Part IVa (Mirroring Timeline Inset), The Lord vs. Satan: SupCtHeaven;

CRUX: Time is 'loaned', and if the loan of Time is 'paid' by enough spiritual growth, another 'loan' of Time can be granted. So God always treats Time as a balance sheet, debiting or crediting, balancing to the 'loan'. It's a JUSTICE issue for the Angelic Trial.

Consequently, in the Bible, God denotes time based only on SOLAR years, and on two master tracks: one is Real Time, absolute historical, measured from Adam's FALL, not initial creation. To see the videos demonstrating that from Genesis 5, click here to see the vids at this webpage's bottom, or click here to watch them in a separate page off-Youtube.

The second master track is an ACCOUNTING, so isn't necessarily consecutive. The ACCOUNTING track determines whether and how long, Real Time Is Allowed to Continue. So real historical time is cut short or elongated, based on whether the time 'loan' must be adjusted for results which either 'repay' the loan, or 'add' to it. This too, is tracked in Bible from Adam's fall as a system of debits and credits.

Bible displays this accounting in sabbatical language, since Time Is a Conditional Promise -- in Hebrew, 'promise' and 'seven' have the same sound. So you know when God uses the ACCOUNTING track, in Bible. For example, in Daniel 9:24, it does not say '490 years', but 'seventy sevens'. So the period referenced is not 490 consecutive years. To know what consecutive years are referenced, you have to apply the ACCOUNTING rules. As you'll see in this webpage, the actual number of consecutive years remaining per those accounting rules -- set ever since Psalm 90, and in the Mosaic Law -- were 673+7 (dated from 586BC, the accounting event giving rise to the measure). Because, all history had to end by the then-scheduled Millennium commencement of 94AD. Due to Israel rejecting Christ, the remaining 'time loan' freezes at 7 years, until Church completes. This webpage will go through that math.

The ACCOUNTING Rules begin in Genesis 5, using the 490 itself; between sons, so you can see who 'barely' made it, and who was early. So you know that 130 years of the 'loan' remained owed, because Adam didn't supermature until 130 years AFTER his 'fall'; signified by his siring Seth='Appointed to carry the Name'. More on this fact will be explained later in this webpage, and will be demonstrated in videos which also follow below.

By contrast Abraham supermatured 54 years early, so that's a credit against the 'loan'. The Genesis 6-7 Flood is an instance of debiting against all but Noah and family. (The dramatic impact of these maturation debits and credits will be covered later on, in this page.)

These ACCOUNTING rules are also prominently used in passages like Psalm 90 (via the meter) and other Psalms, 1Kings 6, Isaiah 53 (via the meter), Jeremiah 3 and 31, Daniel 9 (via the meter and explicitly), Matthew 1 and Luke 3 (both tying to the metered Hebrew in Isa52:13-15), Matt18:22, Acts 13:16ff, Hebrews 3 and 4 (very witty), Heb11:39-40, Gal 4:4, Romans 11:25, Eph 1:10 and many other passages. [NT nomenclature for Rapture aka rapto in Latin aka harpazw (both terms are in 1Thess 4:17, so 'Rapture' is a Bible term), derives from OT accounting terms, since Rapture is a Matt 16:18 consequence of Jewish rejection of Messiah, in 30AD.]

I made many Youtube videos showing how both Moses and Isaiah use Hebrew meter to reconcile these two 'tracks' in Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53, respectively; Daniel and Paul also use the same meter, and currently I'm making videos to demonstrate it directly from the Hebrew and Greek (as of March 2011). In all these passages, the same meter simultaneously tracks annually from the time of writing, to a deadline warning; and sabbatically, to the then-scheduled 94AD commencement of the Millennium. (In Paul, the meter is open-ended, as befits an unpredictable Rapture. I'm documenting that in my Youtube GGS series: click here to start viewing them singly in Youtube (playlist videos are linked as responses below the video playing); or, click here to view them at the bottom of this page.

The Psalm 90, Daniel 9 and Isaiah 53 video playlists are at the end of this webpage: click here to view them. There are many videos to review, which walk you through the Hebrew, the meter, and antiphonal qualities between Isaiah 53 and Psalm 90. Phenomenal stuff. Playlists are yet unfinished.

Judaism once knew God's Accounting Methodology, but messed it up sometime during the Hasmonean period, when creating and (now) maintaining the wacky Seder Olam Rabbah. [That calendar is used as if a straight annual calendar today, but it is not. It was meant to track what the author of it, considered 'promise time'. In short, he was trying to reconcile real history with God's ACCOUNTING conventions -- and blew it. So the calendar is way off: according to it 'our' 2010 is the year 5770 from creation, when in fact we are in the 6,116th year since Adam's FALL. I started making videos on that. To view them within this page, click here.]

Hence this Mirroring webpage is dedicated to show God's two master Time tracks, and especially how He 'mirrors' Time. You can't understand the origin of the Rapture doctrine, else. So here you'll see how God ties the absolute Time since Adam's fall, to His master ACCOUNTING ('loan repayment') track, replete with Bible verses so you can vet webpage claims. For Christianity does not know this doctrine of how God 'mirrors' Time, because the Church Fathers were anti-semitic, so disregarded the OT rules regarding Time (commonly called 'dispensations', today).

Essentially, Time's Mirrored Continuance depends on someone getting the Mirror -- Christ's Thinking -- in his head.

• Hence someone must spiritually supermature over a 490-year period.
• If someone does supermature, the world gets a new 490-year period, to go on breathing.
• Else, the world ends.
• Then, believers alive during the NEXT 70 years, must vote to learn God better.
• If at least one of them is sufficiently positive, the new 490 can play.
• Else, the world ends (i.e., that's why the Flood happened).

Christ, the Last Adam, Preserved And Reinstated Time For Church, Gal 4:4. (Greek: in English you miss Paul's clever wordplay on the Greek god 'Chronos'.)

Somehow Christianity has missed these IN-Bible facts; they instead rely on the anti-semitic 'Church Fathers' for their information; on Josephus, who had a very garbled idea of Jewish time since after all, he was embroiled in a war, so didn't have good records. Beginning about his time, Jews too forgot how their True God has always granted and accounted for Time. Their annual calendar is way off, patterned after the wacky Seder Olam Rabbah; their intra-year monthly calendar misreads Numbers 28:26 (see proper context in verse 25); so is 6 days too fast with respect to Pentecost; and its month terms, violate 1Chronicles 24 (which calls for 30-day months excepting Adar, which ran to the next vernal equinox). Our Christian calendars are even worse. Time we learned from BIBLE, what time it is!

So Time itself is 'housed' in 1050-year blocks, within which are two 490-year blocks. Specifically, the 1050 block consists of a 1000-year unit which is contingent on one or more believers being spiritually-developed enough to be 'awarded' that block of time. The next 50 years is a voting period for the human race, since if there aren't enough votes to be saved, there is no point continuing time. Within this 1050, is a structure of 490+70+490 years. Another believer must be 'awarded' another 490 before the current one ends, for the next 70 to 'play'. That 70 is a voting period for BELIEVERS to vote whether they want to know God and live in His System. If the votes are sufficient, then the next 490 can play; by its end another believer must be 'awarded' it. Else, time ends.

So think of these time-grant contingencies as a relay race, in which a prior believer awarded a 490 or 1000, must 'pass the baton' to the next believer awarded it, before the PRIOR believer's 490 or 1000 ends. Thus the award, justifies the current historical 1050 time unit's continuance for the human race. Intra-page links at pagetop show you the Grantees. GeneYrs.xls tracks them, and TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc summarizes the impact. By contrast, this Mirroring.htm elaborates on their roles, and explains the meaning and structure of God's Construct for Orchestration of, Time itself. I did a playlist amalgamating these concepts which you can play in consecutive order. Click here To start watching it on this page.

Within the 490s and 1000s there are debits and credits of time in lesser denominations like 1 year, 7 years, etc. You'll find intra-page links near pagetop which explain the nature of these lesser amounts. These lesser amounts are often mirrored back (credited) within a 490 or 1000, IF their specific goals are met.

Two of these lesser amounts, a 70 year and a 50 year period, are designed for VOTING; the period adds to the 490 or 1000, respectively. A third voting period, which runs four generations, plays to terminate a 490 (lasting about 120-160 years) and does not extend it. God bridges (justifies) the next time grant based the results of  these voting periods; so they are supremely important to understand. He does this in Daniel 9 for example, bridging the four-generation voting period ending the 7th historical 490 from Adam, to ENABLE the 8th. Else, Time would end. GeneYrs.xls tracks voting periods, as well as the 490s and 1000s; #9 of TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc, shows voting period impact. It's pretty shocking.

In all events, these lesser periods do NOT require a particular believer being spiritually developed, for the crediting to occur. However, these lesser amounts of time will not 'play', unless there is an underlying 490 awarded someone to 'finance' (justify) that 'play'. Moreover, Time ends anyway if the positive votes are too low; only those voting positive are saved, i.e., that's what happened at the Flood.

We've not noticed these voting periods, so Christians go in circles when trying to tally or balance, Daniel 9. Yet everybody knows about the four-generation issue. Genesis 6, 120 years before the Flood, God says the votes are negative, wipeout is due. 120=70+50. We know that 50 is for Pentecost and Jubilee, but we don't ASK God why. We don't ASK God what the 70 means, in Daniel 9 or Jeremiah 25, because we think the sabbatical years' answer, is "it". So we don't ASK God "WHY sabbatical years?" So we don't know the role of voting, and we don't know God's Construct for Time.

Satan's goal is to force God To Cancel Time, on judicial grounds of So Many Believers Being Negative. If he can succeed, that warrants a MISTRIAL Verdict in the unseen Angelic Trial in which Satan&Co. are the Primary Defendants. A Mistrial Verdict means the Judge (God) abused justice (i.e., evidence tampering). So the guilty go free in that case (angel or human). The Angelic Conflict is variantly understood by many in Christendom. But we relegate the idea of "devil" to gross sin and titillating movies which are not much different from the red-horns-and-tail pictures popular during the Dark Ages. We thus miss much: it's a TRIAL, the language in Bible about it is Legal (mistranslated, of course), and it's Trial language that you see in Genesis 6, Job, Book of Hebrews, Hosea, Jeremiah and Isaiah -- in short, this Trial is well exposed, in Scripture. "Satan" is a title meaning "opposing attorney", so THAT's the character of the Conflict: erudite, legal, suave, based on moral arguments -- by Satan. Thus he tempts the Lord in Matthew 4 with GOOD DEEDS, using very nice language (like the imperative of entreaty, in the 1st Temptation). Satan's a nice guy. That's what makes him the more evil. Do we notice all that? No! So we don't notice the Mistrial Goal that Satan has, either.

Here's the issue: if God doesn't keep His Promises, then a Mistrial results. Judge introduced the promises as Evidence in the Trial, of which Church constitute yet-future Witnesses; so if the Rapture occurs too early, those Witnesses will not exist, and everything ends. Trial is about whose plan for humans is better, who's more loving, God or Satan. God the Son became Humanity and in that Humanity proved by Going Through The Cross, that God is better and more loving -- even through the unfairness of paying for sins, theme of Heb2. Now, Church must go through something analogous, since He invented Church in Matt16:18, and voted for her in John 17 (Eph5 and Heb4-11 elaborate). So if this Future Body doesn't complete, then the Cross itself was a kind of sham (payment for a future which doesn't come to pass). So that would taint even the Cross, as Evidence. (God foreknew all this, is proving how His Absolute Love requires no tampering.)

The promise of Time is contingent on positive believers; but the promises of Church completing and Israel getting her promises fulfilled, are not contingent. So only the 'when' is contingent. Thus if Time must be cancelled, there is no 'when', and a Mistrial truly results. Hence Satan hopes to exploit the contingency into a failure. Thus Satan sponsors religion as well as gross sin, to get believers to be negative to God; religion substitutes OUT God, in favor of human approbation and standards. (It's a main theme of 1Jn in the original Greek, pointed warnings against the religious believer, thread begins in 1:6.) Same temptation strategy and basis, as Satan used back in Genesis 3 and Matthew 4.

To orient further, watch at least the first four videos in the player below to get a sense of the dramatic TIME impact God makes, of VOTING TO LEARN His Word, i.e., during the 70-year period you saw me draw in the topmost video, above; because, here in 2010, we're in an analogous period to the Flood. So will you vote for His Salted Head, to be in your head?

[The player is my 'brainout How God Constructs Time' playlist at Youtube: CLICK HERE to view it in Youtube.

Youtube keeps on changing parameters for embeddable players; so if the player below doesn't work for you, use the link above. The four arrows icon means 'fullscreen', so select that; the mail slot to the right of the play (triangle) button allows you to select from videos in the list. (They will play forward in order from the video you select.) For the HD videos in the playlist, you'll also see a '360p' icon; change it to '720p', to see the Bible text and lexicons clearly, in fullscreen.]

• Part1 (80MB, 13 mins): click here to download.
• Part 2 (91MB, 11 mins): click here to download.
• Part 3 (91MB, 11 mins): click here to download.
• Part 4 (91MB, 11 mins): click here to download.
• Flood Accounting video, 170MB, 25 minutes: click here to download.
• Flood Chronology of Days showing possible precedence for the later Mosaic Law Calendar (2 pages): click here to download.

Click here to see Episode 8 of the "Time Travel in Genesis" video series within THIS webpage, and learn how to use GeneYrs.xls . Then just click your back button to come back here.

To instead see the Genesis videos off-Youtube but in another webpage, click here.

For in-depth videos you can see within this webpage on how Psalm 90, Daniel 9 and Isaiah 53 prove and display God's Rules for Time via Hebrew METER, click here. Then click your back button to come back here. (Scholars don't know that Bible Hebrew even has meter, as they insist on Western secular standards for detecting it, rather than seek Bible's OWN standards.)

In sum, once you see how God grants time to a positive believer, you can see how He wants to use any believer. Thus you can see the importance of living in God's System (link at pagetop). It's not a works thing. It's not a denominational thing. It's not a prophecy thing. It is a math thing, and you can prove the math. For Bible in your head is spiritual math, retraining your brain to think like God does, as you keep on living in God's System. For anyone can be a hero. That's the DESIGN for every believer, no matter what.

Unfortunately, God's Accounting System for Time is nowhere taught in Christendom that I can find: so use extreme caution in reading this material, 1Jn4:1-6. Breathe 1Jn1:9 as needed, and keep asking God if this information should be examined. Only God knows the answer to that question for YOU, even if the information is correct: for it takes a long TIME to vet the material. I too am still testing it, ever since 2004 when I learned it IN Bible.

To effectuate this sanctifying result which both Anticipates and Rewards Christ, God restores time itself; and He does this, through a nested structure of time segments; the nesting results in consecutive, contingent, 1050-year blocks of real time. Most importantly, segments of what Bible terms "seventy sevens" -- 490 years -- this is "promised time", aka "appointed time". Surrounding, 'housing' these "seventy sevens", are "1000 year" segments of Time. This nesting of "promised time" inside the "1000 year" segments, justifies time continuing for the entire world. The resultant 'building block' is 1050 years long (490+70+490=1050, and 1000+50=1050). So it becomes a question of crediting another 1050-block of Time, by the time the previous 1050 block, ends. Note that: future is contingent on past. It's not guaranteed.

So at least ONE person during a 490-year segment, must be spiritually-developed enough during that segment, in order for the next 490-year segment, to be granted. The same is true, for each 1000-year segment. This ends up meaning that God runs time based on four justice-accounting tracks. You might want to pull up The Timeline Worksheet, GeneYrs.xls to see how these tracks actually function in history. Its gold worksheet rows are 490 tracks; the green rows, are the 1000 tracks. Here's how they both interrelate:
1. 490+490, which is a non-intercalated, "justice eligibility" track for the 'soul' of Time (promises are made to a soul, the real you, not to a dead body);
2. 1000+1000, which is a non-intercalated, "justice eligibility" track for the 'body' of Time (a promised soul, needs a house).
3. 490+70+490, the "soul" of the 1050 unit, plays HISTORICALLY, contingent on the above non-intercalated "justice eligibility" tracks, all being met. Else, Time Ends.
4. 1000+50, is the "body" of 1050 HISTORICAL, real time; again, 'housing' the 'soul' unit; again, contingent on the above non-intercalated "justice eligibility" tracks, all being met. Else, Time Ends.

   Put another way: a believer during a 490-year period grows up in God's Own Thinking so much, in the name of that person, God grants 490 years to the whole world. But! By the end of that 490-year period, the next 490 years still cannot be granted, unless a new person by its end, also grows up as much. It's like the passing of a baton in a relay race: the previous runner must pass the baton to the new runner, for the race to continue. This passing-of-the-blessing-baton applies personally, and at the 490-year grant level, first. But it also passes at the 1000-year level. For clearly, someone might have enough desire for God to learn Him well enough to get a 490-year grant, but not a 1000-year grant. Both are needed. GeneYrs.xls shows you who these folks are. Bible tells us who they are. So the contingent nature, the baton-passing, is mathematically provable. Awesome, how much.

   Meanwhile, the real clock of time, keeps ticking. It runs in 1050-year units, and the question is whether individuals living in time, will be granted 490 or 1000 units, themselves. Question is also, does the rest of the world vote for God? So interspersed -- intercalated -- are mass-voting units. 50 years of voting link two 1000-year pieces together; within those 1050 year periods, a 70-year unit links two 490's together. So even though the baton gets passed, if people worldwide don't want God, then God will just zap up the few who do, and end time altogether. It's like the Flood. Only 8 people wanted God. The rest didn't. So either those who don't must die, or the world must end.

   There, God continued time only for those who wanted him, since everyone else had voted so negatively and for so long, it became unfair to let them live longer. Positive volition is contagious. Negative volition is contagious. Thought is contagious. So at some point, quarantine must occur. The only way to quarantine disease permanently is to kill it. Harsh reality of life. People must be free; and that means infection. But at some point freedom is compromised from infection (i.e., you can only learn so much by contrast). Hence, either a 'flood' or an ending of time. For some, for all. It's a basic Justice question for the sake of the human race.

So beneath Tracks #3 and #4, are #1 and #2. So #1 and #2 are person-related, independent of the 1050 unit. So there can be many #1's and #2s, stacked atop each other, running along with varying endings. The Quality Of Each Time Period Rises In Direct Proportion To The Number Of Individual 490s, Running. So the Bad Quality Of Each Time Period Rises In Direct Proportion To The Absence Of Individual 490s Running. You can trace this in the Bible and in history. When you read the "1000 year" intra-page link (at pagetop), think over what was the Quality of each time period. The individual 490s are listed (not completely, but the salient ones). Note that in the last of these 490s pre-Christ -- the one granted Daniel -- there were NO other 490s running, and only David's 1000's running; Israel couldn't even be granted any more of David's sons as ruling kings. So ONLY David's running tracks served to continue history; and that, only for Messiah. So think over the history of that period from 586BC onward: see how bad it was. Man being full of himself; full of empire, full of violence. We still glorify that period today, because we remain just as arrogant -- well, worse -- as the people back then. So look how negative it was. God was just a toy one used to puff up the self. That's as bad as it gets. That's how bad it remains.

So now let's see some real data to show how the underlying #1's and #2's, justify continuing time. Example: Moses was a 1000 person. As you'll see in GeneYrs.xls, God's grant of 1000 years due to Moses began 1440BC, and ended 440BC. So by 440BC, someone ELSE had to be a 1000 person, for the next 1000 years to be justifiable. In turn, Moses was only able to become a 1000 person, because Abraham was a 1000 person, and his personal grant of 1000 ran out in 1060BC. David is the 1000 person after Moses. So David is born in 1040BC, too late to get the baton from Abram, but within the time of Moses' grant; so David can carry the baton for the next 1000 years, if he grows up (which only God causes). David's 1000s are multiple, based on his Kingship dates and his death: all of them converge on Christ's dates (i.e., Christ is born in the 1000th anniversary year of David's consolidated kingship START, and dies on the Cross in the 1000th anniversary year of David's retirement from that kingship).

However, real time plays in 1050 increments, so these personal grants don't run on the same timeline as Time itself, though Time itself is wholly dependent on these grants being 'alive'. Thus when Moses gets his personal 1000, it's during the 3rd 1050-year unit since Adam. When David gets his, it's during the 4th 1050-unit from Adam. When Christ dies, the 4th 1050-unit from Adam still had 64 years to run. But it wouldn't finish, because there were no other personal 490s remaining: the Temple's 490 (Daniel 9) expired the same year as the Lord's Humanity died, because Israel had rejected the Last David, who after all was the one who GOT the Temple (see 2Sam7). So the first David's personal 1000 based on his death expiring seven years later, was rejected. Vote was NO. So time was supposed to end.

So Savior Bought The Time on the Cross, besides saving us forever. Else, we'd all not be here to have the opportunity to be saved. Justice is precise. Everything must be individually justified. So if He paid but no one wanted Him, well.. then we'd never have been born. So those who want Him, are in effect caused to 'save' -- via the grants of opportunity to believe, which requires Time -- those who want Him, are in effect caused to 'save' future generations. That remains true today. So if you want Him, you are being used to justify time continuing. So others can learn to want Him. Just as, past others who wanted Him were used to justify time continuing so you could learn to want Him. Awesome, huh. Colossians 4:5 and Eph5:16's statements about redeeming time, are real. Not just warm fuzzies!

So note the 'savior' value of these individual 490s and 1000's being granted. That fact is dramatically demonstrated in the First Advent of Christ -- we'd not be here, if there wasn't a lone, not-yet-expired Personal 490 track still running, from Daniel 9 (due to Daniel's prayer). If that doesn't alert us to the importance God assigns our growing up in His System, well.. nothing will.

As a result, each bendpoint within these components, is a Deadline. So at each end of each 490, there is a deadline of someone being spiritually-completed sufficient to justify the next 490, to begin. So at the end of each 70, there is a deadline, which is a Believer Mass Voting Period to choose to know God: sufficient mass positive volition, irrespective of any individual qualifying (see the terms in Dan9, Nehemiah, Ezra, etc). So at each end of each 1000, another deadline: same one-person rule as for the 490 (but here, it justifies the continuation of the 'house'). So at the end of each 50, another deadline; it's another voting, Unbeliever Mass Voting Period. So within each 1050, there are:

• 4 book-ended deadlines for the beginning and ending in each of two 490s (in each 1050); plus
• 2 book-ended deadlines for the beginning and ending of a 1000; plus
• 1 deadline for the end of a 70; plus
• 1 deadline for end of a 50.

