But now comes the big question. How certain can we be of this timeline? This is such an awesome subject, we surely wish that God would give us more assurance, if this, indeed, is a valid understanding of the timetable of the end.

The Bible records another stupendous event that occurred that is the centerpiece of God’s salvation plan. That was the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. If we cannot be fully assured that Christ was resurrected as proof that He had fully paid for the sins of the elect, we then would be left in doubt concerning the whole program of salvation.

To give us that assurance, we read in Acts 1:1-3:

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

And God says in I Corinthians 15:3-8:

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

The Bible clearly teaches that it was God’s intention that the fact of Christ’s resurrection was beyond dispute. Anyone who persists in denying this awesome fact is simply wise in his own eyes, and he thinks he knows more than God.

Amazingly, as God opens our eyes to the timing of the closing events of the history of the world, God also gives many proofs that assure us that we have correctly understood the precise timing of the closing events of earth’s history.  

Thus far we have set forth a somewhat tentative outline of the timing of the closing events of this world. Because they are so important we shall once again summarize them. We have come to the following dates.

1. The crucifixion of Jesus was on the 14th day of the first month of A.D. 33. This was Nisan 14, A.D. 33, of the Biblical calendar, and was April 1, A.D. 33, of our modern calendar.

2. The church age officially began on the following Pentecost, which was May 22, A.D. 33.

3. The church age ended and the 8,400-day great tribulation began the day before Pentecost in 1988, which was May 21, 1988.

4. The first 2,300 days of the great tribulation began on May 21, 1988, and ended on September 7, 1994.

5. The second part of the great tribulation, which consists of 6,100 days (8,400 - 2,300 = 6,100), began on September 7, 1994, and ends on May 21, 2011.

6. The final five months of the earth’s history begins on May 21, 2011, and will end on October 21, 2011.

We thus far have set forth the basic outline of the important time junctions leading to the end of the world. We have also shown the Biblical information that causes us to arrive at this time information.

But now we want to examine the dates set forth in this time outline in the light of any other information the Bible can give us. We will discover that God has given so much additional information that we can know, without any doubt whatsoever, that this is an absolutely accurate timetable. We will now set forth point after point to show how tightly this time pattern fits together.

We will begin with the duration of the church age, which began on May 22, A.D. 33, and ended on May 21, 1988. The time of the church age included both the day May 22 of A.D. 33, and the day May 21 of the year 1988. This means it continued for a period of 1,955 years (1988 - 33 = 1,955) to the very day. The phrase “to the very day” harmonizes perfectly with the precision of God’s past actions. For example, Israel was in Egypt 430 years to the “selfsame day” (Exodus 12:40-41). It can be shown from the Biblical data that from the day Israel departed from Egypt, until Israel arrived at the Jordan River to prepare to cross over, it was 40 years to the very day.  

Furthermore, because Christ spoke in parables, we will see the unique character of these 1,955 years. Remember, a parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. Thus, words or numbers (which are also words), can have an earthly, literal meaning, and they might also have a spiritual meaning. Thus, frequently the number 3 spiritually emphasizes God’s purpose. This would be a good place to again set forth the spiritual meaning God frequently emphasizes through the use of numbers.

2 - Those who have been commissioned to bring the Gospel

3 - God’s purpose

4 - The farthest extent in time or in distance that God spiritually has in view

5 - The atonement, which emphasizes both judgment and salvation

7 - The perfect fulfillment of God’s purpose

10 - The completeness of whatever is in view

11 - The first coming of Christ, 11,000 years after creation

12 - The fullness of whatever is in view

13 - The end of the world, the details of which began exactly 13,000 years after creation

17 - Heaven

23 - God’s wrath or judgment

37 - God’s wrath or judgment

40 - Testing

43 - God’s wrath or judgment

Moreover, we have learned from the Bible that if a larger number can be broken down into smaller numbers, each of which has spiritual significance, that can help us to understand the spiritual message in the larger number. We can  

This principle is dramatized in the 1,955 years of the church age. The number 1,955 can be broken down to 5 x 17 x 23. And all three of these numbers have intense spiritual identification with the spiritual character of the church age. We read in II Corinthians 2:14-16:

