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The rise of the house of David, part 13

When God turned back the clock in 1996, it removed a long-standing obstacle to the establishment of His Kingdom, a problem that began in the time of Moses.

Israel had two calendars, one that began with the Creation Jubilee calendar dating from Adam, and the other that essentially began when Joshua led Israel across the Jordan. These were not the same, but the discrepancy between these two calendars was not resolved until God turned back the clock in 1996.

Chronological Summary of 50 Jubilees

As I showed in great detail in my book, Creation’s Jubilee, God’s calendar began with Adam, and the chronologies in Genesis 5 and 11 were meant to date the birth of the patriarchs according to the year since Adam. Hence, Seth was born in the year 130 from Adam (Genesis 5:3). Noah was born in the year 1056, and the flood began 600 years later in 1656.

Abraham was born 1948 years from Adam, Isaac was born a century later in 2048, and Jacob was born 60 years later in 2108 during the 43^rd Jubilee since Adam. He lived to be 147 years old and died in the 46^th Jubilee from Adam. All of the major events in Jacob’s life fell on Sabbath years, but the most significant event was when he wrestled with the angel in his 98^th year, which was the 45^th Jubilee from Adam.

The important events in Jacob’s life confirm the biblical chronology, as well as the Sabbaths and Jubilees on the Creation Jubilee calendar. Genesis 15:13 tells us that from the birth of “thy seed” (i.e., Isaac) to the exodus from Egypt would be precisely 400 years (2048-2448). Hence, Isaac was born on the day later known as Passover.

Thirty years before Isaac’s birth, God had given Abraham the promise, and so it was 430 years between the Abrahamic promise and the Old Covenant at Mount Sinai (Galatians 3:17). But they spent only 210 years in Egypt proper. The first 190 years were spent in Canaan, which was under the hegemony of Egypt. Hence, Exodus 12:40 tells us that the Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years, dating back to “the very day” that God established His covenant with Abraham.

In other words, the promise given to Abraham also occurred on the day later known as Passover.

Israel left Egypt at Passover of the year 2448. They arrived at Mount Sinai about seven weeks later, and God descended on the Mount. This was thereafter celebrated as the feast of weeks, known later by the Greek name, Pentecost.

The Israelites spent a year at the base of the mount, during which time they built the tabernacle of Moses (Exodus 40:17). A month later (after their first census) they began marching toward the Promised Land (Numbers 10:11-13). This was the summer of 2449.

Then they sent twelve spies to search out the land for 40 days, and they returned carrying “the first ripe grapes” (Numbers 13:20). Grapes ripened in September and this was at the beginning of the new year (2450).

The spies then gave their report on the 50^th Jubilee from Adam. It was a Jubilee of Jubilees. However, the evil report of the ten spies instilled fear in the hearts of the people, and they refused to enter into the Kingdom (Numbers 14:1, 2, 3, 4). Their lack of faith turned the Jubilee from a day of rejoicing into a day of mourning, later known as Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

Henceforward, the day was commemorated as a day of fasting and repentance for refusing to enter the Promised Land. Their faith was weak through fear. By fasting, they were supposed to overcome the spirit of fear and hear/obey God’s voice in order to enter into God’s Jubilee.

The Delayed Jubilee

If the Israelites had entered the Promised Land on the 50^th Jubilee from Adam, all of their Sabbath years and Jubilees thereafter would have been dated according to the Creation Jubilee calendar. But this was not to be. So 38 years later, toward the end of their wilderness journey, Moses instructed them in Leviticus 25:2, 3, 4,

² Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, “When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the Lord. ³ Six years you shall sow your field and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, ⁴ but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest….

Their alternate Jubilee calendar and Sabbath system began when they entered the land 38 years late. Hence, there was a 38-year discrepancy between the two calendars. As long as this discrepancy existed, the Kingdom could not be fully established. The discrepancy of the calendars expressed the discrepancy between the will of God and the hearts of the people themselves.

In fact, the Israelites never kept a Sabbath or a Jubilee in their entire history in the land of Canaan. By the time of David, they owed God 62 Sabbath years and 8 Jubilees, so God judged them with a plague that killed 70,000 of them (1 Chronicles 21:14). This occurred after David took his census, as I have already shown.

