47 Verses of the End Times June, 2025

NOTE: Regarding this blog, it is best to go to #40, and then go forward to this, # 47.

NOTE #2: The above picture is the best I could find. Christ actually returns in a blood-drenched robe on a white horse with the armies of heaven on white horses per Revelation 19:11, 13, 14. And with chariots per Isaiah 66:15. There are seven verses of the Bible that seem to refer to the End Times and the same amount of time.  These verses refer: Time, times, and half a time; 42 months; and 1260 days.  It should be understood that the times in time, times, and half a time refers to two times in the original language, not indefinite plural.  Hence, we have 3 ½ times.  The original calendar of Creation was 360 days per year.  We know this from ancient calendars from all over the world- Japan, China, India, Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Greece, and the Mayan civilization.  It is believed to have changed around 701 BC, when the dying King Hezekiah, in 2 Kings 20, was told by the prophet Isaiah that he would recover from his boil and be given an additional 15 years of life.  Isaiah asked as a sign from God whether the king would like the shadow of the sun dial to go forward ten degrees or backward ten degrees.  The king answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees.” I believe it changed at that time to the present calendar time of 365.2422 days per year. 

It is interesting to note there are 360 degrees in a circle.  Likely, this dates back to before the calendar change.  It is also interesting to note that when Mohammed rode his steed into Mecca circa 630 AD the Kaaba (Black Stone) had 360 idols about it. Mohammed destroyed these to worship Allah instead.  I suspect when the idols were in use, each one was best for one day of the 360-day year, e.g., this is idol #60 for the last day, i.e., the thirtieth day,  of the second month. On this day, for the best results from prayer, we pray to this idol. 

Time, times, and half at time refers to 360 X 3 ½ = 1260 days.  42 months are 42 X 30 = 1260 days, and 1260 days is the third unit of time.  They all refer to the same amount of time. 

There are seven verses with these units, two in Daniel, five in Revelation. Five refer to the Great Tribulation. 

1. Daniel 7: 25 He (the anti-Christ) shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times (Most believe the French Revolution was like the American Revolution. It was in that it was a rebellion against the king, although the French guillotined their king.  The French Revolution was also an anti-Christian revolution in that the leaders changed the calendar, beginning it in 1792 for the birth of the French Republic rather than the supposed birth of Christ.  They did away with Christmas and Easter and Sunday, changing the calendar month to three weeks of ten days each.  I wonder if the peasants liked the new system of resting on the tenth day rather than the seventh. Citoyen (Citizen)  and Citoyenesse (Citizenesse) became the formal terms of address, replacing Monsieur (Mister) and Madame (Mrs.), like Comrade did in Russia over a century later.  The Bolsheviks of Russia were the inheritors of the French Revolution, and they had the pseudoscience of evolution to support them.  Notre Dame Cathedral became the Temple of Reason. The revolutionaries abolished the church tithe destroying the financial support of the Catholic Church, and they sold church land to finance the government.  In 1790, clerics were required to take an oath supporting the new government. Napoleon invited the Pope to his coronation in 1803. I suspect the Pope thought he was there to crown the monarch, much like another Pope crowned Charlemagne in 800 AD giving him God’s blessing.  But Napoleon crowned himself and then Josephine.  The American Revolution was a Christian revolution.) and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time.

2. Daniel 12:6 And one said to the man (angel) clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be?” 7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people is completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
   

3. Revelation 12:6 Then the woman (Israel, which includes the Jews) fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.  
   

4. Revelation 12:14 But the woman (Israel, which includes the Jews) was given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness to her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
   

5. Revelation 12:5 And he (the anti-Christ) was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.  These five verses appear to refer to the Great Tribulation’s 1260 days, but there are two other verses that do not. 
   

