Genealogical and Messianic Line from Adam to Noah

Basically, in this prophecy, God was declaring that one day, one of the descendants (the Seed) of the Woman (Eve) would engage Satan in a battle that would result in the Seed being wounded, but undefeated; while Satan would receive a mortal wound to the Head, that would ultimately lead to his destruction.

This was the promise of a Messiah (one who was anointed with the oil of the Holy Spirit with Power and Grace for Purpose, as God's Prophet; Priest; and King) who would be a descendant of Adam in a genealogical line of God's choosing. In defeating Satan, and his works of darkness, this Messianic figure would be simultaneously be establishing a Covenant (a formal and binding Agreement to deliver God's Promises) that would be founded on the shedding of His own blood. 

Significantly, after the birth and sacrificial death of the Messiah, who was ultimately revealed as Jesus and also became known as the 'Lamb of God', scripture states that He was actually 'slain from the foundation of the world' (Revelation 13:8). This phrase signified that God's plan for Jesus' sacrifice was already in place before creation, predestined in eternity, not that it occurred physically before the world began. As such, the ceremony that God would perform to establish the Covenant could occur at anytime in history, prior to Jesus ultimate fulfilment of it on the Cross. This is exactly what we see in Genesis 15, when God put Abram, who was living during the last days of Noah, to sleep. He did this so that He could establish it as an unconditional Covenant, such that Abram would inherit the promises of the Covenant, simply through his faith in God.

In this way, God’s preservation of His promises, can be seen in what we refer to as the Messianic Seed-Line  that would eventually extend from Adam to Jesus (the Messiah), but initially it only reached Noah, as listed in the Table below, before God had to enact a Great Reset on Humanity, due to mankind's wickedness:

Scripture shows that in the midst of mankind's wickedness and violence, Noah’s primary purpose was to bring him comfort and rest.  He did this through his faith in God, that resulted in him building the Ark, that would preserve humanity through the Flood that would come in his 600^th (120 x 5) year, which was the limit of God striving with sinful man (120) multiplied by His Grace (5). For 120 years, he was a 'preacher of righteousness' and then the flood came, limiting the extent of evil upon the earth.

³ And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” Genesis 6:3

All this was a foreshadowing of God's Limit on human history, before Judgement would come at the end of days. To God 1,000 years is as a day (2 Peter 3:8), so 6,000 years reflects the 6 days of Creation showing that this is also the limit of human history because it consists of 120 (God's Limit) x 50 (Jubilee years). It is the time that God has determined will occur before the 1,000-year Millennium, which will mirror the 7th Day of Creation, that became the very first Sabbath, when God rested. 

Importantly, the meanings of the names from Adam to Noah, as listed above, progressively forms a sentence, that reveals God’s prophetic purposes, as each generation was born and named:

Sentence formed by meaning of names from Adam to Noah

“Man (Adam) is appointed (Seth) mortal (Enosh) sorrow (Kenan), but the blessed God (Mahalalel) came down (Jared) teaching (Enoch) that His death shall bring (Methuselah) the despairing (Lamech) comfort and rest (Noah)”.

Though only Noah's family would ultimately be saved, Genesis 6:9 describes him as a “… just man and perfect in his generations”. This is important because Noah was in the Messianic Seed-Line from Adam to Jesus and the word translated “perfect” is in Hebrew תָּמִים - tāmiym, which carries the meaning of genetic purity. So here God is contrasting Noah to the rest of humanity, whose flesh according to verse 12 had been corrupted.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah begot three sons, -- Shem, -- Ham, and -- Japheth. ¹¹ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God looked upon -- the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted -- his way upon the earth. Genesis 6:9-12

This had been a result of the Fallen Angels, who had not retained their position in heaven, and had come down and procreated with the daughters of men, who gave birth to children who carried their corrupted DNA, that caused them to become Giants in the earth. The Book of Enoch, which was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and is quoted from in the Bible, explains that the Angels were even having Sex with animals, which also explains Genesis’ description about 'all flesh being corrupted'. All this prompted God to destroy humanity, except for Noah and his family:

¹³ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Genesis 6:13

Genealogical and Messianic Line from Noah to Abram

However, beyond the preservation of mankind, God needed to restart His Plan of Redemption and after the earth was repopulated, God chose to do this through a man called Abram אַבְרָם, ten generations from Noah. Signifying that this was a 'new beginning' is the fact that Abram’s name means ‘exalted father’ and even today he is known as the Father of our Faith.

The following Table shows the genealogy from Noah to Abram, and again it includes a commonly accepted meaning for each of the names:

While the meanings of most of the names above are undisputed, a few are seen as having a broader range of interpretation, so the following is a brief explanation of their meanings:

ARPHAXAD: The name Arphaxad (Hebrew: אַרְפַּכְשַׁד), Noah’s grandson, is believed by a number of sources to be derived from the Hebrew root "rapha", which means "to heal" or "to restore", while others suggest that it can be interpreted as "to release" or "to set free." This connection to a healing that sets one free is a significant aspect of the name's interpretation. Some scholars also propose that Arphaxad may derive from a combination of words meaning "boundary" (from the root "arp") and "Chaldeans" (from "Keshad"). This interpretation suggests a geographical or territorial significance, associated with Babylon that was established by the Chaldeans, who are known as the neo Babylonians.

NAHOR: The name Nahor (Hebrew: נָחוֹר) is primarily derived from a root that relates to the act of snorting or panting. However, this suggests a strong connection to the physical act of breathing. In biblical contexts, breath is often associated with life, vitality, and the presence of the divine. The connection to snorting can, therefore, be seen as a symbol of life and the essence of being.

 TERAH: The name Terah (Hebrew: תֶּרַח) is believed to derive from the Aramaic verb תרח (tarah), which also has a connection to breathing and means "to breathe" or "to linger patiently." This connection in particular emphasises a sense of pausing or taking time, which aligns with the idea of Delay in his journey. This interpretation is particularly poignant given Terah's role in the biblical narrative, where he is noted for delaying the journey to the Promised Land. As such, the idea of delay can symbolise a pause or a waiting period in one's journey. In Terah's case, he settled in Haran instead of continuing to Canaan, which can be seen as a literal and metaphorical delay in fulfilling God's promise to his family.

So, within all of these connections, other proposed sentences emerge that continue God’s progressive revelation of Redemption, leading us inexorably to the person that would begin God’s Great Reset, following the flood of Noah. Unlike the UN World Economic Forum’s version of an event with the same name, God's Reset would lead to the salvation of many, not its destruction. As mentioned above, this would be achieved through the Covenant that would be established with Abram / Abraham:

Sentences formed by meaning of names from Noah to Abram / Abraham

"From rest and comfort (Noah), the name (Shem) of a healer who will release those kept captive in Babylon, the stronghold of the Chaldeans (Arphaxad) is sent out (Shelah), crossing beyond (Eber) the divisions of Man (Peleg), as a friend and shepherd (Reu). He is the Branch of God (Serug) that will breathe life to many (Nahor) after a delay (Terah) that will lead people to the exalted father of the multitudes (Abram / Abraham)."

Abram / Abraham  - the Connection to 43

Notably Abram, as his name initially appears, is the Bible’s first complex character, because while nearly 2,000 years of history (spanning from Creation to Abraham) is covered in the first 12 chapters of the bible, the next 12, are all dedicated just to Abraham’s life. So many of the Bible’s “firsts” are actually associated with him, such as him being the…

- First person to be called by God to leave his homeland

- First to receive a covenant promise

- First to be described as righteous by faith (Noah was also called righteous, but it was unqualified)

- First to intercede with God on behalf of others (e.g., Sodom)

- First patriarch of the Israelites

- First person to have his name changed by God

All of these firsts are critical in understanding the importance of Abram, in the scheme of God’s Redemptive plans, but all can be plainly observed in the text. What is not as widely recognised, because it is hidden in the text, is that numerically God has put a divine stamp on the name Abram, that in Hebrew Gematria (which is the practice of calculating the value of a word based upon adding the individual value of its letters) has the value 243, as the following Table shows:

Hebrew Gematria of "Abram" (אַבְרָם)

The Nature of the Number 243

At first this might not seem significant, but the uniqueness and importance of this number can be seen by noting that it is a pure exponential of 3, which is the number that most clearly defines God and Divinity (in the Godhead or Trinity). It is 3 raised to the 5^th power, with 5 being the number for Grace, and so 243 or 3⁵ is a number that represents the ‘Grace of God’, that enables our Redemption:

3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 3⁵ = 243

As such, it numerically encapsulates the ‘Grace of God’ that is extended to us through Abram, who was a descendant of Shem in the Messianic Seed Line from Adam to Jesus (the last Adam)

Then, through the analysis of numbers as Additive pairs (a mathematical concept where two parts together form a whole and each pair reflects a complementary relationship (see here for further information on both additive and multiplicative pairs), we now see our first connection to the number 43, with the Abram’s name having the value of 243, which is 200 + 43, where:

• 200 represents the second Redeemed Generation and

• 43 as will be seen, is a Time-stamp that helps us track where we are on God’s Redemptive Timeline - or determine how close we are to our Target.

In this regard, the first generation of humanity were the twins Cain and Abel, who had been born when Adam was 100, and the second generation, represented by 200 (100 x 2) are all who are 'Born again' through Jesus, who scripture refers to as both the Last and Second Adam

“45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.” 1 Corinthians 15:45-47

Here Jesus is both the Last Adam and the Second Man (with the Hebrew word for man being Adam), the second person of the Godhead, who also was born of a woman in fulfilment of the 'Seed of the Woman' prophecy in Genesis 3:15.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:15

So in this context, a generation is defined as 100, which is why later when God is establishing His Covenant with Abram, He states that they will be afflicted 400 years, only coming out in the fourth generation (100 x4). Therefore, all who will be Redeemed, through the ‘Seed of the Woman’ in Jesus, will be a part of the second or Last Adam (200 – 100 x 2), which is why Abram's name includes a component of 200.

Abram and the Number 43

However, it is primarily the number 43, in connection with Abram (who name is later changed to Abraham), that we will focus on, because this number is connected to the nation that God promised him. As such, it is our first confirmation that we are hitting the outer rings of our Target (of the LORD's RETURN).

Though the World does not realise it, it was through Abram / Abraham that we saw God reset His purposes for humanity, such that he is still known today as the God of Abraham; Isaac and Jacob, which is the 3 generational relationship that is a reflection of God the Father; God the Son; and God the Holy Spirit. As such, the fate and destiny of the World is literally connected to the nation of Israel which, as will be seen, came into existence in connection with the number 43.

Firstly, though, we need to consider the order that is associated with every reference to Abram and Abraham, before we discuss the specifics of the 43^rd mention of his name.

Order of the Biblical References to Abram / Abraham

To this end, I have created a file that contains every biblical occurrence of the names Abram and Abraham, in the order that they appear:

From this, we will see how purposefully each instance has been arranged by God, who inspired every word through the Holy Spirit.

1^st reference of Abram

For example: the first reference to Abram is in Genesis 11:26

²⁶ Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Genesis 11:26

Given that Terah’s name means “Delay” and the verse mentions seventy years, the structure of this verse (along with the history it is describing) could be God’s way a creating a foreshadow of another Delay, that would happen approximately 1,400 years later to the nation promised to Abram, when they were exiled in Babylon for 70 years. In doing this, it could later remind everyone that nothing is random with God and nothing takes Him by surprise. He is totally in-control of bringing His promises (regarding His people) to pass, regardless of any delays and so we can totally trust Him with our lives.

12^th reference of Abram

Another example, of the importance of the order, comes by noting the 12^th instance of the name Abram, which occurs in Genesis 12:7, as follows:

⁷ And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give -- this land: and there built he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. Genesis 12:7

Here we see the number 12 emphasised by it being the 12^th reference to Abram’s name, that is occurring in the 12^th chapter of the book, that contains the foundation of his story. 

Ultimately though, its true significance comes from understanding the full context of what is being said here, in relation to Abram’s Seed and its hidden connection to the number 12, through the promise of Genesis 3:15, where God prophetically declares that the “Seed of the Woman” (represented by the number 12 – see further info on this here) would crush Satan’s head. In this context, it is implying that it is through Abram’s Seed, that we know culminated in Jesus (who Matthew quoting Hosea 11:1 equates with the nation of Israel, God’s perfect Son), that the works of the kingdom of darkness would be destroyed (crushing Satan’s head), and the nation promised to Abram would be established, on the Land still called Israel today.

Importantly, Jesus is born through the Messianic Seed Line that goes from the first Adam through Eve to Noah and on through his descendants to Abram / Abraham and ultimately to Mary, who is implanted by the Holy Spirit with the Seed of Jesus, the Word of God made flesh, and the Last Adam. Therefore, in this 12^th reference to Abram, God is giving promises to his Seed, that will eventually include the true 'Seed of the Woman' in Jesus, to fulfil the prophecy given in the Garden of Eden.

This is amazing, when one also considers that in ISRAEL a girl becomes a WOMAN at the age of 12 (in a ceremony called a ‘Bat Mitzvah’) and the very first recorded words of Jesus, to reveal Himself as this ‘Seed of the Woman’, occurs when He is 12 years old and declares that He is about His Father’s business, which as stated in the following passage was about fulling the prophecy in Genesis 3:15:

⁴¹ Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. ⁴² And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. ⁴³ And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. ⁴⁴ But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. ⁴⁵ And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. ⁴⁶ And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. ⁴⁷ And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. ⁴⁸ And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. ⁴⁹ And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business? ⁵⁰ And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. Luke 2:41-50

Even adding the numbers in this scripture reference (2;4;1;5;0) that reveals the 'Seed of the Woman', at the age of 12, adds up to 12, as follows:

2 + 4 + 1 + 5 + 0 = 12

Notably, the expression 'Seed of the Woman' predicts the Virgin Birth because Women have Eggs, not Seeds, which only comes from a Man. So before we continue, it is worth just expanding upon the significance of the term 'Seed of the Woman' to fully understand how this was all worked out in history and the genealogy of Jesus Christ (noting that Christ is English for the Greek Christos, which is a translation of the Hebrew Mashiach (מָשִׁ֣יחַ), which is Messiah in English).

In this regard, the genealogies of Matthew and Luke together reveal the dual nature of the Messiah's or Christ’s lineage. Matthew traces Jesus’ descent through Joseph, establishing his legal right to David’s throne and fulfilling the requirements of Jewish law and prophecy. Luke, however, traces the line through Mary back to Adam, emphasising Jesus’ universal connection to humanity and his role as the “second Adam.” This distinction is crucial: Joseph’s line carried the inheritance of Adam’s direct disobedience to God’s command, and thus the fallen nature of Sin. Jesus could not be born of Joseph’s seed, for that would perpetuate the curse. Instead, his legal status, as heir to David, came through Joseph, while his actual birth was through Mary, and the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit.

Mary herself, though part of fallen humanity, stood in a unique position. Eve’s transgression was described as deception rather than direct rebellion, and in this sense Mary represents the 'final woman' in the line that culminates with Jesus as the 'Seed of the Woman', foretold in Genesis 3:15. In an important distinction between her and Eve, Mary did directly receive the words of God (through an Angel) and importantly followed them, such that there was no deception in her.

Interestingly though, Women do not naturally have seed, so the phrase is actually paradoxical, pointing to divine intervention. By the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, Mary conceived without male seed, and thus the child was truly the “seed of the woman.” In this way, Jesus was born fully human through Mary, yet free from Adam’s inherited guilt, and fully divine through the Spirit. It truly was a virgin birth that fulfilled the protoevangelium of Genesis 3:15; resolved the tension between law and grace; and ultimately inaugurated the victory over sin and Satan. Through Joseph, Jesus inherited kingship legally; through Mary and the Spirit, He transcended Adam’s curse spiritually — making him both the rightful heir of David and the Redeemer of Humanity.

43^rd reference of Abram – Establishment of Covenant

Building on this foundation, we will now examine the 43^rd occurrence of the name Abram, which is found in Genesis 15:18. This passage is particularly noteworthy, as it details God’s establishment of a Covenant with Abram, that lays the groundwork for the formation of the nation of Israel, through which all subsequent promises will be fulfilled:

¹⁸ In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this -- land from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: Genesis 15:18

Understanding this is crucial because it is to Abram and his Seed that the promises of Redemption are first given; and scripturally there is no doubt that this means firstly to the nation of Israel because it is tied to land that only Israel lived in, it is not purely a spiritual Seed at this time.

Later, by the time of Christ, the national land was reduced to Judah, but was referred to by the Romans as Judea, which essentially means the ‘Land of the Jews’; and the broader scope of the promises were then being revealed with the offer of salvation and redemption going also to the Gentiles, referred to collectively in the following verse as “the Greek”:

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. Romans 1:16

However, even with this shift to include the Gentiles, who put their faith and trust into the Jewish Messiah, the ‘Seed of the Woman’ in Jesus, it is important to note that the promises of the Covenant are not being transferred from Israel, as ‘Replacement Theology’ tries to suggest, rather the gentiles are being grafted into the promises of Israel, as described in Romans 11:

¹⁷ And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, ¹⁸ do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. Romans 11:17-18

One clarification that Paul was led to make about this is seen in Romans 6, that basically states, that just being a physical descendant of Abraham was insufficient to inherit all the promises because “they are not all Israel who are of Israel” (which was referring to the descendants of Abraham through Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel), rather the Seed of the Covenant given to Abraham will be all those that are called, essentially being all who will put their trust in Jesus.

⁶ But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, ⁷ nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” ⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed. Romans 9:6-8

Then all Believers will inherit the Covenant promises of Israel, with both Gentiles being grafted into them, along with new Jewish Believers, who will be grafted back into Israel.

So, the 43^rd reference of Abram is to his Seed, that includes Jesus, and ultimately all people who through faith and trust in Jesus will be hidden in Christ Jesus (as affirmed in Romans 8 and 2 Corinthians 5), through whom they are grafted into Israel.

¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1

And

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Origins of Covenants

Clearly, the connection of the number 43 to the Covenant that promises Salvation is huge, and so to understand its full significance, we will now briefly consider the nature of Covenants that have their roots in the ancient world, particularly during the Late Bronze Age (approx. 3300 BC to 1200 BC).

In the biblical tradition, key covenants include:

• Noahic Covenant: God's promise never to flood the earth again (Genesis 9).

• Abrahamic Covenant: God's promise of blessings to Abraham and his descendants (Genesis 15).

• Mosaic Covenant: The agreement made at Sinai, where Israel became a holy nation (Exodus 19).

• Davidic Covenant: God's promise of a royal lineage through David (2 Samuel 7).

• New Covenant: Established through Jesus, emphasising grace and faith (Jeremiah 31, Luke 22:20).

Essentially, as indicated above, a Covenant is a binding promise that often has religious, moral, or social significance. Originating from ancient agreements, they were meant to regulate behaviour among individuals and groups. Unlike a Contract, which is a legal agreement based on mutual self-interest and enforceable terms, a Covenant emphasises a moral commitment and can exist independently of legal enforcement, focusing on the relationship and trust between parties, rather than a transactional exchange.

Difference Between Covenant and Contract

As such, the primary difference between a Contract and a Covenant is that when one party in a Contract breaches one, or all of its terms, the Contract is normally cancelled, while penalties defined within the Contract are applied. In contrast, a Covenant can continue regardless of whether a particular individual wants to participate in it or not.

So, in relation to God’s Covenant with Abram, it was established with him because Abram believed in the LORD; and the benefits are extended to all who wish to participate and abide by also believing in the LORD – that is, it is received by Grace through Faith:

⁶ And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. ⁷ Then He said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit i.t Genesis 15:6

Summary of Key differences

The Ritual of “Sevening” Yourself

Significantly, the ancient Covenant was established by a ritual known as “Sevening Yourself” or  “To Seven Oneself”. This involved cutting 7 animals in half and walking between the pieces as a solemn, symbolic act—declaring that if the Covenant is broken, the violator deserves the same fate as the sacrificed animals.

