First of all, as a disclaimer, the purpose of this thread is NOT date setting, but to prove God's 7000 Year Plan for Mankind in this link below, also known as the Millennial-Day Theory, by presenting a potential timeline of 6000 years from Creation to Second Coming based on biblical chronology. Date setting is almost impossible because there are different definitions of years and calendars, which I’ll explain at the end.
https://www.christianevidence.net/2019/01/gods-7000-year-plan.html
So far this is the most convincing theory about the time of the second coming, it's solidly based on the Scripture and perfectly consistent with God's six-one operation pattern. This is an ancient belief among Jews and early Christians even before the canonical Bible was compiled. In summary, 7 days in the creation week foreshadow 7000 years of human history, 4000 years from Adam to Christ, 2000 years from Christ's ministry to the second coming, and 1000 years of millennial kingdom. In the Garden of Eden God warned Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit, "for the DAY you eat of it, you shall SURELY die." So why didn't Adam - or Eve -die on that day? Not because they were "spiritually dead", for God's spirit shall strive with man for 120 years, but it was a day for 1000 years. Later Adam passed at the ripe age of 930, just 70 years short of a millennium.
In the bible many genealogies and chronologies were given, i.e. A begot B at age x, C reigned y years and died. Based on these information a timeline can be drawn to date all the major events, you've probably seen such a timeline before. However, in order to draw an accurate one, it has to be done according to God's calendar, not our Gregorian calendar. Therefore, this timeline uses the Jubilee System in Leviticus 25. In this system, every 7 years is a sabbatical year, and every 49 years is a jubilee cycle. The 50th year, starting from the Day of Atonement on Tishri 10, is a jubilee year, which is also the first year of the next jubilee cycle. The theme of this year is celebration, liberty and HOMECOMING, this is where we got the words "jubilation" and "jubilant" in English. This is written in Lev. 25:13 and 25:40-41:
"In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession."
"As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. And then he shall depart from you—he and his children with him—and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers"
Keep this in mind, it will help to identify the beginning of certain periods. This timeline starts from Adam. Add up all the numbers in the genealogy from Adam to Noah (Gen. 5), you get 1056 years; Noah was 600 years old when the flood came (Gen, 7:6), so 1656 years from Adam to the Flood. Year count: 1656
Add up all the numbers from Flood to birth of Abraham (Gen. 11), you get 292 years; Year count: 1948
From this point discrepancies begin to appear. In Gen. 12:1-2 it says Abraham received God's calling at age 75, then there's 430 years of sojourning (Ex. 12:40-41, Gal 3:16-16), you get 505, including about 200-220 years in Egypt; but by another count, Abraham begot Isaac at 100 (Gen. 15:13), then his descents were to be afflicted for 400 years (Gen. 15:13, Acts 7:6), also including the couple of centuries in Egypt, you get 500. To solve this conundrum, I take 502 in between. Why 502? Because adding 502 onto 1948 you get a year count of 2450, which is exactly 50 jubilee cycles, this is very important, because the first year of Exodus must be a year of Jubilee - remember the theme of celebration and LIBERTY?
After Exodus was 10 cycles of the wilderness (40 years) and judges (450 years), according to Paul in Acts 13:18-20, Joshua counted as judge; Year count: 2940
Then 10 cycles of kings, possibly started when the Ark of Covenant was returned (1 Chron. 13:3) from the Philistines, which matches the "homecoming" theme. However, 70 sabbatical years are neglected in at least 490 following years (2 Chron. 36:20-21); Year count: 3430
For these neglected 70 sabbatical years, Jews were led into captivity and exile in Babylon for 70 years (Jer. 25:11-12). Year count: 3500. This judgement was foretold in Lev. 26:33-35:
“I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.”
Right after 70 years, Jews were set free and allowed to go home (Jer. 29:10). There it is the liberty and homecoming theme again. Jer. 29:10 was exactly what Daniel was reading in Dan. 9:2. Daniel prayed for deliverance and mercy for his people, and Gabriel appeared and answered him with the puzzling and controversial 70 weeks prophecy, which are also 10 cycles of 490 years. Year count: 3990.
