We now want to focus our attention upon the likely time of year that the events connected to the Second Coming and start of the Millenium will occur. We have a major clue in the observation that, during His First Coming, Jesus fulfilled the Jewish biblical spring festivals on the very day they occurred. The prophetic calendar is outlined in Leviticus chapter 23. Further details on the Feasts and Festivals may be found in the book The Feasts of the Lord, God’s Prophetic Calendar from Calvary to the Kingdom by Kevin Howard and Marvin Rosenthal.[1]
In our society, the academic year starts annually in September/October each year. We also have a tax year starting 6 April and, of course, we have a calendar year starting 1 January. Likewise, Israel also followed various sets of annual calendars, including the civil,[2] the religious and the agricultural year. The Shemitah cycle years commenced at the Feast of Trumpets, whilst the Jubilee year started at the Day of Atonement, as we have already mentioned. This was the civil year. Israel’s religious year started by remembering how the LORD miraculously delivered His people from slavery in Egypt.[3] Speaking of the month of the celebration of Passover each spring, God said to Moses, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.”[4] There was also the agricultural year, which ended at the Feast of Ingathering, after the bringing in of the final harvest.[5] Ingathering refers to Succoth (Booths or Tabernacles)...
[1] Published by Thomas Nelson in 1997
[2] It is generally reckoned that when Judah returned from Babylonia, the civil calendar was adopted following the Babylonian start to the agricultural year in the autumn
[3] The Real New Year According to the Bible, oneforisrael.org
[4] Exodus 12:2
[5] Exodus 23:16, 34:22
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®.