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December 28, 2011 – The End: New Revelations

Posted on 21 November 2011

Tags: December 27 2011, December 27 2011 end of world, December 28 2011, December 28 2011 end of world, Feast of Tabernacles, Flood, Great Flood, Harold Camping, Judgment Day, May 21 2011, Noah, October 21 2011, Parousia, Rapture, end of the world, wrath of God

When May 21, 2011 came and went just like any other day, those who had spent thousands of hours studying the Bible over the last number of years were in shock. They had to reassess their understanding, thinking that the beginning of the Day of Judgment must have been only spiritual in nature. Then the focus turned to October 21, and when that day also passed with no outward signs, there was complete consternation. Since the timeline of history seemed perfect, and all of the proofs lined up wonderfully, these determined people concluded that there must be more to the story.

This study has followed the search for this missing piece at the very end of time. For these dedicated people, it started to look like an awfully interesting coincidence that the Day of Judgment was exactly 5 months long, and Noah’s ark floated on the water for exactly 5 months as well. Since Noah’s journey wasn’t complete, maybe if they could line up our calendar with his, they could follow along to see what was still in store for us. Indeed, the calendars paralleled each other beautifully, and with an impressive list of proofs, they determined that the very last day had to be December 28, 2011, not October 21.

As a prosecuting attorney builds his case on as much evidence as he can find, so too we search the Bible for every piece of information that can support our argument for showing Truth. Even so, that attorney will also search desperately for a motive, as that helps substantiate his position immensely. The law of God is eternal, and so His principles continue as law into whatever worlds are in the Heavens. For us, we can learn all that we need to know about those laws in the Bible. There is only one set of rules, and the Bible teaches that God Himself must also follow these laws. However, God is under no obligation to explain his actions to us. If He is going to show us why He added 68 days to the end of earth’s calendar, it can only be because of His love and kindness toward the human race.

Before we can address the question of why the calendar was extended, we should tie up a few loose ends to solidify our adventure in Noah’s ark. First, let’s take a look at the boat itself. In Genesis 6:15, God is telling Noah exactly what the dimensions must be: “…The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.” A cubit is about 18 inches, so the ark was about one and a half football fields in length, and 45 feet high, the height of a 3 or 4 story building! We know that the rain continued non-stop for forty days and nights. At the end of that period, the water would be at its highest level throughout the earth before starting to recede, which was about 22 to 23 feet above the highest mountain tops: “Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.” (Genesis 7:20). In Chapter 8 verse 3, we read, “And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.” God is telling us that after the forty day rain, the water level dropped over the last 110 days of Noah’s 5 months of floating on the water. Continuing on: “And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.” (Genesis 8:5). This adds another 74 days to the 110 days, or 184 total days that it took the water to drop about 22 feet from its highest point until the mountain tops were visible. Assuming that the water receded at a fairly constant rate, the ark would have rested on the spot on Mount Ararat in about 8 to 9 feet of water. Looking at Noah’s ark as a 45′ tall vessel, we would expect it to float over the land in 22 feet of water, but it would probably bottom out in only 8 or 9 feet of water. This reasoning helps bolster our confidence that our findings concerning Noah’s schedule of events are accurate.

A definite point of confusion is how that we can know for sure that the 40 days that Noah waited before he opened the window followed immediately after the day the ark rested on the mountain. In the Bible, the passage about the 40 days is positioned on the page after the mountain tops were visible, which was 74 days after the ark landed. We can get some help on this by taking a closer look at the one window in Noah’s ark: “A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof;…” (Genesis 7:16). Noah had one small 18 inch square window, and we can clearly see that the door was on the side, but the window was in the roof. The ultimate purposes of the window were for Noah to keep track of the day and night cycles to count days, and to allow the birds to check for land. Since the roof had to be a solid waterproof component of the ark to keep out the pounding rain, Noah could not see what was going on outside at all. Finally, as described in Genesis 8:13, Noah dismantled the roof and looked down at the ground for the first time. This was 90 days after the mountains were above the water line, or 164 days after the ark rested. Day 74 after the ark stopped moving, when the mountains appeared out of the water, was like any other day had been for Noah for some time. There was nothing to signal him to immediately start counting off another 40 days of waiting. We now know that day 74 was the day the dove landed, but Noah did not see that happen either, as he only knew that it did not return.

