Apostles and Elders Organizing the Church

When you read, or hear someone tell you, you can't know the day or the hour, keep in mind they could not know then, obviously, since they could not calculate according to the Tetrads (signs in the sun and the moon), but once Israel is a nation again you can know. Moreover, you can't know when the end of the world is (Matt. 24.35-36), but you can know when Jesus returns which is 1000 years before the end of the world. Jesus did not say He would forever not know. Likewise, as we approach the season or find ourselves in the season as we are now, we can know. And lastly, you can't know the day or hour if you are a carnal Christian; only a spiritual Christian can discern the signs of the times because he is watchful and overcoming. Make sure when you read these passages about the day and the hour you read them in context.

We are coming to a turning point in history, because never has prophecy and the cosmos ever been this aligned before as it is now, and it all begins with the phrase when the "branch is tender" (Matt. 24.32) then you can "know" when Jesus returns "right at the door" (v.33). Israel represents the fig tree in the OT and Jesus even cursed the fig tree representing Israel because it had leaves, but no fruit showing its outward display was not right while inwardly it was corrupt having no fruit. One would think within a lifetime constitutes easily "right at the door". 70 to 80 years is a lifetime (Ps. 90.10), and Abraham entered the promise land at 75. 75 years added to 1948 when Israel became a nation brings us to 2023 so the Tribulation can occur no later than the 7 year period from 2016 to 2023.

Just as all of Daniel's sixty-nine sevens (Dan. 9.25,26) were 2,520 days each (7 x 360) so too will be the 70th seven-the final seven (v.27; see Matt. 24.15). From the declaration to rebuild the Temple Nisan 1, 444 BC (Neh. 2.1) there would be 7 sets of 7 (49 years) then another sixty-two sets of seven, for a total of 69 sevens after which the Messiah would be cut off. 69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days. There are exactly 173,880 days from Nisan 1, 444 BC to March 28, 33 AD (Gregorian) which is the 1st day of the 4 day inspection of the lamb March 28, 29, 30, 31. Then Jesus was cut off April 1, April Fool's Day, 33 AD, Nisan 14, Passover.

And Ezekiel's prophecy on his side for 390 days also brings us to precisely as prophesied when Israel would become a nation again to the month of May. Israel became a nation again in a day on May 14, 1948. Wow!

So we are looking for a 7 year period that lasts 2,520 days. Incidentally, 2,520 is the smallest number divisible by all numbers for 2 to 10 as a basic working prophetic unit. Just as there were two signs in the heavens for the wise men to find the child of Bethlehem, we should expect two more signs-the second being the confirmation-in the heavens to know when Jesus returns. A feast Total Lunar Tetrad is when there is a red blood moon on passover, tabernacles, and again on passover and tabernacles over a 2 year period. They are very rare. The 6th one since Christ was 1949/50. Israel signed the Armistice treaty in 1949. The 7th was 1967/68 when Israel took over Jerusalem June 7, 1967. Never before in history were two Tetrads closer than 18 years apart. The 8th will be 2014/15. From the nation of Israel to its capital Jerusalem next will follow the building of the 3rd Temple. The Total Lunar Tetrad won't happen again till 2582/83. Wow! So this is it!

The 7 feasts of Israel are a rehearsal of things to come related to the Messiah. The first four feasts pertain to Jesus' first coming. The last 3 feasts to his second coming. Passover represents His atoning sacrifice. Feast of Unleavened Bread represents Jesus being in the grave for 3 days. Firstfruits typifies His resurrection. And Pentecost depicts the giving of the Holy Spirit to indwell believers now that Jesus is at the right hand of the Father. The last 3 feasts are about His second coming. Feast of Trumpets deals with the rapture according to readiness before the Tribulation starts since Matt. 24.40-42, Luke 21.36 and Rev. 3.10 are conditional if/then statements for Christians to be received up "before the throne" (7.9) at the first rapture before the first trumpet (8.7) of the Tribulation commences, if they keep the word of His patience, are prayerful and watchful. Most Christians alive at the time will lose this reward because they preferred to be carnal Christians. Though they can't lose eternal life, they can lose the reward of being received up before the throne ahead of time and escape the hour of trial that is to come upon the whole world. They will have to wait to meet the Lord in the air at the last trumpet instead. Next is the Day of Atonement which depicts all those who are saved when Jesus returns. And finally Tabernacles would be Jesus tabernacling among men for 1000 years, reigning with a "rod of iron" over the nations with His overcomers (Rev. 2.26, 12.5).

