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The Absolute Yovel, or Jubilee, is


YHWHs way of counting as opposed to
mans. As we will see, history proves
YHWHs timing and mans timing are two
different things.
The Jubilee happens once every 50
years, when land returns to its original
owner and slaves are freed. The Jubilee
is also a good metaphor for freedom and
un-making the status quo when Yshua
comes back. Lets see the Scripture 3

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Count off 7 Sabbaths of years -7 times 7


years -so that the 7 Sabbaths of years
amount to a period of 49 years. Then have
the trumpet sounded everywhere on the
tenth day of the 7th month; on the Day of
Atonement sound the trumpet throughout
your land. Consecrate the 50th year and
proclaim liberty throughout the land to all
its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you.
Each one is to return to his family property
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and each to his own clan. The 50th year


shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow
and do not reap what grows of itself or
harvest the untended vines. For it is a
jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only
what is taken directly from the fields. In
this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return
to his own property
(Leviticus 25:8-13-NIV)
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'But if you say, "What are we going to eat on


the seventh year if we do not sow or gather
in our crops? Then I will so order My
blessing for you in the 6th year that it will
bring forth the crop for 3 years. 'When
you are sowing the 8th year, you can still
eat old things from the crop, eating the old
until the 9th year when its crop comes in.
(Leviticus 25:20-22 NAU)
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This is more proof of a 50 year cycle. The


7th Shabbat, or year 49, means the crops
lie fallow. The same applies to year 50
the actual Jubilee, meaning the crops
must last for 3 years as YHWH promises,
but only if they keep the RIGHT year!
Year 50 = 8th year, when you can sow for
harvest on the 9th year, the first year of the
new seven cycle!
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In Leviticus 18:24-28, Israel is warned they


will be expelled from the land as the
Canaanites were being expelled if they
disobey.
This actually is clarified in Leviticus 26:34:
Then the land will enjoy its Sabbath years
all the time that it lies desolate and you are
in the country of your enemies; then the
land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
What this means is that if the Land
Sabbath isnt kept, YHWH will make sure it
gets made up by kicking Israel out.
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The Jubilee is the climax of the Land


Sabbath cycle, the next step up from day =
year reckoning.
But the Jubilee is also keyed to when a
large group of Israel enters Canaan. When
the Northern Tribes went into Captivity,
leaders in Judah assumed there were not
enough Jews left in the Land to worry
about Land Sabbath-Jubilee but they
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He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who
escaped from the swordThe land enjoyed its
Sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested,
until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment
of the word of YHWH spoken by Jeremiah.
2 Chronicles 36:20-21

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So YHWH punished both Israel and


Judah, in part for not keeping the Land
Sabbaths and Jubilees.
But as the Scripture shows, YHWH
begged Israel to obey and escape
punishment, so His clock for their
Jubilees began in 1405 BCE with the
assumption of an eternal inheritance
and therefore an eternal stay. That
means

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YHWHs Jubilee Clock never stopped


running while mans did!

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But first we need to go back to the


beginning. Everything is keyed to the
start of YHWHs Deliverance Cycle, or
in plainer terms, the time of the
Exodus.
Fortunately, Scripture is abundant in its
details to tell us not only the year of the
Exodus, but the very day as well. First
lets look at these direct time references
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from the Scripture

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In the 480th year after the sons of


Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in
the 4th year of Solomon's reign over
Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the 2nd
month, that he began to build the house of
YHWH. (1 Kings 6:1-NJB)
Solomon then began building the house of
Yahweh in Jerusalemon the 2nd day of
the 2nd month of the 4th year of his reign.
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(2 Chronicles 3:1-2 NJB)

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There is near universal agreement among


historians that Solomons 4th year was
967 BCE. This is based on the careful
scholarship of E.R. Thiele (The Mysterious
Numbers of the Hebrew Kings) and many
others. (W.S. La Sor, Old Testament
Survey, 253, 292-7).
These dates are further cross-referenced
in Assyrian and Egyptian records, such as
the well-documented invasion of Shishak.16

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Pharaoh Shishak threatened Judah in 1


Kings14:25-28 and his own records also
detail the same campaign.
This happened in Rehoboams 5th year, or
926 BCE, which is a milestone we can
cleanly count backwards to Solomon!
There is even more precise chronological
information in 2 Chronicles 3:1: The 2nd
day of the 2nd month of Ziv in Solomons
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4th year.

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In 967 BCE, this brings us in Gregorian


terms to April 16th for the exact day that
Solomon began building the Temple!
This level of precision again should not be
surprising. The Scripture contains the
actual records that were lovingly
preserved from the most ancient times on
forward.
And there is extremely strong evidence
that a literal approach was intended
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because the data came from priests.

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The same priests who gave the Exodus


date are also telling us the precise days,
months and years that each king of Israel
and Judah ruled, so why not also take
them at face value on the date of the far
more important Exodus date?
That brings us to 1447 BCE as the year of
the Exodus, and the day of the spring full
moon was March 22nd. Then theres 40
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years of wandering right after this.

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But, because this date of 1447 BCE is so


critical, I am going to deal with
additional evidence supporting the
reign of Solomon as 971-931 BCE and
the invasion of the Pharaoh Shishak into
Israel and Judah in 926-925 BCE.
First, lets correlate that invasion with data
from the Biblical record: the 5th year of
King Rehoboam (1 Ki 14:25, 2 Chr. 12:2)
so we can see how Judah counted time! 20

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The Thiele system just mentioned is the


most widely accepted chronological
reckoning by far in scholarly community.
However, there were a few very minor
issues that Thiele himself said needed
further attention but which he did not
clarify prior to his death. For these minor
issues another scholarLeslie
McFallfurther refined the chronology
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In this system, the kingdoms of Judah and


Israel counted time differently.
The kingdom of Judah counted their
years Tishri-Elul (fall to fall).
They also fluctuated between counting
from the part of a year that a king
ascended to the throne (accession year
reckoning) and from the next new years
day of Tishri 1 as year 1 (non-accession
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year reckoning).

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However, we also know the precise times


that Judah fluctuated between accession
and non-accession year counting,,,
1) From Rehoboam to Yeshosophat:
Accession year system.
2) From Yehoram to Yoash: Non-accession
year system.
3) From Amaziah to Zedekiah (including
Yehoikim): Accession year system. Our
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focus is on period #1

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So now we turn to the reign of Judahite


king Yehosaphat, on the TishriElul/Accession year system. He comes
to the throne in 870 BCE and dies in 848
BCE.
His son, Jehu, will reign in the Northern
Kingdom from 841 BCE to 814 BCE,
starting from the 23rd year of Yoash in
Judah (2 Kings 13:1). 1-2 Kings is on
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Judah time reckoning.

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So going by Judah based time, both it and


the Assyrians counted on the Accession
Year system at this moment in history.
It is therefore highly significant that
Assyrian records also mention Jehu,
King of Israel: The tribute of Jehu, son of
Omri: I received from him silver, gold, a
golden bowl, a golden vase with pointed
bottom, golden tumblers, golden buckets,
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tin, a staff for a king [and] spears."

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This same text, the Black Obelisk of


Shalmanessar III, dates the campaign to
the 17th year of his reign, or 841 BCE.
The advantage of Assyrian recordsin
addition to the fact that they count time the
same way that Judah didlies in the fact
that there is universal consensus among
scholars as to the years they depict. The
Assyrians were the most precise and clear
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time-keepers in the Middle East!

Heres a picture of it

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From this data we can count from the


Biblical record seamlessly back to
Shishaks invasion in 926-925 and also
Solomons 4th year in 967 BCE, because
we now know the exact rules of
counting behind both Assyria and
Judah.
But we should also take into account
the rival reckoning system used in the
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This same Assyrian king, Shalmanessar


III, mentions an even earlier Israelite
kingAhabby name as well.
Ahab is said to have provided 2,000
chariots and 10,000 men to this kings
enemy, Hadad-ezer, also known as Ben
Hadad II.
Ahab and Ben Hadad II had 3 battles
against each other, the last one being in
the year Ahab died (1 Kings 22:1-40).

