February 20th or there about, begin to adjust your consumption and purchasing of processed foods. This will minimize the amount of products containing or potentially containing chametz that will need to be consumed or disposed of by Pesach. If you have any questions or concerns about what products to look out for a brief survey and set of definitions are provided at the end of this document.

March 18th or there about, begin to clean your home (bedrooms and remote areas away from your kitchen), work spaces, cars, brief cases, purses, etc. removing all chametz. (Chametz is any product that contains or may contain wheat, barley, oats, spelt, or rye that has or may have fermented. The only way to know is for packaged and processed foods to see that it is certified kosher for Pesach.) As it may not be in our possession according to scripture, we will need to remove all food crumbs, beverages etc. that may be in the furniture, under the furniture, etc. Make sure food does not re-enter those rooms by keeping a strict “eat in the kitchen only” policy and keeping a checklist of rooms “cleaned” so you don‟t have to re-clean them. This will also require making sure crumbs do not leave the kitchen in clothes, beards, on hands, etc.

April 14th, 15th, and 17th kosher the kitchen for Pesach. Prepare to change out your dishes, silverware, pots, pans, etc or kasher the ones you have (note glass, glazed, ceramic, china, dishware, cookware, and utensils cannot be kashered for Pesach). Paper plates, plastic utensils, and disposable aluminum cookware are often used if you do not have Pesach dish and cookware. Don‟t forget about kashering the sink, stove, counter tops, microwave, and oven for Pesach. Dishwashers cannot generally be kashered for Pesach. Toasters, toaster ovens cannot be koshered for Pesach. For other appliances consult your local orthodox rabbi.

Be sure to have dishtowels, pot holders, oven mitts, a 72+ hour candle, matzah (kosher for Pesach matzah), dishwashing sponges or wipes, etc. set aside for Pesach only use.

April 17th – Sunday

Sunday evening, about 8:15 pm, do your final search (ritual search) for chametz, do the blessing but do not do nullification of chametz at this time.

April 18th – Monday

If you are a first born son or the father of a first born son younger than bar Mitzvah you must do the fast of the first born. That is done on this day. It is a short fast, from sunrise to sunset. Fast begins at 4:53am and ends at 7:42pm

April 18th – Monday (While this is not a Shabbat, it is customary to take most if not all of this day off for preparation for the seder.)

The final time for eating chametz is 10:46am.

Sell or burn all remaining chametz. This should be completed by 11:53am. At that time recite the passage declaring all chametz in our possession to be null and void.

Earliest Minchah 1:33pm Note the order of the Pesach offering will be recited after Minchah but before sunset. Also include Eruv Tavshilin so that food may be prepared on the festival Shabbat.

Latest Minchah 4:54pm

Light 48 hour candle just before candle lighting, so 2nd Pesach night candles may be lit from it.

Begin 1st day Festival Sabbath (If possible take both days (Tuesday and Wednesday) off from work, but if you are not given a choice, then take the 1st festival Sabbath day off (Tuesday).)

Candle lighting is at 7:14pm

BA-RUCH A-TAH ADO-NAI E-LO-HE-NU ME-LECH HA-OLAM ASHER KID-E-SHA-NU BE-MITZ-VO-TAV VETZI-VA-NU LE-HAD-LIK NER SHEL YOM TOV.

Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to kindle the Yom Tov light.

BA-RUCH A-TAH ADO-NAI E-LO-HE-NU ME-LECH HA-OLAM SHE-HECHE-YA-NU VE-KI-YE-MA-NU VE-HIGI-A-NU LIZ-MAN HA-ZEH.

Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of  the universe, who has granted us life, sustained us, and enabled us to reach this occasion

Ma‟ariv with Full Hallel.

The Seder of the First night follows right after Ma‟ariv and must be completed by midnight.

We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/meat. (NO Dairy) This will be eaten during the seder.

April 19th – Tuesday 1st day Festival Sabbath

Pesach

Shacharit service 8:00am

Do Full Hallel, Torah readings, Haftarah readings.

Mussaf Service (right after Shacharit)

Amidah prayer changes from “wind” and “rain” to “dew.”

Priestly Blessing

Festival Lunch. We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/dairy

Minchah Service in the Afternoon after 1:34pm (latest Minchah is 4:55pm

Tuesday evening Conclude 1st day Festival Sabbath and Begin 2nd day Festival Sabbath – Pesach

(This is because we are in the Diaspora)

Tuesday evening (after 3 stars are visible (should be at or after 8:25pm)

Ma‟ariv with Hallel, counting of the Omer (day 1)

The Pesach candles are lit (from your 48+ hour candle you may transfer a flame).

Then the Seder of the Second night follows immediately after Ma‟ariv. There is no time limit on completion.

We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/meat. (NO Dairy) This will be eaten during the seder.

April 20th – Wednesday 2nd day Festival Shabbat

Shacharit service 8:00am

Do Full Hallel, Torah readings, Haftarah readings

Mussaf Service (right after Shacharit)

Priestly Blessing

Festival Lunch. We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/dairy

Minchah Service in the Afternoon after 1:33pm (latest Minchah 4:55pm)

Wednesday evening (after 3 stars are visible (should be at or after 8:26pm)

Havdalah (omit spices and candle).

Maariv with Hallel, counting of the Omer (day 2)

April 21st Thursday– April 24th Sunday.

Do not lay Tefillin.

Limit work on intermediate days.

Eat Matzah each day and drink a glass of wine or grape juice in celebration of our deliverance, our redemption.

Count the Omer each day after sunset each day (days 3 – 5)

April 24th Sunday night, erev 7th day of Matzah – a Festival Sabbath – Erev Shevi’i Shel Pesach. (If possible take both days (Mon, and Tues) off from work, but if you are not given a choice, then take the 1st festival Sabbath day off (Mon).)

6:00pm Dinner (We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/dairy.)

Light 48+ hour candle

Candle lighting at 7:30pm

BA-RUCH A-TAH ADO-NAI E-LO-HE-NU ME-LECH HA-OLAM ASHER KID-E-SHA-NU BE-MITZ-VO-TAV VETZI-VA-NU LE-HAD-LIK NER SHEL YOM TOV.

Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to kindle the Yom Tov light.

Ma‟ariv after candle lighting

After Amidah, counting of the Omer (day 6)

It is customary to stay awake all night studying Torah. This is because on this day HaShem split the Sea of Reeds and Yeshua met with His disciples in the upper room. This day is a reminder that our time here on earth is short and we need to be prepared to stand before HaShem and enter into His Promised Land.