Hence, the Tribulation must start on Feast of Trumpets. Every two years or so the 2,520th day (7 x 360) of the Tribulation-the 1260th day of the Great Tribulation-lands on Tisha B'Av when the 1st and 2nd Temples were destroyed, for Jesus returns to reign in the 3rd Temple. In alternating years, amazingly enough, the 2,550th day-the 1290th day-lands on the Day of Atonement. Is this a coincidence? I think not. The Bible references the 1260th and 1290th day several times.

The problem before us is how do we determine which 7 year period is the Tribulation? Is it in the years the 2,550th day lands on Day of Atonement or when the 2,520th day lands on Tisha B'Av? There are a few clues that help us. There are seven sets of seven ( 7 x 7 x 360) from June 7, 1967 when Israel took over Jerusalem to the Day of Atonement Sept. 23, 2015 for a total of 17,640 days. Could this be a double fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy towards the rebuilding of the Temple? This suggests the Tribulation begins in the year 2015, not 2014 or 2016. Moreover, there's no 2,520 days from Feast of Trumpets and Tisha B'Av for 2014-21 or 2016-23. Recall Jesus steps down on the mount of olives no later than 2023 for us to enter the promise land. "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran" (Gen. 12.4). Another major clue is that the Temple is cleansed after 2300 days (Dan. 8.14) so there should be 2300 days from around passover to the 1260th or 1290th day. What we find is in years that the 2,520th day lands on Tisha B'Av there are 2300 days from the 4th day inspection of the lamb to Tisha B'Av; that is, there are 2300 days from April 21, 2016 to Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022. This is not the case for years when the 2,550th day lands on Day of Atonement. Therefore, we can be quite confident the Tribulation is Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 to Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022. There is also 1260 days from the 1st day inspection of the lamb April 18, 2016 to Feast of Trumpets Sept. 30, 2019. This could be the time of the Two Witnesses Enoch and Elijah, the only two persons in the Bible who did not die, who will die in the Great Tribulation then be raised up after 3 and 1/2 days. The 1335th day after the middle of the Tribulation (another key number in the Bible), or 2595th day of the Tribulation, in years the 2,520th day lands on Tisha B'Av ends up being the 4th day from Simchat Torah after Tabernacles ends. For Simchat Torah the Jews use to take out the Torah Scroll from the Holy of Holies and read it once a year so seems quite important. Whereas the 1335th day when the 2,550th day lands on Day of Atonement ends up in November with no significant feast or holiday attached to it.

Is there anything else to support the 2015-22 period? Indeed. Rev. 6.12 and Joel 2.31 tell us three events must take place in exact order shortly before the Tribulation begins. First is the great earthquake. Haiti 2010 had the 2nd greatest number of deaths of any earthquake in history and most deaths per capita (1 in 27 people). Japan 2011 had the greatest financial loss (all 50+ of their nuclear power plants were shut down and it was the 4th greatest in magnitude in human history). Year over year, no two earthquakes were this devastating. It was a new record broken in the Guinness Book of Records. Next is the black sackcloth sun. There are 4 kinds of solar eclipses, the rarest which is he Hybrid occurring about 5% of the time. The rarest kind of Hybrid is the H3 occurring again another 5% of the time (5% x 5% = .03%). The H3 starts off as partial eclipse then finishes as a total eclipse to produce that black sackcloth effect. A solar eclipse is even more rare when it is a long one and not a short one. A long solar eclipse is when it lasts longer than 1 minute and 30 seconds according to NASA. The 4th long H3 since Christ will be Nov. 3, 2013 and it won't happen again till 2172. Wow! Last but not least is the 8th Total Lunar Tetrad since Christ on passover, tabernacles and again on passover and tabernacles in 2014/15 and won't happen again till 2582/83. Interestingly, there are no rare solar eclipses and red blood moons associated to that date so the time is now!

