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March 28, 2012 Apocalypse next April ?
Today I received and e-mail from Mr. Ron Reese that has a very compelling time-line of the Mid point of the Apocalypse. As he stated his are not conclusions that he makes based on dreams and revelations, but on observable facts.
I have no doubt that his observations are true and that we should consider all these facts in reashing a conclusion.
That said I do not think that the facts nescessarilly point to his conclusion that the mid point of the Apocalypse will fall on April 11 or around that time.
I have written many times about my doubts on his conclussions and we will just have to wait for the dates to come by to see if they are right.
Nonetheless the efort put up to identify the times and his compilation of all this data is worhty of emulation and praice.
To me all the data that he has presented is 100 % correct only in the identification of Barack Hussein Obama as being the Antichrist or First Beast of Revelation 13.
This in itself is a great, great acomplishment because it anchors us to a definitive point in the end times.
Wether we are at the midpoint or about to start the Tribulations is very important, but in either case if you are a strong believer in Jesus Christ He will take you out in the Resurrection-Rapture of the church which could happen next month or even today.
Nando
Nando
Jim Bramlett (10 Feb 2012) “Has God given us a hint of the rapture day?”
In the past few days I have posted several articles concerning the Rapture and it seems that the times are ripe for the Rapture.
Jim Bramlett posted two articles on the subject and I will put both here today.
They are a good possibility for a date. I think that Pentecost is also a possibility.
Nando
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2012/jim210-1.htm
Jim Bramlett (10 Feb 2012)
“Has God given us a hint of the rapture day?“
Dear friends:
Has God given us a hint of the rapture day? Some may recoil and say, “Here we go again. Bramlett’s out of his gourd.” (Whatever that means.)
I may be out of my gourd, but I believe the Lord may be revealing some things to us.
The Day of Ascension has always seemed to me like a strong possibility for the rapture. Other significant dates also have their arguments, but the Day of Ascension has always seemed special to me.
Why? Because that is the day of Jesus’ rapture! He set the example. He was the firstfruits. “Each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming” (1 Corinthians 15:23).
As I woke up this morning the song “Days of Elijah” began blaring in my brain and I could not get rid of it. It was like the Lord planted it there. As I listened, some intriguing thoughts came to me:
1. Probably the most watched TV show in history was Super Bowl 46, on February 5, 2012. Millions from every continent and language viewed it. It would have been an ideal venue for God to communicate with us.
2. The star of the game and Most Valuable Player was quarterback Eli Manning. I said to myself, “Hmmmm, I wonder what Eli means in Hebrew.” I checked my lexicon and discovered that Eli means “ascension.” Whoa! That seemed very significant.
3. Smith’s Bible Dictionary says of Eli: “The character of Eli is marked by eminent piety, as shown by his meek submission to the divine judgment.” God’s people who will be raptured are referred to as saints, not because of their own behavior, but by the blood of Jesus.
4. The song says, “Lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee.” I checked the Internet and many believe 2012 is, in fact, the biblical “Year of Jubilee.”
5. I remembered that one of my favorite and most trusted Bible teachers, Marilyn Agee, has written on the possibility of Ascension Day 2012 being the day if the rapture. http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2012/marilyna28.htm.
6. All these confluences came to me today within minutes. It was like God was feeding them to me.
Behold He comes riding on the clouds,
Shining like the sun at the trumpet call;
Lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee,
And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes.
He’s coming! Prepare ye the way!
Jim
Nando
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2012/jim210-2.htm
Jim Bramlett (10 Feb 2012)
“The Days of Elijah“
Dear friends:
It is mind-boggling to think that our generation alone is uniquely standing on the precipice of time and where no generation has ever stood. We are living in the days spoken of by the ancient prophets.
These prophets spoke of the Israelites being gathered back into their own land, in passages such as Ezekiel 37:21, “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.” This began in 1948. The “dry bones” of Ezekiel 37 have come alive.
As also prophesied, we are seeing the world turn against Israel. “On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations” (Zechariah 12:3). The catalyst for this is oil, or petro-dollars, causing the world to sell out tiny, democratic Israel to despotic Muslim nations for purposes of greed.
These collective signs are historically unprecedented. Only this generation has seen them. But there are many other biblical signs, such as: increased violence worldwide (as in the days of Noah), increased apostasy, increased cults, false religions and false prophets, increased natural disasters such as frequency of earthquakes, and more.
For these and many other reasons, is it any wonder that millions believe the return of Christ is so near? Polls show that even non-believers think the world is at such a point. This is the most exciting time in all history to be alive!
Many Bible students are calling these “the days of Elijah.”
This morning, I woke up singing that song, “The Days of Elijah,” to myself, and was stirred. I feel led to share the blessing with you.
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Days of Elijah – music
By Judy Jacobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_yC3CJwcFY&feature=related
(This version is electric in its power.)
By Paul Wilbur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra4HWj1jrJA
Other: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Be0qJw9ZE
Lyrics:
These are the days of Elijah,
Declaring the word of the Lord:
And these are the days of Your servant Moses,
Righteousness being restored.
And though these are days of great trial,
Of famine and darkness and sword,
Still, we are the voice in the desert crying
‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord!’
Behold He comes riding on the clouds,
Shining like the sun at the trumpet call;
Lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee,
And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes.
These are the days of Ezekiel,
The dry bones becoming as flesh;
And these are the days of Your servant David,
Rebuilding a temple of praise.
These are the days of the harvest,
The fields are as white in Your world,
And we are the laborers in Your vineyard,
Declaring the word of the Lord!
There’s no God like Jehovah.
There’s no God like Jehovah!
Amen!
P.S.
Behold He comes riding on the clouds,
Shining like the sun at the trumpet call;
Lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee,
And out of Zion’s hill salvation comes!!!!
Nando
Dec 23, 2011 Where are we in time concerning the return of Christ and the Rapture?
If all of Math Man’s assumptions and calculations are correct then it means that we are well into the Tribulations. I have my objections that I expressed in an article yesterday about this timing. There are simply to many factors that must be fulfilled and that do not logically fit into those calculations.
Among the factors are the two witnesses and the 1/4 of humanity killed in the first four seals, plus all the earthquakes and disasters that happen in the seals. If each of the 7 seals, trumpets and cups of wrath were given equal time values the middle would be at the fourth trumpet, The witnesses are killed on the 6th trumpet after 1260 days of testimony. The sixth trumpet is close to the 4th but it implies that the two halves are about equal in the time allotted for each of the three seven’s of judgment.
We must look at the book of Revelation as well as the other books of the end time prophecies for timelines. Only the real timeline will work all the prophecies together in a perfect synchronicity of time and events.
Personally I believe it is all beyond the capabilities of any human to synchronize and take into account all that is pertinent and disregard all that is not.
Nevertheless your search is worthy of praise from us watchers and it confirms the unmistakable fact that Barack Hussein Obama is the Antichrist. This alone anchors our time to the period of the end times and the coming Rapture of the church.
Nando
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2011/mathman1223.htm
MathMan (23 Dec 2011)
“Why I agree that Ron Reese, Gerry AlmonWhy I agree that Ron Reese, Gerry Almond, MathMan and many others are COMPLETE & UTTER IDIOTS for believing that 2015 is the year of Christ’s return!!d, MathMan and many others are WRONG for believing that 2015 is the year of Christ’s return!!“
Dear Doves,
Before I even begin, I need to do something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. I want to sincerely apologize to each and every one of you on my incredibly poor communication style in outlining why I feel so strongly that 2015 is the year of Christ’s return.
