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is truth.” (John 17:17 KJV)
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Updated 5941(?)
02 05 2027 [2010-10-14]
New Meaning in Familiar Texts
“As soon as the seeker for truth opens the
Bible to read the utterances of God with reverence, possessing an earnest
desire to know "what saith the Lord," light and grace will be given
him, and he will see wondrous things out of God's law. He will not regard the
law of Jehovah as a yoke of bondage, but as the gracious commands of One who is
all-wise and full of compassion. He will make haste to fulfill His
requirements. Great truths
which have been neglected and unappreciated for ages, will be revealed by the
Spirit of God, and new meaning will flash out of familiar texts. Every page
will be illuminated by the Spirit of truth. The Bible is not sealed but unsealed. The most precious truths are
revealed; the living oracles are heard by wondering ears, and the consciences
of men are aroused into action.” --TSS 30.
{CSW 34.3}
“I have seen that the 1843 chart was
directed by the hand of the
Lord, and that it should not be
altered; that the figures were as He wanted them; that His hand was over and hid a mistake in some of the
figures, so that none
could see it, until His
hand was removed.” ({EW 74.1} The entire paragraph is
quoted below!)
Daniel 9:24-27 = 490 Years or What?
“Seventy weeks” in Terms of “a Year for a Day”
Fulfillment
Updated 490 year Prophecy Fulfillments.
An Updated Application of Daniel 8:14 and the 2300
Evenings and Mornings.
A Review of the Prior Dates of the 1260 Years and
More.
More re these “seventy week” prophecies as fulfilled
in terms of literal days
What should God’s People Study and Learn at
the End of 2300 Years?
Are We Missing Something Important Until
Now?!
Alternative applications harmonizing with the
Friday,
Aviv 17, 18 CE crucifixion
and the within
revised chronology of the 1st centuries
Abstract:
As Seventh-day Adventists we have
been greatly blessed with many things in consequence of paying attention to
God’s exact reckoning of time re the 7th Day Sabbath. In so doing, there have
been many steps of learning and many steps to go in applying that which has
been learned. Some times things have initially been incompletely or incorrectly
understood. Sometimes there has been some things that has had to be unlearned
before further steps in the path to the full truth can be accomplished.
One such valuable lesson of growth on
our way as a People towards God’s Kingdom took place some ten years after the
Seventh day Sabbath was first implemented by our pioneers shortly after the
great disappointment of October 22, 1844. There was some unlearning to do, some
habits to change, and some traditions to correct in order to stay close to the
light provided thus far along our path. At the time the Sabbath had been kept
from 6 PM to 6 PM for ten years by the Sabbath believers. After about ten years
some of our pioneers began waking up to the realization that the bible was
teaching, not 6 PM to 6 PM continually throughout the year, but
sunset to sunset always. As is usually true, the ones least receptive to the
change were the ones most entrenched in teaching the former traditions. Thus it
should come as no surprise that our most stounch pioneers and leaders, Joseph
Bates and Ellen G. White, were the ones last to accept this new light. Yet,
upon prompt and in depth study of the Scriptures they too soon realized and
accepted that which was obviously God’s light shining forth from the Holy
Scriptures. In a vision Ellen White was told: “Said
the angel: "Take the Word of God, read it, understand, and ye cannot
err. Read carefully, and ye shall there find..." ” {1BIO 324.3}
In her book Counsels on Sabbath School
Work, Ellen White, is emphasizing and encouraging us to study our bibles such
that we will discover ever more light in previously familiar passages:
“Great truths which have been neglected and unappreciated for
ages, will be revealed by the Spirit of God, and new meaning will flash out of
familiar texts. Every page will be illuminated by the Spirit of truth.” {CSW 34.3}
In the context of that passage most
important and valuable counsel is given regarding how we may each and together
most effectively relate to new discoveries such that we may retain the real
values while not being deceived by subtle errors and devious teachings leading
us astray.
After being guided by the Lord of
Hosts step by step and day by day through many years of what the Scriptures
have to teach us regarding God’s reckoning of time in both the Old and the New
Testament I have been blessed with a number of “great truths which
have been neglected and unappreciated for ages...” But, is anyone else interested
in the light shed upon our paths by these discoveries? Sometimes I feel as
lonely as did Elijah once, before the Lord made clear to him that there were
seven thousand others beside him...
My time related discoveries in the
New Testament began with the events surrounding the crucifixion. Eventually, as
it seems, under God’s continual guidance I’ve been able to date the greater
part of the events recorded in the New Testament as well as the time of
authorship for most of the epistles as well as the gospels. One of the mixed
blessings of this “new” light from the “Ancient of days” seems to indicate that
our prior assumptions regarding Yeshua/Jesus being baptized in 27 AD and
crucified in 31 AD does not hold up to greater light and the events as they
really happened in time. It follows that some details re our favorite
Seventh-day Adventist interpretation of Daniel’s prophecies, the 490 years of
Daniel chapter 9 and the 2300 evenings and mornings, seems to be misapplied or
misunderstood. But are we, anyone and all, willing to accept our errors such
that we may become receptive to the real and most important alternative
messages intended for us by our Creator? It is my prayer and my conviction that
the Lord still has His seven thousand willing servants who are willing to be
willing to learn and to do in accord with the instructions of His still small
voice.
