It's About Time

Now someone is going to say, "well, that is interesting, but it is just the Bible, and who can really trust the Bible? Maybe they purposely manipulated the numbers to make them line up!!"

OK, I will grant them this concern. But let us not forget that the Bible is also an historical document, and as such should be at least given the benefit of the doubt. So then, what about other more modern historical events -- events which are not part of Scripture? What if those events line up with the same Jubilee Calendar, the same 49 year cycles which I have been presenting here -- one which is based upon the chronology of Scripture?

SOOOOO . . . . . . . .

What are the odds that the Bar Kochba Revolt would line up perfectly with the Jubilee Cycles, to begin on a year of Jubilee (133 CE)?

What are the odds that the rental contract (MUR24E) connected with the Bar Kochba Revolt would specify a Sabbatical year 7 years after the start of that revolt?

What are the odds that the Fall of the Roman Empire would take place in a Jubilee year?

What are the odds that the Islamic calendar would start in a 49th year of the Jubilee Calendar, on July 16, 622 CE?

What are the odds that the Islamic calendar would start on July 16, 622 CE, exactly 49 X 27 years TO THE DAY before the first ever testing of an atomic bomb?

What are the odds that another seven year famine would take place in Egypt, starting on a year of Jubilee (in 1064 CE)?

What are the odds that the first atomic bomb would be exploded on July 16, 1945, exactly 49 X 27 years TO THE DAY after the established start of the Islamic calendar on July 16, 622 CE? Both of these dates are near the end of the 49th year of the Jubilee Calendar!

What are the odds that the United Nations would be created in a Jubilee year (1945)?

What are the odds that the UN would be formed exactly 70 years prior to the conclusion of 6000 years of history (according to these same Jubilee alignments)?

What are the odds that Comet Shoemaker Levy would begin striking the planet Jupiter on July 16, 1994, exactly 49 years TO THE DAY after the first test of the atomic bomb?

What are the odds that Comet Shoemaker Levy would break up into 21 pieces and send 21 of the greatest explosions ever witnessed in our solar system, representing the same number of years remaining on the Jubilee Calendar to the year 6000 from creation?

What are the odds that all of these alignments with the Jubilee Calendar are purely coincidental?

Now some will venture to say that anyone can just randomly pick out historical events that line up along 49 year cycles, and therefore make it appear that it is part of a special code -- a divine plan. However, that is not what we have done here. We don't start with modern day events or dates, and try to "make them fit." No, we start with Scripture first, and the events which are spoken of there -- events that go back four to six thousand years. The Jubilee code is based upon clearly defined chronological history and specific time prophecies found in Scripture, spread out over several thousand years. The authors of the Bible could not have manipulated the data, because they each only had a "piece of the puzzle." They could not possibly have known that it formed a pattern over several centuries, such as we can plainly see here today. Modern historians could not have manipulated the data either, and for the same reasons.

So, this is not a numbers game, for that involves random chance. And just because Scripture does not openly talk about this special Jubilee Code, does not mean it is not there. As I mentioned earlier, “It is the glory of the Almighty to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.” (Proverbs 25:2) As we can clearly see from an examination of Biblical chronology, history validates the testimony of Scripture by subtly recognizing these same Jubilee patterns. He put all of this there to let us know that regardless of the deceptions and corruptions that would come into the ranks of the true and the faithful, He would always be there to declare behind the scenes His very presence.

Yahweh does not want us to just accept everything by purely blind faith, and so He gives us reasons to believe Him, and some of those reasons are even subject to mathematical testing, as we have begun to do on this website. In Scripture, He does not just ask us to follow Him blindly and without reason. He says "taste, to see if I am good!" (Psalms 34:8) Yahushua declared His mission to the Jews and gave them many signs so that they should believe. He does the same for us, only without his actual presence. Yes, he does not want us to depend completely upon signs - but, nevertheless, he does give us signs to help us find the way. And in spite of the doubts of his own disciples, including Thomas, he was willing to even submit himself to being tested. He speaks directly to the doubting Thomas's of this world, those who are unable to listen anymore to all the rants and raves of modern organized religion (including Christianity, which has also deviated from the faith "once delivered to the saints"):

Yahushua (commonly, but erroneously, known as Jesus) is the true Messiah, the Jewish Messiah, Son of Yahweh, and sent by Yahweh to declare the works of Yahweh -- including eternal life through belief in him. He is not so concerned with his status or position that he is unwilling to allow himself to be put to the test.

Don't Just Blindly Accept His Word For It -

For those who are willing to search for these truths as if they were "hidden treasures," it is possible to discover clear evidence of the many signs Yahweh has given us, including the signs of the Jubilee Code (major events that line up along 49 year cycles). The signs are actually plainly visible -- hiding "in plain sight" within the Biblical chronologies, as I have demonstrated on this website. However, there are those who believe that the Jubilee cycles are 50 years instead of 49. While I can understand why they believe this way, I have to ask the question -- can any of them provide evidences in Scripture (and/or secular history) of major events lining up along 50 year cycles, just as I have shown in regard to these 49 year cycles? Please do not accept just one or two events as sufficient. We need to see 10 or more events -- as the Genesis chronology indicates!! I doubt if they can, but they are certainly free to try. [See my Answers to the issue of 49 verses 50 year cycles here.] Evidently, while scholars disagree on exactly when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are -- they are mostly in agreement that the Jubilee cycles are 49 years in length. "Regarding the length of the cycle, three significant scholarly studies devoted to the Jubilee and Sabbatical years agree that it was 49 years, while disagreeing somewhat on the interpretation of the other issues involved. These major studies were those of Benedict Zuckermann, [14] Robert North,[15] and Jean-François Lefebvre.[16] The reasons given by these authors to support a 49-year cycle are both textual (examinging all relevant Biblical texts) and practical." [Wikipedia article on Jubilee (Biblical) ]

[14] Benedict Zuckermann, Treatise on the Sabbatical Cycle and the Jubilee, trans. A Löwy; (New York: Hermon, 1974); originally published as "Ueber Sabbatjahrcyclus und Jobelperiode," in Jarhesbericht des jüdisch-theologischen Seminars "Fraenckelscher Stiftung" (Breslau, 1857).

[15] Robert North, Sociology of the Biblical Jubilee (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1954).

[16] Jean-Francois Lefebvre, Le Jubile Biblique: Lv 25 -- Exégèse et Théologie (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2003).

Regardless of the question of how long or when the cycle was, when you simply put it to the test, and follow the simple math as amply demonstrated here, it is very clear that Yahweh (both in the past and in the present) continues to intervene in this worlds history in clear and unmistakable repeating cycles of 49 years. To the best of my knowledge, there does not appear to be any significant number of 50 year alignments in support of a 50 year cycle. In stark contrast, the Genesis chronology reveals at least 10 known alignments just with the Jubilee cycles alone. And remember, this does not count those alignments that come directly from secular history, such as the captivity era, the temple era (i.e., Daniel 9), the post temple era, the dark ages, and modern times. There are altogether over 70 alignments with events that line up every seventh year, full seven year periods (in continuous weeks), in the midst of weeks (3 1/2 years), in the 49th years and in the 1st years of Jubilee cycles. But now the question remains, "can we connect all the dots and construct a reliable chronology from creation to the present, and on into the Millennium yet to come?" For the answer, please continue reading.