6. Revelation 11:2 “But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.”  The Hebrew temple must be rebuilt so that the anti-Christ can desecrate it to begin the Great Tribulation per 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4. The anti-Christ begins the final or 70th week of Daniel (7 Biblical years of 360 days), by confirming a covenant with the many (Israel?) of Daniel 9:27 for one week (seven Biblical years).  However, he probably does not gain power over Jerusalem per Revelation 11:2 until the 2300 days of Daniel 8:13-14 (the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled underfoot) begin, which likely will give the Jews the right to build their temple in Jerusalem.  The 138 days before the 2300 days begin could refer to Amos 1-2 and Zephaniah 2, when the nations with contiguous borders with Israel, except for Egypt, are destroyed, though this could also occur just before Daniel’s final week in its entirety is confirmed by the anti-Christ.  The two thousand three hundred days of Daniel 8:13-14 begin 138 (-145) days into the final or 70th week of Daniel, with Revelation 11:2, the taking of Jerusalem as an international city? under the anti-Christ, but with his giving the people of Israel the right to build their temple. This 1260-day period begins the 2300, and the Great Tribulation’s 1260 days complete the two thousand three hundred days.  This means they overlap by 220 days.

   On day 1041 of the 2300, the anti-Christ will desecrate the newly built Hebrew temple, likely on the fourth day of Unleavened Bread (Daniel 9:27…in the middle of the week… .) and the Great Tribulation begins, but on day 1261, the anti-Christ for some reason, loses control of Jerusalem. This must occur because, per Zechariah 14:1-4, all the armies of the world come against Jerusalem, take the city, and then, the LORD returns to destroy His enemies to end the Great Tribulation’s 1260 days and also the 2300 days as well.

   
   

   Islam must be dealt with completely before the anti-Christ can rise to power.  After the Russo-Islamic invasion of Ezekiel 38 & 39 is destroyed by God, the Hebrews will be burying the dead for seven months, or 210 days. This would stop with the Great Tribulation meaning the utter destruction of Islam would be completed by day 830 of the 2300. Amos 1-2:3 denotes the destruction of the nations with contiguous borders to Israel, except for Egypt, occurring two years before the earthquake, which I presume is the earthquake of Ezekiel 38:19-20 with Ezekiel 38-39:16 describing the defeat of the Russo-Islamic invasion of Israel which God, Himself, destroys. Amos 2:4-5 describes significant damage to Judah, modern Israel, which may lead to the anti-Christ taking over Jerusalem per Revelation 11:2, perhaps as an international city, to begin the first 1260 days of the 2300 days period.
   

7. Revelation 11:3 (God speaking) “And I will give power to my two witnesses (Clearly, one of the two witnesses is Elijah per Malachi 4:5. Some feel the second witness is Enoch, the second man in the Scriptures who never died per Genesis 5:24.  However, I believe Enoch is a model for the rapture of the End Times.  He was taken or raptured.  Noah and the seven other members of his family lived through the Great Flood just as some will live through the Great Tribulation after the church is raptured, while the rest of mankind and the Nephilim perished in the Flood, the same fate for more than half the earth left behind (Revelation 6:8,9:18). Enoch was only one man, but so is the body of Christ per 1 Corinthians 12:12-20.  I favor Moses as the more likely second choice, because of the miracles the two witnesses do in Revelation 11: 6 and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.  5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner.  6 These have the power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy;…  (Elijah had previously stopped rain for three years and six months [1260 days] per James 5:17 and Luke 4:25, as reported in 1 Kings 15. I wonder if Elijah will also stop the rain during his 1260 days before his death. Perhaps, he will stop the rain everywhere except Israel, making that country a great prize for the rest of the nations.   Perhaps, the mechanism will be Revelation 7:1 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.  If the wind was stopped, there would be no rain, as evaporation from the sea to the land would not occur.  This could lead to Revelation 6:5 When He (Christ) opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.  6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil or wine.           These verses indicate famine. The traditional interpretation of this was that a quart of wheat could sustain a single man for one day, leaving nothing for his family.  Barley was considered animal food.  The rich could still get wine and oil, however. 

   Revelation 11:6 continued … and they (the two witnesses) have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire. Moses was the prophet who turned water into blood (Exodus 7:17-21), plus he struck Egypt with nine other plagues as well (Exodus 8- 12). Hence, Moses represented the law as writer of the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and Elijah, the prophets.    Is there another purpose for the two witnesses other than the judgement of plagues on the earth?  Matthew 17:11 Jesus answered and said to them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things.        What is Elijah going to restore?  Answer: The twelve tribes of Israel are to be reunited as in Ezekiel 37:16 (God speaking)  “As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, “For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’  17  “Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.  18 “And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’- 19 “say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD God: “Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join it with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.”’  God intends to reunite the twelve tribes of Israel, during the time of the two witnesses.

