The Mystery of the Shemitah (15 page)

The answer is: 80 percent of them!

More than at any other time of the year, and more than any other time in seven years, they fall on the Tishri that closes the Shemitah. The majority of the greatest point crashes in history just happen to take place in a very small period of time that comes around once in seven years, which also just happens to be the same time on the biblical calendar for manifesting the massive financial repercussions of the seventh year.

Connecting the Puzzle Pieces

The seventh year, the month of Tishri, and, specifically, the Tishri that appears at the close of the seventh year are all components of the mystery. As signs they may appear independent of the others—one in one crash, another in another. But what happens if we put it all together, taking the greatest point crashes in modern stock market history and holding them up against the components of the ancient mystery?

How many of the ten greatest point crashes in Wall Street history are connected either to the biblical month of Tishri or the biblical Year of the Shemitah?
70 percent!

How many of the ten greatest point crashes in Wall Street history are connected either to the biblical month of Tishri or the biblical Year of the Shemitah, including the Shemitah’s lead-in months?
80 percent!

The October Phenomenon and the Ancient Mystery

The strange clustering of financial collapses in the autumn—particularly in the month of October—has mystified financial analysts for years. In earlier times some sought to explain the phenomenon by linking it to the depletion of cash reserves caused by farmers getting paid for their autumn harvests. But this and other attempted explanations have all failed as times and conditions have changed, as have the factors behind the stock market crashes of modern times. It has remained a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon. And yet the amazing thing is that while financial analysts have noted this strange phenomenon of stock market collapses gravitating to the autumn and have found it inexplicable, the very same time is appointed by God in Scripture for financial nullification.

The mystery of the Shemitah provides the missing keys. It reveals the ancient biblical connection joining together the autumn with the financial implosion. The key is not simply the season of autumn or the month of October, but specifically the biblical month of Tishri and its lead-in month of Elul. Added to this is the second key—that of the seven-year cycle and,
specifically
, the
specific seven-year cycle
of the Shemitah. When you then hold up the financial collapses of modern history to the ancient mystery, the revelation becomes amazingly clear.

The Other Cataclysms

If the ancient mystery is at work, we should expect it to leave its fingerprints in more than one sphere of financial cataclysm. We now move into the second of the two major spheres of collapses—the percentage crashes.

The greatest point crashes in stock market history are those in which the greatest volume or market points are wiped away. But there is another measure and category of financial collapse—the greatest
percentage crashes
. In these it is not the
volume
or
magnitude
of the crash that counts, but how much was wiped away in proportion to the overall market—the percentage lost. The greatest percentage crashes in Wall Street history take place over a wide span of time—from 1899–2008. Do these crashes of percentage reveal anything beyond the natural?

The Eighteen Days of Tishri

Of the ten greatest percentage crashes in stock market history, do any of them take place in the biblical month of Tishri? We start out again with a one-in-twelve chance for any event to take place in this single month. And, again, we have only ten crashes. So we might expect perhaps
one
of the ten greatest percentage crashes to have happened in that Hebrew month—or
none
. What is the answer?

Forty percent
of the greatest percentage crashes in Wall Street history take place in this single Hebrew month. No other month comes close.

If we enlarge our search by just three days, how many of the ten greatest percentage crashes take place in the month of Tishri or within three days of Tishri?
Sixty percent!

How big is the span of time in which all these stock market crashes cluster?
Just eighteen days!

Thus
60 percent
of the greatest single-day percentage crashes in Wall Street history cluster around a tiny sliver of the biblical year. They all take place within the same eighteen biblical days.

If there was nothing more than the natural at work, the greatest crashes should be distributed randomly, more or less evenly, throughout every month and season of the year. But for 60 percent of these crashes to cluster around one time period of the year, and one small time period, points to something more than natural going on.

The Ten Greatest Stock Market Percentage Crashes (in Hebrew)

A span of eighteen days represents less than 5 percent of the year. The chances of any one of these crashes to take place during this short space of time would be 5 percent. But instead of 5 percent, we have the
majority
of them doing that—or 60 percent of the greatest stock market crashes all occurring in a span of time representing 5 percent of the year! And this 5 percent of the year happens to fall in the critical month of Tishri. Only a minority of the great crashes take place outside this very tiny fraction of days.

The Mystery Behind the Greatest Postwar Percentage Crashes

What if we update our search field to the percentage crashes in the post–World War II era?

•
  From the top eight greatest postwar percentage crashes, do any of them take place in the biblical month of financial repercussions, in Tishri or its eve?
The majority—62.5 percent!

•
  Are any of these crashes connected to the Shemitah or its climactic wake?
Yes, 87.5 percent!

•
  How many of these crashes are either connected to the Shemitah, its wake, or the biblical month of Tishri?
One hundred percent!

