of Jewish exile began in Galilee. So in terms of the Jubilee, Galilee was the first of Israel’s ancestral possessions to be lost. Do you remember what I told you about Israel’s first settlements?”
“Before it became a nation?”
“Long before it became a nation. The first Jewish settlements in the land, the beginning of the nation’s restoration, were established in 1878. One of the settlements established that year was called Petah Tikvah, or the Door of Hope. But the very first was called Gei Oni, or the Valley of Strength. It was founded in the spring of that year. Later it would be revived and renamed Rosh Pinah, meaning the Cornerstone.”
“And it’s significant because . . . ”
“That very first settlement was planted in northern Galilee, the very first land lost to the nation in Vespasian’s campaign. So the restoration of the land began in the same place where the land was first lost.”
“The Jubilean reversal.”
“Yes,” he replied. “But it’s not only a matter of where, but when.”
“When the land was lost?”
“Yes. When was the ancestral land first lost? It was that loss that determined everything that followed. And all the Jubilean restorations would be joined to that loss. So when did it take place?”
“When Vespasian invaded the land.”
“Yes, but when?”
“I don’t know.”
“Vespasian invaded the land in AD 67. It all began in that year.”
That’s when it hit me.
“The formation of the standards,” I said. “It was LXVII. It was the Roman numeral 67!”
“The armies of Vespasian began their campaign in AD 67. It was that campaign that began the removal of the Jewish people from the land and the land of Israel from the people, the separation of two thousand years.”
“The separation that the Jubilee undoes.”
“It was that event in AD 67 that would determine the timing of everything else. In which year does the Jubilee take place?”
“The fiftieth year.”
“The fiftieth year after AD 67 is what?”
“117.”
“Yes. The timing of the Roman invasion plus the fifty-year cycle of the Jubilean mystery will determine that the years of restoration will end in the number 17. Tell me, when was the land transferred for the last time before the time of restoration?”
“When it passed to the Ottoman Empire.”
“And that took place in the year 1517 . . . a year ending in the number 17—the twenty-ninth Jubilee from the year of Vespasian’s invasion. And in what year did Allenby drive the Ottoman Empire out of the land and liberate Jerusalem, and was the promise of a national homeland given to the Jewish people?”
“In 1917.”
“Another year ending in 17—the thirty-seventh Jubilee from the year of the invasion. And when, for the first time since ancient times, did a major world power restore legal sanction to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?”
“In 2017, when America recognized Jerusalem.”
“Another year ending in 17—the thirty-ninth Jubilee from the ancient invasion.
“But a mystery beginning in AD 67,” said the Oracle, “and made up of fifty-year cycles will ordain that the key Jubilean events will also take place in years that end in the number 67. Tell me, in what year did the stranger and the man with the measuring line come to the land? And in what year did the release of the land begin?”
“In 1867.”
“A year ending in 67—the thirty-sixth Jubilee from the first loss of the ancestral land. And when, after two thousand years, did Jewish soldiers enter the gates of Jerusalem?”
“In 1967.”
“Another year ending in 67—the thirty-eighth Jubilee from when it all began. So with the exception of the political Jubilee, which began in the fiftieth year of Zionism, every Jubilean event manifests in a year ending with the number 17 or the number 67: 1867, 1917, 1967, and 2017. . . the timing of each one determined by the invasion of AD 67, the year in which the destruction began.”
“What season was it when it all began?”
“Springtime,” said the Oracle, “as in your vision. The invasion began in the spring of AD 67. Vespasian began his attack in the month of May. And the greatest and defining siege of that first campaign and of the entire war apart from Jerusalem, the siege of the city of Yodfat, began in the early days of June.
“And so it just happened to happen that the Jubilean redemption began in the spring. It was in the late spring of 1867, at the start of June, that the stranger began his journey. And it was in that same month that the release of the land began. And in the