A Time, Times, and Half a Time (fulfilled)
Posted by Michael in Unsealing the Book of Daniel on May 24th, 2009
The End Times began in 1947. And if you search your eSword (probably King James) or other electronic Bible for “fig tree”, you will see that HaShem lamented that His “fig tree” was off chasing Baal Peor on the mountain shrines. In other words, the nation Israel is the fig tree (Hosea 9:10
). Jesus cursed Israel (the fig tree) because when Messiah came, He found no spiritual fruit (Matthew 21:19) on HaShem’s fig tree; Yeshua could have produced fruit miraculously if He simply desired food.
So now the meaning of the End Times statement that when you see the fig tree put forth tender shoots, spring is near, even so I AM (is) at the door (Matthew 24:27-34) becomes clear! The fig tree is the new nation of Israel that emerged (with its tender shoots) in 1948.
According to Yeshua’s promise, some of the generation alive in 1948 when the tender shoots of the reborn nation of Israel went forth must still be alive to see the fulfillment of End Times prophesy. Many of the people who were in their twenties when Israel became a nation again would now be in their 80s, so you see, we do know something about WHEN. The time is short.
Free will is like the gas pedal on our car, if we sin very much its like hitting the gas; if we collectively choose righteousness (like hitting the brakes), then HaShem reconsiders (postpones) the evil He planned to bring (Jonah 4:2). Yeshua knew all the signs and events; the ONLY thing He DIDN’T know, that we CAN is the when. We can know when the End Times began because the historical markers and events given in prophesy have happened; they are part of our recorded history.
The message of HaShem (G_d or “The Name”) through angel Gabriel to Daniel the Prophet referred to a time, times, and one-half a time (Daniel 12:7-11). The knowledge in Daniel is sealed until the time of the END, when Michael stands to speak for the people of Israel (happening at this moment). Daniel didn’t know how to count a time. Daniel was dragged into Babylon and received his first visions in the year 604 BC; we would now call it that, because Yeshua was born and we measure time differently. Daniel might have said a certain year was the 2nd year of King Nebuchadnezzar’s or such and such year of Darius. Daniel didn’t know how to measure a ‘time’. A time in the Book of Daniel is 604 (years).
No dates for the End Times were given, and in fact, even our Lord, Christ Yeshua (Jesus), said that He did not know the exact day, nor the angels, but only our Father in Heaven knew (Mark 13:32). Although no dates were given, we are given two historical events, both in Daniel’s future, one of them still yet future when our sweet Lord walked this earth; we have no dates for the completion of the time, times, and one half time, but we get two events, the abomination of desolation (168 B.C.) and the period when Satan finally exhausts his spiritual rage and power attempting to crush and or scatter the Holy People (the Jews). The second marker is the Holocaust (1946).
Adding one 604 (time) + 1208 (times) and one -half time (302) would give us the year 2114 (assuming we were supposed to count from year 0); but we are supposed to count from the first marker (the abomination of desolation in 168 BC. So we must begin counting at 168 BC and add 2114 years. This is the year that marks the end of Satan’s scattering of the Holy People (the Jews), and it is the year the Holocaust ended (1946). Not only did Satan’s fury lose its force, but Israel rebounded to be gathered (not scattered) in their G_d given homeland (Israel).
Michael loves Israel. I love the Jews. I love those who trust their future to Christ Yeshua (Jesus). I am (joyfully) the servant of Christ Yeshua.
The End Times began in the year 1947. Look only to Christ Yeshua.
Peace in Yeshua,
Michael
