Monday, April 1, 2013

PROPHECY: "When Will Jesus Christ Return?" -Don Koenig


When Will Jesus Christ Return?

Projecting A Fairly Realistic Date For The Second Coming of Jesus Christ

 Don Koenig                                                        The Prophetic Years                                                                                                                                  

By Don Koenig 2007 -- Last table update July 2012

Rationalization and justification for my second coming projection table:
Okay, I admit that this table is a bit frivolous, nobody can know the exact time for the second coming of Jesus Christ but that does not mean we will not have any clue at all. I certainly am not setting a specific date for Jesus to return in this projection. All I am really doing is giving some statistical observations and giving my best guesstimate for those who wish to ask me when I think the Lord will return.

Some may say I have too much time on my hands but actually I am doing this to save time for myself and everyone else. Now nobody has any reason to ask me when will Jesus Christ return anymore. Just check my table from time to time. You also do not have to waste your own time trying to work it out for yourself either. This table also will bring people to the website to read my more important writings.

Now don't go saying that Don Koenig was a false prophet just because I turn out to be off by a few hundred millennium. I am no more prophesying here than when I answer your questions. Email me in thirty years or so and tell me I was off and a dumkoff if you wish but I doubt if you will be able to reach me on earth for one reason or the other. I also am quite sure that the Catholic Church will not canonize me as a Saint so I am sure you will not be able to reach me by that route either.

One key requirement to projecting a date for the second coming of Jesus Christ overlooked by some, is to set a date that is realistic but just beyond your own life-span. If the Lord is early everyone should be happy and if the Lord delays His coming past your projection at least you will lose no sleep over it. No, I honestly do not think Jesus gets all upset about anyone trying to speculate when He will return anymore than a betrothed man will get upset when his bride speculates when he will come to elope with her. Unless of course someone is instructing His bride to wait on a mountain top instead of telling her to continue to adorn herself with good works until He actually appears.

Nevertheless, I do know that certain men do get extremely excited when someone speculates about when Jesus will return. If that date projection comes and goes they like to call them false prophets or false teachers. Sometimes the reason they do is because they themselves once put too much stock in someone's speculation and sold the farm or they say they know someone who did. Now they have a vendetta against all watchmen because someone they knew believed the teachings of a cult. Others use two passages in the Bible to prove that all speculation about the second coming of Jesus Christ is useless or heresy.

One passage says we would not know the day or hour (Mat 24:36 Mark 13:32).Fine, we all agree that no one will know the day or hour but the passage might not even be implying what some might think. The whole context is after the signs and wonders that Jesus just spoke about in that passage. The passage is talking to Israel about the time just prior to His Revelation in glory. It is not talking about the rapture of the Church. When Jesus spoke this, the New Covenant Church was not yet given. Jesus in the same passage said it would be like in the days of Noah just before He returns. Noah built the Ark for the flood and knew about when the flood was coming. Noah was protected from the flood by the Ark (Jesus). Noah was not taken to heaven before the time of the flood but his Great Grandfather Enoch was (Enoch walked with God by faith - a type of the Church). 
The following passage in the context of Jesus' sermon talks about a time when one will be taken and one being left. For many reasons I doubt if the one taken and one left passages in the New Testament are talking about the rapture of the Church. It is talking about the end time gathering by the angels in the harvest at the end of the age. I believe the main target of this whole passage is to Israel and those believers living through the tribulation. Even if you disagree with that premise, I am not saying the Church will know any specific day or hour anyway. I am only saying that the Church can know the season of the Lord's return.

