Hi:
> > if we
are still here what then?? if the mid point of the
“seventieth week” is the 11th then we should be gone
then. But if we are still here does it mean that the
seventieth week hasn’t started or did you make a
booboo in your calculations or what?? Paul
Unlike
Ron Reese and other like-minded people, I don’t
think April 11, 2012, is the true mid-point of the
Tribulation. I think it will be Nov. 8/9, 2012. They
must not have studied the Hebrew Calendar very much.
I studied it enough to be able to reconstruct the
calendar back from 1BC to 5 BC one time.
Counting
the Tribulation as being 1260 + 1260 days HAS TO BE
ESTIMATED TIME on the Hebrew Calendar. It is like
saying 3.5 years. No actual 3.5-year span of time
actually has 1260 days, or 42 x 30-day months,
or 3.5 x 360-day years. In that span of time,
we would have had one or two leap years with a 13th
month.
As for days in a
month, they vary. There are 12 or 13 months that can
have 29 or 30 days. Here is the way they vary. Nisan (always 30), Iyar (always 29), Sivan (always 30), Tammuz (always 29), Av (always 30), Elul (always 29), Tishri (always 30), Cheshvan (29 or 30), Kislev (29 or 30), Tevet (always 29), Shevat (always 30), and Adar (always 29). Like last
year, the leap years have 13 months. Adar I is added
after Shevat, and the regular Adar is changed to
Adar II (always 29).
No year has 360
days. There can only be 353, 354, 355, 383, 384, or
385 days in a year.
Ex 23:16 says
that the season of the fall Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth),
is called "the end of the year." The Sacred Year
always begins with Nisan 1 in the spring. Therefore,
the first day of the Sacred, Regnal and Jubilee
Years are always Nisan 1. It is the coming of the
next Jubilee Year that is always announced on the
previous Day of Atonement so people can make plans
for the Jubilee Year ahead of time.
Jesus’ birthday
was Tishri 1, when the sign of Rev 12 was in the
sky. He announced the Jubilee Year on the Day of
Atonement near his birthday in 27 AD. The Jubilee
was in 28 AD. He was crucified on Thursday, Nisan
13, 3790, April 6, 30 AD. He died about 3 PM when
the priests were beginning to kill the Passover
lambs at the Temple. Those lambs had to be baked and
eaten before midnight on Passover, Friday, Nisan 14.
If they hadn’t been eaten by midnight, six hours
after Nisan 14 began, when they were in Egypt, their
firstborn would have died.
Back to our
subject, there are always 7 days in a week, and
Sabbatic years are always every 7th year. Those have
never varied. The Jubilee Cycle is a 49-year cycle.
The 50th year is always the first day of the new
cycle. If it wasn’t that way, the Sabbatic Years and
the Jubilee Years would fall out of sync. There are
always 7 Sabbatic years followed by a Jubilee year,
which is day 1 of the new cycle.
I
count the first half of the Tribulation as 1260
days, and think the last half of the Tribulation
will be shortened to 1040 days. That puts Mid-Trib
on Nov 8/9, 2012, figuring the 2300 days by
inclusive reckoning, because it is a block of time.
Even this may not plot Mid-Trib perfectly, but it
will be close enough for people to identify the
False Prophet when he sits in the Temple presenting
himself as God.
2Th 2:4
says, “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that
he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God.” Fri,
preparation of the Sabbath, Nov 9, 2012 = Cheshvan
24, 5773.
“AT THE TIME OF
THE END SHALL BE THE VISION”
We are living in
the time of the end. Dan 8:13-17 says, “Then I heard
one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that
certain saint which spake, How long shall be the
vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the
transgression of desolation, to give both the
sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and
three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be
cleansed. 15 And it came to pass, when I, even
I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the
meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the
appearance of a man. 16 And I heard a man's
voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and
said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the
vision. 17 So he came near where I stood: and
when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face:
but he said unto me, UNDERSTAND, O SON OF MAN: FOR
AT THE TIME OF THE END SHALL BE THE VISION.”