April 25th Monday, 1st Festival Shabbat for 7th day of Matzah

Shacharit 8:30am

Partial Hallel, Torah Reading, Haftarah Reading

Mussaf (right after Shacharit)

Priestly blessing

Festival Lunch. We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/dairy

Minchah Service in the Afternoon after 1:33pm (latest Minchah 4:58pm)

Monday Evening, close of 1st day of Festival Sabbath for the 7th Day of Matzah. Begin 2nd day of Festival Sabbath for the 7th Day of Matzah (final day of Pesach).

Monday evening (after 3 stars are visible – should be at or after 8:31pm)

Light candles for second Sabbath Day of Pesach (8th day of Pesach in Diaspora). Must be lit from a 48+ hour candle.

Ma‟ariv after candle lighting

After Amidah count the Omer (day 7)

Festival Dinner. We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/dairy.

April 26th Tuesday, 2nd Festival Shabbat

Shacharit 8:30am

Partial Hallel, Torah reading, Haftarah reading, Yizkor memorial service (for parents who have passed away).

Mussaf (right after Shacharit)

Priestly blessing

Festival Lunch. We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/dairy.

Minchah Service in the Afternoon after 1:33pm (latest Minchah 4:58pm)

Festival closing feast – Moshiach‟s Feast

This feast begins before sunset and concludes after nightfall. We will have a kosher for Pesach pot luck, vegan/meat.

Close of Pesach for 5771

Tuesday evening (after 3 stars are visible – should be at or after 8:32pm)

Ma‟ariv

After the Amidah, count the Omer (8th day)

Havdalah (omit spices and candle).

Put away all Pesach dishes, utensils, towels, etc for next year. Best to put them in a sealed container to avoid contamination from chametz or pests which can make them un-kosher for Pesach.

Chametz may be purchased, made, and consumed after all Pesach dish and cookware have been put away.

What is Chametz?

Rabbi Yoseph Moshe ben Gershon

Roots of the Messiah

www.rootsofthemessiah.com

THE EVERLASTING REQUIREMENT

A bedrock scripture to this topic is found in Leviticus where it is stated;

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
[Leviticus 17:11]

And in the apostolic writings, we read;

…and without shedding of blood is no remission.
[Hebrews 9:22b]

No where in scripture can we find where this requirement has ever changed, yet something happened 2,000 years ago that did change, and that is man’s ability to fulfill this requirement as prescribed. The very center of the Hebrew faith fell out altogether when the Temple was destroyed and the priesthood along with all of Israel was scattered. Without a Temple, a priesthood and the proper sacrifices it is impossible to observe the Torah commands required for the forgiveness of sin.

We are left with only two possible choices:
1. HaShem still requires all those sacrifices and yet He has taken away the ability to do them, meaning that everybody is in very big trouble.
2. HaShem has done something new and revolutionary. He has completed the old and brought about something new. He has at last brought to fullness the sacrifices which were only meant to be shadows of the suffering servant, Mashiach ben Yosef.

SHADOWS FROM GENESIS AND THROUGHOUT

A universal practice of blood atonement and a substitute sacrifice for wrong doing appears to have been an innate belief mysteriously built into the psyche of every tribe and nation known to man. Like the artifacts of various ancient civilizations that show a common thread that leads back to the story of a catastrophic world wide flood, the idea that men can somehow atone for their sins, or perhaps “appease the gods” as it were, by the shedding of blood, is yet another witness that speaks of mankind’s common ancestry.

The theme of blood and a substitute sacrifice begins in Genesis when HaShem took the life of an innocent animal to clothe man and woman with “coats of skins” [Genesis 3:21]. The price of sin was death; the death of an innocent life. This surely made an impression on the hearts of our first parents and the fact that this understanding was passed on to their children is evident in the account of Abel and his offering in the next chapter where we are told that HaShem had “respect unto Abel and his offering” [Genesis 4:4]. Why was the Blood of this lamb pleasing to HaShem? What did Abel understand about choosing the finest of the flock for a sacrifice?

Again, in the account of Abraham and Isaac on Mt. Moriah, we see the hint of the theme of Blood atonement and substitution. The ram caught in the thicket is sacrificed in place of Isaac and in fact, all of Israel in his loins yet to be born [Genesis 22:13]. Again, in the account of the Exodus, the specification of taking “a lamb without blemish” in chapter 12:5 speaks of a perfect sacrifice and once again, we see the nation of Israel saved by Blood atonement and substitution. In this Exodus account, we also see the element of personal application. Only the household that personally applied the Blood was spared the loss of their firstborn [Exodus 12:22-23]. We have to take the Blood for ourselves. It’s up to each of us what we personally do with the Lamb that HaShem provides.
Like book ends, substitutionary Blood atonement marks the beginning and the ending of the annual cycle; the Passover Lamb in the spring and the two goats of Yom Kippur as well as the seventy bulls at Sukkot in the fall. In fact, the morning and evening sacrifices of “two lambs of the first year day by day continually” [Exodus 29:38-39] served as a constant reminder of the necessity of the Blood atonement.
Abel choosing the finest, the Passover lamb without spot or blemish, and lambs of the first year all speak to us of a precious and perfect sacrifice. But the blood of animals was merely a type and shadow of the coming One to be sacrificed.

NOTHING LESS THAN A PERFECT SACRIFICE

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own Blood He entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats , and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh; how much more shall the Blood of Messiah who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to Elohim, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim.
[Hebrews 9:12-14]

Yet it pleased HaShem to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief: when You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of HaShem shall prosper in His hand.
[Isaiah 53:10]

Only a perfect sacrifice will do. The blood can not save you unless it is shed from a perfect sacrifice. Remember, the life is in the blood, and like produces like. It is amazing to see how the sins of the fathers pass to the sons and daughters. Environment does play a part in how children turn out, but studies have proven remarkably much is simply in the genes. Sin is in our DNA. It is also a well known scientific fact that our blood type is determined by our father. Some would have us believe that the Messiah is not the unique and divine Son, but merely the Son of Joseph (or the son of King David by a sperm preserved miraculously then implanted in Miryam’s womb as I have recently heard in a new twist of heresy). Both King David and Joseph inherited the disease of a sin nature from the blood line of Adam, so how then would Y’shua be free of our Adamic disease and be a perfect offering for sin? Consider this as well; scripture is clear on the point that no mere man can pay for the sins of another.

