The Lord our God has not been very generous with me,
his bondservant, as far as dreams are concerned. So when I do get a significant
dream, I take note. In the last week, I have had two related dreams, each
one with a tiny baby boy (manchild?), both my
son and I in the same week having dreams (unknown to each other until afterward)
about “trumpets”, and a very clear reference to the number “40”, with some
other fine details I will not belabor unto you at this time. These seemed
to me to be a place our Lord would have me to investigate in the scriptures,
related to His near appearing. So this is my best shot at this, and I
beg your patience, and ask for your input so that we all in His body may
learn something here…………..
We know from a study of scripture, and types and shadows
of the Old Testament, that the church will be given 40 jubilee years, as
from Adam to Abraham were 40 jubilees (2000 years), and from Abraham to
Messiah our Lord were 40 jubilees (2000 years), so likewise will the church
age be 40 jubilees (2000 years) , fulfilling God’s 120 years (three 40-jubilee
grand cycles) that His spirit will wrestle with the likes of us in that
we are flesh, and not really quite what He intended us to be quite yet…………….
Hosea also speaks of these 2000 years as days when Israel
will be smitten, but afterward raised to live in His sight.
So my focus here is with “trumpets”, and the “manchild” (whether this be Israel
or the church or both I won’t even go there now), and with the number “forty”.
Alright, I will admit that in the dream a great big deal was made that I
looked terrible for being “forty” years old, so much so that I rushed to
the mirror as soon as I awoke from this particular dream……….God really does
have a sense of humor, and no, I am not forty years old; hence, the mystery
delivered to me in this way, about my hideous appearance. Oh, well let us
proceed……
I look at all of the Lord’s feasts as being
potential times when He may come to redeem us (according to Him, my being
old and feeble and ugly, only makes this issue all the more important to
me !)
Being directed by my son’s dream of a trumpet,
and my own dream of trumpets, I looked at the feasts which include trumpets,
and we know, of course, about the Feast of Trumpets, heralding in the Tabernacle
feasts of Atonement and Tabernacles. The infant boys in both of my dreams
lead me to think of the manchld’s rapture as in
Revelation 12. And the reference to the number 40 directs me to a couple
of things of interest.
But first, these 40 jubilees of the church,
just when did they “start”??? At His birth?
His resurrection? His ascension?
Pentecost? So here I did a study and came up
with something very interesting. Our Lord declared the day Himself, when,
after being baptized by John the Baptist and being harassed by the devil
in the desert for 40 days (there’s that number of testing again), that He
then meandered around for some time before ending up in the Temple back
at Nazareth, and quoting Isaiah 61. Here is that quote: from Luke:
Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as
his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And
there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias.
And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to
heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To
preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20 And
he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.
And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled
in your ears. 22 And all bare him witness, and wondered
at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
It can be seen from the above quote that Jesus was proclaiming
the acceptable year of the grand jubilee right then and there “this day”.
At the celebration of the jubilee (the 50th
year of the cycle), all debts were forgiven, slaves were returned to their
homes and property, and folks in prison were released. He ceased to read
when the passage came to “and the day of vengeance of our Lord”, because
had the Jews accepted Him, and their jubilee, they could have had the Kingdom
right then and there, but, duh, no cigar.
Now, on to just “when” did He say this? If
we could find out when He said this then we could find out where we are
in the grand scale of jubilees of the ages. I have done extensive searching
on the day of His birth, and the years of His ministry, and the year of
His crucifixion, etc., and without arguing or haggling (you may all re-figure
this with your own numbers and get back with it), I am just going to go
ahead with where I am led at this point. Which may be
off a hair or two here or there. Starting with a quote:
“Luke
also dates Jesus' baptism in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar. The
approach taken here is that Luke continued to date by his Syro-Macedonian calendar. This places the fifteenth year of
Tiberius from October 20, 27 to October 9, 28 CE. This fits with the arrival
of Pontius Pilate by the fall of 27, with an earliest first Passover still in 28.”
