The Hidden History of Verse Forty - Number Twenty-Five

I have been drawing from a passage in Testimonies that provides various lines of truth in connection with the experience of Ezekiel, Isaiah and John within the sanctuary. John turned to see a voice behind him in Revelation chapter one.

From the isle of Patmos and then into the heavenly sanctuary, where John sees the vision of Christ that Sister White informs us of, is the same vision that Daniel saw in chapter ten of his book.

The first nine verses identify how the Revelation of Jesus Christ is unsealed just before the close of human probation. The revelation was given by God to Jesus, who gave it to Gabriel, who gave it to John with a commission for John to send the message to the seven churches. Isaiah received his commission to do the same in chapter six, and Ezekiel received the same mandate in chapters two and three. John is a prisoner when he receives his commission; Ezekiel and Daniel are captives in Babylon, and Isaiah is living in the history of the wicked king Ahaz of Judah.

Four biblical witnesses attest to the fact that the message of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is given to those persons who are typified by these prophets’ experiences in the sanctuary. It is when we enter into the heavenly sanctuary that we are given the message which we have been ordained to proclaim. The “furnace fire” which tests “every soul” is the furnace of Malachi three.

The refiner knows that the silver has been in the furnace for the correct amount of time when the silver is so pure that it reflects the refiner’s face. This fact about how silver was anciently refined aligns with the causative verb “marah” that Daniel saw in chapter ten. In these final days the Lord is leading His people into the sanctuary to test, purify and purge the candidates to be a part of the ensign of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. In this period of time, “He will work with” us “if” we “will put away iniquity and become pure in heart and life.” Some, as in Daniel ten, flee from that experience, but those, symbolized by Daniel, who do see the great looking glass vision of the revelation of Jesus Christ will, as Isaiah illustrates, have their lips touched with a coal from the altar and will be purified and prepared to give a message to both an apostate church and then the world.

The message is presented to those faithful souls in the sanctuary. Leviticus twenty-three when aligned with the Pentecostal season is designed to reflect the Ark of the covenant in the Most Holy Place. By faith the structure of the chapter’s messages identifies three waymarks within the sacred history in which the furnace test is accomplished. Divinely profound—the prophetic structure of chapter twenty-three allows the student of prophecy to locate Ezekiel in verse one of chapter one.

As a priest during the sealing time of the one hundred and forty-four thousand, Ezekiel is in the thirtieth year of the seventeenth Jubilee cycle, five years before the third of three sieges of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BC. The thirtieth year in the verse is thirty years after the greatest revival of Old Testament history, and it is in the fifth day of the fifth year, thus placing the number five upon Ezekiel's testimony. In the two opening verses we find thirty identified once and the number five mentioned three times. In the structure of Leviticus twenty-three aligned with the Pentecostal season the second test represented by thirty reaches to the feast of trumpets, then five days to the ascension of Christ, then five days to the day of atonement, then five days to the waymark representing both the former (Pentecost) and latter (Tabernacles) rain. The structure presents thirty, followed by three steps of five. Ezekiel is in the temple and the structure of Leviticus twenty-three is the Ark.

The history attests to the fact that Ezekiel at that point is five years before a symbolic siege that concludes typifying the soon-coming Sunday law as represented by the destruction of Jerusalem. The number ‘five’ is a primary element of the design of Leviticus twenty-three, as is the number thirty.

It has been shown in these articles that when the first twenty-two verses of the chapter are aligned with the final twenty-two verses, and then together those two lines of twenty-two verses are aligned with the Pentecostal season, the three-step testing process, which is the furnace fire of Malachi, is clearly illustrated. The three steps possess an alpha and omega in the first and third steps that consists of a series of four waymarks that represent one step.

Passover, followed by the feast of unleavened bread, followed by the first fruit offering of barley, then ‘five’ days to the end of the feast of unleavened bread. Those four waymarks make up the first test, and Jesus always illustrates the end by the beginning, and the third test is also made up of four waymarks. The feast of trumpets, then the ascension of Christ followed by the day of atonement, and then five days later the arrival of both Pentecost and Tabernacles. Pentecost is the symbol of the former rain and Tabernacles is a symbol of the latter rain. In the Leviticus twenty-three model both Pentecost and Tabernacles align.

The final testing and purification process began on December 31, 2023. The first test was the foundational test symbolized by the controversy of the “robbers of thy people” that divided the group who had been previously tried by the disappointment of July 18, 2020.

