. 158
2573 - 110
Act 7:23
2483 1480/1479 BC Moses escape from Egypt P. 55
2443 + 40
Josh 14:7
2484 1479/1478 BC Caleb born P. 19
2524 - 40
2503 1460/1461 BC Amram dies Appendix C
2522 1441/1440 BC Burning bushes 2523 - 1 P. 173

2523 1440/1439 BC EXODUS 2093 + 430 P. 84

Tabernacle set up
Ex 40-17
2524 1439/1438 BC Leaves Sinai P. 173
2523 + 1
Land spied
2543 1420/1419 BC Leaves Kadesh Barnea Inference P. 173
Aaron & Moses die Num 14:33-34
2563 1400/1399 BC P. 19
Promised Land 2523 + 40
Josh 14:10
2569 1394/1393 BC Land divided P. 19
2484 + 85

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Act 13:16-20
2573 1390/1389 BC Joshua dies P. 159
2123 + 450
2583 1380/1379 BC Gibeah Sin 2973 - 390 P. 65
2593 1370/1369 BC #1 Opp. Cushan Inference P. 163
Judg 3: 8
2601 1362/1361 BC Judge Othniel P. 168
2593 + 8
Judg 3:11
2641 1322/1321 BC #1 Opp. Eglon P. 168
2601 + 40
Judg 3:14
2659 1304/1303 BC Judge Ehud P. 168
2641 + 18
2677 1286/1285 BC #3 Opp. Jabin 2659 + 18 P. 168
Judge 4:3
2697 1266/1265 BC Judge Barak P. 168
2677 + 20
12 years Gap
2737 1226/1225 BC Inference P. 167
no judges, no oppressions
Judg 6:1
2749 1214/1213 BC #4 Opp. Median P. 168
2756 - 7
Judg 8:28
2756 1207/1206 BC Judge Gideon P. 168
2796 - 40
1 Sam 4:15
2775 1188/1187 BC Eli born
2873 - 98
Judg 8:22
2796 1167/1166 BC #5 Opp. Abimelec P. 168
2799 - 3
Judg 10:2
2799 1164/1163 BC Judge Tola P. 168
2822 - 23
Judg 10:3
2822 1141/1140 BC Judge Jair P. 168
2844 - 22
1 Sam 4:18
2833 1130/1129 BC Eli judge P. 55
2873 - 40
Judg 10:8
2844 1119/1118 BC #6 Opp. Ammon P. 168
2862 - 18
Judg 13:1
2853 1110/1109 BC #7 Opp. Philistines P. 168
2893 - 40

2856 1107/1106 BC Samson born P. 191

Jug 12:7
2862 1101/1100 BC Judge Jephtah P. 168
2868 - 6

2863 1100/1999 BC Samuel birth Inference P. 163

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2868 1095/1094 BC Judge Ibzan P. 168
2275 - 7
2870 1093/1092 BC Judge Samson P. 191

2873 1090/1089 BC Ark is captured 2483 + 390 P. 54

1 Sam 6:1
2874 1089/1088 BC Ark is returned
2873 + 7 mo.
Judg 12:11
2875 1088/1087 BC Judge Elon P. 168
2885 - 10
Judg 12:14
2885 1078/1077 BC Judge Abdon P. 168
2893 - 8
Jud 16:31
2890 1073/1072 BC Samson dies P. 191
2870 + 20
1 Sam 7:2
2893 1070/1069 BC Samuel judges P. 55
2873 + 20
Act 13:21
2923 1040/1039 BC King Saul (40 y.) P. 55
2963 - 40
2 Sam 5:4-5
2933 1030/1029 BC David born P. 55
2963 - 30
2943 1020/1019 BC Saul rejected ???? Inference P. 181
2953 1010/1009 BC Samuel dies 2523 + 430 P. 64
King David (over Judah) 1 Chron 29:27
2963 1000/999 BC P. 222
Ish-Bosheth king over Israel 3003 - 40
2965 998/997 BC King Ish-Bosheth dies 2 Sam 2:10 P. 222
2966 997/996 BC David king Israel This work P. 222
2 Sam 5:4-5
2970 993/992 BC David moves to Jerusalem P. 55
2963 + 7
1 Chron 15:1
2973 990/989 BC Ark brought in Jerusalem P. 65
2970 + 3
2983 980/979 BC Solomon born Inference P. 194
King Solomon (17 years old) 1 Kings 6:1
3000 963/962 BC P. 194
(will reign 63 years) 3003 – 4th year
2 Sam 5:4-5
3003 960/959 BC Start of first Temple const. P. 55
2523 + 480
st 1 Kings 7:38
3010 953/952 BC 1 Temple is ready P. 55
3003 + 7
3013 950/949 BC Ark brought to Temple 3010 + 3 P. 65
God confirmed Solomon 1 Kings 7:1
3023 940/939 BC P. 104
Palace is ready 3010 + 13
Solomon dies/Kingdom split 1 Kings 11:42
3063 900/899 BC K Rehoboam South Kingdom #1 3023 + 4 0 P. 104
K Jeroboam North Kingdom #1

