A PROPHETIC BIBICAL GENERATION AND THE END OF THE AGE

 

Yahweh appears to work prophetically in 100 year time frames. This equals two complete Jubilee periods of 50 years. A person could live 100 years and experience two complete Jubilee cycles, but no person in modern times has lived for 150 years. A close reading of scripture seems to confirm that Yahweh is moving prophetically in segments of 100 years.

 

Currently on Yahweh’s calendar we are in the year 5778 since the creation of Adam. The fall feasts have moved us in to year 5778 on Yahweh’s calendar. The prophetic calendar is based on the biblical genealogies since the creation of Adam until the present day. It is possible that in the past generations the rabbis have changed the calendar for various reasons anywhere from 75 to 200 years. I have seen writings about this but have not yet been able to confirm it.

 

In any event, we are living in prophetic times. Working in 100 year segments can help us understand how Yahweh views the time frame of a human generation. Very few people live past one hundred years. Each fresh hundred year period is then the beginning of a new generation. Israel as we know it today officially became a nation in 1948. This may have significant meaning based on a generation being 100 years!

 

Genesis 15:12-16 (King James Version)

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. and he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. The Israelites came out of Egypt 430 years to the date. This was during the time of the fourth generation (hundred years each).

 

Genesis 17:1, 17, 21

1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

21 But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.”

God is starting a new generation with Isaac when Abraham was 100 years old, welcome to the new generation.

 

Genesis 5:32 (New King James Version) - And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 7:6-7 (New King James Version)

Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. Before the flood the last generation of earth was 100 years old, these being Noah's children born when Noah was 500 years old. When they (Noah's children ) came out of the ark a new generation would be born. The children of Noah's children. The beginning of the next generation.

 

Genesis 15:16

Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” The Lord was telling Abraham that after 400 years (four generations) they would leave Egypt.

 

THE FIG TREE IS ISRAEL

Hosea 9:10 - I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first fruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, and separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

 

Jeremiah 24:1-9 The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah…One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”…Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans…‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the LORD—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. I will deliver them to trouble….

 

Matthew 24:36-39 (New King James Version)
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

 

Summary

The word of God establishes a prophetic generation as 100 years. The coming of the Lord will be as the days of Noah. The word establishes Israel as the fig tree. Israel was established in 1948. Is the Lord coming in that generation? I am not saying the Lord is coming in 2048. He could come at anytime during that generation which could be many years later. What I am saying is that we are living in the time of the end of the age. “No man knows the day.” The Lord, however, did tell us to watch and pray.

 

Matthew 24:32-34 (New King James Version)

The Parable of the Fig Tree

“Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.

 

Here are some interesting thoughts from pastor Mark Biltz in his latest newsletter:

 

It is the Hebrew year 5778 and we know the number 8 speaks of new beginnings. In another few months we will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of Israel becoming a nation! On the Gregorian calendar it was on May 5th 1948 and on the Biblical calendar it was on the 5th of Iyar. In 2018 the 5th of Iyar is on April 20th so that is when they will be celebrating it in Israel.

 

We know from Ecclesiastes 3 that God has a purpose and a time for everything! We need to be on God's calendar having an understanding of Israel who is God's timepiece. We want to be as the tribe of Issachar who had an understanding of the times so they knew what to do according to God's calendar. We do not want to be like the religious leaders who Yeshua rebuked in Luke 12 that did not know how to interpret the times they were living in.

 

We know from Luke 17 that the time before Messiahs coming will be as in the days of Lot. Lot represents the leaders of the clueless church. Whereas Abraham represents the remnant which God informs ahead of time about what is coming. During Lot's generation society was judged because of sexual immorality - look at what is happening today!

 

Luke 17 also tells us those days will also be as the days of Noah. Well, Genesis 6 tells us during Noah's life the world was filled with violence which sure sounds like our day! Look at all the violence happening around the world.

 

Luke 21 also tells us there will also be signs in the sun, moon and stars of which there have been plenty! Earthquakes will abound as well as plagues, hurricanes and the distress of nations.

 

Matthew 24 tells us ethnic group will rise against ethnic group and there will be wars and rumors of wars. Most significantly it speaks of the blossoming of the fig tree referring to Israel becoming a nation! Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the retaking of Jerusalem is also highly significant as well. We are definitely in the birth pangs before the coming of the Messiah. The bible says the generation that sees all these events will not pass till the Messiah comes. We are that generation! Israel was to be God's timepiece.

 

Many wonder how long a generation is. Let's look at the different possibilities and let's see where we land. Noah's generation was given 120 years and this year was the 120th year of the first Zionist congress in 1897. In Genesis 15 we are told that a generation is 100 years. Well, it has been 100 years this year from the Balfour Declaration proclaiming there should be a nation of Israel. What about 70 yrs as Psalms 90 implies that is how long a generation is. Well, 70 yrs ago Israel became a nation!

 

What about 50 yrs as that is how long the Jubilee cycle is. Well, as mentioned earlier we are celebrating the jubilee anniversary of the retaking of Jerusalem! No matter how you cut it whether it is 120, 100, 70, 50 everything lines up to by the end of this next year we are closing the doors on the definition of a generation.

 

It has been mentioned in publications that our current President is similar to the ancient King Cyrus.

Interestingly you will discover Cyrus died at 70 yrs old and our President took office at 70 yrs old picking up the baton where it was left off. Also he is our 45th president and look at Isaiah 45:1

 

 "Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:"

 

Amazingly Cyrus is mentioned by name here prophetically as he was not born until over a hundred years later!

We know all about fake news, the Nations being upset because of the Jewish building expansion of the city of Jerusalem, and moving our embassy to Jerusalem. We also, have all heard of the "Deep State" well, with all this in mind check out the verses just before, in Isaiah 44.

 

Isaiah 44:24-28 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself; who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;' and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,' and 'I will raise up its waste places;' who says to the Deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;' Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;' and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"