The Age of Pentecost: Will This Age of
Jubilee End In 2023?
This letter is a postscript to my other
post today responding to Luis Vega’s Shemitah Countdown to
Daniel’s 70th week.
I have been ruminating over the
possibility that God’s ordained pilgrimage feasts, (1)
Unleavened Bread, during which Jesus was resurrected on the
festival of First Fruits, (2) Pentecost or Shavuot, and (3)
Tabernacles or Sukkot, may be mathematically aligned with
the number “50” and the future looking toward the Second
Advent of Christ. For the sake of speculation (1 Peter
1:11) we should ask ourselves if God’s ordered pilgrimage
feasts. Keep in mind that the Feasts of the Lord are
the Lord’s. (Leviticus 23:2) Of the seven “feasts”
three are pilgrimage feasts and four are moedim which do not
require pilgrimage. The pilgrimage feasts are
associated with the three orders of the first resurrection
suggested by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:20-24. The
pilgrimage feasts a prophetic picture of Christ’s
resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:23a), the Church’s
resurrection/rapture (1 Corinthians 23:b) and the
Tribulation saints resurrection. (1 Corinthians 15:24;
Revelation 20:4-5)
Exodus 23:15-17:
15 Thou shalt keep the
feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread
seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of
the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and
none shall appear before me empty:)
16 And the feast of
harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast
sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in
the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours
out of the field.
17 Three times in the
year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
He is my speculation:
-
Christ offered His life as an atonement offering for sin
that would yield everlasting life to all who would believe
as described by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. He was
crucified as our Passover lamb and resurrected during the
Feast of Unleavened Bread on the day of festival of First
Fruits. This was on the A.D. 30 pilgrimage
feast.
- The
Church will be resurrected and caught out on the Feast of
Pentecost at a future unknown date. This will be the
final fulfillment of the Pentecost typology which
completes the second prophetic pilgrimage
festival. I will elaborate on this topic
below.
- The
Tribulation saints will be resurrected on Earth at the
final prophetic pilgrimage feast of Tabernacles at the
Second Coming of Christ.
If Christ was resurrected in A.D. 30 and
we add 2,000 years to that date we arrive at A.D.
2030. Why would we add 2,000 years. God often
uses the number 40 with Israel and times of testing. I
multiplied 40 periods by 50 years for the 2,000 year
product. There are numerous examples in the Old
Testament. This 2030 year may speak to a
2030 Feast of Tabernacles and the Second Advent of
Christ. These “50” years could also constitute Jubilee
periods since the First Coming’s Resurrection. This
“50” year type of counting could have a Jewish application.
Would God design 40 periods of 50 Jubliees to arrive
at the next pilgrimage feast? Maybe?
I multiplied the number “50” which also
represents the number of days from Christ’s resurrection to
the first Pentecost when the Holy Spirit began “depositing”
the Spirit into believers. Keep in mind that this
deposit has been in a state of continuous deposition since
A.D. 30. Pentecost is a suspended state of Jubilee where God
imputes His righteousness to all believers setting them free
from sin’s sting of death. But that deposit is
only half of what has been promised. Paul confirms
that we wait for the redemption of the body “at His
appearing”. (Ephesians 1:13-14, 4:30; Colossians 1:14) Our
promised salvation has two stages, the deposit of the Holy
Spirit to be followed by the redemption of the body. (1
Corinthians 15:51-53) The Levitical symbolism
associated with the Feast of Pentecost is the baking of two
loaves of bread offered up to God in thanks for the harvest.
(Leviticus 23:17) One loaf represents the resurrection
of the dead in Christ and the other the catching out of the
living in Christ. This resurrection/rapture event will
complete the feast typology of Pentecost.
This Age of Pentecost/Jubilee, often
called the “gap” between Daniel 9:26 and 27, is in reality
an intervening period of two coexisting realties, the
physical realm (the kingdom of the world) and the spiritual
realm. The spiritual realm was labeled by Jesus as the
mystery of the “Kingdom of God” (Matthew 21:43), which is
Christ indwelt. (Ephesians 3:17, Colossians 1:27) This is a
timeless period of spiritual quantum superposition in
Christ. We are physically on Earth while, at the same time,
being seated in God’s heavenly realm. (Ephesians
2:6) Time has stopped for us spiritually
speaking. Time has also stopped for Israel.
God’s plan for Israel had been suspended following the
nation’s rejection of Christ as Messiah in the week leading
up to Passover and the national rejection continues during
this Age of Pentecost/Jubilee between Daniel 9:26 and 27.
Daniel’s 70th week will follow
the resurrection/rapture event.
Year 2022 and 2023 should be a high watch
seasons for the pre-tribulation resurrection/rapture
event. All of our speculation about the possible 2022
and 2023 end of the Church Age still falls in line with the
Psalm 90:10 generation and its reasonable application to the
fig tree “generation” spoken of by Jesus in Matthew 24:34.
1 Peter 1:11 “Searching what, or what
manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them
did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of
Christ, and the glory that should follow.”
We see the day approaching.
Could it be so simple? There are so many
alignment events taking place all over the world. This
convergence beckons our speculation. Afterall ,we are
told to encourage each other. (1 Thessalonians 4:18)
Greg Wilson