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Can
We Know the General Time of Messiah's Return?
Notice
the connection between The Kingdom Calendar--The Appointed Times & Seasons
and
the Jewish Festivals listed below--festival dates provided by Jewish resources.
You can use this online source, the Calendar
Calculator, to verify the match between the timelines of Daniel and
Revelation and this current rehearsal period that started at Purim 2012, and
will end 3 1/2 years later at the autumn Festival
season of 2015. This is not the fulfillment period, simply a rehearsal period
for a future fulfillment of God's choosing.
The
"times and the seasons" are directly tied to the end of the world, and
God
has provided "very specific" timelines in Daniel and Revelation for
the final work of His redemptive plan.
However, we still cannot know the actual "day or the hour" of Messiah's
visual return. Jesus
said He would cut short the great tribulation--"for
the sake of the elect those days will be shortened," Matthew
24:22--so the day and hour is unknown. Nonetheless, we can know the
time and the season, for no matter what prophetic view
you hold, there is always a timeline involved--whether seven years or three and
one-half years. Therefore, once final events begin, we
can know the general time of God's judgment of the world. The
"thief in the night" in Scriptures is not a reference to a secret
rapture of the church; it is a reference to the final destruction of the wicked,
who cannot escape God's wrath, which Messiah will inflict at His visible return.
This is confirmed by Paul to the church at Thessalonica. The saints
"are not in darkness so that this day should surprise" them like a thief.
We are children of light, awake and sober... looking and watching.
The Day of the LORD will not surprise the watching people of God.
"Now,
brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for
you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them
suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But
you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise
you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day. We
do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like
others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober," 1
Thessalonians 5:1-5
If you believe the timelines of prophecy will
always be locked away, never to be understood... I challenge you to consider this
question: "Why else would
God expose very precise prophetic time periods such as the 1,260 days and 1,335
days in Bible prophecy, if they were not for the benefit of the last-day saints
and the counting of God's prophetic time?" The last generation upon whom the end of the world
will come is promised an increase in knowledge and spiritual insights, and an
understanding of how events will transpire in the final "unsealing" (Daniel
12:4).
Daniel
12:10-12 adds, "Many will be purified, made spotless and refined,
but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand,
but those who are wise will understand." And what will the wise
understand, according to the verse that follows? "From the time that the daily...
is abolished
and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.
Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days."
The wise will understand what the 1,290 and 1,335 days represent. And, the
wise are promised a blessing for waiting patiently through the
days of trial to reach day 1,335. Our case rests on the Biblical evidence and
common sense. God revealed His prophetic times, for the day would come when
these periods must to be understood... during the days of their fulfillment.
Ask
your minister, priest or rabbi what the 1,290 days and 1,335 days of the Daniel
12 prophecy represent, and reveal, about God's final plan for Planet Earth. The timelines were
so important to God that He revealed them
through His prophet Daniel for the knowledge of the saints well in advance of
their fulfillment. Can your
spiritual leader tell you why they were written down, and when
and how these prophetic days will be fulfilled in the future (or were
fulfilled in past history--for those of you who hold the historicist view--even though God's
Word says the time periods would be understood at the time of the end during
the days of trial)? We all need to study God's Word regularly and with an open mind,
understanding that the Spirit of truth is our source of inspiration and
wisdom. There is no human who can boast of full knowledge and a complete
understanding of the mysteries of the Ancient of Days. "Who has been His
counselor?" (Romans
11:34; Isaiah
40:13). The
"wise
will understand," God promises; and, He does not lie. The roadmap is clearly
being studied, for the shadow of things to come is about to meet reality (Colossians
2:16-17). There is no excuse for events to surprise God's people
like a thief, but most will be surprised and will not be prepared for the
devastation and final unfolding of prophetic events long foretold in the Hebrew
Scriptures that will begin in the Middle East and spread around the globe with
lightning speed.
