SIGNIFICANT WEEKS

     THERE ARE SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT WEEKS OF SEVEN DAYS TO CONSIDER:  CREATION WEEK, THE WEEK OF THE FLOOD, THE WEEK OF THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT, THE WEEK OF THE CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION, THE WEEK BEFORE ROSH HASHANAH, AND THE LAST WEEK OF THE MILLENIAL REIGN.

     THE SIGNIFICANT WEEKS THAT ARE PAST ARE LOADED WITH EVENTS.  USUALLY, DEATH IS INVOLVED.  FOR CREATION WEEK, THERE IS THE LAMB OF GOD, SLAIN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (REVELATION 13:8).  METHUSELAH DIED THE WEEK BEFORE THE FLOOD, AND THE LEFT BEHIND ANTEDILUVIANS AFTER.  FOR THE WEEK OF THE EXODUS, THE PASCHAL LAMB WAS SELECTED ON THE 10^th DAY OF AVIV, SACRIFICED AT PASSOVER ON THE 14^th DAY OF AVIV, THEN THE THREE DAYS JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS (EXODUS 3:18 AND EXODUS 5:3).  “RED SEA DAY”, THEN, WAS THE 17^th DAY OF AVIV.  THE PASCHAL LAMB WAS SELECTED ON WHAT BECAME PALM SUNDAY, SACRIFICED AT PASSOVER, AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CROSSED THE RED SEA ON DRY LAND ON THE 17^th DAY OF AVIV, THE DAY THAT WOULD BECOME RESURRECTION SUNDAY.  FOR THE WEEK OF THE CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION, THE 17^th OF AVIV FALLS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK (MATTHEW 28:1; MARK 16:1,2; LUKE 24:1; JOHN 20:1), AND WAS THE DAY OF FIRSTFRUITS.

     THE SIGNIFICANT WEEK OF THE CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION USHERED IN THE CHURCH AGE.  THERE WILL BE A LAST WEEK OF THE CHURCH AGE – COULD IT BE EVENTFUL?  COULD IT BE POSSIBLE THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF SIDON (EZEKIEL 28:20-26), DESTRUCTION OF DAMASCUS (ISAIAH 17:1), THE PSALM 83 SCENARIO, AND GOG AND MAGOG OCCUR IN THAT WEEK?  IT SHOULD OCCUR IN THE TIME OF NEW WINE.  DURING SELICHOT, THE LAST WEEK OF NEW WINE, SPECIAL PENITENTIAL PRAYERS ARE SAID.  MIGHT THE WEEK OF SELICHOT IN SOME YEAR BE THE LAST WEEK OF THE CHURCH AGE?  THE NEXT DAY IS ROSH HASHANAH, WHICH JEWISH LITURGY HOLDS AT THE APPOINTED TIME (MO’ED) WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM, THE WEDDING OF MESSIAH, THE CORONATION, THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AS WELL AS THE BEGINNING OF THE TIME OF TROUBLE ON EARTH.  THERE IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK:  ROSH HASHANAH AND THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM TO COME, BY JOSEPH GOOD, SHOWING HOW THE LORD FULFILLED THE APPOINTED TIME (MO’ED) OF THE FIRST THREE SPRING FEASTS (A WEEK OF DAYS) EXACTLY, AND WILL FULFILL THE APPOINTED TIME (MO’ED) OF THE FALL FEASTS (A WEEK OF YEARS) EXACTLY.

     MATTHEW 24:36 (BUT OF THE DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN …) DOES NOT PERTAIN TO THE FALL FEASTS.  THE ANTECEDENT, MATTHEW 24:35, STATES THAT HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY.  THE TIME OF HEAVEN AND EARTH PASSING AWAY IS THE DAY AND HOUR THAT NO MAN KNOWS, NOT THE EVENTS OF THE SECOND ADVENT.

     THE LAST WEEK OF THE MILLENIAL REIGN MAY COINCIDE WITH THE WEEK OF SUKKOT.  POSSIBLY REVELATION 20:7-10 IS IN VIEW.  NEW HEAVENS & A NEW EARTH MAY OCCUR ON SHEMINI ATZERET & SIMCHAT TORAH, CELEBRATED ON THE SAME DAY PRIOR TO JERUSALEM BEING DESTROYED IN 70 A.D.

     THE LAST TWO SIGNIFICANT WEEKS REMAIN TO BE SEEN.  DRAMATIC THEY MAY BE!