Caption transcript for Bearded Bible Brothers and the Third Temple of Doom!: “Daniel’s Seventy Sevens and the 2027 Jubilee” (8/8)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:11 ♪♪♪
• 00:21 ♪♪♪
• 00:30 Joshua Colson: Help!
• 00:35 Somebody, stop! ♪♪♪
• 00:37 Joshua: Oh boy. We’re gonna need another temple.
• 00:43 Caleb Colson: Daniel 9:20-24, “Now while I [Daniel]
• 00:47 was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of
• 00:49 my people Israel, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the
• 00:52 vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached
• 00:55 me about the time of the evening offering and said, ‘O Daniel, I
• 00:58 have now.
• 01:00 Forth to give you skill to understand.
• 01:01 Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy
• 01:04 city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of
• 01:07 sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in
• 01:10 everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and
• 01:13 to anoint the most Holy.”
• 01:15 Joshua: This is it.
• 01:17 The final chapter of “The Third Temple of Doom.”
• 01:19 It’s time for another controversial subject.
• 01:23 Why do we always–the Bible is controversial.
• 01:26 Got it.
• 01:27 That’s another controversial subject about Bible prophecy.
• 01:29 It’s gonna make all you Bible prophets, experts, whatever you
• 01:33 call yourselves, you’re not gonna like it.
• 01:35 Dr. Christian Widener is gonna overthrow your established
• 01:37 paradigm for Daniel’s 70 weeks with his new theory based on
• 01:41 biblical archaeological evidence.
• 01:44 Now, if you want to hear the classic interpretation from the
• 01:46 BBB scan the QR code to get your full extended cut of this
• 01:50 episode, which is usually reserved for the Bearded Bible
• 01:52 Bonanza subscribers, but this is a special treat.
• 01:56 Now, on to the epic conclusion.
• 01:59 Caleb: Daniel 9:25, “So you are to know and discern that from
• 02:02 the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
• 02:05 until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and
• 02:08 sixty-two weeks; It will be built again, with plaza and
• 02:12 moat, even in times of distress.
• 02:15 Caleb: I am here with my good friend Dr. Christian Widener of
• 02:18 End Times Berean Ministries, and this is the last episode of
• 02:22 our series “Temple of Doom,” and I wanted to go out with a bang
• 02:25 because Doctor, you have a different perspective on
• 02:27 Daniel’s 70 weeks that most people don’t have, and it’s late
• 02:31 with the year of Jubilees.
• 02:32 And we’re here at the Citadel of David, a very iconic spot
• 02:35 in Jerusalem.
• 02:36 And I think it’s the perfect location for you to unwrap
• 02:38 this mystery.
• 02:40 Dr. Christian Widener: All right.
• 02:41 Yeah, so we’re at the moat that’s around the Tower of
• 02:44 David, and a lot of people don’t know that there’s a moat even in
• 02:47 the old city, right?
• 02:48 But it’s something that goes all the way back to the time of
• 02:50 the temple.
• 02:51 There’s Herodian stones here, really, you know, Solomonic
• 02:54 stones, I think that date this all the way back to that time.
• 02:58 But why is that significant?
• 02:59 Because in the prophecy of Daniel’s 70 weeks, it says
• 03:03 seventy sevens are decreed to your holy people to, you know,
• 03:06 do six things and really atoning for sin and something about, you
• 03:10 know, prophecy in the future.
• 03:12 But it counted to Christ’s first coming.
• 03:15 And so, that’s why we know like from the issuing of a decree to
• 03:17 restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah, the Prince, there
• 03:20 will be 70 sevens and 62 sevens, and that’s a whole
• 03:23 lot of numbers, but people should know that it was a count
• 03:26 that went from the decree of Artaxerxes in Ezra chapter 7
• 03:30 that counted to the time, the beginning of Christ’s ministry.
• 03:33 But a lot of people are looking for a final week and because
• 03:37 that prophecy is a complex prophecy, it clearly wasn’t
• 03:39 fulfilled, but what most people don’t know is that Jerusalem was
• 03:44 restored a second time in the days of Sultan Suleiman.
• 03:48 And the prophecy says, “When it’s restored, it’ll be restored
• 03:50 with plaza and moat.”
