• Jesus ministry was the cornerstone that needed to be placed correctly. It began in 29 AD the Great Jubilee (freedom) point when Jesus read from Isaiah and announced the year of favour of the Lord - the anchor of the 777 year divisions (note Daniel's Sevens end in 33 AD when Jesus died, but 29 AD is importantly the 'middle of a seven' in the word given to Daniel) and coincides with the Jubilees celebrated every 50 years.

• Daniels Seventy Sevens were a very important part setting out the use of sequential seven years. Given in the time of Cyrus the Great after his victory defeating the Babylonians and securing a release for the Jewish people in 539 BC

  • They link to Jesus ministry from the time of Ezra and Esther - the two paths standing for the Law and the Promise, the Old and New Covenants

  • Kept secret until now, a day of the LORD in 522 BC, a Jubilee, when the Jews started to be blessed as seen in the words of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah.  Zechariah also had the vision of the two olive trees (also representing the Old and New Covenants) providing oil to the menorah.

• 70 year period of desolation caused by Babylon as described by the prophet Jeremiah.

  • A trio of dates 539 BC, 522 BC and 516 BC (date the constructed second temple) mark several the end of the 70 year period.

  • During the period of desolation, from Ezekiel, we can identify the Jubilee that was missed in 572 BC. The Jubilee was to happen every 50 years. Extra-biblical information provides a window into the events around 522 BC which mesh with a wealth of scripture that help shine a light on the end times.

  • A trio of dates 609 BC (Babylonians brought the end of the rule of king Josiah), 592 BC (Ezekiel's inaugural vision), 586 BC (the destruction of Jerusalem) 

• The reigns of king​s of Judah have been constructed fairly robustly back to the time of Solomon, given the length of reigns given in the bible [1]. In the midst of this we have life of king Uzziah sitting on a 777 year boundary, 749 BC, exemplifying the fallibility of human kings.

• 390 years God relented bringing punishment against Jerusalem ​until 586 BC as recorded in Ezekiel

  • 390 years takes us back to when king ​David intervened on behalf of Jerusalem in 976 BC. Attaching the event with the date needs a bit of unravelling, Solomon would begin to build the first temple in 966 BC as a starting point. There is a slight overlap between Solomon being made king (1 Kings 1) and king David ​dying (1 Kings 2) in 970 BC. Solomon considers himself a child (1 Kings 3:7) - probably 10 years (usually 12 is the marker of adulthood, the Bar Mitvah). Soon Israel is in awe of the king's wisdom (for a young adult) - see the rest of 1 Kings 3. This would put Solomon's birth say 980 BC.

  • There are a number of events other than the birth of Solomon that precipitated from David's heinous crime of letting Uriah the Hittite be killed in battle so that he may have Bathsheba. We can account for these events in these 10 years.

    • David's son Amnon rapes his sister Tamar, 2 years later David other son Absalom kills Amnon. (2 Samuel 13)

    • Absalom flees and stays in Geshur 3 years (2 Samuel 13:38)

    • Joab retrieves Absalom for David in Jerusalem, but they do not see each other for  2 years (2 Samuel 14:28)

    • After 4 years Absalom has hatched a conspiracy to seize kingship (2 Samuel 15:7) -  4 years after returning to Jerusalem. Absalom seems to wait a couple of year before taking the wrong course of action,

    • David flees over the Jordan and Absalom pursues and is killed. David returns to Jerusalem.

    • 2 Samuel 21 then speaks of famine for 3 years during David's reign because of Gibeon blood spilt - this period should not be considered sequential. But this chapter can be considered as David's addressing of wrongs and  David's promise to look after the Mephibosheth can be seen as David putting his estate straight. Also the last mention of wars with the Philistines similarly speaks of a period that can be considered concurrent with the end of David's reign when he is getting old.

    • 2 Samuel 22 looks at David's song of his life and 2 Samuel 23 his last words.

  • 2 Samuel 24 sticks out as the pivotal point in 976 BC when everything falls apart a story that has prime importance - after Solomon is born, Amnon disgraced his sister and Absalom flees after killing Amnon-  around this time Satan provokes David to sin by ordering a census of his fighting men. Why? Because David feared his kingdom being taken away by his popular son, Absalom. David did not put his trust in God so plague was sent upon the land. David averted a plague on Jerusalem by asking for mercy from the Lord at the threshing floor of Arunah, the Jebusite. This is Mount Moriah where Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his son and where the Temple Mount is.

