We can calculate the year for the
return of our Lord by examining the 50 year
cycle of Jubilees.
The Jewish New Year is
primarily celebrated on the Feast of Trumpets,
the first day of the seventh month.
However, Leviticus 25 verse 9 describes the
exception, the last year of the 50 year cycle
known as the Jubilee Year. That New Year’s
Day is celebrated on the 10th day of
the seventh month, the Day of Atonement.
The book of Ezekiel
reveals the date of one of those Jubilee New
Year’s Days in Chapter 40, verse 1:
“In the twenty-fifth year
of our captivity, at the beginning of
the year, on the tenth day of the month,
in the fourteenth year after the city
(Jerusalem) was captured . . .”
By cross referencing the
dates of kingly accessions, archaeologists have
placed the capture of Jerusalem by the
Babylonians into a narrow range of years: either
587 BC or 586 BC.
Let’s start our calculations with
the capture of Jerusalem in 587 BC and subtract
fourteen years. That brings us to the
first day of the Jubilee New Year, the Day of
Atonement in the year 573 BC. One year
later, on the Feast of Trumpets 572 BC, the 50
year cycle was completed.
How many Jubilee periods of 50
years will take us back to the creation?
That’s a tough question to answer because there
are as many estimates for the beginning of time
as there are bible scholars.
At this point let’s consider the
general theory that the earth will be 6,000
years old, or 120 Jubilees, at the time of
Christ’s return. That means that no date
before 3980 BC (6000 – 2020) can be
considered.
If we then take the maximum
number of 50 year periods back to but not
exceeding 3980 BC we come to 68 Jubilee
periods.
So, starting at 572 BC and
subtracting 68 Jubilees (50 years per Jubilee X
68 Jubilees = 3,400 years) we come to the year
3972 BC for the year of creation.
Adding 6,000 years, or 120
Jubilees, to 3972 BC brings us to the year 2028
AD for the return of Jesus Christ and the
beginning of his 1000 year reign of peace.
If, however, we take the year of
the capture of Jerusalem as 586 BC, then that
pushes out the year of our Lord’s return to 2029
AD.
There are lots of assumptions
made to complete these calculations and to be
sure these numbers are a best guess, not a
prophesy. But I think all of us watchers
are aware that our current situation is rushing
towards a climax.
All the pieces are in
place. The plagues that will destroy
mankind are being created in labs all over the
world. The mark of the beast is being
prepared right now in the form of a vaccine with
a digital marker. The building materials
for the Third Temple have been procured and only
need to be assembled. All of the priestly
implements have been recreated and the priests
have been trained.
It is more than conceivable that
sometime between now and the end of 2029 the
sequence of events we know as the end times will
occur.
And for such news all Christians
may rejoice, because that includes the return of
Jesus for his bride.