• 03:52 And guess what, there’s no word or mention of a moat or the
• 03:56 plaza being restored in Ezra or Nehemiah.
• 04:00 But in the 1500s when Suleiman restored Jerusalem and he
• 04:04 restored this moat, he put a plaque here saying in
• 04:08 stone–carved in stone saying, “This is decree to be restored
• 04:11 by Sultan Suleiman.”
• 04:12 And it’s placed right around this moat.
• 04:14 It’s actually now buried because where that cutout in the wall
• 04:18 is, it was done for Wilhelm–Ottoman Wilhelm to
• 04:22 march in the city.
• 04:23 And so, they want–they had to make an opening in the wall–
• 04:26 Caleb: Because they were on horseback, right?
• 04:28 They had to get through and they needed a wider road to get in.
• 04:30 Dr. Widener: That’s right.
• 04:31 So–but it’s there, right?
• 04:33 Pictures have been taken of it.
• 04:34 We know what it says. It’s been documented.
• 04:37 And so, the idea is, what if there’s two 77s?
• 04:40 Right?
• 04:41 What if there was a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
• 04:44 that was made by Artaxerxes?
• 04:45 The first decree that he made was in 458 BC.
• 04:48 If you count 490 years from that, it’s 33 AD.
• 04:53 A full 490 years.
• 04:55 Nobody talks about that because they’re like, “Yeah, but the
• 04:57 prophecy is not over yet.”
• 04:59 But what nobody considered was, what if the prophecy is a
• 05:02 double prophecy?
• 05:04 What if there’s two 77s?
• 05:05 One 77 for Christ’s first coming and another for his
• 05:08 second coming.
• 05:09 And so, this is only the first decree.
• 05:11 The other one’s up on the Temple Mount Plaza.
• 05:14 We can check that one out too.
• 05:16 Caleb: I find it interesting that there are dual fulfillments
• 05:19 of prophecy throughout all scripture.
• 05:22 Case in point, we have this Messianic prophecy, “A virgin
• 05:25 shall give birth to a Son and he shall call his name Immanuel.”
• 05:28 That was Isaiah.
• 05:29 Now, for him to be a legit prophet, that prophetic word had
• 05:33 to be fulfilled within his lifetime or he would be stoned
• 05:35 as a false prophet.
• 05:36 So, what you gotta tell him to do?
• 05:38 “Go to your wife, you’re going to give birth to a son.
• 05:40 This is what you’re going to call his name.”
• 05:42 Very interesting, but she wasn’t a virgin.
• 05:44 So, just like with plaza and moat, that’s, you know,
• 05:48 fulfillment was partially fulfilled with Artaxerxes, but
• 05:51 then it wasn’t fully fulfilled, which we got a second time with
• 05:54 Suleiman the Great.
• 05:56 That blows my mind.
• 05:58 Caleb: Isaiah 60:10, “Foreigners will build up your walls, and
• 06:02 their kings will minister to you.”
• 06:04 Dr. Widener: So, Isaiah 60:10 is another one of those reasons why
• 06:06 we should consider the decrees of Suleiman, right?
• 06:10 He’s–yes, he’s a Gentile king, but so was Cyrus and so
• 06:13 was Artaxerxes.
• 06:14 So, the decrees that we’re talking about should be from
• 06:16 Gentiles, but that verse that, you know, “The foreigners will
• 06:20 rebuild your walls, and their kings will minister to you,”
• 06:22 well, not only did Suleiman rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
• 06:25 but in the 1500s, Jews were, you know, there were pogroms
• 06:28 going on.
• 06:30 Only in the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman were Jews
• 06:32 treated fairly.
• 06:34 It wasn’t really before that and probably wasn’t very long after
• 06:36 that, right?
• 06:38 But for that time period, he ministered to the Jewish people
• 06:42 here in Jerusalem and gave them rights.
• 06:44 And so, when we see that he restored these features that are
• 06:48 mentioned in the prophecy, that, you know, there’s Isaiah 60:10
• 06:52 that says a foreigner would rebuild the walls because in the
• 06:54 days of Ezra and Nehemiah, who rebuilt the walls?
• 06:56 Caleb: Jews, Judeans.
