The Prophesied Restoration of Judah After 7 Times, Part 2: 1947 – 2000 AD
The Prophesied Restoration of Judah After 7 Times, Part 2: 1947 – 2000 AD
On May 14, 1948 AD (5944 AA), the Jews in Palestine established and proclaimed the independent State of Israel. This had been made possible by the United Nations, which had sanctioned the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian-Arab states on Nov. 29, 1947 (late 5943 AA).
7 times earlier, in the Autumn of 538 BC (3423 AA), Babylon fell to King Cyrus of Persia, and the Babylonian Empire was thereafter broken up to become provinces of the Medo-Persian Empire. In the Spring of 537 BC (3424 AA), Jews were allowed to return to Judah and Jerusalem and establish their own vassal province.
In sum, 7 times after the vassal Province of Judah was established, the free State of Israel was founded. Both cases were separated by 70 sacred [360-day] years from their respective initial events in 606 BC and 1878-79 AD.
On June 5-10, 1967 AD (5963 AA), the Six-Day War against Israel by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria took place. On June 7, the Jews recaptured the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem. This occurred 70 sacred years after the First Zionist Congress in 1897 AD (5893 AA).
7 times earlier, after God so commanded by the prophet Haggai, the Jews began to rebuild the Temple of YHWH in August or September 519 BC (late 3442 AA). It had been 70 sacred years since the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Babylonians in August 588 BC (late 3372 AA). In December or January 519-18 BC (early 3443 AA), God promised to begin again to bless the people. Hag. 2:10-19 This was 70 sacred years after the last remnant of the Jews had left Judah to go to Egypt in November or September 588 BC (early 3373 AA).
A newly-elected liberal government in Israel signed a peace accord with the Palestinian Liberation Organization on September 4, 1999 AD (5996 AA). That agreement promised the immediate resumption of Israeli military withdrawals from PLO-dominated areas. It also committed both sides to a Final Status solution, by September 2000, of the remaining difficult treaty issues to be resolved. Chief among these issues was the status of Jerusalem, the holy city claimed by both sides for their capital.
This attempt at agreement failed, even though the Palestinians were offered sovereignty over East Jerusalem (the Old City) and control of the Temple Mount. They wanted more. On September 28, 2000 (5997 AA), the day before Rosh Hashanah, Palestinians rioted on the Temple Mount to protest the visit there of the conservative politician Ariel Sharon. This conflict immediately became an armed revolt by Palestinians throughout the land. But their revolt failed, resulting in their sound defeat by the Israelis, and subsequent reversals of their political and military control in the land.
7 times earlier, in the Autumn of 486 BC (3476 AA), the Middle East was in turmoil after the death of Persian King Darius. Egypt had already revolted against the Empire, and Babylon was near to it. Xerxes ascended the throne of his father Darius; his first regnal year officially began in the Spring of 485 BC (3476/75 AA). “n the beginning of his reign,” regional adversaries of the Jews “wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.” Ezra 4:6 According to Julian Morgenstern, an armed rebellion had begun in Judah, led by a newly-anointed Jewish king with Messianic pretensions. Xerxes allowed the Jews’ enemies to burn Jerusalem and the Temple, the Jewish king was defeated and killed, and the Jews suffered decades of reversal of their authority over the land.* It was not regained until the arrivals of Ezra and Nehemiah in 457 and 444, respectively.
In sum, 7 times after this failure of a Jewish uprising and their subsequent loss of authority and control, the latter-day Jews defeated an uprising against them, and further solidified their control and authority over the land.
*For more details about this revolt, and the citation of Morgenstern’s articles, see:
https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1166-the-psalm-83-war-when/
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