Israel, God's Timepiece

God deals with Israel in the Land of the Covenant in harmony with the seven festivals of Leviticus 23 therefore their elect will be born-again as a nation in one day confirming Israel is God's timepiece. God measures no certain time by us Gentiles for He deals with us as individuals—elect, broadcast throughout the world like wildflowers of the field. His servant Israel is a distinct race—one nation in its Covenant Land bound within a common Law and culture—separated from the nations as on the Day of Pentecost the hundred and twenty in one heart in one place were separated from the world. As Israel has specific times and seasons to present itself before the Lord, He could declare in Isaiah 66:8 "the nation will be born-again in one day" in a certain year, month, week and day.

Because of Israel's fixed natural and spiritual environment, God's Covenant is of no effect outside her borders where she is not a nation. Her people were never expelled from the Land as chastisement for sin without God setting a precise time for their return. As God will never forsake Israel, we will examine certain times God set for the people and their land.


I. 400 years of Affliction


After Abram defeated the four kings of Babylon, Persia, Kurdistan and Assyria he despaired of his childlessness and God appeared in a vision to console him with the promise of fruitfulness and prophesied, "Your seed will be afflicted four hundred years in a strange land and be in servitude to a foreign nation whom I will judge" (Genesis 15:12-21). This promise, Israel's bondage and its precise duration, were announced before Isaac, Jacob and the twelve patriarchs were born.

God promised Israel that when the iniquity of the Amorites was full He would destroy them before His people because of their wickedness, and give the land and the cities of these nations to Abraham's seed (Leviticus 18:24-30; Deuteronomy 9:4-6). As the Amorites were the most powerful of the Hittite and Canaanite nations their name was often applied to the other tribes.

'Multiculturalism' is a satanic deception to curse Adam's race by misalliances with Cain's hybrid race. Israel was forbidden from intermarriage with hybrids and heathens but was to dwell alone and separated from all nations (Exodus 34:12-16). Wicked racial Amorites were 'cherem' then as denominational hybrids or spiritual Amorites are today (Deuteronomy 7:1-4; Revelation 2:20-23; 18; 19:20; 20:10). Therefore spiritual Israel, God's Church, is to live alone and separated from the denomi-nations (Numbers 23:9; Revelation 18:4).

As the chief and most powerful tribe the Amorites represented all of Canaan's Serpent's seed nations as Rome will represent the world church system and every spiritual Serpent's seed religion. As the chief and most powerful denomi-nation she will restore peace, refinance the US dollar and introduce Satan's one world government following unprecedented tectonic activity and the invasion of mainland USA at the close of the Gentile dispensation. In the visions of Daniel and John, the Judaeo-Roman church is seen controlling the fourth world empire (Revelation 17:3), and the God who defeated Israel's natural enemies will consume his spiritual enemies when He appears clothed with a vestment dipped in blood (Daniel 2:40-44; 7:20-24; Revelation 17:12-18).

"Amorite" means 'westerner,' and as heathen China rises to prominence among the nations the once dominant western powers that claim to be "rich and increased with goods with no material needs are [morally and economically] wretched and miserable, [spiritually and economically] bankrupt, blind [to God's Word], naked [of the blood] and know it not." These spiritual Amorites, subverted by Talmudic hubris and denominational unbelief are confederating their pagan Eastern religions historically opposed to the Spirit who requires a total separation from unbelief. Inassimilable races and religions abhorrent to God are being forcibly assimilated into the world church system by internal apostasy and Talmudic subversion under UN decrees ratified by unbelief in God's revealed Word which is sin. Hereby we know the iniquity of the spiritual Amorites is full, and that our redemption and the time of "Jacob's trouble" draw nigh.

Israel's sin accumulated west in the Temple sanctuary and required annual cleansing. Paul said these things are shadows and types for our instruction. The Gospel Son-light has followed civilization from the east to the west as first the nations of Europe, then those of the New World came to the faith. The United States or 'new world' is as far west as civilization can travel. This Superpower leads the world in sin—her sins are heaped up on the west coast in Jewry's Babylon of Los Angeles and Hollywood that pollute the world and will soon be cast into the sea (Revelation 18:21-24).

Pharaoh did not release Israel when Moses demanded "Let my people go to serve the Lord," but in the fourth generation the iniquity of the Amorites was full and God liberated His people with a strong hand to conquer the Serpent's seed and occupy the land of the Covenant. When our Superpower did not release God's people to worship Him in Spirit and in truth in 1956/7—the jubilee of the Laodicean Church Age—America rejected her last opportunity for national repentance. At the zenith of Western power the iniquity of the spiritual Amorites will be full; the Fourth Seal will close and under preeminence to the fullness of the Word as Christ's Bride enters her jubilee to our inheritance in the eternal land of the millennium.

As Jesus rose and cleansed the heavenly sanctuary of the sins of the Old Testament saints who were captives of death and made them captives of Life, there is coming another cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary for the reception of Christ's Bride. The sins borne on Calvary were carried away by our Lord and laid upon Satan who will be expelled from the heavenly realm where he is accusing the brethren, and cast down to earth with his host (Revelation 12:9-10). An unprecedented earthquake will sink Los Angeles and a 1,500x300-400 mile segment of earth's crust, while another earthquake cleaves the Mount of Olives and demolishes the Dome of the Rock. Thereafter the USA will no longer display the facade of liberty: she will be ruled by Rome and the ten European nations that lend their power and strength to the beast (Revelation 16:18-19; 17:11-18; 18:21-24).

In the days of this confederation of Christ-rejecting nations the God of heaven shall set up a W_O_R_D kingdom that will never be destroyed but will break in pieces and consume all of these kingdoms (Daniel 2:40-45). After Armageddon God will cleanse this earthly sanctuary for the millennium 'honeymoon' of Christ and His Bride who have followed Him by their free will; as Abraham's Seed by the baptism of the Holy Ghost or new birth we will inherit the whole Earth. The natural types the Spiritual: as the children of natural miscegenation with the seed of the Serpent were accursed of God, absent the Book of Life and their homeland given to natural Israel, the children of spiritual miscegenation are accursed of God, absent the Lamb's Book of Life, and their homeland, Earth, given to Spiritual Israel.

When Cain was presented with the faith he murdered God's messenger and was accursed by God's righteousness (Genesis 4:3-15; Matthew 23:33-36). When Adam's reprobate children married into Cain's race through lust they became exponents of multiculturalism, multiplying the rotten fruit of the accursed Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: God overwhelmed that violent and corrupt world with the Flood. But the seed of that Tree was carried over in the ark and mothered Canaan after the Flood (Genesis 6:1-4; 9:20-25; 10:15-19). When his chief tribe, the Amorites, replicated the depravity of their forebears to the full, God confiscated their land and gave it to Israel, for Cain and his seed have no inheritance in this world or hope in the world to come.

Throughout history when nations settle down in vice and corruption, the decay of their institutions follows upon that of their morals, and they either waste away or give place to some more manly race of conquerors and are deprived of their country like the Amorites. God has one law for all people and is no respecter of persons, in accord with their sin Israel and Judah have borne this punishment and will be ruled by non-Semitic Gentile Jews to the consummation (Daniel 9:27). The United States and the entire world are coming under the iron grip of Rome (Daniel 7:19-27; Revelation 13:15-18).

First, God had to make Israel a nation. Genesis 15:13, "And He said to Abram: Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years".

