As of the writing of this blog, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has published its 26th round of the UN’s global population estimates and projections. The report includes forecasts since 1950 for over 235 countries as well as projections from the present until 2100 A.D., depicting a range of possible or plausible outcomes.[i] One of those projections is that the world population will peak at over 10 billion people by the end of the 21st century and that due to multiple predictable factors, the population growth will virtually stop with an annual growth rate of less than 0.1%, a steep decline from the current rate of growth according to the Pew Research Center.[ii] The stunted worldwide growth rate has never happened before in human history, which unexpectedly aligns with the same End Times timeframe that I have found and presented in this blog. In multiple passages in Genesis, God commands man to “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth…” and by all indications, the growth rate has continued to increase ever since the last of these commands were issued after Noah’s Flood, peaking in the 20th Century, regardless of fluctuations in the population size itself due to war, sickness, starvation, or Acts of God, etc. However, the only exception will be when the most substantial population boom in human history runs out and effectively grinds to a halt by the end of the 21st century. If humanity were left to its own devices at that time, the world would likely enter a global population decline according to estimates. I believe that it is no coincidence because it mysteriously serves as a barometer to the same countdown reflected in Daniel’s 2300 Evenings and Mornings Prophecy. As the final chess pieces are moved into place over the next 80-88 years worldwide from the writing of this blog, it is interesting that six countries will account for more than half of the world’s 3.1 billion population growth between 2020 and 2100 A.D. While five of those countries are in Africa (i.e., Nigeria, Congo, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Angola) and one in Asia (i.e., Pakistan), India will overtake China as the most populous country in the next decade. Nigeria will surpass the US as the third-largest country in the world by 2050, but the immigration population in the United States will be the primary driver of its continued population growth.[iii] Revelation 9:16 speaks about an Armageddon Army with the unimaginable size of 200 million soldiers commanded by the Anti-Christ and Beast arrayed against Israel at the end of the Tribulation. I can’t help but think that while the US will be knocked out of that fight before the middle of the Tribulation, a large portion of this apocalyptic army may draw from countries with the mentioned significant population growth. Declining populations in all other parts of the world by the end of this century will drastically change the balance of world power and national security interests into what is prophesied for those times to come, aligned with a 6000-year sand glass timer about to run out at the end of this century by all discovered and decoded indicators.
Six-Millennia Origin
The ancient idea of man’s six-millennia year self-rule starting with Adam and Eve has been taught, debated and contested for virtually the entire time prevailing humanity (i.e., descendants of Adam and Eve) have self-ruled on earth apart from God’s direct engagement. This timeframe is not related to a prophecy from the Bible, but a very long-standing oral history derived from the 6th day of Creation when man was created, signifying man’s 6000-year self-rule apart from God, a timed separation. The Jewish Talmud also records in Tractate Avodah Zarah 9a, “The world will exist for 6000 years.” In an attempt to see if there is any credence to the idea by virtue of calculating dates, I decided to date it using my precision calendar conversion formula, the right start date in the future – the beginning of Christ’s millennial rule, and backdate to the beginning of the cycle to see where I would land on any calendar. In my experience, both dates, start and end, would have to be significant or distinctive to be considered ‘accurate’ once dated.
Several references in the New Testament to the “Last Days” makes a lot more sense when considering each millennium is a day and a day is a millennium as it relates to the time since Creation was completed not the Creation duration itself. If there is truth to each day of Creation symbolizing 1000 years, Jesus’ first Advent to earth happened on the 4th post-Creation day or 4th Millennium. This is not to be confused with the 4thday of Creation. The days of Creation symbolize the set millennial time after the Fall of Adam and Eve or self-rule period in my view. When He referred to the ‘Last Days,’ Jesus more clearly meant the last 2-3 days of the millennial era or the last 2-3 millennium, meaning the rest of the 4th, 5th, and 6th millenniums to come before His next return. Since all ancient prophecies of the Bible were given in a 360-day year, the 6000-year, six-millennia, timeframe that reached back into the same ancient era must also be interpreted in the same mathematical converted timeframe.