  Quick application: as you'll see in GeneYrs.xls, the year 2006 is really the 6112th year since Adam's Fall. So the next 1050-unit ends in 6236, about 120 years from now. During the last 120 years of a 490, the world kinda goes crazy. As MirrorNOW.htm explains in detail, there are seven historical trends which peak during the last four generations of a 490-year unit. The general tenor of these trends focuses on a kind of warring over learning Bible. Bible becomes available like never before, and those opposed to it consolidate like never before; of course those pro- and opposed, don't recognize the trend. Same trend repeats during every historical 490; but each subsequent 490 plays the trend with a far bigger scope than any 490 prior. So it simultaneously is a repeat, yet "like never before" due to the terrific increase in scope. Think about it: back in 96AD, interest in the God of the Bible was fairly restricted to those in Israel. But now, look: worldwide interest in God is peaking, and it's peaking everywhere BUT where it has been -- Asia and Africa are the fastest-growing Christian continents. We in America and Europe have become lukewarm about God. Interest in the Middle East historically tanked first; though due to our presence in Iraq, interest is rising again.

  Details on the characteristics of these periods are in GeneYrs.xls and to a lesser extent "Mirror, NOW!" link at pagetop. MirrorNOW.htm needs its dates revised, but its principles are accurate (based on Lev26, Hosea, Jeremiah, etc). You can track the trends historically, which in GeneYrs.xls is an ongoing project. Again: you can test the historical data to see how it tallies to the necessary characteristics listed in the Mirror, Now! webpage. Or, just track the data to Leviticus 26, which tells you what the trends will be. Positive means upheaval and prosperity; negative means upheaval and disaster. Upheaval can't be avoided, since this is the devil's world and people are pretty anti-God, without Satan's help. If you're positive, you'll be beaten up. Goes with the territory.

Paradoxically, because His Love/Integrity is guaranteed, Time is not guaranteed. For Time is about Integrity, period. And Integrity, is about Love: Triunal. Family. God-to-God, blessing. Expressing Love, "filling all in all", end Eph1.

For there is no proper building, without Integrity. And there is no Integrity, if you don't go for Profit (never spend good money after bad). For there is no integrity, without Justice. So the First Rule of Time is that it must be Justifiable. Time is a judicial question, first. Next, it becomes a logistical question, a how-to-construct question. Again, because finity needs extrinsic integrity to hold it together. Put simply, we are dependent on Time.

God made your soul at birth, pattern of Gen2:7. That is a type of Promise; specifically, it's a Promise about Time with Him. A promise that He loves you; that His Plan for your life, would enable you to enjoy living with Him forever. It's a promise to your soul, since that is the real you. For Promise Time relates to the soul, and is structured in terms of "7s", ever since Adam was saved (Gen3, "all the days of your life" clause). The Garden couple received the first promise of time at their Fall, for they had believed in Him ("and I ate" clauses and the animal skins verse, show they believed in Him for salvation). The Lord makes a joke about it using the preposition min in Gen3:22, calling the Fall a kind of birth: teasing that Adam knows everything now, born from himself, out from, away from, God! Verse is mistranslated: it's not "like us", but "out from us", a play on birthing, since the preposition min is the quintessential birthing preposition of the OT.

So think of Promise Time as the "soul" of Time, for that's its purpose. Frankly, God plays these promise times in your own life, if you are a believer; He keys events in your life around your birthday and the Hebrew calendar. He does this to show you He's involved, and to teach you about Time. His Accounting is so complex, i.e., an event in question is keyed to your birthday relative to the two Hebrew calendar standards -- you'll tie yourself up in knots if you evaluate it too much. Just be vaguely aware that He does this. On selected occasions, the Holy Spirit will show when an event has been orchestrated, and will demonstrate convergence. Again, the purpose is to TEACH, not wow you. You need a hands-on sense of how the doctrine works, and He really does orchestrate our lives. So occasionally, you need to see how Promise Time works in your own life.

More about this "soul" relationship, and the counterpart "body" relationship of the Fixed-Time Elements, is in the latter's table ("Fixed-Time Elements" intra-page link at pagetop). By contrast, Fixed-Time Elements are macro for the world. Promise Time is only for believers, and 'plays' on both micro and macro 'Watch' levels. So what are the components of Promised Time?

Generally, the 490 is composed of the following time elements, each of which has an Important Meaning. (You should see these values exhibit the same types of meaning in the natural and numerical sciences.) This listing is not all-inclusive. Note carefully the PURPOSE of each segment, and its Bible examples:

• 1 week, 7 years. Purpose: Fundamental Building Unit. Bible uses the term "sevens", not "week"; but since most English Bibles translate "sevens" as "week", I'm following the English convention, here. The root meaning of "sevens" is PROMISE, in Hebrew. The seventh day is not so much a way to divide time as a PROMISE. The existence of a week, then, signifies the Promise of Time. So the Promise is first, and the fact that it's metaphorically displayed via "week", is secondary. Writer of Book of Hebrews makes puns of the Hebrew meaning using Greek wordplay, very witty (especially the "while it is yet today" clause). Very memorable. And that's the point: a week is a DESIGNED period of time, with the promise of rest at the end of it. Hence "sabbath", "seven", "rest", and "promise", are often punned in the Hebrew and Greek OT, and the Greek NT. Except for Luke, all the writers were Jews, so this multilayered meaning of "seven" is often allusive. You have to be alert for pointed allusions to seven, because they won't be explicit: you won't find "seven" in the verse. Examples of allusions are Matthew's use of "14" (doubled seven), Luke's use of 77 sons from Adam (another doubled seven), 1Kings 6:1 (the math of which shows David died 7 years after he abdicated in favor of Solomon).

  So, this "week" has a Foundation role; therefore, a Testing role (for improving structural/functional integrity). So, you'll notice that it took 7 years (a "week" of years) to complete the First Temple, or the time David was King in Hebron: compare 2Sam2:11 with 5:5, 1Kings2:11, 1Chron3:4, and 1Chron29:26-27. Note that over Judah he'd become king six months earlier (sometime during 1011 BC, probably just after Saul and Jonathan died in the Battle of Mt. Gilboa). Thus tribulation characterized David's first seven years' reign, because that was a time of civil war. It also took 7.5 years to build Solomon's Temple, according to the LXX (Masoretic text is incomplete, so translation is misleading) of 1Kings 6:1 (see also 2Chron3:2). For more on how 1Kings6:1 tells you David's death age, click here.

  We know for sure that a week is 7 years, a way of measuring time since Adam: see Gen29:27-28. Notice the Contractural Nature of the expression. It's not slang or a figure of speech. Moses is writing it out, because the Contract for Israel is being explained. All contracts have roots; so Precedence governs all contracts. Justice Issue of Consistency requires Precedence be followed. Precedence is covered in detail within the link of that name, in Part IVa.

  So God's assignment of the Jewish Tribulation to a "seven", is patterned on this precedence; however, that 'seven' is primarily a 'body' number, so is covered in the "7years" intra-page link (at pagetop). Fixed-time elements all derive from Promise Time, so have an embedded 'promise' meaning in them: but they relate to the 'body' of civilization.

  The entire 490 structure is based on double sevens, as we saw in the "Macro 'Watch'" section (link at pagetop). These depict the God-Man, the Promise of Promises. So Matthew 1 shows this Fundamental Building Unit is the Hupostasis of hupostases, the Christ. Luke 3 does the same thing. Thus you know that God's 490+70+490=1000+50 Accounting System for Time, was well-known to their audiences. You won't get the wit if you don't know that Accounting System. It shouldn't have to be said that no writer wastes wit on a witless audience. People alive then were not witless like we are, today. Even the graffiti spoiling the walls in Rome was wittier than some of our best writing now: for that was a society which prized words and wit. So, Bible's chock full of wordplay: but wordplay is native to its original language; so most of Bible's humor gets washed out in translation.
  Matthew's listing tracks the Kingship Promise, so the listed generations aren't all the generations there were: it's like saying 1,3,5 instead of 12345. Compare to the every-generation-listed Luke 3 genealogy for Mary i.e., there were really 42 generations from David to Christ, not merely 28, and 14*3=42, get the numeric wit tying back to Matthew? (Luke's Gospel was written maybe 10 years after Matthew's.) [Sidenote: In Matt1, the kings of Israel were all usurpers, so aren't listed; whereas, the kings of Judah were descendents of David. So Matthew skips over the more-unfaithful sons of Judah, in his tally. Ahaz was not one of the faithful, but his son Hezekiah was among the best of Judah's kings, 2Ki18:5. Josiah, too (2Ki23:25).]
  Matthew also keeps the tally of the generations to 42, but spans them Abraham through Christ. Luke's, runs David-Christ. Thus you see a mirrorback of the number of generations, too. The 14 pre-David, add to the REAL number of generations of David, 28+14=42. Principle? Faith bears kids. Father of Many Nations. Beloved Seed bears seeds forever, im tasim asham naphesho yireh zera ya'arik yamim, Isa53:10's Hebrew: if His Soul will(s to) be appointed as a substitute for sin, He will see Everlasting seed.

  Number games telling profound truth is very Jewish. Very memorable. "Naphesho" is the whole Bible in a nutshell: HIS SOUL. Given to pay for sins; given to us, to be transformed into Him, per that Isa53:10-12 (both BHS and LXX texts), stressed by Paul in the Greek (not translation) of Rom12:1-3. For Bible is His Thinking, 1Cor2:16. Transforming the soul of the believer who learns it in God's System per that eternity-past contract of Isa53:10-12. [See Rom121-3.htm for a corrected translation of Romans 12:1-3.]

  This is how the Church believer becomes Pleroma, pregnant with the seed of His Thinking. Thus is assigned a kingdom of 'seed' forever: for Father, under Him Who is the King of Kings.

  Matthew plays on the promise that a Son of David will forever have the scepter, which is why he goes back to Abraham: see Jacob's blessing on Judah in Genesis 49:10. He's tracking from Abraham, to show continuity of the 490 as well as to show the Kingship Promise; he's showing how the Seedmaker Abram, becomes the Seed Sprouts, Israel. ("Seedmaker" intra-page link at pagetop has more details.) In short, Matthew is showing you PRECEDENCE. The Precedence for the Promise. That the Promise is PRE Israel as a nation; and that's important, since David gets his covenant APART from Israel, as you'll see in the "David" intra-page links (near pagetop). Matthew thus stresses a superior PROMISE PRECEDENCE, which in law, is everything. Especially, God's Law. Precedence is based on the Justice Requirement of Consistency despite disparate groups (i.e., everyone is equally-entitled-to-Justice before the law). That's not a 'Western' invention. We got it, from the Jews. They got it, from God. But before them, it was the same rule. For God is always the Same.

  Hence Matthew isn't giving us a dry history lesson, but a witty legal-accounting one. It's great wordplay, since "490" turns out to be roughly 14 generations (sirings, not longevity) by the time Matthew wrote his Gospel. So by this you know God is "on time": God's Seed (see Gal3), the One to inherit all the Covenants in Himself -- was sired IN TIME.

  Matthew uses Joseph's line because that's the Kingly line. Therefore you simultaneously know Christ from Mary's line also fits the standard, due to crossovers at Zerubbabel and Nathan, among others; yet the Jeconiah curse, remains. The wit is phenomenal; in the very last phrase Matthew switches to Mary -- wry way of saying that the foregoing listing is in her line, too (again, through Nathan and Zerubbabel). Luke also wryly begins as if he were talking of Joseph's line -- but is really talking of Mary's -- again, to show crossovers at Zerubbabel and David. [Jeconiah, the last King of Israel (at the time of Babylonian deportation) was cursed by God to not have anyone of his kingly line to sit on the Throne (Jer36:30, see context!), so Joseph was not legally allowed to be King. Zerubbabel would not have otherwise been king, but becomes the line, via Shealtiel son of Neri (aka Neriah), who became the kingly line due to the Jeconiah/Jehoiakim curse (the latter not having descendants, thus fulfilling the curse, see 1Chron 3:17) -- see also the prophecies and encouragement given to Zerubbabel by the prophets Zechariah and Haggai. The lampstand prophecy in Zechariah is especially important. Zerubbabel was the Royal son who headed up the deputation to rebuild the temple in the first year of Cyrus the Great; but Temple rebuilding halted, so God cursed the Land (see Haggai, Zechariah, Ezra, Nehemiah on this); then, temple got completed during the last 20 years, ending in 516BC.]

  Luke 3 genealogy stresses how Christ is the Last Adam (directly 'fathered', so to speak, by God). So His Kingship is a Higher One than David's, yet He is a son of David. That's also a big point the writer of Hebrews makes, in Heb3, 4, then 5-10: wry explanation of Ps110:1's fulfillment, which of course David wrote! David was 77 when he died. So it's like one generation for each year that David lived.

  For just as Levi was cut off and Moses' father Amram was grafted in at the head of the line through Aaron, due to the fact Moses' MOTHER was a higher-ranking Levite (cousin of Amram on his aunt's side); so also, Joseph is cut out, not the biological father of the Lord's Humanity. The Holy Spirit made those chromosomes (via miracle, creating and imputing them in Mary's uterus -- miracles are natural for God, not supernatural). Mary is also descended from David. So the Royal Family, continued as promised. So the Greater Son was born of the right lineage and ON TIME and BY the Holy Spirit -- all just as advertised in prophecy, prior.

  All these facts sound irrelevant to us moderns. But they were part of the very breathing of Israel. Just as we Americans reckon and analyze time by Presidents and cultural epochs ("the 60s", "the 70s"); so also the Jews reckoned by kings and prophecy. For prophecy is just a scheduling of time. You get up in the morning, and you know in advance what you must get done, what must happen by day's end. Similarly, Jews had to be briefed in advance on how the entire time was structured, because it was necessary to VOTE on God's schedule for their lives. So they knew it well. Measured by it. Analyzed by it. That's why the Gospels read as they do. That's why so much about Messiah, right down to His Schedule of Arrival and Departure, is in the OT. So you could MEASURE and ANALYZE and therefore, VOTE. Vote, not drool.

  God's Vote is to cut off and graft in. That's what Matthew 1 and Luke 3 demonstrate, the Schedule being kept and who was accounted, in it. Thus you'd have no doubt as to the identity of Messiah.

  Notice how God votes, rather than coerces. He could turn me into a pencil or iguana any second He likes; He could just will it, and all time would cease as if it never began, and all creation in it. He could will we all be Stepford wives any second He likes, and that's what we'd be -- either retroactively or from that point forward -- or whatever He WANTS! God is bound by nothing. But instead, He VOTES. If that isn't Absolute Love, dunno what is.

  Matthew also allusively illustrates how Israel's voting-no rejection shortened Time itself by 14 years, yet the Deadline of Time at the 1000th anniversary of David's Retirement (30AD), was met. That's another reason Matthew selects "14" as a rhetorical grouping device. GeneYrs.xls demonstrates this (middle yellow strip, look down the rows to Year of the World 4136). See, 44AD was the 4150th year from Adam, when the 4th Civilization 1000 ended. People back then counted years from Adam. Matthew is writing in 49 or 50AD (this, with book of James and possibly Galatians, were the first written NT books). Matthew thus writes after 4150th year from Adam, so how could everyone still be alive? Those against Christ would use the year itself to claim Christ wasn't Messiah; since after all, everyone is still ALIVE! So: the clever use of 14 in his rhetorical structure of the genealogy, doubles (heh) as a way to show how the 14-years' short in time, didn't hinder the Redemption of Time.
  The way he does this is awesome. First, he's parallelling the time on both sides of David, so he's depicting the Mirroring Nature of the Promise. Let's pretend that instead of the normal accounting basis of covenant-delivery-date ("CDD") to the next CDD, Matthew's measuring this parallel, from birth-to-birth. So: between Abram's birth and David's, is 2160BC-1040BC=560x2=[490+70]x2=1120 years. So it is to be mirrored back on the 'other side' of David, because the promised time, was met. But this other side ends up 14 years short, even when the entire 1120 is mirrored back: 1040+1120=80AD, 14 years short of the historical 1050 ending in 94AD (Year 4200 from Adam). So MIRRORED time runs out before the 1050 period containing His Birth, ends. That's a debit of 14 years.

  So we now use the more-normal Bible accounting basis of CDD to CDD; the birth of a brith. Abraham's CDD is 2060 (birth of Isaac). David's, is 1003 (consolidated kingship at Jerusalem). Difference is our friend 1050, +7. So: between David and the deportation of Jeconiah the king and the royal-family hostages to Babylon is 1003-597, 406 years. From Babylon to Christ's intended time (born a king of all Israel), is 597+40, 637 years. 406+637= only 1043. (Notice how 7 of the shortfall is reserved in Daniel 9:27.) David reigned for 40 years. Christ thus was entitled to 40 years. Which results in a 14-year SHORTAGE versus the mirror.

  So now you know why both the Tribulation and the siege of Jerusalem, end outside the time for Israel, yet belong to her.

  All this shortage, of course, tallies exactly with the 1000th anniversaries of David's Kingship (970BC+1000=30AD) and death (963BC+1000=37AD). All this tallies exactly with the allotment of time given in Daniel 9:24-27 -- which uses as its outer limit, the 1000th anniversary of David's death; which then shorts by an added 7 years because Christ was rejected, hence He dies in 30AD. "David" link goes through these deadlines again in much more detail, and GeneYrs.xls plots them.

  So Matthew deftly shows that the birth-birth accounting, the CDD-CDD accounting, Daniel 9:25 and David's anniversaries, ALL CONVERGE. Only God can converge real dates and time; everyone knows those times and dates; no human could have created those times and dates. So this Jesus HAS TO BE Messiah.
  So no matter whether you accounted birth-birth, or covenant-delivery to covenant-delivery, it's 14 years' short. Time Had Run Out, So He Has To Be Messiah, Else No One Would Be Alive. Thus Matthew uses the very dispute against Christ, to prove He came: Matthew's only able to be alive and writing, duh, because Daniel 9:25 was fulfilled!

  Thus we see Matthew use God's Accounting System for Time which every Jew grew up on. So we know how to use that Accounting System, too. The Promise of His Birth was met On Time, by 3BC (really 25 Chislev 4BC), the 1000th anniversary of David's consolidated kingship. Death On Time, end 1000th anniversary from David's Abdication. Matthew thus references the reader back to Daniel 9:25's accounting, which is based on those two simple 1000th anniversaries. Clear implication, then, that Temple be gone by 70AD (a seven plays inside a 40, precedence of Pharaoh's dream of fat and lean years). Warning, Bill Robinson!

  Everyone was familiar with Daniel 9; everyone was familiar with genealogies or could check them. Hence they can prove for themselves, Yep, He's Messiah! For the second generation from the Crucifixion getting this Gospel, that accounting would be especially important. Math can't lie. People, can't tell the truth. So, you've got the Bible and its math. It's WRITTEN, doesn't have an ego. It's WRITTEN, so it can't browbeat you into buying it. It's WRITTEN, can be audited. Sensibly. No mystical meaning in the numbers, lol.

  Principle: God keeps His Promises. Right on Time. Woe to us if we don't read the time then, threaded warning in Hebrews Chaps 2-4.

  Hence by this "14" measure, God shows why the 490 exists: a doubling of the 7, is a MIRROR, and signifies FirstBorn; more fundamentally, the dual God-man nature of the One being Created. [Lots of wordplay there: shining via a mirror, reflecting the Word in your soul; mirror wordplay later in 1Cor13, "sea of glass" in Rev4, mirroring verbs and nouns.] Luke 3 shows Mary's genealogy, and the two genealogies cross over (at Zerubbabel, see Luke 3:27); hence via Mary, Christ is biologically descended from both lines, so is doubly Royal (David's younger son by Bathsheba, Nathan ("to give") is the son from whom Mary descends, Luke 3:31).

  When Luke wryly appends like a footnote! the genealogy of Christ in Luke 3's ending (what a fine sense of Attic Drama Luke has), you find Christ is the 77th generation from God (42, to David; 14 more, to Abram; 20 more, to God). Get the doubling? See why Matthew uses "14"? Double portion, FirstBorn, mirroring, begetting, reflecting, hupostasis-of-opposites. God produces a mirror of Adam, and a mirror of Himself. Endless metaphorical/number play!

  Ergo the Precedence for Church: a believer who grows up in Him generates many children, and is caused to generate Time itself. The significance of Church is that we are promised BODIES, from whom come the Promised Time. So we make history (babies), not prophecy, Isa54:1. That, because we are on the flipside of the Cross. Prior to the Cross, the promise was Time, because it was about ONE Body -- His -- being developed. Now that One Body has come, a Body FOR that Body is being developed, however much time it takes! This, because His pre-Israel Kingship was kata-Melchizedek, and Israel turned it down. That kingship, requires a Bride. First-offered Bride, Israel said "no", a Vashti-refused story. So now "Esther" is sought on the highways and byways. Notice: Esther is never Vashti. Church is never Israel. Two Kingships. Two bodies, two contracts, two priesthoods, main theme in Book of Hebrews. Mirror, double-7s. Two promises. Joined, in Him.

  For Our Redeemer redeemed all time and FOR all time (theme in Hebrews 10), so also we Church are here to redeem time (Col4:5 and Eph5:16) -- because Church is Body, hence Royal Family to the King of Kings. Royal line, then, with royal effect on time itself, and therefore on humanity: see Luke 8. So some will have 100x the effect, some 60x, some 30x (and maybe more than 100x, if the 'yield' numbers are used as illustrations only). [The effect of Church on Time seems to be bifurcated; 1) we have the same role as prior covenantal groups with respect to THIS earth's time; but also 2) we are the rulers under Him for Eternity, the Only Royal Family in the eternal state. So our effect on that time, that Eternal State, seems more in view, in Luke 8. Again, this is all due to Him, and the building up of His Thinking in us. It's not due to us, but the Holy Spirit makes it happen IN us, which is why we should be adamant about getting in and staying in, God's System. This knowledge is pretty intimidating. Helps me to stay calm, if I keep on regarding the self as an entity/product of His Making, and live on Phili3:14 and Heb11:1.]

  God thus shows time has a purpose, and He reconcilies it like we would a balance sheet or a checkbook. Here, the meaning of "1 week" remains for Church, Hebrews Chaps 3-4: but its focus is on the Number Of Believers Developed During That Time. That's actually HARDER than obtained prior. The standard of spiritual development is now Eph4:13, not the lower standard of the Mosaic Law (main theme in Galatians, Ephesians, Book of Hebrews). So for us Church, it's always sudden-death: Mene Mene Tekel upharsin, handwriting on the wall. We can tank at any minute. For, we are here to MAKE BABIES and thus via that, make time. The minute we stop growing spiritually -- for the "babies" are the spiritual thoughts growing in us, which form the basis for 'fathering' our kingdoms in His Thinking forever -- the minute we stop growing spiritually, TIME ENDS. This isn't just nice prose, or poetry, or symmetry which you can brush away as figurative. Do the math, to realize this is Real Time being shortened, lengthened, based on whether you want God. For the whole human race, due to one or a few who are learning Him. Awesome and scary.

