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The prophetic year was 360 days and not our current 365 1/4 days. We don’t know for sure when that change occurred. But in Isaac Newton’s analysis, just as a misreading of ancient chronology can skew our prophetic timelines, so can a simple miscalculation based upon a 365 day calendar.
The dates which have been offered by Historicists – which included Newton – are based upon a 365-day calendar. If, as Historicists claim, that our prophetic periods descend from the Donation of Pepin, then our end dates of 2016 and 2046 only work with a 365-day calendar.
Analysts, such as Douglas Vogt, argue that these differences don’t matter because God or the Diehold knew based upon His foreknowledge that the calendars would change. The number of years are what matter not how long the years are. Prophecy is meant to provide guidance and if God knows of a future event, He certainly knows how long it will take for it to happen.
This all might be true if future events are based upon historical antecedents. But what if they are based upon cosmological events?
If calculations are based upon certain cycles in nature – cycles which are based upon cause and effect – the laws of nature are not going to conform to changes in human calculations.
If the 1260 days and 1290 days are calculated from the Donation of Pepin according to the 360-day calendar, we will come up with different results: 1998 AD and 2028 AD, respectively. We have no known prophetic significance to these years. However, 1998 is exactly 50 years after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, and some have argued that it was a Jubilee Year. There might be a symbolic significance to that date, but still not a prophetic one.
However, in the alternative, if a 360-day calendar is used from the great solar flash of 774 AD -called by some scholars as the “Charlemagne Event,” we arrive at our given results:
1) For the prophetic period of 1,260 days (years) equals 1,2442.7 in 365-day years and brings us to the fall of 2016 AD.
2) For the prophetic period of 1,290 days (years) equals 1,272.3 in 365-day years and brings us to the fall of 2046 AD.
Thus, for Historicists, it appears that we should be calculating from celestial events and not historical events. Jesus said to watch for “the signs in the heavens” as for the real prophetic warnings. “The wars and rumors of wars,” “great earthquakes” and other similar calamities – those things which we associate with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – are really the pseudo-signs or false signs of His Coming. And again, as stated elsewhere, if the Great Eschaton – or solar nova – is not the Second Coming of Christ – then it must be a “coming” of a different sort. It is a true “parousia”: a manifestation of the rule of Christ from Heaven.
The Charlemagne Event has been discovered by the study of Dendrochronology, the marks on tree-rings. In this case there was a gamma-ray burst which created the deposition of Carbon-14 twenty times greater than normal. Also called Miyake Events, they are thought to occur every 1000 years. They are at least 10 times greater than the Carrington Event of 1859.
We are obviously past due.
They do not seem to be a part of the solar cycle, however, as described by Vogt. As gamma-ray bursts, they can come, perhaps, from the galactic center. But there might be a correlation. Should these gamma-ray bursts coincide with a peak in a solar cycle – perhaps the Gleissberg cycle – then they could produce greater results such as a solar flash or micro-nova. Consequently, it is reasonable to believe that a galactic gamma-ray burst will coincide with the Sun’s next Gleissberg peak in 2046 AD and will result in a nova event.
More to come on this but the next installment will be a summary and outline of what this series has covered so far to create a handy reference.
JWS, 11/26/23
