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Dear Readers! Yesterday I commented on Joe Biden predicting a "crisis" to "test Obama". Today I realized that Colin Powell has made bizarre comments that echo the recent declaration by Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden that there will be an “international crisis” early into Barack Obama’s presidency that will test the new president by forcing him to make unpopular decisions.
Speaking on meet the press two days ago, Powell officially endorsed Obama and also made the following statement:
“The problems will always be there and there’s going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now.
So I think what the President has to start to do is to start using the power of the oval office and the power of his personality to convince the American people and convince the world that America is solid, that America is going to move forward, we are going to fix our economic problems, we’re going to meet out overseas obligations.”
Is Colin Powell referring to a theoretical crisis that could occur at any time? If so why does he choose a specific date, within the first two days after the inauguration? Also why does he refer to general problems that the new president will have to deal with in a separate context? We are already in an economic crisis, everyone knows that, so what new crisis is Powell talking about?
Whatever you read into Powell’s comments, they sound somewhat bizarre, particularly as they come on the back of Joe Biden’s “guarantee” of a “generated crisis” to “test the mettle” of the new leader within six months of the new presidential term:
What does Biden mean by “generated crisis”? It is an undeniably strange term to use.
His reference to John F. Kennedy indicates that Biden may have been referring some kind of geopolitical crisis in the vain of the Cuban missile crisis of April 1961. The confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba at the height of the Cold War came within the first four months of JFK’s presidency.
Obama’s running mate made the comments at a fundraising event in Seattle two days ago, on the same day Powell also spoke of a coming crisis.
We shouldn’t be surprised at Powell’s comments however, given that the former Secretary of State seemingly has a knack for predicting events before they take place.
Previous to the beginning of the Iraq war in February 2003, an audio tape containing a voice described as that of Osama Bin Laden was touted as proof positive of Al Qaeda links with Saddam Hussein.
Hours before the tape was discovered and aired by TV channel Al Jazeera, Powell announced in the US Senate that a “Bin Laden tape is coming proving Iraq’s links with Al-Qaeda.”
This led some to raise the question how does Colin Powell know what Al Jazeera are going to broadcast before they do?
In an amazing and timely coincidence, the tape came barely a week after Powell’s attempts to link Al Qaeda and Saddam in his botched presentation of lies and exaggerations before the UN Security Council.
Surely those people know the plans of the elite and the NWO people, if not in detail, so in general, So something big is brewing up, such as we predict from the Scriptures.
It is tragic that most of the major denominations - Roman Catholic and Protestant - embrace an eschatology ("study of last things") that is amillennial: a view that does not envision a literal rule of Christ on the Throne of David on the Planet Earth.
While there are many different, yet defendable, views regarding many aspects of end-time prophecies, this basic divergence - denying a literal Millennium - is particularly dangerous in that it would appear to be an attack on the very character of God! It does violence to His numerous and explicit promises and commitments that pervade both the Old and New Testaments.
The Old Testament is replete with commitments for a literal Messiah ultimately ruling the world through Israel from His throne in Jerusalem. There are at least 1,845 references in the Old Testament and 17 books give prominence to the event. The ancient rabbinical aspirations were dominated by it. In fact, this obsession obscured their recognizing the Messiah when He made His initial appearance.
There are at least 318 references in 216 chapters of the New Testament and 23 of its 27 books give prominence to the event. The early church looked longingly for His promised return as their "Blessed Hope" to rid their desperate world of its evil rulers. How and where did this skepticism known as "Amillennialism" begin?
Origen
Pious, popular, and persuasive, Origen stands out as one of the great figures of the 3rd century church. Even at the age of 18, he stood out spectacularly well as a teacher in Alexandria. (In misguided obedience to Matthew 19:12, he emasculated himself, which he later regretted.) Later, as a prolific writer based in Caesarea, his De Principiis systematically laid out Christian doctrine in terms of Hellenic thinking and set the pattern for most subsequent theological thought for many years. His numerous sermons and commentaries, however, tragically also established an extreme pattern of allegorizing Scripture, which was to strongly influence Augustine in subsequent years.