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

These verses teach us that the Gospel brings both salvation and death. Salvation identifies with heaven (17). Death identifies with God’s wrath (23). Remember that the number 5 spiritually identifies with the atonement. Thus, the 1,955 years of the church age, during which time the Gospel was to be sent out into the world, clearly identifies with the very nature and character of the Gospel: 1,955 = 5 x 17 x 23. Thus, the 1,955 years of the church age are founded on the atonement (5), which brings heaven (17), and brings God’s wrath (23). Is this coincidental? It is not at all coincidental. It accords perfectly with the principle we have just described.

The 13,000th Anniversary of the World

One other comment should be made in connection with the year 1988. Is it coincidental that 1988 is the 13,000th anniversary of the history of the world? We have learned from the Bible that the world was created in the year 11,013 B.C. If we add 11,013 to 1988 and subtract 1 (because there is no year zero in going from the Old Testament calendar to the New Testament calendar), the sum is 13,000. Surely the year of the end of the church age, which identifies precisely with the 13,000th anniversary of the world, must indicate that God is following a very precise pre-arranged plan.

This information becomes especially interesting when we realize that from the creation year (11,013 B.C.), to the year of the Noachian flood (4990 B.C.), when God’s judgment came upon the whole world, it is exactly 6,000 plus 23 years. Remember, the number 23 frequently signifies God’s wrath. Likewise, from the year 4990 B.C. until A.D. 33, when Christ endured the judgment of God, it was exactly 5,000 plus 23 years, inclusive. Now we are learning that the year 2011 is the last year, and 11,013 B.C. to A.D. 2011 equals 13,000 years plus 23  

The final 23 years that began on May 21, 1988, is the great tribulation period, which is the beginning of the end-time worldwide judgment process. It is significant that May 21, 1988, ended the church age, at which time the great tribulation judgment began, in strict accord with the Bible’s prophecy of I Peter 4:17, “judgment must begin at the house of God.” We have thus learned that both the year 1988 and the day May 21, 1988, fit remarkably well into the development of the timeline of history.

The next important juncture in the unfolding of God’s timeline was the year1994. We learned that September 7, 1994, was exactly 2,300 days after May 21, 1988. Remember, we already have noted that the year 1994 was a jubilee year. That is, it is a year that focused on God’s spiritual purpose to publish the Gospel to the world. Now we learn that September 7, 1994, was the first day of the seventh month (Tishri 1), of the Biblical ceremonial calendar.

Tishri 1 was a ceremonial feast day that was called “a memorial of jubilee” (Leviticus 23:24) and a “day of jubilee” (Numbers 29:1).^* It was the same Biblical feast day that occurred in A.D. 29 when Jesus officially began His work as the jubilee, or Messiah. It was on that day that He was announced as “the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). In A.D. 29, according to our modern calendar, that day was September 26. And according to the Biblical calendar, that day was Tishri 1, which was a jubilee feast day, just as September 7, 1994, is a jubilee feast day.

The word “jubilee” has everything to do with the proclamation of liberty to the world (Leviticus 25:10). That is why “teruah” is properly translated “jubilee” in connection with the day of atonement. Christ is the essence of the atonement, as well as being the essence of the jubilee. Thus, when He was announced on September 26, A.D. 29, by John the Baptist, as we read in John 1:29, “Behold the Lamb of God,” it was a glorious proclamation to the world that Christ was the “jubilee” who came with the Gospel of salvation.

Likewise, in the jubilee year 1994, on September 7, the Gospel was again to be proclaimed unto the whole world. And on both September 26, A.D. 29, and September 7, 1994, the Biblical ceremonial date was the first day of the seventh month. Surely, even as “teruah” is correctly translated as “jubilee” in Leviticus 25:9 in connection with the day of atonement, we can see that in Leviticus 23:24

Remember, we learned that September 7, 1994, ended the first 2,300 days of the 8,400- day tribulation period. On September 7, 1994, the great multitude which no man could number, all over the world, began to come into the kingdom of God. It was the day that, for the second time in the history of the world, the Holy Spirit was poured out. If it were any day other than September 7 in the year 1994, it would not have identified with the new moon feast day of Tishri 1, which was “a shadow of things to come” (Colossians 2:16-17). This glorious event, the ceremonial feast day of September 7, 1994 (Tishri 1, 1994), foreshadowed and actually began the 6,100-day final period of salvation.