But according to Exodus 12:40, "the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years," so the prophecy of Genesis 15:13 commenced with the call and Covenant in Genesis 12:1-4 when Abram entered Canaan at the age of seventy-five, four hundred and thirty years before the Law was delivered at Mount Sinai (on the Day of Pentecost) fifty days after the Exodus. Paul explains this in Galatians 3:17, "The Law that came four hundred and thirty years after the giving of the promise cannot invalidate a Covenant that has been previously ratified by God, so as to annul the promise." Thus the prophecy commenced thirty years before the "affliction" of Abraham's seed "in a strange land".

Abram was seventy-five when he departed from Haran without seed (Genesis 12:4). He was eighty-six when Ishmael was born (Genesis 16:15-16), but Ishmael was not the promised seed (Genesis 17:19), and it was not until Abraham was one hundred years of age that Isaac the promised seed was born (Genesis 21:1-5).

Isaac was Abraham's appointed seed whose descendants would see the complete fulfillment of this prophecy. Isaac was a sojourner who began early in life to be afflicted by his rival Ishmael (Genesis 21:8 – 22:22; Galatians 4:21 – 5:1), whom Paul types as natural Israel born of the will of man in bondage under "the Law of sin and death" in contrast to Christians, Spiritual Israelites born of God's Spirit and eternal Life by "Jerusalem that is Above is free and is our mother," fulfilling His blessing to Abraham (Genesis 28:4; John 6:63; Galatians 3:14; 4:26). The period from the giving of the Covenant when Abraham was seventy-five, to the separation of Ishmael (Genesis 21:14), accounts for this thirty years and commences the 400 years Abraham's seed would be afflicted in a strange land—185 years in Palestine, and 215 years in Egypt.

Whereas Ishmael persecuted Isaac, Israel born of earthly Jerusalem by the will of the flesh persecutes Christians born of heavenly Jerusalem by the Spirit of Promise. Whereas both Ishmael and Isaac shared the same father according to the flesh, neither was the Spiritual Seed of Promise. All who call themselves Christians claim the same Father but most are born by the will of man, not by the power of God, and as Ishmael persecuted Isaac, nominal Christians born only of the flesh persecute Christians born of the Promise and are themselves rejected (Genesis 22:8-21; Revelation 18:4).

So the prophecy of Israel's release to return to the Land was an exact date, Exodus 12:40-41, 51, "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt".

So the Exodus occurred precisely four hundred and thirty years to the day after God's Promise to Abraham. Later the crucifixion took place on that day, and the Gentile Dispensation will end on the selfsame day, Nisan 14.

The sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was 430 years. But as Paul explains, these 430 years are computed from the call of Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3.

Galatians 3:17, "Understand this, that the Law which came four hundred and thirty years after the Covenant wherein God promised Abraham that his Seed would be Israel's Messiah, cannot annul that Covenant or make the promise of no effect".

The entire period of Israel's wanderings was to be four centuries, but the statement in Genesis 15:13 is explained and qualified by the words in verse 16. When the passage speaks specifically of their sojourn in Egypt it says: "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again. . ." This was accurately fulfilled, as Moses, whose mother was a daughter of Levi (Exodus 2:1) was fourth in descent from Jacob (Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses).

Because of unbelief God caused the children of Israel to wander in the wilderness for 40 years until that generation from twenty years old and upward perished . . . "Each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know My breach of Promise" (Numbers 13:25; 14:26-34; Hebrews 3:8-19).

The selfsame thing has happened to Laodicea.

The revival at Azusa Street, Los Angeles in 1906 marked the start of the Pentecostal or Laodicean Age. The Jubilee is the "release," but all who reject the Gospel Trumpet of freedom are enslaved forever and can never go free as the unbelieving Israelites who were delivered from Egypt were brought under the Law of sin and death on what should have been their jubilee. The jubilee or fiftieth anniversary of Pentecost was in 1956.

Brother Branham, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6, said "Now, let me bring something else. . . in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, standing at the Lane Tech High School . . . I said, 'This year is going to be the changing point of America.' I've just come from overseas, don't know why, I . . . cancelled my meetings in Africa and around, came back."

"America's on her downward move right now. She will never come back again. She's gone. That's right. She's been gone since 1956 when she condemned and turned away God from the great revival hours" (Hybrid Religion, p. 7:3-4; 31:2).

"You just watch; we're going to reap what we sow! She's at the end. I prophesied in 1956 when Billy Graham would return, and I said that Tommy Osborn would return and America would receive her last call" (A Super Sign, p. 163:165).

"Then there is all this talk about the glossalalia—it is supposed to be the evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, and people are thinking that we are in the midst of a great revival. The revival is over. America had her last chance in 1957. Now the tongues are God's sign of impending disaster, even as they were when they appeared upon the wall at Belshazzar's feast. Don't you know that "many are going to come in the last day and say, Lord, Lord, have we not done many wonderful works in Your Name, even to the casting out of devils? And He will say, Depart from Me, you who work iniquity. I never knew you" (Matthew 7:22-23).

Jesus said they were workers of iniquity. Yet, you get a man that can come and pray for the sick, get oil and blood appearing in the congregation, prophecy coming forth and all manner of the supernatural, and the people will gather round him, and swear that he is of the Lord, even though he is actually making a money racket of religion and living in sin. The only answer they have is the absolutely unbiblical answer of 'well he gets results, so he must be of God.' How terrible. How actually poor this age is in the Spirit of God, and the poor poverty-stricken ones don't even know it" (Laodicean Church Age, p. 347-2).

As Pentecost refused to carry on with the Message and rejected her jubilee, America rejected her last chance for national revival and laid the foundation for a revived Roman Empire and the return to Roman bondage prophesied in Revelation 17:1 – 18:20 which portrays the Judaeo-Roman church ruling the last world empire to the consummation. The Treaty of Rome signed in 1957 was the covert precursor to the EU. Now there is a European parliament, a European court, a European Central Bank and the Protestant denominations are reuniting with Catholicism. The EU was a project of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), now the CIA, and US globalists are working to unite Europe under a single government or "Atlantic Union," eventually a global government as evident in the failed US-EU merger, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The EU is doomed by its failure to establish a federal economy and true monetary union. This will be forced worldwide under Revelation 13 and 17:7-15 when the Covenant of Daniel 9:27 is confirmed, refinancing the US dollar with gold backing, and bringing all nations under Roman dominion.

The Gospel has travelled from the east to the west where the jubilee of the Laodicean Revival was rejected in 1956; it is now ready to return to Israel. Can God abandon Israel (Isaiah 49:13-17; 61:2b-3; Hosea 6:1-3; Amos 9:11; Acts 1:6; 15:14-17)? Most who saw the public display of the Supernatural in Pentecost never entered into the Promise. Like Israel at Kadesh-Barnea, they tasted of the heavenly gift and the good things to come, but drew back and wandered in a spiritual wilderness since Brother Branham finished his Ministry in 1965, and there they will perish.

The names of the fathers of natural Israel were removed from the Book of Life; they were lost and died in the wilderness (Psalm 95:10-11; John 6:49). Because of their unbelief it was not until 470 years after God's Covenant with Abraham that his descendants took their place as one of the nations of the Earth. They were strangers in Canaan, slaves in Egypt, and wanderers in the wilderness; but under Joshua a new generation of believers entered the Land of Promise and became a nation. This event began a series of contiguous cycles of "seventy [Heb. shabuwa'–heptads or periods of seven days, weeks, months, years or anything else, but in this case] weeks" of years.