Conclusively, the Tribulation can't start before 2015 because the Temple must be well under construction before then to be completed on time (before the 2300 days start), but nor can it start after 2016 because that is not deemed "right at the door," and the political/economic/global confrontation doesn't allow for a later date (see below). The Antichrist will inhabit the Temple (2 Thess. 2.4) so there must be a Temple to inhabit (constructed and completed). Since 2016 doesn't fit the profile to end on Tisha B'Av we are stuck with 2015 as the starting year of the Tribulation. What else? The sign of the Son of man (Matt. 24.30) must occur in the year 2022 and not 2023 if the 2015-22 timeline is the correct one. Amazingly, in the year 2022 Jupiter will the be closest to earth it has been in several centuries visible to the naked eye and expected to be hit with many comets showing a flashing or sparkling show. A sight to behold!

Isn't this amazing? I needed a sign in 2022 and I got it! I needed the 2,520th day from Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 to land on a feast day or significant holiday. When I found the 2,520th day Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 did not directly state there was a Jewish holiday on it I was concerned, but amazingly as I was reading on wiki, I discovered when Tisha B'Av is on a Saturday, it is commemorated the day after instead. In 2022, Tisha B'Av is on Saturday Aug. 6, so it is held on the 7th instead. Praise the Lord!

Is there any other data we can access? A very strong factor are the oil industry reports which say there is only 900 billion barrels of oil left in the world so at an average of 100 million barrels a day used up, there will be no conventional oil left by 2035. Any war that occurs will occur a good 15 years before that to control the flow of oil in the middle east. By 2020 the Great Tribulation will be well underway. Since in Rev. 9 the 1st woe is 5 months, the 2nd woe is 13 months, we easily can conclude the 3rd woe is 24 months for a total of 42 months of the Great Trib. Simply by using a calendar we can count down the days from the start of the Tribulation to know that the Great Tribulation starts Feb. 25, 2019, the 2nd woe begins July 25, 2019 and the 3rd woe begins Aug. 20, 2020. Rev. 9.16 says 200 million military units will congregate in the middle east in the 2nd woe. This was not possible before. And 1/3 of people of the earth will die in fire and brimstone, a nuclear exchange, also not possible before (v.18).

Rev. 8 contains the 4 trumpets that make up the first half of the Tribulation, that is, the first 42 months. Rev. 17.16 gives further details, and all that I would ask is that you read both chapter 8 and Rev. 17.16 together and imagine from that language if you can see a nuclear bomb blowing up the Vatican, the great harlot of religious Rome (ch. 17), that makes drunk the nations with the wine of the wrath of her fornications (14.8). I am convinced it will happen into the first half of the Trib so likely somewhere between 2016 and 2019.

We can now render a conclusion with 100% certainty for the Bible to remain consistent in its prophecies. We know the first rapture according to readiness is Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 and Jesus steps down on the mount of olives Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022 (Zech. 14.4, Acts 1.11, Rev. 1.7, 19.11-16). The last trumpet rapture and resurrection of all those saints who are alive and left, together with those who are asleep, will be taken up just before the 7th Trumpet bowls of wrath (Rev. 11.15, 1 Cor. 15.50-52, 1 Thess. 4.14-18) because were are not appointed unto wrath. Obviously, those who are alive are left. Why this apparent unnecessary redundancy? Fortunately it is only apparent. What is meant is that if you are a saint who is alive it is because you were left and not taken at the first rapture.

You can't convince a Calvinist to realize Calvinism is wrong by telling him it is wrong to send people to Hell by giving them no opportunity for salvation. The conscience of a Calvinist is willing to believe that God created a soul, allows that soul to be born into the world and not given prevenient grace to have any opportunity to be saved but passed over for Hell even though it was not their fault they were born into sin.

Even though it is evil for us to treat each other this way the Calvinist has no problem believing his god operates differently where it is ok to preterition people to Hell when he could have done more as we human beings would have done more for fellow man. To the Calvinist, his conscience does not register with the fact God can't have a conscience below our own standards.

How then do you reason with a Calvinist and reach out to him? You could show all those verses that speak about Jesus dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world. But every time you do that the Calvinist changes those verses to sins of all those who would be saved in the world or all those in different places. Silly nonsense.

