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“The Great And Awesome Day Of Yehovah (the “Lord”)”
And The Day of Trumpets
Chapter 11, Part 3 Preview: “The Great and Awesome Day of Yehovah” (Joel 2:31) is one of the most detailed topics in the entire Bible! Other than perhaps the return of the 12 tribes to Israel, nothing else comes close in terms of the sheer volume of passages devoted to it. Huge segments of the Major and Minor Prophets are devoted to it; most of the parables of Yeshua (Jesus) directly pertain to this time. The entire book of Revelation is focused on it. The emphasis that Yehovah (God) placed on this event, along with the sheer VOLUME of passages, silently SCREAMS for understanding. In Part 2 we ended up looking at when the 1,260 day period is, and what the 1,290 day period would be.
Here are the dates in Daniel I mentioned. Let’s look at the entire account and consider the implications for the three dates in Daniel and the restoration of Israel (which is a much bigger deal than the first century Jews ever imagined!)
Daniel 12 All: AT THAT TIME, Michael will take a stand, the great leader who stands for your ‘countrymen’, and there will be a time of trouble [the great Tribulation], such as there has never been since the first nation up until that time, AND AT THAT TIME [during the “time of the end!”] your people will be rescued, everyone whose names are still found {niphal} recorded in the Book [of Life]. 2 Multitudes of people sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken, some of them to everlasting life, and the others to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. 4 But Daniel, keep this message a secret, and put a seal on the book until the time of the end. Many will travel around quickly, and knowledge will greatly increase [Hebrew shoot!] 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and there were two others standing there. One was on the bank of the river on this side, and one on the opposite bank of the river. 6 One asked the man dressed in linen, who was hovering above the river water, “How long will it be until the end of these miracles?” 7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the water of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by the One who lives forever that it will be for a time, [a year], times [2 years], and half a time [1/2 a year], and when they’ve made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the 'speciaal' people, all of these things will be finished. 8 I heard, but I didn’t understand, so I asked, “Master, what will be the end result of these miracles?” 9 He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the matter is secret and sealed until the end times. 10 Many will purify and refine themselves, but the wicked will continue to be wicked, and none of the wicked will understand, but those with discernment will understand. 11 From the time that the continuous burnt ze’bakim[sacrifices] are abolished, and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. 12 Blessed are those who wait for and attain the 1,335 days [1]. “AT THAT TIME, Michael will take a stand, the great commander who stands for your people, and there will be a time of trouble [the Great Tribulation, worse than 536 A.D, The Worst Year In History], such as there has never been since the first nation up until that time, AND AT THAT TIME [during the “time of the end!”] your people will escape, everyone whose names are still found {niphal} recorded in the Book [of Life]. 2 Multitudes of people sleeping in the dust of the earth will wake up, some of them to everlasting life, and the others to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.
4 But Daniel, keep this message a secret, and put a seal on the book until the time of the end. Many will travel around quickly, and knowledge will greatly increase”. 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and there were two others standing there. One was on the bank of the river on this side, and one on the opposite bank of the river.”
The Time of the End [1]
6 One asked the man dressed in linen, who was hovering above the river water, ‘How long will it be until the end of these miracles?’ [2] 7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the water of the river, when he raised his right and left hands toward heaven, and swore by the One who lives forever that it will be for a time, [a year], times [2 years], and half a time [1/2 a year], and when they’ve made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the 'chosen' people, all of these things will be finished.” 8 I heard, but I didn’t understand, so I asked, “Master, what will be the end result of these miracles?” 9 He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the matter is secret and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many will purify and refine themselves, but the wicked will continue to be wicked, and none of the wicked will understand, but the wise [3] will understand.
11 “From the time that the continuous burnt zebakim [sacrifices] are removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set up there will be 1,290 days. 12 Blessed are those who 'persevere' and attain the 1,335 days [4]. 13 But go your way until the end, because you will remain resting, and arise to your compensation, at the end of the days [age].—The Gabriel Bible
[1] The timing of Daniel 12:1-3 is pinpointed with even more specificity in conjunction with 1 Corinthians 15:52, 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and Revelation 11:15—popularly known as the rapture. Serious confusion occurs since sites like this do not realize that the end time is divided into 3 segments—two 3.5 year long parts totaling 7 years (a shemitah), followed by the Day of the Lord Yehovah (Isaiah 34:8)—the Jubilee year!
[2] I was astonished (in 2017) to find this decades old analysis of end time prophecy by Ernest Martin. But I was surprised that he did not conclude this age in 2031/2032, the Jubilee (as I had). I’ve linked to him for years.
