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573 BC Nisan 10, plus 1260
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AD 1948 Pentecost
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How the exact day and
year that
Israel
became a nation was prophesied in the Bible!
May 14, 1948
(Midnight, Iyar 6)
('Pentecost' on 360 Calendar)
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Questions about "1260"
Que. What is significant about the time
frame of "1260 plus 1260" days (or years) in relation to Ezekiel 40
or in relation to Israel becoming a nation?
Ans. There are a number of reasons why
1260 is significant: for this is the very time frame used in the bible to
symbolize all that has been said so far as to what Nisan 10 and
Pentecost represent! This is the time frame that matches the prophecy.
Firstly, the prophecy of the "1260 days" found in Revelation 11 directly ties into
Ezekiel 40. Most any commentary on the bible will point this out. The one
prophecy is adapted from the
other. In both cases there is the measuring of the temple with a rod while in
a vision. Thus, to have this very time frame of '1260-times-two' years between
the measuring of the temple by Ezekiel unto when Israel again became a nation
is most amazing! This is the time frame given in Revelation that concerns this
prophecy in Ezekiel!
Rev 11:1 I was then given
a stick that looked like a measuring-rod, and was told, "Go and measure
the temple of God and the altar, and count those who are worshiping in the
temple.
Rev 11:2 But do not measure
the outer courts, because they have been given to the heathen, who will
trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.
Rev 11:3 I will send my two
witnesses dressed in sackcloth, and they will proclaim God's message during
those 1260 days." ("42
months" is 1260 days on 360 calendar; i.e., 42 x 30 days-in-a-month
equals 1260 days, which is half-a-seven year period of 1260 plus 1260
days.)
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Eze 40:3 And he brought me
thither; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the
appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring
reed; and he stood in the gate.
Eze 40:4 And the man said
unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and
set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee; for, to the intent that I may
show them unto thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to
the house of Israel.
Moreover, the first place that the bible explicitly mentions
the time frame of 1260 days is found in Revelation 11:3. There it implies the giving of "power" to
the "Two Witnesses." And this narrative obviously alludes to when God
likewise 'poured out His Holy Spirit' on the disciples at Pentecost so
that they might have power to witness! Thus again we have the
connection between Pentecost and 1260, and therefore, in turn, the
connection back to the 1260 years plus 1260 years to Pentecost, 1948.
Rev 11:3 And I
will give power to my two witnesses,
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days,
clothed in sackcloth.
Act 1:8 but ye
will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and ye
shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and
Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Act 2:1-2 And when the day of
Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. And
suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind,
and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Moreover, the Two Witnesses come back to life
after 3.5 days (at the end of the 1260 days of prophesying) when a
"breath enters them." This, again, is the imagery of Pentecost and
of Ezekiel 37.
Moreover, in Revelation 12 we have the second
(and last) explicit reference to "1260 days". In Rev. 12 the
1260-day time-period is patterned after the time when Israel
wandered in the wilderness 40 years. This is significant since Israel wandered
in the wilderness/desert 40 years after she was supposed to enter the Promised
land on Pentecost, but did not do so until 40 years later
on Nisan 10th; (to be precise, it was 39 years). Thus, the
" 1260 days" of Revelation 12 is patterned after a period of time
that stretched 40 years between the same two anniversaries that the
1260 plus 1260
years spans. And the theme is the same as well! That is, the
40-year wilderness-wandering spanned from Pentecost, 1445, to Nisan
10, 1406 BC, just as the 1260 years plus 1260 years, (patterned after the 40 years), similarly
spanned from Nisan 10, 593 BC, to Pentecost, AD 1948.
Rev 12:5-6 Then she gave
birth to a son, who will rule over all nations with an iron rod. But the
child was snatched away and taken to God and his throne. The
woman fled to the desert, to a place God had prepared for her, where she
will be taken care of for 1260 days.
Que. Why not just one 1260-year period
rather than two 1260's until 1948?
Ans. The 1260-year period is adapted
from the 1260-day period. There are numerous prophecies that show that the
1260 days is simply half-a-seven year period. For example, in Daniel 9:24-27 a
covenant is made for seven years/days and " in the middle it is
broken". (Hence, "in the middle" means after the first 1260
days, which is a 3½-year period.)
The covenant of Mount Sinai was also over a seven-day period. Remember that
both the Sinai covenant and the New Covenant are both referred to in Ezekiel 37
and both were inaugurated on Pentecost, the same day Israel became a nation.