But the year 1994, in which God began the final 6,100 days of great salvation all over the world, was also a year of horror for the churches all over the world. The Holy Spirit was poured out so that outside of the churches, that is, completely independent of any church anywhere in the world, a great multitude, which no man could number, would become saved. At the same time, within the churches, the judgment process would continue. Satan, who had been installed in all of the churches at the beginning of the great tribulation, would continue to rule. God would continue to send a “strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (II Thessalonians 2:11). God would continue to prepare those in the churches for punishment.

It is an enormous horror story for the churches. They, themselves, do not recognize this. They believe they are faithfully serving Christ. But the Bible gives us the truth. There never again will be the possibility of salvation occurring under the authority of a local church.

Remember, earlier in this study, their terribly sad condition was underscored as we examined the time patterns of the historic periods of great tribulation described in the Bible. In the year 1879 B.C., Jacob began to experience great tribulation (Acts 7:11) because of a great famine in the land. Two years later, in the year 1877, Jacob was commanded to go with his entire clan to Egypt to live. They were to leave the promised land that had been given to the patriarch Abraham, his grandfather, 215 years earlier. Because the land of Canaan typified the kingdom of God, it was like being commanded to leave the kingdom of God. Even as in A.D. 1988 God gave the churches over to Satan’s rule, so, too, in 1877 B.C., the promised land, the land of Canaan, was given over to the wicked of the world to rule there. That, indeed, was a time of great tribulation.

God ties that tribulation to the tribulation of the churches, when in 1994, it is clear that God was completely finished with them, and He began preparing  

We learned earlier in this study that God also links this terrible time of judgment on the churches, wherein Satan is ruling today, with the enormous tribulation that Israel experienced for 70 years. It began with the death of King Josiah in 609 B.C. and continued for 70 years, until the king of Babylon was killed in 539 B.C. The year 587 B.C. was the year of particular horror. Already in the year 609 B.C., when Josiah the last good king over Israel was killed, Israel began to be increasingly in subjection to heathen kings who typified Satan ruling over the churches. However, in 587 B.C., Jerusalem was completely destroyed, together with the temple. The wicked Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, who typifies Satan in the Bible, became the complete ruler of the land of Israel. How terrible!

This sad and terrible event is also a pattern that is given by God of the great tribulation of our day. It, too, is linked to the year 1994 of the present great tribulation by the sum of the years between them. Jerusalem was destroyed in the year 587 B.C. If we add 587 to 1994, and subtract 1, the sum is 2,580, which breaks down into 2 x 1,290, or 10 x 3 x 2 x 43. Since the number 2 spiritually represents those who should bring the Gospel, the spiritual message of this time of 2,580 years is that it was the complete (10) purpose (3) of God upon the churches, which had been commissioned by God to bring the Gospel to the world (2), that they would come into judgment (43).

Interestingly, and very helpfully, God links these three tribulations of Jacob, Israel, and our day by a verse in Daniel 12:11, where God declares:

And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

Since at times the Bible uses a day to describe a year (Ezekiel 4:6), we know we can understand this as 1,290 years. There were 1,290 years between Jacob’s tribulation of 1877 B.C. and Israel’s tribulation of 587 B.C. Likewise, there are 3 x 1,290 years between Jacob’s tribulation of 1877 B.C. and the churches’ tribulation of 1994. Likewise, there are 2 x 1,290 years between the 587 B.C. tribulation of Israel and the 1994 tribulation of our day.  

Please note how tightly these events fit together, indicating that, indeed, our initial understanding of the unfolding of the timeline of history becomes increasingly solidified by the language of the Bible.