Six-Millennia Start-Date
After several unsuccessful attempts, using various tribulation dates I had calculated, I read Daniel 12:9-12, “9 It is time for you to go on your way, Daniel, for the words must be kept secret and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many will keep themselves pure and clean and refined despite the pressures of these times, but those who are wicked will continue their wicked ways and none of them will ever understand. But those who are wise will. 11 From the time when the daily sacrifice is prohibited and the disgusting idol that desecrates the most holy place is put in its place, there will be 1,290 days. 12 Those who remain true to God and reach the end of the 1,335 days are sure to experience God’s blessing. 13 As for you, Daniel, go and be faithful to the end of your life. You will surely rest, but when the end of days arrives, you will rise again to receive the inheritance allotted for you.”
My calculated start to the Tribulation is January 4, 2101 A.D., which is exactly 2 weeks (for the feast) after the dedication of the 3rd Temple in Jerusalem on December 21, 2100 A.D. (i.e. the calculated end of Daniel’s 2300 Evenings & Mornings Prophecy). What makes knowing these Tribulation dates even possible is contained in my blog post, When is the Joel 2:31 Solar Eclipse? July 4, 2103 A.D. The only solar eclipse whose totality occurs directly over Israel in the next 200 years happens to be dated on July 4, 2103 A.D., USA’s Independence Day, by NASA, exactly 2.5 years and 2 weeks after my calculated end date of Daniel’s 2300 Evenings & Mornings Prophecy. Add one more year according to Isaiah 34:8 for “…the Lord’s Day of vengeance, year of retribution to uphold Zion’s cause… and you are exactly 3.5 years into the 7-year Tribulation on July 4, 2104 A.D.
Revelation 18:4 & 8 & 16-17 says, “4 Then I heard another voice from heaven urge, ‘My people, get away from her—fast. Make sure you do not get caught up in her sins. Put some distance between you so that you do not share in her plagues'”. 8Because of this arrogance, in a single day, plagues will overwhelm her. Her portion will be death and sorrow and famine, And she will be incinerated with fire, for mighty is the Lord God who exacts judgment on her.” “16 They will say, ‘Terrible! How terrible for the great city! She was dressed in fine linen {White}; she wore purple {Dark Blue} and scarlet {Red} cloth {i.e. American Flag}. She was shining with gold, jewels, and pearls {Great City Lights, and perhaps Fireworks}! 17 All these riches have been destroyed in one hour!’” These passages suggests the Lord’s Day of vengeance on the new Babylon, which could likely occur at the beginning of the year of retribution on July 4, 2103 A.D. After the beginning of Revelation 19 where the people in Heaven praise God for the destruction of the new Babylon, Revelation 19:7-8 says, “7 Let us rejoice and be happy and give God glory! Give God glory, because the wedding of the Lamb has come. And the Lamb’s bride has made herself ready. 8 Fine linen was given to the bride for her to wear. The linen was bright and clean.” This implies the readiness of the Lamb’s bride, or the Church, who is ready to be raptured or ‘taken up’ AFTER the Lord’s Day of vengeance against the new Babylon, during the year of retribution to uphold Zion’s cause. But when? I believe it is sometime in the Fall of 2103 A.D., likely the end of September or October while the day and hour cannot be known.
Looking back at Daniel 12:11-12, in the precise middle of the Tribulation, July 4, 2104 A.D., the daily sacrifice will be prohibited and an abomination will be placed on the altar of the 3rd Temple in Jerusalem by the New Testament Anti-Christ’s order after taking control of Israel, virtually abandoned by its fallen superpower protector, and desecrating the Temple for the next 1,290 days. 45 days thereafter on day 1,335, it says that those who remained true to God are sure to experience God’s blessing, which is understood as the beginning of the prophetic 1000-year Millennial rule of Christ on Earth in Jerusalem after the Battle of Armageddon described in Revelation 19:11-21. Using a date calculator, 1,335 days counted after July 4, 2104 A.D. is February 29, 2108, Leap Year Day. From my calculations, this is the official end of man’s 6000-year rule.
Six-Millennia Calculations
Since all ancient prophecies of the Bible were given in a 360-day year, the 6000-year timeframe must also be interpreted in the same timeframe. To view in our modern calendar, the following conversion is required.