What all is in those words of
prophetic utterance given to Daniel in chapter 9:24-27? I have no doubt but
that there is more than that which I am presently seeing as God keeps on adding
more light almost daily to that which He has showed me already, but I am
willing to share of the rays of light that keep coming my way. And yes, I have
found what seems to me to be more than satisfacory alternative exact
interpretations in real time of those “seventy weeks,” of those “seven weeks
and threescore and two weeks,” of the “one week:
and in the midst of the week,” and of the “two
thousand and three hundred days:”
Considerations re the Hebrew
words interpreted as 490 years:
Alternate
490 “year for a day” prophecies?:
We are well aware that God is
patiently waiting for and working with His people. The Israelites could have
entered the Promised Land after only 40 days in the desert, but due to their
fears and lack of trust and conviction the 40 days were turned into 40 years.
Thus also, besides the exact literal day
fulfillment, this prophecy also has its 490 year fulfillments, considering
also that in prophetic and biblical reckoning there is also merely a level of
difference between 49, 490, 4900 etc.. (If you wish you may download for
reference to various details of your own choice, this rather extensive Excel spread sheet. Notice, however, that
details in that spread sheet may not always be updated to the latest findings
and may therefore cause you to feel lost or confused. In essence that file is
one of the many files I am using for my ongoing chronology work.)
1.
Thus
counting from Cyrus’ decree in 533 BCE (i.e. within the biblical year beginning
with Tishri 22, 534 BCE, which year, based upon a later Sabbatical year defined
by Josephus, was a
Sabbatical year) I find that 490 years later is one and the same year as
when Herod the Great conquered Jerusalem on behalf of the Emperor of Rome, i.e. under Caesar Augustus and Anthony, thus making
Judah a domain under Roman jurisdiction at the end of the biblical year 44/43
BCE, which year, per Josephus, was another Sabbatical year. Indeed, Herod’s
appointment as a king happened in
2.
In
our Sabbath Schools Bible Study Guide (SDA Sabbath School Quarterly 2004:4:11:Dec 8) it was made
clear that among the three possibilities re the beginning point in time of the
490 years, 457 BCE was selected because it represented a real time event that
seemed to fit exactly with the assumed year of Jesus’ baptism in 27 A.D.. If
now we are willing to make a similar retrograde calculation based upon what I
believe is the correct year for the crucifixion, 18 CE, we will find something
quite interesting and striking, perhaps also something we didn’t expect: 490 full biblical years before 18 CE is 490
– 17 = ‑473 = 474 BCE (the last complete Scriptural year prior to
Yeshua’s crucifixion ended in 17 CE, and in the spring of 474 BCE Ahasuerus
issued his decrees.)
Alternatively, these years could be
reckoned from the consummated victory on Adar 13, 473 BCE, thusly 490 – 18 =
-472 = 473 BCE. Or perhaps, in this case, it is appropriate to use Babylonian
year reckoning, i.e. years beginning Aviv 1, as does Josephus for times of
civil war, thus obtaining even tighter reckoning: The original Purim event took
place Adar 13 (the 12th month,) 473 BCE, and Yeshua was crucified on
Aviv
17, 18 CE, thus 490 – 18 = -472 = 473 BCE. In Esther 3:7 and 8:9 we may
read about two important decrees in the months of Aviv and Sivan, 474 BCE,
exactly 490 completed Scriptural years prior to the year for the crucifixion of
Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus Christ. What lessons are we willing to take to heart
from that correlation?: Are we willing to take a firm stand for our convictions
as acquired from our own thorough studies of the Holy Scriptures without
wavering before possible death at the hands of men as did both Esther and
Yeshua? Or do we prefer to delegate our God given responsibilities to other men
or women who may not be able to shoulder each our own personal responsibilities
any more than the five wise virgins could possibly share of the anointment
acquired over years of studying, learning, and applying, with the other five
virgins who began realizing only too late what was at stake?
3.
Although
I do not as yet have a completely reliable or exact reckoning of the years from
the anointment of king Saul unto the end of the Babylonian captivity I find
that that time period is somewhere in the neighborhood of 490 years also. But
that can hardly be said to be prophetic time…
Is
anything of lasting value being learnt from these things, or are we merely
repeating history committing the same errors of principle every 490 years? As
in whoever fails to learn from the mistakes of history is doomed to repeat
them?
Are we,
each of us, still committing the ultimate mistake of asking to have a king or
State over us in likeness unto all the other nations around us? Are we failing
to take to heart the admonitions of our Savior through the prophet Samuel in 1
Sam 8 as well as His admonitions through John the beloved apostle in Revelation
18:4 and by means of the Three Angel’s Messages as portrayed in Revelation 14?
