Philadelphia:

The faithful and obedient church.

“ {3:7} And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens; {3:8} I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. {3:9} Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. {3:10} Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.  3:11} Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. {3:12} Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. {3:13} He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.

General interpretation: The church of Philadelphia seems to have a particular emphasis on the Jewish nation and in a broader sense the spiritual Israel. It could be so that Jesus is referring to the Jews through all the ages who have accepted Jesus as the Messiah, and who are those saved, Christ-believing Christians like every one of us who believes on Jesus Christ for their salvation.

Let’s see why there is this emphasis on the Jewish nation in these passages.

1) The commendation:

The Jews have an earnest desire to see the temple rebuilt. It will have a special significance to a Jew to be a pillar in God’s temple. David proclaimed this this is the one thing he seeked: to be in the house of The Lord all the days of his life, to gaze on His beauty and to enquire from The Lord. (Ps 27:4)

What is the commendation of Rev 3:10-12?

Him that overcomes will I make “a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name” Revelation 3:10, 12

Not only is the temple referred to, but also the beloved city, Jerusalem. And so much more than that. The Eternal city. Reading this verse makes the heart of a messianic Jew leap. God, the temple and the city. There is something of significance here.

2) The introduction: Gods holiness:

““And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true. The Old Testament, the Torah, is full of messages and descriptions of God’s holiness. This introduction will also have special meaning to a messianic Jew.

3) The reference to David: “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”:

4) The reference to Jerusalem, The writing of God’s name, the city of God and Jesus’ new name on the overcomers. Refer to Proverbs 3 for the significance of this. (“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee:…write them upon the table of thine heart. Prov 3:3). God’s writing on us is no strange concept to the Jew.

5) The mention of the Jews who deny God. Possibly, in our circumstances, the Kabbalists and Freemasons amongst them who will lead them towards the antichrist’s deception in the end days. Certainly the Freemasons fit the ‘synagogue of satan’ description. Apparently many American Jews have been and probably still are Freemasons. “Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.” Revelation 3:7, 9 NKJV

6) The mention of being kept safe from “the hour of temptation” that is to come upon ‘all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth’.

There is the clear promise, to the church in Philadelphia,  of being kept from the hour of trial or testing. “I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” When Jesus was tested in the wilderness, this is referred to as His ‘temptation’.  

End-time interpretation:

This significance of this prophecy is aimed specifically at the Jews and those wishing to gather in Jerusalem to await the coming of the Messiah. Although this sounds strange, consider what is prophesied. The two witnesses will go out from Jerusalem some days before the Abomination is erected. (see Xchart-c). Those of the nation of Israel, who are prepared to listen to their warning, will flee to the wilderness and will experience God’s supernatural protection there. (refer to post 7.3)

The hour of temptation or testing.

The hour of temptation or testing refers to a one-time event. As mentioned in the introduction, this hour most likely represents the end time ‘great tribulation’ of Matthew 25:21. The antichrist sets up the ‘Abomination of desolation’ in the middle of the prophesied seven end-time years, and this starts off the great tribulation, a time of great persecution of believers. But why would the Jews be kept from this hour of testing?

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:) {24:16} Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: {24:17} Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: {24:18} Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. {24:19} And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! {24:20} But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: {24:21} For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.(Matt 24:15-21)

The ‘hour of temptation’ is most likely the days following the abomination of desolation. Those in Judea (the Jews) are to flee immediately. They are literally told to run for it with the greatest urgency, dropping everything. This is a specific instruction for the Jewish Christians, because the persecution will start from Jerusalem and then proceed outwards.

But why are only the believing Jews kept from this ‘hour’? Revelation 12 provides an answer. The Jews are kept in the wilderness (desert) for safekeeping. Just as God provided for the Israelites in the desert after the Exodus, so will he keep them in the wilderness. This time they wont fail, and grumble, like their ancestors did. Refer to post 7.3 for a further description.