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However, the previous battle between


Ahab and Ben Hadad II was three years
before Ahabs death, or 856 BCE, and
this is another fixed date that we can
count backwards to hit Solomons time.
But the final piece is, as I said before, to
talk about how Ahabs kingdom
counted time and how this was different
than Judahs system. Heres how it
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The Kingdom of Israel counted their time


this way per Thiele/McFall
1) Unlike Judah which counted fall to fall,
Israel counted spring to spring (AbibAdar).
2) Israel used a non-accession year
system from the reigns of Yeroboam to
Yehoaz. They then switched to the
accession year system from Yehoash to
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Hoshea, their last king.

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That means that Ahab counted time under


the older Israelite reckoning: Spring to
spring/Non-accession year system.
Using those rules will bring us to the exact
same range of years we saw by using
Judah and Assyrian models, so all
systems agree with each other, even
though different methods are in place with
each one! Those same records combine
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with Egyptian and Biblical data

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This evidence is confirmed by Shishak


himself in his own monument which dates
the campaign to that exact time. When
everything is put together, all the ancient
witnesses then point to the 5th year of
Rehoboamand therefore Shishaks
invasion of Judahas 926-925 BCE.
Shishak lists dozens of cities throughout
the region. If Jerusalem is not mentioned
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directly, he was still quite near it.

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Many Egyptologists think one reference to


Shishak at Karnakit reads YWD MLK
is referring to the monument of the king,
which is in Northern Israel.
The problem is, Karnak is all about
recording the monuments of nearly all the
kings of Egypt, so why single out Shishak
in one of his own monuments right there?
And the man who first deciphered
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hieroglyphics had another opinion.

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Jean-Francoise Champollion, who gave


Egyptologists the breakthrough
understanding of Egypts ancient
language, believed that Shishaks
monument at the official kings list at
Karnak read: YWD (Youda = Judah) MLK
(kingdom).
In other words, Shishak does claim
collecting tribute from the Kingdom of
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Judah, just as Scripture says!

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In addition, the most widely accepted


range of Shishaks reign harmonizes
nearly perfectly with the Scripture, 945 to
924 BCE. Shishaks own monument
dates the campaign to his 21st year.
The slight challenge is answered with the
fact there are two campaigns recorded,
starting in Israel at year 20, then Judah
in year 21, which crosses 925 BCE.
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However, the final discrepancy between


Scripture (926-925 BCE) and the way the
Egyptian dating appears to read (925-924
BCE), is because Egypt counted still
another different way from Judah!
First, Egypt reckoned their years
summer to summer; Judah counted fall
to fall. Second, even though both counted
from accession year, Egypts new year hit
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first, giving them an EXTRA year.

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As a result, the 20th year of Shishak


(counting summer to summer) would
most certainly cross 926 BCE,
completing a year 2+ months before Judah
would count theirs.
945 BCE would count TWICE, once before
summer started, and once after, and the
end of the range would also add an extra
year by the time Judahite reckoning
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caught up. It looks like this

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1) 945 BCE (before summer), 2) 945 (after


summer), 3) 944, 4) 943, 5) 942, 6) 941, 7)
940, 8) 939, 9) 938, 10) 937, 11) 936, 12)
935, 13) 934, 14) 933, 15) 932, 16) 931, 17)
930, 18) 929, 19) 928, 20) 927, 21) 926
BCE. At that point we cross into BiblicalJudahite reckoning, from 926-925 BCE, with
the 5th year of Rehoboam beginning that fall,
bringing us to 967 BCE for Solomons 4th
year and 1447 BCE for the Exodus!
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We also have to make the final calculation


from Moshes time that counting switched
to the spring for the year (Exodus 12:1-2)
which in turn was intercalated by the
Judahite historian of 1-2 Kings on their fall
to fall system.
When all the pieces come together, they
all prove that 967 BCE is Solomons 4th
year. Now lets look at counting Jubilees
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from the Exodus in 1447 BCE

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Jubilee #1 was in 1356 BCE, 50 years


after the entrance to Canaan began.
As a result, in Gregorian terms, the
Absolute Yovel must happen twice a
century, with BCE years ending in -06 and
-56. (This is because of Jubilee Zero, a
later topic.)
No year 0 and the last BCE Jubilee is 6
BCE. Subtract 5 years to get to 1 CE, so
first Jubilee in CE time is year 45, next 95,
and so on. Heres counting method #1.
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BCE Jubilees (Moshe forward): 1) 1356, 2)


1306, 3) 1256, 4) 1206, 5) 1156, 6) 1106, 7) 1056,
8) 1006, 9) 956, 10) 906, 11) 856, 12) 806, 13)
756, 14) 706, 15) 656, 16) 606, 17) 556, 18) 506,
19) 456, 20) 406, 21) 356, 22) 306, 23) 256, 24)
206, 25) 156, 26) 106, 27) 56, 28) 6 BCE!

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CE 29) 45, 30) 95, 31) 145, 32) 195, 33) 245, 34)
295, 35) 345, 36) 395, 37) 445, 38) 495, 39)
545, 40) 595, 41) 645, 42) 695, 43) 745, 44)
795, 45) 845, 46) 895, 47) 945, 48) 995, 49)
1045, 50) 1095, 51) 1145, 52) 1195, 53) 1245,
54) 1295, 55) 1345, 56) 1395, 57) 1445, 58)
1495, 59) 1545, 60) 1595, 61) 1645, 62) 1695,
63) 1745, 64) 1795, 65) 1845, 66) 1895, 67)
1945, 68) 1995, 69) 2045, 70) 2095
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In addition to these 50 year cycles moving


forward from Moshes time, Scripture has
told us there have always been Jubilee
Rules in effect even back to Adam.
What I mean is this concept: Obey YHWH
and stay in your land, or disobey and
die or leave!
While the Jubilee has all land revert to its
original owner, ultimately the original
Owner of the whole earth is YHWH.
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What we are looking for then are events


from Eden to just before Moshe where
YHWH took back the ENTIRE EARTH
from man. We call these events ProtoJubilees.
These PJs have only happened twice
(Adam and Eve expelled from Eden; the
Flood), and must be added to our list of
regular Jubilees for tracking Yshuas
Return.
So now our list looks like this
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Proto-Jubilees (Where whole Earth is


taken from Man):1) Adam and Eve out of
Paradise, 2) Flood.
BCE Jubilees (Moshe forward): 3) 1356,
4) 1306, 5) 1256, 6) 1206, 7) 1156, 8)
1106, 9) 1056, 10) 1006, 11) 956, 12) 906,
13) 856, 14) 806, 15) 756, 16) 706, 17)
656, 18) 606, 19) 556, 20) 506, 21) 456,
22) 406, 23) 356, 24) 306, 25) 256, 26)
206, 27) 156, 28) 106, 29) 56, 30) 6 BCE 47

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CE Jubilees (after 6 BCE): 31) 45, 32)


95, 33) 145, 34) 195, 35) 245, 36) 295, 37)
345, 38) 395, 39) 445, 40) 495, 41) 545,
42) 595, 43) 645, 44) 695, 45) 745, 46)
795, 47) 845, 48) 895, 49) 945, 50) 995,
51) 1045, 52) 1095, 53) 1145, 54) 1195,
55) 1245, 56) 1295, 57) 1345, 58) 1395,
59) 1445, 60) 1495, 61) 1545, 62) 1595,
63) 1645, 64) 1695, 65) 1745, 66) 1795,
67) 1845, 68) 1895, 69) 1945, 70) 1995! 48

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So now, if this Jubilee counting method is


correct, we are now in the 70th Jubilee
since Adam.
On the day = year/land sabbath cycle,
Daniel 9:24-27 predicted Yshuas death to
the exact correct day from 500 years out!
Daniel also predicted Yshua would die in
that cycles 70th week, which he did!
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Therefore, since Yshua left us in the


middle of the last 70th cycle, the best
scenario available is that he will return
during the next 70th cycle.
By this method, or Long Count, adding
the Proto-Jubilees puts Yshuas return
no later than 2045.
The other method (Straight Count)
would not count the PJs so its 70th Jubilee
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means Yshua returns 100 years later.

