CHURCH AGE AND ISRAEL OVERLAPS - Dispensation Transitions

CHURCH AGE AND ISRAEL OVERLAPS
DISPENSATION TRANSITIONS
Prophetic Age Calculations

by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.PostScripts.org

Since Modern Israel was ‘reborn’ in 1948 after Israel declared its independence and won its war against the 7 well-armed Muslim Armies that the Soviets had trained, it has been accepted that the year 1948 is where and when the Prophetic Clock started. In part, it is correct. However, when considering and applying the Psalm 90 template of a 70 and 80-Year Generation, a 70-Year Generation only took the countdown to 2018. And an 80-Year Generation would correspond to 2028. And what is to occur at the end of those respective countdowns?

If one is a Student of the Bible, the answer is easy. It is the return of Jesus. What one is proposing, is that perhaps 1948 is not the ‘Countdown Year’. Although prophetic and Biblical in scope, there is obviously another year, yet to be determined, that is when the actual countdown is being observed from. This is 1 supposition. The other is that one also takes into consideration what one calls the Dispensation Transition or ‘Overlaps’ that existed at the beginning of the Church Age, and evidently, at its end. How So?

Consider that there were 38 Years that Israel still had the Temple Daily Sacrifices, yet the Church Age Body of Christ coexisted at the same period of time. This ‘Overlap’ was from 32 AD, assuming that is the Crucifixion Year to the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. The 2nd and last ‘Dispensational Overlap’ occurred, starting in 1948. Although the Jews were back in the Promised Land, they, according to Ezekiel's Dry Bones prophetic typology, are still ‘Spiritual Dead’ and Blind’.

It has been a gradual reconstitution of Israel, Jerusalem and what is left is the rebuilding of the 3rd Temple. So, the question is, who long is this ‘bookend’ to last? The following will be one’s speculative educated guess. Given these 2 time-frames, perhaps its summation will result in a clue that could help in further investigation and possibly ascertain when, more specially the Church Age is to definitively end. And that is when the Rapture is to take place. This is one’s rationale and approach. Thus, one does have 2 working theories about 1948.

One is convinced that it was the prophetic fulfillment of the reconstitution of the Nation of Israel, per Ezekiel’s ‘Dry Bones’ typology. Sure, Modern Israel was funded by Globalist and ‘Zionist’ Entities, as they say and most of the ‘Founding Fathers’ of Israel were Secular, and they deny and hate Jesus, etc. So, what is new? This has been the issue since Sinai, as a Nation and since Jacob really. This is why Jacob’s Troubles are coming. But consider that if Israel would have not been ‘Secular’ as a State, although considered ‘the Jewish State’, it would have not allowed Christian Missionary Work.

The Law of Moses vs. The Law of Christ
Christian Evangelism is occurring in Israel, as it reluctantly has to presently. Sure, the Orthodox Jews frown, complain and try to curtail it with Law, etc. If the State of Israel would rather have started out ‘confirming’ its Covenant of Moses, then Christians would have been subject to Capital Punishment for declaring that ‘Jesus is LORD and GOD’.

But the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob knew that. So, the world is experiencing, at the ‘End’ of this Church Age, what it began with, an ‘Overlap’. It is, that in the Jewish State, as it was back then, so too now is Israel in a state of rebellion, with imposed spiritual blindness and Divine Judgment for having rejected their Promised Messiah, Jesus. And to this day, there is still a national rejection of the Gospel. Nonetheless, the Gospel is being preached there in Israel despite opposition.

If Israel would have started off as a Theocracy with the Sanhedrin at the helm in 1948, any Christian believing and exclaiming through the Gospel that Jesus is LORD, as Creator GOD would be killed based on the Law of Moses, condemned as a Blasphemer and put to death by decapitation, as prescribed in the Talmud. Then it would be as it will be during the Tribulation Period. So, 1948? One is convinced that it was not the year to consider the ‘Countdown’ to either the timing of the conclusion of the 7-Fold Church Age, nor the Rapture or the start of 7-Year Tribulation or when the midpoint when the Daily Offering will be stopped. Here are some main working theories regarding the ‘Countdown’ since 1948.
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1. THEORY: PARABLE OF THE UNFRUITFUL FIG TREE PATTERN

Based on one’s interpretation of the Parable given by Jesus, the year count would be in the 4th Year. Thus, from 1948 when Israel was declared to be ‘Born’ by David Ben Gurion would be as if Israel is indeed the 'Fig Tree', planted back in the Promised Land. And the Law of Trees specified when the Fruit could start to be harvested and eaten. It was also tied to when the Land Sabbaths would start to be counted.

Thus, this is 1 theory that suggests when the Shemitah Cycles started to be resynchronized, not in 1948 but rather in 1952. What it could mean or insinuate is that if one then counts down the 70 Year Generation from 1952, it would be 2022. And if one then adds the subsequent Shemitah of 7 Years, it would be 2029. And?