From the entrance into Canaan (1586-5BC) to the establishment of the kingdom under Saul (1096BC) was 490 years. From the kingdom (1096BC) to the servitude to Babylon (606BC) was 490 years. At the time of the Great Flood, Earth moved off its axis in relation to the Sun, stars and planets interrupting the original calendar which recorded time using natural cycles—days, lunar cycles—months, and solar cycles—years. Eventually calendars were adjusted to solar years of 365.25 days, but as God is unchanging, prophetic years are always 360 days.

From the epoch of the servitude (606BC) until the royal edict of the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus (445BC, Nehemiah 1:1-2:8), the national independence of Judah was in abeyance: this date began the mystic era of 490 years that forms the Seventy Weeks of Daniel's prophecy.


II. 70 Years Servitude to Babylon, the Desolation of Jerusalem, and the Captivity

The first time Israel left his land was in the heptad of "lean years" when his son Joseph revealed himself to his estranged brethren and invited his extended family to relocate to Egypt (Genesis 46).

The second time Israel left his Land is called the Captivity when the southern kingdom of Judah (predominantly the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and some Levites) was transported captive to Babylon. Israel never acquiesced in heart to the divine decree which in distributing the tribal dignities entrusted the sceptre to the House of Judah while it adjudged the birthright to the favoured family of Joseph (Genesis 49:10; I Chronicles 5:2). Their mutual jealousies and feuds though kept in check by the personal influence of David and the surpassing splendour of Solomon's reign produced a natural disruption on the succession of Rehoboam. In revolting from Judah the ten northern Tribes also apostatized from God, and forsaking the worship of Jehovah Israel lapsed into open and flagrant idolatry and was taken captive by Sargon of Assyria in 721BC then dispersed throughout his empire where they will remain until the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week.

Jeremiah prophesied Judah would serve the king of Babylon 70 years and then return. Seventy years is a lifetime and the time of their return was set and foretold before they went into captivity.

Jeremiah 25:8-11, "Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts; because you have not heard My Words, behold, I will gather together all the armies of the north under king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant [who, unlike Judah, will perform My commands], and I will bring them all against this land and its people and against all the neighbouring nations, and I will utterly destroy them, and make them a byword of contempt forever. Moreover I will take away your joy, your gladness and your wedding feasts, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. This whole land shall be a desolation and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years." As will the United States after Los Angeles sinks.

Jeremiah 29:10, "Thus says the Lord, after seventy years are completed for Babylon I will visit you and fulfil My promise to you in returning you to this place".

Daniel was taken captive with some youths of the seed royal and carried into Babylon with certain holy vessels of the temple (II Kings 24:1-2; II Chronicles 36:5-7; Daniel 1:1-4). He lived in Babylon throughout the entire seventy years of the servitude. During Jeremiah's lifetime, his warnings went unheeded, but his prophecy of the seventy years was taken seriously as a divine Message of hope and the sacred historian added his prophecy to the record of the fall of Jerusalem:

II Chronicles 36:20-21, "Nebuchadnezzar took captive to Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia conquered Babylon, to fulfil the Word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept a sabbath-rest, to fulfil seventy years."

One of the ordinances of Israelite Law required the land to lie fallow every seventh year and it was in relation to the neglect of this ordinance that the era of the desolations was decreed. It was to last "until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths; for so long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years." Centuries later the Judahite historian Josephus recorded his testimony consistent with the Biblical record (Antiquities of the Jews, X, 6, 1-3).

When Cyrus conquered Babylon he was introduced to the prophetic letter of Isaiah 44-45 addressed to him by name two centuries earlier prophesying the means by which he would enter the impregnable city of Babylon highlighting his meteoric career, and prophesying he would free the Hebrew captives to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem. In awe of the God of Israel who could make such accurate prophecy he was persuaded and obediently released the Hebrew captives to return to Judea and rebuild their temple.

II Chronicles 36:22-23, "In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus to make this proclamation throughout all his kingdom, putting it into writing: "All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord God of heaven, and He has instructed me to build Him a temple in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all His people, return to Israel for this task and the Lord his God be with him".

Daniel knew that Jeremiah was a vindicated prophet: "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus [a title of the king of Persia], of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, which according to the Word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem" (Daniel 9:2).

Daniel who was among the first of those carried to Babylon, calculated in 538BC that they had served the king of Babylon sixty-eight years and according to the prophecy of Jeremiah (25:8-11; 27:6-17; 28:14; 29:10) "when seventy years are accomplished, the Lord will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation." Thus the terminus of the seventy years which commenced in 606BC with the first conquest of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar was determined by the conquest of Chaldea by Medo-Persia in 536BC under Cyrus as Isaiah foretold 174 years previously. While Daniel was in prayer the Lord revealed the seventy years of Jeremiah's prophecy would be amplified by a further seventy weeks of years before the kingdom is restored to Israel, and as Israel is God's timepiece the purpose of Daniel 9:25-27 is to furnish a definite chronological determination for the period spoken of. According to the aforementioned prophecies and the sacred record of the history of Judah, the period of the servitude to Babylon, the desolation of the farmland and the Captivity are one and the same. (II Chronicles 36:20-23 speaks of the Captivity, the servitude and the desolation; Jeremiah 25:8-11 speaks of the desolation, and Jeremiah 29:7, 10, 14, 16 and 22 speak of the Captivity, while Daniel 9:2, 12, 17-18, and 25 confirms Jeremiah's prophecies of the desolation of Judah. Brother Branham teaches on the Captivity and does not distinguish the servitude or the desolations in order to place Israel and Judah into the chronology of history and context with the Gentile dispensation and the "time of Jacob's trouble." I list the Captivity and the desolation independently in the table below).

Daniel sought the Lord by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes to learn what would become of "the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel that are near, and far off through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against You . . . Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your Law, and turned aside, refusing to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath which are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against Him. And He has confirmed the words He spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us by bringing this great calamity upon us: the like of which has occurred nowhere under heaven except in Jerusalem" (Daniel 9:7, 11-12).