• 7 weeks, 49 years: that's the number of years BETWEEN Jubilee years (Jubilee was every 50th year). Jubilee year was Legal Release and Reversal from certain kinds of obligation or ownership, a reset; a reminder that whatever you owned or were during that time was only temporary. Purpose of the 7 weeks: to vote for and await, FREEDOM. So since this Freedom is coming, you are encouraged to vote against being too attached to your circumstances 'now'. Which vote, frees you from many kinds of snares in this life.
  If you knew you'd be moving out of your current domicile a year from now, your attitudes toward it would immediately change. You'd collect less stuff. You'd begin packing. You'd not schedule magazine or other subscriptions to go beyond the move date. Above all, you'd be far less attached to your location, psychologically. So if something was bad about where you lived, you'd not be so bothered, thinking, well, I'll soon be leaving.

  Problem with us humans, is we don't have that attitude toward our own lives, though death hits us in the face daily. We won't be here very long. It's temporary. Only when an illness hits our bodies, or someone close to us dies, do we even have a glimpse at the vapor trail (term used in James) which is this life. At that point, many people undergo a deep psychological change, and it's usually not for the better.

  So with a 7 weeks' purpose, God eases the trauma; Jews reckoned everything in terms of the upcoming Jubilee, since whatever contracts they made, would be over by that date. Sales of land were really leases until the next Jubilee, at which time property reverted to the original owner. Thus the temporariness was a daily part of life. Talmud is basically a philosophy of Jubilee. So was Jewish economic life. More importantly, it was a constant reminder that God had a Plan for your life which was eternal: one better learn it, huh. Paul uses this very line of reasoning in Romans 8, calling life a kind of pregnancy (translations bland out the metaphor). Real Birth begins when you die.

  So at heart, the 7 weeks signifies Positive Volition To God; that's why it has a Freedom Purpose. It's just like one week: at the end comes the rest, freedom-from-this-life purpose, fulfilled. Writ larger, in the "1050" Building Block of Time God uses, the "50" stands alone as a voting period for the human race. The "7 weeks" nests within it. Hence the Promised "7 weeks" is pretty significant. Each 7th of those weeks is a sabbatical year. During a sabbatical year, you trust God to feed you, since His law requires you let your land lie fallow that whole year. Frankly, it ends up meaning a wait of three years, because: 1) you're living on the prior year's produce, plus 2) just foraging during the sabbatical year, plus 3) you must wait until after FirstFruits (1st non-sabbath after Feast of Unleavened Bread) before you can eat from the new tillage after the sabbatical year. Look how much waiting, therefore: 21 out of the 49 years (3*7). So that by the time you reach the 49th year, you've either really Learned Freedom based on TRUSTING Him, or you're completely negative.
  So to keep the sabbatical years (which they did, beginning 516BC), means a big Positive Vote for God. So, having done that, Jubilee can happen. And Jubilee, always represents the Millennium in miniature. Message: Future Is Always Contingent On Volitional Votes. God literally used the 70 sabbatical years as a 'tax' within a 490, which He 'rebates' by attaching the 70 years following the 490; from this, He literally 'taxes' the 70 via its own 10 sabbatical years and one Jubilee year, to 'leave' a net 50 for the goyim (symbolic name for unbelievers, in the OT). You'll see the math of this in #9 of Ten Ways This Timeline Differs, a Word doc. It's pretty shocking, how literal God is about financing and accounting Time. It's more shocking that we aren't taught all these things beginning in Sunday school: since Bible is so stuck on numbers, you'd think someone would have plotted them out by now to show these mathematical relationships. Oh well: we haven't learned to count to three yet, still calling it Good Friday!

  This 49 years is uniquely used in the final 490 which culminates in Christ, and is related to the aftermath of the rebuilt Jerusalem -- distribution of the last OT book, Malachi. In Daniel 9, the 7 weeks is part of the 126 years of OLD time. Temple had an allotment of 490 years, but due to Israel's apostacy, only 'lived' for 364 years. So that left 126 years; the components of that 126 are 70+49+7. So in the 490 of Daniel 9, the components are: 70+49+7+364. Since a 490 sandwiches inside a 1050 as 490+70+490, you'll notice that like Daniel 9:2, Matthew 1 recognizes the amalgamated 490+70=560, in his tallying of Abraham to David (birth-to-birth, it's 1120 years, 560x2). So the message is, due to the voting which resulted in the completion of Temple and Jerusalem, when David's 490s all ran out, leaving only Moses' personal 1000 as a 'cover' -- now OT Canon can be completed, too. And it was, within that 49 year deadline: book of Malachi. Next stop on the schedule? Messiah. For now that Temple, Jerusalem, and Canon were completed, it's time for The One those things all depicted.. to Arrive. At which time, Jubilee can occur! (See Luke 4:19, how He quotes the Jubilee verse in Isa61:2 as the proclamation of His Messiahship).

  Its parallel is Pentecost. Jubilee signified the end of the 50-year period for harvesting the Gentiles which would follow in the wake of Messiah's paying for sin. Passover depicted the payment for sin. So the entire count was a "57". Seven for Passover, plus 50 for Pentecost. (Jews don't count the Omer properly today; Bible shows you begin the count on the night of the last sabbath, which is the last day of Passover. Last day of Passover is always a high sabbath. See PassPlot's "Firstfruits" link for details.) That "57" depicted 57 years. Since 963BC when David died, therefore the exact year when the last "57" would play, was known. Since 538BC, when God accounted the Temple's restoration to TIE to that 1000th anniversary of David's death -- no one could mistake it would be the 4143rd year from Adam. The end of the 4th 1050 would be 57 years later. Can't start a new 1050 before the old one is completed. And the 5th 1050, was to be the Millennium plus its 50-year ending voting period.

  So of course the first year of that Millennium, would BE a Jubilee year. So Isa61, Jubilee is a poster boy for the Millennium. Pentecost depicted it also, which is why God made you count down. See, even Moses knew this. The only thing you didn't know, was which 1050 it would be.. until David died. That cast the date in stone, had Israel accepted Christ when He came. She didn't, so we Church had to be inserted: Time had Run Out.

Fixed-Year Components are designed to accomplish at least three types of 'jobs'; all jobs are designed to facilitate the function of or fulfill, the role of the 490s. Since God structures the basic 1050 unit of time in hupostasis, with 1000+50 as the 'house' (aka 'body'), and 490+70+490 as the 'soul' in that house, there need to be Components which produce the interaction between 'soul' and 'house'. So the "weeks" components (of the previous table) are the interactors for the 'soul' of Time; these fixed-year elements, are interactors for the 'body' of Time. Taken together, these two types of components constitute the 'brain' or 'heart', enabling the profitable circulation of Time itself.

These Components, like the "weeks", have been playing since Adam. But Bible rarely talks about how the Components worked, pre-Israel. Reason: Moses was the first writer of Canon, and by that time, he was the leader God appointed for Israel. So the relevancy of the Components to stress, dates from the formation of the nation, forward. The precedence of the components pre-Israel occasionally is referenced so you can see the consistency of the 1050's; so you can see the Whys better; else, attention should be focused on the current meaning of the component for the time you live in. There's a place for focus on the past, as a learning aid. But then you use that past, to live in the present. God is One Big Now. So you are to live in that Now. God's Now encompasses the Future -- so you live in light of the future, 2Cor5 (whole fabulous chapter)! Not, in light of the past. God isn't about, wallowing in the past. [Religion, politics, family life -- all these end up creating little tyrannical chains to hold you to some past. So you don't end up living in the present, and for the future. "Tradition" has a niche, but it's not supposed to choke you. However, if you look at history, you find people use the past to buttress their egoes or control other people. This is yet another cause of man's progressive retardation over the centuries. We're not advancing, except in the disease we inherited from Adam.]

God is First. Your present and future is with God; for Church, that relationship is more intimate: "in Christ". Hence we are Indwelt by Each Member of the Trinity (including, the Now-Risen Humanity of Christ, since as God-man, He is still One Person). Consequently, you disinherit your old life and purposes, and instead graft in the Biblical to-God purposes. So Your Relationship is Wholly to God; and THROUGH that Relationship, to people and things. God's all about cutting-out and then grafting-in. That's what He does with Time itself, so that's how things work, period. God First. First Commandment has no room for anyone else: "you shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart and Soul and Mind." See? There's none of 'you' left over for anyone or anything else! So Paul elaborates on this fact in 2Cor5. We were cut off from God, but our sins were cut into Christ, so we are cut into Christ (theme of Romans 5-8, too -- esp. Rom6). So now cut into Christ, we are only in Christ, so all the old things have passed away, and we have a new way to think and live, 2Cor5:14-21.

So technically, your spouse, parents, and friends, are irrelevant. And you, are irrelevant to them. That sounds wrong, but remember: God Is First. So if "family" is supposed to be first, well.. Who's The First Father! To Him you owe everything. To everyone else, nothing. And the same is true, relative to what they 'owe' you. They don't owe you, you don't owe them, Each One Instead Has A Vertical Relationship To Him. And we live toward each other, as "unto the Lord". Period. To live otherwise is to put a square peg in a round hole. This is why this world is so dysfunctional, they're cutting out "God", grafting in "people". We try to put people and things in the space where God should be. No wonder we are all so unhappy.

The "Promise" and "Fixed-Years" Components therefore help us remember that it's God First and Only. That's why the many rituals, etc. in the Law are all teaching aids, mnemonics for your real purpose down here. You're here to Train For The Future, your real life with God. Which lasts, forever and ever and ever.

Now we know that God is not saying (sheesh) that you should just up and divorce, up and disown your family, friends, and go live on some mountaintop, like those stupid hermits of the 2nd Century AD. They were goofballs, totally retarded, learned nothing about God. Because, there are other Commandments, after the First One. "After", but they exist. Ergo, everyone benefits more, because they are "after". Think: if God is FIRST, then you won't need people to fulfill you personally. So you won't be clingy, domineering, etc. So life with you, is refreshing for them, not a pain. And Love never co-exists with need, so now because God is First, you really love them (main theme of 1Jn, climactically portrayed in 1Jn4:19). So if they also are putting God First, they won't be a pain to you, either. Pain is fundamentally, a lack of rapport. But notice: if our goal is ONLY Rapport with God, then we automatically have rapport with each other. Oh, the depth of the Riches of our Inheritance in Christ!

For Christ, it was ONLY about Father: "My food is to do the Will of Him Who Sent Me." And Look What Love For Us, Resulted.. The Cross! That's what 1Jn4:19 means. That can be the meaning of everyone's life!

See how the BUILDING works? Build up in God, and that builds you up for happy relationships with people.

Ergo Job One: fixed-year components are designed to BUILD something/ someone So That The Promise Can Be Delivered. Part of any building process, is waste. So certain fixed-years 'handle' waste: something lost that must first be punished, redressed, restored. This, so that the recipient of the Promise could first Be Built. After Being Built, the "weeks" apply. Notice how wasted time is therefore not wasted, heh. God loves even the dung beetle, giving it a job to do which facilitates a building being completed. Else, we'd all be drowning in doo-doo! See how God used Joseph? Seemed like his life was wasted -- yet God used that to Save The World, for if no Joseph 'wasted' IN Egypt, there'd have been No Israel Building Up in Egypt, hence No Promised Exodus Of That Built-Up Nation, hence No David, Hence No Messiah, Hence No SALVATION. Time would have ended, absent waste! Infinity is nothing, if not ironic.

Ergo Job Two: So if you believe in the promise, then the deliverance on the promise, is a FIXED thing. Contractural 'perfection', here demonstrated with FIXED years of blessing. ("To perfect" is a legal term of completion, Greek verbs teleiow, plerow, cognates and compounds. Better translated "finish" or "complete", but English Bibles often use "to perfect".)

Ergo Job Three: if you Reject The Promise, a different fixed thing occurs: you get the Bad Thing Promised, For Your Refusal. Again, these are contractural provisions. So the numbers God uses reference Contractural Provisions everyone was taught. But you know how it is in school: you forget what you learned, as soon as summer begins. No more school, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks! So: you need a wakeup call. And God expresses that wakeup call, in terms of Fixed Time. Giving you time, to change your mind and go back to school.

As you analyze the Fixed-Time Elements of this page, try to spot each of the Three Jobs just mentioned. Bizillion dollars of understanding-profit will accrue in your spiritual life, if you do. For here we see God's Genius Grace Plan of Time!

Finally, there is a 1000 year "set"; it houses all the number components, above: including, the 490s themselves. It's a Civilization Time Grant, and originates from Adam.

That final 1000 years 'completes' time, makes up for all losses. We know only 1057 years remain to 'play', after the Rapture. Church is off-balance-sheet, for time was only promised to Israel.

Next question: how the Bible covers the 1000 years, and its component parts. Like everything else in Bible, there's some dispute over whether the Millennium is in the Bible. The only explicit reference to reigning 1000 years, is in Revelation. So, some contend that the "Millennium" is manufactured by rabid, Rapture-thumping Christians. What a crock. Look:

1. Leviticus 25 system of Jubilee years (20), since Jubilee represented His Advent, viz., Isa61:1 which the Lord quotes on returning to His Hometown in Luke 4.
2. David's lineage, a continuous line of kings until Messias was born, 1000 years later;
3. "Day of the Lord", first fully used in Isa13:6 (Isa2:2 uses shorthand), and
4. known long prior, i.e., Psalm 90. In short, Moses TAUGHT them about the Millennium. Then, as the Day approached, more information was provided. So this is a JEWISH thing, not a Christian thing. Not an invention popping up from nowhere for the first time in Revelation. Sheesh. See, when a thing is well known, it's rarely explained. You allude to it, instead. Look how hard it is to learn a computer or how to do stuff on the internet: explanations aren't easy to find, are they? Why? Because you are presumed to know. So if you don't know that "click" means to push your index finger on your mouse, you're clueless, huh. Same kind of thing with Bible: the writers were writing to people who already knew God's 1050-year accounting system, since every date in the OT is arrayed ON that 'calendar'. So they didn't explain it. Daniel just needed the pieces for accounting, in Dan9 -- not an explanation of the system. So too, with the Millennium.

If you read Leviticus 25, you'll see God make the connection between the sabbatical years and Jubilee. Basically, every 50 years has 8 sabbatical years in it: the 50th year is the 8th sabbatical year, following hard on the last of the sabbatical years for the 49-year period. God enjoins the keeping of these years, and that's why the Temple was razed in 586BC.

So notice: 8*50=1000. Given the meaning of Jubilee, it's impossible not to realize that 1000 has to do with some completion-of-historical-objective meaning. Moses dedicated Deut32 based on the numbering-of-days theme (compare Deut 32:29 with Ps90:12, Ps39:4); Leviticus 25 is based on the ultimate freedom (picture of heaven). Therefore we are sojourners here, not owners, and God will redeem our lives and the Land. Just as He did, for Israel. Just as He did, for Egypt.

The Deut32 usage and all its kindred passages reveals the Hebrew keyword "aharit". There are at least 60 of these (depends on how your Hebrew searcher bundles morphological hits). The term is used much like our English "latter days", with the prophecy flavor about the ending of time; but "aharit" ALSO and even more has in view the very personal ending of your life, idea of how you will end up. Isa2 is a last-days-leading-to-Millennium prophecy; verse 2 uses soundplay between aharit and naharu; unfortunately, the latter is translated as if a stream/river of water, but naharu is about LIGHT (so streams of enlightenment, which of course IS the Water of the Word). Could be profitable to look for soundplay there on eleph or some other clue as to the 1000 years. Verses 11-12 are allusively using Day of the Lord vocabulary; the actual phrase first appears in Isa13; the equating of Day to 1000 is explicitly in Ps90:4. But the first use of aharit seems to be in Deut 32:20 (Moses predicting that they will abandon Him). So maybe until David, the Numbering Of Days wasn't done, but only the aharit-type warning, no set time specified; after all, David is God's Answer to their rejection of Him as their King back in 1050BC. Again, God doesn't start numbering your days until AFTER a fall so steep, the numbering is necessary for your protection (kinda like quarantine or slowing a viral spread).

Everyone uses shorthand expressions to each other when the underlying meaning is fully-known. You don't keep repeating your full name to your friends, and they don't keep calling you BY your full name. So, we invent abbreviations and nicknames, synonyms for a commonly-understood ideas, things. So the Bible's seeming obtuseness is often rather OUR obtuseness, because we don't research what it says; so we don't recognize that it is talking first to a contemporary audience, using terms as THEY used them. After all, we say "call me on my cell" and everyone knows we mean "cellphone"! But a reader in WWII would have thought we meant "monk's room", "jail room", "cells of the body", and wondered what the heck! ON "my" prison? ON "my" body?

Point is, there is a special vocabulary people familiar with each other, use. Everyone involved in a business, a faith, a webpage, even, ends up using specialized words to simplify discourse. If you write anything longer than a page, you must create special vocabulary lest you keep repeating the whole definition, over and over. So Millennium vocabulary in the OT exists: we know that, even given the few snippets above. So the trick is to find that vocabulary.

The sacrifices will probably demonstrate some of the Millennial meaning everyone knew. For example, in Numbers 7 roster, the leaders do the same types of sacrifices, but only ONE of each. I believe the leadership was elected, and for one year, a custom which was still true in Jesus' Day (i.e., high priesthood office was for one year). So 1000 would be a dedication acknowledging God's promise of 1000 years, looks like. But I must study that topic further. I searched on eleph (spelled aleph lamed peh-final), found 244 verses, none of which seem to allude to this 1000-year promise. I also searched on "Day of the Lord" and found nothing nearby in the OT which alluded to it referencing the 1000 years, but I didn't study as carefully as I should have, so need to do it again. It could be that there is no explicit prophecy given to a group, but was given to David as an understanding, which he communicated. I've not yet checked ALL the Psalms for soundplay on "eleph". David loves soundplay in the juxtaposition of words, especially physical onomopoeia (sp), and especially on topics of begetting or body-metaphor stuff; so does Isaiah. For an awesome example of David's love of soundplay, read Psalm 139:11-17 aloud in the Hebrew. Or, to see an soundplay example in v.14 of that passage, search on "17." in NoWombLife.htm. So all that analysis will take some time, especially since ola (smell of the sacrifice rising) and alah (rising, preposition of going up or aboutness) will be used in the soundplay, and it's a very common term commonly USED as a soundplay device (i.e., all over Isa52:13-54:1).

Second meaning: when the 'house' of 490-year promises begins to empty due to apostacy, the '1000' functions as a warning period for the End-Of-Time Judgement. Which makes sense, given that essential structure for time: the house of time is not being maintained by positive votes, so it will fall. Rather appropriate, then, to have a Millennium also function as a last-call 1000 years. Like it was, 1000 years before the Flood.

This 1000-year warning usage originated with Enoch. He would have been age 34 when he began; 1000 years remained until the Flood at that point. I can't verify when he began the warning, but Jude 14 makes it clear that was his 'job'. Bible doesn't seem to say much else.

Um, the so-called "Book of Enoch" isn't a valid source for the historical Enoch. On 11/03/05 I audited the non-Biblical "Book of Enoch". It had very little of value and is non-Canon for good reason. Click Here if you're interested in reading how I determined the Book of Enoch wasn't from God. It's just like the Mad-Magazine type satires in other apochrypha, demeaning God and Bible heroes, using flagrantly WRONG information, reversing what Bible says (i.e., 'Book of Enoch' reverses Enoch's age compared to Bible, makes him, God, and all other Bible heroes look silly). Obviously not Divine Writ. Slapstick. (Hint: any book which derides God or Bible heroes isn't God-breathed. All false books help you see the mocking rhetoric of Satan&Co., so no book should be rejected out-of-hand.)

So the first Day of the Lord began with David's kingship. The Second Day of the Lord began when Christ was born, but due to Israel's apostacy, had some back-credits of years which had to be repaid (40); due to Church being grafted in, we don't know how long that "Day" will last. Had Israel accepted Messiah, history should have ended 1144AD (as you'll see in "Jesus the Christ" link); but, she did not accept Him. [Nerd note: "acceptance" is a believer function, not an unbeliever function. The unbeliever needs to believe in Christ, John 3:16; having done that, he is now a believer and therefore needs to accept instruction, accept authority, etc. Often in Greek the word dechomai is used, which translates better "to welcome"; sadly, dingdongs use such verses to say you must 'accept' the Lord into your heart to be saved. No one is saved by doing that. Christ told us how, John 3:16. Maybe someday someone will notice the verb is "believe", not "accept"?]

So what becomes instead the Third Day of the Lord, begins thus at the Millennium. We are in between, hidden, part of that now-expanded 40 year period which had its own 'credit', between 30-70AD.

He keeps up this practice, making a stink about it when Israel cuts out God as King: Saul is inserted, but then Saul gets the kingdom torn from him (that verse in Samuel where he grabs Samuel's coat). David is the Seventh son of Jesse, but the other six sons are cut from God's appointment, and David is inserted instead. And when David is inserted, all of Israel Is Cut Out, Disinherited, And Grafted Into David, 2Sam7:12-13.

Because David is inserted, Christ can be inserted despite Israel's double rejection of Him as King (in 1050BC and 30AD, respectively). So God accomplishes this goal in the same, repeated fashion, since Israel never hears His past repeats: Jeconiah is cut off, adopts Shealtiel son of Neriuah, who descended from David and Bathsheba's other and younger son, Nathan; who is, the forefather of Mary, Luke 3. Who was also, the forefather of Joseph, Matt1. But because Shealtiel was adopted by Jeconiah, you'll notice the Luke genealogy (versus Matthew's) specifies the natural father, and Matthew's, the legal father (same thing is done with Moses' father when all of Levi is grafted into Aaron). So you know God fulfilled His Promise, and followed the same cutting-out and grafting-in He has always done. For it's based on a Promise, not on personal connections. On Faith, not on family. For the First Father, the First King, the First Fealty is to God, not people.

MESSIAH is thus the key to understanding the timeline for the 1000 years. God cuts, God inserts, God treats time as losses to be made up and hence mirrored back later. And Church is not in all these calculations, for there might not have been a Church, had Israel welcomed Messiah. See Romans 11.

Now hopefully you have a better macro-accounting grasp of how important Church is to history, and why -- because CHRIST is the purpose of history. So the purpose of the Millennium is to Mirror Back To Israel the 'lost' 1000 years, the 'cost' of the Davidic line. Since the next 1050 is predicated upon the successful completion of the prior 1050, the continuance of time itself is a kind of restitution for the 'cost' to whomever was developed, during that prior period. Granted, a new person must be developed by the end of the next period; but the payback quality of each new period, remains. Hence Israel is 'owed' for the successful completion of Messiah, which is why the Millennium is both real and literal. It's a Justice Accounting Verdict, not something to drool over and make movies out of. They never get those movies right, anyway.