Are we really that unwilling to realize God’s offer of having us return to His
Kingdom and the Garden of Eden in the here and the now and without any
semblance of that which is meant by the Latin words “Vicarius filii dei” as
engraved within the tiara of the Vatican pope? That is, without having someone
or something as a go between, as a mediator, any type of man made insurance or
State, anything that limits our own responsibility, anything that we, I or you,
choose for shielding ourselves from a direct communion with our Creator and God.
Cf. Deuteronomy 5:3-5, 8-9! Why is it that we do not realize the tremendous
blessings inherent in accepting the first three promises inherent in more fully
understanding the point of, and how to obey, the first three Commandments of
the Decalogue? Or are we misusing the Sabbath hours such that we fail to do the
first thing, to remember, on that day of remembrance, the very first three
promises of our Creator, i.e. to the effect that God’s Day of Rest truly
becomes a time of sanctification, of purification of our thought patterns and
of the consequent actions and habits of our lives?
Another application and beginning of the “490 weeks:”
Another commandment! Another point of decision!:
How about if we more closely apply the pattern learned
from the literal day fulfillment upon these 490 “year for a day” prophecy
years? Suppose again we begin with Cyrus’ decree, this time counting from “the
beginning… of the commandment… [that] came forth” (Dan. 9:23) on Tishri 10, 534
BCE. Counting down time 62 weeks, or 62 x 7 = 434 years, counting completed
years, we come to the end of the year beginning Tishri
22, 100 BCE, or
Tishri 21, 99 BCE. Counting backwards in time 490 years from that last year we
come to Tishri 22, 590 BCE. The event we are looking for should then be in the
accession year preceding the year beginning Tishri 22, 590 BCE. That accession
year is one and the same as Nebuchadnezzar’s 15th Scriptural year of
reign. It is also one and the same year as the 7th Scriptural year
of Jehoiachin's captivity. What, if anything of interest, happened in that
year? The only reference to that year that I am aware of is found in Ezekiel
20:1-2:
Eze 20:1 KJV
And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of
Eze 20:2 KJV
Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying…
Notice that the messages Ezekiel brought from the LORD
God, i.e. Yahweh Elohim, under that date continue through the 23rd
chapter! If those messages, dated as they are not quite four years prior to the
destruction of
Eze 22:28
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining
lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
And re the absence of anyone willing to stand up and do
God’s bidding:
Eze 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and
stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I
found none.
How does this message apply to me and you today? For it
does, or does it not?!
But what about the
other end of this 490
“year for a day” application? Was there anything of significance that happened
between Tishri 22, 100 BCE and Tishri 21, 99 BCE? Well, that year falls into a
gap of time (134 BCE – 73 BCE) where I have almost nothing immediately
available. Yet, I am not at a total loss as to this year. I do notice that this
Scriptural year is not only a Sabbatical year, as based upon Josephus, but it
is in fact the 70th Scriptural year of the Asamonean kingdom (cf. my file ScriptureChronology.xls,) i.e.
the house of kings who ruled Israel until Palestine fell under the reign of the
Roman Empire when Herod the Great captured Jerusalem on Tishri 10, 43 BCE after
another 55 Scriptural years of reign under the Asamoneans. Was this year a year
of another important decision? Was this year a year with an event corresponding
in any way to the laying of the foundation of the
“Alexander Jannaeus (also known as Alexander
Jannai/Yannai), king of Judea from (103 BCE to 76 BCE), son of John Hyrcanus,
inherited the throne from his brother Aristobulus, and appears to have married
his brother's widow, Shlomtzion or "Shelomit", also known as Salome
Alexandra, according to the Biblical law of Yibum ("levirate
marriage"), although Josephus is inexplicit on that point.
“His
likely full Hebrew name was Jonathan; he may have been the High Priest
Jonathan, rather than his great-uncle of the same name, who established the
And perhaps too, the year (?) of Julius Caesar’s birth
should be considered?
“100 BCE Births: July 12 or July 13 —
Julius Caesar, Roman general and politician (or 102 BC) (d. 44 BC)”
In summary re this 490 “year for a day” application as
patterned upon the literal 4,900 day fulfillment of Daniel’s “seventy week”
prophecy:
I notice in particular that in each of the years here
pinpointed important decisions were made. Decisions with prominent and far
reaching consequence noticeable on a grand scale even today:
1. The Scriptural year beginning 591 BCE: Ezekiel is
given a most important message from the Lord;
2. The Scriptural year beginning 535 BCE: The command of
Daniel 9:23 issued; and
3. The Scriptural year beginning 100 BCE: The decisions
and actions of Jonathan, the High Priest?
Let’s see if we may find another meaningful application:
Suppose, using the same point of beginning identified in
Daniel 9:23, Tishri 10, 434 BCE, and again using the “year for a day” principle,
we count down time 4,692 years and then back 4,900 years from that point. That
brings us first to Tishri 22 in the year 4,692 – 433 = 4,259 CE, then back to
Tishri 22 in the year 4,259 – 4,900 = -641 or 642 BCE. What, if anything,
happened in the accession year of events prior to Tishri 22, 642 BCE? Well, per
the work I did a few years back, which may need reviewing before I dare to rely
exactly upon them, that year would correspond to Manasseh’s, king of Judah, 54th
year of reign. A few years after that, king Josiah, did some remarkable work…
cf. 2 Chron. 33:24-25; 34:1-7 (KJV.) Thus, so far nothing remarkable for this
supposition.