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3080 883/882 BC K Abijah SK2 A.O.W
3082 881/880 BC K Asa SK3 A.O.W
3084 879/878 BC K Nadab NK2 A.O.W
3085 878/877 BC K Baasha NK3 A.O.W
3108 855/854 BC K Elah NK4 A.O.W
K Zimri NK5 A.O.W
3109 854/853 BC K Tibni NK6 A.O.W
K Omri NK7 A.O.W
3113 850/849 BC Foundation of Samaria 3503 - 390 P. 71
3120 843/842 BC K Ahab NK8 A.O.W
3123 840/839 BC K Jehoshaphat SK4 A.O.W
K Jehoram SK5
3140 823/822 BC A.O.W
K Ahaziah NK9
3141 822/821 BC K Joram NK10 A.O.W
3151 812/811 BC K Ahaziah SK6 A.O.W
Q Athaliah SK7 A.O.W
3152 811/810 BC K Jehu NK11 A.O.W
K Joash SK8 A.O.W
3175 788/787 BC K Jehoahaz NK12 A.O.W
3189 774/773 BC K Jehoash NK13 A.O.W
3191 772/771 BC K Amaziah SK9 A.O.W
3206 857/856 BC K Jeroboam II NK14 A.O.W
3233 830/829 BC K Uzzia SK10 A.O.W
3271 692/691 BC K Zecharia NK15 A.O.W
K Shallum NK16
3272 691/690 BC A.O.W
K Menahem NK17

3283 680/679 BC K Pekahiah NK18 A.O.W

K Pekah NK19 A.O.W

3285 678/677 BC
K Jotham SK11

3302 661/660 BC K Ahaz SK12 A.O.W

ISAIAH foretells that Ephraim Isa 7:8-9

3303 660/659 BC P. 97
will be broken (Israel doom) 3368 - 65
3314 649/648 BC K Hoshea NK20 A.O.W

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3317 646/645 BC K Hezekiah SK13 A.O.W A.O.W

2 Kings 18:10
3323 640/639 BC EXILE of Israel 3314 + 9
P. 93

3328 635/634 BC Hezekiah’s Passover 3368 - 40 A.O.W

3333 630/629 BC K Manasseh SK14 3443 - 110 P. 16
Manasseh sets an
3368 595/594 BC 3333 + 35 P. 16
ABOMINATION in the Temple
2 kings 21:19
3388 575/574 BC K Amon SK15 P. 16
3390 - 2
2 kings 22:1
3390 573/572 BC K Josiah SK16 P. 16
3421 - 31
Jer 25:1-3
3403 560/559 BC Jeremiah prophesies P. 57
3390 + 13
2 Kings 23:23
3408 555/554 BC Josiah’s Passover P. 57
3390 + 18
K Jeoahaz SK17 2 Kings 23:36
3421 542/541 BC P. 16
K Jehoiakim SK18 3432 - 11
Jer 25:11
3423 540/539 BC Start of Babylon 70 years P. 101
3493 - 70
3424 539/538 BC King Nebuchadnezzar P. 101
K Jehoiachin SK19 2 Chron 36:11
3432 531/530 BC P. 57
K Zedekiah SK20 3443 – 11

2 King
3433 530/529 BC EXILE of Judah
24 :13-17 P. 71

End of first Temple

3443 520/519 BC 3013 + 430 P. 63
(start of 70 years of desolation)
Fall of Babylon’s empire
3493 470/469 BC 3063 + 430 P. 103
King Darius (the mede)
3502 461/460 BC King Cyrus 3503 - 1 P. 133
Return of the 42,360 exiles Jer 29:10
3503 460/459 BC P. 71
(end of Judah’s exile) 3433 + 70
3509 454/453 BC Exiles set an Altar 3503 + 6 P. 120
nd
Foundation of 2 Temple
3510 453/452 BC 3503 + 7 P. 133
(start of Daniel’s 70 weeks)
3511 452/451 BC King Darius (Artaxerxes) 3502 + 9 P. 120

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3513 450/449 BC Construction of 2 Temple starts 3511 + 2 P. 127
nd Ezra 4:24,6:15
3517 446/445 BC 2 Temple is ready P. 120
3513 + 4
Neh 2:1
3531 432/431 BC Start of Nehemiah’s wall’s repairs P. 119
3511 + 20
Neh 5:14
3543 420/419 BC Nehemiah’s wall fully repaired P. 119
3531 + 12
Est 3:7
3547 416/415 BC King Xerxes (Book of Esther) P. 127
3559 -12
First Purim Dan 9:25
3559 404/403 BC P. 127
(end of Daniel first 7 weeks) 3510 + 49
3943 20/19 BC Herod renovates the Temple 3513 + 430 P. 111
3960 3/2 BC Yeshua born Inference P. 156
Luc 2:42
3972 10/11 AD Yeshua in Temple at 12 years old P. 156
3960 + 12
3989 27/28 AD Start of Yeshua’s ministry 3559 + 430 P. 138

3993 31/32 AD
Yeshua dies Dan 9:25
P. 115
(end of Daniel first 69 weeks) 3510 + 483

Jonah’s
4033 ?? 71/72 AD ?? End of 2nd Temple P. 156
prophecy

Recall of the northern lost tribes?

5983 2021/2022 AD Inference P. 180
--WAKUP--

Start of Daniel’s
5993 2031/2032 AD 6000 - 7 P. 222
70th week

Notice that contrary to the popular belief, I have the destruction of the 2nd Temple in 71 AD.
Have I been careless somehow in my chronology? Do you know that the Jewish sage cannot
make their mind if the Temple came down in 69 or 70 AD? In fact the Talmud says that the
Temple stood 420 years and the Jewish sage debate if it means that it was destroyed in its 420th
year, or after it had been standing up for a full 420 years. According my chronology the Temple
came down 520 years after the start of its construction. (Observe how my 520 years value is
strangely similar to the Talmud 420 years. Have the earliest Talmudic writers wrongly
recorded 420 years instead of 520? I believe so).

To the Jews our Gregorian year 2000 AD was equivalent to their year 5760 AM. They really
seem to be offset about 200 years161. Unfortunately they won’t be aware of their mistake as
long as they will persist denying that Yeshua was the Messiah they had been waiting for.

