In Part 2, we discovered that the Flood occurred 6023 years after creation. In this Part, we will find out when King Solomon died and how these fit perfectly with May 21, 2011. We'll use Genesis 11 to determine most of the generations here. Let's begin our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 11 (Shem)
Gen. 11:10
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Ar-phax'ad two years after the flood:
Shem lived 502 years from the Flood to death. So, let's begin by putting 502 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 12 (Arphaxad)
Gen. 11:11
11 And Shem lived after he begat Ar-phax'ad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Arphaxad lived 438 years. Salah became a descendant when Arphaxad was 35. Let's add 438 to our calculations. 438 is based on 403 + 35 (as in verses 12 and 13).
GENERATION HOLDER 13 (Salah)
Gen. 11:12
12 And Ar-phax'ad lived five and thirty years, and begat Sa'lah:
Salah's descendant was Eber, and died when he was 433 years old. Let's add 433 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 14 (Eber)
Gen. 11:14
14 And Sa'lah lived thirty years, and begat E'ber:
He was 464 years old when he died. Let's add 464 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 15 (Peleg)
Gen. 11:16
16 And E'ber lived four and thirty years, and begat Pe'leg:
He was born the year Eber died. Peleg was 239 years old when he died. Let's add 239 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 16 (Reu)
Gen. 11:18
18 And Pe'leg lived thirty years, and begat Re'u:
He lived 239 years also, like his great, great, great, grandfather Peleg. Let's add 239 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 17 (Serug)
Gen. 11:22
22 And Se'rug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Serug lived 230 years. Let's add 230 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 18 (Nahor)
Gen. 11:24
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Te'rah:
Nahor lived a total of 148 years.
GENERATION HOLDER 19 (Terah)
Gen. 11:26
26 And Te'rah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Ha'ran.
Terah directly begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran died before his father (Terah), leaving Abram and Nahor as the only living sons. To determine Terah's generation, look at how old Terah was when Abram was born. To find out, Gen. 12:4 says Abram was 75 years old when his father Terah died. We know this because in Gen. 11:32, it says Terah died in Haran at the age of 205 AND Gen. 12:4 says Abram left Haran when he was 75 years old. So, when Abram was born, Terah was 130 years old (205 - 75). Let's add 130 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 20 (Abraham)
Gen. 21:55
25 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born (direct father-son). Let's add 100 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 21 (Isaac)
Gen. 25:26
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob was born (direct father-son). Let's add 60 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER 22 (Jacob)
Gen. 47:11
11 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
The famine caused Jacob to flee Canaan to Egypt. Verse 9 says 130 years until he came to Egypt:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.The children of Israel were in Egypt 430 years (Exodus 12:40). But for now, Jacob's generation was 130 years. Let's add 130 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER/GENERATION 23 (The Exodus)
Ex. 12:40-41
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
They were in Egypt 430 years. Let's add 430 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER/GENERATION 24 (The beginning of the building of the Temple in Jerusalem)
1 Kings 6:1
1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
It was 480 years after Moses and the Red Sea when they started building the Temple in Jerusalem. Let's add 480 to our calculations.
GENERATION HOLDER/GENERATION 25 (King Solomon's Death)
1 Kings 11:42
42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
The length in time from the start of building the Temple to the death of King Solomon was 36 years. How did we get this? In Solomon's fourth year as King, that's when they started building the Temple. Since he reigned 40 years total, you subtract 4 from it, which equals 36. Let's add 36 to our calculations.
We are now done with the generations at this point. Let's go ahead and add up the years from the Flood to King Solomon's death:
502 (Shem)
438 (Arphaxad)
433 (Salah)
464 (Eber)
239 (Peleg)
239 (Reu)
230 (Serug)
148 (Nahor)
130 (Terah)
100 (Abraham)
60 (Isaac)
130 (Jacob)
430 (The Exodus)
480 (Start of the building of the Temple)
+ 36 (Solomon's death)
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4059 years
So, from the Flood to Solomon's death, there was a span of 4039 years.
Before we can figure out what year the Flood occured, we need to ask the question, "What year did Solomon die? When was his kingdom split?"