What about
the prophecy re the 2300 evenings and mornings?
Now, if
it is true that we cannot honestly use 27 AD as our basis for choosing 457 BCE
as the starting point of the 490 year prophecy, then also we cannot build on
the assumption we used for the beginning of the 2300 year prophecy, i.e. the
assumption that the 490 year prophecy and the 2300 year prophecy have a common
beginning, can we? What then is the correct basis and the point of beginning
for the reckoning of the 2300 evenings and mornings?
Perhaps
it only makes sense that there could be more than one correct and valuable
application of this period of time, i.e. just as it appears as though I
discovered three or four distinct and different but sensible applications for
the time period referenced in Daniel 9:24-27, i.e. “the 490 year prophecy” to
replace the one application that after so many years of valuable and profitable
teaching and soul winning is being shown to have an error in detail, though not
so in principle.
At first
I am thinking that the 2300 years could be applied either to the entire time
period of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel 2, or else and probably
preferentially upon that part of it that pertains to the Roman Empire and the
little horn prophecy. Yet, the latter would point to a time yet far into the
future (2300 – 43 = 2257 CE; i.e. 249 years into our future) while the former,
if based upon the beginning of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign (2300 – 604 = 1696 CE,)
points to a date that does not immediately ring a bell in my mind. Counting
from the time of Daniel’s vision (Belshazzar’s 3rd year of reign;
Dan 8:1) also does not ring any bells in my mind (2300 – (547 or 546) = 1753 or
1754 CE.)
Nevertheless, I do find one application that does
make a lot of sense to me in the context of Daniel 8:14, and especially as
defined by the question posed by the angel in Daniel 8:13: The question posed
is focusing upon “both the sanctuary and the host… be trodden underfoot…” To me
the most important and prominent representation of the tabernacle and the
sanctuary, albeit almost entirely overlooked elsewhere, is nothing other than
the family unit as based upon a covenant between male and female. Who can deny
that this is the image being described in Genesis 1:27 and who can deny that
the family unit is being trodden underfoot by our States and by today’s
societies? And who is “the host” if not the father/husband/male of that family?
When did this calamity begin? It does have more than one beginning, does it
not? There are many families and there are many like calamities throughout
history, are there not?! Nevertheless, I am thinking of one such event that in
a very special way is emphasized in the Scriptures as misrepresenting the very
essence of true Scripture teaching. I am thinking of the misguided initiative
taken by Ezra per the record given us in Ezra 10:17:
"And they made an end with all the men that had
taken strange wives by the first
day of the first month" Ezra 10:17 (KJV).
Here God
is using Ezra to do a great thing in bringing God’s people back from the
Babylonian captivity to God’s own country and to Jerusalem and to make further
contributions to the temple. Yet, when realizing that the people have been
making unwise choices in marrying women of foreign nations, rather than working
towards purifying those families by strengthening each of them and each of
their members into a closer walk with God, Ezra is taking steps towards
enforcing whole sale family destruction and whole sale divorce action. Thus
missing the whole key point of the Seventh Commandment as well as of the chief
objective and focus of the work of God’s People! A breach of the one most
sacrosanct covenant, a covenant carrying in each case the blessing of our
Creator from the time of Creation onwards! What a curse! How can anything but
calamity be the consequence of such an action as thus initiated by Ezra? Where
is the faith and trust in God’s providence and saving power to mend and heal
broken families? Where is it now? Where was it then? Nevertheless, this event
did happen and the severe consequences were not long in waiting and they were
not for good, were they? Or weren’t the temple in
And I came
to
Well, per the conventional order of Ezra
and Nehemiah (but cf. below!!!,)
the event recorded in Ezra 10:17 did happen on Aviv 1, 456 BCE, while the results
described in Nehemiah 13:7-8 took place in Artaxerxes’ 32nd year of
reign (433/432 BCE,) i.e. no more than 24 years later.
Interestingly, I find that Aviv 1, 456 BCE is no more than about one
year off from the year previously attributed to the beginning of the 2300 year
prophecy. “In detail there was an error…”
{1BIO 323.2} Perhaps, God had a purpose in mind by
allowing this mistake and all its consequential blessings thus far?! Perhaps
too, he is now confirming that indeed, as Ellen White said, “the hand of the Lord… was over and hid a mistake in some of the figures, so that none could see it, until His hand was removed?” Perhaps the Lord is confirming those words of Ellen White by sending
us an added and closely related blessing in a very similar mistake that wasn’t
even seen until now? Thus, again using this mistaken placement of Ezra’s
activities beginning in Artaxerxes I’s 7th year of reign (i.e. as
opposed to the correct placement in
Artaxerxes II’s reign:)
Counting from Aviv 1, 456 BCE (so very close to Aviv 1, 457 BCE!)
that [falsely] presumed year of Ezra’s terrible mistake in initiating whole
sale family destruction, I find that 2300 – 455 = 1845 AD.] Or, more accurately
and to do it the Scriptural way: Aviv 1, 456 BCE being the date of the
initiating event, I find that the end of the accession year and the beginning
of year #1 is the beginning of Tishri 22, 456 BCE. It follows that the
beginning of year #2,300 is the beginning of Tishri 22, 1845 CE… ending one
year later, at the beginning of Tishri 22, 1846.
