Introduction
Recently I posted a link to a video by Barley Harvest ministries, where the host stated that he felt that last year (2025), on the Feast of Trumpets, God had knocked on the door of our hearts to let us know He was returning soon. Essentially, I believe the sentiment is spot on because God gave us a plethora of signs that seemed to point to 2025 as a strong possibility for the Rapture of the Church, signs that drew the attention of many believers who were watching closely, and many were declaring dreams and visions affirming their strong conviction that this was the appointed time.
However, the thing to remember about signs is that they always come before the destination is reached, often serving as a warning to prepare, rather than being an exact declaration of the moment, and while many were disappointed when nothing happened, I personally felt that God still had much more that He wanted to achieve in terms of the reach of the Gospel, during the window of time created by the 4 year term of the Trump administration that the LORD is using to hold back evil and give opportunity for many more souls to hear the message.
In some of my articles, I have spoken about some unique windows of time that God has created that I have called convergent windows, with the broadest one being 2020 – 2029 and the narrowest, which is a subset of it, being 2022 - 2027. Essentially, it is my strong belief that Jesus will come back any time within any of these windows, but I am also very aware of so many signs that I have written about recently that specifically point to 2026 and am very conscious too of the words of Jesus in Matthew 24 that we are to remain in a state of readiness and not dismiss any of the possibilities pointed to by the signs, for He may return in an hour we are not expecting. This is why it is important that we continue to watch prayerfully, without becoming discouraged when a particular date passes.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Matthew 24:44
From this perspective, I found one sign in particular from last year that pointed to the Feast of Trumpets 2025, which obviously came and went without incident, as completely stunning and though Jesus clearly did not return at that time, I found the seeming precision of its predictive nature to be something that I could not simply get past. It remained in my mind because of the remarkable way in which the timing appeared to align. Having now reexamined this timing clue, I believe that it is reappearing in terms of its significance and is worth considering again in support for Jesus returning this year, 2026.
So, what follows is a brief exposition of this sign, the reasons it stood out so strongly, and how it also points to this year.
The Rapture Sign - The Harpadzo
It involves the most famous Rapture verse in the bible in 1 Thess 4:17:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord 1 Thessalonians 4:17
More specifically it relates to the central word for the Rapture, that in Greek is ἁρπαγησόμεθα (harpagēsometha), that is translated in most Bible versions as ‘caught up’ as shown in the verse above and in the interlinear version below:
The Greek word ἁρπαγησόμεθα is derived from the root word ἁρπάζω (harpásō). Around AD 405, Jerome translated it from Greek into Latin in the Latin Vulgate as rapiemur:
"...simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus..."
As Latin evolved into Medieval Latin over the following centuries, speakers needed a general noun for the act of carrying someone or something away by force. They therefore coined raptura, meaning a seizure, abduction, or kidnapping. By the late 1300s and early 1400s, this Medieval Latin noun had entered Middle French as rapture. English then borrowed the word from French around 1600. When it first entered English, it had nothing to do with theology or the Bible. Instead, it carried two distinct secular meanings:
- Literal / Negative: a physical abduction or violent snatching away. It shares the same root as words such as raptor—a bird of prey that snatches its food—and rapids—swift water that can sweep you away.
- Metaphorical / Positive: being “carried away” by intense emotion, joy, or ecstasy. For centuries, poets wrote of being in “sheer rapture” over a beautiful sunset or a piece of music.
For centuries, English Bible translations—including the King James Version—rendered rapiemur with the literal phrase “caught up.” By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, English-speaking theologians sought a single, convenient noun for this future prophetic event. “The Caught-Up” translation was hardly an elegant title for the event, so they turned to the Latin rendering of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 (rapere) and recognized that English already possessed an ideal derivative: Rapture. The word was especially appropriate because it united its two longstanding senses:
• a physical “carrying away” into the air and
• a state of profound spiritual ecstasy.
Although the term was later popularized in the 19th century by theologians, such as John Nelson Darby, and subsequently by the Scofield Reference Bible, which firmly established “the Rapture” in modern religious vocabulary, they did not invent it. Despite many claims online, the concept and its biblical roots long predate them.
Strong's Bible Numbers
Central to this discussion are Strong’s Bible numbers, created by James Strong in the 19th century as a Bible-study tool. Strong assigned a reference number to every Greek and Hebrew word in the original biblical texts, enabling readers to trace and compare how each term is used.
The first edition of his concordance was published in 1890 long before many modern English Bibles that now incorporate this resource were printed. Over the past 136 years, it has become one of the most widely used Bible-study resources in the world. In essence, Strong’s numbers can help readers identify the original-language word behind an English translation.
Repeatedly it has been demonstrated how God's hand has been on this resource, that is so ubiquitous in connection with modern bibles, and it is often used in connection with God's prophetic pattern. As an example, it is noteworthy that in Zechariah 3:2 in a passage that involves Satan accusing Joshua the High Priest as a way of diminishing Jerusalem's right to exist:
1 And he showed me -- Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. Zechariah 3:1
However, the LORD God did not offer a defense of Jerusalem He simply rebuked Satan saying that He had chosen Jerusalem and that Jerusalem was effectively a brand plucked out of the fire:
2 And 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
So irrespective of Satan's accusations, God was about to restore Jerusalem and by association His People as an act of Grace. This is why the following verses speak about Joshua the High Priest, who symbolically represents Jerusalem having his filthy clothes removed and being given new clean clothes, effectively being made righteous again:
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel. 4 And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe -- thee with change of raiment. Zechariah 3:3-4
Ultimately, the point of all of this is to demonstrate how God's hand upon the history of His people could be reflected through the Bible's Strong Numbers. In this regard, it is important to note that Zechariah was written in the years following the Babylonian Exile, at a time when many of God's people preferred to stay in Babylon because their lives there had become comfortable. Rather than returning to the Promised Land, in obedience to God's will that had limited the exile to precisely 70 years, so that God could again dwell with His people— the exiles resisted His efforts to have them return. As a result, Jerusalem was still in an impoverished, and physically ruined state. Thus, Satan's attack against Joshua the High Priest was designed to permanently block the restoration of Jerusalem and disqualify the Jewish remnant from their covenant relationship with God.
Significantly though, God's desire was to restore Jerusalem and His covenant people, so He rebuked Satan saying that He had chosen it and declared that Jerusalem was effectively a "brand" plucked out of the fire. So, he was not denying their Sin, He was revealing His Grace. The amazing part of this is that in His description of Jerusalem, as a "brand being plucked out of the fire", He was using a Hebrew word that in the Strong's Bible Number Dictionary would be give the number 181, as the following screen shot shows:
Fast forward nearly 2.5 thousand years to 1947, to a time when Jerusalem had been laying in ruins since the Romans had destroyed much of it in AD 70. We see the United Nations, who are clearly being led by the Spirit of God, voting in support of a Jewish State being created again in the Promised Land.
Obviously, this would involve the restoration of Jerusalem and importantly the Resolution Number that was created by the UN to determine this matter was number 181.