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Right now, based on my current


understanding, the bulk of evidence
seems to point to the EARLY return,
before 2045.
Later we will see this comes from
incredible patterns in and around the
2000th anniversary of the resurrection, in
2030.
For now though, there is one more Jubilee
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In order for all the cycles to align with


perfect precision, we need to deal with an
additional mechanism I call Jubilee Zero.
Briefly, Jubilee Zero is a place holder
that is meant to act as a buffer between
Pre and Post Moshe Jubilees.
We might think of this in terms of what we
would call a real estate trust.
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While Israel wanders, YHWH is truly


testing them to see if they will be ready
for their inheritance. He never says to
them during this period: you have
inherited but always you will inherit, and
even that is conditional in Deuteronomy
upon them keeping His Torah. The
Canaanites have their territory removed
from their care due to wickedness and it
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Then, in His timing, YHWH transfers the


deed of Canaan to Israel on His own
terms. So, all Jubilees end their cycle
with this transfer of property.
Then, because Jubilee rules were in effect
prior to Moshe, there must be a year
50 AFTER the 40 years of wandering
ended when the land transfers from the
Canaanites to YHWH and from YHWH
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to Israel.

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It is only after the probation that YHWH


certifies the real estate trust and transfers
the deed of Canaan to Israel in the spring
of1405 BCE.
Again, because the land has changed
owners, 1406 must be a year 50
because neither the Canaanites nor the
Israelites own it! It has gone back to
YHWH in escrow! And heres proof!
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, in the desert of


Sinai, in the 2nd year after the exodus
from Egypt, in the first month(Num 9:1)
In the 2nd year, in the 2nd month, on the
20th day of the month, the cloud rose from
where the Dwelling of the Testimony was,
and the Israelites set out, in marching order,
from the desert of Sinai. The cloud came to
rest in the desert of Paran. (Num 10:11-12 )
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So this is two years after the Exodus


happened, or 1445 BCE
The Exodus is a re-setting of time (Exodus
12:1-2), and in 1447 BCE, we began
counting to completing a year 1, so it is
Year 0 and not Year 1.
Such is confirmed in the Talmud, as
explained by www.bible.ort.org here
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Nissan of the 40th year (Rashbam;


Josephus, Antiquities 4:4:7), after the entire
generation of the Exodus had died (Rashi;
Bachya; Abarbanel; but see Deuteronomy
2:16). There is no information about what
happened during the 38 intervening years,
other than the travels mentioned in Numbers
33:19-36 (Ibn Ezra).
Commentary on Numbers 20:1.
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And this brings us to one critical event that


will help prove the timeline further
For 40 days you scouted out the country.
Each day will count as a year so for 40
years you will bear the consequences of
your guilt and learn what it means to reject
Me. (Numbers 14:34-Matara)
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This curse on Israel then is rooted at some


point in the 2nd year after the Exodus, or
year 3, depending on how you want to
count.
That means by the 40th year from the
actual Exodus itself, we have 2 more
years to go before the wandering curse
is officially lifted by Abba YHWH.
But look at Deuteronomy 1:3 for this
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It was in the 40th year, on the 1st day of


the 11th month, that Moses told the
Israelites everything that Yahweh had
ordered him to tell them. (Deuteronomy 1:3
NJB) and contrast this with
Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83,
when they spoke to Pharaoh. (Exodus 7:7
NJB)
Now lets crack the time code
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Deuteronomy 31:2, 34:7 puts Moses age


at 120 years, and yet before the start of
the spring in the Exodus year, Moses was
80 years old!
This means 11+ months have passed
after Moses turned 120 and he is pretty
close to his 121st birthday on the day he
dies; otherwise the Scripture timeline
doesnt work.
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Next, Deuteronomy 34:8 says that Moses


was mourned for 30 days after he died,
but that brings us only to 39 years of
wandering being completed, not 40!
That 39th year is finished at the start of the
spring of 1406 BCE. This means that
Joshua must wait another year before
attacking Jericho and that year is none
other than Jubilee Zero!
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So this Jubilee Zero is not just a


theoretical placeholder or mathematical
concept.
Its actually embedded in the Torah text
itself as a historical fact! Its a time for the
land to reset ownership from the
Canaanites to Abba YHWH before He
transfers it to Israel the following spring in
1405 BCE. Here then is the list of years!
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Yovel Cycle Zero (the first 50 years)

YEAR 0 (Spring of 1406 BCE)


1) Spring of 1405, 2) 1404, 3) 1403, 4) 1402, 5)
1401, 6) 1400, 7) 1399, 8) 1398, 9) 1397, 10)
1396, 11) 1395, 12) 1394, 13) 1393, 14) 1392, 15)
1391, 16) 1390, 17) 1389, 18) 1388, 19) 1387, 20)
1386, 21) 1385, 22) 1384, 23) 1383, 24) 1382, 25)
1381, 26) 1380, 27) 1379, 28) 1378, 29) 1377, 30)
1376, 31) 1375, 32) 1374, 33) 1373, 34) 1372, 35)
1371, 36) 1370, 37) 1369, 38) 1368, 39) 1367, 40)
1366, 41) 1365, 42) 1364, 43) 1363, 44) 1362, 45)
1361, 46) 1360, 47) 1359, 48) 1358, 49) 1357, 50)65
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Yovel Cycle Zero (the first 50 years)

While the first 50 year cycle is being


generated, the Shemittah counting would
come first, every 7 years from 1406 BCE.
That makes years 1399, 1392, 1385,
1378, 1371, 1364 and 1357 Shemittahs.
Then on Yom Kippur 1357, the shofar is
Jubilee.
So now our list breaks down this way
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PROTO-JUBILEES (Adam and Eve out of


Eden, the Flood with no 50 year cycle)
JUBILEE ZERO (1406 BCE, at the end of
the wandering period as the deed is
transferred from YHWH to Israel)

50 YEAR JUBILEES (From the entry into


Canaan forward, with 50 year cycles)

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Next in Part 3
The Jericho Campaign!

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There is one final proof I need to offer on


the spring of 1405 BCE.
It has to do with actual chronological
information in the book of Joshua that tells
us so much info, we can actually
reconstruct an entire month!
And then we can match that to actual
astronomical data like this
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The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal


and kept the Passover there on the 14th day
of the month, at evening, in the plain of
Jericho (15th begins). On the next day after
the Passover (the 16th), they ate what the
land produced, unleavened bread and
roasted grain. The manna stopped the day
after they had eaten the produce of the
land (the 17th). (Joshua 5:10-12)
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So lets break this chronology down


1st its the late afternoon on the 14th when
the lamb is killed, the sun sets, and now
the 15th of Abib has just begun.
The Hebrew then says in 5:11 that they
ate old parched grain on mi-macharath
(from the morrow) after the 14th ended,
and this needs some additional
explanation
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Lev 23:14 says they cant eat fresh


roasted grain until the 16th. Also, the
Hebrew day starts and ends at sunset. So
the first half of the Hebrew day is in
darkness and the second half is from
dawn to sunset.
Since the morning is the LATER half of the
day, Hebrew distinguishes between dawn
ON the same day and dawn on the NEXT
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If it were just the following morning or


dawn attached to the CURRENT Hebrew
day that started the previous evening 12
hours prior, it would be simply called
boker or shachrit.
But if it says macharath its actually the
morning 36 hours after that previous
evening. All this brings us to the 16th of
Abib, two mornings after the 14th ends!
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So much for 5:11, except we should also


note that it is daytime on the 16th when
they are eating the fresh roasted grain.
Therefore, when macharath appears a
second time, in 5:12, we must count to the
morning attached to the next Hebrew
day toothe morning of the 17th.
Its here that we get a very important
detail
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The manna stopped the day after they


had eaten the produce of the land (the
17th). (Joshua 5:10-12 NJB)
So this is literally the last time the manna
ever falls for Israel.
If we can just figure out what day of the
week it had to be when the manna
stopped falling, we can solve the
puzzle! And Tanakh does tell us this.
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'Eat it today,' Moses said, 'for today is a