This ritual is seen in the following passage in Genesis 15, but with a difference in that it only involved 5 creatures, not 7 in this instance. However, the reason for that is said to be because the particular animals chosen actually mirrored the categories that were later formalised in Leviticus for the offerings (Burnt; Sin; and Peace offerings) that foreshadowed Jesus' Sacrifice on the Cross; and because it involved the LORD walking amongst the pieces (symbolised by a 'smoking firepot' and a 'flaming torch') by Himself to establish it as an unconditional covenant (because Abram was in a deep sleep, just like Adam was when Eve was taken from his side). As such, the number 5 here actually emphasises that it was being established solely as an act of Grace between God and Abram’s Seed, that extends to all Believers throughout history:

.” ⁸ And he said, “Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?” ⁹ So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. ¹¹ And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. ¹² Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” ¹⁷ And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. ¹⁸ On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— Genesis 15:6-18

Since Cutting a Covenant normally involved the cutting of 7 animals, that both parties had to pass through as a sign of their commitment to it, the phrase “to seven oneself” was appropriate. It was also an alignment of meaning because the Hebrew verb shaba, meaning “to swear an oath,” is etymologically linked to the word for “seven” and this connection suggests that making a Covenant was seen as a complete, sacred act—often involving seven elements or steps to signify divine completeness, and significantly it explains why throughout all of Scripture God uses the number 7 so much.

However, as above, the fact that 5 animals were used in the cutting of this Covenant with Abram, instead of 7, does not change the meaning behind it, rather just the emphasis that shows it is all founded on the work of God, in an act of Grace. Essentially, all of Scripture is presented as an Oath of God, His solemn Promise, to bring it all to pass and to complete the work of Redemption that will lead to Him dwelling forever with those made in His image, that Love and Trust Him, through Faith in His finished work on the Cross. So unlike when 7 animals were used and both parties passed through the cut animals, Abraham was asleep and God only passed through them, making this covenant completely unconditional for Abraham and his descendants, but completely dependent upon the Blood Sacrifice of God Himself, totally as an act of Grace of which the 5 creatures, that included 3 animals all 3 years old, were symbolic of Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross at 33.

The inclusion of the birds, that were often used as a sacrifice for those of poor and humble means, also affirmed that the benefits of this covenant, cut in the coming Messiah's blood, would be open to all who are poor in Spirit, which Jesus later affirmed in the Sermon on the Mount, when He said:

³ “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:3

60^th reference of Abram / Abraham - God's Presence

So, by understanding that the numbered sequence of references to Abram / Abraham are not random, but convey hidden information, we will now also briefly consider the 60^th reference to Abram, where 60 is a ‘multiplicative pair’ comprised of 6 x 10:

6 – is the number of Man and

10 – is the number representing the Law, that Jesus came to fulfil vicariously for mankind

This reference is particularly important because it is another biblical first where God changes a person’s name. In this case, it is from Abram אַבְרָם to Abraham אַבְרָהָם. Importantly, the transformation of Abram’s name to Abraham that occurs in Genesis 17:5 is far more than a linguistic tweak, it’s a profound spiritual shift that reflects God’s ‘covenantal purpose’ and 'divine character', that were revealed as part of the 43^rd reference to Abram:

5 Neither shall -- thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. Genesis 17:5

Abram (אַבְרָם): This name means “exalted father” or “high father.” It reflects dignity and status, but it’s still limited in scope—suggesting greatness without necessarily implying widespread influence.

Abraham (אַבְרָהָם): However, with the addition of the Hebrew letter “He” (ה), pronounced as "hey" or "hei", the name transforms to mean “father of a multitude” or “father of many nations”. The “He” (ה) is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and in biblical numerology, 5 is often associated with Grace. It has a breath-like sound, symbolising life, spirit, and divine presence. It’s also found twice in the Tetragrammaton (YHVH)—the sacred name of God. So, by inserting the letter “He” ה into Abram’s name, God is essentially infusing His own essence; His breath; His Grace—into Abraham’s identity. As such, it isn’t just a promise, it’s a complete redefinition of identity with Abraham’s new name reflecting:

• Fruitfulness: He will be the progenitor of many nations.

• Spiritual legacy: His descendants will carry the covenant.

• Divine partnership: His name now carries a piece of God’s own name and purpose.

Essentially, it was a sign of the Covenant that was originally established between God and Abram and facinatingly it was also a reflection of the 5ᵗʰ day of creation, which was the first time in which Living creatures came into being and were commanded to be Frutiful and multiply:

²⁰ Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” ²¹ So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” ²³ So the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Genesis 1:20-23

In this way, 60 is intimately connected to 5 both spiritually and mathematically; and in fact has 5 multiplicative factors that connect it to mankind and God's Grace, as follows:

6 (Mankind) x 10 (Law fulfilled by Jesus full of the Spirit being an act of Grace (5) by the Son of God (2)) = 60 

12 (Seed of the Woman - in Jesus Christ, or His Disciples, who are the Body of Christ) x 5 (God's Grace) = 60

15 (Fullness of Grace - 5 x 3) x 4 (in the world) = 60

20 (Age of Accountability - seen in age of Temple Service / age of Israelites who entered Promised Land by trusting God) x 3 (God) = 60

30 (Age of Jesus when He began His ministry) x 2 (Second Person of Godhead - Son of God in Jesus) = 60 (God fulfilling requirements of Law for mankind).

Then if you add the 1 x 60 to complete it, as 1 (God) x 60 (in Jesus fulfilling the Law for mankind) = 60 you literally have the 6 descriptions of Man, the recipient of God's Grace, which is shown numerically to be fully the Work of God, that is ultimately the source of all of mankind's fruitfulness. Understanding this and that the number 60, reveals the work and ministry of God Himself, in and through the 'Seed of the Woman', a manifestation of God's Grace where the Word becomes flesh to fulfil the Law for us, is very important because it helps to establish the context for when Jesus also reveals Himself as the 'Son of Man' with the number 46 (to be discussed shortly), that all reveals Him as being fully God and fully Man. As such, He is the one that came to save the many, to reverse the Curse and reestablish the original blessing of Man on the Earth, that was first declared in Genesis 1 as to be Fruitful and Multiply, just as we have seen with the number's hidden connection with Abraham:

²⁷ So God created -- man in his own image, in the image of God created he -- him; male and female created he -- them. ²⁸ And God blessed -- them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish -- the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:27-28

Our first connection to the number 48

So this is also where things begin to get interesting because as I have already shown, God had numerically put a Divine stamp of Grace on the name Abram, that in Hebrew gematria has the value 243, or 200 + 43. However, now with the addition of the Letter “He”, that has the value of 5, that involves the further addition of God's Grace for a purpose, we now have a total gematria value for the name of Abraham of 248, which is 200 + 48.

As previously discussed, the 200 portion of that number represents the Redeemed Generation, with the first Fallen Generation being Cain and Able, when Adam was 100; and as also stated above, this is why when God was establishing the Covenant with Abram that He spoke of how his Seed (the beneficiaries of the Covenant) would only be afflicted 400 years before coming out in the 4^th Generation, essentially creating an equivalence between 100 and a generation.

Now, while the number 43 will be seen in the next section as a time-stamp, the number 48 can be understood as representing the presence of God, the ultimate form of His Grace. The greatest example of this can be seen by noting that the Holy of Holies, in the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, where God’s Glory (His literal Manifest Presence) dwelt between the Cherubim on the top of the Ark of the Covenant, was built from 48 boards:

¹⁸ And thou shalt make -- the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. ¹⁹ And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. ²⁰ And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards: ²¹ And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ²² And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. ²³ And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. Exodus 26:18-23

20 (south side) + 20 (north side) + 6 (west side) +2 (Corners) = 48

The eastern end of the Holy of Holies was what held the Veil or Curtain, that would later be torn from Top to Bottom in Solomon's Temple, so no boards were required here - Salvation is always from the East because when man sinned he went out to the East into the wilderness and when he is Saved, and comes back into the presence of God, He moves back from the East towards the West. In this respect, it should be noted that the direction East is defined as the Rising of the Sun, and in Malachi 4:2 Jesus is equated with the 'Sun that will rise with healing in His wings'. In this way, moving from East to West, towards the Holy of Holies, where God's manifest presence dwells, is all symbolic of returning to the Garden of Eden.

The Bible also declares that it was exactly 480 (48 x 10) years from the Exodus from Egypt, until the 4^th year of Solomon’s reign, when he began to build the Temple that would house the presence of God. Furthermore, 48 can be understood as:

12 x 4, where 12 represents the ‘Seed of the Woman’ and 4 represents the world.

This makes the multiplicative pair of 12 x 4 = 48 to be a literal or physical manifestation of the ‘Seed of the Woman’ in the world, prior to when Jesus, as the 2^nd person of the Godhead, came into the world in the Incarnation declaring Himself to be the ‘Son of Man’.

Importantly, the expression 'Son of Man' literally occurs 88 times in the New Testament, as the following downloaded file, exported from Logos Bible Software, and the screenshot below shows:

In this regard, it should be noted that the name of Jesus, in Greek Gematria, has the value 888. Literally 8 is Jesus' number which is ultimately pointing to the Eighth Day Gathering (Shmini Atzertet) the Feast referenced in Leviticus 23:36, that looks forward to the Eighth Day of Creation when Eternity begins and there are no more tears, pain; death or sorrow.

So Jesus, as the Son of Man, was the greatest manifestation of God’s presence in history, with God dwelling with His people (Emmanuel - God with us); and importantly, His incarnation created a secondary numerical connection to 48, via the number pair of 46 (Son of Man) and 2 (Son of God), as the following will explain.

46 - the Son of Man and God's Presence 

While 60 above was shown to be the Work of God to save mankind, as an act of Grace, it also needs to be understood that in our very essence, ‘Man’ or ‘Mankind’ is defined numerically in our DNA as having 23 pairs of Chromosomes for a total of 46.

As such, it is notable that the bible declares that Jesus is both the Tabernacle in the Old Testament and the Temple in the New Testament and that the entrance to the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies in the Temple, where God’s presence dwelt, was framed by a pair of columns (which every person would need to pass through to enter into it). These columns were both 23 cubits high, for a total of 46 cubits.

So here Jesus is connecting Himself to the very nature of Mankind (46), showing Himself to be not only fully God, but fully Human, which is why He qualifies, as the second or last Adam, to die for the sins of humanity. In doing so, He is reversing the curse of the Fall, that occurred under the First Adam. Essentially, the First Adam was perfect until pride entered his heart and he chose to listen to the word of Satan instead of to God, causing the Fall of Man, but in Jesus the Second Adam, we are now coming from a fallen state and will be made perfect again, as we choose to listen only to the Word of God, who became flesh for our sakes, and now manifests Himself within us by His Spirit. In this way, when we freely choose to receive Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, we are born again. It is an offer of salvation to all who want Him, but sadly not everyone does, but that still remains their free-will choice. 

Amazingly, God's revelation goes even deeper, in that these 23 cubit columns are actually comprised of two parts, with the column itself being 18 cubits high, that it topped by an ornate Capital that is 5 cubits high. So here we symbolically see that each column represents the Sin of Man (666 or 6+6+6 = 18) that is covered by the Grace of God (5) - 18 + 5 = 23 and that together in the two columns 23 + 23 = 46, they point to the Son of Man (46), which gives a physical reality to the spiritual truth that Jesus declared, when he said:

 ⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6

Literally, one had to pass between the two columns on the front of the Temple structure, that represented the 46 chromosomes of the Son of Man (Jesus' favourite title for Himself in the Gospels), before they could make their way to where the Father’s Presence resided in the Holy of Holies. Additionally, when Jesus declared in John 2:19 – 21 that the Temple would be destroyed, but that He would raise it up again in 3 days, the people not understanding that He was talking about His own body protested, declared that this would be impossible because it had taken 46 years to build it in the first place.

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” ²¹ But He was speaking of the temple of His body. John 2:19 - 21

So clearly the Temple that represents God’s presence amongst His people is associated with both the numbers 2, through Jesus the 2^nd person of the Trinity; and 46, through its dimensions that represent  Jesus as the Son of Man, because of its correlation to mankind's 46 Chromosomes, that uniquely identify us amongst other living creatures. In this way, we see a numerical link between God’s presence in Jesus, as the Son of Man, and the number 48 (2 + 46).  

43 and 430- from Covenant to Timing Clue for God's Presence

Importantly, this physical manifestation of God in Jesus was integral to God cutting the Covenant He had promised to Abram. Now however, as part of the outworking of that Covenant, the 43 time-stamp component of the number that represented Abram’s name and that was connected to the 43^rd mention of his name (in relation to the Covenant), would effectively be multiplied by 10. This was God’s way of saying that the timing of the Covenantal Promises would only be possible because the God, who was cutting the Covenant with Himself, would also be the only one fulfilling the Law (10) that makes it possible. Thus, the 43 becomes 430 (43 x 10) and, as will be seen, there are some significant events that happen on God’s Redemptive Timeline in relation to this number - 430.

Further to this, there is a connection that will also be seen later in this article between God’s Timing number (43); and the next number in His Trilogy, His number of Promise (47), that ultimately culminates in the 48^th year of the 19^th Century, when the nation of Israel was reborn. This is all so that God could again dwell with His people in the Land He had promised to Abram / Abraham. Essentially, I believe the numbers 43, 47 and 48 together form a Time Stamp Trilogy that reflect how close we are to the Target of Christ's Return - hopefully I will be able to demonstrate this in the remainder of this article.

Important Mathematical Note about the numbers 43, 47, and 48

The numbers 43 and 47 are Prime Numbers, as they are only divisible by themselves and the number 1. As such, the meaning of these two numbers cannot be deduced by it Multiplicative factors, only by Additive pairs. This helps us to define their more restrictive definition and the role that they play in relation to God's end-time calendar, which all stands in contrast to the third number of the Trilogy in 48, that can take it meaning from both its Multiplicative factors and its Additive pairs. However, while this gives 48 a more expansive range of meaning, all the meanings tend to be nuanced and ultimately rest or centre on 48 being a pointer to God's Presence dwelling with mankind, as will be seen.

Significantly, this can all be explained mathematically because according to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, every whole number can be uniquely expressed as a product of prime numbers. This effectively makes Prime Numbers the "atoms" of mathematics because they are essentially the link between them. To illustrate this point, in relation to the number 48, if we want to express 48 as a product of prime numbers we can follow the process below:

Prime Factorization

1. We start by dividing 48 by the smallest prime 2 (noting that 1 is not considered a prime number), and repeat the process until we cannot divide it as a whole number anymore:

48÷2=24

24÷2=12

12÷2=6

6÷2=3

2. Now 3 is a prime, so we stop.

3. We have now divided 48 fours times by 2, with a remainder of 3. So this can be represented mathematically as follows:

Result - 48 = 2×2×2×2×3, or more compactly, it can be written as: 48 = 2⁴  x 3 - no matter how you break down 48, with regard to Prime Factors, you will always end up with this core expression.

Core Meaning (2⁴  x 3): As 2 is the Son of God; 4 is the World and 3 is the Triune God, we have the core meaning of 48 being the "Son of God in the world fulfilling God's primary purpose, which is to fulfil His covenant with Abraham by dying for our Sins, so that He can dwell with His people". This is why when Jesus came, He was called 'Emmanuel', meaning 'God with us'. As it says in Revelation 22:3 (speaking about the end of time - when there will no longer be a curse upon everything), God (the Father) and the Lamb (God the Son) will be present with His servants, which is the Greek word δοῦλοι, that can be understood in this context as bond-servants, or devoted followers:

³ No longer will there be a curse upon anything. For the throne of God and of the Lamb will be there, and his servants will worship him Revelation 22:3

In the New Jerusalem, this term conveys willing service born of love, not forced labor. Here God isemphasising that eternity is not passive rest, but active, joyful participation in His kingdom. It is the ultimate Restoration: Humanity once cursed for disobedience now perfectly serving in love, with no barrier between Creator and Creation.

Multiplicative Factors

Then through Multiplicative Factors of 48, we see multiple aspects of God dwelling with Man:

6 (mankind) x 8 (Jesus and Salvation) = 48

2 (Son of God and Union) x 24 (Christians like the 24 Elders ruling an  reigning with Christ) = 48

4 (in the world) x 12 (Disciples and Tribes of Israel - both part of the body of the "Seed of the Woman" / Messiah / Jesus) = 48

Additive Pairs

Similarly, through Additive Pairs we would get another 24 combinations, but It is not my purpose to illustrate all of these here, rather to simply say that these also can be shown to emphasise aspects of God dwelling with His People in the World.

One example of this should suffice, being 22 and 26 that together add to 48. Here, the number 22 represents Israel, which ultimately includes all of God's people, who are all Saved (both Jew and Gentile) being together with God, whose personal name (YHVH) has the value 26 - with 22 + 26 = 48

Abram’s Covenantal Connection to 430 -a Time  Stamp

With that said, we will now consider the connection between the Covenant with Abram and these numbers. Understanding the link between Abram—whose name has a value of 243, made up of 200 plus 43— and the number 43 as a standalone number is essential because it is the foundation of understanding the trilogy of numbers that begins with the number 43 and is completed with 47 and 48.

Basically, when you separate the number 243 into its primary Additive pair, you get the number 200, that symbolises the generation of the Redeemed, who are established through a Covenant between God and Abram and his Seed. The remaining 43, as previously mentioned, acts as a time marker in God's Redemptive timeline, eventually signifying 430 (43 x 10) years, which become periods that we will see in Israel’s history that symbolically point to appointed times of God. I will try to clarify how this connection occurs in the following section.

The 43 and 430 connection

While 43 and 430 are arguably already connected in terms of Bible Numerics because the '0' is regularly just considered as a placeholder that can be disregarded most the time, as far as meaning in concerned, there are also biblical factors that show an enhanced meaning between the two forms of the number, which I will expound upon here.

Firstly, the number 43 is established by the fact that Jesus was 33 when He died as payment for our sins, fulfilling the Law (represented numerically by 10), of sin and death – 33 + 10 = 43. However, as mentioned above, the sacrificial act of the Son of God, in Jesus on the Cross, though central to everything was still just a part of understanding the Covenant with God, that ultimately involved the full Godhead in the Father; Son; and Holy Spirit; with the Father sending His Son and the Holy Spirit both empowering Jesus to go to the Cross and then raising Him from the dead on the Third Day.

So the Covenant, in relation to the number 43, reveals that it also becomes 430 (43 x 10) because God the Father, on the Feast of First Fruits (16th Nisan), in a separate act, with regard to the Law (10) accepted the sacrifice of Jesus, as full-payment for the Sin of Man, when it was presented to Him as a 'Wave Offering' on the Feast of First Fruits, signifying that it would be the first of a great harvest to follow. In essence, it was a double application of the Law that took Jesus' sacrifice at 33, after He personally fulfilled the Law (10) in His life and Death, that qualified His death (symbolised as 43) to be offered as a payment for the sins of humanity, before it was presented to the Father who would then receive it as the payment, again under the Law (10), for the Sins of all who would put their faith in Jesus' vicarious death. So it was effectively this secondary acceptance of Jesus' sacrifice (43) by God the Father, under the terms of the Law (10), that then turned the 43 into 430.

Notably also, there is another numerical confirmation for this understanding of the number 430 that, as will be seen, also ties it to God's Appointed Times. Essentially, under the terms of the Old Covenant (Law), the efficacy of the blood sacrifice was established when the High Priest placed the blood on the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies. In this regard, historical records, including those of Josephus, indicate that Caiaphas, who was serving in this role at the time of Jesus, was actually appointed by the Roman governor Valerius Gratus, not by divine, or Levitical succession. So, it is clear that the office of the High Priest had become politicised and corrupted, with frequent changes based on Roman favour, rather than by lineage or spiritual qualification. In contrast, John the Baptist’s Priestly Lineage indicates that he would have most likely been the true High Priest with Luke 1:5 stating that John’s father, Zechariah, was “of the priestly division of Abijah,” one of the 24 divisions established by King David (1 Chronicles 24:10). This means that John was a descendant of Aaron, which qualified him for High Priestly service.