   Revelation 11:7  When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.  8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our LORD was crucified (Jerusalem).  9  Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.  10 “And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. 11  Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them .  12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here,” And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.  In effect, the two witnesses are raptured. 

   The two witnesses are killed by the beast from the bottomless pit. Satan’s fate is the bottomless pit per Revelation 20:3, but he is not there yet. I suspect this is a super angel who was bound there after the Great Flood. His release may be a prelude by a few days to the Great Tribulation’s 1260 days, but only by a few days. I suspect he will be released less than a day before the anti-Christ is assassinated or less than a day afterward. 

   I believe the LORD will return to reign, not rapture, on the Jewish feast of Yom Kippur because of Daniel 12:11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 “Blessed is he who waits and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.”  Hanukkah is the eight-day Jewish feast that occurs 74 or 75 days after Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in Judaism. Christ atoned for our sins on the cross. Hanukkah was first celebrated in 164 BC at the removal of the first abomination of desolation (An idol is an abomination.  An idol in the holiest place, the Holy of Holies, is an abomination of desolation.)  I believe Hanukkah will be celebrated on the 1,335th day as noted above. I suspect the eighth day of Hanukkah will end the final or 70th week of Daniel, though it could be the first day of the feast.  Hanukkah is the Feast of Lights.  Christ was the Light of the world while here; His church when He left.  It is also the Rededication of the Temple. Per 1 Corinthians 6:19, Christians are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

   Apparently, Christ is redoing the feasts.  #1 Passover (Nisan 14 in spring) -He was the sacrificial Lamb, #2 the one-week feast of Unleavened Bread with leaven a symbol of sin (Nisan 15-21).  He had no leaven, i.e., no sin. Consequently, His body did not decay in the grave per Psalm 16:10, #3 First Fruits- He was the First Fruit of the grave, #4 Weeks was the birth of the church.  The next feast in sequence is #5 Trumpets on 1 Tishri, the seventh Jewish month, with seven meaning completeness. Trumpets points to Yom Kippur on 10 Tishri, the holiest feast in Judaism. Unbelieving or repenting Jews are most likely to return to synagogue on Yom Kippur, as unbelieving or repenting Christians on Christmas or Easter.  1 to 10 Tishri are known as the Days of Awe.  Trumpets points to Yom Kippur.  A believing Jew is supposed to repent and pray and fast on these days.  On Yom Kippur, God opens the books of the good, the bad, and the in-between. If you are good, God graciously grants you another year of life; if bad, you will die in the next year; if in-between, and you repent and pray sincerely and fast, He will grant you another year to think about it. 

   Many believe the rapture or removal of all true believers will occur on Trumpets on 1 Tishri, the next feast in the sequence, but what year? This year Trumpets begins at sunset on 22 September to sunset 23 September, 2025, in Jerusalem.  It is the only feast in which the New Moon or crescent moon is seen in the night sky.  All other of the six Mosaic feasts occur under a full moon.  If the moon cannot be seen because of a cloudy sky, then the feast is postponed to 2 Tishri.  This works out very well with Christ saying we would not know the day or the hour of the rapture per Matthew 24:36. The rapture of the church may well occur on the feast of Trumpets, but is there an alternative?  I believe there is, possibly the destruction of the Russo-Islamic invasion of Israel in Ezekiel 38 & 39.  In fact, both events could occur on Trumpets though in separate years. 

   There are other possibilities for the rapture of the church.  The Jews say if one dies on his birthday, it is a sign of righteousness.  David was born and died on the feast of Weeks. Per Mark Biltz, Moses died on his birthday.  We do not know the day that Isaac was offered, but he was born on 14 Nisan, what would become Passover centuries later.  I suspect he was offered on Passover.  I believe the church could be raptured on the Feast of Weeks when she was born circa 32 or 33 AD.  If so, the interval or parenthesis between Daniel’s 69 weeks and his 70th week would be the existence of the church though perhaps off by a few weeks to a few months.   