When I re-read my previous posts, I realized that I accidentally made it seem like I did not agree that the traditional view of Daniel’s 70th Week made any sense. However, NOTHING can be further from the truth!! Indeed, I believe that the traditional view is, BY FAR, THE most logical of all of the theories, exceeding in logic each and every one of the alternative theories that allow for a Post-Rapture Tribulation Period of less than 7 years.
To help illustrate that I fully understand what the commonly accepted theory on Daniel’s 70th Week is, please allow me to reiterate the important points, in layman’s terms, of what I consider to be the best theory of them all:
- The 70th Week will represent the end of the age of grace in order to finish off the age of law that had been suspended when Jesus was resurrected
- The 70th Week’s primary purpose is to finalize unfinished business between God & Israel by completing the six stated goals in Daniel 9
- The 70th Week is still to come in its entirety, with a full 7 year period being required to do so making an abundance of sense, including many “types” in the Bible that mirror it’s logic (such as the Jewish wedding process)
- The 70th Week will be kicked off by the Anti-Christ, still a peaceful diplomat at this point, brokering (confirming) a 7 year (a week) peace treaty (covenant) between Israel and the world (the many)
- Israel will fall for the Anti-Christ’s intoxicating charms hook line and sinker, and in the middle of the 7 years, the Anti-Christ will betray them mercilessly and persecute them through out the earth
Do I like this theory on Daniel 9? Absolutely, it simply makes sense. On a scale of 1 to 10 in logic, I would rate this theory a solid 10, with the alternative theories allowing for a Post-Rapture Tribulation Period of less than 7 years (which I have found to be plausible, but not as satisfying) rated, IMO, essentially no higher than a six. However, my problem is that I simply can’t help but continue to be STUPID on this issue!! Yes, and I mean it when I say I am being stupid on this subject!!
Given this perspective, you may ask yourself, why would I feel this way and yet keep pushing 2015? I continue because I strongly believe that God, the creator of the largest Super Nova AND the tiniest single cell organism, has told us in the Bible what to look for with respect to the EXACT timing of the second return of His Son. Not only that, but I believe that Israel-related events as they have already unfolded (and continue to unfold) completely back me up on this, as ADMITTEDLY “stupid” as these alternative theories sound.
I REALLY don’t want to be different than any of you. NOT AT ALL. I REALLY do like the commonly accepted theory on Daniel 9 the best. You will get no argument from me on this. However, please, I ask you with all of my heart; please pray on what I am about to outline and AT LEAST come to an understanding of why I am being so incredibly stupid on this issue. You don’t have to agree with me. I just REALLY want you to understand why I would “put myself out there” for something stupid if I didn’t have a SOLID mathematical reason pushing me to do so.
BUT FIRST, A VERY IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Please note that I am a firm and unwavering believer in the Pre-Trib Rapture. However, I no longer believe that the Post-Rapture Tribulation Period will be seven years. Indeed, it APPEARS mathematically certain that the Post-Rapture Tribulation Period will actually be less than four years (including the 42 month Great Tribulation). However, I must clarify without a doubt that I do not believe the Church will see God’s wrath nor be persecuted by the Anti-Christ. In contrast, both Pre-Wrath & Mid-Trib (which I have been accused of on occasion) believe the Church will have to endure these things to a certain extent. I absolutely do not believe we will have to endure these things AT ALL. Indeed, I firmly believe in the Great Hope, promised by Jesus, that we, who truly believe and are counted worthy, will escape ALL THESE THINGS. The Lord said it, I believe Him and so should you!!
On that note, please allow me to begin:
FORMULA 1: THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE (Maximum Life)
Matthew 24: 32-34: “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”
Fact 1: Every time the Bible talks about the “fig tree”, God is always referring to Israel
Fact 2: The very first time that Israel first began to form was when the First Zionist Congress met from August 29th to August 31st in the year 1897, establishing the need and desire to reestablish Israel
Fact 3: The goal of the 70th Week is to perform the following six steps:
Daniel 9: 24: “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”
Fact 4: The last of the six steps mentioned is “To anoint the most Holy.”
Fact 5: “(T)he most Holy” can be no one else but Jesus
Generally Accepted Theory 1 (GAT1): The first four Jewish feasts were directly used for the timing of the original demise and resurrection of Jesus. Specifically, Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of First Fruits and Pentecost. As such, it has been highly anticipated that the last four Jewish feasts will be used for the timing of the demise of the Anti-Christ and the subsequent establishment of the rule of Jesus. Specifically, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles and, finally, Hanukkah.
Generally Accepted Theory 2 (GAT2): Most agree that Jesus will return to earth on the Feast of Trumpets
Generally Accepted Theory 3 (GAT3): Most agree that Jesus will end the Great Tribulation, by sending the AC and False Prophet to the Lake of Fire, on the Day of Atonement, wherein Jesus will first arrive for this battle with His Army on the Feast of Trumpets just 10 days prior to the Anti-Christ’s defeat (the 10 Days of Awe)
Generally Accepted Theory 4 (GAT4): The last feast is Hanukkah and many agree that this will represent the anointing festival of Jesus, the last of the six steps. In multiple locations in the Bible, God has outlined that He will allow the Anti-Christ to remain as the World Leader for precisely 1260 days (the Great Tribulation), leading up to his ultimate defeat on the Day of Atonement. When you subtract 1260 days from the Day of Atonement and add in 1335 days, you land exactly on Hanukkah. This is the way these feasts were designed and establishes once again the importance of Hanukkah in the fulfillment of the final step. Indeed, it would be a great blessing to those who love Jesus and survive the Great Tribulation to see His anointing as outlined in Daniel 12:12: “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”
Fact 6: God outlined the maximum length of time for “a generation” as specifically referenced in the verses in Matthew 24 quoted above as follows:
Genesis 6: 3: “And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
In other words, a limit of 120 years. To establish this as a logical fact, please note that this matches the actual maximum life of a man or woman of 120 years as illustrated in modern actuarial tables on life spans.
Matthew 24: 32-34: “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”
FORMULA 1: Now, please allow me to restate Matthew 24: 32-34 in my personal words, using the Facts & GATs outlined above, to establish Formula 1: “Keep all eyes on Israel & Jerusalem as Israel & Jerusalem are the key to all prophecy and its timing; As such, when you see Israel & Jerusalem start to come back together as a nation: You will know that we are moving towards the establishment of Jesus as King of all: Indeed, the generation that sees this start to happen will also see the last step of Daniel 9 occur, the anointing of Jesus at Hanukkah.”