One suggests that this could be the midpoint of the 7-Year Tribulation. Perhaps. Then if one adds the 80 Year Generation per Psalm 90, the result is 2032. For several years, this was one’s hopeful 7-Year Tribulation Timeline. It was really exciting, but alas, the model has to be recalibrated to perhaps factor a 2026 end of the Church Age instead. There is the countdown recalculated for a 1952 start year, rather than 1948.

The other working theory of mine has to do with the pattern that one also sees and has considered based on when Israel, under Joshua entered the Promised Land. One understands that the exact year of when the ‘Crossing’ of the Jordan River happened is in dispute. One is relying on the astronomical Blood Moon of the Exodus that occurred in -1448 BC to determine that.

Based solely on this astronomical occurrence, the 40-Year Wondering would put that crossing of the Jordan River into the Promised Land at -1408 BC, etc. Regardless of the exact year, the working theory is that based on the Biblical Record, it took 7 Years for Joshua to clear the Promised Land. And? In this case, the counting of the Sabbaths of the Land started only then, not on the 1st day Israel crossed into the Promised Land.

Thus, the year count started after the 7th Year was completed. This is key and why 2026 then comes into play. It has to do with ‘Complete Years’ when considering the countdown from either 1952 or 1955, regardless of one's assessment. Thus, what if this same pattern of having to wait a whole Shemitah for 7 Years is what is also occurring since 1948 with the modern rebirth of National Israel? Here then is the possible timeline.

1948 + 7 Year (Canaan Conquest) = 1955
1955 + 70 Year Generation = 2025
1955 + 80 Year Generation = 2035

Note that the 80 Year Generation of 2035 would put those Jews born in 1948 at 87 years of age. So, bear in mind that these are just one’s approximations based on conjecture. It remains to be seen what will happen. And that is part of the excitement, expectation and anticipation in watching. So, these theories are still a work-in-progress.

If anything, it shows just how close the Bride of Christ to be raptured off Earth in this generation that will end of the Church Age. The following will be depicted in a chart. It is found in the end notes. It provides a visual of one’s next conjecture of when, possibly the Church Age is to end and perhaps the timing of the Rapture, in a general sense.

3) THEORY: A JUBILEE 120 YEAR PATTERN
The following is the synopsis noted on the chart that shows the 2 Dispensational ‘Overlaps’ in question. The purpose of this illustration is to depict, visually, 2 aspects of a timeline since 32 AD. The 1st aspect has to do with the amount of time or overlap there was between the nation of Israel and the Body of Christ, i.e., the Church Age. This overlap has now only occurred since 70 AD and again in 1948, exactly 1,948 years.

What one has done is that in identifying the duration of these 2 Prophetic Overlaps’, it is then combined to ascertain the numerical factor in terms of years. Why? This compilation could provide a possible prophetic time-frame as to when the Church Age is to conclude and perhaps the year of the Rapture. The 2nd aspect one is considering, is in relation to what Prophetic Time is so often categorized in the Bible with.

It is defined on several occasions as being a factor of 120. It has to do with the Flood, the amount of Jubilees since Adam, etc. Here again, perhaps this factor has also to do with the timing and/or year of the Rapture in some sort of way. One’s finding is that the 2 overlaps are equal to 120 years and strongly suggests that the 120th Year will be in 2029 when the Daily Sacrifices are to stop, as they did in 70 AD. However, this timeline only would work if the Tribulation Period is from Fall 2025 to Fall 2032.

At this point in time the Tribulation Period Timeline has needed to shift from the Fall of 2026 to the Fall of 2033. But one finds these 2 Prophetic Overlaps, at the beginning and the end of the Church Age, Biblically significant. Here are the calculations of the 2 overlaps in question. As to the Crucifixion and Rapture year? One still holds to the 32 AD Crucifixion Theory. One is still convinced of 32 AD, purely due to the Blood Moon, the Chinese Astronomy Record and that of Thallas the Historian, as corroborating evidence, for example.
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( 38 Years ) + ( 81 Years ) = 119 Years + 1 Year for ‘End Year’
= In the 120th Year

NOTE:
If the Rapture is to occur, say according to one’s New Wine Theory, being a July 23 Summer end of the Wheat Harvest, then there it is in this year that the 7-Year Tribulation Period would have to commence. This is in order for the return of Jesus to coincide and be completed in the year 2033, being the 2000 Years completed and then accounting for the subsequent year.
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This calculation is based on when the Daily Sacrifices stopped in 70 AD, and when one supposes they will be will again, perhaps in 2030 AD (1,960 Years). Regarding the Crucifixion Year? If you press A.I., for example, to have to consider the 'historical year count' and apply the Zeller's Congruence to the calculations, then it will concede to a 'Wednesday, April 14, 32 AD' date. So, that means that the Rapture could occur then in 2026 and the return of Jesus in 2033 based on this timeline.

Note that from Blood Moon of April 14, 32 AD to Blood Moon of April 14, 2033 is 2000 Complete Years + 1 Year for the ‘End Year Included’ factor. It will be precisely 2000 +1 years, to the day. This is extremely exciting as it is backed by Astronomy also. So, these have been one’s rationale for considering that the timeline and year count from either 1948, 1952 or 1955 have to be then 'completed years'.