There is no way that anyone in the UN would have made this connection. Only God who was affirming that Jerusalem would be like a brand (Strong's Hebrew Number 181) plucked out of the Fire would have known about it.
So, this is just one example of many, that shows that God uses everything that is connected to His Word to demonstrate His Omniscience and Sovereignty. And ultimately, it reveals how His hand is upon everything in relation to His covenant people and promises.
Feast of Trumps Sign - 2025
With this understanding we will now turn our attention to the Rapture Sign for last year, that was centered on Feast of Trumpets, that began on the eve of the 22nd of September 2025.
Essentially, it was noted last year that the Greek word for 'Caught Up' —that is ἁρπαγησόμεθα, derived from ἁρπάζω (harpásō) and that as above is the very word that the world ultimately resolved into the word for Rapture in English— had been given the Strong’s Bible number G0726.
What made people sit up and take notice of this occurred in conjunction with the expectation that since Jesus literally fulfilled the first 4 Feasts of the LORD (Passover; Unleavened Bread; First Fruits; and Pentecost) with His First Coming, then it was logical to think that He could fulfill each of the remaining Feasts of the LORD, in connection with His Second Coming. And since the first phase of His Second Coming would involve the Rapture, it has created the possibility of Jesus coming in the Rapture, in connection with the next Feast of the LORD, which is the Feast of Trumpets.
Then, basically because the Feast of Trumpets occurs on the same day as Rosh Hoshana (the Head of the Year - the New Year) —on the 1st of Tishri on the Hebrew Calendar (which variously moves around September / October on the Gregorian calendar)— someone put the date into a Year to Date Calculator online and discovered that in 2025 the Feast of Trumpets literally began on a day and hour that was located at precisely 72.6 % of the way through the year. This was an exact match to the Strong’s number G0726, assigned to its root word ἁρπάζω in the ubiquitous Strong's Bible Concordance, around 136 years ago.
The odds of this happening by chance are mind numbing – so either it was one of the most extraordinary coincidences in biblical history, or it was a deliberate act of design by the same Omnipotent God who held nothing back from us by going to the Cross in our place, and who is in control of every aspect of history.
As one examines the construction of God's Word, it becomes clear very quickly that it is full of numerical codes and patterns, that all serve to confirm this occurrence of ἁρπάζω (harpásō) was not allocated by chance, but was orchestrated by God. Therefore, while after the event of the Feast of Trumpets last year many thought that nothing had happened, the opposite is actually true. For it served its immediate purpose as a sign to many, who felt a stirring in their Spirit, and were looking with expectation for the Return of Jesus. That this is what God wants is beyond dispute because there are numerous scriptures, written nearly two thousand years ago, that were even exhorting believers back then to do the same thing.
So, with Jesus' Return literally so close now, how much more does God want people watching for His Return. Understanding that He arranged for this specific sign to occur on the eve of Rosh Hashanah and the Feast of Trumpets, that occurred on the 22nd September 2025 last year, and that by His Spirit He led people to find it, gives the time we are living in now (post this sign) special significance.
See below for an example of an online calculator resolving this date to a percentage number that corresponded to the Strong's Bible Hebrew Number: 726 for the Rapture word:
The Rapture Sign and the Year 2026
Ultimately the precision of this sign suggests that God has not finished with what He can reveal to us through this Number. So, what follows is a subjective analysis of what God may have hidden in the number 726 from a biblical numerics perspective.
Firstly, I believe we need to ask the question "...is this number at its most basic level a hidden clue that God will complete His plan to find a Bride (the Church) for His Son in the year 2026?"
726 → 7 - complete His covenant promises to the Church and send His Son to gather His Bride
→ 26 - and bring them to the Father's House in 2026 just as He promised in John 14
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye 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 unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:1-3
As we do with all the numbers we are analyzing, we need to determine if it is a Composite number (that has factors) or a Prime Number (that is only divisible by itself or the number 1). Every whole number is one or the other, and in this case, the number 726 is a Composite number that has the following 12 factors:
1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 22, 33, 66, 121, 242, 363, 726
Immediately, for those familiar with Bible numerics, it is clear that this is an extremely special number with some very special factors. I will briefly summarize the first 8 —which is the number of Jesus whose name means salvation— of those below, so that it can be seen how they form a prophetic arc of God's Redemptive Plan.
Meaning of first 8 Factors
1 - Godhead; God the Father; Unity
2 - God the Son; Union
3 - God the Holy Spirit; Divinity
6 - Man
11 - Sin; Antichrist (Daniel's 11th Horn)
22 - Israel - God's solution to Sin; both as a Nation and through Jesus their Messiah the fulfilment of Israel
33 - Age of Jesus when He fulfilled the Covenant Promises to pay for Man's Sin
66 - Man's Sin - 6 x 11
These numbers can be combined as below in a summary of God's Eternal Plan of Redemption, noting that together they add to 144, that speaks to the salvation of humanity:
1+2+3+6+11+22+33+66 = 144
God the Father (1) who established a plan from Eternity Past before Man (6) had even been created to Redeem Mankind after he Fell and Sin (11) entered the world. This would be accomplished through God the Son (2) who by the power of the Holy Spirit (3) would make a way for Mankind (6) back to the Father by atoning for the Sin of Man (66). To enable this, God's solution would be to create the nation of Israel (22) through whom the Messiah, the Son of God would come to die on a Cross (33) at the age of 33 —being God's Divine payment (3) for Sin (11) - 3 x 11 = 33. Then all who put their faith in Him will be grafted into the eternal spiritual body of Israel (22), who is Christ; and God in His fullness would reign through Christ on the throne of David, as the eternal King of Righteousness from the new Jerusalem that will descend from Heaven to a new earth, where God will dwell with those that love Him.
Meaning of the first 8 Factors when Progressively Summed
Remarkably, when these 8 specific numbers are added progressively, they also form a meaningful sequence, as shown in the image above. I will briefly outline this with a little more detail below noting that the running total will appear as the number on the left-hand side:
1+2 = 3
God's Divine Plan begins to unfold
3 + 3 = 6
Man is made in the Image of God being the sum of God's numbers 1,2, and 3
6 + 6 = 12
Represents God who came in Jesus as the Seed of the Woman, who first revealed Himself at the age of 12, in the Temple (His Father's House), the age that a girl becomes a woman. So ultimately represents all those who belong to God - 12 Tribes of Israel; 12 Disciples; 24 Elders in Heaven (12 x 2).
12 + 11 = 23
God finishes striving with sinful man. Its greatest example is noted in that 23 x 3 = 69 and Jesus as the Son of Man literally fulfilled the 69th week of Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy on the Cross dying as an atonement for the Sin of Man when God judged Sin and poured out His wrath against Man's divine representative. Just as Sin (11) was a breaking of the Law (10), 23 was a breaking of God's solution for Sin in Israel (22) noting that Jesus was equated with Israel by Matthew, who speaking of Jesus, applied Hosea's prophecy about God calling Israel out of Egypt to Him. Additionally, Righteousness is represented by 98 (49 x 2), the two sabbath cycles that the bible supports as occurring prior to Adam falling at the age of 99.
