Blessings brother Jim,I admire your persiverance. Remember that tribulation worketh patience. LOL!After reading only a few paragraphs of this person's article, it was apparent that the author has made some major, but very common mistakes from the start. It would be impossible to come to a scriptural answer to his calculations, based on his errors in the beginning. He is mixing apples with oranges and is coming up with unsweetened lemonade.Your authors quotes from your post:"...re Ezekiel's prophecy of the Jewish people having to be in exile for seven times 490 years ..." "The prophet Jeremiah prophesied a punishment upon Israel of 70 years, to be served in Babylonian captivity." " The prophet Ezekiel, during the captivity, prophesied that it would be extended an additional 390 years."He is in great error. He quotes Ezekiel 4:3 - 6. But what he has stated is not what Ezekiel prophesied. Lets look at the original Scripture.Eze 4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.Eze 4:5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.Eze 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on t! hy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a yearYour author is confusing Judah with Israel. It is sad to say, a very common error. The Father had different judgments for the two houses. You cannot arbitrarily substitute one with the other. The "seven times" judgment was against the house of Israel which were the northern tribes who were deported to Assyria around745 - 721 B.C.. The house of Judah (not Israel) at a later date were deported to Babylon and some returned to Judea (and Jerusalem). The house of Judah is made up of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, a part of the tribe of Levi, and some of the mixed multitude. The people who returned in 1948 improperly chose the name of Israel. The people of modern-day Israel are biblical Judah. They will one day, in the future (Ezekiel 37) be joined with the "Lost Tribes" (lost to us and themselves, but not to ! the Father), and again become part of biblical Israel. We must keep this fact in mind when ever we are trying to understand a prophecy. Because some of the prophecies speak only to Judah and others only to Israel. Some prophecies about Israel include Judah, and some don't. Almost everybody mixes and interchanges the two. That simply won't work with math or calculations as you are realizing. (And I am not speaking about "replacement theology.").The Scripture never speaks of Jesus walking through Israel, because Israel was dispersed (unto the uttermost part of the earth) and their area was then occupied by Samaria.Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?Act 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.-------------------Zec 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem.Zec 12:7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify [themselves] against Judah.Zec 13:6 And [one] shall say unto him, What [are] these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, [Those] with which I was wounded [in] the house of my friends.Zec 13:8 And it shall come to pass, [that] in all the land,! saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off [and] die; but the third shall be left therein.Zec 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, The LORD [is] my God.------------------Eze 37:19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.Eze 37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.Eze 37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from ! among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:Eze 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:(Please realize that Ezekiel 37 begins with the resurrection of the Saints (dry bones), followed by a catching away and combining the two nations.).=====================The tribe of Joseph was given the inheritance and the title "Israel." The tribe of Judah was given the kingship/rulership. Jesus came to Judah preaching the Kingdom of God, and restored His kingdom to Judah (first). He will come again and claim his inheritance (restore Israel). When Joseph and Judah are brought together, Joseph gets a king, and Judah gets an inheritance. The m! ountains they live in will again be called the land of Israel.I'll let you do the math. LOL!Shalom, John