Input into formula using actual historical events: August 29 – 31, 1897 plus 120 years x prophetic years of 360 days each, lands precisely on December 7 – 9, 2015. December 7 – 9, 2015 is directly within the eight days of Hanukkah 2015. Hanukkah is celebrated for precisely 8 days. On the other hand, there are 365 days in a given year other than leap years. Therefore the odds of these calculated dates landing on Hanukkah simply being random versus planned by God from the beginning of time is:
ODDS FROM FORMULA 1: 8 out of 365 (2%)
FORMULA 2: THE JUBILEE RETURN OF THE APPLE OF GOD’S EYE
Formula 1 MAY have established 2015 as being God’s planned year for the return of His Son. If this is true, we now need to see if there is a second witness (there will actually be four witnesses). This will rely on a Jubilee period as established in the Bible (take special note of the underlined parts):
Leviticus 25: 8-10: “And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”
Personal Theory 1 (PT1): No one, including me, knows when Jubilee Periods (49 years), consisting of 7 Sabbatical Periods (7 years each), begin and end in modern times. However, given that Jerusalem is the apple of God’s eye and He wants it back, would it not make sense that He would have been keeping track of these important time periods all of these centuries?
Generally Accepted Theory 5 (GAT5): As outlined in Formula 1, it is generally accepted that the Anti-Christ will be defeated on the Day of Atonement. This would be the precise day that the Lord would reclaim Jerusalem for His own and would clearly be a Jubilee event (“ye shall return… possession”)
Personal Theory 2 (PT2): ASSUMING the results of Formula 1 are accurate in establishing 2015 as the year of the return of Jesus, we would expect to see the Anti-Christ defeated on the Day of Atonement 2015, which is September 23, 2015, in turn representing the final Jubilee event on the Day of Atonement, a perfect match to the requirements outlined in Leviticus 25: 8-10!!
Formula 2: For any Day of Atonement to be logical for a Jubilee event, the applicable Day of Atonement should see a turnover event when it comes to Jerusalem exactly one Jubilee period before this.
CALCULATIONS: Seven times seven years is equal to 49 years, or one complete Jubilee cycle. 49 years multiplied by a 360 day prophetic year, when subtracted from the Day of Atonement 2015 of September 23, 2015 falls directly on June 7, 1967 to the day. NOW WATCH THIS!! June 7, 1967 is the EXACT day that Israel reclaimed Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War!!!! In the Jewish calendar, a day begins the evening before. Therefore, there are only two days that this beginning could have occurred and this is one of them. Assuming the event occurred (Jerusalem being recaptured by the Jews), which we know it did, we have to calculate the number of days it could have occurred. This is easy. All we have to determine is the number of days from August 29, 1897 to September 23, 2015 to determine the number of days that Jerusalem could have been reclaimed by Israel. This amounts to 43,125 days in total. As such, this amounts to the astronomical odds of this simply being random of:
ODDS FROM FORMULA 2: 2 out of 43,125 (0.005%)
FORMULA 3: THE 7 IN THE 7 + 62 OF THE 69 WEEKS
Daniel 9: 25: “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times”
Personal Theory 3 (PT3): There is controversy over the split between the 7 and the 62, which in turn adds to 69 weeks. In the first arrival, Jesus made His triumphant return to Jerusalem precisely 69 weeks of 2520 days in each week from the first decree to rebuild Jerusalem. Some have speculated that the first part, the seven weeks, represents a completely separate prophecy related to his second arrival for His triumphant return to Jerusalem. If this is truly a separate prophecy, given that Jewish days begin the evening before, such decree would have had to happen on June 7, 1967 or the day after, for it to be another signpost pointing towards the Day of Atonement 2015.
Fact 7: That is exactly what happened. In the first arrival of Jesus, all it took was a leader with the appropriate authority to declare that Jerusalem be rebuilt to start the 69 week countdown to the first return. In a similar manner, the PM of Israel made the EXACT same kind of decree the very next day after the retaking of Jerusalem, on June 8th of 1967 to be precise!! But it wasn’t all of Jerusalem that had to be rebuilt, just the Jewish Quarter, also known as Old Jerusalem. Ironically, this is the exact same portion ordered to be rebuilt that was used to prophesize the first time Jesus returned. In fact, Old Jerusalem was so completely and utterly destroyed in 1948 in the Arab Israel War that a Jordan leader gloated that no Jew would ever return to the Jewish Quarter.
Calculation of Odds: When Old Jerusalem was retaken, the people of the Israel elite force would be understandably excited. Therefore, I would anticipate that such an announcement to rebuild would be made within the first 120 days (4 months) or so after Jerusalem was retaken while they were still in joyous celebration. This certainly doesn’t seem unreasonable. Therefore, it seems reasonable to assign the following odds for this to occur on the same day or the next day (2 days total):
ODDS FROM FORMULA 3: 2 out of 120 (1.7%)
FORMULA 4: THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE (Average Life)
While we used 120 years from the First Zionist Congress to first establish 2015, there is a commonly held belief that the actual formation of Israel was the event that started off the time limit. The commonly held timeframe for an average life as per the Bible is outlined as follows:
Psalm 90:10: “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
Isaiah 23:15: “And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.”
Personal Theory 4 (PT4): Given the historic precedents of the use of 70 year periods by the Lord when dealing with Israel, along with confirmation of a lifetime being 70 years in the above two passage, it seemed logical to continue its use. Taking this 70 years and multiplying it by the 360-day year results in 25,200 days, or around 69 years.
Fact 8: The U.N. just published a table outlining that the current world wide average life span is around 69 years.
Fact 9: Israel became recognized as a nation by UN Resolution 181 on November 29, 1947 despite massive outrage from Muslim communities around the world and their Arab neighbors
Calculation of Odds: This means that there is another possible limit of all being fulfilled being 25,200 days from November 29, 1947, equal to November 26, 2016. However, Hanukkah 2016 doesn’t start until December 24, 2016. This means the last Hanukkah before this is Hanukkah 2015, which was already established in Formula 1. Therefore, tthe odds of this limit making so much sense and being such a perfect fit is only 1 year out of the 118 years from 1897 to 2015, resulting in
ODDS FROM FORMULA 4: 1 out of 118 (0.8%)
To summarize the results of these four formulas pointing directly towards 2015 as being the return of Jesus:
Formula 1: 8 out of 365
Formula 2: 2 out of 43,125
Formula 3: 2 out of 120
Formula 4: 1 out of 118
Combined, this works out to (8 x 2 x 2 x 1) out of (365 x 43,125 x 120 x 118) or 32 out of 221,666,000,000 or 1 out of 6,927,100,000, rounded down to 1 out of 6.9 billion!
As such, the odds of September 23, 2015 RANDOMLY pointing to the end of the Great Tribulation is only 1 out of 6.9 billion. Therefore, the chances of September 23, 2015, the Day of Atonement 2015, being the precise day planned by the Lord for the demise of the Anti-Christ and the end of the Great Tribulation are an overwhelming 6,899,999,999 out of 6.9 billion!!
Oh please, I pray you see why I am being such a COMPLETE IDIOT on this issue!! This is why I am in such a dilemma, especially given that I truly love the traditional interpretation of what the 70th Week is SUPPOSED to look like MUCH MORE. However, from the above calculations, it is mathematically conclusive that the Lord Himself is now allowing us to see that September 23, 2015, the Feast of Atonement, is the logical end date for the Anti-Christ, despite the fact it doesn’t fit the way we wanted or expected it to.
Daniel was told by the Angel Gabriel that many things would not be revealed until “the time of the end”. We are now there. 1260 days prior to September 23, 2015 lands on April 11, 2012. This, therefore, means that April 11, 2012 will be the beginning of the 1260-day Great Tribulation. While there is an EXTREMELY SMALL chance that we may be wrong about this, the odds are astronomically stacked in favor of this timeline.