None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to Elohim a ransom for him: For the redemption of their soul is precious and it ceases forever: That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
[Psalm 49:7-9]

As Abraham told Isaac, “HaShem will provide Himself the Lamb” [Genesis 22:8] not an angel, as Jehovah’s Witnesses teach, and not just a mere man as NCCI, The Way International, Unity and many others teach, but HaShem Himself. How else would the sacrifice be perfect? That is the ONLY way it could ever work.

PESHITTA ON THE BLOOD

The Peshitta, (the original Aramaic Brit Chadashah) tells it plainly concerning the precious Blood of Y’shua. “MarYah” is the Aramaic equivalent to The Divine Name in Hebrew and is used  over 30 times in direct reference to Y’shua. (see my teaching on UNEQUIVOCAL EVIDENCE IN THE ARAMAIC PESHITTA or go to www.aramaicnt.com)

Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of MarYah unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of MarYah.
[I Cor. 11:27]

…to feed the church of Elohim, which He has purchased with His Own Blood.
[Acts 20:28]

The commandment to us not to eat the blood of a creature in Leviticus 17:14 is key to understanding John 6:53 where Y’shua gives us one of His hardest words causing many to no longer follow Him.

Timeless Truth I tell you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, you have no life in you.
[John 6:53]

This is a divine declaration. He is telling us who He is and that He doesn’t want us to feed upon any other life, for there is no life apart from the True. We are not to whore with other so-called “Elohim” but feed upon Him who is the Lamb, the True Bread from heaven.

LIQUID INTO SPIRIT

Clearly, HaShem requires the Blood to cleanse us from sin. We are also somehow to feed upon that Blood for it is life eternal to those who will drink. What does all of this mean in tangible terms? How do we apply the Blood? How do we drink it? How does HaShem get the Blood to us?
To modern Torah-only Hebrews and Jewish ears, it is considered barbaric to need blood. It is a foreign thing to them and yet nothing is so totally Hebrew than being saved by the Blood. The fact that it seems strange to their ears is testimony that Y’shua is the Messiah because it is only since He came that the offerings stopped. If Y’shua had not been the promised Messiah, the prophecy in Daniel would not have come to pass, the offerings would have continued and Blood atonement would have remained very familiar to Hebrew/Jewish ears. The prophet Daniel spoke of the day when Messiah would come, that He would be killed, bringing the final atonement and everlasting righteousness, sacrifices would cease, and the Temple would be destroyed (Daniel 9:24-26).

So shall He sprinkle many nations…
[Isaiah 52:15a]

In this verse, Isaiah uses a word found in Leviticus concerning the duties of the High Priest. The priest would sprinkle/nazah the blood and here it says Messiah will sprinkle/nazah many nations. How is this done?

How many walked away from Y’shua when He told them they must eat His flesh and drink His Blood to obtain eternal life (John 6:54). This was a hard word, but Y’shua gave the understanding;

It is the Spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.
[John 6:63]

The life of a creature is in the blood…
[Leviticus 17:11]

At Golgotha, the creature was the Lamb of Yah, MarYah made flesh, and His life was shed upon the world to atone for the sin of every man. HaShem has taken the sacrifice outside the Temple walls to sprinkle many nations. The liquid is Spirit and it is the Life of HaShem Himself poured out.

Blood = Spirit = Life

Now, look at this:

How much more shall the Blood of Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to Elohim…
[Hebrews 9:14a]

The first Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit….The first man was of the earth, earthy: the second man is MarYah from Heaven.
[I Cor. 15:45 & 47]

He whose origin is from days of eternity (Micah 5:2), the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev.13:8), He whom the Father had prepared a Body for (Hebrews 10:5 & Psalm 40:6), the Seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15) became our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizadek (Hebrews 5:5-6), the perfect One, to sacrifice Himself (Hebrews 9:26) by the shedding of His one of a kind precious Blood; the last Adam shedding the very blood of HaShem for the sins of us all. How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation (Hebrews 2:3)? The Blood of Messiah is the Blood, the Spirit, the Life of HaShem…a power beyond any sin, so great is its cleansing flow.
No amount of books or songs could ever be enough to express the awesome wonder of His love for us, to sprinkle many nations with His Blood, His Spirit, His Life that saves us, restores us to a right relationship, and makes all things new.

Would you be free from the burden of sin?
There’s power in the Blood, power in the Blood
You can of Satan a victory win
Because there’s wonderful power in the Blood

Are you washed in the Blood?
In the soul cleansing Blood of the Lamb
Are your garments spotless, are they white as snow
Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb?

It will never lose its power…..

ELS (Equadistant-letter-sequence) ON THE BLOOD

In the phrase, “the voice of your brother’s blood”/ “kol d’mai achkah” in Genesis 4:9-10, there is an ELS starting with the Mem in d’mai counting every 7th letter; it spells “Mashiach em’met”/ “Messiah the Truth.”

In Leviticus 20:27 concerning people who sin by divination, starting with the first Dalet counting every 7th letter from left to right spells “dam Y’shua”/ “the Blood of Y’shua.”

And he that is the high priest among his brothers, upon whom the oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; neither shall he go into any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his Elohim; for the crown of the anointing oil of his Elohim is upon him: I Am HaShem.
[Lev.21:10-12]

In this passage, counting from right to left every 3rd letter, starting with the first Heh spells “hain dam Y’shua”/ “Behold the Blood of Y’shua.”

“Ha’miqreh Y’shua”/ “the event of Y’shua” is a 77 letter count starting with the first Heh in Leviticus 17:1 with “moreh, teacher of righteousness; early rain” in the adjacent letters to Y’shua’s name.

Ian Kalev Michaels

Hosea 6:7
Like Adam, they (Israel) have broken the covenant— they were unfaithful to me there.

Question: What Covenant did Israel break that Hosea says that Adam did too?

Exodus 34:28
So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb.

Gen 2:15 Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
And the Lord God took the man from the mountain of worship, where he had been created, and made him dwell in the garden of Eden, to do service in the Torah, and to keep its commandments.

Gen 2:15 Jerusalem Targum
And the Lord God took the man, and made him dwell in the garden of Eden; and set him to do service in the Torah, and to keep it.

Gen 3:15 Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between the seed of thy son, and the seed of her sons; and it shall be when the sons of the woman keep the commandments of the Torah, they will be prepared to smite thee upon thy head; but when they forsake the commandments of the Torah, thou wilt be ready to wound them in their heel. Nevertheless for them there shall be a medicine, but for thee there will be no medicine; and they shall make a remedy for the heel in the days of the King Meshiha.

