We waited for the blood moon predictions, and nothing happened!
And guess what? A batch of new books are now appearing. They are making
new predictions based on their false projections of the Jubilee year. Will futurist end-timers ever learn? It is such a pity, because the Jubilee (and Shemitah) are a powerful countdown to the first appearing of Jesus Messiah.
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Well, you'll always have those who want to make money off of books, I guess. But that said, I always claimed that the tetrad was not that of Joel or anything apocalyptic like that, but just an astronomical wake-up call. In recent history, the the tetrads occurred near the time of the birth of the nation of Israel and then the next set the taking of Jerusalem. I thought that these in '14-'15 may have to do with the temple, and indeed, I've never heard so much temple news in my life, but the makings of it is still behind the scenes. It is yet hidden. Sometimes playing with these future dates is like a time machine. 1979 was another year in question. One of the weirdest years of my life like a fundamental change was going to happen. Oh yes, it did, but behind the scenes making the modern world today. Meanwhile, 1979, much like temple mount news, is not seen by the mainline media much until it's in one's face later, but the makings of it is earlier, and 2014 and 2015 were those years for the temple.
The tetrad DID do one thing, however, it made people aware of the biblical calendar like never before. Even Gentile ministries on the Gregorian calendar started teaching the significance of the bible calendar. That said, nobody can seem to agree, however, just what that calendar was. The Church of God'ers over here say to use what the Jews do as "God's sacred calendar" and the Sacred Namer's over there use another but visualization, yet another count Pentecost from a different Sabbath than yet another. Works out that the holidays
still fall on the same basic time of the year within a few days anyway. So to me the argument is whether like whether we want to count hours by the clock or sundial -- slightly different but still gives the same basic time of the day and each has its vantage point.
Staying biblical, I would say true hours is simply dividing the day into 12 and the night by watches, so there's always 12 hours in a day or night. Mechanical clocks can't do that, but either a very modern program can, or again, a sundial which is how they told time back then anyway. The day starts at sundown when the last limb of the sun is seen, and the month, much like the day which is observed, starts when the first thin crescent is seen after sunset. That's the most accurate observational method of determining the month as no other lunar position can be ascertained as accurately by simple observation (save the counterpart waning position). The year (month one) has to be a lunar month when the barley is at the proper ripened stage for the feasts. So simple a child could do it -- I don't know why things have to be made so complicated. Sabbaths, Sabbatical years and Jubilees are just counting cycles independent of astronomical events, unless such an astronomical event is noted by a specific cycle so that a correlation can be made. I can go into the future with a time machine, and I can ascertain Passover, and Tabernacles by the astronomical cycles, but I cannot tell the day of the week, Pentecost or the actual year (I can just tell where I am in the year). But fortunately, the weekly cycle at least has not been lost, at least no credible historical sources saying that, but you'll have those who will even debate that.
