ESSENES CALENDAR
WHEN DID THE CHURCH AGE BEGIN AND WILL END?
Does the Church Age continue into the Tribulation Period?
by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
One was asked about the Topic of the Essenes and their
Calendar, how 2025 appears to be when the 7-Year Tribulation
could occur, based on this Calendar. If that be the case, one
surmises that it would be towards the End of the Year, just
after the Shemini Atzert-Simchat Torah Minor Feasts. The only
real connection or ‘Validation’ one could provide or did, was
how in one’s Research, the 32 AD Year appears to be the
Crucifixion Year, in one’s Estimation. And thus, the start of
the Church Age, i.e., the Age of Grace, etc. It was later that
one also contacted Ken Johnson to share one’s Research on the
32 AD Calculation, to show that others had this Year in their
Research.
The other Major Piece of one’s Research was also ‘Validated’
in how the Feast of the New Wine was recognized, kept and
celebrated by the Essenes. They had the Temple Scroll that
brought to light the 3 Penta-Feasts of First Fruits; that of
the Wheat, Whine and the Oil, etc. However, one has a slight
variation in the Feasts are predicated on the Spring Equinox,
a Parallel Exodus Timeline and how one interprets Leviticus
23:16. That is to say, that one is presently holding to a July
23 Date. It also happens to coincide with the End of the Wheat
Harvest in Ancient Times and how it is the Start of the Leo
New Year. Now, as to ‘What Year?’ That Year is still yet to be
determined.
One subsequently wrote 2 Books about all this mentioned and
how it is linked to the Essenes. The Research included their
Timeline of Human History, as outlined in the Fall 2025 to
Fall 2032 Timeline. But with that, one’s only discrepancy is
when the Essenes calculated the New Religious Near, celebrated
the First Fruit of the New Wine and when the Church Age began
and is to end. One is not saying one is ‘Right’ as there are
some Questions about the Essene Timeline. Here is the Issue
with their Timeline, apparently. 2075 is the End of the Church
Age to them. It started in 75 AD.
What about the actual Year that the Church Age was Paid For,
i.e., the Bride? And how Pentecost, in that same Year
inaugurated the Church Age Commission with that Power and
Authority? This was already given by Jesus in His Subsequent
Appearances by the Sea of Galilee. To the Essenes, the Church
Age started 5 Years after the Temple was Destroyed by Rome.
Perhaps, that is how they calculated when the Church Age was
to have begun and will end. However, the Year Discrepancy from
32 AD to 70 AD is 43 Years of a Difference. That is a
significant ‘Gap of Time’ to account for and reconcile, which
not too many or no End Times Student of Prophecy have done,
not even Ken Johnson.
2025 Start of last Jubilee + 50 Years = 2075 End of Age of
Grace (Return of Jesus?)
The Church Age
If the Year 2025-26 starts the Last Jubilee (2025 + 50 =
2075), the Essene Timeline then still has 43 Years to go,
accounting for the 7-Year Tribulation Period for the Church
Age to End. However, one is convinced that the Church Age,
‘Officially’ ends once the Rapture-Resurrection Event occurs.
And soon thereafter, the Judgment of the World, Israel and
Lucifer begins. That cannot be within the Time-Frame of the
Continuation of the Church Age of Grace. There will be no
Grace during the Tribulation Period. This is the Issue. Israel
will be operating under the reinstitution of the Mosaic Law.
This is what one is more convinced of is the ‘Making a
Covenant with the Many’, as in with the 70 Elders of Israel
and returning to the Law of Moses, Etc. Then the World will be
under their Noahide Laws. This will stipulate that if any
Non-Jew breaks Law #1, ‘Not to have any other Gods but GOD’,
then they will be put to Death. The Penalty is Capital
Punishment, and that by Guillotine. Coincidence? No. Then the
entire World will be under some sort of U.N. Sovereignty Type
of Law that will be International in scope. So, one is yet to
Reconcile and Account for the 42 Year Discrepancy from 2025.
It will remain to be seen or ascertained with more Study
and/or Direct Revelation from the Holy Spirit about it.
