Being Accounted Ready (Matt. 24.40-42, Luke 21.36, Rev. 3.10) Before the Tribulation 2023 - 2030

Matthew 24.32 says, "From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near."

The fig tree always represents Israel. In fact, Jesus cursed a fig tree because Israel was still being so unrighteous. The summer points to the millennial kingdom when Jesus returns to reign on earth.

Israel became a nation again May 14, 1948. This is the tender branch.

"In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his return is very near, right at the door" (v.33).

Right at the door and you can know could include the very day for those who are discerning enough.

Daniel's final seven (9.27) is 2,520 days (360x7) like all the previous sixty-nine sevens (vv.25-26).

We need to find a 2,520 day period that begins and ends on significant Jewish dates. The first four feasts pertain to when Jesus came the first time. The last three feasts deal with His second coming. Since the first of those last three feasts is Feast of Trumpets dealing with rapture we should have a first rapture before the Tribulation though it is according to readiness and not a forgone conclusion for all Christians. Matt. 24.40-42, Luke 21.36 and Rev. 3.10 are conditional statements for the first rapture.

“And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come (Joel 2.30-31). "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood" (Rev. 6.12).

These would constitute unique or very rare events before the Tribulation begins. Focusing on the red blood moon there is a very rare kind, the lunar tetrad, in which a red blood moon occurs four times in a row over a two year period. And they are even more rare when they land on passover, tabernacles and again on passover and tabernacles. The 6th time this happened since Christ was 1949/50 when Israel became a nation (armistice treaties were signed in 1949) and 1967/68 when Israel took over Jerusalem June 7, 1967. The next time it will occur is 2014/15.

The progression is obvious from the nation to the capital to the third temple. Hence, we can conclude construction on the third temple must begin no later than 2015.

The three events that occur right before the Tribulation starts are the great earthquake, black sackcloth sun and red blood moon. And Jesus returns within a lifetime (Ps. 90.10) from when Israel became a nation again according to Matt. 24.32-33. 75 years plus 1948 takes us to 2023. Thus, the Tribulation would conclude by 2023 at the latest.

The great earthquakes, either Haiti 2010 or Japan 2011, were very rare: 2nd most deaths or 5th greatest in magnitude. Next follows a rare kind of total eclipse of the sun. There are 4 kinds of solar eclipses, the rarest which is the hybrid occurring about 5% of the time. Additionally, there are three kinds of hybrids, the rarest which is the H3 occurring, also, about 5% of the time. The H3 is unique in that it completes itself as a total eclipse. And even more rare are the long eclipses lasting, according to NASA, more than 90 seconds. On Nov. 3, 2013 is a long H3 solar eclipse which is the 4th one since Christ. It won't happen again till 2172.

The Tetrad 2014/15 is so rare, the 8th since Christ, it won't happen again till 2582/83.

If we place the Tribulation starting on Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 in the vicinity of the Tetrad it just so happens that on the 2,520th day is Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022 which is the day the 1st and 2nd temples were destroyed. Obviously, it is of great significance to have a 3rd Temple because Jesus will reign in it for 1000 years (Rev. 20.2-7) when He returns with His overcomer believers (Jude 14,15).

Jesus steps down on the mount of olives on the last day of the final seven (Tisha B'Av)--the 2,520th day (Zech. 14.4, Acts 1.11, Rev. 1.7). There is no 2,520 days for 2014-22 or 2016-23 periods.

Now we know! The question becomes if you are a Christian are you ready to be received up Sept. 14, 2015?