One final piece of old business is clarifying how we know that all of Noah’s months were 30 days each, as the Bible does not spell it out word for word. One strong piece of evidence is that when we make that assumption, everything fits neatly into place. We know that the 17th day of the 2nd month to the 17th day of the 7th month is stated as totaling 150 days, which at least averages out to be 30 day months. Also, Genesis 8:14 declares, “And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.” This was the last official day of the flood, which began on the 17th day of the second month in the previous year. Using 30 day months, we arrive at a total of 370 days, or (10×37). Spiritually this represents complete (10) judgment (37), and so we have harmony with this supposition. In addition, as with an algebra problem in school, there have to be some known constants to work with to solve for the unknowns. God always seems to give just enough information so that eventually we can find Truth.

Now, getting back to this matter of an explanation of why God would add 68 days after the 5 month Day of Judgment, we have the whole Bible at our disposal for our search. Since we can justify the end time calendar of events through the period of the 5 month Day of Judgment, we must first look at these months to give us some reason to continue yet farther in time. Besides Revelation Chapter 9 and Genesis Chapter 8, there is one more place in the Bible describing a curious period of 5 months. Luke 1:24-25 says: “And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.“. The context here is centered around Elisabeth, the wife of Zacharias, who was an upstanding priest who had just completed his scheduled duties in the temple. These verses describe how Elisabeth hid in shame from the world for being pregnant. However, there was no reason why Elisabeth should feel ashamed at all, as this was a legitimate pregnancy, and she had every right to bear a child. This discrepancy should cause us to take special note, and realize that these verses must be a parable of something else.

It turns out that Elisabeth’s baby would grow up to be John the Baptist, the man who announced and baptized the Lord Jesus. When we jump down to verse 41, we find that something interesting happened to this baby while it was still inside Elisabeth’s womb: “And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:“. This is a clear message that John the Baptist, as a fetus, was given a new eternal soul, and the promise of salvation that goes along with it. We have correctly realized for centuries that this teaches us that human life begins at conception, and that salvation is possible for babies before birth. But could this somehow also lead to the answer we are searching for? The answer is a resounding YES!

To put this all in perspective, we need to go back to Noah’s window one more time. The word window is used 14 times in the Old Testament, and 13 of those times, the original Hebrew word means just that, a window. But in Genesis 6:16, as God is relaying his instructions regarding the construction of the ark, this Hebrew word for window is entirely different. It focuses on the light the window gives, and the root of the word goes back to the meaning of producing light from oil, a figure of anointing. This window is a symbol of salvation, and we had already assumed that, as the dove flew out of it to the Promised Land. But now we can see that Noah’s window leads to even more incredible consequences for us today, as God has so craftily hid this surprise information in the Book of Luke.

Elisabeth is a picture, or portrait of all of the women of the world who have conceived or will conceive on or after May 21, 2011. She conceived “after those days,” and hid herself for 5 months, to hide her reproach among the world. When the Day of Judgment began, the salvation process as we had come to understand it was finished. This is essentially true for all of those conceived before May 21, as you are either in the ark or outside of it in a hopeless condition. For these pregnant women who started a life on or after May 21, the world is basically saying to them, “How dare you bring a baby into the world with no more hope of salvation, destined to die with no chance for eternal life!” But as we read Luke 1:25 again, God in his mercy is taking away that shame, in the only way possible. And that way must be by offering the hope of salvation to every bundle of human life conceived on or after May 21. John the Baptist is a portrait of those babies out of that group who were chosen and not forgotten by God. Most of us hadn’t thought much about this rather large group of human lives, but the Lord Jesus Christ had planned to save some of them too, and the world couldn’t end on October 21 until they were safe and secure as well.

“…then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.” (Genesis 8:9). As Noah reached out through that window to pull his dove into the ark, so too the Lord Jesus will be reaching out when the window is opened for us on November 24, pulling baby doves into the ark as a final 34-day celebration of the miracle of salvation. How could we ask for a more wonderful Thanksgiving! We now know that the raven was released when the window opened, so the world will continue along, business as usual, with no outward sign of God’s handiwork once again. But this time we can be certain, that 3 days after we are reminded on Christmas of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, His purpose (3) will be fulfilled perfectly.

