Revelation 4, and let’s see this one again here. Revelation 4:6, “And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal:...” This one is a sea of glass mingled with fire. An entirely different kind of sea of glass. What’s the difference? I don’t know. Except one says it’s like crystal, and the other one says it’s mingled with fire. Totally different complexion.

“...And them that had gotten the victory over the beast,...” Now how long has the beast system existed? From the beginning. Because the beast is Satan the devil. With the seven heads and ten horns, right? “...Over his image,...” Have there been images unto the beast before? Yes. Yes. So this includes all saints everywhere in all of history, have been resurrected. “...And over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses ... and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints” (Rev. 15:2-3).

I believe that when Christ returns on the sea of glass, number one, we’re going to be resurrected and meet Him in the air. Number two, we are going to be given our holy garments, which is the righteousness of the saints. Number three, we are going to be given our rewards and our assignments. Number four, Jesus Christ is going to be crowned as King, which means there is the possibility that at that time we may briefly see God the Father. Because we would be able to see Him, because we are the sons of God, born of the resurrection. Correct? God the Father, however, will not come back to the earth with Christ. Christ will come down and the Father will not return until the end of the millennium.

The marriage of the Lamb takes place. The marriage supper of the Lamb takes place. We are issued our horses (in case you haven’t been horseback riding lately). We are assembled in our armies, and then, Revelation 19, we come back to the earth on the Feast of Trumpets, being a space of about four months. And then the Beast and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire, as we find here in the chart, right down at the end. And Satan is bound, and the millennium begins. We’re going to reign on the earth. The earth has already had 6,000 years of trouble and turmoil, plus or minus; we discussed a little bit about genealogies last night, how that genealogies are accurate if you know the exact day in the year when the person died. Otherwise, if he dies when he’s 70 years old, was he 70 years and three months? 70 years and six months? 70 years and 11 months? So that’s why you can’t go back and reconstruct an accurate genealogy; therefore, Usher’s chronology of the year 4004 being the year 2004 for us, is not correct.

Now let’s look at some interesting things. Let’s turn the chart over and go to the other side. And this is actually the chart that started both of these charts. And the biggest problem in prophecy - now let me ring my opinion bell here (rings bell). Officially recorded on the tape. The biggest problem in wrong prophecies is that people are trying to figure out when the things begin. But God doesn’t always tell us when something begins, does He? So we have to go on what we know. Now, if you’re starting to read this chart at the top and reading down, you are reading backwards. You must start at the bottom to the right, and we will go backwards. The reason being is, is that we know one thing for sure - the end, whenever it comes, is the end. That we know.

So what I did was, I said, “Ok. The end is the end.” Now you come right down here to the lower right-hand corner, and you see in the little box, “Trumpets Pictures Jesus Christ’s Return.” That is the Feast of Trumpets. It may not be exactly on that precise day, but it’s got to be pretty close to it. You come to the right, where you see that last little block, it says, “Tishri [being the seventh month] first 15 days.” What do we have in the fall festivals? We have immediately three things take place, don’t we? Trumpets, symbolizes the return of Christ; Atonement, picturing putting away Satan, where he is bound; and immediately, the millennium, the Feast of Tabernacles.

So we know that as soon as Satan is bound the millennium begins, or, the Feast of Tabernacles. So we have an ending. What year in history is this ending going to be? We don’t know. So therefore, this whole seven year chart must be worked backwards, without knowing any definite year. What we are describing are the known events within what we understand as the last seven years. We don’t know when the seven years begin; we don’t know when the seven years end. But we know that the end is the end. Correct?

Now let’s see what we can do that is interesting. I also did something a little different. I said this: Why are we so sure that in prophecy a year is 360 days? Other than the fact we were told that it was 360 days, right? There’s no other reason. Nowhere in the Bible does it say, “A year in prophecy is 360 days.” Nowhere. So I said, “What calendar have we been using through the time we’ve been in the church?” The calculated Hebrew calendar. All right, why should I not then use the calculated Hebrew calendar as a guide? It may not be specifically accurate, but to do what we’re doing here it will be sufficiently accurate. So you have to understand that this chart is an approximation. But it’s interesting what happens once you start with that.

Now I also did one other thing. One main feature of the calculated Hebrew calendar is the 19-year time cycle. We’ve heard of that, haven’t we? (Audience comment) Yeah. That is the lunar-solar calendar. Right. The Hebrew calendar. So what I said, “If the end is the end, could it be that it’s also the end of a 19-year time cycle?” I don’t know. But at least, I said, it gives us a point, correct? (Audience comment) The question was asked, what about the Jubilee? I also think that the first, after Satan is bound on the Day of Atonement, begins the Great Jubilee: freedom from debt, freedom from slavery, freedom from sin, freedom from the demons. So that begins the Jubilee. So that answers your question there. Right after Christ returns, the Jubilee begins, liberty for the earth, liberty for everyone. Hey - all the debts are canceled. All the banks are broke. All the buildings have collapsed. All the cities are destroyed. Correct? Yes. You gotta have a Jubilee! (Laughter)