This was the basis for God, who precisely reverses the curse of the fall, coming to Abraham at the age of 99 to give him the 'promise of the Son' in a picture of God sending His own Son for our Redemption. It is also why 99 is associated with the Redeemed in the parable of the Lost Sheep. Then because God as a Trinity always does things in threes this became the foundation of Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy that framed a total of 490 (49 x 10) years to complete everything related to the payment of sin and the restoration of Righteousness. It was the third Sabbath cycle of 49 that was now fulfilled under the terms of the Law (10) to complete the 3 Sabbath cycles that Adam did not complete in the Garden of Eden, but the Second Adam would in the Garden of Gethsemane before He went to the Cross.
This is also why when you search for the name of Jesus in the King James Version Bible (which was God's primary witness to the English-Speaking world for over 4 Centuries) you will find it occurs precisely 980 times. Essentially Jesus is reestablishing Righteousness (98) by fulfilling the Law (10) and this connection is affirmed by God dividing these 980 occurrences of Jesus' name into two groups 490 (49 x 10) in the Even Books of the New Testament and 490 (49 x 10) in the Odd Books, even though the Odd Books have twice as many words in them, and where every common word occurs approximately twice as many times then they do in the Even Books - all with one exception in the name of Jesus. All of this was to establish the significance of 98's connection to Righteousness, which then serves to show God's limit on Striving with Man's Sin, that He revealed in the days of Noah was 120. So this reveals why Israel, as God's Solution to Sin is associated with the number 22:
120 (God's Limit of Striving with Man's SIn) - 98 (righteousness) = 22 (Israel)
Then it also reveals why 23 is associated with God no longer striving with Sin for:
98 + 22 = 120
but
98 + 23 = 121
So, 23 symbolically breaks the limit God set at 120 years for striving with humanity's sin. Through 23 x 3 = 69, it points to the death of Jesus on the Cross, fulfilling the 69th week of Daniel's 70-Week Prophecy. This is also the third and final 490-year (49 x 10) Sabbath cycle, which will be completed under the terms of the Law of Sin and Death when the Final Week—the final seven years of this prophecy, known as the Tribulation— comes to an end.
23 + 22 = 45
Central to everything is God's desire to dwell with Man - all those who descended from Adam, who are made in His image. In Hebrew Gematria Adam carries the value of 45. As Man had fallen into Sin God Himself added humanity to Himself becoming the fulfilment of Israel (22) and came as the second Adam to atone for the all the Sins of Man and redeem humanity to Himself. All who freely choose to put their faith in the His redeeming work on the Cross will, through the incredible grace and mercy of God, be attributed the Righteousness of Christ and will not only be saved from the penalty of their Sins, but will become coinheritors with Christ just as Romans 8: 17 declares:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Romans 8:17
Since Adam carries the value 45, he implicitly also carries both God's judgement upon himself and his descendants for Sin in the number 23. At the same time, through his greatest descendant in the Second Adam (God incarnate), he also carries God's solution to this Sin, that is connected to Israel (22) to fully redeem humanity back to their creator. In doing so God is building His Church, which are all those since the Cross of Jesus who put their faith in His redemptive work and as the verse from John 14 shows above, He is coming back soon for Bride. To this end, the addition of the next number in the sequence possibly reveals a clue to when that will happen.
46 + 33 = 78
As I explained in a previous article—Is Isaiah God’s Hidden Roadmap to the End?—the number 78 is a transitional number. It points to the moment when Time—represented by the seven-day weekly cycle—transitions into Eternity, represented by the number 8. Eight is associated with Jesus, our Saviour, who was raised on the eighth day of the week and promised that an eternal Eighth Day, which will never end, is yet to come.
The number 78 is also a multiple of God’s most holy name, YHVH (Yehovah/Yahweh), which has a value of 26, and of the Trinity: 3 × 26 = 78. Together, these connections emphasize God’s sovereignty in these last days. For this reason, 78 remains one of the strongest arguments for Jesus’ return in 2026, in fulfilment of the Fig-Tree Prophecy —as a partial fulfilment of Ezekiel 37’s prophecy of the dry bones:
1948 + 78 = 2026
It is also noteworthy that all of the major prophecies that were to be fulfilled in these final stages of the “Last Days,” which began in the time of Jesus, are recorded in Ezekiel, the 26th book of the Bible. These include Ezekiel 36, which prophesied the restoration of the land of Israel from the wasteland it became during the years of the Diaspora (AD 70–1948); and Ezekiel 37, as already mentioned, concerning the regathering of the people to the land.
Ezekiel 38 then describes the impending Gog and Magog war, that will come against restored Israel. I believe this event will trigger the confirmation of the covenant with the Antichrist, beginning the Tribulation —the final seven years of this age. Ezekiel 39 then aligns with Armageddon, the war in which the nations will gather specifically to battle against Jesus as He returns in power and glory as King of Kings.
At that time, He will finally bring the 6,000-year age to an end and establish the Millennial Kingdom. Ezekiel continues this theme from chapter 40 onward, beginning with a description of the Millennial Temple, from which Jesus will rule and reign throughout this 1,000-year period—the seventh and final 1,000-year “day” of the present earth—before God destroys it by fire, as described in 2 Peter 3:10–13:
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the lo 2 Peter 3:10-13
Given the extent of Ezekiel’s role in revealing the end times, along with the fact that his book is the 26th book of the Bible, it is noteworthy that his name carries a value of 156 in Hebrew Gematria. This number is both 78 × 2—connecting it to the timing clue mentioned above—and a multiple of 26 being 26 × 6 = 156. Its primary factor, 78, is likewise a multiple of 26.
Could God be highlighting the number 26—and by association, 2026—in connection with the next major fulfilment of prophecy: the Rapture?
78 + 66 = 144
This is where the first eight factors—each centered-on salvation and redemption— reach their ultimate conclusion. For before humanity fell, and before Israel needed to exist, God’s desire to dwell with all people was already evident in His creation of the world in six 24-hour days.
In this pattern, 6 represents man and 24 represents God’s people. Together, they reflect humanity and all who belong to God, who are consistently represented by multiples of 12: the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 disciples, and the 24 elders in Heaven.
Numerically related chapters of the Bible also reflect this pattern. Genesis 24 tells of a father seeking a bride for his son, while Psalm 24 effectively asks who this Bride will be by asking “Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place?” Both reveal God’s desire to seek those who will be His.
Significantly, the six days of Creation—during which God established a dwelling place for Himself and His image bearers—total 144 hours. Thus, 144, or 12 x 12, becomes a representation of all humanity.
Fast-forward to the end of the age: during the Tribulation, God seals 144,000 of His people— 12 x 12,000—to serve as witnesses of the Gospel before the final judgment. Then, for those who enter eternity from every tribe and tongue—the whole of redeemed humanity—God creates a new heaven and a new earth.