Sabbath for Yahweh; you will find none in
the fields today. For six days you will
collect it, but on the seventh day, the
Sabbath, there will be none.' On the
seventh day some of the people went out to
collect it, but they found none. (Exodus
16:25-27 NJB)
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The only day the manna stopped falling on


was the Shabbat!
This same day was the one after the 16th,
or the morning of the 17th of Abib.
Therefore the 17th of Abib MUST also be
a Shabbat! And we have an actual year to
work with and prove its Jubilee Zero
1405 BCE. We can now check that year
and find out if the days match!
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The following is from the NASA website:


http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/phase/phases1499.html.
This will be the raw data for the Abib New
Moon given by NASA for 1405 BCE.
They put this data in Universal Time and
by the Julian Calendarwe will convert it
to Jerusalem Local Time and our current
Gregorian Calendar. Here goes
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Phases of the Moon: -1404 (1405 BCE)


Universal Time (UT)
Apr 5 (Julian) 07:21 AM UT
Next, we need to convert to local
Jerusalem timeeasy as this is always 2
hours ahead (DST is useless in astronomy
so its not needed). So 7:21 AM UT = 9:21
AM Jerusalem time.
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Phases of the Moon: -1404 (1405 BCE)


Jerusalem Time (JT)
Apr 5 (Julian) 9:21 AM Jerusalem Time
After that, we need to take the Julian date
of April 5th and convert it into our
Gregorian calendar. For that we use
another scientific site:
http://fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/
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Phases of the Moon: -1404 (1405 BCE)


Jerusalem Time (JT)
Apr 5 (Julian) 9:21 AM Jerusalem Time
Mar 23 (Gregorian) 9:21 AM Jerusalem
Time
Please NOTE: Only the numerical days
change between calendars, but.
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Phases of the Moon: -1404 (1405 BCE)


Jerusalem Time (JT)
Apr 5 (Julian) 9:21 AM Jerusalem Time
Mar 23 (Gregorian) 9:21 AM Jerusalem
Time
the DAYS of the week are the same--a
Wednesday in both Julian and Gregorian!
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Phases of the Moon: -1404 (1405 BCE)


Jerusalem Time (JT)
Apr 5 (Julian) 9:21 AM Jerusalem Time
Mar 23 (Greg.) 9:21 AM Jerusalem Time
Sunset that very night (the 23rd) will start
the month of Abib. It is from here that we
must count the time.
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Phases of the Moon: -1404 (1405 BCE)


Jerusalem Time (JT)
Apr 5 (Julian) 9:21 AM Jerusalem Time
Mar 23 (Greg.) 9:21 AM Jerusalem Time
What follows then is the list of days from
the start of Abib on the 23rd to capture the
17th morning, which must be a Shabbat
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Abib 1 (sunset Mar 23-sunset Mar 24), 2


(Mar 24-5), 3 (Mar 25-6), 4 (Mar 26-7) 5
(Mar 27-8) 6 (Mar 28-9) 7 (Mar 29-30) 8
(Mar 30-31) 9 (Mar 31-Apr 1) 10 (Apr 1-2) 11
(Apr 2-3) 12 (Apr 3-4) 13 (Apr 4-5) 14 (Apr
5-6) 15 (Apr 6-7) 16 (Apr 7-8) 17 (April 8-9)
So the morning of April 9th must be a
Shabbat, and it actually was a Saturday
morning in 1405 BCE! Another look
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Abib 1 (W sunset Mar 23-Th sunset Mar 24),
2 ( Th/F Mar 24-5), 3 (F/Sa Mar 25-6),
4 (Sa/Su Mar 26-7) 5 (Su/M Mar 27-8)
6 (M/Tu Mar 28-9) 7 (Tu/W Mar 29-30)
8 (W/Th Mar 30-31) 9 (Th/F Mar 31-Apr 1)
10 (F/Sa Apr 1-2) 11 (Sa/Su Apr 2-3)
12 (Su/M Apr 3-4) 13 (M/Tu Apr 4-5)
14 (Tu/W Apr 5-6) 15 (W/Th Apr 6-7)
16 (Thu/F Apr 7-8) 17 (F/SaApril 8-9)
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So clearly the calendar, the Biblical


data and the astronomy all match
perfectly and beautifully.
This is a powerful proof that the proper
way to reckon the Hebrew month as well
as the precise year of the Exodus and
events before and after also match and
work! If any piece of data was wrong, the
entire system would fall apart! Moving on!
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The Testimony of Josephus!

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First, I believe it is absolutely certain the


Shemmitah-Jubilee cycles were ignored in
the First Temple period, from 960 to 586
BCE.
Leviticus 26:34-36 warned the Land would
get all the Sabbaths back that had been
ignored or misapplied.
To accumulate 70 years of rest requires a
minimum of 490 years of apostasy, plus
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That brings us to 500 years of apostasy


that we can be certain of. Since the
Temple was destroyed in 586 BCE and
only stood 374 years, that puts the
neglect of the Land Sabbath squarely in
the time of the Judges.
Here is what Scripture also tells us about
that time: No Passover like this had ever
been celebrated since the days when the
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So while Judah and Israel compromised


on Passover, only the priests remained
loyal to serving YHWH in Jerusalem.
In the teaching on Aarons calendar we will
see also how the system could easily be
put back on line even when things like 70
years of captivity stopped all services.
But in YHWHs Mind, Shemittah, Jubilee
and Pesach are all part of the same
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process of marking sacred time.

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The question is, can we see how these


cycles of Jubilees and Land Sabbaths
work in real history?
We have only one source for Land
Sabbaths being recorded in ancient Israel
to particular yearsthe historian
Josephus.
Up until now, historians have found it very
hard to find a consistent pattern with the
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Indeed it does seem that no


CONSISTENT system can reconcile the
Land Sabbaths Josephus names: 164,
135 and 37 BCE and 37 CE.
However, as we will see, Josephus does
give us enough history on the challenges
from this time to let us know why
confusion crept in.
Lets look at our first example.
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164 BCE: Death of Antiochus Epiphanes.


This Antiochus died in the 149th year: but it
was Lysias that declared his death to the
multitude, and appointed his son Antiochus
to be king, (of whom at present he had the
care,) and called him Eupator. (Antiquities
12:361)
149th year (from the founding of the
Seleucid Empire in 313 BCE = 164 BCE
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At this same time


But as for the temple of Jerusalem, he lay at
its siege a long time... But then their
provisions failed them; what fruits of the
ground they had laid up were spent and
the land being not ploughed that year,
continued fallow, because it was the
seventh year, on which, by our laws, we
are obliged to let it lay uncultivated.
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(Antiquities 12:377-378)

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On our calendar, 206 BCE is the nearest


Jubilee to this event.
Shemittah years from that time would
therefore have to be 199, 192, 185, 178,
171, 164 and 157.
Therefore, score 1 for Josephus. This
Shemittah clearly shows the correct 50
year cycle is being counted at this time in
Israel. Next case
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135 BCE: Ascension of John Hyrcanus


as High Priest.
When his father, Simon Maccabeus, was
assassinated at Jericho by his son-in-law Ptolemy,
John succeeded in escaping from those sent by
Ptolemy to murder him also. From Gadara, where
he at that time lived, John hastened to Jerusalem,
where the people gladly received him as Simon's
successor (135 BCE).
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?a
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Once again, Josephus says this year was


a Land Shabbat
And as the siege was drawn out into length
by this means, that year on which the Jews
used to rest came on; for the Jews
observe this rest every seventh year, as
they do every seventh day; so that
Ptolemy being for this cause released
from the war, he slew the brethren of
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Our calendar once again agrees with


Josephus!
In this case the nearest Jubilee to 135
BCE would have been 156 BCE.
From there the Shemittahs would have
been: 149, 142, 135, 128, 121, 114 and
107.
But this next example appears to throw
a wrench into the works
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When the rigor of winter was over, Herod


moved his army, and came near to
Jerusalem, and pitched his camp close by
the city. Now this was the third year since
he had been made king at Rome.
(Antiquities 14:465)
3rd year = 37 BCE = Bad Shemittah
because
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They persisted in this war to the very last:


and this they did while a mighty army lay
around them, and while they were
distressed by famine and the want of
necessities, for this happened to be a
Sabbatical year. (Antiqities14:475 and see
also 15:7)
But by these same rules that have worked
until now, 35 BCE should be a Land
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The calendar worked clearly up until 135


BCE, when Hyrcanus became high priest.
But less than a century later, the timing got
messed up.
There is only one explanation for what
happened here as all other attempts to
have one system work throughout this
period have failed: They switched
counting methods!
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After 135 BCE, Josephus records lengthy


rivalries between the Pharisees and the
Sadducees.
From this time until 10 BCE, these two
sects alternated being in charge of the
calendar of Israel, and each side had a
different method for reckoning the Hebrew
year.
It is also during this period that the Jubilee
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itself became forgotten and called year 49.

