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2091 BC Abraham departs for Canaan.
God initiates a covenant with Abram, a gentile, that he will make of his descendants a great nation. “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 1: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 2: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: 3: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1-3, KJV) Because God says, “I will” it is an unconditional covenant having three aspects: 1. National, 2. Personal, 3. Universal.
God reconfirms the covenant with Issac (Genesis 26), then with Jacob (giving him all the land of Canaan). “And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, (The so called West Bank) to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.” (Genesis 28:13-15, KJV)
1876 BC Jacob takes his family to Egypt to avoid a famine. This sojourn becomes a 400 year stay.
1446-1406 BC Moses at the direction of God institutes Passover and leads the Exodus from Egypt which begins 40 years of wanderings in the wilderness.
God makes another covenant with Moses, however, this one is conditional. “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” (Exodus 19:5-6, KJV) Note: This covenant did not replace the Abrahamic covenant of Faith in Messiah.
1405-1398 BC Moses dies and his successor, Joshua, leads a 7 year campaign which ends in the occupation of the land of Canaan. (Joshua)
1398-1390 BC Over the next 8 years Joshua divides the land to the 12 tribes with 6 cities of refuge and 48 cities to apportioned to the tribe of Levi. (Joshua)
1380 BC Begins the period of the 17 Judges ending with Samuel, the only Judge who was also a prophet who died in 1015 BC. (Judges)
1043 BC King Saul’s reign for 40 years. (1 Samuel)
1010-1003 BC King David reigns in Hebron for 7 1/2 years. (2 Samuel)
1003-971 BC King David reigns in Jerusalem over all the tribes of Israel for 33 years. (2 Samuel)
971 BC King Solomon begins to reign and extended Israel’s sovereignty from the Euphrates to the Nile. (1 Kings)
966 BC Solomon’s temple begins to be built. (1 Kings 5:1-8:66)
921 BC The united monarchy divides into two kingdoms, Judah, the Southern Kingdom (2 tribes) under Rehoboam & Israel, the Northern Kingdom (10 tribes) under Jeroboam. (1 Kings 12:1- 22:53)
921-586 BC The Southern Kingdom, Judah had 21 kings from Rehaboam to Zedekiah over a period of 335 years.
921-722 BC The Northern Kingdom, Israel had 19 kings from Jeroboam to Hoshea over a period of 199 years.
874-853 BC Ahab, Israel’s king reigns with his wife Jezebel and Elijah, the prophet is raised up to minister to Ahab. (1 Kings 16:30 ...)
740-680 BC Isaiah, the prophet is raised up to minister to Judah. (Isaiah)
In the first chapter, he foretells the end of the nation and the sacrificial system of worship.
722 BC Assyria invades and captures the Northern Kingdom causing the speculation about the 10 lost tribes of Israel. (2 Kings 17)
627-580 BC Jeremiah, the prophet is ministering in Jerusalem when Babylon invades & captures the Southern Kingdom (Judah) & takes hostages. (Jeremiah)
Jeremiah foretells the end of the mosaic covenant and the institution of a new covenant. (Jeremiah 31:31-35)
597 BC Nebuchadnezzar invades Judah and takes hostages including the teenager Daniel.
He becomes a prophet to Babylon. (Daniel)
587 BC Babylon, King Nebuchadnezzar, invades and again takes hostages.
Daniel interprets the dream of the statue, with Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian kingdom as the head of gold. (Daniel 2)
582 BC Third and final invasion by Nebuchadnezzar. This time he completely destroys Jerusalem and the Temple on the 9th of Av.
587-517 BC The approximate time of the 70 year Babylonian captivity of Judah (2 tribes)
538-515 BC Zerubbabel appointed by Cyrus to rebuild the Temple. (Zech 4:8-10)
Zerubbabel leads the first of 3 returns to the promised land and begins rebuilding the Temple (Ezra 1-6)
520-518 BC With the prophetic encouragement of Haggai and Zechariah the Temple is completed.
517 BC Cyrus King of Persia conquers Babylon. In the midst of a party, Belshazzar its king, is ministered to by Daniel who interprets the handwriting on the wall, and Belshazzar dies.
In Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the statue, Persia succeeds Babylon and becomes the chest and arms of silver.
483-473 BC Knowing the Jews are about to be restored, Satan tries to destroy them through Hamon, the Prime Minister of the Persian Empire. God raises Esther, a Jewess, to be queen and she uses her influence to save the Jews.