So I believe the best argument to show Calvinism is wrong is by simply quoting verses where God implores you and pleads with you believe in Him, thus giving you the free choice. For example, "I have set before you life and death.... Choose life.... Love the LORD thy God" (Deut. 30.19-20). Would a loving and righteous and holy God plead with you and implore you to believe in Him if you were not given sufficient grace to have the free choice? Of course not.

Therefore, God does not irresistibly impose repentance, faith and regeneration, but you can freely obtain these gifts if you were genuinely and sincerely searching God out with all your heart and soul then you shall surely find Him.

In conclusion, we observe that Calvinists have not sincerely and genuinely searched God out with all their hearts and souls, and that's why they haven't found Him yet.

I just wanted you to understand how a logical person understands the big picture. Does God exist or not?

I know God exists because the universe can't come from nothing since that which does not exist can't cause anything, so nature needs a cause outside of itself, outside of time and space, being uncreated whom we call God. Later we can figure out who or what God is, but for now we know the uncreated Creator does indeed exist.

Nor can there exist an eternity of the past of cause and effects because you would have come into existence before now having had an eternity to do so. What's even more contradictory with the assumption of a past eternity is that if there was an eternity of the past of cause and effects, you would have never come into existence because a past eternity would still be going on for eternity so as to never reach this point. The concept of a past eternity is not only self-contradictory but just plain wrong.

Who is God? I believe God would be accessible. To be accessible would only include the major religions that spread throughout the globe: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism. Just three choices. I deem Hinduism to be false because you aren't coming back as a frog if you are not a good prince. That's just silly. And Brahma is said to be amoral. How can God have standards below our own by being amoral? Islam is proven false in one fell swoop because it has no evidence six centuries later from a guy in a cave who self-declared Jesus never died on the cross. The burden is on him to try to overturn the historical record. So without knowing anything else we know Jesus is God.

For those who want to even deny He exists, we can say Jesus is the most documented person in antiquity. He has more sources written about him within 150 years of his death than any ten figures combined from antiquity. To know that He did indeed resurrect Himself we simply observe that there has never been and never will be a naturalistic explanation to account for the origin of the disciples' eyewitness testimony.

We are personal and God, of course, can't have standards below our own so God must be personal. What is the most personal thing God can do for us? To literally enter His creation and pay for the sins that belong to us for forgiveness of sins, regeneration of the spirit and to give eternal life. Accessible and personal are virtues characteristic of a God who has a mind, and a mind is needed to create a mind. A mind can not come from dust alone, but must also have a soul to produce self-consciousness.

Christ Jesus, the 2nd Person of the Trinity, will also return during Daniel's final seven, based on the Total Lunar Tetrads, that is, the signs in the heavens according to Joel 2.31 and Rev. 6.12 before the Tribulation starts. The 2,520 days (7x360) would be from Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 to Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022. First rapture is according to readiness (Luke 21.36, Rev. 3.10) on the first date. The latter date Jesus steps down on the mount of olives.

It really is that simple so we are all without excuse.

Since Jesus said we can know when He returns "right at the door" (Matt. 24.33) then how do we figure out when He returns?

Very simply He returns on the 2,520th day (end of Daniel's final seven) from when the Tribulation starts. 2,520 is the smallest number divisible by all numbers from 2 to 10 as a basic prophetic working unit, and it is 7 years x 360 days per year.

The last 3 feasts pertain to when Jesus returns. Feast of Trumpets (representing the first rapture according to readiness, Luke 21.36, Rev. 3.10 at 9.7 "before the throne") commences the 7 year Tribulation, and the 2,520th day must land on Tisha B'Av, the day the 1st and 2nd Temples were destroyed, for Jesus returns to reign in the 3rd Temple for 1000 years on earth with His overcomers. Not all who are saved receive this reward though all saved do get to enter the New City after the 1000 years. Consider this consequences for slothful Christians.

Furthermore, we know the "branch is tender" (Matt. 24.32) because Israel is a nation again and the Total Lunar Tetrads coincide with when Israel became a nation May 14, 1948 and entered Jerusalem June 7, 1967 as the signs in the heavens. The 8th feast Tetrad since Christ is 2014/15. And there are exactly 2,520 days from Sept. 14 Feast of Trumpets 2015 to Aug. 7 Tisha B'Av 2022. Not so for 2014-21 or 2016-23.