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE From the Servitude to Babylon to the Dedication of the Second Temple.
Jewish Year*	Kings of Babylon	Kings of Judah	Era of Servitude	Era of Captivity	Era of the Desolations	Events and Remarks
606BC	20th year of Nabopolassar	3rd year of Jehoiakim (Eliakim)	1	-	-	3rd year of Jehoiakim: Nisan 1, 606 - Nisan 1, 605. Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem (Daniel 1:1-2). Servitude to Babylon begins 490 years after establishment of the Kingdom under Saul. 4th year of Jehoiakim was Nebuchadnezzar's 1st year beginning Nisan 1, 605 (Jeremiah 25:1).
605	Nebuchadnezzar	4	2	-	-
604	2	5	3	-	-	Nebuchadnezzar's dream (Dan. 2)
603	3	6	4	-	-	-
602	4	7	5	-	-	-
601	5	8	6	-	-	-
600	6	9	7	-	-	-
599	7	10	8	-	-	-
598	8	11	9	1	-	This year included the 3 months' reign of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah), his captivity began in the 8th year of Nebuchadnezzar (II Kings 24:12).
		3 months of Jehoiachin
597	9	Zedekiah	10	2	-	Reigned 11 years (II Kings 24:18).
596	10	2	11	3	-	-
595	11	3	12	4	-	-
594	12	4	13	5	-	Ezekiel began to prophesy in the 30th year from Josiah's Passover (II Kings 23:23), and the 5th year of the captivity (Ezekiel 1:1-2.)
593	13	5	14	6	-	-
592	14	6	15	7	-	-
591	15	7	16	8	-	-
590	16	8	17	9	-	-
589	17	9	18	10	1	Jerusalem invested the third time by Nebuchadnezzar, on the 10th day of Tebeth - "the fast of Tebeth" - epoch of "Desolations" (Leviticus 26:33-35)
588	18	10	19	11	2	"The 10th year of Zedekiah, which was the 18th year of Nebuchadnezzar" (Jeremiah 32:1).
587	19	11	20	12	3	Jerusalem taken on the 9th day of the 4th month, and burnt on the 7th day of the 5th month in the 11th year of Zedekiah, and the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar (II Kings 25:2-3,8-9) called "The 12th year of our Captivity" (Ezekiel 33:21). News reaching exiles on the 5th day of the 10th month.
586	20	-	21	13	4	-
585	21	-	22	14	5	-
584	22	-	23	15	6	-
583	23	-	24	16	7	-
582	24	-	25	17	8	-
581	25	-	26	18	9	-
580	26	-	27	19	10	-
579	27	28	20	11	-	-
578	28	29	21	12	-	-
577	29	30	22	13	-	-
576	30	31	23	14	-	-
575	31	32	24	15	-	-
574	32	33	25	16	-	The 25th year of the Captivity was the 14th (inclusive, as the Jews usually reckoned) from the destruction of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40:1).
573	33	34	26	17	-	-
572	34	35	27	18	-	-
571	35	36	28	19	-	-
570	36	37	29	20	-	-
569	37	38	30	21	-	-
568	38	39	31	22	-	-
567	39	40	32	23	-	-
566	40	41	33	24	-	-
565	41	42	34	25	-	-
564	42	43	35	26	-	-
563	43	44	36	27	-	-
562	44	45	37	28	-	According to the Canon, the accession of Iluoradam (Evil-Merodach) was in the year beginning 1st Thoth (11th Jan.) 561BC. But the year 562 in this table is the Jewish year, i.e., the year preceding 1st Nisan (or about 5th April 561, and the 37th year of Jehoiachin's captivity was current till towards the close of that year. In this year Jehoiachin was "brought forth out of prison." (Jeremiah 52:31).
561	Evil-Merodach	46	38	29	-	-
560	2	47	39	30	-	-
559	Neriglissar or Nergalsherezer	48	40	31	-	-
558	2	-	49	41	32	-
557	3	-	50	42	33	-
556	4	-	51	43	34	-
555	Nabonidus (Nabonadius)	-	52	44	35	The Nabonadius of the Canon is called Nabunnahit in the Inscriptions, and Labynetus by Herodotus.
554	2	-	53	45	36	-
553	3	-	54	46	37	-
552	4	-	55	47	38	-
551	5	-	56	48	39	-
550	6	-	57	49	40	-
549	7	-	58	50	41	-
548	8	-	59	51	42	-
547	9	-	60	52	43	-
546	10	-	61	53	44	-
545	11	-	62	54	45	-
544	12	-	63	55	46	-
543	13	-	64	56	47	-
542	14	-	65	57	48	-
541	15	-	66	58	49	In or before this year, Belshazzar became regent in the lifetime of his father, Nabonadius. Daniel's vision of the Four Beasts was in the 1st year, and his vision of the Ram and the Goat was in the 3rd year of Belshazzar (Daniel 7: 8).
540	16	-	67	59	50	-
539	17	-	68	60	51	-
538	Darius the Mede	-	69	61	52	Babylon taken by Cyrus. Daniel's vision of the 70 weeks was in this year.
537	2	-	70	62	53	End of the Servitude (Jeremiah 27:7).
536	Cyrus	-	-	-	54	Decree of Cyrus authorizing the Jews to return to Jerusalem. N.B. The 70th year of the Servitude was current till the Nisan 1, 536).
535	2	-	-	-	55	-
534	3	-	-	-	56	Year of Daniel's last vision (Daniel 10 - 12).
533	4	-	-	-	57	-
532	5	-	-	-	58	-
531	6	-	-	-	59	-
530	7	-	-	-	60	-
529	Cambyses	-	-	-	61	-
528	2	-	-	-	62	-
527	3	-	-	-	63	-
526	4	-	-	-	64	-
525	5	-	-	-	65	-
524	6	-	-	-	66	-
523	7	-	-	-	67	-
522	8	-	-	-	68	-
521	Darius I	-	-	-	69	Darius Hystaspes
520	2	-	-	-	70	End of the Desolations. The foundation of the Second Temple laid on 24 Chisleu in 2nd year of Darius (Haggai 2:18). From 10 Tebeth 588 25,202 days by the calendar; prophetically 70 years x 360 days = 25,200 days.
519	3	-	-	-	-	-
518	4	-	-	-	-	-
517	5	-	-	-	-	-
516	6	-	-	-	-	The Temple finished on the 3rd day of Adar in the 6th year of Darius (Ezra 4:15).
515	7	-	-	-	-	The Temple dedicated at the Passover in Nisan 515 (Ezra 4:15-22), 490 years after the dedication of Solomon's temple in 1005BC, and 70 years before the edict to build the city.

Moses had prophesied these chastisements 900 Years before. Leviticus 26:31-35, "I will lay your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not respond to your incense offerings. And I will desolate the land: so that your enemies [the Edomites] who settle in it will be amazed at what I have done to you. And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you (Ezekiel 12:15): and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it will rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it".

The essential element in the judgment of the desolations was not only a ruined city but also a land laid desolate by the scourge of a hostile invasion, whose effects were perpetuated by famine and pestilence, the continuing proofs of divine displeasure. It is obvious therefore, that the true epoch of the judgment is not as has been generally assumed, the capture of Jerusalem, but the invasion of Judea. From the time the Babylonian armies entered the land, all agricultural pursuits were suspended, and therefore the desolations may be reckoned from the day the capital was invested, namely the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah, September 23, 589BC (Julian Day Number 1506196.5; II Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 39:1; 52:4; Zechariah 8:19).

This was the epoch as revealed to Ezekiel the prophet in his exile on the banks of the Euphrates: Ezekiel 24:1-2. And for 2,520 years this day has been observed as the fast of Tebeth by Israelites in every land (Zechariah 8:19).

Scripture indicates the close of this era with equal precision: as "the four-and-twentieth day of the ninth month in the second year of Darius," 520BC (Haggai 2:10, 15-19).

Now from Tebeth 10 (December 15), 589BC to Chisleu 24 (December 17), 520BC was 25,202 days. We may conclude, therefore, that the era of the desolations was a precise period of 70 years of 360 days from the day after the Babylonian army besieged Jerusalem to the day before the foundation of the second temple was laid or 69 x 365.25-day years which is precisely 70 x 360-day years.

Daniel had been in captivity 68 years, since he was a lad of perhaps fifteen, and it was no doubt he who made Cyrus aware of Isaiah's prophecy; for in his decree he said, "The God of heaven has charged me to build Him a House at Jerusalem" (Ezra 1:2). And it will be noted the same charge included building both the Temple and the city (Isaiah 44:28). Furthermore, in Isaiah 45:13, God speaks of Cyrus releasing the captives in connection with the building of the city.

No doubt Daniel also showed King Cyrus the scroll bearing Jeremiah's prophecy of seventy years servitude (II Chronicles 36:20-23; Jeremiah 25:8-12; 27:6, 8, 11; 29:10). Reading Jeremiah's prophecy, and knowing but two years remained to complete the desolations of Jerusalem Daniel was in desperation, praying and fasting before the Lord (Daniel 9:2, 17-18).