Gen 3:15 Jerusalem Targum
And it shall be when the sons of the woman consider the Torah, and perform (its) instructions, they will be prepared to smite thee on thy head to kill thee; and when the sons of the woman forsake the commandment of the Torah, and perform not (its) instructions, thou wilt be ready to wound them in their heel, and hurt them. Nevertheless there shall be a medicine for the sons of the woman, but for thee, serpent, there shall be no medicine: but it is to be that for these there shall be a remedy for the heel in the days of the king Meshiha.

Point: “The commandment” refers to the Shema which is considered one commandment. See the article The Torah is One Commandment

Gen 3:23 Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
Before He had created the world, He created the Torah; He prepared the garden of Eden for the righteous, that they might eat and delight themselves with the fruit of the tree; because they would have practised in their lives the doctrine of the Torah in this world, and have maintained the commandments: (but) he prepared Gehinnam for the wicked, which is like the sharp, consuming sword of two edges; in the midst of it He hath prepared flakes of fire and burning coals for the judgment of the wicked who rebelled in their life against the doctrine of the Torah. To serve the Torah is better than (to eat of) the fruit of the tree of life, (the Torah) which the Word of the Lord prepared, that man in keeping it might continue, and walk in the paths of the way of life in the world to come.

Gen 3:23 Jerusalem Targum
Two thousand years before He had created the world, He created the Torah, and prepared Gehinnam and the garden of Eden. He prepared the garden of Eden for the righteous, that they should eat, and delight themselves with the fruit of the tree, because they had kept the commandments of the Torah in this world. For the wicked He prepared Gehinnam, which is like the sharp, consuming sword with two edges. He prepared in the depth of it flakes of fire and burning coals for the wicked, for their punishment for ever in the world to come, who have not kept the commandment of the Torah in this world. For the Torah is the tree of life; whoever keepeth it in this life liveth and subsisteth as the tree of life. The Torah is good to keep in this world, as the fruit of the tree of life in the world that cometh.

Gen 4:3-4
3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground.
4 Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering;
6 Then the LORD said to Cain, “(G)Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
7 “If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

Question: By what Torah does Cain know how to “do well” in regards to offering the fruit of the ground?

Question: By what Torah is Abel’s offering of the “firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions” regarded by HaShem?

Gen 4:7 Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
And the Lord said to Kain, Why hast thou anger, and why are the features of thy face downcast? If thou doest thy work well, will not thy guilt be forgiven thee? But if thou doest not thy work well in this world, thy sin is retained unto the day of the great judgment, and at the doors of thy heart lieth thy sin. And into thy hand have I delivered the power over evil passion, and unto thee shall be the inclination thereof, that thou mayest have authority over it to become righteous, or to sin.

Question: By what Torah is Cain’s sin defined by?

Gen 4:8
Habel answered and said to Kain, In goodness was the world created, and according to the fruit of good works is it governed; and there is no respect of persons in judgment; but because the fruits of my works were better than thine, my oblation, before thine, hath been accepted with good will.

Question: What are these good works, and how are they defined according to the Torah?

Gen 4:10-11
10 He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.
11 “Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Question: The last time God cursed someone is when Adam and Eve sinned. Now Cain is cursed… so does God curse when there is no sin committed?

Gen 4:11 Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
The voice of the bloods of the murder of thy brother which are swallowed up in the sod, crieth before Me from the earth.

Question: The Targum calls this sin, “murder.” But where is murder defined?

Gen 4:13
And Kain said before the Lord, My sins are greater than can be borne. Nevertheless there is power before Thee to absolve and forgive me.

Question: What sins? Murder is only ONE sin. What other sin did Cain commit? Perhaps the offering? What made it a sin? According to what standard?

Gen 5:24
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Question: How did Enoch walk with God if there was no Torah supposedly given yet?

Gen 6:5
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Question: How can man be charged with wickedness before Noah was given his commands? According to what standard did mankind engage, that is accounted as the wickedness that God saw? Where was that standard given to mankind? When?

Gen 6:9
Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

Question: How is Noah righteous before the flood? How is he called righteous before he was given the so-called Noahide laws, yet the rest of mankind is not counted as righteous? By what given standard is Noah thus set apart from the rest of that generation that perished?

Question: How is Noah blameless before the flood? By what standard? And when was that standard given?

Question: Like Enoch, how did Noah walk with God? In what way? By what standard? What did his walk of obedience look like?

Gen 6:21
“As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.”

Question: Which food is edible, which is not? Is there a food that is NOT edible to contrast the addition of the adjective to food “that is edible?” Where is that standard defined?

Question: What is “food for you” if not defined by Leviticus which states what is “food for you”?

Gen 7:2-3
2 “You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;
3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Question: By what standard are clean animals defined?

Question: By what standard are unclean animals defined?

Gen 8:20
20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Question: By what Torah does Noah know how to build an altar?

Question: By what Torah does he know what are clean animals?

Question: By what Torah does he know what are clean birds?

Question: By what Torah does he limit the offering of only clean animals? Why does he not offer an unclean animals?

Question: By what Torah does he limit the offering of only clean birds? Why does he not offer an unclean bird? By what teaching or instruction?

Question: According to what teaching or instruction does he offer a BURNT offering?

Question: Why would a man who spent years dedicated to the preservation of animals from the Flood, immediately desire to kill one of each of the clean animals? For such a righteous man, according to what Torah does he take this upon himself?

Gen 8:21
21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

Question: If God calls the pleasing offerings of the altar sacrifices by Israel in the wilderness a “soothing aroma,” then how is it that Noah is able to offer up an offering that too is a “soothing aroma” to the LORD, without knowing the Torah’s instructions in how to do so?

According to Encyclopedia Judaica: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view. … m%20psalms
Adam’s psalms …refer to cosmogony, creation. Psalm 5, Psalm 19, Psalm 24, Psalm 92 (Yalḳut. II. 630) were said to have been written by David, though Adam was worthy to have composed them. http://www.tsel.org/torah/yalkutsh/tehilim.html#A2015

Of particular interest is Psalm 19, if attributed to Adam, says:

Psalm 19:7-11
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

8 The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether.

10 They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

11 Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.

Question: If, according to Noachide theologies that the Torah was unknown or not given to mankind, then why does the 14th century midrash, Yalkut Shimoni, claim that this Psalm is “worthy to have been composed by Adam” when it speaks of the Torah?

