WHY ISRAEL IS CONFUSED ABOUT THEIR SABBATH YEAR
Miriam Howard
PART ONE:
“So there remains a Shabbat-keeping for God’s people.”
Hebrews 4:9, The Complete Jewish Bible
The Feast of Fruits is the ONLY day on the Jewish calendar that the BODY of
Christ may be raised and resurrected “in the likeness” of our HEAD, Jesus
Christ.
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ
was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness
of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”
Romans 6:4-5
From the Greek, the word “likeness” means exactly what it says. The
resurrection of His HEAD OPENED the Day of Christ Jesus, the Day of Grace. The
resurrection of His BODY, the Bride, will CLOSE the Day of Christ Jesus, the
Day of Grace.
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath BEGUN a good work in
you WILL PERFORM IT UNTIL the day of Jesus Christ.” Phil 1:6
Because Daniel’s prophecy of the “Seventy-Sevens,” Seventy Shabbats, means
exactly what it says, the prophecy is overlaid upon the CORRECT
shabbat/sabbatical cycle of the nation of Israel. “Seventy-sevens” equals 70x7
which is 490 years. 490 also equals 10x49 or Ten Jubilee cycles. The final year
of the prophecy, the 490th year, must fall in the God’s CORRECT sabbatical year
which will allow that year to not only be a 7th year, but a 49th. while being
the final 490th year of the prophecy. Because, at the end of Daniel's final
49th/490th Shabbat year on Elul 29, ten days later, on Tishri 10, the Day of
Atonement, the first Jubilee of the Millennial Kingdom will open, when all of
God’s original covenant promises to the redeemed nation of Israel will be fulfilled,
along with the awarding of their promised, eternal land heritages to the Twelve
Tribes by the Prince, Y’shua the Messiah. (Ezekiel 47: 13-23; 48)
“So there yet remains a Shabbat-keeping for God’s people!”
Because of the facts above, the opening of the 7 years of Tribulation MUST also
begin in the correct Shabbat year. Because of the following Biblical facts
already discussed many times before, the Day of the Lord must open:
in the correct Shabbat/Sabbatical year
at the close of the Day of Christ Jesus
in the spring time
in the month of Nisan
at the first of the barley harvest
at the end of the weekly sabbath
on the Feast of Firstfruits
on the first “morrow after the (weekly) shabbat” of Passover
betwixt the time of “twilight” and “gross darkness”- in the “twinkling of an
eye.”
“Then shalt thou say unto them: Thus saith HaShem: Behold, I will fill all the
inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the
priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
drunkenness. And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the
sons together, saith HaShem; I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion,
that I should not destroy them. Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud; for HaShem
hath spoken. Give glory to HaShem your G-d, before it grow dark, and before
your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight, and, while ye look for light,
He turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. But if ye will
not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eyes shall
weep sore, and run down with tears, because HaShem’s flock is carried away
captive.” Jeremiah 13:13-17, The Tanakh
The Day of the Lord MUST open immediately upon the close of the Day of Christ
Jesus, because the Lord has confined Himself into the narrow parameters of the
2,520 days of seven years- from Shabbat to Shabbat- in order to begin and end
His judgment upon the wicked, in order that He might call out “a remnant for
His Name” both from the nation of Israel and the Gentiles during the first part
of the Tribulation, “the travail of the woman, Judah,” known as “the birth
pangs of the Messiah.”
This crucial 7 year period must begin in the month of Nisan so that the very
important time of the MIDDLE of the Tribulation always falls in the month of
Tishri.
The month of Tishri is all-important for the opening of the MIDDLE because:
Tishri is the regnal month that ALL the kings of JUDAH historically ascended to
their thrones.
Tishri is the regnal month that ALL the kings of BABYLON ascended to their
thrones.
Chapters 10,11 and 12 of Revelation are not only the MIDDLE chapters of 22, but
they also depict the happenings in the MIDDLE of the Tribulation. For it is in
the middle of the Shabbat cycle, that Y’shua the Messiah provided the
once-for-all atonement for all mankind that spiritually opened the Kingdom of
Heaven for all mankind. It is in the MIDDLE of another Shabbat cycle that
Y’shua will physically open the Kingdom of Heaven and ascend to His regnal throne
as the king of Judah first, over His own Tribe of Judah, as revealed in
Revelation 11:15-19, in the proper, chronological unfolding of the order of the
book of Revelation.