161
R' Azariah dei Rossi, in Me'or Einayim (c. 1573), was likely the first Jewish authority to claim that the
traditional Hebrew dating is not historically precise regarding the years before the Second Temple.
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Appendix G Daniel 8:14 ‘2300 evenings and mornings’
Daniel Chapter 8 describes a vision in which a Goat with a single horn quickly and furiously
attacks a two horns Ram (Dan 8:7-8). The bible tells us that the Ram represent the Persian
(Dan 8:20) and the Goat represent the Grecian (Dan 8:21) empire.

It is a known fact that Darius III, the Persian King, was defeated 3 times by the greek army of
Alexander the Great (battles of Granicus in 334 BC, Issus in 333 BC, Gaugamela in 331
BC). Theses battles marked the end of the Persian empire (Ram) and the consolidation of the
Grecian empire (Goat).

The collapse of the Persian empire brought to an end the peaceful control they had over
Jerusalem. (In the past, the Persian had facilitated the return of Judah exiles, contributed to the
erection of the second Temple and allowed the rebuilding of the city.) When the Greeks
invaded Asia for the first time (battle of Granicus 334 BC), an hostile period of domination
over the Persian’s territories and Jerusalem was initiated.

A few years ago, in a book called ‘Restoring Abrahamic Faith’ by James Tabor, I read about a
prediction done in 1825 AD by the British Methodist Adam Clarke. According Mr. Clarke,
the ‘2300 evenings and mornings’ period mentioned in Dan 8:14, should be counted from the
time of the Battle of Granicus in 334 BC. Unaware of it, Mr. Clarke had just linked, a
century before it happened, the Greek’s domination over Jerusalem and the 1967 Israel 6-day
war. During the 6-day war the Jews regained, for the first time in 2300 years, full sovereignty
over Jerusalem old city and the Temple mount162.

Should the 2300 evenings and mornings of Daniel 8:14 be interpreted as 2300 years? I don’t
believe that there is a systematic ‘Day for Year’ principle in Bible prophecy163. However, the
key164 to understand the somewhat cryptic usage of ‘evenings and mornings’ in Daniel’s
prophecy can be found in Exodus 12:6,10

Ex 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening 165 KJV
Ex 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth
of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. KJV

Daniel ‘evenings and mornings’ (a forgotten idiom ??) don’t represent, strictly speaking, a
unit of time. It rather refers to the Passover which starts on the 14th day of the first month of
the Hebrew calendar and ended in the early morning of the 15th day. Incidentally 2300
‘evening and morning’ (2300 Passover’s sacrifices) do represent a period of time that covers
2300 years.

162
We have returned to all that is holy in our land. We have returned never to be parted from
it again." -Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, upon reaching the Western Wall
163
Indeed Ezekiel 4 uses the day = year principle but this is explicitely requested in Ezek 4:5; During Exodus
God kept the Israelites 40 years in the desert because of the outcome of the 40-day spy mission. Here too the day
= years is justified, see Num 14:34; In Daniel 9 we read about the 70 weeks prophecy. It should be noted here
that the original expression is 70 ‘7’ without specifying if ‘days’ ‘months’ or ‘years’ are intended.
164
I learn this from Dan Bruce’s article ‘Want proof of God? Check this out’
165
Evening (from “haa`arbaayim” IE. Between the two evenings = middle of the afternoon)
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0 AM

Daniel 2300 Abraham

evenings & mornings
dies
Dan 8:14 He said to me, "It 2183 AM
Samuel Juge
will take 2,300 evenings and
2893 AM
mornings; then the sanctuary
77
will be reconsecrated." NIV
i y. 70
37+3
i=1
David k. i y.
of Judah
i=1
David ‘captures’ 2963 AM
Jerusalem 666
years
2970 AM
77
-
44 666
years
77
2 David dies 1st T. Const
3003 AM + 1st Purim 3003 AM
-- 7+37 2959 3559 AM
2 years 2
44 i y. 70
77
i=1
years
Goat
The Greeks de-
44 7+37 feats the Persian
empire (Battle of
i y. i y.
Granicus River)
i=1 i=1 The place of 334 BC Ram
his sanctuary 3629 AM
was brought 3629 3+73
Yeshua born low.
3960 AM Dan 8:11 i y.
Daniel
77 8:3-14
i=1
-
44
2300
Dan 8:17
Yeshua dies years
the vision
3993 AM
concerns
Dan 8:17 the time
Surrender the vision
Noel Rude says : If the sign of of the of the
concerns
his first coming was the sign of end."
sanctuary the time
Jonah the prophet, could the sign 2 of the
of his second coming be 1967 ? 44 Dan 8:13
end."
years
Author: They called it the 6-
day war, isn’t it a good name Israel 6-day war
for the start of the events that Recover of Jerusalem’s ‘Old city’
will lead to the end of the
6th millennium? 5929 AM june 1967 AD

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 Appendix H Daniel 12:11-12 ‘1290 days & 1335 days’
(This topic is speculative in spite of two meaningful markers)
Dan 12:11-12 "From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that
causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. … Blessed is the one who waits for and
reaches the end of the 1,335 days. NIV
The prophecy covers a period of 2625 days or years (1290 + 1335). We are not told if the units are
days or years but lets assume they are years and see where that leads. According Dan 12:9 this
prophecy would be understood only at the time of the end. This could mean that the prophecy will
conclude at that time.
Dan 12:9 Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of
the end. NIV

Daniel 12:11-12
Blessed are
daily Abomination that
1,290 1,335 those who Time of
sacrifice is causes desolation
years years reach this the end
abolished is set up point
2625 years