• 06:58 Dr. Widener: Jews.
• 06:59 They even said nobody else is going to help, right?
• 07:00 But in the days of Suleiman, it was completely a Gentile affair.
• 07:05 So you think, “Wow, we’ve got a second witness to affirm these
• 07:08 decrees and to point us to this time period that, you know, is
• 07:14 another sort of reason to think that’s two 77s.”
• 07:18 Caleb: You’re strengthening your case, sir.
• 07:19 Definitely strengthening your case.
• 07:23 Joshua: Okay, if you’re like me, and probably most of you are,
• 07:27 Caleb and Christian’s smart guy talk, “It dated and I found
• 07:30 archaeological,” it’s just, you know, over my hat.
• 07:35 But hey, stick with us because we have some amazing revelations
• 07:38 that will finally make sense of everything, hopefully.
• 07:49 Caleb: We just can’t get away from this wall.
• 07:51 It’s just–it’s like a magnet.
• 07:53 It draws Jews to it.
• 07:55 You keep on wanting to go back here.
• 07:56 I like it.
• 07:58 Dr. Widener: Guys, so here we are in the Western Wall
• 08:01 plaza, right?
• 08:03 But we’re looking for a plaza from the prophecy in Daniel that
• 08:06 it would be restored with plaza and moat.
• 08:09 And plaza really is, in Hebrew, is the “rehov” just means a big
• 08:12 open area to meet.
• 08:13 But the most–the largest, the most famous “rehov” in Jerusalem
• 08:17 is actually behind us, the 36 acre Temple Mount.
• 08:20 That entire area is called the “rehov” of the temple.
• 08:24 And we know this from Ezra 10:9 because in there when they had
• 08:27 to repent of their foreign wives, they were all brought to
• 08:29 the “rehov” of the temple.
• 08:31 And they were met and where was that?
• 08:33 It was up here.
• 08:34 So, today, this is used really as the gathering place for the
• 08:37 Jewish people, but we know in the time of the temple, it’s
• 08:39 right up there.
• 08:41 That’s the plaza that we’re looking for.
• 08:43 Caleb: So, what you’re saying is to really see the authenticness
• 08:46 of said plaza we have to go back on the Temple Mount?
• 08:49 Joshua: No, no, no.
• 08:50 You told me that was a one-time thing.
• 08:52 You said we didn’t have to do it again.
• 08:53 Caleb: I just said one time that day.
• 08:55 This is a new day.
• 08:56 Joshua: See what happens if you don’t get things in writing.
• 08:58 He’s my brother.
• 08:59 Hirchie Schaffner: Look, it’s one time, but now it’s
• 09:01 another time with me.
• 09:02 Caleb: It’s very special.
• 09:03 Dr. Widener: I feel good about it.
• 09:05 It’s going to be better this time.
• 09:06 Hirchie: That’s right.
• 09:07 I got you, bro. I got you.
• 09:10 Joshua: You kidding me. He’s not the problem? [laughs]
• 09:11 Joshua: Yeah, I’m kind of callous to it now, getting
• 09:14 tricked to go on the Temple Mount, dodging security,
• 09:16 Jordanian walk.
• 09:17 I mean, I can even take the crazy Temple cats for a minute
• 09:19 or two, but it’s all in the pursuit of truth, you know.
• 09:22 Let’s go find Sultan Suleiman’s lost subscription.
• 09:24 That’s what I told my guidance counselor I wanted to do in
• 09:27 high school.
• 09:28 Please, brother.
• 09:30 Dr. Widener: You know, I was so excited to find this.
• 09:32 The fountain that was put up, it’s called Sabil Babalatam.
• 09:35 It says, you know, “This was decree to be restored by
• 09:39 Sultan Suleiman.”
• 09:40 He placed this fountain here when he restored this
• 09:43 whole plaza.
• 09:44 And as the date, the beginning of shave in 943, which is 1537,
• 09:49 and so I think this is the decree literally that everyone
• 09:52 missed sitting in here on the Temple Mount on the plaza, just
• 09:56 like the prophecy says, facing to the temple declaring the
• 10:00 countdown, I think, to the return of the Messiah.
