Today, I’ve
glanced at the digital clock on our stove
without really thinking about it, and the first time it read 4:44, the
next
time 5:55, and just now 11:11. Isn’t God amazing at how He
draws us back
to thinking of Him?
There is
anticipation in watching July 8th, 2009,
as a possible Rapture day.
If the Rapture
does occur on this date, then there has been
proposed a 3 ½ day interval till possibly the beast is totally revealed
on July
11th, 2009.
If the Rapture
does not occur on July 8th, then July 11th,
2009 has been proposed as a possible Rapture day, a possible day of
destruction, and again, a possible day the beast will be totally
revealed.
July 11th,
2009 is arrived at by counting
backward from the Mayan end date, December 21, 2012, the total of 1260
days.
It has also
been noted that adding 3 ½ days to December 21,
2012 brings one to Christmas eve/Christmas as a hint to the giving of
presents
after the two witnesses are killed.
(Revelation
of John 11:10) And they
that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them,
and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
prophets
tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Switch gears.
(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
Sir Isaac
Newton has been credited with proposing that it
does violence to the text to not consider the first seven weeks as
referring to
the second coming of Jesus Christ.
It has been
proposed that this commandment implicitly was
when Jerusalem was
reunited with Israel
on June
7, 1967. Some have noted there could be considered a more
explicit commandment
I believe a few weeks after this event, although the exact date and
documentation
regarding this currently has escaped me.
Regardless,
there are three ways proposed to count these
seven weeks from June 7, 1967. And from this count forward,
one can count
backward 2520 days for the possible Rapture, Sudden Destruction, and/or
revealing
of the beast of Revelation to the World.
The first, and
the shortest in time and therefore the first
to watch, is to count 49 360-day “prophetic” years in the manner of
Sir Robert Anderson. This takes us to Yom Kippur, September
23, 2015. 2520
days before this took us to October 29, 2008.
The second is
to count 49 solar or Gregorian years, which
for most practical purposes are the same. This takes us to
June 7, 2016. 2520
days before this takes us to July 14, 2009.
The last is to
count 49 Hebrew years. This takes us from Iyyar
28, 5727 to Iyyar 28, 5776, which is June 5, 2016. 2520 days
before this takes
us to July 12, 2009.
Note that 49
years counting inclusively from Iyyar 28, 5727,
end 49 years on Iyyar 27, 5776 or June 4, 2016. The next day
is actually the
first day of the next year. 2520 days before this takes us to
July 11, 2009,
7//11, the same date arrived at as 1260 days before the Mayan
12/21/2012.
-Shalom
Ted Porter