The Torah and its instructions as given to Israel at Mt. Sinai existed, was known, and is given to mankind before Noah even received the commandments from God in Genesis 9.

Next, let’s delve into Rashi, and the various sources he gleans from to prove that there was a “Torah” academy run by Shem, and Eber where the patriarchs took “years” to learn the Torah:

Noach: Bereishis/Genesis, Chapter 07 – Rashi
Excerpts: I.e., that is destined to be “clean” [and permitted] for Israel. We learn [from this] that Noach studied Torah.55

Noach: Bereishis/Genesis, Chapter 07 – Text Notes

Excerpts:

54 The distinction between the “clean” and “unclean” animals was not made until the giving of the Torah!

This is only a rudimentary presentation. There is more yet to come, and this article will be modified with additional examples. With just a few of the questions above, it becomes apparent that holders of Noachide theology have some explaining to do in order to maintain their theology. I welcome the challenge to answer new questions from the Noachide camp, but I am more interested in finding Noachide answers to these questions already asked.

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But concerning that day and the hour no one knows, not even the messengers of the heavens, but My Father only.

[Mattithyahu 24:36]

As with any passage, we need to pay careful attention to what is being said as well as what is not being said. As I stated earlier, when facts continue to collaborate with mounting evidence, one does not throw the case out for any single piece of evidence that seems to contradict the mountain of established facts. Since our Elohim has given so many clues, and scripture can not contradict scripture, we can know at the start what this verse is not saying, (and that is, that there is no possible way to even come close to knowing when the Second Coming will occur). Too much has been revealed to the contrary. Yet we know that what is revealed will be understood by some and remain closed to others.

…and none of the wrong shall understand, but those who have insight shall understand.

[Daniel 12:10b]

Matthew 24 involves three separate time frames and verse 36 can be seen in reference to a time frame apart from the Second Coming.

Time Frame # 1: Second Coming

And immediately after the distress of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Adam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Adam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem.”

[Mattithyahu 24:29-31]

Time Frame #2: The Fig Tree Nation ( Israel Re-Birth) Generation

“And learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is near. So, you also, when you see all these, know that He is near, at the doors.”

[Mattithyahu 24:32-34]

Time Frame #3: The Passing Away of Heaven and Earth

“The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away. But concerning that day and the hour no one knows, not even the messengers of the heavens, but My Father only.”

[Mattithyahu 24:35-36]

From verse 37 on to the end of the chapter, Y’shua returns to Time Frame #1, concerning His return.

Time Frame #1: Second Coming

“And as the days of Noah, so also shall the coming of the Son of Adam be.”

[Mattithyahu 24:37]

Even if seen as a reference to His return, the phrase, “no man knows the day or the hour” is a Hebrew idiom in direct reference to one particular day. Yom Teruah/The Day of Trumpets (also called “Rosh Hashana”) is the one Feast Day that begins on the 1^st day of the month. Since the month is to be determined by the first sighting of the sliver of the new moon, it had to be watched for. If the night was cloudy, the month would not begin until the next night when the moon was sighted. No man knew the day or the hour of Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets. Seen this way, this is a direct reference to the season of His return completely in line with what we have already learned of the Appointed Times and how they prophetically foreshadow His First and Second Coming in the Messianic Age.

“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your master is coming. And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Because of this, be ready too, for the Son of Adam is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him.”

[Mattithyahu 24:42]

“But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant shall come on a day when he does not expect it, and at an hour when he does not know,…”

[Mattithyahu 24:48-50]

The righteous and wise watch and are therefore not caught unaware. It is only the evil and foolish who will find Messiah’s return at a day and an hour when they least expect.

…and none of the wrong shall understand, but those who have insight shall understand.

[Daniel 12:10b]

Noah and his family were prepared in his day. Only the wicked and unbelieving were swept away. If even the angel knows when to blow the trumpet (1 Thess. 4:16 ), Y’shua knows when He will return and His Word tells the wise to understand (Daniel 9:23 ) and discern (Luke 12:56 ).

Now, brothers, as to the times and the seasons, you do not need to be written to. For you yourselves know very well that the day of YHWH comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

[1 Thessalonians 5:1-5]

The righteous is never shaken, while the wrong shall not dwell in the earth.

[Mishle/Proverbs 10:30]

Messiah does not come as a thief to those who watch, but only to those who are in darkness!

Recap of confirming witnesses:

-         Declaring the end from the beginning  (Isaiah 49:9-10)

-         6 days of creation a blueprint for the 6 millennial days of man

-          Daniel’s timeline of 70 “shavua” is equal to 70 years

-         1947 the date of the decree to rebuild and restore Israel

-         70 year count is up in 2017

-         120 Jubilees equal to 6,000 years

-         1967 determined a Jubilee by calculating backwards to 333 BC

-         2017 is the 120^th Jubilee calculating forward

-         Jubilee years begin in the Fall on Yom Kippur (Lev. 25:9-10)

-         1897 the beginning of the budding forth of the fig tree nation ( Israel )

-         1897 is 120 years from 2017

-         Generation to see fig tree nation will see the Second Coming (Matt. 24:32-34)

-         Signs in the heaven a picture of Rev. 12 right at the start of the 1260 days

-         Significant days for the3 ½ years of tribulation’s beginning and ending

Beginning

a.       10^th of Abib a day of deliverance

b.      10^th of Abib the day of the Lamb (and the anti-Lamb)

Ending

a.       1335 day is first day of Tabernacles

b.       Tabernacles is the prophetic “Wedding Day” for Israel to Messiah

- Appointed Times reveal the beginning and ending of this past 2,000 years

- Appointed Times reveal the First and Second Coming of Messiah

The return of our Messiah is at an Appointed Time. We know He will not return before the end of the Tribulation because he told us so when He said, “and immediately after the distress of those days…[Mattithyahu 24:29]. We can also be certain that He will not return after the 1335 day. This is known from understanding the Appointed Times and what they represent. That day is the Great Wedding Day and no bridegroom should ever be late for his own wedding day.

Will He come to us on Yom Teruah/The Feast of Trumpets? Those who say so have a valid position since that is the day in Hebrew idiom of which “no man knows the day or the hour.”