• 10:03 The beginning of birth pangs and, you know, to all the
• 10:05 trouble that we’re seeing right now since 2020 because 483 years
• 10:09 or six 7s and seventy–62 sevens, it’s 483 years.
• 10:14 That was 2020 from 1537, 483 years.
• 10:19 And if the world was the same, hey, fine, but it was different.
• 10:23 You know, and then we got the Abraham Accords that confirmed
• 10:26 Abrahamic covenant with many nations in September of the same
• 10:29 year, and I just thought, “I don’t think that’s an accident.”
• 10:33 And then we started seeing signs of birth pangs, you know,
• 10:36 that ensued.
• 10:37 And we all know that the world’s been crazy since that time.
• 10:40 Caleb: Just in case you guys missed it or didn’t understand
• 10:42 what Dr. Widener is proposing, he believes the second
• 10:45 fulfillment of Daniel’s 70 weeks begins in 1537 with Suleiman’s
• 10:50 decree to rebuild Jerusalem, including plaza and moat.
• 10:53 And then you add 69 weeks, which is actually 483 years, and you
• 10:57 land on the year 2020, the year of COVID.
• 11:00 January 28, 2020, Trump’s Middle East peace to prosperity to
• 11:04 carve up the West Bank, and then the Abraham Accords.
• 11:07 Not going to lie, that was a stand-up year or not so much.
• 11:11 That would mean there are still seven years left, concluding
• 11:14 with 2027.
• 11:16 I’m listening, Christian.
• 11:17 Carry on.
• 11:21 Dr. Widener: I think this is the explanation.
• 11:22 I think this is actually one of the most powerful things to sort
• 11:25 of understand the last days unlocking Daniel 9 that needs to
• 11:29 be taken into account.
• 11:31 It’s been here for nearly 500 years and almost no one knows
• 11:33 it’s here.
• 11:34 You know, like, how did that happen, that this has been here
• 11:37 all this time and it’s never even been considered as a, you
• 11:40 know, major theory in sort of, you know, Christian circles that
• 11:44 there could be two 77s.
• 11:46 This could be the second decree to the return of the Lord.
• 11:49 The first, you know, countdown counted to Christ’s forthcoming.
• 11:54 Could there be another one to the second coming?
• 11:55 I think we should at least be watching.
• 11:57 Caleb: All these possibilities because there’s been so many
• 12:00 possibilities throughout history that could have been it.
• 12:03 Only God knows that specific timing, but he does want us to
• 12:06 know because we are the children of light.
• 12:09 He does not–1 Thessalonians 5:1-5 explains that he doesn’t
• 12:12 want the children of darkness to know.
• 12:13 It’s confusion, utter confusion to Satan.
• 12:16 He’s never going to figure out God’s timing.
• 12:18 But we are supposed to know.
• 12:20 We’re at least supposed to know the season of his return.
• 12:23 Scripture says we look at Israel, the fig trees.
• 12:25 And that fig tree just–it shows us all what’s going on
• 12:29 in Israel.
• 12:31 Anything that’s tumultuous, anything that’s war, that means
• 12:33 we’re just closer to the end.
• 12:36 Pretty cool. Thanks for showing this to us.
• 12:38 Dr. Widener: Yeah.
• 12:48 Caleb: That was amazing.
• 12:50 Once again, we made it in and out of the Temple Mount without
• 12:53 having any kind of repercussions, and we got to see
• 12:55 that decree.
• 12:57 It’s literally right there and has been for hundreds of years,
• 13:01 and no one has noticed it.
• 13:02 I mean, that’s amazing.
• 13:03 Joshua: Dr. Christian has noticed it.
• 13:05 Caleb: Okay.
• 13:06 Dr. Widener: Yeah, I mean, just recently, I mean, like it’s gone
• 13:08 completely unnoticed, but–and it has some really crazy
• 13:12 implications for, you know, 2020, for the time that we’re
• 13:16 sitting in, but I got a cat.
• 13:18 [all laughing]
• 13:20 But, you know, like, if we’re thinking about does it mean what
• 13:22 we think it means, I’d like to find some multiple, you know,
• 13:25 witnesses, right?
• 13:26 And one of the other places we can look is in the
• 13:28 Jubilees, right?
