A careful analysis of the Olivetan Discourse that Yashayahnah Messiah gave on the Mount of Olives suggests that while we may not know the day and hour of the Second Coming we can definitely establish a timeframe for the event.

The Olivetan Discourse: Matthew 24:3-44

The Signs of the Times and the End of the Age

Mat 24:3 And as She sat on the Mount of Olives, the taught ones came to Her separately, saying, “Say to us, when shall this be, and what is the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” 4 And Yashayahnah answering, said to them, “Take heed that no one leads you astray. 5 “For many shall come in My Name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they shall lead many astray. 6 “And you shall begin to hear of fightings and reports of fightings. See that you are not troubled, for these have to take place, but the end is not yet. 7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and reign against reign. And there shall be scarcities of food, and deadly diseases, and earthquakes in places. 8 “And all these are the beginning of birth pains. 9 “Then they shall deliver you up to affliction and kill you, and you shall be hated by all nations for My Name’s sake. 10 “And then many shall stumble, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. 11 “And many false prophets shall rise up and lead many astray. 12 “And because of the increase in lawlessness, the love of many shall become cold. 13 “But those who shall have endured to the end shall be saved. 14 “And this Good News of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come.

The Great Tribulation

Mat 24:15 “So when you see the ‘abomination that lays waste,’ spoken of by Dani’ĕl the prophet, set up in the set-apart place” – those who read, let them understand - 16 “then let those who are in Yehudah flee to the mountains. 17 “Let those who are on the house-top not come down to take whatever out of their house. 18 “And let those who are in the field not turn back to get their garments. 19 “And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing children in those days! 20 “And pray that your flight does not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 “For then there shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 “And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved, but for the sake of the chosen ones those days shall be shortened. 23 “If anyone then says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe. 24 “For false messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and they shall show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. 25 “See, I have forewarned you. 26 “So if they say to you, ‘Look, She is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, She is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe. 27 “For as the lightning comes from the east and shines to the west, so also shall the coming of the Descendant of Adam be. 28 “For wherever the dead body is, there the eagles shall be gathered together.

The Coming of the Descendant of  Adam

Mat 24:29 “And immediately after the distress of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. 30 “And then the sign of the Descendant of Adam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Descendant of Adam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem. 31 “And She shall send Her messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together Her chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

The Parable of the Fig Tree

Mat 24:32 “And learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is near. 33 “So you also, when you see all these, know that She is near, at the doors. 34 “Truly, I say to you, this generation shall by no means pass away until all this takes place. 35 “The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away.

No One Knows the Day or Hour

Mat 24:36 “But concerning that day and the hour no one knows, not even the messengers of the heavens, but My Father only. 37 “And as the days of Noah, so also shall the coming of the Descendant of Adam be. 38 “For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 39 and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also shall the coming of the Descendant of Adam be. 40 “Then two shall be in the field, the one is taken and the one is left. 41 “Two shall be grinding at the mill, one is taken and one is left. 42 “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Master is coming. 43 “And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, they would have watched and not allowed their house to be broken into. 44 “Because of this, be ready too, for the Descendant of Adam is coming at an hour when you do not expect Her.

The Symbolism of the Fig Tree

The Old Testament prophets use the fig tree as a symbol of YisraEl. In Hoshea, for example, we find The Father saying

Hos 9:10 “I found Yisra’ĕl like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruits on the fig tree in its beginning……..

In Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) there are multiple references of the fig tree being associated with the Yehudah(Jews).

Jer 24:1-7  Yeshayahna showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs set before the Hĕḵal of Yeshayahna, after Neḇuḵaḏrets-tsar sovereign of Baḇel had exiled Yeḵonyahu son of Yehoyaqim, sovereign of Yehuḏah, and the heads of Yehuḏah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Baḇel. 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe. And the other basket had very spoilt figs which could not be eaten, they were so spoilt.” 3 And Yeshayahna said to me, “What do you see, Yirmeyahu?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good. And the spoilt, very spoilt, which could not be eaten, they are so spoilt.” 4 Again the word of Yeshayahna came to me, saying, 5 “Thus said Yeshayahna, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Like these good figs, so do I acknowledge the exiles of Yehuḏah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. 6 ‘And I shall set My eyes on them for good, and shall bring them back to this land. And I shall build them and not pull them down, and shall plant them and not pluck them up. 7 ‘And I shall give them a heart to know Me, that I am Yeshayahna. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Elohim, for they shall turn back to Me with all their heart.

The Messiah was familiar with these scrolls and used the lesson of the fig tree parable to symbolize YisraEl. The Ethiopic Text of  The Apocalypse of Peter leaves no doubt that Messiah was linking “The House of YisraEl” to the Fig Tree.  A portion of the text has the following

And I, Peter, answered and said unto him: Interpret unto me concerning the fig-tree, whereby we shall perceive it; for throughout all its days doth the fig-tree send forth shoots, and every year it bringeth forth its fruit for its master. What then meaneth the parable of the fig-tree? We know it not. And the Master answered and said unto me: Understandest thou not that the fig-tree is the house of Israel?”

