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Amos 3:7

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

The Lord has said in the scriptures that He would do nothing unless He first revealed it to His servants the prophets.  His prophets are the “eyes” and “mouth” of His body and they are sent to give His vision, direction and counsel to His people. Vision of the times and seasons we live in. Vision of the things that are keeping us from standing fully in His glory and vision of His heart toward his people.

As the “Day of the Lord” draws near the Spirit of Prophecy is revealing the times and seasons in which we live.  These revelations have been given by the Lord Himself and are given to those who have an ear to hear and an eye to see what the Spirit of Lord would do and say in these last hours.

 

“The Day That No Man Knows”

Rosh Hashana, September 7, 2002/Tishri 1, 5763

 

Matthew 24:36-37

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37  But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Many have taught that in this passage in Matthew when Jesus spoke these words to His disciples that He was referring to a day that would be forever only known by the Father in heaven. This is an error. That is why the following verse referring to Noah is key, because Noah was told when it was coming specifically at the end.  We see in the apostle Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians that clearly that God’s people are the “children of the day” and would know the times and seasons leading to the Lord’s return.  This was a specific day that Jesus was referring to on the Jewish calendar. He was idiomatically referring to Rosh Hashana.

 We know this for two reasons. The first reason is because the ancient Jewish or Biblical calendar was primarily a lunar calendar, very different from today's Jewish calendar. The current calendar is set by a mathematical computation that has been in use for approximately 1700 years.

Hillel II initiated this calendar due to a breakdown in the previous system. Up to this time the beginning of each month (Rosh Chodesh, literally Head of the Month) was set by a visual sighting by “two witnesses” before a rabbinical court. These witnesses had to be of upstanding character, meeting qualifications very similar to those listed in the third chapter of First Timothy concerning elders. They presented themselves before the Sanhedrin of which the Nasi or president then declared the New Month as having begun. The importance of the sighting of the New Moon was considered to be so imperative to the religious life of Israel that these two witnesses were allowed to travel on horseback great distances even on the Sabbath.

The coming of the New Moon was absolutely essential to the structure of the religious life, for God had commanded the observance of certain days as Moedim, Appointed Times. These Moedim were also known as the Haggim, Festivals. Each festival had a specific time it was to be observed. For example, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, falls on the 10th day of the 7th month (Tishri). If the Sanhedrin started the new month on the incorrect day, all of Israel could find themselves observing the fast on the day before or after God had specified and feasting on the actual 10th. Therefore, the setting of each festival depended upon the decree that came forth from the Sanhedrin at the beginning of the month. Thus, each festival listed in Leviticus 23 could not be set before the arrival of the month that it was to be held in. An example of this is Pesach, Passover, which is to be observed on the 14th day of Aviv (Nisan). It would be impossible to state in the previous month, Adar, on which day of the week Pesach would fall until the Sanhedrin declared which day began the month of Aviv. Likewise, once Aviv arrived, having been instituted by the Sanhedrin from the visual sighting, it would then be known by all on which day of the week that each festival within that month would fall. Of course, this scenario would have to be repeated for each month of the year.

The seventh month, Tishri, has three inter-linked festivals. The first festival occurs on the first day of the seventh month, which of course would also be a Rosh Chodesh or New Moon. This festival is generally called Rosh Hashanah which means the Head of the Year, and is commonly celebrated as the Jewish New Year. Among most Christians this festival is known as the Feast of Trumpets. This title doesn’t fully convey the actual Biblical name of the festival, Yom Teruah, which means the “Day of the Awakening Blast”. The next festival is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and occurs on the 10th of Tishri. Five days later the Festival of Sukkot begins and is celebrated for 7 days from the 15th of Tishri through the 21st. An additional day is attached to Sukkot but is viewed as being separate from these 7 days. This day is known as Shimini Atzeret, the Eighth Day and occurs on the 22nd of Tishri. Therefore, once the Sanhedrin has set the Rosh Chodesh for Tishri, the rest of the festivals could be calculated. Rosh Hashanah stands alone during Tishri, as well as the rest of the year, as being the only festival of which “no man knew the day or the hour”. It could only be determined by the decree from the court declaring that the New Moon had been spotted.

