The creation days were 6 with one day of rest, Gen 1. The time started then with the sun, moon, and stars. It is written that a day to God is as 1000 years, and a thousand years as 1 day, 2 Pet 3:8-9 Ps 90:4.
The 7 days became the model for the time of man, for his rule is 6000 years as he was created on the 6th day; then comes the 1000 year reign of Jesus or the millennium, the 7th day of rest for the earth and man, Gn 1-2 Rev 20:1-6.
There were 2000 years from Adam
Then 2000 years from Abraham to the Messiah, Jesus.
2000
years of Grace from Jesus until the Day of the Lord (Rapture, tribulation,
Armageddon, and the 1000 year millennium). These estimates were the same for
the Pharisee and Essene calendars.
Hosea
6:2 says after 2 days He will revive us.
Calendars
Enoch
measured the same time frame in ten 700 year periods.
The Essenes measured the time as solar with 52 weeks or 364 days which included the Spring equinox, the Summer solstice, the Fall equinox, and the Winter solstice. With their calendar, the Holy Days were always on the same day of the week and day of the calendar. The Spring equinox was the first day of the year or Nissan 1 the closest Wednesday. They had a round calendar that worked like a sundial with a post that showed all the information of the year with its shadow on the calendar wheel.
The Essenes were the original scribes and descended from the Aaronic Zadok Priests. When the Pharisees and Sadducees were at war with each other about 200 BC, the Essenes left and went to Qumran by the Dead Sea and took the writings with them and buried them in jars in caves. They were angry about the lunar calendar change and the interpretation of the Messiah scriptures. They believed very close to Christians about the Messiah or Jesus; His arrival, atonement and resurrection, Rapture, 2nd Coming and 1000 year rule of the earth. We know about them from the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS).
The
Pharisees changed the calendar to a lunar one that required a leap month (Adar
II) about every 3 years to line up with the sun and seasons. They used a 360
day year by the moon, which They use a 2 witness observation of the new moon,
or twelve 30 day months. Nissan 1 for the new year (Feast of Trumpets or Rosh
ha Shanna) was based on this observation and so for this is the only Festival
where they would say “no one knows the day or the hour” because the new moon
could be on a possible 2 day period. The Pharisees believed that Messiah would
come as a powerful General that would defeat Rome and restore Israel.
Most
all of the world uses the Gregorian calendar that was developed by Pope Gregory
in the 1500’s. It is 365 ¼ day year with a leap day added every 4 years on
February 29 to keep in line with the sun. BC is before Christ, and Anno Domini is
Latin for Year of our Lord (AD). It is a revision and similar to the Roman
calendar.
Festivals and
Jesus
There
are 7 of the Lord’s Festivals or Feasts that are in the Bible, Lev 23. (Pharisee
dates)
Fall
Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)
- Creation of the world. Creation of Adam 6th day Sep 10. Tishri 1
first day of religious new year 3761 BCE trad.
Rapture at least 7 years before the 2nd Coming.
Jesus’
birth on 09-29-02 BC
Atonement (Yom Kipper) –
2nd Coming 2000 years from crucifixion. Judgment of the world.
Jesus
presented at the Temple 10-08-02 BC, Mary and Joseph brought 2 turtle doves.
Tabernacles (Sukkot) – 40
years in the wilderness in tents. Magi in Bethlehem 10-12-02 BC Jupiter/Venus
at the head of Virgo, Jesus 13 days old.
Holy
Family escapes to Egypt 10-13 to 19-02 BC
Spring
Passover (Pesach) –
Firstborn killed by the destroyer in Egypt, except blood of lamb on door.
Last
Supper Nissan 14, 3792 Mon Apr 14, 32 AD.
Jesus
Crucified on Nissan 15, Apr 15, 32 AD, Tue before sunset. (Nissan 1 is the start of the civil new year)
Unleavened
Bread (Hag
Ha Matzot) - Apr 15-21, 32 AD. Eating bread on the run from Pharaoh.
Jesus
wrapped in linen and entombed.
Firstfruits (Yom
HaBikkurim) - Sun Apr 20, 32 AD. The barley harvest.
Jesus rises from the dead.
Jesus
brings the Holy Ghost on the Church. 3000 people saved.
The Essene calendar of crucifixion week is the same for 2002 as it was in 32 AD. The days are: Passover Nissan 14 is Tue Apr 5, 32 AD. Unleavened Bread is Wed Apr 6. 3 days and 3 nights sunset to sunset is Firstfruits and the resurrection on Sunday Apr 10, 32 AD Nissan 19.