“And he said unto me, Until darkness
lightness number two thousand and three hundred; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Daniel 8:14 (TLT
©. Re the initiating event for this translation, cf. this
link!)
What
happened within the Scripture year that began in 1845, within that 2,300th
year following said whole sale destruction of the family related in the book of
Ezra? Well, the Seventh-day Sabbath was beginning to be honored in 1845 by some
of those that remained after the great disappointment in 1844! What a blessing!
Perhaps the Scripture year 1844/45 CE could be considered another accession
year of sorts – at least in terms of the best available insights known to those
people at that time, i.e. re e.g. Artaxerxes I vs. Artaxerxes II and re the
relative timing of Ezra and Nehemiah? In 1846, before (cf. {1T 75.4} and {CET
85-88,}) James’ and Ellen’s wedding Ellen met for the first time Elder Joseph
Bates at which time she was introduced to the Seventh-day Sabbath truth. Notice
the importance of that meeting in terms of the beginnings of the Seventh-day
Adventist movement!
But
notice also that there is something related to the foundation of every family,
that most blessed eternal Covenant of God: On Sunday August 30 [Elul 6,] 1846
Ellen G. Harmon was married to Elder James White (and later that fall the two
of them together accepted the Seventh-day Sabbath truth after initially
resisting the importance of keeping the Seventh Day as the Sabbath of the Lord.)
Indeed, in that 2,300th year [Tishri 22, 1845 – Tishri 21, 1846,]
after that presumed whole sale destruction of the families in 456 AD, Ellen
White had a vision where she saw…
“The
For
more details re these events of the 19th century pioneers please cf.
{1T 75.4} {2MCP 719.3} {EW 299.3-5} {1T 75.4.}
Now,
if these things, the focus of our pioneers upon the family and upon the Sabbath
as the center piece of God’s Ten Promises of Blessings, are not a most valuable
blessing in consequence of the angel’s response in Daniel 8:14 and our mistaken
reckoning from 457 AD, I don’t know what is:
“And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Daniel 8:14 (KJV.)
“And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred
evenings and mornings;
then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Daniel 8:14 (RV.)
“And he said unto me, Until darkness
lightness number two thousand and three hundred; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Daniel 8:14 (TLT
©.)
And isn’t the use of the expression
“evenings and mornings” a rather strong hint to us by the angel bringing the
message to Daniel that that which is being trodden upon is something that has
to do with an emphasis upon exactly that, “evenings and mornings,” as in God’s
time keeping, God’s own calendar, God’s own Sabbath, and the “daily” “evening
and morning” worship services within each family of God?!
Indeed,
isn’t all of this exactly what our pioneers came to believe it was?: Yeshua
entering into the most holy section of the heavenly sanctuary: For instance as
reflected in the establishment of the family of James and Ellen White, and by
the People of God waking up to the importance of increasingly understanding
God’s reckoning of time and, among other things, keeping the Seventh Day
Sabbath as a day of remembrance and a day for being sanctified and purified by
a continual study and implementation of God’s Ten Promises of unlimited
blessings, i.e. of the Ten Commandments?!
Well, there
could be yet another application of the 2300 year prophecy: What if Ezra’s
activities began, not in Artaxerxes I’s 7th year of reign, but
in Artaxerxes II’s 7th year of
reign as seems quite plausible considering the facts pointed out in SDA
Bible Commentary, Vol. 3, pp. 369-37. The beginning of Artaxerxes II’s 7th
year is 398 BCE, and Aviv 1, 396 BCE is the time applicable to Ezra’s whole
sale divorce decree as recorded in Ezra 10:(8,) 17.
Based
upon the last date above (Aviv 1, 396 BCE) the 2300 prophetic years reaches to
2300 - 395 = 1905 CE. That is, the 2,300th year began with Tishri
22, 1905 and ended with Tishri 21, 1906. What, if anything, of significance
happened within that Scriptural year? Well, I can think of one thing: In that
year the Protocols of Zion were
first published (cf. also this
link:)
These protocols were adopted in 1897. They were
published by Sergyei Nilus in
And why would this event be of any significance? Think of
it! The secret powers behind the Protocols of Zion have been controlling this planet
for hundreds, even thousands, of years. In finally publishing their intent and
much of their modus operandi they have made available to anyone who wishes to
know an open declaration of what is really going on behind the scenes, thus
making available, to anyone wishing for it, a more solid foundation for his or
her decisions of responsibility in life!!! Think of it! Selah!