The other passage critics use was what Jesus said to his living disciples. Jesus said, it was not for them to know the times and the seasons for the restored Jewish Kingdom. (Acts 1:6,7)

They had no reason to know because the generation living at that time was not in the end times. Jesus did not say the Church would never know the season. He told these disciples what their role would be in the next verse. They would be eye witnesses of Jesus.
Paul implies the Church would know the times and seasons:
1 Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, 
are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet,
 the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
The passage is implying that the judgment would come when the world is saying peace and safety. Paul also says we are not of darkness that this day would come on us as a thief. The peace and safety statement appears to be a direct reference to a prior Paul teaching about the Lord returning as a thief in the night. Here in this passage Paul again says that the day of wrath would come when the world is saying peace and safety. So we have to ask, when does that take place in scripture? We see in Revelation that it occurs at the mid point of the seventh week of Daniel. People are throwing a worldwide party after the two prophets of God that tormented them for 42 months are killed (Rev 11:10). In case you think that Paul could not know these end time events, I will remind you that Paul was taken to the Third Heaven (2 Cor 12:2-4) and while there Paul probably got educated on some of the same things that John wrote about in Revelation. I think Paul may be telling us here that the Church will know when the time is short by watching and observing what the world is saying and doing.

Why tell believers to look up when you see the signs if there is nothing to see (Lk 21:28)? Hebrews tells us not to forsake the assembling together and so much more as you see the day approaching (Heb 10:25). If we cannot see the day approaching, what is the point of this passage saying that we can? Elijah knew when the Lord was coming to take him to Heaven and also told Elisha?
 Jesus said to the Church at Sardis " if therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee" (Rev 3:3). Conversely then, the passage implies that there will be those that are watching and that they would know when Jesus was coming. Jesus confirms this with His message to the church at Philadelphia. Jesus said, He will delivered them from the trial that comes on everyone on the earth because they were faithful and watching (Rev 3:10). 
There is a huge difference between setting a firm date and talking about the likely season of the second coming of Jesus Christ. So please understand that from the scriptures a reasonable case can be built that the true Church will indeed know the general timing of the second coming of Jesus. So in spite of the passages that say no one knows the exact day or hour and that the disciples living in Jesus' time would not be told when the Jewish Kingdom would be restored, I believe it would be wrong to say that the Church will be in darkness about the second coming of Jesus Christ. Cannot theHoly Spirit in the Church even inform the Church when the time is short?
I get tired of those who use those two passages as a club to attack premillennial Bible prophecy teachers who observe that the time is short. We have Bibles as well and we can also find scriptural arguments to support our view. I gave a few but there are others as well.
The point is that our critics do not have all truth just because they can quote a passage or two that they themselves may not fully understand. Also, it should not be surprising that most of our critics are amillennial or post millennial Christians. These are people who do not usually believe in any literal earthly fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

I will update the timeline on this countdown table from time to time as world events might change my own projections. So check back every six months, or six years or so - or not. Be aware, that the rapture of the Church most likely will be at least 7 to 10 1/2 years before the physical revelation of Jesus Christ with all His heavenly host, angels and saints. If I am not here to update this table for that reason or some other similar reason like death, jail or the funny farm, I won't be giving you any further updates. In fact, for that reason you might want to print this table out and put it in your hope chest next to your copy of 88 reasons why Jesus will come in 1988.

Don Koenig's projection table as to the timing of the second coming of Jesus Christ.