Then in Matthew 3:15, we see Jesus telling John, in connection with being baptised, the following:

¹⁵ Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. Matthew 3:15

This is interpreted by some theologians as Jesus undergoing the ritual washing required for priestly ordination, as recorded in the following passages: Exodus 29:4; and Leviticus 8:6:

⁴ Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water. Exodus 29:4

And

⁶ Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water. Leviticus 8:6

Then back in Matthew's Gospel, we see John the Baptist, as the true High Priest, performing the baptism that symbolically transfers the priesthood to Jesus, who would become the eternal High Priest (Hebrews 4:14 – 5:10) and just as Aaron was washed and anointed before serving, Jesus is baptised and later anointed by the Spirit - Matthew 3:16:

¹⁶ As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. Matthew 3:16

So, John’s ministry ended as Jesus’ began, marking a shift from the old priesthood to the new, with Hebrews 7 emphasising that Jesus’ priesthood is “after the order of Melchizedek,” eternal and superior to the Levitical line.

 Then, as Numbers 4:3 shows (and yes even the chapter and verse numbers are related), the descendants of Levi needed to be 30 years or older to serve in this capacity:

³ from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting. Numbers 4:3

So Jesus began His ministry at 30, as indicated by Luke 3:23.

²³ Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, Luke 3:23

Additionally, as we have already stated above, He also came to fulfil the law (Matthew 5:17), that is represented by the number 10. So we can then use His age, when He became High Priest at 30, and the number 10 that represents the Law, and multiply them together to determine the numerical significance of His ministry.

In this way, 30 x 10 = 300 is the symbolic number of Jesus’ Blood Sacrifice, that would establish the Covenant, under the terms of the Law - notably while scripture itself does not explicitly say “Noah’s Ark is Jesus,” many passages and themes in the New Testament correlate the Ark as a symbol of Christ’s salvation, which is significant because the dimensions of Noah's Ark were 300 (Jesus' blood sacrifice) x 50 (Jubilee Year when everything lost is restored) and there is even a correspondence between the day the Flood began, which saw Noah and His family safely inside the Ark (Jesus), and the Resurrection of Jesus, with both occurring on the 17^th day of the month. As such, the Ark represents refuge from judgment, just as Jesus is the only way of Salvation. Some key connections to the broader typology of Salvation narratives include the following:

Scriptural Correlations Between Noah’s Ark and Jesus

1.  1 Peter 3:20–21

• Peter recalls Noah’s Ark: “In which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water. Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you…”

• The Ark is seen as a type of Christ, because just as Noah’s family was saved by entering the Ark, believers are saved by entering into Christ. Baptism symbolises this union.

2. Hebrews 11:7

• Noah is commended for building the Ark “for the saving of his household.”

• This mirrors Jesus, who through obedience secures salvation for all who trust Him. The Ark becomes a foreshadowing of divine protection through faith.

3. Genesis 6–9 (Ark Narrative)

• The Ark was the only means of salvation from God’s judgment by flood.

• Jesus is likewise the sole means of salvation from God’s judgment on sin (John 14:6).

• The Ark’s door, once shut by God, parallels the exclusivity of salvation in Christ.

4. Typological Themes

• Ark as refuge → Christ as refuge from wrath.

• Ark built by divine instruction → Christ’s mission ordained by God.

• Ark carried through waters of judgment → Christ carries believers through judgment into new life.

• Ark leads to covenant renewal (rainbow) → Christ establishes the new covenant in His blood.

Comparison Table: Noah’s Ark vs. Jesus

In any event, this is all the first part of another Additive Pair that consists of 300 + 130 = 430.

The 130 comes about because in the Garden of Eden, God’s Redemptive plan, which involved the 'Seed of the Woman' crushing Satan’s head, had originally involved a Messianic Seed Line from Adam to Jesus, that had included Adam’s son Abel. When Abel was killed by Cain, Adam was 120 years old. This is the source of the symbolic limit of God striving with sinful man (120), which is evidenced by Cain being the first human that God actually cursed:

¹¹ And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. ¹² When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” Genesis 4:11-12

Previously only the Ground had been cursed, for Adam's sake:

¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. ¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:17-19

Then God waited for another 10 years, and Adam had another son:

²⁵ And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, “For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.” Genesis 4:25

Importantly, this occurred when Adam was 130 years old:

³ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called -- his name Seth: Genesis 5:3

And equally important, Seth’s name means appointed, as it states in the text of scripture and the following screenshot from the Logos Bible Software affirms:

Therefore, God indicates in His Word that the Messianic Seed Line from Adam to Jesus, that originally went from Adam through Abel and on to Jesus, was now reset to include Seth, who was appointed when Adam was 130. God also confirms that this birth was part of Him fulfilling His oath to fallen mankind because ultimately it is Jesus who has been appointed to save us and the Hebrew Gematria value of the name Seth is also 700 or 7 (oath / complete / fulfil) x 100 (fallen generation) - demonstrating numerically God's faithfulness to fulfil all of His promises.

In this way, the number 130 symbolises an 'Appointed Time' and when it is added to the number 300, that represents Jesus’ Blood Sacrifice, we get the number 430 that takes the 43 (33 + 10) of Jesus' Death and connects it to God’s Redemptive Timeline, with the emphasis on it being an Appointed Time. So to coin a phrase, this is now where the 'rubber meets the road', and it all begins to come together, in terms of understanding how the number 43 and its multiple 430 actually connects to God's Timing, in relation to His promises and the overall timing of events, as we look forward to the soon return of our LORD.

In this regard, I believe that the following 2 events, that are found in Scripture, both support and validate the hypothesis that there is a trilogy of numbers (43; 47; and 48) that are connected in revealing Gods purposes and plans; and that ultimately could be revealing how close we are to the Rapture and the Second Coming - they are as follows:

Event 1: 430 (43 x 10) years from Promises to Exodus from Egypt

Event 2: 430 (43 x 10) years for Ezekiel's prophecy for Israel and Judah  

In both of these instances, the 430 (43 x 10) years acted as a timing clue that put a limit on how long it would be before God’s people would be freed to enter the Promised Land, which in terms of typology, can parallel God’s people waiting to enter the greater Promised Land in Heaven, via the Rapture.

However, we will first consider the historic context of these 2 Events.

Event 1: 430 years from Promises to Exodus from Egypt

As the following 2 passages in Exodus 12 and Galatians 3 show, it was exactly 430 years to the day (this is how precise God's Appointed Times are) from the promises given to Abram / Abraham unto the Exodus:

⁴⁰ Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹ And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. Exodus 12:40-41

AND

⁵ Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. ¹⁶ Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. ¹⁷ And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Galatians 3:15-18

Interestingly, this shows that God’s People, in the nation of Israel, were meant to enter the Promised Land 430 years after God gave the promises to Abraham. It was an appointed time, and it was only unbelief that resulted in a delay of an additional 40 years in the wilderness, for a total of 430 + 40 = 470; that as a multiple of 47 (the second number of our timing trilogy - 43; 47;and 48), it would become a foreshadowing of the 47^th year of the 19^th century when the United Nations would pass resolution (181) to support the establishment of Israel as a modern nation.

In this context, 43 is directly linked to the prophetic objectives of God, concerning the liberation of His people from captivity and entry into the Promised Land. As a temporal indicator, it was only altered by unbelief, resulting in a 47 event associated with bringing God's people to the threshold of His promises, as they assembled on the banks of the Jordan River, prepared to enter the land promised to Abram and his descendants, exactly 470 (47 x 10) years earlier.

At this point, it is worth briefly considering how 47 became numerically connected with the Promises of God for Israel prior to the historical occurrences:

Meaning of 47 

Notably, as discussed earlier, the numbers 43 and 47 are Prime Numbers, and so they are indivisible apart from 1 and the number itself. Therefore, their composite meanings can only be deduced through the use of Additive Pairs, as also mentioned earlier.

However, in this regard, the most significant additive pair for 47 is as follows:

25 + 22 = 47

25 

Here 25 is related to the promises of God with the whole life of Abraham, who God establishes His Covenant and Promises with, being based upon 25s:

• Abraham was called when he was 75 (25 x 3) and given the promise of a land and Seed (descendants) and a promise he would not just father a nation, but a multitude of nations.

• Abraham gets the promised Son Isaac, through whom all God's promises will come, 25 years after being called, at the age of 100 (25 x 4)

• Abraham lives another 75 years (25 x 3) before going home to be with the LORD at 175 years (25 x 7) of age.

22

Here 22 is related to the nation of Israel, with

• the Hebrew Alphabet has 22 characters;

• Jacob who is renamed Israel was the 22^nd generation from Adam.

• Israel was reborn in 1948 and 1+9+4+8 = 22

• Jesus who Matthew (quoting Hosea) equates as God's perfect son Israel quoted from Psalm 22 on the Cross; and Psalms is the 19th book from Genesis and the 48th from Revelation, basically positioning it as 1948 from the beginning and end of the bible, that again adds to 22

• If one ignores the breakaway northern kingdom and counts the kings of the United Kingdom and the kings of Judah, that ultimately represented the whole nation of Israel, then starting with Saul and ending with Zedekiah, there were 22 kings. 

In this way, 25 and 22, as separate numbers, are about the promises of God in general (25) and the nation of Israel (22) respectively, but combined as the number 47, or 470 (47 x 10), it is about coming to the threshold of the Promises of God for Israel.

So back to our 470 (47 x 10) and this is exactly what we find in that Israel, as a nation, is standing 470 (47 x 10) years after God gave the promises to Abraham, at the threshold of entering into the Promised Land.

Finally, to complete the trilogy of numbers for this event, we have King Solomon beginning to build the Temple, the House of God, where the LORD's presence would dwell in the Holy of Holies, 480 (48 x 10) years after the Exodus from Egypt:

​¹ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD. 1 Kings 6:1

Event 2: 430 years for Ezekiel's prophecy for Israel and Judah 

The following passage also confirms another period of 430 years for the nation, that by the time of Ezekiel was split into a Northern Kingdom (house of Israel) and a Southern Kingdom (house of Judah):

⁴ “Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. ⁵For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.⁶ And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year. Ezekiel 4:4-6

At the time of writing this portion of scripture, Ezekiel was living in exile in Babylon, and while the Southern Kingdom of Judah did still exist, with a remnant living in the land, the Northern Kingdom of Israel had ceased to exist in its own right after 722 BC, with the people of the land either being taken into captivity by the Assyrians, or fleeing South to Jerusalem to escape them. So, the 430 years reflected this by being comprised of 390 years for the House of Israel and 40 years for the House of Judah – for a total of 390 + 40 = 430.

Interestingly, the 390 portion is also a multiple of 13 which, as described elsewhere on my website, represents both Rebellion and Redemption because God precisely reverses the Curse and uses the same number to reflect both the Curse and the Blessing; and here it is used for the Northern Kingdom (Israel), that in Rebellion broke away from the House of David in Judah, that would after several centuries produce the Messiah. 

This is also why the Old Testament, better known scripturally as the Old Covenant (because the words Covenant and Testament are interchangeable), that was God’s initial Covenant established to reveal the Law, is actually revealed in 39 (13 x 3) books. So Israel, that had Rebelled and been Judged under the Law (via the Assyrian Exile) is represented here as 390 (13 x 30) mirroring the Old Covenant of the Law, while Judah, that still existed at that time, in spite of many of its people being exiled to Babylon is represented by 40, which is the number of trial and testing.

Then together, these two groups resembled the original Tribes of Israel, at the time they were liberated from Egypt. According to God's declaration, it would again take 430 years before the two kingdoms—united as the single nation God intended—could be restored, which is represented by 390 + 40 = 430 years.

The thing that I find particularly interesting about this is that at the time Ezekiel was writing this prophecy, the Northern Kingdom no longer existed, yet God still declared that they could potentially be restored within the 430-year time frame. However, the way this 430-year period ultimately plays out in history is not strictly as another 430 years, rather like Israel in the Exodus from Egypt, it involves another delay, which ultimately becomes an extended period of judgement that consists of 2,520 years.

Why this occurs, can be understood from the following scripture, that clearly states that if after being judged for breaking the Covenant with God (that was promised to Abram and his Seed, in the tribes of Israel, when they had agreed to its terms at Mount Sinai after leaving Egypt), then as a last resort their punishment would be multiplied by 7, as the following passage in Leviticus 26 shows:

¹⁵ and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, ¹⁶ I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷ I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. ¹⁸ ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. Leviticus 26:15-18

Then to understand how this figure of 2,520 year was arrived at, please note the following:

Firstly, we need to convert the 70 Hebrew years of the Babylonian Exile to Gregorian years as follows, so that we can know both its starting and finishing dates on our calendar:

70 years x 360 days per prophetic year  = 25,200 days

25,200 days / 365.25 days per year = 68.99383983572895 or 69 Years on the Gregorian Calendar.

Therefore, since the Babylonian Exile had about 3 waves to it and the first, that took Daniel and his three friends (Hananiah; Mishael, Azariah, who were renamed Shadrach; Meshach; and Abednego) is known to have occurred in 605 BC, then the 70 Hebrew years of exile, given as a punishment for breaking God’s Covenant, should have been completed around 536 BC (605 BC – 69).

Then, at that time, God got Cyrus, the Persian King ruling in Babylon, to issue the decree to enable His people to return to Judah and Jerusalem. This would have meant that the 430 prophetic years decreed by Ezekiel, should have been the 430 years minus the 70 years Israel had already received in Judgement, which should have only left a remainder of 360 prophetic Hebrew years. However, in another act of defiance, most remained in Babylon because by then their lives had become comfortable, and they did not want to leave. So, God invoked Leviticus 26 and these remaining 360 years were multiplied by 7 for a total of 360 x 7 = 2,520 years

¹⁸ ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. Leviticus 26:18

Since these years were to be contiguous with the end of the Babylonian exile, which was completed in 536 BC on the Gregorian Calendar, exactly 70 Hebrew prophetic years after Nebuchadnezzar first attacked Jerusalem in 605 BC, when the first Captives including Daniel were taken, the end of God’s judgement, that was originally decreed through Ezekiel as 430 years would now end as follows:

• Firstly, as with the 70 years, we need to convert the 2,520 Hebrew prophetic years so we can apply them to the Gregorian Calendar:

2520 x 360 = 907,200 days

907,200 / 365.25 = 2,483.778234 years on the Gregorian Calendar.

• Secondly, for simplicity, if we round this to 2,483 years, starting from around 536 BC when the 70-year exile finished, we get:

536 BC + 2,483 = 1947, or simply sometime in 1947.

• Thirdly  - noting that while the decimal portion of .778234 represents about 9.5 months and there still needs to be an adjustment for no year 0 (when we move from BC to AD), this is all offset by the fact that we do not know the exact month and day that the exile finished and so do not know the exact day that this 2,520 prophetic days needs to be applied to. Clearly though, God also knew this and simply wanted to put another pointer to 1947, when the United Nations, as the premiere International body representing all nations, would vote (in resolution 181) to support the creation of a homeland for the Jewish People, in their traditional Lands (Promised Land).

Notably, all of this would parallel the Exodus from Egypt, in that, there would be a delay following their Babylonian Exile, before they would enter the Promised Land as a nation again. Now while as stated above this resulted because of the people's disobedience to return to their own Land at the end of the Babylonian exile, the way it would ultimately play out in history is as follows. Essentially, Israel as a nation remained under the oppression of the Persian’s before the Greeks invaded around 333 BC ; followed by the Romans in 66 BC. Then in 70 AD they were scattered all over the world, until they were regathered in the Promised Land and became a nation again, in their own right, in 1948, the 48^th year of the 19^thcentury, which was less than a year after the UN voted in support of them in 1947, the 47^th year of the century, 

So, it seems that 43 is one of God’s prophetic time stamps, that again through its multiple of 430 (43 x 10), is clearly connected to the creation of the modern nation of Israel in both 1947 and 1948, in the Land Promised to Abram / Abraham. As such, it mirrors the Exodus from Egypt, which was the first time that God had set His people free, 430 years after giving His Promises to Abram that paved the way for them to enter their Promised Land 470 (47 x 10) years later; and ultimately this led to Solomon building the Temple for God’s presence to dwell, 480 (48 x 10) years after the Exodus.

So twice we have now seen the numeric pattern that involves the three numbers 43 - 47 - 48, along with their multiplied forms 430 (43 x 10) - 470 (47 x 10)-480 (48 x 10), that we will continue to see in the next section, that deals with the modern rebirth of Israel as a nation.

Both times, the following meanings of the numbers were affirmed:

43 /430 - God's appointed time for Israel to be restored.

47 / 470 - A delay after which God's people in Israel are brought to the threshold of receiving God's Promises.

48 / 480  - God's Presence - the time that God fulfils His promises and the people dwell with Him in the Promised Land. 

Significantly, none of these occurrences that are connected to the 43^rd reference to Abram in scripture (that introduced the Covenant to which the Promises were all attached), are a coincidence. This is why it is often stated that God affirms the associated number 1948 in relation to Abraham (to whom the promise of the Nation of Israel was given) through his genealogy, as recorded in scripture (Genesis 5,10 and 11).

The following Table indicates how this connection is made, with it showing how Abraham’s birth occurred 1948 years after Adam:

Total years from Adam to Abraham's birth: 1948 AM (Anno Mundi) - which means "in the year of the world" and refers to a calendar era dating from the creation of the world based on biblical accounts

 In this way, the genealogy of Abraham actually predicted the year of freedom for the modern nation promised to him, as part of God’s eternal Covenant, given in the 43rd reference to Abram in scripture.

Modern instance of 430– leading to Israel’s Rebirth

 Notably, the preceding two examples of the number 430 (43 x 10) that connected the Promises of God to Abram, which included the establishment of a nation (Israel) that would come from Abram’s Seed, were both outworked historically in scripture.

The first was through the events of the Exodus that started Israel’s Journey to the Promised Land; and the second involved the prophecy given to Ezekiel (while still in captivity in Babylon), that would ultimately culminate with the birth of the nation in 1947 / 1948.

However, these are not the only instances of the 430 (43 x 10), there is a third that is equally connected to the destiny of the Covenant Nation, that does not have its beginnings in bible days, but is arguably foreshadowed there, in relation to Israel’s enslavement in Egypt, such that it finds a secondary fulfilment that ends with the birth of the nation, that began with the UN vote in 1947. 

This foreshadowing can be seen by again noting God’s promise to Abram in Genesis 15 that established the Covenant discussed above. Here, in verse 13, God prophesied that Abram’s descendants would be afflicted for 400 years before God would judge the nation that is afflicting them:

¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ Genesis 15:13-16

This third period began in 1517, the same year that the Protestant Reformation (that completely reshaped Western civilisation and Christian Doctrine, by providing access to Scripture) started - so it was truly another appointed time. However, as the following Table (that lists all the occupiers of the Promised Land from the first incursion by the Assyrian Empire onwards) shows, it was also in this year that the Holy Land was captured by the Ottoman Turks:

Significantly, the occupation by the Ottoman’s Empire was the longest contiguous rule of a foreign power, in the history of the nation, showing that Israel’s rule of the Promised Land from 1406 BC until the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD remains the longest rule of this land by any nation in history, supporting Israel’s present-day claim of being the true indigenous people of the Land. Even after 70 AD, there has always been a Jewish presence in the land that God promised to Abram in 1876 BC.

Importantly, the Ottoman Turk Empire was defeated in 1917 during WW1, when the British Army led by General Allenby liberated Jerusalem and the Holy Land, exactly 400 years after the Ottomans had begun their occupation of it; and just as Genesis 15 predicted, this nation was judged and defeated; just as Egypt in the first fulfilment of this prophecy was. All of this opened the way for Jewish people to begin to return to the Holy Land, prior to the events of the Holocaust in Germany, during the 1930s and 1940s.