The beast also symbolically assumes “his throne” in the geographical ancient
area of Babylon, and becomes the "king of Babylon" over what is left
of the inhabitable world by the MIDDLE of the Tribulation, as Revelation 13:5
clearly tells the reader that the Lord ONLY grants him power and authority for
“forty-two months”- the LAST 3.5 years of the seven years. Besides being named
“the Assyrian” in Isaiah 10 and other texts, the beast is also called “the king
of Babylon” in Isaiah 14: 1-8.
Another name in the Bible for the king of Babylon is “the king of Sheshach” as
in Jeremiah 25:26, from The Complete Jewish Bible:
“…and all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another - indeed, all
the kingdoms of the world that there are on the surface of the earth. And the
king of Sheshach will drink LAST of all.”
In the opinion of many, “Sheshach” is a cryptogram for “Babel” formed by
reversing the letters in the Babylonian alphabet. Even though Jeremiah was
writing chapter 25 in the apparent time-frame of Nebuchadnezzar, his prophecy
rendered in chapter 51 is obviously telescoping down to the END of Babylon,
thousands of years after Nebuchadnezzar, at the end of the Tribulation:
“How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how
is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!”
Jeremiah 51:41
Even though the beast is endued with power from the dragon-Satan, he will be
the last mortal king of Babylon on Earth.
Satan, who is Gog, is the ultimate type of both “the Assyrian” and “the king of
Babylon.” After 1,000 years of his confinement in the bottomless pit, he will
be released “for a little season” in order to marshal the Gentile forces of Gog
and Magog against Israel in one final attempt at the end of the Kingdom
age,(Rev 20:7-9; Joel 3:9-21), and will be the last embodiment of "the
king of Babylon" and all evil “kings” over the world forever.
Therefore, again, it is vitally important for the middle of the Shabbat cycle
of the Tribulation to fall out in its appropriate, divinely appointed month of
Tishri. The Fall Feasts commemorate and celebrate the Kingdom for the redeemed
of the nation of Israel. It is the month that that “the mystery of God is
finished” in Revelation 10, and the month in which the times of the Gentiles”
begins for the last forty-two months as in Revelation 11. It is the month that
the Two Witnesses will finish their 1260 day ministry on Earth. It is the month
in which they die for 3.5 days and then are raised from the dead along with all
the O.T. saints and the saints that died during the first half of the Shabbat
cycle, as in Revelation 11. It is the month that “the seventh trump is blown”
and “the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his
Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” Tishri is the time the “woman of
Judah” delivers up “the man child to the Throne of His Father” in order that He
be coronated as “King of kings,” just before she flees to “a place that has
been prepared for her” as in Revelation 12. The month of Tishri is the time of
the official opening of the Kingdom of David.
Just as it is an absolute necessity for the middle of the Tribulation to fall
in its divinely appointment month of Tishri, it is also absolutely necessary
for the end of the Tribulation to complete in its divinely appointed season in
order that Y’shua, the Messiah of Israel is on Earth to open the Sacred
calendar year on Nisan 1, with His people Israel. He will then be able to open
the Mosaic feast cycle beginning with the spring Feasts at their proper time
and in their proper order. This is absolutely prophetic that He do this- as it
was on Nisan 10 that Israel called out these words in Matthew 21:8-9: “And a
very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches
from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before,
and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he
that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.” This event will
take place again- at its proper time, in its proper season, on the appointed
day! It was in the month of Nisan that Y’shua proclaimed these words to Israel,
when He said in Matthew 23:35: “For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me
henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord.” He will come to them in the “same season” and the same month as these
words were originally uttered.
It is only in spring time, in the month of Nisan, inside the majority correct
sabbath year, at the feast of Firstfruits only, that allows the following seven
years to begin, unfold in the middle and end in their appropriate and divinely
appointed order. In the very rare year when Israel’s spring feasts begin near
the end of March, as in l975, the 1260th day always falls near the beginning of
Elul which is out of order for the middle to fall. Also, when the feasts begin
even a little after the first week of April, beginning the Tribulation at 40 to
50 days later (on Ascension Day or Pentecost, meaning “50” in Greek), the month
of Tishri is completely bypassed and the middle of the Tribulation would fall
in the month of Heshvan, which is again, completely out of Israel’s seasonal
order for “the grape harvest” to begin in its appointed season in the middle of
the Tribulation, according to the Scriptures, just as it is completely out of
order for the Lord to begin the Tribulation at the time of the grape harvest!
If that were to happen, then the middle of the Tribulation would be at the time
of the grain harvest, a complete reversal of the revealed seasons in the Word,
especially in Revelation 14, depicting the first sickle by “the Son of Man” in
a dry harvest (grain) and the second sickle by an angel in a wet harvest (in
the grapes), from the word definitions from the Greek.
