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1007/06BC (Jubilee) David (God's choice) AD 1988 40 years after Israel's rebirth
King over Judah
1000/99BC King over all Israel AD 1995 Jubilee 40th Jubilee after Jesus' birth
The Bible's Prophetic Timeline in the above chart was developed over a period of many
years, but the starting point was Edwin R. Thiele's study on the chronology of the Old
Testament period of the Divided Kingdom, following the reign of King Solomon. Thiele
began his study of this period of Old Testament history in the early 1940's, and his final
book on the subject was published in 1983, under the title, "The Mysterious Numbers Of
The Hebrew Kings". Whenever Biblical events occurred in connection with
archaeologically dated findings, those synchronisms were used in his book, therefore the
result agrees with our knowledge of secular history during those times. Dr. Thiele was a
world-renowned expert on Old Testament chronology, and this book remains the foremost
authority on Bible chronology in print today. The "Divided Kingdom" link in the above
chart will display the result of his work, and a summary of his entire work can be studied
at Thiele Summary.
All of the dates entered in the left side of the chart, going back to the time of Abraham,
were calculated directly from Thiele's 931/930 BC date for the beginning of the Divided
Kingdom, using time periods appearing directly in the Bible. It should be remarked that
the one-year uncertainty in Thiele's dates stems from the fact that the Bible does not say
how many months elapsed following Solomon's death until the dispute between the tribes
to the North and those to the South finally resulted in the Divided Kingdom. Therefore, we
are forced to retain the one-year uncertainty through Biblical times. Nonetheless, the time
of the Exodus is determined within a year simply by reading that Solomon reigned 40 years
(I Kings 11.42), thereby requiring that his reign must have begun in 971/970 BC. However,
(I Kings 6.1) indicates that Solomon began to build the Temple in the 4th year of his reign,
i.e. 967/966 BC, and that this was 480 years after Israel made their Exodus out of Egypt.
Therefore, according to Thiele and the Bible, the Exodus should have occurred in,
967/66 BC (Solomon’s 4th year) + 480 years (inclusively) = 1446/1445 BC
Using such an approach, along with other time periods and the relative ages of people given
in the Old Testament, it was possible to build the Bible's Prophetic Timeline all the way
back to Abraham. Of course, this whole process initially assumed that both Thiele and the
Bible were correct. On the other hand, if Thiele's secular chronology is incorrect or if the
Bible contains historic errors in dating events, then we would not expect coherent or
repeatable patterns within the above timeline. This observation gave rise to the following
way in which the accuracy of Biblical dates could be evaluated. Consider the implications
embodied in the following two charts.
"7-YEAR" MULTIPLES
(HIGHLIGHT COVENANT FULFILLMENTS)
• The period from the Lord's promise to Jacob concerning Israel's future
blessing until Israel could make their Exodus out of Egypt and receive the
Covenant of Law was,
69 x "7" = 483 years
• The period when the Lord fulfilled His Old Testament Covenant by giving
Israel the Land was,
1 x "7" years
The Land was conquered in 6 years (Joshua 14.7-10), and allocated in the
7th year.
• The period from Gabriel's promise to Daniel concerning Israel's future
blessing until Israel could make their "exodus" out of sin and receive the
Covenant of Grace was,
69 x "7" = 483 years (Counted in a 360-day Calendar) (Daniel 9.25)
According to the Bible, we see that the Old Testament Covenant of Law and the New
Testament Covenant of Grace were both keyed to time periods governed by multiples of
"7" years, a number prophetically signifying completion or perfection. However, of great
significance here is also the fact that the final 483 years in (Daniel 9.25) began with
Nehemiah's rebuilding of Jerusalem in the 20th year of the reign of Persian king
Artaxerxes, known from secular history to have been 445 BC (Nehemiah 2.1).
Furthermore, a direct calculation will show that the subsequent 483 years (counted in a
360-day Calendar) ended on April 6, AD 32, the Sunday just prior to Passover in that year,
and the Sunday recorded in the Bible when Jesus Christ made His triumphal entrance into
Jerusalem as King, thereby fulfilling (Daniel 9.25)!
Consequently, that 483-year linkage between the Covenant of Law and Covenant of Grace
proves that the first one was not manufactured, because the dates that produced that first
483-year period were in the Bible centuries before 445 BC, making it impossible to know
that it would be the time period required to repeat that second 483-year period associated
with the coming of King Messiah.