The fig tree parable in the Olivet Discourse refers to YisraEl.  The Declaration of the State of Israel’s Independence occurred on May 14, 1948 and YisraEl was recognized as a member of the United Nations by majority vote on May 11, 1949.

Looking at the parable of the fig tree above then we see that the fig tree YisraEl sprouted new leaves when it was recognized as a nation by others in 1949. So now we know the summer of the events prophesized in the discourse are near. The parable is telling us that there are people who saw YisraEl come back that will live to see the Second Coming of the Messiah.  Can we identify a time span for The Second Coming in years or months since only the Father knows the day and the hour? Can we get anymore information on a moving generation in Scripture? It has to be a moving generation because only The Father knows the exact day and hour of the return of The Messiah.

In the Scroll of Psalms there is “A prayer of Mosheh the man of Elohim” that does this for us. Mosheh lived for a 120 years yet in this prayer contained in in the eldest of the Psalms Mosheh (Psalm 90) writes that “the length of our years is range bound between seventy and eighty”. Obviously there were many who lived shorter and some who have lived longer so Mosheh was giving us the average range of a generation. Here is Psalm 90 in its entirety.

Psalm 90

A Prayer of Mosheh the man of Elohim.

Yeshayahna, You have been our refuge In all generations.
Before the mountains were born, Or You had brought forth the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting You are Ěl.
You turn man back to dust, And say, “Return, O children of men.”
For a thousand years in Your eyes Are like yesterday that has past, Or like a watch in the night.
You have swept them away, They are as a sleep, Like grass that springs up in the morning.
At evening it is cut down and withered.
For we have been consumed by Your displeasure, And by Your wrath we are alarmed.
You have set our crookednesses before You, Our secret sin in the light of Your face.
For all our days have passed away in Your wrath, We spend our years like a whisper.

The days of our lives are seventy years; Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet the best of them is but toil and exertion; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Who knows the power of Your displeasure? And your wrath, according to the fear of You?
Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.
Return, O Yeshayahna! How long? And be sorry for Your servants.
Satisfy us in the morning with Your kindness, And let us sing for joy all our days!
Give us joy according to The days You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
Reveal Your work to Your servants, And Your splendour to their children.
And let the pleasantness Of Yeshayahna our Elohim be upon us, And confirm the work of our hands for us; O confirm the work of our hands!

There is much we can take away in terms of analysis of this Psalm. This is the oldest of the Psalms and the only one written by Mosheh. It therefore must contain vital information for us to use. There are multiple pointers here to the Second Coming and events of the Second Coming. Let me first focus on the time frame and do the additional analysis later. We are given a starting point of seventy years. With strength (meaning surviving the tribulation) the range can be extended to eighty. Thus Mosheh in his prayer here is telling us that a generation is between seventy and eighty years long.

If we add the time frame of a generation to 1949 (the year YisraEl was recognized as a member of the United Nations) then the Second Coming is between “1949+70=2019″ and “1949+80=2029″. However an adjustment has to be made. In Scriptural prophecy a year is a period of 360 days and not 365 so we need to day weight the generation time frame for this and take into account 18 to 20 leap year days. This reduces the time frame by a year to between 2018 – 2028. We can’t pick the day or hour but we can pick the exact timeframe of The Return give or take a day or two.

Determining The Time Frame (Season) of The Second Coming

Date YisraEl recognized as a nation was the 11 th day of the 05 th month 1949

Add 70*360=25200 Days for the first potential day of the Second Coming gives us the 9th day of the 5th month 2018.

Add 80*360=28800 Days for the last potential day of the Second Coming gives us the 17th day of the 3rd month 2028.

Thus the range in which Our Father will pick His day and hour for The Messiah’s return is between

09/05/2018 and 17/03/2028

The tribulation is a period of seven years that includes tremendous wars and plagues reflecting The Fathers wrath as He tries to encourage humanity to be reconciled to Him. This tribulation period precedes The Messiah’s Second Coming by seven years.

Additional Analysis

The Psalm outlines the Father’s wrath and the Seven Trumpets in the Scroll of Revelations are the unleashing of The Father’s wrath with the Seventh Trumpet announcing the arrival of The Messiah. The Psalm also contains the phrase “Return, O Yeshayahna! How long? “and “Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.” further clues that this Psalm is to be used in calculating a Second Coming timeframe. Finally the Psalm ends in beauty. It ends with the pleasantness of Elohim The Father Yeshayahna being upon us who is none other than The Messiah Yashayahnah.

Reveal Your work to Your servants, And Your splendor to their children.
And let the pleasantness Of Yeshayahna our Elohim be upon us,
And confirm the work of our hands for us; O confirm the work of our hands!

