Coming Soon To A Place Near You!

~ Coming Soon ~

Ok, I am going to go out on a limb here and express my opinion on the below Verse found in Revelation 22:12

NIV
" Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done".
 KJV
"And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be".


"Behold, I am coming soon"
I take that literally- especially in this present age. Let me give you the short version of why I believe that the Lord's return is just right around the corner. If you look in the Bible you will see that God is very much into numbers. 40 was one of His favorites- Noah & the whole rain thing = 40, Jonah preached to the Ninivites 40 days, the Irsaelites wandered in the desert for 40 years, Jesus was tempted for 40 days and so on. All through the OT & NT we see the 40's repeatedly.

But for now- as it relates to the above Scripture let's just look at the number 7. God created everything and then on the 7th day He rested. It is Written that 6 years will a man toil the fields and on the 7th the ground will lay barren. Those are the two biggies that most people can recall off the top of their heads- but let me give you a few more.

There are SEVEN notes in the musical scale. All other pitches are only variations of these. Man named the notes but God fixed the sounds, even as God fixed the days of the week, and man named them.

Noah took the clean beasts into the ark by SEVENS (Genesis 7:2) SEVEN days after Noah went into the ark the flood came. (Genesis 7:-10)

Before Aaron and his sons entered their priestly work they were consecrated SEVEN days. (Leviticus 8:31-36)

When Israel took the city of Jericho God told them to march around the city SEVEN times. Thus, on the SEVENTH day, when they marched around the city SEVEN times, they COMPLETED their marching. (Joshua 6:1-16)

There were SEVEN FEAST days of our Lord. (Passover, Unleavened, First-fruits, Pentecost, Atonement, Trumpets and Tabernacle). (Leviticus 23:1-44)

There were SEVEN branches on the CANDLESTICK in the Holy Place in the Tabernacle

Solomon was SEVEN years in building the Temple and kept the Feast for SEVEN days.

Job had SEVEN sons. When his friends came to visit him they sat SEVEN days and SEVEN nights in silence, and afterward they were required to offer a Burnt Offering of SEVEN bullocks and SEVEN rams.

Naaaman washed SEVEN times in the Jordan.

The Saviour spoke SEVEN words from the Cross.

SEVEN men of honest report were chosen to administer the alms of the church in Acts 6:1-7.

There were SEVEN years of plenty and SEVEN years of famine in Egypt during the days of Joseph.

SEVEN times in the Book of Revelation blessing of the Lord are promised to His people. These are called the "BEATITUDES" of Revelation. These are found in Chapters 1:3; 14:13; 16:15; 19:9; 20:6; 22:7, 14. 

There are SEVEN Dispensations (a certain order, system, or arrangement; administration or management)
---> Innocence, Conscience, Government, Patriarchal, Law, Grace, and Millennial Age.

SEVEN times the Book of Life is mentioned in the Bible.

The Book of Revelation is a Book of SEVENS. We have SEVEN churches, SEVEN seals, SEVEN Trumpets, SEVEN Personages, SEVEN vials, SEVEN dooms, SEVEN new things. SEVEN SEVENS make up this Book .

Even the duration of Israel's great punishments was based upon this law of SEVENS. Their captivity in Babylon was for SEVENTY years, ten periods of SEVENS. (Jeremiah 25:11-12; Daniel l9:2) 

The Number 7  is the COMPLETENESS of all things.

Jesus said to "forgive SEVENTY times SEVEN" In other words, He is saying, "Keep on forgiving until you are complete."

Ok; so enough with the examples of the number 7.
But this is what I want you to understand.

From the time that Father Adam to the date of this writing has been almost? exactly?? (you be the judge) 6000 years- six thousand years of toil for man. Which means that the next thing to come would be 1000 years to rest (6+1=7... right?!)

How can we possibly have a 1000 year resting day (Sabbath)?

Those of you that are familiar with the Books of Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation know that it is Written that Jesus would return and reign on earth for a thousand years. Well... there is your 1000 year long Sabbath isn't it?

So; if we are at the tail end of 6000 years of working and we are entitled to a resting phase- then it goes without saying that Jesus's Return is absolutely imminent.

"Behold, I am coming soon"
You better believe it! LOL

As for the remaining part of the Scripture "My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done"

If you did a little then you get a little- if you did alot then you get alot.

For those wondering how I came to the conclusion that we are nearing the end of the 6000 years.... It was a simple case of mathmatics.

If you start with Adam as being born in year one of the Old Testament and count forward to Abraham, you will find that he was born one thousand nine hundred and forty eight years (1948) after Adam. Israel returned to her rightful place in the year 1948. Add the years between Adam and Abraham and then Abraham to Israel's Return and then Israel's Return to right now; this very minute.

But mostly because Elijah said there would be 4000 years until the birth of the Messiah and then 2000 years until destruction and the Messiah's return. I trust Elijah! 

From the creation of Adam to the year of the flood there were 1656 years

From the flood to the "seed" promise made to Abraham there are 427 years

Galatians 3:17 says "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law (meaning the giving of the Ten Commandments), which was four hundred and thirty years after,..." Here we are told that the giving of the Ten Commandments came 430 years after the "seed" promise made to Abraham.

"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."

We are here told that there were 480 years from the Exodus to the 4th year of Solomon when he began "to build the house of the Lord."

With 1 Kings 6:1 providing the bridge to the temple we have now entered the period of the Kings. There are 286 years from Solomon's 4th until the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah.

There are a total of 406 years in the listings of the kings and 601 years from the listing of kings to Jesus Christ.

Thus from Adam to Jesus Christ is 4000 years:

ADAM ---> FLOOD 1656 years

FLOOD ---> ABRAHAM 427 years

ABRAHAM ---> EXODUS 430 years

EXODUS ---> TEMPLE 480 years

TEMPLE ---> NEBUCHADNEZZAR 406 years

NEBUCHADNEZZAR ---> JESUS CHRIST 601 years
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=  4000 years

Since the calendar that we have in existance now wasn't invented until well after Jesus was born - Biblical scholars speculate that Jesus was born somewhere between 4 BC  and  2 AD- in any event when we crossed into the twentieth century- we crossed into the 6000 years between Adam and Jesus's Return.

The Lord said "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." {MAT 24:36 KJV} But notice, the Lord did not say the YEAR could not be known, just the day or the hour. Thus it is not unthinkable or unBiblical to think that the Lord might reveal the year of His return.

If you have the eyes to see. Eh?