Autobiography of Joseph F. Dumond

December 2024

 

I was born in 1958 to an Anglican mother and a Catholic father. I was raised Catholic and married my high school sweetheart, Barbara, in 1978 after graduating in 1977 from Orangeville District Secondary School in Ontario, Canada.

Barbara and I had our daughter in 1981, our son in 1982, and then our third child—another son in 1990. We wanted to be good parents and began attending the Catholic church weekly, but we learned very little about God at this time.

In 1981, I first began to hear Herbert Armstrong teaching about the Sabbath on my car radio late one night on my way to work in Eastern Ontario. He was teaching about the ancestry of the French people, which I found very interesting as I worked on my family tree, but I could not write his contact information down while I drove.

A few days later, I heard him again as I left work and wrote in to request some material. That winter of 1981-82, I found myself studying the Bible unlike I had ever done before. I desperately tried to prove what he said about the Sabbath being Friday sunset to Saturday sunset wrong. How could one billion Catholics be keeping the Sabbath on the wrong day?

I worked seven days a week as a foreman, supervising natural gas pipeline workers. There was no way I could take a day off to attend church on Saturday. But finally, after six months of solid day and night study, I could no longer discount just how clear Yehovah has always been on this matter and that we all should be keeping the Sabbath. I was forced to conclude the seventh day Saturday Sabbath had never changed and that it was the Catholic Church that was to blame for changing the Saturday Sabbath to a Sunday, so I began to attend the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) in April of 1982.

About a month after my first visit, I learned about the Holy Days. Through those Holy Days—all of which are found in Leviticus 23—I learned of Yehovah’s divinely inspired plan for mankind and how it was all to come together. I attended the WCG from 1982 to 1994. Hebert Armstrong died in 1986, and the Church he left behind began to return to—and look more and more like—the Catholic Church. There were many splits during these years.

I left the WCG after attending Sukkot in 1994. They were now serving communion, which is what we did every Sunday in the Catholic faith. From that week onward, I began to study on my own. Because my wife was not interested, I would leave the house each Saturday and drive to a deserted dead-end road to study there alone—and did so until 9/11 in 2001.

On the Sabbath after 9/11, I attended the United Church of God (UCG), one of the many offshoots of the WCG. While there, I began to write just a few articles for the Good News magazine and the monthly newspaper published by the UCG.

In the winter of 2004-05, I heard about Michael Rood and Nehemia Gordon giving a teaching in Lansing, Michigan. I drove down and, for the first time, learned God had a name and that the Hillel calendar I was currently following began in 358 C.E. The original calendar used by Yehshua and the Apostles was the crescent moon to start the month and the barley each spring to begin the year. Once again, I was being challenged in my beliefs. Once again, I began an intensive search to discover the truth.

I was unsure which methodology was correct, so I kept both, and no one would know. The Holy Days would only be a couple of days apart at the most. Then Nehemia announced the barley was Aviv, and they would keep the Holy Days one month before those on the Hillel calendar. I decided to keep both calendars anyway, even though they would be 30 days apart. On Passover, according to the barley, I discovered the proof scripture showing me which calendar was correct. It was when Yehshua said, no man could know the day or the hour. Then, that same day, Yehovah showed me the Jubilee years, when they were, and how to prove them through Qadesh La Yahweh Press. They had written about 11 historical Sabbatical and Jubilee years.

I understood the connection between the curses of Leviticus 26 and these Jubilee cycles. Because of the Jubilee cycles, I could then bridge the gap between the Old and New Testament chronologies.  I discovered one of these Jubilee years when I did the Genesis chronology. This led me to know that the end of the 6th millennial day of mankind would be in 2044.

This also led me to understand the prophecy of Daniel 9, which shows there are 70 Jubilee cycles from the Exodus—and this Daniel 9 prophecy was not talking about Jesus. The middle of the 70th week, or 70th Jubilee Cycle, was 2020. I began warning about 2020 once I learned about it in 2005. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the entire world in 2020.

In the WCG, I learned how the Holy Days of Leviticus 23 explained the plan of salvation, but it was not until I combined the Jubilee cycles with those Holy Days that it all came together.

I had begun to talk to the brethren about all I was discovering, and by August 2006, I was asked to leave the UCG. That same month, I began our website, sightedmoon.com. The internet was still new and growing fast. This was when we began to write a weekly newsletter and share everything we discovered about the Jubilee cycles and prophecy, which I had written in short articles since Passover 2005.

I never wanted to be someone who teaches religion. Never. But I could no longer remain silent when I saw no one else speaking about the Sabbatical and Jubilee cycles and how they revealed end-time prophecy.

