Check the links in the left-hand portion of the chart to verify the dates developed earlier in the previous Topic on the "Bible's Prophetic Timeline", then notice that the May 14, 1948 creation of the State of Israel initiated a timeline identical with that Old Testament timeline for the setting up of David's Kingdom. This extraordinary circumstance is no coincidence, because prophetic Scriptures like (Psalms 16, 22) treat David as the human prototype of Messiah, and only he was given the promise that the Messianic Kingdom would be the culmination of his Kingdom. Accordingly, the above chart shows that the promised Millennial Kingdom is presently fulfilling the Davidic Kingdom, and is being implemented through the modern-day State of Israel!

While Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives a few days before His crucifixion, the disciples marveled at the grandeur of the Temple, but He predicted that it would be totally destroyed. Amazed by such a remark, they asked Him about His future coming and the end of the age. He then spoke of a series of events leading to an "Abomination of Desolation" and "Great Tribulation", finally culminating with His apocalyptic return. This Olivet Discourse is found in all three of the Synoptic Gospels, i.e. (Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21).

Although there has been much speculation about the details of those predictions, the chronological harmony among the three accounts allows us to definitely place both the "Abomination of Desolation", and the "Great Tribulation" within the Times of the Gentiles. This is apparent from the fact that all three accounts describe the same apocalyptic event just prior to His coming, but (Luke 21.24) adds that the Times of the Gentiles will continue right up to that final apocalyptic event. Since all three Gospels place both the "Abomination of Desolation", and "Great Tribulation" prior to that final Apocalypse, it follows that both must occur during the Times of the Gentiles. 

Of course, this observation only restricts those events to have occurred within a period of almost 2000 years. Indeed, some students of the Bible have placed their complete fulfillment in AD 70, when the Roman army desecrated the Temple. However, (Daniel 11.36-12.1) provides decisive additional information, for it associates that time of "Jacob's trouble" with a military campaign, to be conducted by a "willful king" during the "time of the end". If someone had overlaid that military campaign described in Daniel with the one undertaken by Adolph Hitler during World War II, he would have discovered a very surprising correlation.

The timeline at the beginning of this Topic showed that a final seven-year period beginning on Chislev 4, 1988 had to be counted on the basis of a 360-day Calendar in order to have it agree with the setting up of David's Old Testament kingdom. Amazingly, all of the major events in the world with any relevance to the State of Israel also began to be timed prophetically in that way following that Chislev 4, 1988 date! This may be confirmed by reviewing the following historic records for major world events during the years 1988-1995. 

During the first half of 1989, there was much political unrest concerning human rights in the Communist nations of Poland and Hungary. In January, 1989, the Communist Party agreed to talks with the Solidarity Trade Union. This was followed three months later by the government's agreement to reinstate the Union's legal status, leading to Poland's first free election on June 4. In May, 1989, Janos Kadar, Hungary's Communist leader for more than 32 years was forced to step down and was replaced by Karoly Nemeth, a more democratically oriented Prime Minister.

However, the real explosion that brought about the complete downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe occurred on October 18, when Erich Honecker, the Communist Party leader and head of state of East Germany was forced to step down. As East German Communists were stripped of their power, the other Communist governments in Eastern Europe also began to crumble. It was Bulgaria on November 10, Czechoslovakia on November 14, and finally Romania on December 22, when Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was driven from power and killed in a bloody revolt.

Now track these dates just set down as they appear when compared against a prophetic Levitical Calendar for the fall of 1989.

1. October 18, 1989, fell on Tishri 19 during the Feast of Tabernacles.

2. Chislev 24 fell on December 22, 1989. This Levitical date was the advent of Hanukkah when the cleansing and rededication of the Old Testament Temple was celebrated.

3. Chislev 24 was also the date on which the Old Testament prophet Haggai prophesied concerning an End Times overthrow of Gentile kingdoms from within. (Haggai 2.20)

4. 1989 completed just "70" years for worldwide Communism which began in 1919, and prophetically is the number for judgement. 

Thus, the countries in Eastern Europe who had hosted the concentration camps for the massacre of six million Jews, and then taken atheistic forms of government, suffered this first political "earthquake".

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During the early months of 1990, there were demonstrations by the Palestinians inside Israel over the future of Jerusalem. In March, President George Bush stated that Jerusalem was an "occupied city", declaring that there should be no new Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. Starting in April, Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, displayed his intense hatred for Israel by initiating a verbal attack against them. As the clouds of war in the Middle East gathered, Arab leaders convened in Baghdad in July to discuss the looming crisis, expressing their unanimous hatred against Israel. Muammar Qadhafi threatened to turn Israel "into a graveyard of Jews"; Jordan linked itself militarily with Iraq; and Yassir Arafat promised to join Saddam Hussein against Israel in the event of war.

On August 2, 1990, Iraq suddenly invaded Kuwait, occupying that small nation within 24 hours. Although the imminent military threat against the Saudi Arabian oil fields temporarily obscured the Palestinian problem, it created the distinct possibility for a direct Iraqi attack upon Israel.