The following chart completes the assertion that the dates in the Bible's Prophetic Timeline
are in fact true historic dates, because the following Jubilee Calendar produced from them
not only highlights key Timeline events during Biblical times, but also highlights key events
in 20th century recorded history!
"50-YEAR JUBILEE" MULTIPLES
(HIGHLIGHT KEY EVENTS)
• The year of "Israel's" birth was,
"Jubilee" 2007/06 BC.
• The year when Israel was ready to enter their promised inheritance was,
"Jubilee" 1407/06 BC.
• The year when the Davidic Kingdom began was,
"Jubilee" 1007/06 BC.
• The year when Messiah was born was,
"Jubilee" 07/06 BC.
• The year when World War II ended occurred at the advent of,,
"Jubilee" 1945
• The year of the "40th" Jubilee and start of the second Millennium after
Jesus' birth was,
"Jubilee" 1995
You will notice that the above chart, taken from the Bible's Prophetic Timeline, shows the
Jubilee-year dates over a period of 4000 years. The Jubilee Calendar from which these
years were obtained was developed in the following way:
Using the Thiele-Bible methodology explained previously, Israel must have entered the
Promised Land in 1406/1405 BC, after their 40 years in the Sinai wilderness. (Leviticus 25)
then explains how the Jubilee years were to be determined, so a Jubilee Calendar could be
constructed (See "Jubilee Calendar") . You will observe that the resulting Jubilee years
designate very important events in Israel's prophetic history.
Since the Jubilee Calendar repeats on a cycle of 50 years, it can also be projected into the
future, following Biblical times, thereby giving rise to those two 20th century Jubilees of
1945 and 1995. Notice that the one-year uncertainty inherit in Thiele's work can now be
removed for the 20th century Jubilees, because of a unique association between Jubilee
year 1944/1945 and World War II. The Thiele one-year uncertainty would have allowed
either 1944 or 1945 to be the Jubilee year. However, we know from (Leviticus 25) that the
Jubilee year was a time when Hebrews who had lost their inheritance through confiscation
or some other misfortune were forgiven their debts, released from slavery, and permitted to
return back to their rightful inheritance. Consequently, if 20th century Jubilee years
continue to reflect prophetic events indicative of the meaning of the Jubilee, as they did
during Biblical times, 1944 could not have been a Jubilee year for the Jews, because that
year witnessed the height of the Holocaust, when their future appeared hopeless. However,
World War II ended in Europe in the spring of 1945, and the Jews were released from their
captivity. (Leviticus 25) specifies that each Jubilee year officially begins in the seventh
month of Tishri on the day of Atonement. In 1945, that would have fallen a few days after
the September 1 official end of World War II, when the Jews were beginning their return to
the Land of their inheritance. Therefore, 1945 had to be the Jubilee year, thereby
permitting us to also designate 1995 as the second Jubilee year in the 20th century.
The above connections between the Bible's Prophetic Timeline and 20th century history
provide powerful evidence to validate the historicity of the Bible, and to refute attempts to
discredit its authenticity as the inerrant Word of God. For example, an archaeological
timeline currently in vogue appears to discredit Bible chronology by building on a
supposed Hebrew Exodus from Egypt at the time of Pharaoh Raamses II, who ruled Egypt
in 1300-1234 BC. However, Professor Hans Goedicke, a world-famous Egyptologist proved
in a September/October, 1981 article in the Biblical Archaeology Review that such a
construct is incorrect. Moreover, two other archaeologists, John Bimson and David
Livingston showed in a September/October, 1987 article in the Biblical Archaeology Review
that a revised archaeological timeline based on Biblical dates, produces better correlations
with the physical evidence actually unearthed from archaeological digs in Israel.
You can find additional detail related to the Bible's Prophetic Timeline at "Israel's
Redemptive Timeline" and related to archaeology at "Timelines for Biblical Archaeology".
The Bible's Prophetic Timeline seems to possess a final intriguing feature seen in the
following chart.
"A parallel in church history is found (to the period of the Judges) in the
professing church since the apostolic age, in which the rise of numerous
sects and the forfeited sense of the unity of the Spirit and of one body
appear."