I think perhaps He was baptized in the spring/summer
of 28 AD. Then went into the desert for 40 days to be
tested by you-know-who. Perhaps this is the 40 days we count to
His ascension, from His resurrection, after which He instructed the deciples
to wait for the “Power from on high..”, that is,
the Holy Spirit, given at Pentecost. The church is likewise tested for
40 jubilees (2000 years).
Luke 4:13 And when the devil had ended all the
temptation, he departed from him for a season.
So there, the devil left Him alone for a season. So
that takes Him further into the summer and/or fall. And as I said He meandered
about abit before getting to Nazareth.
Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power
of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through
all the region round about. 15 And
he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And
he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.
So He gets right going in the power of the Spirit. (Like
the deciples did after Pentecost).
When He reached Nazareth,
he stood in the temple, and quoted Isaiah 61:
Luke 4:..and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the
sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And
there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias.
And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, (above
quoted)
Now, if He said “this day” was the passage fulfilled
(jubilee), then what day was this fulfilled? Having in mind that the year
was 28 AD, and that His ministry started as in Luke 4 “when He began to
be about 30 years old…), then we have to look at when He was born, so that
we can see when He “began” to be about 30 years old. In many searches
I have concluded that the year He was born and the date of His birth was
September 26, 2 BC.
He was born in the fall, which is why the shepherds were out in the field
by night. Not in December as the tradition came to be (by men). Mary and
Joseph couldn’t find a place to stay in the inns because so many people
were in Jerusalem, beginning the fall feasts of Tabernacles, starting with
the Feast of Trumpets, which is when He was born. Anyway, not to niggle about this, but move on……..
So if He began to be about 30 years old in
the year 28 AD late in the year (fall), is there a particular feast which
is of interest here? And was there a trumpet involved? So you’re thinking
about the Feast of Trumpets right away, but wait, in Leviticus, read:
Leviticus 25: 8 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. 9 Then shalt
thou cause the
trumpet of the jubile 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. 10 And
ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile
unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and
ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubile
shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow,
neither reap that which groweth of itself in it,
nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. 12 For
it is the jubile; it
shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile
ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And
if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy
neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
15 According to the number of years after the jubile
thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and
according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt
increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt
diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the
fruits doth he sell unto thee. 17 Ye shall not therefore
oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:
for I am the LORD your God.
Sooooooooooooooo,
it must have been on
the Day of Atonement, that Jesus stood in the temple to “declare”
the jubilee, as He said “this day is this fulfilled” etc. And here is
a trumpet to herald this important thing. And this was the year of 28
AD.
Many of you are much, much better at numbers
and such than I am, but I will give this my best shot. If Jesus declared
the grand jubilee (from Abraham to Himself – 2000 years), on the Day of
Attonement in 28 AD, then where
are we now?
I have absolutely no idea when the Day of Attonement
fell in 28 AD, nor can I strain at trying to figure it out, but since these
fall feasts fall sometime from Mid-September until early October, let us
just say for the fun of it, and because I need SOME kind of date, that it
fell on September 30 of that year. And let us calculate it until this
year’s feast of Pentecost (which date is disputed at this time being either
May 15 or June 14, and I can’t get into that either. To the May 15 date,
from September 30, 28 AD
until May 15, 2005
is 721.948 days. If we divide that number of days by our calendar of 365.25
we come to 1976.59. But if we divide it by God’s calendar of 360 days,
we get 2005.41. Which could be wrong by a few
days either side but nonetheless gives us the year of 2005. AND if we
divide the number 2005.41 by 50 (jubilee years), we come to 40.10. So,
we are just over the hump, it would appear, and just into the days following
the closing of our grand jubilee cycle.
Where the “manchild”
of my two dreams fits in, only the Lord knows, but to me it is suggestive
of the rapture or some other momentous event that God and His Son, who
is all good, all glorious, all-powerful, and magnificent in all of His ways
may be about to surprise us with this very year.
All blessings in abundance to all of you,,,,,
YSIC Arlene