However, as mentioned prior Research, it would appear that the
Year 2025 is a Pivotal Year of sorts. As noted by some, you
have the U.N. Lucis Trust Blavatsky insinuating how 2025 is
when their Luciferian World Order and ‘Master’ is to arrive
On-the-Scene. According to the Deagel Report, there will be at
least a 1/3 Reduction in Populations in the USA, England and
Germany.
This could be attributed to Abortion, Chemicals in the Air,
Food and Water, the Usual Suspects. But also, the COVID
Kill-Shots that has silently fizzled-out of the Media Talking
Points, as Millions have died of its Adverse Effects continue
to die from it. But what if the Rapture could also help
explain such a drastic reduction of the Populations? Below is
the Discrepancy in the Essene Timeline that has been noted.
From 32 AD Crucifixion of Jesus to 75 AD after Temple
Destroyed = 43 Years
75 AD Essence start of Church Age to 2025 = 2000 Year Age
From 2025 start of Last Jubilee to 2075 End of Essene
Church Age = 50 Years
From 2025 start of Last Jubilee to 2075 – 7 Year
Tribulation Period = 43 Years
Thus, based on the Essene Church Age and factoring-out the
7-Year Tribulation Period, it would mean that if the
Rapture-Resurrection Event is to precede Jacob’s Trouble, then
the latest the Rapture Event would or could occur is the Year
2068. Will the Church Age actually stretch-out that long? With
the Threat of Imminent World War 3, Israel being attacked on 7
Fronts, the World going Mad with Perversion, Violence and
Thievery, one honestly does not see Humanity making it another
40+ Years. The other Prophetic Piece of the Puzzle has to do
with the Fig Tree Generation. This is of course if one
believes Jesus was inferring Israel as the Fig Tree. If not,
then who is the Fig Tree?
Fig Tree Generation
Nonetheless, if one applies the 80 Year Generation, ‘If by
Strength’ to when Geo-Political Israel was declared on May 14,
1948, then one has until the Year 2028 to ‘Figure this all
out’. Coincidentally, a Fellow Brother in Christ, Stephan,
that is excellent with Numbers and Mathematics posted the
following, with Edits for emphasis made. One is not so sure
about the entire Church Age being ‘hinged’ upon who and what
the Essenes did. This is where one would ‘Agree to Disagree’,
but it is always Good to hear other’s Perspectives.
‘It cannot be Coincidence that the Revelation 12 Sign was 7
Years, 7 Months and 7+7+7 Days before May 14, 2025, the 77th
Birthday of Israel’.
One can perhaps see how the Church Age would have started
after the Temple was destroyed, that would spell the ‘End of
the Age of Torah’. But that means that the 75 AD Year would
not have been or could not have been since 75 AD was 5 Years
after 70 AD. Any Reason for that? There was that 38 Year
overlap of Salvation now only attained in Jesus, i.e., Grace,
but the Torah Sacrificial Ordinances were still being
performed daily at the Temple, from 32 AD until the 70 AD
destruction of the Temple.
And according to prevailing Historical Accounts, the
Sacrificial Ordinances or the Daily Sacrifices had ceased in
70 AD not 75 AD. In this case, one can see, in terms of ‘Ages’
how the Church Age would have started there and then after the
Temple was torn down. That was sometime in August of 70 AD.,
etc. So, if the Church Age then started in 70 AD and one
applies the same Prophetic Template of the Essenes, then the
following is based on the Essene Definition of an Age, being
2000 Years.
70 AD End of Temple Sacrifices + Start and End of Church
Age 2000 Years = 2070
If one then factors-out the 7-Year Tribulation, then that
would leave 2063 Years. So, from the Year 2025 that the
Essenes calculate will be the start of the Last 50 Year
Jubilee, would mean that there are still 38 Years to go before
the ‘Church Age’, based on a 70 AD Destruction of the Temple
is to occur. One is not entirely convinced of it.
Interestingly, the difference of 38 Years is the same as from
32 AD to 70 AD. It is also the same amount of Years that the
Invalid was in his Condition, due to Sin at the Pool of
Siloam, as a Metaphor for Israel, etc.