However, and more importantly to His Church, this means we now have but a few weeks left before we HAVE to be Raptured!! While I hope the Rapture will happen before the end of today, it is all but mathematically certain that the Rapture HAS to occur by April 11, 2012 as the Church will NOT be here for the Great Tribulation, or during any end-time tribulation for that matter. Unfortunately for those taught to believe otherwise, there is absolutely not enough time for the commonly accepted seven year Post-Rapture Tribulation Period to transpire.
Now just imagine if I factored in the Tetrad Lunar Eclipses of 2014 / 2015, along with the many other signs we know about, such as the 777.68 DOW index point drop (the greatest in history) on the Feast of Trumpets 2008 and the rise of the most Anti-Semitic powerful leader in history (look at his actions NOT his words). Factoring this in, along with the many other signs, would result in the 6,899,999,999 out of 6.9 billion becoming even more amazing. Again, please pray on it with an open mind and an open heart!! Even someone without any math background will see how compelling the above argument is in favor of the Day of Atonement 2015 being the end date for the Antichrist!! HOWEVER, BE JOYFUL – this is AWESOME news!!
In conclusion, I only look for approval from my Lord & Savior. Nonetheless, I am only human and like it when others accept what I have to say (I would be lying if I said otherwise). As such, it is my deep hope that you will read the above and at least understand WHY I am choosing to be such a COMPLETE IDIOT as to the feeling that I have of HAVING to question the traditional theory on what the 70th Week is supposed to look like. Quite simply, the math requires it. I didn’t make the news, I am merely reporting it.
To God be ALL the glory!!! He is at the door!! Maranatha!!
YbiC, MathMan
Nando
May 10 2011 The scroll of Jubilees
A link to the scroll of Jubilees by Oliver Thomas. It is very good.
Nando
Marilyn Agee (25 Apr 2011) “E. S. T. (23 Apr 2011) “CHRISTIANS: BARLEY OR WHEAT?”
This article is a continuation of the same theme as the last one posted here.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2011/marilyna425.htm
Marilyn Agee (25 Apr 2011)
“E. S. T. (23 Apr 2011) “CHRISTIANS: BARLEY OR WHEAT?“
This coming could be on Ascension Day. He went up on Ascension Day, and he is to come again in like manner. To me, Ascension Day seems more likely to be the day of the first Rapture than Pentecost, because the wheat harvest started on Pentecost. Ex 34:22 says, “And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest“.
The omers of barley waved on the days that followed Firstfruits seem to have represent people who had cleansed themselves and washed their clothes. That fits Philadelphians. The Lord had no words of condemnation for them.
People can be a wave offering. The wave offering on Firstfruits represented Christ.
1Cor 15:20 says, “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the FIRSTFRUITS of them that slept.”
The Levites were a wave offering. Nu 8:21 (LITV) says, “And THE LEVITES cleansed themselves, and washed their garments. And Aaron waved them AS A WAVE OFFERING before Jehovah; and Aaron atoned for them, to cleanse them.” (also in verses 11, 13, 15, 21).
“II Thess 2:13 (NRSV) says, “But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because GOD CHOSE YOU AS THE FIRST FRUITS for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.”
II Thess 2:12 (DRB) says, “But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that God hath chosen YOU FIRSTFRUITS unto salvation, in sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth”.
James 1:18 says, “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be A KIND OF FIRSTFRUITS of his creatures.”
Heb 12:22-24 says, “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the FIRSTBORN (i.e., firstfruits), which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant”.
Rom 8:29 says, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the FIRSTBORN among many brethren.”
Ruth 1:22 says that Naomi and Ruth “came to Bethlehem in the BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST.” That was Firstfruits. Then the night that Ruth laid at Boaz’ feet probably was the end of the barley harvest for Boaz was winnowing barley that night. That could have been 40 days after Firstfruits. Ruth went home in the morning.
> > “I baptize you with water for repentance, but One is coming after me who is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to loose his sandal. He Himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit (Spirit filled believers) and fire (those under His judgment). His winnowing fan (sickle) is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor (Pentecost) and gather HIS WHEAT. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.” (Matthew 3:11-12)
Agape,
Marilyn Agee
mjagee@verizon.net
http://prophecycorner.theforeverfamily.com
April 20, 2011 Israel ends 2,520 years of punishment in May 15, 1948 a Prophecy
The concepts given By Mr. Lishman were discovered by Grant Jeffries as he states on his post, but it is welll to see it again to remind us of the nearness of His coming for the church.
Nando
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2011/jimmyl45-1.htm
Jimmy Lishman (5 Apr 2011)
“For Bruce Baber – the 70 Years as OUR LORD revealed to me“
Hi Bruce,
The LORD has been showing me (after I humbly asked HIM to enlighten me out of HIS WORD) for the past 7 months the following which will be a great encouragement to you:
Matthew
Mat 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that
it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till
all these things be fulfilled.
Mark
Mar 13:28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet
tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
Mar 13:29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to
pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
Mar 13:30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass,
till all these things be done.
Luke
Luk 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all
the trees;
Luk 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves
that summer is now nigh at hand.
Luk 21:31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know
ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Luk 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away,
till all be fulfilled.
Psalms
Psa 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour
and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
>From Psalm 90 vs 10, we can possibly work with a modern generation (an
average man living 70 to 80 years) spanning 70 years.
>From the day of MESSIAHS birth to ISRAELS destruction, (many accounts giving the date 70 AD) … , we calculate 70 years.
JESUS said to HIS disciples that “This generation will see the temple trashed” – what generation – HIS[JESUS] generation, after HE had ascended the Mount of Olives after being rejected by Israel and the Disciples wanting to console HIM by showing off the grandeur of the temple. JESUS clearly shows that 70 years is a generation here as I describe in the next paragraph.
As the BIBLE declares, ‘that there is nothing new under the heavens, what has been in the past, will be in the future,’ ‘Also that He is an UNCHANGING GOD’, we can
understand that certain prophecies may have a dual fulfillment timeline.
In the book of Matthew 24, when MESSIAH mentioned to his disciples the destruction of the temple , Israel & the Jewish people, He also gave a
timeframe for this occurrence , “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” … One fulfilled in 70 AD….from CHRISTS birth to
ISRAELS destruction.
Now consider the parable of the fig tree, When his branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh….this is the
dual fulfillment of the above prophecy, “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” ….this is where I believe we have
a dual prophecy Israel’s re-birth in 1948 to today is almost 63 years…add on 7 more years to complete the 70 year time-frame ….2018.
Eziekiel has a beautifull prophecy of laying on one side for xxx days for the iniquity of Israel and on the other side for the iniquity of Judah. Grant Jefferies has a beautiful
study on this prophecy which after taking the total years of iniquity into consideration and using the principle in Leviticus by which unconfessed sin and iniquity are multiplied by seven, a
And how this timeframe translated from the time of Israel taken into captivity in Babylon works out to be exactly 14 May 1948, and from Israel’s captivity, 19 years later, that Jerusalem fell.
If you take the rebirth of Israel in 1948 and add 19 years you get to 1967 – when they get Jerusalem back.
