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Revelation Commentary:

1.      Revelation written in AD 66

2.      Flee Jerusalem or be destroyed in AD 70

3.      The central synchronism is the Ezekiel’s account of the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC.

 

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Rev 3

Rev 9

Rev 15

Rev 21

Rev 4

Rev 10

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Rev 22

 

Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd

 

 

 

Book Dates and Book Chapters to Date Conversion

 

A. Book Dates:

Amos: 762 BC

Jonah: 759 BC

Hosea: 750 BC

Isaiah: 740-700 BC

Micah: 735 BC

Jeremiah: 641-561 BC

Nahum: 629-612 BC

Zephaniah: 622 BC

Habakkuk: 606 BC

Daniel: 605-536 BC

Ezekiel: 593-571 BC

Joel: 588 BC

Lamentations: 586 BC

Obadiah: 586 BC

Chron: 571 BC by Ezekiel

Kings: 561 BC by Jeremiah

Ezra: 536-457 BC

Haggai: 520 BC

Zechariah: 520-518 BC

Esther: 483-473 BC

Nehemiah: 446-428 BC

Malachi: 432 BC

 

B. Chronological reading of Ezekiel:

 

Ezekiel Chapter to Julian Date Conversion

Chapter

Julian date

Jewish date

Comment

1:1-3:15

Monday 31 July 593

5 Tammuz

Ezekiel’s first vision of the “glory of Yahweh”

1:1 “In the 13th year in the fourth month on the fifth day”

1:2 “In the fifth month, of the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile”

30 years = 623 BC

1.      Book of the law found

2.      Year Ezekiel was born: now age 30 and can serve as a priest

3.      Year 30 of 49 year jubilee cycle.

3:16-5:17

Sunday 6 Aug 593

11 Tammuz

Ezekiel’s official call as a “watchman” for the “house of Israel”

6-7

592

-

Total destruction predicted for Judea

“Andy Steinman said, “The way I figured it was this: Except for Ezek 29:17-30:19, Ezekiel’s prophecies appear to have been arranged chronologically. That would imply that Ezek 6-7 fall somewhere between 3:16-5:17 (11 Tammuz 593) and 8:1 (5 Elul 592). Given the content of Ezek 6-7, later in Ezekiel’s 430 days seems more likely to me, so I think 592 is most likely.” (Rodger Young, 2017 AD)

8-19

Monday 17 Sept 592

5 Elul

Ezekiel is translated to Jerusalem for the first temple vision

20-23

Wednesday 14 Aug 591

10 Av

Ezekiel has a visit from the “elders” of the people in exile

24-25

Tuesday 27 Jan 589

10 Tebeth

Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem begins

29:1-16

17 January 588

12 Tebeth

FIRST prophecy against Egypt

30:20-26

Saturday 29 April 587

7 Nisan

SECOND prophecy against Egypt

31

Wednesday 21 June 587

1 Sivan

THIRD prophecy against Pharaoh of Egypt

26-28

Monday 18 Sept 587

1 Elul

Prophecy against Tyre

            

Sept. 18, 587. Month was Elul, although Ezekiel does not state this explicitly. See From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology (FATP), p. 168.

33:21- ch 39

Friday 19 January 586

5 Tebeth

Ezekiel first learns Jerusalem has fallen

32:1-16

Thursday 15 March 586

1 Adar

FOURTH prophecy against Pharaoh of Egypt

32:17-33:20

Thursday 29 March 586

15 Adar

FIFTH prophecy against Egypt

40:1a

5 October 574

10 Tishri

Ezekiel has a visionary translation to Jerusalem for the Second Temple vision

It was Rosh HaShanah, New Year’s Day. Only in a Jubilee year did Rosh HaShanah occur on Tishri 10 instead of the usual Tishri 1.

40:1b-48:31

5 October 574

10 Tishri

Double date notation for the final vision

29:17-30:19

Tuesday 26 April 571

1 Nisan

SIXTH prophecy against Egypt

 

C. Chronological reading of Jeremiah:

 

Jeremiah Chapter to Julian Date Conversion

Chapter

Dates

Comment

1:1-3

Composed after Av 587 BC

Superscription

1:4-3:5

Tishri 629—Adar 628 BC

Thirteenth year of Josiah

3:6-6:30

641-610 BC

During Josiah's reign

7-19

Undated (Zedekiah's reign?)

