Dear friends:

The below calculations are interesting.  They have been on my mind the past
few days.

The number 2520 is an important biblical number, being 7 times 360.  In His
book, "Understanding the Significance of Numbers in the Bible," Tony
MacCormack says it is the number of years decreed for Israel's
punishment.  This is based on the 430 years decreed in Ezekiel 4, 70 of
which were completed during the Babylonian exile (Jeremiah 29:10), leaving
360, and the "seven times more" of Leviticus  26:18.

MacCormack also says the 2520 years go from the completion of the Second
Temple in 516 BC to AD 2005 -- where we are right now!  His book was
written in 1998.

I do not see how 2005 can be the end of the punishment period, unless the
punishment period somehow ends when Daniel's 70th week (the final seven
years) begins.  The final seven years is a special time decreed for
Israel's history.  That is a possibility.

But I like this possibility better: The completion of God's Third Temple
(the body of Christ, God's New Covenant temple) may be complete in
2005.  That would place 2520 (7 X 360) years between the completion of the
two temples!  That does not rule out a future new physical temple in
Israel, but we know the Bible says that we are now the temple of God -- a
building in progress since Jesus was on the earth.

Possibly confirming the significance of 2520 being counted from 516 BC is
if you convert the 2520 to biblical (360-day) years and add to 516 BC, you
astonishingly arrive at AD 1967, the most prophetic year in 2,000 years,
when Israel retook Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.

I do not fully understand it, but there is something highly significant
about these numbers.

Jim