Back in April of 2002 (when I received quite a few personally earth-shattering revelations), I found something interesting which led me to believe Yahshua might return in the year 2022.
Daniel 12:8-13
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
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.
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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.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
KJV Matthew 25:1-46
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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.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
KJV Mark 13:1-23
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But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
KJV Luke 21:20-22
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And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Many prophetical interpretations of Biblical scholars equate the Abomination of Desolation with the Image of the Beast.
Revelation 13:11-18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
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And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
While this connection may be true, it is not the only possibility.
A newsletter (One of Chuck Misslers Koinonia House messages) I was reading on Saturday, April 6, 2002 made reference to this passage:
KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17
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 (apostasy) 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?
For some reason it mention verse 4 in relation to Islam.
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.
Usually this verse is connected only with the Anti-Christ (which I still believe it is). But I started thinking about the implications of it also being a reference to Islam. What I found intriguing is that there is currently a mosque standing on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem where Solomon's Temple and the Second and Third Temples* once stood (*Post-Babylonian Exile and Herods Temples. See Josephus Antiquities of the Jews Book 15 Chapter 11 to discover that Herod actually tore down the Second Temple and built an entirely new Third Temple.). This the Dome of the Rock, the Mosque of Omar. It is the oldest mosque in existence. Its construction was initiated in 687 A.D. (See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock) by Abd Al-Malik (Arabic for servant of the king), the ninth caliph.
"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. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days." (Daniel 12:11-12)
"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." 1 Peter 3:8
The sacrifice was taken away in 70 A.D. when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple. 687 was when the Dome of the Rock began to be built, a mosque standing on the place where Yahweh's glory once dwelt, could perhaps be considered an abomination in His eyes. So then, if a day can be like a thousand years, why not a day as one year?
Also:
KJV Numbers 14:33-34
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
KJV Ezekiel 4:4-7 [God talking to the prophet Ezekiel]
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
From Daniel 12:11 add 1290 to 687. This comes out to 1977. The year the Egyptians made their first peace overtures to the modern nation-state of Israel. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat even visited the Dome of the Rock during his peace mission to Jerusalem. Beforehand, and especially since her restoration in 1948, the "beautiful land" (called so in Daniel) has been in a constant state of warfare with her Arab/Islamic enemies (Mostly equipped with Russian arms by the way). 1977 might also be the year of the Anti-christ's host bodys birth, or birth of his mother (note that February 3, 1977, 2-3-77 is the birthdate of main character/Anti-christ-type Shinji's mother in a Japanese anime concerning the end of the world called Neon Genesis Evangelion. The number 2377 also appear on the side of a train in one of the first episodes), although he hasn't yet been revealed. (Just speculating here.)
Next add the number 1335 from Daniel 12:12 to 687. This gives us 2022. 2022 A.D., the year in which we may see HaMashiach will return, the time of Yahshuas Second Coming.
"But the day and the hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels in heaven, but my father only." I know many have tried to predict the date of the Second Coming. Most now believe this verse indicates that no one will be able to. However, look at Jesus' words closely. Clearly, he says no one will know the 'day or the hour'.