The next time juncture we should carefully examine is May 21, 2011, which is the last day of the 8,400-day, or 23 full years, great tribulation. Remember, we learned that it is to be followed by a final 153-day (5 months) period that ends on October 21, 2011. Since both May 21 and October 21 occur in the year 2011, which we are learning is to be the final year of the existence of the world, we should examine that year very carefully.

One Day is as a Thousand Years

God calls our attention to that year in a most compelling way. In II Peter 3:6, God speaks of the flood that destroyed the whole world in Noah’s day, and there we read:

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

Then in the next verse, God speaks about the awful judgment that will take place at the end of the world. We read in verse 7:

But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Immediately following these two verses, God makes a most curious statement in II Peter 3:8, where we read:

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

What is the “one thing” that is in view when God says that He wants all the elect, who are the “beloved” of God, to be not ignorant of this one thing? It must be super-important, and God insists that they are to know this. This one thing has entirely to do with time.

God says, “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Immediately we see that God is speaking of this one thing two times. That is, first, He declares, “one day is . . . as a thousand years.” Then He repeats this information by saying, “a thousand years as one day.” This further greatly enhances the importance of the fact that all true believers are to absolutely know that a day is a thousand years.  

Remember, Pharaoh dreamed first about seven fat cows that became skinny, and then about seven fat ears of corn that became thin. In connection with this event, God set forth a Biblical principle in Genesis 41:32, where we read:

And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

The law that God sets forth in this verse is that when God doubles a statement, it underscores the absolute truth of it. Whatever will happen is guaranteed to happen, and it will happen soon. Thus, by doubling the statement that one day is as a thousand years, God is telling us that it is extremely important, and it absolutely will soon come to pass.

But how does that relate to the context of II Peter 3, where God speaks of two worldwide judgments, the judgment of Noah’s day and the judgment of our day? When we look carefully at the flood account given in Genesis Chapter 7, we find our answer. We must consider the ark, the huge ship that God commanded Noah to build. We read in Genesis 7:1-4:

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Spiritually, the waters of the flood represented the judgment of God upon the wicked of all the world of Noah’s day. The ark represented safety from that judgment, so it represented our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone can protect us from judgment. The animals represented the whole creation, which looks to Christ for deliverance from the bondage of corruption (Romans 8:19-23). This will occur when God brings into being the new heavens and the new earth.

Thus, in Genesis 7, God is effectively saying that all of mankind in the whole world have seven days to get into the safety of Christ, who alone can save us from the wrath of God. But wait a minute. Did not God insist in II Peter 3 that we must absolutely know that a day is as a thousand years? Let us substitute 7,000 years for seven days. Therefore, effectively, God was telling Noah that all of mankind who would ever live in the whole world have 7,000 years to get into the safety of Christ, if they are to escape the wrath of God.  

What year would be exactly 7,000 years after the flood of Noah’s day? Would you believe it! Long ago we learned that the flood occurred in the year 4990 B.C., and 7,000 years later brings us to the year 2011. Remember, we add the Old Testament years to the New Testament years and subtract 1 year, because there is no year zero.

4990 + 2011 - 1 = 7,000 years

Thus, we must understand that God is definitely declaring that He expects that all of the elect of God would absolutely know that the year 2011 is to be the end of the world.

The Final Five Months

But there is more to be said. We have learned that there is a five-month period of time that immediately follows the 8,400-day great tribulation period. What is happening during that time? This final five months that begins on May 21, 2011, is intensely focused on God’s salvation plan as well as on His judgment plan. We will discover that on the first day of that five months, which is May 21, 2011, all of the true believers are to be raptured to be forever with Christ. We will also discover it is the day when the judgment of hell begins for all of the unsaved.

In Revelation 9, the Bible speaks of a time when hell will begin on this earth. It encompasses a time of five months (verses 5 and 10). The chapter begins with the words that “the bottomless pit” (a synonym for hell), is opened and the smoke as of a great furnace came forth. At that time, those who had been convinced they were saved because they had been teachers and preachers of the Bible, but were not saved, and they had not been raptured, are still trying to teach their wrong understanding of the Bible. They are typified by locusts (verse 3), and are ruled over by Abaddon (destruction) and Apollyon (destroyer) (verse 11), and are hurting those who are living on the earth at that time. However, they are not to hurt those who have the seal of God on their foreheads.