I think “THE TIME
OF THE END” represents the whole 2300-day
Tribulation. We are living in the time of the end. I
think the Tribulation began on Pentecost, May 29,
2009, and will end on the Day of God’s Wrath, the
Feast of Trumpets, Sept 14, 2015. The vision is for THE time
of the end. Gabriel said it. There is no way we can
get around it. Therefore, we should take it into
consideration when figuring the length of the
Tribulation, which is the specific TIME OF THE END.
Using
estimated time (30 days in a month, 12 months in a
year, 360 days in a year, 1260 days in 3.5 years),
Ron Reece figures that there are 1260 days in the
first half of the Tribulation (which he starts on
Oct 29, 2008) and 1260 days in the last half (which
he ends on the Day of Atonement, Sept 23, 2015).
However,
Scripture says that the last half is to be
shortened. 2300 - 1260 = 1040. Therefore,
subtracting 1040 days from the Day of God’s Wrath,
the Feast of Trumpets, Sept 14, 2015, I get Sept 8,
2012. Adding 1260 days to the beginning of the
Tribulation, Pentecost, May 29, 2009, is Nov 9,
because the 2300-day block of time should be figured
by inclusive reckoning.
I think the Day
of God’s Wrath has to be on the Feast of Trumpets. Joel 1:15 says, “Alas
for the day! for the DAY OF THE LORD is at hand, and
as a DESTRUCTION from the Almighty shall it come.”
Joel 2:1-11 says, “Blow
ye the TRUMPET in Zion, and sound an alarm in my
holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land
tremble: for the DAY OF THE LORD cometh, for it is
nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of
gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness,
as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great
people and a strong (Gog’s army); there hath not
been ever the like, neither shall be any more
after it, even to the years of many generations.
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind
them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of
Eden before them, and behind them a desolate
wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the
appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall
they run. :5 Like the noise of chariots on
the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the
noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the
stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be much
pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 7
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb
the wall like men of war; and they shall march
every one on his ways, and they shall not break
their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust
another; they shall walk every one in his path:
and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not
be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in
the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall
climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at
the windows like a thief. 10 The earth shall
quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the
sun and the moon shall be dark (as in Rev
6:12-17), and the stars shall withdraw their
shining: 11 And the LORD shall utter his
voice before his army: for his camp is very great:
for he is strong that executeth his word: for the
DAY OF THE LORD is great and very terrible; and
who can abide it?”
As I see it, the
Day of the Lord, which is the Day of God’s Wrath is
the Feast of Trumpets, Sept 14, 2015. The two
asteroids of Rev 8:8-11 will impact Earth that day.
The Sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky.
Jesus will be seen sitting on his throne, because
that will be the first day of his millennial reign.
He will purge his kingdom at the outset, as Solomon,
the son of David, did. The Israelites that are left
will repent and keep the Day of Atonement, Sept 23,
2015. Since every wall will fall in the worldwide
earthquake (Eze 38:18f), the Israelites will have to
erect hastily built booths out of scraps to sleep in
and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
I think that
Feast of Trumpets will also be the day of the
Last-Trump Rapture (I Cor 15:51-54; Rev 6:17, 7:14).
No wonder God will wipe away their tears, they will
get out of here by the skin of their teeth before
the asteroid hits. That will be Jesus’ (Joshua’s
from the Hebrew) Long Day, of which Joshua’s Long
Day was a type. Earth will be turned upside down
that day. It will take some time for it to regain
its equilibrium. Every wall will fall, so cities
will be in shambles.
Rev 16:19-21
says, ”And the great city (Jerusalem) was divided
into three parts, and the cities of the nations
fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before
God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the
fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away,
and the mountains were not found. 21 And there fell
upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone
about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God
because of the plague of the hail; for the plague
thereof was exceeding great.”
Agape,
Marilyn Agee