End time event description - All event timelines are subject to change as things become clearer. The timeline of each individual event has no bearing on any other event on this table. Therefore, do not be surprised when earlier prophetic events have later dates than other events. Dates are rounded to the next year and dates are based on the second coming of Jesus Christ being 7 to 10 1/2 years from the opening of the first seal in Revelation. The earliest date that I use is 2010 AD. If the event were any earlier we would already be in the tribulation in most cases. We are not in the tribulation, in spite of the views of some post toasties.Years of likely fulfillment of the eventYears from the event until the second comingProjected best guess time range of this eventStat. mid point of Jesus' return for this event
7 day week theory - Jesus was cut off on the end of the fourth day about 32 AD (give or take a few years, scholars differ) - a day is as a thousand years. The end of the sixth day would be 2032 and then we would be in the seventh millennial day of rest with Jesus ruling on earth.2028-2038-------2028-20382033
Israel's rebirth as a state in 1948 or Jerusalem being taken by the Jews in 1967 - The parable of the fig tree(mat 24:32) might indicate that the generation seeing one of these two events will not pass away before all is fulfilled. This projection assumes that the generation Jesus said would not pass away, has a normal life span of 70 to 80 years.2018-2047-------2018-20472033
Israel is at peace living securely before the events of the Ezekiel chapters 38-39 northern invasion (assume 2013 AD for Israel to achieve a peace agreement and 10-20 years to feel secure. Assume Islamofascism in Iran, Iraq and Syria were defeated in the Middle-East by 2013).2023-20334-112027-20442036
Russia redevelops the military capabilities to fulfill the leadership role of Gog to fulfill Ezekiel chapters 38, 39. (Russia has announced plans to develop a modern new military by 2025.)2020-20304-112024-20412033
China/India will have the military capabilities and peak maximum surplus men and infrastructure to fulfill the 200 million-man cavalry prophecy in Revelation that was prepared for a specific hour,day,month and year to slay one third of men (Rev 9:15).2025-20401-32026-20432035
Assume Iraq will be fairly stabilized by 2010 followed by the implementation of the already existing plan to makeBabylon an international world center and international theme park. Assume it will take 15 to 30 to years to complete a world class city and to recreate ancient Babylon as a International theme park (modern examples of how a world class city could be built in one or two decades is - Dubai and cities in China).2025-2040-------2025-20402033
The rise of a New Roman Empire world government from pseudo Christianity after a war with Islam throughout Europe and the Middle-East (woman rides the Beast of Revelation chap 17).2020-20303-72023-20372030
When regional government is likely to be in place with 10 world zones and leaders based on today's rate of forming regional alliances and world globalization2020-2040 3-62023-2046 2035
When the Mark of the Beast computer system technology is likely to be in place worldwide. This will probably be an embedded bio-chip. Nobody will be able to buy or sell without it. (Rev 13:17). 2025-2040  32028-2043 2035
When worldwide high speed Internet access is available to everyone on earth to make the Mark of the Beast buy sell system possible. A system of 66 low orbit satellites called Constellation is already being planned and should be operational around 2015. The Internet communications will cover the whole earth much like the GPS system now does for global positioning communications. Streaming video of what is happen in Jerusalem with the two prophets could then fulfilling the prophecy about everyone seeing their death and resurrection. let's assume that it will be the second or third generation of these low orbit satellites that will have the necessary bandwidth to carry out all these worldwide Internet transactions, That might take us to 2025 to 2040.2025-204032028-20432035
World economic system crash due to debt and greed is likely sometime in-between 2013-2020. Add 10-15 years for a new high speed electronic system to be set up worldwide.2023-2038 32026-2041 2033
Population explosion on earth as in the days of Noah - Maximum population of the young and old wheat and tares in the field for the end time world harvest (the saved and unsaved people)2030-2050 -------2030-20502040
Genetic engineering - Part animal part human hybrid monstrosities (as in the days before the flood).How long will God allow man to defile his creation before judgment? Man actually might create a superhuman Beast.2013-205072013-2057 2035
When major nuclear warfare or biological warfare in the world becomes much more likely to occur than not2020-2035 3-112023-2046 2035
Islam becomes the catalyst for a clash of civilizations and brings war to much of the earth  2013-2030 3-112016-2041 2029
The Green Movement becomes the catalyst for a humanistic socialist pagan new world order that opposes all fundamental religions.  2015-2040 3-72018-20472033