A very important Biblical principle to always remember is that “the grape harvest”
is equated with the beginning of the middle of the Tribulation, and the
beginning of destruction of the utterly wicked, thru to the end of the
Tribulation. It would be completely inappropriate and out of order for the
Father- who is called “the Husbandman” to be out of SEASONAL order with His own
agricultural harvests, the beginning of Israel’s grape harvest, which always
falls at the end of summer/beginning of Fall, in Israel. This is another
qualifier that always helps the Bible student to properly understand and
correctly place “the seasons in Israel” – both grain and grapes for the
beginning and middle of the Tribulation.
Because the BODY of Christ did not raise in the likeness of her HEAD this past
Firstfruits, and because the Day of the Lord did not begin as expected because
it was thought that the spring of 2008 was indeed the majority Shabbat year of
national Israel as they themselves observed, it is now clear that Israel is
observing the wrong Sabbatical cycle, at least clear back to the beginning of
the A.D. (C.E.) years. Why would this be so?
I believe the following provides us with some reasons:
It is known that the rabbis have extracted years out of their own Jewish
calendar for various reasons. Some say they did this to detract from the true
coming of Messiah Y’shua to them- both the first time and for the last time,
and to confuse “the counts of Daniel” as believers in Y’shua’s day were able to
count the years from “the seventh year of Artaxerxes” (the beginning of
Daniel’s ’70 weeks’ in Ezra 7), as surely “the Magi” were also taught by
Daniel.
Moreover, between 132-135 a.d. one of Israel’s prominent rabbis, Rabbi Akiva,
considered by some to be the father of rabbinical Judaism, supported a military
commander, Shimon Bar Kochba who led a revolt against the Roman general,
Hadrian and his army. Rabbi Akiva thought Bar Kochba was the Messiah and
referred to him as “the Star out of Jacob.” It is thought that the extraction
of years was to point to this time in Israel’s history. It will only be in the
final year of the Tribulation that we will be able to know the correct number
of years that Israel did indeed extract, as the final year of the tribulation
will be the final 6,000th year of Adamic time. For example: If the "day of
man" ends in 2016.a.d, 6,000 years minus 2016, would be year 3984 b.c.,
the year of Creation. 2016 will be Jewish year 5776. 6000-5776 = 224 years
short. That will be the true number of years that Israel extracted from their
calendar, if the Tribulation ends in 2016.
Remember, that Ashkenazi Judaism (European Jewry) tore out Isaiah 53 from their
Tanakh while Sephardi Judaism (Spanish Jewry) kept it intact. Judaism has a
saying which hopes to deter their adherents from reading the book of
Daniel….”cursed be the bones of anyone who reads the book of Daniel.” Of course
this book is the key book in instructing believing Israel how to “count their
days” during the Tribulation, after the book of Revelation. Also, the rabbis
prohibit yeshiva students from reading The Zohar which, though one of the books
of the Kabala, contains a marvelous and scholarly discussion of the Hebrew
meaning of ‘Elohim’ which concept is translated as “echad” which reveals the
“three-in-one” of “composite unity.” Up to the 1100s a.d., the nation of Israel
was not formally turned against the concept of the “unified Oneness” of
“echad.” However with the rise of Rabbi Moses Maimonides, (1138-1204 a.d.)
called “the Ramban,” came the first formal writing of a systemic code of all
Jewish law. He single-handedly swayed Judaism’s thinking away from the Biblical
“echad of composite Unity” of the Godhead to “yachid,” the solitary Oneness, of
which they espouse today. In the original Masoretic text, the word “yachid” is
NEVER used to describe God, only the word “echad.” Therefore- the rabbis tell
the yeshiva students they will go insane if they indeed read The Zohar, even
though the book is present on most shelves in the yeshivas. Only the oldest
rabbis are permitted to read from it.
For a marvelous discussion of “echad vs yachid,” by Messianiac believer, Dr.
Arnold Fructenbaum, following are links to his Trinity,
Part 1 and Part 2 at the link below. Scroll down to mbs 050 :
PART
2:
So, the above are just some examples of how Judaism has attempted to defy,
detract from and deny the absolute Truth, “emet,” of God’s Holy Word to them!