They still failed to keep their Sabbaths and Jubilees, so God later judged them with a 70-year captivity to the Babylonians (2 Chronicles 36:20, 21; Jeremiah 25:11).

The Partial Correction

After Israel was deported to Assyria, they came under the Assyrian Eponym calendar. The Jordan Crossing calendar continued to be effective only in the land of Judah and Jerusalem. The 70-year captivity, however, brought that calendar to an end, as the Judahites (“Jews”) came under the Babylonian calendar during that time.

Toward the end of that captivity, the prophet Daniel was given revelation of a new calendar that would lead to the coming of the Messiah. The angel Gabriel came to him and told him that “from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah” was to be a total of 70 Sabbath “weeks,” that is, a period of 490 years. (See Daniel 9:25, 26.)

This prophecy was not fulfilled in the decree of Cyrus in 534 B.C., but in the decree of king Artaxerxes in 458 B.C. The decree of Cyrus allowed the people to return to their homeland and build the second temple. That temple was completed in March of 515 B.C. in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the Great (Ezra 6:15). But the decree of Artaxerxes many decades later commissioned another Ezra called “this Ezra” (Ezra 7:6) to finish the temple work that had begun under the first Ezra and the Governor, Zerubbabel.

The 60^th Jubilee from Adam fell in 465-464 B.C., which was the first year of Artaxerxes. His decree was issued in his seventh year, or 458 B.C. Artaxerxes gave Ezra the authority to set up magistrates and judges (Ezra 7:25), thereby giving the people nationhood status. The decree further commanded the people to obey the laws of God as well as the laws of the king (Ezra 7:26).

This is what jump-started the new calendar system that had been prophesied by Daniel. The 70 weeks were not only 70 Sabbaths but also 10 Jubilee cycles (49 x 10) leading to Christ’s crucifixion in 33 A.D. (See my book, Daniel’s Seventy Weeks.)

The decree of Artaxerxes was issued seven years after the 60^th Jubilee from Adam. Therefore, this calendar aligned with the Sabbath years, but their Jubilees were still seven years out of alignment with the Creation Jubilee calendar. If Artaxerxes had issued the decree in his first year (465-464 B.C.), then the restored calendar of Jerusalem would have overcome fully the 38-year discrepancy caused by the evil report of the ten spies.

But as it turned out, the calendar was only partially corrected, because the Kingdom could not be established while Jerusalem was under the authority of the king of Persia. Daniel had prophesied elsewhere that God had given four “beasts” (i.e., kingdoms) authority to rule the earth: Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. (See Daniel 2 and 7.) The Kingdom would have to wait for the day when the beast nations’ authority (and their extensions called “horns”) would end in 2017.

Nonetheless, the partial correction established the timing of Christ’s crucifixion, as I explained in the book above.

The Full Alignment

The Pentecostal Age—that is, the rule of “Saul”—was to last 40 Jubilees from 33-1993 A.D. Then Saul died, and the house of David began to be established according to biblical patterns. In 1986, while yet under the authority of Pentecost (Saul), the Jubilee was not declared. That task remained for the house of David, because David himself had been crowned in a year of Jubilee.

Hence, we were led to declare the Jubilee on September 23, 1996 and make this retroactive to the actual Jubilee ten years earlier (1986). This made the final correction to the long-term problem that had begun with the evil report given by ten of the twelve spies. The discrepancy in the calendar was partially corrected in 458 B.C. and fully corrected in 1996.

Knowing this, the Angel Peniel was revealed in October of 1995, because he is the angel commissioned to lead the living overcomers into the Promised Land. In the prophecy of the feast days, the dead overcomers will be raised first (1 Thessalonians 4:16) on the feast of Trumpets through the ministry of Michael, who is the angel of resurrection (Daniel 12:1, 2).

The overcomers living in that generation will be changed into His image on the first day of Tabernacles through the ministry of Peniel. At that point the body of the overcomers will be complete, except for the Head. Christ will then come in the middle of Tabernacles, according to the pattern seen in John 7:14. The coming of Christ will make the body complete and perfect so that it can be presented to God on the eighth day, according to the law (Exodus 22:29, 30).

Then these sons of God will be manifested to the people in the earth. This will begin the actual Kingdom Age, where the Tabernacles anointing will rule supreme, and the Stone kingdom will begin to grow until it fills the whole earth (Daniel 2:35).