457 BC Ezra leads religious reformation movement on the second return.
444-425 BC Nehemiah institutes the 3rd and final return from exile and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Later he oversees the political restoration of the land of Israel.
332 BC Alexander the Great conquers the holy land. Alexander becomes the third part of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the statue, i.e., the waist and thighs of bronze.
Alexander begins the age of Helenism. Helenism is the Greek lifestyle which is introduced through scholarship, athletics, mythology, theater, etc.
The Jewish religious community is strongly opposed to the Helenizing of the Jewish people.
323 BC Alexander dies and his empire is divided into 4 parts.
173 BC Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the inheritor to the Holy Land part of Alexander’s empire begins the forced the Hellinization of the Jewish people.
166 BC The Macabees began a revolt against Antiochus which was to give them control over portions of the Holy Land that lasted until 37 BC. This was known as the Hasmonean dynasty. The Macabees made pacts with Rome.
63 BC Roman Dominance in Israel began when General Pompey captured Jerusalem.
Thus Rome became the 4th empire of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the statue, the legs of iron.
40 BC Herod is appointed as a vassal king of Palestine by Rome.
37 BC Herod reconquers Jerusalem and ends the last vestige of the Macabees rule.
Herod expands the Temple and the temple mount platform.
3 BC Jesus, the Messiah, is born.
30 AD A few day before Jesus is crucified, he predicts the destruction of Jerusalem.
His death on the cross inaugurates the new covenant predicted by Jeremiah.
49 AD Buddhism begins in China.
64 AD Roman persecution against Christians begins.
66 AD Outbreak of Jewish rebellion against Rome.
67 AD Josephus (Jewish general captured by the Romans & famous historian).
He had dreams that the Romans were invincible and he tried to convince the Jews to give up so they wouldn’t be annihilated.
70 AD Temple and Jerusalem destroyed again on the 9th of Av by the Romans.
73 AD Massada, the last Jewish stronghold, taken after the 960 inhabitants committed suicide rather than become Roman slaves.
96 AD John, the last of Jesus’ apostles dies.
100-149 AD Hadrian (Roman Caesar) builds Venus Temple on site of John Hyrcanus monument (a Macabean). Hadrian wipes out the remnant of Jews and obliterated anything Jewish in Israel. He renames Jerusalem to Capitalina and the land of Israel to Palestine. Final Diaspora of the Jews begins.
122-135 AD Bar Kochba Revolt was defeated by Romans - last semblance of a nation of Israel until 1948. Rabbi Akiva declares Bar Kochba the Messiah which splits the Messianic Jews from others Jews.
180 AD Mayan dynasty begins in Central America
Euseubus and John Hippolite, early church historians.
200 AD Christianity becomes a completely Gentile religion, divorcing itself from its Jewish roots. Christians require Jews to renounce any Jewish traditions. Christianity becomes completely anti-Semitic.
312-337 AD Constantine the Great rules eastern and western Roman empires.
Constantine embraces Christianity and makes it the Roman’s official religion through a document called the Edict of Milan. He sets up what became the Greek Orthodox Church in Constantinople and the Roman Catholic Church in Rome (Council of Trent).
325 AD Helena (Constantine’s mother) searches for Calvary and the cross in Jerusalem and builds the Church of the Holy Seplechure on the purported site. Helena’s deception is one of the biggest hoaxes ever pulled.
360 AD Huns and Mongols begin attacking Roman Empire.
395 AD Two legs of Iron in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream are permanently divided as Roman Empires divides into the Western Empire (Latin speaking) ruled from Rome and Eastern Empire (Greek speaking) ruled from Constantinople.
410 AD Aleric King of Visegoths sacks Rome.
433 AD Attila the Hun, sacks many Roman provinces.
455 AD Vandals destroy Rome.
460 AD Peak of Mayan culture in Mexico and Central America.
500 AD Europe converts from paganism to Christianity.
542 AD Plague decimates much of Europe.
560 AD Buddhism begins in Japan.
570 AD Mohammed, founder of Islam, born in Mecca.
597 AD St. Augustine brings Christianity to England.
600 AD After killing half of Europe plague subsides.
632 AD At Mohammed’s death Islam splits into two parts, the Shii and Sunni sects.
Islam conquers half the world with forced conversions and destroys churches.
637 AD Arabs conquer Jerusalem.
670 AD Arabs conquer North Africa.
700 AD Islam builds Dome of the Rock on the octagonal church foundation believed to be the site of the Temple.
Islamic Sultans rule the land of Israel out of Damascus and Baghdad.
