The Mayan calendar ends on the 21st of December 2012... 3 & 1/2 days before Christmas, the ubiquitous time the world over for making merry and sending gifts to one another. David Flynn: _________________________________ So counting backwards from December 21st, 2012, One thousand, two hundred and sixty days, as Revelation says the two witnesses prophecy for, you arrive at the date, July 11th, 2009 Since Christ rose from the dead in 33 AD, even though there are many that refute this year as actually being the correct one.. however, it is still in effect for prophecy, God is sovereign, the years that we have been using in our calendar are being used to measure time despite the contentions of the historians ...33 is the symbol of the resurrection of the first fruits and 33 will also be the symbol of the rest of the body's resurrection, God willing, you and me ______________________________________   This post gives me a terrific opportunity to point out the one error that I believe is in David Flynn's very good work. That is, he misses the second of three first fruit harvests. He has made reference to the first one being at Christ's resurrection, the handful that were resurrected after Jesus, and these also ascended up with Him to heaven. There will be the gleanings from the field which Flynn also acknowledges as coming in 2012, but I believe that these will be tribulation saints and not us. Flynn forgets that there is also a first fruit rapture of the two loaves, (prior to the gleanings that come at the end of the procession), which Paul described in 1 Corinthians 15 as They that are Christ's at His coming.   I've said this before, but this post shows the context of Flynn's statement where he misses the second (two loaves) first fruits harvest. The final gleanings harvest are those who fell back to earth and those who were at the corners of the field. That is, they were not wholly dedicated to being harvested with the earlier group and had to wait until the gleanings to get in. That is the tribulation harvest not ours that we await momentarily, praise God!   Barry Amundsen