borders. On May 16 Egypt demanded the immediate withdrawal of United Nations peacekeeping troops from the Sinai. The UN complied. The buffer zone between Egypt and Israel was now gone. Tens of thousands of Egyptian troops were now lining Israel’s borders. On May 22 Nasser announced the closure of the Straits of Tiran, cutting off Israel’s only shipping route through the Red Sea, an act of war. On May 30 Egypt entered into a military pact with Jordan, and an Egyptian general was placed in charge of Jordanian forces. By June well over two hundred thousand enemy troops were massed along Israel’s borders.
“Israel was outnumbered on every count. The Arabs had been armed by the Soviet Union with more than twice as many tanks and planes and four times as many antiaircraft guns. Nasser declared, ‘Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel.’ 3 His threats of total annihilation were echoed in radio broadcasts and public declarations throughout the Arab world. 4 A sense of doom fell upon the Jewish nation. The government began stockpiling coffins. Public parks were consecrated by rabbis to serve as cemeteries. Many feared it would be a second holocaust and the end of the Jewish state.”
“It was the darkening in my vision and the rumbling of war. So what happened?”
“On June 3, 1967, a meeting took place between the Israeli prime minister and the nation’s chief political and military leaders to decide what to do. Though it would be brought to an official cabinet vote the following day, it was at that meeting that it was determined that the nation could not afford to wait for its enemies to launch a war of annihilation but had to act as quickly as possible. The decision was made to go to war. One of those involved in that meeting and that decision was Yigael Yadin, the man who uncovered Masada. Yadin had taken part in the nation’s return to Masada. So now he would take part in its return to Jerusalem.
“The government would call for a full mobilization of all Israeli men up to fifty years of age.”
“Fifty years . . . the time of the Jubilee.”
“Yes. It was of course natural to have an age limit on the mobilization. But since the year was 1967, it meant that the cut-off year was . . . ”
“1917 . . . the year of the other Jubilee . . . So everyone who fought in that war had to be born in the year of Jubilee or in the years in between the two Jubilees.”
“The emergency meeting and the decision to go to war took place on Saturday night, the sealing of the Sabbath day.”
“That means there was a Scripture appointed for that Sabbath.”
“Yes. It was from the Book of Numbers.”
“Was it significant?”
“It was the instructions given to Israel to prepare for war.”
“So the Scripture about Israel preparing to go to war was appointed for the day that Israel would decide to go to war.”
“Yes. In that appointed Scripture the words appear—go to war.”
“So as Israel was preparing for war, the ancient Scripture being recited and chanted and proclaimed all over the world was speaking of Israel preparing for war.”
“Yes.”
“What did the Scripture tell Israel to do?”
“To number all the adult males who would then be mobilized for war . . . the very thing Israel was doing at that very moment. And the Scripture appointed to be read at the end of the Six-Day War concerned another kind of conscription, that which applied to the tribe of Levi. Yet it is striking that it was here that an age limit is given—fifty years of age.”
“The same age limit used in the mobilization for the Six-Day War.”
“Two days after that emergency meeting the Six-Day War began. On June 5, 1967, the Israeli air force in a sudden lightning strike destroyed the air force of the surrounding Arab nations.”
“Lightning,” I said, “like the lightning I saw in the vision, coming from the ram.”
“So Israel battled the Egyptian army in the South and the Syrian army in the North. But it was Jordan that occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli government pleaded with Jordan to stay out of the war. Israel was fighting for its life, not for Jerusalem. Had Jordan stayed out of the war, the Holy City would have stayed in Jordanian hands. But it was the year of Jubilee and the mystery decreed that events would have to converge on the ancient city. Therefore, Jordan entered the war.
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