Each Moed, ‘appointed time’, was of critical importance in its relation to the Messiah, for it is on these dates that the Messiah keeps His appointments with man to achieve the restoration of man and the earth. In the Lord’s first coming, He was slain on Pesach, buried on Unleavened Bread, and He rose from the dead on the First fruits of the Barley Harvest. Fifty days later at Shavuot (Pentecost) the eschatological (last days) congregation received the Ruach haKodesh (the Holy Spirit) empowering them to be witnesses as the Kingdom of Heaven came down to dwell in men's hearts. The fall festivals, likewise, are the appointments for the Lord’s second coming, each teaching on different aspects of His coming, and the Messianic Kingdom here on earth.

The second reason we know that He was referring to Rosh Hashanah is the day that Jesus was referring to is because of the prophetic time passages in the books of Daniel, Matthew and the Revelation. Daniel gave numerous prophecies mentioning specific numbers of days at it related to the “abomination that makes desolate”, the “two witnesses” etc.  We will go through each one of the time periods and reveal how they interconnect with each other and perfectly fulfill the scriptures and point to the imminent return of the Messiah to establish Kingdom on this earth.

 

“1335 Days”

Rosh Hashana, September 7, 2002/Tishri 1, 5763 to

Passover, April 13, 2006/Nisan 15, 5766

Daniel 12:12

12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

The 1335 days are also connected to the 1260 days and the 1150 days mentioned in Daniel and Revelation. 1335 is 75 more days than 1260. But those days are not at the end of the prophecy; they are in front of it. We know this because exactly 75 days ahead of Chislev 15 is Tishri 1, which is Rosh Hashanah, “the day that no man knows”. That is why those who come to understanding of the 1335 days will be “blessed or happy” according to Daniel’s prophecy.

The Lord has never had any intention of leaving His people ignorant of his purposes. Rosh Hashanah will be when the Lord starts the 1335 days and there will be two intercalary months during those days. The 1335 days for the Lord’s blessed ones will conclude on Passover three and a half years later. The 1260 days for the Lord’s two witnesses will begin on Chislev 15 and end on Passover, 1260 days or 42 months later. The 1290 days finish thirty days later. 

As we have stated, the Lord revealed to us that the 1335 days of Daniel 12 must first of all; begin on Rosh Hashanah on the Hebrew calendar, which is based on the cycles of the moon as opposed to the Gregorian calendar, which is based on the cycles of the sun.

Secondly, it must begin on a Rosh Hashanah that has two intercalary months in the following four years. This occurrence in the calendar causes every time prophecy of Daniel and The Revelation to be fulfilled to the letter in their days and can only occur twice in the nineteen-year cycle that the Hebrew calendar runs on.

The Hebrew calendar has in it as well a cycle that occurs every 247 years that causes the calendar and the feasts to happen on the exact same days of the week as they did during the ministry of Christ. Both of those occurrences took place during the 1335 day calendar cycle between the days of Rosh Hashanah, Tishri 1, 5763/September 7, 2002 on the Gregorian calendar and ended on Passover, Nisan 15, 5766/April 13, 2006.

 

“2300 Days or Evenings and Mornings”

November 20, 2002/Kislev 15, 5763 to

Hanukkah, December 26, 2005/Kislev 25, 5766

Daniel 8:13-14

13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?

14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

The “twenty three hundred days”, is referred to in the Jewish scriptures as twenty three hundred “evenings and mornings” not days. What was being referred to was the evening and morning sacrifices practiced in the temple. Not a period of 2300 days but a period of 1150 days that would have contained the 2300 evening and morning sacrifices. We know this from the book of 1 Maccabees in the account of Antiochus Epiphanes committing the “abomination that makes desolate” in the temple.

1 Maccabees 1:54-61

 “Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah, and offered incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets. The books of the law that they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire. Any one found possessing the book of the covenant or anyone who adhered to the law, was condemned to death by decree of the king. They kept using violence against Israel, against those who were found month after month in the towns. On the twenty-fifth day of the month, they offered sacrifice on the altar that was on top of the altar of burnt offering. According to the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised, and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mother’s necks.

1 Maccabees 4:52-53

52  Now on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is called the month Chislev, in the hundred forty and eighth year, they rose up betimes in the morning,

53  And offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burnt offerings, which they had made.

There are two specific dates on the Jewish calendar spoken of in this passage that are of great importance. Chislev 15 and ten days later, Chislev 25. It would be exactly three years to the day of Chislev 25 that the temple would be restored and the “evening and morning” sacrifices restored. This would become the Feast of Lights or Hanukkah (Dedication), which Jesus attended according to scripture.  This also fulfilled the time prophecy of Daniel to the letter.