We will see in the next appendix (J) that the time of the end overlaps with Daniel 70th week.
Here is how Daniel describes the 70th week.
Dan 9:27 During one week he will make a firm covenant with many. For half a week
he will put a stop to the sacrifice and the meal offering. At the corner [of the altar]
will be an appaling abomination … (The Jewish Study Bible)
Dan 11:30-31 So he shall return and show regard for those who forsake the holy
covenant. And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary
fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the
abomination of desolation. NKJV
Given that the daily sacrifices mentioned in Daniel will be brought to an end half way
through the covenant (when the ‘abomination’ is brought in the Temple), it is not
unreasonnable to deduce that theese daily sacrifices were initiated at the very beguinning
of that 7 years covenant (i.e in 5993 AM166)

Time of the end

Covenant set up
3.5 Daily Sacrifice stopped 3.5 End of
Daily sacrifice Abomination in Temple 70th week
initiated years years
5996 AM
5993 AM 6000 AM

Daniel 70th week (end time 7 years)

166
As seen in p 221 this chronology have the 70th week of Daniel starting in 5993 AM
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With a better understanding of the time of the end we can now have this representation of the
1,290 & 1335 years. As we can see the sequence starts in 3368 AM (5993 – 2625) and is
bookmarked by two periods of daily sacrifice.

2625 years of Daniel 12 :11-12

Dan 12:12
daily sacrifice
is abolished 1,290 + 1,335 years Blessed are
those who
3368 AM reach this point

Covenant srt up Sacrifice

stopped End of
Why would
xx the people (Jews?) Daily sacrifice 3.5 Abomination 3.5 70-week
feel blessed if not because the initiated years ‘image’ years
Temple is rebuilt and the daily 5993 AM in the Temple 6000 AM
sacrifice is performed again.
70th week = 7 years

Earlier in this book we came across a very important event that took place in 3368 AM167. We
saw that King Manasseh setted an abomination in the Temple on this very year. The impact of
this event was so important that it was at the origin of the period portrayed by Ezekiel when
he laid down for 40 days on his side. Now If bringing a blasphemous image in the Temple in
5996 AM will result in the cessation of the daily sacrifice, we have all the raisons to believe
that the same thing happened when King Manasseh brought a carved image168 in the first
Temple in 3368 AM.

2625 years
Manasseh setted Covenant Daily Sacrifice
an abomination set up Stopped End
in the Temple 1,290 1,335 3.5 Abomination 3.5 of
(IMAGE) years years Daily sacrifice years years Daniel
‘image’
initiated 70-week
daily sacrifice in the Temple
5993 AM 5996 AM
is abolished
3368 AM 70th week = 7 years

Rev 13:14-16 He ordered them to set up an image in honor

2 Chron 33:7 He took the of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
carved image [Asherah He was given power to give breath to the image of the first
pole] he had made and put beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to
it in God's temple, NIV worship the image to be killed. NIV

Could there be any doubts left on the origine and end point of the period (1,290 + 1,335
years)? In each case a daily sacrifice was involved. Next page will see what kind of “abomi-
nation that causes desolation” could have taken place between the 1,290 and the 1,335 years.
167
See table in Appendix F
168
The Temple was left desecrated for 40 years and it took a lot of effort from King Josiah and the priest to
purify the Temple again. It is very unlikely that any daily sacrifice was performed during that time.
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Jer 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD:
Abomination
they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to
in the Temple
pollute it. KJV
daily sacrifice
stopped 2 Chron 33:7 And he [Manasseh] set a carved image, the idol which he had
made, in the house of God, KJV
3368 AM

1290 Did something of any importance happened in years 4658 AM (696/697

years AD)? Do you know that the Dome of the Rock, occupying the central point
of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, was supposedly completed in 691 AD
under the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik. Let’s imagine that the
historical date of 691 AD is a few years offset and the Dome of the Rock was
in fact completed in 696 AD (4658 AM).
Dome of the
Rock From the very beginning, the dominating presence of that
? shrine over Jerusalem promoted the superiority of the Islamic
faith over Judaism and Christianity. It is hard not to see here a
major turning point in the existence of Jerusalem.
4658 AM To the Jews of Jerusalem and those around the world the pre-
sence of the Dome of the Rock is an abomination in the city.
NOTE: It is erroneously believed that the ‘Dome of the Rock’ occupies the exact location
where the two Jewish Temples stood in the past. In fact the two Jewish Temples were
outside and south of the present ‘allege’ Temple Mount.
See Marilyn Sams ‘The Jerusalem Temple Mount Myth ’

1335
years

According Daniel 12:9

the meaning of the 1290 Why would it matter that the prophecy be
and 1335 years will be understood only at the time of the end, unless the
understood only at the period (1290 + 1335 years) reachess that time?
time of the end.
Start of Daniel’
th What could be the blessing at the end of the com-
70 week Dan 12:12 Blessed is
bined period of 1290 & 1335 years? Notice that the
the one who waits for whole period started with the desecration of the
Daily sacrifice and reaches the end of Temple (thus an interruption of the sacrifice). Also
initiated the 1,335 days. notices that the blessing are addressed to the Jews?
5993 AM The prophecy is Couldn’t the blessing be related to the
addressed to construction of the Jewish third Temple and
Daniel’s people of the resuming of the daily Sacrifice at that
the latter day.(Dan Temple?
10:14) Daniel was
a Jew (Dan 1:6) so It would make a lot of sense wouldn’t it?
Daniel’s people
are Jews.