716 AD Arab empires extend from Lisbon to China.
732 AD Charles Martel, Frankish leader, defeats Arab advance at Tours halting the Islamic extension into Europe.
1000 AD Scandinavia converts to Christianity, Lief Ericson, discovers America and calls it Vinland.
1002 AD Chinese invent gunpowder.
1009 AD Moslems destroy Holy Seplechure Church, built by Constantine, in Jerusalem.
1095 AD Pope Urban II calls for war to rescue the Holy Land from Moslem infidels.
1096 AD First Crusade- Peter the Hermit and 500,000 peasants are shipped from Europe to Asia Minor by Byzantine Emperor, Alexius. Only 25,000 survive a Seljuk Turks’ massacre and return to Europe. Then an organized army reaches Constantinople in 1097, conquers Jerusalem in 1099, establishes Latin Kingdom in 1100. Seljuk Turks (Moslems) start counterattacks in 1144.
1146 AD Second Crusade- King Louis VIII of France and Emperor Conrad III lead and perish in Asia Minor in 1147.
1162 AD Thomas A Becket named Archbishop of Canterbury.
1171 AD Saladin controls Egypt and unites Islam in Holy War against Christians recapturing Jerusalem.
1189 AD Third Crusade- Led by kings of France, England, and Germany but fail to reduce Saladin’s power over the Holy Land.
1200-1204AD Fourth Crusade- French knights sack Greek Christian Constantinople, establish Latin Empire in Byzantium.
1211-1227 AD Ganghis Kahn invades China, Persia and Russia.
1215 AD King John of England signs Magna Carta curbing Royal power in England.
1233 AD Pope Gregory IX begins the Inquisition.
1347-1351 AD Black plague kills 25,000,000 in Europe.
1376-1382 AD John Wycliff translates Latin Bible into English. He is later martyred.
1455 AD Gutenberg invents the printing press and completes first printed Bible.
1492 AD Ferdnard and Isabella force all Jews out of Spain on the 9th of Av.
Columbus discovers America.
1500-1920 AD Ottoman Empire operates out of Turkey and controls the Holy Land.
1516 AD Turks capture Egypt and control all of Arabia.
1517 AD Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis denouncing the Roman Catholic Church on the Wittenberg door starting the justification by faith movement.
1541 AD John Knox establishes the Presbyterian Church.
1588 AD Defeat of Spanish Armada by the English. This keeps the Spanish and their Catholic influence out of North America.
1607 AD Jamestown, first English colony in New World established by born again Christians on biblical principles.
1611 AD King James Version of Bible printed in English.
1620 AD Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock, establish another “Christian” colony.
1690 AD William III of England defeats Catholics in Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. This keeps Protestant influence in Northern Ireland and Catholic influence in the Southern Ireland.
1765 AD James Watt invents steam engine beginning the industrial revolution.
1776 AD US declares independence from England. War continues until 1783.
1783 AD British recognize US independence.
1787 AD US Constitution signed.
1789 AD French Revolution begins. George Washington elected first US president.
1790 AD US population under 4,000,000 (including 700,000 slaves, 17%)
1798 AD Napoleon conquers Palestine & Egypt for a short period. John Adams, 2nd US President , declares, “I sincerely wish to see the Jews settled again in Judah, forming an independent nation,” establishing a consistant US policy for the next 150 years.
1800 AD Allesandro Volta produces electricity. Beginning the electronic era.
1803 AD US concludes Louisiana purchase from France for $15,000,000 from Mississippi river to Rockies. Colorado becomes a US possession.
1804 AD English Bishop of Rochester writes a prophetic paper entitled “Attempt To Remove Prejudices Concerning The Jewish Nation.” He declared the beginning of the Israel’s restoration for the decades to commence in 1860. Haiti declares independence from France becomes first black republic to gain freedom from Colonial rule.
1808 AD US bans importation of slaves.
1818 AD In Switzerland at a meeting of the “Holy Alliance” Russian Czar Alexander supports a paper recommending the restoration of the Jewish people to Palestine.
1823 AD US declares Monroe doctrine, European nations not to meddle (colonize) in Americas.
1825 AD First passenger railroad in England.
1838 AD Rabbi Moses Montefiori proposes founding a Jewish State.
1839 AD Church of Scotland sends mission to the Holy Land. Upon their return a message is sent to various European heads of state promising a divine blessing to all who cooperate in the restoration of the Holy Land to the Jews.
