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The captivity and fall of Jerusalem in August of 587 BC is where it all begins for the coming judgement.  Everything that drives the prophetic world and how history has unfolded for Jewish and Christian believers begins here.

In the history of Israel, this was the most important moment that shaped the nation.  It has taken over 2600 years to work through the punitive measures God introduced with this catastrophic (desolation) event.  Israel failed their covenant relationship,  failed their stewardship of the land and had to face the punitive measures God outlined in Leviticus Chapter 25 and elsewhere.  When generations of time are being judged, then allowing for “seven times” any number can require many years to pass over, and here we are far into the future with the fullness of time,  with Israel restored the second time.

“And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”  Luke 21:24

The conditions within the Law of Moses had to be precisely met within the framework provided by his holiness, so the preparations could allow for the Messiah to appear.  If you spend any time studying prophecy, its impossible to overstate how important the captivity and temple desolation was to the future order of prophetic events.  The secular world doesn’t care, has long forgotten, or at a minimum confuses the multiple deportations and sieges of Nebuchadnezzar and cannot discern the significance of this time or even the correct order of events.

A careful study on the ‘desolation’ timeline from Jeremiah, Lamentations, 2 kings and elsewhere provides for a greater awareness and sensitivity to the orchestration and allows for more evidence of structure surrounding these events, which allows us to understand more within the larger patterns of days and years that follow.

If you outline the general dates of the Kings of Judah during this time when so much was happening, it does evidence something interesting.  It all begins with Josiah (a good King,  which Daniel,  and even Ezekiel and  Jeremiah may have come out of his reforms and influence) he was given 31 years to rule.  Jeremiah began his prophetic work in the thirteenth year of Josiah, meaning he prophesied for 40 years to the very end and the first temple desolation in 587 BC.  I suspect it was likely 14,000 days exactly or add the 400 days (for 40 years x 360 days) to the very day.  God told Josiah he would not have to face what was coming and that he would be gathered to his fathers before that day came but his people would see the captivity.

Next King Jehoahaz (bad King) ruled 3 months, was installed by the Egyptians, this was at the time of the battle of Carchemish, a major turning point in world history,  (not only for Judah) Babylon came to world prominence after this battle.  God appointed Nebuchadnezzar to represent “the world” as being the ‘head of gold” in the pattern of judgement .  Then Jehaoikim (another bad king) ruled for 11 years, and it was during his 3rd year (1260 days later possibly?) when the first deportation to Babylon occurred, this was on July 23, 606 BC,  its also when Daniel was deported at a very young age, early teens.  Next, Jehoaichin (a really bad king, and was the real reason the Messiah had to be born of a virgin, because God pronounced a curse on his lineage and would not permit his descendants to sit on the throne of David) he also was allowed only 3 months to rule, and it was at the end of his 3 months that Ezekiel was deported (during the 2nd deportation to Babylon) and begins  his work in Babylon by the river Chebar,

This is where Ezekiel in Chapter 10 records the amazing account of the Glory of God departing the Temple in Jerusalem, the Skekinah with the four archangels that are always with him,  the angels were standing by at the Temple court as he departs, he lingers at the doorway of the temple (he doesn’t want to leave) and then departs via the East gate and up toward the direction of the Mount of Olives.  Its a fascinating read, and if you can visualize the imagery even more so.  Jesus also left in that very same manner and direction, and departed rising up from the Mount of Olives 40 days after the resurrection (which I believe Jesus ascended on Friday May 23, 32 AD)

And the last King of Judah was Zedekiah, who also ruled for 11 years, he was weak and vacillating,  a double minded man which James 1:8  tells us is unstable in all his ways.   Instead of listening to Jeremiah, he listened to false prophets and his advisers telling him God would never allow the Temple to be destroyed.  Zedekiah was King until August 16, 587 BC – the 9th of AV, this was the end.  This is where many of the patterns come from, the ‘desolation’ of Jerusalem and the sanctuary fulfilling what Moses warned,

And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.  For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land,  “ Deuteronomy 32:46-47

Jeremiah tried to prevent the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple.  The armies came ‘like a flood’, as Gabriel referred to it when talking to Daniel, and is how it occurred in 70 AD and will be, “until the time of the latter indignation.”  Daniel 8:19

To better understand the structure and order of events, it you add up this time beginning with Josiah and Jeremiah as a rejected prophet and witness to oversee the fall of Judah.  With Ezekiel and Daniel both sent to Babylon provided by God to help their people live and return after the 70 years was over.  Those that went into captivity, and those that listened to Jeremiahs warnings lived well enough as promised.

The captivity came with three sieges ending with the 9th of AV Temple desolation, which was  (6960 days + 3 days and 3 nights) after the first deportation on July 23, 606 BC,  it’s actually 53.5 years from when Josiah began to rule, (we cannot be exact to the day here) it’s missing at least 1260 days to complete 49 years plus seven years.  I suspect there are clues here to future end time events, this pattern will repeat or again be accounted for in some manner?

We’re told four times exactly when the captivity begins, and it comes because they didn’t keep the law, they worshiped idols, and specifically via Leviticus 25, they didn’t provide for the Sabbath rest,  they didn’t allow the land to rest.  And its also four times in Leviticus Ch 25 we’re told he will punish them seven times more if they don’t do whats required.  They didn’t keep the Jubilee.  There was a brief attempt to perform the Jubilee within the siege time frame, see Jeremiah Ch 34, and then its undone, so God is angry and declared the Jubilee for them, (not good)

“Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.” Jeremiah 34:17

At this time God has Jeremiah purchase land in his hometown of Anathoth and sign the deed with multiple witnesses and added the requirements for the Kinsmen redeemer to be unsealed, the rest sealed and then he was told to bury it in clay jars so that it will last for many days.  So I have wonder if it turns up in Revelation Chapter4 and 5 in Gods right hand? A deed to the land, with its legal owner enjoying the right of redemption as long as all the conditions are met under the Law of Moses.  Ownership of the Earth.  It begins here and seems to be where the end picks up again following the future restoration of Israel at the end of the Gentile and Church age.