A friend sent me a link
that may be helpful in shedding light on what’s happened behind the scenes
since the time when the Protocols of Zion were first made public. I’d probably
be remiss if I didn’t share that one too. But be prepared, if you peel down
that URL you’ll probably have enough to read for a year – Most people I know do
not have strength enough to accept the reality of all this, nor to cease
sharing of their powers to support it all. I believe this stuff requires you to
have a past experience similar to the five virgins with enough oil in their
lamps (Matthew 25:1-13,) and an experience similar to those furthest along the
path in the story of the green cord (Find the story at this
link using {CET 179.1,} which last link is truly loaded with such power as
each one of us need for our traveling through life!) Yet, paradoxically as it
may seem, reading the stuff at that first link while realizing and accepting
the reality of the world we are part of may also provide for you just such an
experience without having to learn it the hard way and by your own trying
experience… as did Adam and Eve and so many others among us, their offspring.
Artaxerxes
I or Artaxerxes II - Ezra and the 7th year of which Artaxerxes?
Now,
which is the real and true basis for the 2300 years? 456
BCE or 396 BCE? When did the 2300 years really end? 1845 or 1905?
Perhaps this is an additional piece of evidence:
Ezr 10:9 (TLT) Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin
gathered themselves together unto
Ezr 10:9 (KJV) Then all the men of Judah and
Benjamin gathered themselves together unto
Let’s see
upon which day of the week this day, Kislev 20, i.e. the 20th day of
the 9th month, fell in each of those two years:
Kislev 20, 457 BCE fell on the day beginning at sunset
Thu Nov 7 or Fri Nov 8, or else Fri Dec 6 or Sat Dec 7, 457 BCE.
[Kislev 20, 398 BCE fell on the day beginning at sunset
Mon Nov 15 (Julian Day 1576372) or Tue Nov 16, or else Tue Dec 14 or Wed Dec
15, 398 BCE. – Irrelevant because Ezra and the
returning Jews did not return to Jerusalem before the 5th month of
the 7th year or about two months before the beginning of the 8th
year. Thus the 9th month of Ezra 10:9 pertains to the 8th
year, which could not be earlier than 397 BCE.]
Kislev 20,
397 BCE fell on the day beginning at sunset Sun Dec 3 or Mon Dec 4 (Julian Day 1576757,) 397 BCE. – Notice: The whole sale divorce action of Ezra occurred
on Aviv
1, 396 BCE.
Kislev 20, 396 BCE fell on the day beginning at sunset
Thu Nov 22 or Fri Nov 23, or else Sat Dec 22 or Sun Dec 23, 396 BCE.
[ - The Kislev 20, 396 BCE date is added in order to confirm
the numbering of the regnal years of Artaxerxes II. Cf. the “Note re accession
of Artaxerxes II:” in ScriptureChronology.xls. 396 BCE is not the year of Ezra
10:9!]
Obviously,
Day Three of
the week begins on Monday night (as we have also learnt elsewhere
re the resurrection of Yeshua!)
Conclusion re Ezra and Artaxerxes’ 7th year
Given the fact that Ezra is reckoning
time using Scriptural years and that the 7th & 8th
Scriptural regnal years of Artaxerxes II may be considered defined by 1) the
evidence pointed out in SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 3,
pp. 369-374, entitled “Additional Note on Chapter 7 re
the events of Nehemiah preceding the events of Ezra, and 2) as analyzed above,
and in conjunction with said item 1) above, the exact double date specified in
Ezra 10:9, that is, Day Three of the week and the exact day of the month, the
year being the 8th regnal year
of Artaxerxes, I conclude
that the 8th year of Artaxerxes, as referenced by Ezra, began with
Tishri 22, 397 BCE, not on Tishri 22, 457 BCE.
Adding to the above an item #3) re the
cessation of the Jewish community at Elephantine, I find even further
confirmation for the same conclusion…
Moreover, the account in Nehemiah 13:23-28 re Nehemiah’s noticing the Jews
marrying wives of other countries seems to be much more of a primary
observation than that of Ezra in Ezra 9:1-2, which latter account seems to
point to a prior command that had been disregarded, that is, a possible, even
probable, reference to Nehemiah’s command per Nehemiah 13:25-27!
In other words, I conclude that, more than likely,
Nehemiah preceded Ezra, and that the 7th
year of Artaxerxes as referenced by Ezra is Artaxerxes II, not Artaxerxes I as commonly taught and believed!
Now, may
I suggest that you, carefully and after prayer for God’s truth and guidance,
study and consider the passage in SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 3, pp. 369-374,
entitled “Additional Note on Chapter 7!”