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 Appendix I Daniel’s 70th week
Earlier in this book we have looked at the chronology of the first 69 weeks of Daniel 70 week
th
prophecy (see page 115 & chart 28 on page 223), we will now look at the 70 week.
Dan 9:27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the
'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the temple] he
will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is
poured out on him." NIV Note: sacrifice and offering were the Temple daily ritual
Here are some interesting facts related to the 70th week:
The ruler will confirm a 7 years’ covenant at the beginning of the 70th week
The ruler will break the covenant in the middle of that week. (i.e. after 3.5 years)
The ruler will put an end to the sacrifice in the middle of the week
we deduce that the Sacrifice started at the beginning of that week (i.e. in year 5993 AM)
th
Daniel’s 70 week (Dan 9:27)
Ruler confirms
a 7 years covenant
but in the middle of
Dan 12:11-12
it he breaks it
( 73 * 37 ) - 73 y.
or th
7
( 73 -37 ) * 73 y. M
Sacrifice stops i
3rd Temple Sacrifice stops
l
K. Manasseh inauguration The Beast
1290 1335 l
put an 3.5 y. sets up an 3.5 y.
y. y. Sacrifice e
abomination abomination
reinstated n
in the Temple in the Temple
n
abomination i
Dan Dan
that causes st
1 half of
nd
2 half of u
12:11 12:12
desolation 70th week 70th week m

3368 4658 5993 5996 6000

AM AM AM AM AM

2 Thess 2:4 He [The beast] will oppose Rev 13:5 The beast was gi- Dan 7:25 He will speak against
and will exalt himself over everything ven a mouth to utter proud the Most High and oppress his
that is called God or is worshiped, so words and blasphemies and saints and try to change the set
that he sets himself up in God's temple, to exercise his authority for times and the laws. The saints
will be handed over to him for
proclaiming himself to be God. NIV forty-two months. a time, times and half a time

Matt 24:3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us,"
they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"
Because the question of the disciples is specific to the end time period, the answer given in Matt 24:4-
th
32 can be interpreted in the context of Daniel 70 week. In the previous chart, Daniel’s 70th week is
divided in two periods, we will see that Yeshua’s answer also describes two distinctive periods.
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 The first period is call the Birth pain

Matt 24:4-8 "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name,
claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of
wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to
come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be
famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. NIV

The second period is associated with the ‘ruling’ of the beast (antichrist) . The period starts in
th
the middle of Daniel’s 70 week, when the beast pretends to be God and sits in the Temple,
and the period ends with the ‘day of the Lord’.

Matt 24:15 "So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination
Start
that causes desolation, NIV
Rev 13:5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and
End
blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. NIV

Note: Going backward 42 months from the beginning of the new millennium
i.e. years 6000 AM (after the End time events are completed) bring us back in
th
the middle of 5996 AM, i.e. in the middle of the 70 week of Daniel
(beginning of the second period).

The day of the Lord represents the sum of events that will occur during the
apocalyptic time of God's wrath. This final period will come just before the start
th
of the 7th millennium, it will be introduced during the opening of the 7 seal and
will conclude with the battle of ARMAGEDDON.
Rev 8:1-6 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven
for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God,
and to them were given seven trumpets. … Then the angel took the censer,
filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came
peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. Then
the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

Note The beast will become the supreme ruler of the world once he has broken the covenant
th
in the middle of the 70 week. He will keep his authority until he is captured at the battle of
Armageddon.

Rev 19:19-20 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered
together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was
captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his
behalf. NIV

Given that the beast will rule for 42 months (Rev 13:5) we can deduce that the Battle of
th
Armageddon will occur at the very end of Daniel’s 70 week.

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 5996
Second half of Daniel’s 70th week
AM
Beast rules the world for 42 months
6000
Day of the Lord AM

At the beginning of the second half of Daniel 70th week, as Battle of

mentioned before, the beast will start to rule the world. Armageddon
Here is his the first major outcome of this domination.
Matt 24:9 "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you
will be hated by all nations because of me. NIV
Rev 13:7-8 He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them.
And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. NIV

Understand here that only a specific group of people will be persecuted169, put to death, and
hated by the whole world. The bible refer to this event as the Great tribulation.

Matt 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of
the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. KJV
Matt 24:10-12 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and
hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.

Notice also that this persecution will be cut short

The next chart shows that the Great tribulation doesn’t occupy the whole 3.5 years of the
second half of the 70th week. If it was the case it would contradict Matt 24:22 who says that
the tribulation was cut short.
Matt 24:22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the
sake of the elect those days will be shortened. NIV
And what more logical way to cut short the tribulation than having the ‘day of the Lord’ start
immediately after?
Rev 8:1-2 When he opened the seventh seal, … And I saw the seven angels who
stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. NIV

th
Scd half of Daniel’s 70 week
5996
AM Beast rules the world for 42 months
Great tribulation Day of the Lord 6000
AM
7th seal open Battle of
Trumpets # Arma-
Rev 8:13 "Woe! Woe! Woe to the 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 geddon
inhabitants of the earth, because of
the trumpet blasts about to be
sounded by the other three angels!" st nd rd
1 2 3
woe woe woe

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As opposed to the first period (the birth pain) when no individual would be specifically targetted. Wars and
rumor of war affect people indiscriminately.
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Who will be the persecuted people of the Great Tribulation? Notice that Matt 24:9-14 was
given as a private answer to the disciples and it was done in a way that could have make them
expect the worse for their own life in the coming years. We know now that the first century’s
disciples didn’t have to endure any apocalyptic tribulation. Why then, did Yeshua intimate
that they would?

Could it be that Yeshua’s words were pointing at his own disciples because, by formulating
them that way, He knew that centuries later the right group of people would understand that
the words were for them? It seems to be the proper way to analyze the facts and therefore we
should find out who was truly addressed in Yeshua’s answer by responding this simple
question. What is the main characteristic one needs to have to be a true ‘disciple’ of Yeshua?
Isn’t it to believe the words given by Yeshua and become faithful toHim?

