(June. 2026) Revised *
Prophecy to the Greek or Western man is prediction and fulfilment. To the Jew, it is pattern.
The Jewish sages compiled the 150 psalms long ago. We have forgotten how. They divided the Psalms into 5 books just like the Torah, or first 5 books of the Bible. 5 was the number for grace, the unmerited favor of God, and the Torah had 5 books. They believed these 5 books could be correlated with human life:
Genesis is the book of life and election.
Exodus is the book of redemption.
Leviticus is the book of sanctification.
Numbers is the book of testing and experience.
Deuteronomy is the book of divine government.
Or:
Genesis – God forms the soul.
Exodus – Birth
Leviticus – Childhood, learning right from wrong.
Numbers – Active life
Deuteronomy – God takes the soul back.
If the Christian Bible had 5 books of the Psalms, the bible would not contain 66 books, but 70. According to the internet, the number 70 in the Bible means completeness, fullness, and divine order.
JR Church was a pastor who moved to Oklahoma City in 1979, where he started a television show named Prophecy in the News. He went to the LORD in 2011, but his organization still has a website. He published a book, Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms in 1986. He added material in 1990. He believed that the psalms represented years of the 20th and 21st centuries, e.g., Psalm 1 represented 1901; Psalm 2, 1902; Psalm 100, 2000; Psalm 126, 2026 and so on. He believed the first two digits of 19 came from the psalms being the 19th book of the Bible. In other words, the psalms were a giant code. Initially, I thought this preposterous, but I had read other works by him and was impressed with his body of knowledge, so I bought his book. It did not give precise information for each and every psalm, but certain psalms sure fit his speculations as I will detail. Much, if not most of this work, is his. He did not believe in British Israelism meaning the lost tribes of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, are Great Britain and America. At least since the Seven Years War, better known as the French and Indian War in America, from 1756 to 1763, world history has been driven by the Anglo-Saxon nations who are the lost tribes of Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, as delineated by Genesis 22:17, 48, 49:22- 26, and Deuteronomy 33:13-17, who had the blessings of God, the greatest blessings in the world.
Many Christians are aware of the story of Jacob and Esau. Esau was the first born of twins from Isaac’s wife Rebekah per Genesis 25:25. Hence, Esau would get the birthright and the blessing. Esau thought so little of the birthright that he sold it to his brother Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew with bread per Genesis 25:19-34. The birthright consisted of: 1. Leader of the tribe, or king of the nation, 2. Priest of the tribe, or High Priest of the nation, 3. Double portion of inheritance. Since Esau and Jacob were two, when their father Isaac died, they would each get an equal portion of the inheritance, but the one with the birthright got an extra portion. Hence, when he had the birthright, Esau was to inherit two of the three portions of Isaac’s estate. Since Esau sold the birthright to Jacob, legally, Jacob would now get 2/3s. Regarding the twelve tribes of Israel, the one with the birthright would get an extra portion of two of thirteen portions. In Genesis 48:5, Jacob adopts Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, in effect making them tribes of Israel, thus giving Joseph the double portion of the birthright per 1 Chronicles 5:2 though Judah got the kingship, and Levi, the priesthood. Hence, there were thirteen tribes of Israel, not twelve. If you look at a map of the distribution of Canaan to the tribes of Israel, there are thirteen large pieces of land, but Manasseh got two portions, one in the Golan east of the Sea of Galilee, and another adjacent Ephraim in northern Israel, separated by the Jordan River. The priestly tribe of Levi got several cities within Israel, but not much land as they were scattered in Israel per Genesis 49:7. Also, America had thirteen colonies at its beginnings.
Numbers 2 describes the camp of Israel after the Exodus with the Tabernacle and Levites in the center, and three tribes in each of the cardinal directions of east, south, west, north, again thirteen tribes.
