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The filet mignon of the word, part 11, The law of shortened time

Proverbs 10:27 says,

²⁷ The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be shortened.

Speaking of the tribulation, Jesus said in Mark 13:20,

²⁰ Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved, but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

God knows how to shorten the days in many ways and on different levels. To shorten the days implies that it is something less than normal—that which would have been otherwise. Therefore, shortening the days is done by a legal decree or some other maneuver. God’s first such act was to shorten the days of Adam by making him mortal. Death shortens the days of all mankind.

In fact, the death penalty itself, a judgment of God for sins that have no possible restitution, shortens the days even further.

The Eighth and Fiftieth Years

The law of Jubilee invokes the law of shortened time. Biblical time is based on sevens, or Sabbath cycles. There are periods of seven days, seven years, and seven sevens of years, leading to the year of Jubilee. The seventh Sabbath year is the 49^th year of a given cycle, and the Jubilee was the 50^th year.

The eight day of the week is also the first day of the next week. So also the eighth year is the first year of the next week of years. The 50^th year (Jubilee year) is the eighth year of the final Sabbath cycle (42-49 years), and it is also the first year of the next Jubilee cycle.

The Creation Jubilee Calendar is built upon cycles of 49 years. The Year of Jubilee can be viewed as a culmination of the previous cycle or as the start of the new cycle. This is manifest in Daniel’s 70 weeks (of years), which is 490 years. The 70 weeks is also 10 Jubilees, calculated as 49 x 10, not as 50 x 10.

Nonetheless, as I will show shortly, a period of 10 Jubilees is 490 years of chronological time, but because of the overlap on each Jubilee year, God reckons it as double time. Hence, by this legal maneuver, ten Jubilees is reckoned as 500 years of legal time.

So also, a long cycle of 120 Jubilees, by chronological time is 120 x 49, or 5,880 years, but by legal time it is reckoned as if it were 6,000 years. By the law of shortened time, God packs 6,000 years into just 5,880 years and shortens the time by 120 years. As I proved in my book, Secrets of Time (chapter 2), the year from October 1986-1987 was the 120^th Jubilee from Adam. 1986 was just 5,880 chronological years from Adam, but it was 6,000 years of legal time.

With the advent of nuclear weaponry in the 20^th century, it seems clear that God shortened the time, otherwise (as Jesus prophesied) “no life would have been saved.”

A period of 6,000 years is also six days out of a 7-day “week” of a great Sabbath Millennium, wherein God would give rest to the earth and to creation itself. He began to move in that direction in 1986, as if it were the year 2106. Recall that no one in authority declared the Jubilee in 1986, so God used the Hezekiah Factor to allow us to declare it ten years late in 1996 and make it retroactive to 1986.

It is clear today that the GKM ministry that God raised up from 1991-1993 was called by God to declare that Jubilee in 1996. God’s timing was revealed in 1991, so that we could engage in spiritual warfare in 1993—the Jubilee Prayer Campaign. This was the beginning of the rise of the House of David to replace “Saul” in 1993, followed by the rise of the House of Joseph and, finally, Elisha. The callings of David, Joseph, and Elisha were necessary to prepare the way for Christ’s second coming.

The House of Judah Judged through Legal Time

We have seen how God judged Israel after the nation’s time debt came to 70 years. (This was 62 Sabbath years and 8 Jubilees.) The time debt came due in the 38^th year of David, and this was paid by the deaths of 70,000 men of Israel, with the exception of tribes of Levi and Benjamin.

David died two years later, and it is apparent that Israel again failed to keep their rest years and Jubilees. So their national time debt again began to accumulate, and this time the debt was paid when Judah was taken to Babylon for 70 years. 2 Chronicles 36:20, 21 tells us,

²⁰ Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, ²¹ to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah [Jeremiah 29:10], until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept Sabbath until seventy years were complete.

Because the people had failed to let the land rest, God intervened to give the land its rest by removing them off the land for 70 years. This had been prophesied in the law of tribulation in Leviticus 26:43,

⁴³ For the land will be abandoned by them and will make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends [paying the penalty] for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes.

The judgment is always in direct proportion to the crime. The time debt was 70 years, so Judah was taken into captivity for 70 years. But God did not judge Jerusalem on the basis of chronological time, but rather on the basis of legal time. By studying the biblical history of the kings of Judah and the length of their respective reigns, we can clearly see the difference between chronological time and legal time.

In a typical cycle of 434 years, there are 62 Sabbath years and 8 Jubilees for a total of 70 years. If you add up the reigns of the kings in Jerusalem until the city was destroyed in 586 B.C., the total is 433 years, 6 months, and 10 days. We can round this off to 434 years. For a full listing of each of these kings, along with the Scriptural reference for each, see Secrets of Time (new edition posted online), chapter 7, page 77.

However, from the standpoint of chronology, this was only a period of 385 years. The reason for the discrepancy is that many of those kings crowned their sons long before they died. This created co-regencies, where, essentially, Judah had two kings at the same time (father and son). In those cases, the national time debt increased by double time, even as the year of Jubilee was a double year.

This allowed God to reckon Judah’s 385 years on the land (since the 38^th year of David) as if it were 434 years. By strict chronology, Judah had not yet accumulated a time of 70 years, and yet they were held liable as if they owed 70 years. The 70-year Babylonian captivity is proof of this.

It also shows that the time debt centered in Jerusalem, the capital city of Judah, rather than in Samaria, the capital of Israel. Therefore, when the Assyrians captured Samaria in 721 B.C. and removed the people to the land of Gamir, the accumulating time debt remained unaffected. The exiled Israelites were given a secondary time of judgment, based on the period of “seven times” (7 x 360 years, or 2,520 years).

Israel was exiled from 745-721 B.C., and so their tribulation period began to come to an end from 1776-1800 A.D. Judah, too, was given the same judgment of 2,520 years in long-term prophecy. Judah’s 70-year Babylonian captivity, prophesied by Jeremiah, was only the first phase of a much longer time of tribulation that was revealed by the prophet Daniel.

To understand the difference between the 70 years and the 2,520 years of divine judgment, we must turn to the law once again. But what I have already written is complex enough for one sitting. I will explain this further next time.