Circumstances
and Consequences
Seminar 216-03
June 3-6, 2009
Seminar Topic:
The Two Witnesses
– Part III
Larry Wilson
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The Ark of the
Covenant in Heaven is the original
built by Moses and it will be
unveiled and shown to the whole world
at the appointed time.
God Himself will show
mankind what He thinks of His two
laws.
This is why the Ark of
the Covenant is not on Earth.
The Importance of 1994
Even thought the Bible
does not explicitly say when the
seven angels received the seven
trumpets, and even though the Bible
does not mention 1994, I conclude
that Jesus gave the seven trumpets to
the seven angels in April 1994
because God’s patience with
Earth ended with Seventy Jubilee
cycles.
According to His great
mercy, God granted Israel thirty
Jubilee cycles and the Gentiles forty
Jubilee cycles.
Arriving at 1994 is
not easy and a fair amount of
skepticism is warranted.
Nevertheless, I
believe that a synthesis of the
topics just discussed will rule out
any other date. In summary, here are
five major points:
1. Two
Different Ways of Measuring Time
– There has to be a valid rule
governing the interpretation of
apocalyptic time because it is clear
that some prophetic time-periods must
be translated and some are not.
Prior to 1994, a day
is translated as a year in
apocalyptic prophecy. After the
expiration of the Jubilee calendar in
1994, the translation of time is not
permitted or justified.
I cannot accept the
premise that expositors of prophecy
are free to interpret apocalyptic
time according to personal whim or
opinion because apocalyptic prophecy
is based on a very intelligent design
and God’s Word speaks for
itself.
2. The
Jubilee Calendar – The Jubilee
Calendar did not end at the cross for
two reasons.
First, Jesus died in
the middle of the seventieth week;
therefore, the seventieth week was
unfinished at the cross.
Second, the 2,300 days
of Daniel 8:14 operate on both sides
of the cross, therefore the Jubilee
Calendar and the translation of a day
for a year operates on both sides of
the cross.
In this particular
case, between 457 B.C. and 1844. Did
the Jubilee calendar end in 1844? No,
the Great Day of Sabbath does not end
until 1994.
3. The
Great Week – The distance
between the Exodus in 1437 B.C. and
the dedication of Solomon’s
temple was 490 years.
Then, the seventy
weeks in Daniel consists of 490
years. Since there are three units of
490 years each, they suggest the
presence of an ongoing pattern.
Today, we know that
God gave the Jews exactly 30 Jubilee
cycles of grace - to the very
year.
It also appears that
God gave to the Gentiles 40 Jubilee
cycles of grace (A.D. 34-1994),
seventy Jubilee cycles in all.
Using the weekly
template and aligning each unit of
490 years as a Great Day, we find
presence of a Great Week.
The point here is that
when the Great Week ends, so does the
translation of apocalyptic time.
4. Full
Cup Principle - Evidently, God uses
the numbers seven and ten to express
the limits of divine forbearance.
When Israel violated
seventy Sabbath years, they were
exiled to Babylon for seventy years.
When God gave Israel a
second chance, He gave the nation
seventy weeks. We also see God’s
use of seven and ten used during
Israel’s annual judgment day,
The Day of Atonement.
This special day
occurred on the tenth day of the
seventh month.
Furthermore, the
dragon and the leopard-like beast in
Revelation 12 and 13 have seven heads
and ten horns.
The heads and horns
represent the sum of religious and
political powers on Earth.
Finally, the whole
drama of sin fits neatly into seventy
centuries (7,000 years). In other
words, when the millennial Sabbath
ends (seventh millennium), the Earth
will be made new.
5.
God’s Timing is Perfect –
We find throughout the Bible that
God’s timing is always perfect.
He knows no haste or delay.
Given this fact, two
things stand out very prominently.
First, if we translate
the apocalyptic prophetic
time-periods prior to 1994 according
to God’s calendar (a day for a
year) and if we treat all apocalyptic
time periods after 1994 as literal
time periods, everything said about
timing in apocalyptic prophecy
harmoniously aligns with a seven
thousand year picture for the
duration of sin.
(Sin is destroyed at
the end of the 1,000 years in
Revelation 20.)
Second, now that we
understand what the seven trumpets
are, if we align Revelation 8:2 with
the end of the Jubilee cycles, it
seems more appropriate that Jesus
would give the seven angels the seven
trumpets because God’s patience
with mankind ran out in 1994.
We are living on
borrowed time! In fact, giving the
seven angels the seven trumpets in
1994 is the only way that one can
explain from the Bible the delay that
is imposed on the first four angels
in Revelation 7.
When these five items
are aligned with a working knowledge
of God’s Jubilee Calendar and
the precision of God’s actions,
there is only one “biblically
reasoned” date for Revelation
8:2 and 1994 is that date.
“With God, timing
is everything.”
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