Does Ezra 3:5 tell us that the Day of the Lord begins on Tishrei 1?

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Will Third Temple Sacrifices Really Begin on THIS Fall Feast Day?​


Daniel chapter 9 leads one to reasonably conclude that the covenant being confirmed for one week includes the resumption of sacrifices and oblations by the Jews and that when the Antichrist causes that to cease in the midst of the week it is violating that previous confirmation.

A week of years is called a Shemitah and it always begins on Tishrei 1. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that the 70th week of years also begins on Tishrei 1. The seven year period knows as "The Day of the Lord" is a Shemitah, it is reasonable that it begins on Tishrei 1, and Tishrei 1 is also the Feast of Trumpets which announces the coming of the Lord.

However this message by Nelson Walters is a whole new level of confirmation. When Ezra returned with the Jews from exile to rebuild the temple they restarted the sacrifices and oblations on Tishrei 1 and they had a tent, they did not wait to rebuild a temple.
 
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Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

This term "for one week" is understood to be one week of years, a seven year period. This is called a Shemitah, and a Shemitah always begins on Tishrei 1. So this verse indicates that the seven year period known as "the Day of the Lord" begins on Tishrei 1. It is also inferred that sacrifice and oblation resume on that day.

Then the principle that "That which has been is that which shall be" connects Ezra 3 resuming the sacrifices and oblations on Tishrei 1 to the Jews doing the same thing.
 
Revelation 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

We saw this sign in the heavens on the Feast of Trumpets in 2017. Jupiter was in Virgo's womb for nine months and was born on Feast of Trumpets, September 23, 2017. The only type for a "man child" to be caught up to rule and reign is Josiah. He was eight when he became king. This Feast of Trumpets is 9/11/2026, and so Jupiter, depicting the manchild born in 2017 would still be eight on the Feast of Trumpets this year. Meanwhile Jupiter has made a complete circuit of the ecliptic since the "birth" and one day before the wedding (Feast of Tabernacles) enters the Crown with Jesus, the lion of the tribe of Israel.
 
Matthew 25:1-13 describes ten virgins who are bridesmaids to the bride, escorting the wedding party into the wedding according to Galilean wedding tradition. They wake up with the "midnight cry". The Hebrew term for "awakening blast" is Teruah. Yom Teruah is the official name for the "Feast of Trumpets" and it literally means day of awakening blasts. The midnight cry is the awakening blast.

The great sign in the heavens on the Feast of Trumpets in 2017 is the awakening blast. Beginning with that day we have had 9 Virgins with lamps lit (the sun is in Virgo) and the tenth one escorting us to the wedding will be on 9/11/2026.
 
Matthew 24:36 says "no one knows the day or hour" as an answer to when the rapture will be and/or when the Day of the Lord will begin, and that is considered a possible idiom for the Feast of Trumpets.
 
Joel 2:15 — "Blow the trumpet... solemn assembly" — applied to 2020 Joel 2:15 Israel's second national lockdown which began hours before Rosh Hashanah.

Joel describes this event as being "nigh" to the Day of the Lord, a term that is similar to being "right next door". Since the Day of the Lord is a seven year period known as the 70th week, it is reasonable to say that the event that is "right next door" or "nigh" to the Day of the Lord is a seven year period as well. If we say that from 2019 when the pandemic was released from a bioweapons lab to when Israel made their second national lockdown is the first year of this seven year period. On Feast of Trumpets you need two witnesses to confirm the sighting. This seven year period would end on the Feast of Trumpets in 2026.
 
In Judges 16 we see Samson pushing out the two pillars to the temple to Dagon. This was a god of grain. The key commodity that was shipped in global trade was grain. Pushing out the two pillars to this worship has many parallels to the twin towers collapsing on 9/11.

The twin towers were the "World Trade Center" a temple to global trade.

This event led to wars in the Middle east in which many Americans were sent to die, or become crippled or get PTSD because of "weapons of mass destruction" that never existed. It was also followed by the Mortgage meltdown which stole houses from Americans through deceit. They put people into mortgages they knew they would not be able to afford and five years later the bank gets the house back along with 60 months of mortgage payments. 9/11 was a harbinger of God's coming judgment on the US and it was 18 years before 2019, the year the pandemic first hit. Jesus talks about a woman that is bent over for 18 years, likens her to an ox or a donkey, a beast of burden, that had been abused and which he released. The Pandemic was the final straw for the populists who refused to be bound any longer.
 
