FaithSets – The Time is Short

Prepare Yourself for Jesus Is Coming Swiftly
The Millennium of Rest: A Perspective from 2 Peter 3:8
The Approach
- Verify for Yourself
The Significance of Jubile Years
Connecting the Biblical Timeline to Our Gregorian Calendar
Timeline

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The Millennium of Rest: A Perspective from 2 Peter 3:8 Back to contents ↑

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

2 Peter 3:8 (KJB)

This biblical text teaches us that in Gods perspective time differs from ours. So when certain prophetic texts mention specific time periods we should be aware that we might have to calculate its real duration.

We should approach this prayerfully. We have answers in the Bible, but the Holy Spirit has to guide us. E.g., when we think of the days in a week within a biblical context, we read that we should labor about 6 days and are supposed to rest the on the 7th day, called the Sabbath. Specifically on this day we are to direct all our attention to the Lord and not think of our own business. This normal week however is also a prophesy on a grand scale. If we apply above rule, we come to 6000 years of labor followed by a 1000 years of rest where we will focus on the Lord.

Deciphering the 120 Jubile Years

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“And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”

Leviticus 25:10 (KJB)

“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”

Genesis 6:3 (KJB)

When we combine above texts in Leviticus 25:10 and Genesis 6:3, we can count 120 Jubile periods of 50 years and come to 120 * 50 = 6000 years as well. This means that mankind as we know it will get a limited time of 6000 years to contend with God, after which God will take over. God then will decide who will enter His kingdom and who won’t. Matthew 25: 31-46 deals with this issue in the parable of the sheep and the goats, where the sheep enter the kingdom and the goats do not:

“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”

Matthew 25:31-46 (KJB)

The only difference between these 2 groups is what they did or didn’t do for the least of Jesus brothers. We hope that you will be part of the sheep!

Recognizing Our Season

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“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”

Matthew 24:36 (KJB)

While Jesus says in that we can’t know the exact day and hour of His return, we can and are allowed to know about the season of His coming:

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.”

Matthew 24:32-33 (KJB)

That is what we are about to learn on the page. We are looking at season and don’t go deeper than that.

Be Ready

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Know that you have to always be ready for Jesus mentions in Matthew 24:44:

“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”

Matthew 24:44 (KJB)

However, know that we have to be extra alert because of the late hour that we are living in as can be seen on the timeline on this page!

The Approach Back to contents ↑

We connect these verses that give us an indication of the time between 2 events. By tracing biblical events and their connections, we gain insights into the divine timeline, focusing on jubile period and significant moments that align with our modern calendar.

Verify for Yourself

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Now don’t take our word for it, but search the scriptures and see if these things are so, just as the believers in Berea did in Acts 17:

“And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

Acts 17:10-11 (KJB)

We created this timeline with Bible references, so that you can verify for yourself.

The Significance of Jubile Years Back to contents ↑

The Jubile Years Cycle was an important biblical concept between 2000 and 4000 AH. It signified that God was leading his people and was merciful. Every 7 years was a Sabbatical year in which no work was to be done. The 50th year was a very important year as this was the year where property had to be restored to the original owner and slaves were set free. There are two main methods to calculate with Jubile years:

49 year cycle (7 x 7); the 50th year would be the first year of the next cycle 50 year cycle (7 x 7 + 1) We adopt the 50 year cycle for the reason that the 50th year is supposed to be a year of rest and restoration, whereas the first year of the next cycle was a year to work, which is not possible in a 49 year cycle:

“And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”

Leviticus 25:8-10 (KJB)

You will find that this 50 year cycle will gives some very important events to fall on Jubile Years. The most significant is the Exodus, which was in the 50th Jubile Year, a Jubile (50) of Jubile periods (50) = 2500 AH and in which the people of Israel were set free from bondage and slavery.