In 2005, I took my first tour of Israel. In 2006 I mikveh’d (baptized) in the Gihon Spring and had hands laid on me. I have not been able to shut up since this time. Then, in 2007, I went to Noah’s Ark in eastern Turkey on the Iranian border to prove whether these ancient Biblical stories were true and whether I could believe what the Bible said. At this time, I also discovered I was in the western part of the Garden of Eden. After going to Israel and then Noah’s Ark, I came away knowing the accuracy of the Bible. I have been conducting my own tour groups of Israel, having been there 25 times from 2005 to December 2024.  As I continue to prove the Bible valid, Saudi Arabia opened up to tourism in 2019, which made it possible for me to climb Mount Sinai and visit the Golden Calf atar in Saudi Arabia in 2022, confirming the Exodus story as factual.

I repeatedly explained my findings to people through our website or in various Bible study groups, but few understood. In 2008, a friend told me to publish my writings in a book so they would be all in one place.

Having never written a book, in 2010, I was able to publish The Prophecies of Abraham. I was trying to explain everything I understood in one book. I felt the least qualified to teach or to write as my English communication skills were horrendous.

I assumed everyone already knew everything I was explaining and that I was just another person repeating the same old things. To my amazement, they did not know these things, nor had they heard such teachings before. Those double-checking what I was saying could not find fault.

In 2009, I kept my first Sabbatical year and let our land rest, stocking up on food the year before. We did it again in 2016 and 2023.

Along with The Prophecies of Abraham, I republished the Sabbatical and Jubilee chart, which first appeared in 2009.

This book, along with the charts, compares various prophetic Jubilee cycles with our current 120th cycle. Luke speaks of the days of Noah and Lot. This is only understood when you see each of their Jubilee cycles and compare it to our own. Then, that scripture makes so much more sense. Then we discovered the seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine, confirming what I was explaining.

Many people could not understand how The Prophecies of Abraham demystified the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. To help them, I published Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 in 2013. I went into great detail explaining, as simply as possible, how to know when each Sabbatical and Jubilee year was. I walked the reader through each step in understanding how to figure this subject out, answering every question that has been raised about this subject.

I presented all of this for the first time in 2013 at Sukkot in Fall Creek Falls State Park in Tennessee. I also recorded all of these teachings for the first time on video. During this Sukkot, I was introduced to the Tombstones of Zoar for the first time.

But the brethren still had trouble understanding the 70 weeks of Daniel 9 concerning the Jubilee cycles. These end-time prophecies needed yet another book to explain in great detail the Gap Theory’s history and how it led them astray. This led me to publish my 3^rd book in 2014, The 2300 Days of Hell. I originally wanted to call it the 70 Shabua of Daniel, but no one understood the title, so I changed it before publishing. Once you see the charts for the Jubilee cycles, you can see how they explain the meaning of the 70 Weeks of Daniel, which were sealed until the time of the end. That time is right now.

The brethren can now see many things on the nightly news that this book explains: the deception of the Paris Accords or Climate Change, the rise of military confrontations in the Middle East, EU, Iran, Russia and China.

In 2014, there was a lot of hype about the Blood Moons. Our 4th book, The Blood Moons-The Elephant in the Room, is only available as an e-book through our website sightedmoon.com. It shows you how there were blood moons on each of the Jewish Holy Days in the spring and the fall just before almost every major event in the Bible, all the way back to just before Adam’s death. It is a stunning book that can only explain the purpose of the Blood Moons when you understand the Jubilee cycles.

In 2019, I was convinced of the need to write our 5th book, It Was A Riddle Not A Command, because so many people would write us and say: no man knows the day or the hour, and therefore, you cannot know these end-time prophecies that you are teaching in your other books. It was always disappointing to see this response, as it showed they would not and could not learn any more than what they had already come to understand at their local church or assembly. They did not understand this common Hebraism Yehshua was using. They had never learned what that expression they so often used was telling them—the very day our Messiah would come back on.

To prove to you what this Hebrew idiom actually means, we must look at a few other subjects, which will again deepen your understanding of the time when our Messiah was killed and what is meant by Revelation 12. You will also learn that Yehshua always spoke in parables to purposely not reveal the information He was teaching to the public. He wanted them to remain ignorant because they would not take the time to learn about Him in more detail.

In the Parable of the Ten Virgins, I hope you will be just like the wise virgins who bought extra oil so that they had it when they needed it. The five foolish virgins had to buy the oil because they did not have enough, but they were too late.

I had publicly stated I would close our website if nothing happened in 2020, as we had warned in our book The 2300 Days of Hell. COVID-19 did happen, proving our accuracy of the Jubilee cycles, but it even took us some time to realize just how huge COVID was and what that meant.

My 6^th book was published in 2021. The Mystery of the Jewish Rapture 2033 addressed the rapture debate and showed from the scriptures when it was to take place. In The Mystery of the Jewish Rapture 2033, we drill down on the Rapture itself and show you exactly where it is explained and the very day and year it is to take place—exactly as your Bible shows you. Our book It Was A Riddle Not A Command also tells you the very day our Messiah is to come, so these last two books answer most Christians’ burning desire regarding when these things are to take place. However, this answer is impossible to know unless you understand the Sabbatical and Jubilee years.