Now General Allenby freed Israel from the Ottoman Turks in 1917 – a Jubilee year – and 50 years later – 1967, another Jubilee year when Jerusalem was freed, which leaves 2018 as the next Jubilee – ??? Jubilees have all to do with GOD’s will for Israel.
I am almost certain that as from CHRISTS birth to ISRAELS destruction was 70 years, so also from ISRAELS re-birth to CHRISTS return will be 70 years …2018 !!!
The LORD has led me to bring words of prophecy related to these 70 years in which we find ourselves at the cusp of the 63rd year, to my church(in public) and my chief Minister(who is the Moderator of our church in South Africa). Every time I have brought the prophetic words in public as an expression of my utmost faith in what JESUS is leading me to say, I am blessed with more direct revealing from HIS word as well as in my family.
I have added the Ezekiel prophecy here for your study and perusal. (Coincidence is not a kosher word in my dictionary)
Love in CHRIST JESUS
Jimmy
Ezekiel’s Vision
of the Rebirth of Israel in 1948
Ezekiel’s prophecy of the rebirth of Israel in 1948 and its precise fulfillment in our generation on May 15, 1948 is one of the greatest fulfillments of Bible prophecy in history. Twenty-five centuries ago,
while he was a slave during the Babylonian Captivity, (606 – 536 BC), the Lord revealed to the prophet Ezekiel, the precise year – 1948 – when Israel would finally be restored to the Promised Land.. The Jew’s eternal relationship to the Holy Land is a major theme of Bible prophecy. In the Bible, times were specified in precise detail regarding the duration of the time when the Jews were to be exiled from the Promised Land and when God will allow them to return to the Holy Land.
The First Captivity – (Egyptian) – 430 years
The Lord prophesied to Abraham precisely when the Jews would return from Egypt from their
First Captivity that lasted 430 years of captivity in Egypt (Genesis 15:13; Exodus 12:40-41).
The Second Captivity (Babylonian) – 70 years
Similarly, the Second Captivity of 70 years in Babylon, as prophesied in Jeremiah 25:11,
ended precisely in 536 BC when the Jews returned to Jerusalem as decreed by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
The Third Captivity (Worldwide) – 2520 years
The Scriptures contain numerous prophecies about the final return of the Jewish exiles to their Promised Land in the “last days.” Ezekiel was taken to Babylon as a captive. Ezekiel was aware of
Jeremiah’s prophecy (Jeremiah 25:11) that the Jew’s captivity in Babylon would last seventy years.
However, Ezekiel received another prophecy concerning God’s judgment upon the Jew’s disobedience and the precise duration of the remaining Jewish exile from their Promised Land.
“This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 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. 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. And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year” (Ezekiel 4:3-6).
As Ezekiel lay on his right side for a few hours for 390 days and then for 40 days on his right side the Jews in Babylon learned of God’s remarkable prophecy. God revealed that every day stood for one
biblical year. Therefore, Israel would be punished for a period of 390 years plus an additional 40 years as a result of their disobedience to God’s commands, totaling 430 years. God declared that Israel would be punished by a worldwide exile for 430 years (390 + 40 years = 430 years). However, as prophesied by Jeremiah, the seventy year long Babylonian
Captivity, which began with Nebuchadnezzar’s capture of Jerusalem in 606 B.C., ended in the spring of 536 B.C., in the month Nisan (March/April), when only a small remnant of the Jews (42,360) returned to Jerusalem (Ezra 1:1-3) under the decree of Cyrus the Great.
However, the vast majority of the Jewish exiles chose to remain in the pagan Persian Empire as colonists and tradesmen. Naturally, most Jews who were born and had grown up in Babylon had little
desire to leave their farms and businesses to return to a desolate Jewish homeland. Most Jews in Babylon did not repent of their rebellion against God and chose to remain in the pagan Babylonian Empire.
Out of God’s total decreed future punishment of 430 years for Israel’s and Judah’s sins (390 years plus 40 years = 430 years). First, we must deduct the 70 years of the Babylonian captivity, which Ezekiel and the Jewish exiles were already enduring, which ended in the spring of 536 B.C. Therefore: (430 years minus the 70 years in Babylon = 360 years). This indicates that a further period of 360 years of additional exile remained for the Jews following the end of the Babylonian Captivity in 536 B.C.
Ezekiel’s Prophecy of the End of Israel’s Exile
However, a careful study of the history of Israel cannot reveal any significant event that corresponds to this period of 360 years of additional punishment, either at the end of the 430 years or at
the end of the 360 years beginning from the end of the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC. The majority (95%) of the Jews never returned from Babylon to Israel. In fact, even the minority of the 42,360 Jews (Ezra 2:64) who did return did so with very little faith or true repentance. Most of the Jewish exiles failed to repent of their spiritual rebellion against God and they chose to remain in pagan Babylon.
Ezekiel’s unusual prophecy revealed the precise duration of the Jewish exiles worldwide Diaspora and the actual time of their prophesied return to the Promised Land in May 15, 1948. The solution to this prophetic mystery was found in a divine principle revealed to Moses and recorded in Leviticus 26. In this chapter the Lord established definite promises and punishments for Israel based on Israel’s subsequent obedience or disobedience to His Divine commands. In four separate but repeated passages recorded in Leviticus 26, God warned Israel that: if, after being punished for her sins, she still failed to repent of her rebellion, the punishments previously declared by God would be multiplied seven times more (the number of divine completion).
Moses declared God’s Divine principle of judgment if the Jews would not repent from their sinful rebellion against God after already experiencing His Divine punishment: “And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins” (Leviticus 26:18; 26:21, 23-24, 27-28).
In other words, if Israel did not repent of her sins after enduring God’s initial prophesied punishment; the punishments previously predicted would now be prolonged or multiplied seven times: The
biblical record reveals that, tragically, even the 5 percent of the Jewish exiles who returned to Israel did not truly repent of their rebellion.
Therefore, according to the Divine principle of multiplying the previous Divinely declared punishment by seven times due to the Jew’s lack of repentance, God’s previously prophesied exile of
360 additional years to the unrepentant Jewish exiles, as recorded by Ezekiel, would now be multiplied seven times more (Ezekiel 4:4-6; Lev. 26:18).
360 years of Exile x 7 = 2,520 biblical years of additional Exile for the Jews
The Biblical-Prophetic Year of 360 Days
The length of a biblical – prophetic year is 360 days: not the 365.25 days of our modern Julian calendar solar year. In ancient biblical times, the Jewish year was a lunar-solar year, with 12 months of 30
days each, which contained only 360 days. The modern solar-calendar year contains 365.25 days. An article on Chronology in the Encyclopedia Britannica, states that Abraham continued to use the 360-day year of his Babylonian homeland when he migrated to Canaan.
The Genesis account of Noah’s flood confirmed that the ancient peoples of the Middle East, including the Hebrews, used a lunar-solar year of only 360 days with 12 months of 30 days each. Genesis
recorded that the five months from the beginning of the Flood on the 17th day of the second month till the day the Ark rested on dry land, on the 17th day of the seventh month, lasted precisely 150 days. The five months (30 days each) while the flood waters prevailed confirmed that the Bible used a 12 month year of 360 days. (Genesis 7:11; 8:3-4).
