The Mystery of the Shemitah (18 page)

And so now again, just as it happened seven years before, the biblical Day of Nullification, on Elul 29, came the greatest nullification of financial accounts in world history.

As observant Jews around the world again nullified their financial accounts, the accounts of Wall Street were again being nullified in reality. Again the ancient mystery moved across the globe, from the New York Stock Exchange to the major stock exchanges of the world, in one vast colossal Shemitah, nullifying, canceling, wiping clean, and transforming the financial realms of the nations.

The ancient mystery had yet again manifested and could not have done so more precisely or amazingly than it did. The cycle had begun at the moment of sunset September 17, 2001, and had culminated at the moment of sunset September 29, 2008.

A Mind-Boggling Phenomenon

When one takes in the magnitude of the phenomenon, it becomes beyond stunning. It is an ancient mystery that had to have determined not only the exact timing of the two greatest stock market crashes in world history but also the timing of 9/11 itself, to name just one of the events necessary to the manifestation. All these events have impacted and altered the course of America and world history. And yet behind them lies a mystery ordained from ancient times.

On top of everything else we have seen so far, the multitude of connections and fingerprints left by the ancient mystery on the greatest financial and economic collapses of modern times is this:

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  Only two stock market collapses in this millennium have borne the title of “the greatest stock market point crash in history.” Both of them happened to occur on the exact same date on the biblical calendar—Elul 29.

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  The day on which they each took place just happens to have been ordained in the writings of Scripture from ancient times.

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  They each took place on a day that comes up only once in several years.

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  This once-in-several-years occurrence happens to be the same day that is specifically ordained from ancient times in Scripture as the day of a mass nullification in the financial realm—the very thing that took place on Wall Street on that exact day.

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  The ancient mystery determines that this mass nullification of financial accounts take place exactly seven biblical years apart. The two greatest crashes not only took place on Elul 29, but on Elul 29 exactly seven biblical years apart, down to the day.

2000–2001 & 2007–2008

The Two Shemitahs and the Two Global Collapses

The Phenomenon of 2,569 Days

If we let the phenomenon speak for itself, it reveals a clear message. The crash that had been triggered by the events of 9/11 assumed the title of the greatest stock market point collapse in history on September 17, 2001. It happened on the day appointed in the Bible for the mass nullification of financial accounts. The ancient mystery ordained that seven years after the first event will come a recurrence of that event, another mass nullification of financial accounts. These are seven biblical, lunar-solar, Hebrew years.

According to the ancient mystery, the time period ordained for the second event to take place is 2,569 days. The collapse of 2008 took place exactly 2,569 days after the first, as ordained from ancient times. The first crash would carry the title of the greatest stock market collapse in history for exactly 2,569 days, the exact number ordained in the ancient mystery. It would then be transcended by the second collapse, which took place on the exact same Hebrew day appointed from ancient times.

An Unseen Hand

The rising and falling of the stock market is the result of countless financial transactions in markets throughout the world, countless developments in the financial and economic realms colliding with countless human reactions, interactions, calculations, feelings, and whims—each action affecting the next. No human hand could have orchestrated anything remotely approaching such a phenomenon. It could have only transpired by the moving of an unseen hand. Its complexity combined with its precision remains nothing short of mind-boggling.

It is worth noting that the mystery of the Shemitah, in its last two manifestations, appears to have intensified in magnitude and precision, an intensification that parallels an intensification and acceleration in the spiritual and moral descent of America and much of the modern world.

The phenomenon is overwhelming. The mystery of the Shemitah has affected the course of the stock market and the economy, America and the nations, and the lives of everyone reading these words.

And even this is not the end. We are going to find that the ancient mystery operates in ways one would never expect and in realms one would never have imagined. And, of course, it will speak of things yet to come.

Before entering into another realm of the mystery, we will unlock one last revelation concerning the realm of crashes—a revelation involving one of the most mysterious, if not mystical, chain of events.

