ESSENE CALENDAR
CHRONOLOGY
DELINEATIONS OF THE
AGES
Creation Week
Dispensations
by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.PostScripts.org
The purpose of this study is to depict on a timeline, the
Essene frame of mind and how they cataloged and delineated
‘time’ since Adam. What one has done is to break-down the
components of how they interpreted time. Then one has compared
that timeline with the congenital one that most Students of
End Time Prophecy are most familiar with and have worked with.
The community of the Essenes, their theology, what they
believed and how they lived has been limited to few sources.
It has not really been until the discovery of the Dead Sea
Scrolls that the topic of the Essenes has resurfaced. It is
mainly because all the Scrolls are attributed to how the Essene
Community kept them, studied them and believed them. The
following is the timeline of human history since Adam, according
to the Essene Calendar calculations. They delineate the span of
7000 Years into 4 Ages. The initial 3 Ages span 2000 Years each
with the remaining Sabbath Age for 1000 Years. The 4 Ages are as
follows.
1. Age of Chaos
2. Age of Torah
3. Ag of Grace (Church Age)
4. Age of Rest
Each Age is further divided into 4 sections of time
called Onahs. Each Onah consists of a duration of 500 Years each
to make an Age. A delineation of time is made with the Onahs in
that for each of the 4 Onahs, each is made-up of 10 Jubilees.
Thus, 10 segments of 50-Year equates to the 500 Years of 1 Onah.
14 Onahs x 500 Year Each = 7000
Years
There are a total of 12 Onah, excluding the 1000 Year ‘Age of
Rest’ or the Millennial Kingdom. One conjectures that each of
the 12 Onah corresponds to 1 of the 12 Constellations of the
Sky. And that in turn constitutes the 12 Tribes of Israel,
respectively. But the total amount of Onah to complete the
7000 Year Age of Man on Earth is 14. Then the next count has to
do with how many Onahs there are that equate this same
time-frame. According to the Essenes, the 3 initial Ages are
made-up of 120 Jubilee Counts of 50 Years. This brings the
timeline to 6000 Years, excluding the Age of Rest.
50 Years x 120 Jubilees = 6000
Years
Forbidden Fruit
With the Age of Rest included, the Jubilee Count will be 140
Jubilees. What the Essene Calendar appears to convey, is that it
is also based on the 7-Day Creation Week Pattern of
Dispensations. Of course, the study of the Essenes is not
without controversy. They are seen as either a Cult, a Sect, a
‘Radical Fringe Group’ to the Sons and Disciples of the Zadok
Priest who maintained the pure form of Torah Judaism. Or that it
was just too ‘Christian’ for the Pharisees and Sadducees as they
hijacked Judaism to be practiced as it is today.
But most notably, due to the research and work of Dr. Ken
Johnson of BibleFacts.org, he is the one that has brought to
light and life, the resurgence in the interest in the Essene
Calendar. Primarily, it is because the Essenes calculated the
Year of the Messiah’s Death. That year would be in the Gregorian
Year, 32 AD. And that more astonishingly, that based on their
timeline, the Year 2075 was when the start of the last Sabbath
Cycle would complete the last Prophetic Week of Daniel.
2025 + 50 Year (1 Jubilee) = 2075
But here is the controversy or discrepancy of their timeline.
They surmise, by their count, that it will not be until the Year
2075 that the last Age, that Age of Rest and the start of the
13th Onah or the 130th Jubilee will start. This makes then a
Year Factor of 50 Years or 1 Jubilee of a difference to account
for. That is the mystery that plagues those that subscribe to
the Essene Calendar calculations.
To possibly rectify this 50 Year discrepancy is that,
perhaps after Jesus returns to set up the Age of Rest, 1000 Year
Reign on Earth from Jerusalem, there will be a 43 Year
transition time. One has always ‘romantically’ envisioned that
once Jesus returns, it would be only within those 75 Days,
‘Extra’, mentioned also in Daniel’s Equations. One has thought,
and it still can be the case, that it would only take 75 Days
for the transition from the Tribulation Period to enter into the
Kingdom Age.
But what if it is 43 Years according to 1 interpretation based
on the Essene Count? Here is one’s rationale and
conjecture. It is modelled after the Israelites entered the
Promised Land. So, the return of Modern Day Israel, perhaps will
dictate the same prophetic blueprint of sorts. Consider the
prophetic template given to Moses by Jehovah about ‘Entering the
Land’ from Leviticus 19:23-24.
‘When you enter the Land and plant any kind of Tree for food,
you shall regard the Fruit as forbidden. For 3 Years it will
be forbidden to you and must not be eaten. In the 4th Year all
its fruit must be consecrated as a Praise Offering to the
LORD’.
Then consider the Parable of the Unfruitful Fig Tree. This is
why one is more convinced that the prophetic countdown should be
1952, not 1948. As Israel entered back to the Promised Land, in
1948, the Land had to ‘Wait’ for its Fruit to be consecrated and
not ‘Forbidden Fruit’. Thus, it would be in 1952, which happened
to be synchronized back to the Shemitah Count that one uses to
determine then, the possible End of the Church Age in one’s
estimation.
1948 + 4 Year Fruit Probation = 1952 + 80 Year Generation =
2032 + 1 = 2033 - 7 Years = 2026
Consider that one must use ‘Complete Years’ in this equation.
This is to emphasize that the 80 Year Count that lands on 2032
must be 2033, all-inclusive of the days of that last year. Thus,
what if this same Forbidden Fruit Probation of the New
Millennial Promised Land will also be in-play? What if after
Jesus returns, say in 2033 as one presently surmises, and one
adds a 40 Year factor of ‘Testing’ and then the 3 Year Fruit
Probation for a total of 43 Years from 2032?
2032 + 40 Years of Testing = 2072 + 3 Years of Fruit
Probation = 2075
That would end in 2075 and Synchronize with the Essene Calendar.
All just interesting to consider and contemplate as Conjecture.
It is just that one does not have ‘all’ the information and the
data on the Scrolls has been selectively released. In one's
case, there are parts of the Essene calculations that one agrees
with, like the 32 AD Crucifixion Year and the 2026 start of the
Tribulation, perhaps.
But it is only because one has come to these calculations
independently of one knowing about the Essenes and their
teachings. So, one has to wait and see if one’s theories and
calculations will turn out to be true, as well as that of the
Essenes with their 2075 Year, the start of the Age of Rest.
However, if the Essenes have it ‘wrong’ in one aspect, then all
of it should be to, and vice versa, and that is the best one can
do or go by, as far as prophetic calculations go.
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Essene Calendar of the Ages
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