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This inconsistency in timekeeping is also


recorded in the Talmud, where some
rabbis said the Jubilee itself was not
important to keep separately.
So after 135 BCE, they switched to a 49
year cycle. They should have declared
106 BCE a Jubilee but it was 107 instead.
Then 49 years later, their Jubilee was off
by a second year, coming at 58 BCE, so
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But in 10 BCE, the great Rabbi Hillel the


Elder got the calendar back on the right
counting. (Not the same Hillel as the one
who released the Rabbinic calendar in 359
CE!)
This was the same calendar that Yshua
himself endorsed, the one the Pharisees
of his day sat on the throne of Moshe to
administer. Heres what the Talmud said
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Our Rabbis taught: Since the death of the


last prophets, Haggai, Zechariah and
Malachi, the Holy Spirit [of prophetic
inspiration] departed from Israel; yet they
were still able to avail themselves of the
Bath-kol. Once when the Rabbis were met
in the upper chamber of Gurya's house at
Jericho, a Bath-kol was heard from Heaven,
saying: 'There is one amongst you who is
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on him as it did on Moses, but his


generation does not merit it.' The Sages
present set their eyes on Hillel the Elder.
And when he died, they lamented and said:
'Alas, the pious man, the humble man, the
disciple of Ezra [is no more].'
Rodkinson, Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin
11a
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Hillel the Elder

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Hillels motivation to reform the calendar


came from the fact that high priests were
dying every year on Yom Kippur, probably
because they went into the Kadosh
Kadoshim on the wrong day!
Even if the Talmud numbers are
exaggerated300 high priests are killed in
this mannerit still fits well in this period,
from 135 to 10 BCE. Take a look
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Rabba bar Hana in the name of R. Johanan


said: It is written [in Proverbs x. 27]: "The
fear of the Lord increases man's days, but
the years of the wicked will be shortened."
"The fear of the Lord increases the days";
that refers to the first Temple, during whose
existence of four hundred and ten years
there were only eighteen high-priests. "The
years of the wicked will be shortened," refers
to the second Temple,
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which existed 420 years, and more than


300 high-priests succeeded each other
during that period. Subtract the forty years
during which Simeon the Righteous
ministered, eighty years of Johanan the
high-priest's ministry, and ten years of
Ishmael b. Fava--according to others, eleven
years of R. Eleazer b. Harsum--and
compute, you will see that not even one
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Part of the problem is the traditional date


of 432 BCE for the destruction of the
First Temple is 154 years later than the
date accepted by 99% of historians, 586
BCE.
If we adjust for that discrepancy, we can
fit many Yom Kippur deaths of high
priests happening from 135 to 10 BCE,
or 4 generations of deaths that would have
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felt like much longer to Israel.

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The rest of the evidence, detailed in Wheel


of Stars, shows how the secret calendar
was passed down from Moshe to David
(setting up the 24 courses under Aarons
instructions) to Josiah and finally to Ezra.
After Ezras time, the only worthy
person with right knowledge to have
the Shekinah was Hillel the Elder,
Ezras disciple and then the NT tells us
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The reason was this: It is clear that Hillel


the Elder patched the calendar back to
these original 50 year cycles, and
instituted other reforms that brought it
back into alignment.
Then when Yshua talked about
proclaiming the year of YHWHs favor in
Luke 4, he was referring to the Jubilee
year that began at his conception and the
Land Sabbath that was his death year. 119

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The last Jubilee was 6 BCE, so now we


have to cross the timeline with no year
0.That makes 2 CE the first Shemittah.
It would be followed by 9, 16, 23, 30, 37
and 44!
This means 30 CE, the year Yshua died,
was also a Shemittah! He talked about
release of the captives in Luke 4 and
released the captives in Sheol after he
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died that year! More proof

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The Ruach of Adonai YHWH is upon me,


because YHWH has anointed me to bring
good news to the afflicted; He has sent me
to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty ( ) to captives and freedom to
prisoners. (Isaiah 61:1-Matara)
This Hebrew word that Yshua read in
Luke 4:18deroris directly associated
with the Shemittah and Yovel cycles
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'You are also to count off 7 sabbaths of


years for yourself, 7 times 7 years, so that
you have the time of the 7 sabbaths of
years, namely, 49 years. 'You shall then
sound a ram's horn abroad on the 10th day
of the 7th monthYou shall thus consecrate
the 50th year and proclaim a release ( )
through the landa jubilee for you.
(Leviticus 25:8-10)
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"At the end of 7 years each of you shall set


free his Hebrew brother who has been sold
to you and has served you six years, you
shall send him out free Although recently
you had turned and done what is right in My
sight, each man proclaiming release ( )
to his neighbor, and you had made a
covenant before Me in the house which is
called by My name. (Jeremiah 34:14-15)
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So here we see the same word used in


connection with releasing captives, debts
and land obligations.
Since he was reading in Hebrew, its not
surprising that the Aramaic text is a perfect
translation of this key terminology.
And after this Yshua mentions the year of
YHWHs favor which is definitely
connected to a Yovel cycle.
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So we now can see the full list of Jubilee


and Shemittah years has been recovered!
These years align with Scripture and with
history, even showing us when Israel
forgot how to do the right thing which
invited disaster on their heads, as YHWH
predicted would happen (Leviticus 26:34).
With this restoration, we can explore later
its links to Yshuas return. But there is a
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Early and Late Return Scenarios

Not surprisingly, the Talmud is not


always in agreement with this.
Sometimes it says the 50th year was
deemed irrelevant and other times the
Rabbinic chronology there is clearly way
off the mark and incorrect historically.
For example, Rabbi Yose, the author of a
2nd century CE work known as Seder
Olam, was a disciple of Rabbi Akiba.
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Rabbi Yose wrote that the year the


Second Temple was destroyed was either
a Land Sabbath or the year after a Land
Sabbath, depending on how one Hebrew
phrase is translated.
However, 70 CE was neither. The Land
Sabbath nearest the destruction was
actually in 66, the same year the Revolt
started, and the next one was in 73.
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The major problem is that the Rabbis


consistently assumed that they didnt have
to count the Jubilee or Land Sabbaths for
long periods of time, due to captivities of
both kingdoms and a wide variety of other
disruptions.
As a result, their count got corrupted
from YHWHs continuous counting
method from the fixed time of the
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The question of whether 700 BCE (i.e. the


year starting in Tishre of 700 BCE) could
have been a Shmita can be examined by
looking at references to possible Sabbatical
years in Scripture and elsewhere. In this
endeavor, the time of the First Temple
should be considered separately from the
time of the Second Temple and later, due to
evidence that the counting of the Sabbatical
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years was interrupted during the exile.Wikipedia


I will deal with 700 BCE in a moment.
However, its the earlier statement I want
to focus onthat the counting of years
was interrupted during the exile, which
most scholars agree with. And for me,
thats the exact problem!
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Again, Abba YHWH assumes eternal


obedience and therefore eternal and
continuous occupation of Israel. His
count never stopped.
The Rabbis however disagreedthe
Scripture we went over earlier (1
Chronicles 36:20-21) proves they counted
wrong. So even if Rabbi Yose got his
count from Akiba, it comes out of that
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wrong system that destroyed them!

Early and Late Return Scenarios

Many scholars though over the years


(Zuckerman, et. al.) have tried to deduce
Shemittahs from Scripture, but they either
are counting from 49 years (wrong) or
they are dismissing the continuous
clock that Abba YHWH requires, or both.
Of the possible Scripture cites for First
Temple Land Sabbath (and again they
didnt keep it right), 700 BCE is the only
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truly intriguing one

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'Then this shall be the sign for you: you will


eat this year what grows of itself, in the
second year what springs from the same,
and in the third year sow, reap, plant
vineyards, and eat their fruit. (2 Kings 19:29
NAU)
This is 700 BCE, and notice the fruits will
sustain Israel for three yearsexactly
what Scripture promises for years 49, 50
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and the start of the new cycle!