The Jewish calendar and the ‘Abomination’ & ‘rapture’.

Refer to post 3.8 for a description on how the warning for the flight  into the wilderness is represented by the feast of trumpets. The mid-point flight of the Jews at the revealing of the antichrist (the abomination) is also prophesied by the ‘Fall Feasts’ of the Jewish calendar.

The seven prescribed annual feasts prescribed in the Law are in two main groups: The spring feasts and the Fall (autumn) feasts. The four spring feasts start on day 14 of the Jewish New Year (March/April).

• Feasts 1 to 4, the Spring feasts: Passover (Day 14), Unleavened bread (Day 15-21), First-fruits (Day 17) and then also the feast of Harvest or Pentecost, 50 days after the first-fruits.
• Feasts 5-7, the fall feasts: Rosh Hashanah or Trumpets (Day 180), Atonement or Yom Kippur (Day 190), the feast of Tabernacles (Day 195- 202)

The three fall feasts start exactly on the mid-point of the year (on day 180). Note the Jewish year consists of 360 days. (The missing 5 days each year are compensated for by adding and extra 30-day month to the year every sixth year. (5 x 6=30))

As discussed in post 3.8, each feast has a prophetic parallel. The four spring feasts have already been fulfilled, ending with Pentecost. We are now living in the gap between the spring and fall feasts.

The question now is: If the spring feasts are a parallel of Jesus’ first coming, are the fall feasts perhaps a parallel of His second coming? The answer is yes. Firstly, there is a clear parallel between the feast of tabernacles and the millennium. Zechariah 14 makes that 100% clear. Jesus will be ‘tabernacle-ing’ with us, living with us in person, for 1000 years. Even foreign nations will be compelled to come celebrate the feats of tabernacles annually:

{14:16} And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. {14:17} And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

This clear parallel helps us to position the preceding two feasts, ‘trumpets’ and the ‘day of atonement’, into the end-time sequence, the seven-year end-time period between the ‘gap period’ and the millennium.

What parallel could the trumpets possibly refer to? And what could the day of atonement be referring to?  The following is proposed:

• Day 180: The trumpet blast signifies a warning signal: The antichrist is about to set-up the blasphemous abomination. He is about to demand that the world worships him as God or be killed – all Christians finding themselves in Judea are to flee immediately.
• Day 190: The day of atonement signifies Israel’s cleansing from sin (Lev.16:1-34; 23:26-32; Num.29:7-11). The prophetic parallel may therefore refer to Zech. 13:1 “ In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness”. That is, there will be a National “Day of Atonement” for ‘the remnant of Israel when they shall see Jesus coming on the clouds. The Jewish remnant’s cleansing from sin probably refers to their repentance and their forgiveness when they physically see Jesus coming on the clouds. At the rapture ‘every eye will see Him, even they that pierced Him’. (Rev 1:6)

The timing:

Before continuing on this proposed scenario, the initial parallel to follow up on is the timing, the day on which the feasts re-commence. The feast of trumpets occurs exactly at the mid-point of the year. Where else in scripture does one read of events commencing at a similar mid-point? We read of such a parallel in Daniel 9:27:

 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease…

Daniel 9:27, commonly referred to as ‘Daniel’s 70^th week’, has a significant midpoint. This is the midpoint of the end time period of seven years. Is the prophetic function of the 180^th day midpoint paralleled by the mid-point of the 7-year end times? It seems so. If so, then the ten days until the ‘day of atonement’ also assume significance. Either the rapture is 10 days after the abomination, or it is a similar proportion of the 7 year end time.  Thus, if the midpoint of 180 days equals the midpoint of 7 years, then 10 prophetic feast calendar days equals 70 actual end-time days.

