NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE 1335-DAYS OF DANIEL 12
AND A FALL 2016 HYPOTHETICAL MODEL UPDATE- THE SOON EXPIRATION OF HYPOTHESIS #1
When I began collecting information on numbers in the Bible over 13 years ago, I had no idea at first that a significant portion of this information would end up yielding a significant numerical convergence on the years 2019-2020 in the Gregorian calendar and 5779-5780, in the Hebraic calendar. The hypothetical model presented in Part III of the book merely was born out of an attempt to make sense of this numerical convergence.
Over the past 3 years, I was forced by the ever shortening time proximity to 2019-2020 to consider perspectives that were different than current mainstream Biblical end-time prophecy concepts about the future course of events leading to Yeshua’s return. This resulted in a very positive unexpected outcome of mind boggling discoveries and perspectives! If I had not been forced to think outside the box, none of following perspectives concerning Biblical end-time prophecy would have come into understanding. Such alternative perspectives include, the method of looking backwards from the future (Chapter 40), the Hebraic translation of the 70 weeks of Daniel (Chapter 41), and a focus on the timing aspects that occurred in the days of Noah and Lot (Chapter 42).
Although the specific data contained in the hypothetical model may expire, if it is not confirmed or refuted as we move forwards to the year 2026, I consider the concepts of methodology to be timeless, very valid alternatives that may be applicable to years beyond 2026. As I share these alternative perspectives, at the same time, I advocate that other well founded biblically based views not be abandoned. The teachers of these scenarios concerning our future course should continue with their teaching, yet with open minds, for the simple reason that their scenarios may turn out to be correct. But we should not be locked into an immutable mindset of tunnel vision. Remember, when Yeshua first came as the Lamb of God, the Pharisees were locked into a different concept of what the Messiah should do and look like. They had studied the Scriptures and they thought they knew how the future was going to play out. Let us not proceed into the future with tunnel vision of any sort.
New understanding about the 1335 days found in Daniel 12.
Most people who study biblical end time prophecy do not focus in on the 1335 days found in Daniel 12, for the most part, because a clear understanding of this has been so elusive.
- Looking backwards from the future, a 1335-day event could occur before the 1290-day event.
In Chapter 40 of the book, I lay out an understanding that if we attempt to look at things from God’s perspective (as we should strive to do as much as possible), it is quite possible and even more probable to see that the event of 1335 days found in Daniel 12 could occur 45 days before the abomination of desolation (AOD) at 1290 days and not after the passage of 1335 days from the day of the AOD. The consideration that the 1335-day event occurs after Yeshua returns not only does not make sense, but it is also a possible result of 4-dimensional thinking and seemingly contradicts other Scripture. (Please see Chapter 40 to revisit the specifics of these points.)
- 1335 days represent the time-distance between Rosh Hashanah and Shavuot in specific years.
Most recently, I have come across additional potential insight about the significance of the 1335 days of Daniel 12! I use a Geek Calendar App on my Android device to calculate the time-distance in days between various dates of potential importance.
Here is a very interesting related numerical reality that I have more recently discovered. The time-distance between two major Jewish feasts this year and in 2017 and 2026 is 1335 days! The 1335 days can no longer be considered a purely elusive number of unknown significance. The two major Jewish feasts are Shavuot (Pentecost), Sivan 6-7 in the Hebraic calendar and Rosh Hashanah, Tishrei 1-2 in the Hebraic calendar. 1335 days is the time distance between Shavuot 2020 (May 29, 2020) and Rosh Hashanah 1, October 2, 2016! If we focus only upon the time span of the hypothetical model presented in the book, 2016-2026, we discover that this same time distance is true between Rosh Hashanah and Shavuot between the years 2017-2021 and between the years 2022-2026. This relationship does not exist for any other of the years in the 2016-2026-time window discussed in the book’s hypothetical model. The last occurrence of this 1335-day time-distance between Rosh Hashanah and Shavuot is consistent with the 3rd major hypothesis presented in the book model; that is, the final 7-year period would begin in 2019 and end in 2026.
Now look at what additional alternative perspective from current mainstream Biblical prophecy the above understanding brings into light! I find this fascinating:
- The Jewish Idiom of “No one knows the day or hour” could refer to a 1335-day confirmation rather than being a reference to a time marker of Yeshua’s physical return.
What more could we potentially interpret from this discovery concerning the 1335-day time distance between these two Jewish feasts? Instead of Messiah’s physical return at a future Jewish fall feast, of which no one knew the day or hour Jewish idiom is applicable, might this idiom about Rosh Hashanah mark the time at which we will have a confirmation of the 1335-day count to the return? As I pointed out in Chapter 13 of the book, Yeshua did validate Daniel’s writings about the timing of the AOD until the end. If this alternative interpretation turns out to be true, we will get a 1335-day event confirmation at Rosh Hashanah, perhaps in the years 2016, 2017, or 2022, and then a physical return at Shavuot, Sivan 6-7, the same dates in the Hebraic calendar in history when mankind was given God’s written word and later His Holy Spirit. Will we also be given Yeshua as King of Kings at this same time of year in the Hebraic calendar? These numbers would provide numerical support for this.