Will He come to us on Yom Kippur/ The Day of Atonement? Those who say so have a valid position since that is the day of the face to face encounter with the Shekinah Glory of YHWH. Moses, on his second appearance, after 40 additional days on the Mount, came down on that day with his face shining from YHWH’s presence and that was the day he was received by the people. It was also the day the High priest, standing for all of Israel (The Bride), would enter the Holy of Holies and be face to face with YHWH.

Will He come to us on Sukkot/Tabernacles? Those who say so, again have a valid position, since that is the Great Wedding Day beginning the 7 day Feast of Feasts, which represent the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, the Millenial Reign!

At His first appearance, Y’shua came and fulfilled the Spring Feasts, but He was physically here before those days. This tells me that He can be here before we begin to celebrate any of the Feasts occurring in the final 45 day period that follows the Tribulation.  So here it is: For those who are awake and watching, Y’shua our Messiah will return between September 2^nd (the last day of the Tribulation) and October 17^th (the 1335 day and Great Wedding Day) in the year 2016!

Remember, then, how you have received, and heard. And watch and repent. If, then, you do not wake up, I shall come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know at all what hour I come upon you.

[Revelation 3:3]

He that bears witness of these matters says, “Yea, I AM coming speedily.” Amen. Yea, come Master Y’shua!

[Revelation 22:20]

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And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clad with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

[Revelation 12:1]

And another sign was seen in the heaven: and see, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads.

[Revelation 12:3]

At precisely 5:58AM on March 2^nd, 2013, this sign will appear in the Jerusalem sky;

The constellation Virgo [Israel] will appear with the moon under her feet and the constellation Corona Borealis/The Crown over head.  Along with this, Serpens [Satan] and Bootes/The Coming One [Messiah]  will also be visible.

In Genesis 1:14, we see that the sun, moon and stars were given to us for “signs.” A sign declares a message and an original message was given to us in the creation of the zodiac. The constellations are not for fortune telling. Astrology is strongly condemned in the Scriptures (see Isaiah 47:13-14).That ancient perversion has clouded the far more ancient and true purpose which is prophecy from YHWH Himself about Himself and the plan of redemption for mankind throughout the span of time.

The timing of the combination of these constellations coming together when they do is remarkable in light of what we have covered previously. It comes between the time the sacrifices will begin (February 20, 2013) and when they will be made to cease (March 21, 2013) which will begin the 1260 days. The signs appear in the heaven right before the actual fulfillment of the prophecy of which they speak.

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…The appointed times of YHWH, which you are to proclaim as set-apart gatherings, My appointed times, are these…

[Wayyiqra/Leviticus 23:2b]

YHWH calls the Feasts given to Israel His. They are His appointed times and each one is a part of the most beautiful love story ever told. Each Feast is a stage in the redemptive process for the people He calls “The Bride.”

In ancient times, a man would come to a woman’s home on a full moon. Greeted by her father, he would ask for her hand in marriage. The father would ask his daughter if she wanted to marry this man. If she consented, the young Bridegroom would pay the bridal price (called the “Mohar”). This payment would do two things. First, it was the price to set her free from her father’s house. Second, it made her the Bride. Then, the man would go back to his father’s house and prepare a place for his Bride. During the time they were apart, a trusted friend would be the go between for any communications. This trusted friend would also come to the Bride at an appointed time with a group of gifts (the Katan) as a sealing of the agreement and as a pledge of things to come in her new life with the Bridegroom.

Then, again on a full moon, the wedding day would finally come. The Bride would stand waiting under a canopy (the Chuppah) and as the Bridegroom made his procession towards her, a man would go before him blowing a ram’s horn and saying, “Make way for the Bridegroom is coming!” Then, with face unveiled, the Bride and Bridegroom would behold one another face to face for the first time since their betrothal.  A 7 day wedding celebration would follow.

On Passover, on a full moon, our Bridegroom came and paid the Mohar. With His own blood, He purchased us! We are set free from our father’s house. (Satan and the sin of this world have no hold on us anymore)! His blood makes us the Bride, (even when we don’t feel like it or act like it)!

…knowing that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible, silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for your sakes…

[1Kepha/Peter 1:18-20]

He has gone back to His Father’s house to prepare a place for us.

“In My Father’s house are many staying places. And if not, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”

[Yochanan/John 14:2-3a]

“And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give another Helper, to stay with you forever – the Spirit of Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you.”

[Yochanan/John 14:16-17]

During our time of separation, the trusted friend has been sent. At an appointed time, at Shavuot/Pentecost, He came with the Katan, the gifts of the Spirit.

…who also sealed us, and gave the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

[2 Corinthians 1:22]

The Bridegroom is coming! The wedding day is upon us! At the appointed time, the ram’s horn will sound (Rosh Hashana/Feast of Trumpets) and the Bridegroom will be here! We will see Him face to face (Yom Kippur) and on a full moon (Tabernacles), we will begin a 7 day celebration, the marriage supper of the Lamb, as we enter into the Millennial Reign.

As I mentioned earlier in Part 1, the 6,000 years of man were broken down in three divisions by ancient rabbinical commentary. This past “2,000 years of Messiah,” as you can see, is blueprinted in the appointed times, the Feasts of YHWH. Each feast is a stage in the redemption process for mankind.

Spring Rains

The Beginning of the Age: Betrothal Stage

-         Passover is His Death, our Salvation by the blood of the Lamb

-         Unleavened Bread is His Burial, our Sanctification (cleansing from leaven/sin)

-         First Fruits is His Resurrection, our being made a new creation

-         Shavuot/Pentecost is the gift of His Torah and His Spirit in our hearts

4 months of dry summer (40 Jubilees, 2,000 years)

Autumn Rains

The End of the Age: Marriage/Consummation Stage

-         Trumpets is the call … “Make Way! The Bridegroom is Coming!”

-         Atonement is the face to face encounter with the Bridegroom

-         Tabernacles is the Great Wedding Day!

Messiah literally brought fulfillment to the Spring Feasts. He is always on time with His calendar. What he did in the Spring, He will do in the Fall. The appointed times are just that…Appointed Times! With this knowledge, we return to Daniel’s prophecy of the 1,335 days.

And from the time that which is continual is taken away, and the abomination that lays waste is set up, is one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who is waiting earnestly, and comes to the one thousand and three hundred and thirty-five days.

[Daniel 12:11-12]

The Blessed Day is the Great Wedding Day! Tishri 15^th, the first day of Sukkot will fall on October 17^th in the year 2016. Calculating backward a total of 1,305 days brings us to March 21^st, 2013 as the starting point of the 1260 days, the day when the sacrifices will be stopped and the abomination that lays waste is set in place. If calculations are correct, that day would also be a significant one on the prophetic calendar. March 21^st in 2013 is also the 10^th of Abib.