• 13:30 And a lot of people think they know when the Jubilees are, and
• 13:32 there’s lots of different theories based on, you know, the
• 13:35 restoration of Jerusalem or the Book of Jubilees, but I think
• 13:38 there’s two Jubilees hidden in scripture that trump them all,
• 13:42 and they agree with each other.
• 13:43 So, that’s something that I think that we’ve got to pay
• 13:45 attention to and take a look at.
• 13:47 Caleb: Well, let’s go take a look at it.
• 13:49 It means a cool location.
• 13:52 Joshua: What’s a Jubilee?
• 13:53 Hirchie: I have no idea.
• 13:54 Joshua: Let’s find out. Hirchie: Can we go eat lunch?
• 13:56 [laughs]
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• 14:25 Joshua: It’s one of the slashes.
• 14:26 See you there.
• 14:28 Caleb: Leviticus 25:1-4, “The Lord said to Moses at Mount
• 14:31 Sinai, ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them: “When you enter
• 14:34 the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a
• 14:37 sabbath to the Lord.
• 14:38 For six years sow your field, and for six years prune your
• 14:41 vineyards and gather their crops.
• 14:42 But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath
• 14:45 rest, a sabbath to the Lord.
• 14:47 Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.”‘”
• 14:50 Hirchie: Here we are guys in Bethlehem.
• 14:54 City of David, right, the house of bread.
• 14:57 This was the first touchdown spot of Yeshua when he came
• 15:01 to Earth.
• 15:02 Of course we know he’s coming back to Jerusalem, especially
• 15:05 the Mount of Olives.
• 15:07 That’s gonna be landing number two, pretty amazing time.
• 15:11 So here we are like in this place where Yeshua came and he
• 15:16 fulfilled the law, all the things of the prophets.
• 15:19 He fulfilled the timelines, he also fulfilled the Jubilees.
• 15:24 Joshua: He did, but first our audience needs to understand
• 15:26 what a Jubilee year is.
• 15:28 A sabbath year, also known as the Shmita or Shemita.
• 15:32 We gotta tell them.
• 15:33 That’s you guys.
• 15:35 Caleb: Well, okay, we’re Jewish.
• 15:36 You need to understand what a sabbath is.
• 15:39 Sabbath is resting on the seventh day.
• 15:41 Six days you work, the seventh day you rest.
• 15:43 Joshua: I do that.
• 15:44 Caleb: Yeshua said that Sabbath was made for man, not man for
• 15:47 the Sabbath.
• 15:49 And he had the same protocols for the land of Israel because
• 15:53 even the soil, the land needed rest every seven years because
• 15:57 if you’re just working the ground over and over again, it
• 15:59 runs out of minerals and nutrients.
• 16:02 You’re just sucking it dry.
• 16:03 It needed a time to rest and replenish itself.
• 16:06 And God was very serious about this seventh year of rest, the
• 16:11 Shemitah or Shmita year.
• 16:13 But the Israelites weren’t very serious, and it led to their
• 16:16 detriment.
• 16:20 Dr. Widener: Yeah, but they didn’t keep those and they
• 16:21 didn’t keep the Jubilees either, you know.
• 16:24 So, there was–not only were there supposed to be a year of
• 16:26 rest every seven years, there was also supposed to be a final
• 16:29 rest at the end of the Jubilees so that you would have really an
• 16:32 eighth year of rest every Jubilee cycle.
• 16:36 And so, sometimes people think, you know, “Seven years, oh, that
• 16:39 must have meant, you know, ten Jubilee cycles,” but actually it
• 16:42 wasn’t quite ten Jubilees, but it was still about like 400
• 16:45 years of not keeping the sabbath years like they were
• 16:49 supposed to.
• 16:50 And you were supposed to, you know, cancel debts, but then
• 16:52 every 50 years you’re supposed to give all the land
• 16:54 back, right?
• 16:56 And so, you were supposed to set the captives free and get your
• 16:59 land, and they definitely didn’t know from any account that
• 17:03 we see.
• 17:04 Joshua: So there was a little more than just not
• 17:06 resting on Saturday.
• 17:07 Dr. Widener: That’s right.
• 17:08 Hirchie: Just a little. Just a little.