To further seal the deal, not that we need more proof, the 3 events that occur right before the Tribulation starts (Rev. 6.12) in exact order are the great earthquake (either 320,000 killed in Haiti 2010 or 5th greatest in magnitude, Japan 2011), the blacksackcloth sun Nov. 3, 2013 (rarest of all, the 4th long H3 Hybrid since Christ), and of course the Total Lunar Tetrad 2014/15 that only falls on passover and tabernacles and won't happen again till 2582/83. The H3 won't happen again till 2172.

If you care to include other evidences like the Malachy Prophecy (religious Rome destroyed in the 1st half of the Tribulation in Rev. 8 in agreement with 17.16), the prophecy of Jubilees, and Ezekiel's prophecy that takes us to exactly May, 1948 when Israel would become a nation again this only strengthens the timeline.

Considering the last drop of conventional oil is 2035 when 900 billion barrels (current estimate of available oil by industry reports) are used up at an average of 100 million barrels a day, the war over this resource will be a good 15 years before that to control the flow of oil in the middle east. Hence, 200 million military units in the middle east (Rev. 9.16) and the nuclear exchange (v.18). This fits perfectly with the timeline of the 6th and 7th trumpets from Aug. 20, 2020 (ask me how I derive this calculation) to Aug. 7, 2022. Jesus steps down on the mount of olives on the latter date.

Now that you know this what do you do? "Overcometh" so that you become a spiritual Christian and not a carnal one to receive your reward to be first raptured and return with Christ to reign 1000 years. Many Christians don't care for this reward so they will lose this blessing (Rev. 1.3).

Since nature can't come from non-existence, we know the universe did not start from nothing. And we know the universe could not always have existed, because if it had, you would have had an eternity to come into being before now and mankind would not still be sinning to to the extent it still does do along the exponential progression of conscience we are clearly on. Therefore, logically speaking, nature needs a cause outside of itself, outside of time and space, being uncreated. This sole uncreated Creator is whom we call God who alone was from everlasting before time and space.

A personal God trumps an absentee landlord of other religions, for how can God have standards and morals below our own as we ought to be personal and accessible to one another. Where does God reveal Himself in nature? Only did Jesus ever prove Himself personally to be God because the Apostles He spent 3 years with testified to His death on the cross such as John, with Jesus' mother and Mary, who places himself at the cross when Jesus died. But miraculously those same Apostles testified even to their deaths and as martyrs for their eyewitness testimony over and over in various group settings, for which there is no naturalistic explanation. People don't willingly die for what they know is a lie, and group hallucinations according to the DM-4 Psychology Manual says there are no such thing as group hallucinations (no accounts in history) though people can hallucinate individually different things. The Bible gives us twelve different group settings where the Apostles talked with, walked with, touched and even ate with the physically risen Lord. No better proof can be established for the authenticity of Jesus being the Creator of the universe for man can't resurrect himself so salvation is only through Him, and that unless you confess Him as your Lord and Savior you will surely die in your sins and be sent to Hell for eternity. People will not have a change of mind after they die so the decision is decided in this life. The elderly never have a change of mind with regard to Christ. It seems it is more painful for a person to repent in the next life than it would be to place oneself in subjection dependent on His Creator.

When will the judgment take place? Jesus said there would be three signs in precise order before His parousia which lasts 7 years according to Daniel and Revelation. This is the Tribulation. Before it occurs there is a great earthquake, black sackcloth solar eclipse and red blood moon we will be able to identify (Joel 2.31, Acts 2.20, Rev. 6.12).

The great earthquake was either individually or taken together Haiti 2010 and Japan 2011, for we observed the greatest number of deaths per capita, 2nd most deaths or greatest financial loss and 4th greatest magnitude on record. Taken together, there has never been a one two punch, year over year, of such proportions.

2012 passes by of no significance contrary to peoples' expectations, but in 2013 on Nov. 3 is a long H3 solar eclipse which finishes off as a total eclipse to produce that black sackcloth effect. It has only happened 3 times since Christ. Very rare! and it won't happen again till 2172. Surely this qualifies as unique and easily identifiable like the earthquake that preceded it.

