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