I suspect most Americans believe Judah got the birthright and the blessing by being the tribe of the kings (Genesis 49:10), beginning with David. It is a common belief that the northern tribes, the so-called “ten lost tribes,” became pagan and were lost to history and God, but this is not true. In Ezekiel 37:16-17, God says His prophet will take the stick marked Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions (Benjamin, Simeon, Levi, and refugees from the other lost tribes) and the stick marked Ephraim and for all the house of Israel, his companions in his hand, the bulk of the so-called lost tribes, where they will become one stick in his hand The LORD will reunite all the tribes of Israel in Israel, soon in my opinion.
What about the blessing of prosperity? Jacob blessed Joseph and his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, in Genesis 48:15,16, 20. Hence, the blessing of prosperity passed to Joseph’s sons and not Judah. He noted Ephraim would come first and be a multitude of nations in Genesis 48:19, to be followed by Manasseh. In Genesis 49, Jacob gathers his sons together. In verses 22-26, great blessings are given to Joseph “by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel.” This is a reference to Christ, the Messiah. Hence, I would expect them to receive these blessings while they are Christian nations, i.e., the period since the birth of the church in 32 or 33 AD. I would expect them to be hyperpowers, first Ephraim and later Manasseh during the last two thousand years of Christianity.
Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) would be separate from their brothers per Genesis 49:26 and Deuteronomy 33:16. This occurred in 732 BC when Assyria attacked Israel removing all the northern tribes except for Ephraim and a half tribe of Manasseh. In 722 BC, Assyria returned to carry them off as well, and they were lost to history. I doubt that they were placed with the tribes that Assyria had earlier removed. Hence, they were separate from their brothers. A tribe of Manasseh has been found in eastern India near Bangladesh, likely the half-tribe east of the Jordan River, taken in 732 BC by the Assyrians.
Jacob said in Genesis 48:19 that Ephraim would be a multitude of nations. In the last two thousand years of earth’s history, this could only apply to Great Britain and the British Empire, the hyperpower of the 19th century, to be followed by the hyperpower of the 20th century, America (Manasseh). Although the British Empire was nominally a Christian nation when founded, it truly became a great Christian nation under William Wilberforce, who succeeded in outlawing the slave trade after a twenty-year battle in the British Parliament circa 1807. He went on to fight against slavery within the Empire, which was effected the year after his death in 1833. Wilberforce was also instrumental in transforming the manners of the nation into a truly Christian nation in Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, 2007, by Eric Metaxas. The excellent movie Amazing Grace also came out in 2007.
The British Empire was the greatest empire in world history encompassing 20 to 25% of the earth’s land surface and its population. In Genesis 22:17, after Abraham offered Isaac on the altar, God said his descendants shall possess the gates of their enemies. Great Britain was a maritime empire. At its height it controlled Hong Kong, Singapore, as well as Calcutta, Bombay, and the Khyber Pass in India, plus Cape Town, the Suez Canal, Gibraltar, and Malta, the gates of her enemies. America dug the Panama Canal. The British also founded Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Unfortunately, after fighting the French Revolutionaries, who sought to dethrone not only their king, but also their God, and Napoleon for close to twenty years ending at Waterloo, in 1815, they succumbed to the vast ages, the millions and billions of years, as put forth in Principles of Geology in 1830 and Darwin’s evolution from The Origin of Species, 1859, i.e., they forgot their God. But America saved them and the world from the ungodly Nazis and then the ungodly Soviet Union. Since the end of World War II, America is following in Great Britain’s footsteps to apostasy.
I believe Christ will return to reign to start the seventh millennium of history. Per 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90:4, a thousand years to the LORD was like a day. I believe we are now approaching the end of the sixth millennium. The land animals were created on the first half of the daylight of the sixth day, and man was created at the end of the sixth day. The Jews believed a day began at sunset, so at dawn, in 1492 AD, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and the land (Remember Israel represented the land, and the Gentile nations the sea.) animals, those arising from the Bible, of Spain, Portugal, Holland, and France came forth as world powers. At the end of the sixth millennium, Great Britain came forth followed by America as the Anglo-Saxon nations, who had the blessings of God through Ephraim and Manasseh.