The 10^th of Abib is a day of the lamb and a day of deliverance:

-         the day of the lamb’s inspection

-         the day the Jordan dried for Israel to cross in Joshua’s time

-         the day Y’shua rode into Jerusalem and was praised by the people

It is no wonder that the “lamb with horns” (see Revelation 13:11) would also have this day to erect his image and demand praise from the people. This is the day deliverance will be provided for us.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, to be nourished there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

[Revelation 12:6]

And pray that your flight does not take place in Winter or on the Sabbath.

[Mattithyahu 24:20]

March 21^st in 2013 is the first day of Spring and it will not be a Sabbath. The 1260 days will end on September 2^nd, 2016, exactly 45 days from October 17^th, the first day of Sukkot, which prophetically marks the great Wedding Day, the Blessed Day!

And immediately after the distress of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Adam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Adam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem. And He shall send His messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

[Mattithyahu 24:29-31]

An annular solar eclipse will occur on September 1^st, 2016.

A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur on September 16^th, 2016.

And in the interim between the end of the tribulation and the 1335 day will come

- Rosh Hashana/Yom Teruah/the Day of Trumpets on October 3^rd

- Yom Kippur (the 120^th Jubilee) on October 12^th

- The Great Day of Sukkot (the 1335 day) on October 17^th

Without knowing how, because it is yet to be and no man knows, we know enough to this; that in the very same way that the Appointed Times of the Spring Feasts were brought to their literal fulfillment at Messiah’s first coming, so to will the Appointed Times of the Fall Feasts be brought to their literal fulfillment at Messiah’s return.

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…from the going forth of the command to restore and to build Yerushalayim until Messiah the Prince is seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.

[Daniel 9:25a]

The following is a chart showing the various divisions of Daniels prophecy in Chapter 9 and how they lay out for us in our time.

1947[______________________70 yrs________________________________]2017

1947[______________________69 yrs_______________________________]2016

1947[______________________62 yrs__________________] 2009[_______]2016

2017 is the 120^th Jubilee, and it will begin in the fall of 2016 on the day of Yom Kippur that precedes it. We are already in the 7 year Tribulation period that precedes the Second Coming. It began with the Fall Feasts in 2009. It will end with the Fall Feasts in 2016.

Let’s recap once again some confirming witnesses.

- Ancient times showing things yet to come (IS 46:9-10)

- Shavua as years gives a 70 year timeline

- 1947 decree went forth to rebuild and restore

- 70 year count is up in 2017

- Creation week is a blueprint for the 6,000 years time of man

- 120 Jubilees equal to 6,000 years

- 1967 determined a Jubilee by calculating backwards

- 2017 is the 120^th Jubilee calculating forward

- Fig Tree budding marks us as the final generation

Consider the profound similarities of the following chart;

………………………………………………………1947AD[_____70 yrs___]2017AD

…………………………………….70AD[____________1947yrs__________]2017AD ……………………………….Temple destroyed

……….1947BC[_____2017 yrs__]70AD

Abraham Conceived

Adam[_____50 Jubilees________]Exodus[_____________70 Jubilees_______]2017AD

Returning to the book of Daniel, we see another counting of days. These are literal days and not years and match up with what we know from Revelation concerning the second half of the 7 years of tribulation.

And from the time that which is continual is taken away, and the abomination that lays waste is set up, is one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who is waiting earnestly, and comes to the one thousand and three hundred and thirty-five days.

[Daniel 12:11-12]

And I shall give unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophecy one thousand two hundred and sixty days….

[Revelation 11:3a]

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, to be nourished there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

[Revelation 12:6]

We are given three sets of time lengths in these above verses. 1260 days is exactly 3 1/2 years. This is the time of greatest tribulation that precedes the Second Coming. 30 days prior to that, sacrifices will be reinstated in Jerusalem . Imagine the world-wide protest from animal activists when the newly formed priesthood of the ultra-orthodox is finally allowed to begin the daily sacrifices. That newly formed priesthood won’t need to have the Temple in place to begin the morning and evening sacrifices. All they will need is an altar while construction for the actual Temple is still underway or in the planning stages. Then, one month later, to the relief of the masses world-wide, the anti-messiah will stop the sacrifices and erect the abomination of desolation. This will usher in the great tribulation for the next 1260 days. At the end of the 1260 days (3 ½ years), there will be a period of 45 days to follow. Those who live to see that 1335^th day are called “blessed” by the prophet Daniel. What is so significant about that 1335^th day?

[___30 days__][___________________1260 days_________________][___45 days___]

[________________________________1290 days_________________][__45 days___]

[_______________________________1335 days_______________________________]

2013AD……………………………………………………………………………2016AD

The annual Feasts hold the key to this understanding. What they prophetically represent unfolds the mystery.

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And learn this parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these, know that He is near, at the doors. Truly I say to you, this generation shall by no means pass away until all this takes place.

[Mattithyahu 24:32-34]

In biblical typology, “the fig tree” is the nation of Israel . But when did the fig tree nation begin to bud forth again? In 1897, Theodore Herzl, known as the father of the Zionist Movement, made an entry in his diary declaring the manifestation of the State of Israel. That year marked the budding forth of a homeland for Jews worldwide – a people who had been scattered for nearly 2,000 years. We are without a doubt, the generation of the fig tree nation that Y’shua said would see His return.

Another interesting point to consider is that the prophecy of the 120 years of man was given in the days of Noah.

And as the days of Noah, so also shall the coming of the Son of Adam be.

[Mattithyahu 24:37]

1897 is exactly 120 years from, once again, the year 2017. Noah spent an entire century building the ark and preaching to the people of his day of the coming judgment. Is there a connection to the 120 year time of man, the last days and the days of Noah? Coupled with what we already know, the total of 120 years betweeen 1897 to 2017 serves as yet another witness to the significance of that coming year.

Another noteworthy piece to consider for our time is the prophecy in Ezekiel concerning the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Ezekiel was told to lie on his left side for 390 days, representing the years of Israel ’s punishment (see Yehezqel 4:4-5). Yet we find in Torah a principle of multiplication when a people continue to walk contrary to the commands. Punishment is multiplied seven times (see Wayyiqra/Leviticus 26:27-28).the Northern Kingdom of Israel was destroyed and the people scattered in the year 722BC.