1848 AD Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto.
1854 AD Jewish hospital established in Jerusalem.
Anti-Slavery men in Michigan form Republican Party.
1857 AD Supreme Court issues Dred Scott Decision, a slave is not a citizen in the US.
1859 AD Suez Canal is started, finished in 1869.
1860 AD Rothschild begins funding European Jews to buy land and establish communities in Palestine. Theodor Herzel born in Budapest.
1861 AD US Civil War begins.
1865 AD In England, Palestine exploration fund established and begins serious archeological expeditions in Palestine and on the Temple Mount. Successive reports invited Jewish colonization of the land.
1867 AD US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000.
1871 AD First of the organized Russian “pograms” begins in Odessa. All have the blessing of the Orthodox Russian Church.
1877 AD Edison patents phonograph.
1878 AD Continued Russian pograms promote great interest and compassion for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1880 AD Mark Twain’s description of the land of Israel, “Totally God forsaken,” “traveled for days without seeing a tree.”
1882 AD Queen Victoria sends a letter to the head of the Ottoman Empire requesting the monarch to make provision for a Palestine refuge for persecuted Russian Jews.
Large scale immigration from Russia, Romania and Yemen begins, known as the “First Aliyah.”
1883 AD Slavery abolished in British Empire.
1894 AD Theodor Hertzel (Jewish newspaper reporter) covers the Dreyfus trial in Paris, he was horrified at how the trial brings out the hatred of Jews. Dreyfus pardoned from treason charges.
1895 AD A shocked Hertzel writes “Der Judenstat” (The Jewish State). It’s conclusion is that until Jews have a homeland they will be unrighteously persecuted.
1896 AD William Hechler, a second generation Christian Zionist and Chaplain of the English Embassy in Austria, reads Der Judenstat and offers himself to aid Hertzel in his movement to re-establish a homeland for the Jews. Hechler opens door for Hertzel to meet with many heads of state.
Nobel, inventor of dynamite establishes Nobel prizes for peacemaking, literature, etc.
1897 AD First Zionist Convention in Basel Switzerland. World Zionist Organization (WZO) founded. First modern Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece.
1900 AD First Kibbutz “Deganah” is established in the Galilee, Moshe Dyan (1st Jewish child born on the 1st Kibbutz).
1902 AD Hertzel goes to the head of Ottoman Empire and tries to buy Palestine for 1,600,000 pounds sterling.
1903 AD Hertzel offered Uganda as a Jewish homeland, offer rejected.
Wright Brothers first flight, beginning the Aviation Age.
1904 AD Elizier Ben Yehuda single handedly restores the modern Hebrew language.
Pograms cause 2nd Aliyah from Russia and Poland.
1906 AD First Hebrew high school in Jaffa.
1909 AD Tel Aviv, first modern Jewish city establihsed.
1910 AD First establishment of a Moshav in Palestine, similar to a Kibbutz.
1912 AD Titanic sinks.
1914 AD First World War begins. Panama Canal opened.
1916 AD Sykes-Picot agreement, secret British French pact for division of the Holy Land, excludes area west of Jordan from Arab independence.
Charim Weizmann saves England by inventing synthetic acetone to make munitions. When knighted by King and asked what he wants, he requests “A homeland for my people.” Becomes first president of Israel.
1917 AD Bolsheviks seize power in Russia, destined to be Israel #1 enemy by arming and encouraging Arabs in all five wars against Israel
Balfour declaration (British Foreign Secretary) Her Majesty’s government favors establishing Palestine as a homeland for the Jews.
Balfour, who was a part of a strong Christian Zionist Movement, wanted Bethlehem back in Christian hands by Christmas.
Britain’s General Allenby conquered Germans and Ottoman Turks in Jerusalem in December, ending 400 years of Ottoman domination.
1917 AD Worldwide influenza epidemic kills 20,000,000 (500,000 is US).
1918 AD Britain conquers all of Palestine and is given a mandate over Palestine and Mesopotamia (Iraq) by League of Nations.
1919 AD Weizmann/Feisal agreement accords mutual rights for Arabs and Jews in Holy Land. Third Aliyah from Poland begins, establishes agricultural settlements.
1920 AD Formation of the Haganah, first Jewish Defense Force (illegal)
Arabs militants mount anti-Jewish riots in Palestine.
Britain given mandate over Palestine by League of Nations at San Remo.
1921 AD British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill creates the state of TransJordan using 4/5 of Palestine, the land already promised to the Jews.
