Final Countdown: Chapter 15, The missing 30 Years.
God has given man 6000 years from the time of the fall before His Great Day of Judgement arrives. According to many Biblical chronologists, the countdown began on October 23/ 4004 B.C.
Before 1996 A.D. had arrived, there were many books published that had calculated the year 1996 A.D., to be the year our Lord returned. Even the book by Mchael Drosnin, “The Bible Codes”, pages 89, 92 and 176 concluded 1996 to be the year of the Lords return. Obviously, it wasn’t!
Question; what went wrong?
We do know that Jesus was born in the later part of October in 4 B.C. October of 4 B.C. is exactly 4000 years from the day Adam and Eve were evicted from the garden, the date, October 23rd 4004 B.C. So, what remains of the 6000 years are 2000 years.
I had been playing around with this number of 6000 Years for quite a while. I believe it’s part of the key to solving this hidden mystery already having been written in scripture but hidden from us by God until these latter days. We have been given several other pieces of the puzzle that may reveal the secret of Jesus return.
We have been given some insight concerning God’s patience. But when his patience has reached its end point, His wrath quickly follows.
Let me throw a few verses out to you in order to set the stage for my future comments on the subject so we may fully understand where God stands on his timelines, and in dealing out judgment.
Acts 17:26-31, God “has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth, and has determined the (designated) times before appointed; —”
Times appointed by God that have been set in stone.
Verse 31, “Because he (the Father) has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man (Jesus Christ) whom he has ordained — “in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Psalms 9:8, “He (the LORD) shall judge the world in righteousness; He shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.” Now we get an idea of his judgments to come.
Following are two examples of God’s patience:
Gen.15:13-16, The LORD is speaking to Abram, he speaks to him concerning the future of his people, the Jews that are yet to be born. He said they shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs (Egypt) and they would serve the Egyptians and be afflicted for four hundred years. He continues to tell Abram that he would die in peace, and at an old age. Now here is the verse I was getting to,
Why did God have to wait 400 years before the people who were born from the loins of Abraham have to wait before entering the Promised Land? It’s the same reason He will wait 6000 years before he brings in His kingdom.
Gen.15:16, “In the fourth generation (some 400 years later) they (the Jews) shall come here again (back to the promised land) for (because) the iniquity (sins) of the Amorites (who possessed the land at that time) was not yet full (complete).”
God knew there was to come a day when the cup of his wrath against the Amorites could no longer be tolerated. Even though He knew the end results, the Amorites had to, by their own choices come to the point He had to act. The door had remained open for their repentance, even though he know they would continue in their sins. They were lovers of iniquity, lovers of self, idol worshippers, plunders, and murderers.
We know the rest of the story, the Israelites left Egypt, wandered about in the desert until the LORD was ready to send them in, to possess the land. But, because they put their faith in their own strength, and not in the strength of the LORD, showing little faith, they were sent back into the desert until the next generation of Israelites were born and come to age.
Second example of God’s patience:
Gen.18:20, “And the LORD said, because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.”
Again, the LORD was willing to leave the door of repentance open for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. He said, if I can find ten righteous men in the whole city, He would spare them. Obviously 10 could not be found, and we know the rest of that story. So here’s why 1996 didn’t work.
A very specific period of time has been laid out in God’s master plan from the beginning of the creation, to the birth of His Son. In chapter 9, I had shown that Jesus was baptized at the age of 30 in October of 26 A.D. His death on the cross took place on April 5 of 30 A.D. at three o’clock in the afternoon, the Jewish Passover beginning 3 hours later, making it April 6th of 30 A.D.
It was in this short span of time, from Jesus birth October of 4 B.C., to October of 26 A.D., when Jesus was baptism by the Holy Spirit and John the Baptist, that the Father had declared 30 Years of peace, and good will toward all men. The countdown had temporally stopped at 4000 Years.
Luke 2:11, “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”
Luke 2:10-13-14, the angel of the Lord came to the wise men and said to them, “fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to ALL people. — Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth (God’s) peace, (and God’s) good will toward men.”
This was to be a time of peace and good will coming from the Father in heaven to a sin filled Israel and Gentile world. And for the next 30 years, until the time of Jesus baptism by John and the Holy Spirit, God’s final countdown stopped at 4000 Years.
Once Jesus was baptized and led into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit where Satan tested the Lord, the countdown started up once more. It was also at that time the religious elitist of Israel began to confront the Lord. The war between man and God started up once more. So we can project September of 2029. Yom Kippur fall on September 20th of 2019, the Jewish New Year.
Phillip LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com