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TABLE
11. The contrast in TABLE 11 shows there is actually
a 49-year pattern (instead of 50) after the Assyrian captivity in 721 BC down
to the 14th year after the temple was burned, that is, in 574 BC.
So, these Jubilees are in 721, 672, 623 and 574 BC (rabbinic Jubilees,
therefore, should be minus 166 years, that is, in 555, 506, 457 and 408 BC). However, Nebuchadnezzar’s
seven years of madness began in 569 BC, one Jubilee before 520. King Jeconiah
was released from prison in 562, when Nebuchednezzar died. So, the Jubilee in
574 BC (in Ezekiel 40:1) is in a different set of Jubilees. In the Rabbinic view, a
Jubilee was in 408 (574) BC, 14 years after the temple burned in 422. The
Jubilee is sounded on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the day of
Atonement, but the date in Ezekiel 1:1 is on the 10th day of the
first month, in the spring. Jeconiah’s reign ended, and his captivity began,
on the 10th day of the first month. Actually, Darius II decreed
to build the temple, and Darius III was defeated by Alexander. Darius II’s
first year was in 521 BC, and Alexander defeated Darius III in 331 BC, but
the rabbinical date is 321 BC (521-321= 200 yrs). In 132 AD, Simeon, son of
Kochba (Kosiba), led a revolt against their Roman “occupiers” by taking
advantage of the Sabbatical of 133 AD. He may have noticed that new eras of
captivity or new eras of “redemption” may follow any Sabbatical. His was 490
years after Cyrus if he began counting 14 years after Cyrus first year (373 BC).
There was allegedly a Jubilee 14 years after Jerusalem fell (allegedly in 422
BC). The Jubilee cycle allegedly began 14 years after the Israelites enter
Canaan (allegedly in 1272 BC). First, Cyrus needed to be 166 years closer
than 539 BC, that is, in 373 BC. This was accomplished by using only the
chronology found in the Bible, which ends with Darius. This view defines this
Darius as the king who was conquered by Alexander the Great in his 36th
year, 331 BC (or 321). 27 AD was 483 years after 457 BC, when a commandment
allegedly went forth in the seventh year of Artaxerxes allowing the Jews to
return to Jerusalem. The Bar Kochba revolt was 98 years after 34 AD. 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. Secondly, the rabbinical belief that the jubilee
was 14 years after Babylon fell is based upon a jubilee 14 years after
Jerusalem fell in 588 BC. This belief is based upon Ezekiel 40:1, that the
mention of the 10th day at the beginning of a year, 14 years after
Jerusalem fell, was when the trumpet of the jubilee is blown. However, if
this “beginning of the year” were in the spring, this may have been an ordinary
sabbatical year. Ezekiel’s beginning of the year was in the
spring, just like it was in Jeremiah. 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. There is no doubt the beginning of the
year was in the first month, in the spring. Thirdly, 14 years after Jerusalem fell was the 25th
year after the king of Jerusalem was taken to Babylon. The king had ruled
three months and ten days (II Chr. 36:9-10), at the beginning of the year.
Therefore, Ezekiel 40 is likely an anniversary of this captivity in the
spring. Fourthly,
some attempts have been made to restore this cycle of 539 BC down through
1975 and 1982. It is two years off when compared with the cycle that began in
1255 BC, but it was also off two years in 539 BC. It is not off when compare
with an entry in 1447 BC. TABLE 11 illustrates when
new Jubilee cycles could have been announced in the fall of the seventh
years. Ussher says the first year of David was a Jubilee year. That was
likely in 1010-1009 BC. He says Solomon dedicated the temple in a Jubilee
year, in his 12th year. That was likely in 961-960 BC and would
make 569 BC, when Nebuchednezzar became a wild animal for seven years, a
Jubilee year. It would place a Jubilee year in 520 BC, when the second temple
was founded in the second year of Darius. If there were a Jubilee in
721 BC, when Assyria captured 10 tribes of Israel, there may have been
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