Seven Times Prophecy (360* x 7 'times') is 2520 years
by Betty Matteson Rhodes - from the book, "Sounding the Shofar"
The 'Seven Times' punishment on Israel is mentioned
4 times
in the book of Leviticus,
Chapter 26. The punishment would be that the Israelites
would lose their identity;
and they wouldn't remember who they were, nor would they remember that Jacob was their original forefather.
18 And if ye
will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will
punish* you seven times**
more for your sins.and they wouldn't remember who they were, nor would they remember that Jacob was their original forefather.
21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
*Punish = #3256 yacar yaw-sar' a primitive root; to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively (with words); hence, to instruct; to bind, chasten, chastise, correct, instruct, punish, reform, reprove, sore, teach.
'Seven Times' prophecy' speaks directly to
all the tribes of Israel, and gives warning and duration
of punishment.
**Times used is 360 days times 7 (vs 365.24 days) as 360 is God's 'perfected' biblical cycle, not an earth-based cycle. Ancient Sumerian count used '60' as a base number and worked off that base much as we use zero or ten and work from there. Also, the Astrological circle is 360°, and divisible by 12. Therefore Seven Times would be 360 X 7 = 2520. There is no way a person can accurately figure, let alone be in agreement, as to the BCE date when King David began as King over all twelve tribes. We do the best we can without prejudice one way or the other. Perhaps, myself being a person who is neither a practicing Christian or Jew, is best suited to do the work on this subject.
**Times used is 360 days times 7 (vs 365.24 days) as 360 is God's 'perfected' biblical cycle, not an earth-based cycle. Ancient Sumerian count used '60' as a base number and worked off that base much as we use zero or ten and work from there. Also, the Astrological circle is 360°, and divisible by 12. Therefore Seven Times would be 360 X 7 = 2520. There is no way a person can accurately figure, let alone be in agreement, as to the BCE date when King David began as King over all twelve tribes. We do the best we can without prejudice one way or the other. Perhaps, myself being a person who is neither a practicing Christian or Jew, is best suited to do the work on this subject.
2520 years less 1603 CE = 917 BCE
Note on BCE and
CE for those who don't understand how it works:
BCE years descend, (begin higher and come down lower in
year count to year 1 BCE) / 1 CE.
CE refers to 'current era' that started from years 1 CE and ascend upward to the present year of 2023.
917 BCE the Kingdom of Israel became divided.CE refers to 'current era' that started from years 1 CE and ascend upward to the present year of 2023.
In the year 1603 CE the Kingdom of Israel was reunited after 2520 years.
| BCE |
ISRAEL'S
TIMELINE according to research by Betty Matteson Rhodes | Christian Dictionary |
Jewish Library
|
| 1490 |
The Exodus from Egypt |
1500 |
|
| 1060-1020 | Saul's reign [no agreement
in years of reign] and there was at least one other person who acts as king during this time. | ||
| 1020-980 | David's 40 year reign | 1055 - 1015 |
1010 - 970 |
| 980-940 | Solomon's 40 year reign | 1015 - 975 |
970 - 930 |
| 976 | Solomon starts 7 yr construction of temple | ||
| 969 | Solomon dedicates temple | ||
| 940 | Solomon dies | 975 |
930 |
| 940-917 | Rehoboam, Solomon's son, becomes king of Judah's Southern kingdom. Dissention occurs Northern tribes want Jeroboam as king. Israel falls into 23 years of chaos before finally two separate kingdoms were formed. Judah's King Abijah defeats Jeroboam 18 yrs later in a war. Northern kingdom of Israel goes through many kings and turn to idolatry up until their capture in 721 BCE. The Southern kingdom will follow into dispair when Athaliah murders all the royal house of Judah except Joash, and the capture of Judah's kingdom occurs in 586 BCE. | ||
| 917 | The
Seven Times punishment now begins - 2520 years they become 'lost'
within their own memory, lost to history, lost in regards to whom they
were and where they came from. they lose this memory as punishment. | ||
| 719-721 | Northern tribes (Israel) captured by Assyria | ||
| 626 | King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon rules | ||
| 616 | Destruction of Assyria; scattering of northern tribes begins | ||
| 605 | Babylon invades kingdom of Judah | ||
| 589 |
God makes a ONE 'week'
covenant with the remnant of Judah's people: | ||
| 589 | Jeremiah
leads
the tender branches (a remnant) made up of
girls from the royal family of Judah, the elderly, and young children,
to safety. This was 3.5 yrs into the week (see next
line) | ||
| 586 | Jerusalem & the temple
destroyed; Royal family of Judah (men and boys) were killed or taken
captive, sacrifices were stopped - cut off. | ||
| 589-500 | Jeremiah's Jewish remnant, incl.
princesses of royal family, reach the British Isles, Ireland, Scotland,
Wales, England | ||
| 536-37 | King Cyrus' decree to rebuild Jerusalem & Temple | ||
| 516-517 | 2nd Temple dedicated / anointed |
The United Kingdom of Israel, under King's Saul, David
and his son, Solomon, fell apart after the death of
Solomon and soon became two distinct and separate
kingdoms; the northern Kingdom of Israel and the
southern Kingdom of Judah.