Sir Isaac Newton confirmed that the ancient biblical year of the Hebrews, Babylonians, and Egyptians had only 360 days. Newton wrote in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (6th ed) that “all nations,
before the just length of the solar year was known, … in making calendars for their festivals, they reckoned thirty days to a lunar month, and twelve lunar months to a year, taking the nearest round
numbers, whence came the division of the ecliptic into 360 degrees.”
To understand the precise fulfillment of prophecy, we need to calculate using the biblical lunar year of 360 days. For example, in the book of Revelation John described the last three-and-one-half years of the seven year Tribulation period when the Antichrist will persecute the “woman” (Israel) as lasting precisely 1,260 days (Rev. 12:6). John also described this period as: “a time and times and half a time” (Rev. 12:14).
A “time” equals a year of 360 days; “times” equals two years; and “half a time” equals half a year Similarly, “forty-two months” of 30 days each equals the same 1260 days (Rev. 13:5). The book of Revelation and Daniel’s prophecies (Dan. 7:25; 9:24-27; 12:7; 12:11) both confirm that the biblical year contained 360 days.
Therefore, Ezekiel’s prophecy revealed that the Jew’s final restoration to their Promised Land would occur precisely 2,520 biblical years (of 360 days each) after the end of the Babylonian Captivity in the spring of 536 B.C.
The end of the captivity in Babylon, according to the Bible and other historical sources – including Flavius Josephus, occurred in the month of Nisan in the spring of 536 B.C. This date is the starting point for our calculations: 2,520 biblical years x 360 = 907,200 days. Converting this period of 907,200 days into our calendar year of 365.25 days: we divide the 907,200 days by 365.25 days and we calculate a total of 2,483.8 calendar or solar years. In these prophetic calculations we must keep in mind that there was only one year between Passover in 1 B.C. and the next Passover in A.D. l.
Remember: There is NO Year Zero B.C.
Therefore, Ezekiel prophesied that the end of Israel’s worldwide captivity would occur after a period of 2,483.8 calendar years had elapsed following the beginning of the prophesied period of the Jewish exile in the Spring of 536 B.C.
Babylonian Captivity ended in spring 535 BC
Plus Israel’s exile (2520 biblical years) = 2483.8 calendar years
End of the third worldwide captivity May 15, 1948
2483.8 years
-536.4
= 1947.4
Minus 1 year (no year between 1AD and 1 BC
1948.4
The Nation of Israel Proclaimed on May 14, 1948 at 16h29
The Incredible precision and fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy in our generation, forces us to marvel at the power of GOD to both prophesy the future and then precisely cause these vital historic events to be fulfilled exactly as HE has declared and thus setting the stage for the return of JESUS CHRIST THE MESSIAH – on time as HE declares it.
April 5, 2011 The birth of the nation of Israel in May 15, 1948 was prophecied by Ezequiel and Moses
The incredible exact prophecy related in detail in this article is a prophecy of the restoration of modern Israel as a nation under God’s prophetic calendar.
The facts of the count down listed here I first heard from Grant Jeffrey in a TV program a while back. I do not know if this author arrived at this calculation independently or not , but the fact remains that it is not a coincidence that this event happened as calculated.
Never the less the conclusions on this article are correct as far as I am concerned and I also think the Second Coming of Jesus will happen in the year 2018.
Nando
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2011/jimmyl45-1.htm
Jimmy Lishman (5 Apr 2011)
“For Bruce Baber – the 70 Years as OUR LORD revealed to me“
Hi Bruce,
The LORD has been showing me (after I humbly asked HIM to enlighten me out of HIS WORD) for the past 7 months the following which will be a great encouragement to you:
Matthew
Mat 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that
it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till
all these things be fulfilled.
Mark
Mar 13:28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet
tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
Mar 13:29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to
pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
Mar 13:30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass,
till all these things be done.
Luke
Luk 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all
the trees;
Luk 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves
that summer is now nigh at hand.
Luk 21:31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know
ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Luk 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away,
till all be fulfilled.
Psalms
Psa 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour
and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
>From Psalm 90 vs 10, we can possibly work with a modern generation (an
average man living 70 to 80 years) spanning 70 years.
>From the day of MESSIAHS birth to ISRAELS destruction, (many accounts giving the date 70 AD) … , we calculate 70 years.
JESUS said to HIS disciples that “This generation will see the temple trashed” – what generation – HIS[JESUS] generation, after HE had ascended the Mount of Olives after being rejected by Israel and the Disciples wanting to console HIM by showing off the grandeur of the temple. JESUS clearly shows that 70 years is a generation here as I describe in the next paragraph.
As the BIBLE declares, ‘that there is nothing new under the heavens, what has been in the past, will be in the future,’ ‘Also that He is an UNCHANGING GOD’, we can
understand that certain prophecies may have a dual fulfillment timeline.
In the book of Matthew 24, when MESSIAH mentioned to his disciples the destruction of the temple , Israel & the Jewish people, He also gave a
timeframe for this occurrence , “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” … One fulfilled in 70 AD….from CHRISTS birth to
ISRAELS destruction.
Now consider the parable of the fig tree, When his branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh….this is the
dual fulfillment of the above prophecy, “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” ….this is where I believe we have
a dual prophecy Israel’s re-birth in 1948 to today is almost 63 years…add on 7 more years to complete the 70 year time-frame ….2018.
Eziekiel has a beautifull prophecy of laying on one side for xxx days for the iniquity of Israel and on the other side for the iniquity of Judah. Grant Jefferies has a beautiful
study on this prophecy which after taking the total years of iniquity into consideration and using the principle in Leviticus by which unconfessed sin and iniquity are multiplied by seven, a
And how this timeframe translated from the time of Israel taken into captivity in Babylon works out to be exactly 14 May 1948, and from Israel’s captivity, 19 years later, that Jerusalem fell.
If you take the rebirth of Israel in 1948 and add 19 years you get to 1967 – when they get Jerusalem back.
Now General Allenby freed Israel from the Ottoman Turks in 1917 – a Jubilee year – and 50 years later – 1967, another Jubilee year when Jerusalem was freed, which leaves 2018 as the next Jubilee – ??? Jubilees have all to do with GOD’s will for Israel.
I am almost certain that as from CHRISTS birth to ISRAELS destruction was 70 years, so also from ISRAELS re-birth to CHRISTS return will be 70 years …2018 !!!
The LORD has led me to bring words of prophecy related to these 70 years in which we find ourselves at the cusp of the 63rd year, to my church(in public) and my chief Minister(who is the Moderator of our church in South Africa). Every time I have brought the prophetic words in public as an expression of my utmost faith in what JESUS is leading me to say, I am blessed with more direct revealing from HIS word as well as in my family.
I have added the Ezekiel prophecy here for your study and perusal. (Coincidence is not a kosher word in my dictionary)
Love in CHRIST JESUS
Jimmy
Ezekiel’s Vision
of the Rebirth of Israel in 1948
Ezekiel’s prophecy of the rebirth of Israel in 1948 and its precise fulfillment in our generation on May 15, 1948 is one of the greatest fulfillments of Bible prophecy in history. Twenty-five centuries ago,
while he was a slave during the Babylonian Captivity, (606 – 536 BC), the Lord revealed to the prophet Ezekiel, the precise year – 1948 – when Israel would finally be restored to the Promised Land.. The Jew’s eternal relationship to the Holy Land is a major theme of Bible prophecy. In the Bible, times were specified in precise detail regarding the duration of the time when the Jews were to be exiled from the Promised Land and when God will allow them to return to the Holy Land.