Essene calendar from Biblefacts.org
Israel
added 2 more Feasts: Purim when Esther saved Israel from Haman the
Agagite.
Hanukkah when fighting during the Maccabean revolt second century BC and one day of oil lasted 8 days in the Temple Menorah; also called the Feast of Lights. The Menorah here has 9 candles or lamps,
where the regular Menorah has 7 lamps.
Rapture Season
Jesus
was crucified in 32 AD at 33 ½ years of age. This put the 2000 years of Grace for
His return on 2032. That would be on the Feast of Atonement as He would be the
Judge after Armageddon. That will be Sept 14-15. Subtracting 7 years for the
Tribulation and it would be 2025 for the Rapture on the Feast of Trumpets. That
will be Monday Sept 22nd to Wed the 24th. However, the Essene calendar has the Feast of
Trumpets on Sept 17, 2025.
Several
scriptures of Jesus state that “no man knows the day or the hour”, this has to
concern the Rapture, because the 2nd coming is listed by the exact
days in Rev 11:3, and Dan 9. However, no man knows the day or hour is a Jewish
idiom for the Feast of Trumpets, because it has to be seen by 2 witnesses for
the new moon which can be within a period of 2-3 days.
I am not trying to put a date on Jesus' return. You can see with the calendars and the observation that is hard. But, we are to know the season, and the numbers here seem to fit.
Paul tells us by the Holy Ghost that we are not in darkness and should not be surprised at Jesus’ coming for us that live in the light, 1 Thess 5:1-10.
According to Jewish writings, the ram that was caught in the thicket at Isaac’s sacrifice two horns were the shofars that were used in important Feasts of the LORD.
The
left horn/shofar was blown when Moses presented the stone cubes with the Commandments
written by the finger of God. God spoke the 10 Commandments. This scared the
people so much that they begged Moses to never let God speak to the directly
again, but go through Moses and then to the people.
The right horn well be blown at the coming of Messiah. For the Jews this would be the 2nd Coming as they did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah 2000 years ago. But, for the Christian it will be the “last Trump” as is mentioned by Paul at the Rapture on the Feast of Trumpets.
Of course the last trump will be blown by an Angel of the LORD.
By
the way the thorn bush the ram’s head was in symbolized the Crown of Thorns on
Jesus as He is the Ram (Aries)
1 Thess 4:13 ¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant,
brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others
which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the
Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord
shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the
air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one
another with these words.
For those alive that witness this wonderful event, they will be changed without death to an immortal.
1 Cor 15:51 ¶ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,
and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass
the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength
of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to
God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
In Jn 11 we see Jesus talking to Martha when He arrived after
Lazarus, her brother, had been dead 4 days.
Jn 11:23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise
again.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall
rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection,
and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
He then brought Lazarus back to life and made his sisters, Martha and Mary very happy.
This
statement is a description by Jesus of the day of the Rapture in the future as
Paul wrote about later.
In
Rv 19-20 we see Jesus’ 2nd coming. You see those who were beheaded
during the Tribulation being raised from the dead. You do not see living
changed as in Paul’s writings and Jesus words to Martha. Also at the end of the
millennium when the fire of God rains down and devours those attacking Jesus
all of them die and are judged at the Great White Throne along with all who
have died without salvation. There is no mention of the living changed without
death, yet we know that there will be living on the earth, because they have to
come to the New Jerusalem before the LORD on Festivals and can eat of the tree
of life and take home leaves for their healing when they get hurt, for there is
no sickness there. These people are mortal and can only live forever by eating
from the Trees of Life. Immortals can probably eat from it if they want, but they
are immortal and not necessary. This whole idea is so people can populate the
universe. God cannot get enough people, it is continuous. Immortals will have a body like unto Jesus in
Phil 3:21, and are like the angels, who do not reproduce, Mt 22:30 Mk 12:25.
There have been 2 people raptured in the Bible, Enoch the 7th from Adam in Gn, and Elijah the Prophet in Kings.
Many believe in the pre-trib Rapture. So did the Church Fathers and the Essenes. There could be another Rapture at mid-trib with the 144000 that are “redeemed from the earth”, possibly with their converts, Rev 14:3. I say possibly because the job of these Jewish men is evangelists, and I am sure they reach a lot of people. There are many with white robes after the 144000 are picked in Rev 7 that come out of the Great Tribulation it does not specifically say that they were killed. Paul tells us that “all Israel will be saved” and this great revival will be in the Tribulation where they will realize that Jesus is their Messiah and they “mourn for the one they pierced”. The Tribulation is a time of God’s wrath ie: days of awe, Jacobs Trouble, and Daniel’s missing week are all the same period. God does not appoint wrath to His Church, which are His children,1 Thess 5:9.
