How was 1914 calculated using bible scripture?

If you have read even just portions of the Old Testament you should realize that Kings were appointed to rule over the Jews. God's rule over his people was through these King's who had been given God's approval. These Kings were actually chosen by/through God.

This line of Kings eventually terminated with the destruction of Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E. by the Babylonians. After this time no other human King was annointed or approved by God to rule over his people.

God was now allowing rulership amoung the people of the earth to progress according to their own desire. No direct interferance from God. What we need to do is determine how long this time will be.

During this time one of the most powerfull Kings was Nebuchadnezzar who let his power go to his head. He was eventually humiliated by God. From this lesson he concluded that the success of his rulership was not due to anything special in his own power but that he was just being allowed to rule by God. See Daniel Ch4

If you carefully contemplate this it should occur to you that national governments today will also eventually be humiliated and have to come to a similar conclusion. (Isaiah 2:4)

This is something I am really looking forward to, especially considering the circumstance the world is in today.

You must now carefully read and contemplate Daniel 4:23

Daniel 4 :23 - NIV "You, O king, saw a messenger, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, 'Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live like the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.'

The tree being chopped down is not completely killed but terminated (banded) for a period of 7 times. That this verse is in regards to rulership is discerned by reading it in context.

The period of 7 times is significant in that the actual period of time could not be determined as it was not properly understood how long 'a time' was until the Apostle John revealed this many hundreds of years later.

As this was revealed long after King Nebuchadnezzar's rule it must be that it had some other significance for the time period after the first century when John wrote the Book of Revelation.

Therefore by measuring 7 times after the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the last of its Kings in 607 B.C.E. we should be able to determine when a God appointed King would once again begin to rule.

It is easily rationalised that this King would be Jesus Christ because it is after his resurrection that we find out what 'a time' is.

There is a scriptural connection however, to Jesus Christ in this prophecy which, occurs a few verses later while Daniel interprets the dream as follows:

Daniel 23:24
24this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king, 25that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.

So who does God want to give this Kingdom to?

One of Daniel's contemporaries reveals who this is in the following scripture:

Ezekiel 21:27
25"Now to you, O profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end, 26thus says the Lord GOD: "Remove the turban, and take off the crown; Nothing shall remain the same. Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted. 27Overthrown, overthrown, I will make it overthrown! It shall be no longer, Until He comes whose right it is, And I will give it to Him."'

The scripture above also speaks of the removal of Gods approved or annointed kings until he comes whose (legal) right it is. This is the one who God wants to give the kingdom to. Jesus Christ who was the only perfect man to live and die on this earth. Earning the legal right to replace what Adam lost and rule mankind.

So now, how long is 'a time' so that we can calculate when Jesus will begin his rulership?

Revelation 12:6 "The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days."

Revelation 12:14 "The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach."

Therefore:

time, times and half a time = 1260 days

That times must equal 2 times is a rationale whose conclusion must be carefully contemplated.

If you try to make times equal to anything else but 2 times it does not seem to make sense.

Therefore:

time(1) + times(2) + half a time(1/2) = 3 1/2 times

Therefore:

7 times = 1260 x 2 = 2520 days.

If you now add 2520 days to 607 B.C.E. you end up nowhere special.

Also you end up in a period well before Jesus's birth as well as before the time that the Apostle John wrote the Book of Revelation which is where we find what a "time" was in the first place.

So now what ?

There are some scriptural precedents set which indicate that a day can be represented in prophetic terms as a year.

This is revealed in the following verses:

Numbers 14:34 "For forty years-one year for each of the forty days you explored the land-you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you."

Ezekiel 4:6 "After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year."

Now if 2520 years are added to 607 B.C.E. you will arrive at the year 1914.

I think you will agree that this year is significant as it was the start of WW1 and is completely in line with what Jesus said to expect during the end of the age in Matthew chapter 24.

Matthew 24:6 "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places."

This calculation is not anything new.

To the best of my own knowledge it was undertaken almost 100 years ago by some very serious bible students.

I have used this knowledge to look for the extraordinary manifestation of lightning which we should expect immediately before Jesus coming to power as a king. (Luke 10:18)

The discovery made in the following blog link makes the calculation above, incontrovertable:

Search for biblical lightning which should be immediately prior to 1914


I think you will agree the lightning reported by the Tunguska witnessess fully meets both the physical and chronological expectation derived from examining the scriptures.



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The Internet and Scripture

If the scriptures in the bible are really true, then at some time in the future we should be able to measure them against tangible events occurring in our contemporary history. One of the events having many features with which to measure is the "man of lawlessness". Paul confirms in his letter to the Thessalonians that it precedes the gathering together of the chosen ones to Jesus Christ when he comes. Searching for convincing evidences of this" man of lawlessness is certainly a worthwhile effort and indicates a willingness to keep on the watch.

2 Thessalonians 2

1Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him ………..3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin[ is revealed, the son of perdition,

In Matthew Chapter 24 Jesus Christ warns us to keep on the "watch" for his coming. These events are therefore something we should be watching for in regard to Jesus Christ’s coming. The lawlessness was already at work in the first century and yet the effect of this lawlessness would become so thorough during the last days that it would gain entry right into the temple of The God. Such an overwhelming manifestation of lawlessness must not be able to continue escaping notice and yet the scriptures do indicate there is something acting as a restraint which will eventually be out of the way and make the revealing possible.

2nd Thessalonians 7

7 True, the mystery of this lawlessness is already at work; but only till he who is right now acting as a restraint gets to be out of the way.

There is a place in scripture where those who are faithful do get away to a place where they are fed (truths).

Revelation 12:414

But the two wings of the great eagle were given the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place; there is where she is fed for a time and times and half a time away from the face of the serpent.

The place is in the wilderness, the thing acting as a restraint is the face of the serpent.

Revelation does mention that faithful chosen ones would be living right in amongst those who belong to Satan and living in the same place where he is ruling.

Revelation 2:9, 2:13

9 "I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan………..13I know thy works and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is; and that thou holdest fast My name and hast not denied My faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

These faithful anointed chosen ones, the true sons of the kingdom are living right in Satan’s face during the Lord ’s Day! Revelation 12 goes on to further describe what the serpent is doing to the chosen ones:

15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.

In the bible water normally represents knowledge or truths however, if they are flooding out of the serpent’s mouth with a view to carry away or mislead the faithful chosen ones then they must be lies. A flood or river of lies suggests a continual publishing of words suggesting perhaps a periodical or ongoing flood of magazines and books designed to lure anointed chosen ones away from learning the real truth.

So these faithful anointed chosen ones the, true sons of the kingdom are not only living right in Satan’s face during the Lord’s day, they also are being continually flooded by lies being regularly published and fed to them.

Revelation Chapter 2 goes on to explain how these lies will be overturned with help from the earth:

16And the earth helped the woman; and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

If we are now living in the Lord’s Day then, what feature provided by the earth presently exists which has the ability to overturn an enormous flood of published lies?

Answer: The Internet.

Mr. Stephen Cox is a professor of literature at the University of California who made a very astute observation about the times we now live in and writes a story about:

"the strange and unforeseen persistence of truth in our allegedly post-modern age."

His article can be read by following the following hyperlink:

http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2003_10/cox-truth.html

In this article Professor Cox uses a religious organisation which, publishes and distributes such a veritable flood of magazines and books that it is known world-wide. In his article he explains how this river of information is now being put to test by a relatively new technology also found world-wide called the Internet. Of all the earth’s achievements which should be capable of swallowing up a flood of lies and replacing them with the truth the Internet shows the most promise.