I realize that there has been a lot of crying wolf over especially the last several decades. Stuff like "88 Reason Jesus Must Return in 1988" nonsense. And those that do convoluted calculations on their calculators and end up with Harold Camping style dates and such.
But let's look at several confirmed realities, many which have been exposed by different people not closely associated with each other.
Mark Biltz comes at this from one direction. His primary focus was on the blood moon tetrad that occurred. 4 blood moons, one on each Passover and Feast of Tabernacles, for two consecutive years, 2014 and 2015. That right there is an eye catcher, even if a repeatable occurrence over many centuries.
Combine that with the Bethlehem Star event of 2015 also. Can't recall who first postulated this one. Where Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets, were side by side and seemed as the brightest star around. Again, repeatable over the centuries, but timing makes it an eye catcher also. The wise men in the gospel claimed they had seen the star 2 years before coming to Bethlehem. Well, it has been 2 years since the 2015 occurrence.
Then you combine that Yeshua said when these things start to happen, "this" generation would not pass till all be fulfilled. Matthew 24:34. The dispute has centered around, how long is a generation? 50 years? 70 Years? 100 Years? But also in Matthew 24:37 Yeshua said that as it was in the days of Noah, so it would be at the end.
Well, in Genesis 6, God was so ticked off at mankind He gave them 120 years. That's a good starting point.
In 1897, the first Zionist Congress was held in Basel, Switzerland to work on establishing a home for the Jewish people. That was 120 years ago this year. In 1917, 100 years ago, the Balfour declaration was made regarding allowing the Jews to return to the ancient land of Israel to live. In 1947, 70 years ago, UN 181 was decreed that the partitioned off what is now Israel for the Jews. The country was formally established the following year. In 1967 50 years ago, Israel recaptured all of Jerusalem, making this year a Jubilee year in 2017. All of those pretty much cover the generation length no matter how one looks at it.
Grant Jeffery was the one who found the Ezekiel 430 years minus the 70 in Babylon and combined with the warning in Leviticus 26, calculated the 1948 restoration of the nation of Israel.
Then one takes the solar eclipse that covered the U.S. This happened just before the start of the Days of Repentance (Elul 1 on the Jewish calendar) which is a 40 day call of return to God before the Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur. Interesting, that the folks who are running these astro space programs looking at celestial occurrences also determined that the day that Jonah issued the warning to Ninevah to repent, happened on Elul 1 of the calendar also, and that there had been closely tied full solar eclipse over Ninevah like the one in the U.S. recently.
Then we add on the Revelation 12 sign coming up at the end of Rosh Hashanah this year. Some have tried to debunk it, but they usually are a little disingenuous with what they are doing and conveniently leave out specifics, like how Jupiter stays around the "womb" of Libra for a full 9 months by doing a retrograde operation, simulating full human gestation, and then exits between the woman's legs. That combined with the line up convergence of the 12 stars in the crown, sun clothing the woman (this event officially happens at sunrise on the 23rd in Jerusalem), with the new moon below her feet, and the probabilities get demonstrably large. Answers in Genesis tried to debunk it, but they left out the Jupiter in retrograde fact. Scottie Clarke postulated this convergence about 6 years ago and it has had a lot of peer review exposure, yet none have effectively debunked it.
I don't believe in coincidences. And others should carefully analyze this stuff before dismissing it out of hand. There is something coming on the horizon. Even the secular world, many are starting to wonder of where things are going, given the events of this century and more recently. We can't even keep our naval ships from colliding into other ships this year. I am hoping for the removal of the righteous on September 23rd, but am more concerned that some catastrophic upheavals are coming that will really blow people's minds.
Numbers 14:11 (NKJV) Then the Lord said to Moses: “How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?