84 years
When
Jacob went to Haran to stay with his Uncle Laban, he was 77 years old.
(interesting that that is the generations mentioned in Luke from Jesus to
Adam). Well he worked for 7 Years for Rachel and Laban snuck Leah in the
wedding chamber. But Jacob agreed to work another 7 years for Rachel. When this
was agreed, Jacob (who was later named Israel by the LORD) was 84 years old, Gn
29.
Anna (Grace) came to see the baby Jesus and pronounced to all that Jesus was the redemption. She was 84 in Lk 20:37.
Before
her, Simeon (Law) came and pronounced Jesus as the Salvation, a light to the
gentiles and the glory of Israel. This was a symbol of the law of the Old
Covenant passing to the Grace of the New Covenant.
If
the Rapture takes place in Sept of 25, and the Tribulation ends in 2032 with
Armageddon, that will be 84 years from Israel becoming a Nation 2032 minus 1948
is 84. Paul tells us that all Israel shall be saved, and that will be in the
Tribulation. Jacob getting his first love, or God getting once again, Israel.
Temple and Red Heifer
We
can deduce from Rev that there will have to be a Temple built in Jerusalem in
order for the anti-Christ to defile it. The Temple Institute has prepared all
the Levite Priests to perform sacrifices. They also have all of the implements
made as well as the Temple furniture. They say they don’t have the Ark of the
Covenant, but they know where it is. The big problem is the Muslim shrines on
the Temple Mount.
5 Red Heifers have been specially bred and brought to Jerusalem at great cost. They have to be perfect, Nu 19.
The ashes from a sacrificed Red Heifer are the
only way to purify the area and Temple build according to the law. July 1, 2025
there was a rehearsal sacrifice of a not perfect Red Heifer at Shiloh (2 black
hairs were found). When the Priests were going to make the sacrifice for real
in 2024, Hamas attacked Israel on 10-7-23. Israel is still at war with Hamas in
Gaza. There have been 9 Red Heifer sacrifices in Israel history. The 10th
sacrifice is to bring the Messiah. If this was a cover for the real sacrifice,
it would change things, for the sacrifice would be already made.
Israel now is a “stumbling stone” for the world. This is because Jesus the Messiah came and was crucified there and He is the stone the builders rejected which is the corner (foundation) stone for the Church. Many prophecies have been fulfilled to the day since Israel became a Nation in 1948. Israel is fighting a 7 front war at present and the Iran and Gaza war are both prophesied.
The
Rapture is a mystery and a secret and is mentioned in the Bible as Harpazo in the Greek which means to
snatch away upward. In Latin it is Rapere.
Resurrection
Jesus
was the first born of the dead into an immortal divine body. We Christians are
promised the same, Phil 3:21.
The
first group to actually be resurrected was the righteous of Israel. Jesus
preached to them in the upper part of Hades when His body was in the tomb for 3
days. Jesus told the thief on the cross to His right, “Today you will be with
Me in Paradise.”
Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit,
even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is
above all, and through all, and in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace
according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on
high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he
also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He that descended is the
same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all
things.)
1 Pet 3:18 ¶ For Christ also hath once suffered for sins,
the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in
the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were
disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by
water.
Mt 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies
of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the
graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto
many.
The next resurrection will be after Armageddon for those beheaded
in the Tribulation, Rev 20:4.
The next will be at the end of the Millennium at the Great White
Throne Judgment for all who have not been born again in Jesus, Rev 20:9-15.
The
Christian judgment will be at the time of death or at the resurrection, or transformation
at the Rapture. The wonderful thing is that sin is not in the equation, because
of Jesus’ Blood and forgiveness. A question will come, what did you do with your
Salvation? Was it gold, silver, or precious stones or wood, hay, or stubble? It
is a time of refining and reward. All will qualify for heaven entry; some with crowns.
1 Cor 3: 10 According to the grace of
God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the
foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he
buildeth thereupon.
11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay than that
is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
I pray that you are or will be in God's family. Jesus is the only way there. If you do not know Him today, ask Jesus to save you and come into your heart. Then follow His guidance.
All scriptures are from the AKJV. Pictures and art from the internet, cited if known, no infringement intended.
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