   Remember that a Jewish day always goes from sunset to sunset.  Leviticus 23:11 notes First Fruits is always after the Shabat or Jewish Sabbath which is always sunset Friday to sunset Saturday.  Hence, it would always begin at sunset on Saturday to sunset on Sunday.  However, I have read that circa 140 AD, the Jews changed the feast to the day after the first High Sabbath in Unleavened Bread, a seven-day feast with High Sabbaths on the first and seventh day of the feast.  A High Sabbath is a Sabbath regardless of the day of the week.  Hence, Passover on 14 Nisan would be followed by the first High Sabbath of Unleavened Bread on 15 Nisan, and First Fruits would follow on 16 Nisan by this.  Again, from Leviticus 23:11, First Fruits should always be on sunset Saturday to sunset Sunday, and fifty days later with First Fruits as day one of the fifty would also always be on sunset Saturday to sunset Sunday.  Christians worship on Sunday because the resurrection occurred on First Fruits, and Weeks was when the church was born. Both were on Sunday.  This year of 2025, I believe First Fruits based on Leviticus 23:11 occurred on the seventh and last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread beginning at sunset on Saturday, 19 March to sunset Sunday, 20 March.  Fifty days later with First Fruits day one of the fifty would be Saturday, 7 June at sunset to Sunday, 8 June at sunset. I believe a careful reading of Joshua 5:10 and chapter 6 shows that Israel marched around Jericho on the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread, with Jericho falling on the seventh day of the feast and all the loot from that conquest as First Fruits consecrated to the LORD. Thereafter, the people of Israel could pillage the cities that would be taken by Israel for gold, silver, etc. for themselves as they had previously done to the kingdoms of Heshbon under Sihon (Deuteronomy 2:32-35) and the kingdom of Bashan under Og (Deuteronomy 3:1-7) before taking Jericho.  

   The rapture could also occur on the final Mosaic feast for the religious year, the harvest feast of Tabernacles, which lasts seven-days from 15 Tishri to 21 Tishri with the first day of 15 Tishri and the day after the feast or 22 Tishri both High Sabbaths.  It seems to me to be an eight-day feast, but it is listed as a seven-day feast. Observing Jews live in temporary shelters for seven days.  One must be able to see the stars through the roof at night in the shelter. This feast commemorates the forty years in the wilderness before entering the promised land.  It also celebrates the ingathering of the crops for the year.  At the end of the seventh day, the Jews leave their temporary shelters to go into their permanent homes.  Is this the day of the rapture when we give up our temporary bodies for permanent ones?

   Perhaps the Rapture will occur on one of the eight days of the Feast of Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights (Christ was the Light of the world while He was in it, His church when He left)? It is also known as the rededication of the temple (1 Corinthians 6:19 notes a Christian’s body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Would not the change from an earthly body to a heavenly one be a rededication?).  Though not a Mosaic feast, Christ celebrated this feast in John 10:22-40. Or another feast like Purim, Esther’s Feast, the salvation of God’s people?  Time will tell!   

   A common thought for the final week of Daniel, seven Biblical years of 360 days or 2,520 days, is that it will be divided into two equal portions of 1260 days. Although that gives 2,520 days, I don’t see how that could be.  From Zechariah 14, the anti-Christ takes Jerusalem and shortly thereafter, hours to a few days, the LORD returns to reign.  Hence, the 1260 days when the Gentiles rule Jerusalem from Revelation 11:2 would seem to come first.  But on the day after they give up Jerusalem, the anti-Christ desecrates the temple to begin the Great Tribulation of 1260 days?  In Daniel 9:24 there are a list of things to occur in the final or seventieth week of Daniel, the last being to anoint the Most Holy.  I thought this would be the anointing of the Christ after He destroys His enemies in a very brief battle, but Chuck Missler of, a master teacher of the Bible but now deceased, noted authorities said this referred to the temple.  The temple, of course, was desecrated by the anti-Christ, and I have read that it takes thirty days to rededicate it, hence the 1290 days of Daniel 12:11 with the first 1260 days being the Great Tribulation. Thirty days thereafter, sacrifices will be restarted following the cleansing of the temple.  Hence, to me, the best you can do with the Great Tribulation’s 1260 days is the second piece of three with the first 1230 days, then the Great Tribulation, then 30 days to cleanse the temple to end Daniel’s final or 70th week.

