The Essenes and their calendar-
The Essenes were originally the Zadok Priests that broke away from the Pharisees (around 150 BC) who had distorted the correct Biblical Solar Calendar to the Lunar Calendar that the Jewish people use today. These Zadok Priests stuck to the writings of our Old Testament while the Pharisees mixed it with the tradition of man. They moved to Qumran at the Dead Sea and became to be called the Essenes. They were the ones which put the “Dead Sea Scrolls” (some of which are many hundreds of years old) into the caves near them around 100-150 BC.The Essenes’ faith was called “The Way” and they called were they lived Damascus, at least a hundred years before Christ. They were looking forward to the Messiah in their writings. They wrote that the Messiah would come in 32 AD in a Dead Sea scroll titled 11QMelchizedek, Col. 2, 2-11 written no later than 100 BC. It wasn’t until 1998 that this scroll and many others were released to the public.The Essenes had Christian like beliefs, with a correct vision of who the Messiah would be. It is believed that they received Jesus as Messiah and became Christians. Historians wonder what happened to them because they left Qumran sometime after Christ, probably persecution and spreading the Gospel accounts for this.Their calendar has been found in these scrolls and been organized by Dr. Ken Johnson at Biblefacts.org. You can find it there plus many teachings he has in his brilliant ministry. Some of this comes from him, also Josh Peck and Tom Horn of Skywatch TV.Essenes calendar-
A year 364 days
The prophetic year of 360 days plus one day for each of the two equinoxes and two solstices, those days are called a tekufah.
The first day of the year would be after the Spring equinox, tekufah Nissan, which is on a Tuesday every year. So the first day of the year is the next day, always on a Wednesday. Wednesday is Day 4 of the Genesis one Creation account when God created the sun and the moon, the beginning of days/nights and the day calendar.
A Shemitah is seven years
A Jubilee is 7 Shemitahs +1 Jubilee year or 50 years
A Onah is 10 Jubilees 500 years
A Millennium is two Onahs
An Age is 2 Onahs
The last Age, the Millennial Kingdom, is half length or 1000 years
All human history is 7000 years
The teaching that there would be 7000 years of human history is also taught by many of the early church fathers, including Irenaeus, 170 AD, in “Against Heresies,” Book 5, 28:3 and Victorinus of Pettau in his “Commentary on Revelation”, 20:1-3 in 260AD.
Ages of Man- In AM, anno mundi “the year of the world”:
0 AM- 2000 AM- Age of Chaos, Creation to the call of Abraham.
2000 AM- 4000 AM- Age of Torah, the call of Abraham to the end of the sacrificial system.
We find on the Essenes calendar that that Age ended in 75 A.D.
4000 AM- 6000 AM- Age of Grace, it covers 75 A.D. to 2075 A.D, the Church Age including the 7 year Tribulation, and the Second Coming of Christ. This period was to be called the Age of Grace years before Christ in the Essenes’ writings.
6000 AM- 7000 AM- The Messiah’s Millennial Kingdom
It’s interesting to note that between 25 A.D. and 75 A.D., the last Jubilee of the Age of Torah, all of Jesus’s works, his crucifixion and resurrection in 32 AD, the early Church and the 70 AD destruction of the Temple happened. It also included the destruction of a Jewish Temple in Egypt in 73 A.D. This was the end of the sacrificial system.
The question is what will happen in the last Jubilee of the Church Age which covers 2025 to 2075 AD.? Will the Tribulation and the return of Christ happen early in that Jubilee too? That would leave time for Zachariah 14, the structure of the nations and the sheep and goat judgements of Matthew 25 before the end of the Church Age and its last Jubilee ending in 2075.
2000 years after crucifixion in 32 A.D. is 2032 minus 7 years comes to 2025. Hosea 6:2 After two days (2,000 years) He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.
Asteroid Apophis
On April 13, 2029 the asteroid Apophis will near miss or hit Earth. It’s the Friday the 13th before first fruits after Passover in 2029 Essene Calendar
April 13, 2029- The middle of the 7 year Tribulation?
Plus 1260 days= September 24, 2032 Day of Atonement on the Essene calendar! That would be exactly 2,000 years after the death and resurrection of Christ that fulfilled the Jewish Spring Feasts. Could his return two thousand years later fulfill the Fall Feasts? Note: the 7 Feasts of the Lord given in Lev. 23 are a major study by itself.
Rosh Hashanah 2025 is September 16-17 on the Essene calendar.
April 13, 2029 minus 1260 days= November 1, 2025 it’s on a Cheshvan (Heshvan) 16. That day was the last day of peace and safety before the flood of Noah which came on Cheshvan 17. Could that be the day that the Antichrist’s treaty is signed for the 7 years in Daniel 9:27?
End Signs?
Matthew 24:33 In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his return is very near, right at the door. 34 I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass from the scene until all these things take place.
“This generation shall not pass” 1948 to 2025 is 77 years. We are nearing the end of the generation (the Last Generation) that was alive for the restoration of Israel in 1948.
For the first time in over 2,000 years there are red heifers that qualify and are predicted to be sacrificed for their ashes on Passover 2024 (Byron Stinson). This is a requirement for the Antichrist’s coming Temple’s sacrificial system.
Do the Demons have a general idea of when their Judgement is? They said to Jesus, “Have you come here to torture us before God’s appointed time?” Occultist, Alice Bailey 1880-1949 channeling a demon, Master DK, mentioned the year 2025 15 times in the 10,000 pages of her writing. Many of the references were about a coming end time New World Order.