Connecting the Biblical Timeline to Our Gregorian Calendar Back to contents ↑

In order to know how far we are on the Biblical calendar we have connect our modern Gregorian Calendar to the Anno Hominis Calendar we use on this site. In order to make this important connection, we have to build the structure:

“Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,”

Luke 3:1 (KJB)

Historians assume that this must be in the timeframe between 26-36 AD, which we can safely assume to be correct timeframe which we will narrow down further in the next steps.

We know that Jesus was dead for 3 days and 3 nights:

“For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Matthew 12:40 (KJB)

We know that every new day in the Bible starts at 6PM, so around sundown. We know that Jesus died at the Jewish 9th hour:

“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Matthew 27:46 (KJB)

which was the Roman 3rd hour, which is our 3PM. We know that the women visiting the grave where going there after Sabbath, so after our Saturday on the next morning, so this is Sunday:

“And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.”

Mark 16:1-2 (KJB)

According the Law of Moses, the women could not go to the grave to perform the balming, so they had to wait until the day after Sabbath. However, because the new day started at sundown (on our Saturday evening), it would have been dangerous to travel and unpractical to perform the balming. Therefore they went on the Sunday morning. If we then count back, Jesus must have died on a Wednesday! We know that Jesus died at passover:

“And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. And in the evening he cometh with the twelve. And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me. And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?”

Mark 14:16-19 (KJB)

Remember that the day starts in the evening, which is our Tuesday. He dies on the Wednesday, which was still passover. We know that Passover was in the month Nisan according Leviticus:

“In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.”

Leviticus 23:5 (KJB)

So Jesus died on Nissan 14. We also should note that the day after was called 'High Sabbath':

“The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.”

John 19:31 (KJB)

This is confirmed in Leviticus 23: 5-7:

“In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.”

Leviticus 23:5-7 (KJB)

This is the confusion as to why many think that Jesus died on a Friday (Good Friday), thinking He died the day before the weekly Sabbath. People who believe this will come up with the year 33, as that was the year where Nisan 14 fell on a Friday. We now can determine on which year Nissan 14 fell on a Wednesday in the timeframe between 26 and 36 AD, by using a converter as can be found here. We find 2 years where 14 Nissan was on a Wednesday: the year 27 and the year 30. The year 27 would be too early as at that time John the Baptist is still alive according various sources like Wikipedia. Therefore we come to the conclusion that Jesus died on 3 April 30, which was 14 Nisan 3996 AH. We use this reference point in the full calendar. Please remember that the year '0' in our modern day calendar doesn't exist.

1 AH (3966 BC)

Birth Adam

Genesis 2:7 – “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Note 1: In modern-day counting, a child’s age is considered to be 0 at birth. However, in the Bible, a child is counted as being in his 1st year immediately after birth.

Note 2: We use the Anno Hominis counting, which starts at the birth of Adam.

130 AH (3837 BC)

Birth Seth

Genesis 5:3 – “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.”

Note: Since it is unclear whether Seth was born in the first or second half of his father’s year, we statistically compensate for this uncertainty by subtracting half a year.
We do this for all pre-flood patriarchs, which will statistically give us the best results.
In the case of Seth we calculate with 129.5 AH.
For displaying purposes, we will show full years.

234 AH (3733 BC)

Birth Enos

Genesis 5:6 – “And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:”

129.5 + 104.5 = 234.0 AH.
In the case of Seth we calculate with 129.5 AH.
For displaying purposes, we will show full years.

324 AH (3643 BC)

Birth Cainan

Genesis 5:9 – “And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:”

234.0 + 89.5 = 323.5 AH.

393 AH (3574 BC)

Birth Mahalaleel

Genesis 5:12 – “And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:”

323.5 + 69.5 = 393.0 AH.

458 AH (3509 BC)

Birth Jared

Genesis 5:15 – “And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:”

393.0 + 64.5 = 457.5 AH.

619 AH (3348 BC)

Birth Enoch

Genesis 5:18 – “And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:”

457.5 + 161.5 = 619.0 AH.

