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Ben Zion Wacholder’s Sabbaticals 457-456 BC 27/28 AD |
MYTH? Googling for “the Harbinger
review” gives 6,360,000 hits. There’s much interest in speculating on
America’s future. If Babylon fell during a sabbatical year, perhaps this is a
key to Revelation, that Babylon the Great will fall in a sabbatical or
jubilee year, at the end of the last 3˝ years, 42 months or 1260 days. But do
we count down from Creation or count down from when Joshua crossed the Jordan
river into the promised land, after the Exodus? The Harbinger, Economic Corruption, Secret of
America’s Future The
author of The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn, says that nations, like Israel
and America, which were founded upon God, will eventually become corrupt and
will be given a series of warnings, or interventions, which he calls “Harbingers”
of things to come… such as: 1.
Market crashes on the very same day, seven years apart, on the day before
the sabbatical. 2.
The day before the sabbatical is the day when all debts were to be
forgiven. 3.
These happened on Elul 29, 2001 and 2008 on the Hebrew calendar (see chart on
the side). Cahn, on pages 173 and 174 implies from this that, if this happens
again on Elul 29, 2015, it will not be by coincidence. It will be a sure sign
of an Unseen Hand reaching into our realm. America may have a much more
serious market crash at the end of the next seven years, in 2015. In The
Harbinger, this concept is applied to modern bankers and stockholders.
How appropriate! Another way to release the poor of their debts! These
three economic collapses would be on September 17, 2001, September 29, 2,008
and September 13, 2015. These would allegedly be in 5761, 5768 and 5775 years
after Adam. Sept. 17, 2001 = Elul 29
(market’s worst fall since 1929) Sept. 29, 2008 = Elul 29
(market fell 777 points in one day) Sept. 13, 2015 = Elul 29 (market may have worst fall in history) |
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- 10 jubilees 48/49 69/70 132/133
– 12 jubilees 1994
– 1995 50 jubilees 2001/2002 2008/2009 2015/2016 |
Cahn would be wise to proceed
with caution, because here we have, allegedly, a Levite author with inside
information about the Hebrew calendar, and knowing that our recent economic
downturn began with the fall of Lehman Brothers, allegedly a Jewish family,
and it is believable that many Jews have nurtured and perfected the fine art
of banking and lending with interest. Loaning $100,000 on a house
or oil stock at 5 per cent per year would reap $200,000 in twenty years. In
1978, the cost of gas was $1.00 per gallon. Twenty years later, the price
rose to $2.00. Twenty years later, it increased to $4.00. Collect
$100,000,000 in a lottery, pay the winner 5 per cent per year for 20 years,
and keep what’s left as “taxes”. The system has proliferated and penetrated
every nick and corner of our “free enterprise”. Cahn, on pages 173 and 174,
applies this concept to the fall of modern bankers and stockholders. How
appropriate! Another way to release the poor of their debts! Harbingers
During Sabbaticals
When
is the sabbatical? Obviously, to understand The Harbinger and its dire
warning for America, we must realize that Cahn is working with the Hebrew
calendar, which commemorates the years since Creation, which allegedly began
in the fall, when fruit was on the trees. After
Moses, debtors were to be released after six years. Jeremiah 34:14 (quoting
Deut. 15:12) says, “…when he (the debtor) has served you six years, you shall
let him go free…” Rabbis
say sabbaticals begin the seventh year in the seventh month of Tishri 1, that
is, September 17, 2001, September 29, 2,008 and September 13, 2015. Sabbaticals
allegedly begin in the fall of the sixth years, and jubilees in the fall
of the 7th year, that is, in the fall of the 49th
year (7 x 7) (Lev. 25:8-9). However,
Cahn repeats the idea that the release of debt would be at the end of seven
years, not at the end of six years (Deut 15:1, 9). Perhaps he thinks Sept.