   As already noted, Hanukkah is always seventy-four or seventy-five days after Yom Kippur. It is an eight-day feast that celebrated the removal of the first abomination of desolation. I suspect it will celebrate the removal of the second as well. Hence, I suspect the timing of Daniel’s final week will be the following:
   

   1.     138 (-145) days from the anti-Christ’s confirming of a treaty with many (Israel? And?) per Daniel 9:27.

   2.     2300 days per Daniel 8:16 and then the sanctuary will be cleansed.  This is composed of two 1260-day pieces with the first piece Revelation 11:2 when the Gentiles control Jerusalem.  The second piece is the 1260 days of the Great Tribulation. They overlap by 220 days. On the 1041st day of the first 1260, the Great Tribulation begins. On the 1261st day of the 2300, the anti-Christ loses Jerusalem, though he regains it at the end of the 2300 and the Great Tribulation per Zechariah 14:1-4.  At the very end of the 2300 and the Great Tribulation, Christ returns to destroy His enemies and reign.

   3.     30 days to cleanse the temple and then restart sacrifices.

   4.     45 days later is the Feast of Hanukkah ending on day 8, my ending for the final week of Daniel, although it could end on the first day of Hanukkah, changing 1 noted above from 138 to 145.

I have now explained my view on the numbers of the first six of the periods of 1260 days first noted in the beginning.  Can we do anything with the 1260 days that the two witnesses have?  Perhaps?

Daniel 9:27 Then he (the anti-Christ) shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering, and on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.   

I suspect the middle of the week noted above is where we got the final week divided into two equal portions of 1260 days each, which does not work out for me as already noted, but middle does not have to be the precise middle. It could simply refer to the fourth or middle year.  I wonder if we are not talking about two different weeks also, one the seven years of the 70th week of Daniel and the second, the week of Unleavened Bread, i.e., a double prophecy.  If the second week refers to the week of Unleavened Bread, it is interesting to note the time between the fourth day of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Yom Kippur is 1260 days beginning with Passover 2027 and also 2028, 2029, 2030, and 2031. It does not seem to work for Passover, 2032, off by about a month by my calculations, and it appears to be two days off for 2025 and 2026 each.  I urge you to do your own.

The Great Tribulation will last 1260 days. Does the Great Tribulation begin on the fourth day of Unleavened Bread and end on Yom Kippur?  The two witnesses of Revelation 11:3 witness for 1260 days.  Does their mission end on Passover? Are they resurrected on the fourth day of Unleavened Bread 3 and ½ days after Passover?  For Passover 2027 to be viable, the two witnesses should have come forth 1260 days earlier or about sunset 10 November of 2023, so no sale for that one. For Passover 2028 sunset Monday, April 10 to sunset Tuesday, April 11, the two witnesses should have come forth at sunset about 29 October, 2024, so again no sale. For Passover 2029, sunset Friday, 30 March, they would appear on the day beginning sunset 17 October to sunset 18 October, 2025, Jerusalem. For Passover of 2030 beginning at sunset Wednesday, 17 April, the two witnesses would appear on the day beginning sunset 4 November, 2026.  For Passover of 2031 beginning at sunset Monday, 7 April, the two witnesses would appear on the day beginning sunset 24 October, 2027. All of these are my calculations.

If I were the anti-Christ, I would want the two witnesses gone by the time I began the Great Tribulation.  God sometimes uses his feasts or days and months in history to verify who He is, e.g., the ninth of Av on the Hebrew calendar, usually in August on our calendar. On the ninth of Av, the Babylonians burned Solomon’s temple in 586 BC, and the Romans burned Herod’s temple in 70 AD.  Twelve spies were sent into Canaan after the Exodus, and ten reported in Numbers 13:31 that the Israelites were not strong enough to take the land from the Canaanites.  Joshua and Caleb thought otherwise, but the people followed the ten, and had to wander in the wilderness for an additional 38 years, 40 since the Exodus.  By tradition, the day and month, this bad report was given, was the ninth of Av.  In 1290 AD, the Jews were kicked out of England on the ninth of Av.  The Jews were exiled from Spain, where many had lived for two thousand years, in 1492 on the ninth of Av.  In between the last two dates, the Jews were exiled from France on the ninth of Av. If I were going to choose a Jewish feast for the two witnesses to be killed, which one would I choose? I believe God would choose Passover, so He could raise them from the dead on First Fruits noted in Leviticus 23:11.

