NUMBERS 14 AND THE 59-YEAR GENERATION

                       (BRACKETS ARE MY COMMENTARY)

 

As current events and turmoil in the Middle East dictate, the time of the prophetic fulfillments of Bible prophecy are upon us.

 

For about a year now I have been looking at Rosh Hashanah 2008 as the “end of age”, through secular, political, historical and the prophetic Scriptures.

 

I believe there is also proof from the Torah that the age of those going into the Promised Land out of the wilderness (59 or less), will equate with the age of the land of Israel as a nation on September 29, 2008, as they enter the “greater” Promised Land, the Millennial Kingdom of Messiah.

 

I hope you find this Torah study instructive and thought provoking.

 

Numbers 14:26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27 "How long {shall I bear} with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.

 

28 "Say to them, As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you; 29 your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and

upward, who have grumbled against Me.

 

(Anyone 20 years old and older who entered the wilderness would become a corpse in the wilderness)

 

30 Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 

 

(Every man who entered the Promised Land, would be no more than 59 years old, other than Caleb and Joshua)

 

31 Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey--I will bring them in, and they will know the land, which you have rejected.

 

(Those children who were 19 years and younger, will enter the “promised land”)

 

32 'But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness. 33 Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer {for} your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.

 

(Re-affirming those 20 years or older would shepherd the 19 year old and younger for forty years but still suffer and die, thus confirming, 19+40=59years)

 

34 According to the number of days, which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, {even} forty years, and you will know My opposition.

 

35 I, the LORD, have spoken, surely this I will do to this entire evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die. "

 

What makes the 59 full years, a viable biblical generation candidate, is the fact, the nation of Israel was “born in a day” on Iyar 5, 5708, or May 14, 1948.

 

Tishri 1 5709 fell on October 4, 1948 by adding 59 full years to it, brings us to Elul 29 5768, and just as Caleb and Joshua were the only men 60 years or older to enter the promised land. As a parallel could the next day, Rosh Hashanah, Tishri 1, 5769, which has now become 60 years later, September 30, 2008, be the day of the “great entering” into the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ at His second coming?

 

With the fulfillment of the much anticipated prophecy of Zechariah 12:9-10!  

 

Many scholars have taught that the “Parable of the fig tree” in Matthew 24:32-34 refers to Israel becoming a nation on May 14, 1948. However the number of years in a generation (pre-flood and after Christ) has always had varying opinions as to the number of years. This may answer the question?

              

                 Giving Him the glory, A Ezekiel 33:6 watcher one