[3] “Strong’s Hebrew 7919: 1) to be prudent, be circumspect, wisely understand, prosper 1a) (Qal) to be prudent, be circumspect 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to look at or upon, have insight 1b2) to give attention to, consider, ponder, be prudent 1b3) to have insight, have comprehension 1b3a) insight, comprehension (subst) 1b4) to cause to consider, give insight, teach 1b4a) the teachers, the wise 1b5) to act circumspectly, act prudently, act wisely 1b6) to prosper, have success 1b7) to cause to prosper 2) (Piel) to lay crosswise, cross (hands)”
[4] Second Passover: The 1,335 days extends 75 days beyond the end of Satan’s 7 year long free rein. And 75 days after Aviv 1 is always a Second Passover (counting from an actually sighted new moon, not the Jewish calendar now in use)! So this falls early in the Jubilee year! “Blessed are those who 'persevere' and attain the 1,335 days!” On the surface “arise to your compensation at the end of the days” appears to mean that Daniel would arise at the end of the 1,335 days. But that flatly contradicts Matthew 24. It doesn’t mean that. (Interestingly, the other place usually translated as “the end of the days” refers to the end of the three and a half year period when Nebuchadnezzar lived as a wild beast, Daniel 4:34.) Actually, the phrase “the end of the days” used in this context means the same thing that all eight instances of the “last days” refer to in the Tanak, and all eleven references to the “latter days” means “the end of the age.
We see from the above that the resurrection to “everlasting life” or “everlasting contempt” is during the period called the “time, times and half a time”. After this three and a half year period “ALL of these things will be finished”—the things that Michael will do, the regathering of Israel, the two resurrections, the persecution, the wise shining, knowledge increasing, AND breaking the power of the 'special' people—astonishing things. All of these events are fulfilled during this dark time. Once all of the martyrs are killed, then comes the resurrection.
Revelation 6:9-11 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the bodies of those who had been slain because of the Word of Aloha [1] and for the Testimony of the Lamb [2] that they had. 10 They called out in a loud voice, “'Incomparable' and true Sovereign, how long will You wait before judging and avenging the inhabitants of the earth who shed our blood?” 11 They were each given a white robe and told that they must rest a little longer, until after the rest of their fellow servants and friends had been killed as they were.
[1] “The Word of Elohim in the (Hebrew) Scriptures—also identified with Yeshua in person, Revelation 19:13. [2] The “Testimony of the Lamb” or the “Testimony of Yeshua” is the so-called “New Testament.” (See the Introduction).
The next verse appears to be when the Day of Yehovah begins:
Revelation 6:12I watched as He broke open the sixth seal, and there was a huge earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon turned blood red. [3]
[3] The sun will darken “immediately after the time of Tribulation”: Matthew 24:29-31; Mark 13:24-27; Luke 21:25-27, Acts 2:19-20, Isaiah 13:9-13, Joel 2:31.
Matthew records these same exact cosmic events as being IMMEDIATELY AFTER the Great Tribulation:
Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the time of Tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon won’t shed her light and stars will fall from the sky [See footnote on Isaiah 34:4], and the miraculous power of the skies will be shaken.
Revelation 6 goes on to say that with the sixth seal:
Revelation 6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the bodies of those who had been slain because of the Word of Aloha [1] and for the Testimony of the Lamb [2] that they had.
[1] “The Word of Elohim in the (Hebrew) Scriptures—also identified with Yeshua in person, Revelation 19:13. [2] The “Testimony of the Lamb” or the “Testimony of Yeshua” is the so-called “New Testament.” (See the Introduction).
A solar storm could destroy civilization, but another cosmic event could cause mass extinction of life on earth, once again.
While the Two Witnesses appear to be resurrected alone, all of the other 'cherished ones' (saints) have either been martyred, are hiding in New Jerusalem—A Place of Safety or have been hiding in the mountains. So as far as the world is concerned, they disappear alone. There wouldn’t be neatly stacked piles of clothing all over the cities, or in wrecked cars or airplanes where the “saints” were last seen.
In the last few decades perhaps millions of people have come to realize that important events happen on Biblical Feast Days.
The next passage could be taken to mean that the Beast will propose a drastic calendar change, including new holidays, as well as draconian changes to civil and/or religious law. In any event the next step would be the extermination of his dominion:
Daniel 7:25-26 Daniel 7:25-28 He [the Beast] will speak against the Most Supreme, and wear down by constant harassment cherished [holy] ones of the Most Supreme, and his plan will be to make alterations to time, and the cherished ones will be handed over to him [the Beast] for a time, times and half a time. 26 “But the court will sit for judgment, and they’ll take away his dominion, to exterminate and destroy it forever.
