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Terms & Table Explained
Year of John
Starting with the Year of John, AD (Anno
Domini), Jesus drew a line in the sands of time
by saying: The Law & the Prophets were until
John, since then the Kingdom of God is
preached and everyone... This verse could be
expounded for several pages but simply stated:
until John were 4 God Days of 1,000 years each
& remained 3 God days until the new heaven
and new earth. Luke’s gospel lists 7 kings that
marked the start of John. This precise year
cannot now be exactly determined. However a
range of highly possible years can be
examined. The above table begins with 25AD
and runs up to 31AD. The lives of John and
Jesus were bound to one another by Luke’s
verses 1:35-57. There it is expressly stated that
upon the immaculate conception, Elizabeth had
carried John for 6 months, this is confirmed that
after Mary stayed with Elizabeth 3months, she
departed and John was born. The age
difference twixt John & Jesus was explicitly
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stated as one-half-year, 6 months, and
confirmed a second time by difference. Based
on historical considerations of markers in
Luke3:1-2 and John2:19-20. Luke mentions
that John started baptizing in 15th Year of
Tiberius Caesar during reign of 6 other
potentates. John’s Gospel explains that after
Jesus baptism, Jesus cleansed the temple and
was told by temple elders the temple was
building 46 years at that time. From these items
the likely years to start John’s ministry are
ascribed to range between 26 to 30AD.
FOTW
Foundation of the World (FOTW) is taken as
exactly 4000 years prior to start of John’s work.
Revelation 13:8 describes the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world., that Lamb was
slain upon the day of Adam’s sin & expulsion
from Eden. Genesis 3 verses 15&21 explains
that after God promised a redeemer, he sealed
the promise with the blood of an animal when
he clothed man in animal skins. All in the space
of one day, Eden was hidden and Adam
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inherited this corrupted world, Thus began the
creation of a new and better world in 7 days of
1000 years each, as proofed by the 1000Yr
Sabbath rest before all made new. It is possible
to number the years from creation of Adam
unto John. These years sum to 4026.5. The
difference, (4026.5-4000), 26.5 is Adam’s age
when he became the high priest of sin. The
second Adam, Jesus the Anointed, redeemed
should deceive the nations no more, till the
1000 years should be fulfilled: and after that he
must be loosed a little season... And when the
1000 years are expired, Satan shall be loosed
out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive
the nations which are in the four quarters of the
earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together
to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of
the sea...

man from sin.

Jesus Born
End of Gog (Magog) War The record of Luke explains that when Jesus
The last chapter of Isaiah tells: the slain of the was baptized and anointed by the Holy Ghost,
Lord shall be many, but the redeemed shall
minister in a new heaven and new earth. This
same new heaven and new earth is told in
Rev21:1. The coming of which is “after the
1,000 years are expired”. Here there must be
some time for men to beat the plow shares into
swords and for a peaceful earth to gather
against Jerusalem. The book of Isaiah speaks
of a “day of vengeance..., and the year of my
redeemed” (61:2&63:4) so for lack of a more
specific time, the time to go from peace to war
is tentatively taken as 1 year. At the end of this
one day of destruction, judgement follows...
where their worm shall not die, neither shall
their fire be quenched, Is66:24 And whosoever
was not found written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire and sulfur to be
tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev20:10&15. This time completes the 7 God
Days to make new heaven and new earth, 3kY.

End of and start of 1000 Years

The 1000 years of peace (a sabbath rest,

Heb4:1-11, preceded by 6 work days of 1000Y
each) begins at end of great tribulation.
Scripture defines this specific time as:

And the beast was taken, and with him the false
prophet that wrought miracles before him, with
which he deceived them that had received the
mark of the beast, and them that worshipped
his image. These both were cast alive into a
lake of fire burning with brimstone... And he
laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which he was about 30 years old. The record of John
is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him 1000 & Jesus shows John to be 6months Jesus elder
years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and cousin. By Moses law 30 years was minimum
shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he age to begin priestly work. This we expect no

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less for John & Jesus ministry. Deducting 30.5 inferred Passover making resurrection at 3.5
years from start of John’s work gives the years after start St. John.

approximate year of Jesus birth. This number is Tribulation Start Year

listed in table as astronomical year, AY. BC year is This +3000Y from start John work, less
“BC=if(AY<0,(abs(AY)+1):”BC”,AY)”
tribulation time, less 1000Y millennium, or A-
Tribulation Years B+2000. The ultimate test of these dates will be
This time is based upon the residual of 490 time itself. Watch & Pray ...

years (70-7’s) of Daniel 9:24-27 ...finish the

transgression.. to make an end of sins.. to make
reconciliation for iniquity.. to bring in everlasting
righteousness.. to seal up the vision &
prophecy.. to anoint the most Holy. For some
say remain yet either 7 or 3.5 unfulfilled years.

Those incomplete years are

assigned unto the tribulation
times.

1st Easter
This is approximate date from
beginning of John’s work. It is
taken that Jesus was baptized
about 6 months after John
started his work. The Gospel of
John mentions only 3
Passovers after Jesus baptism,
making a total of 2.5 years. Others count an

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