Notably, a new Jerusalem will then descend from the third heaven onto the new earth, becoming the primary dwelling place of God and all who have been redeemed through faith in the finished work of Jesus on the Cross. Importantly, its dimensions reflect both the foundational number of God’s people, 12 —which is also associated with Jesus, the Seed of the Woman who crushed Satan’s head and made all of this possible—and its symbolic total, 144:
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 17 And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. 18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Revelation 21:9-27
The next 3 Factors that affirm God's Solution to Sin
Having seen how the first 8 factors of the number (726) connected to the Rapture reveals God's Plan of Redemption, we will now briefly consider the next 3 factors, in a related group as well:
121
242
363
It should be obvious that these 3 are all multiples of 11 and so are all connected to the Sin of Man:
11 x 11 = 121
11 x 22 = 242
11 x 33 = 363
121 - Problem of Sin
In this way, these factors are emphasising that sin by itself (11 x 11) simply produces 121 which, as shown above, was associated with the breaking of God's Limit of Striving with Sinful Man, that was revealed to be connected with the number 120. As a result, this factor revealed that man was in need of a solution by God to deal with his Sin without destroying him, such that he could still have a relationship with God.
242 - God's Solution
So, 11 x 22, that produces 242, shows us that due to God's Love and Mercy, He provides a solution for Sin (11) in the creation of ISRAEL (22) that symbolically is connected with the number 22 and that, as stated above, is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus, who is equated with Israel by Matthew 2:15.
363 - Cost of Atonement
Finally, 11 x 33, that produces 363, reveals that this solution to atone for Sin (11) would cost God everything. For God is a trinity (3) and paying for Sin (11) results in 3 x 11 = 33. So, Jesus at the age of 33 would atone for the Sin of man.
Significantly, we started by looking at the first 8 factors, and we saw how these factors not only reflect God's whole plan of Redemption, but they summed to 144, showing that God's desire was to redeem all of humanity unto Himself through the Savior in Jesus (8).
Then in a recap of His divine (3) plan, we looked at the next group of 3 numbers that not only confirmed the central pillars of this plan to deal with Sin (11) by creating Israel (22), to bring the Saviour into the World, who would sacrifice His life (33) at the age of 33 on the Cross.
The fascinating thing about this divine plan, that involved the 3 factors or numbers 121; 242; 343, is that together they pointed to the Rapture, by their own numerical connection to the Greek word Harpadzo, that had been assigned the number 726:
121 +242 + 363 = 726
Finally, now that we have considered 11 of the 12 factors that are connected to the Rapture of God's People (12), we have one final factor, the 12th one remaining. This last one is the number 726 itself, that when divided by 1 remains as 726, no further division.
So, we now have 3 groups:
Group 1 (first 8 factors)
1 + 2 + 3 + 6 +11 +22 + 33 + 66 = 144
Group 2 (next 3 factors)
121 + 242 + 363 = 726
Group 3 (the number itself)
726
Adding them together we get:
144 + 726 + 726 = 1596
or simply:
1 + 2 + 3 + 6 + 11 + 22 + 33 + 66 + 121 + 242 + 363 + 726 = 1596
In this way, we now have the number 1596, that fully represents the history of mankind. It begins with God (3) and His Plan to create Man (6) with free will, that would enable him to Sin (11). However, because of God's Love, He would provide a solution to bring us the Saviour and His revealed Word in the Bible through Israel (22). Then after dying on the Cross (33) for the Sin of Man (66), He would no longer strive with Sinful Man (121), but would seek to graft all into His solution for Sin in Israel (242 - 11 x 22) and the gospel of His sacrifice for Sin would go into all the World, giving all a chance to repent by putting their faith in His finished work for Sin on the Cross (363 - 11x33), before the Rapture (726).
To understand where all this leads us to and what it means for us now, we need to revisit God's Appointed Times, which are all connected with the number 430.
430 - God's Appointed Times
Significantly there are 4 of these with 3 occurring during Bible Times and one in modern History. I have written on these before, but will briefly outline them here again.
Firstly, the foundation of the number 430 is a combination of 300 and 130:
300 - This is the number in Scripture that is associated with the blood sacrifice of Jesus:
This is because He began His ministry at age 30, entering His role as High Priest, and He fulfilled the Law of Sin and Death, symbolized by 10 (the Ten Commandments). Their multiplication — 30 × 10 = 300 — becomes a numerical picture of the blood sacrifice that satisfies the Law and secures redemption. For this reason, the number consistently gathers around themes of sacrifice, redemption, weakness, and divine victory, all of which culminate in the Cross of Christ.
• Notably, this pattern appears in Noah’s ark, which was 300 cubits long. As a picture of Jesus, it symbolized Christ as the vessel of salvation who carries His people safely through judgment.
• It appears again in Gideon’s 300 Army, where victory against the Midianites came not through human strength, but through weakness, broken vessels, and shining light — a vivid type of Christ’s broken body and the light of salvation bursting forth through sacrifice.
• Then the 300 denarii of the alabaster perfume links the number directly to Jesus’ burial and the costly preparation for His death.
• Enoch’s 300 years of walking with God reflect the complete, faithful walk that leads to being taken up — a picture of salvation through trust in Christ’s finished work, and of the Rapture for believers.
• And finally, Benjamin’s 300 pieces of silver from Joseph (a type of Christ) reinforce the theme of redemption, since silver symbolizes the price of atonement.
Across all these passages, 300 becomes a composite symbol of the gospel: the costliness of redemption, the weakness through which God brings victory, the blood that satisfies the Law, and the complete walk of faith that leads to life. Whether in the Ark that saves, the Army reduced to weakness, the Perfume poured out for burial, the Years of faithful walking, or the Silver of redemption, Scripture repeatedly uses 300 to foreshadow the blood sacrifice of Jesus, the true High Priest who fulfilled the Law and secured eternal salvation through His own offering.
130 - Age of Adam when Seth whose name means appointed was born, as Genesis 4:25 shows:
25 And Adam knew -- his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his -- name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom -- Cain slew. Genesis 4:25
Importantly Seth was appointed to replace Abel, who was initially in the righteous Messianic Seed-line from Adam to Christ prior to Cain killing him. So, God reset this line that would become the fulfilment of His promise in Genesis 3:15, that the Seed of the Woman would crush the Head of Satan (in the Serpent).
Therefore, 430 is 300 + 130 - it is the appointed time of Victory and Freedom, that is only made possible by the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus. Additionally, 130 can also be broken down into its key components as follows:
13 (rebellion / redemption) x 10 (law) = 130
This shows that at the core of an appointed time is the rebellion of man that God reverses into an offer of redemption, through the fulfilment of the Law of Sin and Death. As Sin flows from a spirit of Rebellion, this leads us to the greatest example of an appointed time being when Jesus, who became Sin in our place, was sacrificed at the appointed time on the Cross. He did this to fulfil the demands of the Law that states that the "wages of Sin" is death. Not only was this time appointed, but it was also prophesied in Daniel 9:24-27:
24 “Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. 25 “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times. 26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, and till the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week, He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.” Daniel 9:24-27
In this regard, this prophecy known as Daniel's 70 Weeks was pointing to Jesus as the fulfilment of the 69th week.