But what about the excellent analogy supporting the return of Yeshua at a Jewish fall feast and not the confirmation of the beginning 1335-day count to His return? This additional delay could turn out to be related to God’s election to delay His return as I have described on page 318 of the book. In the book, I have illustrated a delay until Nisan 10. But in this example, the delay that matches a 1335-day interval from a Rosh Hashanah date is Sivan 6-7, which seems even more plausible than a Nisan 10 date because of the relationship timing between two major Jewish feasts.
Remember, starting on page 289, I pointed out the coming of the Son of Man will be as in the days of Noah and Lot. Noah had only 7-day confirmatory notice of precisely when the flood was to occur and Lot had only 1-day notice before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Eight days before the disaster of the Great Flood, Noah had no idea that he would receive a 7-day notice the very next day. Eight days before the Great Flood, it was probably a beautiful sunny, business as usual kind of day, just like is it today. The question I have raised in the book is that if Noah and Lot had only days of confirmation, why should we fully expect to get a 7-year confirmation?
- Additional perspective supporting only a brief warning of days before major disaster and the AOD.
Here is more perspective concerning the above rhetorical question regarding days, not years, of warning that is not written in the book. There is a story in the Bible in which a 7-year confirmation was given before disaster struck. Joseph was told in a dream that there would be 7 years to prepare for famine. So if the timing aspect of Yeshua’s words are also applicable to the behavior reality of moral depravity in the days of Noah and Lot, Yeshua could have said, but He didn’t, that the coming of the Son of Man would be as in the days of Noah and Lot and Joseph. Joseph had a 7-year warning, but Yeshua did not include Joseph in the above statement. Is this additional support that we will only have several days of confirmation prior to an onset of a disaster of Biblical proportions? Could this confirmation be a few days warning prior to a 1335-day event? Could Rosh Hashanah be associated with a 1335-day event and thus be a time of confirmation of the beginning of the countdown to Yeshua’s return and change the common understanding that the Jewish idiom of “no one knows the day or the hour” refers to the time we receive confirmation of His return rather than marking the time of His physical return? These are all interesting questions that some will have answers to at some point in the future.
As of today, Elul 29, 5776, no human still does know the day of Yeshua’s physical return. But this does not rule out the possibility that at some time in the future some may receive a 1335-day and/or a 1290-day advanced confirmation of the day that Yeshua will return. But until then, we continue to watch and walk with Yeshua day by day, every day.
FALL 2016 HYPOTHETICAL MODEL UPDATE
One of the goals of creating this post book blog is to update perspectives and facts as we move together into the future between the years 2016 and 2026, the years identified as high risk for WW III as related to the timing of the return of Messiah in the hypothetical speculative model contained in Part III of the book. This is such an update. The timing contained in the first major hypothesis is scheduled to expire in its potential validity on Thanksgiving of this year, November 24, 2016. Major sub-components are scheduled to expire earlier. On page 310 of the book, I mention the story of the YouTube video by Rabbi Glazerson. The rabbi came up with a similar possibility that I had seen using totally different methodology: he used gematria. As I mentioned above, most people who study biblical end time prophecy do not focus in on the 1335 days found in Daniel 12, for the most part, because a clear understanding of this has been so elusive. So I was shocked to learn that Rabbi Glazerson was even talking about the 1335 days of Daniel 12. The approach of looking backwards from the future, described in the book, opens up the possibility that this number will represent a one-day event that will actually occur 45 days before the abomination of desolation (AOD) and not 45 days after Messiah has returned to the earth realm. According to Rabbi Glazerson’s interpretation of gematria, this 1335-day event is to occur in the Hebraic year 5776. That year will end today at the end of Elul 29 at the evening of Sunday, October 2, 2016. As of October 2, 2016 at sundown, the new Hebraic year will be 5777.
Also expiring soon after Rabbi Glazerson’s interpretation expires, is the combination of three significant sub-components of the first major hypothesis presented in the book, which will expire on October 10, 2016. Only the combination of all three components will expire on October 10, 2016. In other words, all three of following listed components taken together cannot not be correct.
1) The hypothesis that the last Biblical generation began on 6/7/67, when Israel recaptured the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2) The last Biblical generation is quantitatively defined as 52 years, and
3) The 1335-day event will occur before October 10, 2016, which is 45 days prior to an AOD on or before Thanksgiving, October 24, 2016.
For your review, in the book on pages 158-161, I lay out five strong arguments for a Biblical generation quantitatively defined as 52 years. And on pages 174-176, I lay out the strong argument that the starting point of the last Biblical generation began on 6/7/67. One or the other of these two arguments will become invalid, if the AOD does not occur before Thanksgiving 2016. After this time, a biblical generation could still have started on 6/7/67, but then it could not be 52 years in length. Or, a biblical generation still could be 52 years in length, but then it could have not started on 6/7/67.
I plan to give further insight into what might be a Biblical generation after the possibility of a 52-year biblical generation that started on 6/7/67 expires on Thanksgiving 2016 and we move into the future possibilities of hypotheses II and III presented in the book model. A biblical generation of 60 years that began on 6/7/67 (a possibility I also mentioned in the book) still remains viable within the boundaries of the hypothetical model range of 2016-2026.
