Day of the Lord 2023

We are right at the end of 6000 years since Creation and the fall of man according to the Bible. Just as God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th and one day is as a thousand years according to Scripture, so also at the end of the 6000 years, Christ will return to the earth to rule and reign for 1000 years. 

Mr. Obama was chosen on the 7th day of Tabernacles in 2009 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and then given the award just a few hours before the start of Kislev 24, the 2 dates mentioned in Haggai 2 regarding the Lord shaking the heavens and the earth and bringing the desired of all nations to Himself. These 2 dates are incredibly significant in this puzzle. I believe this was the start of Daniel’s 70th week (see Daniel 9:27). 

1260 days after Mr. Obama was chosen as the Nobel Peace Prize winner, he went to the Church of the Nativity, which was a temple fortress that had been desecrated by armed forces and considered by many to be the most holy place on the earth, and he stood where he did not belong, and stopped the daily sacrifice and offering from taking place on that day. He rode into Jerusalem on a borrowed beast, just as Christ had done, right on the 10th day of Nisan on the Jewish calendar and then the abomination took place right on the 11th day of Nisan, which was the very date that Christ spoke to His disciples about the abomination event. Daniel tells us that from this date, there will be 1290 days, which ended on the Feast of Trumpets in 2016.

So, after the abomination event on March 22, 2013, we had a 40-day probationary period as was foreshadowed to us in the story of Jonah that ended on the 7th day of Unleavened Bread during the Second Passover. Daniel gives us a 1260 and 1335-day count that both started at this time, at the end of the 40-day probationary period, and these counts ended on the Day of Atonement and on the start of Hanukkah in 2016. At the end of the 40 days, however, we saw how that the Bride of Christ came together for 3 days of fasting and prayer for the Lord to have mercy on America. This was also foreshadowed to us in the story of Jonah and of Queen Esther. Mercy was granted and judgment was delayed. 

If you think this delay just happened and was not shown to us in the Bible, you are very wrong. Because God is all-knowing, He knew ahead of time that this would happen and He hid this delay in His Word. We are shown in Matthew 25 and Revelation 10 that the coming of the Bridegroom will be delayed. The desolation event was delayed and the days of the Great Tribulation were shortened to just 140 days, or a “time, times and half a time” using 40 days as the measurement of “time”.

This means that the judgment was to have started in the Spring of 2016, just after the blood moons and solar eclipses on the Jewish feast days in 2014 and 2015. However, the year 2016 was an election year in America and I believe the Lord delayed His judgment further, in order to give America more time to turn back to Him. The year 2016 was also not a Jubilee Year, so a final 7 years had to be added in order to fulfill the prophecies about the Year of Jubilee. I believe the year 2016 was actually the end of 6000 years from the Creation, but the Book of Jubilees tells us that Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden for 7 years before the fall took place on the 17th day of the second month, which is the same date mentioned in Genesis for the flood starting. This means that the 6000 years from the fall of man will end on the 17th day of the second month in 2023. When we add the 21-day delay found in Daniel 10 to the 17th day of the second Biblical month (May 8, 2023), we come to Pentecost on May 28, 2023, as the time of the start of the "Day of the Lord", a 140-day period of judgment on the earth. 

This was all foreshadowed to us in the story of Joseph, with two 7-year periods, one of great abundance and one of famine, as well as the story of Jacob, who after working for 7 years had to then work an additional 7 years in order to marry his true love, Rachel. This was also foreshadowed to us twice in the Old Testament when the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Tabernacles were celebrated for 14 days rather than for 7 days. These stories were all meant to show us how the Lord was going to turn Daniel’s 70th week into 2 periods of 7 years and not just one. One possible interpretation for Daniel 9:27 is: "And he will strengthen his covenant with many for the FIRST seven." Whenever you have a first, it is always implied that there is a second also.

Daniel’s 70th week is now nearly finished (twice over) and it is time to “finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, make reconciliation for iniquity, bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy” (see Daniel 9:24).

In Matthew 24:15-21, the Lord points the disciples to Hanukkah and tells them that from that time, there will be great tribulation on the earth, but He will shorten the days for the sake of the elect. The final year of Daniel’s 70th week will start during Hanukkah of 2022, but His judgment will be delayed further until Pentecost 2023. Later in the chapter, He tells us that the sign to watch for that will accompany His coming for His Bride is the sun being darkened, moon not giving its light and stars falling from the sky. This sign appears on October 14, 2023, marking the end of the Great Tribulation for the Bride of Christ during the month of Tishrei. October 13th is also the anniversary of the fall of Babylon, which Revelation repeatedly warns us of this: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great!" This is yet another clue to us of when "Babylon" will fall at the time of the main harvest rapture on October 13, 2023.

