There has undoubtedly been an increase in urgency and end-time obsession within Christianity, and understandably so. The amount of videos of timelines for the rapture/covenant/2nd return/last jubilee is overwhelming, and they are all different. I found one brilliant young female (a rarity) that has clearly been studying the Bible well. She has several books out, lots of charts and timelines. She has a huge following. How did I miss her before? I also love her matter-of-factness. She and I share mostly the same beliefs, and she’s bold. But her timelines are all over the place, and I question them. I actually asked her in the comment section of her timeline of the Jubilees, because she believes the covenant with the Antichrist begins on a Jubilee (instead of Jesus’s return and redemption being on a Jubilee). She had calculated every Jubilee since Leviticus, according to when she believes the events of the Exodus and entering the promised land begin. She made a huge chart on it. It’s a bit overwhelming. So, I asked her, “But isn’t Jesus’ quotation of Isaiah 61 a marker for Jubilee, so just count from there? Because his death fulfills a Jubilee, and his second coming would also fulfill a Jubilee.” Instead of discussing it with me, or just telling me that she’s not open to discussion, or pointing me to a different video or something, she literally responded within one minute (so no contemplation at all), saying: “Am I banging my head against a brick wall? You clearly don’t understand sabbath cycle or jubilee year counting. You don’t just start from whenever.” Is this how she treats a fellow sister in Christ just because there’s a disagreement? I was so blown away by this that I stopped watching her videos. Her brains and calculations don’t matter to me anymore. The way she responded was so shocking to me, that I questioned my own calculations, but mostly that I am now repulsed by her.
I am not that smart, and I clearly don’t have that much time on my hands to make such charts, timelines, and the such. I can’t keep track of it all. How does one know exactly the year the Israelites entered the promised land/ the Exodus/ the building of Solomon’s temple? (there are lots of different ways to calculate this and each comes up with a different answer. Basically, we can know the approximate time), for calculating number of Jubilees, do we use Jewish calendar or ours? Do we use their civil calendar which begins in Tishri or their religious calendar which begins in Nisan? Because everybody claims to know such years and dates and they all differ. Yet, they and only they are right. So what about the average Joe who doesn’t have the brains, time, or patience to do all these calculations? Do we need Nasa’s data to figure out all the eclipses? Do we need the true meaning or symbolization of each constellation and when they align a certain way? Yes, all these things are wonderful and helpful, but we don’t need them to understand God’s ways, plus, they give approximate times.
He makes himself and His ways known to the basic human being. God works in patterns easily discernable to the average person. The people in the Bible, OT and NT, knew these patterns without the internet, calendars, or Nasa. We can know when God returns down to a few years. We don’t have to and probably won’t know the exact year until the temple is built and or/abomination of desolation begins, but we can know down to a few years and the day of the year to expect these events (except the rapture- that has no bearing on a timeline) (as you can see, I’m a premillennialist).
-pattern of Jubilees- God will contend with men for 120 Jubilees. The 120 in Genesis 6 has three meanings (age of man, year when flood happens from God telling Noah, and Jubilee). 120 Jubilees=6000 years. (to learn about Jubilee= Leviticus 25)
-Creation week is a pattern cycle. Each day also represents a 1000 years of mankind. The 7th day is the rest, the 7th millennium, and so forth. (see Creation Week Pattern)
-the feasts of Israel being fulfilled to the day and hour by Jesus (see 7 Feasts of Israel)
-Moses and Israel are patterns for Jesus
-in fact, every ‘type’ is a pattern
-the tabernacle, throne room, temple set up and everything in it (showbread/lampstand/incense…)
-3 days pattern
-4 and 7 pattern
-these are only to name a few.
The Youtube channel and website Messiah 2030 (https://messiah2030project.com/)actually lists almost every pattern found in the Bible, and they all spell out a timeline and pattern for God’s grand plan of redemption. Though I don’t agree with everything from “Messiah 2030” (specifically the 2030 part, and that they believe the covenant (as in Mosaic covenant) was broken by Jesus at the 3.5 year mark), but they do a phenomenal job of pointing out all the patterns and numbers in the Bible that line up together. It’s all very simple once you see it. So yes, I believe God’s return to be somewhere in the early 2030’s, depending on what year he died (so 2000 years from then), which we can’t know, though everybody claims to know.