In 2014 on the Feast of Trumpets we saw a news story about two calves, one born in Pa. and one born in Tx, with the number 7 on their foreheads. This reminded everyone of Pharaohs dream of seven cow that were fat and well fed and 7 cows that were gaunt and suffering a famine. The cows in Pharaoh's dream signified full grown cows. It takes 5 years for a calf to grow fully into a full grown cow. Five years later it is 2019, the year the Pandemic began. From 2019 to 2026 we have had very good years for corn, grain and cattle. For the most part these are significantly better than average years for these crops. However, because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz estimates are already very poor for next years harvest. This points to the Feast of Trumpets in 2026 as the start of these seven years of famine.
 
The 2014 Convergence on Trumpets 2026, and a Twelve-year Gap.

On the Feast of Trumpets in 2014 a story was reported of two calves born with the number 7 on their foreheads. This reminded people of Pharaoh’s dream that Joseph interpreted. In that dream you have seven well favored and fat cows followed by seven ill favored and gaunt cows who eat up the well favored ones and are still looking gaunt. So the idea was we would have 7 good years. But when do they start? The dream describes mature cows, and a cow continues to fill out for four or five years. So you could reasonably consider this event to be a five year warning. After five years these cows would be full grown and so we could then see this cow for the next 7 years being well favored, and cows do live to 20 or 30 so it could live for another 7 years, a total of 19 years. That is not unreasonable. But, consider another story about a short delay that cost a girl her life.

This is a story about resurrection, and that correlates with the rapture. This is not the only way to interpret this story, but since it is directly about rising from the dead it can certainly be applied to the rapture.

Luke 8:40 — “And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.”

In 2014 when this story hit about the two cows with the sevens it was received gladly by Christians and just like the 10 virgins they were all waiting for Him.

41 — “And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.”

We now jump 12 years later. The calves were born 12 years ago, now they are twelve, they have had seven good years since turning five. The girl is not dead, but she is dying, and this story is about how Jesus’ delay costs this girl her life. It is the same complaint that Martha gives to Jesus saying if He had been there sooner Lazarus wouldn’t have died.

43–44 — “And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.”

This is a very big deal, this woman is “an untouchable”. If you touch her you are unclean. She would basically be ostracized from society. Interestingly, when these calves with the sevens were five years old it was 2019 and the Covid-19 pandemic was first released. Soon those who refused to get the vaccine were ostracized from society. I was forced to resign my job, sell my house and move. That ostracism hasn’t ceased. My first granddaughter was born a few weeks ago but we are not permitted to visit because my wife and I are not vaccinated. In 2021 I had cancer and was scheduled to get an operation but because I was not vaccinated I was not allowed into the hospital. Think about what happened prior to 2014, we had 9/11, we had the Gulf wars, we had a mortgage meltdown. So yes, the harvests have been good since 2014, but it is because of the blood of this woman typifying the ostracized people. She represents "flyover America" and anyone else in similar state of ostracism.

45 — “And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?”

Many of us thought the Pandemic should signal the start of the tribulation, but instead it was a delay. The 10 virgins "light the way" of the wedding procession. Likewise we have had many new channels from Christians "lighting the way" since 2014.

46–48 — “And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.”

Virtue has gone out of the Lord? Why? When you take a stand for the Lord by faith, despite the cost being high and including ostracism, there is virtue in that faith. This is my experience and the experience of my wife. We both agree that taking that stand was a tremendous blessing to us. Despite the fact that my cancer had been confirmed with a biopsy I was healed of the cancer without an operation. Our living situation is better, our financial situation is better and we have more of a church community around us where we now live.

49 — “While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.”

This is why I share this story. It is a story about a 12 year period that is punctuated by this delay from the pandemic which in turn has caused many who were waiting for the Lord’s return to grow cold. This is precisely what happened last year when some guy named Joseph said the rapture would be on the 22nd. When the date passes people respond exactly like this. When we saw those two cows in 2014 we were sure the tribulation might only be seven years away. But our error was that the dream was of a full grown cow, not calves and that wasn’t until 2019/2020.