Importantly Jesus began His ministry to fulfil this prophecy at the age of 30. It was an appointed time during which He chose 12 disciples, who with Him would form the inner core of 13 people to demonstrate how the 13 of Man's Rebellion would become the 13 of Redemption, when God would reverse the Curse of man's Sin and Rebellion upon the Cross. So together you would have a numerical and theological equivalence between 43 and 430, that is all bound up in the blood sacrifice of Jesus:
30 + 13 = 43 - appointed time
Notably, it would occur at the precise time pointed to by Daniel 9:26, that predicted the cutting off of the Messiah, when He took the Rebellious Spirit of Man represented by the number 13 into His very being, as stated in 2 Corinthians 5:21:
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21
His death on the Cross then became the payment for all Sin that had ever entered, and that ever would enter Creation itself. However, because Jesus was not just fully Man, but also fully God, it was not possible for death to hold Him down:
24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. Acts 2:24
So, after 3 days and nights He was raised to life again and all who would choose to put their faith in this finished work of Christ, that involved His death / burial / and resurrection, would be spiritually hidden within Him and in a divine exchange —our Sin for His righteousness— His death and resurrection would become ours, and we would receive the Holy Spirit to be born again and receive eternal life.
In this way, the greatest appointed time in the history of humanity is associated with Jesus' ministry that began at the age of 30 to achieve the Redemption of Mankind. Then since we see Jesus fulfilled this through His death at the age of 33, in fulfilment of the Law (10) then all of this can be represented as:
33 (age of Jesus) + 10 (fulfilling the law) = 43
and
43 (appointed time ) x 10 (when the law was fulfilled) = 430
So, numerically, both 43 and 430 equate to appointed times of God.
Notably, as I have also written about in a previous article, the verse numbers (24 - 27) of Daniel's most important prophecy —that helps to define the significance of God's Appointed Times in connection with the numbers 43 and 430— correspond to the chapter numbers of Isaiah's Mini-Apocalypse.
Additionally, the specific timing of Jesus and His death on the Cross in this passage is revealed in verses 25 and 26. This is significant because, as I have also shown before, the numbers 25 and 26 in bible numerics can arguably also be pointers that relate to the years 2025 and 2026. And mathematically these numbers seem to be connected to a possible completion of time, or at least the fulfilment of an age, as follows:
0³ - 0
1³ = 1
2³ = 8
3³ = 27
4³ = 64
5³ = 125
6³ = 216
7³ = 343
8³ = 512
9³ = 729
Essentially, every number that exists is a combination of the digits 0 - 9 and when these digits are raised by the power of 3, that represents the full divinity of the Triune God, as shown above you get a total that points to 2025:
0 + 1 + 8 +27 +64 + 125 + 216 + 343 + 512 + 729 = 2025
Then because this is numerically a full 2,025 units, when we are considering it as a pointer to years, starting from the beginning of AD 1 because our calendar does not have a year '0' this means that 2,025 years would be precisely pointing to midnight December 31 2025 / January 1st 2026. In this way, all numbers inherently seem to be pointing to 2026 through the transition of 2025 → 2026, and as above there is arguably a symbolic connection between the verses 25 and 26 in Daniel's prophecy in chapter 9 (number of finality) that is pointing to 2025 - 2026 that appear to be years related to the finality of God's prophetic plans for humanity —given Daniel's 70 Weeks prophetically represents the fulfilment of all prophecy and the establishment of Righteousness.
As such, all of this lays the foundation for some incredibly special Appointed Times in ISRAEL's national history, as the following 4 examples will show:
Event 1 - The Exodus Event
We have a wonderful God who hears us when we cry as Exodus 2 shows:
23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard -- their groaning, and God remembered -- his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon -- the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. Exodus 2:23-25
It is in connection with God's people crying out to Him that the first occurrence of this number (430) occurs. For as we know, God then calls and commissions Moses to become the Deliverer of His people; and as Exodus 12: 40-41 shows, it was precisely 430 years to the very day, not a day earlier or later, but as verse 31 says, "...even the selfsame day" that all of God's chosen people went out from their bondage in Egypt - it was their Appointed Time to be set Free:
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred -- and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred -- and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. Exodus 12:40-41
Event 2 - Ezekiel's 430 years
Notably God's desire is for His people to walk and dwell with Him, but so often we allow our Pride and Flesh to take control, which leads us away from our Heavenly Father. This breaks God's Heart, but because He has given us free will He honors that. However, at the 430 appointed time mark, He steps in before we allow our sinful desires to totally destroy us.
This is what happened in Egypt during the Exodus, and ultimately, it is what we see in our second example of 430, which God revealed to Ezekiel, the prophet of the Exile. God’s people had rebelled against Him and, as a result, were taken captive in Babylon. Yet it was not God’s desire for them to remain there. He spoke directly to Ezekiel to outline the full measure of His judgment against His chosen people.
By this time, the nation had been divided into the northern and southern kingdoms. The northern kingdom, known as the House of Israel, had already been taken into captivity by the Assyrians. Now, the southern kingdom, known as the House of Judah, was also in exile in Babylon. Therefore, in Ezekiel 4, God declared that the punishment for their iniquity would be limited to 390 years for the northern kingdom and 40 years for the southern kingdom, for a total of:
390 + 40 = 430 years
So here we seen another 430-year appointed time, when God would restore His people to the Promised Land. However, there was one further proviso, that was outlined in Leviticus 26:
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
Essentially, if after the allotted punishment the people still did not obey God, their punishment would be multiplied by 7 times. Importantly their captivity in Babylon was only meant to be for 70 years, as was outlined in Jeremiah 25:
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve -- the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and -- that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and -- the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. Jeremiah 25:11-12
Sadly, when the 70 years of exile came to an end, most of the people did not return to the Promised Land. Having grown comfortable in a foreign land, only a small number chose to return.
This set the stage for Ezra and Nehemiah to be called out of Babylon years later: Ezra to rebuild the Temple and Nehemiah to restore Jerusalem’s walls. Both had remained in disrepair since Nebuchadnezzar and his armies destroyed them decades earlier.
Because so many people refused to return, God invoked the condition described in Leviticus: the remaining years of their judgment would be multiplied by 7.
In this way we see the 430 years extended as follows:
430 years - 70 year in Babylon = 360 years - that should have been the remainder
360 years x 7 = 2520 years - after the multiplication by 7 for disobedience.
Keeping in mind that the Prophetic Hebrew Calendar used at that time consisted of only 360 days, we must convert it to Gregorian years as follows:
2,520 × 360 = 907,200 days
907,200 ÷ 365.25 = 2,483.778234 years on the Gregorian Calendar.
Since Nebuchadnezzar first attacked Jerusalem in 606 BC then the 70 years should have finished in 536 BC, however given this multiplication, if one ignores the decimal portion of the result, the new date on the Gregorian calendar became:
536 BC + 2,483 = 1948 - once adjusted for no year 0
Then with regard to the decimal portion 0.778234 that represents about 9.5 months and allowing for the fact that we do not know the exact month and day that the exile finished, we also do not know the exact day that these 2,520 prophetic days needs to be applied to. Clearly though, God also knew this and no doubt the portion of the year that it represents took us through to May 14th 1948, when Israel officially declared themselves as a nation again, with all other conditions of Ezekiel's 430 year Appointed Time having been met.