God had said to Abraham, “In Isaac your seed will be called.” Saxon means “son of Sax.” In linguistics over centuries, the first letter of a name is often dropped. Was Saxon originally Isaacson?
The Anglo-Saxon Age has been ongoing at least since 1763, when, at the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War, Great Britain received Canada. France was also forbidden from garrisoning troops in India, which later became the jewel in Britain’s crown. This fits well with Ezekiel’s prophecy in Ezekiel 4:4 in which the prophet was told to lay of his left side for 390 days with each day representing a year of iniquity for the house of Israel, i.e., the northern kingdom which had been destroyed in 722 AD. The northern kingdom of Israel split from Judah about 931 BC. If you subtract 722 from 931, you get 209, so it seems strange to me to lay 390 years of iniquity on them. However, God had told Jeroboam, the first king of northern Israel, that if he followed Him, then He would honor him and build him an enduring house (1 Kings 11:38). At Solomon’s death, Jeroboam rebelled against the House of David and God. Jeroboam did not wish his subjects going to the temple in Jerusalem for worship, so he put up golden calves per 1 Kings 12:28. Jeroboam made priests from tribes other than the Levites per 1 Kings 12:31, and he changed God’s “appointed times,” His feasts, from the seventh to the eighth month per 1 Kings 12:13. The northern kingdom of Israel had only one somewhat good king, whose name was Jehu, whose story is told in 2 Kings 9 & 10. Jehu was anointed by God’s prophet to destroy Jezebel, her foreign gods, who required human sacrifice, and the House of Ahab. Jonathan Cahn wrote a book in 2017- The Paradigm in which he likened Trump to Jehu.
Ancient calendars from Japan, China, India, Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Mayan civilization were all 12 months of 30 days each. This is thought to have changed circa 701 BC around the time that the Assyrians took all of Judah’s 46 outlying cities and then they besieged Jerusalem. About this time, Hezekiah, king of Judah, developed a boil and was told by Isaiah that he would die. Hezekiah prayed to the LORD for mercy, and his prayer was answered. He was told he had fifteen more years. Isaiah told him as a sign that the shadow of the sun dial could go forward or backward ten degrees. Hezekiah asked that it go backward ten degrees. It is at this time that the calendar changed to the present 365.2422 days/year from 360 days/year. God says that if His people will not obey Him, He will punish them seven times more for their sins per Leviticus 26:18. 7 X 390 = 2,730 years, but the years were 360 days/year up to 701 BC or 230 years from the founding of the northern kingdom. There are 230 years from 931 BC to 701 BC. Subtract 230 from 2730 years = 2500 years of 360 days each. 2500 years X 360 days/year = 900,000 days divided by 365.2422 days/year = 2,464.12 years. Subtract 701 from the last number yields 1763.12, but you must add one for no year zero, i.e., 1 BC is followed by 1 AD. There is no year zero. So if the judgement began circa 931 BC and it was 390 years X 7, then it would end in 1764.1 AD with the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years War in February of 1763 BC. It may have taken a few months or years before the seven-fold judgement came on, and Great Britain had great victories over France in 1759 and in India in 1757 at Plassey. It may be even more precise if we knew the month and day Israel and Judah separated, and the month and day that Jeroboam put up the golden calves.
The change in the calendar also led to the crucifixion of Christ in God’s timing. Per Daniel 9:25,26, the Messiah was supposed to come 69 weeks (of years) after the order went out to rebuild the walls of the city of Jerusalem. Per Nehemiah 2:1, this occurred in the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes, king of Persia. If the day of the month is not given, it is presumed to be the first of the month, in this case, Nisan 1, the start of the Jewish religious calendar per Exodus 12:2. Nisan 1 in 445 BC was 14 March. 69 weeks or 483 years later would be Nisan 1, 39 AD. The Jews were expecting Messiah on this date, but by changing the length of the years, it would be earlier- 483 years X 360 days/year divided by 365.2422 days per year. The date is 6 April, 32 AD, the tenth of Nisan when the lamb was taken from the flock, per Exodus 12:3, in preparation for the Passover meal on 14 Nisan. On 10 Nisan Christ rode the donkey’s colt into Jerusalem and was proclaimed the Messiah per Luke 19:38, only to be crucified days later. It has also been written that the twentieth year of Artaxerxes was actually 444 BC, which changes the numbers a bit, but He was still crucified on Passover, and raised on First Fruits, only a year later in 33 AD. Mark Biltz in Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs (2014) noted there was a total lunar eclipse (a blood moon) on Passover in 32 AD and a partial lunar eclipse in 33 AD. Jewish days go sunset to sunset, so this was on the night Christ was taken from the Mount of Olives to trial. A total lunar eclipse, a blood moon, foretells disaster for Israel; a total solar eclipse, disaster for the Gentiles.
