CHAPTER TWO

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1975 in Prophecy – the Origin of the 588–539 BC Jubilee Cycle

This cycle in 1407 (40 years after an exodus in 1447 BC) can be extrapolated on down to 931, 588, 539 BC and 1975 AD (after 2513 years after 539, when Babylon fell) and 1982 AD (after 2520 years after 539, when Babylon fell). (Add 1 year for year 0.)

1972 would have been 2510 (251 x 10) years after Babylon fell.

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 10^th 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 25^th 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.

Isaiah’s Jubilee – 78 Sabbaticals after 1255 BC

The sabbaticals descending from 1255 BC align with the jubilee documented in Isaiah, in the 18^th year of Hezekiah, in 709 BC (1255 – 709 = 546) (709 BC – 27 AD = 15 jubilees) (709 + 132 AD = 120 sabbaticals beginning with a jubilee in the fall of 709).

In 27-28 AD, Christ quoted from Isaiah’s jubilee of 709 BC. Jubilees begin in the fall of 49th sabbatical year, not after it ends.

Bar Kochba’s Jubilee of 132 AD

The true cycle since 1255 BC was in 968 (not 966), 933 (not 931), 723 (not 721), 709 (not 707), 590 (not 588), 576 (not 574), 569 (not 567), 541 (not 539), 520 (not 518), 331 (not 329), and 37 (not 35) BC. This cycle aligns sabbaticals on down to 27, 69 and 132 AD.

However, we must decide whether we prefer the jubilee of 709 BC, of Isaiah’s time, which aligns with 27 AD (15 jubilees apart) or prefer the one alleged to have been in 132-33 AD. The sabbatical and jubilee of 27 AD would repeat in 1980 and 1987 with a jubilee announced in the fall of 1987.

So was 27-28 a jubilee year, or was 132 AD a jubilee year? This is why I created a chart comparing the rabbinical view (see page 3 CODE 166). There were land contracts allegedly from year two to year five.

The alleged jubilee in 132 AD was 14 plus 49 years after the fall of Jerusalem. Based upon beginning at the exodus in 1255 BC, the sabbatical cycle would continue on down through 132 AD, allegedly with a jubilee announced in the fall. Today the sabbatical would be in 1980 and in 2015 AD, on Sept 14, (Tishri 1, 5776 in the Hebrew calendar).

68-69 AD vs. 69-70 AD

Allegedly, the Messiah must appear at the right time, in a sabbatical with a jubilee announced in the fall (Ben Zion Wacholder, Chronomessianism, The Timing of Messianic Movements and the Calendar of Sabbatical Cycles, p 213).

John the Baptist began his ministry in a sabbatical year, and Christ began his ministry shortly thereafter, in the 15^th year of Tiberius, claiming that he had come to fulfill the jubilee year mentioned by Isaiah. Wacholder says a sabbatical began in the fall of 27 AD; Zuchermann says it was in the fall of 26 AD. Wacholder’s date aligns with 1255 (183 sabbaticals) and with 709 BC (105 sabbaticals or 15 jubilees).

Allegedly, the Messiah must remove the Roman occupiers and restore the land, which Joshua had given the Israelites. It is a time of redemption and restoration.

Simeon bar Kochba, by claiming he was a messiah born to fulfill the sabbatical and jubilee, inspired three million followers to revolt against the Roman occupiers in 132 AD. It was viewed as a time to return to repossess their original settlements given them by Joshua. Bar Kochba had to show his followers that 132 AD was a sabbatical followed by a jubilee in the fall.

To do this, his followers had to be shown that a jubilee was 14 years after the temple burned in 422 BC as in Ezekiel 40:1. They needed to know there was a jubilee 14 years after the fall of Jerusalem in 69-70 AD (as in Ezekiel 40:1), and there would be a jubilee 14 years after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Another jubilee would be in 14 + 49 years later, in 132 AD, in their time.