Event 3- In Connection with the Silent Years - 430 years
Interestingly while the first two events are very precise in terms of God fulfilling His Covenant Promises to His people there is another interim period centered on 430 years that is worth mentioning in relation to the silent years that follow the closure of the Old Testament and that precede Jesus. Clearly the coming of Jesus the 'first time' was the greatest act by God to not only set His chosen people free, but to set all people free.
Essentially the scholastic theories on the dates connected with this period, that included the writing of the book of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, are two-fold:
Theory 1: Written during Nehemiah’s absence (c. 432–430 BC)
Nehemiah served as governor of Judah from 445 BC to 432 BC before returning to the Persian court to resume his duties for King Artaxerxes I (Nehemiah 13:6). While Nehemiah was gone, the spiritual and moral state of the Jewish people rapidly deteriorated and it is believed that God may have raised up Malachi during this exact leadership vacuum to rebuke the people before Nehemiah returned for his second term to physically enforce the reforms. This makes the dating of the Book of Malachi to around 430 BC, a highly support conclusion.
Theory 2: Written shortly after Nehemiah’s second return (c. 430–425 BC)
When Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem for his second term as governor, he discovered widespread spiritual complacency. In this way, Malachi and Nehemiah are seen as contemporaries working side-by-side or back-to-back to fix the exact same issues. This produced Identical checklists of Sins making this the strongest evidence for a 430 BC timeline in that the specific sins Malachi condemns are identical to the social and religious violations Nehemiah has to correct in Nehemiah 13, such as:
• Corrupt Priesthood: Malachi rebukes the priests for bringing defiled and blemished animal sacrifices to the altar (Malachi 1:6–14). Nehemiah discovered that the high priest Eliashib had inappropriately leased temple rooms to a foreign adversary (Nehemiah 13:4–9).
• Neglecting the Tithe: Malachi famously accuses the people of "robbing God" by withholding their tithes and offerings (Malachi 3:8–10). Nehemiah explicitly notes that the Levites had abandoned the temple because the people had stopped bringing them their portions (Nehemiah 13:10–12).
• Intermarriage with Foreigners: Malachi severely condemns those who married "the daughter of a foreign god" (Malachi 2:11). Nehemiah had to fiercely confront and discipline Jewish men who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab (Nehemiah 13:23–27).
Because of these explicit parallels, 430 BC serves as a historically accurate and widely accepted anchor point for the close of the Old Testament canon before the "400 years of silence" preceding the New Testament.
In parallel events, it is also noted in relation to Esther, that the events recorded in the bible took place during the reign of Xerxes I (Ahasuerus) of Persia, and occur within a very tight historical window between 483–473 BC, a ten‑year span inside Xerxes’ reign. Essentially 473 BC is the widely accepted historical date for the events commemorated at Purim, in relation to the Jews’ deliverance described in Esther 9.
The key detail is the date 473 BC. Exactly 430 years later brings us to 43 BC—the very year in which Antipater the Idumean (Herod’s father) was poisoned. This event directly accelerated Herod’s rise to uncontested power.
At the time, Herod and his brother Phasael were already serving as governors of Galilee and Jerusalem, respectively. Following their father’s death, they were elevated to greater authority throughout Judea, succeeding Antipater, who had served as Rome’s first procurator over the region.
Herod and Phasael ruled together until they were challenged by Antigonus in 40 BC, three years later. During this conflict, Phasael died, and Herod fled to Rome. There, the Roman Senate declared him King of Judea. After a three-year struggle against Antigonus, Herod secured sole control in 37 BC. However, the important thing is that Herod, who would ultimately take sole control over Judea, became elevated in power precisely 430 years after the events recorded in Esther that occurred in 473 BC, and he remained King during the birth of Jesus, which modern scholastic research now connects with 3 BC.
This has meant that the previously held view that Herod died in 4 BC has been modified by many scholars to a more realistic 1 BC perfectly fulfilling the accepted dates of Jesus birth, in line with the Bethlehem Star of 3 BC. This view is held by many scholars, including Michael Heiser, who was a noted author of such books as the Unseen Realm etc., and prior to his death served as Scholar-in-Residence for Logos Bible Software, where he contributed to adapting scholarly tools for nonspecialists and engaged in various teaching and writing activities.
Event 4 - Modern Occurrence In Connection with Ottoman Empire - 430 years
Fast-forwarding to the modern era, we have the mystery written about in Revelation 17 that spoke about the 7 Kings whose Kingdoms would all have control over the Promised Land, prior to the Antichrist (the Beast) who would be the 8th King (noting Satan copies everything):
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. Revelation 17:10-11
As it states "five have fallen" - this is a reference to:
• Egpyt
• Assyria
• Babylon
• Media - Persia
• Greece
And "one is" - which is a reference to:
• Roman Empire
And the "other is not yet come" - "the Seventh":
• Ottoman Empire
Importantly the Romans remained in power over the area until AD 638 under the Eastern Byzantine Empire, which by that time was a Christianized version of the Roman Empire. Then from AD 638 to 1099 a series of Islamic Caliphates became the rulers. This was followed in 1099 -1260 with the battles for control between the Crusaders and Islamic Dynasties, such as the Ayyubid Dynasty, that was largely Kurdish in origin. Then between 1260 and 1517 the Mamelukes took power. Though they were an elite military caste of enslaved soldiers, coming out of Egypt, ethnically they were primarily of Turkic and Caucasian origins. Finally, the 7th Empire prophesied by John in Revelation 17 involved the Ottomans, who were also ethnically a Turkish-ruled empire. So, it is important to note that the years between AD 70 and 1517 saw the Promised Land largely controlled by various ethnic and religious groups that would keep the Land in a holding pattern, until God's Appointed Time at the end of days.
Amazingly, in this respect, the Ottoman Empire came to power over the Promised Land —that at that time was called Palestine— in 1517 and it was 430 years later in 1947, that in line with God's Appointed Timing —that seeks to set His people free and restore His Covenant Promises— that the United Nations voted and gave support under International Law for the Jews to again have a homeland in Palestine.
This was done under the terms of the Palestinian Mandate, that was formulated in response to the Balfour Declaration of 1917 —that was a document drafted inside the British government, primarily by Leo Amery, with key contributions from Lord Milner, and shaped through negotiations with Zionist leaders such as Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow. Importantly, it was signed by Lord Balfour, the Foreign Secretary at the time, exactly 400 years after the Ottoman Empire had risen to power. So, in their defeat in 1917 by the British Empire this was another marker of God's prophetic destiny for His people. It acted as a mirror of Genesis 15, where God told Abraham (then called Abram) about the future of his descendants, saying that they would endure four hundred years of servitude and then return in the fourth generation:
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.” Genesis 15:13-16
So, in some remarkable parallels, the small remnant of Jews still living in the Land experienced a liberation that was reminiscent of their ancient forefathers.