We can look to secular records to get an answer for these. There are 3 references we can look at:
1) Edwin Thiele's "The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings"
2) Nelson's Encyclopedia of Biblical Facts
3) Arthur Weigall's "A Guide To The Antiquities Of Upper Egypt"
In Weigall's book, he wrote that Pharoah Tuthmosis III as the one who died in the Red Sea because he was the only Pharoah who didn't have a tomb for himself. He had more buildings than other Pharoahs because he had Hebrew slaves working for him. He didn't build his own tomb because he drowned unexpectedly in the Red Sea. The year of his drowning was 1447 BC. If you subtract 931 (as Solomon died in 931 BC) from 1447, you get 516. This equals 480 (years after the Red Sea to building the Temple) plus 36 (years from building the temple to Solomon's death). This confirms the year of the death of Solomon died in the year 931 BC.
OK, let's do more simple math:
6023 (from creation to the Flood)
+4059 (from the Flood to Solomon's death)_____________________________________________
10,082 (from Creation to Solomon's death)
10,082
+ 931 (year of Solomon's death)
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11,013
So, Adam was created in 11,013 BC
To see what year the Flood occured:
11,013
- 6023 (from creation to the Flood)
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4990 BC
Thus, the year of the Flood was in 4990 BC.
Why is this important? Because God describes the end of time as the Flood of Noah's day. There are key verses I'd like to share:
II Peter 3:3-8:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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.
8 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.
In verse 8, God is emphasizing for the true believer to NOT BE IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING. And this "thing" is "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
Also, in Gen. 7:4, God told Noah in 7 days, He'd cause it to flood:
4 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.
If you factor in the language described in II Peter 3:3-8 with Gen. 7:4, God is telling us that 7 days is as 7000 years with respect to Judgement Day. What does this mean? If the Flood ocurred in the year 4990 BC and we add 7000 years, you get 2011. Some of you may come up with 2012 but we have to subtract one year as there is no year 0. The sequence jumps from 1 BC to 1 AD.
Now that we've been able to get the year of Christ's return (2011), can we find an actual date? We will know that it is May 21, 2011 because in Gen. 7:11, God gave Noah an actual month and day:
11 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.
The seventeenth day of the second month in the Jewish calendar is May 21 of the modern calendar we use.
As you can see now, May 21, 2011 is the date in which the true believers, described in the Bible as the elect, will be raptured.
I truly believe this is final. I had difficulty understanding and accepting this date for over three years and believe it now. Naturally, I had questions about this delicate subject. I used to think, especially when formulating the timeline per Genesis 5 and 11 that the numbers fit if every generation marker was born and died the same day of the year, in this case May 21. In other words, what if A was 110 years, 4 months and 13 days old when he bore a son (B), and lived another 360 years, 8 months and 4 days? If this same logic follows each and every generation, there must be some accumulation of months, days and years. So for instance, if generation A through generation K had a time period of 2100 years, could it be possible perhaps that could have stretched to, say 2944 years, 7 months and 28 days? I hope I'm making sense.
Anyway, I feel this is a dangerous question to ask since God is indeed accurate in things He proclaims. Again, He did say in the 17th day of the second month that He would cause it to Flood. He also told Jonah that in 40 days, if the people of Nineveh did not repent, He would destroy that city. If it was His will, He also could have given more details on the number of years, months and days a generation holder lived before his son (or some descendant) was born. But He didn't write it this way. If I were to put my own thoughts to override some parts of the Bible, then I'm not listening to God. He truly has put all the information needed for us to discover the actual rapture date.
With all the information that God has given us regarding Judgment Day, are we to say these findings are inaccurate? If so, please explain and provide corrections. I don't know about you but God has given plenty of evidence pointing to May 21, 2011 as the date of the Rapture and first day of Judgement Day. He has given information way too accurate, in which the numbers actually fit PERFECTLY.
Lastly, you may be wondering what we can do to make sure we can be saved. In a nutshell, nothing. For more information on how God saves His elect, please read:
http://salvation-part-1.blogspot.com/
http://salvation-part-2.blogspot.com/
http://salvation-part-3.blogspot.com/
Know this also: God is saving a "great multitude" in which man cannot number right now. This definitely gives us real hope thatyou too could be saved. Read below:
Revelation 7:9:
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
May God have mercy on us and save us.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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