Most of "Christianity" becomes a harlot through post modernismnew age paganism, doctrines of psychology, doctrines of men and demons, materialism, ecumenicalism etc. 2015-2040 3-72018-2047 2033
Violence, disrespect, drug use and sexual perversion, become rampant on the earth - How long will God put up with it before judging it like Sodom and Gomorrah.?  2013-2040 72020-2047 2033
AIDS, antibiotic resistant or man made genetic disease become a world pandemic and is killing hundreds of millions on the earth (part of fourth seal of Revelation?)2020-2035 4-92024-20442034
Murder of the innocent - abortion, genocide, killing the young and the old - How long will God allow the slaughter to continue until Judgment? 2013-2040 72020-2047 2033
There will be one specific period on the earth where there will not be enough young people to support the old due to abortion and birth control.2020-20403-72023-2047 2035 
Jesus preached the acceptable year of the Lord about 28 AD - Next comes the day of vengeance of our God. The acceptable year of the Lord may be 40 Jubilees of 50 years.20283-7 2031-20352033 
Through modern technology the gospel should have been preached to all nations by 2030.2030 3-7 2033-20372035 
Because iniquity will abound, the love of many will grow cold (we can see that trend already today). How long will it continue?2020-2040 3-72023-20472035 
The third temple will start to be rebuilt. Everything is now in place for that to happen except a political agreement to make the temple mount international.2013-2040 2020-20472033 
Ezekiel laid on his side for 430 days with each day representing a year of punishment for Israel. Seventy years were fulfilled in the first captivity that ended in 536 BC with the dedication of the second temple. There remained 360 years to fulfill the prophecy x 7 for Israel's unbelief (lev 26:18, 26:21-28). 360 x 7 = 2520 biblical years of 360 days. This was fulfilled in 1948 when Israel was given possession of their land --The generation that saw the rebirth of the state of Israel did not rebuild the temple because of unbelief, so the final week of Daniel cannot begin until Israel takes that step of faith. Perhaps like in ancient Israel, only after the unbelieving generation over 20 years old dies off, will their children take that leap of faith and rebuild the temple.The people who were over 20 in 1948 should die off by 2028. (inspired by a former Grant Jeffrey speculation in "Armageddon" but I highly revised it - It makes some sense to me but don't take it too seriously)2028 720352035
The desecration of the Holy Place took place in 168 BC and the daily sacrifice was stopped. One manuscript that Jerome used on Daniel said there would be 2200 days until the Holy place will be properly cleansed (other manuscripts say 2300 and 2400 days so we cannot be sure which is correct). There is no recording of this prophecy ever having been fulfilled in actual days, using any of the three different manuscript figures. Assuming then that Jesus will cleanse the Temple at His return, assuming that the 2200 days Jerome used is correct and assuming that these are years and not days, then 2200 years from the Desecration in 168 BC = 2032 AD. (This comes from a modified Grant Jeffrey speculation in "Armageddon" but I used a 365.25 day year rather than the 360 biblical year that he used in his book. His speculation should have been fulfilled in 2000 AD.) Of course the days spoken by Daniel could also be speaking about days within the seven year tribulation period.2032
Times of the gentiles -- Nebuchadnezzar represents the unbelieving Gentiles of the world. He was insane for 2520 days until he acknowledges that there is a God in heaven - each day = 1 year. 606 BC to 1914 AD is 2520 years and the start of world war one. Peter mentions scoffers would come in the last days and mentions the flood. Jesus says the end times will be as in the days of Noah. God waited 120 years in the time of Noah (Gen 6:3), then the flood came. -- 1914 + 120 years = 2034 (another of my highly modified Grant Jeffrey speculations from "Armageddon").2034
Four 490 year cycles of Israel were fulfilled in the past. The 490 years of Daniel is the fifth. There may be four 490 year periods between the fall of the Temple in 70 AD and the start of the final week of Daniel 4 x 490 =1960 - 1960 + 70 = 2030AD. (inspired and modified from a failed Grant Jeffrey speculation in "Armageddon".)2030720372037
* Editor Note - Does the story about the Good Samaritan also contain a prophetic message?
Luke 10:35
And on the morrow when he (the good Samaritan) departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
In those days a penny was a day's wages. So we can see that the good Samaritan - a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ - only intended to be away from his sick friend for the maximum of two days, after which he would return. So we've established the fact that the Lord will return to earth very soon, firstly to redeem His Church, and secondly to judge the world and set up His kingdom. But what will that kingdom be like?