John 10:22-23

22  And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

23  And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.

 The date of Chislev 15 is important because it was the day the altar began to be erected. 10 days later the abominable offerings would begin but it was on Chislev 15 that it began to be erected and the daily sacrifices ceased. Now, including those 10 days, it would add up to three years and 10 days. The scriptures use the number of 360 to refer to the number of days in a year in the prophetic time prophesies, as evidenced by the passages in Daniel and the book of the Revelation which in the scriptural sense would be three years of 360 days for each year equaling 1,080 days, plus the ten, giving us a total of only 1090 days. Now this doesn’t seem to add up to the 1150 days mentioned by Daniel unless you factor in the fact that the Jewish calendar is based on the cycles of the moon. And in the Jewish calendar there are what are called “intercalary” months. During certain yearly cycles, two additional months are added within a four-year period in order to keep the feasts, or the sacred days in their proper growing seasons. So, factoring for that and adding 60 days for the two intercalary months, it adds up to exactly 1150 days.  So, the first fulfillment of the “abomination that makes desolate was fulfilled to the day and to the letter. The second one will be as well. And we know that there will be a second fulfillment of this passage, because Jesus referred to it in the following passages of scripture.

Matthew 24:14-22

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

So we have established the 1150 days being fulfilled in 1 Maccabees, now lets focus on the other time prophesies that Daniel and Revelation refer to and see how they are interconnected.

 

“1260 Days”

November 20, 2002/Kislev 15, 5763 to

Passover, April 13, 2006/Nisan 15, 5766

Revelation 11:3-4

3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

Revelation 12:5-6

5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

We know that the 1150 days included two intercalary months in order to fulfill the prophesies of Daniel. But they also refer to the ministry of Christ and the last three and a half year ministry of the “two witnesses” foretold of as well. We know that Immanuel’s earthly ministry was fulfilled and completed on Passover. Interestingly enough, on the Jewish calendar, the feast of Passover is exactly 110 days from Chislev 25, the day on the Jewish calendar that the 1150 days were fulfilled. Those 1150 days, plus the 110 to Passover, give us exactly 1260 days. This is the number of days the testimony of the two witnesses will continue, coinciding with the three and a half-year ministry of Christ.  As well, the “woman” of Revelation 12, which gives birth to the “manchild”, spends in the wilderness.  This is the last half of 70th week of Daniel 9:25-26

Daniel 9:25-26

25   Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

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.

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.

Matthew 24:15

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

 

1 Maccabees 1:54

54 Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah,

We know that in the middle of the 70th week that Messiah caused the sacrifice and oblation to cease because He rendered them of none effect with His death on the cross, causing the animal sacrifice to be an abomination that makes desolate. This left a final 1260 day/42 month period left to complete the 70th week.  This week was reserved for the time of the end and has been revealed to His people by the dates stated above and below.

 

“42 Months”

November 20, 2002/Kislev 15, 5763 to

Passover, April 13, 2006/Nisan 15, 5766

This period of time is synonymous with the 1260 days.  We know this because only in the scenario that has two intercalary months in a three and a half year period can there be 42 Jewish calendar months within the 1260 days of trampling of the ”outer court” of the holy city, the New Jerusalem.  The 1260 days for the Lord’s two witnesses and the beast with seven heads and ten horns will begin on Chislev 15 and end on Passover, 1260 days or 42 months later. The 1290 days finish thirty days later.

The Lord revealed to us that the 1260 days of The Revelation are exactly 75 days less than the 1335 of Daniel 12.  That exact date is the exact historic date for the beginning of the abomination that makes desolate, Kislev 15.  Exactly 75 days apart from Rosh Hashana, the first day of the 1335 days of Daniel 12.

Secondly, it must have the two intercalary months in the following three and one-half years which causes every time prophecy of Daniel and The Revelation to be fulfilled to the letter in their days and months.  This can only occur twice in the nineteen-year cycle that the Hebrew calendar runs on.