In Leviticus twenty-three, the first test is represented by a prophetic combination of three followed five days later by the end of unleavened bread. Passover was day one, the feast of unleavened bread was the second day and the first fruits offering was the third day. Five days later the feast of unleavened bread ended. The prophetic structure of the first of three tests is also represented in the third and final test. In that third waymark, made up of three waymarks followed by one, the feast of trumpets is day one, and Christ’s ascension is five days later, then the day of atonement follows five days later, then five days later both Pentecost and the feast of Tabernacles mark the soon-coming Sunday law, which is represented in the book of Ezekiel as the destruction of Jerusalem.

Between the end of the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of trumpets there are thirty days that not only represent a symbol of a priest but also the second test of the three tests represented within the Divine illustration.

The baptism of Christ illustrates the three waymarks of Passover, unleavened bread and first fruits, for those three waymarks represent Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. Those three steps are followed by five days to the fourth step, represented by the end of the feast of unleavened bread. The baptism presents the three steps in one brief moment when John baptized his Messiah. The spring feasts separate those three steps by one day each, and the fall feasts separate those three steps by five days.

When we apply the first test of the spring feasts as a combination of three waymarks that are followed by one waymark five days later and then apply the fall feasts as three waymarks that are followed five days later by one waymark, there is a prophetic structure established which consists of an alpha waymark of three followed by five days, which is then followed by thirty days, and the third test of the fall feasts as a waymark of three followed by five days—the structure illustrates the first test as covering a total of five days, followed by a second test of thirty days that reach to the third waymark of five days. Five plus thirty plus five is forty (5 + 30 + 5 = 40).

Christ’s baptism was immediately followed by forty days that concluded with three tests. Much more can be recognized in the structure of Leviticus twenty-three in combination with the Pentecostal season, but at another level the chapter represents the Ark in the Most Holy Place.

The spring and fall feasts in Leviticus twenty-three are placed in the middle of two Sabbaths. Those two Sabbaths represent the two covering cherubs and the waymarks of the Pentecostal season aligned with Leviticus twenty-three represent the Ark and the two covering cherubs. Ezekiel is taken into the sanctuary in chapter one, and when he is taken there, he is located five days before the siege which leads to the destruction of Jerusalem typifying the soon-coming Sunday law. The Sunday law is represented by Pentecost and Tabernacles in Leviticus twenty-three. Ezekiel is in the thirtieth year, and thirty is the period of the second of the three tests that make up the furnace fire of Malachi three. The second test is represented by thirty days, just as Ezekiel is in the thirtieth year of the seventeenth Jubilee cycle that began at Josiah’s Great Passover, as the historians refer to it. Ezekiel is five years before the siege that lasted eighteen months, and he is in the temple, which is the middle of the three final tests that purify and purge the remnant.

In 592 BC, Ezekiel is supernaturally made “dumb” and only speaks when God opens his mouth. That condition continues until the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. God had caused him to speak when the siege began, the day “the desire of” his “eyes” died, but he was not allowed to speak freely until Jerusalem “the desire of” Israel’s “eyes” had fallen. Jerusalem’s fall represents the soon-coming Sunday law, and it is there that John the Baptist’s father, a priest of the eighth course, who was made dumb while serving in the temple, which is where Ezekiel was also made dumb for about nine months. It was on the eighth day after John’s birth, when John was being circumcised that he was allowed to speak. Two prophets made dumb while in the sanctuary. The third prophet to be made dumb while viewing Christ in the sanctuary was Daniel. In chapter ten, Daniel is in the sanctuary, and just as he is being touched a second of three times he is made dumb. At the middle point Daniel is made dumb.

The symbolism of “speaking” is marked at the soon-coming Sunday law when the United States speaks as a dragon, Balaam’s ass speaks, Habakkuk’s vision speaks and does not lie. The three dumb prophets who are made dumb while in the sanctuary speak at the destruction of Jerusalem. With Zachariah, he speaks to identify that his son’s new name is correct, thus typifying the Philadelphians who are given a new name.

Zachariah was given a tablet to write the new name of John.

John’s new name aligns with the church of Philadelphia, and the name Zachariah aligns with Laodicea as represented by Zachariah’s unbelief in the message of the third angel. All the prophets address the latter days, and latter days are the history of the third angel. So the angel that brought the message must be the third angel. Zachariah refused to understand that the Lord would pass by the Laodicean Seventh-day Adventist church. There is more to say about the restoration of the voice in these prophets, but we will continue to move towards an understanding of Josiah’s prophetic line.

