people. The age begins with the departure of the King from Jerusalem . . . and then his people.”
“But what’s the connection between Messiah’s departure and the Jubilee?”
“The Jubilee involves the separation of what?”
“The ancestral possession from the one to whom it belongs.”
“And to whom does the land of Israel belong?”
“To the nation of Israel.”
“Ultimately to the King of Israel, the Messiah. And to whom does the city of Jerusalem belong?”
“To the Messiah?”
“Yes, to the King. Jerusalem is the city of his throne. The Jubilean mysteries begin with separation. So the first separation of the age, and that from which the others come, is the separation of the King from the kingdom, from his land and his royal city.”
“And from his people?”
“Yes, his people. The Jewish people are his first possession. And Messiah is first the possession of the Jewish people. The one belongs to the other. But for two thousand years the one has been separated from the other, Messiah from his people, and the Jewish people from their Messiah.”
“The sandal,” I said, “as his feet leave the land, so the feet of his people must leave the same land.”
“Yes, and so begin the days of separation, for the Jewish people and for the Messiah. It was all there in the Hebrew Scriptures. The prophets foretold that the Messiah would be cut off from his people, and yet he would become a light to the nations.” 1
“So it’s the mother of all departures and all separations.”
“Of the age, yes. Messiah departs Jerusalem, and so does everything else . . . each to the ends of the earth. And through each of these departures a stream of countless repercussions have poured into the world. In this way alone the Jubilean mysteries have determined the history of the world.”
“But there’s still a missing piece,” I said, “without which they aren’t the Jubilean mysteries.”
“And what would that be?”
“The return,” I replied. “Each shall return to his own possession. Therefore the Messiah has to return to his own possession. If he left the nation of Israel, then he has to return to the nation of Israel. And if he departed from Jerusalem, then he has to return there.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, “and it was all foretold from the beginning, on the Mount of Olives, in the midst of his departure:
And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” 2
“And so too was it foretold in the Hebrew Scriptures:
And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives . . . 3
“In all of world history there was only one who departed from the Mount of Olives. And thus only one can return there.”
“The two sandals I saw on the mountain, one in each vision . . . they were had to do with the two comings of Messiah.”
“Yes.”
“And the second one was of gold because the second time He comes as King. The first sandal was of the departure, and the second, of the return.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, “it is from the one departure that come all other departures. And it is to the one return that all the other returns proceed. To that return all the other returns are heading.”
“So then all the Jubilean mysteries, all the Jubilean years and events that led to the return of Israel, they’re all ultimately leading up to the ultimate return . . . the return of Messiah.”
“Yes, the return of the Jewish people, the return of Israel, the return of Jerusalem, the return of the church, of Rome, of Masada, of the Israeli farmers, of the Israeli soldiers, of the Jewish disciples, and all the other returns . . . all of them are leading up to the ultimate return.
“It is the ultimate reversal of the Jubilee. He left the land, so then did the Jewish people. But in the reverse the Jewish people return to the land that he might likewise return. The King must be restored to the kingdom, and the kingdom to the King . . . the mystery of the age.”
“And that’s why I saw them all coming, the people of Israel and the people from the visions all gathering together up to the mountain. It was the final