Here’s my
list of Persian kings and their years of reign:
|
Name of king |
The 4 kings* of Daniel 11:2 |
Scripture years (beginning Tishri 22, i.e. 7th
month) |
|
Darius,
king of Media (and later of |
|
536/535 –Adar
27±, 533 BCE |
|
Cyrus |
Given Daniel in Cyrus’ 3rd year : |
Tammuz 27,
534 BCE – 525(/524) BCE |
|
Cambyses |
1 |
531/530
BCE – Av 6, 523 BCE |
|
The false
Smerdis |
2 |
Av 6, 523
BCE – Nisanu 10, 522 BCE |
|
Darius
Hystaspes |
3 |
Nisanu
10, 522 BCE - 486/485 BCE |
|
Xerxes I
/ Ahasuerus |
4 |
486/485 –
465(/464) BCE |
|
Artaxerxes
I |
|
465(/464)
– 424(/423) BCE |
|
Darius II
Nothus |
|
424(/423)
– 405/404 BCE |
|
Artaxerxes
II |
|
405/404 –
359/358 BCE |
*) Cf. SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, p.
864.
Next,
consider Ezra 4:24 and see if the TLT translation below is not helpful in
making more understandable Ezra as a whole and in particular Ezra 4:5-8, 11;
6:14; 7:1, 7, 11-12, 21; 8:1!:
Ezr 4:24 (TLT) Then
ceased the work of the house of God which is at
Jerusalem as it had ceased unto the
second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezr 4:24 (KJV) Then ceased the work of the
house of God which is at
Ezr 4:24 (TLT) ThenH116 ceasedH989 the
workH5673 of the houseH1005 of GodH426
whichH1768 is at JerusalemH3390 as it hadH1934
ceasedH989 untoH5705 the secondH8648
yearH8140 of the reignH4437 of DariusH1868
kingH4430 of Persia.H6540
Ezr 4:24 (KJV) ThenH116 ceasedH989 the
workH5673 of the houseH1005 of GodH426
whichH1768 is at Jerusalem.H3390 SoH1934 it ceasedH989
untoH5705 the secondH8648 yearH8140 of
the reignH4437 of DariusH1868 kingH4430 of
Persia.H6540
Ezr 4:24 באדיןH116 בטלתH989 עבידתH5673 ביתH1005 אלהאH426 דיH1768 בירושׁלםH3390 והותH1934 בטלאH989 עדH5705 שׁנתH8140 תרתיןH8648 למלכותH4437 דריושׁH1868 מלךH4430 פרס׃H6540
Now,
re-read Ezra chapters 1-6 and see if it is not making a whole lot more sense to
you than it might have before!
I believe
the final stand is up to each one among us to make, is it not?! Nevertheless,
without the Sabbath truth and the Seventh-day Advent movement I would not have
had the foundation I presently have for reaching thus far in my understanding.
As said Ellen Gould White:
“I
have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord,
and that it should not be altered; that the figures were as He wanted them; that His hand was over and hid a mistake in
some of the figures, so that none could see it, until His hand was removed.” ({EW 74.1} The entire paragraph is
quoted below!)
So then, what “sanctuary… [shall] be
cleansed…” at the end of the 2300 days?
Dan 8:14 And he said unto
me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall
the sanctuary be cleansed.
Who will do his or her part? Will I?
Will you? Each one of us within each our own God given dominion and within each
our own family?!
How do we cleanse our families? By
taking steps to destroy them? Or by taking steps for bringing each and all of
us, beginning with our selves, closer to our Creator first, and also to one
another?!
Some other exact 2,300 year fulfillments of
interest:
I notice
that counting from the “commandment” of Daniel 9:23 dated Tishri 10, 534 BCE
until the date when Napoleon
Bonaparte was conceived [he was delivered [=EDC±?] August 15, 1769 è LMP Nov 8±, 1768 è Conception on or before Nov 23±, 1768 =
Kislev 13/14±, 1768 CE.] Thus 1767 full
years [by Tishri 22, 1768] less 2300 = -533 = 534 BCE. Thus, an event within
the year prior to Tishri 22, 534 BCE would fall in the accession year of a 2300
year period being concluded with Tishri 21, 1768. This would fit the conception
of Napoleon Bonaparte perfectly. Given the nature of the beginning of Cyrus’
reign, i.e. a proper meeting
of the minds of two sovereign kings and each their offspring and the
covenant established in consequence thereof, I see this as one perfect example
of God’s covenant as offered to each one among us while also an excellent
application of Genesis 2:24. There are some similarities re the circumstances
of Napoleon Bonaparte’s conception, his father and his mother and Corsica. Given also Napoleon’s
part in breaking the power of the Roman Catholic church in 1798, I see in
Napoleon’s beginnings an interesting fulfillment of the 2,300 evenings and
mornings prophecy.
Based upon
Adar 27, 533 BCE as a published, i.e. effective, date as an initiating event I
find it interesting to notice that some very important practical activities had
their beginnings exactly 2300 completed years subsequently: Wikipedia lists the
following:
In
James
Watt demonstrates the first practical steam engine, an invention which
inaugurated the Industrial Revolution in
David
Garrick holds the first Shakespeare Festival at
Richard
Arkwright invents the spinning frame.
Additionally, there are 2300 years ±
:
1. Between the
flood and Yeshua’s crucifixion; and
2. Between the
birth of Noah and the birth of Cyrus.
Re “time,
times, and half a time” and “1260 years:”
Beginning date – March 538 CE/AD:
“The
Ostrogoths, who had been driven from
Ending date – February 10-25, 1798 CE:
“[p. 364]
Berthier advanced to the city by forced marches; summoned the castle of St.
