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Reservations There are several
reservations about the above 251-year pattern. 1. Bishop Eusebius
believed the first temple lasted 502 years, until the second temple was
founded, and the second temple lasted 502 years, until Herods’ temple in 18
BC. His figures require that the kings of Israel all reigned consecutively
without any overlapping. Recent archaeology and biblical chronology have
disproved this. Eusebius’ view would date the first temple as from 1022 to
520 BC. It is now believed that the temple lasted from 968 to 520 BC, until
after 70 years of desolation. until the second temple was founded, in Darius’
second year. Using recent revisions, it
is likely there were 502 years from 1004 (when David conquered Jerusalem) to
502 BC (when Nehemiah restored Jerusalem’s walls in Darius’ 20th
year) (See tab: KINGS, TABLE 7). It is likely there were
only one Nehemiah, one Ezra and one Mordecai, and these returned to Jerusalem
with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2). Ezra and the priests returned in the king’s
seventh year, seventh month. 2. In the Classical Greek
Orthodox view, the period from the Exodus to the temple was 590 years (See
tab: KINGS, TABLE 5). This would require that the oppressions and judges (after
Joshua and the elders) were consecutive for 450 years (Acts 13:20) without
any overlapping. We have no way to verify this; so there are two other ways
to view the oppressions and judges, which give us 479 and 251 years from the
Exodus to the temple. 3. We find patterns in
Jewish chronology. From the Flood, there were 427 years to when Abraham was
age 75. After that age, there were 427 more years to the Exodus. The Jewish
rabbinical society says Moses’ tabernacle lasted 480 years, and the first
temple lasted 480 years (See tab: KINGS, TABLE 6). Their view is
that the second temple lasted 490 years, from 421 BC to 70 AD. Round numbers
like these seem contrived. 4. If the Jews were given the oracles of God to
preserve, why did they say the first temple was burned in 422-421 BC, 490
years before 69-70 AD, when the second temple was burned? The first temple
actually burned 166 years earlier, in 588-587 BC. Why did they add 166 years
prior to the first temple (when compared with the 251-year pattern) (see tab,
CODE 166). Such error
creates a lack of trust. 5. Historical Sabbaticals in the rabbinical
practice can be extrapolated down to our present time to determine there is a
Sabbatical in 2008 and 2015 AD. These dates are compatible with the
Sabbaticals of 590, 569, 562, 541, 520, 457, 422 and 352 BC. The true
Sabbatical cycle before the second temple was in 721, 623, 588, 539 and 518
BC (see tab labeled CODE
490). This is important
because new eras have often occurred in a Sabbatical year of the following
Jubilee year. False Messiahs and pretenders have taken advantage of this.
Several messianic movements have been based upon 539 (rabbinic yr. 373) and
457 BC (See KINGS, TABLE 11). 6. Noah’s Flood was 1656 years after Adam in the
Masoreh Text (and King James Bible). Noah’s death was 1657 years (1307 + 350)
in the Samaritan Text. Noah’s birth was 1657 in the Greek Septuagint Text
(See tab: PURPOSE, TABLE 1). All three
versions cannot be correct. 7. The Samaritan Text places 251 more years than
the Masoreh Text between Adam and Abraham (See tab: PURPOSE, TABLE 2). 8. The above indicates
that one scribe had the freedom to represent each generation differently than
another scribe. Even though there may
have been 251 years from the Exodus to the temple, each generation is
sometimes represented as 40 years (Num. 32:13). Moses was 40 when he fled
Egypt, 80 at the Exodus (Ex. 7:7), and died at 120 (Deut. 34:7). After in the
wilderness 40 years (Num. 32:13), Othniel’s rest 40 (Judges 3:11), Ehud’s
rest 80 (Judges 3:30), Deborah’s rest 40 (Judges 5:31), Gideon 40 (Judges
8:28), Philistines 40 (Judges 13:1), Eli 40 (I Sam. 4:18) (See tab: CODE 251, TABLE 2), Saul 40 (Acts
13:21), David 40 (I Kings 2:10), and Solomon 40 (I Kings 11:42). From the
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