One is aware that not all believe that the Church Age started
at the Acts 2 Pentecost nor the Day Jesus Died and was
Resurrected with His New Body, etc. If the Church Age did not
start then, then who were the People or Body that met in the
1st Council of Jerusalem to take-up matters about the
Salvation of the Gentiles? Was that not the Home Church? Yet
following such a Historical Account given in Acts, it is
precisely what Grace is all about and how the Apostles taught
that the Old Temple Sacrificial Ordinances were ‘Null and
Void’. It was and is about replacing all those Mosaic
Ordinances that were but Object Lesions. It reminds one of
what the following Verse.
‘But when that which is Perfect [Jesus] is come, then that
which is in Part [Law] shall be done away’. -1
Corinthians 13:10
Transitions
So, one’s Question was and is, when did the ‘New’ come and
when did the ‘Old’ go away? One is just defending that the
Scripture was fulfilled, to the Day at the Point and Time of
Jesus’ Death-Burial-Resurrection. >From that very Second
that Jesus rose from the Grave, the Mosaic Sacrificial Animal
Blood Ordinances ceased to be efficacious for their Atonement
that was only Temporary, at best. What the Jews continued to
sacrifice thereafter, all the way to 70 AD was ‘Empty
Religious Observations’. It was as the New Testament teaches
about having a Form but without the Power. That is the
Definition of Religion.
Perhaps one can accept that there was a Transition occurring
from 32 AD to 70 AD, but one does not use or comprehend a 75
AD that the Essenes based their whole ‘Age’ Delineations by.
So, the Argument for a 75 AD start of the Church Age is
because of the Essenes or the Jews no longer had the Torah
Sacrificial Ordinances being able to be performed because they
no longer have the Temple. Well, one is not there just yet.
Here is one’s Point. The Death, Burial and Resurrection of
Jesus started the Age of Grace or it did not.
This is regardless of the Transition or Definition of when the
‘Ages’ stopped or began, according to the Essenes or any other
Interpretation. If it is about Semantics in that the Age of
Torah had to end with the Destruction of the Temple in order
for the ‘Age of Grace’ Roll-Out? Sure. Again, there was an
‘Overlap’, a Transition as it is now occurring also, in
Reverse Order. It is because the same Church Age that occurred
since 32 AD is coming to a Close, in one’s Estimation. And
that will be a Specific Day and Time as it was with the
Crucifixion and the Acts 2 Pentecost. One is convinced that it
will be the Resurrection-Rapture Event that will conclusively
end the Church Age.
This is why one is more convinced, at least at this Point in
one’s Learning Curve, that the Bride of Christ is what will be
extracted or ‘Harvested’ from the entire Body of Christ. Not
all who say ‘I am a Christian’ will go in the Rapture. Why
not? It goes back to the Parable of the 10 Virgins. It goes
back to how the 7 Churches of Asia were full of Jezebels and
Nicolaitans. Only Sardis and the Philadelphian Types get to
Escape in that Door that is opened for them because of their
Commitment and Conviction to be faithful to Jesus. The Church
Age Believers in Jesus are under the Age of Grace. These will
not go into the Tribulation. But all those in Willful and
Unrepentant Sin will.
The Confirming of the Mosaic Covenant and reinstitution of
Animal Blood Sacrifices will function during the Tribulation
Period. It will replace the Age of Grace. It will be as it was
with that 38 Year Overlap from Jesus’ Death, Burial and
Resurrection and the Empowering and Indwelling of the Holy
Spirit at the Acts 2 Pentecost to the Destruction of the
Temple in 70 AD, etc. The Difference? It will be localized as
the Body of Christ, corporately will no longer be present on
Earth as it is now. So, to reiterate, here is where the
Confusion may be identified with. One has to delineate the
Church Age with Reconstituted Israel. The Church Age will not
coincide with the Body or House of Israel. Grace will still be
in operation during the Tribulation Period. But Salvation will
only occur individually. This is what is occurring presently,
but such will not be part of the Bride.
Age of Moses
This is despite the Jews reconstituting the Daily Sacrifices
to procure the Blood of Animals to cover their Sins, etc. But
that is what was the case during the Transitional Period from
32 AD to 70 AD. The Day after the Rapture, that Evacuates the
Church Body from Earth, i.e., the Bride of Christ, will be
removed from Earth. People can and will still come to Jesus,
by Faith, not Animal Sacrifices, etc. But one’s Point is that
after the Rapture, there will be no ‘Transition’ as there is
no more Age of Grace. It is the Jews that will, nonetheless,
reestablish their Daily Sacrifices on the rebuilt 3rd Temple.