With the restrictions of COVID diminishing in 2022, and after having seen the Golden Calf Altar and Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia, I began to realize that COVID was a signal or marker to start another countdown. I was now in a rush to get our next book out, but it turned out it was going to have to be three books, which we called our Elijah Trilogy.

Our 7^th book, The Restoration of All Things was published in August 2022 as part one of our Elijah Trilogy. Yehshua said that Elijah must come first, and he would restore all things, and then the Messiah would come. So, what are the “all things” that have been lost and who is restoring those things today? Once we know what to look for, then we can see those who are restoring what was lost.

Our 8^th book, number two in the Elijah Trilogy, is The Abomination That Makes Desolate—The Epilogue. Released January 1, 2023, this book shows you how to know when the abomination was set up. Yes, the countdown to the abomination was already winding down as we raced to publish this book. Most have no clue because they are not looking, having not seen any of the works Yehovah is doing worldwide. Yes, we fully expected the abomination to be set up in 2023, and I even went to Israel to specifically look for it. I wrote Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Chief Rabbi and spoke face-to-face with Rabbi Yehuda Glick on September 10, 2023, but no one believed me.  I was so stupid, so naive. Yehshua warned us that you are to flee when you see the abomination. Yehuda did text me on October 7 to say I was right, but it was too late for many people.

I found a new shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the very location we expected to discover this abomination. Fortunately for me, the abomination was set up in another location on October 6, 2023, exactly 1290 days after the count had begun. The second part of Daniel’s prophecy also took place from that same marker to confirm this count date. I experienced over 2000 rockets sent out from Gaza toward Israel and Jerusalem, where I was. My understanding of prophetic events was proving to be spot on.

My 9^th book and third book of the Elijah Trilogy was published in September 2023 and is titled The 10 Days of Awe. This book explains another understanding of the Holy Days from the Feast of Trumpets until the Day of Atonement. These 10 days are likened to the final 10 years before Satan is locked away, with the Great Tribulation ending at that time. These 10 years are also connected to the curses of Revelation and the 10 plagues of Egypt. I explain in this book about the curse of the Sotah woman of Numbers 5 and how each of the 10 plagues are what Yehovah is doing to show how the false gods have no power at all.

My 10^th book, The Stones Cry Out, was published September 5, 2024. It was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered and demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.

As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in sending out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen proved more and more dangerous. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.

Then, as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various false calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period beginning with the Hasmonaeans up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led to the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, the Babylonian Talmud, and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added was compounded over time.

The Stones Cry Out, Part 1, explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. Understanding these facts makes it possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were later changed. Explaining all this history helps you, the reader, understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, that the Hillel calendar has always been there since Mount Sinai. Not understanding the history of the calendars is why most authorities dismiss the tombstones as too confusing to use. Once you understand The Stones Cry Out Part 1, Part 2 will be very easy to grasp.

My 11^th book, The Stones Cry Out Part 2, published in December 2024, utilizes the knowledge that multiple calendars have been used throughout history. Reconciling them all into one cohesive chronology has been difficult for all chronologists. Because of their lack of understanding about the various calendars, many of the Jubilee experts dismissed so many of the historical artifacts that were available to them.

Some proofs will be undeniable, while others will be weak if they have to stand alone.

With a great sense of pride, I share with you what I have been able to document and what we currently know about the Sabbatical and Jubilee proofs in our possession.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this book should have been the first book I presented. When I began to understand the Sabbatical and Jubilee years in 2005, I only had 11 Sabbatical years as a reference. From just those 11, I was able to prove a second Jubilee year. I was excited because we only knew about one Jubilee year before this discovery. With just these 12 proofs, I have come to understand all the prophecies I have shared with you over the years in all of our books.

All of these books and all of this understanding were only possible because of the understanding gained from the knowledge revealed through Yehovah’s Sabbatical and Jubilee cycles. It truly is the foundation or key to understanding all end-time prophecy.

We have 84 Biblical & historical Records recording 65 Sabbatical years and 5 Jubilee Years. When all 70 are combined, they prove beyond all doubt when to keep the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. It has been my passion since 2005 to discover and explain these mysteries. As I have proven, when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are to be kept, Yehovah has revealed the profound meanings of many prophecies hidden by not understanding the Jubilee cycles. As I have learned them, I have shared these discoveries in each of my books for you, the reader, also to appreciate their profound meanings and grow closer to Yehovah God. It is for this purpose that I have created our website, sightedmoon.com, and I have spent all this time since 2005 and energy producing these books to help you understand. I pray I have succeeded in helping you to understand. May they all be a blessing to you as well.