Therefore one can say that by extension the group of people who will be persecuted in
th
Yeshua’s answer will be those who believe in him during the second part of the 70 week of
Daniel. Don’t make the mistake to identify the victims of this tribulation with the Jews. The
Jews don’t and won’t believe in Yeshua until his second coming. And don’t think either that
the Antichrist, the ruler of the end time, will persecute the multitude who ‘will accept’ his
message. On the contrary those who will submit to the beast will receive a mark and will be
under his protection.
Rev 13:16-17 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and
slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could
buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of
his name. NIV

Thus, the victims of the great tribulation will be the Christians who will refuse to worship the
beast. (those who will remind faithful to Yeshua).

Rev 13:7-8 He [the beast] was given power to make war against the saints and to
conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and
nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast-all whose names have
not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb NIV

In the previous chart the Tribulation is followed by the Day of the Lord. Now if ‘the days of
the tribulation’ are cut short to prevent the dramatic consequence of an ongoing
persecution and if the Day of the Lord’ s purpose is to punish everybody alive at the time
then there must be something between these two periods that will protect the elects from
having to suffer twice. If it was not the case, the following would be highly misleading

Matt 24:13 but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. NIV

Matt 24:31 1 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather
his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. NIV

When Yeshua will return at the beginning of the ‘Day of the Lord’, his first action170 will be
to ‘rapture’ those alive (i.e. the Christians who won’t wear the mark of the beast) and those
who died for his name.

170
2 Thess 2:1 1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, NIV
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 th
Second half of Daniel’s 70 week
Beast rules the world for 3.5 years
Rev 13:5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and
blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.
th
Great tribulation 6 Day of the Lord
seal th
7 seal is
Rev 13:7 He [the Beast] was gi- Rapture opened and
ven power to make war against Yeshua in it there are 6000
the saints [christians] and to appears AM
5996 conquer them. NIV Battle
AM in the of
Trumpets #
sky 1,2,3,4,5,6, Arma-
Matt 24:22 If those days had not geddon
been cut short, no one would
7
survive, but for the sake of the elect Bowl #
those days will be shortened.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
NIV

-Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to Rev 15:1 seven
blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. angels with the
-Acts 2:20 the sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to seven last plagues-
blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. last, because with
them God's wrath
-Matt 24:29-30 "Immediately after the distress of those days "'the
is completed. NIV
sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the
Rev 16:1 saying to
stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'
the seven angels,
"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky
"Go, pour out the
-Rev 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a seven bowls of
great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made God's wrath on the
of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red earth." NIV

Although it was cut short, we can assume that the Great tribulation will last longer than the
other events of the 2nd half of Daniel 70th week. That being said we shouldn’t limit the
duration of the Day of the Lord to a single 24 hours day. The 5th trumpet alone will last 5
month.
Rev 9:1,10 he fifth angel sounded his trumpet … They had tails and stings like
scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

The two witnesses

The two witnesses are two prophets that will come to Jerusalem during the end time.
Rev 11:3 and I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260
days, clothed in sackcloth." NIV
I won’t add to the speculation about the identity of these two men, finding the timing of their
arrival is much more interesting. I don’t think they will be present during the second half of
Daniel 70 weeks and here are three raisons why.
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A. They will be extremely powerful and nobody will be able to harm them
Rev 11:5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their
enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. NIV
But the same has been told about the beast who is going to reign in the second half of
Daniel’s 70 weeks.
Rev 13:7 and he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.

How could the Beast dominate the whole word and not be able to prevent the two
witnesses’ ministry?
B. The two witnesses will be able to spit fire and prevent rain from the sky
Rev 11:5-6 fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how
anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6 These men have power to shut up the sky
so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying NIV
The beast will be backed by two others entities. One will spew water from his mouth and the
other will have fire coming from the sky (interesting: reversal of action VS the two
witnesses)
The dragon whose mouth had spew water like a river
Rev 12:15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the
woman and sweep her away with the torrent. NIV
A second beast who exercise authority on behalf of the first beast (rev 13:12) like having
fire come down from heaven.
Rev 13:13-14 even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of
men. 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast,
he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. NIV
We can imagine how counter productive it would be to have the two witnesses, two beasts &
dragon operate during the same period. Nobody would know who is responsible of what .

C. At the death of the 2 witnesses the whole world will celebrate for 3 and half a day.
Rev 11:9-10 For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and
nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. The inhabitants of the earth
will gloat over them and will celebrate

Impossible to imagine that such a worldwide celebration could occur at the very same time of
the wrap of God.
Truly, the time of the two witnesses cannot overlap the second half of Daniel 70th week.

Now lets suppose the beast first act, when he emerge in the middle of Daniel 70th week, was to
get rid of the two witnesses. Wouldn’t he receive every body esteem for having kill the two who
had affiged them with all kind of plagues (Rev 11:6) during the previous 3.5 years? I can
imagine the whole world proudly acclaiming him (the beast) while he enter the Temple
pretending that he is ‘god’ and that he had just get rid of the beast & the false prophet mentioned
in the Bible. Unfortunately for us this master deception will occur, see Matt 24:15.

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Can we pinpoint the time of the rapture?

We have to be cautious here, trying to predict the timing of any future biblical event is
dangerous. No matter how prudent one can be, there is no guarantee that all the biblical
facts are known when the prediction is formulated.

I have two propositions for the timing of the Rapture. The extraordinary thing is that they are
only 9 days apart.

Feast of Trumpets on Tishri 1, 5998 AM

In their book ‘The Last Shofar’, Joseph Lenard & Donald Zoller develops the possibility
that the rapture will happen on the Feast of Trumpets.
1 Cor 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised im perishable, and we will be changed.

The ‘last trumpet’ mentioned here is not related to the 7 trumpets that will be sounded by the
seven angels. In ancient Israel, many trumpets were blasted during the Feast of Trumpets ‘Rosh
Hashanah’ (Jewish civil new year) and the last one was known as the ‘last trumpet’.