50–53 — “But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.”

“Laughed to scorn” — I know what that is all about, I have a blog about the rapture that I began in 2020. From start to finish I have posted every single day but one. So yes, I am well aware of being laughed to scorn because I am saying there is a convergence pointing to the Feast of Trumpets in 2026 for all these signs and prophecies.

54–56 — “And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat. And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.”

So my point is why do we wait 12 years from the 2014 sign to the start of the tribulation if the dream was of 7 cows and 7 cows depicting 7 years and 7 years? The answer is that the dream was of full grown, mature cows, not calves. It takes 5 years for a calf to grow to full size, and since that point the next seven years have been years of plenty. Once the tribulation starts it will be the years of famine.
 
The Writing on the Wall Sign
In Daniel, a hand writes on the wall, the king calls for Daniel to interpret, the interpretation is that you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. That night the king is replaced, confirming the legitimacy of this sign. That which has been is that which shall be. From 2017 to 2024, over a period of a little less than six years. Three eclipses write the letters “Aleph Tav” over the US. Each of these eclipses goes from one edge of the continent to the next. An eclipse that does that, going fron one edge of a continent to the next occurs about once every hundred years. To have three of them over the US in the span of seven years is incredibly rare, perhaps the first time in human history this has happened. The fact that they spell “Aleph Tav” which in Greek is “Alpha and Omega”, the initials of the Lord Jesus, that is a sign from heaven that no person could have done. This prophecy predicts seven years of peace from 2017. This is based on that first eclipse going over seven cities named Salem, or Peace. Sure enough we had seven years of peace from 2017 to 2024 and in 2025 we went to war with Iran. Both the first and the second eclipse point to Noah’s flood. They both enter the US over the Columbia gorge, this was carved out during the “Great Missoula flood” which is Noah’s flood. The first eclipse leaves the US at the spot the Civil war began, and the second eclipse leaves the US at the spot the Civil war ended. Indicating a war in the US that lasts for over six years. There is an intersection “X marks the spot” over a place in Illinois called “Little Egypt” and specifically over a place where they have an annual festival “where the vultures gather” each year. This X is made by the third eclipse and the very next place it crosses is “Rapture, Indiana” the only town in the US named Rapture.

The confirmation of the sign

According to Daniel the sign is interpreted and on the same day in the evening the king is deposed. This sign was interpreted in the Spring of 2024 and in the Fall of 2024 Biden’s administration lost the election and was removed from power. The interpretation has been published in book form and is extremely detailed, the point is it is a prophecy that the US has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

So then when? How do we read this sign to know “When”. The answer is Uvalde Texas. The second and third eclipses go over a town in Texas called Uvalde, Texas. This is where a shooting took place in an elementary school. That school shooting is pointing to the horrible event on the timeline of Herod killing the children that were two years old and under. That shooting was two years prior to 2024 in 2022. Think of the end of the age as a mirror image of the beginning of the age. This tells us that the Writing on the Wall sign is a two year warning. Again, X marks the spot, by the mouth of two or three witnesses let a thing be established. We have three things established in this sign: the sign of Noah, the sign of judgment on the US as the little Egypt, the place where the vultures gather, and this sign of Uvalde, a school shooting at an elementary school similar to Herod. The sign concludes in 2024 telling us we are two years away from this sign and a little less than two years later the US bombs a girls school in Iran.