The World Will End on December 28, 2011: The Proofs

Posted on 14 November 2011

Tags: December 27 2011, December 27 2011 end of world, December 28 2011, December 28 2011 end of world, Feast of Tabernacles, Flood, Great Flood, Harold Camping, Judgment Day, May 21 2011, October 21 2011, Parousia, Rapture, end of the world, wrath of God

“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Matthew 24:37). Little did we realize how important these words in scripture would be, in comparing Noah’s adventure with his ark 7000 years ago to our situation today. In carefully piecing together this chronology in Genesis Chapters 7 and 8, every verse offers at least one tidbit of spiritual meaning or physical evidence to help put together our puzzle. Finally, all the pieces appear to be in place.

In Genesis Chapter 8: Could December 28, 2011 Be the End?, we started to look at May 21 and October 21, 2011 in relation to Noah’s calendar in his day. The idea was to align the two calendars precisely, so that we could use his calendar to forecast the events and dates into our future. The Flood in his day began on the 17th day of the 2nd month, the Bible says. Our Day of Judgment, after working through the timeline of history, also began on the 17th day of the 2nd month in the Hebrew calendar of our day, which translates to May 21, 2011. The Flood began in 4990 BC, and 7000 years later (subtract one year, as there is no year zero), we reach 2011. God warned Noah that the water was coming within 7 days, and II Peter 3:8 sternly warns us that one day is as a thousand years. We have interpreted this to mean that Noah’s 7-day warning is a 7000 year warning for us as well. In trying to align the two calendars, the start of both judgment periods is the same day, exactly what we need. The problem is that the next significant day in each calendar does not appear to correspond with the other. The ark rested on a mountain top on the 17th day of the 7th month. In our Hebrew calendar, that is October 15, 2011. However, our 5 month day of judgment ends on the 23rd day of the 7th month, or October 21, 6 days later. Without resolving or explaining this discrepancy, our progress is at a standstill.

To find the solution, we have to look at the warning itself: “For yet 7 days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;…” (Genesis 7:4). In checking the original definitions of the Hebrew word for “yet,” it would have been better translated “within”. That would mean that the day of the warning was day 1, and Noah had 6 more days before the raining began. This is called inclusive counting, meaning you are counting off 6 days, but adding one more, the first day, to the count total. There are many other examples of this given by God in the Bible, and it gives Him more flexibility. If the Flood began on the 17th day, the warning would have been given on the 11th day of the 2nd month. The “one day is as a thousand years” applies to the warning, and begins on the warning day, not the day the Flood began 7 (inclusive) days later. The 11th day of the 2nd month in our day is May 15, and 5 months later lands perfectly on October 15, the day the ark rested in Noah’s day. Thus, we have a path of 7000 years + 5 months to October 15. When God repeats the warning to us again on May 15, we also have 7 inclusive days before judgment day begins on May 21, and that second trail ends on October 21. If you are counting it by each day, you must remember that one path uses Noah’s 5 months as 150 days, and the other path uses our 5 months as 153 days. To summarize, our mistake had been to apply the beginning of the 7000 years to May 21, not May 15.

Since October 15 is the 17th day of the 7th month in both calendars, we can continue with our exploration for Truth. Noah’s calendar proceeds from that day, not the end of the Day of Judgment on October 21, which we would normally assume to be the stepping off point. God has inserted just enough little pieces of confusion here and there to have made it historically impossible to figure out.

“And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:…” (Genesis 8:6). We have already established that this was 40 days after the ark rested, on October 15 (in our day). Counting 40 days, we come to November 24, which is the 27th day of the 8th month in our Hebrew calendar. Using 30 days per month for Noah, going from the 17th day of the 7th month to the 27th day of the 8th month also is exactly 40 days. The perfect alignment of the calendars is now extended to November 24. For us, the window will open as well, even if it is only spiritual in nature.

The section in Genesis Chapter 8: Could December 28, 2011 Be the End? concerning Noah releasing the birds after the window was opened needs to have the timing corrected. When Noah opened the window on November 24, he would have released the raven to check for land. Genesis Chapter 8: Could December 28, 2011 Be the End? incorrectly states that the date was November 23, and that Noah waited 7 days before releasing the raven. A week later, on December 1, he released the dove because the raven did not return. The dove would return December 8 with nothing. Would Noah release the dove again on December 8, or was it even the same dove? In Verse 8, explaining the first release of the dove, it says “a dove.” But in Verse 10, describing the second release, the Bible says “the dove,” telling us that it was the very same bird. Noah would obviously not have sent it back out immediately after being in flight for the better part of a week. (There must have been lots of floating material on the water for the bird to rest on from time to time.) Recall that in Genesis Chapter 8: Could December 28, 2011 Be the End?, we found out how we know that the time period between events was 7 days. So Noah sent out the dove for the second time on December 15, a week or more after it returned. This time it came back that evening, with the olive leaf in its beak, telling Noah that tree tops were now visible. He would send forth the dove the third time on December 22 in our day, and it would not return. The Bible does not give day and month numbers for all of this bird activity, so we can only count the spacing between events to move forward in the calendar.

