Indeed which calendar is correct or which one does God subscribe to??? For years with every new watch date, feast day or historical date of interest that passes, this conundrum continues to plague us! Same holds especially true for the Fig Tree generational timeline! Which IMHO trumps all others! The last day of the 73rd year of Israel's existance looms extremely large and is the closest thing we have to a "hard" count! Whenever that is recognized by Israel, the nations or God, will speak volumes to our rightly dividing God's word! As well as God's continued sovereignty measures still keeping that day and hour veiled! We surely see the day approaching, but that's all we really have even as the church hears that still small voice, coupled with the great mounting evil visible in the world! Again, I desire to be in His presence! While at the same time longing to see His redemption plan for the world to move forward! Lastly, my heart's cry is for the Lord God Almighty to be glorified with every step He takes to accommodate His redemption! TR I think the Lord wants us to use the 365 Gregorian calendar. Enoch (type of the church) was raptured when he was 365 yrs old. The Lord knew we would be using that calendar so I vote that is the one He is using. Because He promises in Revelation 3:3 If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. So its a given if we are closely watching we are going to know when flight time is at the doors. Can you believe April is almost over with? Just 10 more days before flipping the calendar … I had an appointment yesterday and asked the lady if she had a good Easter and she said yes, all the meal and dessert planning and it came and quickly went. I said do you feel Christmas just happened? She said yes and looked disturbed knowing that the days are flashing before her. Not getting any younger or smarter, but continually getting closer to Heaven! TR Indeed TR, the calendar question is always a conundrum and I have a thought to add in to the discussion as well as something to follow up with Geri’s comment. As far as the calendar, I cannot pretend to know but with each high watch day I can only offer “sanctified speculation”. To the point of the fig tree generation - what I would say is this, as much as I would like to view that as 70-80 years curt and dry with the deadline looming large next month -I always consider that the Lord was not talking to a nation, but a “generation” - since He did not say this “nation” shall not pass away but this “generation” A generation of course is an amalgamation of people of varying ages leading to an average. So I started considering this years ago. My mom (now passed sadly) was born around the same time Israel was - so can I use her age as a time marker? Well the prophecy indicates the the generation that “sees” these things is the generation so that would have to make the generation a bit older so that they could witness and understand what they were seeing. My mom was a baby when Israel was born so I would think that would disqualify her and place the generation at a much older age. So I began to consider, at what age did I become “aware” of world political events that if a nation were born I would have paid attention. For me it was probably around 17, but might be a little older or younger depending on the person, again being an average of an amalgamation of people. So again I consider who is this “generation” of people and for lack of a better definition I think it could refer to the people of the age called the World War 2 generation - people like my grandfather who would have been a teen or early 20’s when Israel was born and could have perhaps understood it’s significance. Now I know this is not as cut and dry as the May date coming up next month but I consider that while both of my sets of grandparents are gone from that generation, there are still a few of those ww2 vets out there and other people front that generation left, not many but a few - so even if we pass the may date slightly, I don’t think it invalidates the prophecy at all. On to what Geri said about Rev 3:3 and “if thou shall not watch” I have been considering a lot lately Jesus words to His disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane “Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” What was Jesus really asking for? Was He asking them to “watch” Him pray? Or rather was He maybe asking them to agree with Him in prayer as he prayed? So maybe watching is praying in a way. It would seem to make sense. Praying can make you tired, even in the middle of the day a good fervent prayer takes something out of you - you know when you have done some business with God when you feel a little wore out I think. So as for me anyway, in my ‘watch” these days, I try to each day pray through the Lord’s Prayer using it as a pattern or a template of sorts and when I pray “Your kingdom come Your will be done”. It is me, watching in prayer and asking and pleading with Him, please Lord, don’t make us wait another year, or another month or even another week - let it be today. Please God, evil men have risen up and aligned themselves with Your enemy and they seek to kill and enslave many of their fellow men and women and have set themselves up as gods and kings on this earth, please Lord don’t make us wait any longer. Please Abba, even as You heard the righteous blood of Abel and even as You heard the blood of Sodom and Gomorrah and he to come down for Yourself to see if the outcry was as great as had reached heaven, please Abba, hear the cry of the blood of the innocent babies that have been aborted and discarded like so much trash. Hear the blood of people like my mom that was infected with a pestilence that was likely made by the wicked, and denied the cures that could have saved her so that those in power could push their version of the cure. - hear that blood and send Yeshua, Jesus to rend the heavens and resurrect His dead, rescue and rapture His church and bring righteous revenge to those that have opposed and rejected Him to His face. Show mercy to the remnant that has not yet understood Your gospel and is left behind but let Your kingdom truly come and let Your will truly be done, in my days, that my eyes might see it and rejoice. That has been my watch lately, and I try to pray it every day and I am humbled to think Jesus said - “ Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”” Will I wear out and wear down on my watch? Will things drag on so long and get so hard that I tire out on my watch and “fall asleep” like the disciples did on he night they were called to watch with Him? I sure hope not, but my heart is deceitful only God knows it, so I pray He would give me a little more of His Holy Spirit every day to keep me awake and empower me to keep up this watch and this prayer no matter if (God forbid) He doesn’t come for another 20 or 30 years and I go naturally. Thankfully we don’t have to speculate on our salvation, sanctified or otherwise! TR
Matthew 26:40. (Also Mark 14:37)
Luke 18:8