One final point, May 24, 2026, exactly 2 years after the third eclipse went over Uvalde Texas was the date a US official confirmed the US and Iran had reached a
theoretical agreement on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz and disposing of its highly-enriched uranium stockpile — via Times of Israel's live coverage, corroborated by Netanyahu's own social media post thanking Trump for "the memorandum of understanding to reopen the Straits of Hormuz." Key details from that day: President Donald Trump announced a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran extending the ceasefire 60 days. The pattern is given to us by Paul “when they say peace and security then sudden destruction comes upon them”. Over the last 48 days there have been at least 12 violations of the ceasefire. The pattern is simple, they claim we now have peace, the Strait is opened, oil prices can go down and a little later the ceasefire is broken, a pattern repeated 12 times over the last 48 days. When Biden was removed from office it was a confirmation that this judgment was from God. When the girls school was bombed in Iran it was a confirmation that the prophecy was a two year warning. When the MOU was given on the two year anniversary of the final eclipse in that sign, it was a confirmation that this warning was concerning the start of the Day of the Lord. Just like Biden being deposed in the Fall after Daniel interprets the dream we can assume this judgement takes place in the fall. The feast of Trumpets in 2024 was approximately one month before the election. According to the Bible, after the restrainer is removed (the rapture) then the man of lawlessness is revealed and that revelation will include taking spoil of the US.

The writing on the wall sign concludes “you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting” and that this evening you will be overthrown. It is directed at Babylon or in this case “The Great Babylon” which is a term that only fits the USA right now.
 
Joel's Sign of the Day of the Lord: The Pandemic as a Seven-Year Warning

Joel 1–3 describes the Covid-19 pandemic (and its associated vaccine rollout) as the prophetic "near kinsman" (Hebrew qārôb) to the Day of the Lord — a seven-year period that runs parallel to, and immediately precedes, the seven-year Tribulation (the 70th week). The pandemic era functions as a preview or dress rehearsal of Tribulation conditions (censorship, quarantine, vaccine mandate as justification for the mark), not the Tribulation itself, and it opened a seven-year prophetic clock beginning Feast of trumpets 2019-2020 as the first year in this seven year countdown which concludes September 11, 2026 and at sundown the seventieth week would begin.

Key Evidentiary Claims​

1. Unprecedented worldwide scope (Joel 1:2)​

  • The rhetorical question "hath this been in your days" is read as pointing to the first-ever coordinated global shutdown and global vaccine response — distinguished from prior regional epidemics (1918 flu, polio) by its simultaneous worldwide character.

2. The four devouring insects (Joel 1:4)​

  • Palmerworm, locust, cankerworm, and caterpillar are interpreted as a composite "lab-made" bioweapon (paralleling claims that Covid-19 combined multiple viral components), whose cumulative effect was to consume the global economy sector by sector.

3. The "new wine" cut off (Joel 1:5)​

  • Stimulus/"aid" spending is equated with intoxicating "new wine"; its later withdrawal is linked to the resulting inflation, read as fulfilling the drunkards' "howling" when the wine is cut off.

4. The invading nation "without number" (Joel 1:6-7)​

  • The virus itself is cast as the invading army described in these verses, laying waste to agriculture and the economy as a forerunner ("gets the assist") to the Antichrist's future economic coercion (cf. Revelation's mark-of-the-beast famine).

5. Cessation of temple offerings / church shutdowns (Joel 1:9, 13)​

  • Government-mandated closure of churches (and their forced migration to livestreaming/Facebook) is read as fulfilling "the meat offering and drink offering is cut off," with online migration cited as creating surveillance lists of church members for future use.

6. Supply-chain and agricultural disruption (Joel 1:10-12, 17-18)​

  • Food-plant disruptions, recalls, shortages, and fertilizer/trucking restrictions are mapped onto "the corn is wasted," "the harvest of the field is perished," and "the seed is rotten under their clods."

7. Trumpet timing (Joel 2:1, 15)​

  • The global pandemic declaration is dated to the Feast of Trumpets 2020, and a global vaccine mandate to the Feast of Trumpets 2021, treated as the events that formally opened the seven-year warning clock — placing its start in Fall 2019 (Wuhan outbreak) and citing the UN's 2024 Pact for the Future (also announced near Trumpets) as a further marker toward one-world governance.

8. "Near kinsman" wordplay (Joel 2:1; cf. Ruth 3:12)​

  • The Hebrew qarob ("at hand"/"near of kin") is the linguistic anchor of the whole argument: the pandemic is proposed as literally "kin to" — a lesser preview of — the invading army, famine, and darkness of the actual Day of the Lord (Joel 2:2-10).