In November, the United Nations sanctioned the use of military force against Iraq, but not to begin before January 15, 1991. Just one day later on January 16, U.N. coalition forces led by the United States began aerial attacks against Iraq. The bombardment was so intense that they quickly gained air superiority and were able to destroy Iraq's command/control and primary targets at will.

On February 23, 1991, Iraq's ground army was sufficiently depleted and disorganized to enable a U.N. coalition ground attack against Iraq's elite front line "Republican Guard" troops. The ground portion of the war lasted only four days, and was concluded on February 27, 1991 with Iraq's total defeat.

Now notice what happens when the key dates for this Persian Gulf conflict are likewise overlaid with the prophetic Levitical and 360-day Calendars.

1. The August 2 invasion of Kuwait occurred precisely 210 days = "7" (30 day) months prior to Adar 13 (Purim), 1991. "7" is the prophetic number for something that is complete or perfect, usually signifying that which is of God, and the 210 days conforms only to a 360-day Calendar. Of course, Purim is one of the key holy convocation dates in the Levitical calendar.

2. The aerial portion of the war lasted precisely 6 weeks = 1/30 of a "time, times, and half a time", thereby again conforming only to a 360-day Calendar.

3. The subsequent 4-day ground war ended on Adar 13 (Purim), an Intertestament memorial date set up during the Old Testament time of Esther. This date has been observed among the Jews in all successive generations to remember the occasion when Gentile enemies of the Jews had the tables turned and were themselves humiliated.

Therefore, the Islamic nation of Iraq, seething with hatred for Israel, firing Scud Missiles indiscriminately into Israel's populated centers, were themselves militarily destroyed and publicly humiliated in the eyes of the world.

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Mikhail Gorbachev had orchestrated for himself a brilliant rise through the ranks of the Soviet Communist bureaucracy. His down-to-earth westernized approach and reform mentality over six years as head of the Soviet Union had endeared him to many outsiders in the Western world. However, it was all a facade, masking manifold internal problems within that corrupt and decaying empire.

As popular disenchantment with the unworkable Communist society continued to rise, a group of traditional hard-line Communist leaders decided something must be done to reset the clock. On August 18, 1991, they launched a coup, attempting to depose Gorbachev and others who were moving the Soviet Union toward a more free market economy.

However the coup backfired, for it became the catalyst that quickly precipitated the death knell for the entire Soviet empire. The coup ended on August 21 after just four days, but when Gorbachev returned from his Crimea villa where he had been forcibly detained, he witnessed the uncontrollable disintegration of the Soviet central government, and emergence of Boris Yeltsin as chief power-broker. Between August 23 and August 31, the Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Moldavia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Kirghizia had all declared their independence, Georgia having already seceded on August 9.

During the remainder of 1991, unsuccessful attempts were made to save the Soviet Union from total disintegration, but its fate was finally sealed on December 1, 1991, and the following week, when the Ukraine and several Slavic republics of Russia declared the Soviet Union officially "dead".

In a final "death rattle", a move was made to form a new "Commonwealth of Independent States" (CIS), but that confederation turned out to be stillborn, when the first CIS Summit meeting ended on March 21, 1992 without achieving a single one of its chief agenda items.

Once again, the conversion of the above key dates and time intervals to their Levitical and 360-day counterparts for the disintegration of the Soviet Union, is very revealing.

1. It was reported that then President Bush quipped, "What's this thing with August", when he heard of the August collapse of the Soviet Union, following roughly a year after the August Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Undoubtedly, he would have been even more perplexed had he realized that what was only approximate in our Gentile calendar, was actually timed with the utmost precision in the 360-day Calendar, for that August 22 date following the failed coup also began another 210 days = "7" (30 day) months, compatible only with the prophetic 360-day Calendar, and completed on Purim, 1992!

2. The December 1, 1991 date when the Soviet Union was declared officially "dead" also fell on Chislev 24, that prophesied End Times Levitical date given in (Haggai 2.22) for the overthrow of Gentile kingdoms from within. Of course, the other Russian signatories of that declaration did so during Hanukkah week, the celebration time for the cleansing and rededication of the "Temple".

3. That failed CIS Summit concluded on Purim, 1992, again the time designated when Gentile enemies of the Jews have the tables turned and are themselves humiliated.

Thus a once mighty empire, always an archenemy of Israel, and founded on the ideology that there is no God, came to an ignoble and humiliating demise from which they have not recovered to this day.

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On October 7, 1992, the State of Israel indicated for the first time that it would accept participation by Palestinians from outside the occupied territories in regional Mideast Peace talks. That step indicated diplomatically that Israel was ready to relax its no-compromise-stance on the Land, suggesting that the "occupied regions" might become negotiable at some future time.

Israel's October 7, 1992, initial acceptance of extra-Palestinian involvement in regional Mideast Peace talks fell on Tishri 10 (Atonement). This is Israel's most holy Levitical date, and the one when Jews are supposed to consider their actions, repent of sins, and seek God's forgiveness.