The Mystery Behind the Twenty Greatest Percentage Crashes

What if we now expand the search beyond the top ten to the top twenty greatest single-day percentage crashes? Will the connection to the mystery of the Shemitah still hold?

Of the twenty greatest percentage crashes in Wall Street history, how many are linked to the month of Tishri?
Forty-five percent of them are linked to the month of Tishri.

How many of them are linked to the Year of the Shemitah?
Fifty percent of them!

How many are linked to the month of Tishri, its eve, the Shemitah, or its wake?
Seventy-five percent of them!

The connection to the mystery holds and consistently so.

The Ancient Mystery and the Twenty Greatest Point Crashes

What if we now do the same thing with the greatest
point
crashes in stock market history, expanding the search beyond the top ten to the top twenty? Will the connection to the mystery of the Shemitah still hold?

Of the top twenty point crashes in stock market history, how many are linked to the Elul-Tishri cycle?
Over half of them—55 percent!

How many of the crashes are specifically linked to the climactic end of the Shemitah, the time of financial remission?
Seventy percent of them!

How many crashes are connected to the Year of the Shemitah?
Seventy-five percent of them!

How many are linked to the month of Elul, its eve, the Year of the Shemitah, or its wake?
Eighty-five percent of them!

The phenomenon again manifests, strangely, consistently, and amazingly so.

The Mystery of Proximity

What happens if we take the five greatest point crashes in stock market history and see how close each falls to the Shemitah’s greatest point of impact concerning the financial realm—the point where Elul and Tishri converge at the end of the Shemitah year? Since the point of impact can only affect that which comes after it (and not before), we will mark the crash by where it falls within the seven-year period, how near or far it occurs from the Shemitah’s point of greatest impact. If nothing more than natural is at work, we would expect the crashes to average out to a proximity of about 50 percent, or to fall on average about three and a half years away from the Shemitah’s end, the halfway mark in the seven-year cycle. But what we find is dramatically different and amazing.

The Fifth Greatest Stock Market Point Crash

Proximity to Biblical Point of Impact—99.609 percent!

The Fourth Greatest Stock Market Point Crash

Proximity to Biblical Point of Impact—97.54 percent!

The Third Greatest Stock Market Point Crash

Proximity to Biblical Point of Impact—100 percent!

The Second Greatest Stock Market Point Crash

Proximity to Biblical Point of Impact—99.375 percent!

The First Greatest Stock Market Point Crash

Proximity to Biblical Point of Impact—100 percent!

Average proximity and convergence of the five greatest stock market point crashes to the Shemitah’s point of greatest impact:
99.305 percent!

The Mystery Behind the Top Five Greatest Postwar Percentage Crashes

Of the top five greatest percentage crashes of the postwar era, how many of them took place either in the wake of the Shemitah’s climax or at the moment of climax itself?
One hundred percent!

The Mystery Behind the Top Five Greatest Point Crashes in History

Of the five greatest point crashes in American history, how many of them took place either in the wake of the Shemitah’s climax or at the moment of climax itself?
One hundred percent!

The Three Greatest Percentage Crashes and Three Hebrew Days

The top three greatest percentage crashes in Wall Street history bear either the name “Black Monday” or “Black Tuesday.” Do they bear any connection to the mystery of the Shemitah, which determines Tishri as the key month of financial repercussions? Here are the three greatest percentage crashes in history revealing their dates on the biblical calendar:

The Second Greatest Percentage Crash: Black Monday 1929

Tishri 24

The Third Greatest Percentage Crash: Black Tuesday 1929

Tishri 25

The First Greatest Percentage Crash: Black Monday 1987

Tishri 26

Thus of the three greatest percentage crashes in Wall Street history, and of all the days in the calendar on which they could take place—they all happen within a span of
three days
on the biblical calendar.

The Greatest of All Crashes

What if we just looked at the two greatest crashes of all time—the greatest point crash in history and the greatest percentage crash in history? What would it reveal?

Each crash is connected to the month of Tishri.
One takes place in the midst of Tishri and the other on the day that begins it.

Each takes place at the end of the seven-year biblical cycle,
the Shemitah’s climactic conclusion or wake—the time ordained in the ancient mystery for massive transformations and remission in the financial realm and for the manifesting of its repercussions.

The Evidence Is Clear

We have lifted up this measuring rod: if there was nothing more than the natural at work in the greatest collapses in history, then the greatest financial collapses in history should be more or less evenly distributed throughout the year. We have searched the matter on several grounds and applied several probes, tests, and parameters.

The conclusion: Something very much more than natural is indeed going on. And the signs of the phenomenon all point to the same ancient biblical mystery. If the collapse of the world’s stock markets were an act of crime, the Shemitah would have long ago been indicted for the evidence left at the crime scene. In its numbers, its connections, its convergences, its percentages, its magnitude, and its consistency, the amount of fingerprints covering the financial cataclysms of modern times is overwhelming.