Jeremiah's prophecy is the only one mentioned in connection with return (Jeremiah 29:10). It made a strong impression on the minds of Israel's leaders because of the element of time. But the controlling factor was the proclamation of Cyrus prophesied by Isaiah.

As God's prophet, Daniel was anxious to understand his ministry, and how God would take away Israel's reproach and restore the people and His sanctuary in the holy city. As a result of his supplications, Gabriel was sent to inform him of a future period of seventy sevens (or heptads) that were to be accomplished before Israel could anticipate full redemption and the restoration of the kingdom (Daniel 9:21-27; Acts 1:6).

Scripture distinguishes three different eras all in part concurrent which have come to be spoken of as the "Captivity." The seventy years of "servitude" to Babylon, and the seventy years of the "desolations" of Jerusalem are two separate eras that overlap each other, while the "Captivity" was not seventy years at all.

First the Servitude from 606BC which was brought to a close by the Decree of Cyrus 70 years later in 536BC (Ezra 1).

Second the Captivity which began when Nebuchadnezzar executed Jehoiakim, and was God's punishment for rebellion against the divine decree which entrusted the imperial sceptre to Nebuchadnezzar. This brought the further judgment of 62 year's national deportation upon the Judahites from 598BC (II Kings 24:1-2). The Captivity also ended with the Decree of Cyrus.

Thirdly, rebellion under Zedekiah brought the destruction of Jerusalem and the still more terrible chastisement of the Desolations which began in 589BC (with the siege of Jerusalem described above).

The language of Jeremiah 27:6, 8 and 11 distinguishes the servitude from the Captivity: "I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon . . . the nation which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand . . . but the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the King of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain in their own land, says the Lord, and they shall till it and dwell therein".

The appointed era of this servitude was seventy years, and Jeremiah 29:10 was a message of hope to the captivity, that at the expiration of the seventy years servitude they should return to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 25, on the other hand, was a prophecy for the rebellious Jews who remained in Jerusalem after the servitude had commenced, warning that their stubborn disobedience would bring utter destruction (Heb.) 'cherem,' and that for seventy years the whole land should be a "desolation." It was the era of the desolations "on thy holy city," and not of the servitude "upon thy people" that Daniel had in view.

Daniel 9:2, 11-12, "In the first year of the reign of Darius the son of Ahasuerus (538BC), I Daniel understood from the book of Jeremiah that the desolations of Jerusalem must continue seventy years. . . all Israel has transgressed Your law, and turned aside, refusing to obey Your voice; and the curse and oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God (Leviticus 26:14-46; Deuteronomy 28:15-68) have been poured out upon us because we have sinned against Him. And he has confirmed His Words, which He spoke against us, and against our rulers, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what has been done against Jerusalem".


There are Hidden Times and there are Revealed Times

Deuteronomy 29:29, "The secret things belong to the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the Words of this Law".

The great symbolical divisions of Israel's history, or rather of the times of God's dealings with them as a nation, are all marked by the same number. They have to do with actual duration of years rather than the succession of years and chronological dates; with seasons, or definitely limited portions of time, rather than chronology in general. His dealings with Israel as a Nation were measured out into three periods, each consisting of 490 (70x7) years.

From the birth of Abraham to the Exodus and the birth of the Nation of Israel	Years	Total
From the birth of Abraham to the giving of the covenant of Genesis 11:29 – 12:4	75
From the Covenant to the Exodus, the confirmation of Exodus 3:12 and the giving of the Law (Exodus 12:40-41; Galatians 3:16-17)	430	505
Deduct the 15 years while Ishmael was Abram's seed, delaying the seed of promise	- 15
Leaving the first 70 x 7 of years		490

As proof of this and a precedent to justify the belief that the era of the Seventy Weeks would not begin while the existence of Judah was in abeyance is the 480 years of I Kings 6:1. Computed from the Exodus to the Temple it is reckoned as 573 years in Acts 13:18-21, by including the sum of several eras of the servitudes when Israel was serving heathen powers. We see below that the 480th year is therefore clearly the 480th year of national life and national responsibilities in the service of God. As the Israelites were God's servant nation the days of Israel's servitude to the Gentiles and Serpent's seed are ignored in the Divine chronology but when the punishment has been meted out, God forgives; He likewise forgets the sin (Hebrews 10:17); which doubtless means the record is wiped out, and the period treated as if it were a blank.

From Exodus to the foundation of the Temple (Acts 13:18-21; I Kings 6:1, 37)	Years	Total
In the Wilderness	40
Under the Judges	450
for the reign of Saul	40
for the reign of David	40
for Solomon (it was in his fourth year that he began to build the Temple)	3
From these we must deduct the Servitudes under		573
Cushan of Mesopotamia (Judges 3:8)	8
Eglon of Moab (Judges 3:14)	18
Jabin of Canaan (Judges 3:8,14; 4:2-3)	20
Midianites (Judges 6:1)	7
Philistines (Judges 13:1)	40	93
The 480th year of Israel is therefore reckoned to be 573—93		480
To this we must add the years during which the Temple was in building, for the finishing of the house (I Kings 6:38)	7
And at least for the furnishing and ending of all the work (I Kings 7:13-51)	3
Making altogether the second 70x7 of years		490

There were 490 years from entering into Canaan (and the commencement of Israel's wanderings in the wilderness) to the Kingdom. (See above); 490 years from Saul to the servitude commencing in 606; and 490 years of God's dealing with Israel from Nehemiah to the millennium. These periods were thus lunisolar years of 360-days each.

From the entrance to Canaan (1586-5BC) to King Saul (1096) was 490 years. And from the Kingdom (1096BC) to the Servitude (606BC) was another 490 years.

From the Dedication of the Temple to Nehemiah's return in Artaxerxes 20th year	Years	Total
From the dedication in I Kings 8:2 to Nehemiah's return (Nehemiah 2:1)	560
Deduct the 70 years' Captivity in Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11,12; Daniel 9:2)	70
Leaving the third 70 x 7 years		490

From the servitude to Nehemiah's return, Judah's national independence was in abeyance so these years were not accounted to the nation.

Daniel's Seventy Weeks began with "the going forth of the commandment to build and restore Jerusalem"—Nehemiah's return in 445BC; and continued to the "cutting-off of Messiah the Prince" (Daniel 9:24-27), after which the Gentile dispensation followed and Israel's national independence and the Davidic covenant were in abeyance. Following the close of the Gentile dispensation, God will turn back to Israel and fulfil Daniel's Seventieth Week.

From Nehemiah's return to the 'cutting off of Messiah the Prince' Daniel 9:24-27	Years	Total
"Seven weeks" (7x7)	49
Plus "threescore and two weeks" (62x7)	434
		483
"After" Messiah was "cut off" in AD30 the Gentile dispensation began, the longest interval of all, now about 1987 years. Thus if the principle of not accounting time to Israel when her national independence was in abeyance were intelligible to the Judahite in regard to history, it was both natural and legitimate to introduce it in respect of the years of Daniel's Seventy Weeks when Judah's existence is in abeyance, for when wicked hands crucified our Lord, God pronounced the dread "Lo-ammi" upon the people (Hosea 1:9-10; Romans 9:25-26) "until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in" (Romans 1:26).	+1987
Then God again deals with Israel for "One week"	7
		490

In the prophecy of Isaiah 61:1-2, God suspended almost 2,000 years on a comma (,). When reading this Scripture in the synagogue, Jesus stopped at that comma. Luke 4:18-19: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord," and He closed the Book, and gave it back to the minister.

