David ?


I don’t want to speak for Bruce, but wanted to add a bit of comment to your thoughts here. 

Yes, the summer equinox is June 21st, each year.  But first off, when Jesus was saying this to the disciples there was no such thing as a Gregorian calendar.  So to view it in this light without guidance that Jesus was speaking of a future reference in time where the world views days differently than the 2 Jewish calendars is certainly debatable, but not assuredly correct. 

Its like the use of gematria or numbers tied to scriptural chapter and verse.  The original books, and later the compiled books (bible) didn’t have numbers separating them? that came into advent around 1557.

When Israel used seasons in scripture and reference, it was an IDIOM for the feasts.  There are no true summer feasts, and the idiom Jesus was referring to here, is that Summer is nigh? prepare for fulfillment of the coming fall feasts.
 

In the verse of Matt 24:32? YE KNOW the summer is nigh, the word for KNOW here is Ginosko.

 

ginōskō

1) to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel

1a) to become known

2) to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of

2a) to understand

2b) to know

3) Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman

4) to become acquainted with, to know

Interesting wouldn’t you say? one of the definitions here for Ginosko?
 

But I believe more importantly, the scripture refers to the Jew being PREPARED for the fulfillment of the Fall feasts that would come shortly.  If summer was the season that the Fig Tree came BACK to the people (some think Israel, some thing Jerusalem), then summer would have been in 1947 or 1967.

A generation later, Fall would be in season, and the 10 Days of Awe? the Fall Feasts represent the 10 days (years) of Tribulation (Spoken to the church of Smyrna in Rev 3)

Rosh Hashanah (2 days ? years) ? ?? Rapture season

Sabbath Shuvah ? 2520 days (7 days - years) of the Time of Trouble and Great Tribulation

Yom Kippur ? (1 day ? year) ? – Second Coming/Armageddon
 

So the reference to summer is nigh, is NOT the date in which the equinox falls, but an IDIOM to prepare for the coming fulfillment of the Fall Feasts in prophecy.
 

Ken Schortgen Jr
 

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