So, that means 1144 AD should have been the end of all history (Millennium ending in 1094, 50-year voting period after that).

• "Day of the Lord" as 1000 years, so David gets the first day, and the Lord, the second; which turns out to be a third, since Israel rejected Messiah when He came. David is the first King, the Lord is the Second (forever-reigning) King. Parallel idea to first Adam and last Adam. Then, history ends.

• On either side of this doubled day are "wilderness" periods of 40 years, warning of the Day in question; both warnings are to the Gentiles. Saul's 40 years preceded David; Paul accounts Saul's reign as a wilderness period, in Acts 13:20. Furthermore, David's reign of 40 years is subdivided into 7 and 33; next, the Lord's First Advent is a mirror: 33 years then 7 of Trib (played in miniature via siege of Jerusalem), since He's Seated and Ruling, at the Session, Heb1. At the end of time, there's another 40 years which 'announces' the real Rapture. That can be any 40 years, as explained in the "40 years" bullet, above.

One might ask, how is it that the last 1000 years pays for the cost of the prior THOUSANDS of years? Answer: now you know why a believer must be awarded a 490 or 1000 grant in order for time to continue. Time must PAY. If paid, it can be reimbursed the payor. The "Ten Ways" Word doc (link in first paragraph at page top) has a #1, #8 and #9 which show this restitutionary quality to time. So the next 1050 only occurs, because in the previous 1050, someone had already purchased it, and someone NEW was developed DURING that prior 1050, to purchase the next 1050. So here, Christ was developed before David's 1000 (leave out the 50 for qualifying purposes) ran out. So Israel having rejected Him, has no more time. Hence Church had to be grafted in.

PRECEDENCE PRINCIPLE: Everything dates from the Exodus, but derives precedence from Abraham and the Time Israel was in Egypt. Precedence Of Abraham, derives from the Noahic Covenant, which derives from Adam. All this is illustrated in GeneYrs.xls. Here, we start with Shem, Noah's son. The point: can God produce the Humanity of Christ via positive believer Votes? After all, if God rigs Justice, then He's not worthy of being God, as Satan keeps on alleging. The Angelic Trial is based on a contention that God has Abused Justice, and from Adam's Fall forward, Satan's contended it should be a Mistrial, accusing God of tampering with Evidence (i.e., of bribing Job, beginning of Job 1 and 2). So let's see the Evidence.

People often overlook the underlying lessons in the OT, deeming all those dry begats and chronicles as some mere history preservation. Big mistake. For in the story of Saul, you see the story of our salvation. Just as people overlook how God used Seth to disinherit Cain; just as God used Shem's son to disinherit the other sons; just as God even used Jochebed to disinherit the whole tribe of Levi so to graft in Moses and Aaron as firstborn; just as God used the last-born son David, to disinherit Jesse's other sons; so also would God disinherit all Israel, here. And David would become the one to rescue Israel's inheritance. So, when David's sons later rebelled, just as God used Shealtiel to disinherit Coniah, so also God disinherited all David's children in favor of one born of a woman, Who is The Son: Who would rescue an inheritance for the entire world. So, notice: the DISinheritance sets up the potential for a Greater Inheritance. What could be a greater inheritance, than life forever close to God? Heh. [Confession time: I wouldn't know ANY of this, had not a reader of this page asked me many questions regarding Genesis 5's apparent contradiction in the LXX, the problem of Jochebed (implying Israel was NOT in Egypt 400 years), and when was the Lord's Birthday. That reader was trying to figure out the answers to those questions. I by nature don't like getting into those questions, but if someone writes me, I know God is saying something through the writer. The writer didn't know I was toying with a timeline from Adam, to vet Mirroring for my errors. So his timely -- and Providential -- questions had a lot to do with the accuracy and balancing of Mirroring and GeneYrs.xls. I hope God gives me LOTS of assets to gift that reader-and-writer, once I'm dead and in heaven! Because to me, this information is priceless! And I had been TOO LAZY, to investigate it! Aha!]

So let's walk through this Failure Turned to Fulfillment, God's Genius Plan:

1. Finally Israel's apostacy is so bad, she doesn't want God as king, but instead a human king, 1050BC. Contract Abrogation Begins Here. Acts 13 talks about this, and uses the 490 system to explain its effect. Because God's Kingship is rejected, all the kings except David become conditional, blessed only if they stick to the Law. The original contract called for GOD to be King, not a human being. So long as that agreement held, the coming of Messiah was imminent. But once abrogated, then God spent 40 more years raising up the human king (and hence progenitor of Messiah) HE wanted (theme of Acts 13, explaining what happened to Israel is sourced back to this rejection of God as King). So actually, the contract with Israel is broken, and re-routes instead through David. Which is why the only thing left to Israel from that time onward is to Accept Messiah When He Arrives. If they don't accept Him, even this One Link Left, is Severed. Daniel 9:26 is how one knows that happened.

1. Samuel, at age 30, becomes the last Judge to Israel. The year is 1070BC; Samuel, the last of the Judges due to Israel's rejection in favor of Saul. We know Samuel's ministry dates from the Law, so God doesn't have to say the year names. What's so hysterical, is that Samuel is not even a Levite, but his dad is from Ephraim (see beginning of 1Samuel). Yet God picks him -- for it's always by faith. Temple service begins at age 30, and you retire at age 50 as repeatedly stated, in Numbers 4, 8:25, etc. So, Samuel is recorded as judging Israel for the proper 20 years a priest serves in Temple. In actuality, he'll unofficially serve Israel as a wandering teacher after Saul becomes king; for Samuel runs a circuit, setting up the first organized system for the priests -- for what looks like another 20 years or more. So he's age 50 when Saul becomes king. Must have been age 70 or older, when he died (some years before the Battle of Mt. Gilboa, I need to research it). [These are scattered Bible notes; I'll improve them later. Easton's Dictionary dates the 2nd Battle of Ebenezer (which God won for Israel via that thunderstorm) as 1095BC, but that can't be right; cry for a human king arose some time afterwards, 1Sam8:1ff. BibleWorks timeline dates Samuel's judgeship to begin 1069BC. Judges Ibson, Elon and Abdon were listed as judges in BibleWorks for the period 1124-1078 but Bible says only 25 years for all three (Jud12:10-14). So their combined judgeships couldn't have gone beyond 1100 -- no, their whole timeline is way too late. Samson is listed as 1108, but that doesn't work either (Judges 13:1). Judges 15:20 and 16:31 say he judged Israel 20 years. So again, the judgeship timelines are way off. After Chapter 16, it looks like a long time elapsed -- and unbelievable weirdness ruled. So it's more likely the Judges period pre-Samuel had yet another 40 year hiatus. Samuel had to be at least 30 years old before the second battle of Ebenezer, because for all the recognition, he has no voice until 1Sam7:1, after Eli died, and after the Ark is returned, it's the Levites who stupidly attend to it, Samuel not being mentioned. He started going on that circuit in 1Sam7:16. The first 7 chapters of 1Samuel are almost too painful to read. Doesn't present-day Israel learn from them? So badly was the Law distorted, that Samuel sleeps in the Holy Of Holies (1Sam3:3). Moreover, the sacrifices are totally screwed up. Worse, they somehow remembered Levites were supposed to take the Ark out to battle (duh) -- but then they lose it. 7 months later, the Philistines figure out -- hey, we gotta get rid of this -- yet even after the Ark is then returned, No one in Israel knows what to do with it? Lol, the priests were summoned to come down and make the sacrifices -- so what, they just left the Ark there in Beth-shemesh? Incredible. You can see even the Philistines remember a warped version of the Exodus (first thinking that the gods plagued everyone in the wilderness, then consulting their own experts who came up with the cockamamie gold tumors thingy). Incredible.]

2. Saul officially becomes King 1050BC; but Bible won't count Saul's kingship at all. Saul's anointing date long preceded his official crowning (same for David's anointing as a teenager); presumably, to give him time to change his mind. Moreover, Saul first had to fight some battles to unify the people of Israel behind him. Again, Acts 13 says Saul ruled 40 years, and accounts the time of Saul as a LOSS. Which is even more hysterical, when you look at the CONTRADICTING translations of 1Sam13:1 -- sorry to keep harping on this, but when you find a contradiction in Bible, it's NOT God who created it. Man did. What, did the translators never read Acts 13? So please -- turn to 1Samuel 13:1 now.

   It's not correct in any translation I can read. The verse is about how, between the time he was anointed through the second year after he became king, he gathered an elite corps: it wasn't an overnight thing. If you read the prior context, there were two wars, plus a conflict with the Ammonites (Chapter 11), as a result of which he was confirmed king. Meaning, some time had elapsed between Samuel's anointing Saul in 1Sam10, and the crowning at the end of 1Sam11. So in 1Sam13:1, you need some kind of organization statement, to prepare the understanding for what follows (battles where Israel wins against overwhelming odds; how Saul gets cocky and impatient because of it, and will thus lose his kingship). LXX doesn't even have 13:1, which in Hebrew is just an introductory clause, not even a whole sentence. Rendered literally (so you can know the Hebrew words), it says:

   "Saul (=Inquirer, him asking about the donkeys) was [missing number]-years old,
   when he became (infinitive, works like a participle) king; and the second year after he became (perfect tense) king over Israel," -- that's the actual verse in Hebrew literal word order. 13:1 is to explain the timing of 13:2, given prior context -- note how his age is missing, lost. Ironic, considering that Bible accounts his rulership as a loss, huh.

   Here, what's known from the previous context, is that Saul was anointed by Samuel, but then he went back home; then, Samuel called the people, and they consented to him being king -- he, though, had hidden in the baggage, so they had to spend time finding him via Urim and Thummin. That took time; and then they all went home again. Are you getting the impression all they wanted was To reject God, really have no king at all, but hypocritically pretend to want a king? No one did anything about it. Just hurrah! and then.. home. So then, the enemies do something about it when they hear Saul is crowned (for they didn't fight Israel very much so long as God was the King, they were afraid of Him) -- so, 1Sam11, you have the battle with the Ammonites, at which point the people voted for him personally. So you need this 1Sam13:1's precision about that interval, to answer when did he muster picked troops. See, it took time to do this. Some of them went right after the anointing, 1Sam10:26. Others came along after he was confirmed as king at the end of 1Sam11. Chapter 12 is a parenthesis, Samuel abdicating as judge; he remains a prophet, but Saul becomes their judge-king; since they rejected the Holy One as their King. So now, they have an intermediary. They are now more distant in favor, from God. By their own voting.

3. So Saul, initially loving the Lord, succumbs to the power and prosperity of kingship, so Samuel is sent to anoint David as the next King. David at this time is a teenager. Sometime later, David is called to calm the poor king's nerves, because David is a skilled musician (gotta do something while out with the sheep). So David commutes as needed back to the sheep. It's easy to dismiss how hard a time Saul had. To go from a guy who hides among the baggage and is only discovered because he was a head taller than everyone else -- quite handsome, actually -- to reverse that shyness into bullying, means he was under a lot of pressure. For this time period is pivotal in Israel's history. All time for the whole world hinged on it. Having succeeded in getting Israel to reject God -- whoa, what a coup -- Satan&Co. now have to work overtime on Saul, lest he TURN INTO God's Chosen Seed. For that was the offer given him. 1 Samuel 13:13 "You acted foolishly," Samuel said. "You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time." It wasn't David, first. It was Saul. How do you live with such an offer, when your insecurity complex is so bad, you hide among the baggage at the very time you KNEW IN ADVANCE would be the proclamation of YOU by Samuel, Voice of God to the People -- that YOU are to be the first human King of Israel? LOL, I'm intimidated by writing websites -- I'd faint and never wake up if I were announced as a king.. even of my bathroom!

   Okay, so he finally gets over the nervousness and wins some battles -- so goes to the opposite psychological end, excessive cockiness. Only Bible in your head (which came in writing and orally, in those days) can MEDIATE all the crazy pressure. So yeah, Saul turned out to be a loser -- but who wouldn't?

   But notice David. He knows in advance, too. And by what would seem a quirk of fate, is sent to play the lyre for Saul, to calm the poor man's demon-influenced nerves. Saul almost kills David during those times. But David goes back to the sheep. Where the Doctrine is. To be alone and LEARN it. For Bible was something people routinely memorized. As you read through the injunction Moses gives in Deut 31-32, you find with astonishment that EVERY SEVEN YEARS the Torah as they then had it, was to be READ ALOUD to all the people, lest they forget. Which means, they memorized it. Easier to remember phone numbers than to remember which speed dial number on which of the ninety phones you have, the number is on. Easier to remember the multiplication tables -- because why? YOU DRILLED IN THEM. This is what was done with Bible. This is why only once every seven bleeping years it was necessary (sabbatical year was devoted to study). This is what David did with Bible in his head, talking to God all the time -- back with the sheep. No wonder the kingship didn't awe him. Someone Else, awed him more. Frankly, that's the only way to survive and want to live down here.

4. Philistines battle Saul; David's sent to carry provisions for his brothers, kills Goliath in the one-on-one Greek challenger style. David isn't awed by Goliath. He's awed by God.
5. Saul takes David into the palace, marries him off. At that point, David is about 20 years old, so it's about 1020BC. Saul, jealous over David's popularity, tries many times to get him killed. David finally flees, wanders about, people come to him, so there is a cold war between Saul and David (but David doesn't fight back) for approximately the next 10 years. There's a lot to say here about how Saul and David compare in character, but this webpage is already very long. Just read Samuel, think over what's between the lines.
6. Saul and Jonathan his heir die in the Battle of Mt. Gilboa, circa 1011 or 1010BC. The Ark is gradually brought to Jerusalem by David afterwards (2Sam6). The cavalier treatment of the Ark tells you much about how little God was regarded by Saul and the people in general. But the other thing you notice is that some had this HUGE faith. Almost no knowledge, but a whole lot of desire to learn. We're all jerks. Only the combination of motive and knowledge CURES us jerks. Never too late to start.

1. David is 30 years old then (2Sam5:4), so was born 1040BC, exactly 400 years after the Exodus. He thus becomes King 430 years after the Exodus, in 1010BC. So Israel's entire time in Egypt, including its 400-year slavery period got individually mirrored back! "30" is the savior number! David had become king of Judah six months prior (2Sam2:11, 2Sam5:5).

2. This is a new King 490, and it depends on VOTING for the King. Hence David's Proclamation And Waiting For Votes. Just as before, with King Saul. When the vote went out about Saul, his investiture was not immediate, and always remained conditional. Which is why he sought to kill David, once David became popular; David was forced to leave, and wasn't interested in taking the kingdom away. God just thrust it on David. Even so, Kingship was always based on voting, even back to 1440BC: Mosaic Law is a Contract of People Agreeing To Be Ruled by God. See how Joshua ends, getting the people to vote for or against God; and when they vote FOR, he sets up a Stone Witness to that vote, so they can be reminded of their own apostacy (Josh 24:27). Hmmm. Kinda like the Two Stone Witnesses, Dome and Wailing Wall, which remain to this day? Hmmm. Kinda looks like this God is the Real God, don't it?

3. Therefore, the same voting issue applies during the First Advent: Will There Be Enough Among Israel Voting Yes, To Consitute National Acceptance? The King of Kings will be the 'Last David', so that's yet another way you can know VOTING for Him was the issue Israel faced: Precedence Was Established At The Exodus, as everyone was well aware. As Part IVa's "Legal Precedence" division explains, since they voted NO, they played Vashti. So Jesus the Christ announces the search for Esther: Matt16:18ff (see Matt22, for a summary of the 'case'). So here for Church (Esther), it's still about VOTES, as Part IVa explains. (As regards Church, Part IVb examines what "enough votes" means.)

4. 2 Sam 2-5, Civil war ensues as people divide over whether to support Jonathan's heirs, or David. Notice it's a Civil War Over God's Choice Of Human King versus the people's choice for not-God King. 1010BC-1003BC (really late 1004BC) is one of those Building sevens. It's not Promise Time, or fixed-judgement time, but in character it is a building-ness. Same number of years as to build 1st and 2nd Temples. So the Divine Purpose sevening is at least implicit, but the length of building time for each of these three, was not promised. Note though, how tumultous voting is. Many thousands died during this time. It boiled down to whether you wanted God's Anointed, or not. So very violent.

1. What makes David important, is his FAITH. First, faith in the best of environments, being alone with God. Everyone in David's family, hated him. Then up pops Samuel to anoint this seventh-son teenager out with the smelly sheep. Then daddio wants to ingratiate himself with the army which is sitting on its touchus because loudmouth Goliath is challenging anyone in Israel to a little one-on-one. So daddio makes the shepherd boy play quartermaster with cheese and bread. Overhearing louthmouth, the red-haired teenager thinks, hey, who is this braggart who insults the army of the Living God? and.. well, you know the story. God is real to David. Not a name to babble while bobbing at some wailing wall. Not tassels on shabbas, preening. So God makes him king when there already is one, so he goes back to his sheep and his wonderful alone-time with God. God is His King, he doesn't need to be a king himself. So, God always gives you what you don't want.. here, kingship. What a come-down, ruling a country of brats who don't even know what to do with a wandering Ark. But he learned to love them like he learned to love being a shepherd, and the minute he did, zap! God makes him give UP being king! For God always gives you what you don't want. In order to give you more of what you want more.. Himself.

   Now, this becoming-king and unbecoming-king was very unbecoming to Israel. For she decided that Praise is Becoming, alright, for to Him Praise will always Be Becoming.. but that didn't quite extend to Him being King over her, anymore. She wanted to mouth His Praises, but else be like other nations. So having rejected G-d in favor of Shaul, and then finally voting for David after seven years of fighting AGAINST him who G-d chose, well.. He Who Is, became of Dawid, instead. Ooops.

2. So to build on David, means cutting out Israel. Henceforth, the sole criterion for Time's continuance is NARROWED to David, 2Sam7. As you saw in the webpage synopsis at pagetop, Satan's always accusing us so he can stop God from completing His Promises and thus 'force' a Mistrial Verdict. That is, God has introduced His Promises in Evidence, and the promises remain unfulfilled. So if even one of them is not fulfilled (as my pastor puts it), Satan wins in the Trial. Why? Because a thing introduced as Evidence which never gets PRODUCED is a kind of evidence tampering. You know, claiming you have a murder weapon and then you can't produce it. Therefore, Satan and everyone on his side (including all unsaved humanity) would go free. See, they don't have red horns and tails: they are consummate lawyers. That's what "Satan" means: opposing attorney (a title, not a name). So they fancy themselves saviors, if they can force God to cancel Time, due to negativity among believers on earth. And, they would be.

   So for God to CONDITION promises on volition, gives Satan&Co. a way to maneuver a motion for Mistrial. For if God has Promise Evidence but we refuse, then He must not grant the Promise to those who refuse: Love never coerces. Worse, if He then narrows the continuance-of-time criterion to but ONE person, that should have tanked God's side in the Trial. This God does in 2Sam7, which is about year 10 or so of David's consolidated reign (I'm guessing). A Promise of a Temple and a Messiah, specifically. Unconditional promise, yet by nature conditioned on a Future Line Of Believers Among David's Progeny Who Will Vote For God. So God loses in the Trial if He flat forces or executes the lineage promise irrespective of positive votes, since He just cut out Israel for refusing Him. Big abuse of Justice, then. Aha, Mistrial! But He also loses in the Trial if He doesn't produce that future promised Temple and Messiah -- but will people want Him? Aha, Mistrial! Now you know why Israel remains so persecuted, even today: the promise today remaining, is that of Trib and Mill. Absent Church, that promise could not be delivered (main theme of Book of Hebrews, which is all about this Trial). Of course, Church is subject to the same issue. We too are not completed, and so will our future "Evidence" finish? If no, it's a Mistrial. God will not gerrymander Freedom.

   So back to David: he got 2Sam7 relatively early in his reign. So David had a good long time afterwards, to screw up so badly the promise couldn't be delivered. Not to mention, all the rebellion against him, which continued until the day he died (see the warnings he gives Solomon after retirement, in 1Kings 1-2). So what distinguishes David, again -- is his faith. Not good deeds. Frankly, Israel doesn't even know why David is an ideal king. Neither do Christians. But Bible tells you: "a man after My Own Heart". David just flat loved God. God can fix any wrong you do, but Love will never coerce a soul who doesn't want Him. All the good deeds you do don't make up for not wanting to know God. And if you don't know God, you'll not be doing good deeds, since the First Commandment is to LOVE God. Can't love someone you don't want to know.

   So Dawid Beloved is Beloved of God, while everyone else cut Him outta their lives. So what does God do? Play into Satan's hands! Look at God's Genius: the Temple-and-Messiah promise cuts out Israel, because she rejected God as King in 1050BC, as Samuel explained from 1Samuel 8-12. But when God cuts you out, He aims to bless you better. For back in eternity past, the covenant was, "If You will give Your Soul as a substitute for sin, you will see long-lived seed." So He became the Seed to bear many seeds. So first promise given, to come: Gen3:15, which predicts the name of the guy who will be the progenitor, Jacob ("heel" in Gen3:15). Then, next promise given, to the grandfather of that son, Abram -- made AbRAHam at circumcision, the father of Many Nations.

   Which many nations raged on the earth until that Heel guy came back to Canaan, knowing he was bringing four wives and 12 sons, 70 people in all -- into Some Kind Of Slavery Under Foreign Domination Somewhere -- since that is what God promised Granpa Abram, back in Gen15:13. But Heel Guy did not know that a scant 11 years after being renamed Israel (Prince of God, now lame, no longer grasping heel) the very slavery and salvation of his own loins will be enslaved: Joseph=Twice. Who then goes through his own training period, and twice saves Egypt, gets the family inside. All waiting for the 430 years to end, which they do. And right on time, up comes Moses, pitched as the salvation of Egypt yet again, by Egypt's own sterile queen. Gift from the River, so "moses" -- royal Egyptian moniker, drawn up/born from Isis, the mother of the gods. So now to that one guy God offers to wipe out all those who left with him through the water dryshod, since they had dried souls. But Moses refuses. So they enter the Land, forget mostly about the Ark, and finally demand that their God Who is Their King, abdicate. For they want a human king like other nations.

