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The Seven Times - 2520 Years: 1 The Covenant, the Blessings and Curses and the Seven Times A View of the Longest and Most Amazing Time Prophecy.
The Prophecy of the ‘Seven Times’ or 2520, as found in Leviticus 26, is the longest Time-Prophecy in the Bible. The Daily (508, 538 AD), the 1260, the 1290, the 1335 and the 2300 are all found in this prophetic timeline. The 2520 year prophecy as it appears on the 1843 prophecy chart.
"…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:…that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers….." Deuteronomy 30:19, 20 Few in our time have ever heard of the 2520 year prophecy; for the most part it has been dropped from our understanding for well over a hundred years. However the 2520 runs throughout the Bible, it was a very integral part of the prophetic understandings the pioneer prophecy students had in the mid 1800's and was included in the 1843 Prophecy Chart. This 1843 Prophecy Chart I am referring to was a study aid made for the prophecy teachers of the early 1840s to help them teach the prophetic visions of Daniel and John (Revelation). This chart was a direct response the the text found in Habakkuk 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. Our aim in teaching the 2520 year prophecy is to show that God has a special people, and that the Lord God demands our obedience to His laws he established from the beginning. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Revelation 14:12 Once you understand the 2520 you will see that all the lines of prophecy which give us dates and times can be found within the 2520 years and in no way does it change or take away from these prophecies. Neither we, nor the pioneers have found any time prophecy longer than the 2520 in the Bible, so we can safely say this is the longest time prophecy in scripture.
The Covenant Leviticus 26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. Exodus 19:1 In the third month,
when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt,
the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. The Covenant to the Israelite people was a marriage between God and his chosen people. The Bible says that God laid out before them a covenant that if they would keep it, they would be a peculiar treasure unto Him, they would be his people and they would be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. What is the basis of this covenant? Exodus 34:28 "And he (Moses) was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he (God) wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments." Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; The basis of the covenant is the Moral Law, the Ten Commandments, which is God's universal governing law. It is this law that the statutes and the Civil Laws of Israel extended harmoniously from, by the word of God given to Moses. Soon after the encampment at Sinai, Moses was called up into the mountain to meet with God. Alone he climbed the steep and rugged path, and drew near to the cloud that marked the place of Jehovah's presence. Israel was now to be taken into a close and peculiar relation to the Most High; to be incorporated as a church and a nation under the government of God. They were the covenant people, different from all the people of the world, based on keeping God's ten commandments.
Blessings and Curses of the Covenant With any contract or covenant there are requirements, benefits and penalties. But in the case of this covenant between God and his people, there were pronounced blessings and curses. The requirements to be met by the people as dictated by the contract are written throughout the Books of Moses, but for our study here we are going to focus on Leviticus 26: Le 26:1 Ye shall make
you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image,
neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down
unto it: for I am the LORD your God. Here we find the blessings or benefits of the covenant found in verses 4-13 Le 26:4 Then I will give you rain
in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of
the field shall yield their fruit. And here we have the curses or penalties for breaking the covenant in verses 14-39: Le 26:14
But if ye will not
hearken unto me, and will not
do all these commandments; These curses are very strongly worded and have a prophetic warning in them; they are very precise in their description of what would come to the nation should they break the covenant. Over and over the curses mention seven times in a very deliberate way. What is this seven times?
Seven Times Seven times chastisement for wilful disobedience towards the covenant or seven times penalty for breaking the contract. Leviticus 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments…. 26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. What does this mean "seven times"? Going by the language of the above texts one would tend to see prophetic language being used. So what is seven "times"? In the Bible "time" and "times" are mentioned many times but there is one place in the Bible where it's interpretation is unmistakeable: Revelation 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. One thousand two hundred and three score days means 1260 as 3 score is 3 X 20 to make 60. Revelation 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. We know from verse 6 that the woman fled into the wilderness for 1260 and now we have the woman fleeing to the wilderness in verse 14 for a time, times and half a time. Everything is the same except the numbering system. Let's move on to what a prophetic day equals: Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. Ezekiel 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have appointed thee each day for a year. So a day is equal to a year. According to the Bible how many days in a year? Let's start by finding out how many days in a month: Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Genesis 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. Here we start on the second month, seventeenth day and end seventh month, seventeenth day making the waters prevail upon the earth for 5 months exactly. 150 / 5 = 30 days in a month; there are 12 months in a year so 12 X 30 = 360 days. So now lets take the numbers we know and use them to figure out the numbers we don't know: 1260 / 360 = 3.5 or 3 and 1/2. Going back to Revelation 12:14 we can assume that a time is one, a half time is 1/2 or .5. So 3.5 - 1 - .5 = 2. Now we know that a time is one year, times is two years and a half time is half a year. Since we know there are 360 days in a year and because there is a number in front of the word times to denominate how many times or years are implied we should multiply 360 (one year) by 7 We get 2520! Seven times = 2520 2520 years was the punishment. As you can see on the corner of the 1843 Prophecy Chart below, they took 7 times X 12 months = 84 months 84 X 30 days = 2520 days, a day for a years you get 2520 years.
Conditions for Reinstatement Were there conditions for re-instatement of favour with God? God's mercy never fails: Le 26:40 ¶ If they shall confess their iniquity, and the
iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed
against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; These are the conditions found above: 1. v.
40 - confess iniquities.
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