Thirdly, 2014/15 is a total lunar eclipse that lands on passover, tabernacles and again on passover and tabernacles. It has happened only 7 times since Christ. The 6th and 7th time was when Israel became a nation and when Israel entered Jerusalem. Never before have two feast Tetrads been closer than 18 years apart, and the next feast Tetrad won't occur again till 2582/83. That is simply too amazing a coincidence especially after we are called to look for these signs like the three wise men who saw the star to locate the baby Jesus then another star was shown to confirm his location again so they could be certain. God often follows up a personal revelation of signs with another to confirm the certainty of the first revelation.

The probability calculation of all this (ask me how each was derived) is 2010 (earthquake) x 700 (long H3) x 100,000 (Tetrads) x 19/7 (2,520 days) x 7 (Sunday) x 7 (Tisha B'Av held over) x 6 (exact order) = 112 trillion to 1. Just ask yourself, could there be better signs? Nope. If this is not enough to satisfy you, nothing will and your choice is already made.

Since Jesus returns right at the door (Matt. 24.32-33) after Israel is a nation (1948) this wouldn't be more than a lifetime of 75 years (Ps. 90.10) by 2023 in context of what is "very near" with respect to only the past 2000 years. But since there is no 2,520 day period (360 x 7) in 2016-23 and the Tribulation can't start before 2015, we know without even calculating that there must be 2,520 days from Feast of Trumpets (first rapture according to readiness) Sept. 14, 2015 to Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022 (Zech. 14.4, Acts 1.11, Rev. 1.7). Interestingly enough, 2,520 days is the smallest number divisible by all numbers from 2 to 10 as a basic working prophetic unit foreshadowing the Tribulation like when Jericho was circled 6 times (cf. 6 Seals in Revelation) by Israel in six days before the 7th time (cf. 7th Seal) on that day was circled 7 times and blowing the trumpets 7 times. The 7th Seal opens up the 7 trumpets of the Tribulation. Since the moon is a key sign, it is interesting that it is about 2,160 miles in diameter (6 x 360). Vital is Tisha B'Av when the 1st and 2nd temples were destroyed. The reason this is important is because Jesus will reign for 1000 years in the 3rd Temple (2 Thess. 2.4; Jude 14,15; Rev. 11.2, 12.5, 20.4).

For non-Christians there is nothing we can say more beyond the gospel, but for Christians knowing this in order to escape the hour of trial that is to come upon the whole world, the believer would need to keep the word of His patience (Rev. 3.10) to be received up "before the throne" (7.9) before the 1st trumpet of the Tribulation (8.7) begins. Though a Christian can't lose eternal life (John 10.28), he can lose the reward of the first rapture if he is not watchful (Matt. 24.40-42) and prayerful (Luke 21.36). As well the saved can lose the reward of returning with Christ to reign during the 1000 years (2.26, 20.4-6) as kings and priests over the nations with a "rod of iron" (12.5). Many Christians are tied down to the world like a balloon unwilling to be released and received up. Non-overcomer believers will spend 1000 years in outer darkness, outside the light of reigning with Christ during the millennial kingdom. They shall be disciplined, be full of regret and sorrow for being carnal Christians and not spiritual ones. 1000 years is a long time before they can enter the New City and New Earth in the New Heaven.

Quite simply, oneness is God himself. When all of us set aside the things outside of God and begin to live in Him, then God who is in us becomes the oneness. Oneness is when God has His absolute place in us. Oneness is when He alone is in all, when He fills all. When the children of God are filled with God, they harmonize with one another. As a matter of fact, Satan, in his attempt to effect the disintegration of us as a body, does not need to stir up opinions and strife among us so long as he is able to plant some impurity in us or something else which takes the place of God. As an illustration of this, have you ever noticed how people mix concrete? If there is some clay blended with the sand, the cement will not firmly congeal. Now for Satan to destroy our oneness in the body, he needs to do nothing but spread a little mud—that which is incompatible with the life of God in us—and we as a body shall disintegrate. We have but one need, which is, to turn inwardly to God and let Him cleanse us and purify us with the cross and the Holy Spirit.