1720. Tribulation ends in 2023 rapture in May 2020
Figure 1. The
final 7 year tribulation period ends with Jesus coming back riding a white
horse as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
As I have written in several previous
articles we are now living in the time of tribulation, the final 7 years of
this age. The events of this time are described in the Book of Revelation and
the timing of these events is given there as well as in the Book of Daniel. The
tribulation began 7 weeks or 49 years after the issuing of the command to
restore Jerusalem, on June 28th 1967, according to Dan. 9:24-27, and
thus in 2016. We are now living in the second half of the tribulation, the
abomination of desolation event, which marks the beginning of this period of
time, having occurred on March 4th 2020. Everything is also set to
end in 2023, when Israel, having been reborn as a nation on May 14th
1948, will be 75 years old, and thus exactly between the 70 and 80 years in age
according to the definition given in scripture [Article 1717: The last
generation from May 14 1948]. At the time of writing Article 1717, I still could
not determine the final period of time from the resurrection of the two
witnesses to the end and was thus not able to get a good determination of when
the rapture is likely to occur.
Figure 1. Timing of events during the tribulation week or last 7
years of the age, as determined from the scriptures: the final period, shown as
21 to 28 days, here, still not being known [Article 1677: Imminent rapture and
end of Tribulation and Article 1694: Timing of the rapture: April 25th to May
1st]. Everything is set to end in 2023.
The rapture appears in Revelation
12 and is described as the birth of the man child, after which time Israel, or
the woman with a garland of 12 stars, is fed in a place prepared for her by God
for 1260 days, so that we know that the rapture happens 1260 days from the end
of the tribulation.
5 She
bore a male Child who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron.
And her Child was caught up to God
and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the
wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her
there one thousand two hundred and
sixty days. (Rev. 12: 5-6)
Then from Dan. 12:11-12 we have:
11 “And
from the time that the
daily sacrifice is taken
away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to
the one thousand three hundred and
thirty-five days. (Dan.
12:11-12)
So there is a period of 1290 days
from the time of the abomination of desolation and the fact that the 2 witnesses
are supposed to testify for 1260 days, there being a difference of 30 days, made
it possible to determine when the 2 witnesses were to be set up, i.e. 30 days
after the abomination of desolation event, on April 3rd 2020
[Article 1716: The two witnesses and God’s judgment on the internet].
So if the timing of events
regarding the 2 witnesses could be determined, it should be possible to
determine the other events pertaining to the woman, or Israel. Since Dan.
12:11-12 is actually referring to the timing of events from the abomination of
desolation events, applying the 2 day counts: 1290 days and 1335 days to this
period yields the following:
Figure 2. Timing of 7 year Tribulation Period events diagram: with
the second half now as a mirror image of the first with the end thus set to
occur on October 30th 2023 and the rapture, or birth of the man
child, set to occur on May 18 2020, 1260 days before. The two witnesses are resurrected
41.5 days before the end.
Application of the day counts to
the first half of the tribulation allowed me to understand the time lag period
of 45 days and 10.5 days, during the middle period, but these day counts are actually
referring to the second half. This would mean a 45 time lag period, i.e. the
1290 day period is made 45 days longer by each day being made shorter. The
shortening of each day would be: 45 days/1290 days = 0.03488 x 24 h/d x 60
min/d = 50 minutes/day. This would mean that each day is shortened by nearly 1
hour, a large difference, which I did not foresee before, but which still goes
along with what Jesus said in Matt. 24:22:
22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the [c]elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
The severe shortening of the days, which
would be occurring now, already, would result in people who make use of their
internal clock to have a tendency to go to bed later and later and getting up
later and later.
In conclusion, the timing of
events during the final 7 years of this age also known as the 7 year tribulation
period or the time of Jacob’s trouble is given in the scriptures, which then
allows the determination of the dates when the period is supposed to end and
thus when Jesus returns and the time of the birth of the male child described
in Revelation 12, the child then being caught up to God’s throne, being a
description of the rapture. This determination suggests that the tribulation is
set to end on October 30th 2023 and the rapture is set to occur on
May 18th 2020.
References:
[1] Albers, C. (2020). Article
1717: The last generation from May 14 1948
[2] Albers, C. (2020). Article
1677: Imminent rapture and end of Tribulation1st
[3] Albers, C. (2020). Article
1694: Timing of the rapture: April 25th to May 1st