The Other Turning Point and the Post-Shemitah Boom
Even without a crash the subsequent phase of buildup in the financial world still followed the same cycle of the Shemitah. The buildup would continue until the next crash, which would take place seven years from the Shemitah of the 1990s.
The Mystery of the Fourth Turning Point
In the year 2000 the stock market boom reached its peak and began a long descent that would last over two and a half years. In March 2001 the economy changed direction and fell into recession. In September came the attack of 9/11, which paralyzed the world’s financial markets.
The year 2000 is also the year the Shemitah began. As it did, the stock market was in descent, and the recession, in the spring of 2001, commenced at its center point. In the middle of that Shemitah year the two collapses combined. The convergence concluded in the Shemitah’s autumn wake.
The Fourth Collapse and the Biblical Shemitah
The Shemitah ended on September 17, 2001. It would thus contain the calamity of 9/11 and its traumatic impact on the American and global financial realms.
The Mystery of the Fifth Turning Point
The stock market reached its next peak on October 9, 2007, then turned downward in what would become one of the greatest collapses in stock market history. In December of 2007 the economy descended into recession. The financial collapse lasted until March 2009, while the economic recession ended three months later. Is there any connection to these events and the mystery of the Shemitah?
The next Shemitah of this period began in September 2007. With its coming the world’s financial markets began to turn. In fact, it was in the Shemitah’s opening month that the stock market’s years of ascending ended and the collapse began. And three months after the Shemitah’s starting point the economy began to collapse as well.
The Fifth Collapse and the Biblical Shemitah
Both collapses took place on historic scales. Both began in the Year of the Shemitah. And before that Shemitah was over, it would bring the greatest point crash in stock market history. The majority of what we today call the “Great Recession” was actually the Year of the Shemitah.
The Sinai Cycles
We have found an amazing phenomenon:
1. In the Bible the economic and financial realms are timed to a seven-year cycle. This cycle concerns an economic cessation and a financial remission centering on the seventh year in the cycle.
2. Behind the past four decades of financial and economic history is a seven-year cycle. This cycle concerns the greatest financial collapses and crashes together with economic downturns and recessions. The record reveals an amazing phenomenon: all the greatest peaks and crashes of the past forty years take place in a seven-year cycle with regard to the previous or subsequent collapse.
3. The greatest peaks and collapses of the past forty years are not just timed to a seven-year cycle but to a specific seven-year cycle. They are timed specifically to the ancient biblical year of economic cessation and financial remission—the Shemitah. In other words, behind the great crashes and economic recessions of modern times lies the ancient mystery of the Shemitah.
In other time periods this pattern does not necessarily appear as obvious, consistent, or present as it does here. The reason that the period beginning with 1973 may be especially significant will be addressed in a later chapter.
The facts remain, and they all point to the ancient mystery. Here are some of them:
• The greatest financial turning points of the past forty years have been connected to the Shemitah or its wake 100 percent of the time!
• The greatest financial turning points, peaks, or long-term collapses of the past forty years that have taken place within the biblical Year of the Shemitah or its autumn wake is 100 percent!
• Where there has been both a financial collapse and an economic recession, the period connecting their starting points has fallen within the biblical Shemitah 100 percent of the time!
• Thus, from the forty-year period beginning in 1973, every single one of the five greatest financial and economic peaks and collapses have converged, clustered, and taken place according to the set time of the Shemitah.
We have looked into the greatest overall collapses and crashes in modern American and world history and found within them a three-thousand-year-old mystery determining their course.
But what if we embark on a different quest? What if, rather than looking at the greatest turning points and overall long-term collapses, we look instead at the greatest single-day crashes in stock market history? These are governed by different laws. What will we find?
The results will be no less amazing.
Chapter 12
The MYSTERY of CATACLYSMS
The Days of Collapse
UP TO NOW our search has focused on the long-term crashes of the financial and economic world, collapses spread out over a period of months and generally lasting more than a year’s time. But now we begin a new search. We will now look at the stock market’s greatest one-day crashes.
The search is different and will involve different principles and dynamics. Long-term collapses tend, by nature, to be caused or affected by long-term conditions, trends, and dynamics. But single-day crashes are more volatile, unpredictable, and susceptible to fluke circumstances and “chance” factors. A good example of this is the Black Monday crash of 1987, the causes of which have been attributed to everything from rising interest rates to the quirks of computer trading programs.
The Shemitah’s Other Keys
Another major difference between long-term crashes and single-day crashes is, of course, the time frame. A long-term collapse will generally involve several seasons. A single-day crash will, by definition, involve a single season, month, and date. So beyond the component of the seventh year, we will now be able to look deeper at the Shemitah’s other components—namely the time of year, the month, and the days. We will now more clearly be able to see if there exists any connection between modern financial collapses and . . .