(“The name ‘December’ means ‘tenth month’. In the original Roman calendar it was indeed the tenth month. The year then began in March. January and February didn’t [formally] exist. To help regularize the calendar a bit, the second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius, added January and February. January was made the first month in 153 B.C. moving it from March. Although December changed position to the twelfth month, no one ever changed the name. The name would come to England through the Old French. It replaced the Old English word, [Ærra]-Geol-monaþ, which meant ‘month before yule’, literally, ‘first passing - changing - month’.”)
In Biblical months, when we count either forward or backward six months from the Day of Trumpets we end up on the First day of Unleavened Bread, sometimes called Passover (tho Passover is actually an event, not a day, immediately preceding the Feast of Unleavened Bread):
Luke 22:1 The Feast of Unleavened Bread that is called the Passover was approaching.
Even on today’s Biblically applied calendar, it is exactly six months—12 years out of nineteen. It also works out using “the fourth-century Hillel [method] to whom is attributed the fixing of the calendar”. Hillel’s method assigns seven leap months (13th months) every 19 years, tho it was still evolving between 836 AD and the tenth century! The Biblical method—observing the ripening barley in Israel to determine the first month of a new year, also results in seven leap years of 13 months on average, seven years out of nineteen—only the Biblical method tells farmers the ideal planting dates to plant their crops.
Adding any number of whole years + 6 months also ends up on the same dates. So adding the “forty-two months” of Revelation 11:2 (12+12+12+6) to the Day of Trumpets puts us on the First Day of Unleavened Bread.
So here is what we have so far:
1) The Beast will defile the first day of Passover week, Aviv 15 (counting backward 1,260 days from the beginning of the Great Tribulation).
2) The Great Tribulation begins with yet another defilement of the Temple, on the Day of Trumpets: Seventh month, day 1 of the 1,260.
3) First day of the second month, Day 1,290, the second exodus census and entering the bond of the covenant in the wilderness of the people.
4) Pentecost, the intended (but not actual) date of the entry into the Promised Land following the First Exodus.
(The Talmud states that the Messiah will come on the last Jubilee. “Elijah told Judah, the brother of Sala Hasida, ‘The world will endure not less than 85 Jubilees, and on the last Jubilee the Son of David will come’” (Talmud, Sanh.97b). I happen to agree.
So using either the Biblical calendar for reckoning, or even the Roman one, on a 360 day year, if we count backward 1,260 days from the first day of any Biblical year, Aviv 1 (soon to always fall, as it were, on March 1 {Roman time}, of any year (soon to be 360 day years), we end up on September 1st. So to recap, if we count backwards from any Aviv 1, once the days of the year return to 360 days, we always end up on September 1, or Biblically “the first day of the seventh month.”
This happens to be the Day of Trumpets!
Leviticus 23:24 Say to the Israelites: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month you are to have a Sabbath assembly, commemorated by the shouts of shofars; a special public assembly.
So it would seem that Satan will try to spoil the significance of the Day of Trumpets by starting the Great Tribulation on that very day!
And, similar to what Satan did on a Festival Day, the Yom Kippur War, he’ll start the last war we’ll see for a thousand years.
There are three dates in Daniel 12, a wonderful end time prophecy, that parallel the exodus from Egypt and the return of the 12 tribes of Israel to the Promised Land. All of Bible prophecy is focused on the restoration of Israel.
The most burning question on the minds of Jews in the first century was: “When will Messiah restore the kingdom to Israel?” It was the very last question Yeshua was ever asked:
Acts 1:6-9 When they assembled they asked Him, “Sovereign, are You about to restore the Kingdom of Israel to its former state?” [1] 7 He replied, “You aren’t going to understand the time periods and the specified times of crisis that Yehovah has set by His own authority. 8 But when the 'special' spirit descends on you, you’ll receive power, and you’ll be My witnesses in Jerusalem, thruout Judea and Samaria and in the remotest parts of the earth.” 9 After saying these things, and while they were watching Him, He was taken up, and the cloud took Him in, and He vanished out of their sight.
[1] Not to be overlooked is the fact that a literal Kingdom isn’t an “if”, but a “when” (Luke 22:30) Also see these comments!
For the chronology to work out, the Great Tribulation, “time, times and half a time”, or 1,260 days, must end “immediately” before the Day of Yehovah, with it’s heavenly signs. There is a final seven year period, seriously under Satan’s sway, followed by a one year period—the most prophesied event in the Bible—the Day of Yehovah (the “Lord”), it is the Jubilee year, the year (12 tribed) Israel is reborn. It begins “immediately..
Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the time of Tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon won’t shed her light and stars will fall from the sky [See footnote on Isaiah 34:4], and the miraculous power of the skies will be shaken.