At this point, it is also important to understand that contrary to the modern narrative, God did not leave the land promised to Abraham and his seed without a witness to the fact that it belonged to God and His chosen people. Throughout the 1,878 years that transpired between AD 70 and 1948, there was always a remnant of His people that still lived there. This fact counters the claim by Arabs that the area was the national homeland to an ethnic group called Palestinians for no nation has ever existed in their own homeland as a minority and that's what they would have been, as the figures from every modern Census of the Land, starting in 1844 and listed in the following table, shows:
Jerusalem Population Aggregate Data Table (1844–1967)
| Year | Jews | Muslims | Christians | Total Population | Source Context / Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1844 | 7,120 | 5,000 | 3,390 | 15,510 | Prussian Consul Ernst-Gustav Schultz estimate (frequently cited baseline year). |
| 1876 | 12,000 | 7,560 | 5,470 | 25,030 | Early systematic Ottoman Civil Registration aggregates. |
| 1896 | 28,112 | 8,560 | 8,748 | 45,420 | Ottoman Census / Calendar Year (Salname) records. |
| 1922 | 33,971 | 13,411 | 14,699 | 62,081 | First Official British Mandate Census (standard modern municipal tracking). |
| 1931 | 51,222 | 19,894 | 19,335 | 90,451 | Second Official British Mandate Census. |
| 1948 | 100,000 | 40,000 | 25,000 | 165,000 | End of Mandate / Pre-War Estimates. |
| 1967 | 195,700 | 54,963 | 12,646 | 263,309 | Israel Central Bureau of Statistics census (following the unification of the city). |
Important Note: these figures are mostly from non-Jewish sources, so they are not biased or manipulated in any way towards God's people, rather they simply reflect a truth that much of the world does not want you to know.
Essentially, as can be seen from the first modern Census connected to Jerusalem in 1844, through to modern times, the Jews have always remained as the largest people group occupying the land and the indisputable fact is that the term Palestinian always referred to all people living in that area, that from the Bible, we understand to be the Promised Land. At no point in history was it a designation for an ethnic group let alone one that is nominally Arab in origin. That is why as late as the 1930s that newspapers regularly spoke of both Palestinian Jews as well as Palestinian Arabs. It was simply a designation for the people living in that area. So there has never been a Palestinian nation and the Land has always been in the hands of God's people the Jews, in spite of the different occupiers. Ultimately, no other nation on earth has such an ancient document recording their connection to the Land, with such clearly delineated borders, as do the Jewish people in the Bible.
In fact, as the images of a newspaper " The Hongkong Telegraph" dated Wednesday, May 4 1948, just 10 days prior to the Jewish people declaring the rebirth of their nation on May 14th 1948, King Abdullah of Transjordan was still referring to them as "Palestinian Jews" and clearly hoping that they would stop pursuing their own state in line with the UN Partition Plan, if he offered them 'Full Arab Nationality"(click here to access an electronic copy of the paper):
Note: he was not offering them Palestinian nationality because there were no such people or ethnicity, for Palestine was just an area occupied by both Jews and Arabs and he was trying to claim control. His offer to give Arab nationality would have only been a solution if the Jews and the Arabs were the only two major ethic groups in the area (and there was not a third known as Palestinian) and the Jews had relinquished their rights to the Land and accepted his offer to become Arab Nationals. Clearly though, this was a very desperate attempt by a prominent Arab who had already taken control of around 78% of the original area (calling it Transjordan / Jordan) that was designated under the terms of the 1922 British Mandate for Palestine, that sought to create both a Jewish and Arab State.
At this point, it is also worth noting that King Abduallah's entire Arab lineage and history was connected to areas within Saudi Arabia. His father was Sharif Hussein and their heritage was predominantly connected to the Hashemite family who had been rulers of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. In spite of not having any connection to the area called Jordan today, that historically had been Edom; Moab and Ammon, the British who had been given control over the area of Palestine, under the Mandate system, chose for their own purposes to give most of it away to this Arab family. Essentially, the sons of this Arab family were placed on various thrones across the Middle East and with British backing they controlled the newly created areas called Iraq; Syria and the Kingdom of Jordan, as the following table shows:
| Fanily Member | Teritory Ruled | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| King Ali (Eldest Son | Kingdom of the Hejaz (Mecca/Medina) | Overthrown by Ibn Saud in 1925; the kingdom became part of Saudi Arabia. |
| King Faisal I (Third Son) | (Third Son)Kingdom of Syria (1920) Kingdom of Iraq (1921–1958) | Ousted from Syria by the French. He then ruled Iraq, but his royal line was violently overthrown in a 1958 military coup. |
| King Abdullah I (Second Son) | (Second Son)Emirate / Kingdom of Jordan (1921–Present) | The surviving branch. His direct descendants still rule Jordan today under the current monarch, King Abdullah II. |
So, the land that was historically Edom; Moab and Ammon was sliced out of the Palestinian mandated area and given a new name Transjordan / Jordan. This was an incredible win for the Arabs who had now been given nearly 78% of the original area that had been designated for both Jewish and Arab states. All this occurred before the United Nations decided to divide the roughly 22% that was remaining, giving even more to the Arabs.
Under the original 1947 UN Partition Plan (Resolution 181), the remaining 22% of the original British Mandate territory (the land west of the Jordan River) was slated to be divided as follows:
• The Arab State: Allocated roughly 43% to 45% of that remaining 22% landmass (amounting to approximately 11,592 square kilometers). This territory included western Galilee, the central hill country (what became known as the West Bank), and the Gaza region.
• The Jewish State: Allocated roughly 55% to 56% of that remaining 22% landmass (approximately 15,264 square kilometers), which included the coastal plain, eastern Galilee, and the mostly uninhabited Negev Desert.
• International Zone: The remaining 0.65% (comprising Jerusalem and Bethlehem) was designated to be an international enclave (corpus separatum) run by the United Nations.
Mathematically, when looking at the entire original post-WWI British Mandate for Palestine footprint, as a single whole, the UN Partition Plan attempted to carve out an additional 9.5% to 10% to give to the Arabs. This means that the Jewish people would have only been left with approximately 12% of the original area, with 88% being given to the Arabs to create nations on land that was never historically theirs. In this respect, if one factors in modern Syria —that as above was given to the same Arab Hashemite family— that once belonged to the ancient Arameans (an Aramaic speaking people) who previously occupied the land, along with Iraq and Jordan, we see that Arabs have essentially gained control of most of the Middle East.
In fact, out of a total regional land surface of roughly 7.22 million square kilometers, for the Middle East, the States that identify as officially as Arab, and that use Arabic as their primary state language, and are members of the Arab League control about 4.76 million square kilometers. This is approximately 66% (an interesting figure numerically indicating what the enemy has stolen) while the remaining 34% is controlled by the non-Arab nations of Iran, Turkey, Israel, and Cyprus. Then compare this to Israel's actual territory, which if one includes the contested areas of East Jerusalem; West Bank and the Golan Heights (as officially integrated under Israeli law), it totals only 22,072 square kilometers. This means that Israel's share of the Middle East constitutes just 0.31% - less than a single percent of the total area!