Revelation 11:1-2

1  And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

2  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

 

Revelation 13:1-5

1  And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

2  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

3  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

5  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

 

“1290 Days”

November 20, 2002/Kislev 15, 5763 to

May 13, 2006/Iyyar 15, 5766

The 1290 days are reserved for the completion of the “abomination that makes desolate” spoken about by the prophet Daniel and the Lord Jesus. They are merely 30 days beyond the 1260 days reserved for the two witnesses’ testimony. The Lord referred to this in the following scriptures:

Matthew 24:15

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:

 

Daniel 12:10-11

10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

The last days fulfillment of the this scripture will mirror in the spiritual sense what its fulfillment was in the natural, in the time of the Maccabees and Antiochus Epiphanes.  The temple in our time is us, His people, according to scripture.

 

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

 

We mirror that temple and the abomination that makes desolate is the erection of an altar that puts us on the throne of our lives.  The ultimate in self-government and rejection of the government of God within our members.  This is the “man of sin” spoken of by the apostle Paul to the Thessalonians.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-8

1  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

6  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

 

Many have imagined this to be talking about an individual who tries to set up a temple in Jerusalem and elevate himself as God.  This is error.  The scriptures are clear that we are talking about the “Temple of God”.  God has rejected these manmade temples and clearly stated that His temple is within the hearts of those that loves Him.

 

Jeremiah 31:31-33

31  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

33  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

 

Hebrews 8:1-10

1  Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3  For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

4  For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

5  Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

6  But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

 

Acts 7:44-49

44  Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

45  Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

46  Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

47  But Solomon built him an house.

48  Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

49  Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

 

24  God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

 

It is the building of any number of edifices and monuments to mankind’s supposed greatness and his refusal to enthrone the one rightful ruler of this world that has reached its fullness and caused the hand of God’s judgment to no longer be stayed.  The temple of God on this earth is the hearts of His people. 

 

Mankind has begun to erect “altars and temples” through attempts at cloning and bio-engineering that are an abomination to Holy One of Israel.  These have been the final affront to His Kingdom.

 

“Three and One-Half Days in Revelation 11:9”

“Passover”, April 13, 2006/Nisan 15, 5766 to

“Feast of Tabernacles”, October 3, 2009/Tishri 15, 5770

Understanding the three and a half days in Revelation 11:9 is a key to understanding where we are today in time.  For as the scriptures say, the Spirit of Life enters into the “two prophets”, commonly called the two witnesses.  It must be made clear that the two prophets, called the individual two witnesses, are distinct from the two bodies of the “two witnesses, called the corporate body of “two witnesses”.  The two individual prophets that are the fulfillment of the two witnesses or olive trees are the messengers of the corporate bodies of the two witnesses for the 1260 days or the 42 months spoken of in scripture.  The bodies of the “two witnesses” are the completeness of the “two olive trees”.  It is these bodies that are lying “in the street of the great city” for three and one half days.

 

The two witnesses in their completeness are the corporate bodies of Moses, who was a picture of the earthly government of God and Elijah, who was a picture of the true restoration of the Kingdom Levitical priesthood.  As Messiah has a corporate body of believers, so do Moses and Elijah.  Messiah is the Head of these bodies as well as His own body but the “two prophets” are the eyes and mouths of these bodies.  They were sent to speak the oracles of God to warn the world of the end of days.

 

Revelation 11:7-11

7  And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

9  And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

10  And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

11  And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

 

When the message of the two witnesses is rejected by the leaders of the religious systems and their 1260 days are fulfilled, the angel of the bottomless pit, Apollyon or Abaddon (The Destroyer), spoken of in Revelation 9:11, is allowed to overcome them.  The overcoming of the two witnesses and the two corporate bodies spoken of here is the three and one-half year period of killing the natural man in the companies of the two witnesses.  That is what is meant by the term “dead bodies” that are lying in the streets for all to see and rejoice over.

 

This is the reason that these “bodies” will not be allowed to be put into graves.  It is also the reason that these bodies will be seen three and one-half days lying in the street, which is representative of the world.  These things will be happening to the corporate bodies of Moses and Elijah, the 144,000, all over the world.  Naturally those that “dwell upon the earth” will have no recognition of what is happening.  Those that dwell on the earth are those that remain in the carnality of this world.  They are those who have no vision of things from above and will be caught off guard by the quickening of the “sons of God”.  It will be during these three and one-half days that the sifting of the 144,000 also known as the “two witnesses” will commence.  Everything that is an impediment to the completing of these predestined “sons of God” will be eaten away with perfect efficiency by the “Destroyer” and his minions from the “bottomless pit”.  This period will culminate on the Feast of Tabernacles, October 3, 2009/Tishri 15, 5770.