  • 40 years later Jeroboam accepted his part in the tearing away of the kingdom of Israel on account of Judah's sin.

• 1 Kings 6:1 says that the Exodus happened 480 years previous to the building of the first temple.

  • The Exodus took place in 1446 BC​ when Thutmoses III was pharaoh. Moses birth in 1526 BC, when he is set down the Nile in a reed basket (an 'Ark') - this exactly on a 777 year boundary

  • During this time was 300 years from the entry into the promised land to Jepthah, the period of the Judges.

• From Abraham to the Exodus there are a number of periods to take into account, the common mistake is to take Exodus 12:40 referring to 430 years in Egypt alone, rather than Egypt and Canaan. The right approach is to allow for the few generations between Levi and Moses in the shorter 215 years in Egypt: (There is also yet another curious riddle regarding Jacob, that is worth investigating, for we know he was 130 when he entered Egypt - again a few generations to span a 215 year period from Abraham)

  • Exodus 12:40; 430 years in Egypt and Canaan (1876 BC – 1446 BC) God’s Promise to Abraham when he leaves Haran for Canaan, aged 75

  • Genesis 15:13; 400 years (1846 BC – 1446 BC) Abraham made a treaty and lived in Beersheba near the border with Egypt. (Note Beersheba is marked as the border of Egypt in 1 Kings 4:20-15)

  • Josephus; 215 years (1661 BC – 1446 BC) The sojourn was 215 years in Canaan and 215 years in Egypt (starting when the Israelites arrive in Egypt).

• From Abraham to Noah, ​is still a fairly simple exercise of following the genealogies in Genesis. However, from Gen 5:32 Shem is the youngest of 3 born after Noah was 500 - not that Shem was born when Noah was 500. A simple offset puts the Flood on a 777 year boundary in 2303 BC.

• Similarly, we can go backwards with the genealogies in Genesis, we land at a time when Lamech is 5 years old, for the next 777 year boundary, in 3080 BC, Curiously, Lamech lived 777 years, and again his few quoted words strike a chord with a number of 7s in Gen 4:24 "If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times."

• Again going backwards with the genealogies in Genesis, with Adam created in 3959 BC. However the next 777 year boundary happened when Adam was 102 years old, in 3857 BC. The only thing that this could mark in the grand scheme of things is the Fall. The Fall at one end and  and Jesus, the answer, at the other end.

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As you can see 777 year boundaries coincide with the crucial markers of history. Even, extrapolating forward in time we can identify key moments in time that mark the growth of the church. 

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It stops short of dating when the earth was created or when Jesus comes again in the end times. The key message is the salvation that Jesus brings and the growth of the Kingdom of God.

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Where David's kingdom failed, the prophetic voices continued. It is those voices that revived the Church to build the kingdom of God in the same timescales that the David's earthly kingdom once fell. In 2020-2021 we are aligned to a great moment in history - when the freedom was found from the enemy in the time of Esther.

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This opens up a vast subject about end times. I have labelled tentatively where the Millennium would lie. Interestingly the Dark Ages seems to align to another period (roughly 1000 years!) when Satan had been deceiving the nations (Revelation 20:3). I plan to explore the book of Revelation concentrating on a page called 'Jesus Return' under the 'Return' tab - putting together some of the gems discovered along the way and to posit an alternative to the classical pre-millennialism and post-millennialism views. What I do show is that the fixed ideas of what the Millennium is has clouded our thinking. 

 

After the 'Dark Ages, deceived populations can quite easily carry on without Satan quashing the message of grace, remembering his minions are at work. The 'Rapture' would happen suddenly at some point, but it would be led to through Parousia (presence), Epiphaneia (appearing like Paul on the Damascus Road) and then suddenly Apocalypsis (unveiling), during which  the Church awakens and overcomes by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of testimony. We come to life. Then polarisation between those who are God's and those who are not becomes increasingly evident. We will definitely be in the end times then, but somethings must happen first.