• Elul, the month that leads in and builds up to the Shemitah’s beginning and its climactic conclusion.
• Tishri, the month most central to the Shemitah, that which marks the seventh year at its beginning and manifests its financial repercussions at its end.
• The Shemitah’s wake, the season that immediately follows the Shemitah’s Day of Remission and manifests its repercussions.
Having now the keys, let us begin the search.
The Ten Greatest Single-Day Point Crashes in Stock Market History
For our first search we will look at the ten greatest point crashes in Wall Street history. These are the financial collapses in which the greatest number of stock market points were wiped away.
The Seven-Year Key and the Ten Greatest Point Crashes
Of the ten greatest stock market point crashes in history, are any of them connected to the Year of the Shemitah? Since the Year of the Shemitah comes around only once in seven years, the chances would be one in seven. There are ten crashes on the list. So the chances of any one of these crashes taking place in the Year of the Shemitah is 15 percent. But if there was something else going on, then the number would be greater than 15 percent.
Do any of these crashes have a connection to the Year of the Shemitah? The answer is yes. Is the percentage greater than 15 percent? The answer is, again, yes. How many of the greatest single-day point crashes in Wall Street history are connected to the Year of the Shemitah?
The majority of them!
Over half of the greatest point crashes in Wall Street history are joined to the biblical Year of Remission. An incredible 60 percent of the ten greatest crashes take place either within the Shemitah or in its wake. Or to put it another way, only a minority of the greatest crashes take place outside the biblical Year of the Shemitah.
The Tishri Key and the Greatest Point Crashes
Now let’s take another component of the ancient mystery and see if it bears any
relation to the greatest crashes in Wall Street history. Are any of these greatest point crashes linked to the Shemitah’s key month of Tishri, including the day on which Tishri begins at sunset?
There are twelve months in the Hebrew year, with the exception of a thirteenth “leap month” inserted in the calendar about every three years. So the odds that any of the ten greatest stock market crashes would take place in the Hebrew month of Tishri are a little less than one in twelve. Thus we could expect that, at best, one of the ten greatest point crashes might fall in Tishri—or none at all. But if something more than natural were going on, then the number would be greater than one in ten.
So do any of these crashes have a connection to the Hebrew month of Tishri? The answer is yes.
How many of the greatest single-day point crashes in stock market history are connected to the Hebrew month of Tishri?
The majority of them!
Over half of the greatest stock market crashes in Wall Street history are connected to this single solitary Hebrew month. The number is 60 percent. That the majority of the crashes should cluster around a single Hebrew month—and that only a minority take place outside of it—is remarkable.
The Last Tishri and the Greatest Point Crashes
Let’s raise the parameters. Do any of the greatest financial collapses that fall in the month of Tishri fall specifically on the Tishri of the seventh year—and, even more specifically, do any of them fall on the critical Tishri that closes the seventh year?
The answer is: 80 percent of them!
More than at any other time of the year, and more than any other time in seven years, they fall on the Tishri that closes the Shemitah. The majority of the greatest point crashes in history just happen to take place in a very small period of time that comes around once in seven years, which also just happens to be the same time on the biblical calendar for manifesting the massive financial repercussions of the seventh year.
Connecting the Puzzle Pieces
The seventh year, the month of Tishri, and, specifically, the Tishri that appears at the close of the seventh year are all components of the mystery. As signs they may appear independent of the others—one in one crash, another in another. But what happens if we put it all together, taking the greatest point crashes in modern stock market history and holding them up against the components of the ancient mystery?
How many of the ten greatest point crashes in Wall Street history are connected either to the biblical month of Tishri or the biblical Year of the Shemitah? 70 percent!
How many of the ten greatest point crashes in Wall Street history are connected either to the biblical month of Tishri or the biblical Year of the Shemitah, including the Shemitah’s lead-in months? 80 percent!
The October Phenomenon and the Ancient Mystery
The strange clustering of financial collapses in the autumn—particularly in the month of October—has mystified financial analysts for years. In earlier times some sought to explain the phenomenon by linking it to the depletion of cash reserves caused by farmers getting paid for their autumn harvests. But this and other attempted explanations have all failed as times and conditions have changed, as have the factors behind the stock market crashes of modern times. It has remained a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon. And yet the amazing thing is that while financial analysts have noted this strange phenomenon of stock market collapses gravitating to the autumn and have found it inexplicable, the very same time is appointed by God in Scripture for financial nullification.
The mystery of the Shemitah provides the missing keys. It reveals the ancient biblical connection joining together the autumn with the financial implosion. The key is not simply the season of autumn or the month of October, but specifically the biblical month of Tishri and its lead-in month of Elul. Added to this is the second key—that of the seven-year cycle and, specifically, the specific seven-year cycle of the Shemitah. When you then hold up the financial collapses of modern history to the ancient mystery, the revelation becomes amazingly clear.
