TIMELINE TROUBLES
There is a potential problem with the timeline as I have presented it. Even though I have had the same basic outline in my head for many months, this problem did not become clear to me until I sat down and diagramed the timeline the other day.
The problem basically concerns the timing of the events surrounding the 'resurrection' of the Two Witnesses, the 'sign of the Son of Man' given in Maatthew 24, the signs in the heavens of Matthew 24, the Earthquake following the resurrection of the Two Witnesses, and the seventh trumpet which signals the first resurrection and the gathering of the elect.
I believe strongly in the precision and accuracy of the word of God. However, believing in that accuracy leads me to believe that the position outlined in the recently posted timeline contains an error.
I have been saying for months that from the time the final 'Abomination of Desolation' is placed until the sounding of the seventh trumpet is 1260 days. I have been equating that time period with the time that the bodies of the Two Witnesses lie dead in the street.
The problem is, IF they lie dead for the entire 1260 days, and they are not resurrected until AFTER that 1260 days as the text states, and IF their resurrection, being taken to heaven, and the earthquake of Revelation 11 are not until AFTER 1260 days, and IF all this takes place within the SIXTH trumpet as is clearly stated, and IF I have been correct that the time from the placing of the abomination of desolation to the seventh trumpet is 1260 days.....
THEN the only tenable position would be to claim that ALL these things... the resurrection of the witnesses, the earthquake, the sign of the Son of Man, the seventh trumpet etc ALL MUST HAPPEN IN RAPID SUCCESSION ON DAY1261.
As much as I hate to mess up my pretty charts, I do not feel that such a position is likely or even possible. Could these events follow each other rapidly? Yes. But could they take place on the VERY SAME DAY? To me that seems highly unlikely. We are told that the seventh trumpet follows quickly after the second woe of the sixth trumpet is past - but to say that 'quickly' means 'the very same day' I think it straining the language.
We are told that a great earthquake in which a tenth of the great city falls takes place 'the same hour' that the two witnesses are resurrected. I take this to mean that one European nation will fall. Can that happen within one 24 hour period? I suppose it COULD, but is the scenario likely? NO. If we interpret time in the same manner as we do elsewhere in Revelation, that one day=one year, then one hour is 1/24th of a year or 15 DAYS. Could a nation fall in 15 days? Yes, that is a resonable scenario. The problem is then that this pushes the seventh trumpet to at least day 1275, NOT 1260.
As I said, I believe strongly enough in the accuracy and precision of the language of scripture that I have to admit that something in my timeline contains an error.
I believe that I have however found a solution to this error, but it will take me a while to detail it. I will post it here once the details are worked out. In the mean time I simply wanted to point out what I beleive to be a problem.
--David
There is a potential problem with the timeline as I have presented it. Even though I have had the same basic outline in my head for many months, this problem did not become clear to me until I sat down and diagramed the timeline the other day.
The problem basically concerns the timing of the events surrounding the 'resurrection' of the Two Witnesses, the 'sign of the Son of Man' given in Maatthew 24, the signs in the heavens of Matthew 24, the Earthquake following the resurrection of the Two Witnesses, and the seventh trumpet which signals the first resurrection and the gathering of the elect.
I believe strongly in the precision and accuracy of the word of God. However, believing in that accuracy leads me to believe that the position outlined in the recently posted timeline contains an error.
I have been saying for months that from the time the final 'Abomination of Desolation' is placed until the sounding of the seventh trumpet is 1260 days. I have been equating that time period with the time that the bodies of the Two Witnesses lie dead in the street.
The problem is, IF they lie dead for the entire 1260 days, and they are not resurrected until AFTER that 1260 days as the text states, and IF their resurrection, being taken to heaven, and the earthquake of Revelation 11 are not until AFTER 1260 days, and IF all this takes place within the SIXTH trumpet as is clearly stated, and IF I have been correct that the time from the placing of the abomination of desolation to the seventh trumpet is 1260 days.....
THEN the only tenable position would be to claim that ALL these things... the resurrection of the witnesses, the earthquake, the sign of the Son of Man, the seventh trumpet etc ALL MUST HAPPEN IN RAPID SUCCESSION ON DAY1261.
As much as I hate to mess up my pretty charts, I do not feel that such a position is likely or even possible. Could these events follow each other rapidly? Yes. But could they take place on the VERY SAME DAY? To me that seems highly unlikely. We are told that the seventh trumpet follows quickly after the second woe of the sixth trumpet is past - but to say that 'quickly' means 'the very same day' I think it straining the language.
We are told that a great earthquake in which a tenth of the great city falls takes place 'the same hour' that the two witnesses are resurrected. I take this to mean that one European nation will fall. Can that happen within one 24 hour period? I suppose it COULD, but is the scenario likely? NO. If we interpret time in the same manner as we do elsewhere in Revelation, that one day=one year, then one hour is 1/24th of a year or 15 DAYS. Could a nation fall in 15 days? Yes, that is a resonable scenario. The problem is then that this pushes the seventh trumpet to at least day 1275, NOT 1260.
As I said, I believe strongly enough in the accuracy and precision of the language of scripture that I have to admit that something in my timeline contains an error.
I believe that I have however found a solution to this error, but it will take me a while to detail it. I will post it here once the details are worked out. In the mean time I simply wanted to point out what I beleive to be a problem.
--David
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