The Mystery is History: Our Time in Bible Prophecy
A Topical Bible Study on Predictions and Fulfillment
Copyright ©2005 Jackson Snyder     October 4, 2005

This is a short abstract of a longer article.

Session 4 – The Calendar and Hebraic Years

Here’s a screenshot of today’s paper, October 4, Feast of Trumpets, 2005:

 Notice the date in Jerusalem (where the pointer arrow is located). 

Tishrei is the seventh Hebrew (Scriptural) month.  The headline is from the first day of the seventh month.  The Bible speaks of this day in Leviticus 23:23-25.  It’s known to Christians as the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Awe or Yom Teruah.

The Tribe of Judah has been keeping close track of years since the creation on account of the Feasts described in Leviticus 23.  The seven day week was set forth by Yahweh in Paradise.  Though many cultures have tried to change it, we still have a seven-day week.

There has only been one time in Salvation History that the Tribe of Judah (i.e. Jews) modified the Hebrew (Scriptural) calendar.  Knowing about this time of calendar change will open up some wonderful insight into our time.

Simon bar Kokhba (also known as bar Kosiba, ‘son of a star’):

   Simon bar Kokhba led a revolt in Israel against the emperor Hadrian and the Roman Legions in 132 AD.  The Romans put the rebellion down in 3½ years.  But the leading rabbi at the time, R. Akiba, presented bar Kokhba to the Jews as their Messiah, and the status quo accepted this claim. 

   Previously, Daniel’s prophesied very specifically when Messiah would come (Daniel 9:24-26).   This prophecy did not point to 132 AD.  But since R. Akiba was certain of bar Kokhba’s messiahship, he changed the calendar to reflect correspondence with Daniel’s prophecy.  R. Akiba removed 240 years. One day the Hebrew year was 4131.  The next day it was year 3891.  This 240 year deficit has never been corrected.  (as per Seder haDoroth)

The year on the Jerusalem Post represents the number of years since Adam.  That year is 5766.   If we add back the 240 “lost years,” the actual year from Adam is 6006.

Our Roman year 2000 AD is 6000 years from Adam and creation.  Our year 2005 / 2006 is 6006 years from Adam.  I call the years from Adam Hebraic Years. 

If Scripture and Salvation History consists in seven thousand years, And our Messiah was born on the beginning of the fifth Scriptural day of a thousand years (as shown in a previous installment), And the counting of the Jews is correct, Then we are living upon the very event horizon of the thousand year reign of Messiah.

Revelation 20:4. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years. 

Is this not a profound discovery?  Can we prove it is correct?  Yes we can - and next time we shall!

Event Horizon - The region, usually described as spherical, marking the outer boundary of a black hole, inside which the gravitational force is strong enough to prevent matter or radiation from escaping.