Isaiah 34:8 8 It is the Day of Yehovah’s Vengeance, a Year of Payback settling the dispute (retribution) over Zion!
It is within this final year of this millennium that the 1,290 and the 1,335 day events take place, one event 30 days after the Great Tribulation, and another 45 days after that one. So the last event will fall 75 days after the last shot fired during the Great Tribulation (30 + 45 days = 75 days later). Since this is the time of the second Exodus, we’ll be looking for parallels of the first exodus to the second one, only the entry into the land happens in one year, not forty.
Jeremiah 23:7-8 That’s why the days are coming,” says Yehovah, “When people will no longer say, ‘As Yehovah lives, who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.’ 8 Instead, they’ll say, ‘As surely as Yehovah lives, who brought about the 'exodus' of the descendants of the House of Israel from the North Country, and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ They’ll live in their own land!
Yehovah won’t be shorted a single day of His Jubilee year. He’ll use every day of it. So the Jubilee will start, just as every other year has since there was a calendar, on Aviv 1! Don’t be confused by the mistaken notion that the Jubilee year begins in the seventh month of the 49th year on the Day of Atonements. That is the day on the 49th year when the Jubilee year is announced in advance, when the Great Shofar is blown and liberty is proclaimed for the upcoming 50th year. I believe that the Biblical date of 7/10 on the 49th year (Leviticus 25:9) will put the Second Exodus into high gear. Many people will be saying: “Next year in Jerusalem”, and this time it won’t be wishful thinking!
With the Great Tribulation beginning on the Day of Trumpets, adding 1,260 days we end up on Aviv 1, the first day of the Biblical calendar of what I believe to be the Year 2027. But forget the year for now and focus on just the day of the year.
Daniel 12:11 mentions the second event at the end of 1,290 days. That will be 30 days later, a month after the “time of trouble” has ended, and vengeance on the world has begun. So following this thought process, the next special event should happen 30 days later, or 1,290 days into the countdown.
Did anything of interest happen 30 days after the new year in the exodus account? The Bible mentions this date only two times. They are both in Numbers 1.
Numbers 1:1-4,16-19 Then Yehovah said to Moses in the Sinai Desert in the Tabernacle of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, during the second year after they left the land of Egypt. He said: 2 “Take a census of the entire Israelite assembly, by their clans and 'ancestral' houses, according to the number of the names, every male 'individual', 3 from twenty years of age and upward, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. You and Aaron must register them by their divisions. 4 One man from every tribe will be there to assist you, each one a head of his fathers’ 'family'... 16 These are the ones who were chosen from the assembly, the leader of their fathers’ tribes and heads of families of Israel. 17 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name. 18 They gathered the entire assembly together on the first day of the second month, and they registered their ancestry according to their family records by their clans and their 'ancestral' houses, according to the number of names, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more. 19 just as Yehovah had commanded Moses. So he counted them in the Sinai Desert.
This census occupies the entire first four chapters of Numbers. It describes in exact detail how the tribes were to camp and move during their arduous trip to the Promised land. I believe that during the second exodus, a similar organization will take place. People will be assigned to their proper tribes. This in turn will help them find their places of residence, as spelled out in similar exacting detail in the prophecy of Ezekiel in 47:13 thru 48:29, the first order of business after the second exodus.
During the first exodus the census didn’t occur until the second year of the forty years of wandering in the wilderness. On the second go around, when Israel is again in “the wilderness of the people”, I’d expect for a similar occurrence on the anniversary of the first census, on the first day of the second month. But not only will there be a census where the righteous “pass under the shepherd’s rod” when they are brought “bind you in a Covenant” but “I’ll purge out the rebels from among you”.
Ezekiel 20:33-42 As surely as I live,” declares the Sovereign Yehovah, “I’ll rule you with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I will be your King! 34 I’ll bring you out of the nations and gather you out of the countries where you were scattered with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. 35 I’ll bring you into the wilderness of the people [Isaiah 1, Hosea 2:14], and I’ll judge you there face to face, 36 just like when I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, that’s how I’ll judge you, declares the Sovereign Yehovah. 37 I’ll make you pass under the shepherd’s rod, and I’ll bind you in a [Kimchi] [New] Covenant, 38 and I’ll purge out the rebels from among you and those who disobey Me. I’ll bring them out of the land where they were living, but they won’t enter the land of Israel. Then you’ll realize that I am Yehovah.
