When is the start of the shortened tribulation period?  (And the beginning of WW III?) Ever since we have found our key date of September 23, 2015, Yom Kippur, when Jesus returns to earth.  Many of us (including myself) have been backdating 7-Jewish Years, 2520 days (7 x 360 day Jewish Year) to determine the start of the 7-Year Tribulation period.  You see, once you find the start of the tribulation, you know that The Rapture is on or before the start date.  Ok, once Rosh Hashanah passed by last year, everyone knew that the beginning of the 7-Year Tribulation had to be 2520 days from September 23, 2015 or October 29, 2008.  That date came and went and there was still not a start to the 7-Year Tribulation!  The final Jewish feast on the 2015 Jewish calendar was Hanukkah, December 7, 2015.  This look like a great candidate, for it is the date that Jesus is anointed King of Kings in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem after his return.  So when you subtract the 2520 days from this date, you come to January 11, 2009 or 1/11.  This was even better, everyone knew that this could be the day, especially since many people (including myself) were seeing “111” on a digital clock.  When this date passed, I was not a happy camper; I want to go home to Heaven to be with Jesus! What were we missing?  I came across this scripture in Mathew: Mathew 24:21-22: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Jesus will use a shortened tribulation period and not the full-blown 2520-day tribulation.  He said that if the full 2520-day tribulation were used, that not a single person would be left alive on planet earth!  So what is the time period of this shortened Tribulation?  Several people have suggested the shortened tribulation will last 2300 days per Daniel 8:13, 14 ... How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. So there is a 2300-day (Dan. 8.14) shortened Tribulation.  If the ending date is on the Feast of Atonement, Sept. 23, 2015, the day Christ returns at the Battle of Armageddon, this would put the 1st day of the 2300-day Tribulation on June 6-7, 2009! SEVERAL POINTS ABOUT THIS DATE: 1.    IT IS EXACTLY 42 YEARS (the number of the Rapture) AFTER ISRAEL RE-CAPTURED JERUSALEM, thrusting the world into the final countdown to the end.  It is from this EXACT same date that we arrive at Sept. 23, 2015, the FINAL DAY OF THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL.  We do this by multiplying one complete Jubilee cycle 7 X 7 X 360 days (a Jewish year), and adding that number to June 6-7, 1967.  The result is Sept. 23, 2015, Feast of Atonement.  What an awesome God we serve!!!  2.    IT IS EXACTLY 65 YEARS (the number of a modern generation) from the D-Day invasion of WW II on June 6, 1944!  This was the world’s largest land invasion at the time, and who would of thought that exactly 65 years from this date, WW III would begin. 3.    I have a close prophecy friend who I have know since my teenage years.  When I was bouncing off him the idea of a 2300 day shortened tribulation period and that the start of the tribulation calculates out to be June 6th, 2009.  After I said June 6th, he asked me again: “Are you sure it calculates out to be June 6th?”  I said yes, why do you ask?  He went on to say that in the 80’s The Lord gave him a vision and told him that WW III would begin on June 6th, however no year was given.  He went on to say that as the years went by, he had completely forgotten about the June 6th date until now.  His visions have always been 100% correct!  Could June 6-7th, 2009 be the start of WW III and the 1st day of the shorten tribulation?  TIME IS SHORT! MAKE SURE YOU ARE GOING TO HEAVEN! GO TO: THIS VIDEO, AND SAY THE SALVATION PRAYER! NOW! Tomorrow Part 5:  OK, when will we be Raptured out of here?