This return was dramatically aided by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, that was a public statement by the British government declaring support for a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. Importantly, Palestine was a name for the Promised Land that the Roman Emperor Hadrian had originally given it, after crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135AD. This renaming of what was known as Judea, in the time of Jesus, to Syria Palaestina was intended to sever the link to Jewish history and nationalism in the region. Significantly, with regard to the Balfour Declaration, it was issued as a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild during World War I, the same year that Jerusalem and the Holy Land were liberated from the Ottoman Turks. As such, it is considered a key document leading to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. 

However, the intervening years from 1917 to 1947 involved some very obstructive Policies by the British Government, particularly after they were given the mandate for Palestine on April 25, 1920, at the San Remo Conference.  Without doubt, these policies impacted upon the number of deaths that occurred in the Holocaust because as shown below the British capped Jewish immigration to 75,000 over five years in 1939, effectively preventing many Jews who were trying to escape from Nazi Germany from returning to the land that God had promised their ancestors. Arguably, this may be the reason that the Empire, upon which the Sun was said to never set, exists no more. Most of its colonies are now independent of it; and England has been overrun with Muslims, who are replacing British Common Law with Islamic Sharia Law. As Genesis 12:3 states:

³ I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3

Here's a detailed overview of the rules and policies governing Jewish migration to the Holy Land during the British Mandate for Palestine (1917–1947) that shows that it was only due to growing Arab opposition to the influx of Jews to the Land that resulted in Britain beginning to put restrictions on Jewish migration, prior to it becoming a near total blockade during the years of WW2 and following, up until 1947, when the British Mandate ended:

Jewish Migration under the British Mandate (1917–1947)

1. Balfour Declaration (1917)

• Issued by Britain in 1917, it expressed support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.

• It laid the ideological foundation for Jewish immigration, but was vague and politically sensitive - Center for Online Judaic Studies.

2. Mandate for Palestine (1920–1922)

• Britain was formally granted the mandate by the League of Nations in 1922.

• The mandate incorporated the Balfour Declaration and committed Britain to facilitate Jewish immigration while ensuring the rights of existing non-Jewish communities -  University of Central Arkansas.

3. Early Immigration Waves (1920s–1930s)

• Jewish immigration increased significantly, especially during the Fifth Aliyah (1929–1939), driven by rising antisemitism in Europe.

• Britain initially allowed immigration under quotas and certificates issued to Jewish agencies.

4. Arab Opposition and British Restrictions

• Growing Arab resistance led Britain to impose limits:

• 1920–1936: Periodic restrictions began, especially after Arab riots and unrest.

• 1930 Passfield White Paper: Proposed severe limits on immigration, later softened under pressure.

• 1936–1939 Arab Revolt: Led to further British reassessment of policy -  factually.co.

5. 1939 White Paper

• Marked a major shift: Britain capped Jewish immigration to 75,000 over five years.

• Further immigration required Arab consent, effectively halting legal Jewish migration.

• This policy remained in force during WWII, even as Jews fled Nazi persecution -  Center for Online Judaic Studies factually.co.

6. Illegal Immigration and British Enforcement

• Thousands of Jews attempted to enter Palestine illegally (Aliyah Bet).

• Britain intercepted many ships and detained migrants in camps in Cyprus and elsewhere.

7. Post-WWII Tensions (1945–1947)

• Holocaust survivors sought refuge in Palestine, but British restrictions remained.

• Zionist resistance intensified, including sabotage and attacks on British infrastructure.

• International pressure mounted, leading Britain to refer the issue to the United Nations in 1947.

Amazingly, the precise nature of all of these events were scheduled by God, in connection with His plan to reset humanity after the flood, when He called Abram and gave Him Covenant Promises. Firstly, He gave Abram a time frame of 400 years, in conjunction with a transitional Exodus event, that was precisely 430 years to the very day that He gave him the promises. It was not just the same year, but the exact same day:

⁴⁰ Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹ And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴² It is a night of solemn observance to the LORD for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of the LORD, a solemn observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations. Exodus 12:40-42

We know that the start of this time-period was connected to the Promises of the Covenant because this is confirmed in Galatians 3:17:

¹⁷ And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. Galatians 3:17

So now we have three periods of 430 that are simply multiples of 43, noting that the events carry both the individual and related meanings of the two numbers (43 and 430) in the  'Blood Sacrifice of Jesus confirming the Covenant at the Appointed Time' (430) and confirming it was Jesus at the age of 33 fulfilling the Law (10) - They are:

1) 430 (43 x 10) years from the Promises to Abram unto the Exodus from Egypt

2) 430 (43 x 10) years for Ezekiel's prophecy for Israel (Northern Kingdom) and Judah (Southern Kingdom) that extended from 535 BC until 1948 and the rebirth of the modern state of Israel, after the people's disobedience turned the final 360-year portion of the 430 year's prophecy into a 2,520 (360 x 7) year delay.

3) 430 (43 x 10) years from 1517 (Ottoman Empire) to 1947 UN Vote to establish modern state of Israel.

In each instance, the 430-year period is connected with a transitional event that is seeing God’s people move from 'slavery and exile to foreign powers', to self-rule, and freedom, as part of God’s Covenant with the Abram and his Seed; and importantly, they relate to periods that have historically culminated, both in bible times and in modern history (in the 20^th Century). 

Other Hidden Connections to Covenants and Purpose

As we have seen, Covenants emphasise loyalty and identity in general, and in relation to God, they reveal His amazing Love for us because establishing His Unconditional Covenant with us cost Him everything, as it was 'Cut in His blood' on the Cross.

When contrasted to Contracts, that by definition are conditional and that focus only on the specific obligations and benefits of both parties, we get a greater insight into what God says in 2 Peter 3:9, when He declares He is not willing that any should perish:

⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:8-9

And in Romans 8:38 – 39, where He states that there is nothing that can separate us from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus:

³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39

Clearly, because He has founded His relationship with us on a Covenant that is eternal and never cancelled and not a Contract, people only go to Hell because they choose to reject Him and His Love. This is the heart of the only 'Unforgivable Sin', the rejection of the God who shed His blood for us, which is called the 'Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit', who according to Jesus in John 16 came to convict the world of Sin; Righteousness; and Judgement:

⁶ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. ⁸ And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰ of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; ¹¹ of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. John 16:5-11

So understanding all of this and the connection of God's Covenant to the number 43, it is fascinating to note the following hidden connection between the promises of the covenant and this number. 

Strong's Dictionary - Hebrew #43 - connection to Abraham

In an interesting observation that counters the notion that "God is not intimately involved in our world and everything that would seem to counter that idea are really just coincidences", William Temple an Anglican Priest, who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury during the 1960s, is noted for having said "...When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't".

Similarly, I believe that nothing related to God’s word is a random chance coincidence, rather it is by the design of an All-Powerful, All Loving God. Notably, in this regard, Strong’s Dictionary is a primary resource for studying the meaning of every word in the Bible, allocating each Hebrew and Greek word a unique number. Given this, along with the fact that this is a study on some of the prophetic aspects of the numbers 43; 47; and 48, that are connected in a pattern that begins with 43, which is itself associated with the name Abram before it was changed to Abraham that was then associated with the number 48, I find the following occurrence quite stunning. 

Essentially, God prophetically indicated His intention to increase the fruitfulness of the man whose name was connected to 43 and that meant 'exalted father' by changing it to Abraham that has the value of 48 and means 'father of a multitude'. In this way, he would become the father, not just of 'a people', but of 'many nations'. Then, remembering that God is sovereign over all things, including those that relate to His Word, I find it fascinating to note that Strong’s Hebrew Bible Number - 43 is associated with the name Ebiasaph, that literally carries the primary meaning of “FATHER of INCREASE”, as shown in the screenshots from the Logos Bible Software below, which provides access to hundreds of dictionaries: 

This confirms for us that God wants us to know His plans and purposes, as He has woven His intentions and purposes in interconnected patterns throughout His Word, in many surprising ways, that He desires for us to Seek and Find. He truly is El Shaddai - God Almighty, who is both Omniscient and Omnipotent, a God of wonder, and the God of History, who can be completely trusted with every aspect of our lives.

However, God does not stop there, for as the following will show, the numeric value for this name, that is associated with the number 43 in the Strong's Bible Dictionary, holds another hidden clue to God’s purpose for 43 and its multiples, that include 430.

As stated previously, the practice of calculating this value is called Gematria, and based upon the value of the Hebrew letters that comprise the word, which in this instance is the name Ebiasaph, God reveals something amazing, as follows:

So, the name connected to the Abraham and the number 43 - Ebiasaph (אביסף) adds up to 153 in standard gematria.

The Bible and Triangular Numbers

Significantly, 153 is the 17^th Triangular Number, which are numbers that reflect the Trinitarian nature of God and that collectively are formed into a Triangle by arranging dots in successive rows, with each row having one more dot than the previous. For example, the first few triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21 and so on, as per below:

The easiest way to deal with Triangular Numbers is by the use of a formula: T_n = n (n + 1)/2 where:

T_n  - the triangular number being considered

n  - the same triangular number

For example: the 6^th Triangular number, as shown above, is a triangle composed of:

 6 (6 +1) / 2 = 6 (7) / 2 = 21 dots or elements

However, the absolutely most amazing thing about this, in relation to Ebiasaph (Strongs Hebrew #43) that means Father of Increase, is that the name has the numerical value of 153, which is the 17^thTriangular number, that is a triangle composed of:

17 (17 +1) / 2= 17 (18) /2 = 153  elements

The significance of this is that God uses the Triangular number 17 in connection with the Resurrection Day (17^thNisan) of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World, and the number 153 (which is the result of the 17th Triangular number) as a symbolic representation of the Salvation that will follow because of His Resurrection. It can be seen in John 21:4-14, that is all about His disciples catching Fish (remembering that the Fish is the symbol of Christianity) and that when Jesus called His disciples in Matthew 4:19, He promised to make them 'Fishers of Men':

 "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men". Matthew 4:19

Therefore, the following passage in John 21, highlights the salvific symbolism of the number 153:

⁴ But when the morning had now come, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. ⁵ Then Jesus said to them, “Children, have you any food?” They answered Him, “No.” ⁶ And He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast, and now they were not able to draw it in because of the multitude of fish. ⁷ Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it), and plunged into the sea. ⁸ But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from land, but about two hundred cubits), dragging the net with fish. ⁹ Then, as soon as they had come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread. ¹⁰ Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.” ¹¹ Simon Peter went up and dragged the net to land, full of large fish, one hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not broken. ¹² Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” Yet none of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are You?”—knowing that it was the Lord. ¹³ Jesus then came and took the bread and gave it to them, and likewise the fish. ¹⁴ This is now the third time Jesus showed Himself to His disciples after He was raised from the dead. John 21:4-14

To understand the connection between these fish and salvation, it is also important to note that there are two types of Fish (that represent the Souls of Humanity) that are being described here.

Firstly, there are those that Jesus' disciples catch (which includes those that Jesus can catch through us) through the spreading of the Gospel and secondly there are those that Jesus has already caught, as pictured by those He is preparing over a coal fire on the beach.

Those that Jesus had already caught are a picture of many that He is saving directly through dreams; visions and appearances. Then, just like Isaiah, who was convicted about his unclean lips, and his iniquity was taken away when a live coal touched his mouth  (Isaiah 7:6-7), the following scene in this passage pictures Jesus directly sanctifying those He had brought to faith over a coal fire. Importantly, this also reminds us of the source of that sanctification, by its association with another coal fire that was burning when Jesus was arrested, for our sakes, prior to His Crucifixion.

So both in life and mathematics, it is all connected. Notably, this passage is occurring after Jesus’ resurrection because Jesus wanted His disciples to understand that because He was the Resurrection and the Life (17) that at His command they would all be able to be a part of catching many (the symbolic 153) in the net of the Gospel to bring many into the Kingdom.

The Origin of 153

Significantly, there is also an intermediary stage connected with all of this, that numerically reveals the original event that resulted in the processes of salvation and sanctification being associated with the number 153, not just from its mathematical connection to the number 17 and Jesus' Resurrection day. It began in the days of Moses when God told him that the people must consecrate themselves to be ready to meet Him on the Third Day.

¹⁰ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. ¹¹ And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. Exodus 19:10-11

And

¹⁵ And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.” Exodus 19:15

The "today" in verse 10 was the 48^th day after leaving Egypt, and here Moses, in the presence of God, was being instructed about preparing all of the people of God to come into His presence. This made the "tomorrow" of the verse the 49^th day, and then the next day that was called the "third day" was also the 50^th day, that corresponds both with Pentecost and also with the symbolism of the Jubilee (50), when everything lost is restored - Just as it was when the slaves of Egypt had their freedom restored, enabling them to dwell with their God. 

Sadly however, after God had descended to speak with the people on the 50^th day, they became too afraid to speak with Him directly, and they requested that Moses act as an intermediary:

¹⁸ Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. ¹⁹ Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.” ²⁰ And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.” ²¹ So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was Exodus 20:18-21

Therefore, while all of this had started with the people consecrating themselves, in preparation to meet God on the 'Third Day', it would later be Moses who would corporately consecrate all of the people to the service of God, in an act that would mirror the New Testament understanding of the process of Sanctification. Essentially, after Moses became the intermediary, he told the people all that God had said; and as the people agreed to the terms of the Covenant, Moses wrote all of God's Words down before rising the next day to build an altar, upon which a sacrifice would be offered to ratify the agreement:

³ So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the LORD has said we will do.” ⁴ And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵ Exodus 24:3-5

So literally 50 days (the first Pentecost) after Israel came out of Egypt in the Exodus, they were given the Law; and then the very next day, the 51^st Day (17 x 3) after being freed from slavery in Egypt, Moses consecrated the people to God by the sprinkling of Blood from a Sacrifice, that would be performed for that purpose. In this way, they became the people of YHVH (Jehovah,) such that He would both dwell and walk with them:

³ And Moses came and told the people -- all the words of the LORD, and -- all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. ⁴ And Moses wrote -- all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵ And he sent -- young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. ⁶ And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷ And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. ⁸ And Moses took -- the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words. Exodus 24:3-8

At this point, it is important to note the distinction between the related terms Consecration and Sanctification, that connect us to the message of the Fish and the Coal Fire in John 21. Essentially, Consecration is an act, where you set apart something, or someone for God, while Sanctification is the process in which God then makes holy, what has been already been set apart. 

Numerically, the connection between the two is the number 51, which connects us to both of the numbers 17 and 153 (remembering that 153 is the value of the Triangular number 17) because it is a multiple of 17 (17 x 3 = 51) and a factor of 153 (51 x 3 = 153). As such, the relationships can be expressed as follows:

17 (New Resurrection Life) x 3 (by the power of the Holy Spirit - 3rd person of the Godhead) = 51 (Consecration for Service to God).

51 (Consecration to God) x 3 (by the power of the Holy Spirit - 3rd person of the Godhead) = 153 (Salvation and Sanctification)

By sprinkling the blood, God made a bilateral Covenant with the Israelites, consecrating them as His Holy people and preparing them for priestly service to Him. The blood was first presented and accepted on the altar, and then applied to the people, formally cleansing them from Sin and consecrating them to God’s service, after which God claimed them as His special property.

⁸ And Moses took -- the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words. Exodus 24:8

And

⁵ Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. Exodus 19:5

Through this sprinkled blood, the LORD purified and consecrated Israel (set them apart), effectively recreating the Covenant that He ceremonially performed with Abraham 430 years earlier in 1876 BC (1876 BC-1446 BC= 430). So the important distinction here is that while the people had already externally consecrated themselves, by the washing of their garments, the sacrificial blood then cleansed their hearts. They were consecrated, purified, and promised to serve God, with the Covenant-keeper justifying them by faith. By this blood sprinkling and their voluntary acceptance of obligations to obedience, the Israelites formally became the people of Jehovah, guaranteeing their commitment to the LORD’s service, meaning that they publicly declared their commitment in a solemn oath to become consecrated or set apart to do His will.

In this way, the numbers 17; 51 and 153 are all connected in the Bible with 17 being the new Resurrection Life that leads to 51 (17 x3), the consecration for service, that in turn produces the 153 (51 x3) - a Harvest of Salvation. Then, as we have just seen, these are also connected to the number 43, through God's prophetic purpose, that is in turn connected to Abram / Abraham, to whom the Covenant Promises were first given. Then 43 that foundationally is 33 + 10, which symbolically represents Jesus on the Cross at 33 fulfilling the Law (that was represented by the 10 commandments) vicariously for us, leads us to the number 47, where we stand on the threshold of God's Promises ready to see them fulfilled; and when they are, after a delay, they result in the 48 of His presence, where He dwells with us.

Similarly, through the application of the principle of additive pairs again, 153 can also be understood as being foundationally 120 + 33, where 120 is the symbolic limit of God's striving with Sinful man, as described in Genesis 6:3, before He provided His solution in His Messiah Jesus, who would die at 33 for the Sins of mankind. All the numbers connect and inter-connect, demonstrating that God is both the God of Creation and of History and that nothing is impossible for Him, as He leads us towards the Day when we will all stand before Him. Those that love and trust Him will then forever dwell in His presence, while those that reject His offer of Salvation will be forever separated from Him and His Creation.

It is also notable, that the sequence of events that led up to all of this, literally began on the 48^th day (remembering it is the number of God's Presence) when Moses, in the presence of God, was instructed on how the people should prepare to meet with God. Ultimately, the LORD coming down on the Third Day was a foreshadowing of both the Birth of the Church and the Rapture of the Church. For while historically, the context of this 'Third Day' was the 50^th Day, after the Israelites had left Egypt, this day was also the first Pentecost, the same Feast day that the Church would be born on, about 1,479 years later.

Additionally, the 'Third day' would represent the end of the two days associated with the Church age, which scripture shows would last for 2,000 years (a day is as a 1,000 years to the Lord). Following this, God will again meet with His people on another 'Third day', as prophesied by Hosea 6:2, that will start with the Rapture, that will begin the 7 year Tribulation; that will be followed by the final 1,000 years of human history on the current earth, in the Millennium (the 7th day since Adam, that parallels the 7th day of Creation, that was a Day of Rest - the Sabbath).

Finally, Jesus will create a new Heaven and Earth on the Eighth Day (Shmini Atzeret), which was prophecised in Leviticus 23:

³⁶ Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.   ³⁷ These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: Leviticus 23:36-37

Summary 

As repeatedly stated, God does want His people to know His plans, just as He rhetorically asked in Genesis 18:17:

¹⁷ And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing Genesis..." 18:17

Clearly the answer was an emphatic NO because this was prior to Jesus coming down to see first-hand the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah. The amazing thing is that not only did the Lord want to include Abraham in His plans, but He potentially would have changed His plans, based up the requests of Abraham, whom He describes in Isaiah 41:8 as His Friend.

Fascinatingly, when Abraham was interceding and pleading for Sodom because his nephew Lot and his family lived there, he started with a request to save it, basically asking ...if there were fifty righteous living there, would God still destroy it and not spare it for the sake of the righteous?,  but then completely unprompted he continued reducing this number to ten because he knew in his heart how wicked the city was. However, while the LORD graciously agreed to Abraham’s request to save it, if there were 10 righteous  living in the city, there was actually no further discussion about whether the city was saved or not. Essentially, Abraham did not know whether there were even ten righteous or not, and the Lord did not say. So when the Angels went off toward Sodom, for all Abraham knew, Lot and his family were about to be destroyed along with the rest of the City. The point here is that Abraham stopped pleading for the life of his nephew, but the Lord didn’t. The primary task of the Angels going there was to save Lot, regardless of whether Abraham asked or not, because He is a loving and gracious God.

All this suggests that if Abraham had not hidden his true intentions by pleading for Sodom and had simply asked for Lot and his family to be saved, the LORD would have told him that this was His intention. For while the Lord wants to reveal His plans to us, He also wants us to be forthright in seeking Him. As He says in Matthew 7:7 – “ Seek and You will find”.