39 “Now concerning you, House of Israel, the Sovereign Yehovah says: Go serve your idols, but later you’ll surely listen to Me, and you’ll no longer profane My name with your gifts and your idols. 40 On My 'special' mountain, on the high mountain of Israel,” declares the Sovereign Yehovah, “the entire House of Israel will serve Me there in the land. I’ll accept you there, and I’ll require your contributions and choice gifts with all your 'special' things. 41 I’ll accept you there like a fragrant aroma when I gather you out of the nations, and bring you out of the countries where you’ve been scattered, and I’ll prove Myself 'special' thru you as the nations watch. 42 You’ll realize that I am Yehovah WHEN I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country that I swore to give to your ancestors.
The 1,335 Days
The third and longest time period is in verse 12, the 1,335 days!
As you can see in Daniel 12:13, Daniel is told that he will “arise to your compensation, at the end of the days.”
On the surface, “arise to your compensation, at the end of the days” appears to mean that Daniel would arise at the end of the 1,335 days. But that flatly contradicts Matthew 24. It doesn’t mean that. (Interestingly, the other place usually translated as “the end of the days” refers to the end of the seven year period when Nebuchadnezzar lived as a wild animal—Daniel 4:34.) Actually, the phrase “the end of the days” used in this context means the same thing that all eight instances of the “last days” refer to in the Bible, and all eleven references to the “latter days” means—the end of the age.
The Great Tribulation is Finished at the end of the 1,260 days, but that isn’t “the end of the days”! In fact, exactly one more year is left, the Year of Yehovah! Now this is where it gets very interesting. When day 1 is the Day of Trumpets, then Day 1,335 falls on Pentecost! Using simple arithmetic we see that 75 days after the Great Tribulation ends, counting from Aviv 1, we end up on Pentecost. Adding 75 days to the end of Daniel’s three an a half years brings us to the fifteenth day of the third month, Pentecost ‘Sunday’ (one year out of seven, counting from actual visible New Moons! That is why we always need to count the days to Pentecost, because a fixed date won’t meet the requirements under a 360 day year or a 365 day year, except for one year out of seven. As I summarize in Israel’s 7 Apocalyptic Days: “Pentecost: I believe that the twelve modern nations of Israel’s reoccupation of their ancient homeland, following their captivity, will begin to take place on Pentecost. Israel will reconquer their land. The resettlement will be finished during the very next Jubilee year. The entire reoccupation occurs between Pentecost and the Day of Atonements. This Jubilee period is when “Each of you can return to your own property, and each of you can return to your own clan.”. The Firstfruits in question are the first whole generation of Israelites to return to Yehovah since the destruction of ancient Israel.” Exodus 19:1 On the third new moon, on that commemorative day [Gill’s], after the Israelites left Egypt, they entered the Sinai Desert. Here is an enlightening quote from Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible: So if Pentecost was on the 71st day of the year of the Exodus, that year. It seems logical that Israel would have been required to lodge at the border of the Promised land for three days, as they ultimately did (Joshua 3:1-5), ending their wilderness journey, tho they were about 40 years late. That takes us to day 74 of the year. The next day, day 75, they could have entered the Promised Land. At this point in the year, Daniel’s three spring dates are completed. Now for the fall Feast Days: There is another span of time mentioned in Daniel that people puzzle over. Some have tried to apply a day for a year to it, and came up with ‘nothing really happened’ dates, such as 1844. Others, knowing that there were two ze’bakim [sacrifices] burnt in the temple daily claim it is really 1,150 days totaling 2,300 offerings. While the term “evenings-mornings” (not in your KJV) is unusual, it still represents entire days since that is also how the seven days of creation week are termed: Genesis 1:5 In all, Jacob had seventy descendants [DSS) & Acts 7:14], but Joseph was already in Egypt. It literally says 2,300 “evenings-mornings”, so I’ll stick with that. This is a very interesting way of saying “days”, indicating that it is a time of gloomy spiritual darkness on earth. This is a self contained one chapter prophecy. It has no parallel prophecy. It ends with the temple being cleansed. The only way to approach it is to examine the entire chapter. After that we’ll need to see if there is an event that occurs, followed 2,300 days later with “then will the temple be cleansed.” Daniel 8 All: In the third year of King Belshazzar’s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that appeared to me earlier.
2 In the vision, as I was watching, I was in the citadel of Susa, in the province of Elam, and I saw myself in the vision beside the Ulai canal.
3 Then I ‘looked up’ and saw a ram with two horns standing in front of the canal! The two horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer came [or grew] up last.
4 I watched the ram charging to the west, the north and the south, and no other wild beasts could stand against him, nor was there anyone who could rescue from his ‘power’, but he did as he pleased and became great.
5 As I was watching, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground. The goat had a prominent horn between his eyes!
6 He came toward the ram that had the two horns, that I had seen standing beside the canal, and charged him in a powerful rage.