Angelo [Feb. 10th], allowing only four hours for its evacuation by
the papal troops; the convicts were set at liberty; the gates of the city
secured by the French, the pope, all the cardinals except three, and the whole
people of Rome, made prisoners at discretion. . . .
“[p. 365]
Shortly afterwards [Feb. 15th.], Berthier made his triumphal entry
into Rome; and a tree of liberty being planted on the capitol, . . . a
proclamation was issued, declaring . . .
a free and independent republic, under the special protection of the
French army. A provisional government was acknowledged, as established by the
sovereign people; and every other temporal authority emanating from the pope
was suppressed, nor was he any longer to exercise any function…
“…the
unfortunate pontiff was removed from
“[p. 46]
That the head of the church might be made to feel with more poignancy his
humiliating situation, the day chosen for planting the tree of liberty on the
capitol was the anniversary of his election to the sovereignty [Feb. 15].
Whilst he was, according to custom, in the Sistine chapel, celebrating his
accession to the papal chair, and receiving the congratulations of the
Cardinals, Citizen Haller, the commissary-general, and Cervoni, who then
commanded the French troops within the city, gratified themselves in a peculiar
triumph over this unfortunate potentate. During that ceremony they both entered
the chapel, and Haller announced to the sovereign Pontiff on his throne, that
his reign was at an end…
“[p. 47]
…At the same time that his Holiness received this notice of the dissolution of
his power, his Swiss guards were dismissed, and Republican soldiers put in
their place.” (SDA Bible Student's Sourcebook [i.e. SDA Bible Commentary,] Vol.
9, p. 702-3; Source: Richard Duppa, A Brief Account of the Subversion of the
Papal Government. 1798 (2d ed.; London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799), pp. 46,
47.)
”Procopius... Byzantine
historian from Cæsarea in
(Free translation from Swedish: “Prokopios…
bysantinsk historieskrivare från Cæsarea i Palestina (d. tidigast 560), en
samtida till kejsar Justinianus I, är den bästa källan för kännedomen om dennes
tid och över huvud den förnämste grekiske historikern efter Polybios...” (
”Vitiges… Ostrogoth king (died
after 540) who was elected 536 CE as king of the anti-Roman party and who had
the legitimate king Teodahad murdered; these events intensified the conflict
with the East-Roman Caesar, who was now able to appear as the legitimate
protector of order. In the fights for Italy Vitiges was not able to stand up to
Belisarius…”
(Free translation from Swedish: ”Vi’tiges, V i t i
g i s, östgotisk konung (d. efter 540) valdes 536 till konung av det
antiromerska partiet och lät mörda den legitime kung Teodahad; dessa händelser
skärpte konflikten med den östromerske kejsaren, som nu kunde uppträda som den
legitima ordningens väktare. I striderna om Italien kunde V. ej mäta sig med
Belisarius (se denne)...” (
”Goths, a Germanic people. The
first reference to the Goths in the literature is found in Tacitus, about 100
CE. The Goths were then living near the outlet of the
(Free translation from Swedish: ”Goter, germanskt
folk. Första gången, g. med säkerhet omtalas i litteraturen, är hos Tacitus, o.
100 e.Kr. De äro då bosatta i landet kring Weichsels mynning. Deras tidigare öden
äro obekanta; en förf. från 500-talet säger visserligen, att g. urspr. bott på ön Scandia
(Skandinavien), men denna
uppgift är av högst tvivelaktig sanningshalt...” (
“GOTH…
The Goths probably originated in what is now southern
Considerations re the reckoning of 1260 years:
Re the
dates for these events: February and March correspond to the biblical months
Adar and Aviv, both of which are about midpoint of the biblical year beginning
Tishri 22. Considering the biblical usage of accession years (by default;
exceptions being Esther and Haggai) and the last calendar year of any biblical
year being attributed to the last prior king, one should reckon thusly: The
ending biblical year, including the events of Feb 1798, is 1797/1798, and the
beginning biblical accession year, including the events of March 538, is
537/538. It follows that simple subtraction of either of those pairs of years
result in a correct calculation of the time period: 1798 – 538 = 1260 and 1797
– 537 = 1260. Thus I perceive no problem with the reckoning of these 1260 year
prophetic periods.
Considerations re the reckoning of 1290 and the 1335
days/years:
Per
the original version of SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, pp. 60-65, 842-3, 880-1
there are at least two prevalent SDA interpretations re the daily and thus also
on the 1290 days. Those two views came originally from James White and Uriah
Smith respectively (ibid. p. 65.) I find no exactly dated event
pertaining to 508 A.D., though two events in that year are being referenced:
“the conversion of
I
conclude that there is room for further study re these numbers, at least on my
own part!
More
considerations by Ellen G. White:
“September 23, the Lord showed me that He had stretched out His hand the
second time to recover the remnant of His people, [SEE PAGE 86.] and that
efforts must be redoubled in this gathering time. In the scattering,
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