Moreover, the book of Ezekiel contains a prophecy in chapter 37 that tells
us that the divided nation of Israel and Judah will again be reunited when
they return to their land. In several places in the bible this is symbolically
compared to a broken rod.
Ezekiel 37 speaks about this in the context of the the New Covenant which
suggests that the broken rod that becomes one again refers numerically to the
two halves of this seven-year period, that is, 1260 days plus 1260 days. Thus we have
a divided nation and a divided seven-year covenant symbolized by
a divided rod. And this rod ties us also back to the measuring rod in
Ezekiel 40.
Eze 37:19 say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in
the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put
them with it, even with the stick of
Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
Eze 37:20-21 And the sticks
whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes. And say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from
among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather them on every
side, and bring them into their own land:
Moreover, beside a seven-year peace treaty/covenant (of 1260 days times-two as
mentioned in Dan. 9) we also have another event mentioned in Ezekiel that also
lasts seven years. In Ezekiel 38 and 39 there is a prophecy about a great battle
that occurs between Israel and a far northern kingdom who along with Arab nations
surround and attack Israel. This battle is said to occur in "the last
days" when Israel has miraculously come back to their land. However, those nations are
miraculously destroyed that presume to attack her and then we read in Ezekiel of a seven-year
process of burning the weapons of war. "Seven years" is 1260 plus 1260 , and thus we have another tie-in with the said 1260 plus 1260 to 1948. Thus, we have a direct
reference to the actual time-frame of seven-years mentioned in this famous
prophecy the very chapter before Ezekiel 40.
Eze. 39:8-9 Behold, it
cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah; this is the day
whereof I have spoken. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go
forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields
and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the
spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;
This same great prophecy concludes with another reference to God pouring out His
Sprit upon them, which, as said, was spiritual fulfilled already at Pentecost,
AD 30.
Eze 39:28-29 And they shall
know that I am Jehovah their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity
among the nations, and have gathered them unto their own land; and I will
leave none of them any more there; neither will I hide my face any more from
them; for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith
the Lord Jehovah.
Thus, to have seven-years of years (1260 years plus 1260 years) from this great
prophecy of Ezekiel 40 unto Pentecost 1948 is most significant! However, the
fact that the undated prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39 was near fulfilled when Israel
became a nation on Pentecost 1948 makes the connection absolutely certain. For
immediately upon Israel becoming a nation Arab nations attacked Israel
from all around. But God delivered Israel as He promised He would. (In subsequent
wars Russia has aided the Arabs --- Russia the land of the "far north"!
Opportunistic Russia may well have had plans to enter that 1948 war as evident
by Russia's unsavory intentions afterward. Thus, 1948 could well have been
WW3!) However, while the
prophecy of Ezek. 38 was in part fulfilled Pentecost 1948, yet it is obvious that we await
the prophecy's complete fulfillment, which will come to pass in its own
time and numeric grid as certain as the first part of the prophecy has already come to
pass.
Thus to answer the question, "Why not just one 1260-year period
rather than two 1260's until 1948?" The answer is that the prophecy
in Ezekiel 39 mentions a full seven-year period, and not half that. And that a
full seven-years of years later (1260 years times-two) Israel indeed became a
nation and a battle very comparable to Ezekiel 38-39 then took place. Therefore
if that great war had indeed occurred the day that Israel became a nation then
the numeric of 1260 years times-two and then another 1260 days
times-two as per the prophecy of Ezekiel 39 for burning the weapons would have made
perfect numeric sense. But instead the war of 1948 serves as a shadow and type
of things to come. But God is delaying that battle until the fullness of
time.
Bible prophecy tells us that when that great war occurs that there will
also be a covenant signed between the antichrist and Israel that will also
last 1260 days times-two, but in the middle it will be broken. It is unclear in
my mind exactly where the battle of Russia and Israel will fit in with this 1260-times-two
day covenant. Perhaps the seven years of burning the weapons might
be in the middle or even the end of this tribulation period, so that the
weapons are burned seven years into the start of the 1000-year reign of
Christ? It is hard to say. Interestingly, the bible does tell us that at the end
of that 1000-year reign that another battle like the Russian one will
again occur and then the age will be completely wrapped up and the eternal age
will dawn, (Rev. 20:8).
Summary:
From the date when Ezekiel measured
the visionary temple in Ezekiel 40 unto 1948 when Israel became a nation again are
1260 plus 1260 years.
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573 BC Nisan 10, plus 1260 + 1260 years
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AD 1948 Pentecost
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Que. Is there further time frames involved
with this prophecy about Israel becoming a nation on Pentecost, 1948?
Ans. Much in everyway!
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