Augustine
Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), was one of the most influential leaders of the Western church, living during the turbulent days of the disintegration of the Roman Empire. He lived a sensuous, dissolute life, but following a dramatic conversion he experienced a total change of character. In 391 he was ordained as a priest in North Africa and four years later was elevated to the Bishop of Hippo. He embarked on a writing career and his extensive doctrinal writings deeply affected the Medieval Roman Catholic Church. Augustine's most elaborate writing, The City of God , was written as the Empire lay crumbling under a siege by half-civilized tribes. It portrayed the Church as a new civic order in the midst of the ruins of the Roman Empire. Augustine died while the Vandals were besieging the very gates of Hippo in A.D. 430.
Although his writings effectively defeated a number of heresies emerging in those turbulent times, the allegorizing influences of Origen left an amillennial eschatology in their wake. As the Church had increasingly become an instrument of the state, it wasn't politically expedient to look toward a literal return of Christ to rid the world of its evil rulers! The allegorical reposturing of those passages was more "politically correct."
The Reformation Shortfall
A thousand years later, under the influences of Martin Luther and others, the Reformation brought an intensive return to the authority of the Scriptures which, in turn, resulted in the subsequent reform in soteriology (the study of salvation) with its emphasis on salvation by faith alone. Many were willingly burned at the stake for their commitment to a Biblical perspective. However, one of the unfortunate shortcomings of the Reformation was that it failed to also re-examine the eschatology of the MedievalChurch in the light of Scripture. Thus, the allegorizing alchemy of Origen, institutionalized by Augustine, left a denial of the Millennium that still continues to pervade the doctrines of most Protestant denominations today.
Reality of the Millennium
For anyone who takes the Bible seriously, the numerous explicit commitments of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that the Messiah would literally rule from Zion cannot be ignored or explained away. At the same time, however, the more we learn about the Millennium, the more questions are raised.
ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.
"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to EmeraldCity supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."
Not only will the next administration have to deal with foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with the current economic crisis.
"Gird your loins," Biden told the crowd. "We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy."
Biden said the Democratic ticket is equipped to meet the challenges head on.
"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it," the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of Obama. "This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us."
"There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision'," Biden continued. "Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound."
Biden emphasized that the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border is of particular concern, with Osama bin Laden "alive and well" and Pakistan "bristling with nuclear weapons."
"You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region," Biden said in recalling when his helicopter was forced down due to a snowstorm there. "The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it's real."
"We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes," he cautioned. "It's so much more important than that. It's so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it."
"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here," he joked.
"All kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place," he then said of the Bush regime, promptly wrapping up his remarks. "We have the ability to straighten it out. It's gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us."
What is the "original purpose" of Jehovah? Well, that is a very big question! Many churches teach that his purpose was that Adam and Eve stay perfect, make the whole planet a garden and fill it with perfect offspring...
That sounds romantic but I don't think it is true. Listen why. When God created Adam there were billions of angels, seraphim, cherubs etc around. Now we understand that they are all "free willed beings", free moral agents that can decide for themselves what they do and what not. They are not "worship robots"!
Now obviously, Jehovah is good in mathematics and in "probability calculus". So given a population of billions of free willed beings and given an indefinite amount of time (eternity) it is not only "likely" that someone WILL rebel against him, it is certain!
So Jehovah knew quite well that SOMEONE will rebel. Funnily enough, it was the cherub over Eden that became "Satan" which proofs that what we see today in man is also true for angels: Power corrupts!!!
In turn man was also created with free will, as a free moral agent. Adam had "knowledge" because he was taught by Jehovah, but he did not have "experience" or "wisdom" because "wisdom" is trained discernment. So he surely was an easy prey for the one that would rebel.
But here was God's dilemma. He IS love by definition (1. John4:16) and as any good father, he wants his children (cration) to become perfect, yes like he himself is. But love can only grow in an enviroment of free will. Free will is a prerequisite for love. Ther is no chance for love without free will. Worship roboters without free will would be obidient but they never would develop love and thus finally become perfect as their heavenly father...
(Matthew 5:48) 48 YOU must accordingly be perfect, as YOUR heavenly Father is perfect.
So God had no other choice than creating free willed beings KNOWING the probability (or certainty) that someone WILL rebel and use his free will in a different way. But Jehovah also knew that there the way to perfect love leads through the "valley of tears". Free moral agents need experience and have to develop "wisdom" to see that sin does not pay off and that Jehovah's requirements are a minimum set of rules for a society to live in an harmonious and "sustainable" way.