The Jews divide the Psalms into five books.
Book Year
1. (1901) to 41 (1941) 1 (Prelude) to 41
2. 42(1942) to 72 (1972) 42 (Nazi death camps for Jews in full swing, but also the first defeat of the Nazis in North Africa by Britain and America, Japan’s first defeat at Midway) to 72
3. 73(1973) to 89 (1989) 73 (Yom Kippur War, US Supreme Court legalizes to abortion) to 89
4. 90(1990) to 106 (2006) 90 (Desert Shield becomes Desert Storm in 1991) to 106
5. 107(2007) to 150 (2050) 107(US Financial crisis begins in December, 2007) to 150
Psalms 1 to 41 (1901 to 1941) appears to be the prelude to what is to come. The Jews were returning in greater numbers to the land of Israel, but it is under the control of the Turk. The Arabs are known to be rich in oil. At the beginning of World War I, Winston Churchill converted the British navy from coal to oil. Though the British have signed on to giving the Jews a homeland, they did not wish to offend Islam either as Britain has lots of coal, but no oil. The Germans were able to manufacture a smokeless gunpowder, which hid their artillery in World War I. It required acetone, which previously Britain had obtained from Germany. Chaim Weizmann, a Jewish chemist in Britain, who later became the first president of Israel, devised a way to make acetone from horse chestnuts, so the British gunpowder would be smokeless and decrease the enemy’s ability to locate the British artillery on the battlefield. The British were exceedingly happy with this chemist and asked what they could do for him. He told them to form a Jewish state in the Holy Land. In 1917, the Balfour Declaration noted His Majesty’s government looked with favor on the establishment of a Jewish state in the Holy Land, which at that time was sparsely populated. Originally, Jordan was part of the Jewish homeland, but Winston Churchill gave it to the Arabs in the early 1920s. It was about 78% of the Jewish homeland. The British then failed to allow Jews to return to Israel except for certain quota numbers. Thus, the British assured many European Jews would go to the Nazi ovens. At the same time, they allowed unlimited immigration from the surrounding Arab nations into Palestine. Still, the Jews returned to Israel in increasing numbers and even formed an army unit under Allied command during World War II. After the Holocaust, the Jews returned in greater numbers. Great Britain (Ephraim) tried to cut the flow of Jewish refugees because of Arab oil. Britain would shortly lose her empire, likely due to her treatment of the Jews and her acceptance of evolution and the vast ages as established science instead of the Bible’s truth.
The Scopes Monkey Trial was in 1925.
The Hays Movie Code goes into effect in July of 1934. See Psalm 34.