7 I saw him charge the ram, enraged with anger against him, as he struck the ram, and shattered his two horns, and the ram was powerless to withstand him. So he hurled him to the ground, and trampled on him, and there was no one who could rescue the ram from his ‘power’.
8 The male goat became very powerful, but once he was strong, the large horn was broken. In it’s place four notable horns grew toward the four winds of the sky.
9 Out of one of them came a little horn, that grew exceeding great toward the south, the east, and toward the Beautiful Land.
10 It grew so great, that it even reached the army of the sky, and caused some of the army and the stars to fall to the ground, and it trampled them.
11 It became arrogant and powerful, and even challenged the commander of heaven’s army, and it took away from him the continual burnt ze’bakim [sacrifices], and the 'Special' Place was overthrown.
12 Because of the rebellion, the army [of the 'special' ones (saints)] will be given over to it, along with the daily burnt ze’bakim [sacrifices], and it will throw truth to the ground, and 'the horn' will do what it wants to and prosper.
13 Then I heard a 'special' one speaking, and another 'special' one asked the one who was speaking, “How long is the prophecy [vision] about the continual burnt zebakim, the desolating transgression, the surrender of the 'special' Place [Temple], and the army being trampled under foot?”
14 He told me, “For two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings, then will the Temple be cleansed.”
15 After I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I was trying to understand it. Then someone who looked like a man stood in front of me!
16 I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, as he called out, “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”
17 So he came near where I was standing, and when he came, I was frightened, and fell facedown, but he told me, “Understand, human son, because the vision is about the time of the end.”
18 As he spoke to me, I sank into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground, but he touched me, and made me stand up.
19 He said, “I’ll explain to you what will happen during the final period of the indignation, because ‘is about’ the appointed time of the end!
20 The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kingdoms of Media and Persia.
21 The shaggy male goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king.
22 As for the broken horn, and the four that replaced it, four kingdoms will arise out of his nation, but not with his power.
23 In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressions are about to be finished, a bold faced king who understands dark obscure utterances, will take a stand.
24 He’ll become very strong, but not by his own power, and he’ll cause astonishing destruction, and succeed in everything he does. He’ll destroy powerful men and the 'special' people.
25 And thru his cunning He’ll cause deception to succeed by his influence. He’ll become arrogant, and destroy many while they are off guard. He’ll even oppose the Prince of princes, but he’ll be broken without human intervention.
26 The vision about the 2,300 evenings and mornings that was explained to you is true. Seal up the vision, because it won’t occur until the end time.
27 I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up, and went about the king’s business. I was astonished by the vision, no one understood it. So to begin with I’ll repeat my premise that: “The Great Tribulation begins with yet another defiling of the Temple, on the Day of Trumpets: Seventh month, day 1 of the 1,260 day count.” If we count backwards from the pivotal event for 2,300 days, where do we end up? Well, six years, each 360 days in length, puts us at the Day of Trumpets again, 2,160 days. So we need to count backward another 140 days to arrive at 2,300 day. The Day of Trumpets is of course the first day of the seventh month (Leviticus 23:24). Counting back four months (120 days) would put us at the first day of the third month. We are still 20 days shy of 2,300, so we need to count back another 20 days. This puts us at the 10th day of the second month. Now I’ll explain how this could be a very significant date, based on both Scriptural dates and symbolisms—anciently, then in the days of Yeshua, then perhaps early into the coming seven years, and then after that! First, we are looking at a time when the ze’bakim [sacrifices] are stopped. The Testimony of Yeshua refers to Yeshua as a Lamb five times altogether before we get to the book of Revelation. However, once we get to the book of Revelation, if I counted correctly, there are 37 more references to the Lamb! Could this be a clue?, a reference to Passover? I would certainly think so. The Book of Revelation keeps referencing Passover, but not in a way that I particularly noticed until I started counting days. But the 2,300 days falls a bit short of the Passover. Could it still be relevant? Let’s look at the Passover instructions: Numbers 9:1-11 Then Yehovah said to Moses in the Sinai Desert, in the first month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt. He said,
2 “The Israelites are to keep [kill] the Passover at its specified time.
3 On the fourteenth day of this month, in the 'afternoon' [ie between the evenings] you must keep [kill] it at its specified time, in accord with all its unchanging tenets, and in accord with all its regulations.”
4 So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate [kill] the Passover.
5 They celebrated the Passover on the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the 'afternoon', in the Sinai Desert. So the Israelites did everything in accord with what Yehovah had commanded Moses.
6 But some of the men were unclean by touching a dead body, so that they couldn’t celebrate the Passover that day. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day
7 and the men said, “We are unclean due to touching the body of a dead person. Why are we prevented from presenting Yehovah’s offering at the specified time 'with the rest of' Israel?”
