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years; as Himself testifieth, saying, behold this day shall be as a thousand years.
Therefore children, in six days, that is, in six thousand years, shall all things be
accomplished. And what is it that He saith, and He rested the seventh day; He meaneth
this; that when his Son shall come, and abolish the season of the wicked one, and judge
the ungodly; and shall change the sun and the moon, and the stars, then He shall
gloriously rest in that seventh day.”
Irenaeus, an early church leader, while writing in 150 AD about the book of Genesis in his
book Against Heresies said: “This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a
prophecy of what is to come. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days
created things were completed; it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth
thousand years.” Around 300 AD, in the writings of Christian scholar Lactantius, he said:
“Because all the works of God were finished in six days, it is necessary that the world should
remain in this state six ages, that is six thousand years. Because having finished the works He
rested on the seventh day and blessed it; it is necessary that at the end of the sixth thousandth
year all the wickedness should be abolished out of the earth and justice should reign a thousand
years.” Other writers during the early Christian era also reflected this premise.
Some researchers have sought to adjust the calculations of this theory. The Jewish calendar
conformed to the solar year, which contained 360 days, or 12 months of 30 days. In 1583, the
Gregorian calendar was adopted, which added an extra 5.25 days to that year. If you add
2,160,000 days (6,000 years X 360 days) to 2,173.50 days (414 years of 5.25 days), you get
2,162,173.50 days, which divided by the Jewish year of 360 days, would make the end of the
sixth day, the year 2002. When you deduct from that figure, the seven year period which is
commonly referred to as the Tribulation period, that leaves us with the year of 1995 as the
culmination of the efforts to establish a New World Order.
There is another theory, which has to do with the amount of time that the Jewish race would
be dispersed across the Earth. The Jews were in bondage in Egypt for 430 years and later for 70
years in Babylon. These dates were foretold. The purpose of the prophecy which is given in
Ezekiel 4:1-8 was to show how long the Jews would be scattered as a people. Other Scriptures
deal with the extent of the dispersal: Deut. 28:25, Deut. 28:64, Jer. 24:9, and Amos 9:9. Adding
the 390 and 40 years, gives you 430 years. Leviticus 26:18 says: “And if ye will not yet for all
this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.” From 430, subtract
the 70 years they were punished in Babylon, and what God was telling Moses, was that the
Jewish people would be dispersed for 2,520 years (360 years X 7).
Now here is where it gets a little tricky. Nebuchadnezaar’s first return of his Jewish captives
was in 536 BC, and the final return was in 516 BC. Again, using the adjustment for the two
calendars, and using the earliest date of 536 BC, we get these calculations: 907,200 days (2520
years X 360 days) plus 2,110.50 days (402 years X 5.25 days) is 909,310.50 days divided by 360
days of the Jewish calendar is 2525.86 years, or the year 1990. But then, the latter date of 516
BC, would give us the year 2010.
The Bible also says that the events of the end times would not take place until all of the Jews
returned to their homeland, and this return is referred to in: Isa. 5:26, Isa. 11:11-12, Isa. 43:5-6,
Jer. 16:15, Jer. 30:3, Eze. 34:11-13, Eze. 36:24, and Zech. 10:8. This return of God’s chosen
people, only refers to pure, full-blooded Jews (Gen. 6:1-4, Ezra 10:2-18, Neh. 13:27, Jude 1:7).
In 1800, Palestine had a population of 150 Jews; 1827- 1,500 Jews; 1850- 8,000; 1910- 41,000;
1914- 100,000; 1930- 170,000; 1935- 300,000; 1939- 450,000; 1948- 650,000; 1953- 1,300,000;