No date given at 7:1

20

597-587 BC

During Zedekiah's reign

21-23

10 Tebeth 589-9 Tammuz 587 BC

During siege of Jerusalem

24

Early 597 BC

After Jeconiah's exile

25

Tishri 606—Elul 605 BC

Fourth year of Jehoiakim

26

Late 609 BC

Beginning of Jehoiakim's reign

27-29

Tishri 595—Elul 594 BC

Beginning of Zedekiah's reign

30-31

Undated (Zedekiah's reign?)

No date given at 30:1

32

Nisan—Elul 588 BC

Tenth year of Zedekiah

33-34

Tishri 588—Nisan 587 BC

Jeremiah in court of the guard

35

609-598 BC

During Jehoiakim's reign

36:1-8

Summer/ Autumn 605 BC

Fourth year of Jehoiakim

36:9-32

Kislev 605 BC

Fifth Year of Jehoiakim

37-38

10 Tebeth 589

Zedekiah begins to reign

39-40

Composed after Av 587 RC

Historical narrative

41-43

Composed after Tishri 587 BC

Historical narrative

44

After Tishri 587 BC

After 41-43 (cf. 44:1)

45-47

Tishri 606—Elul 605 BC

Fourth year of Jehoiakim

48-51

Undated (after 9 lammuz 587 BC)

No date given at 48:1

52

Composed after 561 BC

Historical narrative

 

D. Chronological reading of Daniel:

 

Daniel Chapter to Julian Date Conversion

1:1

 

Summer of 605 BC

Records the time Daniel's captivity began and so for the entire nation as well.

1:2-17

winter of 605 BC

Records the time Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego enter the three year training program competition to become king Nebuchadnezzar's personal advisors.

1:18-20

fall of 603 BC

Records the time Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego are examined by Nebuchadnezzar and chosen as the top four candidates in the competition to serve the king of Babylon

2

Spring 602

Nebuchadnezzar's vision of four-kingdoms statue

3:1

Summer 602

Nebuchadnezzar's commissions his 90 foot statue which takes 7 years to build. (602-595 BC)

3:2

595 BC

90 foot statue completed: Nebuchadnezzar sends a message to all vassal heads of state, including Zedekiah, to attend the formal dedication service of the 90 foot statue.

Jer 51:59

Oct 595 BC

Zedekiah leaves for Babylon with Seraiah to attend dedication ceremony of 90 foot statue. Jeremiah 51:59-64

3:8-30 

Spring 594 BC 

All vassal heads of state, including Zedekiah, attend 90 foot statue dedication. Zedekiah, as head of state, was in prime location close to the front and he did bow down it or else he would have been killed on the spot. Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego refuse to bow down and are thrown into the furnace of fire. God brings all heads of state, including Zedekiah to the furnace of fire to witness the miracle of God in saving Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego from death. Zedekiah, who had bowed to the statue from the front row of the dedication ceremony, is humiliated when he is rebuked by the pagan Nebuchadnezzar to worship YHWH as Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego stand nearby.

4

573-571 BC

God struck Nebuchadnezzar with insanity for 7-18 months for his pride.

See the author’s Clinical textbook of Biblical Psychiatry

5

539 BC, 15th Tishri

Belshazzar dies, handwriting on wall

6

12th Marcheshvan 539 – Adar 538 BC

 

7

Nisan 550 – Adar 549 BC

Vision of the four beasts

8

Nisan 548 – Adar 547 BC

 

9

Nisan 538 – Adar 537 BC

 

10-12

24th Nisan 536 BC

 

 

Bible Only Revelation Commentary

Steven Rudd Feb 2018

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Intro 1: Ezekiel Decodes Revelation

Intro 2: Jerusalem = Babylon, Sodom, Egypt, The Harlot

Intro 3: Coins, Dead Sea Scrolls & Song of Sabbath Sacrifice

Intro 4: Moses’ Sunset Clause & the extinction of Judaism

Intro 5: The role of Archeology in understanding Revelation

Intro 6: “Days of Messiah” 1st century Jewish eschatology

Intro 7: Why Revelation was written to 7 churches in Asia, not Jerusalem

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Rev 9

Rev 15

Rev 21

Rev 4

Rev 10

Rev 16

Rev 22

Dating and Chronology

Dating Revelation to AD 66 and Gospel of John to 98 AD

Old Testament Bible book and chapter dating

Jewish to Julian calendar date converter

Josephus

Josephus Chronology of destruction of Jerusalem: AD 62-74

The 7 miraculous signs of Josephus AD 65-66

Josephus “2 Witnesses”: Jesus ben Ananus: AD 62-70

Daniel and Revelation

Book of Daniel: 1260 days. 42 months, 70 weeks and 490 years

Full-Preterism Refuted

Full-Preterism Examined and Refuted

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