I have another question about your chart. You have “confirmation of the covenant Daniel 9:27” on day 1 which at least some people at that time, if not most, will know about. The chart also shows “Jesus returns (Matthew 24:30b)” on day 2520. Certainly anyone who is alive at the time and understands your chart will immediately know when Jesus will return by adding 2519 days to the day the covenant was signed.
In Matthew 24:36 it says of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
My question is how do you reconcile this verse with your chart depicting the exact day of Jesus’s return?
Hi grafted branch, time frames given in the text are based on a 30 day month, 12 months per year, 360 days a year. To compensate for the 365 actual day year, in the Jewish system they add an extra month (called Adar 2) every two or three years.
"A leap year in the Jewish calendar has
13 months and occurs
7 times in a 19-year cycle. In Hebrew, a leap year is referred to as Shanah Me'uberet, or pregnant year."
Okay, that gets into way too much complications to incorporate in any chart or understanding of the flow of events, because for one thing we don't know where during that 19 year cycle, the confirming of the covenant will take place. So we can't place the leap month(s), nor how many leap months in the 7 years.
I don't think it is something we are supposed to take into account - because it keeps anyone from knowing the day nor hour that Jesus returns to earth. (Although I think that expression is actually referring to the timing of the rapture.)
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In general though, one could take the confirmation of the covenant day (day1) - which will be a worldwide broadcast event - and add 7 years to it to know that Jesus's return will take place then.
Well, why won't people be thinking like that?
Because Jews have been saying for 2000 years that everything in the new testament including Jesus's return is fairy tales. And after Gog/Magog takes place, if the rapture has not happen (although it certainly could have), they are going to say - see? Because the prince who shall come will appear to them, and the world, that he is the real messiah. And it will be very convincing to many in Christianity that the Jews were right all along - and there will be the great falling away from Jesus and Christianity in 2Thessalonians2:3.
I don't know when the rapture will take place. Nor if there is going to be some explanation by them left behind, or the Antichirst and the false prophet what their spin is going to be.
The rapture may take place before the 7 years begin, or it may not. But it has to take place before the ToD act of 2Thessalonians2:4 (I show on my chart) which will trigger the beginning of the Day of the Lord.
It very likely that no one is going to be looking at my chart during the time of the beast, or even aforehand, because imo there is going to be crackdown on free speech in that first part of the 7 years.
Even now, how many people would recognize that a speech given from the temple mount about God giving the land of Israel to the Jews as theirs forever - would recognize it as the confirming of the covenant? The small number percentage-wise of the world's population who do know something about bible prophecy think the confirming the covenant is some sort of peace treaty. So, yes, you would know it, and most people who have taken time to look at my chart would know it - but not most people.
