Amen!Re:Lisa Taylor's "10 Year Framework"
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2006/lisat59.htm
Wanted to add to the list the 10 days of "awe" (tribulation) between Rosh Hashana (on the 1st of Tishri), and Yom Kippur (on the 10th day of Tishri) as a preimage of the 10 years of tribulation between the Rapture and the Return of the Prince of Peace.
Most people have a hard time believing after all they have heard that the word "tribulation", although found in 22 verses of the Bible, is never found in any verse with the number seven. While the number 10 is, (as you noted in Revelation 2:10). And as the firstfruits is associated with ten as being the first 10% going to God, the Church as the firstfruits in the Rapture may be associated with ten in ten years. And Hagar (a Gentile) was in Canaan's land, (the promised land analogous to Heaven), for 10 years before becoming the wife of Abram, (analogous to the wedding of the Bride at the end of the tribulation?)
And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. Genesis 16:3
And many people have pondered when Israel would burn the weapons for seven years if the tribulation period was limited to seven years.
Thanks for pointing out the 10 years just means in the 10th year, not that 10 full years, counting from 0, has passed. This has always been a stumbling block in my mind, even knowing that the Hebrews didn't start counting at 0, as to whether to count back 10 years or the 10th year from when we might expect the return of the Prince of Peace for when we might expect the Rapture. Obviously, the example given us of using Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur as being a "10" day count by the Hebrews should have put the question to bed. But back in 2003-2004 while writing, "Passion, Power, & Glory", although I had included a 10 year tribulation, when I counted back, it was a full 10 years, not to the 10th year. So much for being consistent.
Which means there is still a possibility of a 10 year tribulation with the original premise of the book of using Isaac Newton's inspired idea of 49 years (7 weeks) from what could be called the 2nd call to rebuild Jerusalem, (taken as 6/7/67), and using prophetic years, come to the Return of the Prince of Peace as King of Kings on September 23, 2015, Yom Kippur.
Of course, it is probably not lost on anyone that Rosh Hashana this year is also September 23rd. Something to watch.
But that doesn't mean I won't be watching the upcoming Ascension Day, May 25th. There must be 55 signs to meet our Maker, (on May 25th). Just follow the plan, of Dan(iel). (Okay I'll stop with the terrible allusions to a 60's song that was hardly edifying to begin with) But if there were 88 signs for 1988 that one person could come up, all of us at Five Doves should be able to come up with 55. We may already have with all the posts.
I liked Douglas Henney's May 8th Five Doves post where he talks about (I'm paraphrasing) each one of us of the Body of Christ having a piece of the prophetic puzzle and it takes all of us working together as one body to put all the pieces together.
Shalom!
Ted Porter