Start of the jubilee year on Tishri 10, 5998 AM (I would rather go with this one)
If you refer to my table on page 148 you will notice that the 70th Jubilee will start on the 10th
day of the 7th month of the year 5998 AM. Why would the Jubilee fell so short of year 2000
AM, it seems somehow incomplete. But then, if the announce of this very last Jubilee was the
signal for the Rapture it would make perfect sense to have this timing.
1 Cor 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised im perishable, and we will be changed.

No other event in the history could match with the freedom that the Rapture will bring. On the
same day people will be rescue from torture, persecution, slavery and from death itself. Could
there be a more meaningfull Jubilee then that?

Here are the terms of a Jubilee

Lev 25:9-10 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the
seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its
inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; NIV
Lev 25:13 "'In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property. NIV
Lev 25:54-55 "'Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children
are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, 55 for the Israelites belong to me as servants.
They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. NIV

What could be more fitting to match with Yeshua’s first comning ministry starting in a Jubilee
day, than to have Yeshua’s second coming first action, the rapture, happening on the very day
of the last Jubilee?

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Daniel’s 70 week
7
First 3.5 years 3.5 days Second 3.5 years th
C
O
Great tribulation Day of the Lord M
Time of the
V
Covenant
broken Satan’s wrath P R God’s wrath i
E two witnesses
against Christians A A against sinners
N l
A 2 witnesses
Fire comes from their False prophet creates a R P God’s fury against l
N are killed
T mouths and devours mark (666), people thosee who carry
and exposed O e
their enemies who don’t receive it T the mark of the Beast
C for 3.5 days n
O
won’t be able to buy U
They have power to shut Rev 11:9 or sell, and will die.
N U Bowl #1 to 7 Battle n
F
up the sky, turn the People will re- Rev 13:16-18 S Rev 16:1 "Go, of
I waters into blood, strike joice over pour out the Ar i
Martyrdom of the I R
R the earth with plagues. them seven bowls of ma-
M
Christians (i.e. u
[people will suffer] -- At this point those who refuse to A E God's wrath
E ged-
D the people may worship the image) on the earth."
don
m
very well be-
lieve that the
beast and its Matt 24:30-31 and they Rev 14:15 "Thrust in
false prophet will see the Son of Man Your sickle and reap, for
Y have just been coming on the clouds of the time has come for Y
e Rev 11:3 And I will killed -- heaven with power and You to reap, for the
give power to my two e
a great glory. And He will harvest of the earth is a
r witnessses, and they Beast’s spea-
king image
send His angels with a ripe." [I.E. brings the r
will prophesy one
thousand two hundred putted in the great sound of a trumpet, deads in Yeshua & those
5 and they will gather alive who don’t wear the
and sixty days, Temple. People 6
9 together His elect.. NKJV mark of the beast
will worship it 0
9 or will be kil-
1260 days 42 months (Rev 13:5) 0
3 led Matt 24:5,
Days = sun = light night = moon = darklness 0
Rev 13:15,
Dan 9:27 th
70 Jubilee
5993–5994–5995–5996 AM 5996 AM 5996–5997-5998 5998 AM 5998 – 5999
7 years

- About the Rapture -

Dan 12:1 There will be a time of distress such as has Rapture on the Jubilee day
not happened from the beginning of nations until then. 1 Cor 15:52 in a flash, in the
But at that time your people … will be delivered. twinkling of an eye, at the last
Matt 24:31 And he will send his angels with a trumpet. For the trumpet will
loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect sound, the dead will be raised
from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to imperishable, and we will be
th th
the other. changed. (on 10 day of 7 month)
1 Thess 4:16 For the Lord himself will come down
from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of Note: The ‘last trumpet’ mentioned here is not
the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and related to the 7 trumpets that will be sounded by
the dead in Christ will rise first. the seven angels. In ancient Israel, on the day of
the Jubilee (which occurs every 49 years on the
The notions of Pre-Wrath (Tribulation Rapture day of Yom Kippur) a trumpet was blasted
Day of the Lord) Is better explained by ALAN E. throughout the land
KURSCHNER Antichrist Before the Day of the Lord

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Appendix J The Kings of Israel
N. K.
2923 AM K. Saul 10 dynasties
2963 AM K. David (5+5)
/ K. Ish-Bosheth Non
Access 3000 AM K. Solomon Access

SK1 K. Rehoboam 17 3063 K. Jeroboam 22 NK1

SK2 K. Abijah 3 3080 D1

SK3 K. Asa 41 3082
3084 K. Nadab 2 NK2
3085 K. Baasha 24 NK3
D2
3108 K. Elah 2 NK4
NK5
N
K. Zimri 7d D3
O
3109 K. Tibni 5 NK6 D4
R
K. Omri 12 NK7
T
3120 K. Ahab 22 NK8
H
S SK4 K. Jehoshaphat 3123
25 E
O 3140 K. Ahaziah 2 NK9 D5
R
U 3141 K. Joram 12 NK10
N
T SK5 K. Jehoram 8 3145
H SK6 K. Ahaziah 1 Access
3151
E SK7 Q. Athaliah 6
3152 K. Jehu 28 NK11 K
R SK8 K. Joash 40
I
N 3175 K. Jehoahaz 17 NK12
N
3189 K. Jehoash 16 NK13
D6 G
SK9 K. Amaziah 29 3191
D
K 3206 K. Jeroboam II 41 NK14
O
I SK10 K. Uzzia 52 3233 M
N 3271 K. Zecharia 6m NK15
G K. Shallum 1m NK16 D7
D 3272
K. Menahem 10 NK17
O D8
3283 K. Pekahiah 2 NK18
M SK11 K. Jotham 16 3285 K. Pekah 20 NK19
D9
SK12 K. Ahaz 16 3302
3314 K. Hoshea 9 NK20 D10
SK13 K. Hezekiah 39 3317
SK14 K. Manasseh 55 3333 NOTE: This table give the the first year of each
SK15 K. Amon 2 3388 southern (SK) and northern (NK) kings of Israel.
SK16 K. Josiah 31 3390 It also indicates which king was using the
‘accession’ or ‘non-accession’ year dating.
SK17 K. Jehoahaz 3m
3421 Ex: In the access mode 3063 + 17 = 3080
SK18 K. Jehoiakim 11
In non-access mode 3063 + 22 = 3084
SK19 K. Jehoiachin 3m See my book: The 44 Hebrew monarchs
3432
SK20 K. Zedekiah 11 (A Chronology of two kingdoms)