The northern kingdom set up their own throne, contrary to the House of Judah and the covenant God made with King David. After the death of King Solomon, Judah appointed Rehoboam, the son of Solomon to sit upon the throne. Rebelling against the rule of Rehoboam, the northern tribes therefore installed Jeroboam, from the tribe of Ephraim, in the role of King over the northern tribes. Doing so meant that Jeroboam was diverting the throne of David from Judah to Joseph. The punishment for the northern kingdom of Israel's leaving the covenant with God, would begin in 917 BCE, when Jeroboam assumed the throne as king over the bulk of Israelites minus Judah and part of Benjamin. This punishment would last for 2520 years.They became scattered in the British Isles, France, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and other western countries of Europe and the Isles.The children of northern Israel were divided, misled and lost memory of their origins, of their forefathers and Israel's history.
In 917 BCE, since the northern tribes broke the covenant with God and their loyalty and obedience to Him and went on a long and arduous journey that led them into Assyrian captivity. After release from captivity, they became a disorganized scattered people known as 'the lost tribes of Israel'. They essentially no longer remembered their original identity, as God predicted.
After 2520 years, the Israelites would once again be reunited under one king. This king would need to be already seated upon the throne of David. This occurred in 1603 with King James IV of Scotland / England, when he reunited the kingdoms of Judah & Joseph.
Israel would always have a king/queen with an inherited royal throne. This throne would be a perpetual continuation from the throne of King David, for thus saith the Lord, ‘David shall never want for a man [or woman] to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.’ Jeremiah 33:15-17. The 'house of Israel' is found within the descendants of Joseph's sons – whom Jacob gave his name, Israel. After all the male lineage from the royal line of Judah was killed and/or captured by Babylon’s Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah took the ‘tender twigs’, the king’s daughters, and the remaining remnant of Judah to the Isles. Where do we find a nation and people that have had a continuously occupied throne for over 3000 years that match all the other descriptions on this list? Evidently the northern tribes kept their 'king' after they were scattered, as we read in Deuteronomy 28:36 'The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.'
http://the-red-thread.net/52-clues.html
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The northern kingdom set up their own throne, contrary to the House of Judah and the covenant God made with King David. After the death of King Solomon, Judah appointed Rehoboam, the son of Solomon to sit upon the throne. Rebelling against the rule of Rehoboam, the northern tribes therefore installed Jeroboam, from the tribe of Ephraim, in the role of King over the northern tribes. Doing so meant that Jeroboam was diverting the throne of David from Judah to Joseph. The punishment for the northern kingdom of Israel's leaving the covenant with God, would begin in 917 BCE, when Jeroboam assumed the throne as king over the bulk of Israelites minus Judah and part of Benjamin. This punishment would last for 2520 years.They became scattered in the British Isles, France, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and other western countries of Europe and the Isles.The children of northern Israel were divided, misled and lost memory of their origins, of their forefathers and Israel's history.
In 917 BCE, since the northern tribes broke the covenant with God and their loyalty and obedience to Him and went on a long and arduous journey that led them into Assyrian captivity. After release from captivity, they became a disorganized scattered people known as 'the lost tribes of Israel'. They essentially no longer remembered their original identity, as God predicted.
After 2520 years, the Israelites would once again be reunited under one king. This king would need to be already seated upon the throne of David. This occurred in 1603 with King James IV of Scotland / England, when he reunited the kingdoms of Judah & Joseph.
Israel would always have a king/queen with an inherited royal throne. This throne would be a perpetual continuation from the throne of King David, for thus saith the Lord, ‘David shall never want for a man [or woman] to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.’ Jeremiah 33:15-17. The 'house of Israel' is found within the descendants of Joseph's sons – whom Jacob gave his name, Israel. After all the male lineage from the royal line of Judah was killed and/or captured by Babylon’s Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah took the ‘tender twigs’, the king’s daughters, and the remaining remnant of Judah to the Isles. Where do we find a nation and people that have had a continuously occupied throne for over 3000 years that match all the other descriptions on this list? Evidently the northern tribes kept their 'king' after they were scattered, as we read in Deuteronomy 28:36 'The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.'
CLUE
51: IN 1320 CE, SCOTTISH PEOPLE BELIEVED THEY
WERE DESCENDANTS OF THE LINE OF JUDAH
THE
DECLARATION OF ARBROATH 1320 CE - English Translation
'Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the
chronicles and books of the ancients we find that
among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has
been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed
from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrhenian Sea and
the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course
of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but
nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however
barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years
after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to
their home in the west where they still live today.
The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they
utterly destroyed, and, even though very often
assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English,
they took possession of that home with many victories
and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time
bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage
ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one
hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock,
the line unbroken a single foreigner.' portion for the
Declaration of Arbroath.
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