8 Moses said to them, “Wait here, so that I can listen to what Yehovah commands concerning you.”
9 Then Yehovah said to Moses:
10 “Tell the Israelites: If any of you or of your descendants becomes unclean by touching a dead body, or are on a long journey, they can still celebrate Yehovah’s Passover.
11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day in the 'afternoon' [1] they can celebrate it. They must eat 'the lamb' with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. The Passover is so important that it is the only Feast Day that offers a second chance to commemorate it. I submit that none of humanity was ready for the Passover in 27 AD! The Jews were busy murdering their Messiah on that day, the Romans were relishing the ‘opportunity’, and not one disciple was there for Him to welcome Him when He was resurrected three days later, just as He said. What are the odds that they made-up the Passover 30 days later? And I submit that today most people who claim to be followers are celebrating pagan Easter, and are oblivious to Passover. A few are celebrating it for the right reasons but on the wrong day and/or on the wrong calendar. But there are still four days to account for, and they should be accounted for every year, so we need to account for them now as well. The Passover was killed on the evening of the 14th of Aviv, but the Lamb was to be selected on the 10th day of the month. The four day wait has a purpose, both in the Passover of the first month, and the make-up Passover of the second month. But for now we need to just note the instances of it being implemented. Here is the primary explanation that the other occurrences would all seem to relate back to: Exodus 12:1-8 Yehovah said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 “This New Moon will be the beginning of your New Moons [months]. It will be the first New Moon of your year.
3 Announce to the entire assembly of Israel: On the tenth day of this month, every man must select a lamb, one for each household; one lamb, one household.
4 Now if the family is too small to eat a lamb, then he and the neighbors from the nearest house must take one based on the number of people and what each person will eat, and divide the lamb accordingly.
5 Your lamb must be a year old male with no defects. You must select it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 You must keep him until the fourteenth day of this month, when all the members of the assembly of Israel will kill him in the 'afternoon' [ie between the evenings].
7 They must take some of the blood, and put it on the both sides of the door frame and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
8 They must eat the flesh that night, roasted over a fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs.
9 Don’t eat any of it raw, or boiled in water, it must be roasted over fire— its head, its legs and its inner parts.
10 You must not leave any of it until morning; but if any of it is left over in the morning, it must be burned.
11 This is how you are to eat it: with your belt around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it in a hurry, because it’s Yehovah’s Passover.
12 “I’ll go thru the land of Egypt that night and strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, whether man or beast. I’ll [1] execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yehovah.The 2300 Evenings-Mornings
The Second Passover
So the first fulfillment of the tenth day was the confinement of the lambs right before the firstborn of Egypt were slain (Exodus 12:12)
The second fulfillment, one of extreme importance, is when Yeshua fulfilled the Messianic stipulations for us as our Passover Lamb. He was selected on the tenth day of the first month on His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the Jews, quite eager for the Messiah, hailed Him with palm branches and cries of, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of Yehovah.” He was closely watched, and then guarded and confined until the fourteenth day, and slain on the afternoon of the fourteenth day.
A third fulfillment, in keeping with the temple context of the 10th day of the month, that the 2300 days is all about, is in Ezekiel. Why do we have this exact date to contemplate? It appears to be the “anniversary” of the event he is prophesying about, in advance!:
Ezekiel 40:1-4 In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, and fourteen years after the fall of 'Jerusalem', on that commemorative day, Yehovah took hold of me and He took me there. 2 In visions, Elohim brought me into the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain where there appeared to be the outline of a city on the south. 3 As He brought me closer, I saw a man who appeared to be the 'color' of bronze, with a linen measuring line in his hand and a measuring rod, and he was standing in the gateway. 4 The man told me, “Human son, look 'closely', and listen 'carefully' and pay attention to everything I’m going to show you, because you were brought here to see 'these things'. Report everything you see to House of Israel.”
Long story short, the prophecy that was unveiled on this tenth day is the introduction to a nine chapter prophecy about the restoration of the Temple and Independence day for Israel. Chapters 40-43 are literally filled with incidences of measuring taking place in the temple.
Revelation 11:1 Then I, John, was given a measuring reed like a staff, and a messenger standing by and said, “Get up and measure the Temple [1] of Yehovah and the altar and those who worship there [2].