   So He gives them one they wanted, and then later -- 430 years post-Exodus, to be precise -- He gave them one HE wanted. And to this Beloved, God gives the promise of one Son, in 2Sam7:13. Future sons between don't count. And to get this One Son Who Will Save the World and Who will Build a Kingdom Forever, the Beloved must also abdicate. So, he does. So Beloved lays down his crown, and Reconciliation/Peace/Prosperity his son, reigns instead. Each one, for 40 years, with Beloved spending the last 7.5 years of his life as a retired king, an abdicated king, a king who threw down his crown, the only such king Israel ever will have, until Messiah Himself. On the other side of that nexus Beloved's 7.5, his son Peacefully and in Prosperity builds the Other Promise God made to Beloved (who was the only one asking for it) -- a Temple. Which, represents down to the last pomegranate and oil drop, the Future Seed; Who will Give His Soul as a substitute for sin, thus building forever, a Kingdom. [2Sam7:14's Hebrew uses beh'awoto, which is hiphil infinitive construct of the verb awah, to twist, bend, distort (awon is the cognate noun). Because it's in the hiphil, which is causative, I think this verse is mistranslated by the usual "when he commits iniquity", and should instead read, "when He is caused to BECOME iniquity" -- in short, made sin. I'll have to find my pastor's tapes to see if he says something other than the typical translations. Generally Bible mistranslations reverse key words in the original-language texts and malign God or glorify man in the process. That appears to be the case, here?]

   So from One to ManyNations' Father, to Laughter to Heel/Prince to Twice to Drawn-from-Water to Beloved to The-One-Uniquely-with-us. Who will birth from His Brith on the Cross, a whole universe of sons. [Those are the translated names of 490 folks, as follows: "ManyNations' Father"=AbRAHam; "Laughter"=Isaac; "Heel/Prince"=Jacob; "Twice"=Joseph; "Drawn-from-Water"=Moses; "Beloved"=David; "The-One-Uniquely-with-us"=Immanuel, Our Lord. A "brith" is a cutting of a covenant; hence the "brith" ("bris", in modern Hebrew) of male circumcision.]

   For that One, that Greater Son will be cut off by Israel, just as Moses long predicted in Deut 32:15ff, reiterated in Isa52:13-54:1 (see Isa53trans.htm), Daniel 9:26b (wordplay between brith and death). Just as, God is cut off by the people who voted for a human king, 1Samuel 8. They would rather pay income tax to a human king (vv.15,17). They paid no taxes to God, really: He paid them, since only He could make the animals, the grain, etc. So everything was voluntary in the Levitical offerings, Lev27. If you believed in God and wanted Him, you wanted to make offerings. God wanted to teach you by means of those offerings, hence the many rules about them. But a human king, well.. like 1Sam8 says, he will oppress you.

   But Israel wanted a human king anyway, even if he would oppress them; so they cut off God, in favor of a future of tyranny: just like other nations! So they will cut off His Son when He arrives as promised, too. So God pre-empts this future, by having David be cut off from official relationship TO Israel, via abdication. So Israel can be grafted into Messiah, despite having disinherited herself. [Deut 32:8 in the Hebrew is so multi-level in meaning, it will take some time to analyze. LXX version ends with "angels of God" rather than "sons of Israel" in the Hebrew. So my guess is the original text in the Hebrew bifurcated the explanation of how God designed mankind to be based both on the angels and then on Israel, since we first exist due to the angelic Trial. My pastor has a lot to say about the relationship between the number of demons and the number of believers in Church, but I've not yet spent enough time on that topic, to better understand Deut32:8. Point is, we see here God orchestrates Time around Israel, due to Messiah. So it's not farfetched to say the numbers of folks are constructed also based on Israel, especially since most among her (as here in 1Sam8), reject Messiah.]

3. We can now legally account for how Messiah could still be promised after the Temple is destroyed: Messiah derives from 2Sam7 to David, not Israel. For if no Temple, no national contract, no kings, etc. And of course no more kings were granted due to the First Temple's destruction. So "cut off", is Messiah. So He will be "cut off" in Daniel 9, too. Cutting a New Covenant, based on a prior Promise (that wordplay is actually IN Daniel 9:26). Independently made, by God, to a person: David. Just as parts of the Abrahamic promises continue despite apostacy, so also the Salvation-King Promise is made independently. It IS an unconditional promise, to David. But you will note in 1Kings 6 and 9, and in all such reiterations about kingship afterwards -- when God talks to Solomon (etc), it's conditional upon the Law being kept. Which means -- and this happens too with some of the later kings -- God abrogates the deal due to their apostacy. So another king replaces, but finally.. no more kings are allowed.

   In short, the promises stack, so that if there is a rejection, precedence governs, and the rejection can be 'saved'. So, Abram was Unconditionally Promised First that God would be HIS God ("I am the God of Abram"). Next, he was promised sons; so becomes AbRAHam, father of many nations, at age 99. Also, since sons must live somewhere, alongside that promise of sons, is the promise of Land. Israel is the fulfillment of the sons promise, and so Moses is deployed to take her to the Land. However, once she is IN the Land she rejects the First Promise, of God as King (which promise Jacob knew, given what he impulsively decides in Gen38:22). So if you reject the Giver, you reject the Gifts from the Giver.

   So now what? Well, the promise made through Moses was conditional -- if they keep the Law, they will become a priest nation. Even in translation you can see this often stated, in Deuteronomy. God is the King, not a human being. That makes Israel different from all other nations. Ok, but they reject His Kingship. So look: that abrogates the deal, but it's Israel who's abrogating, refusing.

   So what now? Well, a New Promise to a New person must be made about Kingship. Hence, about Temple, since Israel has wholly rejected its inheritance when it rejected its king (subtheme in Deut32, prophetically expressed; see also Joshua 24). God raises up a human king, since they only want a human king -- but then apart from Israel, makes an UNconditional promise to that person He raised up. So for that promise to be realized, David must SEVER his kingship BEFORE he dies, so that the promises of Temple=Messiah=Kingship, have the necessary legal justification to be implemented. For they cannot be implemented, if David is connected to Israel. For Israel has rejected God, and hence Messiah.

4. So only because the Messiah Promise is unconditional to David severally; and only because it is a Testamental Promise, can Messiah be justifiably born. Which is the only legal reason why we can get saved! Legal-Status Backdrop: since the first Kingship 490 began 1440BC with God as King, it has to be renewed before it runs out in 950BC. Remember, there is a voting period intervening between the two 490s (490+70 year voting period+490=1050); so someone 'covering' the next 490 must be spiritually developed in the prior 490, in order for time to even continue. Technically, Israel rejected God's Kingship, 100+ years prior to the expiry of the Exodus 490; Saul was a concessionary human king (he was given the same option as David -- 1Sam13:13-14).

   So note how the Kingship gets renewed via David by the deadline; notice also the Temple 490, being Foundational and Independent of Israel because dependent instead on David as Abdicated King, can be renewed. Again, there is No Other Judicial Basis to renew the contract with Israel after 1050BC and 586BC. So the expiry of the Kingship and later Temple contracts, would have been 950 and 460, respectively (1440-490=950 and 950-490=460). And the Temple contract didn't even START, except for David (again, 2Sam7 tells that story). So before the contract came up for renewal, it was abrogated by Israel, twice (in 1050BC and 586BC). By Israel, upon whom God had previously conditioned, Time Itself. So now the whole world is in an abrogated status, subject to annihilation: see how important David's time grants are? Not only David's, of course. But notice: Moses' 490 (in Israel's name, but it's due to Moses) ran out 950BC. Moses' 1000 runs out 440BC (1440-1000=440). So only David's time grants, remain.

   See, just because God is Omnipotent doesn't mean He brushes aside judicial issues to suit His Goals. God Rules Himself. Doesn't have to, but wants to. Infinitely. Absolutely. No one bows to Authority, more than God Himself. Hence the Cross, the Ultimate bow-down.

   Crux: jurisprudence must first be concerned with the legal status of a legal person ("standing", in legal parlance). One's status when one makes a decision, i.e., husband/wife, king/citizen, owner/hired labor, etc. Each of these are offices which have certain rights, privileges, responsibilities which legally belong to that status in question. The right to sue, to get damages, to have a contract fulfilled, all depend on one's contractural standing at the moment in question. One must be have the requisite status to make a contract (i.e., no contract made by a minor is considered valid in some states, due to the status of the age at that time). One must have the requisite status to benefit from a contract (i.e., be a named beneficiary in a will of provable identity). So here, David's status as King before he abdicates, matters for purposes of a kingship contract.

   Likewise, David's status as Retired post-contract matters for the delivery of the promise: for so long as David is King, the benefit cannot be delivered. Israel is attached to David, so long as he has the status of King. So his enacting-of-contract acceptance of God's terms, must be done while King. And that acceptance, requires he relinquish his crown. Thus after that, he's no longer attached to Israel, so the Kingship and Temple can go to Israel via David. Not, due to itself. For it abrogated its status with God, by rejecting Him in favor of a human king. Consummate example of cutting out, and grafting in, here. We all depended on what David did for our salvation. Else, the Lord Himself could not justifiably, come.

   So David having abdicated, Israel is not bound to him, either. So Voting becomes an issue again, just as it was back when he was first crowned at Hebron. Except this time, the voting was for his son Solomon. But eventually, it would be a voting issue for David's Greater Son, The Lord Jesus Christ. All this, because David abdicated kingship. No more a bound relationship, no more an imposition. So if the vote is NO, then the time associated with David's death, 'dies' too. So the whole world gets to vote, with the Jews being the appointed ambassadors/messengers/priest-nation-in-training. No reason, then, to be big-headed about being Jewish; no reason, then, to be pig-headed with anti-semitism. But I digress.

5. So notice the underlying legal structure. There are two grantors/testators: God Who never dies; and David, who will. The contract is a Forever Contract, with the "Temple" representing that Living-Temple-to-Come, Messiah Himself. So on the one hand, God is and remains, the Initial Party to the contract (Galatians 3 stresses that fact, showing precedence is Seed, not Law). But on the other hand, the one who got that contract -- David -- also has rights. His Right to Lay Down His Crown, is exclusively David's Right, as a Reigning King.

   No one else can vote on that, because only the KING has the proper standing. So no one can take away the time belonging to David's reigning Kingship, by voting against Him. This critical legal principle is the only reason we could even get saved. Again, the standing of David when He abdicates determines the standing of the contract. No one else can gainsay it except God, for no one else is a) in the status of a party to the contract, and b) in the status of someone eligible to vote on that contract (i.e., an interested party). Now you see why God cut out all Israel; now you see why voting for Messiah when He finally came, is the only way to get grafted in again (main legal theme in Romans 9-11).

   Now: while yet King, David asked God whom God wanted as David's successor, inasmuch as God would be the one deciding which future son, would be Messiah. God picked Solomon (i.e., 1Chron 28:6). But Solomon had many kids, and picked his own successor -- doesn't say God picked Rehoboam. So Solomon, broke precedence. Each of the kids from that time forward picked their own successors; or, invading kings put puppets on the throne: none asked God to choose the successor. So after Solomon, though each king got an offer like Solomon (follow Me and I'll make you the progenitor) -- none sufficiently did. Oh, there were some good kings, like Joash and Hezekiah -- Matthew 1 is a kind of honors roster (with two exceptions) -- but in the end, God changed which of David's sons, would be the 'line' for Messiah, to Nathan's.

   The OT tells the saga of this son-switching and renewal of offer, over the centuries. So all that sheer crap about Christ having kids, is proven wrong at its premise level: God never picks sons based on bloodline, but based on faith. Certainly all the cutting out and grafting in He's shown since Cain, for crying out loud -- is enough evidence that this is His Policy. So there's no magic power in bloodline, but there is majesty -- God the Holy Spirit's -- in the faith HE makes grow in you, as you merely vote.

   So, tally up the votes: God obviously did not want Rehoboam, since He had Ahijah tear up a cloak and offer 10 of the tribes to Ephraimite (same tribe as Samuel, who chastised Saul!) Jeroboam -- again, conditional upon the latter keeping the Law (1Kings 11:28-12:15). Which, the latter did not (1 Kings 12:26ff), and Israel (aka "Samaria") went down after a long history of usurpations, in 721(?) BC. Which left, Judah. Which left, God. So God told Jeconiah who was apostate, sorry Charlie, no son of yours will ever sit on My Throne, as Jeremiah explains (Jer22:24-30, read whole chapter then whole book). [Shealtiel is the son of Neri/Neriah, not of Jeconiah. That's why Luke 3:27 reads as it does. Shealtiel was adopted by Jeconiah. Bible pointedly cuts off Jeconiah whenever God talks, too: compare Jer22:24 with Haggai 2:23. If you search on "Shealtiel" you'll find Zerubbabel, who's the crossover person from whom Mary descends via a different son of his -- you'll find that God always calls Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel. The proper naming should reference Jeconiah, to show the kingly connection. But God won't do that. He's changed the kingly connection to David's other son by Bathsheba, Nathan (=to give [replacement], heir and spare).]

   So God sticks with the one line HE chose, Nathan's (Zerubbabel is descended from Nathan). For, long in advance He bifurcated the Davidic line, and God keeps picking whom HE wants as the successor, as the very deft Matthew 1 selectively shows. For, God is consistent. Abram believed in God -- and that Faith, irrespective of all other factors, is the only 'human' thing God will ever use. Sure, it has no merit -- which is why Faith alone can be used. Merit is a religious contention, and if that contention were used, no one can compare to Infinite Righteousness. Hence a Cross. Hence faith alone in Christ alone. Independently, Legally, Procurable -- because GOD was faithful to David.

   So it was Messiah Who got the worst deal. Isa53:10-11's "If You will Give Your Soul as a Substitute for Sin" is the true clause in the Eternity-Past contract between Father, Son, and Spirit. Hence we exist. So imagine: Jesus the Christ has this Conditional Contract to fulfill in His Humanity, The Slightest Infraction Of Which Cancels The Judicial Basis for all the human race (all creation, really, but that takes too long to explain). Just the opposite of the promise to David.

   Book of Hebrews talks in testamentary terms: death must precede. Hence the Mosaic Law, being fulfilled in Christ, dies IN Him. But He is Resurrected, so now a New Covenant, long promised the Jews, can be enacted -- because a death first occurred. So how could that argument be made, if not first a Testamentary Promise to David; Personally, and Independent of the Nation? Which means it cannot be valid so long as he is King, since that ties him TO The nation. But must be chosen by him WHILE he remains king; and then as a consequence, he steps down. Like, the Temple promise was (2Samuel 7). In short, it's this Personal and Separate Contract with David that Warrants Him Abdicating While Still Alive. In favor of a Successor GOD picked. Now the proper Juridical Independence has been established. So when David later dies, he's a private citizen, NOT an active ruler dying in office when God's promise takes effect. Again, just like it was for the construction of the Temple.

   God is consistent. Law must be consistent to be fair. Law must be based on precedence to be fair. And God's saying David's death was foundational to the Temple being made, in the Hebrew of 1Kings 6:1, as explained in the "7 years" link, above. So if Messiah=Temple, but Temple destroyed, but David's Death is foundational to Temple, then -- the Promise of Messiah TO David, is Foundational and Independent, too. Else, I'd not be here to write about it, and you'd not be here to read this page. Simple as that.

6. The larger contextual meaning here is almost too shocking to write. The Lord twice offered to destroy Israel and start over again with Moses, due to their apostacy; twice, Moses turned down the offer (Deut 9:14, Num14:12). Israel would have been lost, had he accepted; which, of course the Lord knew, and was (obviously) testing Moses -- the offers were real enough, but Israel would have been lost had Moses accepted. Likewise, Israel would have been lost if David didn't accept. Most importantly, it would have been lost if Messiah didn't accept. Never mind, that she didn't accept Him. As goes Israel, so goes the world, Deut 32:8. So we are all here, and only here, because He Redeemed Time. And He'd not have been here to redeem anything, had David not been here. And Moses before him, and Joseph before him, and Jacob before him, and Isaac before him, and Abraham before him, and...

   The entire tribe of Levi was disinherited due to Levi's participation in the mass slaughter of all the men of Shechem. God basically 'grafted' the entire tribe onto Aaron (his name's sound="Ark" in Hebrew, what great wordplay) -- again, because Moses refused to speak for the LORD to Pharaoh -- thus the Levite inheritance goes only through Aaron, and it's a priestly inheritance (i.e., no land, just reserved locations, etc). Grafted in! Precedence for Matt16:18! Utter Grace! "Jochebed" link in MisTrans.htm has the details.

   The entire Nation of Israel was similarly disinherited, here. Unlike Moses, David was flat given the kingdom due to Israel's rejection of God as King. Unlike Moses, unless David Accepted God's Gift of Messiah (and hence the inheritance, since Messiah is the Seed, not Israel) -- unless David accepted God's Gift of Messiah, Israel would be LOST.

   So Moses refused the kingdom, to save Israel; David accepted the kingdom, to save Israel. Notice how in both cases, you see a laying down of a crown. Moses lays down a crown he never picked up; David Picks Up The Crown In Order To Lay It Down. Which he does, to sever the connection to Israel who is disinherited for disobedience -- in order to JOIN her (join=levi) in Messiah.

   So when that Messiah comes down to join her -- and hence all mankind thru her, would she but consent -- He Too Lays Down His Crown. In favor, of a Cross.

   For if you love someone, you give your life, Roman 5:8. That's what Abram did. That's what Isaac did. That's what Jacob did. That's what Joseph did. That's what Moses did. That's what David did, so that's why Christ COULD. For if you love someone who hates you, you find another way to give your life, Ephesians 5. [It's pretty clear from 1Chron29 and the first half of 1Kings1, David was somewhat reluctant to give over the kingdom to Solomon. He had to be reminded of it, and sorta manipulated into doing something about the problem, by Bathsheba and Nathan. Anyone can understand why. Maybe that's why David is sick at the beginning of 1Kings1, because he wasn't doing anything? He sure gets well fast afterwards: compare 1Chron22:5 to 1Chron29. Some time had elapsed between the two, and I'd bet money 1Kings 1:1-39 (1Chron23:1 being parallel?) happened between those two Chronicles verses, followed quickly by the crowning in Jerusalem, 1Chron29:22.]

   God is consistent. Law Must Be Consistent To Be Fair. And it's UNfair to coerce volition. So how can you justify keeping a promise Your Chosen People, reject? Well, you must reject them, mirror back that rejection, Ruin after Dome after Rock after Wall after Book. Hoping the meanwhile, they might someday see while they keep bobbing and chanting, what they are Seeing But Not Seeing

   • at scheduled Sabbath times,
   • at Chanukah (abomination, Dan9:26), Passover (Dan9:25 & Exodus), Purim (Vashti and Haman);
   • and on any day, from the Wailing Wall and Dome:
     • Gen 33:10, 2Sam7:12-13, Ps17:15, Isa6:9, Eze8:6, Eze 40:4, Matt13:13-14, Matt15:31, Luke8:10, Acts 2:31;
     • Dan9:25-6, Matt24, Rev11:1;
     • because, Romans 9-11, it's obviously the times of the Gentiles due to Israel's Rejection, Luke 21:24.
   Providing the meanwhile, via the One Person Among Them Who Did Want That Promise, David; followed by, his Greater Son as promised in 2Sam7:12-13 -- though to be solo carrying that promise, was a cross too heavy to bear -- via that One Person, You execute Your Plan, hence execute Your Son, hence execute sin, hence execute salvation, so all those rejectors need not go to the kiln as their execution, forever.

Messiah has two kingships, as Book of Hebrews explains. David knew about both of them, writing Psalm 110 to show the pre-Israel Battlefield Royalty Kingship contracted between Father and Son before Son took on Humanity. It relates to defeating Satan in the Angelic Trial, and Book of Hebrews takes pains to show how Church derives from that Battlefield Royalty, not from Israel. But Israel had been the first one offered Brideship. For that eternity-past contract, required a Bride. The Kingship over Israel, did not. Hence to vest the Kingship in David -- specifically, a Forever-Ruling Son of David, so no progeny and hence no wife, waet doro mi yesoheh, Isa 53:8, "who can name any of His descendants?" (because there are none) -- is an unconditional promise from God. So Satan will try to kill all David's positive progeny, so that Messiah cannot arrive. No longer a 400-year slavery promise, merely. It's a death sentence, to be one of David's sons yet positive to God, from David forward. God likes danger.

With so much riding on him, David's successful completion is thus due a rather larger 490 and 1000 award than had been granted in the past. After all, the whole world depends on him, now. Hence David gets MULTIPLE 490s and 1000s; each one plays a major role in blessing/saving Israel via the Temple. GeneYrs.xls lists them: this #4 highlights their meanings. There are at least three pairs of 490s and 1000s based on David; perhaps four, which you can prove historically protected Israel and the world, given the events. GeneYrs.xls doesn't list the first pair (based on initial Hebron crowning), because I'm not yet sure God uses them. The four pairs are:

1. The 490 beginning when He's first crowned at Hebron in 1010BC, ends 520BC. A year prior, God sent Haggai to nag Zerubbabel with a humorous announcement that he was to be the foundation for the Savior Seed, on the 16th anniversary of the 2nd Temple's foundation-stone-laying date. So without this 490 as an upcoming deadline, Zerubbabel (who surely knew about it, as did Daniel his cousin) wouldn't have been in a hurry. Temple reconstruction resumed on 24 Elul, and didn't stop after that -- 24 Elul is three months before God told Zerubbabel the news about him being the Zeru (seed), compare Haggai 1:15 to Haggai 2:1 and 15-24. So first Zerubbaby got out of his slump -- and all Israel there with him -- and having voted 'blind', THEN God comes in reply. That's how this spiritual life works. You get information, that builds your faith, then you go through what seems a 'dark' experience, and then God answers. Just like in school, when you learn and then get tested.

2. The associated 1000 from 1010BC, ends 10BC. From God's perspective, the purpose of history is to reveal His Son and save mankind; to make mankind a gift to His Son, and to make His Son, a gift to mankind. Since Love never coerces volition, God Sovereignly chooses that the free will of man co-exist. As my pastor likes to put it, "The Sovereignty of God and the free will of man co-exist." So, to accomplish these objectives, when there is sufficient positive volition, God can thus justify 'moving heaven and earth', just as He promised Zerubbabel -- this time, for the entire human race. That's what happens here, from the beginning of the 2nd Temple.

   For the last five centuries BC, the net result of its history was a conversion from massive instability, to massive stability. Man generally needs peace in order to learn; after he's learned, he is tested with both adversity and prosperity. So, these five centuries set up the peace for man to learn; a common government, a common language, a stable and reasonably effective set of rules. Thus Greece rose and fell, taking over from Persia; thus Rome rose, taking over from Greece. So in the first century BC, when the Roman republic became too corrupt, it dissolved into a series of civil wars. One general after the next was called in to restore peace to civil-warring, Rome. The final such general was Julius Caesar, and his condition for saving Rome was that they appoint him dictator; opposition to him four years later resulted in his assasination, and in the ensuing competition for power afterwards, his nephew Octavian would finally emerge victorious to become the Emperor Augustus.