Realize that the only ‘Transition’ or Gap from the Rapture to
the 1st Daily Sacrifice will be once that 1st Daily Sacrifice
is offered in the 3rd Temple. The Rapture Event will close-out
the Church Age, to the Day, as it will be as a Wheat Harvest,
in one’s Interpretation. Then the Prophetic Focus will shift
back to Israel, it will be under the Age of Torah, as before.
That has been done away with in Jesus, but the Jews will
continue to perform Empty Religious Requitals from where they
left off in 70 AD. They think and believe it is what will
Atone or cover their Sins with the Blood of Animals.
So, these useless Observations will commence with the Temple
with the start of the Daily Sacrifices which will initiate the
Countdown to Jesus’ Return, 2520 Days. That is to insinuate
that the Covenant with the Many will be the reestablishment of
the Mosaic Covenant. That is the Covenant the Jews are
Missile-Locked on and are anticipating. The start of the Daily
Sacrifice will only serve, in one’s Interpretation of when the
‘Stop-Watch’ for the exact Day Count of the 2 Sections of 1260
Days are to be determined, i.e., the 7-Year Tribulation
Period, etc. But once the Rapture Event occurs, the Day After
will no longer be the Age of the Church.
Technically there will be Grace, as those People that come to
Jesus will still be based on Grace. But here is the Issue with
the Essene ‘Ages’, According to one’s Logic, the 7-Year
Tribulation Period dictates when Jesus is to return as that is
how the Timeline concludes with. And thereafter, there will be
the 7th Day or the concluding 7000th Year Millennial Kingdom
on Earth, etc. And even this 7th Day will have, perhaps, a
Transitional Interface. How Long? Months, Years, Decades? If
one presumes the Essene Calendar and Age Calculations, it will
be Decades, up to the Year 2075. It could be the case. But
then, why in Daniel does it state that here is a 75 Day Marker
noted after the Tribulation Period of 2520 Days all-inclusive?
Is this not the Transition from the Tribulation Period to the
Kingdom Age? Or perhaps the Church Age or rather, the Age of
Grace still does extend to that Time and Place that includes
the 7-Year Tribulation Period, all the same. If the Rapture
Event could happen ‘Sooner rather than Later’, in the whole
scope of the Essene Age Timelines, the Factors of the
Transitions that seem to be a Running Theme in-between the
Ages or Dispensations could then find their fulfillment in
some sure way. Perhaps. But it is a Historical fact that the
Age of Torah was still in effect until 70 AD, despite the Age
of Grace, being initiated with Jesus’ Death, Burial and
Resurrection, and then the Empowering and Indwelling occurring
on that Acts 2 Pentecost.
The Last Jubilee
If the Age of Torah did not ‘Officially’ end until then, then
the Time after the Rapture, when the Temple and Daily
Sacrifices will be reestablished, means that the Age of Torah
is not over or was not ‘Done’ and has to come back as Israel
did. This has to be the case if one follows the Logic of the
Transitions implied. So, when did the Age of Grace ‘End’ or
will End then, despite the Resurrection-Rapture Event
occurring that will then facilitate the Transition to the
Tribulation Temple and start of the Daily Sacrifices?
If 2025, being the Last Jubilee according to the Essenes, is
when the Tribulation is to occur, presuming the Rapture Event
also occurs concurrently, then 7 Years later is when Jesus is
to Return, i.e., 2032, etc. And if one then holds to the
Essene Timeline and Definition of an Age, then if 2075 means
that there are 43 Years that the Transition to the Start of
the Millennial Kingdom is to possibly then occur.
This is if one presumes that 75 AD is when the Age of Torah
Ended and the Age of Grace began, which one does not agree
with. However, if one factors the Interpretation that
technically, the Age of Torah ended with the Destruction of
the Temple in 70 AD rather, that no longer enabled the Daily
Sacrifices to be performed, then the Timeline Equation would
be the following.
2070 AD -2025 = 45 Years – 7 Year Tribulation = 38 Year
Factor of a Difference
To be continued…
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