[1] Here John is actually told to measure the end time third Temple just prior to the Two Witnesses commission (v.3). The terms “measure”, “measured” and “measuring” combined are found dozens of times in reference to the temple in Ezekiel 40-42. This would explain the previous verse (10:11): “John, you must prophesy AGAIN before many nations and peoples and princes and kings.” Is he one of the two witnesses or one of their companions? Same goes for Elijah (Malachi 4:5-6). Does God Travel in Time? [2] In the architectural planning, the outer court is excluded/ruled out! That space on the Temple Mount “has been given to the heathens”. And while the Temple is to be literally measured, the people are spiritually measured!
So we see that the tenth day, four days prior to Passover seems to have recurrent relevance. I would like elaborate on how the prophecy about the 2,300 days is linked to the make-up Passover. Counting back 2,300 days from when Yeshua first sets foot on earth in a very public manner puts us on the day when some of the wise descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel will be making up for the Passover, 30 days late. We already noted a date, the difference between 1,260 days and 1,290 days, offset from the end of the Great Tribulation by 30 days in Daniel 9.
During the Second Exodus certainly people will be arriving over a period of time, and eager by now to say “next year in Jerusalem”. Some of Israel may even be given an opportunity to begin making up for all of the Passover’s neglected, beginning on the 10th day of the second month early on during the Great Tribulation, under great duress (Matthew 24:20-21). But here is the best part. Let’s look to all of those references to the Lamb in Revelation. The first three chapters of Revelation say: Hey, I’m talking to you—seven assemblies (churches) of, for the most part, unimpressive believers!
Immediately after this, in Chapter 4, John is introduced to the throne room:
Revelation 4:1-2 After this, I looked and saw an open door in the sky! The first voice that I heard was like a shofar talking with me. It said, “Come up here and I’ll show you the things that must happen after this.” 2 Instantly, I was in the spirit realm and a throne 'appeared' in the sky, and Someone was seated on the throne!
Now for the Lamb. Chapter 5 begins with a search for someone worthy to break the seven seals. After a thoro search they know that only one candidate qualifies. Now it could be that this entire event happens within five minutes right before Yeshua begins ripping seals during the Day of His Wrath of chapter 6, but wouldn’t it be interesting if during the years when the Beast is doing his utmost to finally thwart Yehovah and His Messiah, there is a celebration going on in Heaven for 2,300 days that is only ended when Yeshua (Jesus) steps down to the earth to add a personal touch?
Revelation 5: ALL I saw a book in the right hand of the One who sat on the throne. It had writing on the inside as well as on the back side, and it was sealed with seven seals. 2 I saw a mighty messenger announcing in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?” 3 No one in Heaven above or on earth or under the earth was able to open the book or even look inside it. 4 I cried and cried because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look inside it. 5 One of the Elders said to me, “Stop crying. Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the offshoot [descendant] of David has been victorious, He’ll open the book and its seven seals!
6 I looked, and among the Elders stood a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, and it had seven horns and seven eyes. They are the seven spirits of Yehovah that are sent out into all the world. 7 He came and took the book from the right hand of the One who was seated on the throne. 8 When He took the book, the four living beings and the twenty-four Elders fell down in front of the Lamb, each of them having a harp and gold cups full of incense that are the prayers of the 'chosen ones' [saints]. 9 They were singing a new song: “You deserve to take the book and to open its seals, because You were slain and have purchased us for Yehovah with Your own blood, out of every tribe and language and people and nation, 10 and You made them kings and priests for Yehovah, and they’ll rule as kings on the earth.”
11 I looked, and I heard as it were, the voices of many messengers around the throne, and the living beings and the Elders, and they numbered one-hundred million—many thousands of thousands. 12 They were saying with loud voices, “The Lamb who was slain deserves to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, praise and blessings. 13 And He’ll be over everything created in Heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and everything in them.” Then I heard the One who sat on the throne saying, “The Lamb is being given blessings, honor, praise and power forever and ever.” 14 The four living beings said, “Aw-main'!” Then the Elders fell down and worshiped.
Zechariah 14:5-8 You’ll flee by My mountain valley, because My mountain valley will reach to Azel. Yes, you’ll flee just like you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yehovah my Elohim will come, and all of the 'cherished' ones with Him. 6 When that day comes there won’t be light, cold or frost. 7 It will be the unique day that Yehovah makes Himself known {niphal}, not day or night, but when evening comes it will still be light [3]. 8 When that day comes living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half toward the eastern sea and half toward the western sea, both in summer and winter.
[3] This could undo whatever happened on Hezekiah’s long day when the apparent path of the sun retreated 10 degrees. This might account for years being over 5 days longer now. While this will be a unique day, there was a similar day, the one mentioned in verse 5 above, during king Uzziah’s reign. It also had an enormous earthquake that was remembered for centuries!This could well be the most significant year in the history of the universe!
Chapter 12 Are the “Unsaved” Lost?
