EZEKIEL’S VISION OF THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL IN 1948
Ezekiel’s prophecy of the resurrection of Israel in 1948 and its exact fulfillment in recent history on May 15, 1948 is one of the best achievements of Bible prophecy ever. Twenty-five centuries prior, while he was a slave amid the Babylonian Captivity, (606 – 536 B.C.E), the Lord revealed to the prophet Ezekiel, the exact year,1948, when Israel would at long last be reestablished to their Promised Land.. The Jew’s endless relationship to the Holy Land is a noteworthy topic of Scriptural prophecy. In the Bible, times were determined in exact insight in regards to the length of the time when the Jews were to be ousted from the Guaranteed Land and when God will enable them to come back to the Holy Land.
The First Captivity began with the Jews in Canaan and Egyptian for 430 years. The Lord forecasted to Abraham accurately when the Jews would come back from Egypt from their to begin with Captivity that kept going 430 years of bondage in Egypt (Genesis 15:13; Exodus 12:40-41). The Second Captivity was in Babylonian for 70 years. Additionally, the Second Captivity of 70 years in Babylon, as forecasted in Jeremiah 25:11, finished definitely in 536 B.C.E when the Jews came back to Jerusalem as announced by the Persian lord Cyrus the Great. The Third Captivity was worldwide for 2520 years.
The Scriptures contain various predictions about the final return of the Jewish outcasts to their Guaranteed Land in the “most recent days.” Ezekiel was taken to Babylon as a hostage. Ezekiel knew about Jeremiah’s prophecy (Jeremiah 25:11) that the Jew’s bondage in Babylon would most recent seventy years. In any case, Ezekiel got another prophecy concerning God’s judgment upon the Jew’s insubordination and the exact term of the staying Jewish outcast from their Promised Land.
Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year” (Ezekiel 4:3-6).
As Ezekiel lay on his left side for a couple of hours for 390 days and after that for 40 days on his right side the Jews in Babylon educated of God’s exceptional prophecy. God revealed that consistently remained for one scriptural year. In this manner, Israel would be rebuffed for a time of 390 years in addition to an extra 40 years as an aftereffect of their defiance to God’s orders, totaling 430 years. God proclaimed that Israel would be rebuffed by an overall outcast for a long time (390 + 40 years = 430 years). Be that as it may, as forecasted by Jeremiah, the seventy year-long Babylonian Bondage, which started with Nebuchadnezzar’s capture of Jerusalem in 606 B.C.E, ended in the spring of 536 B.C.E., in the month Nisan (March/April), when just a little leftover of the Jews (42,360) came back to Jerusalem (Ezra 1:1-3) under the declaration of Cyrus the Great.
In any case, by far most of the Jewish outcasts stayed in the agnostic Persian Empire as pioneers and tradesmen. Normally, most Jews who were conceived and had experienced childhood in Babylon did not want to leave their ranches and organizations to come back to a devastated Jewish country. Most Jews in Babylon did not repent from their resistance to God and they stayed in the pagan Babylonian Empire.
Out of God’s aggregate proclaimed future discipline of 430 years for Israel’s and Judah’s transgressions (390 years also 40 years = 430 years). To start with, we should deduct the 70 years of the Babylonian captivity, which Ezekiel also, the Jewish outcasts were at that point persisting, which ended in the spring of 536 B.C.E. In this way: (430 years less the 70 years in Babylon = 360 years). This demonstrates a further time of 360 years of extra banish stayed for the Jews following the end of the Babylonian Captivity in 536 B.C.E.
Ezekiel’s Prophecy of the End of Israel’s Exile
In any case, a cautious investigation of the historical backdrop of Israel can’t uncover any critical occasion that compares to this time of 360 years of extra discipline, either toward the end of the 430 years or at the end of the 360 years starting from the end of the Babylonian Captivity in 536 B.C.E. The dominant part (95%) of the Jews stayed away forever from Babylon to Israel. Truth be told, even the minority of the 42,360 Jews (Ezra 2:64) who returned did as such with almost no confidence or genuine apology. The vast majority of the Jewish outcasts neglected to atone of their otherworldly defiance to God and they stayed in agnostic Babylon.