Many of Israel’s rabbis down through the years have purposed in their black
hearts to keep their people from knowing the real truth. Many rabbis know the
real truth, but refuse to believe it, just as in Y’shua’s day. He KNEW that the
high priests, scribes and Pharisees KNEW who He was, hence, His strong words of
rebuke and reprimand to them. While the believer has the right to condemn this
horrible action of the rabbis and teachers of Israel, look again at what the
Lord told Isaiah long ago when He called him to be a prophet to his nation,
setting forth a very important insight and truth that we as New Testament
believers need to understand about national Israel, BEFORE their national
repentance is realized inside the Travail:
“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not
know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken
the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone
away backward.” Isaiah 1:3-4
“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go
for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed, but UNDERSTAND NOT; and see ye indeed, but PERCEIVE NOT. Make
the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
LEST THEY SEE with their eyes, and HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, and UNDERSTAND WITH
THEIR HEART, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he
answered, UNTIL the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without
man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the LORD have removed men far away,
and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be
a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an
oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed
shall be the substance thereof.” Isaiah 6:8-13
There is a further disturbing and ominous text which directly addresses
“Shabbats” (sabbaths) and the nation of unregenerate Israel. It is a text
written by the prophet Ezekiel who wrote to “the whole house of Israel.” He was
carried away to Babylon between the first and final deportations of Judah.
Remember that “the seventy years” (ten sabbatical/Shabbat cycles) of exile out
of the land of Judah were for the specific purpose in order to…” fulfil the
word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her
sabbaths; (Shabbats) for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to
fulfill threescore and ten years” {2 Chronicles 36:21}.
Important Bible Principle: The statute of “sabbath/Shabbat” not only stands for
the seventh day of the week, but also the seven weeks between “the morrow after
the sabbath” of Passover to “the morrow after the sabbath” of Pentecost on the
‘50th day,’ the seventh month of Tishri, the seventh year- the
sabbatical/shabbat year, the seventh x seventh year- the 49th year, and the
seven “high sabbaths” in the levitical year- including the 1st and 7th days of
Unleavened Bread (John 19:21 expressly refers to Nisan 15 as “a sabbath, a high
day”), Shavout, Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the 1st and 8th days of Tabernacles.
“Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye
shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations;
that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you”. Ezekiel 31:13
Now, carefully note again these very ominous and telling words from the Lord to
Ezekiel, given to the prophet in the seventh year of the exile, on Israel’s
second most sorrowful day- Av 10 :
1: And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day
of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD,
and sat before me. 2: Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 3: Son of
man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be
inquired of by you.
11: And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man
do, he shall even live in them.
12: Moreover also I GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS, TO BE A SIGN BETWEE ME AND THEM,
that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. 13: But the house
of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my
statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live
in them; and MY SABBATHS THEY GREATLY POLLUTED: then I said, I would pour out
my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20 is an overview of the whole history of the nation of Israel from
their beginning in the wilderness to their final repentance and gathering at
the end of the Tribulation. Four times in chapter 20 alone, the Lord uses the
words about what the nation of Israel has done with His sabbaths: “DESPISED,”
“PROFANED” and “POLLUTED My sabbaths.”
In Ezk 22:26, the Lord says:
“Her priests have VIOLATED my law, and have PROFANED mine holy things: they
have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed
difference between the unclean and the clean, AND HAVE HID THEIR EYES FROM MY
SABBATHS, AND I AM PROFANED AMONG THEM .”
In Ezk 23:38 the Lord said, “…..they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day,
AND HAVE PROFANED MY SABBATHS..”
But finally, in Ezekiel 44:24, AFTER retribution, AFTER repentance, AFTER
restoration and AT REST: The Lord says this about THE REDEEMED REMNANT of
Israel:
“And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it
according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all
mine assemblies; and THEY SHALL HALLOW MY SABBATHS."
Because of the nation of Israel’s continued and protracted rebellion against
the Lord down throughout the ages, the Bible student has firm ground upon which
to stand in order to understand that it is the Lord Himself who has “blinded
their eyes” and “deafened their ears” so they cannot see, cannot perceive and
even cannot understand…UNTIL…He removes the veil from the eyes and unstops the
ears of the appointed remnant, beginning with the 144,000 inside the Travail.
Therefore, it is no surprise to find out that the nation of Israel is observing
the wrong Shabbat cycle because of their utter spiritual blindness and the
repeated attempts of the rabbis not only to “hide their own eyes” but also
those of their own people regarding the correct Sabbath cycle of the Lord !
One final note in conclusion: Most all ancient calendars of the Gentiles
ignored and left off the ‘zero year’ between 1 b.c. and 1 a.d. This is
mathematically incorrect as the -0- is the tenth, the hundredth and the
thousandth. Example: 1000 b.c. to 1 b.c. is only 999 years. 1 a.d. to 100 a.d.
is only 99 years.
The Master Mathematician counted that year, of that we can be sure. He would
never make such a mistake. Therefore, the Gregorian calendar is at least one
year short, and truly this year is 2007, not 2008.