By this count, Jesus was born on year 3953, baptized on year 3983 and crucified on year 3987, pretty close to 4000. If you count the year from Abraham to Jesus, it's very close to 41 jubilee cycles, which are symbolized by the 41 previous generations before Jesus in Matthew 1.
After that is the church age. Based on Isaiah 61:1-3, which Jesus quoted in Luke 4:18-19, the “acceptable year of the Lord” is very likely to be a jubilee in which he will “proclaim liberty to the captives”, so the length of the church age must be an integral number of jubilee cycles. But how many? One clue is the birth pang comparison. Since the church is the Body of Christ, the birth of Christ mirrors the completion of the full Body of Christ, from Christ - the head to the final ten toes, like the prophecy of the Babylonian statue.
As I explored in my 70 weeks thread, Jesus's ministry lasted exactly 3.5 years; since He was crucified on Passover, dial back 33.5 years was the Feast of Tabernacle (Tishri 15), that's when He was really born; Then go to Luke 1-2. John the Baptist was conceived when Zechariah finished his duty at the temple and went home. Since he was of the 8th division of Abijah, that's in late Sivan, about a week after Pentecost. 6 months after that Jesus was conceived in Mary. Do the math, and you get Hanukkah (Kislev 25). The three trimesters between Kislev 25 and Tishri 15 is about 41 weeks. Now if - and this is a BIG IF - these 41 weeks symbolize 41 jubilees, which also match the 41 jubilees from Abraham to Jesus. Add 41 cycles of 2009 years to the previous year count, guess what, you get a final Year Count: 5999! If you consider the first year of creation a sabbath year since God rested on the 7th day, and Adam and Eve were cast out on the second year, then that's exactly 6000.
So, since the year of crucifixion is commonly believed to be springtime in AD30, add 3.5 plus 2009 years , yo land in fall season of 2042. Does this mean Jesus will return on 2042? Not really, because the definition of year varies. In the Bible there’re a lunar year of 354.36 days, a prophetic year of 360 days, and according to Dead Sea scrolls there’s Qumranic year of 364 days, all shorter than a solar year of 365.25 days, therefore the second coming could be much earlier than 2042. It’s unclear which definition of year was actually used to count the years in a jubilee cycle, there’s just no way to pin a jubilee year on the calendar and set a date.
https://www.christianevidence.net/2019/01/gods-7000-year-plan.html
So far this is the most convincing theory about the time of the second coming, it's solidly based on the Scripture and perfectly consistent with God's six-one operation pattern. This is an ancient belief among Jews and early Christians even before the canonical Bible was compiled. In summary, 7 days in the creation week foreshadow 7000 years of human history, 4000 years from Adam to Christ, 2000 years from Christ's ministry to the second coming, and 1000 years of millennial kingdom. In the Garden of Eden God warned Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit, "for the DAY you eat of it, you shall SURELY die." So why didn't Adam - or Eve -die on that day? Not because they were "spiritually dead", for God's spirit shall strive with man for 120 years, but it was a day for 1000 years. Later Adam passed at the ripe age of 930, just 70 years short of a millennium.
In the bible many genealogies and chronologies were given, i.e. A begot B at age x, C reigned y years and died. Based on these information a timeline can be drawn to date all the major events, you've probably seen such a timeline before. However, in order to draw an accurate one, it has to be done according to God's calendar, not our Gregorian calendar. Therefore, this timeline uses the Jubilee System in Leviticus 25. In this system, every 7 years is a sabbatical year, and every 49 years is a jubilee cycle. The 50th year, starting from the Day of Atonement on Tishri 10, is a jubilee year, which is also the first year of the next jubilee cycle. The theme of this year is celebration, liberty and HOMECOMING, this is where we got the words "jubilation" and "jubilant" in English. This is written in Lev. 25:13 and 25:40-41:
"In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession."
