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The filet mignon of the word, part 5, Overcoming Discrepancies

The Creation Jubilee Calendar is the oldest biblical calendar, dating back to Adam. Its purpose has to do with correcting the problem of Adam’s sin in order that the earth might fulfill its original purpose for creation—to reflect the will of heaven in the earth. The Jordan Crossing Calendar came later, dating back to the Jordan crossing into Canaan. Its purpose is to correct the problem that Israel caused at Kadesh-barnea when the people refused to enter the Kingdom.

God has worked with both calendars simultaneously. Various events in biblical history have occurred on one or the other calendar. Hence, a knowledge of Bible chronology is of great help in understanding the purpose and meaning of the event itself. This is seen primarily in the chronology of the six captivities during the time of the Judges. Every one of Israel’s captivities ended at a Jubilee on one of these two calendars. I charted this in a fold-out chart at the back of Secrets of Time.

The 38-year (original) discrepancy between these two calendars can be seen at our point in Kingdom history. The 120^th Jubilee from Adam occurred in October 1986, but the 70^th Jubilee from the Jordan crossing arrived 38 years later in October 2024.

However, as I wrote yesterday, this 38-year discrepancy was reduced to just 7 years at the time that King Artaxerxes of Persia sent Ezra to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:8). This was the moment when Judah’s calendar was renewed after the 70-year captivity in Babylon. The calendar was jump-started by Daniel’s 70 weeks (or 10 Jubilees, 490 years) from 458 B.C. to 33 A.D. This was then followed by another 40 Jubilees of the Pentecostal Age, culminating in 1993.

The 80^th Jubilee from Adam occurred on the Day of Atonement in 26 A.D., but the 7-year discrepancy came from 26-33 A.D. Forty Jubilees later was 1986-1993. Then in 1996 God worked in a marvelous way to overcome this discrepancy.

The Hezekiah Factor

In the fourth year of King Hezekiah of Judah (in Jerusalem), the Assyrian king, Shalmanezer, laid siege to Samaria, the capital of the northern House of Israel (2 Kings 18:9). The siege lasted three years (2 Kings 18:10), and Samaria fell in 721 B.C., which was the 19^th Jubilee on the Jordan Crossing Calendar.

Ten years later, in the 14^th year of Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, laid siege to Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:13). Hezekiah was desperate, and he finally asked Isaiah for help (2 Kings 19:2). The prophet prayed, and God gave him a lengthy message for Hezekiah. We then read in 2 Kings 19:29, 30,

²⁹ Then this shall be the sign for you; you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. ³⁰ The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

This is a classic description of a Sabbath year followed by a Jubilee year. Leviticus 25:11, 12 says,

¹¹ You shall have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines. ¹² For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field (i.e., eat what grows of its own accord).

Hence, the law instructed them to observe two land rests in a row. Isaiah thus spoke of this, telling the king that the people could then sow and reap in the third year. This was a clear reference to the 49^th and 50^th year, followed by sowing fields in the 51^st year.

The problem is that this prophetic instruction occurred ten years after the 19^th Jubilee. Normally, prophetic deliverance is assigned to a Jubilee, as we see in the time of the Judges. How and why would Hezekiah’s deliverance occur ten years late?

First of all, the siege of Jerusalem was just the final stage of the war with Assyria. It took time to capture all of the other cities of Judah (2 Kings 19:13). Furthermore, they also fought against Egypt against the southern city of Lachish (2 Kings 18:17) and then Libnah (2 Kings 19:8). In my view, this implies that the invasion took two years, and that the deliverance of Jerusalem occurred in the tenth year (i.e., the 14^th year of Hezekiah).

This would explain how God enforced the Sabbath law, for no one would be foolish enough to plant crops during the Assyrian invasion.

Turning Back the Clock (Sun Dial)

2 Kings 19:32-34 gives a word in regard to the Assyrian king, saying,

³² Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, “He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege camp against it. ³³ By the way that he came, by the same he will return…”

That night an angel of the Lord killed 185,000 troops from the Assyrian army. The king was spared, but he was forced to return to Nineveh, where he was killed and replaced by Esarhaddon, his son (2 Kings 19:37).

The king’s return to Nineveh also foreshadowed the next event, where we find the sun returning ten steps on the famous sun dial built by Hezekiah’s father, Ahaz. In essence, time was reversed ten steps, which prophesied of the ten years after the 19^th Jubilee (721-711 B.C.). So we read in 2 Kings 20:1, “In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill.” God sent the prophet to him, telling the king to put his house in order and prepare to die.

Hezekiah, however, had no heir who could carry on the royal line to Christ? So he prayed, and God granted him an extension of fifteen years (2 Kings 20:6). God then gave him a sign, and this was that He would turn back the shadow on the sun dial ten steps (2 Kings 20:10). Therefore, just as God turned back the king of Assyria from casting his shadow on Jerusalem, so also did He turn back the shadow on the sun dial.

This all prophesied of the ten years from 1986-1996, when we were led to proclaim that God would turn back the clock ten years. No one in authority had proclaimed the Jubilee in 1986, for even we had not yet received the revelation of the Creation Jubilee Calendar. But by an unusual manipulation of time by the “Lord of the Sabbath” (Matthew 12:8), He turned back the clock ten years so that we could lawfully declare the Jubilee on time in 1996.

This ten-year period more than covered the 7-year discrepancy between the two calendars. This is how the calendars were realigned according to the pattern of Hezekiah.

It now appears that 2024 represents another sign of realignment. The year 2024 is the 70^th Jubilee from on the Jordan Crossing Calendar, ending (as it were) a 70-Jubilee cycle of captivity brought about by the sin of Israel at Kadesh-barnea.

In a way, it is as if we have been brought back to the day of decision, where God again is testing us to see who has faith and who does not. Many of us have already been trained by God to face the giants in the land who have usurped the Kingdom. The overcomers are those who have the faith of Caleb and Joshua.

Hence, even though we are now 38 years past the 120^th Jubilee, we are able to make this decision of faith as if it were 1986. This is just a greater application of the Hezekiah Factor that was first applicable in 1996.