Now, so that’s why I have over here at the last Trumpets, “A Trumpet of Atonement.” By the way, when the Jubilee begins on the Day of Atonement, another trumpet is blown. See? Now, so what I did, I said, “Ok - the Hebrew calculated calendar alternates every month: 29 days, 30 days, 29 days, 30 days, 29.” So you will notice, going across each of these blocks representing one month has 29 or 30, 29, 30, 29, 30. Now you notice “1/30.” Come to the bottom right hand corner and work backwards. That’s what I want you to start on all of this. Bottom right hand corner and work backwards. You see 29, 30, 29, 30, 29, 30. This 30 has “1/30.” That means it’s the first month of the year in the spring. Then you go backwards: 29, 30, 30. The only time you have two 30-days is when there is the 13th month in the leap year of the lunar-solar calendar. Let’s continue: 29, 30, 29, and you come back to the first month of this last year, which then is “7/30,” which is the seventh month, being 30 days.

Now what I did was this. I said, “If it is a 19-year time cycle, let me count back, from the end, seven years.” So what I want you to do, again, start in the lower right hand corner, put your finger on it, and run all the way to the other side of the paper. See where it says, “19th Year Leap Year”? Now, you count back seven years and you go 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, and 13. Now I labeled each year: 19 is a leap year, 13 months. 18 is a common year, 12 months; 17 is a leap year, 13 months; 16, year 16, is a common year, 12 months. And then I give the number days. Because we’re going to count days, correct? Some prophecies are in days, right ? Yes.

Now notice we come all the way back to the beginning of year seven, and what do we have? Year 13. What is 13? Year of rebellion. The great apostasy and rebellion begins in the 13th year. You don’t have it guaranteed, but it’s interesting how it fits. Now let’s do something interesting here, Ok? Again, let’s come down to the lower right hand corner. Let’s come to where it says, “Trumpets Pictures Jesus Christ’s Return.” We already have seen what’s going to happen. The beast and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire when Christ sets His feet on the earth. Correct? So we will go back - that’s why I have the number of days. We will go back - run your finger back on that year, come all the way back a little further, and come up to the middle line. Come up to the middle one, Year 16. And I want you to come over to where it says, “42 months.” You see that? 42 months. You see that little square there which says, “42 months”? Ok. Everybody find it. Notice what I have. “42 months with 30 day variation possible...” Why? Because of the leap years that are there. Because the leap year sequence may be different. So you’ve got to give yourself a little hedge.

“...Beast revived counting from his destruction [backwards] (When [he is] cast into [the] lake of fire).” Now notice something very important. Look at that year in which the Beast revives back to power, when the deadly wound is healed. Notice what time of year that is. Between Passover and Pentecost. Correct? Yes. Now, let’s notice something very interesting, Ok? Now you count from the end going backward to the 1,290 days of Daniel, of cutting off the sacrifices. Right? Yes. See that? Come again to the same year where we found the beast revived. Go to the left where it says, “1/30”, and then the box that is right there which says, “10 Nisan 4 days before Passover...” cuts off the sacrifices; that’s 1,290 days from Trumpets, the sacrifice is cut off. Isn’t that profound?

What day is the 10th of Nisan? That’s the day to select the lambs for the temple Passover, right? Yes. Yes. So the beast comes in and stops the sacrifices, right? Now what are the Jews going to do when he does that just before Passover time? Will they be enraged? Whoo hoo hoo! Ok? I’m going to ring the bell again (rings bell). I believe that the Jews are going to get an assassination party to kill the beast. That’s how he gets his deadly wound. That’s why when he stops the sacrifices here, Nisan 10, shortly after that, he receives his deadly wound but comes back. And then in anger, goes into the temple of God and says, “I am God.” And the false prophet says, “Yea, verily, yea, he is God.”

Now, let’s come down to the lower right hand corner again, and let’s look at some other interesting things as we go along. Let’s come back from the lower right hand corner, and let’s come to the last Pentecost - “Resurrection of the First Fruits.” You see that little box right there? Pentecost, and then right above it “Resurrection of the First Fruits”? That’s on the lower line coming in from the right hand corner to the left. You see that? Ok. Now what I want you to do in looking at this, we will come back just a little bit. Come back to that Passover. Now how am I going to know what time the Passover is? I don’t know. So I said, “Perhaps this will be a midweek Passover.” So that’s why I have, “54 days Based on a Midweek Passover.” You see that right there in that section?

Now let’s do this. From the resurrection of the saints, let’s do a little more counting. Let’s come back, come back, come back, come up to the line where we were with the beast being revived. Come past where Nisan 10 was, and come over here to where you see “[Time, Times, & 1/2 a Time].” See that? Then you see, “1,260 days to Resurrection + 3.5 days.” You see that? That’s when the two witnesses begin. Notice, they begin just before the beast comes in and stops the sacrifices. That would be a proper place for them to begin, right?