17, 2001 (Elul 29) is the last day of seventh year, at the end of a
sabbatical, not at the beginning of a sabbatical. This, in essence, would
cause the sabbatical to arrive one year earlier thus implying that a debtor
would be bound for seven years. Israelites
were to release fellow Israelites from bondage and debts on Elul 29, on the
last day the 6th month of the 6th year (Jer. 34:14; Deut. 15:12) and debtors
should already be forgiven on the first day of Tishri, the first day of the
seventh month. |
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since BC (427 x 7) 870/860 723/722 625/624 590/589 520/519 422/421 331/330 37/36 2/1 |
since
the exodus BC (1447/1446) 966/965 (63 x 7) 868/867 721/720 623/621
539/538 |
Dr.
B. Zuckermann, Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, in Breslau (now
Wroclaw, Poland), also makes the sabbaticals arrive one year
earlier than we find using an online Hebrew calendar and those listed by Dr.
B. Wacholder. Sabbaticals
Began with Adam in 3761? In
contrast to Zuckermann, we have a more recent view of Ben Zion Wacholder, of
Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio. His sabbatical would begin in the
fall of 2001 as on page 1 above. Evidently, the sabbatical began in the fall
of 2001. The
online Hebrew calendar says Adam was created in 3761 BC, that is, 5761
years before 2001 AD. If so, the sabbatical would begin in the fall, Tishti
1, that is, September 18, 2001, in the 823rd sabbatical since Adam
(There’s no year 0), and this supports having sabbaticals in 2001, 2008, 2015
and 2022. To
support this view, The book of Jubilees says Adam lived 930 years and died in
the 931st year, that is, in the 19th jubilee. Babel
fell and the tribes there were scattered 251 sabbaticals after Adam, when
Peleg was born (Gen 10:25). The seven years of plenty and seven lean years of
Joseph ended 2303 years, 47 jubilees, after Adam. Solomon’s temple was
founded in 968 BC, 61 jubilees after Adam. The second temple was founded in
520 BC, 448 years after 968. Sabbaticals
Began with Adam in 3957 BC? Precaution:
http://www.code251.com/code490.html
shows that Adam might actually be in 3957 BC (3957 – 3761= 196). This
is four jubilees (196 years) before 3761 and aligns with the temple in
Solomon’s 4th year of 968 BC (3957-968 = 2989 yrs. =7 x 427).
The rabbis’ date for the temple is 832 BC instead of 968 BC. This removes 136
years. Another 60 years were removed between Abraham and his father. Instead
of Abraham being born 352 years after the flood, the rabbis say it was 292
years, and Isaac was 392 years, that is, eight jubilees after the flood, and
Shem was born two jubilees before the flood. This
being the case, counting from Creation, some rightly claim that Solomon
founded the temple in 968, in the 61st jubilee year. Contrast
with Joshua’s Conquest in 1407 BC Leviticus
25:2-9 says the Israelites were to begin counting years, sabbaticals and
jubilees forty years after the exodus, after Joshua crossed the Jordan
to conquer the land, and in the first month, in the spring, the manna
stopped, and the harvesting cycles began. Thus, the temple was founded
439 years after Joshua crossed the Jordan, that is, 479 years after the
exodus (I Kings 6:1). Therefore, since 439 is not evenly divisible by 7,
the temple would not be in a sabbatical year. The 441st year is. Chapter
15 of the Samaritan Book of Joshua says, “The
children of Israel did as the king commanded them. And the cloud (which
followed the Israelites 40 years) was lifted up, on the first (day)
of the first month, of the first year of the first period of seven years
of the Jubil (Jubilee) even from the beginning of the entering in of
the children of Israil within the boundaries of the assigned lands.” http://thesamaritanupdate.com/ The
40 years of manna ended, Jericho fell, and they began to count the years from
that first month, in the spring, until the first sabbaticals and jubilees
(Lev. 25:2). If the exodus were in 1447 BC, the sabbatical cycle began
after 1407, 439 years before Solomon founded the temple in his 4th
year, the 2nd month of the Hebrew calendar, in the spring of 968
BC (I Kings 6:1). (Note:
This being the case, 1975 AD would be the 69th jubilee after 1407
BC.) Since
439 years to the temple are not divisible by 7, the sabbatical would be two
years later, that is, 441 years after Joshua. Two years after the temple was