The 43 -47 connection to Fear Unbelief and Disobedience

With that said, the LORD has clearly revealed in the Bible that 43  is a time-stamp in relation to His timeline of Redemption, with His Word showing two periods of 430 (43 x 10) that align with time-periods that start with God’s promises and finish at a time appointed by God to be the fulfilment of those promises. The third period that I detailed above, stands in contrast to the first two, in that it did not start with a Word or Promise from God, as recorded in the Bible, rather it was a modern example of applying the template of the numbers 43; 47 that led to the 48 in a consistent way, such that it supports the idea of being able to find the Bullseye of the LORD's Return on the Target of Prophetic Convergence, using these numbers.

So in summary, we can ultimately see that the 43 / 430 number appears as an appointed time in the bible and that it was only because of fear, unbelief and disobedience that the promises were not fulfilled, at the end of the 430 years; and that a delay was introduced that shifted the fulfilment of the promise from the end of the period defined by a multiple of 43 to one connected to 47 or 470 (47 x 10). Again, in this discussion it should be remembered both that the 10 can relate to Jesus fulfilling the Law, that makes the promises possible, and in Bible Numerics, the 0 can often be disregarded, when interpreting a numbers meaning.

To Recap:

The first 43 - 47 connection that we saw occurred in relation to the period that started with the promises given to Abraham (in 1876 BC) and that spanned until the literal Exodus of God’s people (Israel) from Egypt 430 years later, when they began their journey to the Promised Land. It was only unbelief in God’s power to give them the Land, that was full of Giants, that added another 40 years of wandering in the wilderness until all who were 20 years old and over, who had not trusted God, had died out. Only then, 470 (47 x 10) years after the promises, did they stand again at the edge of the Jordan, ready to enter into the Promised Land.

The second 43 – 47 connection occurred in relation to the 430 (43 x 10) prophetic years that God gave to Ezekiel, as time-stamp, for the iniquity of the nation (detailed earlier in this article). Essentially 430 years were again designated as the appointed time that was meant for the nation to have its promises restored, so that they could rule again in their own right, within the bounds of the Promised Land, and no longer be in exile. It was meant to take them from the beginning of their captivity in 605 BC unto about 181 BC (noting that the 430 prophetic Hebrew years converts to 423.8 years on the Gregorian Calendar), however again due to unbelief and disobedience a delay of 2,520 Hebrew years was introduce that lasted until the 47^th year in the 19^th Century on the Gregorian Calendar, when in 1947 the UN would vote in favour of Israel becoming a state again. So, for the first time in over 2,500 years, God’s chosen people would again, in connection with an event numerically associated with the number 47 be standing at the precipice of becoming a nation again in the Promised Land, just like in the Exodus from Egypt, where they would have sovereignty under God over their own lives, just as promised to Abraham.

Notably though this would follow the greatest time of persecution the nation had ever know in the Holocaust, that ultimately prompted an even greater Exodus of Jewish people from all over the earth, just as prophesied in multiple verses in the bible:

Key Verses on the Restoration of Israel

• Isaiah 11:11–12 “In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean. He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.”
• Jeremiah 30:3 “The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess.”
• Jeremiah 23:3–8 “I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture… ‘As surely as the Lord lives who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’”
• Ezekiel 34:13 “I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land.”
• Deuteronomy 30:5 “The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.”

These verses not only reflect a physical return to the land, but also a spiritual renewal and fulfillment of divine promises, demonstrating how the nature of the numbers 43 and 430, as appointed times of God, are connected with this theme of the Exodus from Captivity to Freedom both physically and spiritually in a Promised Land that will one day encapsulate all of Heaven and Earth.

Also as stated above, 43 is also comprised of 33 + 10 which can be understood as the age of Jesus (33) when He fulfilled the Law (10) to set His people free from the curse of Sin, which is Death. His purpose in all of this is not just to set us free, but to make a new home for us where He can dwell with us forever. This is how God’s Word to us ends in Revelation with a new Heaven and Earth upon which the new Jerusalem shall descend from Heaven to Earth and in which God the Father and God the Son will dwell with their people for all of Eternity, in which there is no end, as the following verses show:

​¹ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. ² Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. ⁴ And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:1-4

And

³ And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. ⁴ They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. ⁵ There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. Revelation 22:3-5

Ultimately, these verses show where God's special Trilogy of Numbers 43 - 47 - 48 conclude because the 48 is associated with God's Presence, from the first time that Holy of Holies (where God's Glory rested between the Cherubim on the top of the Ark of the Covenant), was created out of 48 boards; and later when 480 (48 x 10) years after the Exodus from Egypt, Solomon in his 4th year, began to build the Temple that would create a more permanent structure for God to dwell with His people. Similarly, the 47^th year of the 19th Century became the 48^th year and the promise of 1947 became the fulfilment of 1948 when God reestablished His people in the Land He had promised to Abraham and they could again for the first time in nearly two millenia worship their God as a nation. 

From Exile to Promise

As we have seen throughout all of the preceding, God used a Trilogy of numbers 43; 47 and 48 throughout the history of His people in a Trilogy of events for the purpose of moving His people from Darkness to the Light of His Presence. Consistently these events involved an appointed time that became delayed due to disobedience or unbelief before finally seeing aspects of God's Promises fulfilled. Each event play a part in progressing God's Redmeptive Plan for His people as follows:

43 - associated with the Lord's appointed time.
47 - associated with a delay that brings His people to the threshold of their prophetic Promises.
48 - God's Promises are fulfilled and God dwells with His people.

So in summary, we have two numbers 43 and 47 that connect us with all the Promises of God that ultimately lead us to the third number 48, that is God's presence among His people. The 43 is the time period it takes to moves God’s people from slavery in the world to the point at which God wants to fulfil His promises to them and the 47 is the actual point of time, after any delays, in which God’s Promises are about to be fulfilled. This was seen three times throughout Israel's History, twice in the bible and one time in the modern era.

Now while each of these have already been outlined twice in the sections above, it is important to summarise them here again, one final time, both so that the part each number of the trilogy plays in the timeline of God's Redemptive plan is clearly understood, and to emphasise how each instance began with God's people in Exile and ended with them in His Promised Land.

This aspect, as will be seen shortly, all helps to lay the foundation for understanding how this pattern of numbers could all be a part of God revealing timing clues that relate to the ultimate fulfilment of His Promises. This will be when His Messiah in Jesus comes in the Clouds to gather His people (who are symbolically exiled in the world) in the Rapture, before taking them to the greater Promised Land, represented by Heaven. Importantly, this will occur exactly 7 years prior to His returning to save all of His people, who are collectively all grafted into Israel, by the time of His Second Coming, when His feet physically touch the Mount of Oives again.

So, from this perspective, the first involved the 430 (43 x 10) years connected to the God's people being exiled in Egypt before He set them free in the Exodus. This event should have seen the Israelites enter into the Promised Land within a few weeks, but it became a 470 (47 x 10) year event because man in his fallen state through fear and unbelief in his God introduced a delay, represented here by the 40 years of trial and testing in the wilderness.

Similarly, the second 430 years began with another exile, when they were taken into captivity in Babylon, and after an even longer delay of 2,520 years, due to disobedience, it ultimately culminated in another 47 year event with the vote by the UN in the 47^th year of the 19^th century, that supported the creation of the modern state of Israel, within certain defined borders.

The third instance of 430 years, that occurred in modern times, involved the greatest exile in the history of God's people, with them be dispersed to nearly every nation on earth. This occurred after the nation promised to Abraham did not know the time of their visitation and failed to recognise their Messiah in Jesus, as stated in Luke 19:

⁴¹ And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³ For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side ⁴⁴ and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” Luke 19:41-44

Ultimately 38 years later (assuming Jesus' crucifixion was in 32 AD, as supported by many scholars), in 70 AD, the Temple that represents God's Presence with His people and most of Jerusalem were destroyed and the Diaspora, that ultimately saw the nation of Israel scattered to the four winds of the earth, exiled from their Promised Land, began. During this time, the remnant of God’s people who managed to remain in parts of the Land were subject to foreign rulers with the last ones being the Ottoman Turks, who literally ruled from 1517 until 1917, mirroring the 400 years of affliction that God revealed to Abraham in relation to his descendants, that first occurred in Egypt. Then, at the end of this time, Jerusalem and the Holy Land were liberated by the British, but they remained as the administrators of the land, under the guidelines of the Mandate System, before 30 years later the UN voted in favour of Israel becoming a nation again in 1947. So it was 430 years after the final empire had begun their rule until the 47^th year of the 19^th Century when again the people of Israel were ready to see God’s promises fulfilled.

However, although the Jews accepted the terms of UN proposal to recreate their homeland, the Arabs did not and war broke out. Ultimately, this led to a 48 event when Israel finally declared itself as a nation again, the following year, the 48th year of the century, on May 14^th 1948. Clearly it was inevitable because it fits God's pattern defined by 43-47-48.

Therefore, in summary, we have two numbers 43 and 47 that connect us with all the Promises of God.  These in turn lead to a third number 48 that represents God dwelling with His people, which is the ultimate fulfilment of all of God’s promises. However, although Israel finally declared itself as a nation again on May 14^th 1948, the surrounding Arabs, that includes the Palestinian Arabs of today, continue to refuse Israel’s right to exist in their midst and so again God’s people are still experiencing a delay before God can bring true Peace and Freedom.

This is where the symbolic link to the 'Time of Jacob’s Trouble' (also known as the Tribulation) becomes apparent. For the end of this delay— which amazingly reveals another alignment of God's special numbers when one notes that Jacob died at age 147 (that  can be broken down into 100 for the fallen generation and the 47 that represents the delay that brings us to the threshold of God's promises) — marks the beginning of a 1,000-year period called the Millennium (the seventh 1,000-year day since Creation). During this Millennium, scripture reveals that Jesus will again dwell with His people in the Promised Land of Israel.

Then finally, following this time, all of God's Promises will be fulfilled in the Eighth Day of Eternity. This is where God will dwell with His people forever, it will be a 'time' that has a beginning without an end.

Possible Rapture Hint

For believers in the last of the Last-Days, I believe that the 43 time-stamp in connection with the 47 delay could well be connected with the Rapture, the ultimate fulfilment of the 48 where God’s people will be taken up into the LORD’s presence. So, the question is:

WHEN WILL THE LAST 43 - 47 PERIOD BEGIN, IF IT HASN'T ALREADY, AND WHEN WILL IT END?

At this point, I need to emphasize that the following is purely speculation in line with the LORD’s command to watch and like the Archery metaphor in the Introduction of this article, the hope is that as He reveals more and more to us, that one day soon we will be seeing His true and actual time-line, that will culminate in the Blessed Hope of the Church, as spoken of by Paul in Titus 2:13

¹³ looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, Titus 2:13.

Like the LORD wanted to reveal His plans to Abraham, we just need boldness to ask for His clarity and guidance and perhaps unlike Abraham, who never asked the LORD whether He would save his nephew Lot and his family (probably already thinking He would, as in the case of his son Isaac), we need to be specific about our family and the timing of when His judgement will come.

With that said, it is interesting to note that this year is the Hebrew year 5786, with the decade portion of the year being a multiple of 43 being 43 x 2 = 86. While I am wary of personal confirmations, as I wish to stay grounded in the Bible, it is hard for me not to mention that my wife and I were married in 1982, which happens to be Hebrew Year 5743, with the last day of our honeymoon ending on the Feast of Trumpets that year. So, we were married in a year ending in 43 and have now been married for 43 years in a year that ends in 86, which is 43 x 2. Clearly, getting married any other year would have meant there was no connection to 43, so it became significant to me, given I was writing this article about God’s use of the number and its possible link as a timing clue to the Rapture, when God will fulfill all of His Promises to Abraham’s spiritual descendants, who have all been grafted into Israel.

Given this and the fact that the Hebrew year 5786 will continue into 2026 on the Gregorian calendar, it seemed relevant to consider 43 and its multiple 86; along with another multiple including 43 x 3, because God is a Trininty, as part of my considerations, related to a time period that could end with the Rapture. 

Finding a Starting Point to calculate the Rapture

Clearly, we need to determine a starting point, and just as Israel's three historical 43/430 events had significant markers, such as the Promises to Abraham; Prophecy to Ezekiel and the start of Ottoman rule in the promised Land, to determine the beginning of their appointed 43/430 time periods, the starting point for our calculation to the Rapture also cannot be any arbritary date that fits our theory, rather it has to be a date that is unequivocally connected with the rebirth of the nation promised to Abraham, in modern times.

In this respect, while May 14, 1948 marks the official rebirth of Israel, several pivotal dates laid the foundation for that moment—most notably the First Zionist Congress in 1897; the Balfour Declaration in 1917; and the UN Partition Plan vote in 1947.

Here’s a timeline of the most defining pre-1948 milestones that directly led to the recreation of the modern State of Israel, that includes these 3 events, that need to be considered as a starting point:

Key Foundational Dates Leading to Israel’s Rebirth

1897 – First Zionist Congress

• Convened in Basel, Switzerland by Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism.

• Herzl declared: “In Basel I founded the Jewish State…perhaps in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will realize it.”

• This congress established the World Zionist Organization, formalizing the movement for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1917 – Balfour Declaration

• Issued by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, expressing support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

• This was a major diplomatic endorsement, later incorporated into the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, giving it international legitimacy.

1920 – San Remo Conference

• Allied powers assigned Britain the Mandate for Palestine, incorporating the Balfour Declaration.

• This gave Britain administrative control and a legal framework to facilitate Jewish immigration and settlement.

1939–1945 – The Holocaust

• The genocide of six million Jews during World War II intensified global support for a Jewish homeland.

• Survivors and displaced Jews sought refuge, fuelling urgency for statehood.

November 29, 1947 – UN Partition Plan Vote

• The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 proposed partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.

• The plan was accepted by Jewish leaders and rejected by Arab leaders.

• This vote provided international legal support for the creation of Israel, fulfilling Herzl’s prediction almost exactly 50 years later.

The 50-Year Prophetic Arc - Pointer to Rapture?

Beginning with the first event listed above under the list of Key Foundational Dates Leading to Israel’s Rebirth, it is notable that in 1897, Theodor Herzl made a remarkably prophetic prediction at the Zionist Congress, stating that he had founded the Jewish state.

In relation to the UN resolution 181, it's interesting to note Zechariah 3, which entailed a discussion between God, in the form of the pre-incarnate Jesus and Satan. It depicts a spiritual battle where Satan acts as the accuser (prosecutor) and God as the defender, asserting His right to save His people, who are represented as Jerusalem. In Zechariah 3:1,3  Joshua, the High Priest, who represents Jerusalem and its people, is symbolically standing before the LORD and Satan, dressed in filthy garments that represented their sins and iniquities:

​¹ Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him.

And

³ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel. Zechariah 3:1-3

However, in Zechariah 2, prior to God's engagement with Satan, He reveals that His decision to save Jerusalem has already been made and that clearly Satan's accusation will come too late:

¹² And the LORD shall inherit -- Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. ¹³ Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. Zechariah 2:12-13

Thus, when He is confronted by Satan, God reveals that in His sovereign choice He has already chosen Jerusalem and its people, demonstrating His ultimate power and refusal to let Satan destroy what He has chosen. In Zechariah 3:2 He states:

²And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Zechariah 3:2

Ultimately, the problem is that Satan understands God's Justice, but not His Mercy. Yes, Satan may be right about Jerusalem and God's people, when he points out their filthy garments, but there is nothing he can say when God rebukes him and declares Jerusalem as a "brand plucked out of the fire". 

Notably, the Hebrew word for a "Brand" is Ud - א֖וּד (’ûḏ) is only used 3 times in the Old Testament and each time it describes the Brand or Firebrand, the burning ember that is plucked from the fire; appearing in passages describing judgment and God's redemptive plan, like being "plucked out" from consuming fire, symbolising His grace amidst judgment. 

Significantly, the Strong's Bible Dictionary, that was first published in 1890 by Dr James Strong, allocated the Strong's Hebrew Number 181 to this word, as the following screenshot shows:

Then 57 years later, in an amazing connection to the discussion about Jerusalem's status, between God and Satan, the United Nations would in 1947 allocate that exact same number 181 to their Resolution that was created to decide whether, or not, there should be a Jewish State centred in Jerusalem again. However, God had already declared that there would be, so it was an appointed time that no man or demon in hell could stop. In this way, the UN Resolution 181 was literally, in every understanding of the word, God Himself through the men of that day plucking a "Brand" out of the fire of the Holocaust of WW2.

Notably, the word Holocaust is also a Biblical word that means 'Burnt Offering' and it appears in the Greek Septuagint and in the New Testament as well, where appropriately God is describing it in the original context as something that He took no pleasure in. So when Hitler created the Holocaust against God's people, God used this abhorrent event in history to be a launching pad for restoring them, after nearly two thousand years, under Resolution 181.

⁶ In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. ⁷ Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ ” ⁸ Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), Hebrews 10:6-8

Essentially, as a nation, they had rejected their Messiah in the first century and this had plunged them into the fires of Judgment, that included the Holocaust in WW2. Biblically, the Hebrew word for the burnt offering (that represented complete dedication to God — where the worshipper gave everything, holding nothing back) was ‘ōlāh עֹלָה, which was later translated into Greek as the word ὁλοκαύτωμα, before becoming the English word for holocaust (noting that from the Greek it is holos = whole, kaustos = burnt), which is why the two terms are historically connected.

In this way, the burning of Jews in the Nazi Gas Ovens was equivalent to the burnt offerings given to God, but in this historical context it was the offering of God's people to the 'god' of this World in Satan. As Jonathan Cahn has also pointed out in the past, it is notable that the world-wide deaths of WW2 are often estimated as being around 60 million people, while the deaths of Jews in the Holocaust is equated with 6 million, which is 10% of the total. So Satan, who copies everything that the 'one and only' true God does, effectively demanded a tithe of 10%, with regard to the burnt offering or Holocaust, that was set up as a form of worship to him. Even the UN Resolution Number 181 that was associated with the rebirth of Israel, as a nation, was literally pointing to a biblical connection that was correlating what God was doing prophetically, in plucking Israel out of the fire of the Holocaust, like a burning brand being plucked out of the fire of Judgment.

Starting Point and Rapture Year Determined

Therefore, using the events of 1897 that led to the UN Resolution 181 of 1947, as a possible starting point for our 43 ‘related period’, that is connected to Israel and God’s Promises, not only seems valid, but it raises the following possibility:

1897 + 129 (43 x 3) = 2026 – possible year of the Rapture and start of ‘the Time of Jacob’s Trouble’ (aka Tribulation).

Further to that, given 43 always seems to connect with 47 in one way or another, in relation to the end of their period of exile (or trouble), it seemed reasonable to consider using 1947, the 47^th year of last century when Israel was internationally recognised by the United Nations and supported in its quest to become a nation again, as our ending point (of the 7-year Tribulation), that leads the nation to the point when their Messiah and God rescues them at Jesus Second Coming. This should help us in determining the overall 43-year related time-stamp period, that defines the final 7^th week of Daniel; also known as the 'Time of Jacob's Trouble' (or the Tribulation).

Doing so again produces the following possibility:

1947 + 86 (43 x 2) = 2033 – possible year of the Second Coming of Jesus and the end of the 'Time of Jacob’s Trouble'.

In this way, we have a possible Tribulation date comprised of the 7 years between 2026 – 2033, with the Pre-Tribulation Rapture occurring sometime during the year 2026, possibly before the Hebrew year rolls over from 5786 to 5787 because of the connection between 5786 and 43, with the 86 being 43 x 2.

Narrowing the Dates to find the Target

Notably, if as I have said in other articles, 2025 was a year of promises with many signs that pointed to it, then a 2025 / 2026 template fits with the 1-year Promise / Fulfilment pattern in Scripture that saw Isaac (the promised son) being born a year after the Abraham and Sarah were both given the specific promise when Abraham was 99; and that saw modern Israel born in 1948, a year after the promise was given by the UN in 1947. There are many other examples of Promises that were fulfilled in a very short time that can be found here, in the related article that I wrote last August called “47 -The Mystery of God’s Promises and the End Times by David Wills - August 2025”, which can be found here. 