390 years x 7 = 2,730 years.   2,730 years from the year 722BC brings us to the year 2008 AD. This is remarkable in light of what we see in this generation with multitudes in Christianity awakening to Torah and multitudes in Judaism awakening to Y’shua. It is also remarkable in light of the timeline given to Daniel.

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You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass through all your land. And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you. And each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan.

[Wayyiqra/Leviticus 25:9-10]

From this passage, we see the following:

- the Jubilee year begins on a Yom Kippur

- debts are forgiven and counted paid

- the trumpet sounds through all the land

- rejoicing and celebrating starts

Messiah’s return will bring the Jubilee. It is “the times of restoration” (Acts 3:21 ) when He returns. Interestingly, when Moses (a type of messiah) descended Mt. Sinai the first time with the tablets, the people did not receive him (as Y’shua was not received). After another 40 days on the Mt., the second time Moses descended he was received (Shemot/Exodus 34:29). This was five days prior to the building of the Mishkan/Tabernacle. He descended on the 10^th of Tishri, Yom Kippur.

6,000 years is a total of 120 Jubilee years. In Genesis, scripture states;

And יהוה  said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

[Bereshith/Genesis 6:3]

We are told that man’s days shall be 120 years upon the earth. 120 Jubilee years coincides and confirms man’s time of  6 millennial days.

From Adam to Abraham = 40 Jubilees

From Abraham to Messiah’s first coming = 40 Jubilees

From Messiah’s first coming to Messiah’s second coming = 40 Jubilees

Consider the significance of 40;

- Israel in Egypt 400 years (40 x 10)

- Moses disappearing, then reappearing after 40 years

- Moses acceptance of the people after and additional 40 days

- Israel in the wilderness, then brought into the Promised Land after 40 years

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not yet been done…

[Yeshayahu 46:10a]

In 1967, Israel gained possession of Jerusalem in a war that took exactly 6 days. Was this a prophetic blueprint to remind us of the 6 day creation week which culminates with the Sabbath and the 6,000 years of man which culminates with the Millennial Reign? The result of this war was a reunited capital for the nation of Israel . It was a time of release and great joy for the Jewish people. Although modern-day rabbinical Judaism has its own reckoning for the years of Jubilee, does יהוה  have His own reckoning? Was 1967 a true year of Jubilee? If so, there should be a pattern in history to confirm this.

50 years earlier, a Jubilee event took place when in 1917, the 400 year Islamic Ottoman Empire came to an end.

And exactly 50 years before that, in the year 1867, there was a final emancipation for all Jews of Austria and Hungary .

Extrapolating this pattern backwards in time, we find that the year that Alexander the Great conquered the Medes and Persians was also one of these 50^th years. It was the year 333 BC when a liberation came to the Jewish people with the overthrowing of the Medes and Persians.

With this confirmation, we conclude that the 120^th Jubilee of mankind will be 50 years forward of the year 1967, which again brings us to the year 2017.

In a court of law, evidence is presented and a verdict is rendered. When facts continue to collaborate with mounting evidence, one does not throw the case out for any single piece of evidence that seems to contradict the mountain of established facts. Here is what we have so far;

1.      We are obviously in or near the 7^th Millennium

2.      6,000 years (6 millennial days) from Adam to Present

3.      120 Jubilees equals 6,000 years

4.      The next Jubilee is the 120^th (the number of man’s [Jubilee] years upon

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The angel Gabriel was sent to the prophet Daniel giving him a precise timeline for the coming of the Messiah. Since the Messiah comes twice at two different times in history, the prophecy concerns two different time frames simultaneously. The great mathematician and theologian Sir Isaac Newton is one who held to this belief as well as many others over the course of time. One key to understanding the double time line is hidden in the dual meaning of the word for “weeks”. Another is in understanding that the 70th week is still yet to be brought to fulfillment.

Seventy weeks [490 years] are decreed for your people and for your set-apart city [Jerusalem] to put an end to the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover crookedness, and to bring in everlasting righteousness [final atonement will come at the end of the 490 year count], and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Set-apart [The Messiah]. Know, then, and understand: from the going forth of the command to restore and to build Yerushalayim until Messiah the Prince is seven weeks and sixty-two weeks [483 years]. It shall be built again, with streets and a trench, but in times of affliction. And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off and have naught [The Messiah will be killed]. And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the set-apart place [then Jerusalem and the Temple will be destroyed]. And the end of it is with a flood. And wastes are decreed, and fighting until the end.

[Daniel 9:24-26]

The going forth of a decree to restore came in the year 444 B.C.E. on the 2^nd of Abib by King Artaxerxes during the time of Israel ’s captivity under the Medes and Persians. A prophetic year is 360 days, not 365. 360 days x 483 years is 173,880 days. The end of the count was the 10^th of Abib in the year 31 C.E. In that year, the day of Passover, the 14^th of Abib was on a Wednesday placing the death of Y’shua on the 4^th day of the week. It could be no other day of the week, as was mentioned earlier, since this speaks prophetically of the millennia that were to pass from the creation of Adam to that event.

This prophecy is like no other since it pinpoints to the day the arrival of the Messiah telling us that He will be killed. It also tells us that after this, Jerusalem and the Temple will be destroyed. It’s really quite simple. Is the Temple still standing? Then the Messiah has come!

Yet, we still have 7 years unaccounted for in the 490 year count. This 70^th week of the prophecy coincides with the 7 year covenant of the anti-Messiah spoken of in Daniel 9:27, a 7 year period of tribulation that will precede the return of Y’shua ushering in the Sabbath Millennium. So, the prophecy is two-fold, speaking of two time frames simultaneously. Considering the accuracy of the count for Messiah’s First Coming, is it not reasonable to say that the counting for Messiah’s return would be equally accurate?

The word for “week” in Hebrew is “Shavua” which is a period of seven days, or years. “Shavua” can also refer to the annual feast that occurs seven weeks after Passover. So the count can be both;

70 X 7 years = 490 years         or         70 Shavua (70 years)

The starting point for both countings is a decree to restore and build (Daniel 9:25 ). Was there a decree given that concerned the restoration and rebuilding of Israel in our modern day? Yes! It came on November 29^th in the year 1947 when moved by the horrors of the holocaust, the United Nations voted to divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab States. One year later, the Nation of Israel declared its independence. 70 years from 1947 is the year 2017.

Remember, the pieces have to come together without any gaps. This is only one piece to the whole!