Written by Frank L. Caw Jr., this was submitted for this table by 
J. R Gavin.

*Editor note - This probably would be two days or two thousand years from when Jesus left about 32AD
2032--------20322032
Matthew 17:1-3
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
This time "six days" is mentioned, and speaks of the period from the Creation to the Second Coming of Christ. The transfiguration was a glimpse at Christ's coming glory in that day when He shall come to set up His kingdom on earth.

Written by Frank L Caw Jr., but the last half of his conjecture was left out. This was submitted for this table by 
J. R Gavin.

* Editor Note - The exact time from creation is unknown but let's assume that the acceptable year of the Lord mentioned by Jesus around 2028 actually was the start of the fifth day and the fulfillment is when the two prophets appear.
20283.520322032
The Jewish Menorah has four sets of double branches, four on the left and four on the right of a central tree. In this theory each set of branches from left to right on the Menorah represents a 2520 year cycle for Israel. I find that there is significant evidence that the 2520 year cycle has prophetic applications in regard to Israel. The following four timelines in this theory span the date of significant events in ancient Israel to significant events in a four stage restoration of modern Israel. The four 2520 year cycle periods start from the outer pair of branches of the Menorah and progress to the inner most pair that ends when Israel accepts her Messiah at His second coming. All time cycles use the lunar year of 360 days (common in prophetic biblical dating).The four distinct 2520 years cycles:

587 BC to 1897 -- (The fall of the ancient kingdom --- The first Zionist congress in Basel, Switzerland, plans for a new state of Israel)

536 BC to 1948 -- (Cyrus gives decree to return the Israeli captives from Babylon --- United Nations creates the modern Jewish state in the ancient homeland of Israel)

517 BC to 1967 -- (The dedication of the foundations of the second temple --- Israel established control of the temple mount area during the Six Day War)

444 BC to 2039 -- (Nehemiah rebuilds the walls of Jerusalem --- The promised Kingdom is restored to Israel.

Theory and data originates from 
"Prophecy Code", by Jeffrey A. Manty (used by permission of author. Please direct inquiries on this data to the above link)
2039----------20392039
Enoch walked with God for 300 years and was then he was taken alive to Heaven. This could be a picture of the rapture the missionary spirit indwelt church movement that walks with God through the indwelling Holy Spirit for 300 years (Philadelphia in Revelation chapter 3). The great missionary movement that started taking the Gospel to all the world started about 1730 AD.

1730 + 300 = 2030 Rapture (If you believe the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3 are also identifying church types since Pentecost and that the 1730 AD start date is about correct).
20307-1120392039
You may participate in the further development of this table. See how at the end of this article.

No one event in itself is any proof that Jesus will return within the timeline. However, when all the events are taken together the possibility of the second coming of Jesus Christ being within the table's range becomes truly intriguing.


Summary table and statistical projection of the rapture and the second coming of Jesus

EventYear range for all events in my tableStatistical mean from the mid points in the tableBased on the mid point data there is a 95 percent statistical likelihood that the following events will take place within 7 years of the mean
The second coming of Jesus Christ2028 to 205720342027-2041
The rapture Of the faithful Church.2017 to 205020252018-2032
From my data on the table the second coming of Jesus Christ is likely to occur between 2028 AD and 2057 AD but the statistical highest likelihood is 2034 AD. The rapture most likely will occur 7 to 11 years before the second coming as soon or sooner than 2017 AD and as late as 2050 AD with the statistical highest likelihood of the rapture being 2023 - 2027 AD.

Supplemental information:

Even if you spend years thinking about these things, I doubt if you will come much closer to a correct year for the second coming of Jesus Christ than I have in this table. So now knowing that very sound advice, you can make your pastor very happy and use your own time more productively. Like perhaps taking that annual trip with your church to build that church building in Haiti. Of course, if your church had donated the price of the trip instead of sending all you "missionaries" for two weeks to build that local church building, the local pastor could have hired the local people of Haiti to build a whole new village. Ouch!

I know you wish to ask me why many of the top prophecy teachers who hinted at dates for the second coming of Jesus Christ in the past were always off. That is easy, they were wrong.