The Other Cataclysms
If the ancient mystery is at work, we should expect it to leave its fingerprints in more than one sphere of financial cataclysm. We now move into the second of the two major spheres of collapses—the percentage crashes.
The greatest point crashes in stock market history are those in which the greatest volume or market points are wiped away. But there is another measure and category of financial collapse—the greatest percentage crashes. In these it is not the volume or magnitude of the crash that counts, but how much was wiped away in proportion to the overall market—the percentage lost. The greatest percentage crashes in Wall Street history take place over a wide span of time—from 1899–2008. Do these crashes of percentage reveal anything beyond the natural?
The Eighteen Days of Tishri
Of the ten greatest percentage crashes in stock market history, do any of them take place in the biblical month of Tishri? We start out again with a one-in-twelve chance for any event to take place in this single month. And, again, we have only ten crashes. So we might expect perhaps one of the ten greatest percentage crashes to have happened in that Hebrew month—or none. What is the answer?
Forty percent of the greatest percentage crashes in Wall Street history take place in this single Hebrew month. No other month comes close.
If we enlarge our search by just three days, how many of the ten greatest percentage crashes take place in the month of Tishri or within three days of Tishri? Sixty percent!
How big is the span of time in which all these stock market crashes cluster? Just eighteen days!
Thus 60 percent of the greatest single-day percentage crashes in Wall Street history cluster around a tiny sliver of the biblical year. They all take place within the same eighteen biblical days.
If there was nothing more than the natural at work, the greatest crashes should be distributed randomly, more or less evenly, throughout every month and season of the year. But for 60 percent of these crashes to cluster around one time period of the year, and one small time period, points to something more than natural going on.
The Ten Greatest Stock Market Percentage Crashes (in Hebrew)
A span of eighteen days represents less than 5 percent of the year. The chances of any one of these crashes to take place during this short space of time would be 5 percent. But instead of 5 percent, we have the majority of them doing that—or 60 percent of the greatest stock market crashes all occurring in a span of time representing 5 percent of the year! And this 5 percent of the year happens to fall in the critical month of Tishri. Only a minority of the great crashes take place outside this very tiny fraction of days.
The Mystery Behind the Greatest Postwar Percentage Crashes
What if we update our search field to the percentage crashes in the post–World War II era?
• From the top eight greatest postwar percentage crashes, do any of them take place in the biblical month of financial repercussions, in Tishri or its eve? The majority—62.5 percent!
• Are any of these crashes connected to the Shemitah or its climactic wake? Yes, 87.5 percent!
• How many of these crashes are either connected to the Shemitah, its wake, or the biblical month of Tishri? One hundred percent!
The Mystery Behind the Twenty Greatest Percentage Crashes
What if we now expand the search beyond the top ten to the top twenty greatest single-day percentage crashes? Will the connection to the mystery of the Shemitah still hold?
Of the twenty greatest percentage crashes in Wall Street history, how many are linked to the month of Tishri? Forty-five percent of them are linked to the month of Tishri.
How many of them are linked to the Year of the Shemitah? Fifty percent of them!
How many are linked to the month of Tishri, its eve, the Shemitah, or its wake? Seventy-five percent of them!
The connection to the mystery holds and consistently so.
The Ancient Mystery and the Twenty Greatest
Point Crashes
What if we now do the same thing with the greatest point crashes in stock market history, expanding the search beyond the top ten to the top twenty? Will the connection to the mystery of the Shemitah still hold?
Of the top twenty point crashes in stock market history, how many are linked to the Elul-Tishri cycle? Over half of them—55 percent!
How many of the crashes are specifically linked to the climactic end of the Shemitah, the time of financial remission? Seventy percent of them!
How many crashes are connected to the Year of the Shemitah? Seventy-five percent of them!
How many are linked to the month of Elul, its eve, the Year of the Shemitah, or its wake? Eighty-five percent of them!
The phenomenon again manifests, strangely, consistently, and amazingly so.
The Mystery of Proximity
What happens if we take the five greatest point crashes in stock market history and see how close each falls to the Shemitah’s greatest point of impact concerning the financial realm—the point where Elul and Tishri converge at the end of the Shemitah year? Since the point of impact can only affect that which comes after it (and not before), we will mark the crash by where it falls within the seven-year period, how near or far it occurs from the Shemitah’s point of greatest impact. If nothing more than natural is at work, we would expect the crashes to average out to a proximity of about 50 percent, or to fall on average about three and a half years away from the Shemitah’s end, the halfway mark in the seven-year cycle. But what we find is dramatically different and amazing.
The Fifth Greatest Stock Market Point Crash
Proximity to Biblical Point of Impact—99.609 percent!
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