 

After the two witnesses and the corporate bodies of the two witnesses are cleansed, there will be a “quickening” of both the individual and the corporate two witnesses.  We know that it was during the Feast of Tabernacles that Messiah went to the “Mount of Transfiguration” because Peter’s response to seeing Moses and Elijah speaking to Messiah was to suggest they set up a “tabernacle” or tent that was the practice during the Feast of Tabernacles, to commemorate God dwelling with men within His only begotten Son Immanuel, the Son of Man.

 

Matthew 17:1-8

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.  And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.

 

On the Mount of Transfiguration the Lord took with him Peter, James and John.  It was there that Jesus met with Moses and Elijah.  We are given a prophetic picture of Jesus and the two witnesses, which is mirrored in the appearance of Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Jesus’ transfiguration.  So to will it once again be this feast that will be fulfilled in the transfiguration of the sons of God, the government of God sent to this world to bring order to chaos, to put down all things that offend and oppose the manifest will of God.

 

Revelation 11:8 also refers to the “great city”.  The great city is referred to later in Revelation as being Babylon, not Jerusalem.  Babylon is a “type” of the world and its systems and governments.  Many believe it to be Jerusalem, since it says where the Lord was crucified, but the text does not say that.  Jesus was never crucified in Jerusalem according to the scriptures, he was crucified outside the city as revealed in the scriptures.  He was the “scapegoat” (Leviticus 16:8-26) for us and our sins.  This scapegoat was led out into the “wilderness” with the sins of the congregation upon it as was our Lord who bore the reproach of our sins upon Himself.

 

Hebrews 13:11-14

11  For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

12  Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

13  Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

14  For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

 

Outside the city is very significant in that it was a type of the entire world or the “great city” or Babylon, not Jerusalem.  This is why the “great city” is followed by the phrase, “which is spiritually called” Sodom and Egypt.  These cities are used because they are symbolic of two things.  Sodom is symbolic of the sins of the flesh and the bondage they lead to.  Egypt is symbolic of a systematic slavery and captivity to that system.

 

Many have also said that the 3½ days of Revelation 11 parallel the resurrection of Messiah but they have made a serious error.  The Messiah was raised “early on the third day” not half-way through the fourth day.  There is nothing paralleled about these two periods.  These are three and one-half prophetic days that bring us to the final fulfillment of the fall feasts, represented by the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), and the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

It is very important to understand the times and seasons of Messiah because the spring feasts and the fall feasts are always a half year apart from each other.  So we know that if Messiah was crucified on Passover, His ministry began three and one-half years earlier on the Feast of Tabernacles.  We also know that if the testimony of the “two prophets” ended on Passover, then the three and one-half days end on Tabernacles three and a half years later.  The Lord’s plans and purposes are always marked in the prophetic fulfillment of the feasts and festivals of the Hebrew calendar.

 

Revelation 11:12-13

12  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

13  And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

 

At the completion of the three and one-half days we see a great voice calling them to “come up hither” followed by a “great earthquake” with a tenth or a “tithe” of the city falling.  The slain of men are “seven thousand” (1 Kings 19:13-18 and Romans 11:1-5).  This is the death and quickening of the “Elijah company”.  The seven thousand according to the election of grace are spoken of in association with Elijah numerous times in the scriptures.  The same Elijah that the Messiah said would come and restore all things.

 

Matthew 11:12-15

12  And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

13  For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

14  And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.

15  He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

 

Matthew 17:10-13

10  And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

11  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

12  But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

13  Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

 

1 Kings 19:13-18

13  And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

14  And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

15  And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:

16  And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.

17  And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

18  Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

 

Romans 11:1-5

1  I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2  God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

3  Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

4  But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

 

The first order of business for the Elijah company will be the restoration of the “sons of Levi”, who then shall restore the fullness of the 144,000, the “sons of Jacob”.  Both Elijah and Moses were of the physical tribe of Levi.  The scriptures tell us that John the Baptist, who Jesus said represented Elijah, was the son of a priest and that specifically his mother Elizabeth was a “daughter of Aaron”.  Aaron was the brother of Moses and the original Levitical High Priest of Israel.

 

Malachi 3:1-6

1  Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

2  But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

3  And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

4  Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

5  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

6  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

 

Malachi 4:1-6

1  For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

2  But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

3  And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

4  Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

5  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

6  And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

 

Revelation 11:14-19

14  The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

16  And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

17  Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

18  And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

19  And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

 

 

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