Chronological Framework Proposed​

  • Fall 2019 - Wuhan outbreak: proposed start of the seven-year warning period
  • Feast of Trumpets 2020 - Israel’s 2nd pandemic declaration hours before feast of trumpets in 2020, the second witness for the Feast of Trumpets confirming that 2019 - 2020 year beginning on Rosh Hashanah is the first year in this seven year countdown.
  • Feast of Trumpets 2021 - global vaccine mandate push
  • 2022-2026 - Russia/Ukraine, Hamas/Israel, Iran/Israel and US and Israel/Iran escalations read as Joel 2:2's "day of darkness... there hath not been ever the like"
  • Feast of Trumpets 2024 - UN Pact for the Future cited as consolidating one-world-government groundwork
  • Joel 3 (valley of decision, Tyre/Zidon, Palestine) mapped onto current Hezbollah/Lebanon and Hamas/Gaza conflict as immediate pre-rapture signs
 
We are given specific day counts for the reign of the Antichrist which is 2,520 days. That equals 84 months that are 30 days each. Because of that some have assumed it is equal to the 70th week which is 7 years. I disagree. I believe the 70th week is 7 years from Feast of trumpets to Feast of Trumpets. That is the big circle and within that circle you have a smaller circle that is 2,520 days for the Antichrist. Then the ministry of the two witnesses is 1,260 days. That is exactly half of the 2,520 days of Antichrists reign so many assume that their ministry begins at the same time as the Antichrist and they are killed in the exact middle of his reign. There is no scriptural basis for that. The bible is vague, using the term "midst". Here are the two fundamental problems with these assumptions: they aren't scriptural and the math does not work out.

Instead I use Paul's word that the restrainer must be removed first before the man of sin can be revealed to indicate that the rapture takes place at the start of the 70th week and shortly after it the Antichrist is revealed. I also do not assume that the two witnesses would start their ministry on the same day the Antichrist is revealed.

We have other criteria. I believe that Jesus must return in glory prior to Israel's 85th birthday on May 14, 2033. Antichrist is defeated on the 15th of Av in 2033, the day the curse ended, 2,520 days earlier is September 16, 2026, five days after 9/11/2026. The Two witnesses are killed on 2nd Passover in 2030, then three and half days later they are raised. 1,260 days earlier is Hanukkah in 2026. The lighting of the first lamp on Hanukkah is the start of the ministry of the two witnesses.

Lighting the candle and starting the ministry on the first day of Hanukkah matches the parable of the ten virgins. Hanukkah is seen as a version of the Feast of Tabernacles, which is the wedding of the Lord. They are locked out of the wedding of the Lord that the raptured saints go to, they are in outer darkness with weeping and gnashing of teeth. The the two witnesses then lead them to celebrate Hanukkah, because now the only way to make it to the glassy sea is to come out of the tribulation as martyrs for the testimony of Jesus.

