The Biblical prediction of the rebirth of Israel

Researched by David Hauser

EZEKIEL'S VISIONOF THE

REBIRTH OF ISRAELCHAPTER 37

The hand of the Lord was uponme, and carried me out in the spiritof the Lord, and set me down in themidst of the valley which was full ofbones,2 And caused me to pass by them

I'around about: and, behold, thereIwere very many in the open valley;land, 10, they were very dry.

3 And he said unto me, Son ofIman, can these bones live? And Ianswered, 0 Lord God, thou know-est.

I 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesyupon these bones, and say unto[them, 0 ye dry bones, hear the'word of the Lord.

S Thus saith the Lord God untothese bones; Behold, I will causelbr eath to enter into you, and yeshall live:6 And I will lay sinews upon you,

and will bring up flesh upon you,and cover you with skin, and putbreath in you, and ye shall live; andye shall know that I am the Lord.

7 So I prophesied as I was com-manded: and as I prophesied, therewas a noise, and behold a shaking,and the bones came together, boneto his bone.

8 And when I beheld, 10, thesinews and the flesh came up uponthem, and the skin covered them

above: but there was no breath inthem.9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy

unto the wind, prophesy, son ofman, and say to the wind, Thus saiththe Lord God; Come from the fourwinds, 0 breath, and breathe uponthese slain, that they may live.

10 So I prophesied as he com-manded me, and the breath cameinto them, and they lived, and stoodup upon their feet, an .exceedinggreat army.

11 Then he said unto me, Son ofman, these bones are the wholehouse of Israel: behold, they say,Our bones are dried, and our hopeis lost: we are cut off for our parts.

12 Therefore prophesy and sayunto them, Thus saith the Lord God;Behold, 0 my people, I will openyour graves, and cause you to comeup out of your graves,and bring youinto the land of Israel.13 And ye shall know that I am the

Lord, when I have opened yourgraves, 0 my people, and broughtyou up out of your graves,

14 And shall put my spirit in you,and ye shall live, and I shall placeyou in your own land: then shall yeknow that I the Lord have spoken it,and performed it, saith the Lord.

" .The resurrection of Israel from the graveyard of the

nations marked the ffIrst time since the days of KingSolomon that a united Israel sat at the table of thenations. Did the Hebrew prophets foretell the exact year itwould happen; 2483 years before hand? To appreciate thesignificance of this; tell me, what will happen to America inthe year 4476?

It was revealed to Ezekiel that the nationof Israel would be punished for its sin.

CHAPTER 4

Thou also, son of man, take thee atile, and lay it before thee, and. por-tray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:2 And lay siege against it, and build

a fort against it, and cast a mountagainst it; set the camp also againstit, and set battering rams against itround about. .3 Moreover take thou unto thee an

iron pan, and set it for a wall of ironbetween thee and the city: and setthy face against it, and it shall bebesieged, and thou shalt lay siegeagainst it. This shall be a sign to thehouse of Israel.4 Lie thou also upon they left side,

and lay the iniquity of the house ofIsrael upon it: according to the num-ber of days that thou shalt lie upon

it thou shalt bear their iniquity.5 For I have laid upon thee the

years of their iniquity, according tothe number of the days, three hun-dred and ninety days: so shalt thoubear the iniquity of the house ofIsrael.

6 And when thou hast accom-plished them, lie again on thy rightside, and thou shalt bear the iniquityof the house of Judah forty days: Ihave appointed thee each day for ayear.7·Therefore thou shalt set they face

toward the siege of Jerusalem, andthine arm shall be uncovered, andthou shalt prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 4:1-7 Thou also, son of man ... 390 daysI have appointed thee + 40 dayseach day for a year. 430 days

It was revealed to Ezekiel that the nation would be punished for430 years.

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360 yearsx 7

2520 biblical years

The total period of punishment would be 430 years ofwhich 70 years would be spent in Babylon.

And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and thesenations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Jeremiah: 25:11

According to the Encyclopedia ludaica, copyright 1972 page 1389 the 70 years ofcaptivity in Babylon ended in 536 B.C.E.Out of a total decreed punishment of 430years, 70 years deducted for punishment in Babylon, leaves a total of 360 years offurther punishment.

A close examination of Israel's history shows us that THEY DID NOT REPENT.Moses in the book of Leviticus warned them what would happen if they disobeyedGod.

AND IF YOU WILL NOT YET FOR ALL THIS HARKEN UNTO ME, THEN I WILLPUNISH YOU SEVEN TIMES MORE FOR YOUR SINS. Leviticus 26:18 Also see26:21, 23-24.

