The Pesher for the Pentecost season is scheduled to be published next Sunday – Trinity Sunday. But today is Pentecost in the Christian and Jewish calendars which heralds the synchronicity of Divine Providence.
In recent weeks, we have been revisiting Isaac Newton’s conclusion that the year 2046 AD is the year in which the great eschaton occurs: the end of the world as we know it. He arrived at that conclusion from his analysis of the prophetic timetable in the Book of Daniel in the Bible.
Douglas Vogt, a long-time scientific analyst, has argued that the cycles of the Sun indicate that it will nova in 2046 when it reaches the next peak of the Gleissberg cycle. Why is this one significant? It’s because the Earth’s magnetic fields are in precipitous decline and are reaching the point of collapse. Scientists have noted that the field collapse occurs just prior to the recurring ice ages. Robert Felix has also noted that ice ages occur suddenly. Vogt says only a solar nova can produce the necessary antecedent factors for an ice age to occur. Novas are an instantaneous event.
A third witness can be offered in the words of Jesus from His Olivet Discourse on the end of the world (Matthew 24, et al), He said that the “signs in the heavens” occur in the generation of those who witness “the parable of the fig tree” (24:32) Many theologians – mostly of the Dispensationalist persuasion – have claimed “the parable of the fig tree” is language referring to the future restoration of the House of Israel to the land of Palestine. They usually mark the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 as a fulfillment of this prophecy.
Theologians have debated how long “a generation” might be. The “Hal Lindsey” school of prophecy believed that a generation was 40 years. He believed everything would wrap-up in 1988 – hence, the best seller: The Late, Great Planet Earth. Well, we are long past that date, obviously, so revisionists have thought that maybe a generation is 70 years – the length of a normal lifespan – which would take us to 2018. Or, maybe it is 80 years (Psalm 90:10).
But there is evidence that it is 100 years. In Genesis God tells Abraham that the Egyptian captivity will last “four hundred years” (15:13). Three verses later in the same encounter, God equates “four hundred years” with four generations (15:16). Jesus also lived in the Roman world, and for the Romans, a century was considered a generation. So now we have the prospects that 2048 might be the year of fulfillment.
Except, that is not the year, 2046. But if we mark the beginning of the State of Israel, not from 1948 but rather from when “the decree went forth” (cf. Daniel 9:25) by the Truman Commission that occurred in the summer of 1946, then a generation from that date would be our 2046 – a convergence of the triple witness.