   Thus Rome finally had stability: it would last three more centuries. The Republic was never officially dissolved, but the Senate would never again have real power. Hence you see a kind of split personality in SPQR from this point forward; the territory Rome conquered was also carefully divided between imperial and senatorial provinces, to preserve a balance of power, to keep the Senate in its place. Imperial provinces were directly owned by the Emperor. Thus Rome effectively became an Empire circa 27BC.

   So by the 10BC blessing deadline, there was a stable Rome so that word of Messiah could spread with ease; so those positive to Him, could more easily travel to Jerusalem. Furthermore, by 40BC, due to his relationship with Rome and depite him always picking the wrong parties to back during Rome's many civil wars, Herod manages to get himself appointed first tetrarch and then King, of Judea. As a result, he can start reconstructing the Temple, which at that point was badly in need of repair. Herod's rulership was plagued with Jewish opposition to him; frankly, the Jews were unfairly opposed to him; they cared more about opposing Herod, than for Israel's welfare. So the irony was, Herod ended up being the preservation of Jerusalem and Israel, from 40BC onward. So by 10BC, the Temple sanctuary was finally finished that year at Herod's expense. Thus we see God used the Arab Herod, to finish reconstruction of key parts of the Jewish Temple, in time for Messiah's Birth.

3. The 490 beginning when he's made King over all Israel in late 1004BC rounded to 1003BC, ends 513BC. 2nd Temple couldn't have been built by 516BC, without it. That's another yardstick God used to tell Daniel He would authorize the Temple to be rebuilt.
4. The associated 1000 from 1003BC, ends 3BC. The Lord is born 25 Chislev 4BC. For the Davidic inheritance requires continuity within the 1000-year period beginning with the time David is King of all Israel, so David's Greater Son would have the same number of years as King. It's a heads-up proof of Messiahship, too. Only God could make Messiah born at the right time.

5. The 490 beginning when David Retired from Kingship in 970BC, ends 480BC. Jerusalem couldn't have been rebuilt, without it. For Jerusalem couldn't be rebuilt, absent the Temple's being rebuilt; during the 70-year voting period following the Temple's rebuilding, Israel was protected by the 2 Davidic 490's, plus the Davidic and Mosaic 1000s. The Mosaic 1000 would end 440BC: 1440BC-1000. The money flow for restoring the Temple and continuing its service, came from Persia; so there was justification for preserving Persia, since in effect some of its kings had voted to restore and protect the Temple. This justification mattered. For on the negative side, Persia was pretty hot to conquer the world; absent David's 490 protecting Israel, someone might have beat Persia. The Greeks actually did in 480BC, the year David's 490 from his Retirement, ran out. From that point forward, Persia's internal strife increased. But also -- except between 529-522BC, when a succession war raged in Persia -- its kings kept on voting to restore both Temple and Jerusalem, paying for it from the royal treasury. See what a difference positive volition makes, even in those who were probably unbelievers.
   It seems that, since the Mosaic 490 and 1000 were granted preceding the narrowing of the Time criterion to David; that, because Israel's 490 was really predicated upon Moses, since he had turned down God's offers of wiping out Israel and instead starting over with him; it thus seems, that both the Mosaic 490 and 1000 would still be in effect. Precedence is everything. However, since Israel broke its contract with God in 1050BC, I'm not sure whether that same Precedence would overrule. Clearly the continuance of Israel and the spiritual development of David was protected by the fact that Moses was the basis for the 490 granted Israel, even as the reason Messiah could come, was predicated based on David. So here, I'm assuming that the Mosaic 1000 remained in force. After all, Moses died before Israel rejected God as King.

6. The associated 1000 from 970BC, ends 30AD. His actual Crucifixion year. As Romans 5-9 and the entire Book of Hebrews explain, the Lord's Crucifixion Defeated Everything. So He became the Redeemer of Time itself. Hence Church, not Israel, becomes the source of the continuance of time. For the only time left Israel is owned by Messiah, now. His Life on this earth was shortened 7 years, so that seven years is owed Him personally. In effect, the Tribulation was thus converted from Israel's time, to His. So for Him, it plays. The Millennium, is His. Thus you know for sure that both the Millennium and the Tribulation are real and literal, never allegorical. So all the a-Tribulation, mid-Tribulation Rapture, end-Tribulation Rapture, and aMillennial doctrines pandered by so many in religion, are flat false. They don't balance to the Bible's allocation for time.

7. The 490 beginning when David died in 963BC, ends 473BC. Purim was in 474BC; had it succeeded, we'd all not be here. Here, the protection afforded by Moses' 1000 which ends 440BC, is somewhat overridden: because this is a voting period, historically. As you'll see for the year 473BC in GeneYrs.xls ("Timeline Worksheet" link at pagetop), the historical 7th 490 from Adam, ends only 7 years later, in 466BC. Therefore between 466 and 396BC, a historical voting window also occurs. Atop this, is God's voting-window decree for Jerusalem's rebuilding from an accounting basis of 586BC as He had the angel explain in Daniel 9:24-25. So Israel was in that second, special 70-year window from 516BC-446BC, which partly overlaps with the upcoming historical voting window. Thus positive volition in Israel was abnormally important for the continuation of time. Now you know why it was so important for Satan to deploy the Haman conspiracy to kill Jews: so not enough of them, could or would vote positively. Persecution has a habit of encouraging one to give up.
   If you'll recall, Purim means 'casting lots to see who we'll destroy on what day' -- "who" being the Jews, here -- that was a magic thing in Persian culture back then. The notices pointedly WENT OUT on Passover that all Jews were to be destroyed on exactly the same day as the notice, 12 months later (at end of year). How petty and cruel. So not only was the holiday ruined for Jews all over the empire, but they had a year's advance notice they were going to be slaughtered. Confiscation of property was hoped-for, obviously, with such a long lead time. Hitler must have learned something from Purim.

   Of course, the goal of killing Jews was pitched to Ahaseurus with the same old claim that Jews didn't honor the King, that their religion was perverse. Given the defeat in 480BC by Greece, Ahaseuerus wasn't too secure, politically. So he'd be more than normally dependent on his advisers. Handy thing: wipe out the hated Jews and control the King, all at that same time. So the King signed this "pur" decree which would take place at the end of the year. (Persian civil and Jewish sacred years ran roughly the same, which tells you much about the Jewish influence on Persia, since Daniel.) Yet by the time the dreaded day arrived -- 13-15 Adar, depending where you were in Persia -- the tables were turned, and it was the Jews who got to destroy their enemies. It was dicey until the end.

   All this came up perhaps because Esther was Jewish -- she had married Xerxes I in 478 -- given Mordecai's temporarily-bad behavior, always outside the palace gates, snubbing Haman, surely someone learned his relationship to Esther. For her part, she didn't tell the King she was Jewish, apparently? I don't see how he wouldn't have known that before he met her. I need to research that question better. In any event, the Temple, Jerusalem, and all Jews in Persia would have been wiped out, but for Mordecai and Esther proving to Xerxes 1, who his real enemies were. Well, they missed warning him about Artabanus, who murdered him.

   Purim is in Adar, "the sixth month" of the Jewish civil calendar (12th month, in the sacred calendar). Fittingly, it becomes the month of the Annunciation, Luke 1:26. PassPlot.htm's "Mosaic Law/Holiday Confluence on Christmas" link provides further details.

8. The associated 1000 from 963BC, ends 37AD. That was the outer limit of time itself, and its deadline is the ultimate basis for God's accounting in Daniel 9:24-27. See, in terms of years from Adam, 963BC+1000=4143 years after Adam's fall. So year 4200 is technically the end of the 4th 1050-unit of time from Adam. Its last 50 years are a voting period, so Messiah must finish no later than 50 years prior, 4150. But since David died in 963BC+1000=4143 years from Adam, one can't justify "4150" ever occurring: there's no personal time-grant 'house' lasting that long, to 'cover' it, except Christ Himself. At that point, only the Son of David, could buy time -- and that, contingent on Him completing His Mission before the 1000th anniversary of David's death, ends. Again, it's like a baton-carrying relay race. So the missing seven years (4150-4143=44AD-37AD) have to be assigned outside Israel's time, to even reach that 50-year window for world (i.e., Gentile) voting. That's why Father reserves 7 years for the Tribulation. Had Israel accepted Christ, the 50-year period would have become payable (it was beyond the 490, so couldn't be allotted in Dan9:25, but was promised via Pentecost and Jubilee). The total period was supposed to be 57 years, so David died right on time (57 depicted the sum of Passover week plus Pentecost's 50 days). But if Israel rejected Him, that 7 "bridge" couldn't play, and time would end. Of course, as it turned out her rejection also meant the deadline switched to 30AD, because she could vote down David's post-Kingship years, but not the time he alone had the legal standing to vote (i.e., as explained in #3e. above). So his retirement 1000 became the new deadline, since only he had the right to lay down his crown. The Lord did the same thing; so the kingship and payment, were not invalidated by Israel's negative vote. See: Bible's not kidding when it says (usually via Paul, but also in OT prophecies) that Messiah came at the END of time. Literally.

   This inability to bridge the gap in time -- never mind that we are unfaithful -- would be a major breach of faith; for God's many promises to the Gentiles, would go unfulfilled. Satan appears to win, for sure. For the second biggest set of prophecies in the Bible, second only to those about Messiah Himself, are about how the Gentiles will get the "Light". Isaiah especially, keeps harping on how the Jews are the only hope for the Gentiles to be saved. So there'd BE no "times of the Gentiles", until you can justify enough time to get from 4143 to 4150. Tribulation is needed, to span that time. Question was, how to justify its occurrence. Well, quite literally, it could only be justified in two ways: one, Israel accepts Christ and He dies by 37AD, with the Trib occurring contiguously (it would play over the last 40 years, but the 40 depends on the 7 for its existence). Or two, if Christ dies earlier, at the other protected window, the 490 running from David's Retirement -- which is seven more years earlier than the outside limit alloted in Daniel 9.

   For Daniel 9's protection is covered by the Temple 490 running from David as King, to get started (ending 513 and 480 BC, respectively), as we just saw above. But the 1000s protecting it are those of his Kingship's beginning (covering all the way to Christ's Birth) and his own death (a personal, not Kingly office 1000). So if Israel rejected Messiah as both their King and as a Person -- and they did -- then all that's left is the Temple 490 which depended on David, not on Israel.. and it ended 30AD, since that was both the 1000th anniversary of David's ABDICATION, and simultaneously, the outer limit of the original Temple, had it never been razed (950BC-490-490=30AD).

   Thus the original time track for the Temple, would be met as well. That would matter, since in rejecting Messiah, Israel is rejecting the Temple which Represents Him. Can't keep the Temple and the Land, if its Grantor is rejected. Now you know why the Temple had to be razed. See 1Kings 6:12-14, 9:6-9 for the contract linking all three together. Jews vaguely know that's why they lost the Temple back in 70AD. You should find stuff about their recognition, on the internet. They still reject that Christ was the Messiah. I don't know how they can do that, given the Bible's math and history. It's precise to the very DAY.

   That grant was given before Messiah came, and it was given to Daniel, who asked GOD for it; so it couldn't be nullified by rejection of Messiah in later generations. [Daniel follows the voting procedure of admitting Israel's sin, which was the OT version of our 1Jn1:9; then he acknowledges the 70 years, etc. Surprises me that no one else did this. God answers prayer, but He never does it if the proper protocol isn't followed. For, this is a Trial, and also Royalty means Protocol. So procedures must be followed. Our prayers aren't answered mainly because we don't follow the protocol. See GodSystem.htm #5, or the longer PrayProc.htm for the protocol. It's not hard. Takes but a second to do. Christians don't do it. But we are all Royal Priests, so we have the requisite authority granted from God. No unbeliever has that power. It's scary, how important we are!]

   Repeat: from the First Temple, the 490 ran thusly: 950-490-490=30AD. David's 1000th anniversary of Retirement also ended 30AD. Previously, we saw how that Retirement legally justified time's continuance, because the covenant God made with David was personal and unconditional. It's a Kingship covenant, but it's NOT conditional on Israel voting for him. So God grafts Israel into David via that Messiah-from-your-loins promise, not vice versa. For David must die, before the covenant is enacted. And he must abdicate BEFORE he dies.

   So if the Lord dies by the 1000th anniversary of David's Retirement/Abdication, then Israel's vote can't nullify the grant to David, since its connection to him got severed BY that Retirement. King still, but NOT politically over Israel. It's a personal Kingship. King without a kingdom, which kingdom depends on GOD's granting. The Lord of course is King by birth -- but still a King without a Kingdom, even at His Death. Now you know why Psalm 110:1 reads as it does. Father's telling Son He'll CREATE a Kingdom, now that Son has completed Father's Mission, the Cross. Right on time. It's crucial to the justification for the Cross, in the first place. For again -- a 1000 time grant requires that the next person to receive the baton, get it before the previous 'runner', runs out. So notice how the first meaning of the Cross, is to create a Kingdom for David's Greater Son. You don't think God would just save us out of maudlin sentimentality, do you? If the Son isn't the One Benefitted, there's no justification for saving us. None.

   So Messiah completes before the Davidic 1000-year retirement grant ran out; also, within the original timeline for the Temple, both of which ran out in 30AD. Whew.

   So when Israel rejected Christ, He thus died another 7 years early, 4136 years after Adam's Fall (=30AD): that way, His Successful Completion within the Davidic window justified a reset for ALL TIME by means of His Own Death. So from His Death forward, it's just a question of people being completed down here -- always required -- but we can't nullify the time grant. That's why there is no time limit on how long "Church" lasts. Whew.

   Well, whew in aggregate -- but there's no guarantee of time. Satan counts on that fact. That's another reason why you can't predict the Rapture. A Church believer's being granted a 490 (or 1000) still plays on the since-Adam principles, but there's no prophecy time given. That matters. Israel had fixed time grants in prophecy. It was up to God, to make sure those prophecies were fulfilled. But now, there's no fixed-time prophecy. It got used up, at the Cross. Instead, ours is a fixed-BODY numbers criterion, and since that's an internal spiritual development requirement of Eph4:13 -- for no one but God can read the soul -- it's not possible to predict when we will complete. Part IVb is dedicated to that body-count question. How Satan uses it to manipulate a Mistrial verdict is the main theme of PartIVc, and Part IVa deals with the Precedence Bridal Contract basis, to show that as always, VOTING is the central issue.

   Having paid, the Tribulation is assured by Messiah Himself. That seven years technically belongs to Him, since He gave up 7 allotted years of His Life (he was owed the same 40 years David received, but lived only 33 of them). Now, the grant of a 7 always means the grant of a 40 (precedence is Pharaoh of the Dream); so a 7 never plays apart from a 40, but is always within it. Thus during the "times of the Gentiles" which Christ bought to begin at Pentecost, Israel herself got 40 more years to live as a nation; with its second seven (4143-4136) being assigned at the end of that 40 (64-70AD siege of Jerusalem). Mirroring exactly, the 7-33 components of David's Kingship. In reverse, of course!

   Justice accounting is complicated, huh. And even more, vital to survival.

1. Thus begins another New Contract of God's Dwelling: "70 weeks" start over on the day the Temple is Dedicated. Language in 1Kings 6 and 9 to show this is quoted in the middle of the first white table of Part IVa, since that passage is the Contract regarding the Temple. If you read all of it you'll notice that Temple, Kingship, and Land are ALL ONE; can't lose the Temple, and retain either Kingship or Land. 1Kings 6:1 deliberately dates the Temple building from the Exodus. There was a hiatus between the time the temple was finished, and the Day it was Dedicated (1Kings8:1ff) by Solomon. Text 1Kings 6-8 and 2Chron3-5 shows a gap. Furthermore, the reason for 1Kings 7 is to explain that there is a gap between Temple completion and Dedication, due to Solomon's building his own structures; Temple is built, first; but it isn't dedicated until Solomon finished building his own structures (which fact will be wryly used by Haggai to Zerubbabel when the later builds housing first -- see Haggai). When you add the two periods together, you get 950BC as the dedication date (970-20, see 2Chron 8:1 and 1Kings 6:1, 37-38, 1Kings 7:1). The interval 1440-950 is a 490 set. So the Nation 490 now ties to the Temple 490.

   It really matters how you date two things: 1) the commencement of Solomon's reign, for he was twice affirmed as King while David was still alive, according to 1Chron29:22 (at Jeru), compared with 1Chron 23:1 and 1Kings 1:33-34 (the first crowning, at Gihon). The period between 1Chron22:5 and 1Kings 2:12 seems to be the Adonijah revolution and the healing from it. Looks like David made the announcement appointing Solomon king in 970, but didn't actually crown him; rather, the announcement was in advance, to motivate people to gather and give stuff to help Solomon build the temple; 1Chron22:5 being the gist of what he had said then, but á la Deut, he recounts it just prior to the 2nd crowning, after the revolution; the Gihon crowning 1Kings1:33-34, being what ended the revolution. 1Kings 1-2 shows the aftermath of the 1st or 2nd crowning, I'm not sure which -- but probably after the 2nd crowning.

   1Kings 6:1, the "fourth year of King Solomon" references Solomon's reign from after David's death in 963, because Shimei was finally executed the year before (see end of 1Kings 2), and that was in the 3rd year after David's death, upon which Solomon consolidated his solo rule. So the 40-year count in 1Chron29:26-27 and 1Kings2:11 ends with David's turning over power to Solomon. 40 years of Solomon are 970-930; the "fourth year" clause in 1Kings 6:1 follows naturally from the 3rd year when Shimei was executed. So now the reader knows that 2Sam7:12-13's promise is being fulfilled (promise that after he dies, the Temple will be built -- see Solomon reference it in 1Kings 8:20). So from 970 until David's death, David was busy designing the priesthood and other Temple matters; Solomon was busy building other things, and the furniture etc. for the Temple-to-come were being made. That would explain why only 7 years were accounted to its building, from 960-953; everything else was prepared off-site or built in advance, pending David's death. 1Kings 6-7, 2 Sam24:18ff, 1Chron 21:18ff, 1Chron 3:1ff, 2Chron8:1 shows the scoping out of the grounds, planning, and many other activities preceded the actual digging of the foundation, and building. The period 953-950 is another hiatus, from completion to dedication. Which makes sense, given the wall hangings and carvings: you wouldn't make those until last (lest they become dirty); they would take some time to make.

   Next dating issue: 2) the commencement to build the Temple. We know per 1Ki6:1, it's 960BC, which is the 480th year since the Exodus. The LXX of 1Ki6:1 says 440th, probably because they don't count the period in the wilderness (it's lost time), and are thus dating the count from the time Israel entered the Land. LXX verse next says Solomon began ordering the costly unhewn stones for the foundation, and that the sons of Solomon and Hyram hewed them; which we saw in Chapter 5 (i.e., writing the King of Tyre, his cousin Hyram, see also 2Chron 1&2 -- notice how he writes of David in past tense) in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. End of 1Kings 6 makes it clear this ordering period took less than a year; building time proper was exactly 7 years, so the other six months was occupied in getting materials: compare 1Ki6:37-38. Text in that verse says Temple was completed in the 8th month of his 11th year, thus 7.5 years had elapsed, measured from the procurement stage rather than from the digging-foundation date of 2 Ziv. For more on how 1Kings6:1 tells you David's death age, click here.

   So in 950 BC, you have again a unity of King (under Solomon, a king God wanted), of Temple (here, dedicated, now permanent structure) and of Nation (all Israel is united). However, that triple unity will only last another 20 years. Bible language in Kings helps you track the King 490, i.e., when God says He will nonetheless honor the Davidic line in order to honor David. So that tells you no new kings are 'adding' to the timeline (not even Solomon, given 1Kings 11:28ff); so they are largely apostate. So notice that by the time of Hoshea (Samaria), that language is no longer used. Again, in Jeremiah's day, by Chapter 25 that language is no longer used. And there are No More Kings after 586BC. God had offered conditional guarantees to the kings, which might have resulted in additional king 490s, potentially. But there were no takers. After the 20 years ends, there's no one. David will thus be the sole basis for blessing not only by contract, but in fact. That spells trouble for Israel and the world. Satan must have been gleeful.

2. Temple destroyed, 586 BC, due to Israel's continuing apostacy. Israel continued to exist as a nation because of Moses alone; then Caleb and Joshua; then, finally, David. But still its apostacy persisted too long and too much. Hence 950BC-586=364 years, 126 years SHORT of completion.

   Most of the Old Testament was written during this time. The United Kingdom didn't survive Solomon. So split into "Israel" aka "Samaria", and "Judah". The former kingdom was far more apostate, and lasted until circa 722BC; those positive to God moved into Judah during Samaria's decline. During the last battle, in a rear guard action the few faithful fought their way out, as I remember my pastor explaining Samaria's gruesome end. Much of the first third of Isaiah is about the interaction between Samaria and Judah, so that the latter 'sister' didn't succumb to the same fate. Language is extremely abrasive, in Isaiah: very graphic in Isa28, lambasting the drunken parties Samaria kept having under the shadow of invasion, like the Titanic band playing while the ship sank. Judah faced continuous pressure ever since that time, and in fact both kingdoms had been paying tribute (mostly by robbing the Temple) for a good hundred years, even when both kingdoms were still alive. By the time you get to Elijah and Elisha, the knowledge of God is so absent, these two are called "man of God". Wonder-workers. So it's easy to understand how they couldn't even make it through the 490 years.

   You're "positive to God" if you want to know Him for Himself. Not, for His Goodies. There's no way to fake interest in something. If you are interested, you want to know more and more and more about the object, and the Difficulty In Learning Is No Hindrance To That Interest. Doesn't mean you won't get frustrated. Does mean you won't want to give UP. By contrast, when interest is lacking, disinterest reckons in terms of 'price'. So when the 'price' gets too high, the interest turns off (usually making an excuse). Sin and failure notwithstanding, true interest can't be driven away by price arguments. So, if a person has real interest, the 'price' argument becomes less effective, over time. So, when one is "positive to God", he will bethink himself 'bad' every time a price argument knocks him down. And, will get up again. By contrast, the one lacking interest will eventually feel quite smug about saying no. So most of the world has this sense of smugness, and crafts more palatable ideas of God than the Infinite, Righteous, and most of all Loving, Real God. Price is too high, see.

   Conclusive proof of this fact is that everyone expresses relationship with God, however they believe, whatever their faith -- in terms of PRICE. Good behavior, good deeds, platitudes and rote things, taboos and days and all manner of do's. Stuff you DO. I do for you, you do for me. That's disinterest talking. Maybe largely ignorance, too (you have to grow UP before you can even love at a human level, and most people, don't grow up even humanly). Still, it's childish at best; and disguised apathy, typically. Point is, however "God" is defined, we set a price on the relationship. So no matter what definition of God we espouse, the "price" is a dead giveaway we really don't want Him for Himself.

