Then on November 13, Jupiter is outside the constellation of Virgo, down about at her ankle, and has a conjunction with Venus. The two brightest planets in our sky pair up to underscore Jupiter's presence. The Son of Man is revealed.
I have found this day to also mark out the third segment of a 1260 day span that began after the third moon of our tetrad. 420 days, a third watch in the night, until a "darkened" sun in 2019 and a moon that will not give her light.
"Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes.
"If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!
"If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!
So my thought here is that our appointed time of the end is split into three parts, split into thirds. These are the three watches of the night, three segments of 420 days, with the third watch being the last watch. The night that Jesus was talking about only had three watches. The first watch was not possible for the Master to come, it would force the tribulation to be too long and violate: "such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be". If these days are not "shortened" there will be no flesh saved alive. The only other "great tribulation" that the world had ever seen were in the "days of Noah" where 8 people were sealed in an ark for 371 days, 420 days minus seven sevens or 49 days.
But go back to the watches for a second. Matthew said there were four, not just three. If I think that the appointed time of the end is a 1260 day span split into three Biblical "watches" of 420 days, how do I explain Matthew saying that there is a "fourth watch" of the night. I remember thinking that the "third" watch was the last watch of the night. And so when I remember Matthew 14, it would seem to cause my hypothesis to fail.
"And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea.
And even this cool calendar at
TorahCalendar.com is showing that there's four, not three, watches in the night.
What seems to be the reason for the confusion and the erroneous use of the Roman Calendar at Torah Calendar is that the Jews have adopted this Roman Calendar in place of the OT one that had been given to them by God during the Exodus. Like how Jesus celebrated Passover on the proper day on the correct specification, while the Jews celebrated it on the erroneous day after because they had adopted the Roman Calendar.
The "morning" watch, mentioned here in Smith's Bible dictionary, is also the "third" watch or the last watch of the night:
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
“Watches of night ”
Watches of night : The Jews, like the Greeks and Romans, divided the night into military watches instead of hours, each watch representing the period for which sentinels or pickets remained on duty.
The proper Jewish reckoning recognized only three such watches, entitled the first or "beginning of the watches," (
Lamentations 2:19) the middle watch, (
Judges 7:19) and the morning watch. (
Exodus 14:24;
1 Samuel 11:11) These would last respectively from sunset to 10 P.M.; from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M.; and from 2 A.M. to sunrise.
After the establishment of the Roman supremacy, the number of watches was increased to four, which were described either according to their numerical order, as in the case of the "fourth watch," (
Matthew 14:25) or by the terms "even," "midnight," "[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]-crowing" and "morning." (
Mark 13:35) These terminated respectively at 9 P.M., midnight, 3 A.M. and 6 A.M.
Watches of night - Smith’s Bible Dictionary - Bible Dictionary
Jesus, in Luke 12, would not have been talking about the four Roman "watches" of the night anymore so than He would have celebrated Passover on the erroneous Roman day of the week.
"The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
- Romans 13:12
Other than Nov. 29, 1947 maybe being significant, why do you think the last 7 weeks of the year will be?
Because Jesus said:
"If he comes in the second watch, or in the third,
I think the third watch is the last or morning watch of the night and begins on 11/13 at the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus. From that conjunction until the "darkened" sun in 2019 is 420 days. And if He comes "IN" that watch, the watch will have already begun.
The 371 "days of Noah" would have to begin by the end of the year, by no latter than the very last day of the year because they are defined by the "darkened" sun in 2019. There was a decree by the Knesset in January 1969 to restore the old City of Jerusalem. What Isaac Newton said about Daniel 9 having embedded within the text a provision for two separate comings of Messiah. Seven weeks of years from that modern decree, "the compass of a Jubilee", until messiah the Prince, brings us to January 2019 and the sun is 'darkened" and the moon will not give her light.
From the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus on 11/13, until the last day of the year, marks out seven sevens which cut short the 420 day span until the sun is "darkened' by 49 days, the last seven weeks of this year.
We always have had hurricanes and earthquakes. But when they are said to be the worst in recorded history, it can give reason for pause. I know when I heard of the Mexico quake when driving to work in the morning, I was thinking about it.
But I'm not waiting for a rebuilt "temple", I think that the man of sin has already taken his seat. Jesus said that we'd be buying and selling and marrying and giving in marriage right up until the time when Noah entered the ark. And they were having peace and safety and then sudden destruction came and they will not escape.
"The Son of man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
Peaceful Sabbath.