A question that has come to me, over and over, many times a year, for 42 years, while studying the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation is— Why not 2200; or 2500? Even 2520 would make some sense, i.e. seven prophetic years. But why twenty-three hundred days? I also asked the same question about the other time lines of Daniel and Revelation, i.e. the 490, 49, 7, 1260, 1290, 1335, ten days, five months, etc. I understood these time lines to be associated with the plan of Redemption, but why these specific lengths of time? Knowing what I knew about Bible prophecy, I assumed that these time lines, their placement in relation to each other, and their events are Divinely ordained, but the question was still there! The answer came recently, only after I became well acquainted with the Feast Days of the Lord, —for I learned that the 2300 days is based on the calendar of the Lord! This explanation blew me away! I did not expect this, but as I studied, it made complete spiritual sense! 2300 literal days FS-1 is the exact measurement of time between the Spring Feasts (Passover, First Fruits, Unleavened Bread, and Pentecost), in the first year of the Judgment of the Living, and the Fall Feasts (Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles) in the seventh year when the Heavenly Sanctuary is cleansed and our King comes to take us home. FS-3—Click here for a graphic chart. Why should anything else need to be said! This Truth should drive each of us to deep personal study! For within these appointed times Jesus teaches from the illustrations of the Feasts the last-day application of the prophecies. We should study these things and prove that this is Truth for this last generation. FS-4—About these charts —Also click here for a series of related slides. The last great seven cycles of the Feasts of the Lord are dedicated to the completion of redemption! The Feasts of the Lord are alive and well, —Today! Our Heavenly Father is a God of order. He does not just haphazardly assign times and events to the saving of mankind. From Genesis to Revelation Jesus demonstrates to man that His Father’s kingdom is on a schedule for the redemption of man, more specifically, that there is a God-ordained prophetic calendar. We see this calendar rehearsed from beginning to end, each year, through the story of redemption which is explained in the illustrations of the annual Sabbaths, the Feasts, Fast days, and new moons. (Lev 23) In the books of Daniel and Revelation, Jesus provides more detail for the times in which we live and how we may take part in His schedule of times and events, which John illustrates by eating the little book of Daniel, —a living generation. (Rev 10:8-10) As a church, we have always been aware (surely, not as aware as we should be) of these time lines, i.e. 2300, 490, 1260, 1335, etc. as they were historically fulfilled in years, —the historical type. Recently, many are beginning to understand that there are two interpretations/fulfillments of these time lines. We may not have been aware . . . (1) That the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation are to be repeated, —repeated in a very specific last-day fulfillment with the time lines playing an integral part for the placement of specific events, —fulfilled in literal days, —the last-day antitype. (2) That those prophetic time lines will have beginning-and/or-ending events directly associated with the annual Sabbaths, Feasts days, and new moons. It should be no surprise that these prophetic time lines are linked to the sacred calendar and NOT to the Gregorian Calendar of pagan holidays. On the above chart (and the charts on the FS-4 and FS-5) it is shown that these time lines begin-and/or-end on Divinely appointed seasons (dates) of Heaven’s sacred calendar, on the Almighty’s annual Sabbaths, His Feasts, Fast days, or new moons. They continue to explain and fulfill the Plan of Redemption! This principle of appointed times (Feast Days) beginning-and/or-ending the prophetic times is not only applied to the prophetic time period of the 2300 days. It also applies to— the 70 weeks; the 7 weeks; the midst of the week; the 1260 days; the 1290 days; and the 1335 days. Also the times in the book of Revelation, i.e. five months of the fifth trumpet. (FS-5—Click here for a series of related slides.) (See the Mirror chart for the placement of the prophetic times above, i.e. 70, 7, 1260, 1290. . .) These charts and writings are not to be thought of as predictions as to when the time prophecies are to begin or end; neither are they an attempt to date the second coming of Jesus Christ; a date no one knows, other than the Father. (Matt.24:36) They simply show how the time prophecies of Daniel and Revelation have been placed by the Great Numberer (Dan 8:13, 14) between a Feast in one year and another Feast, Fast or sacred season, i.e. 2300, 490, 1335 days later (in another year). (This should not be surprising, for we see this same principle of the prophetic time lines at work in the historical fulfillment of the years.) It is my opinion that understanding this sacred knowledge at this time means that these time prophecies could start at any time in the near future! This should drive us to seek our Lord’s understanding of these final prophecies in the Plan of Redemption. Surely, we do not want to be caught asleep, not knowing when the Bridegroom is to open the door to the wedding! (Matt 25:10; 1-13) —Especially, when this is shown so clearly in the timing of the Feasts! Time Setting We should take careful notice of how we define and use the term “time setting” or “setting time.” These phrases have created a high degree of prejudice against rightfully explained prophetic time(s), and Satan has used it to his advantage! But, it would be good for our salvation to note that the generation which lived at the time of Christ were to WELCOME the coming Messiah by the properly defined knowledge found in the prophetic time lines and their associated appointed times. Those appointed times are the Feasts of the Lord, set into the sacred calendar with the moon as their foundation, starting each season of Feasts ‘on time’. (God’s true church stands on the moon, “travailing in birth” to bring forth the Son of God to those who receive Him. Rev 12:1, 2.) The Feasts of the Lord explain to the very year, month, day, and hour, the fulfillment(s) of the comingFS-7 of Christ, —then, and NOW! Question: Is that setting time? If it is, —it is God who sets it! So then, we too have been given that prophetic knowledge (even more than they) and if we do as they did, (for they did not understand the timing of the Feasts and WELCOME their Saviour), we too will miss our day of judgment and miss our Wedding Feast! (FS-7; GC 499.2) Is it true that— “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God?” Hosea 4:6. Why are the Ten Bridesmaids/Virgins Asleep? Have we failed to understand why the ten bridesmaids/virgins are sleeping? Is it because it is late and they are tired? Maybe, —partly; but I say NO! Surely, that is not the main point of this story from Christ! The wedding is a Feast of the Lord! It is the Feast that all will want to take part in! —But the bridesmaids in this story are asleep to the time of the Feast which is so plainly revealed! If the bridesmaids had known the time (Matt 24:43, 44), they would have been prepared, and all ten would have made sure they had plenty of oil! Isn’t it interesting that even though the bridesmaids had the knowledge of the schedule of the Wedding Feast (or they should have, for they were Israelites), they did not use the time of preparation for the giving of the Midnight Cry. Even the wise were asleep to the timing of the Wedding Feast, and even though they were considered to be the wise, they were just barely wise enough to be invited through the open door and into the Wedding! (FS-7 —GC 499.2) (By the way, If the “wise” were really wise, then why were they asleep? It appears that a merciful Bridegroom counts them as wise because they were thoughtful enough in preparation to bring extra oil!)
Posted on: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:26:33 +0000
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