Good questions ( I like it).
Jenny,
Jesus told his disciples- some standing there would see the kingdom of God.
That was a prophecy of His transfiguring on the Mount with Moses and Elijah- Peter and John were the two who saw it.
Nowhere is it recorded that Jesus thought or said the end of the age would happen in his lifetime.
The apostle writing in the book of Acts, quoted Malachi about the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the last days.
We have been in the last days for 2000 years- a "Day" being equivalent to a thousand years. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years.
Keri,
The Jews intentionally left out over 200 years from their calendar.
I can't prove it, but when the time prophesied for the Messiah passed and they, having rejected the real one, needed to fudge the calendar by omitting years BC. The omission was intentional. I cannot prove the motivation.
Bishop James Usser did a genealogical / historical calculation centuries ago and got a ball-park reading.
I followed a link to - http://www.torahcalendar.com/
The thousand years = one (long) day is seen with a correlation between the days of Genesis to events in history:
Genesis- day 2 God divided the land from the waters
Historical- the Flood occurred in the 2nd thousand years
Genesis- day 4 God created the celestial lights
Historical- the Light of the world (Jesus) came on the 4th thousand year
Genesis- Man created on the 6th day
Historical- Man's technology, travel, knowledge goes exponential in the 6th thousandth year.
Genesis- Day of Rest
Historical- dead ahead
What confirms the Torah Calendar guys, are the events for Israel as prophesied by Rabbi Ben Judah in the 1200s-
That Jerusalem would be controlled by the Ottoman Turks for 8 Jubilees (400 yrs) from 1517.
Then Jerusalem would be a wasteland for one Jubilee (the 9th one) and in the tenth Jubilee would be the time of Messiah.
Historical- the Turks lost Jerusalem in 1917 when General Allenby dropped fliers over Jerusalem to surrender the city.
The Turks, thinking Allenby meant "messinger of Allah" fled the city.
(1517-1917 = 400 yrs/ 8 Jubilees)
For 50 years after that, Jerusalem actually had a "No man's land".
(the 9th Jubilee)
In 1967 Jerusalem became totally under the control of Israel.
That began the tenth Jubilee the rabbi spoke of.
The next Jubilee year begins in 2016 in the Fall and runs to the Fall of 2017.
Jenny,
Jesus told his disciples- some standing there would see the kingdom of God.
That was a prophecy of His transfiguring on the Mount with Moses and Elijah- Peter and John were the two who saw it.
Nowhere is it recorded that Jesus thought or said the end of the age would happen in his lifetime.
The apostle writing in the book of Acts, quoted Malachi about the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the last days.
We have been in the last days for 2000 years- a "Day" being equivalent to a thousand years. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years.
Keri,
The Jews intentionally left out over 200 years from their calendar.
I can't prove it, but when the time prophesied for the Messiah passed and they, having rejected the real one, needed to fudge the calendar by omitting years BC. The omission was intentional. I cannot prove the motivation.
Bishop James Usser did a genealogical / historical calculation centuries ago and got a ball-park reading.
I followed a link to - http://www.torahcalendar.com/
The thousand years = one (long) day is seen with a correlation between the days of Genesis to events in history:
Genesis- day 2 God divided the land from the waters
Historical- the Flood occurred in the 2nd thousand years
Genesis- day 4 God created the celestial lights
Historical- the Light of the world (Jesus) came on the 4th thousand year
Genesis- Man created on the 6th day
Historical- Man's technology, travel, knowledge goes exponential in the 6th thousandth year.
Genesis- Day of Rest
Historical- dead ahead
What confirms the Torah Calendar guys, are the events for Israel as prophesied by Rabbi Ben Judah in the 1200s-
That Jerusalem would be controlled by the Ottoman Turks for 8 Jubilees (400 yrs) from 1517.
Then Jerusalem would be a wasteland for one Jubilee (the 9th one) and in the tenth Jubilee would be the time of Messiah.
Historical- the Turks lost Jerusalem in 1917 when General Allenby dropped fliers over Jerusalem to surrender the city.
The Turks, thinking Allenby meant "messinger of Allah" fled the city.
(1517-1917 = 400 yrs/ 8 Jubilees)
For 50 years after that, Jerusalem actually had a "No man's land".
(the 9th Jubilee)
In 1967 Jerusalem became totally under the control of Israel.
That began the tenth Jubilee the rabbi spoke of.
The next Jubilee year begins in 2016 in the Fall and runs to the Fall of 2017.