684 AH (3283 BC)

Birth Methuselah

Genesis 5:21 – “And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:”

619.0 + 64.5 = 683.5 AH.

870 AH (3097 BC)

Birth Lamech

Genesis 5:25 – “And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:”

683.5 + 186.5 = 870.0 AH.

1052 AH (2915 BC)

Birth Noah

Genesis 5:28-29a – “And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah,”

870.0 + 181.5 = 1051.5 AH.

1651 AH (2316 BC)

The Beginning of the Great Flood

Genesis 7:11 – “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”

1051.5 + 599.5 = 1651.0 AH.

1652 AH (2315 BC)

The End of the Great Flood

Genesis 8:13 – “And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from of the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.”

1651.0 + 1 = 1652,0, for it was a full year.

1654 AH (2313 BC)

Birth Arphaxad

Genesis 11:10 – “These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:”

1652.0 + 1.5 = 1653.5 AH.

1688 AH (2279 BC)

Birth Salah

Genesis 11:12 – “And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:”

1653.5 + 34.5 = 1688.0 AH.

1718 AH (2249 BC)

Birth Eber

Genesis 11:14 – “And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:”

1688.0 + 29.5 = 1717.5 AH.

1751 AH (2216 BC)

Birth Peleg

Genesis 11:16 – “And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:”

1717.5 + 33.5 = 1751.0 AH.

1781 AH (2186 BC)

Birth Reu

Genesis 11:18 – “And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:”

1751.0 + 29.5 = 1780.5 AH.

1812 AH (2155 BC)

Birth Serug

Genesis 11:20 – “And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:”

1780.5 + 31.5 = 1812.0 AH.

1842 AH (2125 BC)

Birth Nahor

Genesis 11:22 – “And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:”

1812.0 + 29.5 = 1841.5 AH.

1870 AH (2097 BC)

Birth Terah

Genesis 11:24 – “And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:”

1841.5 + 28.5 = 1870.0 AH.

2000 AH (1967 BC)

Birth Abram in a Jubilee Year

Genesis 11:32 – “And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.”

Acts 7:4 – “Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.”

Genesis 12:4 – “So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.”

1870.0 + 204.5 – 74.5 = 2000 AH.

Note: Terah was 204.5 – 74.5 = 130 when Abram was born.

2100 AH (1867 BC)

Birth Isaac in a Jubilee Year

Genesis 21:5 – “And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.”

2000 + 100 = 2100 AH.

2500 AH (1467 BC)

Exodus Out of Egypt in the Jubilee Year of Jubilee Years (50 X 50)

Genesis 15:13 – “And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;”

Acts 7:6 – “And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.”

Abrams offspring starts with the birth of Isaac, who was born in 2100 AH.
We have to count 400 full years for the Exodus to happen: 2100 + 400.0 = 2500 AH.

Note: Isaac was 60 years when Jacob was born (Genesis 25:26b – “and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.”). Jacob was 130 years when he arrived in Egypt (Genesis 47:9 – “And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”). So the people of Israel stayed in Egypt for: 400 – 60 – 130 = 210 years.

2980 AH (987 BC)

Start Building the Temple & Solomon = 4 Years in Power

1 Kings 6:1 – “And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.”

2500 + 480 = 2980 AH

3000 AH (967 BC)

Finished Construction of the Temple & God’s Threat to Solomon in a Jubilee Year

1 Kings 9:10 – “And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king’s house,”

Here we calculate with 20 full years as it is mentioned it was the end of these years: 2980 + 20 = 3000 AH.

We also should mention that God warned Salomon in the prior verses that his sin would lead to destruction. God never does anything without saying, as to give people a chance to repent:

1 Kings 9:6,7 – “But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:”

Later when Israel was cut off from the land, we take this as reference in our counting.