We all need to develop the deep internal understanding that our heavenly father knows best and his way of perfect love is the goal all creation wants to achieve. Then and only then will we start to be a law to ourselves, we will act righteously not because we fear punishment or because we are forced to, but out of free will and wisdom and out of love for our neighbour who is our brother, another son of the Creator.
THIS is God's true original purpose that all his creatures (spiritual or physical) learn to use their free will in a perfectly loving manner out of their own initiative!
I want to point out a quote that was sent to me in a comment by one of my readers...
Instituting the mark-of-the-beast system could come after the “not ... a dollar of coin or currency in circulation” scenario envisioned by Robert Hemphill, Credit Manager of the “Federal” Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who stated:
“If all the bank loans were paid no one would have a bank deposit and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.”
A stunning report circulating in the Kremlin today states the Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, has told both the Syrian President and Lebanon’s Hezbollah Leadership that the next American president would the ‘last one’ during secret meetings he held in Beirut this past week.
Equally as stunning, these reports continue, President Bush had secretly delivered to Syrian President Assad a ‘guarantee’ that Israel would be made to withdrawal from the Golan Heights in exchange for its breaking of its alliance with Iran, news which shocked the Israeli government who stated they were unaware of this latest American move against them.
Russian Military Analysts state that these latest US moves are designed around the planned ascendancy to the US Presidency of Barak Obama who they report is slated to lead the United States into the worst period of their history since their 1860-65 Civil War, and which like that conflict is due to fracture the American Nation from its present position as a First World Nation State to one of at least 3 separate countries based upon ethnic and religious lines.
Russian experts are already planning on the breakup of the United States due to the ascendancy of the most radical US Governor in decades, Sarah Palin, who has risen to prominence based upon her long-standing affiliation with the Alaskan Independence Party that has long championed a break with WashingtonD.C.
Not being understood by the American people about their coming demise is that the template their destruction is being based upon is an exact mirror image of the one that brought down the last World Superpower, the Soviet Union, and which the ‘main warning sign’ is the total collapse of Global oil prices, and which were warned about this past March by Kuwaiti oil industry analyst Kamel A Al-Harami, and who stated:
“Al-Harami speaking exclusively to Kuwait Times yesterday, explained the inevitability of an oil market price correction by the end of 2008 saying, "Definitely there will have to be a correction... Nobody can sustain such high prices, whether it is the $10 a gallon in Europe or $5 and $6 in the USA -- it is not sustainable." He added, "...most likely anything that goes up quickly comes down also, so I see oil prices coming down in the near future. I cannot tell you a specific day, but eventually it will come down and it will crash. It will crash by all means because it did not take anything for oil prices to reach $107, $108, $109...or even the $100 level..." He stated that when the correction comes, "It is going to hit hard the economies of everyone, whether it is the oil producers or the oil consumers.”
This is of critical importance for the American people to understand as just like the United States today, the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s was embroiled in an unending war against the Muslim peoples of the World when the price of oil collapsed cutting off its access for much needed foreign currency leading to its complete economic implosion and its end as a Superpower.
Today the United States, as the 17th largest exporter of oil in the World, has seen its daily oil export revenues decrease by an astounding $700 billion per day as the price of this commodity has fallen from its 3-month-ago high near $150 a barrel to its current price near $70, and all occurring during a time that the American people are facing their worst economic crisis since the Great Depression leaving them unable to borrow on the World Markets the funds needed to finance their wars, or lifestyles.
Even worse, the United States has been forced to surrender its power to appoint the World Bank president, a power it has held since the ending of World War II which was delegated to it by the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (known also as the Bretton Woods conference) to ‘regulate the international monetary and financial order’ after the conclusion of the war.
To coincide with the coming destruction of the United States, the monetary and financial order of the World is also being changed to reflect this fact as French President Sarkozy and European Commission President Barroso have just forced President Bush to accede to Global demands to hold an emergency summit in November where the US Dollar will lose its long standing as the reserve currency for Global transactions, most particularly in oil.
