Ezekiel 4. The master key to unlock the Bible’s chronology Abraham binds Isaac (Akedah) 2123 AM 400 4 0 0 4 Exodus 5 7 2523 AM 0 5 770 40 8 0 Promised land 0 2563 AM 0 Joshua dies 2573 AM Ark captu.. 400 Samuel judges 2873 AM 1200 2893 AM years 8 Saul king 77 David king 0 2923 AM of Judah 0 7 2963 AM David comes 5 4 in Jerusalem 40 0 5 (City of David) 4 0 2970 AM Construction 0 st of 1 Temple 0 43 3003 AM Ark brought in st the 1 Temple Exile of Israel 3013 AM 400 3323 AM 4 8 5 0 Manasseh Jeremiah Jerusalem’s 120 abomination 430 prophetises destruction years 3368 AM about … 3403 AM 7 4 5 40 0 Destruction of the 1st Temple & Jerusalem 3443 AM If the only achievement of this book was the discovery of these patterns, I would be satisfied. But there is so much more.. Yves Peloquin 1 "Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and comprehend with their minds, and turn and be healed.” Isaiah 6:10 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings. Prov 25:2 NIV Dédié à Marie-Paule mon épouse, sans qui je n’aurais jamais pu m’investir avec autant d’énergie dans cette recherche, et à mes trois enfants : Jeanne, Émile, Évelyne qui ont si souvent été privés de ma présence. Also dedicated to my father Léo (1921- 1994 AD) from whom I learned the na- mes of Jacob’s children. I believe he was one of the great…great grandsons of Leah, first wife of the patriarch Jacob. In today’s world where well-educated men and women put their faith in unbelieving scholars, the miracles of the Bible are view as tales for children. But what if the timelines of these so called tales would show truly miraculous properties? "For as the heavens are higher than the භ earth, So are My ways higher than your භ ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. Isa 55:9 NKJV 2 The First Part The house of Judah sin that lasted 40 days (years) page 13 The house of Israel sin that lasted 390 days (years) page 17 A siege that last 430 days (390 days + 40 days) .... page 27 Why an iron wall page 35 Left side/Right side page 39 The feeding of Ezekiel during his siege page 44 The need to have Ezekiel tied up ............................. page 45 Prophesying against the siege of Jerusalem page 50 Ezekiel’s bare arm page 58 Ezekiel eating defiled food page 67 The 430 years and 400 years to Exodus ............... page 78 Ezekiel shaves his hair page 89 Ezekiel is weighing and dividing the hair page 97 Ezekiel’s hair growing again page 104 Daniel 70-week & post exile chronology …………. page 112 Ezekiel’s fasting page 132 Ezekiel’s famine of words page 134 Conclusion of first part page 139 Second Part Setting a true chronology of the Bible page 140 The timeline of Joseph page 141 Sabbath and Jubilee page 145 Yeshua’s ministry .................................................... page 148 The 2nd Temple became redundant page 156 The time of Joshua page 157 Oppressions and Judges page 160 Pilgrimage of fathers and sons page 172 When did Abraham marry ........................................ page 174 Did the Israelites wait 19 y. in Kadesh Barnea? page 170 Understanding Judah & Israel EXILE page 175 Numbers 37-73 and the timing of Samson page 189 Was Solomon 17 years old when he became king? page 190 Unseal chronological patterns in 28 charts page 191 Conclusion of second part page 220 Appendix A From Adam to Abraham (the basic timeline) page 223 Appendix B Abraham’s family tree page 226 Appendix C Timing of Levi, Kohath, Amram and Moses page 233 Appendix D Akedah Exodus Crucifixion page 234 Appendix E Synchronizing the calendar page 256 Appendix F The Bible’s timeline page 257 Appendix G Daniel 8:14 ‘2300 evenings & mornings’ .. page 266 Appendix H Daniel 12:11-12 1,290 days & 1,335 days page 268 Appendix I Daniel 70th week page 271 Appendix J King of Israel page 279 Appendix K 77 People of authority (11 + 22 + 44) page 280 Appendix L The 12 symbolical acts of Ezekiel 4-5 page 281 3 Ezekiel 4. The master key to unlock the Bible’s chronology By Yves Peloquin Created Dec 2004 Montréal, Canada (Year 5966 AM) http://www.EzekielMasterKey.com Email: Last update May 25, 2019 [email protected] (Year 5979 AM) Several solutions have been proposed to explain the 390 and the 40 years symbolized by Ezekiel’s 390 and 40 days. None has been very convincing so far. The following observation is therefore indisputable: in spite of the fact that Ezekiel spent a very long period (430 days) on his sides to perform a sign to the house of Israel, no one has ever come up with any hidden interpretation that could match (and justify) the prophet’s amazing task? This book shall propose a fresh new way to understand Ezekiel 4. The Siege of Jerusalem prophesied Ezek 4:1-13 4:1 "Now, son of man, take a clay tablet, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. 2 Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. 3 Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 "Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. 5 I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the house of Israel. 6 "After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. 7 Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bare arm prophesy against her. 8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege. 9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. 11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times. 12 Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel." 13 The LORD said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them." It is certain that some important chronological information can be obtained by correctly interpreting the sign performed by Ezekiel. After all, we already know that when he was lying for 390 and 40 days, he was then symbolically portraying one period of sin that lasted 390 years and another that lasted 40 years. No doubts that these two values will lead us to the discovery of some solid markers in the Bible chronology once we have them correctly understood. 4 But there is more information to be obtained from Ezek 4-5 than what has been suggested until now. We will see in the following pages that while he was lying on his sides Ezekiel was performing more than a dozen different symbolical acts each one portraying an independent set of events that had or would take place over distinct periods of either 390, 40, or 430 years. From a few basic sequences of events whose timeline are well known, we are going to, while identifying each Ezekiel 4-5 symbolical act, find out the timing of every meaningful biblical event. Figuratively speaking, this book has been designed like a ladder. Where each rung allow a workman to go higher and higher, here most chapters will introduce a new Ezekiel 4-5 symbolical act and consolidate it by using the chronological information validated in the previous chapters. As we move on, several paths of reliable events will keep expanding until it becomes possible to merge them into a tightly interconnected network. A unique feature pertaining to the development of this work will be obvious in the first part of the book. I decided that no biblical event would be associated to a specific date. Indeed, each event will be featured in its relationship with other. Thus similar to what is done in the Bible’s narration, the emphasis will be exclusively over the length of time (# of years) separating the events between themselves (i.e. relative dating). No matter how destabilizing it will feel, this approach is necessary to establish a fundamental timeline that owes nothing to any material found outside the Bible.