Joel 2 and Acts 2 point us to the sign of a solar eclipse and blood moon at the start of the Great Tribulation and Revelation 6 points us to this as well and also the sign of the stars falling from the sky at the opening of the 6th seal. We have a total solar eclipse on April 20, 2023, and a penumbral lunar eclipse on May 5, 2023, in which the moon will turn a reddish color and the final day of the Eta Aquariids meteor shower on Pentecost Sunday, May 28, 2023.

The Lord told us that He would shorten the days of the Great Tribulation for the sake of His elect, or His left-behind saints. We repeatedly see in the Scriptures a “time, times and half a time” mentioned in reference to the length of time of the Great Tribulation. The “time” was to have been a prophetic year of 360 days, for a total of 1260 days. However, this “time” has been shortened to 40 days, as we see foreshadowed in the patterns of the Scriptures that a time in the wilderness is 40 days and that the time of purification for the mother of a male child is also 40 days, along with numerous other examples left for us in the Scriptures pointing to the “time” of tribulation being 40 days. 

This leads us to a 140-day count (40 X 3.5) that will start on May 27/28, 2023, and end on October 13/14, 2023. Scriptures also show us that the time of Great Tribulation for the left-behind saints, from the opening of the Abyss at the time of the first woe and first harvest, until the time of the second woe and second harvest, will be 5 months (see Revelation 9).  Revelation 2:10 shows us that the firstfruits rapture will take place 10 days into this 140-day period on June 7, 2023.

Ezekiel 39 talks about a 7-month time of “cleansing” or purification that will come on the earth and leaves us a clue pointing to the time period when Americans are observing Memorial Day, or the unofficial start of summer. 

Ezekiel 39: 12-13 - For SEVEN MONTHS  Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land. All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a MEMORIAL for them on the DAY I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.

Matthew 24:32 -  "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door

Only 1/3 of the “Day of the Lord” and “night” is without light, according to the 4th trumpet judgment of Revelation 8. This means that the left-behind saints and those who come to faith in Christ during the Great Tribulation will have to endure the first 2/3 of this 210-day period and there will still be “light” on the earth during the first 140 days of the “Day of the Lord”. The second rapture event will take place on October 13/14, 2023. From the time of the second woe, there will be a final 10-week period of judgment on the earth after all of the saints have been removed, known as the “wrath of God”. This will end on December 22, 2023, when Christ returns to the earth with His Bride to rule and reign for 1000 years.

The Israelites were told by the Lord to count off 7 weeks from the Feast of Firstfruits and then to offer another offering of firstfruits to the Lord on Pentecost. This year, the Feast of Firstfruits, or Resurrection Sunday, will be on April 9, 2023, making the Feast of Pentecost May 28, 2023. It was on the 6th day of Sivan (Pentecost) that Enoch was born and ascended into heaven, foreshadowing the birth of the church and firstfruits rapture taking place on Pentecost. It was the day when the Jewish people believe Moses received the 10 Commandments, 3 days after the mountain shook and the Israelites trembled in fear. Hebrews 12 compares this event to our being taken to the heavenly Mt. Zion and escaping the judgment that is to come on the earth. The sixth day of Sivan was also the day when the Holy Spirit came on those in the Upper Room and the Age of Grace began. Peter stood up on this day and proclaimed that Pentecost was the fulfillment of Joel 2, just after the sun is darkened (April 20, 2023) and the moon turns to blood (May 5, 2023). Revelation 14 tells us that firstfruits are offered to the Lord on Mt. Zion and Pentecost is the day when the firstfruits of the wheat harvest are to be presented to the Lord. However there is a final 10-day delay found in Revelation 2:10 and the firstfruits will be offered to the Lord on June 7, 2023.

Revelation 14: Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.  And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

Firstfruits Rapture - June 7, 2023

Main Harvest Rapture - October 13/14, 2023

Second Coming of Christ to the earth - December 22, 2023

June 7, 2023, is the 56th anniversary of when Jerusalem was liberated. The liberation of Jerusalem points us to the liberation of the New Jerusalem, the wife of the Lamb, the Bride of Christ.