The American people, however, continue to remain in near total ignorance of their impending fate still failing to realize that a United States economy supported by 70 percent of its citizens continually buying things they don’t need while they owe over $25 Trillion in debt on their credit cards they are now using for their most basis of needs, is an economic system that can do nothing else but collapse in a way that will shock these poor people unlike anything ever occurring in their lifetime.
Not to be overlooked is that with the coming breakup of the United States their once stalwart ally Israel will be doomed as the Americans continue to be the only Nation still supporting the Jewish State against a rising tide of World condemnation for their imprisonment of the Palestinian people.
Most surprising of all of these events is that unlike the warnings being shouted to the American people, like us from outside their shores, that they have continually mocked and ignored, now these warnings are being issued in their own country, and two examples of this are:
On their most watched cable news network CNN it is being reported that members of the US Congress were threatened with martial law and further stated that nearly all of America’s elite political class have been buying up books on post World War I Germany’s Weimar Republic which they state the United States is soon to resemble with interest rates hitting astronomical highs as the US dollar totally collapses.
Top American writer Naomi Wolf has warned her fellow citizens: “Because Americans like me were born in freedom, we have a hard time even considering that it is possible for us to become asunfree - domestically - as many other nations. Because we no longer learn much about our rights or our system of government - the task of being aware of the constitution has been outsourced from citizens' ownership to being the domain of professionals such as lawyers and professors - we scarcely recognise the checks and balances that the founders put in place, even as they are being systematically dismantled. Because we don't learn much about European history, the setting up of a department of "homeland" security - remember who else was keen on the word "homeland" - didn't raise the alarm bells it might have.”
But, to the full consequences of their coming breakup the American people are facing Ms Wolf has issued her most dire warning yet in stating that for the first time since their Civil War US Combat Troops are ready to take to the streets throughout the United States to eliminate any, and all, dissention against them.
One can only wonder when, or if, these American people will finally awaken to the dangers they face so that they might prepare themselves for survival in the strange World suddenly enveloping them in its evil embrace. For them to do nothing borders on the insane, but if this past decade has shown us anything it is that most of them are.
This study will prove that there was more than one period of 70 years involved in the Babylonian exile. It were 2 houses, the house of Israel, the Northern Kingdom, Samaria and the house of Judah, the Southern Kingdom, that both missed their land sabbaths that were part of the Mosaic Covenant...
2 'You should keep my Sabbaths and stand in awe of my sanctuary, I am Jehovah'. (Leviticus 26)
The penalty for breaching this was (verses 34,35):
34 'At that time the land will pay off its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolated, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will keep Sabbath, as it must repay its Sabbaths.
35 All the days of its lying desolated it will keep Sabbath, for the reason that it did not keep Sabbath during your Sabbaths when you were dwelling upon it (Leviticus 26).
This penalty is saying that the number of years of exile will equal the number of missed Land Sabbath years. Now we know from various scriptures, that this exile was 70 years long.
Jeremiah warned the Northern Kingdoms about the coming punishment for the missed land Sabbaths:
1 The word that occurred to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the 4th year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, that is, the first year of Nebuchadrezzar [aka Nebuchanezzar] the king of Babylon [604 BC]. 2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke concerning all the people of Judah and concerning all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: 3 From the 13th year of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, and down to this day, these 23 years [from 626 BC to 604 BC] the word of Jehovah has occurred to me, and I kept speaking to you people, rising up early and speaking, but you did not listen (Jeremiah 25).
8 Therefore this is what Jehovah of armies has said, 'For the reason that you did not obey my words, 9 here I am sending and I will take all the families of the north [the Northern Kingdom of Israel was already under the authority of Nebuchadnezzar since the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital to the Babylonians in 612 and then the fall of Harran, their secondary captial, to Nabopolassar in 609 - Cambridge Ancient History - Wikipedia. The Assyrians ruled Samaria until they were defeated by the Babylonians. But the Babylonians implemented exile programs], is the utterance of Jehovah, even [sending] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of astonishment and something to whistle at and places devastated to time indefinite. 10 And I will destroy out of them the sound of exultation and the sound of rejoicing, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the hand mill and the light of the lamp. 11 And all this land must become a devastated place, an object of astonishment, and these nations [the ones round about and the Northern Kingdom of Israel, but not Judah or Jerusalem] will have to serve the king of Babylon 70 years.'