1922 AD League of Nations charges Britain to “facilitate Jewish immigration and settlements in the Holy Land.
1923 AD Hitler sentenced to five years in takeover attempt, called the “Beer Hall Putsch,” serves eight months and writes Mien Kampf, still a best seller in many Arab countries.
1924 AD Fourth Aliyah from Poland settles Jews in towns.
1925 AD Hebrew University established on Mt Scopus in Jerusalem.
1925 AD John Scopes convicted and fired for teaching evolution in “Monkey Trial,” sentence side aside. How things have changed.
1929 AD Arab militants massacre Jews in Hebron.
1932 AD Nazis get 24.5% of Reichstag (German parliament).
1933 AD Hitler appointed German chancellor. This precipitates 5th Aliyah mostly from Germany.
1936 AD Rome/Berlin Axis proclaimed, joined by Japan in 1940. Palestine symphony founded. Anti-Jewish riots begin lasting 3 years.
1938 AD Hitler marches into Austria. German holocaust begins, lasts until 1945, 6,000,000 Jews killed throughout Europe. Evian conference on refugees fails to find solution for refugees fleeing Nazi persecution.
1939 AD Roosevelt proclaims US neutral, Einstein writes FDR about possibility of atomic bomb.
Infamous British White Paper limits Jewish immigration to 75,000 over a five year period and then halts it all together.
1940 AD Jews from Palestine volunteer to fight with British against Nazis.
1941 AD Japan does surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, US enters war, atomic bomb research begins.
1943 AD US General Patton and British General defeat Germany and Italy in North Africa saving Mediterranean Jews from a Holocaust similar to Europe.
1945 AD Germany surrenders in May, Japan in August after two atomic bombs dropped.
1946 AD First meeting of UN General Assembly in San Francisco.
1947 AD By a narrow vote UN oks division of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Plan is accepted by Jews and rejected by Arabs.
1948 AD May 14, British mandate ends in Palestine, Israel proclaims state, Arab armies attack, Jerusalem divided for the first time in history.
1949 AD Arab and Israel agree to a cease fire in Palestine.
1950 AD Korean war begins.
1952 AD George VI dies and Elizabeth II, his daughter becomes queen.
1953 AD Ike becomes president of US.
1955 AD Martin Luther King leads black boycott in the South to protest lack of civil rights for blacks.
1956 AD Egypt seizes Suez Canal. Israel, Britain and France launch war to retrieve Suez and US pressures them to stop.
1957 AD Russians launch Sputnik, first earth orbitary satellite and space age begins.
1958 AD US fires Explorer I into orbit. EEC is created as “Treaty of Rome.” This will eventually become the feet and toes, mixed iron and clay, of Nebuchadnezzer’s dream.
1960 AD Top Nazi Jew murder “Adolph Eichman” caught by Israel in Argentina.
1961 AD JFK becomes first Catholic US president.
East Germans erect Berlin Wall.
1962 AD Eichman hanged in Israel for war crimes against Jews.
1963 AD US Supreme Court rules no locality may require recitation of the Lords prayer or bible verses, Kennedy assassinated.
1967 AD Six day war ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, and east bank of Suez Canal, and Jerusalem back together again.
1969 AD James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassination of Martin Luther King and is given 99 years.
Nixon becomes president.
1972 AD Eleven Israeli athletes killed by Arab terrorists at Munich Olympic Games in Germany.
1973 AD Fourth and largest Israeli Arab war begins as Egypt and Syria attack Israel on their holiest day, Yom Kippur. Israel wins and the Golan Heights occupied.
1976 AD US celebrates their 200th anniversary. On the same day Israeli airbornes commandos attack Uganda’s Entebbe airport, freeing 103 hostages held by PLO.
1978 AD Pope Paul VI dies, John Paul I mysteriously dies 34 days later, succeeded by Polish Cardinal Wojtyla, John Paul II.
Egypt and Israel sign peace treaty at Camp David under leadership of US president Jimmy Carter.
1979 AD Shah leaves Iran to Ayatallah Khomeini, unprecedented religious motivated abdication.
1980 AD Reagen elected US president.
1982 AD Israeli invades Lebanon in attack on PLO, discover huge armament cashes and drive PLO out of Lebanon.
1983 AD 237 US Marines killed by suicide bomber in Lebanon, causes US Forces to leave Middle East.
Complied by Ted Beckett of Foundation For Israel, PO Box 16050, Colorado Springs, CO 80935