Hence only the believing Jews and Christians finding themselves in Judea at the time will be protected in the desert. The rest of us will be subjected to the hour of temptation that is to came on this world, ‘such as was not since the beginning of the world’. Who else would be ‘kept from the hour of testing’ refer to, other than that portion of the Jewish nation who have repented and accepted Jesus before the  ‘day of atonement’, the revival promised through Ezekiel? It will only be then that the metaphorical valley of dry Jewish bones will coming to life as an army of believers, when they have seen Jesus coming on the clouds.

How does this affect us?

Besides the Jews who feel the call to return to Israel, many Christians may wish  to also witness and experience these events. However, we need to be sure first that this is God’s plan. It seems wrong to pack our bags and leave for Israel, just to be able to escape the great tribulation.

The possibility of escape is clearly planned for those in Judea (and this presumably may be extended to the rest of Israel), but its hardly imaginable that God would wish a massive airlift of saved Christians into Jerusalem, just so they can escape the great tribulation. Especially as the rapture is only months away from this point! However, Luke 21:36 states: Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Some more on the topic.

The following is a citation from a Revelation 2 sermon, also covering the ’10’ days of persecution of the church of Smyrna. (from faithful word baptist website)

An interesting statement is also made in Rev 2: 10., to the church in Smyrna: “ye shall have tribulation 10 DAYS”. Of course we should always go with the literal interpretation of God’s Word first. And so, the literal interpretation of this verse is that the church at Smyrna literally went through a 10 day period of tribulation. They went through 10 days of severe persecution of being thrown into prison and some being killed. True, we are always going to go through hard times: “ye and all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution”. But, for some reason, this church at Smyrna went through 10 days of very serious tribulation.

But there is a deeper symbolic meaning. Everything in the Bible is there for a reason. Nothing in the Bible is coincidental, incidental, or accidental. And there is actually a very significant meaning to the 10 days in the context of the tribulation of God’s people.

Go back to Leviticus chapter 23. “Why turn back to Leviticus”? Talking about Bible prophecy and we are going to Leviticus?” You know, virtually every book in the Bible deals with end times Bible prophecy, and deals with the second coming of Christ? Even in Genesis we have Noah, Lot… these are both illustrations of Jesus’s second coming, and illustrations of end times Bible prophecy.

The feasts of the Lord

Leviticus also teaches on end times Bible prophecy, whether you knew that or not. Leviticus chapter 23 is an interesting chapter. It goes through the feasts of the Lord, and I want to explain to you why he told the church at Smyrna they would have tribulation 10 days. There is a literal application here but there is also a symbolic meaning with those 10 days. Now in Leviticus 23, where the feasts of the Lord were laid out, the children of Israel were commanded to celebrate certain feast days throughout the year. Now, these feast days can be pretty much grouped into the “spring” feasts, and the “fall” feasts, so the harvest feasts.

Spring Feasts

So when you are looking at Leviticus chapter 23 there, you will see some feasts taking place in the first month. Now first of all I want you to understand that the calendar that the Hebrews use was a little different to our calendar today in the sense that we start our calendar in January. Pretty much in the dead of winter, that’s when we say that our year begins. Well, most calendars throughout history have started in the spring. You can notice even with our current calendar, that the numbering of the calendar is a little off. For example, the month that we call “October”, when you see “octo”, what number do you think of when you see “octo”? Eight, right, like an octopus. So, October, is that the eighth month? No, it’s the 10th month isn’t it? And when you see “November”, that’s similar to, for example the Spanish word for 9, “nueve”. Or “Diez” is the Spanish word for 10. December, “diez”. Okay, why? Because December used to be tenth month, November used to be the ninth month, October used to be the eight month. Basically, our month of March, is close to what used to be considered the first month. So the year used to start in the spring, and that would be around March. So when we see in chapter 23, when he talks about these feasts in the first month, these are springtime feasts. These are the Passover, the feast of unleavened bread, the first-fruits. Then, we number 50 days, and we have what is called the “day of Pentecost”, or the feast of weeks.