The First Captivity – (Egyptian) – 430 years
The Lord prophesied to Abraham precisely when the Jews would return from Egypt from their
First Captivity that lasted 430 years of captivity in Egypt (Genesis 15:13; Exodus 12:40-41).
The Second Captivity (Babylonian) – 70 years
Similarly, the Second Captivity of 70 years in Babylon, as prophesied in Jeremiah 25:11,
ended precisely in 536 BC when the Jews returned to Jerusalem as decreed by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
The Third Captivity (Worldwide) – 2520 years
The Scriptures contain numerous prophecies about the final return of the Jewish exiles to their Promised Land in the “last days.” Ezekiel was taken to Babylon as a captive. Ezekiel was aware of
Jeremiah’s prophecy (Jeremiah 25:11) that the Jew’s captivity in Babylon would last seventy years.
However, Ezekiel received another prophecy concerning God’s judgment upon the Jew’s disobedience and the precise duration of the remaining Jewish exile from their Promised Land.
“This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 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. 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. And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year” (Ezekiel 4:3-6).
As Ezekiel lay on his right side for a few hours for 390 days and then for 40 days on his right side the Jews in Babylon learned of God’s remarkable prophecy. God revealed that every day stood for one
biblical year. Therefore, Israel would be punished for a period of 390 years plus an additional 40 years as a result of their disobedience to God’s commands, totaling 430 years. God declared that Israel would be punished by a worldwide exile for 430 years (390 + 40 years = 430 years). However, as prophesied by Jeremiah, the seventy year long Babylonian
Captivity, which began with Nebuchadnezzar’s capture of Jerusalem in 606 B.C., ended in the spring of 536 B.C., in the month Nisan (March/April), when only a small remnant of the Jews (42,360) returned to Jerusalem (Ezra 1:1-3) under the decree of Cyrus the Great.
However, the vast majority of the Jewish exiles chose to remain in the pagan Persian Empire as colonists and tradesmen. Naturally, most Jews who were born and had grown up in Babylon had little
desire to leave their farms and businesses to return to a desolate Jewish homeland. Most Jews in Babylon did not repent of their rebellion against God and chose to remain in the pagan Babylonian Empire.
Out of God’s total decreed future punishment of 430 years for Israel’s and Judah’s sins (390 years plus 40 years = 430 years). First, we must deduct the 70 years of the Babylonian captivity, which Ezekiel and the Jewish exiles were already enduring, which ended in the spring of 536 B.C. Therefore: (430 years minus the 70 years in Babylon = 360 years). This indicates that a further period of 360 years of additional exile remained for the Jews following the end of the Babylonian Captivity in 536 B.C.
Ezekiel’s Prophecy of the End of Israel’s Exile
However, a careful study of the history of Israel cannot reveal any significant event that corresponds to this period of 360 years of additional punishment, either at the end of the 430 years or at
the end of the 360 years beginning from the end of the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC. The majority (95%) of the Jews never returned from Babylon to Israel. In fact, even the minority of the 42,360 Jews (Ezra 2:64) who did return did so with very little faith or true repentance. Most of the Jewish exiles failed to repent of their spiritual rebellion against God and they chose to remain in pagan Babylon.
Ezekiel’s unusual prophecy revealed the precise duration of the Jewish exiles worldwide Diaspora and the actual time of their prophesied return to the Promised Land in May 15, 1948. The solution to this prophetic mystery was found in a divine principle revealed to Moses and recorded in Leviticus 26. In this chapter the Lord established definite promises and punishments for Israel based on Israel’s subsequent obedience or disobedience to His Divine commands. In four separate but repeated passages recorded in Leviticus 26, God warned Israel that: if, after being punished for her sins, she still failed to repent of her rebellion, the punishments previously declared by God would be multiplied seven times more (the number of divine completion).
Moses declared God’s Divine principle of judgment if the Jews would not repent from their sinful rebellion against God after already experiencing His Divine punishment: “And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins” (Leviticus 26:18; 26:21, 23-24, 27-28).
In other words, if Israel did not repent of her sins after enduring God’s initial prophesied punishment; the punishments previously predicted would now be prolonged or multiplied seven times: The
biblical record reveals that, tragically, even the 5 percent of the Jewish exiles who returned to Israel did not truly repent of their rebellion.
Therefore, according to the Divine principle of multiplying the previous Divinely declared punishment by seven times due to the Jew’s lack of repentance, God’s previously prophesied exile of
360 additional years to the unrepentant Jewish exiles, as recorded by Ezekiel, would now be multiplied seven times more (Ezekiel 4:4-6; Lev. 26:18).
360 years of Exile x 7 = 2,520 biblical years of additional Exile for the Jews
The Biblical-Prophetic Year of 360 Days
The length of a biblical – prophetic year is 360 days: not the 365.25 days of our modern Julian calendar solar year. In ancient biblical times, the Jewish year was a lunar-solar year, with 12 months of 30
days each, which contained only 360 days. The modern solar-calendar year contains 365.25 days. An article on Chronology in the Encyclopedia Britannica, states that Abraham continued to use the 360-day year of his Babylonian homeland when he migrated to Canaan.
The Genesis account of Noah’s flood confirmed that the ancient peoples of the Middle East, including the Hebrews, used a lunar-solar year of only 360 days with 12 months of 30 days each. Genesis
recorded that the five months from the beginning of the Flood on the 17th day of the second month till the day the Ark rested on dry land, on the 17th day of the seventh month, lasted precisely 150 days. The five months (30 days each) while the flood waters prevailed confirmed that the Bible used a 12 month year of 360 days. (Genesis 7:11; 8:3-4).
Sir Isaac Newton confirmed that the ancient biblical year of the Hebrews, Babylonians, and Egyptians had only 360 days. Newton wrote in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (6th ed) that “all nations,
before the just length of the solar year was known, … in making calendars for their festivals, they reckoned thirty days to a lunar month, and twelve lunar months to a year, taking the nearest round
numbers, whence came the division of the ecliptic into 360 degrees.”
To understand the precise fulfillment of prophecy, we need to calculate using the biblical lunar year of 360 days. For example, in the book of Revelation John described the last three-and-one-half years of the seven year Tribulation period when the Antichrist will persecute the “woman” (Israel) as lasting precisely 1,260 days (Rev. 12:6). John also described this period as: “a time and times and half a time” (Rev. 12:14).
A “time” equals a year of 360 days; “times” equals two years; and “half a time” equals half a year Similarly, “forty-two months” of 30 days each equals the same 1260 days (Rev. 13:5). The book of Revelation and Daniel’s prophecies (Dan. 7:25; 9:24-27; 12:7; 12:11) both confirm that the biblical year contained 360 days.
Therefore, Ezekiel’s prophecy revealed that the Jew’s final restoration to their Promised Land would occur precisely 2,520 biblical years (of 360 days each) after the end of the Babylonian Captivity in the spring of 536 B.C.