The essence of hell is to receive the payment of eternal destruction, to be destroyed forever. That is why these unsaved people are ruled over by Abaddon and Apollyon (Revelation 9:11), which are names that describe the essence of hell. Because they are in hell during these final five months of hell on earth, it is guaranteed that all of the unsaved will be destroyed forever. They never, never again will be alive. They, as well as the entire universe, will be annihilated. They cannot hurt the true believers who have the seal of God on their foreheads because the true believers are never to experience hell. The true believers will be raptured (caught up into heaven), the moment this final five months of hell on earth begins.  

In Revelation 9:4, God declares:

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

In this context, the grass, the green thing, and the trees typify the true believers. In Revelation 15, God emphasizes the last plagues, the final time of hell on earth, and in verse 1 He declares, “for in them is filled up the wrath of God.”

The next verse then assures us that at the same time, all the true believers are safe with God on a “sea of glass.” We read in Revelation 15:2:

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

The “sea of glass” is in heaven, as indicated by Revelation 4:2, “. . . behold, a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne.” Verse 6 then declares, “And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal.”

The true believers will have been raptured on the first day of this final five-month period, so they will completely escape the horrors of that final period of time. Whereas this five-month period will be an enormous horror story for those who have not been raptured, it will be a time of great joy and wonder for those who are raptured.

This period of five months encompasses exactly 153 days, May 21 to October 21. The number 153 spiritually breaks down to 3 x 3 x 17, just as it does when we examined the 153 fish. Spiritually, therefore, it identifies with those for whom it was God’s purpose (3) to take them to heaven (17). The number 3 doubled signifies that God will surely bring it to pass.

More Incredible Information

As further proof that this date, May 21, 2011, is the date of the rapture, we discovered a most significant fact. According to the Biblical ceremonial calendar, May 21, 2011, is the 17th day of the second month. Precisely 7,000 years earlier, on the 17th day of the second month, according to the calendar used by Noah, God shut the door of the ark. We read in Genesis 7:1 and 4:  

And we read in Genesis 7:10 and 11:

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And we read in verses 13 and 16:

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; . . . . And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

The calendar of Noah’s day was slightly different from the later Biblical calendar in that it had 30 days in a month, whereas the later Biblical calendar had 29 ½ days in a month, as it followed the moon phases. But God, in a remarkable way, tied the time of the shutting of the door of the ark, on the 17th day of the second month, to the shutting of the door on May 21, 2011, which, according to the Biblical ceremonial calendar is the 17th day of the second month. This forever separated the true believers in the ark from all the unsaved who perished outside of the ark. This foreshadowed the fact that on the date in which all the true believers are to be raptured, there never again would be any possibility of salvation for those left behind. Thus, we can know that it is as if there are exactly 7,000 years, to the very day, from the shutting of the door on any further possibility of salvation, both during the worldwide destruction of Noah’s day and the worldwide destruction of our day. Can this be coincidental?

Atonement to Rapture: 722,500 Days

God gives us another piece of interesting and significant time information that further demonstrates the accuracy of May 21, 2011, as the date of the rapture. On April 1, 33 A.D., the Lord Jesus was crucified for the sins of those He came to save. Exactly 722,500 days (inclusively) later, the rapture (May 21, 2011) will occur. This number breaks down into the very significant numbers:  

(5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17) = 722,500

We have learned the spiritual meaning of these numbers. The work of the atonement (5) is completed (10) when all of the elect are safely in heaven (17). This wonderful fact is doubled by a repetition of the three numbers, 10 x 5 x 17. This emphasis is, according to Genesis 41:32, “because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.”

Can we see how God has tied the time of the rapture on May 21, 2011, to the time when heaven was made possible (the atonement), because when Christ was crucified, He made the full payment for the sins of those who are to be caught up to heaven to live eternally with Jesus?

At this time in our study, we should pause a moment and consider what we just learned in the preceding paragraphs.

