P.S.S. Derrick: And then there is Daniel's 70th week (7 years) which will follow the resurrection/rapture event. This will likely begin on the festival of Trumpets (September 26, 2022). It is interesting to consider the fact that Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy followed the Sabbatical cycles theme. So, the 70th week will necessarily need to commence on a new Sabbatical cycle. The year 2021-2022 is a Shemitah year or the 7th year of a Sabbatical cycle. On September 26, 2022, a new Sabbatical cycle will begin. Daniel's 70th week must begin this Fall or the Fig Tree parables, as interpreted with Psalm 90:10, will fall out of view considering the 1948 fig tree event. The sabbatical cycles appear to be in alignment with the first century in Israel. Jewish sources confirm that the 70 AD destruction of the Temple occurred in the first year of a sabbatical cycle. Counting forward, we can confirm that September 26, 2022 (Festival of Trumpets) is in alignment. These events appear to converge adding to the increasing probability of a 2022 Shavuot resurrection/rapture on a day and hour known only to the Lord. Everyone thinks Shavuot has past. What a surprise if it has not? My bride of 42 years is always telling her impatient husband "me" that "God is rarely early, but never late!" Hi :bye: GregW Are you the same Greg Wilson over on 5 doves that posted a link to a video showing a calculation of June 11 being 6000 years since creation? If so … do you know how they came up with the math formula? Thanks. Derrick: You are an astute student of the Scriptures. Take a look at Leviticus 23. Where I believe most observers err is in the Shavuot counting which deals with determining the correct Sabbath following the Festival of First Fruits. For example, in 2022, the critical question is this "what Sabbath follows First Fruits"? In 2022 if FF occurred on Nisan 17 (Mon/Tue-April 18/19) and the Omer count begins following the next Sabbath, then the next Sabbath would be Friday/Sat April 22/23. (Leviticus 23:15) So, the count of Week 1 begins with that Sabbath. Everyone else simply begins the Omer count following FF without observing the need to skip to the next Sabbath. This Levitical counting procedure guarantees that Shavuot will always begin on a Saturday eve and come into fullness on Sunday. We will following Jesus' example of an 8th day resurrection/rapture. We are His First Fruits. We are the second order of the first resurrection. (1 Cor. 15:20-24). The three pilgrimage feasts (Exodus 34:22-23) (chag) are a picture of the first resurrection of righteousness in Christ. There are three orders: Christ the FF, then Christ's own at His appearing, the comes the end when the tribulation saints are raised. (Rev. 20:4-5) This is the first resurrection and we are second in line to go. Leviticus 23: 4 These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord. 13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord. Yes.