Remember a Jewish day goes sunset to sunset. Dates of Passover from the internet:

2029- Sunset Friday, March 30, to sunset Saturday, March 31

2030- Sunset Wednesday, April 17, at 7:09 PM (per internet), to sunset Thursday, April 18.

2031- Sunset Monday, April 7, to sunset Tuesday, April 8

As already noted, if I were to use two of the Hebrew feasts for the death and resurrection of the two witnesses, then I would choose Passover and First Fruits, analogous to Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.  Of the three feasts in 2029 -2031, the only one that fits with Leviticus 23:11 is 2030. Passover begins at about 7:09 PM on Wednesday April 17, 2030.  Four days later would be sunset on Sunday, April 21 at about 7:12 PM.  Hence, there if the witnesses are killed the first 12 hours or so of the Jewish day beginning sunset April 17, and they are resurrected on Sunday, the interval to meet the conditions noted above would be about 7 AM to sunset at a little past 7 PM (sunset) that Sunday of 21 April, 2030 in Jerusalem.  It would also mean the two witnesses would be killed between sunset, just after 7 PM on April 17 to about 12 hours later.   

What about the anti-Christ?  We know that the beast arising from the sea in Revelation 13:1 had seven heads and one of his heads appeared to be mortally wounded, but his deadly wound was healed.  Revelation 13:12 repeats: … worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.  Per Zechariah 11:17, the anti-Christ would have a blinded right eye and a withered arm, so he is resurrected, but not totally healed.  Could it be that the anti-Christ will have one of his angels kill the two witnesses on one of the three Passovers noted above, and then be mortally wounded the same day, or, perhaps, the angel from the bottomless pit will kill the two witnesses in revenge for the killing of the anti-Christ shortly thereafter, but the deaths of the anti-Christ and the two witnesses both occur on the same Passover within hours of each other.  Then, mimicking Christ, the anti-Christ is resurrected on the third day, but not on First Fruits.  That honor falls to the two witnesses, likely shortly thereafter. 

Sometime on the fourth day of Unleavened Bread (sunset April 20, Saturday to sunset April 21, Sunday) the anti-Christ begins the Great Tribulation. Within hours before or after, all televisions on the earth, even broken or unplugged ones turn on loudly to show the two witnesses resurrected and sent skyward.  I am not sure local or national television would wish to cover this, but heavenly cameras are always available.  I suspect the anti-Christ will mimic Christ and be resurrected the third day of Unleavened Bread, but not on First Fruits.     

If the two witnesses are killed on Passover evening and resurrected on First Fruits, then the question arises:  Is the LORD redoing the Feasts of Israel during the Great Tribulation’s 1260 days though admittedly, Passover would be 3 ½ days early with the Great Tribulation’s 1260 days beginning the same Jewish day as the resurrection and rapture of the two witnesses on the fourth day of Unleavened Bread.  In Revelation 7:4-8, we are told that 12,000 persons from the tribes of Israel (Dan is omitted) for a total of 144,000 are sealed to evangelize the world.  Joseph and Manasseh are two of the tribes, but Joseph is Ephraim and Manasseh, the two sons of Jacob (Israel) who became individual tribes of Israel in Genesis 48:5.  It appears God is mad at Ephraim for some reason. I believe Ephraim was Great Britain, who was given by God the greatest empire in world history to encompass 20 to 25% of the earth’s land mass and the same percentage of the world’s population. They were the greatest nation on earth for their time, but then they forsook God for the unproven theory of evolution.  They brought Islam into their land, and the Muslims say England will be the first Islamic nation in Europe. Now about 5% of the English profess Christianity, though they were the great Christian nation of the 19th century. Ain't evolution grand?

The reason I mention the above is that in Revelation 14:1-4, 144,000 are noted being in heaven with Christ. Apparently, they have been taken in a second rapture, and verse 4 refers to them as firstfruits to God and the Lamb.  The Feast of Weeks, Jewish feast #4, is also known as Second First Fruits.  Would trumpets be the seventh trumpet judgement of Revelation 11:15?  And then Yom Kippur for His return?                                                                                                                         -Gentry