Global SITREP A8-23: Defining A Brief Window of Time

16 March 2023: A brief window of time remains before Israel enters its prophetic 70th Week of Years, also known as the Time of Jacob's Trouble. Foreshadowing's of the catastrophic nature are common fare these days just about everywhere one looks in the world, but their true and time-honored source is found only in the prophetic Scriptures inspired by the Lord since ancient times. 

None of those Scriptures surpasses what the Lord Jesus Christ foretold about those coming days in His Discourse on the Mount of Olives. Yet those prophetic Scriptures serve also to amplify and place full color as well as texture into the overall prophetic picture. It is within this framework that the brief window of time for Israel can be discerned. The artistic image above illustrates a key snapshot of that time wherein Israel constructs the Third Temple. Between now and then constitutes that window because shortly thereafter the Abomination of Desolation occurs within the Holy Place of the Temple. It's all down-hill from there.

In recent comments of the previous SITREP we briefly touched upon the text of the so-called minor prophet Hosea. Eschatology Today believes there is nothing minor about what Hosea, whose name means Salvation, prophesied in the first two verses of the 6th chapter. (Hosea 6:1-2 KJV)

Come, and let us return to the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up.

After two days He will revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.

Consistent with with Dispensationalist theology, the "two days" refers to two thousand years of time as we understand it. In that those two days immediately precede the 70th Week of Years, and being prophetic years in and of themselves, there is no reason not to assess that they are of the same duration of each year of the 70th Week, that is 360 days each vice 365 days per our calendar. It would follow then that 2,000 years of 360 days each is considerably shorter than modern calendar convention would allow.  10,000 days, or 333 months shorter in total. "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only." At the door, indeed!

Hosea beseeches Israel prophetically to return to the Lord, that through their history of failure to observe the Law handed down Israel has been torn, but God will heal that tear; Israel has been smitten, but God will bind up those wounds. And this healing and binding revival of Israel will take place "After two days!" 

We all know from Gabriel's prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Daniel 9:24-27) that the 69th Week of the 70 Weeks concluded with the Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the year 2023 AD it seems immaterial if this key event in human history occurred in 30 AD or 33 AD as the theologians continue to argue, this is due to the fact that the literal "two days" of Hosea 6:2 have already elapsed; they are history, and we are living most assuredly in the "After" part of those two days.

The "After two days" is the brief window of time wherein we also know, and have witnessed in this current generation, the reestablishment of Israel in the Land, even through all of the times of trouble and repeated wars, and now even rumors of "civil war" within Israel. Ignore the rumors and instead look again to the prophecy of Isaiah 11:11-14; verses 13 and 14 in particular. Within this brief window of time exists the flood of prophetic fulfillments (falling dominoes) we've discussed here over the past 14 years.

Marana'tha!