To give one an idea of the true perspective of what this means, the following is a map created by AI. It is based upon the AI drawing upon official sources that contrasts the relative size of the only Israeli State compared to all of the States that officially identify as Arab, using Arabic as their primary state language, and that are members of the Arab League:
Yet the world says they have too much land and it should be divided further and given to the Arabs, who already control 2/3s of the land mass in the Middle East - the hatred of God and His people is tangible!
This is why we know that the Return of Jesus is close and that God is preparing to come back to judge the world. Importantly though all people still have a chance for as Jesus said in relation to His First Coming - He came to Save the World!:
47 And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. John 12:47
However, in the same passage, He also warned that there was a judgement coming in the Last Day:
48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. John 12:47-48
Therefore, God's words given to Isaiah add an urgency to the need for Repentance, prior to Jesus' Second Coming:
6 Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. Isaiah 55:6-7
Ultimately, although the Jews historically agreed to a partitioning of the land between themselves and local Arabs, the Arabs did not and they launched a war. However, according to God, Palestine is the eternal possession of the Jewish people, irrespective of the name change that has no link to Arab ethnicity.
Importantly, the return of the Jews to their ancestral homeland, occurred in connection with the prophesied 7th Kingdom (Ottoman Empire 1517 - 1917), ending 400 years of servitude to the Turkish Landowners before the UN vote of support for a Jewish state in 1947, finally ended all foreign rule in the Land exactly 430 years after the rise of this 7th Kingdom.
While the actual declaration of Israel's rebirth was delayed by approximately six months, until May 14, 1948, due to the attacks by the Arabs, I believe these attacks served God's purposes. Essentially, the Jewish people were prepared to settle for only a portion of the Land God promised them, but after the various battles of last century God's people finally got full control of Jerusalem and the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. And while they would give Gaza away in 2005, in a Land for Peace deal (that has never ever worked) God is again in the process of restoring Gaza.
In this way, the appointed times of liberation and restoration for God's people have occurred with remarkable precision throughout their biblical history. All in connection with the God's prophetically significant 400-year and 430-year timeframe markers. Since they have also reappeared in modern times, this gives weight to the idea that God could be using them as part of a timing clues for the ultimate appointed time related to the Return of Jesus in the Rapture. Given their connection with Jesus First Coming, this seems a very reasonable conclusion.
A possible Timing Clue
Thus, all of the preceding serves to establish our foundation for understanding what God has possibly hidden in our Rapture Number 726, that is the Strong's Bible number G0726 for the Greek word ἁρπάζω (harpazō), that is the primary word for the Rapture that is translated as "caught up" in the following verse:
17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:17
So, returning to this number, we note again that it has the following factors:
1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 22, 33, 66, 121, 242, 363, 726
Importantly, as we also saw above, these factors sum together to total 1596:
1+ 2 3 + 6 + 11 + 22 + 33 + 66 + 121 + 242 + 363 + 726 = 1596
In this way, mathematically we have the number 1596, that is associated with the Rapture, through the transmission of the Greek Word for 'caught up', from:
ἁρπάζω (harpazō) → rapiemur → Rapture
Given that this number comes from the ‘726’ associated with a timing clue last year on the Feast of Trumpets—which, in 2025, began on the eve of 22nd September, when 72.6% of the year had elapsed—we can see that this sign was precisely aligned with the beginning of Rosh Hashanah: the first day of the two-day celebration traditionally allocated to the Feast of Trumpets, otherwise known as Yom Teruah (the Day of Blowing). There can be no doubt that it was a sign, since signs always come before their fulfilment. So, since this Feast is also believed by many to be associated with the coming of Jesus, it is certainly reasonable to link the related number with a possible Rapture.
In light of this, and considering how God has used the number 430 in connection with His promises —from the time of His promises to Abraham to the Exodus from Egypt, marking the precise deliverance of His people—it is fascinating to note the following:
1596 (number associated with Rapture Sign) + 430 = 2026
So could it be that God hid a clue to the Rapture in connection with a word and a number and a date, that He knew people would be watching, for the ultimate purpose of pointing us to the year 2026 through its mathematical connections.
Additionally, as also stated above the number 43 is also related to God's appointed Times. As such it is also interesting to note, as I have written about before in the article called "43, 47 and 48 – God’s Time Stamp Trilogy and the Rapture" - click here to read it - that if you start at the year of the event, that began the modern efforts to see Israel become a nation again - the First Zionist Congress convened by Theodore Herzl in 1897, and you consider it in connection with multiples of 43, you get the following:
1897 + (43 x 3) = 2026
Ultimately, given the significance of these numbers in the history of Israel, particularly in relation to 430, none of this seems to be just a coincidence. So, all that remains to be determined is whether this is telling us that Jesus will definitely be coming back in 2026 or whether this is serving as another sign simply to alert us to how close to the end we are. What is becoming clearer and clearer is that we can know the season and that we are definitely in that season now!
Therefore, while it still remains possible that we may even know it to within a day, if it is connected with the Feast of Trumpets some year, as many of us have always thought, Jesus also said to remain watchful as He may come back at an hour that we do not expect:
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Matthew 24:44
In this regard, scripture also supports the possibility of a second mid-tribulation Rapture. This can be seen in Revelation 14, that speaks about one like unto the Son of Man —that was Jesus' favorite title for Himself in the Gospels— sitting on a Cloud and reaping the earth, that is reminiscent of our central Rapture verse in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, that talks about us being "caught up" to be with Jesus in the Clouds:
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto 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 that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. 17 And 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, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. 19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. Revelation 14:14-20
Importantly, just as the angel that reaps the earth and casts people alive into the 'great winepress of the Wrath of God', that is the second-half of the Tribulation, there is no reason not to believe that those reaped in verse 16, by the one like the Son of Man that appears to be Jesus, are not also taken alive to heaven, after meeting Jesus in the clouds.
Therefore, If the Pre-Tribulation Rapture does not occur in connection with the Feast of Trumpets, it is still possible that this could occur in relation to what appears to be a second Mid-Tribulation Rapture. The timing of this 'Reaping of the Earth' seems to be for the purpose of taking home those who have repented after being confronted with the ministry of the two-witnesses and the 144,000 Sealed Jewish Believers, who at the beginning of this same chapter are now seen in heaven, as a type of 'first fruit' of those who would follow when one like the 'Son of Man' reaps the earth:
1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. 4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation 14:1-5
So, the most I will say about this Rapture Sign that is connected to the number 726 is that it is definitely POSSIBLE that Jesus will come back in 2026 in the Rapture event to take us home.
If He doesn't, the warning is that He is close and that we should remain expectant and alert, as we continue to watch for His return. Either way, I believe the next two years, the last of Trump's Term in Office (the last Trump), will certainly be eventful. As it says in Luke 21:28 (noting 21+ 28 = 49 - God's completion), we are to keep looking up as we see all of the signs:
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21:27-28
*** Bless you All ***
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