founded in 968 BC, the ninth jubilee would begin in the fall of 966, after
the tenth day of the seventh month, in Solomon’s sixth year. When
counting from Adam, the jubilee is in the fall the sabbatical year, 968 BC
(Lev 25:8-9) as in the chart on the left side of the page. In contrast, when
counting from Joshua, the jubilee is in the fall of the sabbatical year,
in 966 BC as in the chart. 439
years after Joshua, 968, was Solomon’s 4th year (jubilee when
counting from Adam, in the fall of the 49th year (Lev 25:8-9). 440
years after Joshua, 967, was Solomon’s 5th year. 441
years after Joshua, 966, was Solomon’s 6th year (jubilee when
counting from Joshua). 442
years after Joshua, 965, was Solomon’s 7th year. 443
years after Joshua, 964, was Solomon’s 8th year. 444
years after Joshua, 963, was Solomon’s 9th year. 445
years after Joshua, 962, was Solomon’s 10th year. 446 years after Joshua, 961,
in Solomon’s 11th year, temple was finished in the 8th
month. |
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TABLE 1. Sabbatical Years after 3761 BC |
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Spring |
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3761 |
3760 BC |
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968 |
967 BC (jubilee in the fall, 968) |
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520 |
519 BC |
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331 |
330 BC (jubilee in the fall, 331) |
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44 |
43 BC |
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37 |
36 BC
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62 |
63 AD |
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83 |
84 AD |
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132 |
133 AD |
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475 |
476 AD |
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1189 |
1190
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2008 |
2009 AD |
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2015 |
2016
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2022 |
2023 AD
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2043 |
2044 AD |
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Sabbaticals
from 2008 to 2043 and 49-year Jubilees Some believe the Messiah
came to preach in 27 AD, until a jubilee would begin in the fall of 34 AD,
490 years after Ezra returned from Babylon to Jerusalem, as found in Daniel
9, but he was interrupted during the last 3˝ years, after the spring of 31
AD, when he was killed and resurrected. These jubilees repeat every 49 years,
in 34, 83, 132, 622 and 2043 AD after the day of Atonement. Those denying
that Christ fulfilled the jubilee were destined to look for another jubilee
in 132 AD, 98 years after 34 AD, when three million Jews followed Simeon bar
Kochba in an attempt to oust the Roman occupiers and get their land back.
Those who rejected Bar Kochba as a Messiah were destined to accept another
Messiah when he arrived in the jubilee year of 622 AD, 490 years after the
alleged Messiah in 132 AD. 50-year Jubilees in Mystery
of the Shemitah Others believed the
Messiah would arrive in 1844 AD, when a jubilee would begin on the day of
Atonement, 2300 years after Ezra returned from Babylon, as found in Daniel
8:14. These are 50-year jubilees, which repeat in BC 458, 408, 58, 08, and AD
44, 94, 1844, 1894, 1944, 1994, and 2044 AD. Some continued with faith in
this cycle and taught that Hitler and Mussolini would fight the Messiah when
he would arrive in the jubilee year of 1944-45, 28 years after 1916-17
(when Israel regained their land in Palestine). The jubilee of 1994-95 was 28
years after Israel repossessed eastern Jerusalem in 1966-67. The next jubilee in
2044-45 is 28 years after 2016-17, the date proposed in the Mystery
of the Shemitah for the beginning of the last seven years, which is 800
years after the death of Rabbi Judah ben Samuel in 1216-17 AD,
which was 28 years after the jubilee of 1189 AD. Rabbi Judah was born in 1140
(49 years before 1189 AD) and lived 77 years. The jubilees of 1140 and 1189
are is based upon counting from the Jewish date of Creation in 3761 BC or
from the corrected date, 3957 BC. The difference in counting
jubilees from the rabbi’s birth and counting from his death is 28 years: (49
