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A Gap in Time
When it comes to time and
Israel’s relationship with Yahweh there is an
unusual thing takes place. According to a difference in writers in the
Bible we find that when Israel was out of fellowship, to the point that he
allowed them to be taken by their enemies, that they went off of Yahweh’s time clock. In other words time literally stood still
for Israel until this period of judgment was over.
We find this difference in I Kings 6:1 and Acts 13:18-22. The subject is the time period from the Exodus from
Egypt to the beginning of the building of Solomon’s Temple. In I Kings it
says that the time period was 480 years but according to the apostle Paul
there is a difference of 111 years. Paul gave a series of times that added
together reveal this mystery of the Gap in Israel’s history. We will begin
with the scriptures.
I
Kings 6:1
1: And it came to pass in the four
hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of
the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in
the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house
of the Yahweh.
This time period from the Exodus to
Solomon’s Temple is 480 years.
Paul said in Acts 13:17-22:
17: The Elohim of this people of Israel chose our fathers,
and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt,
and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
18: And about the time of forty years suffered he their
manners in the wilderness.
19: And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he
divided their land to them by lot.
20: And after that he gave unto them judges about the space
of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
21: And afterward they desired a king: and Yahweh gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the
tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty
years.
22: And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and
said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my
will.
When using the times from
Paul’s writings from the exodus to the beginning of the building of
Solomon’s Temple we come up with a very large difference in time than the
one found in I Kings 6:1.
From the Exodus to Canaan was 40 years.
From the dividing of Canaan to Samuel’s period of leadership was about 450
years. (Actual time was 448 years.)
From Samuel’s leadership to the anointing of Saul the King was 20 years.
Saul’s reign was 40 years.
David’s reign was 40 years.
3 years later in the 4th year of Solomon’s reign the
Temple was begun.
These time periods adds up to 591 years.
The difference between 1stKings
and Paul's writings amounts to 111 years. When we go back during this same
time period and take a look at the times that Israel had sinned and were
forced to serve other nations we will find this lost period in time.
Judges: 3:8Israel served Mesopotamia, 8 years.
Judges 3: 12-14; Israel
served the Moabites, 18 years.
Judges 4: 2-3 Israel served the
Canaanites, 20 years.
Judges 6:1 Israel
served the Midianites, 7 years.
Judges 10: 7-8 Israel served the
Phillistines 18 years.
Judges 13:1 Israel served the Phillistines 40 years.
These time periods add up to
111 years. Which is the time difference between the writings of 1st
Kings and Paul’s writings in the book of Acts. Which proves that when
Israel was given over to their enemies that they go off of the time clock.
Daniel's 69th week ended within just a few days of the crucifixion of Yahushua, the vail of the temple was rent and Israel went off
the time clock. 40 years later, 70AD. Titus destroyed Jerusalem. At the
beginning of Daniel’s seventieth week, Yahweh will once again begin to fight for Israel. At this time
Israel will go back on the time clock.
I believe that this also
applies to any of Yahweh`s children. If you served Yahweh for 20 years but
was backslidden for 5 years and returned to Yahweh during that 20 year period, Yahweh would see this time period as 15 years. He wouldn’t see
the 5 years that you were out of fellowship with him.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope that there is
something in it to show how Yahweh often places gaps in time according to our relationship
with him. According to this Israel has been off the clock since Israel
rejected Yahushua and
crucified him. I believe that Israel was given a period of grace from the
time of the crucifixion until 70 AD as a time period given to repent and
turn to Yahushua. This is why
it took 40 years to see the actual judgment begin.
Since Daniel's 69th
week of years ended at the time of the crucifixion that means that the 70th
week of years is still yet to come. This is where we get the seven-year
period that is often called the tribulation
period.
Yahweh Bless You and Yours
Shalom
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