"As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. And then he shall depart from you—he and his children with him—and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers"
Keep this in mind, it will help to identify the beginning of certain periods. This timeline starts from Adam. Add up all the numbers in the genealogy from Adam to Noah (Gen. 5), you get 1056 years; Noah was 600 years old when the flood came (Gen, 7:6), so 1656 years from Adam to the Flood. Year count: 1656
Add up all the numbers from Flood to birth of Abraham (Gen. 11), you get 292 years; Year count: 1948
From this point discrepancies begin to appear. In Gen. 12:1-2 it says Abraham received God's calling at age 75, then there's 430 years of sojourning (Ex. 12:40-41, Gal 3:16-16), you get 505, including about 200-220 years in Egypt; but by another count, Abraham begot Isaac at 100 (Gen. 15:13), then his descents were to be afflicted for 400 years (Gen. 15:13, Acts 7:6), also including the couple of centuries in Egypt, you get 500. To solve this conundrum, I take 502 in between. Why 502? Because adding 502 onto 1948 you get a year count of 2450, which is exactly 50 jubilee cycles, this is very important, because the first year of Exodus must be a year of Jubilee - remember the theme of celebration and LIBERTY?
After Exodus was 10 cycles of the wilderness (40 years) and judges (450 years), according to Paul in Acts 13:18-20, Joshua counted as judge; Year count: 2940
Then 10 cycles of kings, possibly started when the Ark of Covenant was returned (1 Chron. 13:3) from the Philistines, which matches the "homecoming" theme. However, 70 sabbatical years are neglected in at least 490 following years (2 Chron. 36:20-21); Year count: 3430
For these neglected 70 sabbatical years, Jews were led into captivity and exile in Babylon for 70 years (Jer. 25:11-12). Year count: 3500. This judgement was foretold in Lev. 26:33-35:
“I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.”
Right after 70 years, Jews were set free and allowed to go home (Jer. 29:10). There it is the liberty and homecoming theme again. Jer. 29:10 was exactly what Daniel was reading in Dan. 9:2. Daniel prayed for deliverance and mercy for his people, and Gabriel appeared and answered him with the puzzling and controversial 70 weeks prophecy, which are also 10 cycles of 490 years. Year count: 3990.
By this count, Jesus was born on year 3953, baptized on year 3983 and crucified on year 3987, pretty close to 4000. If you count the year from Abraham to Jesus, it's very close to 41 jubilee cycles, which are symbolized by the 41 previous generations before Jesus in Matthew 1.
After that is the church age. Based on Isaiah 61:1-3, which Jesus quoted in Luke 4:18-19, the “acceptable year of the Lord” is very likely to be a jubilee in which he will “proclaim liberty to the captives”, so the length of the church age must be an integral number of jubilee cycles. But how many? One clue is the birth pang comparison. Since the church is the Body of Christ, the birth of Christ mirrors the completion of the full Body of Christ, from Christ - the head to the final ten toes, like the prophecy of the Babylonian statue.
As I explored in my 70 weeks thread, Jesus's ministry lasted exactly 3.5 years; since He was crucified on Passover, dial back 33.5 years was the Feast of Tabernacle (Tishri 15), that's when He was really born; Then go to Luke 1-2. John the Baptist was conceived when Zechariah finished his duty at the temple and went home. Since he was of the 8th division of Abijah, that's in late Sivan, about a week after Pentecost. 6 months after that Jesus was conceived in Mary. Do the math, and you get Hanukkah (Kislev 25). The three trimesters between Kislev 25 and Tishri 15 is about 41 weeks. Now if - and this is a BIG IF - these 41 weeks symbolize 41 jubilees, which also match the 41 jubilees from Abraham to Jesus. Add 41 cycles of 2009 years to the previous year count, guess what, you get a final Year Count: 5999! If you consider the first year of creation a sabbath year since God rested on the 7th day, and Adam and Eve were cast out on the second year, then that's exactly 6000.
So, since the year of crucifixion is commonly believed to be springtime in AD30, add 3.5 plus 2009 years , yo land in fall season of 2042. Does this mean Jesus will return on 2042? Not really, because the definition of year varies. In the Bible there’re a lunar year of 354.36 days, a prophetic year of 360 days, and according to Dead Sea scrolls there’s Qumranic year of 364 days, all shorter than a solar year of 365.25 days, therefore the second coming could be much earlier than 2042. It’s unclear which definition of year was actually used to count the years in a jubilee cycle, there’s just no way to pin a jubilee year on the calendar and set a date.
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