Forest Man

 

 

1) Six thousand years is allotted mankind, according to the typology in the creation story in Genesis chap. 1-3, where God created the world in six days, and on the seventh day He/She rested. Subsequently, man will work for six thousand years ("the Age of Man"), and rest in the seventh millennium, in the Millennial Kingdom, the Great Sabbath of God's people (Hebr. 4:9), "the Age of God", or, as the Bible like to put it, "The Day of the Lord", which spans a whole millennium. God created the sun on the fourth day, and he created our Spiritual Sun, Jesus Christ, in the early dawn of the fourth millennium. We live in the end of the sixth millennium and the early dawn of the seventh millennium, when the Second Coming of Christ will take place, the Sabbatical millennium (just like there is sabbatical days, saturdays, and sabbatical years, "Shmitas", in Judaism)

 

 

2) There is also a prophecy in Genesis 6:3 that goes like this:

 

 

According to many Bible prophecy scholars, these 120 years are prophetical years, so-called Jubilees, according to this article 2020 by Jimmy Evans, and this article 2014 by Michael Urioste. 

 

One Jubilee is 50 years (7 x 7, i.e. seven shmitas + 1, the very Jubilee year). Then 120 x 50 years is 6000 years. Coincidence? This means that God himself prophecied in Genesis 6:3 that the history of mankind will take 6000 years. 

 

 

2) According to bishop James Ussher and many traditional Bible scholars (and by the way also the spirit seer Swedenborg, this was the ordinary, common opinion up until his time), God created the world 6000 years ago, around 4004 BC (so Ussher). This is the number we get from the Bible itself, if we make calculations based upon its genealogies. 

 

 

3) There was 2000 years from Adam to Abraham, 2000 years from Abraham to Jesus, and 2000 years from Jesus to our time.  These are three specific ages, the Age of Creation or Chaos, the Age of Torah, and the Age of Grace. We live now in "the Age of Grace", according to the Jewish Essene Calendar. It began with the death and resurrection of Jesus in 28-33 AD, the exact date for this being debated. But 33 AD is the most conservative estimate, it is probably not later than that. 

 

 

4) There is a prophecy in Hosea 6:2 that goes like this: "After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence." This is seen by many Bible prophecy scholars as referring to the two two millennia of Jewish exile, from the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD to our time, and the third day here refers to the Millennial Kingdom. The same prophetic typology we find in the resurrection of Jesus, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day. 

 

 

5) The Age of Grace will perhaps end exactly 2000 years after the death and resurrection of Christ. This age is the same as the end of "the Age of Gentiles" (Luk. 21.24: "They (the Jews) will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." The fact that the Jews have gotten Jerusalem back, and that the nation of Israel was established 1948, is a great sign of the end of the Age of Grace. Israel is also talked about as the fig tree ("I found Israel .. your fathers as the first fruits on the fig tree" [Hos 9.10],see also Jeremiah 24:1, 2-6), by the Old Testament and by Jesus, and so Luk. 21:29-33 refers to Israel: “Then Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. So also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

 

 

 

 

6) If Jesus died and was resurrected in 28-33 AD, the Age of Grace will end around passover 2028-2033, with the Second Coming of Jesus.

 

 

7) According to the Book of Daniel, 9:24-27, there will be a seven year tribulation period before the Second Coming:

"Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing.

Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed. And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation,j until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him."

This is some very basic prophetic math. By this math Daniel and the angel who showed these things to him were able to predict the first coming of Jesus. 

 

8) If the Great Tribulation starts seven years before the Second Coming 2028-2033, it will start 2023-2026, during a four year window, as argumented for in this youtubevideo.  

 

9) In this Swedish blogpost I argumented for a pre-trib rapture (see 45 arguments for it here, by Daymond Duck), and if that's the case, the rapture will be during a four year window 2023-2026. Thus, the rapture may happen already on passover 2023, at the earliest. It could, by the way, have happened already in passover or fall 2021, because of our uncertainty around the timing of the death of Jesus, which could have happened already in 28 AD, at the earliest. This was argumented for by Phil Richardson on the blogsite www.september2021.com, where he from 2015 to 2021 argumented for a rapture on Yom Kippur in September 2021 (see this book). I remember me waiting for Rapture to happen on his dates. 

 

10) During this four year window 2023-2026, when the rapture is very likely, we should watch for two dates during every year: the date of the passover, which is probable if we calculate exactly 2000 years since the death and resurrection of Jesus, and the date of the Feast of Tabernacles, which is a Jewish feast that often is linked to the rapture by Bible scholars, because it is the only feast which is not fulfilled by Jesus in prophetic times. 

 

11) There is a lot of videos on Youtube speaking about a rapture 2023, even dreams and visions about it. I let it be up to you to research this area more there and on the ecological Ecosia search engine (which I prefer before Google). I think maybe never before has there been written and said more about prophetic dates than about the dates for the rapture 2023-2026 and the dates for the Second Coming 2028-2033. It is because there is a lot to say about these dates, they fit so well in the grand prophetic scheme. 

 

For further study: Here is ten arguments for resurrection and rapture 2023, by Clive Campbell in 2020.