It is interesting that Dr. Ben Zion Wacholder also did not count the zero year
in his research, even though everything that he has studied leads him to
believe that Israel has been on the wrong sabbatical cycle, and is one year
short of the true cycle, in the a.d. (C.E.) years. He believes that the next
Shabbat year will open on Tishri 1 of 2008, September 30/October 1, Jewish year
5769, and the majority sabbatical year will be in 2009, ending on Elul 29,
September 18, 2009. (National Israel’s cycle will have closed on Elul 29, 2008,
5768). Seven years later would open the next Shabbat cycle on Tishri 1, of
2015, Jewish year 5776, running thru Elul 29, 2016, IF Dr. Wacholder is
correct. The 19th year (the final year) of Israel’s lunar Metonic cycle opens
in the fall of 2015, and completes in the majority year of 2016, 5776.
It is very interesting that the Gregorian year following the accepted
Sabbatical year of Israel ALWAYS divides equally by 7, i.e. 2009/7 = 287 (7
years over a human gestation cycle of 280). Also- remember that ‘28’ is the
number of a “fertility cycle” while ‘29’ is the number of “departure.”
IF Dr. Wacholder’s extensive research and writings are correct, and the
nation’s true and correct Shabbat year of the Lord is really one year following
their present, observed cycle, then I personally believe the Bride can fully
expect to be “delivered” next Firstfruits, April 11/12, 2009, 5769, and the
nation of Israel and the world can expect the beginning of severe and real
judgment from the Lord, ending with the redemption of Israel and entry into
their long-promised Kingdom of David, 7 years later. Again, IF Dr. Wacholder’s
cycle is the one the Lord is keeping, it would put the EXACT middle of the
tribulation, in the month of Tishri, in the year 2012, which is the end of not
only the Mayan calendar but also ends a calendar from China and Egypt. 2012
will begin the Solar Max cycle in Astronomy- completely in order with the
beginning of the last half of the Tribulation when this will occur in the last
half:
"And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was
given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat,
and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they
repented not to give him glory."
Rev 16:8-9
Next year, 2009, is especially meaningful as it will turn out to be “a year of
perfect order,” in which Nisan 1 opens on a Thursday, which allows Nisan 10 to
fall on Shabbat, Nisan 14 on Wednesday, and Nisan 17 on Shabbat, etc, as it was
not only in the week of Y’shua’s death, burial and resurrection, but also just
as the Law of God mandated for the ‘Passion Week’ to be, as commanded to Moses
in Exodus 12! This will be the last such “year” until 2020, which is neither a
year of Shabbat, nor in the middle of a cycle. Truly, Nisan of 2009/5769 would
then allow the BODY of Christ to be raised “in His likeness” at the end of
Nisan 17, beginning of Nisan 18, on the morrow after the sabbath on
Firstfruits.
With everything that is going on all around us and everywhere else in the
world, it is very difficult to think of the world going on without the
beginning of judgment from the Lord by next spring, without the whole world
“collapsing in upon itself,” something that can never be as man is not allowed
to have a part in his own final judgment- which is reserved only for Almighty
God, Himself!
Truly, “there yet remains a Shabbat-keeping for God’s people”- on GOD's CORRECT
Shabbat, for both the redeemed Gentile and the Jew.
Miriam Howard
June 17, 2008
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**[A short biography of Dr. Ben Zion Wacholder: Dr. Wacholder is Professor of
Talmud and Rabbinics at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati (Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion) and holds the Solomon B. Freehof Professorship of Jewish
Law and Practice. Dr. Wacholder became Librarian at the HUC-JIR, Los Angeles in
1956, and three years later joined the faculty. Dr. Wacholder’s specialties are
the origins and development of Talmudic Judaism and ancient Jewish
commentaries.
Education
Ordained, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University,
(1951)
Ph.D., UCLA (1960), (University of California, Los Angeles)]
Miriam—Additional Comments
ALWAYS
"in a year of perfect order"- when the Feast of Firstfruits falls on
Nisan 18, on the morrow after the sabbath- if that day were to be DAY 1 of the
next 2,520 days of the Tribulation, the 1335th day, about which Yeshua told
Daniel this after counting out the days of the FIRST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION IN
ORDER:
"Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and
five and thirty days." Dan 12:12 [12x12=144]
is the 1,335th day which ALWAYS lands on Kislev 24, the eve of the Feast of
DEDICATION:
Some of the the main reasons I believe that Yeshua is shown observing the
marvelous '8th' Feast-the Feast of DEDICATION is this:
*** [Kislev 24, December 7, 2012, 5773, Friday: will be the 1,335th day from
April 11/12, 2009, when the following question was asked by the Lord some 2,532
years earlier, in Haggai 2: 18-19 [on that same Jewish day], from 2012 a.d.,
will be answered in the affirmative:
“Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the
ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was
laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the
fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: FROM
THIS DAY WILL I BLESS YOU."