The end of the captivity in Babylon, according to the Bible and other historical sources – including Flavius Josephus, occurred in the month of Nisan in the spring of 536 B.C. This date is the starting point for our calculations: 2,520 biblical years x 360 = 907,200 days. Converting this period of 907,200 days into our calendar year of 365.25 days: we divide the 907,200 days by 365.25 days and we calculate a total of 2,483.8 calendar or solar years. In these prophetic calculations we must keep in mind that there was only one year between Passover in 1 B.C. and the next Passover in A.D. l.
Remember: There is NO Year Zero B.C.
Therefore, Ezekiel prophesied that the end of Israel’s worldwide captivity would occur after a period of 2,483.8 calendar years had elapsed following the beginning of the prophesied period of the Jewish exile in the Spring of 536 B.C.
Babylonian Captivity ended in spring 535 BC
Plus Israel’s exile (2520 biblical years) = 2483.8 calendar years
End of the third worldwide captivity May 15, 1948
2483.8 years
-536.4
= 1947.4
Minus 1 year (no year between 1AD and 1 BC
1948.4
The Nation of Israel Proclaimed on May 14, 1948 at 16h29
The Incredible precision and fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy in our generation, forces us to marvel at the power of GOD to both prophesy the future and then precisely cause these vital historic events to be fulfilled exactly as HE has declared and thus setting the stage for the return of JESUS CHRIST THE MESSIAH – on time as HE declares it.
Jean Stepnoski (8 Feb 2011) “Nisan 1 in 2011 to 70 Year Generation Ending in 2018″
The following post is related to the time of the Tribulation also.
Thanks Jean for your insights.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2011/jeans28-1.htm
Jean Stepnoski (8 Feb 2011)
“Nisan 1 in 2011 to 70 Year Generation Ending in 2018“
Dear Doves,
The date of Nisan 1 in 2011 according to the Hillel calendar will be about 4-5. It will be month 1 and day 1 of the new Spiritual Year. A Jubilee would be announced on a particular Yom Kippur, yet begin on the following Nisan 1. Are we on the verge of the beginning of the last shavua,, the last 7 year Sabbatical Cycle of the 7 amounting to 49 years, complete as of Nisan 1 in 2018? Year 43 beginning the last shavua would begin on Nisan 1, around 3-16 -2011. If we add 2595 days to this date we arrive about 60 days past Nisan 1 in 2018. which is 3-16 to 17. The date of the additional 60 days complete will be nearly exactly on 5-14-2018. Would this be the blessed day of 1335? This will be one of the anniversary dates for the establishment of Israel as a nation in 1948 plus a generation of 70 years. The other date will be the date of Iyar 5, which is 4-20-2018. May we be WATCHING each day for The Master, The Captain of our Souls!
With Love and Shalom,
Jean
1-11-11 The time for the second coming and the 70 weeks of Daniel
A very interesting and possible time line based on Jubilees and lunar cycles corresponding to the Feasts of Israel.
Thank you for this post and I will be watching as all doves are.
Nando
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2011/jeans110.htm
Jean Stepnoski (10 Jan 2011)
“Grand Finale and Beginning: Jubilee Begun on Nisan 1“
Dear Doves,
Some believe that The Second Coming will be at the ending of 2520 days on Yom Kippur in 2017. Might all 2595 days be concluded at the later date of Nisan 1 in 2018? According to Jewish history, this is the day for The Coronation of the Kings of Israel. If we count back 2595 days from Nisan 1 in 2018 we are at 2-5-2011. This is 87 days past 11-9-2010. Ahead from 2-5 are 87 lunar cycles? The 3 lunar cycles past 11-7 to 8 would be at 2-5-2011. This day will be Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh, the new moon of Adar II, month 12 and day 1. The date 12-1 is like 1111. Earlier that day is part of the last day, day 30 of the month of Shevat, for part of the world. A few days earlier, some of The House of Israel have been fasting.
From declaration of Jubilee on Yom Kippur on 9-30-2017, to Jubilee beginning on Nisan 1 of 3-16-2018, will be 5 and 1/2 months. Won’t some of the dead have been buried for 1 and 1/2 months before Tishri begins? Might this all be finished before Nisan 1? Will the people deal with burial and defilement since at least the month of Elul? The Master will fulfill the days of Tishri with His Second Coming, concerning Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Tabernacles. Yet, how could those defiled observe The Feasts of the Lord during this time? The land and people would be defiled. The Messiah/Christ, however, would not be defiled. This is an important distinction to be made. There would be no problem with His Coronation as The King of Israel, if the burials are concluded before Nisan 1, 2018. Then as High Priest, Messiah, and King He would lead and preside over all The Feasts of The Lord in sequence, and their defilement gone, for the whole of the Jubilee Year from Nisan 1, 2018 to Nisan 1 in 2019!
The Master can indeed appear at His Second Coming in days of Tishri in 2017. From 2-5-2011 to The Feast of Trumpets, to Yom Kippur to Nisan 1 can conclude all 2520 days, plus the 30, plus the 45. Day 1335 may be Nisan 1, 2018, the day blessed for those who reach this day. Nisan 1 will be the tremendous beginning of year 50 of the Jubilee Cycle. Will it be Jubilee Cycle 120? It would begin the new year, and the new millennium! Jubilee is about declaration and augmentation of total freedom. All slaves are released. Debts are absolved. Landowners are restored to their land. There is clean slate for Israel, land and people. These are grand new beginnings in the inauguration of His Kingdom. If we are in the concluding 7 years of this special 120 of Jubilee Cycles, then these years are indeed distinctive.
The date of Nisan 1 in 2018 will be Spiritual Year Day 1. It will be Rosh Chodesh. What better day to also begin Day 1 of His 1000 Year Reign? Nisan 1 is the anniversary date, Coronation Day, for the ancient Kings of Israel! Again, what day is finer to crown Messiah/Christ as The King of Israel? What other day would be more rich in symbolism than Nisan 1 for Kingship, Kingdom, Jubilee, and Millennial Reign? Is it probable that Nisan 1 in 2018 will be the blessed day 1335?
If The Day of The Blessed Hope is 2-5-2011, then there are 3 Adar II months in the period to Nisan 1 in 2018. The number of lunar cycles would be 87? The day counts of 2595 would end on Nisan 1, 3-16-2018. Will The Blessed Hope arrive on or before 2-5-2011? We shall see.. May we be WATCHING?
With Love and Shalom,
Jean
Daniel Matson (9 Dec 2010) “In the twinkling of an eye”
Thanks to Daniel Matson for providing these links to a very important information.
Nando
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2010/danielm129.htm
Daniel Matson (9 Dec 2010)
“In the twinkling of an eye“
A Final Hanukkah thought: “In the twinkling of an eye”
I was perusing the following web page when their graphic struck me concerning the twinkling of an eye. I have never heard this before. Apparently it refers to the moment at twilight when the days change. There is one more left at the close of Hanukkah tomorrow. It is a “Red Sea moment”… (Link)
Here is other links concerning the final day of Hanukkah.
Zot Chanukah, December 9th 2010—For the Sake of Your Soul
More Zot Chanukah Messiah Shall Come
Zot Hanukkah–Time to Dedicate Yourself, Seal Yourself in Time for the Rapture
The Rapture, Gog, and Hanukkah Puzzle: Putting It All Togetherin Christ Alone,Daniel Matson
