The length of the Day of the Lord

The Length of the Day of the Lord

There are very solid reasons for the Day of the Lord being 153 days starting from Sunday, May 22, 2011 (the day immediately following the end of the GT on Saturday, May 21, 2011) to Friday, October 21, 2011 which is not only the last day, the great of the Feast of Tabernacles (FOT) (John 7:37-39), but it is the 23rd day of the 7th month of the Hebrew calendar as well, featuring the most prolific number of judgment, the number 23 (See Online Hebrew Perpetual Calendar, click the “Today” button first then chose the date):

Perpetual Hebrew / Civil Calendar October 2011 Ethanim/Tishrei 5772 / Cheshvan 5772

Shabbat

Fast of Gedalia

Yom Kippur

Sukkot

Sukkot (d)

Additionally the 150 days of the flood of Genesis 7:24 and 8:3 translates to 153 days in our time (150/360 x 365.2422). The length of the year in 4990 B.C. was 360 days (See Biblical Calendar – page 11) and the length of the year today is 365.2422 days.

So there is super abundant evidence for the 153 days. And the 153 great fishes in John 21:11 can relate to time as 153 days:

Gen 41:17 ¶ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:

18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

Joseph's interpretation:

Gen 41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.

So God does use seven kine (cows) to represent seven years and could be using 153 fish to represent the 153 days of the Day of the Lord.

BUT there is still another scenario which is less than 153 days but still lands in the most important FOT and on the third day thereof and that is:

Gen 8:4 ¶ And the ark rested <05117> in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

The Hebrew calendar above shows this date as Saturday, October 15, 2011. That will be exactly 7000 years to the very date since the ark rested upon Ararat and the curse of the flood waters of judgment began to roll away! God rested from his work of creation (a mirror of resting from His work of salvation and judgment when the new earth and heaven is perfected and without sin) on the seventh day of the week, a Saturday:

Ex 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested <05117> the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

This seventh day was a very special day to the Lord and so He hallowed it and sanctified it:

Ge 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested <07673> on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Ge 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested <07673> from all his work which God created and made.

It was a day when He had ended from all His works which were finished from the beginning the very foundation of the earth:

Heb 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Ac 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Now going from the very beginning of Sunday, May 22, 2011 (the end of the GT as we now believe goes up to May 21, 2011) to October 15, 2007 is 147 days exactly! What is so important about the number 147?

Gen 47: 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Notice that God breaks out the number 17 in this 147 so He wants this number to be reckoned in our reasoning. Also, fathom who Jacob represents and what his earthly life portrayed even as he was reckoned as the "Father" and went to be with God eternally after 147 years!

Also, 147 factors significantly: 3 x 7 x 7 -- The purpose of God for the perfection of this universe squared for importance!

And, as shown above, October 15, 2011 is the third day of this most important feast of tabernacles and Christ said to tell Herod (picturing Satan) that He would be perfected on the third day:

Luke 13:31 ¶ The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.

32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

Could October 15, 2011, the third day of the feast of tabernacles be the day that Christ is perfected with all of His saints who are the fullness of His body?

Additionally, God started creation on Sunday, the first day of the week and rested on Saturday, the seventh day of the week. The Day of the Lord starts on Sunday, May 22, 2011 and could possibly end 147 days later on the Saturday, October 15, 2011 thereby mirroring the seven days of creation perfectly (and 7,000 years from the date the ark rested on Ararat and God having begun His work once more with this second world starting with Noah) and with perfection squared with the purpose of God both in creating and in perfecting His creation forever without sin!

The following pertaining to Ararat comes from the Online Bible:

0780 jrra ‘Ararat ar-aw-rat’

of foreign origin; n pr loc; {See TWOT on 169}

AV-Ararat 2, Armenia 2; 4

Ararat =" the curse reversed: precipitation of curse"

A reminder—THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT ANYWHERE IN SCRIPTURES THAT GOD MUST USE A FEAST DAY FOR FULFILLING HIS RETURN. EVEN WHEN FEAST DAYS WERE OPERATIONAL, GOD DID NOT ALWAYS USE THEM FOR SIGNIFICANT EVENTS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE MONUMENTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE IN 587 B.C. WAS NOT ON A FEAST DAY BUT GOD RECORDED FOR US THE VERY DAY IT OCCURRED:

2Kin 25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: {captain…: or, chief marshal}

9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

AT THE FLOOD, THERE WERE NO FEAST DAYS ESTABLISHED. ALSO, MAY 21, 2011 (THE PROJECTED END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION) AND MAY 22, 2011 (THE PROJECTED COMMENCEMENT OF THE DAY OF THE LORD) DO NOT FALL ON ANY BIBLICALLY-ESTABLISHED FEAST DAY!

WHY THEN IS IT NECESSARY FOR THE DAYS AFTER THE TRIBULATION (MARK 13:24) TO HAVE TO BE 153 DAYS AND END EXACTLY ON THE LAST DAY OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES WHEN ITS SIGNIFICANT STARTING POINT WAS NOT ON A FEAST DAY IN THE FIRST PLACE? COULDN’T GOD JUSTIFIABLY USE THE 17^TH DAY OF THE 7^TH MONTH AS THE ENDING POINT SINCE NOAH’S FLOOD IS A PORTRAIT OF THE FIERY JUDGMENT (2PET 3:5-8) AND THIS WAS THE VERY DATE EXACTLY 7000 YEARS EARLIER THAN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011 THAT THE ARK FINALLY RESTED (THE CURSE BEING REVERSED) AND THE FLOOD WATERS OF JUDGMENT ABATED?

Gen 8:1 ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

CONCLUSION:

Dare to choose between 153 and 147 or even 150 in the midst?

ADDENDUM (10/30/2008)

It is amazing how God works! Some of us received Matt R's response below in which he quoted some of Thomas G's initial postings on LR.

The one posting that struck my attention is the one that the watches could be referring to the different days during the month of October 2011 that Jesus Christ could return. I had not seen that the watches could be making reference to the different days that Jesus Christ could literally come to this earth for the rapture. I had always looked at the watches as saying Jesus could come in any of these watches in a particular night.

Now there are three watches that Bible knows of:

Lu 12:38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Mr 6:48 And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.

The first is assumed and is not a reality! It does not exist in the Bible.

From the study above I showed that there were three days that Jesus could literally come to the earth during the Feast of Tabernacles in 2011 thus ending the period of the “Day of the Lord” and each day has very strong Biblical merits. These 3 days were: day 147 or day 150 or day 153 with day one of the “Day of the Lord” coming at the very end of the Great Tribulation on May 21, 2011.

Now some Christians claim May 21, 2011 is the rapture with Christ coming for His saints—that is what I would call the first watch which is not reality and is unsupported in the Bible. However the second watch (day 147—October 15, 2011), the third watch (day 150—October 18, 2011) and the fourth watch (day 153—October 21, 2011—the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles which last for 8 days) are all valid Biblical watches with these days being portrayed by the night watches because the Day of the Lord is darkness:

Am 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

Am 5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

If indeed my understanding as shown above is correct then all glory to God Almighty who has brought this understanding to light via Thomas G’s initial postings on LR (which I was not privy to) and Matt R. emailing this information to us all.

THE END

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