[* Neither foundation of Israel’s two Temples was laid on Kislev 24, according
to 1 Kings 6:37, where the old Hebrew word “Zif” is used for “Iyar,” the second
month. In Ezra 3:8-10, they again laid the foundation for the Second Temple:
“in the second month,” which again is Iyar. ] To what was the Lord referring in
the above text?
Hag 2:18-22, seems to be a telescoping prophecy by Yeshua promised to Daniel
and his “thy people” in Daniel 12, and down to about 2,546 years forward to
2012 a.d.: “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
hundred and five and thirty days” [on the very same "ninth month and
twenty and fourth day"...Kislev 24.
Haggai 2:20-23 says: “And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the
four and twentieth day of the month, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of
Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; And I will overthrow the
throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the
heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and
the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother”
...which is a description of the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord- the last
half of the Tribulation, IF 5769 is God’s Sabbatical year.
Remember: in the Bible, the righteous of Israel (and all righteous) are
symbolized as “fruit,” as in Isa 27:6, and.... "To appoint unto them that
mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called
TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE PLANTING OF THE LORD, that he might be
glorified" in Isaiah 61:2.
Leviticus 19:23-24 states the law of the tree fruit: “And when ye shall come
into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye
shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as
uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. But IN THE FOURTH YEAR ALL
THE FRUITS THEREOF SHALL BE HOLY TO PRAISE THE LORD WITHAL. And in the fifth
year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase
thereof: I am the LORD your God.”
In Haggai’s day, the Lord is viewing sinful, national Israel as “uncircumcised
fruit” as YET unfit to qualify as “righteous seed” to enter “My barn” (of the
Kingdom) as in Matthew 13:30.
During the first 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation, during the judgment of the
‘Travail,’ the remnant of Israel is all the while being prepared by “spiritual
circumcision” for the end of the 3.5th year- (the fourth year), as “a holy
praise to the LORD withal...”
"that they might be called TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE PLANTING OF THE
LORD, that he might be glorified"....
Then, from that point on…that “fruit may yield unto you…the increase
thereof”…for evermore! “FROM THIS DAY FORWARD…WILL I BLESS YOU.”
The 1335th day of the Tribulation is clearly to be understood as DIRECTLY
following Yeshua’s counting out of the days IN ORDER…of the FIRST half of the
Tribulation for Daniel--- as “the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord, “the
times of the Gentiles,” and the last half of the Daniel’s 70th week is NOT poured
out upon either the righteous Jew or the righteous Gentile. “He shall be saved
out of it” Jer 30:7.
It is on the 1,335th day that DIRECTLY follows after the mention of “time,
times and half a time” and “… from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be
taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a
thousand two hundred and ninety days,” in verse 11, when ALL the righteous on
the Earth and in Heaven- both Jew and Gentile are: “Blessed is he that waiteth,
and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.” Dan 12:12.
The 1,335th day is NOT arrived at by adding on as extra 75 days at the END of
the Tribulation, after Yeshua has already returned to the remnant of Israel and
has “taken out their heart of stone and placed in a heart of flesh, after which
He pours out the clean water upon them and joins back the broken stick into
“the WHOLE house of Israel” and makes an ETERNAL covenant of peace with them,
as in Ezk 36:28-38; Ezk 37.
The 7 years of the Tribulation are exactly and only 1260 days + 1260 days/42
months + 42 months in duration: Rev 11:3; 12:6; 13:5.
Daniel asked Yeshua “how long until the end of these wonders?” for “his
people/thy people” which are ONLY the redeemed of Israel. Y’shua answered this
way: “And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the
river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware
by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for A TIME, TIMES, AND AN HALF;
and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people,
ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE FINISHED"....(for the righteous only) Dan 12:7.
It is in the MIDDLE of the Tribulation that “he shall have accomplished to
scatter the power of the holy people,” and “the mystery of God is finished,”
and “time shall be no more” Rev 10:6,7, when the Old Testament saints are
raised and resurrected into heaven, along with all the Tribulation remnant that
have died in the first half of the Tribulation, and Yeshua the Messiah, Savior
and King, “takes His power and begins to reign,” Rev 11: 15-19, at the blowing
of the “seventh trump” when the END of these wonders has been reached for “the
righteous of God.” From that time on they are protected either in Heaven or all
over the Earth, in “the cleft of the Rock,” awaiting the completion of the last
half of the Tribulation as symbolized by the grape harvest upon the utterly
wicked, in order to go alive into the Kingdom of David.
