Hello, John and Doves,
As we look to do all those things that will usher in the full number of Gentiles,
we remember that it is written,
“This
is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but
by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts [ADONAI Tsevaot (The LORD of
Heaven's Armies)].
Zechariah 4:6
Again, it is written,
Some of the people of Israel have hard hearts, but this will last only until the full number of Gentiles comes to Christ.
Romans 11:25
Some other scriptures:
But
Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you
will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
Isaiah 45:17
"The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins," declares the LORD.
Isaiah 59:20
"At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people."
Jeremiah 31:1
This
is what the LORD says: "Only if the heavens above can be measured and
the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the
descendants of Israel because of all they have done,"
Jeremiah 31:37
And
everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount
Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said,
even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.
Joel 2:32
Please
read Leviticus 25 for information on the Jubilee year. The Sabbath
years occur every seven years from Creation without fail. 5775 is a
Sabbath year, because 5775 = 825 X 7. 5776 is the 70th
Jubilee year, because counting began in the same year that Joshua and
Caleb entered the Promised Land for the first time, during the grape
harvest [fall—around 15 Tishrei, at the full moon] of 2346.
2346 was a type of Jubilee year, because it followed the Sabbath year of 2345.
However, note that it was the first year, and the Jubilee year followed 49 years later.
Therefore, all Jubilee counts for all time must begin on the first year of a Sabbath year count, right after a Sabbath year.
It is written,
1While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Lord said to him, 2“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you have entered the land I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the Lord every seventh year.
Leviticus 25:1-2 NLT
We observe that 2346 + (70 X 49) = 5776, the year of the 70th
Jubilee. Thus, the gathering of all men—believers and the damned—at
the end of the time of Jacob’s Trouble will probably occur on
Tabernacles 2015.
Please
note that the Jubilee year is not you would expect if you started
counting Sabbath years from the Creation. If it were so, then we would
have to wait until 5782 (2021-2022) for the 7 X 118th Sabbath year, and until 5880 (2119-2120) for the 7 X 120th Sabbath year. But the time was shortened.
It is written,
“If
the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for
the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.”
Mark 13:20
In
fact, God shortened the days of the Great Tribulation by having us
Doves wait upon the LORD’s good pleasure, for it is written,
As
surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the
death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways
so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel!
Why should you die?
Ezekiel 33:11 ESV
How was the end determined?
It is written,
21“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins….
27“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins….
40“But
if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in
their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking
contrary to me, 41so
that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their
enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make
amends for their iniquity, 42then
I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant
with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43But
the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it
lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their
iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my
statutes. 44Yet
for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not
spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and
break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45But
I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers,
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations,
that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”
46These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
Leviticus 26:21, 27, 40-46 ESV
It all began on Black Monday, 1987 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)],
a fourteen year warning leading up to 2001.
We
will have had another fourteen years leading up to Yom Kippur
5776—beginning the evening of Tuesday, 22 September 2015. It will be on
this date that the Jubilee year, 5776, will be proclaimed [if all goes
well].
Read more: The Holy Land Key by Ray Bentley
Warning
to those like me who love date setting: Pastor Ray Bentley is not a
date-setter. He simply has publicly said that we are in “The decade of
destiny.”
~Blessings,
Mike