• 17:10 Caleb: Leviticus 25:8-10, “Count off seven sabbath years–seven
• 17:14 times seven years–so that the seven sabbath years amount to
• 17:17 a period of forty-nine years.
• 17:19 Then have the trumpets sounded everywhere on the tenth day of
• 17:22 the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet
• 17:24 throughout your land.
• 17:26 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the
• 17:28 land to all its inhabitants.
• 17:30 It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your
• 17:33 family property and to your own clan.”
• 17:37 Hirchie: All right, Christian, so here we are.
• 17:40 I hear, you guys hear, every year is the year of Jubilee
• 17:44 according to somebody in the body of Christ or in the church.
• 17:47 So can you tell us what is this Jubilee thing?
• 17:51 Dr. Widener: Yeah. And that’s what I thought.
• 17:53 Like, I wanted to know like where are the Jubilees and
• 17:56 everybody’s got a different idea, but what really settled me
• 17:59 on this subject is finding two in scripture, right?
• 18:02 And that’s–that was the really key.
• 18:04 And so, the key to recognizing the first one is to know that in
• 18:08 the year of Jubilee only, right, you would wait to proclaim the
• 18:13 new year until the tenth.
• 18:15 It says, you know, “On the tenth of the month, sound the trumpet
• 18:18 throughout the land and proclaim, you know, the
• 18:20 new year.”
• 18:22 That’s like proclaim the favorable year, you know, for
• 18:24 releasing captives and all that.
• 18:25 Well, but why in the tenth, right?
• 18:27 It’s just such a strange command.
• 18:29 And then you start reading in Ezekiel 40:1, right?
• 18:32 Let me read that to you because it’s one of these verses that
• 18:35 everybody just is gonna go over and go, “Yeah, so?”
• 18:38 All right, it says, “In the twenty-fifth year of our exile,
• 18:41 at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in
• 18:44 the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been captured, on
• 18:47 that very day the LORD’s hand was on me and he brought
• 18:49 me there.”
• 18:51 And you’re like, “Yeah, so?”
• 18:53 Like what does that tell us? Right?
• 18:54 It says, “In the beginning of the year on the tenth.”
• 18:57 Caleb: Oh, not on the first.
• 19:00 Dr. Widener: That’s actually Rosh Hashanah on the tenth.
• 19:03 And you’re like, “Wait, Rosh Hashanah, and then the beginning
• 19:06 of the year was on the tenth?”
• 19:08 That’s not–it’s never on the tenth, it’s always on the first,
• 19:11 except in the year of Jubilee.
• 19:12 And by telling us that that was, you know, 25 years after the
• 19:15 exile, and the fourteenth year after the destruction of
• 19:17 Babylon, you can actually get the exact year, which was
• 19:20 574 BC.
• 19:23 So, we have a biblical testimony for a year of Jubilee.
• 19:26 Now, then, that’s something I think we can start to build
• 19:29 a case on.
• 19:30 Caleb: So, what you’re saying is that Rosh Hashanah and Yom
• 19:33 Kippur come together on the same day they celebrate it only
• 19:37 on Jubilees?
• 19:39 Joshua: Got it. Jubilee, all that stuff, check.
• 19:41 Caleb: Luke 4:16-19, “Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been
• 19:45 brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,
• 19:48 as was his custom.
• 19:49 He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was
• 19:52 handed to him.
• 19:53 Unrolling it, he found a place where it is written: ‘The Spirit
• 19:55 of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim
• 19:58 good news to the poor.
• 20:00 He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and
• 20:02 recovery a sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
• 20:06 proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.'”
• 20:10 Dr. Widener: All right guys, so a year of Jubilee in Ezekiel is
• 20:14 pretty amazing, right?
• 20:15 But I don’t think you can build a case on only one point
• 20:18 like that.
• 20:19 We need some more witnesses in scripture, and there is another
• 20:21 one in Luke chapter 4 when Jesus came and he read from the scroll
• 20:25 of Isaiah, and he’s saying, you know, “The Spirit of the Lord is
• 20:28 upon me to preach, you know, good news to the captives and
• 20:31 freedom to the prisoners and proclaim the favorable year of
• 20:34 the Lord.”
