So I am a simple person and want to throw out a proposal thought. If you believe that God follows a pattern as I do and if that pattern correlates to the 6 days of creation and 6000 years of earth existence and then 1 day of rest or 1000 year kingdom. 2000 years from Adam to Abraham (per genealogy) 2000 years from Abraham to Christ (per genealogy) 2000 years from Christ to now (per genealogy and order of design) If we go by Christ’s birth, 30 AD minus 7 we end up with 23 or 2023 — although some have argued for the finished work of the cross 33AD, placing the timeline to be 26 or 2026. BUT, with all the convergence of signs, my guess is I am sticking with the birth theory and we have to be out of here no later than Sept as Israel begins the new year or next Shmita cycle. The year 5782 on the Jewish calendar (Sept. 7, 2021–Sept. 26, 2022) will be the next Sabbatical year. So we are way close :unsure: thoughts!!! I totally agree with you Tammie, I really think the 6000 year thing has some substance and as TR said: ”Even demons are getting antsy and acting out!” It makes me think of when Jesus cast out the demons out of the man in Matthew 8 and the demons response upon being expelled was - “And suddenly they cried out, saying, “What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”” How do the demons know what time they would be tormented? If no man knows the day or the hour not even the angels in heaven (or demons) how would they know it was “before the time”. In my mind they may not know the day or the hour but I think they have a far better idea of what time it is more than most of us do. These evil entities have been around from the beginning and while we struggle to figure it what calendar is correct or just how close we are to that 6000 year marker - I think they know that much exactly since they have been keeping time from the beginning. So I think the 6000 year thing probably holds a lot of weight and would explain a lot - like verses like the one I just quoted. Too many things are converging rapidly lately, the fig tree generation certainly in the ball park if not in a little overtime at this point. Shemitta cycle also. Possibly even a Jubilee. I personally think as hard as we watch (and maybe even the demons to know the exact time of their condemnation) - there may be things like when God caused the sun to stand still in Joshua’s time or turned back the shadow on the sundial in Hezekiah’s time that might muddy the waters even for the best watcher human or otherwise - but it really seems very obvious we have to be in the closest proximity in all of history. By the way, no I didn’t get to see the eclipse either. Not broken hearted - it would have been past my normal bedtime, but I would have made an effort to stay up or get up to see one of God’s masterpieces of nature - but typical of Tennessee weather the weather was great all day and then clouded up and rained right before the eclipse. This seems to be typical and has happened for me for almost all of the eclipses since the blood moons in 2014-2015. It made it an easy choice just to go to bed at a normal hour. I used to get disappointed that I couldn’t see the eclipse and still am a little because it is a wonder of creation - but a long time ago I felt the Holy Spirit leading me that these eclipses are portends of wrath and judgement to which I am not appointed anyway, so I felt the Holy Spirit communicating that it really didn’t matter if I get to see it for this reason since the message they are communicating really isn’t for me anyway. I was cool with that. B-) Not taking issue, Derrick, but those Matthew 8:29 demons may easily have known it was not the time of the end. For example, consider Daniel 12:9, "...the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end." However, yes; the "6000 year thing" does hold a lot of weight. :yes: I for one am hopeful for this coming Shavuot. I often wonder if the countdown actually began not in 1948, but in 1967. When Jerusalem was reclaimed by Israel. Many of these prophecies center around Jerusalem. The acceleration surrounding the convergence of signs point to a very near rapture. I will be surprised if we're still here in 2025. I really hope it happens before the year is out. God Bless. Very true MWS and duly noted and absolutely I would not be dogmatic about the demons of Matthew 8 knowing exactly the 6000 year timeline, although I suspect they do and it would make a lot of sense, but that of course is just speculation on my part. One other thing I should have included above in regards to the “time” we live in and just “how close” it must be. We often look at cycles like the Shmetta and wonder is this “the” cycle we are to look for - or we look at dates like May 14 and wonder is the fig tree generation “exactly 70-80 years” or just a ball park estimate. Here is another harbinger of just how close I think we are, and it is based more on scientific observation and less on speculation. If anybody is aware of the pole drift/shift that is going on this tells us a lot about how close I think we are too. I can remember back in the early 2000s when I was flying and working as a dispatcher in flight operations even back then the poles had started to drift. They began renaming runways as the magnetic heading was starting to move, runway 20 for example, indicating a magnetic heading of 020, would have to be renamed to runway 21 because the magnetic heading had changed to 021 for example. This has been a known fact for a while - the poles have been drifting since around 1900, however they have been drifting faster and more severely as the years go on - no wonder the weather has gotten so crazy, yeah there’s your climate change. Some say the drift is growing exponentially as we get closer to a reversal or pole flip and I have heard reports that the poles have sped up to about several degrees shift per month. By some calculations, when the poles drift past 40 degrees they will flip and the calculations I have heard is that at the current rate of drift if they don’t slow down that would place a flip of the magnetic poles in about 10 months. I find this interesting because these are scientific calculations from secular scientists independent of Bible prophecy that may be pointing to something that looks a lot similar to the 6th seal which of course we know we won’t be around to see. This is a hard area to delve into because there is also a lot of “conspiratorial” type mis-information surrounding it and I don’t know for sure if the 10 month timeframe that I have heard is 100% accurate - but all I can do is evaluate it based upon the facts I do know. Fact - the governments are acting weird in two ways first in wanting to de-populate the earth like they know something is coming and a smaller population will be easier to control. Also second the government is spending money like they will never have to pay it back - because maybe they know they won’t ever have to pay it back in the event of a cataclysm. Speculations on my part as to the motives of the governments but the facts of the governments behaviors are there and makes a lot of sense I think based on the behavior of the government. Fact - the poles are shifting, how fast currently I can’t say for certain, but I can say for certain that 20 years ago they were having to rename runways over it. If there are any other long time pilots on this forum they should be able to easily confirm that. Fact - again not sure if the 10 month timeframe is exactly correct, but it sure does converge with everything else we see going on which leads to the final and best fact…. Fact - Yes, Jesus is coming back soon!
Matthew 8:29
