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Fall of Babylon in a Jubilee Year? Isaiah
prophesied that Cyrus would come from the east to conquer Babylon, and the
Euphrates River would part for his army. That night an invisible hand reached
into Babylon writing on the wall on Tishri 16 (October 5), during their
feast, thus showing that Cyrus’ army was also associated with spirit beings.
In Revelation, Christ’s throne is surrounded by 100 million beings, and an
army of 200 million cross the Euphrates to conquer “Babylon the Great”.
Without understanding this, some have wrongly identified this army as modern
day China. There are reasons for believing that 588 and 539
were jubilee years. First, the book of Revelation speaks of the fall
of Babylon as a time in which seven trumpets and the ram’s horn are blown. Some have attempted to restore this cycle of 539
BC down through 1975 and 1982. In this view, sabbaticals began in 1407 BC,
when Joshua crossed the Jordan and entered Canaan, after 2½ tribes had rested
on the east side of the Jordan (Joshua 1:14). However, the rabbinical view says Ezekiel 40:1
proves the trumpet of the jubilee was blown 14 years after Jerusalem fell and
14 years after Babylon fell, on the 10th day of Tishri, in the
fall, at the beginning of a year, the agricultural year. It becomes important then that we prove that
Ezekiel 40:1 actually refers to a sabbatical in the spring, in the first
month, not the seventh month. The sabbaticals are announced in the fall of
the sixth year to prevent farmers from plowing and sewing in the fall, but
the sabbatical, itself, is about reaping in the spring and summer. Years in
Canaan began with reaping from the land the Israelites had conquered, after
the manna had ceased, in the spring. The holy day calendar begins with
reaping the first fruits in the spring. The jubilee is announced in the fall of the 49th
year, in the fall of the seventh year, to prevent farmers from plowing and
sewing in the fall, but the jubilee, itself, is about reaping in the next
spring and summer. There is no doubt the “beginning of the year” was
in the first month, in the spring. The “beginning of the year” of Ezekiel and
Jeremiah was in the spring. Ezekiel 24:1 says the king of Babylon set his
face against Jerusalem on the tenth day, the tenth month, the ninth year. Jeremiah
39:1 and II Kings 25:1 also say this happened on the tenth day, the tenth
month, the ninth year. Ezekiel 40:1 is the 25th anniversary
of the captivity of Jerusalem, when Jehoiachin, the king of Jerusalem, was
taken to Babylon in the spring, on the tenth day of the first month. The king
had ruled in Jerusalem three months and ten days (II Chr. 36:9-10),. “When
the year was expired {at the beginning of the new year}, king Nebuchednezzar
sent, and brought him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the
Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.” The Valley of Decision Revelation
9:1 and 20:1 mention a “bottomless pit” on the earth, which has a key.
Revelation 9: 14 and 16:12 the sixth angel releases an army of 200 million to
cross the Euphrates and kill a third of men with fire, smoke and brimstone
and gather the kings of the earth to the field of Meggido, that is,
Armageddon. Then there was the greatest earthquake in history, and Babylon
the Great came to mind (16:18-19). Where
is this bottomless pit? The valley south of Jerusalem’s wall is called
the Valley of Hinnom or Gehennah, allegedly where Judas Iscariot died and was
buried, where trash was burned and where the undesirable stench in Jerusalem
was quenched. Dante, in his Divine Comedy, portrays Judas as having
descended to the lowest layers of this Gehennah, where he and the two
assassins of Julius Caesar are being clawed and chewed by Satan who has three
heads. Dante was joking, but the Christian world took him seriously; and gave
the kings an excuse to torture their dissenters. They believed in dual
fulfillment. The greater we make God in with our
imaginations, the greater we create God in our own image. But we are
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