"The day of vengeance of our God" awaited a future fulfillment "in the day when the Son of man is revealed" (Luke 17:30). Brother Branham's ministry restored the apostolic faith, revealed the fullness of the Word which introduced Christ's second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming as Son of man and Judge (John 5:26-27). It indicted the unbelieving world and "proclaimed the day of vengeance of our God" which will be "the great and dreadful day of the Lord" at the close of the Gentile Dispensation (Malachi 4:5, 6b).


III. 2,520 years of Worldwide Dispersion

Israel has experienced three major dispersions. The first was their sojourn and eventual bondage in Egypt; the second was the Servitude and Captivity in Babylon, and third was an extension of the second by 2,520 years worldwide dispersion as punishment for refusing to return to Judah at the conclusion of the Servitude and Captivity. Thus Israel's flag did not fly above an independent state for a further 2,520 years. Moses, Daniel, Ezekiel and Brother Branham each foretold the number of years the Hebrews would be stateless and scattered among the Gentiles (Goyim) or nations. Brother Branham said the Israelites who refuse to return from their comfort among the Gentiles will be trapped and forfeit their redemption.

Daniel 9:24-27 has a period of 490 years divided into three parts:
7	weeks of years
62	weeks of years
1	week of years
Ezekiel 3:24—4:8 has a period of 430 years divided into two parts:
390	days of prophetic years
40	days of prophetic years

The 70 years of Jeremiah 25:8-11 was an exact time. At the end of the servitude and Captivity in Babylon, Palestine again became an Israelite homeland. All who so desired could return.

The prophesied servitude of seventy years was fulfilled by their return as recorded by Ezra and Nehemiah, following the Decree of Cyrus in 536BC, fulfilling the Divine promise of Jeremiah 29:10 in accordance with which the fullest liberty was granted to the exiles to return to Palestine (Ezra 1 – 2). But until the era of the desolations had run its course, not one stone was to be set on another on Mount Moriah. This explains the seemingly inexplicable fact that the firman to build the temple granted to eager agents by Cyrus in the zenith of his power remained in abeyance until after his death. Thus a few renegade Samaritans were able to thwart the execution of "the law of the Medes and Persians, which change not".

When the years of the desolations had expired, a prophecy was given by the prophets Haggai 2:1-4 and Zechariah 3:1 for the building of the sanctuary at Jerusalem (Ezra 5:1-2, 5; 6:14). In obedience to that Divine command, and without waiting for permission from the capital, the Hebrews returned to the work in which they had so long been hindered.

However the return from the Babylonian captivity was only partial. The vast majority of Israelites remained in Babylon whose culture and religion were repugnant to Yahweh Torah over which they superimposed the Pharisees' Talmud, and Babylon, not Jerusalem, remained the centre of Jewish religious scholarship until about AD1200. However our omniscient God had foreseen Israel's recalcitrance and prescribed punishment multiplied seven times for their sin:

Leviticus 26:25-28, "I will bring a sword upon you that will avenge the breaking of My Covenant. When you have gathered in your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and return your loaves weighed out; and you shall eat but not be satisfied. If in spite of this you will not hearken to Me but continue in hostile opposition, then I will be hostile toward you, and punish you sevenfold for your sins".

Thus, after the 70 years, Palestine did not regain its independence and has been dominated by Persia, Greece, Syria and Rome to this day. Israel has not restored the monarchy and since 1948 the twelve tribes remain scattered mainly among the now Muslim nations of the ancient Babylonian and Assyrian Empires, unwilling to return to Israel "for fear of the Jews".

The third time Israel left his Land was forty years after the nation rejected and crucified Jesus Messiah when Edomite Jews betrayed Jerusalem to the Romans. The Temple was razed and "not one stone was left on another"; the people were slaughtered, sold into slavery, forbidden to return to the city, dispersed throughout the Empire and will not return to the Homeland until the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week (Deuteronomy 28:49-68; Ezekiel 9; Daniel 7:7; Matthew 24:1-3a; 15-22).

Brother Branham said, "I've always believed—before my class here—that there was something, that I'd have a part before I die of getting Israel back to the Lord, because . . . The very hour, by the Pan American chart, that Israel was declared a nation for the first time for two thousand years since they'd been scattered, not a people, it was that very same hour, exactly to the hour, that the Angel of the Lord met me up yonder and sent me . . . with the Gospel—the very same thing: May the 7th, 1946." . . . [by the UNSCOP Committee at Lake Success (UN docs. A/C.I/P.V.46-57 (May 6-13)] the Angel of the Lord met him at Green's Mill, Indiana and sent him with the Message of Malachi 4:5-6b that would restore the heart of God's children to the faith of their apostolic fathers and introduce Christ's second Coming (Gabriel's Instructions to Daniel, p. 31:150; An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 327:1). After God takes His children Home He will "reconfirm His New Covenant with His servant nation for one week—Daniel's Seventieth Week" (Isaiah 11:10-13; Daniel 9:27).

Britain's UN mandate expired at midnight on May 14, 1948 and the modern state of Israel was born, but the new nation is ruled by non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews of the City of London, and populated by Edomite and Khazar Israelis (so-called). It is not an independent nation but an inhospitable and dangerous place for genuine Israelites descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For the first time in history a state that had ceased to exist has been restored under its name but by impostors of another race on land stolen from native Semitic Israelites and Arabs, and under a false flag.

Not only are the usurpers aliens, but the ancient capital Jerusalem and the land is partitioned, and will remain so unto the consummation. However, "we know that all things work together for good to those who love God and are the called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28). The God who never changes His ways has allowed the sworn enemy (Genesis 27:39-41) of His people Israel to recover the land by underhanded means, and establish an infrastructure that will provide for and accommodate the Israelites when they return for their redemption in the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week as he has declared through His servants the prophets (Psalm 17:7; Isaiah 6:10-13; 11:11-16; 13:14; 27:13; 49:17; Jeremiah 3:12, 18; 16:15; 23:8; 31:8; Ezekiel 37:14; 39:27; Micah 5:3; Zechariah 10:9-12; Matthew 24:29-31).

Whenever the Israelites have been outside their land definite times have been set for their return. In 536BC a minority returned to Palestine, and history follows their descendants who were in the land at the time of the advent and rejection of Jesus the Messiah. But there is the other dispersion which has existed since the fall of Jerusalem in 586BC, and the more numerous ten tribes who remain in the lands of the ancient Assyrian empire since the dissolution of the Northern Kingdom and transportation of her citizens in 721BC.

So there are two lines of history and two lines of prophecy. One concerns Hebrews who returned to Palestine in 536BC; the other concerns those who were scattered among the nations and later joined by the Judeans, and have yet to return to their Land.

Daniel's prophecy follows the Judeans who returned from Babylon, rebuilt Jerusalem and its walls, and rejected Messiah. Ezekiel's prophecy concerns Judeans who did not return. It was stated in such a way as would not influence its fulfillment nor point to the time of the translation and Resurrection. The time element was somewhat veiled, as the return of the Judeans and Israelites is associated so closely in time with the First Resurrection.


Ezekiel's Dramatized Prophecy

Ezekiel was a priest who was probably commissioned in 593BC after he had lived among the captives in Babylon for six years (Ezekiel 1:1-2; 33:21). His mute prophecy takes the number of years of eventual dispersion and mimes a prophetic pantomime (Ezekiel 3:24-4:8).

