Chance,

Thanks for your feedback concerning my tribulation time line that I portrayed in one of my recent posts.... that time line being generated due to the wording in Psalm 119.

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2019/johnb113-1.htm

And your reply to that post.....

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2019/chance127-1.htm

 

Chance......Let me explain to you how I came to the conclusions that I did concerning this time line.

As you and most Doves know there appears to be a direct correlation between the numbering of the Psalms and the corresponding calendar year. That said, I took a closer look at Psalm 119 (2019) after reading a post on 5Doves by Andrea who pointed out that the phrase “Thy Word” appeared 42 times in the course of 168 verses within the total of 176 verses of Psalm 119. And.... the phrase “Thy Word”didn't show up at all until the ninth verse....an offset of 8 verses and then the phrase to continue to the end of the 176 verses.

 

With these facts in mind, I wondered what would happen if I converted these 176 verses to weeks but only included 168 of them because that's where we see the phrase “Thy Word” used. And again, the phrase “Thy Word” didn't appear until after 8 verses had transpired or not until the ninth verse.

Obviously 176 weeks (verses) are much more than 52 weeks in a year so I surmised that this Psalm 119 was projecting into the future those 176 weeks or giving an overview for that many weeks.

And the fact that “Thy Word” didn't show up until after the eighth verse (week) had ended...... told me that there was an offset of eight weeks starting from 1 January 2019 before “Thy Word” was to be preached. An offset of those 8 weeks (verses) brings us to 1 March 2019. This 1 March date would become the starting point where there would be 168 weeks left of the 176 weeks. 176-8=168. Again the weeks where “Thy Word” shows up or in this case the weeks where the gospel is to be preached by the two witnesses.

With these time frames in mind I proposed that the two witnesses ministry would start 1 March 2019 and extend through those 168 weeks terminating at or near 1 June 2022.

And the math I used.....

12 months =1 year

42 months = 3.5 years

42 months x 4 weeks per month = 168 weeks

 

That said, if one projects ahead from 1 March 2019 168 weeks I believe it lands on 1 June 2022.

Here's how I came to that conclusion using those 168 weeks.

An offset of 8 weeks from 1 January 2019 until 1 March 2019 would leave 44 weeks left in 2019. 52-8=44

The years 2020 and 2021 would each have 52 weeks for a total of 104 weeks.

That brings us into the year 2022 and in order to reach that total of 168 weeks we need to add 20 weeks to the rest to reach that total. 44+104+20=168 weeks.

So... 20 weeks into 2022 at 4 weeks per month would be 4 weeks for January through May totaling those 20 weeks bringing one to approximately 1 June 2022 as I had forecast in my previous post.

 

So Chance.....this is how I projected the dates, I used weeks because God seemed to use weeks. If one used days as you did the overview seemingly becomes skewed.

If one uses the 1260 day count by the biblical method you would get.....

1260 days divided by 30 days in a month to equal 42 months.

And 42 months times 4 weeks per month would equal 168 weeks.

 

If one converts these 168 weeks / verses to days (which would I believe be Gregorian days).....then I believe a different overview / picture is the result....as you pointed out.

 

I believe that these 168 weeks divided by 4 weeks a month equals the 42 months or half of the 7 year tribulation period. Or 1260 days (as per Revelation 11) divided by 30 days in a month would again equal 42 months.

 

With that said, let me project as I calculated it....by weeks.....what the last 168 weeks would look like and where things would fall into place.

So..... from where we left off at 1 June 2022 (which would be the half way point of the 7 years) there would be 32 weeks remaining in 2022.

The years 2023 and 2024 would both have 52 weeks for a total of 104 weeks.

In order to reach our total of 168 weeks for the second half of the 7 years we would now have to go 32 weeks into 2025 to reach that total. 32+104+32=168

 

When one projects 32 weeks into 2025 we reach 1 September 2025.

4 weeks per month x 8 months would span the 32 weeks bringing us to 1 September 2025 if calculated in weeks.

 

 

Hopes this clears up the muddy water for you Chance.....and I agree with you if all of this is viewed in days.....that water is indeed muddy.

 

Blessings.......John B