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Josiah had found the Torah, the lost books of Moses,
in 623 BC, but the rabbinical date was 457 BC, 166 years later. The Assyrian
captivity of Israel was in 721 BC, but the rabbinical date, 555 BC, is 166
years later. Jerusalem
actually fell on Tammuz 9 (July 28), 587 BC. The 14th year after
Jerusalem fell was on Tishri 10, 574 BC, on the day of Atonement, at the
beginning of the year, that is, on the new year of the jubilee. Allegedly, a jubilee was announced on Tishri 10,
574 BC, 14 years after Jerusalem fell (Ezekiel 40:1). However, the rabbinical legacy is that
Jerusalem fell twice 490 years apart. Therefore there was a jubilee 14 years
after the fall of Jerusalem both times, first in 408 BC, 14 years after
Jerusalem allegedly fell in 422-21 BC, and secondly in 83-84 AD, 14 years
after 69-70. Note: This would mean there would be
another jubilee in 132 AD, at the outbreak of the Bar Kochba Revolt against
the Roman occupiers. The major point here is that, if Jerusalem fell
after 422 BC, as endorsed by rabbinical tradition, the exodus could be 17
jubilees earlier, in 1255 BC. Israel Changed Times and Seasons
When the house of Israel left the house of Judah
in 931 BC, Israel began keeping the feast of Passover in the spring and the
feast of Tabernacles in the fall a month later than previously observed by
the house of Judah. Evidently, it is very likely that Israel began
immediately counting the years from 931, instead of 933. As Joshua had
warned, they began serving other gods. The sabbaticals stemming from 931 would continue
in 868, 721, 623, 588, and 539 BC. In 926, the fifth year of Solomon’s son, Rehoboam
(1255–926 BC=329 yrs.), in the seventh year after the sabbatical of 933 BC,
“Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: and he took away the
treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house…” This was the end of the golden era and the
beginning of the period of curses. In 847 BC, the fifth year of Joram king of
Israel, Ahab and Jezebel’s daughter was queen of Jerusalem (2 Kings 8:16-18).
Moreover, a son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king of Israel and
killed 70 sons of Ahab. Ahab’s sister, Athaliah, became queen of Jerusalem in
840 BC, in the sabbatical cycle of 931 BC (931 – 840 = 91 years). The alliance between Ahab, king of Israel, and
Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, likely accounts for having the same two-year
delayed sabbatical in 868 BC (instead of 870), in the third year of
Jehoshaphat, the sixth year of Ahab. This likely explains how the delayed sabbatical
cycle was likely kept two years late in both Israel and Judah… until Isaiah.
So, there would be a sabbatical two years late, in 721 (instead of 723), when
the Assyrians captured Israel. In 623, Josiah found the Torah, the lost books of
Moses, and began a new reformation 35 years before 588 BC (Jer. 34). Rabbinical
dating says a jubilee occurred 14 years after 588 BC (Ezek. 40:1), after the
49th year of Josiah’s reform. The
Siege against Israel 392 years - between 931 and 539 BC
Evidently, a period of being cursed began 40
years before 931 BC, that is, in 971, after Solomon took hundreds of wives
and overtaxed Judah and Israel. His son, Rehoboam, continued overtaxing in
his first year, in 931 BC. The kingdom was stripped from Judah in
931 BC. Only the house of Judah was left. I believe that the prophets implied
that this period should rightly be referred to as a divine siege against
Jerusalem. A period of blessings and a period of curses were
predicted by Moses: “When all these things come upon you, the blessing and
the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among
the nations, where the Lord your God has driven you, and shall return…”
(Deut. 30-1—2). Solomon prayed saying, “If they sin against you… and you be
angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy… so that they carry them away
captives into the land of the enemy, far or near, Yet if they pray toward
their land… the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built…
Then hear their prayer… And forgive your people who have sinned…” (1 Kings
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