The Prophesied Restoration of Israel After 7 Times, Part 2: 1754 – 1783 AD

On May 28 and July 3-4, 1754 AD (5747 AA), skirmishes between George Washington’s colonials and French forces in the Ohio Valley sparked the French and Indian War. This conflict lasted nearly nine years. During the war, the American colonial governments were greatly strengthened, and they acquired extensive territory.

7 times earlier, a corresponding period of about nine years, 731-22 BC (3227-36 AA), covered the reign of Hoshea, the last king of Israel. In those years, the kingdom was diminished in both strength and territory.

On Feb. 10, 1763 AD (5756 AA), the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War in England’s and the American colonies’ favor. This time is often cited as being that of the foundation of America as a nation:

In the half century after 1763, the American people founded a new American nation. … During the four [Anglo-French] wars [of 1689 – 1763], the colonial assemblies added steadily to their powers and privileges until by 1763, they had become the real centers of power in the colonial governments. Encyclopedia Americana; Danbury: Grolier, 1982: 27:708, 707.

7 times earlier, in 722 BC (3236 AA), the last remnant of the Kingdom of Israel was carried off out of its land, as prophesied in Leviticus 26:28-33. That is to say, the foundation of ancient Israel was destroyed, not to be reestablished until the fulfillment of the prophesied period of 2520 sacred years.

The dated biblical record of the nation of Israel ends in 722 BC. However, the book of 2 Esdras records the following event:

[The Israelites who had been deported by] Shalmaneser…resolved to leave the country populated by the Gentiles and go to a distant land never inhabited by man. … The Most High performed miracles for them, stopping up the channels of the river* until they had crossed over. 2 Esdras 13:41, 44 NEB

* Possibly the Euphrates is meant, often just called “the river” in the Bible. The suggested alternative is the Araxes River in Armenia, because the Israelites were resettled by the Assyrians in the northeastern region of their empire.

Such a cataclysm took place in 701 BC (3257 AA), the time of the heavenly “blast” that destroyed Assyrian King Sennacherib’s army near Jerusalem. Is. 36-37 At this point in time, Israel ceased to be recognized among the world’s nations, becoming “the lost tribes of Israel.”

7 times added to the date of that event yield the year 1783 AD. On Sept. 3, 1783 AD (5777 AA), the Peace of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War of 1775-83, and established the independence of the American nation before the whole world. Therefore, 7 times after the assertion of Israel’s independence in exile, God provided for the independence of the “new American nation”; which was actually the restoration of the nation of Israel of old.

This identification of America with Israel of old was acknowledged by many colonists throughout the whole era of restoration. In 1669, the American author Nathaniel Morton wrote that he hoped “That especially the seed of Abraham [God’s] servant, and the children of Jacob his chosen, may remember his marvelous works in…the planting of New England…how God ‘brought a vine’ into this wilderness…‘and caused it to take deep root,’ so that it has ‘sent forth its boughs to the sea and its branches to the river.’ Ps. lxx 8, 9, 11 …and planted them in the mountain of his inheritance…in this our Israel.”

Late in 1799, the American preacher Abiel Abbott said in a sermon, “It has often been remarked that the people of the United States come nearer to a parallel with Ancient Israel, than any other nation upon the globe. Hence, ‘OUR AMERICAN ISRAEL’ is a term frequently used; and common consent also allows it apt and proper.”