Essentially, this current article builds on much that was identified in relation to 47 and God's Promises, that we discussed in great detail in the article linked to above, and that are all leading to the time when God will permanently dwell with us. However, this current article also finds new patterns in the trilogy of numbers that include 47, but this time is founded on the number 43; and ultimately it leads us to the new possibilities in relation to the Rapture and the Second Coming.

So with that in mind, if you now consider this UN Vote in 1947, that led to Israel's Independence Day in 1948, as a key to our end-time 47 - 48 Promise / Fulfilment pattern, it may be possible to make some informed speculations about the timing of 'when' in 2026 a possible Rapture may occur.

In this respect, it is intriguing to note that the number of days between the UN vote (on Resolution 181) that occurred on the 29^th November 1947, that gave Jews the promise of a nation, and the day that Israel declared independence on 14^th May 1948, was less than a year being 167 or 168 days, if you include the actual end date of 14^th May, as the screenshots below show:

Either way, this numerically seems significant because 167 (100 + 67) seems to mirror or point to another key event in modern Israel’s history, where the nation moved from having large parts of the Promise Land, including Judea and Samaria; East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount; and Gaza, under the control of foreign governments, to being in control of these areas, as a result of the 1967 Six Day War, although the world largely refuses to recognise Israel’s Sovereignty of these areas. 

Additionally, 168 (100 + 68) that ends in the number 68 numerically mirrors the 86 (43 x2) that has been part of this overall discussion, with the 100, as also discussed previously, relating to the 'fallen generation' to whom all the promises apply. So given the importance of these numbers, it would seem reasonable to use the 167 /168 days as a template, for narrowing down when the Rapture may possibly occur in 2026, if it does occur next year. In doing this, we will now need to determine a starting point for the day count, that will effectively mirror a Promise of God being fulfilled in the Rapture, sometime in 2026 / or the Hebrew Year 5786.

However, before we begin to assess when this starting point may be, we need to firstly consider the current status of Israel to determine the exact nature of the promises that are yet to be fulfilled, as this will most certainly impact upon identifying the precise day that we will start the 167 / 168 day count. In this respect, given Israel was physically reborn as a nation in 1948, and again resides in the Promised Land, it seems clear that God already has a presence with His People in the Land again. This is evidenced by the victories that God has been giving Israel over their enemies, since that time. For while Israel is still suffering, when one considers the combined might of their enemies that surround them, there is no reason in the natural why Israel should currently still exist - but God. This is important because it shows that the end-time events associated with the numbers 43 and 47; and Israel as a nation, all seem to have been completed in connection with the events of 1947 / 1948. As such, the most obvious event yet to happen in Israel, in line with the theme associated with the number 48, would be a spiritual awakening on a national level that would see God complete what He has started in 1948, by fully manifesting His presence, and dwelling permanently with His people.

This is prophesied in Ezekiel 37, at the end of the passage about the Dry Bones, that represent the whole house of Israel:

¹¹ Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ ¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. ¹³ Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves. ¹⁴ I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it,” says the LORD.’ ” Ezekiel 37:11-14

Scripture also clearly shows that God still needs to bring a judgement on mankind, as a whole. It is stated in numerous verses, including Isaiah 13:

⁹ Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. ¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. ¹¹ And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah 13:9-11

In this way, the Day of the LORD will have a dual purpose, in that it will simultaneously be the time that the LORD fulfils Ezekiel 37 and puts His Spirit into His people; and the time of Judgement for the World. Jeremiah calls it the "Time of Jacob's Trouble", because for a 'time; times; and half a time', or 3.5 years, during this Day of Judgement, the nation of Israel will literally be given over to the authority of Satan and the Antichrist. Yet, many who heed the warnings in the lead up to this time will turn to the LORD for Salvation and be rescued:

¹⁴ And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Revelation 12:14

Many scholars believe that this place in the wilderness, where believing Israel will be supernaturally taken and protected, will be Petra (which means Rock), whose name is a pointer to Jesus, who is our Rock:

⁴ And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 1 Corinthians 10:4

Importantly, all this needs to occur before Jesus can return, in the Second Coming, when all Israel will be saved. So we just need to be mindful that we will be looking at two events (Rapture and Second Coming) separated by 7 years that thematically both relate to God rescuing His people, so that He can dwell with them.

Therefore, in relation to the timing of when God may begin to fulfil His Promises, one just needs to consider that it will be at a time appointed by the LORD. 

Rapture and Second Coming - the Appointed Times

As such, to find a starting point for the 167 / 168 day count, there seems to be no more appropriate place to begin than on one of the Feasts of the LORD, described in Leviticus 23, because they are all literally God's appointed times, that are otherwise known as mô·ʿă·dê (מוֹעֲדֵ֣י ) - Here the word is in construct plural form that indicates that they are the “appointed times of…” when people gather together; perform certain rituals; and focus on the LORD.

In Leviticus 23:2, it appears as מוֹעֲדֵי יְהוָה — “the appointed times of the LORD” and ultimately, while there are 8 separate Feasts listed, it is important to see that the first four of them (Passover; Feast of Unleavened Bread; Feast of First Fruits; and Feast of Weeks or Pentecost) are now all memorials because Jesus has already fulfilled them with His First Coming (the Incarnation); and the remaining four are rehearsals for events that are prophetically yet to be fulfilled.

Notably, each of the Feasts occurs at a specified date / time, being the same date every year, starting with the Passover on the 14^th Nisan. Historically, this is when the Sacrifice Lamb was slain as a payment for Sin, which is why Jesus would later be crucified on this very day, as the true Sacrifice Lamb and the Veil in the Temple that separated God from His people was torn from top to bottom, showing that anyone putting their faith in the finished work of Jesus on the Cross could now symbolically enter into the Holy of Holies, where God's manifest presence dwelt, and have a relationship with Him.

Additionally, the cycle of Feasts end each year with the Eighth Day Gathering (Shmini Atzeret) that occurs on the 22nd Tishrei, which is the 7^th month of the Jewish religious calendar, or the first month of the Civil calendar. It follows Rosh HaShanah (head of the Year), or the Feast of Trumpets; the Day of Atonement; and the Feast of Tabernacles; and as the last Feast to be celebrated, it is ultimately the Feast that points to Eternity, when God will dwell forever in the presence of His people, on a new earth in the new Jerusalem. So this day, the Eighth Day, will one day become the ultimate fulfilment of the number 48, and as such, it is actually the day that all of Bible Prophecy points to.

Given this, it was amazing that it also became the day that the HAMAS War against Israel began, on October 7 in 2023. Unknown to HAMAS and much of the World, it was an appointed day of God, but sadly the significance of this day is often lost, even to God's people, because in modern Israel the people make a bigger deal of celebrating Simchat Torah on that same day. This is a non-biblical festival that is a celebration of God giving His people the Torah. However, because October 7 in 2023 was also the 22nd Tishrei of Hebrew year 5784, which is the Eighth Day Gathering (Shmini Atzeret), then by choosing to attack that day, HAMAS were unwittingly declaring that this was the 'beginning of the end' for them, in line with the prophetic meaning of the Feast Day.

Start Point of Day Count - Shmini Atzeret

So, using this Feast Day as your starting point, to find a parallel for the 167 / 168 days that started with the UN Vote in 1947 (Promise of a Nation) and that ended in May 14^th 1948 with the Fulfilment of Promise (when Israel became a nation again), seems a reasonably valid approach to narrowing down God’s possible timing in 2026. In this way, it would create a parallel between God's People entering the Land promised to Abraham and the even greater fulfilment of the Rapture (when Jesus comes to gather us to Himself and take us all home to the dwelling place He has prepared in His Father's House - John 14).

With this in mind, the screenshot below, taken from the following website: https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/shmini-atzeret-2025, shows that Shmini Atzeret started on the 13^th October 2025:  

So, if you then go forward to the 167 days that we have been discussing, something intriguing occurs. Essentially, as the following screenshot shows, the 167 days lands on the 28^th March 2026:

This also happens to be the 10^th Nisan in Hebrew year 5786 as the following shows:

Importantly, the 10^th Nisan holds profound significance in both Jewish tradition and Christian theology. Historically, in Moses’ Day, it marked the day of the 'Lamb Selection' for Passover, and later in Christian traditions, it became the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. This was when Jesus, as the fulfilment of that Sacrifice Lamb of God, presented Himself to the people, both to show them that He was without blemish and that He was their Messiah:

Jewish Tradition: Lamb Selection Day

• According to Exodus 12:3, on the 10th of Nisan, each Israelite household was instructed to select a lamb without blemish to be sacrificed on Passover, four days later on the 14th of Nisan.

• This lamb was to be kept and inspected, symbolising purity and readiness for sacrifice.

• The day became known as Lamb Selection Day, a solemn and sacred moment in preparation for deliverance from Egypt.

Christian Fulfilment: Jesus as the Lamb of God

• In the New Testament, Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem—commemorated as Palm Sunday—is believed to have occurred on the 10th of Nisan.

• He rode in on a donkey, fulfilling the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9: “Behold, your king comes to you… humble and riding on a donkey.”

• Crowds greeted Him with palm branches, shouting “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”—a messianic declaration (Matthew 21:9).

• This act symbolically aligned Jesus with the Passover lamb, presenting Himself for inspection before His crucifixion on Passover, just as the lambs were inspected before sacrifice.

Prophetic and Symbolic Parallels

So for Jews, the 10th of Nisan is a reminder of God's deliverance from Egypt and the importance of preparation and purity, but for Christians, it’s a powerful symbol of Jesus’ intentional fulfilment of prophecy and His role as the ultimate Passover Lamb, whose sacrifice brings spiritual liberation. 

Possible Rapture Date

The significance of all this, remembering again that this is all just speculation, is that a possibility for the timing of the Rapture and start of the Tribulation could be on this Lamb Selection Day - 10^th Nisan 2026 or Hebrew year 5786, that aligns with exactly the same number of days (167) between the Eighth Day Gathering (Shmini Atzeret) and Lamb Selection Day, as occurred historically between the UN vote of 1947 and the exact day when Israel became a nation again on the 14^th May 1948, in fulfilment to the promises given to Abram / Abraham.

It is a short term ‘promise given’ / ‘promise fulfilment’ pattern that could be consistent with all the promises given in 2025 that could ultimately be fulfilled in 2026.  If so, then at the exact time that the true Messiah / Christ historically presented Himself to the people, the Antichrist could be revealed, as 2 Thessalonians 2: 7-8 shows: 

⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. ⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8

Satan is a liar, and he tries to present the fake for the real - he is the great deceiver, and this could fit Jesus' emphasis on not being deceived in the last days.

Possible Mid Tribulation

Given also the connection of 1260 days to the Tribulation, it is interesting to note that 1260 days from the 28^th March 2026 (Lamb Selection Day) lands on 8^th September 2029, which is the Eve of Rosh HaShanah / Feast of Trumpets that starts on the 9^th September 2026. Basically, this would mean that the Feast of Trumpets would occur in the middle of the Tribulation, if it started on this date in 2026.

From this perspective, it is worth noting that Revelation 14, that is arguably describing a second mid-tribulation Rapture, could be directly related to the Feast of Trumpets. To clarify this, I am proposing that it is reasonable to believe that there will be both a Pre-Tribulation Rapture, that could possibly occur around the 28th March 2026  - Lamb Selection Day, and then a secondary Mid-Tribulation Rapture, which would be for the Harvest of Souls that will likely come out of the preaching of the Two Witnesses and the 144,000 Jewish believers, who will be sealed by God before they begin their ministries, at the beginning of the Tribulation. This secondary Rapture is seemingly described in Revelation 14:14-16:

¹⁴Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” ¹⁶ So He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. Revelation 14:14-16

Here one like the 'Son of Man' (Jesus' favourite title for Himself in the Gospels) is seen harvesting the earth and this is contrasted to Revelation 14:17-20 where an Angel, who is also reaping the earth, is throwing those being reaped alive into the great wine-press of the wrath of God, aka the Tribulation, as follows:

¹⁷ Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. ¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.” ¹⁹ So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. ²⁰ And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses’ bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs. Revelation 14:17-20

So, if these people in the second group are judged and sent into the Tribulation, or Wrath of God, that comes in the second half of the Tribulation, and they are alive and endure God's Wrath, there is no reason to think that those harvested as part of the first group by Jesus (Son of Man) are not also taken alive into Heaven. As such, the alignment of the Feast of Trumpets in 2026, as a secondary mid-tribulation Rapture event, would certainly fit with the idea of a 2026 pre-Tribulation Rapture, possibly occurring on Lamb Selection Day on the 10th Nisan 5786, or 28th March 2026, but again it is just speculation. Certainly, if this was the case, it would be consistent with the God who states in 2 Peter 3:9 

⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

The Rapture and the Connection to 48

Notably, we have now discussed some possible connections between the Rapture and the first two of the Trilogy of numbers, in 43 and 47, but the third number 48, thus far, has remained simply symbolic of God's Presence, as a greater fulfilment of 1948, or has it?

The foundation of this whole discussion is God's Great Reset of Humanity through Abraham, beginning with the initial reference to the 430 (43 x 10) years that elapsed between God's promise to Abraham and the liberation of his descendants during the Exodus. Consequently, it is reasonable to identify another connection with Abraham for relating the final number 48 to the broader theme of the Great Reset and achieving resolution within this framework. 

In this respect, it is important to note the following:

The most commonly accepted date for the Exodus is 1446 BC, noting that this is 480 years from the 966 BC date that scholars align with the 4^th year of Solomon’s reign, when he began to build the Temple. It is also a date that that has been verified by Archaeology – see link here for further details. As such, since God revealed that the Exodus was exactly 430 years to the day from when Abraham was given the promises of the land and the nation, when he was called at 75 years of age, then we can know the following:

1446 BC – 430 years = 1876 BC – when Abraham at 75 was given the promises.

1876 BC – 75 years = 1951 BC – when Abraham was born.

Since God’s Great Reset of Humanity involved Abraham, who we now know was born in 1951 BC, it is fascinating to note that if you calculate from 1951 BC to 2033 AD (as a possible year of Jesus Second Coming), adjusting for no year 0, and including both the beginning and end years, because you do not know at what time of year Abraham may have been born, and similarly, apart from our previous speculations, you do not know with certainty what time of year the LORD may return (if He does in 2033), you get exactly 3,984 years. This is significant to our discussion because 3,984 is an exact multiple of 48 being exactly 48 X 83.

Notably, 83 is composed of the digits 8 and 3, where 8 signifies New Beginnings and Resurrection, while 3 represents Divine Completeness and the Trinity. Together they suggest perfect completion of a new beginning, or the fulfilment of Salvation, just as will occur at the Second Coming of Christ.  Additionally, as will be seen later in an example connected to the first coming of Christ the 83 can be understood also as 40 + 43 = 83, where 40 is the a Delay like the 40 years in the wilderness and the 43 is again a pointer to an Appointed Time to be set Free from being exiled from God.

The Hidden Significance of 83 in Connection with 48

Amazingly though, 83 goes way beyond that, as a possible clue and pointer to the Second Coming, as follows:

Firstly, there is only one Chapter 83 in the bible, which is Psalm 83. Many believe this Psalm by the Prophet Asaph is an appeal, or an Imprecatory prayer, which is a form of prayer that calls for divine judgment, calamity, or curses to be brought upon one's enemies, or those perceived as enemies of God. These prayers, found throughout scripture, are expressions of a desire for justice, rather than personal vengeance, entrusting the act of punishing the wicked to God; and many, including myself, also believe that it is being fulfilled today, as evidenced by all the victories that God is currently giving His people in the nation of Israel. 

So given Israel's current status, where most of the world stands in opposition to Israel and wants to force it to give even more parts of the Promised Land to its enemies, who tried to annihilate them in October 2023, it is stunning to see the uniqueness of this number 83 and this Psalm that has a hidden connection to year Abraham (to whom all the promises of the Nation and Land were given) was born; and the number 48; and the year 2033.

With the current cry of their enemies "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA", a cry for Israel's destruction, still ringing in our ears, we are pointed to the words of Psalm 83 that begins as follows:

¹ O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! ² For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. ³ They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
⁴ They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” Psalms 83:1-4

Not since the nation was reborn in 1948 has there been such an uproar over Israel, who are accused of genocide for just defending themselves; accused of occupying Palestinian Land, when there is no such thing as an ethnic Palestinian, and they are only living in part of the Land God promised them through Abraham, not occupying it as a foreign invader. Together the nations of the World have consulted together as the Psalm says, with the recent UN Votes, in opposition to Israel, to try and force them to further divide their Land to create a state for their enemies. Many like Iran, who still chant death to Israel and death to America (for their support of Israel), even declare their desire to wipe them out as a nation. Therefore, this Psalm and this number 83 have never been more relevant than they are today, for in the past, the nation primarily dealt with one major enemy at a time, such as Assyria or Babylon; and importantly, they never ceased to be a nation until God Himself scattered them to the 4 corners of the earth, under the Romans, due to the national rejection of their Messiah, to ultimately fulfil the Ezekiel prophecy detailed above.

83^rd Chapter of Bible

Further to this, in another astounding connection between 83 and 48, that symbolises God's presence, we see that the 83^rd chapter of the bible is Exodus 33. Not only does this particular book of the bible connect with the whole theme of this article, that sees God's people who are exiled from God's Promises and His Land being set free in the Exodus that began 430 years after the promise to Abraham, but through the actual chapter number itself, being 33, it also points to their Messiah in Jesus, who made all of this possible, as part of the new Covenant that was cut and established with His sacrificial death on the Cross, at the age of 33.

Then this 83^rd chapter of the bible also connects the 43 (the appointed time to end the exile) to the 48 of God's Presence, because it details how God would uniquely descent in a Pillar of Cloud to speak with Moses 'face to face', as a friend:

⁷ Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. ⁸ Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent. ⁹ When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses. ¹⁰ And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door. ¹¹ Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. Exodus 33:7-11

This chapter is all about God's Presence (as represented by the 48) and not only that, but this very same chapter 83, that again points to 2033 as described above, contains one of the most well known passages in the bible that describes the intimacy of God's Presence with regard to Moses, who deeply desired His Presence: 

¹⁴ And he said to him, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. ¹⁵ And he said unto him “If your presence will not go he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. Exodus 33:14-15

Amazingly, even the Chapter (33) and Verse numbers (14) and (15) of this 83^rd chapter of the bible (Exodus 33:14 -15), that specifically use the word "presence" in relation to God, add to 47 (33 + 14) and 48 (33 + 15).

Following this plea by Moses for God's Presence to go with him and the people, Moses then expressed his desire to see God's Glory, which was again a true manifestation of God's Presence. In agreeing to this, God put Moses in the cleft of the Rock (symbolic of being in Jesus, who is our Rock) and covered him with His hand, symbolic of the Grace that comes through Jesus. As God's Right-Hand, Jesus established the Covenant, through His blood sacrifice, but it should be remembered that He was crucified from the Foundation of the World, before Moses even existed:

¹⁷ And the LORD said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” ¹⁸ Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” ¹⁹ And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. ²⁰ But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” ²¹ And the LORD said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, ²² and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. ²³ Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.” Exodus 33:17-23

83 and the Antichrist

 Given that I do not believe any of this is simply coincidental, rather it is by the design of our all-powerful God, I find it fascinating to further note that when the digits of the number 83 are added together, we get 8 + 3 = 11. This is significant because 11 is connected to the Antichrist, who will be revealed at the Rapture and defeated at Jesus' Second Coming, as seen in the book of Daniel Chapter 7, as follows:

• Daniel 7:7–8 Daniel sees a beast with ten horns, and then:

“There came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.”

• This “little horn” is often interpreted as the 11th horn, arising after the ten.

• Many commentators also connect this figure with the Antichrist, because he speaks arrogantly and persecutes the saints who are also given into his hand for a 'time and times and the dividing of time" or 3.5 years, during the great Tribulation.

• Daniel 7:24–25

“As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings. He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints…”

• Again, the “another” king after the ten is seen as the 11th ruler, hostile to God.