Israel did not repent, therefore its punishmentwould be multiplied seven times.

Israel, because of disobedience faced 2520 biblicalyears of punishment of 360 days each.

2520 yearsx 360 days

907,200 days of punishment

THE BIBLICAL CALENDAR WASBASED ONA 30 DAYMONTH

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SOMETHING DRAMATIC WOULD HAPPEN TO ISRAEL IN THISYEAR. THAT WOULD SHOW THAT GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES!!!PLEASE REFER TO NEW YORK-TIMES HEADLINE MAY 15, 1948.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth dayof the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, andthe window of heaven was opened. Genesis 7:11

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hun-dred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month,on the seventeenth day of the month upon the mountains of Ararat. Genesis 8:3, 4

From the 17th day of the second month to the 17th day of the 7th month wereexactly 150, days. The biblical calendar was predicated on a 30 day month. Fivemonths were equal to 150 days or a 30 day month.

Converting this figure into ourcalendar of' 365.25 days,and dividing into 907,200days we have a total of 2483 ye~rs.

God repeated himself four times in Leviticus Chapter 26 that the Jews,would bepunished SEVEN TI.y\ES for their sins. Look closely at verse 33

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End of Babylonian Captivity .... 536 B.C.E.The duration of worldwidecaptivity and loss of nationalsovereignty .,.. - +2483 Calendar years

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In 536 B.C.E.. after the fall of Babylon. Cyrus. king ofpersia. who became the overlord of Judah. issued hisfamous declaration. which allowed those desiring to returnto Zion to do so and to rebuild the Temple (see • Exile.Babylonian). The resettlement of the city and the rebuildingof the Temple were effected very gradually. as thesurrounding nations were hostile to this activity. Onlyunder Darius I in 515 B.C.E. did *Zerubbabel. the governor.and Joshua son of Jehozadak , the high priest. succeed incompleting the Second Temple. The city remained almostempty. however: its walls were breached and its gates wereburned down. In 445 B.C.E. *Nehemiah son of Hacaliah, animportant official at the court of King Artax erxes, movedev reports of the miserable conditions in the Holy City.decided to leave the court and go to Jerusalem. He was

{ appointed governor of Judah and was mainly responsible~ for the rebuilding of the city. He organized the inhabitants\ of Judah and took security precautions necessitated by the

Ibiller opposition of its neighbors. especially the Samaritans.First he repaired the wall. following its original course inthe period of the monarchy: "They that builded the wall

l and they that bore burdens laded themselves. everyone.ith one of his hands wrought in the work. and with the1 other held his weapon" (Neh. 4: II). He then took steps to

.~ eopulate the city by commanding the nobles and one tenth'jf of the rural population of Judah to settle there. He decreed

In annual tax of a th ird of a shekel for the maintenance ofi ;J" Temple. He suppressed the Tyrian trading market set upf IIIJl1idethe city on the Sabbath. erected a strong fortress~ linehirah) north of the Temple, posted guards on the gates.~ mdprovided for the security of the city.~ It was ·Ezra the Scribe who was responsible for theJ ~tor3tion of the authority of the Mosaic Law and for~ ~ling Jerusalem the undisputed religious center of~l.IIdJism. The rest of the Persian period is wrapped in

eO.;urily. The many jar-handle inscriptions reading "Jeru-, IOlcm" or "the city" show that it was an important

&iministrative and fiscal center.HELLEI'tSTIC PERIOD. jerusalem submitted peacefully,

a.h the rest of Judah. to Alexander the Great (332 a.c.s.),• ho confirmed the privileges of the city. The visit of the~ as reported by Josephus. however. seems legendary.

.~ AAerthe death of Alexander (323 B.C.E.), the city suffered] .1 result of a series of wars for succession. *Ptolemy I,iar of Egypt. seized it and deported a part of its populationatording to a Greek historian. the conquest was made pos---= because the Jews would not go out to fight on the Sab-ia), With the stabilization of Ptolemaic rule (301 B.C.E.),

," ~er. the relationship between Judah and Egypt irn-~ and a period of prosperity ensued. Judah had broad~my in domestic affairs and Jerusalem continued to be.ldministrative center. At the head of the administration

• < •• the high priests, descendants of Joshua son of Jehoza-.'+. tl.ll\d the Council of Elders, which bore the Greek name.. :~ia.The high priest was not only the religious head

~em and Judah but also its political and adminis-'~leader. The Gerousia, despite its Greek name, was a.iIIa continuation of the Council of Elders of the Persian',~ was composed not ?nl~ of Jerusalernites, but also.~ of clans from provincial towns. The Temple was

.~. ter of the religious and social life of Jerusalem. Due~. tl Drc~cnce. manv f"IrlPctc- It- ....•t, •..•~:.-., l'

court and the gentile noble families in the empire and thuscame under the sway of the Hellenistic way of life.