God sealed his lips so he could not reprove Israel and then instructed His prophet to inscribe a picture or map of Jerusalem on a clay tile and bring against it an irresistible siege, indicated by the iron griddle. (Normally griddles were made of ceramic ware). By glaring at the city he displays God's Own anger and in his siege activities he represents Nebuchadnezzar as Jehovah's servant. This mock siege is a sign for "the house of Israel," Ezekiel's companions in Babylon. "Israel" almost always refers to the entire people, and in Ezekiel 2:3 connotes both the people back in Jerusalem as well as the exiles among whom he lived (Ezekiel 3:11).

For 390 days Ezekiel lay on his left side, bearing the iniquity of the House of Israel, a day for a year. He next lay on his right side for 40 days to bear the iniquity of the House of Judah. The 390 years of Israel's sin is reckoned from the day Israel rebelled with Jeroboam against Rehoboam (977BC) and received a covenant of blessing by the prophet Ahijah, to the day they were led away captive (I Kings 11:29-39) and signifies not only the years of apostasy but also the 390 days of the siege of Jerusalem. The 40 years of Judah's sin refers to that part of Manasseh's fifty-five year's reign in which he had not repented, and which, we are expressly told, was the cause of God's removal of Judah, notwithstanding Josiah's reformation (II Kings 21:10-16; II Kings 23:26-27).

The symbolic action in Ezekiel 4:12-15 changes the setting from the siege of verses 9-11, to life in exile, where an anxious and desolate people were portrayed as eating food of limited weight and drink of limited measure. A divine command calls upon Ezekiel to publicly bake a barley cake, the food of the poor, on fuel consisting of human dung to signify that the Israelites will have to eat their bread unclean among the nations. Since foreign lands were unclean in themselves, all consumption of food in exile would take place in a condition of uncleanliness (Amos 7:17).

These years began with the siege of Jerusalem in 589BC (Ezekiel 4:16-17). The purpose of the prophecy is to show how long the Israelites will be scattered among the nations one year for each day of his pantomime: 390 + 40 = 430 years.

But the iniquity and dispersion of Israel and Judah did not end in 390 years, or in 40 more years. In fact, these figures from Ezekiel do not point to any experience in the dispersion of the Tribes. Therefore, some other factors or conditions must be applied. Those conditions are found in Leviticus 26:18.

Two periods of punishment are evident. But the length of time of the first punishment is not given in Leviticus; it is given in Jeremiah 29:10 and Daniel 9:2. The Lord said, if after the first period His people do not leave their sins and turn to God, the balance of the punishment will be multiplied by seven.

Ezekiel in pantomime laid siege to Jerusalem for a total of 430 days, indicating 430 years were determined against Jerusalem for the combined punishment of the twelve tribes. They were punished in Babylon 70 years. 430 – 70 = 360 years.

According to Leviticus 26:18, God revealed to Moses, the penalty for refusing His correction was a sevenfold further punishment, 360 x 7 = 2,520 years. The number of years of worldwide dispersion from Jerusalem is therefore 2,520 years from the time of their restoration following the desolation.

Nebuchadnezzar began the Captivity in about 606BC. He began the invasion of Jerusalem on Tebeth 10, (December 15), 589BC (Ezekiel 24:1-2). The city was taken on Tammuz 9, 587 (and burnt on Ab 7 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, and the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar (II Kings 25:2-3, 8-9), called "the twelfth year of our captivity" in Ezekiel 33:21, the news having reached the exiles on Tebeth 5, 586, the year in which the last group of captives were transported to Babylon. The return also took about twenty years.

We are expressly told the period of Desolations was fixed at seventy years because of Israel's neglect of the sabbath years (II Chronicles 36:21; Leviticus 26:34-35). This explains the fact that a few stubborn Samaritans were allowed to thwart the execution of the work expressly ordered by the edict of Cyrus.

Until the era of the desolations had run its course, the divine judgment which rested on the land vetoed rebuilding the sacred Temple. The era ended and the first return commenced seventy years from the invasion, bringing us to Chisleu 24, 520BC in the second year of Darius Hystaspes of Persia: November 21, 520BC (Ezra 4:24; 5:1-2; Haggai 2:10, 15-19; Zechariah 1:12).

An interval of seventeen years lapsed between the epoch of the servitude and that of the desolations so the second period extended beyond the first by seventeen years. Seventeen, the seventh prime or indivisible number, is the number of perfection of spiritual order which is why it was often associated with the ministry of Brother Branham.


Desolations of Jerusalem

Judah lost its independence in 606BC but Jerusalem and its temple were unscathed. The city and Temple were destroyed in 586BC, God's punishment for resisting the "servitude of the Nation" which began in 606BC with the first siege of Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 27:6, 8, 11; 29:10; 38:17-21; Daniel 9:2).

Ezekiel 4:1-7 applies to the "servitude of the Nation to Babylon" but also to the "desolations of Jerusalem." In calculating these eras, we find ourselves potentially at the end of the enforced dispersion of Daniel's "people" with the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Henceforth, those Israelites who do not return to the Homeland in the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week will be reprobates who have refused to obey the commands of God and rejected any claim to the Old Covenant. Under the Old Covenant, God can only meet with the Israelites in Jerusalem, which is God's only provided place of worship (Deuteronomy 16:1-6). Zechariah 14:1-2 (Isaiah 13:6-16, Daniel 11:38-39 and Revelation 16:19) inform us that at the onset of Daniel's Seventieth Week "Jerusalem will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women raped: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city [as it will be a 'corpus separatum,' an internationally administered zone encompassing the 1947 municipal boundaries "plus surrounding villages and towns"]. The antichrist state of Israel and the City of Jerusalem must both be accessible to the Israelites in order for God to "set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people" and fulfil Daniel's Seventieth Week (Isaiah 11:11; Zechariah 13:7c; Revelation 6:12 – 7:8). The Prophet said, "Many Jews in the United States (which they won't escape from) [after Rome breaks her covenant in the midst of the week]" (54-0103M, COD, par. 235; Daniel 9:27; 11:7-13; 12:16-17; 13:7-10, 15-18; 17:16 – 18:24).

In a New Year's Day 'phone call to President Putin, Prime Minister Netanyahu suggested the Israeli Army may invade Syria (youtube.com). Israel backs the murder and mayhem of US-NATO-Saudi proxy armies in Syria and seeks to ignore UN Resolution 242 and steal the Golan Heights with its water and oil reserves. Qatar has withdrawn from its war against Syria following the signing of Resolution 2336 (Syrian Ceasefire, Astana Talks) and purchase of a 10.2-billion euro ($11 billion) stake in Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft, by Glencore Plc and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund (a triumph for President Vladimir Putin over sanctions imposed by the West). As a puppet of the banksters, is Netanyahu goading confrontation between the United States and Russia to initiate the 'hot stage' of World War III? However the Bible foretells Israel's utter defeat, terminating its military power and the mass exodus of non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews allowing the children of Jacob to return to the Land of their Covenant for redemption.

430 years – 70 years = 360 years x 7 = 2,520 prophetic years x 360 days = 907,200 days. Let us calculate back from May 14, 1948 using the 25,200 day (70 years) and the 907,200 days (2,520 years):


Restoration of Israel's Statehood

Julian day number: 2432686
Gregorian calendar: 14 May AD1948
Jewish calendar: 5 Iyyar 5708

- 907,200 days (Ezekiel 4:3-6; Leviticus 26:18)

Julian day number: 1525486
Gregorian calendar: 15 July 0537BC
Jewish calendar: 16 Av 3224

- 25,200 days (Jeremiah 25:11)

Julian day number: 1500286
Gregorian calendar: 17 July 0606BC
Jewish calendar: 5 Av 3155

Since 1948 everything has been in transition from the West to the East. For all prophecy, including Daniel's Seventieth Week, must be fulfilled before the generation that saw Israel restored can pass (Luke 21:32). Luke was a Greek Gentile (Colossians 4:10-14), inferred from the fact he is at pains to explain Jewish customs and sometimes substitutes Greek names for Hebrew, and addressed his gospel especially to the Gentiles. The day of the revealing of the Son of man is mentioned only in Luke (17:28-30) and refers to Christ's second or 'parousia' Coming at the opening of the Seven Seals in 1963 (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 10:1-4).