Recall this conjecture:
3500 years   |  3500 years  = 7000 years

Meaning:
1,260,000 days counting to March 14th, 445 BC and then 1,260,000 days after = 2,520,000 days or 7000 years to the day.
So,again just conjecturing, what if the exact mid-point of this heptadic pattern is actually when Gabriel says to begin counting,  meaning the halfway point in the overall pattern is: March 14, 445 BC.

Then count to Jesus, fulfilling the prophecies of Zechariah and riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, which is the 483 years, or (7  sevens) and (62 sevens) for a total of 69 sevens leaving the 70th seven (or week) still future.  But I would conjecture its really 8 weeks (or 56 years) and not one week (7 years) that remains to be fulfilled after the Messiah is cut off (but not for himself)  Then, there will come the final seven years as detailed in Daniel as the 70th week, but what if it follows after a future 49 year pattern.  Which could be that it is aligned with a future Yom Kippur and with a Jubilee Restoration of Jerusalem and Judah.  Even the very conditions and exact timeline we’re currently counting to from June 7th 1967 to September 23, 2015 Yom Kippur.

“three days and three nights” like Jonah, the Resurrection,  blurs the precise day/year timeline,  so that only those considering it can perceive it,

7000 days and 888 days, are the number of days that start beginning 2000 years (720,000 days) after the Resurrection on April 13, 32 AD and have nothing to do with the Temple destruction, yet these numbers repeat here and are rolled up at the end, after 2000 years more, (after the Resurrection) or 2 days more (conjecture) for the 1335 days we’re told to wait for, that’s related (I believe) to the Messiahs ascension 40 days, again,  after the Resurrection (at 1333 days exactly) on Friday May 23,32 AD,

July 6th, 3895 BC or 3500 years exactly before March 14, 445 BC:

|———–1,440,000 days———| 7000 days | 888 days | August 12, 70 AD, third day
|—————–4000 years———| 7000 days | 888 days | August 12, 70 AD, third day
|—————–6000 years————————-| 888 days | September 26, 2022
April 13th, 32 AD|———2000 years———| 7000 days | September 26, 2022

Its seventeen years (6120 days) exactly offset, meaning a 10 and then a 7, with the 7000 days and the 888 day pattern repeats (again)  and the 1,440,000 days (4000 years) which is 12×12 and so on, its Wednesday of a 7000 year week and the same numbers are evident when the temple was destroyed in 70 AD,  that is, if Jesus arrived 17 years before he was 50, and 17 years before the 500 years exactly <after> March, 14, 445 BC and providing its the halfway point of a 7000 year window.  Then its “a time, times and half a time” needing only 2000 years (720,000 days) to complete to the Millennium requiring precisely 1000 years (360,000 days) more for the second half of 3500 year window,

After the 2000 years (720,000 days exactly) that follow after the Resurrection, we have a similar 7000 day pattern and an 888 day pattern, this time overlapping to September 26, 2022 Rosh Hoshannah.

Also, this desolation time from 587 BC,  appears (to me at least) to be related to the vague comment by Jesus that many have tried to explain.  “For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” Mathew 24:28   Was he calling our attention to Jeremiah 16:2-4, That is, to the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC on the 9th of AV,  and that it will also again (future to that time) be the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD again on the 9th of AV,  and then equally important, he’s showing also that in all the long years of the Diaspora, they would be returned to the land because the destruction will be in Jerusalem, (the ‘second time’ as Isaiah says, when Israel had not even been removed the first time) and it will occur also in this same manner, its the future destruction of Jerusalem at the very end, its the Armageddon scenario with Jerusalem surrounded (again) by the nations, likely (again) on the 9th of AV as a repeating pattern same as the first two, but the difference this time is, the Messiah will show up to save them after they call on him directly and acknowledge their offense.  Its all over for the armies surrounding Jerusalem.

“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.”  Hosea 5:15

“. .and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son. . “ Zechariah 12:10

And Jesus said, “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. And verily I say unto you, ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord.” Luke 13:35   This is the physical return to the Earth,  its a dark day for the world, dark clouds,  the world is burned and few are left alive, the nations with armies left will all be surrounding Jerusalem.   Its spiritual warfare of the very highest intensity spilling over,

“The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.”  Isaiah 24:5

I believe it has to occur again on a future 9th day of AV, same as before but this time Israel will be saved by their promised Messiah, they were being punished by God for not keeping the Law of Moses,  they’re now redeemed under the Law.  This future third time is the world doing this, meaning its really malevolent spiritual principalities and powers, knowing Gods redemption plan is almost complete,  trying to destroy a restored Israel because their ruler (Satan) knows Gods plan to restore everything will include their eternal imprisonment in the Lake of fire.  He knows God has almost completed the punishment of the Law upon Israel and is about to “seal up the vision and the prophecy” Daniel 9:24   Its the Jubilee.  Satan must undo the redemption work of Jesus over the flesh and the Earth, he’s lost whatever authority he had in the spirit, and he wants the Earth because without it he has nothing, and no more time.

This is also why Satan’s place is no longer found in heaven, he has been permitted in Heaven to accuse Gods people.  He is trying to undo the work of redemption and its why he’s thrown out and the war rages.  Whatever spiritual battles are happening now and I believe it to be considerable.  I suspect that its nothing compared to what begins when we see Jerusalem divided, the ordinances and laws broken and Satan finally cast down to the Earth.

“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”  Revelation 12:12