• 20:35 And then he says, “Today this is fulfilled in your
• 20:36 hearing,” right?
• 20:38 He’s giving us another year of Jubilee, why?
• 20:41 Because Isaiah 61 is quoting from Leviticus 25, the year
• 20:45 of Jubilee.
• 20:47 If Jesus says, “Today, this is fulfilled in your hearing,” then
• 20:49 at the beginning of his ministry when he’s just gone from, you
• 20:52 know, the, the wilderness and now he’s come to the synagogue
• 20:56 for the first time, that–when is that?
• 20:59 That was 27 AD.
• 21:01 And so, then you go 27 AD, 574 BC from Ezekiel right now, but
• 21:07 do they agree?
• 21:08 Amazingly, they’re on the same 50 year cycle.
• 21:11 So, to me, that’s two witnesses in scripture that agree with
• 21:15 one another.
• 21:16 There’s an Old Testament witness, there’s a New
• 21:18 Testament witness.
• 21:20 I think we’ve got the Jubilee cycle down.
• 21:22 But then there was one other thing that really blew my mind
• 21:25 because as we’re looking at these decrees, 490 years plus
• 21:29 1537 was 2027.
• 21:32 2027 is 40 Jubilees after 27 AD.
• 21:38 It’s on the same 50 year cycle as the two scriptures, so we’ve
• 21:41 got three independent dates all on the same 50 year cycle.
• 21:45 That’s a one in 2500 chance.
• 21:47 That’s, you know, a 99.9% chance that that’s not an accident.
• 21:54 Caleb: And that something important is going to happen on
• 21:56 these days.
• 21:57 Caleb: Isaiah 61:12, “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
• 22:01 because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the
• 22:03 afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
• 22:06 proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners; to
• 22:09 proclaim the favorable year of the LORD and the day of
• 22:12 vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn.”
• 22:16 Dr. Widener: Okay, so that idea of a Jubilee being in Luke 4 is
• 22:20 based on Isaiah 61 and the fact that it’s–he’s saying, “Today,
• 22:24 this is fulfilled,” and it’s a year of Jubilee, right?
• 22:27 But there’s something that Jesus didn’t read from, right?
• 22:30 He didn’t read from the last sentences, “And the day of
• 22:35 vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn.”
• 22:37 You go, “Yeah, of course he didn’t read that because, you
• 22:39 know, that’s the Second Coming,” right?
• 22:41 But yes–but the–what’s the passage in Isaiah 61 about?
• 22:45 Is about two things that are gonna happen in a year
• 22:47 of Jubilee.
• 22:49 That someone’s gonna come to bind up the brokenhearted, to
• 22:52 preach good news to the captives, and liberty to the
• 22:54 prisoners, and the day of vengeance of our God, which
• 22:56 is what?
• 22:58 The day of the Lord.
• 22:59 Caleb: Yes, the great and terrible day of the Lord.
• 23:01 Dr. Widener: What Isaiah 61 is preaching, right, is teaching us
• 23:03 prophetically is that the day of the Lord is going to come in
• 23:07 a year of Jubilee.
• 23:08 Caleb: Makes a lot of terrifying sense.
• 23:11 Dr. Widener: Good for us, bad for the world.
• 23:13 Caleb: Wow.
• 23:19 Dr. Widener: All right, so here’s my final takeaway, guys.
• 23:22 So, I think Isaiah 61:2 is teaching that not only did
• 23:27 Jesus’s ministry begin in the year of Jubilee, which has
• 23:30 already been fulfilled, but that the second part, it’s a double
• 23:34 prophecy that also, again, the day of vengeance of our God is
• 23:38 just the same way it’s gonna also come in the
• 23:40 year of Jubilee.
• 23:41 Like, they’re together. So, it’s that double prophecy.
• 23:43 So then, when we think about that, what does that mean?
• 23:46 You know, I think that means that then this 2027 that’s
• 23:50 coming up, will be then another year of Jubilee, and it is
• 23:55 a time that we should be watching for the return of the
• 23:57 Lord, right?
• 23:59 And, you know, will it be?
• 24:00 Well, we’ll find out.