Also notice that the 1,260 years coincides very closely to the time, times, and half the time of Revelation 12, where the church, the portion of the church goes to a place of safety. You see that just above there? Because the time, times, and half a time for the church ends when? At the resurrection, correct? Yes. Now, so let’s put these events together. Satan is cast down. Those who go to a place of safety go to a place of safety, and God raises up the two witnesses, almost simultaneous, right in Jerusalem. That makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? That makes a lot of sense.

Now let’s do this. We know - let’s continue right there, and go a little bit to the left. King of the north comes down against the king of the south. Let’s go to the left a little bit more. See the little block with “King of the South”? This is when the king of the south pushes at the king of the north. Now this is only an approximation. Let’s go a little bit further to the left. Notice what I have here: “32 days after Trumpets 1335 days to Resurrection.” Now let me tell you the significance of it here. Let’s go to Daniel 12 for just a minute. Let’s go to Daniel 12. I hope you can follow along with that chart. This is giving us an approximation as to when the events will occur. Remember, a chart is not dogmatic doctrine. But this is an approximation to give us some understanding.

Now let’s come to Daniel 12, the very last part of Daniel 12. Here’s where we get the 1,290 days. The 1,290 days has to do with the cutting off of the sacrifices. So it ends at a different point, and begins at a different point than the 1,235 days. Why? Because the 1,235 days ends at the resurrection. So therefore, it reaches back a little further than we have previously supposed. Now let’s read this. Verse 11, “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days” (Dan. 12:11). 1,290 days.

Then we have something that comes along that looks like it connects. And everyone assumes that the 1,235 days runs parallel and starts at the same time as the 1,290. But they don’t, because they don’t end both at the same time. Here’s verse 12. “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.” What is the blessing? The next verse, verse 13. “But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest [in the grave], and stand in thy lot at the end of the days” (vs. 12-13). What is “standing in the lot?” The resurrection. So this ends on the Pentecost resurrection.

Now let’s look at our chart again. Let’s look at this line right up here, the same line we were on. Come clear over to the left where it says, “32 days after Trumpets 1335 days to Resurrection.” When is 32 days after Trumpets? Is it in the winter? No. Is it in the spring? No. It’s in the fall. Let’s go to Matthew 24. Very interesting, again. It just happens to fall there. Matthew 24. What does it say about fleeing? (Audience comment) Yes. You got it. Matthew 24:20, “But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter,...” There it is. 1,235 days, it’s in the fall, 32 days after Trumpets. Is that when the persecution against the church starts, and then we are taken to a place of safety? I just leave that asa question mark. I cannot dogmatically answer that. Could be. But if that is the case, then the 1,335 days falls in the correct place it should, according to Matthew 24.

Now we’re just about done. We are just about done. Let’s come down here to the next to the last year. See that? Let’s again, go to the right end of the next to the last year and come backwards. I have here the “Sealing of the 144,000 & Great Innumerable Multitude” on Pentecost. And I do believe that the last year harvest, from that Pentecost to the next Pentecost, is going to be the greatest harvest of all. Because God’s direct harvest is going to be greater than the harvest of the church.

Now let’s come on down here to the beginning of the last year. Now I believe that the first trumpet is blown on the Feast of Trumpets. And we know from the layout of Revelation 8 - you see that? Where we have there to the bottom left just below the last year, way over on the left-hand side toward the bottom. You see the first long arrow, “7 Trumpet plagues”? Then below that I break it all down. The first four trumpet plagues come quickly, don’t they? You read Revelation 8: first one, second one, third one, fourth one. Then the fifth one, we are told, lasts five months. You see that there, bottom chart? Bottom of the chart? “5th Trumpet Plague (1st Woe last 5 months).” Notice then, how long it is for the sixth trumpet, or the 2nd Woe. That is one, two, three months, and a little bit more. See that right on the bottom?

Then the seventh trump, the resurrection on Pentecost - the third woe - and then the seven last plagues are poured out, because it takes time for them to be poured out. You read Revelation 16, that they have to go gather the armies to the battle. Correct? That takes some time. You ever tried to move an army? They come. So what I did with this, I said, “This may give us a perspective of how the things will happen, based upon the end, and counting backwards.” Because we’ve never been able to figure out when these things begin. So if we go with what we know and come back, we can get a reasonable approximation, can’t we? Yes we can. So that’s the sum total of this chart, front and back.

Now if you want to take this chart yourself, and if you want to expand it even more, go ahead and do that. Try and plug in some of the other prophecies like Gog and Magog, some other things like that. See how you can put all of this, you know, together. But this is just kind of a guide to give us perhaps an overview on how the things may transpire. And I’ll just repeat at the end: A chart is not dogmatic doctrine.

(Audience comment) Different people have different rewards, depending on when they are resurrected. If you’re in the first resurrection, you receive your reward at the first resurrection. It does not wait until the end of the millennium. No. (Audience comment) We will be at the Great White throne, helping judge those other people. (Audience comment) Yes. Ok.