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In our system, as we saw, BCE years in 06 and -56 are YHWHs intended
Jubilee years.
Therefore, 706 BCE would have been the
nearest Jubileestarting with the
announcement the previous fall in 707,
with the actual Jubilee hitting in spring of
706. This brings us to spring of 699
BCE for the Land Sabbath.
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But that doesnt mean 700/699 is the


real time of a Jubileein fact the very
text argues against it being so.
The text says, This will be a SIGN for
you. By definition a SIGN is something
out of the expected natural order, like a
virgin birth being predicted in Isaiah 7:14.
Or, its a BANNER heralding a major
change, of the seasons or of man.
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That being the case, three years of


sustained crops would NOT be a sign
in the three years between 49, 50 and the
new cycleit would be EXPECTED that
such would happen because YHWH
PROMISED that automatically when they
kept the right timing!
Heres the proof according to the
Scripture
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'But if you say, "What are we going to eat on


the seventh year if we do not sow or gather
in our crops? Then I will so order My
blessing for you in the 6th year that it will
bring forth the crop for 3 years. 'When
you are sowing the 8th year, you can still
eat old things from the crop, eating the old
until the 9th year when its crop comes in.
(Leviticus 25:20-22 NAU)
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As a result, there is no compelling


evidence whatsoever that the
Jubilee/Land Sabbath cycles were
accurately and intentionally kept during
the First Temple period.
This is also true for the 70 Land Sabbaths
to be missed (490 years in all) for the
destruction of the Temple in 586 BCE to
make sense.
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Earlier in this discussion we explored a


little bit the Early Return Scenario, or
Long Count.
With the Exodus fixed to 1447 BCE,
Biblical data tells us also when to start
counting 50 year periods from Israels
entry into Canaan.
We saw in our study of Daniel 9, that
Yshua left in the middle of the 70th week
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Therefore Yshua could very well return in


the middle of the only 70th cycle open to
him, the Jubilee or Yovel.
So since the Long Count puts us in that
70th Jubilee since 1995, it is possible
Yshua will return before 2045 on this
systemor perhaps during 2030, the
2000th anniversary of the resurrection!
But theres also more evidence.
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What we are about to discuss is a topic


that is so important, that even in this series
I have to teach it at least 3 times.
Its called The 153 code and it is one the
of the most powerful pieces of evidence
for a potential early return of Yshua.
The combination of the 153 and what I call
the 25th priest are the heart of the
argument for the early scenario
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But after that discussion concludes, I also


want to wrap up with a discussion of the
Later Return Scenarioor Straight
Countso named because it counts
straight in 50 year increments from the
entrance into Canaan.
The Proto-Jubilees, or the 2 times
YHWH took the earth back from man, are
not counted in this system. Now, the 153!
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Lets Wind the Clock!

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So, in order to start the Clock, the wind up


year must cover both starts, with the
main cycle going from 1446 BCE
forward, and the earlier beginning (1447
BCE) being projected backwards for that
same interval of time.
The question is: What is that main cycle
to apply forwards and backwards? To find
out, I need to show you the data set as the
computer first generated it for me
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Cycle 2: 1446 BCE


Sun
2/16
2/23
3/2
3/9
3/16

Mon
2/17
2/24
3/3
3/10
3/17

Tue
2/18
2/25
3/4
3/11
3/18

Wed
2/19
2/26
3/5
3/12
3/19

Thu
2/20
2/27
3/6
3/13
3/20

Fri
2/21
2/28
3/7
3/14
3/21

Sat
2/22
3/1
3/8
3/15
3/22

Course
21
22
23
24
1

So we put course 1 on duty on Friday,


March 21st and project the previous
courses backwards to Cycle 1 (1447
BCE and earlier) and the forwards.

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We arrange each course across the grid of


a solar year. In BCE time, we have chosen
mirror year formulas or CE years that
mirror the exact Gregorian intervals of leap
days (Feb 29th) as well as other Gregorian
rules, such as not having leap years in -00
years that are not divisible by 400.
Then, we let the computer do the work.
The courses will float without breaks
for Great Feasts when all priests would
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have served at once.

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Neither the Constellation Clock nor the


earthly priests would have paused for
Great Feasts either. The course on duty
would count and the rest were there to
help.
Because there are 52 weeks in the year,
24 divisions then would each serve twice,
and the remaining weeks would be filled
with the first few courses (1,2,3). The
result is a pure floating system in pure
Solar Time. But if all this sounds a bit
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tech approach

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When we roll out the years in Gregorian


time, we find that at the end of 23 years,
these floating courses will return course 1
to the same date it started at: Friday,
March 21st, and it does this both forwards
and backwards with perfect precision!
So from 1446 BCE forward, course 1
returns to Friday March 21st in 1423 BCE,
then 1400, then 1377, etc.
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And from 1446 BCE backward it gets to


Friday March 21st 23 years prior, in 1469
BCE, which is the start of our clock so as
to include the previous year when the
Exodus happened in a 23 year cycle.
So from 1446 BCE forward, course 1
returns to Friday March 21st in 1423 BCE,
then 1400, then 1377, etc. But, because of
how our Gregorian calendar works, it will
take 12 23 year cycles before course 1
now points to the week before the VE. 150

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Course 2 has now shifted into duty


where course 1 was.
Therefore, in star terms, each priestly
course serves 276 years in the
heavens, before yielding to the next
division, and so on.
This has huge prophetic implications,
which I will reveal at the end of this
presentation!
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Course Count

(No yr (Include
0) year 0)

23 year Cycle
Count

201 BCE - 255 CE

Year Count
of 23

"Hour" Count

Early and Late Return Scenarios

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Early and Late Return Scenarios

Hour Count: represents each one of the


24 courses that serve each week. In this
case the 19th hour of that day, as we
went over earlier.
Year Count 23: The Year Count of 23
has to do with the 276 year cycle we went
over earlier as well. Every 23 years,
course 1 returns to its intended position at
the time of the Vernal Equinox and in this
case 89 BCE is the first year of the new
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cycle, so it is designated as Year 1.

Early and Late Return Scenarios

Each time from the start of the clock (1469


BCE) that a 23 year cycle is completed is
also recorded so here 89 BCE is the 61st
time the 23 year cycles have passed from
the start time (23 Year Cycle Count).
The final field, course count tells us
which 276 year cycle has occurred from
the beginning of the clock. So, if the year
were 1193 BCE, that is exactly 276
years from the beginning of the clock
and now course 2 would be on duty. Here
are some examples
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Early and Late Return Scenarios

Our first 23 year set was from Friday,


March 21st. 1469 BCE, the start of the
clock to encompass the Exodus itself
starting the year before.
Then in 1446 BCE, the year the earthly
priests began serving, we find that
same date has cycled through with
these floating course returning course
1 to that exact day
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Early and Late Return Scenarios

Like here

Early and Late Return Scenarios

..and again in 1423 BCE

Early and Late Return Scenarios

and here 23 years later.

Early and Late Return Scenarios

and here and so on more times,


eventually leading to

Early and Late Return Scenarios

1193 BCE276 years after the priest


clock began, but now course 1 is the week
before the VE so course 2 is on duty the
first week of the year!

Early and Late Return Scenarios

This 276 year cycle repeats for all 24


courses and always fixes to the VE even
when our own calendar begins to lose
accuracy!
While the day of the VE gets earlier and
earlier each 23 year cycle, it will hold 12
full times before going out of date.
However, bear in mind once Yshua
returns, especially if its soon, the rules of
time may go out the window anyway. But
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lets see a little more cycles

Early and Late Return Scenarios

Heres what happens after Course 2 signs


on for duty

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Early and Late Return Scenarios

And for the rest

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Early and Late Return Scenarios

And so it goes on

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Early and Late Return Scenarios

As we just saw above, the 276 year cycle


has completed once more.
Now, Course 2 which was on duty the
first week of spring is pointing to
Friday, March 14th, or the week before.
As Course 3 comes on board, it will
start Friday, March 21st, and the entire
cycle kicks off all over again! Moving
on to our next topic now, but first
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Next in Part 6
The Great 153 Code!