• This passage is one of the strongest biblical links between the number 11 and the Antichrist figure.

Importantly, the Antichrist, who is also referred to as the Lawless one by Paul in 2 Thessalonians, will be destroyed by Jesus at His Second Coming, which I am proposing could possibly occur in 2033, which is 83  x 48 years since God Reset Humanity, after the Flood of Noah, with the birth of Abraham in 1951 BC:

⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:8

Additionally, I find it interesting that the possible Rapture event, that I believe will be contiguous with the Ezekiel 38 war (click here for further information on this idea), is numerically a mirror of the numbers 83. Notably also, if Jesus died in 32 AD, as many still believe, then Israel's first world-wide scattering that began 38 years later in 70 AD could finally end in another event connected to 38, when the Antichrist, the 11^th horn (3 + 8), confirms a Covenant both with Israel and the many (being many nations of the world).

It is also interesting to note that Strong's Bible Dictionary shows exactly 3 instances of the Strongs Hebrew number 83 that is translated as 'Wings' in 3 verses that seem to mirror the theme of the trilogy of numbers that we have been discussing in 43 - 47 - 48. Essentially, when seen together, they appear to deal with an appointed time to end an exile (43); and a promise for those waiting (Delay) on the LORD (47) to mount up on wings like eagles, just as those who are Raptured will fly like Eagles into the Clouds to meet our LORD in the Air, bringing us into His Presence (48), where after flying away to meet Him, we will find the comfort and rest that was first hinted at in the life and events of Noah.  The 3 verses are as follows:

1) Ezekiel 17:3 - is in a passage describing Israel's exile to Babylon....(43).

2) Isaiah 40:31 - is a Promise from God that those who wait on the LORD shall renew their Strength and mount up on Wings like               Eagles....(47).

³¹ But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31

3) Psalms 55:6 - which arguably describes the fulfilment of the Promise that leads one into the Presence of God in the Rapture event, after being caught up in the clouds and Flying away....(48).

⁶ So I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. Psalms 55:6

83 and Daniel's 70 Weeks

Finally, in relation to the number 83, it is also worth noting that not only does it possibly connect with Jesus' Second Coming, in either the Rapture or His physical Second Coming, but it was also famously involved in His First Coming, in His Incarnation to die for the sins of the world, so that He could offer Salvation to all who would trust and believe in Him.

The connection first appears in the Daniel 9: 24-27 passage that describes Daniel's 70 prophetic weeks, the final 490 years of human history, as follows:

²⁴ Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. ²⁵ Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. ²⁶ And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. ²⁷ And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Daniel 9:24-27

Here we see the 70 prophectic weeks (the number for 7) that is describing 70 x 7 years, or 490 years that are divided into 3 periods, that reflect the trinitarian nature of God are as follows:

The Structure of the Prophecy

• 70 weeks = 490 years (since each “week” is understood as 7 years).

• Divided into:

  • 7 weeks (49 years) → rebuilding Jerusalem.

  • 62 weeks (434 years) → leading to the Messiah.

  • Final week (7 years) → often interpreted as the Tribulation before the end.

The first two periods, that culminate with the cutting off or the death of the Messiah, consist of 7 x7 = 49 years plus 62 x 7 = 434 years , for a total of 483 years that can be understood as the additive pair of 400 + 83. 

Then remembering that this is a prophecy related to world history, and that the number of the world is 4, and that everyone in the world is part of the fallen generation that is represented by 100, we have 4 x 100 = 400. This not only represents fallen humanity (100) in the world (4), but it reflects the bible's description of 400 representing another appointed time of affliction of God's people before they are delivered, as described by God to Abraham: 

¹³ And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict -- them four hundred years; ¹⁴ And also -- that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. ¹⁵ And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. ¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Genesis 15:13-16

Given the 400 component of 483 represents an overall limit of God's judgement, the 83 part of this number became a pointer (explained above) to when that Judgement would end and God would send a deliverer like He did with Moses, who also spoke of this deliverer to come:

¹⁵ The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Deuteronomy 18:15

This is why the 400 in conjunction with the 83 ( for a total of 483) points to the time when the Messiah (Jesus) would be cut off, or die by crucifixion, but not for Himself but for the sins of the whole world:

²⁶ And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined

In this way, since 83 can be seen as being an historical pointer to the Messiah Jesus, and given that 83 x 48 (the number of God's Presence) equals 3984 years from Abraham's birth to 2033, it is not unreasonable to consider the possibility of it also being a pointer to His Second Coming.

Either way, in a proposed 2026 – 2033 ‘Rapture – Tribulation – Second Coming’ Timeline, we now have connections, both literal and symbolic, to all three of the numbers (43; 47; and 48) that God has used historically as prophetic time-stamps, and that ultimately move His people from slavery and darkness to light and freedom in Jesus.

2026 Rapture and other Time Sensitive Prophecies

Further to all of this, is that a 2026 Rapture would continue to fit numerous other Time-Sensitive Prophetic signs, such as the following:

Hosea's Third Day

Notably 2026 -2033 for the Rapture and Tribulation still fits Hosea’s prophecy about the third day, regardless of whether Jesus was crucified in 32 AD or 33 AD because it arguably all depends on how you want to understand this. If He died in 32 AD, then two days later would end in 2032 that would make 2025 (7 years earlier allowing for the Tribulation) the Rapture; and 2026 could be understood as the beginning of the next, or third day, that places the Tribulation at that time, when God rescues His people. This rescue will involve two parts, beginning with the dedicated witness of the 'Two Witnesses' and the '144,000 sealed Jewish believers', who also spread the gospel before Revelation 14 describes them as a 'First Fruit' of those to come; before secondly protecting His people in Petra, during the second half of the Tribulation. Or if He died in 33 AD, then this would align with the understanding that He would be returning at the end of the 2^nd Day in 2033 to revive His people during the Second Coming, before raising them up on the third, which would still make the Rapture possible in 2026. So arguably it can be understood either way, as the actual verse states:

² After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight. Hosea 6:2

Essentially, in stating “after two days” and “on the third day” there seems to be room for understanding both perspectives, so a 2026 Rapture would certainly fit this scripture.

Fig Tree Prophecy

Additionally, this prophecy that states that the generation that sees Israel begin to bud again, as it did when it came back to life in 1948, would not all pass away until Jesus gathers His people to Himself. This is still valid with Psalm 90 stating a generation is 70 years, or 80, if by strength; and next year Israel as a modern nation again, will celebrate its 78th birthday.

¹⁰ The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Psalms 90:10

Importantly - since we have passed the 70-year mark and have entered the age range that requires strength, we need to understand that this only comes from God, as the following verses show:

Key Verses on Strength from God

• Psalm 18:2 – “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”

• Isaiah 40:29–31 – “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

• Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.”

• Psalm 73:26 – “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

• 2 Corinthians 12:9–10 – “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me… For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

• Exodus 15:2 – “The Lord is my strength and my defense; He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.”

• Isaiah 41:10 – “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

The fact that Israel still exists in the face of so much opposition from the nations, many of whom quietly support the slogan "from the River to the Sea", that is code for the 'destruction of Israel', all affirms that the LORD is currently dwelling with His People in their Land. There may no longer be a Temple or a Holy of Holies, but there is no doubt that God is with His people, and we are getting closer to the time when He will again appear to rescue those that Love and Trust Him in the Rapture.

In relation to this Fig Tree Prophecy that is predicting the Final Generation, I found the following video by Randy Kay, who died and had an NDE (Near Death Experience) with Jesus several years ago, quite interesting. From his perspective, he sees the Fig Tree Prophecy in connection with numerous other end-time prophecies as mathematical proof that we are the final generation, which I clearly agree with.

Basically he sought to demonstrate that together there is a convergence, in terms of their fulfilment, that is only occurring in our time, and that the odds of this happening mathematically proves we are that Final Generation. He seems a very genuine Christian who clearly has a deep love for the LORD and from his perspective, without any attempt to set any possible dates, he suggests that all the prophecies show that there is a time limit to this convergence that runs out around 2027 -2028. So his expectation is that Rapture will happen sometime within that time-frame.

Given everything we are surmising here, and all the signs seen in 2025, there is no doubt that this would be an upper limit if Jesus delays', as 2 Peter 3:8 indicates is possible, because Jesus wishes to give people more time to Repent. Either way, we know we are very close and as I have repeatedly stated there is nothing that we can categorically state will be the time, all we can really do it identify patterns and possibilities. So while I do believe it may be possible to identify accurate timing the (bullseye of our target) because I believe the LORD does want us to know, I suspect that we may not truly be 100% sure of it until we are caught up together with HIM in the air.

Regardless of this, we can learn a lot about our LORD by spending time with Him and searching out all of these things in His Word. With that said, it is interesting to watch Randy build his mathematical models that objectively prove his claims. If you watch the whole video you will see, as it goes on, that he has done a lot of work to gather something interesting facts in relation to this topic; and ultimately it just provides further proof that supports how close we are:

The Video can be also be viewed directly on YouTube at this link: https://youtu.be/Np8wLQlrcw0  - It really is exciting that we could all be going home soon !

The Ezekiel 38 Connection to the Rapture

Lastly, in regard to the numbers 8 and 3, discussed above, it is worth noting that the Prophetic Watchman Community is expecting the next major prophetic event to be Ezekiel 38, as all the major players (Russia; Iran; and Turkey along with some northern African nations, such as Libya - noting both Russia and Turkey also control large areas within this nation, along with Ethiopia and Sudan) are in place with treaties and military alliances between them.

Recently, this event came a step closer when it was reported that Russia is actually training its soldiers to go into battle on horseback. This is said to be a result of the effect that the Ukraine War has had on their fighting forces. Essentially, it is believed that horses will allow them to navigate land mines and rugged terrain better than they are currently able to do, but whatever the reason is, it completes another element of the prophetic picture because of what God described in Ezekiel 38:4

⁴ I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Ezekiel 38:3-4

Personally, as I expressed in the section on 83 above, the mirror of 38, I believe that the Gog / Magog Ezekiel 38 war will actually be contiguous with the Rapture because there are so many significant parallels between them. So, this latest revelation about Russia simply confirms to me how close we are getting to the Rapture and makes 2026 a real possibility.

The interesting thing about all this is that when it is considered in conjunction with the numbers 43; 47; and 48, that I believe are all pointers to the Rapture event, as well as being historic markers that reveal a consistent timing pattern related to Israel as a nation, we can see another numerical indication that the fulfilment of all the promises that God gave through Abram / Abraham, are imminent, as follows:

43 + 47 + 48 = 138

Here again this can be understood as an Additive pair of 100 + 38, where 100 is symbolic of the first generation of Fallen Humanity, that will be involved in what is commonly referred to as the Ezekiel 38 war. And given that I have hopefully shown that the numbers 43, 47 and 48 are all possibly pointing to the period 2026 - 2033 for the Tribulation, that would start with the Rapture and end with the Second Coming of Jesus, I believe that this is another clue that the Rapture and the Ezekiel 38 are synonymous events.

In this respect, it also shows that there is a dual aspect to the number 48, with it being connected to both the Rapture and the Second Coming of Jesus, which would be the ultimate fulfilment of the number 48 that represents God’s presence with His people, like it did when as stated previously, Moses built the original Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle out of 48 boards; and Solomon built the Temple 480 years after the Exodus; and Israel became God’s chosen nation again in the 48^th year of last century, in the Land He had promised to Abraham.

Essentially, both the Rapture and the Second Coming will bring God's presence in Jesus, just for different purposes, with the first being to gather the Church, His Bride, and take us Home to Heaven for 7 years before returning 7 years later in the Second Coming to close of this current Age and initiate the 1,000-year rule of the Millennium, the final years of this earth before a new Heaven and Earth are created.

The Curse of Achan reversed - a door of hope is now open

One other possible historical connection to the Rapture, that I would like to highlight, comes by asking a simple question:

How many years did the Jewish Diaspora last, where the tribes of Israel were dispersed into the World, and they had no presence in the Promised Land?

The answer is very simple, as this period began in 70 AD when the Romans destroyed the Temple and most of Jerusalem, and it ended in 1948, when the nation was reborn:

1948 – 70 = 1878 years

Amazingly, God is in control of history, as Isaiah 46: 10 shows:

¹⁰ Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’ Isaiah 46:10

So the one who knows the End from the Beginning knew that He would bring Israel's exile to an End after 1,878 years and chose to mark this number with a special event in the specific year it was pointing to – the year 1878 AD:

In this year, Jewish believers led by the Holy Spirit said that they believed God was leading them to fulfil the prophecy in Hosea 2:15:

¹⁵ I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. Hosea 2:15

Historically, the Valley of Achor was named after Achan (whose name means troubler). When Joshua and the Israelites were entering the Promised Land, Achan had disobeyed God in keeping some of the 'Accursed things' (booty), that the Israelites collected, when they were capturing Jericho. As the LORD was supernaturally helping them to capture Jericho, everything taken as part of this first victory in the Promised Land, was meant to be dedicated and given to the LORD, but Achan kept and hid some of it, and the Nation became cursed because of Him, and he became known as the 'Troubler of Israel'. The Valley of Achor was where Achan was punished, and it therefore became a symbol of that Curse, that occurred at the very beginning of the people of Israel entering into the Land that was promised to them through Abraham.

However, God who always reverses the Curse and who never leaves us to the consequences of our sin and is faithful to fulfil all that He has promised, chose to lead some of His people to end that national curse in a year that would eventually define the exact number of years (1,878 years) that they would be completely exiled from the Land (from 70 AD to 1948). So, in 1878, while the Ottoman Turks were still in control of the Land, God led a group of Jewish believers to purchase Land near the Valley of Achor and establish the first official Jewish community that is still called Petah Tikvah to this day, which means “Door of Hope”. Detail about this can be read in the Wikipedia article at this link: Petah Tikva - Wikipedia. In this way, the curse that began in 1406 BC, when Israel first entered the Land, ended 3,284 years later in 1878 AD in line with the prophecy of Hosea, ending a symbolic 70 years prior to God's full restoration of them to the Land.

Therefore, 1878, like 1947 after it, marks a special date in the history of the nation, prior to its rebirth in 1948. So, it is interesting to use it as a starting point, like we did with 1947, to see what it may point to. In this case, if we use 147 (100 + 47) and 148 (100 + 48) to see what the numbers, associated with the Fallen generation (100) are in connection with two of the numbers we have been discussing - 47 (promise about to be fulfilled after delay) and 48 (God’s presence), we get the following:

1878 + 147 = 2025

1878 + 148 = 2026

In this way, we could again have hidden clues that support the idea that 2025 (associated with 47) has brought us all to the threshold of seeing God's promises fulfilled. Clearly, it has been a year full of signs that were giving the watchman community hope that the Feast of Trumpets this year could have ushered in the Rapture. The fact that it didn't, does not diminish the imminency of the event that all the signs still point to. Like Israel was standing at the edge of the River Jordan on the threshold of entering the Promised Land, 470 years after the promises were given to Abram / Abraham, and then later in 1947 the nation was again at a threshold of entering into God's Promises, that were fulfilled a year later in 1948; we could be again, in 2025, standing at the threshold of seeing God's promises fulfilled in 2026. 

Then 2026, like 1948 before it (that saw God's chosen people become a nation in the Promised Land again) could be about seeing God's people, that now includes both Jews and Gentiles, entering into the greater Promised Land of Heaven. This is exactly what Jesus promised in John 14 when He said he was going to His Father's House (Heaven) to prepare a place for us and that He would come again to get us, so we can go there to be with Him:

​¹ “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ² In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. John 14:1-3

So 1878 began a period that symbolically and literally saw Israel’s longest exile mirror the Babylonian exile, by ending 70 years later in 1948.

1878 + 70 = 1948

And that in turn could possibly be a pointer to God's manifest presence appearing in 2026.

The Connection to Noah - Comfort and Rest

All of this was about God bringing some comfort and rest to his people, who had been wandering the earth for 1,878 years without a home of their own, and from this perspective it is also interesting to note that God's very first reference to someone appointed to bring these states of being into the lives of mankind was when He was first Resetting the World through Noah and the flood:

²⁹ And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.” Genesis 5:29

 As the following screenshot of The Exhaustive Dictionary of Bible Names in the Logos Bible Software shows, the primary meanings of Noah's name is comfort and rest - comfort for the suffering they have endured and rest that brings some freedom from that suffering.

Note:This is largely because the two letters that form Noah's name (נֹחַ)are the same two letters (Nun-נֹ and Heth-חַ ) that form the word Grace (חֵן) in Hebrew, they are just reversed and the shape of Nun is changed in the word Grace because the letter is now on the end of the word and some letters have what they call a final form when they appear on the end of the word.  

This is very significant when you consider the possible connections of the year 1878 with God bringing His people comfort and rest, and then, as shown above, the connection between 1878 and the numbers 47 and 48, which we have seen being consistently connected to God's Promises as 47; 147; and 470, being fulfilled when He reestablishes His presence with His people, seen as 48, 148, and 480; that then all point to 2025 - 2026 as being a possible fulfilment of the final 7 years that starts with the Rapture, as again the following showed: 

1878 + 147 = 2025

1878 + 148 = 2026

Then you note that when you add two of the historic numerical markers in God's Timeline of Redemption (related to 47 and 48) in 470 and 480, you begin to see how everything is interwoven at deeper levels with God.

Starting with the 470 years from the Promises given to Abraham that culminated with the nation of Israel entering the Promise Land and then adding the second marker of 480 years that God allotted from the Exodus to when Solomon began to build the Temple, the House of God, where God's Presence would dwell with His people you get:

470 + 480 = 950

Here we see God connect two of the three time-stamp markers, that complete God's Appointed Times (that are associated with 43 / 430), and point them back to Noah, the one responsible for God's Great Reset that was designed to bring humanity comfort and rest, as his name and the very words of scripture testified to, and who scriptures states lived until he was 950 years old.

²⁹ So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died. Genesis 9:29

Clearly, the ultimate fulfilment of comfort and rest come through Jesus Christ, but because of the depth of humanity's sin God had to first reset mankind through Noah, who God declared as "perfect" in his generations

⁹ This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. Genesis 6:9

This word translated as 'perfect' in English is in Hebrew תָּמִיםin (pronounced tāmiym) is said to be speaking both genetically and morally, which is significant given that Genesis 6:11 also speaks about all flesh being corrupted because of the Nephilim (offspring of fallen Angels and the daughters of Man). The moral aspect is not because he was perfect or self-righteous, but because he believed and walked with God. This expression is important because it shows that Noah, like Job after him, understood that his Redeemer lives, even before Jesus had been incarnated upon the earth:

²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; ²⁶ And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God, ²⁷ Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! Job 19:25-27

God's Numerical End-Time Pattern

What follows, I personally find stunning because it confirms that in spite of our Free Will, that God never violates, He is both the God of History and of our lives, when we allow Him to be. It is based upon the pattern we have just been discussing in relation to Achan, but it leads us to some more numerical evidence that I believe affirms next year, as a real possibility for Jesus' Return, or at the very least it is another reminder that it is very, very soon.

Essentially, since I genuinely believe that God wants us to understand His plans and often works through patterns, it made sense to consider that if God used the year of a significant event, prior to the nation’s rebirth—like 1878, when the first modern Jewish community was founded in Israel—both as a sign that actually pointed its rebirth 1,878 years after the Jewish Diaspora of 70 AD in 1948; and as a fulfilment of Hosea's prophecy in 1878, then perhaps He did something similar with other events prior to 1948. 

Well, amazingly, as the following will show, He did:

The very next major event was actually the one that we also discussed at length above in, connection with the First Zionist Congress in 1897. As stated above, Theodor Herzl saw it as being so consequential that he actually predicted that it would lead to the establishment of the nation within 50 years, which was accurate in that exactly 50 years later the United Nations voted for Israel to become a state again. Anyhow, if we now use the year 1897 in the same way that we used 1878, when we added it to 70 AD and found it pointed to 1948, we get the following:

70 AD + 1897 = 1967

So now 1897 is not only a year of great significance in the Lead up to the rebirth of the nation, due to hosting the First Zionist Congress that began to give Israel world-wide recognition, but it is also a hidden pointer to the year when the nation that God would restore, would literally get full sovereignty over the Land that was promised to Abraham, including all of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, with it being 1,897 from the Jewish Diaspora in 70 AD to the 1967 Six Day War.