The last half of the Tribulation, the last half of Daniel’s ‘70th week’ is
poured out “upon thy holy city” as Jerusalem becomes “a cup of trembling,” “a
burdensome stone,” (Zech 12:2-3), and Jerusalem is given over “to be tread
under foot for forty and two months” by the Gentiles, (Rev 11:2) and God’s
unrestrained and full wrath is poured our upon with the utterly wicked which
are left by that time, over all the Earth!
As one can discern from the Bible, the 1,335th day is one of the most important
days of all- inside the time of the Tribulation. In a year of perfect order, it
always falls on “the twenty and forth day of the ninth month,” Kislev 24, which
is the eve of the ‘8th’ feast in the Bible, referred to in John 10 as …“the
feast of DEDICATION.” Remember, under the Mosaic Law, it is on the “eighth day of
life” that the Lord commands ALL males to be circumcised, “set apart unto Him,”
which commandment will be in effect throughout ALL eternity- according to
Ezekiel 44:9: “Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart,
nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that
is among the children of Israel.”
In Greek, the word “dedication” is Strong’s #1456 from #2537 means:
1. Consecration, new, fresh, recently made, unworn, a new kind
There is no better day within the 2,520 days of the Tribulation to present to
the Father, as "an offering withal," the righteous of the Old
Testament and the recently “made fresh” Tribulation saints, as “a new kind” of
Israel, who have turned from their sin and believe in Yeshua Messiah, their
Savior, because of the judgment of “the TRAVAIL of the woman,” whether in
Heaven or hidden away in the “cleft of the Rock” for the last half of the
Tribulation.
[ I personally believe, because Mary of Judah was “overshadowed” by the Holy
Spirit in the “sixth month” from the time Elizabeth became pregnant (Lu 1:
26-38), from July to December, it very well could have been Kislev 24, on the
Feast of Dedication, that “… the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth” Jn 1:14. If in fact that reasoning is correct, THEN- that
could explain about WHOM the Lord was referring in Haggai 2:18 when He said:
“Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the
ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was
laid, consider it.” Yeshua the Messiah, who was made “the foundation stone” in
the flesh, in the very “ninth month, on the twenty and fourth day” for it is HE
Who IS…in Isa 28:16:
“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that
believeth shall not make haste.”]
The marvelous and miraculous 1,335th day- which always falls on the Kislev 24,
the eve of the Feast of Dedication- when day 1 of the next 2,520 days falls on
the morrow after the sabbath of Passover- in a year of perfect order- on Nisan
18!
Miriam
In
2009, a year of perfect order- when Day of of the 2,520th days of the
Tribulation falls on Feast of Firstfruits-Nisan 18, April 12:
then
1290 days later- the day about which Yeshua spoke in Daniel 12:11 and in Matt
24:15-20... when Yeshua was warning the generation that would be inside the
Tribulation when He said this:
"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand:) Then let them which be in JUDEA flee into the mountains: Let him
which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe
unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! BUT
PRAY YE THAT YUR FLIGHT BE NOT IN WINTER, NEITHER ON THE SABBATH DAY"....
then, the 1,290th day from April 12, Nisan 18, Feast of Firstfruits will be :
TUESDAY, OCT 23, 2012, HESHVAN 7
A day neither in winter nor on the sabbath day !
Winter begins officially in Israel on Dec 21/22.
Note: We read and hear today about how the Israeli government is thinking about
kicking the Jews out of Judea and Samaria in order to placate the Palestinians.
From Yeshua's own words above in Matthew 24- we are well assured there will be
JEWS STILL LIVING IN JUDEA BY THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION- WHO WILL BE
REMNANT YET!
Praise the Lord!
Miriam
The
Bible is clear to give us the EXACT counts of days of the orderly unfolding of
the 7 years of Tribulation:
Remember, it was in Psalm 90 that Moses prayed this "collective
prayer" for his beloved nation of Israel, which establishes a HEART-FELT
PLEA TO THE LORD....THAT ESTABLISHES A CLEAR PRINCIPLE FOR ISRAEL: IF THEY
WOULD STUDY THEIR BIBLE AND BELIEVED GOD'S INFALLIBLE WORD TO THEM:
"The days of our years are THREESCORE AND TEN ; and if by reason of
strength they be FOURSCORE years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for
it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even
according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
SO TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS, THAT WE MAY APPLY OUT HEARTS UNTO WISDOM.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O
satisfy us EARLY with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad according TO THE DAYS WHEREIN THOU HAS AFFLICTED US, and the years
wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory
unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and
establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands
establish thou it. [verses 10-17]
2016 - 80 years = 1936
2016 - 70 years = 1946
2012 - 80 years = 1932 (the rise of Hitler)
2012 - 70 years = 1942 (the beginning of "the ovens" in Nazi Germany)
With careful study, the Bible student can
come to discern that from the VERY BEGINNING- God has revealed to the nation of
Israel- their own "counts of days." Just think how many times in the
pages of Scripture the Holy Spirit has written the precise amount of time about
when an important event was to begin, to end, how far in the future it would be
and so on....over and over again!
