“Seventy Weeks” or Ten Jubilees
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Deliverance from errors and faults, that deliverance we have come to know as our salvation, flows from gaining right information and rejecting our inherited lies and vanities. “Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills [elevated human thinking], and from the multitude of mountains [exalted organized human teachings]: truly in Yehuveh our Elohim is the salvation [right instruction] of Israel. For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned [developed harmful patterns of life] against Yehuveh our Elohim, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of Yehuveh our Elohim,” and most of us have no idea even what this means to us.Jeremiah 3:23-25. Also consider Isaiah 44:10; Jeremiah 10:5, 14, 15; Habakkuk 2:18, 19.
We start the return to Yehuveh by seeking Him, by studying His revelations, and by praying for His guidance.
Learning “Who We Are” in Prophecy
In learning who we are spiritually we need to restore three areas of lost knowledge: instruction for practical life [what we eat, how we keep time, when to rest, how to dress, family relationships, business practices, and so on], a vivid knowledge of our history, and an applicable understanding of our future. Taking the third aspect of this intelligent return to Yehuveh a step further, we must “sort out” what we believe about prophecy. To know “who we are spiritually” in these times, and thereby be able to make appropriate decisions for the unfolding events, we must know how to read prophecy and how to apply it to current events as they develop. How do we gain such a useful right understanding of prophecy? As with all of Yehuveh’s instruction, we must prayerfully study His prophetic revelations with an honest desire to know and do what He asks of us.
Where do we begin? Identify the Prophetic Scriptures: Prophecy in Torah [the Old Testament] involves four major prophets [Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, which in the KJV Scriptures represents 178 chapters, 4,286 verses, or 130,693 words! Lamentations is a bit of poetry thrown into this mix.] and twelve minor prophets [Hosea to Malachi, that is another 67 chapters, 1,050 verses, or 30,293 words]! Add to that the book of Revelation [another 22 chapters, 404 verses, or 11,995 words!]. How much of our “inherited” understanding of these prophecies needs to be re-examined and re-connected with current events? Tragically, almost all of it! We face a dramatic and daunting re-consideration of what we believe! How can we not feel utterly overwhelmed? But it need not be so.
Yehuveh immediately simplifies the task by telling us to take it a little at a time, “for precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.” He will guide us, as only He can. Ask Him where to begin and trust that little by little He will restore the ancient wisdom which has been hidden from us. “Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” “Yehuveh is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear Him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them. Yehuveh preserveth all them that love Him.” Isaiah 28:10; Jeremiah 33:3; Psalms 145:18-20.
Gael Bataman
Originally Written: 4 November 2005
Latest Update: 11 February 2010
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