We have addressed the seventeenth Jubilee cycle that began at Josiah’s Passover in 622 BC, but the line of Josiah begins well before 622 BC. The rebellion of Israel that brought Saul to the throne as Israel’s first king marked forty years that king Saul would rule, followed by forty years that king David would rule, followed by forty years that Solomon would rule. The rejection of God that so offended the prophet Samuel occurred in 1097 BC, and begins a prophetic line of rebellion that ended at the cross when the Jews pronounced that they had no king but Caesar.

In 1097, three kings would reign for forty years each until the death of Solomon in 977 BC, when the kingdom then divided into north and south.

Solomon’s reign began in 1017 BC; the foundation of the Temple was laid in Solomon’s fourth year (1013 BC). Construction lasted seven years (1 Kings 6:37–38), and the Temple was completed in the eighth month of Solomon’s eleventh year. The formal dedication took place in the seventh month (the month of Ethanim), during the Feast of Tabernacles (1 Kings 8; 2 Chronicles 5–7), 1006 BC. The kings, the Temple and the nation each are represented in the history with a four-hundred-and-ninety-year period that distinctly marks a prophetic period in relation to either the kings, the Temple or the nation.

Daniel was taken captive in 607 BC, though the majority of biblical chronologists identify 605 BC. The historical record must align with the prophetic testimony, and the symbolism of the events that are historically marked on the line of history that begins with the desire for a king in 1097 BC demands upon several prophetic witnesses that 607 BC is the accurate application, and not 605 BC. 607 BC marks the end of four hundred and ninety years in the line of kings, but it also begins one of the three primary representations of seventy years that occur in the line. 607 BC marks the end of seventy years that began with the captivity of Manasseh in 677 BC. The first representation of the symbol of four hundred and ninety years (possesses three witnesses in the line), and concludes where one of the three witnesses of seventy years ends and another witness of seventy years begins. The mathematical structure testifies to 607 BC, in spite of the idea that Daniel was taken captive in 605 BC.

Within the line that contains a period of 490 years associated with the kings from 1097 BC unto 607 BC, there is also 490 years from the dedication of Solomon’s Temple unto the dedication of the post-exile Temple by Zerubbabel in 515 BC. That 490 years consists of 420 years from Solomon’s dedication in his eleventh year, added to the 70 years the Temple was desolate during the captivity equaling 490 years. The third decree of Artaxerxes came 59 years later in 457 BC, and marks the beginning of 490 years that were “determined” (cut off, Daniel 9:24) for God’s people which concluded in the year 34 at the stoning of Stephen. There are, of course, many other profound chronological witnesses in the prophetic line that begins with the foundational apostasy of rejecting God and the Spirit of Prophecy in 1097 BC and ends when Stephen saw Christ standing at the right hand of God. Within this testimony we find the prophetic wheel of Josiah.

I say “foundational apostasy,” for the beginning of the line identifies when Israel rejected God as King, in their desire to have a worldly king, thus marking the foundation of Israel’s human monarchy. I also write this, for the wheel of Josiah, which means “foundation of God,” is a symbol of both the foundation and the foundational apostasy of God’s people.

When Solomon died and the twelve tribes divided into north and south, Jeroboam’s dedication of the counterfeit system of worship was rebuked by the disobedient prophet, and his rebuke contained the prophecy of a coming king named Josiah. At the foundational apostasy of Jeroboam and the ten northern tribes, the prophecy of Josiah and his revival that is marked by the Great Passover of 622 BC was predicted. That revival was brought about by the discovery of the writings of Moses and the pronouncement of judgment upon God’s people for their continual apostasy. When the words from the writings of Moses were read to king Josiah, it produced the greatest revival of Old Testament history. The prophecy of a future child being born named Josiah also contained the prophetic condemnation of the foundational apostasy levelled against king Jeroboam by the disobedient prophet.

The curse of Moses, as Daniel calls it, is the “seven times” of Leviticus twenty-six, and it became the foundational discovery of William Miller, who is the symbol of the foundational truths of Adventism. The empowerment of Miller’s message on August 11, 1840, was brought about through the work of “Josiah” Litch in 1838 and 1840. In 1863 those foundations were set aside and the “seven times” became a symbol of not only the foundational truths of the Philadelphian Millerites, but also the symbol of the rebellion of Laodicean Millerism against the foundations. The history of the Millerites of the first and second angels possesses the symbolism of “Josiah” that will be repeated to the very letter in the history of the one hundred and forty-four thousand. The wheel of Josiah reaches back to the witchcraft of king Saul and then all the way to the spewing out of the Laodicean Seventh-day Adventist church at the Sunday law. Josiah’s wheel in Ezekiel is now in the process of being unsealed as the climax of the sealing of the one hundred and forty-four thousand.

We will continue these things in the next article.