My Favorite Hypothesis
(Could it really be only days away?)
In the world of science and mathematics a theory is something that is testable and reproducible. A hypothesis is an idea set that has not been proved. Scientists know that the theory of evolution is actually just a hypothesis because it is not testable nor reproducible but they want it so badly that they call it a theory anyway.
I have several hypotheses about the end of this age and how all the details we read in the Bible will play out. I am continually holding each one up to the light, overlaying on calendars, and searching for more details, hoping for a breakthrough. I have not proved any of them yet.
My favorite hypothesis, the one I think has the greatest support, is one that focuses on this time of the year. Let me lay out the points so you can review it for merit.
1) God's years on God's calendar
Exodus 12:2 says something quite clearly, particularly in the Hebrew:
This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the-year [HaShanah] to you. - Exodus 12:2
What month? The month that YHWH led the Israelites out of Egypt. There are two phrases here that some think say the same thing. They don't. One says that month will be the beginning of months, meaning that it will be the first month for counting months. The second says that it will be the beginning of the year for counting years. Rosh Hashanah means "head of the year" and the word in the Hebrew for "the year" is HaShanah.
The Jews have it wrong! They celebrate Rosh Hashanah on Yom Teruah, the Day of Blowing (trumpets). They correctly count their months from the 1st month in the spring, the one they named Nissan, but they increment their years on the 1st of the 7th month that they now called Tishri. They were only half obedient (not a new theme). This means that this year's real Rosh Hashanah was on March 24th (starting the sunset before). Happy New Year!
Closely related to this, the trumpets that were to be sounded on Yom Kippur, the 10th day of the 7th month, to announce the Sabbath and Jubilee years were not announcing it 9 days late but 6 (or 7) months early for the beginning of the new year in the spring. I know some will howl over this but I'm sticking to what the word says and not what the Pharisaical/Judaic tradition has twisted it into.
Our calendar is a solar calendar and we don't care a hoot about the lunar phases. Hera is one of the many names for the sun goddess Ishtar and our calendar is for "hera-tics" (yes, I know that's not the real Latin root but have some fun with me). The Muslim calendar is a purely lunar calendar where their important dates march backwards around the seasons never realigning to the sun. It is a calendar by and for backward "luna-tics". God's calendar as specified in His word is both a lunar and solar calendar, always realigning the first month to the year by inserting a 13th month when needed.
Therefore, I say that the 360 day prophetic year is nonsense based in false tradition. Nice hypothesis Sir Robert Anderson, but I have never seen anyone accurately pin BOTH the start and end dates to prove the 173880 day count. I find it interesting that the proponents of this all agree on the day count but it is used to "prove" different years of the crucifixion without being able to prove the starting date.
I think that Elohim laid out His calendar so that everything is coordinated to it. I see many patterns throughout the Bible that support this. I suspect if we could have all the actual dates accurately recorded for all the events from creation we would see it even more clearly.
Point Summary: Elohim starts the year from the first month in the spring, He increments the year on the first month, and all countable years in the Bible are supposed to be 12 or 13 months in length, averaging to full solar years.
2) Daniel's 69 + 1 weeks of years
For brevity I will skip any attempt to pin the dates for the start of the 70 weeks because I don't think anyone can prove their dates by history and astronomy. But in this hypothesis I state that the 69th week ended not on the 10th of the first month per Robert Anderson but on Firstfruits at the Christ's resurrection. No, not on the 16th of the month as nowhere does the word specify a date for Firstfruits and it's impossible for Jesus/Yahshua to have been "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" from end of the 14th day to any part of the 16th day.
Read Matthew 12:40 and Jonah 2:2,6. Yes, Jonah died and went to Sheol. Both their dead bodies were kept in safety for 3 days & 3 nights before they were raised back to life! Peter, quoting David (Acts 2:27 & Psalms 16:10), said that the Father would not leave the Son in Sheol/Hades.
Bikkurim/Firstfruits (and Shavuot) are always on the first day of the week per Leviticus 23 and Hebrew days start and end at sunset. I propose here that it was Resurrection Day when the clock that was counting off Daniel's 70 weeks stopped.
BTW, almost every one of our English translations have an important detail wrong:
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruit{s} [Aparche = firstfruit, singular] of them that slept. - 1 Corinthians 15:20
It's "absotively, positutely" singular in Greek (the same in 15:23). The Greek tenses are very specific and the details can be important. Jesus was the Firstfruit! We are the firstfruits:
Of his own will he begat us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits [Aparchen, plural] of his creatures. - James 1:18
Point Summary: Daniel 9 said there would be 70 weeks of years to accomplish all the things stated. His math says there is still one week to go. In this hypothesis I state the 69th week ended at the Firstfruit resurrection at the beginning of the day the world calls Easter.
3) Details for the missing week of years
If points 1 and 2 are correct then the logical conclusion is that the prophetic clock will start again on the same day, the Moed of Bikkurim, the Appointed Day of Firstfruits, and it will start with:
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. - 1 Thessalonians 4:16
Isn't that an amazing thought that the first (in kind, not in sequence) resurrection could be on the very day on Elohim's calendar that He raised His son? "Then we who are alive will be changed" after minutes, hours, or days (no interval is given, only a distinct sequence). Maybe we will ascend to heaven on the 40th day of the omer (sheaves), the same day Jesus went to heaven?
About 6.5 years after the start of the 70th week would be when Jesus comes to finish off His enemies on Yom Teruah (Trumpets) and He would finish it on Yom Kippur. No, I don't think that the "shortened" days of Matthew 24:22 is changing the number of hours in a day nor that He will change the numbers fixed in prophecy, but that He will interfere before the end of the age, shortening the events so otherwise "no flesh be saved". If true then we can't use the Fall Moedim in our 2520/2550 day counts as they would run out in the spring.
Then 7 months (with an added 13th month) of cleansing the land of dead bodies would bring us back to the spring feasts again. Could it be that Jesus will be crowned king on the very day that He was crowned with thorns starting the 1000 year reign on earth?
I can hear the clicking keys. Many of you are going to www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html to start adding 1260, 2300, 2520, & 2550 days to different dates and then going to www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month.asp?tDate=4/1/2012 to see if any dates line up.
Be careful. There are many variables that one could assume incorrectly. Do you add 1260 or 1259 for inclusive date counting? Also, I don't know if these day counts are to be counted from the first day of the year or some event preceding or following it. These calendars, such as Chabad.org, are are based on the Hillel 2 calculated calendar invented in 359 AD - can we assume they are correct? No, they can be off by two days from the sighted moon and off by a month if they wrongly insert a 13th month (or not).
An example to consider: Over and over we see God doing His works on His appointed days. Possibly His greatest contemporary prophetic fulfillment was the rebirth of Israel in May of 1948. Declared on the 14th with the first actual day on the 15th, what days are these on the Hillel calendar? Iyar 5 & 6! Are those significant days on His calendar? Nope! But if the calculated calendar wrongly inserted a month that year, what days would these be? The 49th day of the omer and Shavuot, also called the Feast of Weeks and Pentecost!!!
Point Summary: I don't know what year, but I think there is a strong possibility that the Anastasin/Resurrection could be on what should be the most important day of our year - Firstfruits! On that day, or later, the Harpazo/Rapture would follow!
I am still looking for the day and the year of our final redemption but either it has not been revealed or I'm too numb to see it. For sure I will be looking and listening more than usual on April 7th and 8th! Maybe my favorite hypothesis will be proved true. Just maybe it will be this year.