Psalm 42 to 72 (1942 – 1972) In 1942, the Japanese were soundly defeated at Midway in June allowing FDR to have a Germany First policy, i.e., destroy Germany first as she was the more dangerous enemy, and enough Jews must survive the ovens to make Israel a viable nation. The Nazi tide begin to ebb with fall of North Africa to Britain and America, and Stalingrad to the Soviets in 1943. The gas chambers confirm the idea that Jews will only be safe in a Jewish state. The world is sympathetic enough because of the horrors of the Holocaust to allow the Jews their own land, and Israel is born. They are immediately invaded by their neighboring Muslims and to the world’s great surprise through the help of their God, YHWH, they defeat these enemies. Their Arab neighbors kick out the Jews in their own lands, where they have resided for over a millennium, with little more than the clothes on their backs, but these refugees go to Israel and double its population making it far more formidable as an enemy. The Israelis take the Sinai and the Suez Canal with Britain and France in 1956, though later return it to Egypt because of pressure from Washington, but Israel relates they will regard any interference with their shipping through the Straits of Tiran, gateway to the Gulf of Aqaba, would be considered an act of aggression. In 1967, Egypt’s Nasser kicked out the UN police forces between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai. He brings his army to the border and tells the Israelites that soon he will attack. He also closes the Straits of Tiran. The Jews take the initiative and defeat their enemies in the Six-Day War in 1967. They urge Jordan not to attack them, but the Jordanians are listening to the “victories” of the Egyptian Army on the radio. They join the attack and lose Jerusalem and the West Bank. When the Jews were deported during the Babylonian Captivity, the first removal was in 605 BC with the last that included the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, a period of about 19 years. Israel became a nation again in 1948. They regained Jerusalem in 1967, another interval of about 19 years They also gained the Golan Heights, Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula up to the Suez Canal. They considered themselves unbeatable (much like modern America) by their military prowess and not by their God for years thereafter.
In 1955, the play Inherit the Wind opened with the movie version made in 1960. Most believed it was an accurate portrayal of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial instead of a fictionalized version. Joseph Goebbels would have loved it. Of course, he was the Nazi Minister of Propaganda in World War II. From the trial, came the question of Where did Cain get his wife? No mention of anyone other than Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel was made at the time of Abel’s slaying in the Bible. Genesis 5:4 After he (Adam) begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters. By Jewish tradition, Adam had 33 sons and 23 daughters. However, it is an easy question to answer if you use the book of Jasher, noted in the Bible in Joshua 9:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18. This book is now available. It gives about twice the information of the Bible on the time period beginning with Creation and ending with the conquest of Canaan after the Exodus. In its first chapter, it notes the first couple had two sons and three daughters before Cain slew Abel. Hence, Cain married one of his sisters.
In America, the Supreme Court of the United States banned both prayer and Bible reading in 1962 and 1963. The Puritans believed the purpose of an education was to allow the individual to read the Bible.
The Soviet Union puts the first satellite in space, Sputnik in 1957. The American K12 school system was said to be deficient in science, and evolution was pushed thereafter. Alfred Kinsey published Human Sexuality in the Male circa 1948 and Human Sexuality in the Female circa 1953. The media portrayed him as a professor seeking truth. In actuality, he was a bisexual activist who wanted to change the sexual mores of America. He begat Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine and the subsequent Sexual Revolution.
Psalm 73 to 89 (1973 – 1989) The idea of Israeli invincibility is rapidly destroyed in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israelis believed their neighbors had been bloodied enough and would not dare to attack them, but Syria and Egypt did attack with better weaponry than the Israelis possessed. Surprise is total, and only Nixon’s resupply of Israel saves the nation from resorting to the Sampson Option, a nuclear response. Of course, God was the invisible Hand behind it all having prepared Nixon for this as a child listening to His mother, who told him that one day it would be in his power to do something for the Jews, and he must do it. The Democrats warned Nixon not to get the country involved in any foreign wars, as he was in the midst of Watergate. It is my suspicion that this involvement allowed him to quit and not be impeached.
In 1973, the US Supreme Court approved abortion.
Psalm 90 to 106 (1990 – 2006) God saves Israel from Saddam Hussein when he overextends himself in Kuwait. God also allows Israel to seek their salvation as a nation of the world through the world, i.e., the United Nations. Clinton brings the so-called Palestinians to the West Bank (Yasser Arafat, their leader, was an Egyptian, who reputedly died with billions of dollars in Swiss bank accounts. American intelligence knew that Arafat ordered the death of an American ambassador in the Sudan circa 1972, but President Clinton brought him back anyway.) The Israelis try to solve their problems through the UN and the US. The world’s answer to this problem brings increased terror to Israeli citizens and to the
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