• 24:02 But with all the things that have been happening with this
• 24:03 decree, right, with 70 to 80 years after the birth of Israel
• 24:08 as a nation, there’s so many things that are pointing to this
• 24:11 time that I think it’s heavy.
• 24:12 Like, we should be looking at what’s going on and paying
• 24:16 attention to not only the Jubilees, but this decree that
• 24:19 everyone missed that’s written in stone warning us about the
• 24:23 time that’s coming.
• 24:25 Hirchie: I gotta say, this is mind-blowing.
• 24:27 I mean, really.
• 24:28 I don’t know how you guys feel, but to me, the amazing part of
• 24:32 all of this is the intricacy of our God.
• 24:34 That he is the ultimate planner.
• 24:37 He set everything up from the moons to the festivals to the
• 24:41 feasts to everything that he laid out in this timeline.
• 24:45 That’s the God we serve and that’s how he set all this up
• 24:48 so that we can know that he’s above all.
• 24:51 Caleb: That’s right.
• 24:52 And it’s important to know, like you said, being ready.
• 24:54 I think we should always be ready, and that’s the point of
• 24:57 all the parables that Yeshua gives.
• 24:58 That you’re ready in your heart at any moment for the
• 25:01 Master’s return.
• 25:02 Any moment he could return.
• 25:04 Though I do believe, you know, this 2027, the evidence you gave
• 25:09 about the year of Jubilee, that’s legit.
• 25:11 That means there is something big that’s gonna happen in 2027.
• 25:15 I don’t know if I believe yet that we’re in the end-times or
• 25:18 that this is the last seven-year cycle, but I do believe that God
• 25:23 works in these cycles for a reason.
• 25:25 And just like we see these big events happen on these big days,
• 25:28 whether it’s a restoration of Israel or Jerusalem or all these
• 25:31 things, he works in a specific timing that we can’t understand
• 25:35 because he’s beyond time.
• 25:37 But just like with Daniel, he says that knowledge will
• 25:40 increase and there’s a moment where we will start to
• 25:44 understand us being the children of light.
• 25:46 We’re gonna get to that moment where we are meant to understand
• 25:49 because of the increase in knowledge for the children of
• 25:51 light, but not the children of darkness.
• 25:54 Joshua: You think of this Jubilee time that everybody’s
• 25:56 been describing, this time for God’s people of restoration and
• 26:00 revelation and healing, but then a time of judgment upon the
• 26:03 wicked where all this stuff that we’ve seen that we’ve asked God,
• 26:09 “When Lord?
• 26:10 When is the restoration for your people?
• 26:12 When will the wicked face what they deserve?”
• 26:15 It’s a time for us to sit back and let God be God and him
• 26:19 do his job.
• 26:20 Too often we try to cross that line and barrier, but even
• 26:23 I step back even further than that and look at the potential
• 26:25 imminence of this happening.
• 26:27 Our responsibility to share his love and to capture every single
• 26:36 individual from the clutches of hell is so paramount right now.
• 26:40 When we should be out into the streets loving people with his
• 26:44 love, compelling them to throw away this life of wickedness
• 26:49 that’s ensnared them to be something better.
• 26:54 Shame on the church in general for not being such a compelling
• 26:57 light that we didn’t have to open our mouths, but just
• 27:01 radiate his presence and it draws the wicked in.
• 27:04 But that’s your responsibility today.
• 27:07 Today is your day to say, “No longer will my life be focused
• 27:12 simply on my own endeavors, but my life will be used as
• 27:16 a conduit to share the love of Yeshua with every single
• 27:20 individual that he places in front of my sphere of
• 27:22 influence,” because he hasn’t called you to Dr. Christian’s
• 27:26 sphere or Hirchie’s sphere, Caleb’s sphere, or even mine.
• 27:29 Don’t try to emulate the pattern of anyone else.
• 27:32 No, ask the Father, “Today, whom am I to reach?”
• 27:38 Because he gives us one day at a time, that’s what we’re
• 27:40 promised today.
• 27:41 We don’t know about tomorrow and yesterday’s gone.
• 27:44 Today will you go to bed having only served yourself or will you
• 27:49 serve others with the love of Christ and bring them the
• 27:52 opportunity to find salvation?
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