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On August 30, 1993, less than a year later, Israel's Cabinet endorsed a Palestinian take-over of the West Bank within six months from that date. Hence Israel agreed to end occupation of that territory which had been acquired during the 1967 Six-Day war. Although the West Bank is part of Israel's Biblical heritage, comprising the Old Testament regions of Judea and Samaria, the violent 5½ year Intifada uprising had convinced many Jews they were better off without those territories.

This decision came after 100 years of conflict between Palestinians and Jews in the Land, and was heralded as both astonishing and hopeful in the eyes of the entire world. President Clinton extolled its virtue and arranged the official signing of Phase I of the Israeli/PLO peace Accord at the White House on September 13, 1993.

However, the high optimism quickly began to wane when acts of Islamic terrorism increased dramatically after September 29. Israeli settlers in the West Bank banded together against the Peace Accord as the PLO leadership, paying lip-service to the Accord, still refused to formally renounce a basic tenant of their charter to totally eradicate the State of Israel from all of "Palestine".

The Peace Process struggled on without agreement until February 25, 1994, when disaster struck. Baruch Goldstein, a Hebron Jewish settler armed with a rifle and hand grenades, entered Abraham's Mosque during special Islamic prayer services, and massacred 30 to 40 worshippers in cold blood. For a time, it appeared the Peace Process might die, but the heinous deed curiously produced an opposite effect over the following weeks. It drove Israel, amid a torrent of Palestinian outrage and terror, to finally sign Phase I of the land-for-peace trade on May 4, 1994. This date was to begin a six-year Peace Process intended to conclude all the provisions of the Peace Accord.

Through the remainder of 1994 and into 1995, the Peace Process moved toward Phase II of the plan, calling for Israel's pull out from seven cities and 450 villages in the West Bank. Phase II was finally negotiated on September 25, 1995. Then, on November 4, 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the chief visionary and architect of the original Accord was assassinated by a Jewish zealot. Although the Phase II transfer of land continued under his successor, a series of Hamas terrorist raids against Jerusalem and Tel Aviv before Passover, 1996, brought the Peace Process to a halt, and seriously weakened newly installed Prime Minister Shimon Peres' defense of the Accord. When new Israeli elections were later held in May, 1996, the Lukud party defeated the Peres Labor party by a slim margin. Newly elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a hard line against the basic Land-for-peace provision of the Peace Accord, thereby stalling the Peace Process until the fall of 1998. Then on October 22, following a week of negotiations at Wye, Maryland, this U.S. hosted attempt to jump-start the Peace Process boasted a new signed agreement to continue the trading of Land-for-peace. However, the Likud's willingness to sign the agreement was criticized by many Israelis as a major policy reversal, forcing new elections to be held in May, 1999, as the saga of the Peace Process continued.

This epic series of events in the history of 20^th century State of Israel was quite different from the previous ones cited above, for it involved voluntary and unilateral actions by Israel itself rather than political upheavals within and between Gentile nations. These differences are seen to be reflected in the specific Levitical dates and time intervals that come to play when the prophetic Levitical and 360-day Calendars are overlaid upon this event.

1. Israel's August 30, 1993 endorsement of Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank region began exactly 180 days = "6" (30 day) months prior to Adar 14 (Purim), 1994. Unlike the earlier "7" month periods that signify "completion or perfection", the number "6" signifies something more sinister, for it is the number of man or Satan.

2. Acts of terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists immediately followed September 29, 1993, i.e. Tishri 14, at the advent of Tabernacles. This date also initiated a period of exactly 150 days = "5" (30 day) months prior to that Adar 14 (Purim), 1994. The number "5" typically signifies "grace", so that interval should represent a time of grace to precede what follows.

3. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron Israeli settler, massacred the Islamic worshippers in Abraham's Mosque on February 25, 1994 which fell on that Adar 14 (Purim), 1994.

4. After the signing of Phase I of the Peace Accord on May 4, 1994, negotiations continued until Tishri 1 (Trumpets), 1995, on which date Israel finally agreed to pull out of about 27% of the Land in the West Bank and Gaza.

5. In Jubilee year, 1995, Tishri 10 (Atonement) fell exactly 180 days = "6" (30 day) months prior to Nisan 13, 1996. Nisan 13 was the Old Testament Levitical date when wicked Haman secured a decree from Ahasuerus during the time of Esther to have all Jews killed and their possessions plundered.

6. Yitzhak Rabin was then assassinated on the following November 4, Jubilee year 1995, again exactly 150 days = "5' (30 day) months prior to that above Nisan 13, 1996 date.

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This Topic concerning "Modern-Day Israel" has presented an abundance of historic evidence to show that the State of Israel is being used as God's "Timepiece" to usher in His Kingdom, and that the countdown toward that Kingdom began with World War II. However, it still leaves unanswered questions, such as,

• Why did born-from-above Christians remain on earth following the arrival of Daniel's 70th Week?

• Why did the Lord not return at the completion of Daniel's 70th Week?

• How can the book of Revelation substantiate these results?

(Topic IV)

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