That is WHY the counts of days of the 2,520 days of the Tribulation are
"written in stone"- given out of the mouth of Yeshua Himself, and by
the Holy Spirit in Revelation 11, 12 and 13. These "counts of days"
are fixed and unchangeable and fitting right in with the appropriate
agricultural harvest seasons of the nation of Israel. If Yeshua and the Holy
Spirit- changed these "counts of days of the Tribulation for the remnant-
THEY WOULD BE LIARS- and of course, THAT cannot be! The remnant will be hanging
on every day to THAT count given to them in Scripture, and helped along by the
witness of the Elijah and the second witness. The remnant can FULLY EXPECT THAT
SCRIPTURE SAYS WHAT IT MEANS AND MEANS WHAT IT SAYS--UNEQUIVOCALLY! [as can
we!]
1. The Two Witness arrive on DAY 1 of the 2,520 days, as they are on the Earth
EXACTLY alive- for 1,260 days- Rev 11:30
2. On the 1260th day of the Tribulation, they are killed by the BEAST an lie on
top of the ground for exactly 3.5 days- Rev 11:7,11
3. The "woman of Judah" DELIVERS THE MANCHILD...up to the throne of
HIS FATHER-on the 1260th day of the Tribulation- Her TRAVAIL of the "first
half" of the Tribulation IS OVER! -whereupon immediately- she flees to the
wilderness "where a place has been prepared for her" for the LAST
half of the Tribulation- the LAST 1260 days- Rev 12:6, and verse 14 (times,
time and half a time).
4. It is in the exact Middle of the Tribulation- that the PHYSICAL KINGDOM OF
GOD IS OPENED- Yeshua becomes King of Kings and has begun to "take His
power"- Rev 11:17, 12:10.
5. The antichrist becomes 'the beast' in the MIDDLE of the trib- very close to
the 1260th day-after the war in Heaven in chapter 12- when Satan and ALL the
demons are thrown down and CONFINED TO EARTH- for the LAST half of the
Tribulation, because it is the dragon who gives his power to the beast for ONLY
the last 42 months of the Tribulation- the last 1260 days! Rev 13:5. The
authority of the beast is ONLY for the LAST 42 months of the Tribulation.
6. It is in the MIDDLE of the Tribulation that the O.T. saints are resurrected
and are raptured up to Heaven....as Daniel 12:1-2 says this:
"AND AT THAT TIME shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people: AND THERE SHALL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE, such as
never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time THY
PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED, EVERY ONE FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK. And MANY of
them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, SOME TO EVERLASTING LIFE
......
IF April 12, 2009, is Day 1 of the next 2,520 days of the Tribulation-
then the 1260 day will fall on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012, Tishri 7, 5773
then the 1263.5th day will fall on Thursday, Sept 27, 2012, Tishri 11, 5773...
which begins at the CLOSE OF TISHRI 10, THE DAY OF ATONEMENT- WHEN IN JUDAISM-
"THE GATE OF HEAVEN CLOSES"- UPON NATIONAL ISRAEL- ON ONLY DAY FOR
"NATIONAL" REPENTANCE OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL!
ACCORDING TO THE UNFOLDING OF THE SCRIPTURE IN ORDER, OF REVELATION- NO ONE
COMES TO FAITH IN YESHUA IN THE LAST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION- the wicked DO NOT
REPENT OF THEIR SINS- beginning with Rev 9:20-21; Rev 16:9,11,21.
Moreover, Revelation 13:16 says this:
"And he causeth ALL, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, RICH AND POOR, FREE AND BOND,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads"
then the 1290th day falls on Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012, Heshvan 7, 5773
then the 1,335th day falls on Friday, Dec 7, 2012, the beginning of Kislev
24,5773, the Eve of the Feast of Dedication
then the 2,520th day falls on Sunday, March 6, 2016, at the end of the Sabbath,
1 Adar, 5776 (in an Adar 2 year).
5776 is the 19th and final year of the 19 year Metonic cycle.
Miriam