Ezekiel’s prophecy revealed the exact length of the Jewish outcasts overall Diaspora what’s more, the genuine time of their forecasted come back to the Promised Land in May 15, 1948. The answer for this prophetic riddle was found in a heavenly guideline revealed to Moses and recorded in Leviticus 26. In this section the Lord built up unmistakable guarantees and disciplines for Israel in view of Israel’s resulting compliance or insubordination to His Divine summons. In four independent yet rehashed entries recorded in Leviticus 26, God cautioned Israel that: if, in the wake of being rebuffed for her wrongdoings, regardless she neglected to apologize of her insubordination, the disciplines already proclaimed by God would be duplicated seven times progressively (the quantity of divine fruition).
Moses pronounced God’s Divine standard of judgment if the Jews would not apologize from their corrupt insubordination to God after as of now encountering His Divine discipline: “And if ye won’t yet for this notice unto me, at that point I will rebuff you seven times more for your wrongdoings” (Leviticus 26:18; 26:21, 23-24, 27- 28). At the end of the day, if Israel did not apologize of her wrongdoings in the wake of persevering through God’s underlying forecasted discipline; the disciplines already anticipated would now be drawn out or duplicated seven times: The scriptural record uncovers that, sadly, even the 5 percent of the Jewish outcasts who came back to Israel did not genuinely apologize of their insubordination.
In this way, as indicated by the Divine standard of duplicating the past Divinely pronounced discipline by seven times because of the Jew’s absence of apology, God’s already forecasted outcast of 360 extra years to the unrepentant Jewish outcasts, as recorded by Ezekiel, would now be increased seven times more (Ezekiel 4:4-6; Lev. 26:18). (360 years of Exile x 7 = 2,520 scriptural years of extra Exile for the Jews).
The Biblical-Prophetic Year of 360 Days
The length of a scriptural – prophetic year is 360 days: not the 365.25 days of our advanced Julian timetable sun oriented year. In antiquated scriptural circumstances, the Jewish year was a lunar-sun powered year, with a year of 30 days every, which contained just 360 days. The advanced sun oriented schedule year contains 365.25 days. An article on Chronology in the Encyclopedia Britannica, states that Abraham kept on utilizing the 360-day year of his Babylonian country when he moved to Canaan.
The Genesis record of Noah’s surge affirmed that the antiquated people groups of the Middle East, counting the Hebrews, utilized a lunar-sun oriented year of just 360 days with a year of 30 days each. Beginning recorded that the five months from the earliest starting point of the Flood on the seventeenth day of the second month till the day the Ark laid on dry land, on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, endured decisively 150 days. The five months (30 days each) while the surge waters won affirmed that the Bible utilized a year of 360 days. (Beginning 7:11; 8:3-4).
Sir Isaac Newton affirmed that the old scriptural year of the Hebrews, Babylonians, and Egyptians had just 360 days. Newton wrote in the Encyclopedia Britannica (sixth edition) that “all countries, before the only length of the sunlight based year was known, … in making date-books for their celebrations, they figured thirty days to a lunar month, and twelve lunar months to a year, taking the closest round numbers, whence came the division of the ecliptic into 360 degrees.”
To comprehend the exact fulfillment of prophecy, we have to ascertain utilizing the scriptural lunar year of 360 days. For instance, in the book of Revelation John portrayed the last three-and-one-half years of the seven year Tribulation period when the Antichrist will abuse the “lady” (Israel) as enduring correctly 1,260 days (Rev. 12:6). John additionally portrayed this period as: “a period and times and a large portion of a period” (Rev. 12:14). A “period” squares with a time of 360 days; “times” approaches two years; and “a large portion of a period” breaks even with a large portion of a year Similarly, “forty-two months” of 30 days every equivalent the same 1260 days (Rev. 13:5). The book of Revelation and Daniel’s prophecy (Dan. 7:25; 9:24-27; 12:7; 12:11) both affirmed that the scriptural year contained 360 days. Thusly, Ezekiel’s prophecy revealed that the Jew’s last rebuilding to their Promised Land would happen correctly 2,520 scriptural years (of 360 days each) after the finish of the Babylonian Captivity in the spring of 536 B.C.E.
The end of the Jewish bondage in Babylon, as indicated by the Bible and other chronicled sources – including Flavius Josephus, happened in the period of Nisan in the spring of 536 B.C.E. This date is the beginning period for our calculations: 2,520 scriptural years x 360 = 907,200 days. By Changing over this time of 907,200 days into our timetable year of 365.25 days and when we divide the 907,200 days by 365.25 days, we figure an aggregat
PRIMARY SOURES: Dr. Grant Jeffrey; Armageddon: Appointment with Destiny’ (WaterBrook Press, Jan 1997). Dr. Grant Jeffrey; The Signature of God (WaterBrook Press, September 2002). New King James Version (NKJV)