3430 AH (537 BC)

Prophesy of Ezekiel’s Siege Against Jerusalem

Ezekiel had to lay a (mini) siege against Jerusalem and had to lay on his left side for 390 days:

Ezekiel 4:5 – “For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.”

and on his right side for 40 days:

Ezekiel 4:6 – “And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.”

Together this made up 430 years, counting from the year that Solomon was threatened by God that his sin would lead to destruction.

390 + 40 = 430 years: 3000 + 430 = 3430 AH.

3500 AH (467 BC)

70 Years of Desolation Before the Decree to Rebuild Jerusalem (In a Jubilee Year) by Cyrus

Counting from Ezekiel Siege: 3430 + 70 = 3500.

Alternative count: the 70 years of desolation were to compensate for the normal Jubilee Years in the past period:

2 Chronicles 36:21 – “To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years.”

These 70 years contain 10 Sabbatical Years where this rule should be expected under normal obedience.
This means that we have 70-10=60 Sabbatical Years left for compensation of the past years.

We have 7 normal Sabbatical Years in each Jubilee Cycle, so 60/7 = 8,57 Jubilee Cycles, which comprises 8.57 * 50 = 428,57 years, which encompasses exactly 60 Sabbatical Years counting from the year 3000 where God had threatened Salomon to not sin!

These 70 Sabbatical Years, including Jubilee Years make up 500 years. We now have 2 routes leading to the same year.

3550 AH (417 BC)

The First 7 Weeks of Years of Daniel (=1 Jubilee Cycle)

Daniel 9:24,25a – “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, …”

This is one Jubilee Year = 3500 + 50 = 3550 AH.

3992 AH (25 AD)

Followed by Daniels 62 Weeks of Years

Daniel 9:25b – “… and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.”

This is the beginning of Jesus’ 3.5 years ministry.

62 * 49 + 8 = 422 years: 3550 + 422 = 3992 AH.

Note 1: Jesus was about 30 years when He was baptized, so we can calculate the approximate year of His birth: Luke 3: 23 – “And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,”. If we consider the word ‘about’ as uncertainty we can build in an error margin of + or – 1 year, which would be between 3961 AB (-6 BC) and 3963 AH (-4 BC).

Note 2: Some translations like Etheridge translated from Aramaic renders: “NOW Jeshu himself was as a son of thirty years, and was considered the son of Jauseph bar Heli,”, which would mean 3962 AH (= -5 BC) would be a reasonable assumption.

3996 AH (30 AD)

Jesus’ Death in the Middle of the 70th Week of Daniel

While many think that the last week of Daniel is still to come and talks about the antichrist, if you read it carefully you will discover that this is spoken of about Jesus Christ Himself, as words ‘confirm the covenant’ indicate When Christ died after 3.5 years of ministry which started with the baptizing in the Jordan, He caused the sacrifice in the Temple to cease, which was marked by the renting of the veil of the Holy of Holies.

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, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

3992 + 3.5 = 3995.5 AH.

3999 AH (33 AD)

Stephen Stoned Seeing Jesus Standing, Which Ends All Miracles

The overspreading of abominations, we believe, talks about the rejection of St. Stephen in 3999AH, after which the Gospel is ‘poured’ on the desolate, rest of the world: 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, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

3995.5 + 3.5 = 3999 AH.

This now marks the end of an era. The next era starts in 4000AH where we see St. Paul bringing the Gospel to the rest of the world.

4000 AH (?) (34 AD)

The Church Period Started by Paul

This year is not precisely given in the bible. We can however safely assume that Paul started his ministry shortly after Stephen died.

4036 AH (70 AD)

Destruction of the Temple Jerusalem

5991 AH (2025 AD)

The Current Year

6000 AH (2034 AD)

The Start of the New Millennium in Which Jesus Will Reign

We cannot exactly pinpoint the date for the start of the new millennium, however we believe that it will start around this date.
That said we can also safely assume that the start of the reign of Jesus on this earth will come in phases.

This Is the Year 5991AH - The Time is Short