Fall Feasts

Then, we have the fall feasts, in the seventh month of the year. So basically the 7th month of the year would be similar to around the time of September, October. Here we have the fall feasts, which are “the blowing of the trumpets”, the first one, “the day of atonement” is the second one, and the “feast of tabernacles” is the next one. Now, you say “what’s the significance?”

Jesus Christ fulfilled all of the springtime feasts, the first time he came into the world. Jesus Christ WAS the Passover wasn’t he? He was the Passover lamb, which taketh away the sins of the world. Jesus Christ also fulfilled the feast of unleavened bread. He was the bread of life, he was the unleavened bread, he broke unleavened bread with his disciples. Then the Bible teaches that Jesus was the firstfruits of the resurrection. So he fulfilled the feast of the firstfruits by rising from the dead. And what’s amazing, is that he fulfilled these feasts EXACTLY. Because he was literally killed on the 14th day of the first month. Study your Bible. And he literally rose again on the day that was the feast of the first fruits. He fulfilled these feasts with his first coming, then of course, the feast of weeks, or the day of Pentecost was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2.

 

Now, the fall feasts have not yet been fulfilled. The Bible teaches in Mathew 13, it says the Harvest is the end of the world. And it uses the symbolism of a harvest for the end of the world. So the fall feasts, the harvest feasts, so the autumn feasts, are going to be fulfilled at what the Bible calls ‘the end of the world’. Which, the Bible, when it talks about Jesus Christ coming in the clouds with great power and glory in Mathew 24, you know the Bible refers to that as the end of the world. It says so at the beginning of Mathew 24, Mark 13 etc.

So, Jesus Christ fulfilled all the spring feasts at his first coming, he is going to fulfil all the harvest feasts at his second coming, or the end of the world. Now, how is he going to fulfil these feasts? Well, let’s look at what these fall feasts are. Look down if you would at verse 24 in Leviticus 23 there. “Speak unto the children of Israel saying, in the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath. A memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein, but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, also on the TENTH day of the seventh month, there shall be a day of atonement. It shall be an holy convocation unto you, ye shall afflict your souls.” So he starts to lay out the first two of the fall feasts. He said on the first day of the seventh month, is the blowing of the trumpets. On the tenth day of the seventh month, is the day of atonement. Then a little further down he talks about the fifteenth day of the seventh month being the feast of tabernacles. So we have 3 feasts that Jesus is going to fulfil on his second coming.

How is he going to fulfil them? Well, here is what is interesting. That first fall feast, the “blowing of the trumpets”, did you notice how it occurs right smack dab in the middle of the year? Think about it. The first day of the seventh month, what does that mean? Well the first day of the seventh month, that means there have been six months leading up to it, and you have six months to go. So the first day of the seventh month is right dead centre of the year. And it’s the blowing of the trumpets. Then ten days later, you have the day of atonement. Then after that, you have the feast of tabernacles. So stop and think about this? What does the blowing of trumpets represent when it comes to the second coming of Jesus Christ? Now, many people will jump and say, “oh, that’s the rapture! The trumpet is going to sound, the last trump, last trump of the year, blowing of the trumpets, that’s the rapture!” And I have heard a lot of people teach that. Because they believe that the next event on “God’s prophetic calendar” is the rapture. But in fact, the blowing of the trumpets does not represent the rapture at all. Neither is the blowing of the trumpets the last trump. Because another trumpet is blown on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the day of atonement. The blowing of the trumpets, what that represents is not the trumpet sounding at the rapture. But rather it refers to an alarm sounding. You see, when the Bible would talk about blowing of trumpets in the OT, it often had to do with sounding an alarm because an enemy was attacking them, and they would blow with the trumpet so that God would save them.