Watchmen on the wall don't usually have inside information. Some have tended to chase rabbits, these dehydrate and then have hallucinations. Some watchmen looking for the King to return might call wolf once in a while being short sighted during some foggy periods but no watchmen of the King are deaf, dumb and totally blind. I think all astute watchmen today can hear the approaching hoof beats, and are seeing the signs of the coming King on the horizon. They are telling everyone in the city to prepare for the King, but the exact timing of His arrival can't be known because the Prince King only travels at the pace set by His Father.
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I will give you my views of three top contemporary Bible prophecy teachers who once hinted at a general time for the second coming of Jesus but The Lord did not come in the timing they thought:

Hal Lindsey - once believed the second coming of Jesus Christ would occur in the 80's for various sound reasons. He was wrong about that projection mainly because he thought the parable of the fig tree meant that from the time Israel was reborn as a State until the second coming of Jesus would be less than one generation of forty years. Hal Lindsey also thought the Soviet Union under Communism would fulfill the Gog prophecy of Ezekiel. The Soviet Union certainly had the military power to fulfill that prophecy in the 80's but who could have foreseen the complete collapse of the Soviet Union when Hal wrote "The Late Great Plant Earth" around 1970? Actually, we now know that the Soviet Union in a failed power grab for the Middle East was instrumental in starting the Six Day War in 1967. It certainly looked like the Soviet Union would try again in the seventies and eighties. The only reason it did not happen was because it was not in God's timing. God, being merciful, still had others to save.

I guess in hindsight, if there was a weakness in Hal Lindsey's projection, he placed too much reliance on the natural course of events that he observed at the time. I also think he put too much emphasis on natural events in nature that come and go such as more storms and earthquakes. Another factor was that Hal discounted things that probably have to take place if all prophetic scripture is to be fulfilled in a literal sense. For example, there was no human way any 200 million man army from the East could have invaded the Middle-East to kill a third of the men on the earth in the 1980's. The supply lines for this sized army at that time would not have been humanly possible. Another example is that a literal city of Babylon was completely out of the picture in the 1980's. Hal Lindsey still does not believe the prophecy in Revelation requires an actual city of Babylon in Iraq to be rebuilt. Lahaye, Missler myself and many others, believe that a literal reading of the prophecies of Revelation, Jeremiah and Isaiah indicate that the city of Babylon must be rebuilt..

Whatever you think, Hal Lindsey is a very solid Bible teacher who knows and still teaches that the time is very short. Some people like to mock him for once expecting the Lord to come a little sooner than He will, but any true prophecy student knows Hal's valuable contribution to awakening Christians to the fact that God will literally fulfill His promises to Israel and that Jesus will soon return. People also overlook the other great books that Hal Lindsey wrote since he wrote the "Late Great Plant Earth".

Hal Lindsey taught salvation and combat faith theology in popular books better than almost any teacher in Christianity during that period. Without the "Late Great Plant Earth" that would not have been possible.
 Hal Lindsey is now one of the few Christian teachers on TV today that has the guts to speak a biblical Christian worldview on Islam and all the perverted issues in the world that fly in the face of God's Word and God's people. Millions of people were given the salvation message through Hal Lindsey's teachings and ministry and hundreds of thousands have found salvation.
So if you wish to believe those that throw stones at the work of Hal Lindsey, you might first take a look at how the stone throwers themselves are building on the house of God. From what I see, most are doing nothing but throwing stones from their own glass houses.

Grant Jeffrey - had a very good set of timelines for the second coming of Jesus in his book "Armageddon Appointment with Destiny" that he assembled from research on recurring cycles of ancient Israel. His data correlated to indicate that the second coming should have been in the year 2000. His cycles did not pan out of course. Jeffrey warned that they might not in his book. Perhaps it did not work out like Grant thought because maybe God does not use a 360 day ancient biblical year in times on earth when the year is actually 365.25 years. (It was 360 days for a long period in the times of ancient Israel - believe it or not.) God could use 360 day years when he was talking about ancient Israel and 365.25 when he is talking about more modern Gentile times. It does not necessarily mean that all the timelines that Jeffrey pointed out were wrong. It just might be that we do not know the calendar that God uses because the earth somehow has changed its orbit around the sun a couple of times. That is why we have things in the Bible like the long day of Joshua and the sundial moving backward in the days of Hezekiah.
I have to admit, Grant Jeffrey's book "Armageddon Appointment with Destiny" was rather compelling. It pretty much had me sucked into believing the Lord would come around the turn of the century. I told quite a few people that I believed Jesus would come around that time but I also told one or two and myself that if it did not happen around the turn of the century it would probably occur about 30 years later. I knew there was a huge chance that any timing should be from the time of Jesus' ministry on earth and not from His birth but almost 20 years ago I did not want to believe the second coming of Jesus would be that far off in the future. Oh well...It is.
As you can see, I did not lose my faith because the rapture did not happen in the years I expected and I don't know of any real Christian that ever did. Those who use the argument that people looking for the Lord's coming will lose their faith when Jesus does not come when they expect, haven't a clue about saving faith. Most just take biblical passages meant for Israel and apply them to the Church to make it appear that some in the Church will give up the Ghost.