On a side note, the brilliance of God giving prophetic timeframes (360-day year) that have to be converted to a different timeframe (365.2422-day year) as demonstrated below, offers an incredible, decoded and absolutely precise timing mechanism for reckoning large cycles of time, even down to the second as needed.
- 6000 Prophetic Years X 360-day Year = 2,160,000 days
- 2,160,000/365.2421904 = 5913 tropical years, 322 days, 22 hrs, 19 mins, 57.79 secs
April 12, 3807 B.C. overlaps at twilight with Hebrew date, 1 Nisan (if the Hebrew calendar existed then); of which that day, over time, became 1) the Jewish Commercial New Year, 2) the beginning of Jewish National History, 3) birth of the Israelite Nation 4) the date Moses inaugurated the Hebrew calendar beginning with Nisan as the first month of the year tied to all counting of Jewish religious festivals with the start of the month of the Exodus from Egypt, and 5) the date of Nehemiah’s Decree (which is also the start of Daniel’s 70-Weeks Prophecy that counts to Jesus Christ’s Resurrection) to rebuild the walls in Jerusalem. All Jewish scholars concede that there are errors in the backdated years for the start of the ancient Hebrew calendar (the presumed Creation date/week) prior to Mosaic Egypt and have attempted to reconcile the errors by adding up the ages of the characters in the Torah or years they ruled in order to date ancient Biblical events more accurately towards more modern and reliable dates which have proven to not be entirely reliable. I now believe that by dating to the end of the Tribulation first using Daniel’s prophecies, then backdate roughly 6000 years with my method, you land on a significant date in the Hebrew calendar, the very beginning of the Hebrew New Year’s Day, approximately 45-46 years before the beginning of the Hebrew calendar.
My only explanation for this gap is that I agree that the genesis or beginning of the Hebrew calendar yearly count is truly not accurate from this starting event. The Fall of Adam is more likely the plausible start of the 6000-year cycle (man’s self-rule timeframe) rather than Creation itself, considering how long ago we roughly know when Adam lived on Earth compared to the time we don’t know how long ago it actually took to create the universe within the prophetic seven Days of Creation or how long Adam and Eve were actually in the Garden of Eden. Creation itself could have taken a billion years or an eon per Day of Creation for all we know. Science highly suggests such a timeframe. Adam and Eve would not have been limited by Earthly time until they fell to Earth and took on our physical bodies that are certainly limited by time. Adam’s life on Earth is a much more discreet timeframe that we can manage for this exercise and relates best to the purpose of the timeframe.
My calculated date is not the Creation Date nor the date Hebrew scholars chose to start their calendar. My calculated date is what I think is the actual date Adam and Eve were forced out of the Garden of Eden, thus beginning the era of man’s 6000-year prophetic self-rule that ends on February 29, 2108, Leap Year Day (the one day every 4 years [except each century e.g. X00, excluding millenniums e.g. X000] astronomical timing and our Gregorian calendar are virtually in sync with each other).
King David changed the date when civil years were counted on the calendar from Nisan 1 to Tishri 1 and centuries after Christ, Jewish scholars refined the start date of the Hebrew Calendar. In addition, all Jewish scholars concede that there are errors or missing years in the backdated years to the start of the ancient Hebrew calendar (the presumed Creation Week). Other scholars have attempted to reconcile the errors by adding up the ages of the characters in the Torah or years they ruled to date ancient Biblical events more accurately towards more modern and reliable dates. It has proven not to be entirely reliable. While the incrementing years that we count in calendars may not have started where they should have in history, e.g., Anno Mundi or Anno Domini, more importantly, is that the years were counted correctly since each inception, which my enterprise judges to be as accurate as humanly possible with all known corrections accounted. I now believe that the end date of the Tribulation using Daniel’s Prophecies should first be dated, then secondly backdated roughly 6000 years with my method to arrive at the proper start date of this cycle. My only explanation for this relatively small, 46-year, 0-day time-lapse is that I fully appreciate the incorrect, backdated commencement year of the Anno Mundi (A.M.) Hebrew Calendar, similar to the incorrect backdated commencement year for the Anno Domini (A.D) Calendar associated with the presumed year of the Birth of Christ (i.e., December 25, 1 B.C.)