Chapter 15
The MYSTERY of SEVENS

The Number of the Shemitah

W
OVEN INTO THE
mystery of the Shemitah is the number seven. The Shemitah is the seventh year and the conclusion of a seven-year cycle.

Seven is also the number of the remission brought about by the Shemitah. When, on Elul 29, the financial realm is wiped clean, the debts and credits that are nullified are those of the past seven years. So the effect of the Shemitah extends seven years into the past, the entire seven-year cycle. The Shemitah is the Sabbath of years. And just as seven is the number of the Sabbath, seven is also the number of the Shemitah.

Is it possible that the greatest stock market point crash in history, having taken place on the Day of the Shemitah, would bear the marks of the Sabbath year—in the form of the number seven?

The following is not central nor essential to the phenomenon or mystery of the Shemitah—but it is a fascinating phenomenon in its own right.

The Mark of Seven

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The Seven-Year Mark:
The greatest point crash in stock market history happened on Elul 29—the end of the
seventh year
and the completion of the
seven-year cycle
.

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The Seventh Month:
On the evening of the greatest crash began the month of Tishri. Tishri is the seventh month of the sacred calendar. Thus the crash took place on the day that ushers in the most sacred of times in the biblical calendar,
the seventh month
.

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Seven Hundred Billion:
The crash was triggered by the failure of Congress to pass the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. The bill was a response to the economic implosion of September 2008, an attempt to save the US financial system. The amount chosen for the bailout was
seven hundred billion
dollars.

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Seven Percent—2008:
What percentage of Wall Street was wiped out on the last day of the seventh year?
Seven percent.

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Seven Percent—2001:
How much of Wall Street was wiped out seven years earlier on the last day of the preceding Shemitah in 2001?
Seven percent.

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Seven-Seven-Seven:
How many actual points were wiped out on the last day of the seventh year?
Seven hundred seventy-seven (777).

The Timekeeper

When the kingdom of Judah was destroyed in 586 BC, few of the survivors could have fathomed what lay ahead. The land was depopulated in a mass deportation of Judeans to an exile in Babylon. The most likely scenario was that there would never again be a Jewish nation in the land of Israel. But what the future actually held was dramatically different.

The secret of what would take place and of exactly when it would take place was already there, contained in the mystery of the Shemitah. The Babylonian exile would last for seventy years based on the timing determined by the seventy Shemitah years the nation had broken. Once those years were completed, the exiles would return.

The Shemitah held the secret to the timing of the nation’s judgment.

The Shemitah had always been linked to timing. And its timing was always linked to the number seven. In 586 BC when the Shemitah moved into the realm of prophetic signs and national judgment, its manifestation followed the number seven—seventy years of desolation, years representing seven-year cycles, the period in which the Shemitahs were broken—a chain of sevens through time.

A Journey of Sevens

What would happen if we now embarked on a journey beginning from the Shemitah’s climactic end and following a mystery of sevens backward through time? Specifically, what if we began this journey in the last hours of the last day of the last Shemitah—at the end of the greatest stock market point crash, just as it hits the number 777? It is September 29, 2008. The time is 4:00 p.m. The closing bell rings. The crash is finished. We now follow a chains of sevens back in time.

First Sequence: The Chain of Years

From the closing bell of the crash we go back in time seven years—seven exact biblical years, down to the hour. Where does it bring us?

It brings us to Monday, September 17, 2001, the day of the other greatest point crash in American history. More precisely, it brings us to 4:00 p.m., to the closing bell, to the very last moment of the other collapse. Seven Hebrew years have taken us from the closing bell and final minute of the one crash to the closing bell and final minute of the other.

Second Sequence: The Chain of Days

Now from that seven-year mark, and the closing bell of the crash of 2001, we follow the chain of sevens back in time once more—seven days—to the seventh day. From 4:00 p.m. Monday to 4:00 p.m. Sunday we have the first twenty-four-hour period, the first day. The chain then proceeds according to this sequence:

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  From 4:00 p.m. Sunday to 4:00 p.m. Saturday—the second day

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  From 4:00 p.m. Saturday to 4:00 p.m. Friday—the third day