 

Let’s read Numbers 10:9. “And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppress you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets. And ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.” So the Bible says when there is an enemy that is coming to oppress you, you are supposed to blow with the trumpets, and God is going to save you out of the hand of your enemies. He also talked about it in numbers 31:6 when he referred to going to war, and blowing with the trumpets. Stop and think about this. When it comes to end times Bible prophecy, we know that the book of Revelation deals in great detail with a certain 7 year period of time. Now this entire period of time often called “Daniel’s 70th Week”. In Daniel 9:27 it says “and he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate”. So that right there in Daniel 27 talks about a week which, if you get the context is a 7 year period. And now, in the midst of that week, there is going to be what is called “the abomination of desolation”.

But notice about that verse. Did it say that that 7 year period is called the tribulation? Did it say “there is going to be a week and it is going to be called the tribulation”? No, because part way through that week, when the sun and moon are darkened and the stars fall, and the Bible says, that that occurs AFTER THE TRIBULATION. So, the first part of the week is called the tribulation, but, the entire seven year period is not known as the tribulation. In fact Jesus says the “great tribulation” begins after the abomination of desolation. He says “when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet”, he said, “THEN shall be great tribulation”. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but in Daniel 9:27, it said in the midst of the week, is the Abomination of Desolation, isn’t that right?

So if the tribulation is over when the sun and moon are darkened and the stars fall, and also if in Revelation 6 also the sun and moon are darkened and the stars fall, NOT at the end of the seven years, NOT at the end of the week, but rather part of the way through before any of the trumpet or vial judgements, how can you call the whole 7 year period tribulation? Nobody can show a verse in the Bible that calls the whole 7 years tribulation. It’s not what it’s called.

 

Here’s the deal. In the middle of the seven-year period that revelation describes, there is what is called the abomination of desolation. This is where the antichrist sets up an image, the false prophet sets up an image of the antichrist, and people have to worship the antichrist. And the Bible says that when this takes place, and this is all covered in Revelation 13, that the antichrist will make war with the saints and overcomes them. So, again, in the midst of the week, the antichrist makes war with the saints and overcomes them. That is at the time of the abomination of desolation.

Remember what feast took place in the dead center of the year? The blowing of the trumpets. What to trumpets represent in that passage? They represent the blowing of an alarm, of an oppressive enemy? What happens in the dead center of Daniel’s 70th week, or the seven year period that most of the events of Revelation fall within. The antichrist makes war with the saints. He is the oppressive enemy, and the blowing of the trumpets is symbolic of the warning sound of the alarm that we are going to be persecuted by the antichrist. That he is going to make war against the saints and overcome them.

So the blowing of the trumpets represents in biblical prophecy the abomination of desolation and the antichrist’s war against the saints. That’s when the “great tribulation” begins. Because Jesus said, “when you see the Abomination of Desolation”, that’s in the middle of the seven years, he said “THEN shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be.”

Remember, first day of the seventh month? Middle of the year? Blowing of the trumpets represents the abomination of desolation.

Then the tenth day of the seventh month, there is another trumpet that sounds, which represents the trumpet of the rapture. That trumpet is called the trumpet of jubilee, and it is blown on the day of atonement, on the tenth day of the seventh month, only once every 50 years. Let’s look at that briefly here. Leviticus 25:9. “Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the 7th month. Notice, 10 days after, right? Because look, he says the “tenth day of the 7th month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year” and watch what the Bible says about the trumpet of Jubilee, “and”, he says, “proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. It shall be a jubilee unto you. And you shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family.”

The first feast was the blowing of the trumpets, representing the antichrist making war with the saints, beginning with the abomination of desolation. The next fall feast, or end of the world harvest feast, is the tenth day of the 7th month, which is the day of atonement, but it is also the day of the blowing of the trumpet of Jubilee.

What is that which characterizes the day of jubilee, or the trumpet of Jubilee? He said it was proclaiming liberty throughout all the land, and that basically every man would return to his possession and his inheritance. Look at Romans 8, and notice what the Bible says about the resurrection, or the rapture, or the first resurrection. Look at Romans chapter 8m beginning in verse 21. You are going to find some of the same wording that we saw with the Jubilee. It says in verse 21 “because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious LIBERTY of the children of God, for we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now”, watch this in verse 23, “and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” So right now, he says our soul is saved, but our body is not going to be saved of course until the resurrection.