The Seleucid conquest in 198 B.C.E. was welcomed by theJews. They helped besiege the Egyptian garrison in theCitadel and were consequently compensated by AntiochusIll. A new charter was granted confirming the right of theJews to live by the "laws of their fathers." The populationwas exempted from taxes for three years. and the priestsand s~ribes were exempted in perpetuity. In addition, theking forbade the bringing of unclean animals and even theskins thereof into the city. On the surface the situation inJerusalem seemed to remain as it had been under thePtolemies as far as its administration. the character of itsinstitutions. and social conditions were concerned. Inreality. however. the Hellenization of the upper strata of thesociety was intensified. The priests and the secular leaderscame closer in their thinking and way of life to thecorresponding classes among the non-Jews and the Helle-nistic in fiuence seeped down to the lower classes. Theleaders of the pro-Hellenistic movement who wantedradical changes were the houses of Tobiah and Bilgah. Thetraditionalists were headed by the high priest. Onias Ill. buteven in his family there was a rent: his brother, *Jason,leaned towards the Hellenizers. The struggle became moreand more polarized due to the general political situationand the financial crisis that resulted from the defeat of theSeleucid empire by Rome. The king strove to regain hispower by aggrandizement of the cities in accordance withthe Hellenistic tradition of the polis.

The official in charge of the Temple. Simeon of the houseof Bilgah, made an effort to limit the powers of the highpriest ·Onias in the administration of the Temple, as well asin the economic life of the city. When his attempt failed. heturned to the Syrian governor and asked for his interven-tion. He pointed out that sums of money far beyond thatrequired for ritual sacrifices were known to be in theTemple. and should. by right, be given over to the king'sgovernment. Thereupon, the king sent Heliodorus. his chiefminister. to investigate. Onias opposed this move vigorous-ly. pointing out that the monies did not belong to theTemple but were sums deposited there for safekeeping. andHeliodorus failed in his mission. Although there is noreason to believe that the king intended to harm the Templeor to intervene in religious affairs. the episode left asediment of mistrust toward his government. Simeoncontinued in his attempts. There were riots in the streets ofJerusalem and Onias was compelled to ask the help of thegovernment to maintain order.

In 175 B.C.E .. with the ascent to the throne of " AntiochusIV Epiphanes, significant changes began to take place. Hisreign was marked by most energetic steps to Hellenize theempire. Antiochus indicated interest in the affairs ofJerusalem, and Jason seized the opportunity to convincethe king to put him in the place of his brother, Onias Ill, asthe high priest. Jason promised the king a considerableincrease in taxes, as well as a large tribute, in return for hispermission to make changes in the governing of the city .The two major reforms made by' Jason, with the fullsupport of the king. were the building of a gymnasium inJerusalem and the change of the Jewish city into a Hellenis-tic polis (one of the many in the emnire) tn I'll" lcen""," "c

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ISRAEL'S SECOND CAPTIVITY

70 YEAR BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY

606 B.C.E. 536 BIC.E ..

BABYLONCONQUERS

ISRAEL

CYRUS FREES THEJEWS TO RETURN

TO ISRAEL

DANIEL 1:1 EZRA 1:1-3

ISRAEL'S THIRD CAPTIVITY AND RETURN TO THE LAND

EZEKIEL 4:4-5

40 DAYS I I40 YEARS

390 DAYS

390 YEARS

430 YEARS OF CAPTIVITY DECREED FOR ISRAEL

606 B.C.E. 536 B.C.E.?•

170 YEARS I BALANCE OF 360 YEARS REMAIN IBABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY

ISRAEL'S THIRD CAPTIVITY AND REBIRTH OF ISRAELMAY 14

1948606 B.C.E. 536 B.C.E.

FIRST PERIOD70 YEAR

BABYLONIANCAPTIVITY

SECOND PERIOD(TO BE MULTIPLIED BY 7)

360 YEARS X 7= 2520 BIBLICAL YEARS(2483 CALENDAR YEARS)

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BABYLONIANCAPTIVITY

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PARTIAL RETURNIN UNBELIEF

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FINAL RETURNFROM WORDLWIDE

CAPTIVITY