In my view, the Fall of Adam is more likely the plausible start of the 6000-year cycle (man’s self-rule timeframe) rather than Creation itself or the Creation of Adam and Eve. Considering how long ago we roughly know when Adam lived on Earth, we know with less certainty how long ago it took to create the Universe and our Solar System within the prophetic Week of Creation or even less of how long Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden. Science, not Evolution, highly suggests a very long timeframe since the creation of the Universe, longer than 6,000 years.
While I am not here to argue New Earth vs. Old Earth but better understand the timeframe, I would volunteer a critical argument. Kepler’s observed and recorded supernova over 400 years ago is the earliest object found in the sky where a reliable scientist certified the beginning and the end of that light source, lasting about four years, that today allows us to measure in light-years its distance from the earth. Scientists now confirm that the remnant of Kepler’s supernova is approximately 23,000 light-years away, which means that light started its voyage to earth at least 23,000 years before Kepler saw it, well before 6,000 ‘New Earth’ years. All other well-known planets and stars that are easily seen in the sky since the beginning of time could arguably have always existed before humanity started observing them, no matter if it had been 6,000 or 6,000,000,000 years ago, except Kepler’s supernova among other more recent examples. If radiometric dating of radioactive isotopes is not accurate enough to date the earth according to some, surely the speed of light cannot be challenged to measure the distance of a remnant supernova in space to test the earth’s minimum age? Kepler didn’t have an ax to grind in today’s world, and if scientists today can determine the distance of the Sun, Moon, and Mars to send spacecraft to them, surely, they can be trusted to measure the distance to Kepler’s star for the sake of historical record.
Turning back to my point that this 6,000-year doomsday countdown couldn’t start at Creation, it likely began with the Fall of Adam and Eve. When Adam and Eve were in the Spirit realm of the Garden of Eden, they would not have been bound by earthly time until they sinned and ‘fell’ to earth, taking on our physical bodies that are subjected to our experience relative to the animation of time. Adam’s life on earth is a much more discreet timeframe that we can manage for this exercise and relates best to the purpose of the overall timeframe’s theme, Adam’s self-rule era.
In summary, my calculated date, Nisan 1, -46 A.M. or April 12, 3807 (i.e. nightfall April 11th) is not the Universe’s Big Bang date, Adam or Eve’s Creation date, nor the date Hebrew scholars chose to backdate their Hebrew calendar. While I do not disregard that Adam and Eve may have been created on the same day, Tishri 1, according to Hebrew scholars, I would disagree with their Creation year(s) as it cannot be known with certainty and cannot fall after my calculated Fall from the Garden of Eden date in my view which starts this timeframe. My calculations demonstrate that the end of man’s 6000-year prophetic self-rule, which surprisingly ends on February 29, 2108 A.D., also known as Leap Year Day, started on Nisan 1, 3807 B.C. It is peculiar that we leap almost 6000 years to the past from a day that is related to the administration of astronomical synchronization with our Gentile calendar to a day that is pinnacle to the administrative start date of the original religious festival, Nisan-Years, Hebrew calendar created by Moses, ending our reckoning journey where it all began with this blog, on the new moon of Nisan 1.
Six-Millennia Calculation Summary
February 29, 2108 A.D.
(Leap Year Day, Start of Christ’s 7th Millennial Rule)
– (minus)
5913 tropical years, 322 days, 22 h, 19m, 57.79s
(6000 Prophetic Years or 5913.884154511285 Solar Years)
=
April 12, 3807 B.C.
(Nightfall April 11th)
OR
Nisan 1, -46 A.M.
(46 years, 0 Days Before the Start of the Hebrew Calendar on the New Year’s Day)
References
[i] “Growing at a slower pace, world population is expected to reach 9/7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100.” United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2019, https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world-population-prospects-2019.html.
[ii] Cilluffo, Anthony and Ruiz, Neil G. “World’s population is projected to nearly stop growing by the end of the century.” Pew Research Center, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/
[iii] Cilluffo, Anthony and Ruiz, Neil G. “World’s population is projected to nearly stop growing by the end of the century.” Pew Research Center, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/
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