As we spoke about in Genesis Chapter 8: Could December 28, 2011 Be the End?, back in Verse 5 the Bible informs us that on the first day of the 10th month, the tops of the mountains were visible above the water line, giving the birds a place to land. Counting days using 30-day months from the 17th day of the 7th month when the ark rested, we get a total of 74 days. Counting out the days on our calendar from October 15, the mountains were visible on December 28, 2011. The dove was released the third time on December 22, and would have come back on Dec 29 for this 7-day pattern to perpetuate. It fits within reason that after 6 days, on December 28, the dove was able to land on a mountain top and not have to return to the ark.

The raven is an unclean animal in the Bible, meaning it could not be used for food or religious ceremonies. Unclean animals are a picture of the unsaved people of the world. When Noah released the raven, it tells us that once the flood was over, sin would again proliferate on the earth. The dove is a clean animal, and it represents all of God’s children safe and secure with Jesus Christ in the ark. The mountains can be a metaphor in the Bible of the Kingdom of God, and on December 28 the dove does reach the mountain tops.

As the Bible teaches us to break down verses and sentences to discover Truth, we have found all through the Bible that some numbers and their factors regularly point to truth as well. The number 2 can represent those bringing the Gospel, 3 can mean God’s purpose, 4 points to the farthest extent of whatever is in view, and 7 can show perfect fulfillment. Also, 13 leads us to the end of the world, and 17 is a number signifying Heaven. Finally, for this discussion, 37 and 43 often refer to God’s wrath or judgment.

As with the precise year intervals between events as posted in the Bible throughout history, the day intervals between events during these last days are also remarkable. From between both May 15 to October 15, and May 21 to October 21, the duration is 153 days, or (3x3x17), signifying God’s purpose (3) is a promise of Heaven (17) for His people during the 5 months. October 21 to December 28 is 68 days long, or (4×17), meaning the farthest extent of this time (4) ends in Heaven (17). How fitting that these are the final 68 days that God has added onto the 5 month Day of Judgment! October 21 to November 24 is 34 days, as is November 24 to December 28, each breaking down into (2×17), or those bringing the Gospel attaining Heaven. October 15 to December 28 is 74 days (2×37), from when the ark landed until the very end. Another very good piece of evidence is the time of May 21, 2011 to December 28, 2011, 221 days, or (17×13), Heaven at the end of the world. There are even a few more, which are worth discussing. There are 6,321 days from the start of the latter rain on September 7, 1994 to December 28, 2011. This breaks down into (3x7x7x43), or God’s purpose is the perfect fulfillment of his Judgment. December 15 to December 28 is 13 days, and it indeed leads to the end. December 1 to December 22 and November 24 to December 15 both each total 21 days (3×7). November 24 to December 22, when the dove would leave the ark for the last time, is 28 days, or (4×7), a metaphor for perfect fulfillment at the farthest extent of time. The incredible number of 7’s, 13’s and 17’s must speak for themselves, as that could never all happen by chance.

As has been shown already, all of the numerical proofs, as well as Noah’s day count of 74 days, point to December 28 as the end of it all. However, there is one piece that does not corroborate. When you look up the 1st day of the 10th month in a Hebrew calendar, the corresponding Gregorian day is December 27, not December 28. We must remember, however, that Noah’s calendar with 30-day months had only 360 days, so the two calendars cannot remain parallel indefinitely. From May 15 to November 24, God has positioned all of the important days to line up precisely, which is quite remarkable. Whether the mountains were visible on the 27th or the 28th of December, the dove landed before he would have returned by the 7th day on the 29th. It is possible that the last day could encompass part of the 27th as things happen around the world, but the very end has to be the 28th, not the 29th. One possibility is that, as the Bible states, no man knows the day or the hour, so that God has the absolute say in the matter whether it is actually sometime on the 27th.

We should be in absolute awe of the infinite wisdom of Almighty God. Mr. Camping was 100% accurate in all of the dates, but God’s plan was not quite finished.