   God doesn't fault us for our disinterest. Your big clue this is so: the Gospel. It's BELIEVE or BURN. So if you are at least interested in NOT burning, you will BELIEVE. From there, your interest may drop back to its normal subzero level, but at least you're going to heaven. Or, you might later become interested, and since now a spiritual being (though you can't feel that and certainly won't act it), you can learn more. By contrast, if you are so calloused that the BURN message doesn't even interest you, then you die HOSTILE. Even, to yourself. For, the one common characteristic of all people in hell, is their self-righteousness. See the guy in Luke 16:20ff, how he hates God (so much, he won't even think of Him, and instead talks to Abraham as if Abraham were God, trying to manipulate Abraham's pity). They like the pain: it feeds their egoes. So, that's their idea of 'heaven'. They aren't worse people, compared to other humans. They are, however, getting what they want.

   Nobody goes to hell who didn't reject the Gospel knowingly, and for a prolonged and constant lifetime. Nobody. When you read the bloody Second Advent passages like Isa63, where the people dying have the flesh rotting off their bones while looking at Christ Coming, you realize that -- hey, no one dies without knowing He's God. God is consistent. If He'll display Himself and then slowly kill people while they look at Him -- so obviously, they can believe in time, before they actually finally die -- then that's His policy with respect to everyone. 2Pet3:9, "not willing that anyone should perish" is the policy stated clearly, even in translation. No exceptions.

   So next, pretend you are God. You see all this teeming, weltering, Ezekiel 16:6 humanity, imagining itself serving You. Among them, a few persons, just as weak, just as weltering, actually -- miracle of miracles -- want to know you AS You. Just because. They aren't better than the others for that, but they really do want to know You. What do you do? Well You love them all, of course. But you are Love, so you don't coerce. So you aren't coercing, by giving those who really want You for Yourself.. Yourself. That's what happens in the human race, every day. That's why there was an Abram, that's why there IS an Israel, that's why YHWH, hayah hawa'd, why God the Son .. BECAME! The Christ. So that's why we are breathing. So to keep on having the chance to know Him. We thus owe Israel, much.

   So the fact that Israel didn't last but 364 years, well.. it's amazing she lasted that long. We humans are all the same. And it's really difficult to want a relationship which, as Isaiah puts it, is "without money, and without price" (Isa55). That means Free -- and it means no cost is too high. Oooooh: we don't like free, that means there's no PRICE. So, that's really why man can't stomach a relationship with the Real God. Let's not kid ourselves that there's some (ego-salving) other reason.

So here's a summary of God's Decree that the 2nd Temple BE!

1. New Temple 490 begins 516BC. So the next increment to play, the 70 Temple years, begin also in 516BC, running to 446BC. It's a mirroring, since the Temple got rebuilt in time. It's also the 70-year tack-on to a 490, playing in REVERSE. Because, when the time ends, Messiah ends, and RESETS time. So there won't BE a tack-on at the end. So it's mirrored, playing upfront. According to Nehemiah and Ezra, the Temple was completed in the 6th year of Darius, aka 516BC, dedicated on 3 Adar, which is the last month of sacred Jewish year and Persian civil year. (Ezra 1:1-6:15; search on "6th Year of Darius" in Neh.) Jerusalem is rebuilt finally by 446BC, 25 Elul. Wall rebuilt 20th year of Artaxerxes Longimanus, aka Ahasuerus, see Book of Nehemiah. Prophecy of Jeru being rebuilt is in Zechariah, passim. [Doesn't seem like we have a full copy of the Book of Ezra in translation. But the dates will be valid.]
2. The 7 Temple weeks come next, beginning in 446, going until 397BC. Israel, finally herself again, starts to go rabidly apostate; so much so, Malachi is there warning everyone. Nehemiah, too.
3. The 62 Temple weeks follow last, beginning 397. So it should be no surprise that the last book of the OT, Malachi, is written circa 433BC, distributed within the next 40 years.

1. THE CHRIST is BORN in the 1000TH ANNIVERSARY OF DAVID'S CROWNING over all Israel, maybe on that very day, 25 Chislev 4BC, to parents who are BOTH the highest-ranking Davidic royalty alive at that point. In short, had there been a kingship, they would have been King and Queen, see Haggai 2 and then compare with Matt1 and Luke 3. For there to be 1000 years mirrored as promised since David testified at Solomon's investiture (end 1Chron), Messiah must be born at the end of the previous 1000. Can't have a 2nd 1000 play, if not piggybacked on the 1st. He's thus born 1003BC - 1000 = 3BC, really at the end of 4BC on the Roman calendar. It's actually Chanukah's first day in 4BC that He's born. PassPlot.htm walks you through the Bible verses and the math. [I can't prove David's crowning date yet, but the Lord's Birthdate is sure.]

   The Real Passover Plot of 30AD proves He's Messiah! CLICK HERE for the "PassPlot" webpage.

2. Gets the SAME 40-YEAR REGNAL PERIOD as David had, because per Daniel 9, you knew 37AD would be the ending, tops.
3. ANNOUNCES HIMSELF at age 30, same age as David was when crowned at Hebron, Luke 4:19.
4. WAITS FOR THE VOTING, just like David did. Doesn't impose Himself, doesn't ASK to be crowned.
5. IS ARRESTED on true 10 Nisan, nominal 14 Nisan, 30AD, so could EAT the Passover yet BE the Passover. Is "set aside" by being arrested. Um, it shouldn't have to be said, but Christ didn't arrest Himself in order to comply with true Passover law that the Lamb be set aside on 10 Nisan. Jewish calendar was running fast 4 days that year, had not been intercalated (per paraskeué verses, see PassPlot.htm, link follows below). Um, Christ didn't control the intercalation of the calendar, either.
6. DIES ON TRUE PASSOVER before sundown (between 3-4pm): 18 Nisan was the nominal date, 14 Nisan was the real date, had calendar been properly intercalated that year. Um, Christ didn't nail Himself to a Cross and then crucify Himself on this day, to fulfill prophecy.
7. DIES WHEN HE'S 33, so has the same number of years on earth as David ruled over all Israel. For Messiah was BORN a King. Um, it shouldn't have to be said, but Christ didn't CAUSE His Own Death to make this convergence happen.
8. DIES in the 1000TH ANNIVERSARY of DAVID'S ABDICATION of Kingship, and for the same reason.
9. DIES in what would have been the END OF THE SECOND 490 awarded to the FIRST TEMPLE, had it never been razed.
10. DIES on the 1470TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORIGINAL PASSOVER to the very DAY. 1470= 490x3.
11. HE'S THE TEMPLE, AND HE IS RAZED, RISING AGAIN 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS LATER, just as He told everyone He would. Um, a human being cannot resurrect himself.
12. 33 YEARS POST-CRUCIFIXION, ISRAEL RECEIVED THE 7 YEARS 'TRIBULATION' penalty for killing their Messiah -- truncation due from the 37AD period when He should have died, minus the year they actually killed Him (30AD). That's when the siege of Jerusalem began, mildly and fitfully, 64AD. (Some date it 66-73AD, but they set all years forward 3 to adjust out the discrepancy in our BC/AD calendar. As you'll see in GeneYrs.xls, there's no discrepancy to adjust, and we can't fix our calendar.)

13. 33=His Age, and David's period of rule over all Israel. "7" represented the previous civil war period, when David was king of Judah but not all Israel, since they had voted "no". So, it was a civil war again, from 64-70AD (terrible infighting among Jews in Jerusalem, see Josephus). So notice how it's a MIRROR REPLAY connected to CHRIST'S PERSONAL YEARS, and He's dead at this point, so obviously isn't influencing anything. No Christian can manipulate Time. This is math, not an "interpretation" of a Bible verse.

14. 40 years post-Crucifixion, the 2ND TEMPLE is DESTROYED, with the timeline running from Passover to 9th Ab, the SAME 57 DAYS AFTER PENTECOST, AS are measured FROM PASSOVER TO PENTECOST: Pentecost represents the harvesting of the Gentiles. Can't miss the meaning that they missed the harvest. Um, Christians didn't cause the Year of the Four Emperors, which required Titus to suddenly get hasty with the siege, so he could bring home a triumph to his adopted dad, the newly-appointed Emperor Vespasian. Christians thus did not cause the final stage of the siege to begin on Passover and end on 9th Ab, 70AD. Notice how it doesn't matter whether the calendar was intercalated. The same double-57 count is based on whatever is nominal 14 Nisan that year.

15. 57 DAYS IN THE MOSAIC LAW REPRESENT THE 57 YEARS which were needed post-Messiah, to reach the end of the 4th 1050 from Adam and begin the Millennium, had Israel accepted Messiah when He came. That would have been a 37AD then 44AD then 94AD spread, with the Trib beginning 87AD, and Mill beginning 94AD, probably on Pentecost. Um, we're WAY past that date. More about these dates will be said in #8-10., below.

16. 70 YEARS POST-2ND TEMPLE, A PIG TEMPLE stands over the Holy of Holies, and Jerusalem has been renamed AELIA CAPITOLINA, a pig name. Abomination of what Chanukah -- His Birthday! represented in Daniel 8, plus the future 9:27 stares everyone in the face, metaphorically. Um, Christians didn't rebuild Jerusalem and establish this pagan Roman Temple.

17. 685AD, the REVERSE of 586BC, another ABOMINATION goes under construction, the Dome of the Rock -- "Rock" meaning the Holy of Holies, the bedrock on which Isaac was almost-sacrificed, but the Koran claims it was Ishmael. It is constructed over the same 7 year period as for each the 1st and 2nd Temples (2nd Temple's total construction years were 7, hiatus in between), ending in 691AD. Um, 685 is also the sum of 99 (when Abraham was circumcised) and 586 (year of 1st Temple's destruction). Um, Islam is not about proving the Bible and the Jewish Savior correct, and itself a pack of lies.

• He announces His Messiahship when He attains age 30, same age and manner as David did at Hebron (2Sam5:4, compared to Luke 3:23). Because David's 1000th death anniversary is approaching, the Jubilee is approaching: the 50 year voting period that is to this time, end all history. So the Lord's arrival is the announcement of the coming of Jubilee, the Millennium.
  This shouldn't have to be said, but the Millennium is a promise to the JEWS. It's not a Christian thing; we're part of it, but we don't get that inheritance; we co-rule with Him over Gentile nations during that time. That 1000 years is a promise to the Jews, and it will play, for God keeps His Promises. He Himself, is Jewish, and as Jewish King He came to the Jews. So the entire message is to the Jews, about the Jews. Gentiles can get in on it if they want to. But remember the origin: this is Jewish. We Church were not originally even supposed to exist. And our existence is largely used to return the Jews to their rightful inheritance. That we end up being Royal Family is of course a boon to us. But we'd not even have that chance, had Israel not rejected Him. Point is, the Jubilee is for them. Then, and still. God help any Christian who's anti-semitic because they rejected Him, k?

• He lives 33 years = number of years David reigned over Jerusalem (2King2:11) = number of years the Lord reigned in First Advent (by God's appointment, not man's). Three Passovers are recorded by John, to show you the number of years He was 'public', so 30+3=33. Other Gospel writers use more sophisticated methods and Roman-and-Sanhedrin related data, to show you how much time passed.
• He dies on the 1470th anniversary of the Exodus, a point which John sarcastically stresses in his usage of the Greek term paraskeue. PassPlot.htm goes through the six paraskeue verses in the NT, so you can see how you're told the Jewish calendar ran four days fast that year, thus the Lord dies on the true (but not nominal) Passover, just as that holiday long predicted He'd do. Set aside four days earlier (arrested), then on what should have been the high sabbath -- but was not, because the lunar calendar wasn't updated -- He is slain before sundown, Lamb of God. PassPlot.ham goes through all those verses and the math, so you can test it.
• Not to mention, the 900 prophecies about Him all play out; most of these concern items over which He and his disciples had no control; many were embarrassing things over which they'd wish they had control, like how they'd abandon Him (sheep scattering when Shepard struck, etc); how He'd die childless (hence unmarried, duh) as Isaiah explained in Isaiah 53:8-12, something to do with wood and piercing, so far as Israel knew. And per Isaiah, whoever ruled Israel at that time, has Him killed; so clearly His disciples wouldn't do that. Only a few prophecies were items Messiah would have to invoke, like coming into Jerusalem on a donkey. Most were what others would do to Him, say about Him, His lineage, etc. (Sidebar: note that two prototypical 'anti-christs' were involved, Rome and Sanhedrin -- mirroring what would become the later Rev12-13 descriptions, which tie back to Daniel 9-12.)
• As a result, He's cut off in order to cut a New Covenant -- nice Hebraic play on words, that Dan9:26b.
• In short, if you know your Old Testament, you can audit Him, either then or now; you can add up the facts and see whether He was a charlatan or really the Son of God, as long foretold (i.e., in David's wry Psalm 110:1). That's what you were supposed to do, audit anyone who claims to be Messiah. For there had been hundreds of false ones, throughout Israel's history. And still are. But math never lies, doesn't have a political agenda, can't balance if interpreted wrongly, and most important -- is all in THE BIBLE. In writing. Contract. Promise. Sevening.

• So His Death ends up being 30AD by our calendar; which just happens (yeah, right) to be: the end of the remaining 62 weeks, minus the 7 years which now have to be lopped off, since Israel rejected Him; so He dies on the 1000th anniversary of David's 970BC Retirement. Specifically, His Death makes for a shortened year, since Passover begins the Jewish year: 14 days short, to be exact. Exodus is Israel's birth as a nation, so Passover is the First Feast, beginning due to preparations, on the 10th of Abib/Nisan; but the Lord dies on the fourth day of Unleavened Bread, a "3-4 hiatus" illustration! So it's a shortened week, a shortened year (hint hint).

• Sorry, no Jew could miss all this convergence. You'd have to work at it, not to notice. It's like looking at the calendar, seeing it's Wednesday, and pretending it's Friday. So they didn't miss the convergence, they covered it up. Everyone did this, not just the few in the Sanhedrin who browbeat and otherwise threatened the rest into submission. For the truth is, none of us can cope with the knowledge that God is Real, and He loves us. Our sin nature in Adam, won't allow it. So we plotted against Him, back then. We plotted against seeing, we plotted against knowing, we plotted against others who might actually want Him.

• Had we 'been there' during those years, We'd Have Done The Very Same Thing. In fact, we have the audacity to call it "Good Friday", when it WAS Wednesday that He was crucified, Bible is bald about that: He rises on the "first day of the week", and will be in the grave "three days and three nights". Um, that's Wednesday, since the first day of the week is Sunday. So the RCC has been covering up for 18 centuries, and its dating is completely screwed up. Bible is plain there's a hiatus of 4 days between arrest and Crucifixion, just as the Passover Law required. But is there even one Bible movie or documentary which shows that? No! So um, we are covering it up, too. For as long as the dates are screwed up, the Bible looks either wrong or so obtuse, you must rely on the 'experts'. See the power play? So why wouldn't the Jews cover it up, as well? Like Isaiah says, we are all sheep going astray.

• Jews are hung up on numbers, facts, dates, law. It's a full-time job just to orchestrate your day around the Kaluch3 calendar from aish.com (great calendar, but of course Judaism gets the years-from-Adam and Omer counting wrong). When you are raised in the Jewish faith, you always learn little catchy proverbs and songs about 1 this, 3 that, 7 this, 5 that; then you sing or chant them to show off for your relatives at Passover, Chanukah, Purim. For the numbers represent Torah concepts. The Hebrew alphabet itself, each letter, represents a number. Kabbalah is all about numbers and hidden messages. Yet here in plain sight is the most phenomenal number convergence, and no Jew notices that today?

• Jews chant Torah every Saturday. You go through it over a year, each Saturday being a set of verses such that by the time you get to the END of that year, you've chanted the whole Torah. So at least once a year, David's dates and regnal periods are chanted; Daniel 8 is chanted; Daniel 9 is chanted. So in Daniel 9, notice that the only uncertainty in the timeline is How Long Messiah Lives. His Life length wasn't explicitly predicted because there were two possible outcomes, Israel's acceptance.. or rejection. But the Deadline For Completion is stated, and clearly: if He didn't complete His Task before the 69 weeks completed, then history would end. End, in 37AD. Not later. Pilate was out of office by 37AD, and it's Tacitus who also records that Pilate crucified "Chrestus". Moreover, in retrospect we can see God patterned His lifetime to David's consolidated kingship period, since the King 490 must be over ALL of Israel, not just the parts that accept the King. So even if the Jews mistakenly think David died in 970 (and they do, as did Josephus), and thus misdate the conclusion of Daniel 9's timeline, well -- 1000 years AFTER that, is when Christ WAS crucified. That, too, is another blatant hint as to the fact Messiah has Come And Left And Was Rejected. Honestly, how can God make the Truth plainer, than all these converging numbers! Much more provable than some 'miracle' people pant after, like loaves and fishes.

• At the Session 10 days before Pentecost 30AD, Messiah is like David was, when newly crowned (in heaven, though): waiting for His Enemies to become the Footstools of His Feet, Ps110, another passage every Jew chants at least once per year. David's first seven years' rule was over Judah and Hebron only, the first week; notice how Passover Week and David's first seven years are parallelled. So, that double-entendre characterizes the last week of Jewish preMillennial history, the Tribulation, 70th week of Dan9:27. So we NOW are in Daniel 9:26, provably. So much so, even SATAN gets into "Bible is from the Real God" advertising business. When Satan wants to 'help out', you know we're truly blind, huh. Watch how blind, in what follows.

  This Dan9:26 period is thus a time bubble of no fixed duration, Church having been inserted. Yet, it's still analogous to the fact that some but not enough, of Israel believed in the King of Israel who is the Last 'David', when He came down here and paid for our sins. Which was also the time it took Solomon to build the Temple; so now, the time it takes to Rejustify Building The Millennial Temple; which thus pre-justifies a temple of believers (Church, Eph2) being readied FOR the Millennium, being built "Now"! David ruled a total of 40 years; over united Israel, for 33 years. David waited 7 years to consolidate his kingship. So the Tribulation is analogous to the period 1010BC-late 1004BC. But, playing in reverse order, since mirroring David: David's rulership played 7 then 33; Christ's plays 33 then 7.

  Leave it to Satan to copycat this same 7-year, building-Temple Grace provision; to mirror God's accounting units of blessing, and -- admiringly -- tell the world who God really is. Again, Dome of the Rock was built between 685AD and 691AD, 7 years! Oh, and did you notice that 685 reverses the digits of 586? Which thus is 'obeyed', lol by constructing this Abomination of Desolating, Dome? Oh, and let's not forget that 70 sabbatical years have to be counted just like between 586-516BC, so let's mirror them by having 615 (reversal) AD be the Year Mohammed begins to gather people (parallelling the Jews going back to Jerusalem to build the 2nd Temple). And, for good measure, since Abram was 99 when he was circumcised, tack on 99 years to 586(BC) so that an Abominated Temple would be over that rock Abram trusted and almost-sacrificed Isaac on. Lasting even to this day, just as predicted way back in Daniel 9:26!

  Daniel's "abomination of desolation" has already been repeated so often, you'd think we Jews and Arabs and Christians, would catch on by now:

  1. First was Nebuchadnezzer, duh. Maybe that was 490 years after Samson pulled down the Dagon temple and died, not sure yet.
  2. Next came Antiochus IV Epiphanes, circa 167 or 168BC. Um, that's 430 years after Nebuchy baby first besieged Jerusalem (he besieged it three times, but the last two were enslaving). Does 430 ring a bell, Exo12:40-41? [if you transpose the 8 and 1, you get a mirror of something in Ahab's reign; Ahab was the worst of Samaria's kings, and did fake temples (to Baal, mostly); so the content of what the later Antiochus did is very like what happened under Ahab -- but I don't have time to research it and see what is specifically being mocked.]
  3. Titus, 70AD. (Cute -- the 2nd Temple's longevity mirrors the date of the 1st Temple's destruction.)
  4. The Roman temple after the Bar Kochba revolution, circa 140AD. (mirroring 70 AD, occurring about 70 years later, Wake UP, people!)
  5. Constantine, another Greek 490 years after Antiochus, tried to rebuild the Temple, but it didn't work.
  6. Justinian attempts to rebuild the Temple. (GIbbon talks about this, and there's stuff on the internet.)
  7. 490 years after Aelia Capitolina, both the Romans AND the Persians tried to rebuild the Temple between 600AD and 630AD (630-490=140).
  8. Up pops Mohammed, 610AD. Nicely manages to die in 632 when the 630AD rebuilding, doesn't pan out.
  9. So the Dome, begun 685AD, is the latest "abomination", and remains to this day, just as the Lord warned would happen in Matt24; the abomination yet-to-come, will replace the structure that the Dome now occupies, and will appear to be "the" Temple (i.e., pretending Messiah has come, replete with talking statue to replace the Two Witnesses -- see Rev11, 13). Hence the warning in Matt24 about not believing those who claim Messiah has returned (since the OT prophecies about the Temple rebuilding all say only Messiah will rebuild it, viz., Eze39ff). Note that: one long string of attempts to take over that Petra (Rock which constitutes the heart of the Holy of Holies), which represents Christ. Proving oh so cogently how all us prophecy buffs and Kabbalah Krunchers Don't Read Our Bibles!

  Satan's games are many: he satirizes God's construct of Time by scheduled religious ploys. You can see him do this historically:
  • as we just saw with respect to Israel's calendar dates related to Temple,
    • Purim, the notices to destroy the Jews going on ON Passover, Esther 3:12ff;
    • 1st (and 2nd) Temple's construction and destruction;
    • Antiochus (Chanukah);
    • Aelia Capitolina;
    • Constantine;
    • Rome vs. Persia wars in Jerusalem;
    • the hegira (Islam's own official 622AD date 'just happens' to be 490 years after Bar Kochba revolution began -- cute, huh);
    • Dome of the Rock.
  • with respect to the originally-scheduled Millennium and John's Revelation, the Crusades;
  • then, within 120 years of a 490's ending, he 'plays' Islam throughout its history (charted in GeneYrs.xls, too many entries to list here).
  • The 'discovery' of 'evolution' and "Book of Mormon" were timed based on a tandem rollout of the biggest treasure trove of original-language Bible manuscripts since the 1st century AD. It was this rollout which broke up state religion in the 19th century; the aftershocks are still occurring, and we are in the midst of another 'Reformation': the fourth, if you call Israel the First and Cross, the Second. Human history is a long Reformation out from the tyranny of religion which Satan authored in Gen 3, basically.