Galatians 4:22-31 - For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise. These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

The number 56 is 7 X 8. The number 7 represents a number of completion and 8 represents new beginnings. Therefore, the number 56 represents both of these things.

Psalm 90:10 - Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

June 7, 2013, started the 70th year from the anniversary of D-Day and June 7, 2023, will start the 80th year from the anniversary of D-Day. This is the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France in a surprise invasion by means of beach landings in Normandy. Today, this term is synonymous with “a day on which an important operation is to begin or a change to take effect.” How fitting for June 6/7 to be the anniversary of both the liberation of Jerusalem, as well as the anniversary of “D-Day”. I believe this will be the day when we witness an “alien invasion” of the earth, and hundreds of millions of people from around the world will suddenly vanish.

The Feast of Trumpets starts the Jewish New Year and Pentecost is the last of the 7 feasts during the Jewish New Year. Therefore, the first trumpet is associated with the Feast of Trumpets and the last trumpet with Pentecost.

Matthew 20:16 - So the last shall be first, and the first last.

The Feast of Trumpets is followed by a 10-day period called the Days of Awe. According to Jewish tradition, one's fate is decided on Rosh Hashanah (the Feast of Trumpets) and sealed at the end of the 10th day of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). If we say that the Feast of Trumpets is equal to Pentecost (the last shall be the first and the first last), and we put this 10-day period onto the Feast of Pentecost, then June 6th would be the 10th day. It is at the end of this day that the fate will be sealed for all who are left behind at the firstfruits rapture of the Bride of Christ.

In ancient times, the Jewish people would wait for the barley to ripen before starting their Biblical year in the spring. The reason for this was because the barley had to be “Aviv” or ripe in order for them to make a firstfruits offering at the temple during the first Biblical month during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

It is being said that the barley ripened late in Israel this year. If the Lord is also observing this ancient way of starting the Biblical year, then the Jewish calendar could be considered to be one month ahead. When we look at June 6, 2023, it would then be the 17th day of the 2nd month in Israel.

In Numbers 9, we read about how the Lord told Moses that if a person was defiled during the Passover festival, they were still to celebrate the Passover feast, but it should be done in the second month rather than the first. It is on the 17th day of the 1st Biblical month that the Jewish people observe the Feast of Firstfruits. Therefore, the 17th day of the 2nd month is a day in which firstfruits could be offered to the Lord as well if a person was defiled during the first month.

Revelation 14:4 - These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

The 17th day of the 2nd month is the day that Adam and Eve fell in the garden according to the Book of Jubilees, and is also the day when the flood started according to the book of Genesis.

Revelation 12:15 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

This verse in Revelation 12 connects both of these events to what happens at the time of the firstfruits rapture, when the woman is taken to the place prepared for her by God out of the serpent’s reach.

The book of Jubilees tells us that Adam and Eve were in the garden for 7 years before they fell on the 17th day of the 2nd month. If we consider that 2016 was the end of the 6000 years from Creation and 2023 is the end of the 6000 years from the fall of man, then June 6, 2023, may end the 6000 years from the fall of man to the very day.

Interestingly, October 14, 2023, would then become the 29th day of Elul, using the ancient method of starting the Biblical year. Jesus said that He would raise us up on the “last day”. Elul 29 is the last day of the Jewish year before the Feast of Trumpets begins.

For years, many people have speculated and looked for the date when the first rapture and start of the Great Tribulation period mentioned throughout the Scriptures would be. Could it be that the Lord hid the date for us right in the book of Revelation, just sitting there for thousands of years, only now to finally be seen and understood? June 6, 2023, is written as 6/6/23. When we multiply the 2X3, we can say that June 6, 2023, is 6/6/6. It is the 6^th day of the 6^th month on our Gregorian calendar. Is the Lord telling us that 6/6/6 will be the day when the beast rises up from the Abyss and judgment begins on the earth for 5 months (June, July, August, September and October) for the left-behind saints (see Revelation 9) and 7 months for the unbelievers (see Ezekiel 39)?

Revelation 13:18 - This calls for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the beast's number, for it is man's number, and his number is 666.

Psalm 90:12 - Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Daniel 5:26 - Here is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.  Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Psalm 90:12 tells us that we should number our days. Revelation 13:18 tells us that the number we should use to calculate for the beast and for man is 666, which could simply mean that the calculation will have three 6’s in it. Both verses mention this calculation either calls for wisdom or will give us wisdom. Daniel 5:26 reminds us that God has numbered Satan’s days and is about to bring them to an end.