I'm not dogmatic on any date setting. But I have come to an interesting hypothetical theory.
If you take Ussher's Creation date (4004 B.C.) and correct him only on the 60 year dispute on when in Terah's life Abraham was born, you get 3944 B.C. Which then has 2057 mark the begging of the 6001st year of History, (remember that there is no year 0).
Meanwhile J.R. Church had his Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms theory, centered on the fact that Psalm 48 could be viewed as a Prophecy of Israel's restoration in 1948 (though it's ultimately about New Jerusalem). But he stopped viewing them as correlating to years with Book 5 (Psalm 107 and up) because he didn't want the end to be that far off. With 150 Psalms, that puts the Period the Psalms document as ending in 2050.
There are reasons I've come to theorize that the Seventh Trumpet (which I view as the midway point of the 70th week) could correlate to a Solar Eclipse on the eve of the Feast of Trumpets (First of Tishri). There will be one on September 12 of 53 AD. This is similar to the August 2 2027 eclipse a certain website online sees as significant. But that Eclipse is two months too early to be the Feast of Trumpets. That site also uses historist day=year theory nonsense about Issac Newton's 2060 theory.
It will only be partial over Israel, but be Total over North Africa and Arabia. I think it only being Partial is fine, it's pretty rare any of the Solar Eclipses at the right time of year are visible in Israel at all, and the next century has none that are Total over Israel. Jesus' description in Matthew 24 has the Sun and Moon darkened but still visible. This one fits the best of any within the life time of people alive now.
I'm not a supporter of the Blood Moon theory as I've explained on this blog before. If the Moon turning to Blood in Joel 2 and Revelation 6 has any natural explanation at all, volcanic eruptions can work just as easily. And there is certainly no Tetrad needed, the Blood Moon references in Scripture are all a singular event.
However I have argued for unrelated reasons that I feel the Sixth Seal events could happen on the Passover of the Nisan that begins the 70th Week. And at any rate I do think the moon turning to Blood would have the best dramatic effect if it's a Full Moon.
There will be a Total Lunar Eclipse visible in Israel on May 6 of 2050. On the Calendar the Jews currently use that's a month too late to be Passover. But some people think the Jewish calendar is in some years off by a month, and indeed the Samaritans and Karaites both do their leap months differently. But if it is accurate then that May 6th would be Second Passover, which I have before argued for seeing as possibly eschatologicaly significant. This Blood Moon is also the first of a Tetrad.
The Sixth Seal theory I've worked out before could easily be adjusted to that, the Horsemen would still ride in Nisan.
Back to the 2053 Solar Eclipse. It will be at that time that Jupiter is leaving Virgo after having been in her for over 9 months. Venus, Mercury, Uranus and Mars will all be in Virgo at that time too. Which can be interesting in light of Revelation 12 theories. The Moon will indeed be under the feet of Virgo just a few days later.
The top objection to this other then usual anti Date Setting sentiment would be the view that the end must come within a generation of 1948. People are already beginning to more commonly live to 120, so some people born before 1948 could still be alive in 2057.
Edit Update : I was honestly unaware when I first came up with this of Frank J. Tipler and his reasons for predicting the second coming before 2057. (of course my model as a form of "Mid-Trib" places the Second Coming proper in 2053).
The fact that the 8/2/2027 eclipse occurs two months before the Feast of Trumpets is fine, and in fact, expected. That would be 75 days from the eclipse to the Feast of Tabernacles (75 days between 1260 and 1335, could this be the solution to Daniel? The Jews would be scattered on the day the Mount of Olives splits in half, see Daniel 12:7, Zechariah 14:5). Regardless, God will cause the sun to go down at noon (Amos 8:9), and then turn all their feasts into mourning, as one of an only son (Amos 8:10). The proximity of the eclipse to the fall Feasts (the fall Feasts involve trumpets blowing, see Joel 2 for a parallel prophecy of the eclipse followed by mourning at a solemn assembly) allows these two prophecies to be fulfilled back-to-back, increasing the likelihood of the eclipse being prophetic.
ReplyDeleteSplitting the Mount of Olives happens when he returns at the End of the 70th Week, not The Rapture.
DeleteFor the time being I consider this model I'd flirted with unlikely and am expecting something that will probably happen sooner. If there is anything to my speculation in the Suleiman thread, everything we'll possibly be in the Millennium by 2027.