45 The Seventeenth Day Of The Second Month 16 Nov., 2024

In section 41, I noted that I believed the LORD would return on a specific day related to the Bible. I noted my belief that He would return to reign on Yom Kippur, but that the final week of Daniel would end on Hanukkah, most likely the first or eighth day of the eight-day feast.  Daniel 12:11,12 led me to this conclusion as Hanukkah always begins 74 to 75 days after Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.  Since the LORD has fulfilled the first four feasts in the spring. Then, there is the growing season and usually in September on 1 Tishri on the Jewish calendar is Trumpets, the fifth Feast of the LORD, which points to Yom Kippur on 10 Tishri. Trumpets begin the Days of Awe ending on Yom Kippur, the only day the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies to atone for his sins and that of his nation with a blood sacrifice.  During this ten-day period, the observant Jew is to fast, pray, and repent of his sins.  On Yom Kippur, God opens the books of the good, the bad, and the in-between.  If you are good, He will grant you another year of life; if bad, you will die in the next year; if in-between, but you sincerely fast, pray, and repent during the Days of Awe, He will give you another year to think about it. 

At the last trumpet, the dead in Christ shall rise first per 1 Corinthians 15:52. Christ said we would not know the day or the hour per Matthew 24:36, and Trumpets is the only Mosaic feast not on a full moon, but on the crescent or new moon. For the feast to occur, the crescent moon must be seen. If the sky is overcast, so that the new moon cannot be seen, then the feast is postponed till 2 Tishri. It seems the obvious choice for the rapture is Trumpets, though the last day of Tabernacles, the harvest feast from which the Pilgrims got Thanksgiving is another choice.  We also have Weeks, when the church was born, and the Jews consider it a sign of righteousness to die on your birthday.  David was born and died on the Feast of Weeks.  Hanukkah is the Feast of Lights. Christ was the Light of the World while in it, and His church when He left.  It is also the Rededication of the Temple circa 164 BC, and Christians are temples of the Holy Spirit per 1 Corinthians 6:19.  Purim is the salvation of God’s people.  Hence, there are several choices, though I believe Trumpets is best followed by the last day of Tabernacles, but the LORD has other choices as noted.  Trumpets and Tabernacles have passed for this year, leaving only Hanukkah, beginning sunset 25 December, 2024, to sunset 2 January, 2025, in Jerusalem

for this year.  I was very disappointed as I believe we are approaching the end of the period before the final week of Daniel (7 years of 360 days per year, or 2520 days) that will finish the 6,000 years since Creation.  This could be precise or off by a few years. See section 40 for my calendar of 6,000 years divided roughly into three periods of about 2,000 years each, beginning with Creation, then the birth of Abraham a few centuries after the Deluge, and then the birth of the Church, i.e., Creation to Abraham’s birth, then the period of Israel, then the period of the church, beginning not with the birth of Christ, but fifty days after His resurrection with the birth of the church in 32 or 33 AD. If Christ was crucified in 32 AD, then the 2000th anniversary would be in 2032 AD; if 33 AD, then 2033 AD.

It seems obvious to me that the LORD will come on a feast.  But the LORD is not obvious.  Christ rode the donkey’s colt into Jerusalem on the tenth of Nisan, when the Passover lambs were removed from the flock for the feast, in either 32 or 33 AD.  The Jews were looking for their Messiah to come based on the 69 weeks prophecy of Daniel 9:25, beginning in either 445 or 444 BC based on Nehemiah 2:1.  The Messiah was supposed to come on 39 or 40 AD on 1 Nisan the start of the Jewish religious year, based on 483 calendar years, but God had changed the length of the years from 360 days to 365.2422 in about 701 BC when the shadow of the sun dial went backwards ten degrees to confirm Hezekiah would be healed in 2 Kings 20:10,11.  Hence, do we have another choice? Possibly. 

Christ said in Matthew 24:37 “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”  We seem to be in the days of Noah or close to them with lawlessness abounding.  But was Christ talking about the month and day of the Deluge, the 17th day of the second month on the Jewish civic calendar per Genesis 7:11.  There is an ancient book of Jubilees, which was well known in the first century AD.  Portions have been found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.  It relates the 17th day of the second month was chosen for the Deluge because that was the month and day that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.  This book does have contradictions with the Bible, i.e., it is not inspired.  It is an interesting possibility, and one could construe Matthew 24:37 as meaning Christ will return on the month and day that the Great Flood began. This year of 2024, the 17th day of the second month in Jerusalem falls from sunset 17 November to sunset 18 November.  Next year, it appears to be from sunset 7 November to sunset 8 November in Jerusalem. 

If this is correct, then what would happen on Trumpets to point to Yom Kippur several years later.  My choice would be the Russo-Islamic invasion of Ezekiel 38 & 39.  Ezekiel 38:19 tells of a great earthquake in the land of Israel. I suspect it is the same earthquake as Revelation 6:12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was great earthquake; and the sun became black as a sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven (fallen angels removed from heaven) fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up (seen in nuclear explosions.  Ezekiel 39:6 [God speaking] “And I will send fire on Magog and those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know I am the LORD.”), and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.  15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!  17 “For the great day of His wrath has come, and who can stand?” 

I believe that the rapture of the church could occur on the 17th day of the second month of the Jewish calendar, but the problem remains, “Which year?”  Or is it Trumpets or another feast?  Time will tell!