Restoration of Israelite Sovereignty over Jerusalem

Julian day number: 2439649
Gregorian calendar: 7 June 1967AD
Jewish calendar: 29 Iyyar 5727

- 907,200 days (Ezekiel 4:1-7; Leviticus 26:18)

Julian day number: 1532449
Gregorian calendar: 8 August 0517BC
Jewish calendar: 9 Elul 3243

- 25,200 days (Daniel 9:24)

Julian day number: 1507249
Gregorian calendar: 10 August 0586BC
Jewish calendar: 28 Av 3174
(Solomon's temple was destroyed on 9-10 Av 3174—23-24 July 0586BC (Jeremiah 52:12-13). The rest of the city may have fallen some weeks later).


This approximates the date of the Six-Days or Yom Kippur War (5-10 June, 1967), fulfilling 2,520 years from the first return seventy years after the fall of Jerusalem in 587BC. Following this victory, Israel has controlled Jerusalem as an autonomous sovereign nation for the first time since Nebuchadnezzar conquered the city and burned the Temple. When Defence minister Moshe Dayan paid his first visit to the Old City of Jerusalem on June 7, he said, "We have unified Jerusalem, the divided capital of Israel. We have returned to the holiest of our holy places, never to depart from it again." On June 27 the minister of the interior, under a law passed by the Knesset the day before, issued an order extending the limits of Jerusalem and jurisdiction of Israeli law to the eastern part of the city. At noon the next day, all barriers were removed. Now Israel is rapidly becoming what Ezekiel called it, "the center of the earth" (Ezekiel 5:5; 38:12).

We may not have calculated precise days or dates but we have achieved a close reckoning and know that all 2,520 years have expired. If you would like to "prove all things," this Julian, Hebrew, and Gregorian calendar converter, and this calendar converter which also computes the years from Adam will be of great assistance.


The product of the four numbers of perfection is 2,520

3 is the number of Divine perfection.
7 is the number of Spiritual perfection.
10 is the number of Ordinal perfection.
12 is the number of Governmental perfection.
2,520 is the number of chronological perfection.

3 x 7 x 10 x 12 = 2,520. This is the least common multiple of the ten digits governing all numeration, and can therefore be divided by each of the ten digits without a remainder. Because the consummation of man's history will occur within the generation which saw Israel restored to the Promised Land, the prophecy of the 2,520 years concerns both natural and Spiritual Israel.

"The abomination of desolation," es Sakhra, the Dome of the Rock, will be demolished by an earthquake at the close of the Gentile dispensation to be replaced by a new abomination that under a "prince" of Rome will desecrate Jerusalem unto the consummation (Daniel 9:27; Luke 21:24; Revelation 11:1-2, 8).

In conclusion we must remember that God's Prophet William Branham spoke in colloquial English using the modern word "Jew" which was not found in any Bible in any language prior to the latter part of the eighteenth century, and the meaning of this modern word is contrary to the two words it has replaced. He generally applied it without distinction to Judahites, Judeans, Israelites, non-Semitic and anti-Semitic impostors and was aware of the distinction but the 'third pull' must be a personal revelation to each saint. In the days of our Lord most Judeans were Edomites, physical Serpent's seed forcibly assimilated by John Hyrcanus in about AD125. Again after AD740 the vastly more numerous Khazars who originated from Lower Mongolia became 'Jews.' I believe most people in the circle of this Message imagine that Jews are the descendants of Jacob and the patriarchs, and that they have returned to Israel. What do you believe?

According to the Encyclopedia Judaica over ninety percent of Jews in Israel and globally are unrelated to Jacob, neither are they Semitic. Matthew 24:29-34 and Mark 13:28-30 qualify the establishment of the modern Israel state as a sign of the end of the dispensations, leaving seven years to Israel after the Gentile dispensation ends and before the consummation. Matthew 24:31 and Mark 13:27 inform us that "after Israel's Seventh Trump and our resurrection and translation God will send His angels—a 'Moses' and an 'Elijah'—to gather His elect Israelites from war and strife and from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven to the Land of their Covenant for redemption."

Many so-called Jews have settled in Israel yet the three synoptic gospels and Deuteronomy 30:4 state emphatically that not until after Christ's Bride of all Ages is seated at the Wedding Supper will these two witnesses be anointed to gather the genuine blood descendants of Jacob into the Land of the Covenant.

The Bible is correct: those who have accepted the rhema of Brother Branham's Message without heeding "the admonition of those noble Bereans who daily searched the Scriptures" for the logos, are mistaken. Daniel 9:27 and Luke 21:24 agree, "The [Israelites] shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations." Thus true Israelites live mainly in the Muslim countries of the ancient Babylonian and Assyrian Empires (Psalm 17:7; Isaiah 6:10-13; 11:11-16; 27:13; 49:17; Jeremiah 3:12, 18; 16:15; 23:8; 31:8; Ezekiel 37:14; 39:27-29; Joel 3:1; Micah 5:3; Zechariah 10:9-12; Matthew 24:29-31; Revelation 12:14). "And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." Through their ignorance or "fear of the Jews" ministers will not admit that the modern Israel state will be ruled by Gentile non-Semitic Jews "until the consummation," as Jesus said. Since 1948 "Edom has built" on stolen 'Holy Land,' but from the manifestation of the Sixth Seal, Seventh Trumpet and Seventh Vial at the terminus of the Gentile dispensation "God will throw down [what Edom has built up] and men shall call them the wicked country, and the people against whom the Lord is indignant forever" (Malachi 1:4; Genesis 3:15; Daniel 9:27; Zechariah 14:2; Luke 21:24). The cleaving of the Mount of Olives will demolish the Dome of the Rock, igniting the 'hot stage' of World War III with the defeat, rape and rapine of Jerusalem and Judah. A mass exodus of Edomite and other non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews will mean that the children of Jacob can safely return to the land of the Covenant without "fear of the Jews".

Only then will God gather the children of Israel: these Israelites evicted from the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa will occupy Israel abandoned by Edom. As Rome's Edomite Jewish King Herod tried to murder the infant Jesus, true Heir to the throne, they are right now trying to slaughter the children of Jacob. These true heirs to Israel and the Covenant now dwell in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iran, Iraq, etc., where the military force and treasure of Jewish-ruled apostate once Christian colonies of the City of London, chiefly the United States, Britain and their al Qaeda proxy armies along with Israel and Saudi Arabia are engaged in the genocide of Israelites of the pure blood of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

You must personally study and prove these matters in your own Bible. Ignore the propaganda, lies and disinformation of Israel, Jew-controlled media and entertainment, Message ministers and believers who claim that the Israelites have returned to the Land of their Covenant. These disobedient people are deceived. The Absolute of God's unchanging Word states in red letters on white paper that the children of Jacob have not yet returned to their homeland.

Don't accept what you hear just because it was preached over the pulpit; ask God for the revelation and when you possess that, share it with others, for the hour is late (Revelation 10:8-11). bb940715.htm

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