I understand what is about to happen as a transition from the age of grace to an age of judgement.
In looking for Jesus I tend to focus on the one day event of us going home. That is definitely a transition moment.
Yet when I look in the scriptures, there were two detailed "age" transitions that were not just a one day moment as much as having taken place over about 4 months.
One is when the children of Israel came out of Egypt. The other is when Jesus pulled off our being able to have the Holy Spirit in each of us.
I am seeing the block of time for each of these as taking place over 4 months, or 120 days.
It makes sense to me that these transitions would involve 120 days during which something comes to a close while something new unfolds. Recall the 120 God referenced to Noah. Moses spent a total of 120 days on the Mount during his three sets of 40. Moses also was 120 when he died. There were about 120 folks in the upper room prior to receiving the Holy Spirit.
When Israel came out of Egypt, the moment centered around the Passover on the 14th, yet the Passover required the examination of the lamb(s) starting on the 10th. To determine the 10th, one had to tie it to the beginning of the month. Israel took 60 days (two months) to make it to Mt. Sinai. Moses came down from the Mount, after his first set of 40 days, with the tablets in hand at about the end of the 4th month or the very beginning of the 5th month. Basically 120 days.
Similar layout for when Jesus accomplished what He did for us, yet He accomplished a 40 prior to the disciples/followers having to then wait a 60. This also was a 120, starting on the 1st of Nisan and concluding at about the beginning of the 5th month.
My thinking is to take the above and see what is about to take place in similar terms. I am thinking we will all be gone on about the 3rd of August. This will be proceeded by a 40 (+3?) sign of Jonah to Ninevah. Counting 60 days from the 3rd of August takes me to Yom Kippur, the day I believe God will begin relating to individuals, per His just judgments, according to what they do.
I found something interesting in the extra-Biblical Book of Gad that echoes the above:
1And it came to pass on the first day of the seventh month, at New Year’s, in the four hundred and seventy- eighth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the second year of King Solomon’s reign over Israel, I had a vision from the LORD, when I was upon the Gihon spring [south of the city of David] 2And I raised my eyes, and lo, the heavens rolled back like a scroll, and I saw the glory of the LORD, sitting on an extremely high throne. 3And here is the appearance of the throne: twelve stairs led up to the throne (six of gold and six of silver), and there was a square back to the throne, like a sapphire stone. 4And at its right side were three chairs and at its left side were four chairs near the throne, like the seven[xl] that see the king’s face, covered with gold and silver and precious stones. 5And the glory of the LORD had the appearance like that of the rainbow, His covenant. 6And the host of heaven were standing before Him on His right hand and on His left, and Satan was standing by them, but behind them. The Books 7And then a man dressed in linen brought before the glory of the LORD three books that contained the records of every man. 8And he read the first book and it contained the just deeds of His people, and the LORD said, “These are granted eternal life.” 9And Satan said, “Who are these guilty people?” And the man dressed in linen cried to Satan like a ram’s horn saying, “Silence! This day is holy to our Lord.” 10And he read the second book, and it contained the unintentional sins of His people, and the LORD said, “Put that book aside, but save it, until one third of the month passes by, to see what they will do.” 11And he read the third book, and it contained the wicked deeds of His people. 12And the LORD said to Satan, “These are your share. Take them and do what you want with them.” 13And Satan took the wicked to a waste land to destroy them there. 14And the man dressed in linen cried like a ram’s horn, saying: 15“Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout [who look toward the Rapture], O LORD, who walk in the light of Your countenance.”
I pulled the above from Ken Johnson's book, "Ancient Book of Gad the Seer", chapter 14.
For those who do not know, the Bible references the Book?/Chronicles of Gad in I Chronicles 29:29-30, and references Gad himself in his role of serving King David in II Chronicles 29:25. (I am not presuming that this book should have been included in the cannon of the Scriptures.)
I believe that the upcoming judgement years will begin September 23/24 on the Feast of Trumpets/Shoutings. I find it VERY interesting that this is exactly 8 years from the Revelation 12 sign of 2017.
So, from August 3rd there are 50 days til Rosh Hashanah, with 10 days after til Yom Kippur. I speculate that something major may happen on September 23/24 and the following 10 days will be a time when people will reveal their hearts before God. I am thinking here of when Daniel offered to the King of Babylon's servant that he and his three friends be examined for 10 days.
In the same way there was a 60 day waiting time from when Israel left Egypt til they arrived at Mt. Sinai, and there was also a 60 day waiting period for the disciples/followers of Jesus from when Jesus ascended to when the Holy Spirit finally indwelt them, so to there will be a 60 day wait from when the full Body of Christ is removed from the world system to when men's hearts will be revealed before God on Yom Kippur.
For what it is worth.
Douglas