Festival Celebration Dates 2012-2015 -- Now Understood as a Rehearsal
Period and not the Fulfillment Period
Lunar and solar
eclipses that fall on God's Holy Days below are linked in blue, and could represent precursors of God's great wrath to
come as found in the trumpet and vial plagues of the book of Revelation. All
Jewish holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the date shown. On
holidays marked "*" strict observers do not work. Jewish
tradition has mixed views on the mystical and eschatological meaning of lunar
and solar eclipses. On the one hand, the Talmud (Tractate Sukkah 29a) says that
lunar eclipses are a sign of Divine wrath against the Jewish people for moral
failings, while solar eclipses are a bad sign for non-Jewish nations.
Wed.
21 December 2011 Chanukah
Wed.
8 February 2012 Tu Bishvat
Year 2012
Thu./Fri.
8-9 March 2012 Purim/ Shushan Purim
Sat.
7 April 2012 Pesach*
Sun.
27 May 2012 Shavuot*
Sun.
29 July 2012 Tisha B'Av
Jewish
Year 5773
Mon.
17 September 2012 Rosh HaShanah*
Wed.
26 September 2012 Yom Kippur*
Mon.
1 October 2012 Sukkot*
Sun.
9 December 2012 Chanukah
Sat.
26 January 2013 Tu Bishvat
Year 2013
Sun./Mon.
24-25 February 2013 Purim/Shushan Purim
Tue.
26 March 2013 Pesach*
Wed.
15 May 2013 Shavuot*
Tue.
16 July 2013 Tisha B'Av
Jewish
Year 5774
Thu.
5 September 2013 Rosh HaShanah*
Sat.
14 September 2013 Yom Kippur*
Thu.
19 September 2013 Sukkot*
Thu.
28 November 2013 Chanukah
Thu.
16 January 2014 Tu Bishvat
Year 2014
Sun./Mon.
16-17 March 2014 Purim/Shushan Purim
Tue.
15 April 2014 Pesach* (LUNAR
ECLIPSE)
Wed.
4 June 2014 Shavuot*
Tue.
5 August 2014 Tisha B'Av
Jewish
Year 5775
Thu.
25 September 2014 Rosh HaShanah*
Sat.
4 October 2014 Yom Kippur*
Thu.
9 October 2014 Sukkot* (LUNAR
ECLIPSE)
Tue.
16 December 2014 Chanukah
Wed.
4 February 2015 Tu Bishvat
Year 2015
Thu./Fri.
5-6 March 2015 Purim/Shushan Purim
Tues.
20 Mar 2015 1 Nisan (SOLAR
ECLIPSE)
Sat.
4 April 2015 Pesach* (LUNAR
ECLIPSE)
Sun.
24 May 2015 Shavuot*
Sun.
26 July 2015 Tisha B'Av
Jewish
Year 5776
Mon.
14 September 2015 Rosh HaShanah* (SOLAR
ECLIPSE)
Wed.
23 September 2015 Yom Kippur*
Mon.
28 September 2015 Sukkot* (LUNAR
ECLIPSE)
Sun.
6 December 2015 Chanukah
Mon.
25 January 2016 Tu Bishvat
Year 2016
Thu./Fri.
24-25 March 2016 Purim/Shushan Purim
Sat.
9 April 2016 1 Nisan
Sat.
23 April 2016 Pesach*
Sun.
12 June 2016 Shavuot*
Sun.
14 August 2016 Tisha B'Av
Jewish
Year 5777
Mon.
3 October 2016 Rosh HaShanah*
Wed.
12 October 2016 Yom Kippur*
Mon.
17 October 2016 Sukkot*
Sat.
24 December 2016 Chanukah
Sat.
11 February 2017 Tu Bishvat
Year 2017
Sun./Mon.
12-13 March 2017 Purim/Shushan Purim
Tue.
28 March 2017 1 Nisan
Tue.
11 April 2017 Pesach*
Wed.
31 May 2017 Shavuot*
Tue.
1 August 2017 Tisha B'Av
Jewish
Year 5778
Thu.
21 September 2017 Rosh HaShanah*
Sat.
30 September 2017 Yom Kippur*
Thu.
5 October 2017 Sukkot*
Tue.
12 December 2017 Chanukah
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