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 Appendix K 77 People of authority (11 + 22 + 44)

11 Judges

1 Othniel 2601 22 Patriarchs

2 Ehud 2659 1 Adam 0 AM 44 Monarchs

3 Deborah 2697 2 Seth 130 1 Saul 2923 1 David 2963

4 Gideon 2756 3 Enosh 235 2 Ish-Bosheth 2963 2 Solomon 3000

5 Tola 2799 4 Kenan 325 Over Israel Over Judah

6 Jair 2822 5 Mahalalel 395 3 Jeroboam 3063 3 Rehoboam 3063
7 Jephthah 2862 6 Jared 460 4 Nadab 3084 4 Abijah 3080
8 Ibzan 2868 7 Enoch 622 5 Baasha 3085 5 Asa 3082
9 Elon 2875 8 Methuselah 687 6 Elah 3108 6 Jehoshaphat 3123
10 Abdon 2885 9 Lamech 874 7 Zimri 3109 7 Jehoram 3145
11 Samuel 2895 10 Noah 1056 8 Tibni 3109 8 Ahaziah 3151
11 Shem 1558 9 Omri 3109 9 Athaliah 3152
10 Ahab 3120 10 Joash 3159
-- FLOOD -- 1656
11 Ahaziah 3140 11 Amaziah 3191
1 Arphaxad 1658 12 Joram 3141 12 Uzzia 3233
2 Shelah 1693 13 Jehu 3152 13 Jotham 3285
NOTE : 3 Eber 14 Jehoahaz 3175 14 Ahaz 3302
1723
See judges chrono- 4 Peleg 1757 15 Jehoash 3189 15 Hezekiah 3317
logy on page 168
5 Reu 1787 16 Jeroboam 3206 16 Manasseh 3333
See patriarchs chro- 6 Serug 1819 17 Zecharia 3271 17 Amon 3388
nology in Appendix
A on page 225 7 Nahor 1849 18 Shallum 3272 18 Josiah 3390
8 Terah 1878 19 Menahem 3272 19 Jehoahaz 3421
See kings chronolo-
gy in my paper 9 Abraham 2008 20 Pekahiah 3283 20 Jehoiakim 3421

“The 44 Hebrew 10 Isaac 2108 21 Pekah 3285 21 Jehoiachin 3432

Monarchs” 11 Jacob 3314 3432
2168 22 Hoshea 22 Zedekiah

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Appendix L The 12 symbolical acts found in Ezekiel 4-5

LYING ON LEFT SIDE E LYING ON RIGHT SIDE

Z
(390 days) = 390 years (40 days) = 40 years
E
K
Ezekiel prophesies 390 days I Ezekiel prophesies 40 days
L1 Moses’ escape from Egypt (2483 AM) E Jeremiah starts prophesying (3403 AM) R1
To Ark captured (2873 AM) L To Temple destruction (3443 AM)

Ezekiel bears Israel’s sins 390 days T Ezekiel bears Judah’s sins 40 days
U
L2 Gibeah’s sin (2583 AM) R Manasseh’s Abomination (3368 AM) R2
To Ark brought in Jerusalem (2973) N To Josiah’s Passover (3408 AM)

Ezekiel eats defiled food 390 days O Ezekiel fasts 40 days

V
L3 Foundation of Samaria (3113 AM) E Judah returns from Exile (3503 AM) R3
To Return of the 42,360 exiles (3503) R To Nehemiah wall’s completetion 3543

(The following symbolical acts were not interrupted when Ezekiel switched side)

Combined SIDES
390 + 40 days = 430 years

Ezekiel lies bare C1

arm for 430 days Exodus 2523 AM Samuel’s death 2953 AM

Ezekiel shaves his C2

hair 430 days Ark captured 2873 AM Isaiah’s foretelling 3303 AM
C3
Ezekiel holds a
siege for 430 days Ark brought in the first
Destruction of Jerusalem 3443 AM
Temple 3013 AM
Ezekiel weighs C4
and divides his
hair 430 days Kingdom’s split 3063 Fall of Babylon 3493 AM
C5
Ezekiel hair gro- nd
wing for 430 days Construction of 2 Herod renovates the Temple 3943 AM
Temple 3513 AM

C6
Ezekiel is mute
for 430 days First Purim 3559 AM Start of Yeshua’s ministry 3989 AM

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Asher Naphtali According
Vernon Jenkins
Benjamin Merari Issachar
W E
E A
Ephraim Guershon T Aaron Judah
S S
T T
Manasseh Kohath Zebulun

Gad Simeon

Reuben

SOUTH

Gospel of John
Son of man

M F
A
A C
N E

Gospel of 4 faces Gospel of

Luke to the living Matthew
Samaritans creature to the Jews
OX LION

4 faces
of Ezekiel 1:10 Synoptic
coincide with the EAGLE
Gospels
4 gospels
According Gospel of
Darek Barefoot Mark to the
Gentiles

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