The tribulation time period can be determined by studying the 70 Weeks Prophecy in the Scroll of Daniel. At the time Yerushalayim and the Hekal (Temple) were destroyed. Daniel prays to our Father Yeshayahna. His prayer includes confession of his sin and the sin of his people, and his request that Elohim restore the set-apart mountain and His city Yerushalayim.

Dan 9:16-20 “O Yeshayahna, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your displeasure and Your wrath be turned away from Your city Yerushalayim, Your set-apart mountain. For, because of our sins, and because of the crookednesses of our fathers, Yerushalayim and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us. 17 “And now, our Elohim, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the sake of Yeshayahna cause Your face to shine on Your set-apart place, which is laid waste. 18 “O my Elohim, incline Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and see our wastes, and the city which is called by Your Name. For we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great compassions. 19 “O Yeshayahna, hear! O Yeshayahna, forgive! O Yeshayahna, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my Elohim, for Your city and Your people are called by Your Name.” 20 And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Yisra’ĕl, and presenting my supplication before Yeshayahna my Elohim for the set-apart mountain of my Elohim,

The prayer of Daniel is answered by the arrival of Gabriel who shares the 70 weeks prophecy with Daniel

Dan 9:21-25 while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gaḇri’ĕl, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came close to me, in swift flight about the time of the evening offering. 22 And he made me understand, and talked with me, and said, “O Dani’ĕl, I have now come forth to make you wise concerning understanding. 23 “At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to make it known, for you are greatly appreciated. So consider the word and understand the vision: 24 “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your set-apart city, to put an end to the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover crookedness, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Set-apart. 25 “Know, then, and understand: from the going forth of the command to restore and build Yerushalayim until Messiah the Leader is seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with streets and a trench, but in times of affliction.

Various commands were issued to rebuild Yerushalayim but only one accurately pinpoints Messiah Yashayahnah being cut-off (impaled) after 69 weeks of sevens or 483 prophetical years (360 day years). The command of Artaxerxea Longimanus given to Nehemiah to rebuild Yerushalayim occurred in Nisan of 445 BCE. If we add 69*7*360=173,880 prophetic days/365.25 Solar Years = 445 BCE + 476 + 1 = 32CE. (An additional 1 was added in crossing from BCE to CE because the year “0″ didn’t exist). This is an amazing prophecy and places the impalement (cut off) of the Messiah Yashayahnah in 32 CE. The Messiah was impaled and died naked on the stake. The Messiah had naught.

Dan 9:26-27 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off and have naught. And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the set-apart place. And the end of it is with a flood. And wastes are decreed, and fighting until the end. 27 “And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall put an end to slaughtering and meal offering. And on the wing of abominations he shall lay waste, even until the complete end and that which is decreed is poured out on the one who lays waste.”

There is still one week or seven years to be fulfilled. Messiah Yashayahnah tells us this last week will come after the Good News is proclaimed to the whole world. With Television, Radio and the Internet the Good News is available to most of the world. The Beast Leader(coming prince) will establish peace with many nations in a seven year covenant including Yisra’El. During the first half of the covenant the false prophet will convert many Yehudim to Roman Catholicism(The Woman that rides the beast in the Scroll of Revelation) setting up The Beast Leader to be the AntiMessiah and having his image set up on the Hekal wall in Yerushalayim. There will be more posts on the “woman rider of the beast”  later.

Mat 24:14-15 “And this Good News of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come. 15 “So when you see the ‘abomination that lays waste, spoken of by Dani’ĕl the prophet, set up in the set-apart place” – those who read, let them understand –

Rev 17:3-6 And he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast covered with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup filled with abominations and the filthiness of her whoring,5 and upon her forehead a name written, a secret: BAḆEL THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE WHORES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones, and with the blood of the witnesses of Yashayahnah. And having seen her, I marvelled – greatly marvelled!

Determining The Time Frame of the Tribulation

Subtract 7*360=2520 Days from the first potential day of the Second Coming the 9th day of the 5th month 2018 gives us the 15th day of the 6th month 2011.

Subtract 7*360=2520 Days for the last potential day of the Second Coming the 17th day of the 3rd month 2028 gives us 23rd day of the 4th month 2021.

Thus the range in which the Tribulation will begin is between

15/06/2011 and 23/04/2021

The Scroll of Revelation describes in detail The Tribulation and we will work on that in later posts.  Time is ticking and it’s time for all of us to Surrender Sweetly to the Bread of Life.

Mat 4:3-4 And the trier came and said to Her, “If You are the Descendant of Elohim, command that these stones become bread. 4 But She answering, said, “It has been written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of Yeshayahna.’ ”

After listening to this song we will be seven or so minutes closer to The Second Coming.

There is more to say – Time to Surrender Sweetly to the Bread of Elohim