So far, we have now seen that God had hidden in the numbers of history that from 70 AD, when the nation was sent into exile all around the world, that He was about to restore His people by staging two events. The first event was in 1878 that was hiding the fact that it would be 1,878 years from the time of their exile (in 70 AD) to when they are restored as a nation in 1948. The second event was in 1897, that was hiding the fact that it would be 1,897 years from the time of their exile (in 70 AD) to 1967 when they would have full sovereignty over the Land that God had just restored them in 1948. Importantly, this meant that they were not to be just as a puppet or vassal state, like they were under the Romans in the first century.

This is monumental, but it doesn't finish there because God, as a Trinity, regularly works in threes. So again looking for a third major event that occurred prior to the nation's rebirth in 1948, the most significant one is obviously 1947, when the UN gave international support for Israel to become a nation again, in the land that God had promised them, albeit was only a portion of what God had intended. So now, if we use the year 1947 in the same way that we used 1878 and 1897, when we added them to 70 AD we find the following:

70 AD + 1947 = 2017

Here we see that 1947 was not only connected to the final event in the UN vote on Resolution 181, that gave Israel the right under international Law to reestablish themselves as a nation again, but it was also a hidden pointer to the year 2017, in which God through the most powerful nation on earth -- the United States of America under President Trump --, would declare to the International Community that Jerusalem would always be the eternal and undivisible capital of the Nation of Israel. So again, the timing of the UN vote in 1947 was hiding the fact that it would be 1,947 years from the time of Israel's exile in 70 AD, until God gave them full recognition as the legal owners of the most hotly contested piece of real estate on the face of the earth in Jerusalem; which happens to also be the only city that God said that His name will dwell upon forever. 

Therefore, in summary we have 3 events that occurred prior to Israel's rebirth in 1948 that were also hidden timing clues to later events that involved both the rebirth of the nation and that affected its borders and sovereignty; as well as the legal status of its capital Jerusalem, under international law.

This was huge, given that the Bible predicted in many verses, including Zechariah 12:2, that in the end-times, Jerusalem would become a cup of trembling to all the people round about it - but God wanted His people to know that it would always be theirs, just as He promised to them, and He cannot Lie, and He cannot break His word, it is eternal. So in this way, if His people had seen the pattern after 1967, they may have been able to look forward with some confidence to the event of 2017 - God clearly wants His people to know His purposes. Far too often we tend to 'live in the moment', dealing with the issues of Life, but the LORD wants us to find His patterns and live in Hope, as we are now doing, as we look forward to the next event in the Rapture of the Church.  

Summary of the 3 Pre 1948 Events and the Events that they are pointing to:

As amazing as I think this all is, it leads us to another series of hidden clues, one of which, as I suggested at the beginning of this section, actually serves as a possible confirmation of our Rapture timing. It is based upon understanding that since Israel's rebirth, apart from numerous uprisings and terrorist attacks, there have essentially been 5 major wars, as follows:

1948 - 1949 Arab War
1956 - Egyptian War and crisis with Suez Canal
1967 - 6 Day War
1973 - Yom Kippur War
2023 - Hamas War

Given that a war is usually considered ended when a formal peace agreement, armistice, or surrender is signed, this makes the Hamas War stand separately to the others, because it is currently only stalled under the terms of a cease-fire, which is often only a temporary suspension of hostilities, often fragile, and does not necessarily resolve the underlying conflict. Historically, the other Arab–Israeli wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973) all ended with armistice agreements, or disengagement accords, rather than full peace treaties, but they did all mark the end of active fighting. This is fascinating because these 4 wars can actually be divided into 2 groups, with the first relating to Israel's right to exist as a Nation:

1948 - when Israel declared itself as a nation on the 14th May 1948 in line with the UN vote of 1947, the Arabs en masse protested and plunged the nation into a major war that lasted into 1949.

1956 - this war was known as the Suez Crisis. It was sparked when Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal and Israel, Britain, and France all launched a coordinated military campaign against Egypt. One of Egypt’s key tactics was to block Israeli shipping through the Suez Canal and the Straits of Tiran, cutting off vital trade and oil supplies. By doing this Egypt wasn’t just inconveniencing Israel — it was targeting the country’s lifeline. Israel relied heavily on maritime trade, especially for oil imports from places like Iran at the time. So effectively, Egypt was trying to make it difficult for Israel to exist as a nation.

The second group of wars fall into the category of Borders and Territorial Sovereignty, because the previous 1956 war had resulted in Israel claiming part of Egypt, west of the Suez Canal, and most of the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Under international pressure they eventually gave it back, however Nasser in Egypt was remained against Israel and Egypt played a major role in sponsoring fedayeen (Arab commando/guerrilla) forces, based in Gaza during the 1950s, and their attacks were a constant source of tension with Israel. So in the lead up to the 1967 war Nasser had expelled UN forces, amassed tanks, and closed off the Straits of Tiran again. While these steps created another existential threat for Israel, prompting its preemptive strike that began the Six-Day War, it primarily became a fight over territory because Egypt and Syria had been humiliated in 1956.

1967  - So this war resulted in Israel reclaiming East Jerusalem; Judea and Samaria, which the world calls the West Bank; the Temple Mount; Gaza; the Sinai Peninsula; and the Golan Heights near Syria.

1973 - Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel during Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, when the country was least prepared. Egypt’s goal was primarily to regain the Sinai Peninsula that had been lost in 1967 and restore Arab pride after the Six-Day War. Syria’s goal was to recapture the Golan Heights, also lost in 1967. Essentially it was anArab Strategy to overwhelm Israel on two fronts, backed by Soviet arms and Arab oil leverage. Ultimately, Israel had some small gains in territory, but these were eventually restored to what they were after the 1967 war.

Numerically, understanding this grouping of the 4 wars reveals a fascinating connection to our discussion on the trilogy of numbers that are founded on the first number 43. Basically, if you take the numbers in the years for the first two wars (1948 and 1956) you get:

1 + 9 + 4 + 8 + 1 + 9 + 5 + 6 = 43

Then if you take the numbers in the years for the last two completed wars (1967 and 1973) you get:

1 + 9 + 6 + 7 + 1 + 9 + 7 + 3 = 43

This cannot be a coincidence - essentially the number 43 through its connection to 430 has historically always been a sign to God's people in Israel that they are about to be set free from slavery in exile and brought to the freedom of the promised Land that God swore as an oath, as part of a blood covenant, to give to Abraham and his seed. So it seems that God is telling His people that He is about to fulfill all of His promises to them. 

Now before I begin to expound further on what these wars mean, there is one last connection that I want to make with regard to the 3 hidden events that I described above in relation to 1878; 1897; and 1947. This is in connection to the year 1956, which was when Egypt tried to undo what God had done in 1948 through Nasser of Egypt’s actions that were to make Israel's existence impossible. It is my contention here that God, through the 1956 war, hid a clue using the same pattern as these pre 1948 events, that would point to a time when Israel's national existence would no longer be a question, rather it would be confirmed by a world leader (Antichrist) when he signs the covenant with the many.

Therefore, in the same way that we added each of the numbers 1878; 1897; and 1947 to 70 AD to see what God was pointing to, if we do that with 1956 we get:

70 AD + 1956 = 2026 - possible confirmation of the year of the Rapture.

Now the odds of this all being a coincidence, is mind-numbing to me, when the excluding of the Hamas War, that is not officially finalised yet, leaves 4 major wars that not only fall into two groups of 43, but obviously they total 86 in a Hebrew year that ends in 86; and then one of these defining wars through a previously established pattern, points to a coming event in 2026 (which aligns with Hebrew year 5786), in the same way as the events of 1878; 1897; and 1947 all pointed to coming events - it all seems to be a staggering alignment of the numbers.

However, it does not finish there either, because now I am going to include the Hamas War, which I believe for two reasons is the last war that Israel has to fight on its own strength, with the next prophetic war being Ezekiel 38, that God Himself is going to fight for His people as the following scripture indicates:

¹⁸ And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. ¹⁹ For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; ²⁰ So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. ²¹ And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. ²² And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. ²³ Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 38:18-23

The First Reason  - basically this involves the numbers we can see in all the major wars that Israel has fought as a modern nation. So if you add the numbers for the last war into the total of the wars, you get the following:

1 + 9 + 4 + 8 + 1 + 9 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 9 + 6 + 7 + 1 + 9 + 7 + 3 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 93

or it can be understood as:

86 + 7 = 93

While it may not be immediately obvious, 93 is an incredibly insightful number, as I will now explain, noting that I have written on this before (click here for further information).

Basically, God has a Prophetic Time Clock in relation to Israel that He stopped when the nation turned to other gods and were no longer walking with Him. The greatest example of this is Daniel's 70 Weeks prophecy, that outlined 70 x 70 or 490 years, from the time of Daniel, to end sin and iniquity and bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up vision and prophecy, as Daniel 9:24 states:

²⁴ Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Daniel 9:24

Then the next 3 verses split this 70 weeks or 490 years into 3 sections, as follows:

²⁵ Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
²⁶ And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
²⁷ And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Daniel 9:25-27

1) seven weeks (7 x7 = 49 years) - to rebuild Jerusalem Walls and Streets.

2) three score and two weeks (62 x 7 = 434 years) - time period until the Messiah in Jesus is cutoff / crucified.

3) one week (1 x 7 = 7 years) - 7 year covenant with the Antichrist / Tribulation.

Clearly, the first two periods are contiguous, such that it was precisely 49 + 434 = 483 years from the commandment given to rebuild Jerusalem, which many scholars equate with the commandment by Artaxerxes in 445 BC, that once adjusted from the Hebrew calendar years of 360 days to the Gregorian calendar of 365.25 days, corresponds with a crucifixion of Jesus in 32 AD.

The main point here is that the final period of that 490 year prophecy, that comprises the 7-year Tribulation is not contiguous with the first two periods, indicating that the prophetic clock stopped when Jesus was crucified because God's people, as a nation, rejected their Messiah. This was closely followed by the nation being scattered to the 4 winds of the earth, in the event known as the Jewish Diaspora, when the Romans conquered and destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, and all of the Jews that were trapped within its walls. However, now that Israel has become a nation again in 1948 and God has been regathering His people, it is important to remember that Jesus stated that the generation that sees this occur, will also be the generation that sees Him return. So we know He is about to start the prophetic clock again, that will trigger the Rapture and the final 7-year Tribulation period, to complete the 490-year prophecy.

Given that God clearly stops the prophetic clock when His people are not walking with Him, we can also find another very important example of this in scripture, because Acts 13 outlines a period from the Exodus until King David, as follows:

¹⁷ The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought he them out of it. ¹⁸ And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. ¹⁹ And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot. ²⁰ And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. ²¹ And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. ²² And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. ²³ Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus: Acts 13:17-23

This involved the following periods that describe the years from the Exodus until the beginning of the 4th year of Solomon's reign:

40 years in the wilderness 

450 years under the Judges

40 years under King Saul

40 years under King David (not mentioned directly here, but found in other scriptures).

3 years under Solomon (not mentioned here, but this takes you to the beginning of his 4th year when he began to build the Temple.

Total = 573 years

Then in 1 Kings 6:1 we read that the same time period was considered to be 480 years:

¹ And it came to pass in the four hundred -- and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. 1 Kings 6:1

Clearly there is a 93 (573 - 480) Year discrepancy here, but fortunately this is all perfectly explained by scripture that again shows God's prophetic clock stops when His people are not walking in relationship with Him. Essentially, when you look in the book of Judges you will find five times when God gave His people over to foreign rulers, because they had turned their back on Him. While there was a sixth oppression listed in Judges 10:8, that is not included in the list below, as this was primarily against the Israelites that lived on the other-side of the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, it was not directly against those living in Judah; Benjamin and Ephraim, that comprised the main territories of Israel on the western-side of the Jordan - so the 5 instances that are against His people, in the land promised to Abraham, are as follows:

8 years under Cushan-Rishathaim. the king of Mesopotamia - Judges 3:8

18 years under Eglon, the king of Moab Judges 3:14

20 years under Jabin, the king of Canaan Judges 4:2,3

7 years under the Midianites Judges 6:1

40 years under the Philistines Judges 13:1

Total = 93 years 

Now we can see that there were 93 years that saw the prophetic clock stop, such that 1 Kings 6:1 records God's idealised period of 480 (48 x 10) years, which is the number connected with His presence, and that in this instance was associated with the period from the Exodus to the 4th year of Solomon, when he began to build the Temple that would house the God's Presence. So this shows how 480 prophetic years now equals the literal period that occurred - 480 + 93 = 573 years, as recorded in Acts 13.

What we have here is an amazing situation in that the first occurence of the number 93, that is symbolic of God stopping the Prophetical Clock, is literally aligned with the very beginning of the nation entering into the Promises of God, when they entered the Promised Land. Then fast forwarding nearly 3,500 years we find another 93 that is hidden in all of the numbers that comprise the years of the 5 major wars that they have fought since becoming a nation again (1948;1956;1967;1973; and 2023). This hidden 93 appears to be like a book-end of the 'national life' of Israel, such that finding it seems to be saying that the history of Israel as a nation has finally reached the end of a period of judgemen, just as it did in the book of Judges, and the prophetic clock, that has been stopped since Jesus' crucifixion in 32 AD is about to start again.

Essentially, in the 2023 Hamas war, that like the book of Judges completes the time of affliction represented by the number 93; and the limit of God's prophetic clock being stopped; it appears that God is about to restart His clock, which we know will happen simultaneously with the confirmation of a 7 year peace treaty.

Perhaps  the following may clarify this a bit:

32 AD - Messiah cut off - prophetic clock stops and is set to 0 and remains off until it is adjusted to 93

1948 - Israel becomes a nation again and fights its first official war - prophetic clock timer is adjusted  - 0 + 1 + 9 + 4 + 8 = 22

1956 - Israel fights war with Egypt and Syria - prophetic clock timer adjusted again - 22 + 1 + 9 + 5 + 6 = 43

1967 - Israel fights in the 6 day war with multiple nations - prophetic clock timer adjusted again - 43 + 1 + 9 +6 + 7 = 66

1973 - Israel fights in the Yom Kippur War  (Egypt and Syria) - prophetic clock timer adjusted again - 66 + 1 + 9 + 7 + 3 = 86

2023 - Israel fights in the HAMAS War - prophetic clock timer adjusted again - 86 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 93

The first adjustment of the prophetic clock that stopped with Jesus on the Cross saw it change from 0 to 22 and importantly 22 is the number for the nation of Israel (see here for further information). So God in the hidden prophetic event of 1948, that was also prophesied in scripture by Abraham (to whom the nation was promised to) being born 1948 years after Adam, was declaring that from that time on He was going to establish the nation and no enemy in Hell will stop it. Notably too, the book of Psalms is the 19th book from Genesis and the 48th book from Revelation reflecting its connection to the nation of Israel that scripture also equates with Jesus, who quoted from Psalm 22 on the Cross, with His last words being "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me..." before He declared "It is Finished".

So the first prophetic clock adjustment was very revealing and then the second one that occurred in connection with the next major war of 1956 saw it shift from 22 to 43. Clearly, from our whole discussion in this article, this is a timestamp number that says God is about to set His people free. He did this initially in the temporal realm giving Israel a victory in the war and some terratorial gains, but ultimately it was moving the clock closer to 93.

The next prophetic clock adjustment saw it shift from 43 to 66 with the 6 Day War, that involved Israel against multiple nations, including Egypt; Jordan; Syria Iraq (supported by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Sudan). There is a theory that i have spoken about elsewhere that argues there is a link between the Psalms and the World history such that Psalm 1 would reflect 1901 and Psalm 2 - 1902 etc. Therefore it is said that Psalm 67 also reflects events of 1967. In this regard, verse 2 certainly seems to support this idea, when you consider that God gave Israel a miraculous victory over the nations in just 6 days, that was effectively a warning shot across the bows of the nations that were involved, to remind them that ultimately God is judging His people and He is also governing the nations on earth:

⁴ O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. Psalms 67:4

This idea of God and His judgement of Man is also reflected in the 66 which is 6 x 11 where 6 is the number of Man and 11 is the Man of Sin. So God through this adjustment of the clock timer, and the victory He gave to His people, was showing that ultimately He is sovereign, not Man.

The next prophetic clock timer adjustment from 66 to 86 was again significant because it involved a war on Yom Kippur, which is the Holiest Day on the Jewish Calendar being the Day of Atonement, when the High Priest would traditionally enter the Holy of Holies and place the blood of the sacrifice on the Mercy Seat on top of the Ark of the Covenant (as a symbol of what Jesus would later do), so that the nation's sins would be covered. Again because the clock reflected 86 (43 x 2), which is about God setting His people free, this would be an important marker that I believe was a hidden clue that His people were in the final generation that would see Jesus Return and see Israel established as a sovereign nation that the world is no longer going to try to divide up, as they are now. Given as we have shown that there has always been a delay after the multiple of 43 in 430 occurred, i believe that this hidden 86 shows us that we are currently nearing the end of the delay period.

This leads us to the final adjustment of the prophetic clock from 86 - 93 in association with the Hamas War. As stated above, this means that just as the prophetic clock started again in Israel's history, when they reached the 93 years of subjection to foreign powers and were set free, with no more instances occurring during the period of the judges, Israel is about to be set free again. The war against Hamas was effectively their final major war in the church age and the next one, that everyone is expecting to occur soon, will be the Ezekiel 38 war, which I have stated stated above will involve God. He will fight for Israel and give them the victory; and in this way it will be the trigger for both the Rapture and the Tribulation with the world becoming desparate to sign the 7 year Covenant with Israel to protect themselves against Israel - it will not be Israel begging for peace partners. It is also notable that in the prophetic clock being advanced from 86 to 93, it is being updated by 7 years, which is God's symbolic number for Him fulfilling all of His oathes and promises. It is essentially declaring that the end is near. I will explain what I believe the numerical significance of the number 93 is and why it is connected to the prophetic clock shortly, but first I want to touch on the second reason that I believe the Hamas war would be the last major war that Israel will fight prior to the 'Time of Jacob's Trouble' (aka the Tribulation)

The Second Reason - is because Hamas launched their attack on October 7 2023, or on the Hebrew Calendar 22nd Tishrei, which is the Eighth Day Gathering Feast (Shmini Atzeret), which is the one day that all of Bible Prophecy looks forward to because it celebrates the time coming that Jesus will create a new Heaven and Earth. I spoke on this briefly above, but essentially its like God's enemies deciding to actually help God fulfil Bible Prophecy by ushering in the end of days, that are symbolised by this particular Feast Day that is an appointed time of God. A biblical example of this was when Satan chose to enter Judas on the eve of the Feast of Passover. His act in doing this was like shooting himself in the foot because it absolutely ensured that Jesus was crucified on Passover (14th Nisan) becoming the Passover Lamb in fulfment of many Old Testament prophecies. Given Satan should have known this, you would have thought he would have actually tried to prevent this from happening, because 3 days later Jesus rose again (and you can still hear Satan's screams) and then 50 days later Pentecost occurred and Satan's problems increased exponentially. No longer were his enemies restricted to just the 12 apostles, and a few scattered believers, but now there were thousands of new converts, and increasing as the church grew daily. So to maximise his time on the earth you would have thought Satan would have provided Jesus with a body guard to ensure He lived a long healthy life - but it just shows even though the enemy knows the scriptures, as well as he does - given he is the great accuser, he cannot stop God's purposes on the earth, and particularly as we are discussing here, he cannot stop God's appointed times. The crucifixion was the greatest of these times and it could never be stopped, it was set in stone, the rock of Christ.