+ 28 = 77) (1240 AD + 77 = 1217 AD) (1816/17 + 28 = 1844-45). In The Mystery of the Shemitah, if 2015-16 were a sabbatical, then 2016-17 would be a jubilee year, but, after building a case for the 50-year cycle of 1217, 1917, and 2017, Cahn still bases his “Harbingers”, his main work, on the 49-year cycle of 1994, 2001, 2008 and 2015, not 2017 AD. |
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TABLE
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49-year Sabbaticals BC |
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+28= |
1917 British Control Jerusalem 2239 AD, the Jewish date
year 5,999 |
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Other scholars likewise
promote the 50-year cycle by claiming that Joshua’s conquest was in 1407 BC
after which the jubilees repeated in each century in the years 07, 57, 07,
57, etc. down to 457 BC, when Ezra left Babylon for Jerusalem. After 457 BC
down to 1994-95 AD, this period consisted of 49 times 50 years. Therefore,
there could be 49 50-year cycles or 50 49-year cycles down to 1994-95 AD. Likewise, the rabbinical
society dates the exodus as 1312 BC and Joshua’s conquest as 1272 BC, but
the jubilee cycle is postponed 14 years, until 1258-57 BC. Thereafter, the
50-year cycles repeat after 1258, in century years 08, 58, 08, 58 down to 408
BC, that is, 14 years after the fall of Jerusalem allegedly in 422/21 BC. With so many examples of
Jews expecting the arrival of their Messiah on the day of Atonement, when the
jubilee begins (not on Pentecost nor on the feast of Trumpets) to draw them
back to their homeland, and this creates an impression that the belief is
based upon Zionism, upon returning to the physical Jerusalem below, and is
perhaps not a true At-one-ment, and being in sync with the Higher Realm, the
Jerusalem above. Messianic movements often expect the restoration of Zion
below along with its temple, Levite priesthood and sacrificial offerings. As in the rabbinical
calendar, The Mystery of the Shemitah, ends every year on the last day
of the sixth month (p. 28), and all years begin on the first day of the
seventh month. However, there is plenty of evidence that regular lunar years normally
began in March, near the spring equinox, and September, October, November and
December normally were the months with the 7th, 8th,
9th and 10th moons. Moreover, Cahn says a sabbatical
was in 68-69 AD, as perpetuated by the rabbinical society (instead of in
69-70 AD). Therefore, since the
market fell in the summer of 2001 and 2008, these would have allegedly
happened at the end of the sabbatical year if Cahn were following Rabbi
Benedict Zuckermann’s student rabbis that removed to Palestine. However,
these dates would be during the end of the sixth year for students following
Rabbi Ben Zion Wacholder. This likely explains why Cahn says servants are
released at the end of the seventh year in 2001 and 2008 (p. 28) when it was
actually the end of the sixth years. Servants were to be released after serving
for only six years (Deut 15:12, 18). 966
and 959 both align with a sabbatical in 588 BC, after which Jerusalem fell
(Jeremiah 34:17), and align with the sabbatical of 539 BC, when Babylon
fell. This should provide new insight into the fall of “Babylon the
Great” after 42 months, 3˝ years, or 1260 days, when the ram’s horn is blown
in the book of Revelation. Nebuchednezzar, King of Babylon became a wild
animal for 7 years in 569 BC, 49 years before the second temple was founded
in 520 BC. Perhaps this is a hint. Herod conquered Jerusalem in 37 BC, 6 jubilees
after Alexander had conquered it and allowed the sabbaticals to be kept
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The
532-year and 19-year Cycles More needs to be said on the seven Easter Cycles
of 532 years between 3761 and 37 BC and the Easter Cycles after 1 AD
and after 532 AD. The cycle was actually one day longer than 128 years on a
true tropical solar calendar because it was designed to preserve both the 28-year
sabbatical cycle and the 19-year lunar cycle (28 x 19 = 532
years). The 19-year cycle of 3957 BC included
Adam’s lifespan (19 49-year cycles = 931 years) (49 19-year cycles = 931)
years and 19). Adam’s 19-year cycle likely merged with and was repeated
in the Nabonassar calendar of 747 BC and in the Islamic calendar of 622 AD. |
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