  • Antichrist's reign = 2,520 days (2×1,260) — Daniel 7:25, 12:7, 12:11–12; Revelation 11:2–3, 12:6,14; 13:5
  • Christ's return in glory must precede May 14, 2033 (Israel's 85th) -- Matthew 24:34
  • Return precedes Armageddon (Revelation 19:11–21), with victory placed on 15th of Av
  • Armageddon's resolution lands on 15 Av (Tu B'Av)
  • Two witnesses' 1,260-day ministry runs through roughly the first half of the 2,520 days, ending at their death/resurrection on 2nd Passover
11.2 — Date chain
  • Antichrist's 2,520 days begin: Sept 16, 2026 (6 Tishrei) — calculated backward from Aug 10, 2033
  • Two witnesses' ministry begins: sundown Dec 4, 2026 (1st Hanukkah candle)
  • Two witnesses killed/raised: May 17, 2030 (2nd Passover, 1,260 days later)
  • Return in glory: after 2nd Passover 2033, before May 14, 2033
  • Victory over Antichrist: Aug 10, 2033 (15 Av)
  • Elul bridal preparation: Aug 11–Sept 22, 2033 (fixed 45 days)
  • Feast of Trumpets: ~Sept 23–24, 2033
  • Day of Atonement: ~Oct 2, 2033
  • Feast of Tabernacles (the wedding): Oct 7, 2033
11.3 — Two witnesses' ministry start
  • Identified with the two olive trees/lampstands of Zechariah 4:2–3, 11–14, adapted typologically in Revelation 11:4
  • Ministry begins when "first candle" is lit — tied to parable of ten virgins (Matthew 25:1–13): oil obtained, then lamp lit, then door shut
  • 2017 Revelation 12 sign read as the Midnight cry. It takes place on Feast of Trumpets because Yom Teruah means "day of the awakening blast"
  • Judgment-at-God's-house-first principle: 1 Peter 4:17; typed earlier by Mount Carmel fire and Samson's pillars, indicates that coinciding with the rapture is the judgement of the Great Babylon in one hour.
  • Restrainer removed before Antichrist revealed: 2 Thessalonians 2:6–8
  • Revelation 6:12–17 read as the world's-side view of the same Rosh Hashanah judgment moment
  • 9/11/2026 (Friday, Feast of Trumpets) framed as "Good Friday 2.0," followed by three days of darkness, "resurrection" on the 15th, Antichrist revealed the 16th
11.4 — The fixed 45-day interval
  • Av (30 days) + Elul (29 days) never vary → 15 Av to 1 Tishrei is always exactly 45 days
  • Verified against 2026 calendar: Tu B'Av July 28 → Rosh Hashanah Sept 11 (45 days)
  • Tu B'Av's marriage association noted from Mishnah Ta'anit 4:8, flagged as supporting, not proof-bearing, typology
11.5 — 1 & 2 Maccabees findings
  • 1 Maccabees 4:36–59 (esp. v.49–50): temple purification, new lampstand lit on 25 Kislev, 8-day festival instituted
  • 2 Maccabees 10:1–8 and 1:8–9, 1:18: rededication celebrated "in the manner of Tabernacles," called "Sukkot of Kislev" since actual Tabernacles was missed during fighting
  • Noted as a genuine ancient-source parallel to the Trumpets–Atonement–Tabernacles sequence
11.6 — Oil firstfruits and the Jupiter sign
  • "New oil" firstfruits offering placed ~14 weeks after Shavuot, within Elul; window closes entirely at Hanukkah
  • Ten virgins parable read as spanning the whole church age; door to buy oil closes at rapture (Matthew 25:11–12)
  • Jupiter's ~12-year circuit entering Leo's crown (Regulus) one day before Tabernacles 2026 marks the window's opening, paired with the legal/agricultural close at Hanukkah
  • Raptured described as firstfruits: James 1:18; Philadelphia church: Revelation 3:9
  • Elijah/Elisha double-portion typology: 2 Kings 2:9–13
  • Post-rapture martyr path for those left behind: Revelation 6:9–11, 7:9–14, 20:4
 
I do not try to understand when things happen according to Old Testament ordinances.

It would not make a difference for if you are in the truth you know what is going on, will not be deceived, and ready.

Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Jesus took the physical ordinances of Israel out of the way for they were contrary to us having nothing to do with salvation.

So those ordinances do not matter and not in effect and the dates do not apply.

So you are not going to figure something out by them although you might think you are.

Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Mat 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Mat 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Mat 23:39 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.

Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Rom 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

Israel as a nation has 70 years, 490 years, to acknowledge Jesus as their Messiah.

But they have not done that yet because their house is left unto them desolate.

And they are blinded in part until salvation is no longer available to the Gentiles when they take the mark of the beast.

So the 70th week was not fulfilled.

Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Verse 26 speaks of the prince to come and verse 27 continues speaking of the prince to come.

The 70th week is the time when God will cause all people who do not love the truth to follow the antichrist.

And brings Israel to the truth that Jesus is their Messiah.

Eze 39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

Eze 39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.

Eze 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

Eze 39:28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

Eze 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

Which the 7 years peace treaty will pave the way for all Hebrews to go to Israel and they will not be left in the nations anymore.

Isa 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Isa 13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Isa 13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Joe 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

Joe 3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

Joe 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Zec 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Zec 14:5 and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

The start of the 7 years period does not start the day of the LORD.

But it starts when the 7 years period is over and is the time that it is only God's way and He punishes the world and the 1000 years reign of Christ begins.

During the 7 years period the heathen are still having their way.