Posted by Kriss on March 20, 1999 at 14:14:48 {MW9hQZt3yw8IU}:
This shows how the Jubilees fit in with fulfilled Biblical chronology.
The Jews or Christians find freedom during the jubilee years and so major events in Jewish and Christian history fall on the original Jewish jubilees, starting with their release from Egypt. Of note, after a 40-year trek in the wilderness, the Jews entered the promised land and after 10 years divided it, and thus their agricultural jubilees fall in line with their release from Egypt.
The date for the release from Egypt is linked with the 430 years of error they would pay for during the 70-year sabbath period. If you divide 430 by the two types of sabbaths required, the 7-year sabbath and the 50-year jubilee, you get the required payback of 70 years. That is 430/7=61.4 and 430/50 jubilee=8.6; 8.6+61.4=70.
We just double the 430 years to get the actual period and add 70 which is 860+70=930. 931 years represents one less jubilee period of 49 years from 980 years. Of course,980 years is half of 490 years, which is another jubilee period.
Based upon this, the return from exile after a 70-year period of desolation to pay back the sabbaths should date the original return from Egypt 931 years earlier.
When did the Jews return from Babylon?
According to the Bible, the Messiah was to appear 483 years after the "word went forth" to rebuild Jerusalem and that occurred during the 1st year of Cyrus. Since Jesus appeared
in 29CE, the 1st year of Cyrus must be dated in 455BCE. That means the Exodus must have taken place 931 years earlier in 1386 B.C.E.
Thus 1386 BCE and 455 BCE are Jubilee years. The next Jubilee, representing Christiam freedom from the Law Covenvant occurred 490 years after 455 BCE, at the end of the 70 weeks (490 years) which ended in 36 CE.
All this sort of works out to just under a prophetic WEEK of periods of 490 years each. That is 931 years is just one 49-year period short of 980 years which would be like two days of 490 years each, and then another day from 455 to 36 CE is close to three days. To make up seven days to finish off the week, or a week minus 49 years for the Jews, we need 4 more days, right?
So 490 x 4=1960. Thus the week would end 1960 years after 36 CE, minus 49 years. 1960 +36 is 1996 minus 49 years is 1947.
And 1947, of course, is the marked year for the Jews to officially return to Palestine, thus this is like returning from Babylon back to their homeland.
This followed the great tribulation the Jews would endure which occurred during Holocuast, as prophesied by Daniel, a time of distress so terrible it would become a world event like none other. This was the holocuast. But after this "tampling" they would be blessed at 1290 days and also 1335 days. This represented their return to Palestine (ends 1290 days) and the setting up of the kingdom and the coming of the Jewish Messiah 45 years later, that is in 1992.
1992 is thus a signficant kingdom date to fulfill when the Jewish king would began to rule from heaven. 1992 thus would represent the end of another 7-day period, one which comprises a week of 360 years each, or a total of 2520 years.
Subtracing 1992 from 2521 gives us the beginning date of the "7 times" prophecy as well as the date for the fall of Jerusalem which would be in 529BCE. 2521-1992=529BCE.
Of course, this date is perfectly in line with the Bible's chronology which dates the 1st of Cyrus and the return of the Jews from Babylon in 455BCE, the beginning of the 70-year desert period in 525BCE (455+70=525) which began in the 23rd year of Nebuchadnezzar II at the last deportation, thus his 19th year and the fall of Jerusalem would necessarily be in 529BCE, which coordinates perfectly with the 1335 days from 1947.
So all the jubilees and the kingdom dates are perfectly in line for 1386BCE (Exodus), 455BCE (return from Babylon), 36CE (end of Law Covenant), and 1947CE (Jews return to Palestine), and 1996CE (end of christian Covenant with Christendom and JWs).
Of note, a lot of ancient dating has been debated and continues to be controversial, with many of the arguments never resolved. That was true up until this last year which now changes that debate. That's because, thanks for modern astro-programs which allows the layman to check out observations from ancient astronomical texts from the Neo-Babylonian and other periods, references in the critical VAT4956 document which proposes to date the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar II in 586BCE, also furnishes references to 511BCE.
The learned interpretation of this intratextual discrepancy is that while making revisions in the astronomical texts during the Seleucid Period, the astrologer-priests sought to preserve some secret references to the original chronology and they did this by creating astronomical "diaries" such as the VAT4956 and the SK400. Thus the references in these texts that do not fit their propaganda date have been discovered to reference the original chronology.
In the VAT4956, the references to 511BCE which would date the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar II that year, thus confirm that his original 19th year was, indeed, 529BCE.
That is, if his 37th year was 511BCE then his 1st year would be 36 years earlier in 547BCE and 18 years later would be 529BCE 547-18=529BCE. This is thus an absolutely confirmed dating from ancient astronomical texts.
Aren't these text dates overturned by tens of thousands of business clay documents which support 568BCE as the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar II?
NO. They don't. The idea that tens of thousands of documents exist that support 568BCE is a debate scam by those who want to maintain the fake chronology which secular history has adopted. Thus many think that in order to accept 529BCE one must dismiss all these documents as frauds. But this is not the case. The documents that survive from the Neo-Babylonion period are 1) Non-contested years, and 2) Only represent relative chronology.
That is, out of all those tens of thousands of business documents, you cannot derive any "absolute date" from a single text. Only astronomical texts provide any absolute date that you can confirm with an astronomy program or an eclipse canon.
What does this mean?
It means that those documents will work with any chronology you want them to. They work just as well with the fall of Jerusalem in 607BCE as some believe, as well as for the fall of Jerusalem in 529BCE. So many have been fooled into thinking that these tablets must be challenged in order to accept the original chronology. But this is not so. This is not to say that there were not fake business documents created to support the revised chronology. But those from the Neo-Babylonian period, say all those from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, which is where the vast majority of them come from, are compatible with the 607BCE, 568BCE or 529BCE chronology, since they represent only a relative chronology source.
On the other hand, the 511BCE references in the VAT4956, preempt any non-contemporary document in support of the 568BCE chronology and that means all their records which were all copied and revised, including the VAT4956 and the SK400.
Anyway, the NEWS is that the usual debates don't work anymore. Whereas the VAT4956 was used primarily to prove the chronology astronomically for the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar II in 568BCE can no longer do so since the document also established 511BCE as an alternative date for the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar. So now you have conflicting DIRECT CHRONOLOGY in the most important astronomical text for absolute dating that we have confirming the 529BCE date for the fall of the Jerusalem as being correct.
This would date the coming of the Messiah in 1992 and that date is very much consistent with all other biblical chronology, but especially the fulfillment of the 1335 years, 45 years after the return of the Jews to Palestine in 1947 which ended the 1290 days.
Many other Biblical chronology dates have also lined up with this chronology, especially fulfilled by natural Israel as well as "spiritual Israel" specifically, that is the modern-day temple organization who is associated with Jehovah's Witnesses.
Kriss