The first resurrection is what we call “the rapture”. When in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed. This mortal shall put on immortality. This corruptible shall put on incorruption. And the Bible says we shall be brought from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God, when our body is redeemed. When our body is resurrected. You see at the rapture, that is called the glorious liberty of the children of God. So doesn’t it make sense that in the fall end of the world feasts, the trumpet of the Jubilee proclaiming liberty represents the trumpet sounding when the dead in Christ are raised incorruptible? (1st Corinthians 15:51)

Also notice, it’s the last feast trump of that series of feasts. When he goes through these feasts. The last trump there, is the trumpet of trumpets. Last among what series? Well, we already had the blowing of trumpets on the 1st day of the 7th month, then there is one more trumpet that is blown, tenth day of the seventh month. What’s interesting about that is the space between those two events, right? Because blowing of trumpets on the first day, on the tenth day of the seventh month is the trumpet of Jubilee sounding, which is symbolic of the trumpet that is going to sound on the day of the resurrection or the rapture.

So, if the war with the saints, or the great tribulation mentioned in Mathew 24 begins at the abomination of desolation at the midpoint of the week, and then obviously our persecution and trials and tribulations are over when the rapture happens, because we are caught up to be with Christ… then what period of time is that great tribulation going to encompass? Well, symbolically, when we look at these feasts… we have ten days right there which matches up perfectly with revelation 2:10, “ye shall have tribulation 10 days”. Which ten days? From the first day of the 7th month, to the tenth day inclusively, that’s your ten days of tribulation. Now, you say “Pastor Anderson, will the great tribulation”- and I’m sorry if that whole… If the last ten minutes went over your head then don’t even worry about it because you know, you might need to do a little more study on this… But you know it is time for us to wake up as God’s people, dig in and get the meat of God’s Word. And maybe that went over your head, you know what? You need to do more study, you need to do more reading. You know what? There were a lot of people that understood what I just said, because they have been studying their Bibles. And you know we all need to keep learning, and to keep growing, and to pay attention and to learn these things.

 

But anyway, let’s go back to revelation 2. That was a little heavy. But let me say this. The great tribulation that the Bible mentions in Mathew 24, Mark 13 and elsewhere, will last for more than 10 days. I’m not saying it’s only for 10 days. Because I believe that the great tribulation will last 75 days. If you study this out and understand it. But the 10 days is symbolic of the first day of the seventh month, to the tenth day of the seventh month of these feast days. When you study this it just becomes amazing how everything lines up. I mean it will blow your mind. Like, for example, since we are talking about a seven year period of Daniel’s 70th week… and we are talking about it in the dead centre, the abomination of desolation… and then we are talking about “shortly thereafter”, the tribulation being cut short by Jesus Christ coming in the clouds and the trumpet sounding.

Sometime during the second half of Daniel’s seventieth week, when you look at it that way, and then you compare it to the Hebrew calendar year, and you overlay the Hebrew calendar year, with the seven years of Daniel’s 70th week which I have done on a chart, and it’s on kjvprophecy.com… If you overlay that, you see that the blowing of the trumpets lines up perfectly with the abomination of desolation, right in the middle. But then you will also see that if you line up the trumpet of the jubilee with the seven year period of Daniel’s 70th week, you will notice that 1335 days in to Daniels 70th week would line up perfectly.

Note in Daniel chapter 12, the Bible says “blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days”, and he basically says that Daniel is going to be resurrected at the end of that 1335 days. So that all just lines up perfectly, because if you take 1335, and divide it by 7, you end up with 190, well what is the hundred and ninetieth day of the year? The tenth day of the seventh month. Is that not really cool, or have you no idea what I just said?