We are very certain that the crucifixion of Christ occurred on the day of the feast of the Passover, which was on a Friday, in A.D. 33, which was the 14th day of the first month of the Biblical ceremonial calendar. We are also very certain that this day was April 1, A.D. 33, according to our modern calendar. It was on that day that Christ was punished for the sins of all those He came to save. Because He paid for their sins, they were guaranteed to go to heaven to reign with Him forevermore.

From much information given to us in the Bible, we have discovered that on May 21, 2011, all of those who were saved by Jesus’ payment, which was made at the time of His crucifixion, will realize the completion of their salvation as they are raptured (caught up) into heaven. Therefore, it is very obvious that the dates April 1, A.D. 33, and May 21, 2011, are spiritually very closely linked together.

But we also discover that these two dates, which are almost 2,000 years apart, are also dramatically tied together by the literal number of days that separates them as well as by the spiritual significance of that great number of days.

Look again at the number 722,500. Isn’t it absolutely incredible that it breaks down into exactly two pairs of enormously significant spiritual numbers, 10, 5, and 17? Only God, who created this great universe with all of its precise physical laws, could have designed the timeline of history in such a precise and marvelous way. Please! What is the possibility that these time relationships could be coincidental? The answer has to be, under no circumstance could any of this be coincidental.

More Proofs

We continue to learn other proofs that show that we have arrived at a very precise knowledge of the timing of the end. As we have noted, God further  

We also have learned that the last day of the earth’s existence, October 21, 2011, is the 23rd day of the seventh month of the Biblical calendar. The number 23 normally signifies God’s wrath being poured out. The number 7 (seventh month) signifies the perfect fulfillment of God’s purposes. Could this also be coincidental, that the final completion of God’s punishment on the unsaved occurs in the seventh month on a day that features the number 23, which is a number that completely identifies with God’s wrath, thus signifying God’s perfect wrath on the unsaved?

The precision of the timeline of the end of the world is further emphasized when we examine this final five-month period from the standpoint of God’s wrath. When God punished Jesus, when He was paying for the sins of the elect, it calls our attention to the fact that some of the punishment for the sins of the non-elect must still occur. These two punishments are tied together by the 1,978 years that separate the time of the cross (A.D. 33) from the time of the end (A.D. 2011).

2011 - 33 = 1,978

1978 = 2 x 23 x 43

Number 2 symbolizes those who are to bring the Gospel.

Number 23 symbolizes wrath

Number 43 symbolizes judgment

Thus, by the number 1,978, God is emphasizing that judgment will fall on those who had been commissioned to bring the Gospel (2) and are still subject to the wrath of God (23 and 43).

God’s Judgment Process Continues as a Great Multitude are Saved

As we carefully examine the dates of the great tribulation, the rapture, and the last day of earth’s existence, we discover another interesting fact. We have learned that during the last 6,100 days of the 8,400-day great tribulation  

Number 13 is end of the world

Number 37 is God’s judgment

Remember, Noah was in the ark exactly 370 days. Remember, too, the Assyrian army of 185,000 men under Sennacherib was destroyed by God in one night (II Kings 19:35), and 185,000 = 1,000 x 5 x 37. Therefore, we can see how the number 37 identifies with destruction that is a result of God’s judgment.

By the number 6,253 God is assuring us that while there is a great multitude that will experience salvation during that period of time, God’s judgment process (37) will be complete at the end of the world (13). Again, please note the doubling of the number 13.

Earlier in this study, we established, solely from the Biblical information, the final timing of the end of history in somewhat of a tentative way. However, subsequently, by carefully continuing to apply additional Biblical information, we have discovered that that timeline was exceedingly accurate. Proof after proof has been emphasized. If the timeline presently set forth is inaccurate in any one of its dates, many of the proofs would be invalidated. Certainly if any of the dates we have learned from the Bible are incorrect, then many of the proofs would no longer be known. We indeed can be certain that the rapture will occur on May 21, 2011, and the final day of the history of the world is October 21, 2011.

But these are not just intellectual or academic facts. These are truths that apply in a very personal way to every individual (almost seven billion people) presently living on this earth. Is it possible to escape this terrible day of judgment? darkened and judgment has begun. And 153 days, May 21 to October 21, is exactly five months.