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Intermission

The Great 153 Code!

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The Great 153 Code!

First lets go back to the beginning of the


Constellation Clock. Like other areas of
the calendar, we must have a place holder
or a zero marker.
In this case, since the calendar begins
1469 BCE, the zero marker is simply all
the ages from Creation to just before this
beginning point. As a result, when we
officially start, the ages before count as
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Cycle 0, and the grid looks like this

The Great 153 Code!

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The Great 153 Code!

So when 1469 BCE opens here, that cycle


representing all the ages prior
completes.
As a result, the counter for 23 year
cycle count advances to 1 at the start
of the clock, again in 1469 BCE.
From there, we simply count forward in
23 year increments, and add 1 to each
occurrence, and eventually we get here
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The Great 153 Code!

The Great 153 Code!

There are two things on the chart I would


like you to take away 2028
And the red number at the bottom: The
start of the153rd occurrence of the 23
year cycle since 1469 BCE!
2028 is of course the nearest beginning of
the cycle just prior to the 2000th
anniversary of the resurrection!
And that year, 2030, is also in the middle
of the 70th Jubilee since the Creation of
Adam!
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The Great 153 Code!

Again, this is the only time in 8,000 years


(in all of time itself) that the number 153
crosses the Clock.
Since there is only one time the 23 year
cycle can add up to 153, its the only
time the number will cross time ever!
There is also only one time in all of
Scripture that this number appears as well!
So maybe we should compare the two
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unique occurrences?

The Great 153 Code!


And Shimon Keefa embarked and
dragged the net to land, being full of
153 great fish. And with all this
weight, that net was not torn. John
21:11 (AENT)

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The Great 153 Code!

And I will give my two witnesses; and they


will prophesy 1,260 days, clothed in
sackcloth.- Revelation 11:3 (AENT)

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The Great 153 Code!

But recall that its at least two witnesses


needed for life and death matters.
One of these other witnesses is the math
itselfthe 153rd cycle that begins only in
2028.
There is also the Jubilee witness and the
many associations of the number 70 with
Messiahs first and second comings.
But even now, another witness awaits,
in 2029
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The Great 153 Code!

And there will be signs in the sun and in


the moon and in the stars. And on earth,
distress of the nations And the powers
of heaven will be shaken But when
these things begin to happen, have
courage and lift up your heads, because
your salvation (Genesis 49:18: yeshua- )draws near.
Luke 21:25 (AENT)
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The Great 153 Code!

Some believe that sign to be

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The Great 153 Code!

an asteroid!
The future for Apophis [an asteroid 1480
feet wide] on Friday, April 13 of 2029
includes an approach to Earthwithin
the distance of Earth's
geosynchronous satellites. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/ and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis
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The Great 153 Code!

For one thing, the solar year and days of


the week in 2030 are identical to those of
crucifixion week. (In other words,
Thursday April 4th in the year 30, is the
same date in 2030)!
The year is encoded at the time of the VE
as 21 (777), a very good math sign! Thats
why I know it will miss us. Apophis is here
to warn, not kill us.
But the really interesting thing is
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The Great 153 Code!

The exact coding of the 2000th


anniversary of the week of the crucifixion
is that of the 24th course.
And then the first day of the week after the
crucifixion, the count has reset to 1! Since
the 24 courses are symbolic of time, it
means the age is about to change!
The same 24 code is in Genesis. Counting
towards Moses, its 24 generations from
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The Great 153 Code!

Lets get back to the 153. If the fish are


his followers
And the 153rd fish is caught on the Clock
in 2028
It may mean: You have this long to
catch fish (followers), after which time
runs out and the clock resets from 24 back
to 1. But there is one more stunning
insight to relate the #1 most shocking
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idea of them all

The Great 153 Code!

We saw that the Clock started running in


1469 BCE.
The main unit of measure: 276 years for
each heavenly course to be on duty.
Now lets multiply that number by the
number of courses
276 years x 24 courses = 6,624 years
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The Great 153 Code!

At first the significance of a 6,624 year


Super Cycle didnt seem that great, until
we added another 276 year period.
6,624 (years for 24 courses to cycle)
+
276 years (for one more course)
=
6,900 years!
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The Great 153 Code!

This looks like the heavenly fulfillment of


Daniel 9:24-27s 70 weeks to me: 7
weeks + 62 weeks = 69.
Now that Yshuas return cycle has shifted
up to the Jubilee scale, so too do these
numbers fit into units of 100. (The
heavenly multiplier of the 69 weeks is
100).
After the 69th week, Daniel says that
Yshua returns!
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The Great 153 Code!

So in order to get to 6,900 we literally


need one more course to serve to
complete the pattern, one more course
than Scripture gives us.
Lets look at the final (25th) course that
completes the symbolic pattern. This 25th
priest CANNOT be Yshua because he
comes AFTER 7 and 62 weeks. So if it
isnt Yshua, the question is
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Who is the 25th Priest?

And the answer can only be one thing as the


Scripture is clear

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Grace to you and peace, from him who is, and


who was, and who is to come, from the seven
Spirits which are before his throne; and from
Yshua the Mashiyach, the Witness, the Faithful,
the First-born of the dead, and the Prince of the
kings of the earth; who has loved us, and
released us from our sins by his blood; and has
made us a Kingdom of priests to Elohim the
Father: to whom be glory and power, for ever
and ever. Amen. Behold, he comes with
clouds; and all eyes will see him, and also they
who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth
will mourn on account of him. Yes: Amen.
Rev 1:4-7 (AENT). So who is the 25th priest???189

YOU ARE!

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The Great 153 Code!


YHWH stands and waits for YOU at the
end of timeHe always has!
YOU are the one who is chosen and called
to take the remaining steps set before
you He has has made us a Kingdom
of priests to Elohim the Father!
Choose life and death, blessing and
cursing and perhaps most importantly of
all: FAITH (Truth) OR UNBELIEF (mans
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religion)!

The Great 153 Code!


But even now, the story isnt over.
There is one more piece of evidence to
discuss.
While the Early Return scenario is
powerful and compelling, recent days (I
am writing about this less than a week
after understanding this) have shown
me additional evidence for the Later
Return. Which is right I will leave for you
to decide. But before doing that
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Intermission
Straight Count and Later Return in Part 7!

Straight Count and Later Return

The lack of the Proto-Jubilees in the


Jubilee Count here, as we saw recently,
puts us now only in the 68th Jubilee by
this system, not the 70th when Yshua is
supposed to return.
We call this Straight Count because it
continuously ticks forward from the
entry into Canaan only, with each 50
years counting as an interval.
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Straight Count and Later Return

When I first published Wheel of Stars


in 2010, it was basically an interim
report for my findings up until that
time. I knew there were certain things I
was still researching.
For example, I was not sure which of the
ancient counting systems I should use
for the ages of patriarchs when they
had a son.
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This ancient collection was hopelessly


deadlocked. We had the Hebrew or
Masoretic traditions, the Greek or
Septuagint traditions, the chronology of
Josephus, the Samaritan Pentateuch and
othersall fundamentally in disarray with
all the others!
These differences were everywhere
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For example, Adam was 130 and Seth 105


when they each had their sons in the
Hebrew tradition but 230 and 205 years
old respectively on the Greek side.
In many other places, the Greek continued
to add a century to what the Hebrew had,
and others would agree or disagree
inconsistently. It was basically chaos on
all sides with no way to harmonize in
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sight

Straight Count and Later Return

To try and deal with this problem, I


suggested a double witness rule.
This meant that two witnesses or more
had to agree on the age of a patriarch
for the testimony to be accepted.
After months and checking and rechecking my math, those calculations
brought me to exactly 4000 BCE for the
creation of Adam.
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Straight Count and Later Return

However, since one calendar mechanism


balanced in 4000 year intervals, I began
to wonder if the creation of Adam could
go from the estimate of 4000 BCE to
a hard date of 4007 BCE.
This was because the first signs of
Yshuas birth showed up in the heavens in
7 BCE, exactly 4000 years later
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Straight Count and Later Return

Though the idea was promising, I couldnt


prove anything further on the matter
and said so in Wheel openly. Both
4007 and 4000 BCE were estimates.
But in 2011 I began to make progress on
the matter. A very good friend proved to
me that only Hebrew intervals were
divinely inspired!
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Straight Count and Later Return

She showed me, for example, that


Abraham was born according to the
Hebrew 1,948 years after Adams creation
and in 1948 Israel became a state.
Shortly after that time, I found many
other proofs showing the divine
watermark on the Hebrew intervals,
but there was also a catch that threatened
to have me fall into a trap of many others
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who struggled with this

Straight Count and Later Return

The Torah had never given us the year


to count time FROM, or Year Zero,
and I had known for years that the
traditional Rabbinic date for the creation of
Adam, 3761 BCE, was incorrect. Rabbinic
time was wrong!
There were nearly a half a dozen other
huge mistakese.g. 432 BCE for the
Temples destruction, not 586 BCE, that
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proved to be a major discrepancy.

