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Aliyah and Third Temple News | The Prophetic Return to Israel and the Third Temple
The Prophetic Timetable for Jerusalem
This same sequence also holds true for the city of Jerusalem and the Kotel (Temple site) – it is just shifted from the above dates. To see this we need to know some details of Jewish history. The Jewish Kingdom of Judah lost its independence to the Babylonians in 606/605 BCE when it became subject to Babylonia, and the first wave of deportations to Babylon occurred. Daniel was in this group of exiles. This started the countdown for Jeremiah’s 70 year exile. However it was not until the failed revolt a few years later that the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem, destroying and burning both the city and the First Temple. The accepted date for this is 586 BCE. This started the exile and desolation of Jerusalem proper.
The Jerusalem Temple – also desolate for 70 years
The Jews returned under the Persian Emperor Cyrus’s Edict in 537 BCE that fulfilled the 70 years of exile that Jeremiah had predicted. But after returning they were not able (because of lack of interest and local opposition) to rebuild their temple. That work was not begun in earnest until 520 BCE under the promptings of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah. The Second Temple was finally inaugurated in 516 BCE. So from 586 BCE to 516 BCE the Temple was also desolate for 70 years. The length of time was the same as that of the formal exile, but the start and end dates were shifted over 19 years.
Jerusalem in 1967
I suggested that the re-birth of Israel in 1948 was the conclusion to Ezekiel’s prophesy but this did not include Jerusalem. In the 1948 war of Independence Israel did not get Jerusalem as it was not able to hold the city of Jerusalem or the Kotel and it was lost to Jordan. It was later, in the six-day war of 1967, that Jerusalem with the Kotel was regained by Israel.
Applying the same prophetic timetable that we had used for Israel but now using Jerusalem dates (destroyed 586BCE, Temple rebuilt 516BCE, regained 1967CE) we get the following result:
586BCE + [70+(360*7)]*360/365.24 + 1 => 1967CE [1]
The Prophetic Timetable for Jerusalem
This same sequence also holds true for the city of Jerusalem and the Kotel (Temple site) – it is just shifted from the above dates. To see this we need to know some details of Jewish history. The Jewish Kingdom of Judah lost its independence to the Babylonians in 606/605 BCE when it became subject to Babylonia, and the first wave of deportations to Babylon occurred. Daniel was in this group of exiles. This started the countdown for Jeremiah’s 70 year exile. However it was not until the failed revolt a few years later that the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem, destroying and burning both the city and the First Temple. The accepted date for this is 586 BCE. This started the exile and desolation of Jerusalem proper.
The Jerusalem Temple – also desolate for 70 years
The Jews returned under the Persian Emperor Cyrus’s Edict in 537 BCE that fulfilled the 70 years of exile that Jeremiah had predicted. But after returning they were not able (because of lack of interest and local opposition) to rebuild their temple. That work was not begun in earnest until 520 BCE under the promptings of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah. The Second Temple was finally inaugurated in 516 BCE. So from 586 BCE to 516 BCE the Temple was also desolate for 70 years. The length of time was the same as that of the formal exile, but the start and end dates were shifted over 19 years.
Jerusalem in 1967
I suggested that the re-birth of Israel in 1948 was the conclusion to Ezekiel’s prophesy but this did not include Jerusalem. In the 1948 war of Independence Israel did not get Jerusalem as it was not able to hold the city of Jerusalem or the Kotel and it was lost to Jordan. It was later, in the six-day war of 1967, that Jerusalem with the Kotel was regained by Israel.
Applying the same prophetic timetable that we had used for Israel but now using Jerusalem dates (destroyed 586BCE, Temple rebuilt 516BCE, regained 1967CE) we get the following result:
586BCE + [70+(360*7)]*360/365.24 + 1 => 1967CE [1]