Dear Steven and Dove's,

 

I wanted to respond to your email yesterday about how the dates listed in the bible in regards to the lengths

of times during the tribulation i.e. 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2520 days play out and in what order.   There is a lot of

confusion about these dates and which date you should start the counts of each of these periods of time.

I think the Lord made this real simple for us to count these dates but a lot of teachers try to interject their own

ideas into the equation to fit their own personal belief system. 

There is one day however that we can pick for the rapture and start of the Tribulation which has all of these dates

falling out in perfect order every time and in any given year.  That date is on the Festival of "Firstfruits".  The

reason I say this is because Firstfruits is always the "morrow after the Sabbath" after Passover.  So no matter

which year, even on years when the 13 month of Adar II is added all of the dates listed below will fall on the

same calendar day in the Hebrew calendar!   Below I will show the timeline of the Tribulation and the Gregorian

dates and Hebrew Calendar dates along with any Jewish Feast Days or Holy Days they happen to fall on:

 

If the Tribulation starts on April 26/27 2008 which is the feast of Firstfruits, then:

 

1260 days will fall on Sun/Mon, October 9/10 2011, Tishri 11/12.   This is the exact middle of the trib and the

1260 day begins just as Yom Kipper, the Day of Atonement is ending on the evening of Tishri 11.  On this

day the two witnesses are killed also. 

 

1263.5 days will fall on Tishri 14/15,  October 13/14 2011, Thurs/Fri.   This date will be the first day of Sukkoth,

or day one of the Feast of Tabernacles!   This is the day that the two witnesses will be raised along with

all of the saints who were killed during the first half of the Tribulation.  At this point and beyond no one else will

saved on the earth but the remnant who will enter the Kingdom on earth will be protected from this point on.

I believe that it is also the day of Jesus' birth which is very appropriate for this mark in time for this to occur.

 

1290 days will fall on Monday, November 7, 2011, Heshvan 10.  This date will be the date that the "Abomination

that maketh Desolate:" will occur (Dan 12:11).  This is one day that is not a feast or Holy day because there are none in this                                                                                                            Hebrew month.  Heshvan is also called "Mar Heshvan or "Bitter Heshvan".  I believe it has that name because

the Lord new that the "Abomination of Desolation" would take place during this month in time. 

 

1335 days will fall on December 21/22, 2011, Kislev 25/26 Wed/Thurs.   This is the 1st day of Hanukkah!

or the Festival of Lights.  This is the first day that all of the righteous will be completely at rest and protected from the

evil of the Tribulation until the end.   There will be some suffering from the 1260 day until the 1335 day which is

75 days.  It will take the Anti-chirst a while to set up his mark and it will be only 35 days from the Abomination of

Desolation.   All of the remnant both Jew and Gentile will be protected after this 1335 day.  This is of course why the

Lord said in Daniel 12:12 "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty

days."  Except for the remnant no one else can be saved during the last part of the trib.

 

2520 days will fall on Nissan 1, Sabbath, March 20/21, 2015.   This is the last day of the Tribulation and when the Lord

comes back as the King of Kings to fight the armies at Armageddon.  Nissan 1 was always the day that the Kings

of Israel went to battle.  So this fits perfectly His coming to fight Armageddon.  Is it also the 1st day of the 1st

month of the Sacred Calendar and the Spring Equinox.  The spring Equinox does not always line up with Nissan 1

but does this year which is a very important clue of this time schedule starting in 2008 and ending in 2015. 

So the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ our King of Kings will start in the opening of the Sacred Calendar on Nissan 1

which also happens to fall on a Sabbath in 2015 which is the perfect day to start the Millennial Sabbath rest!

 

There are a couple of things I would like to mention here.  A lot of prophecy teachers try to take some of the lengths

of days and start them at various times during the trib other than the "first day" of the start of the tribulation.  They end

up doing  this to make these dates fall on some preconceived idea of how they think the tribulation should be laid

out on a certain time line of theirs.  As you can see,  if you very simply start each count of the 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2520

days on the first day of the Tribulation then it all falls out in a very simple easy to understand timeline.  There is no reason

also to have the Rapture happen and then have a delay until the start of the trib unless again you are trying to fit

your own personal time schedule into the mix. 

