When we studied the possible prophetic significance of World War II, we used the following techniques  to determine that it was a prophetic event, so let's apply them again to determine whether or how the State of Israel should be related to the End Times.

• THE JUBILEE CALENDAR
  Since Israel experienced a rebirth  back in the Land of their promised inheritance in 1948, Jubilee years 1945 and 1995 are of particular interest for the purpose of exploring likely timeframes for prophetic events. Since World War II has already been found to be a prophetic event, this alone would seem to raise the likelihood that something related to the State of Israel's rebirth might also prove to be prophetic. 

• THE LEVITICAL CALENDAR
  Israel officially became the "State of Israel" on May 14 (Sivan 15), 1948. This Levitical date had no special prophetic or Biblical significance. 
  
  

• ISRAEL'S REDEMPTIVE TIMELINE
  However, Coming Glory has already determined that the May 14, 1948 birth of the State of Israel was prophetically significant if we consider that date in its relation to the setting up of David's kingdom during Old Testament times: 

The following portion of Israel's Redemptive Timeline is repeated here to show that Israel's 20th century restoration should be related in some way to the Old Testament United Kingdom period.

Notice that this extended Redemptive Timeline causes the State of Israel's creation in the 20th century to be juxtaposed with the initial phases of the Old Testament United Kingdom. During this period Saul reigned for 40 years, then was followed by David and Solomon. Of particular interest is David's Kingdom, because there are many promises in the Old Testament tying his reign to that of Messiah in the Millennial Kingdom to come.

 

David was that most influential and famous of all the Old Testament kings of Israel. To be sure, David had many faults, but he was the man used by God to transition Israel from just a collection of twelve Tribes to a sovereign nation under God, while subduing all of their enemies around. Beyond this, the Bible also credits David with being a man after God's own heart (I Samuel 13.14), and records numerous prophecies that make David prototypical of Messiah, making David's kingdom prototypical of the Messianic one that shall be set up during the End Times. 

The following Psalm was written by David as he appealed to God to protect him against his enemies, but Peter interprets this Psalm in the book of Acts as actually referring to Messiah. Hence this becomes a Messianic Psalm in which David is writing prototypically as a "stand-in" for Messiah, whose death and resurrection would occur more than a thousand years later.

In a second example below, David writes as though he were personally experiencing the pain and suffering that Messiah would experience at the time of His crucifixion.

Not only do these Old Testament scriptures appear to substitute David for Messiah, but the following prophecies continue to draw close parallels between David's kingdom and the Messianic one to occur in the future.

Consequently, the very fact that Israel's Redemptive Timeline causes a portion of David's kingdom to be set against that of the 20th century State of Israel, suggests that events contemporary with modern Israel might be fulfilling provisions leading up to the Millennial Kingdom.

As this relationship between David and Messiah was examined in more detail in Coming Glory, it was discovered that the State of Israel's May 14, 1948 declaration of independence happened to be the very  date that caused all of the subsequent time intervals in its historic timeline to begin and end on  Levitical dates relevant to the End Times.

This extraordinary circumstance bears a close examination, because it suggests that the 20th century State of Israel is following a time schedule patterned after the setting up of the Old Testament Davidic Kingdom, even though it's documented history since 1948 appears superficially to be completely secular and devoid of any prophetic overtones. Nonetheless, the End Times significance of those interim 20th century Levitical dates earmarked in the chart cannot be avoided when they are associated with the following prophetic texts in the Bible.

• The 20th century Levitical date of Chislev 4 happens to be the very same Levitical date in 520 BC when the Old Testament prophet Zechariah was given the details of future events, first leading to Messiah's coming as the Savior, but finally leading to His second coming as King during the Millennial Kingdom (Zechariah 7.1).
  

• That final 20th century Levitical date of Tishri 14 is no less significant, because it marks the advent of Tabernacles, a Levitical feast prophetically earmarked as the occasion when King Messiah will require all of the Gentile nations remaining on earth during the Millennial Kingdom  to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King.

Still another amazing happening was the way in which a series of major world events suddenly became synchronized with the State of Israel's timeline during the years 1988-1995. For those years, it was discovered in Coming Glory that both the State of Israel's timeline and the timing of those major world events were timed on the basis of a 360 day/year calendar system. This characteristic is seen partly from the above table by the fact that starting with Chislev 4, the final seven-years had to be counted on the basis of a 360 day/year system in order to cause the final day of the seventh year to fall on Tishri 14, 1995, at the advent of Tabernacles. Of course, such an unlikely circumstance could be explained if 1988-1995 were being governed by the same system of timing that governed the first 69 Weeks of Daniel's 70 Weeks.

The fact that the State of Israel's timeline can be so organized to highlight a seven-year period whose duration is 360 days/year x 7 years = 2520 days, might seem at first blush to be nothing more than a strategy to manufacture a hypothetical 70th Week of Daniel, if it were not for the fact that major world events related either directly or indirectly to the State of Israel during that same 1988-1995 period were also timed by a 360 day/year calendar system. Of course, if a remnant of the State of Israel is in the process of becoming a part of Millennial Kingdom Israel, there would have to be embedded within its timeline, at an appropriate point, a time interval based on a 360 day calendar to complete Daniel's 70th Week. In keeping with these observations, notice how this particular seven-year period, seems to fulfill several of the requirements that might be expected for Daniel's 70th Week.

• The 1988-1995 seven-year interval was completed in a Jubilee year, a condition anticipated by Bible scholars who have studied the probable characteristics of Daniel's 70th Week.
  

• It was the first such interval of time to be completed in a Jubilee year, following Israel's rebirth.
  

• The Jubilee 1995 year that ended this seven-year period was the one that completed precisely 2000 years since the birth of Jesus Christ.
  
  This makes Jubilee, 1995 the year that officially began the new Millennium according to God's Levitical system.
  

• Jubilee, 1995 was also prophetically earmarked in two other unique ways,

It was the "40th Jubilee" since the birth of Jesus Christ, thereby completing Israel's period of "testing" during the Times of the Gentiles prior to their final redemption.

It was the "60th Jubilee" since David's Old Testament kingdom, thereby completing Israel's kingdoms under men prior to their final Kingdom under God.

• But most important of all, the historic patterns observed within Israel's Redemptive Timeline indicate that this 1988-1995 seven-year period should have corresponded to that seven-year period during the setting up of David's kingdom when he completed his partial reign over Judah, just prior to his complete reign over all of the kingdom of Israel.
  
  This means that this 1988-1995 seven-year interval, defined by the same 360 day calendar used to count the first 69 Weeks of Daniel's 70 Weeks, would have occurred at precisely the correct time to complete Messiah's partial reign over "Israel", just before His reign over the entire Millennial Kingdom.