12 'And it must occur that when 70 years have been fulfilled I shall call to account against the king of Babylon and against that nation,' is the utterance of Jehovah, 'their error, even against the land of the Chaldeans [Cyrus took Babylon in 539Tishri BC], and I will make it desolate wastes to time indefinite (Jeremiah 25)
So the period of 70 years of servitude for the Northern Kingdom and the nations round about ended in 539Tishri, when Babylon fell to Cyrus, and so began in 609Tishri. 609Tishri was the end of the last land Sabbath which was missed only by the Northern Kingdom.
The situation was different for Judah...
12 So the angel of Jehovah answered and said: O Jehovah of armies how long will you yourself not show mercy to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, whom you have denounced these 70 years? (Zechariah 1).
The 70 years period of servitude for the North was a 70 year period of denunciation for the south, for Judah and Jerusalem. Now Jerusalem was destroyed and the temple was burnt by Nebuchadnezzar on 586Ab10 (historical date)
12 And in the 5th month, on the 10th day of the month, that is, [in] the 19th year of King Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the chief of the bodyguard, who was standing before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem[586Ab10].
13 And he proceeded to burn the house of Jehovah and the house of the king and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great house he burned with fire.
14 And all the walls of Jerusalem, round about, all the military forces of the Chaldeans that were with the chief of the bodyguard pulled down.
15 And some of the lowly ones of the people and the rest of the people that were left remaining in the city and the deserters that had fallen away to the king of Babylon and the rest of the master workmen Nebuzaradan the chief of the bodyguard took into exile (Jeremiah 52).
21 ...Thus Judah went into exile from off its soil (Jeremiah 52).
The situation was different again for Jerusalem which went into exile twice!
12 At length Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he with his mother and his servants and his princes and his court officials; and the king of Babylon got to take him in the 8th year of his [Nebuchadnezzar's, 597] being king.
13 Then he brought out from there all the treasures of the house of Jehovah and the treasures of the king's house, and went on to cut to pieces all the gold utensils that Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah, just as Jehovah had spoken.
14And he took into exile all Jerusalem and all the princes and all the valiant, mighty men, 10,000 he was taking into exile and also every craftsman and builder of bulwarks. No one had been left behind except the lowly class of the people of the land. 15 Thus he took Jehoiachin into exile to Babylon; and the king's mother and the king's wives and his court officials and the foremost men of the land he led away as exiled people from Jerusalem to Babylon (2 Kings 24).
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin; 2 to whom the word of Jehovah occurred in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, in the 13th year of his reigning [626 BC]. 3 And it kept on occurring in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the completion of the 11th year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until Jerusalem went into exile in the 5th month [586Ab] (Jeremiah 1).
So Jerusalem went into exile in 597 when the court of Jehoiachin was removed and then again in 586Ab when the court of Zedekiah was removed. Whereas Judah did not go into exile until the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar, which was 586, in particular on 586Ab10 when Jerusalem was finally and fully destroyed.
But Jeremiah had been speaking God's word to them since the 13th year of Josiah, which was 626. So presumably he started denouncing them in 609, when the Northern Kingdom started serving the King of Babylon. So Judah got 23 years of denunciation followed by 47 years of exile and servitude, whereas the Northern kingdom and the kingdoms around about got 70 years of servitude. Jerusalem got 12 years of denunciation followed by 58 years of exile. The land exiles of Jerusalem and of Judah ended with the decree of Cyrus in his first year of 539...
1 And in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia, that Jehovah's word from the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah roused the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia so that he caused a cry to pass through all his realm, and also in writing, saying: 2 This is what Cyrus the king of Persia has said, 'All the kingdoms of the earth Jehovah the God of the heavens has given me, and he himself has commissioned me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God prove to be with him. So let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of Jehovah the God of Israel he is the [true] God which was in Jerusalem. 4 As for anyone that is left from all the places where he is residing as an alien, let the men of his place assist him with silver and with gold and with goods and with domestic animals along with the voluntary offering for the house of the [true] God, which was in Jerusalem (Ezra 1).
So we see that the agricultural year in which sons of Jacob were again cultivating the ground of Israel was the year 539Tishri to 538Tishri.