    Part II (its "in the beginning.. Man" link) and the Appendix (link at page top), cover Satan's strategy and tactics in other respects. GeneYrs.xls shows some timing of his post-Cross satires. Part IVa (passim) covers some of his satirization as well. [Appendix link at pagetop is about Satan's strategy of reversing everything God says or is. This reversal is accomplished in characteristic ways, diagnosable like a fingerprint. When playing anagram games, the key letters or numbers are reversed to make the anagram; in Bible translation, features of the original language are reversed in translation, and deftly. Very witty. Prepositional meanings are reversed (ek and min mean OUT from, not "in", eis is reversed in Rom10:10, Jas4:5's pros should use accusative of hostility); subjects and objects are reversed (e.g., Rom12:2), nouns or verbs are reversed to make God look bad (Mark 3:5, Gen3:11);and most of all, when God is the ACTOR, the translation reverses it to man being the actor (1Cor1:5, all of 1Cor13 via 12:31's huperbole, Jas 2:22, etc). Every verse in translation has some kind of reversal in it. Even the begats reverse the meaning of "begat" (men don't beget, men SIRE; only women beget). I'd not believe Satan&Co. were so mocking and venomous, if I didn't see the pettiest surgical precision in the way they reverse Bible in translation. No translator would be smart enough to do this.

    So, I wondered -- and found -- many reversals in the Koran, too: here are some of the simpler, conceptual ones you can even see in translation. Christ is made to play John the Baptist to Mohammed (Koran claims Christ announced Mohammed's coming, lol)); yet the messenger Mohammed, has a Second Coming! Red heifer sin offering is turned into a Golden Calf in the Cow sura, with no one the wiser. Etc. Satan at least tries to key Islamic dates to mimic and play off God's dating system. After all, Arabs are protected by God under Gen12 and Gen16:16! Even Arabophiles like Sir John Glubb (and those who write articles on Islam in Encyclopedia Britannica) notice the propitiousness of Mohammed's sudden call, coming as it did just when Christendom had decimated itself and Persia. Gee: wonder why. 610-586=24, which was probably when John the Baptist started his ministry (he was killed circa 27AD, soon after the Lord's ministry began; so John had to have been at least 3 years' preaching, by the time he died). So, Satan, using the longevity of the 2nd Temple or the BC destruction date of the First, or both -- kindly sends his own mouthpiece, Mohammed.

    Islam's official date for the hegira is 622AD, which they call "year 1" on their calendar. However, looking into the Hadith you can derive other ways to count it. Derisive play on God's 490 results with the alternatives, too. Example: hegira could be dated 620AD, if you date it by when negotiations with Yathrib began, or when Mohammed&Co. actually left Mecca -- begun, is 620, per Encyclopedia Britannica's biography of Mohammed, p.607 Vol.12, 1985. Note that if you add 620 to the Exodus date (1440), you get Isaac's birthdate mirrored (2060). Yet "Ishmael" (=God heard/hears the prayer), is born 2074BC (Gen16:16, see also Gen17:20-23), and Satan's not playing off his birthdate! Good thing, too: for Ishmael would have been too old to be sacrificed on the Rock (would have been long married, since Isaac himself was in his 20's when Abraham went up that mountain with him). So by playing this dating game, the satanic joke is to supercede the Promise to the son of Abraham, get it? Lots of games like that: if you read the Koran you see the satire, big-time. The Hegira mocks Exodus (Moses 'negotiating' with Pharaoh, so Mohammed 'negotiates' with Mecca and Medina); the Muslim thieving of the caravans mocks Israel getting all that booty on exit from Egypt, and its wandering in the wilderness; also mocks David's wandering bands who protected Israel, etc. Again, there's enough convergence to see something deliberate is being done, though the components and their measurements might be somewhat differently configured, from what's here stated.]

• So the New Covenant's first 40 years, which begin 30AD (since He Successfully Finished) are like Israel's going out from the Exodus. And also, like Israel under Saul (1050BC-1010BC), nested; playing also in reverse order (a point Paul allusively makes, in Acts 13:20; which is hysterical, since Paul's original name IS Saul). Again, can God make this punning replay of Israel's FAMOUS periods, more obvious? We learn from Bible that we learn nothing from Bible. Who needs all those OT signs, when we have the "signs of the times!"

  Technically speaking, the Church has its own covenant; so it's a double-entendre "new". Again, Christ has TWO Kingships, the first one dating from Eternity Past, Psalm 110. So we are under that Kingship, NOT His King of Israel Royal Patent. Look: the Queen of England is also Queen of Canada. Um, Canada is NOT England. So Church is NOT Israel. They are separate Royal Patents with separate kingdoms and peoples. Just so happens that the person ruling them, is the same person. But only the ruler is the same. Those "Christian Identity" people and "British Israelite" people couldn't read Bible if it bit them. It's such a travesty that they lie even against their own Queen, trying to make her into some hidden Davidic person. What mental illness. And let's not even talk about the Scottish nonsense about the Stone of Destiny. It's sitting under the Dome of the Rock! That's why there's a Dome, even there!

  So Church is never Israel. Why Christendom is so mixed up about this, I'll never know. Book of Hebrews is wholly dedicated to this topic of the switchover, showing how the transition works. (Paul talks a lot about it also, most notably in Ephesians; the later Book of Hebrews looks back to Ephesians. Paul was dead by then, Heb13:23 compared to end 2Timothy.) Our "New Covenant" dovetails to rescue Israel. Book of Hebrews literally calls it that, he kaine diatheke in Greek -- from which we get "New Testament", the name we gave the post-Cross books. For us, this covenant is genuinely "new" and separate, tying to that kata-Melchizedek King-Priesthood of eternity past: which Christ invoked to found Church in Matt16:18, so the world wouldn't end when He died. So the writer of Hebrews plays on that fact, to show the dovetailing: how we Church are being used to Rescue Israel. In the Millennium we'll help implement THEIR New Covenant, the Church Bride Pleroma members ruling Gentile nations: that fulfills the contract promise of Israel's supremacy among nations, 1000 years of peace from her enemies. So our "now" (NT keyword for Church Age) is the "Footstool" promise of Ps110:1, being implemented in a preparatory phase "now" (via Church), and the official phase, "then" (Millennium). Book of Hebrews goes through all this in painstaking detail. Key phrases are mistranslated, of course (like Heb11:1 regarding what's the Trial Witness in the Angelic Conflict, see Heb111.htm).

  You know, God makes it plainer to us what's going on via His Word than if He flew a gaudy Blimp in the sky every day at noon saying, "I'm the Real God of the Bible, people!" And He'll actually do that in Rev14 at Tribulation mid-point. Using angels, not blimps. Won't help then, either. Like Abraham told the guy in Torments (last half of Luke 16), if they won't believe the Law and the Prophets, they won't believe a blimp or angel, either. Two Stone Witnesses there today, one Wailing and one Abominating Dome, watch them as you eat dinner, since Israel's always in the nightly news! Seeing, we never see.

With David, you get the rest of the 'schedule'. For David's rule is 7 and 33, so now there's an additional "7" meaning in the mirroring. The Future Messiah would get it, too, during His Upcoming Time on Earth. Which time you then knew, because you knew David died in the 3143rd year from Adam, so Messiah=Christ would die in the 4143rd year from Adam. So now you knew why the 57 years was represented by the 57 days in the Mosaic Law. So you knew this Messiah would have to be born by 4103 or late in 4102; you knew that after He died, the 57 years would begin playing, with the last 7 being what we moderns call the Tribulation (they had other names for it), and the Millennium would begin on time, in the 4200nd year from Adam.

When Daniel 9 is given, then, it's a refinement of that timeline. Still ends at the same year; still the same 57 necessarily playing post-Messiah, given David's death year. So in our modern AD terms, Messiah was to die 37AD, followed by a mirroring play of the 50 years for harvesting, followed by the Trib, and then the Millennium. Tribulation should have begun 87AD, and should have ended 94AD. The 50 years isn't mentioned in Daniel 9 because it wasn't part of the 490 God is allocating. And it wasn't necessary to mention it there, as the calendar itself had long depicted it (Pentecost and Jubilee).

But Israel rejected Him, so the calendar was now technically 'off', and Church instead was the criterion. Hence the Rapture, and its imminency. Still, it was reasonable to expect that God would want the original schedule met. So, Rapture could have occurred at any time during those ensuing 40 years from 30AD-70AD, for it was still within the original schedule. But due to Israel's rejection, Christ died 7 years earlier than initially scheduled. So the following revisions were expected, never mind the Lord said no one could predict when. Israel had been REQUIRED to predict for over 1000 years, at this point. So it wasn't easy to STOP predicting when the Lord said "no". It certainly was reasonable to expect God would keep to the same timeline, too. Of course, that was the plan, anyway: so the message was, GROW UP, PEOPLE! echoed in every NT epistle. As a result:

• 70AD would be the next most-likely date for Rapture to kick off the Tribulation, because Israel would have to get her warning period and 'reimbursement' of the extra-7-short years, prior.
• Because Messiah died 7 years early, that 7 years would be nested at the end, terminating in 70AD. So the initial besieging of Jerusalem in 64AD (part of Nero's campaign against Christians and Jews) saw a large exodus of believers conversant with the warning in Matt24 and Luke 21, "when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies" (Luke 21:20 lists that phrase). They knew it wasn't the Tribulation yet. But the Lord warned about it, since obviously it could presage the imminent BEGINNING.. aka, the Rapture. Again, He told them not to predict its commencement, but the warning to get OUT was given. Was natural to conclude it as a presaging of the Rapture.
• Daniel 9:27 could then play contiguously, the 50-year period now being 'off' (no longer Israel's time, so no longer her Pentecost): 70AD-77AD, mirroring the previous 7.
• Or, Daniel 9:27 could play at the end of another 40 years, though because it was not her 'time', that nesting was no longer required.
• If contiguous, then 70-77AD would be the Trib. So letters went out in 68AD when Paul died: Mark's Gospel and Book of Hebrews (plus maybe 1 and 2 Peter, plus Jude).
• If not contiguous, then 70-110 would be the final 40 years, and 103-110 would be the Trib.
• Alternatively, maybe the original schedule would still be played, with Trib occurring 87-94AD. Lots of reason to expect that, since it was God's original design.
• So when none of these events happened as expected, believers were disaffected. Now you know why God had John write in the 90's AD, penning 1Jn2-3 with such an immediate expectation. And then, why he wrote Revelation from his imprisonment (by Domitian) on Patmos, circa 96AD. At that point, all the expected 'deadlines', had been 'missed'. Church didn't mature enough. Time to reveal the revised Plan.

Moreover, Ethanim's holidays all 'mirrored' those in Nisan, memorializing it: the mirroring depicted the 'other' side of the Cross. So it was a question of which 1050 would be the last one. When David died, everyone knew which one, 1000 years in advance. For he died in what was the 3143rd year from Adam. The 4143rd year from Adam would be 57 years away from the 4200 year from Adam, which is the ending of the 4th 1050. Rosh HaShanah represented the Millennium, when Israel would become the Head of the Year: calendar new, starting over. That's why the calendar was bifurcated into sacred and civil, each starting opposite the other, as a mirror. But in between, was this 'silent' period running from Pentecost through the end of Elul. Why was it there? Same was true on the 'opposite' side, another 'dead spot'. So after Booths ended, no holidays, initially, on either 'side.' So it was known from the beginning, that 'something' might happen to elongate the time between harvesting the Gentiles, and the Millennium. Moreover, the time left 'blank', was all HARVESTING and PLANTING, in character: for that's what they did, during those months. So whatever this 'something' was, it had harvesting and planting, as its purpose.

By the time He was born, even then the 'calendar' had a dead spot. 25 Chislev, depending on intercalation lapses, was 'opposite' Pentecost (how that happens, is covered in PassPlot.htm's "Modest Proposal" link). So after Pentecost still this dead spot. Of course, by then two more civil holidays were in the calendar, 9th Ab to mourn the destruction of the 1st Temple, and Purim, which also had to do with the Temple. So the 'dead spot' on both 'sides' of those last three months of the calendar, had to do with Temple:

• it was 57 days from Pentecost to 9th Ab;
• it was about 50 days from 10th Ab to 1 Ethanim, same number of days as the 50 representing the harvesting of the Gentiles.
• On the other side, also having to do with Temple, 25 Chislev had become Chanukah, the day He was born.
• But Chanukah was the 85th day from 1Ethanim, not the 71st, as Pentecost was (71st from 1Nisan, the parallel). So it wasn't quite 'opposite'. Difference? 14 days.
• So only if there was an intercalation failure could 25 Chislev 'equate' to the 'opposite' of Pentecost. Even if intercalation took place at the beginning of the year, the calendar would be 4 days fast as of 25 Chislev, relative to Nisan (5.25/12*9). Still, on a gross basis, it was 14 days too high to be 'opposite' Pentecost; 10 days, net of the intra-year intercalation.
• Hmmm. 10th day you set aside the Lamb, and 14th day you kill it.
• Bottom line was, on the 'right hand side' of the calendar, the difference was imbalanced, relative to the 'left'. So 'something' had to account for that imbalance.

And we are NOW in that 'dead spot' in her calendar, which is the calendar of world history, not just Israel's. For the purpose of harvesting, "whosoever believes", John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Acts 4:12. Including, Israel herself. So when she looks AT her calendar, she can know what time it is. And we can know we have no fixed time. Could end, any moment.

Review: Christ died in 30AD because only the 1000th anniversary of the David's Abdication year, remained FREE of any mass voting requirement, as we saw back in #3e of the "David" section (link at pagetop). So Tribulation years have to play double. The extra 7 already played 64-70AD. Each number in God's construct for Time has a set of properties, therefore a set of behaviors, and math thus acts on matter (i.e., physics) in predictable ways. So too and primarily, for Justice reasons, to communicate Divine Policy. Bible tells you what time it is, just like a calendar 'predicts' when your bills are due, the next holiday, etc. Except, it's for all history. So you read Bible like a calendar, not an acrostic or secret code. God always plainly tells us what time it is, 2Pet3:9. That we don't know, means we don't read it.

So Rapture could have still occurred that same 87AD. In fact, the writer of Hebrews expected it to happen 70AD; when Paul died in 68AD, it looked like Church might be raptured -- so out went the letter. Mark's Gospel, too. Paul expected the Rapture (Philippians 3), as did Peter (2nd half 2 Peter). When neither the 70AD or the 87AD years panned out, it was still possible, as 1Jn shows (Chapter 3). Of course, the last 'old-schedule' year was 94AD, and when that didn't pan out, God has John write Revelation, to show the revised schedule. See, Love never coerces, but Love always has a contingency plan. We're "it": Church, the Dan9:26 time bubble of history, the harvesting 'dead spot' on both sides of Israel's calendar, alerting her. Not originally scheduled on the calendar, heh. Still about the Temple, too: Ephesians Chapters 2-4, and all the Book of Hebrews, explain why and how; it, plus Romans 9-11 explain how Israel's to be harvested, with us.

9. So the Millennium originally should have begun in 94AD, which Israel long knew. That would have ended all time 1144AD = 94+1050. So all of us today, should have NEVER been born. They didn't have the convoluted calendars we all do. For them, it was a simple elapse of time from Adam. Going by that simple counting, 94AD was Year 4200 from the Fall. 4200, is 1050 x 4. Easy thing to know. That's why you find Jews and Christians so wacko in the first century. They like we moderns, were hung up on the Bible's numbers. Hung up, not understanding. So they expected the end in 70AD; when it didn't come, the next benchmark was 87AD; when it didn't come still by 94AD and the Mill was supposed to begin, John had to write Revelation (in 96AD, or maybe 95) to explain why. For John himself, writing in the early 90's AD (1Jn3) expected it at any time. But then, so did Paul (e.g., Philippians 3:10-12, Greek). So did Peter ("slowness" verse in 2 Peter).

Of course, because the post-Cross period does not belong to Israel -- though it got paid back for Messiah's use of its time, since it rejected Him -- there is no promise about how long this time will last. (Only Israel gets the promise of set time.) So the only "promise", is "tachú" (maher, ahishennah, in Hebrew): meaning, suddenly, next-in-sequence withOUT warning.

A Promise Of Set Time Means You Failed And Your Days Are Thus Numbered. We've seen that precedent from Adam. (Gen 3:14, 17, first mention of "days" of a a finite-length life. Previous contract was a daily contract with no time limit, based on not eating from the Tree -- Gen2:17 is the beginning of death, hence a limited lifespan, as its moth-ttamuth, states.) Church has not yet failed, so its days are not numbered. Israel had no set time until she rejected God as King of Israel, in 1050BC. Then God began to number her days, with David. When David died, you knew when Israel's time would end to the very year, as we just saw in #8, above. When the Temple was razed, 586BC, God used that long-known Davidic deadline, to show Daniel and thus Israel, how it would culminate in Messiah. So Daniel Chapter 7ff is full of end-of-the-world data, because they had already long known when, but didn't know HOW. So in Daniel, the deadline doesn't change. It's just further explained. Right down to how you count those last 7 years for STAYING AWAY, just wait for Messiah, don't come back:

• First half of Trib="time, times and half a time" from Daniel 7:25 and 12:7 (1260 days in Rev12); this is the exit window.
• Then count the last 1290 days in Daniel 12:11. Sum equals 7 solar years minus 6.75 days. Heh: a 'credit' for Passion Week!
• Apparently the last 45 days of the exit window are horrific. So big bonus if you read the times accurately during the exit window and got away on day 1215 of the Trib, 45 days before exit window expires: the 1335 days in Daniel 12:12. Messiah arrives at the end of that. [Notice how the accounting is from right-to-left: from the ending, backwards.]

  See, God always tells us what time it is in plain language. Not acrostics, mystical numbers or secret codes, sheesh. Only PAGANS use numbers mystically.

Revelation now acts as the last elaboration on 'how' the end occurs. Only now, there's no prophecy about 'when'. That got abrogated, when Israel rejected Messiah. Hence, Church's days aren't numbered. Our contract is not Israel's, but rather is sourced in Christ's OTHER Kingship, the Battlefield Royalty, eternity-past "kata-Melchizedek" priesthood contract of Psalm 110 and Isa53:10-12, for Defeating Satan at the Cross. Book of Hebrews painstakingly walks the reader through the two Kingships, Priesthoods, Contracts, showing how Eph2's joining of the two 'walls' (covenants), gets done. [See Heb7:15-28, esp. v.18; 8:7, 9:15-17, 10:9.] So our contract is dependent on the completion of WITNESSES, theme of Hebrews 11. You can't say how many those will be. So it's a BODIES criterion, both as to the number of Witnesses (Pleroma people successfully witnessing before Heaven for the Prosecution, God); as well as a bodies criterion for what number of folks, God wants to constitute the corporate "Bride" for His Son. A Royal Priesthood (1Pet2:5,9). This issue of bodies is a main theme of Part IVb.

So from Satan's perspective, all this truth must be covered up. For if you know God's calendar and goals, you will want to obey them. So for 18 centuries, Scripture in the original-language texts -- the only way you can see all this -- has been obscured, relegated to 'experts' who by the way are mostly incompetent (the popular ones, that is). Those who teach properly, must be persecuted, denigrated, dismissed as kooks, etc. Those who believe those who teach properly, must likewise be 'put down', lest the Word be known. That's been the story of the 19th and 20th centuries, a long battle between the entrenched incompetent 'experts', all claiming 'tradition', their good deeds and degrees -- versus those who read in the original-language texts, and have the audacity to give that information in the original Autograph, to the 'sheep'. Same ol' same ol', as obtained back in the first century when Christ came. Here in the 2000th anniversary of His Birth (which began in late 1996, accounted as 1997), we've come full-circle. Kinda nice birthday present for the Son, doncha think?

So Satan can still win his goal of a Mistrial. If he does, we'd be Raptured anyway. In shame. For think: if he wins, won't God submit? Our God is a God of Righteousness. It wouldn't compromise Him to submit since after all, He's being unfairly accused in the first place. God is being accused of not completing HIS Promises, even though it's up to us, to say yes or no TO those Promises. That's unfair. But it was unfair to impute sins to Christ Who is Perfect. Yet when put upon, He gave us His Cloak, too. God is consistent. If He'll give up His Son, He'll give up anything. That's the flipside of our so-great salvation: there's no such thing as loss, even in maximum loss at the Cross.

But we know in advance -- analogous to how Israel knew in advance -- that God will win, yet without gerrymandering anything. Imagine, God is So Inviolate and Gorgeous, it doesn't matter which way this Trial ends. Heaven is where He is. And He is everywhere. Yet, like Israel, we sure don't seem to care about growing up in His Word. History repeats itself. So Satan can win against us, like he won against them, back in 1050BC, 586BC, 30AD and 70AD. Our own sordid Christian history proves that fact, amply. Satan's 'birthday' present for what was SUPPOSED to be the Millenium's ending in 1094, and commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Revelation's penning, was.. the Crusades. Not only God, plays to calendar...

The Millennium thus mirrors the originally-intended unbroken reign of David's line, and should have ended 1094AD. Everlasting King, and a New Covenant Temple, just like Isaiah and Jeremiah long and often promised before exile. Just as Ezekiel painstakingly 'mapped' from his Chapter 39 onward. No, we won't miss the Ark (Jer3:16)! Then the final voting period, the Revolution of Rev20:7, would last 50 years, at which point Eternity would have begun in 1144AD. It didn't. We Church, who shouldn't even BE here, began instead.

So right away, a lot of false doctrine can be pitched:
• No, the Millennium does not belong to Church. We are in it ruling Gentile nations as 'helper' for the New Covenant to Israel, guarding her peace: but the period, belongs to Israel.
• No, the Millennium is not allegorical, figurative, but literal as a PAYBACK to Christ: and through Him, to Israel.
• No, Church is not in the Tribulation AT ALL. But because so many incompetent, 'respectable' dufuses for centuries have bought into Satan's Fake Rev17 Church, it will SEEM to be in Trib, in order to snare believers who are dufuses THEN. 'Respectability' is a snare: means you value man's opinion more than God. So you go for form, rather than substance. So you go for the relics, rather than for the Real Person. So you go for the politics, mass approval, buildings and parade-like trappings.. and thus are trapped by them all. That's why Satan makes such a stink over tradition, ritual, movement. Trapped Israel, traps us.

• No, the Temple should not be rebuilt until the 2nd Advent, but Jewish dufuses will think it should be, and that can start ANY time, since the Rapture can begin at any time.
• No, the secular state of Israel's existence does not ipse mean we are the Rapture generation, because she shouldn't even BE there. DEAD BONES in Ezekiel 37 means a RESURRECTION of all Israel, and that only happens at the 2nd Advent. But wherever she is, God will protect her, and we Church should also.
• No, you can't predict the Rapture by events in history, because BELIEVER VOTES, not history, determine when the Rapture occurs. So the historical events will always be Dan9:26 in character, because that's where we are on God's Calendar for Israel. Sometime between 9th Ab and 1 Ethanim aka Tishri. Harvesting time.

Polls close at Rev4:1, the Rapture. At that point, we Church are the "sea of glass" depicted in that Chapter.