... Sorry, had to delete most of your post for the 10,000 word max rule. Interesting fact: I copies and pasted into Word and it said I had a little over 2000 words!
It is THE END but it's not when Jesus Returns. The END of what? I cannot be dogmatic because it is not written, but I am convinced it is the end of Adam's 6000 year lease. And because the lease ends, Satan's reign as the spiritual leader of the planet will end with it. So it is the end of man's reign. Have you never read after ancient Jewish sages?
Here are some quotes:
“It was declared in the academy or rahter Elijah’s house, that the world is to subsist six thousand years, and then for one thousand it is to remain waste…”
"God created in 6 days and rested on the 7th: “The meaning of this, that in six thousand years the Lord Go0d will bring all things to an end. And what is 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.”
"From the talmud: “R. Katina said, “Six thousand years the world will exist and one [thousand, the seventh], it shall be desolate (haruv), as it is written, ‘And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day’ (Isa. 2:11)... R. Katina also taught, “Just as the seventh year is the Shmita year, so too does the world have one thousand years out of seven that are fallow (mushmat)”
"Zohar VaYera 119a Ramban on Genesis 2:3 maintain that the 7 days of creation correspond to the seven millennia of the existence of natural creation. The tradition teaches thath the seventh day of the week, Shabbat or the day of rest, corresponds to the Great Shabbat, the seventh Millennium (years 6000 – 7000)"
Again, not scripture, so no one can be dogmatic - but one might wonder why here at the 7th trumpet does Satan's reign end?
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and
in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease...
The Hebrew word for midst means to divide in half. So the week will be divided in half. We know from the first 69 weeks that it is speaking of weeks of years, and we know God used a 360 day year for prophecy. Therefore, Daniel is talking about a 2520 day period of time, and that divided by two would be 1260 days for the half week. Then Daniel shows us this half week as time, times and half of time TWICE, and John shows us this period of time FIVE times. So each of these five times is a HINT that John is at the midpoint of the week in chapters 11, 12, and 13 where these five mentions of the last half of the week are written. (Take note that the 7th trumpet is written in chapter 11, just a few verse AFTER the 42 months of trampling and the 1260 days of testifying is written, PROVING that the 7th trumpet is a midpoint event.
Do we know what event will divide the week? It is not written in so many words, but we have strong hints. Paul tells us the man of sin will enter the most holy place in the new temple and will declare that he is God. We know that anyone other than the High Priest entering the Most Holy place would desecrate the temple and sacrificed would have to stop. (Antiochus made a great example of this, becoming a TYPE of the antichrist beast. What did Jesus say about this?
Matthew 24:
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Take note: when they see they are to flee...
Where do we find this fleeing? It is here:
Rev. 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
So we find yet another proof that this verse and the 7th trumpet is a midpoint event. Here is another starting point for a counddown to the end: this verse is 1260 days BEFORE the 7th vial that will end the week.
This verse is also only seconds after the abomination event Jesus spoke of. If we back up verse by verse trying to find the abomination, we won't find it: God did not show it to John. But if we look for a marker, we find the 7th trumpet as the marker for the exact midpoint.
The 7th Trump is the Last Judgment Tump, so is that not THE END? No, of course not! It is the end of the trumpet judgments, but there are 7 vial or bowl judgments to come, in the second half of the week. We have just seen proof after proof that chapters 11 to 13 are midpoint chapters. So if you demand an "end" then yes, the 7th trumpet is the end of the first 1260 days of the week. Feel better now?
It's all relative. If one uses their imagination rather than the written word of God, perhaps.
I don't think you understand the 3rd woe.
Chapters 12, 13 17, and 18 all start via the Rev. 8 Asteroid Impact/DOTL which starts at the 1260. There is little here I can agree with. The first 1260 days starts with the 7th seal that allows the BOOK (remember the book with seven seals?) to be opened, which book then reveals the trumpet judgments. Why not call it the first trumpet rather than an asteroid?
1st Trumpet: The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Perhaps this is the first nuclear explosion of the 70th week? I guess one could say the first day of the first 1260 days of the 70th week starts here. I would not argue against it. But leave out chapters 12, 13, 17, and 18. Do you not pay any attention to Johns timing? How can it be the first day of the first half of the week, and also be at the end of the week at the same time? IMPOSSIBLE.
I would not argue of someone says the first trumpet is the Start of the Day of the Lord. It is also where I put it. What is written at the 6th seal perhaps is just that the DAY is imminent.
Go look at how long the Dragon chases the Woman in REv. 12, it is 1260 days !! Now you have jumped to the LAST HALF of the week, pretending it is still at the first trumpet! Why not rather PAY ATTENTION to John's chronology? This is not rocket science: a 5th grader can divide 2520 by 2 and come up with 1260. So there are 1260 days in the FIRST HALF and 1260 days in the LAST HALF. Every mention of this period of time in the bible is for the LAST HALF. In Matthew 24 Jesus jumped from the church age to the abomination at the midpoint of the week, jumping over the entire first half of the week. It takes serious study or Revelation or a word from the Lord to find the first half of the week in Revelation.
One day as I was reading Daniel 9: 27, when my eyes and my mind got to the word “midst,” suddenly God spoke to me in what seemed like an audible voice:
“You could find that exact midpoint ‘clearly marked’ in the book of Revelation.”
I was suddenly “in the Spirit,” and could not speak, but my spirit man immediately spoke and ask “How would I find that?”
He answered,
Then, almost as an afterthought, he concluded: “In fact, you could find the entire 70th-week ‘clearly marked.’ ”
When He said this, He also revealed to me without words the reason I could find the entire 70th-week would be that God would use the same marker to mark the beginning of the week, the midpoint of the week, and the end the week. That came as a download of information, not in words.
I have done serious study, but I have also heard from the Author of the book.
So, the Rev. 8 Asteroid strike starts the 1260 days of God's Wrath Again something I can agree with: God's wrath begins with the trumpet judgments.
at which time Micheal STAND UP and kicks Satan out of Heaven WRONG! Stop and think: it will take TIME for the first 6 trumpet judgments! In fact, it takes 1260 days! The war in heaven starts the SECOND 1260 days.
How much common sense does it take to realize the Anti-Christ Beast rules 42 Months? RIGHT but the SECOND 42 months or the LAST half of the week. It seems you have no concept of the passing of time.
So, Rev. 12 and 13 both mention a time period that lasts 1260 days, and YOU DON'T GET that they both start on the DOTL God's Wrath via the Asteroid Strike in Rev. 8? Now you have left scripture entirely and are using human imagination. Of course I don't get error of human imagination. I follow the script CLOSELY! If you are open to learning, I can help.
EVERY MENTION of the 3 1/2 year period of time is for the LAST HALF of the week which half begins at the 7th trumpet that marks the MIDPOINT. Read again the words Jesus spoke to me: "
“Every time I mentioned an event that would begin at the midpoint and go to the end of the week, I always included the 3½ year period of time. When you find the mentions of the 3½ years, you will be very close to the exact midpoint.”"
We can prove His words from scripture by Daniel 9:27, the words of Jesus about the abomination and the fleeing, and then when they begin to flee.
What you are missing: from chapter 8 to chapter 16, John takes the reader on a straight walk through the entire 70th week, but with intermissions, some prophecy of future events and parentheses along the way. There is no flash backs. John does not use them. In other words, what one reads in a given chapter will take place AFTER the events of a previous chapter and BEFORE events of a later chapter. Without a doubt, the events in chapter 17 will happen way after the events of chapter 11. The events of chapter 11 come 3 1/2 years after the 6th seal announcement of the start of the Day of the Lord.