One more very important thing I would like to mention that makes it very clear that the rapture happens in the spring

of the year and not any later than "Firstfruits" is this:  The Lord said in Matthew 24: 15-21

 

15)  When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,  spoken of by Daniel the prophet,

        stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16)  Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:

17)  Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18)  Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19)  And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20)  But pray ye that your flight be not in winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21)  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time

       no, nor ever shall be.

 

Notice two things here.  The Lord gave a clue to when this would all occur in verse 20.  He told them to pray that

their flight would not be in "winter" or on a "Sabbath".  This statement was said about the abomination of desolation

that takes place on the 1290th day of the trib as shown above.  If you will notice it falls on a Monday, November 7th!

Notice that this is just before winter which starts on December 21st.  And also that it falls on a Monday which is of

course not the Sabbath.   Which brings up another very important clue if you think that Pentecost could be the day

of the rapture and start of the tribulation.  Pentecost is "50"  days after Firstfruits.  If you add "50" days to the proposed

date of November 7th which is the 1290 day in this timeline then that would put the abomination of desolation on

December 27th!  This is in the winter and does not fit with the Lord's admonition to pray that your flight is not during the

winter.  So as you can see not only does the Tribulation have to start in the Spring but Firstfurits is the only day that

fits since Pentecost will put their flight in the winter.  This is a HUGE clue that is usually missed by most teachers. 

 

I would like to mention just one more verse from Matthew 24 and that is verse 22 which is the one after the ones I just listed

above.   Matthew 24:22  "And except those days should be shortened, there should not flesh be saved:  but for the elect's

sake those days shall be shortened."   There is probably not another verse in the study of end times prophecy that has

caused so much confusion and mayhem than that verse!   Just think about this for a moment.  The Lord told us that the days

we are to use and the days that the Jewish believers are to use during the tribulation are 1260, 1290, 1335 and 1520 days

He meant just that!  Why on earth would He then tell us in verse 22 of Matthew to shorten those days and then keep us in the

dark by not telling how much to shorten them!  As Psalm 90 say's "Teach us to number our days so that we may apply our hearts

unto wisdom."  I think the Lord was  telling us that we could number them!   How could He ever shorten the days!......Or change the                                                                                        count of days!........which have been explicitly counted out for the reader!   I think it is obvious that the Lord was only saying that he shortened

them to the exact amount of days that he gave us as in this study!  If he left it up to man we would continue until we totally destroyed

each other!  The Lord who can not lie, never changes, and is indeed the same yesterday, today and forever would never shorten

the days after giving them to us in "plain and simple" language!

 

So what is the lesson we have learned here today?  If you take the numbers and apply them to the only real day that can be the

day for the start of the Tribulation,  that being April 26, 2008 and apply the counts of days of 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2520 in a simple

and logical way as it is laid out in this study, then the Lord has fulfilled Psalm 90 by teaching us to "number our day so that we

can apply our hearts unto wisdom."

 

I am totally convinced that April 26th, 2008 is the Feast of Firstfruits and have posted on this before.  It was brought up that

firstfruits is not on the 26th but is on the 27th.  I would like to point out here that it starts at evening of the 26th and runs

to the evening of the 27th.  I believe that the Rapture and Trib start at the exact moment of the start of Firstfuits which is of

course the evening of the 26th.  That exact moment in time when one day ends and the other starts is know as "the twinkling of an eye"

to the Jews.  To be  precise,  it is that point when the Sun is 8 degrees below the Horizon that one date ends and the other begins.  Could

the rapture happen when the Sun is eight degrees below the Horizon in Jerusalem on April 26th when Firstfruits officially begins according

to Jewish reckoning?  If I have your curiosity tweaked right now then I will go ahead and tell you that will be at 7:54pm on April 26th, 2008.

For me since I live in Houston and CST is 8 hours difference from Jerusalem time then it will be 11:54 am, Saturday April 26, 2008.

"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed".

YBIC

...Sam Orlando...