Straight Count and Later Return

But at least the Rabbis did preserve


and agree with the intervals in the
Hebrew text, and that was a very good
thing!
Armed also with the fixed date of the
Exodus, I could count backwards or
forwards in Hebrew intervals from
Friday, March 22nd, 1447 BCE, and
recover the entire chronology!
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Straight Count and Later Return

When I did that, I found that the Rabbis


were short of the required amount of
years by 140.
This brought Adams creation year
from 3761 BCE (Rabbinic) to 3901 BCE.
There were also several special
alignments that particular year as well that
are worth noting
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Straight Count and Later Return

While lunar months are not used to count


time until Moses, the ancients
nevertheless recognized the importance of
aligning lunar and solar cycles, even
though there was no Tishri 1 in 3901
BCE per se.
I should also point out that 6,000 years
ago there was no Metonic cycle for
people to use
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Straight Count and Later Return

The Rabbinic Calendar though, were it


being used back then, would have picked
March 2nd as the start of Abib, and thats
way too early.
As explained in Wheel of Stars, the start
of Abib can only be the new moon
nearest the start of spring, which
means the Rabbinics are a month out
of date in 3901 BCE calculations.
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Straight Count and Later Return

This manifests also down the line, where


the Wheel calendar shows 1 Tishri for a
new moon, the Rabbinic shows 1
Heshvan in 3901 BCE.
That disclaimer aside, it becomes very
important to align the start of this year
with the Fall Equinox, just as Moses
will later align it to the Spring
Equinox
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This year is also complicated by a very


rare oddity: It is one of 3 times in 400
years that Julian will call for a leap day
(Feb 29th) which Gregorian calls normal
and leaves at 365 days. That will throw
off the real day count if we dont adjust
for it.
Also in order to extend Gregorians
accuracy for this far back, we need to
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make a tweak in its counting

Straight Count and Later Return

In Joshua 10, the sun stood still for


almost a full day.
Later, in Isaiah 38:8 the sun went
backwards ten steps to show a miracle.
If we take these cites literally, Abba YHWH
has in effect patched our Gregorian
calendar. He knows we use this system
now and that it loses a day every 3,323
years.
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Straight Count and Later Return

That happens because the estimated


Gregorian year is just a very little bit longer
than the actual tropical year, and over
millennia that little difference will exceed
24 hours.
But with Abba YHWH in effect pausing
time at strategic points and telling us
so, this problem is eliminated, and we
will not lose a day going back to 3901
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BCE!

Straight Count and Later Return

In addition, it is possible to very easily


tweak our Gregorian calendar so that it
will not lose a day in 19,500 yearsjust
dont count the year 4000 CE as a leap
year!
So there is no reason not to use Gregorian
to recover ancient dates--neither it nor the
Julian were around in Tanakh times, so we
might as well use what is most accurate.
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But Adam was made on

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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24TH


(GREGORIAN), 3901 BCE WHICH IS
The exact time the Fall Equinox would
have been seen in the stars
The exact time of the first new moon of
fall (what would later be Tishri 1)
Agrees with Rabbinic legend that Adam
was made on this dayRosh Hashanna
or Yom Teruah!
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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24TH


(GREGORIAN), 3901 BCE WHICH IS
And is also the SIXTH day of the week,
agreeing with Genesis that this is when
man was created!
When the sun sets on this day, it is also
precisely the Shabbat!
In other words, all cycles perfectly align
with one another on all systems, and thats
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a rare beauty!

Straight Count and Later Return

But heres what all this has to do with


Yshuas Second Coming
If we now have the proper place to start
counting from, Friday, September 24th,
3901 BCE...
We can also count from there to our
time and beyond. Currently in Rabbinic
time, we are now in the year 5773 (as of
November 2012).
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Straight Count and Later Return

Adding 140 years to this brings us to


5,913 years from Adams creation to
November 2012.
From here, remember that the Later
Return adds as much as a 100 years to
Yshuas returnor no later than 2145
CE.
As of 1995 by this count, we entered the
68th Jubilee. 69 starts 2045 and
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Jubilee 70, the one in which Yshua must


return, would then start in 2095 and end in
2145, the very outer edge of my range.
The key though is this: If November 2012
is year 5,913, we have only 87 years to
go before year 6,000!
Before we saw the Early Return use 6900
years to point to the 70th week (69 x 100
per generation).
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Straight Count and Later Return

Now it seems the math on this system


is also pointing to the Millennial Rule
but in days of 1,000 years each, and
this is of course backed up by Scripture in
two places.
If each day is a time of work then the
seventh and last day must be the
Shabbat, a time of freedom and
rejoicinga perfect time for Yshua to
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return to us, as we see here

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A Prayer of Moshe, the man of Elohim.


Adonai, You have been our dwelling place in
all generations. Before the mountains were
born or You gave birth to the earth and the
world, even from everlasting to everlasting,
You are Elohim. You turn man back into
dust And say, "Return, O children of men."
For a thousand years in Your sight are like a
day when it passes by, or as a watch in the
night. (Psalm 90:1-4 NAU)
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And of this one thing, my beloved, be not


forgetful: That one day to Master YHWH, is
as a thousand years; and a thousand years,
as one day. (2 Peter 3:8-AENT)
So from Moses to Peter, this timing of a
day at 1000 years is set up firmly in
Scripture. It is a second math witness
bringing Scripture truth about when Yshua
may decide to return!
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And heres where plugging in the actual


years brings it all together
The 70th Jubilee starts in 2095, but the
6000th year from Adam starts in 2099,
which crosses the 3 to 4 year period
after the Jubilee begins!
To me, this is huge, because I have
never taken a Pre-Trib or other-Trib
position! Instead, I only focused on when
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Yshua might return. But

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it is possible I may have to reconsider IF


the Later Return option is the right one.
Because for the Later Return ONLY, it
seems that Pre-Trib math is hard
encoded in the system!
In other words, first the 70th Jubilee
starts and then Tribulation happens
immediately, with year 6000 right at the
end of that time exactly!
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If this counting is correct, then it clearly


proves a Pre-Trib position for Yshuas
return.
But the remaining question is this: How
can we know whether the Early or Later
Return scenario is the correct one?
At this moment, I favor the former, but I
cant disprove the latter with this new
evidence that strengthens it.
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The other possibility of course is that the


evidence allows these two possibilities for
the simple reason that Abba YHWH wants
it that way!
We are not to know the exact hour of his
returnbut Yshua did chide the
Pharisees for not recognizing the general
signs that he was coming the first time, so
we may know the range if not the actual
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year!

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Like the 25th priest scenario we saw


before, Abba YHWH is waiting to see
what WE will do with this information
coming out during the End of Days.
If so, what we do now could very well
tip the balance between the scenario
Abba YHWH allows His Son to return
on, which is why we must heed the words
of Scripture
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And Moshe said to the people,


Stand still and see the salvation
(yeshua/ ) of Yahweh, which
He will accomplish for you
todayYahweh will fight for you
and you will hold your peace!
(Exodus 14:13)
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So Let it be Written, So it Shall


be Done!

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abr hdwt

Todah Rabbah

Peace and blessings


Andrew Gabriel Roth

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