Jack Van Impe - For 15 years or so we have been hearing Jack say on TV it will be "2005 to 2012 but I am not setting dates". Long before his TV ministry Jack Van Impe, like Hal Lindsey, thought Jesus would come in the 80's. Anyway, Jack's "2005 to 2012 but I am not setting dates" date is not likely to happen.

I believe Jack placed too much reliance on his calculations of what he thought the length of one generation would be and his views on calendars and interpretations of mystics. Jesus only said that the generation that saw the things he talked about would not pass away (die off). Nobody knows if Jesus was referring to the rebirth of Israel in 1948 or when Israel regained Jerusalem in 1967 or even if it were those who saw the start of the events that Jesus spoke about in that sermon. In any case, that generation of people has not died off yet.

Another problem with Jack is that he really stretched current events and facts to make them fit his own timeline. However, I understand that the pressure must be enormous to fill a weekly TV slot with something relevant and to sell something every week so you can continue to buy more air time. I think Jack tried to keep the program tuned to a largely biblically illiterate audience at some cost to staying biblical himself. To fill his program Jack Van Impe got into mystical private prophecies from Catholic and even pagan sources that helped him confirm his own dates of speculation. Not good, Jack! He will probably turn out to be wrong by a couple of decades. Sorry Jack. You informed many on how to be saved and for that I will commend you but you really should not have used the material of questionable pagan and Catholic mystics and started calling very questionable religious figures "Christian brethren".

These are still three of the biggest names in Bible Prophecy (Jeffery died in 2012). There are other very well known prophecy teachers who have never projected any dates for the second coming of Jesus Christ but they all say the time is short. There are of course less well known names but there is not much point in getting into all that here. Each individual's teaching would have to be examined on their own merits and failings.Those who tell people to sell what they have and to wait on some mountain top at a specific time are cult leaders. Certain cults have claimed a Gnostic interpretation of scripture or claimed a direct revelation from God.These are indeed false teachers and false prophets. There are some others who are often found on the Internet that are just plain mental cases. They generally are not false prophets and teachers; they have some brain defect. Since what these people write makes no biblical sense at all, those who believe what they say might have a greater spiritual problem.

As I indicated, contrary to what some are saying, being wrong on time projections for the second coming of Jesus Christ does not make anyone a false prophet or even a false teacher unless their teaching actually hinders the gospel of salvation, Christian growth or someone's livelihood. Most true Christian Bible prophecy teachers do the best with what they have and what they know. Many souls were led to Christ through the ministries of Bible prophecy teachers so most are not unfruitful. True believers have been looking into these things since Jesus departed and true believers will be looking for Jesus' coming until He comes. Even the great Sir Isaac Newton made his own projection about when Jesus will return with the limited insights that he had in Amillennial Theology.

So why are my projections of the second coming of Jesus Christ any better than these other teachers who had set time projections? Because their projections have expired, my projections in this table have not. Knowing what they know now, I doubt if any of them would have any serious disagreement with my outer range for the second coming of Jesus. They may think Jesus will return a bit sooner but so what? He certainly might. I think things become clearer for all watchmen as we get closer to the arrival of the King.

Could I be way off? Sure, but if you seriously look at the condition of the world today I seriously doubt that I am. The next one to four decades will bring the correlation of events that is necessary to fulfill Bible prophecy like no other time in history. You can say those same correlation's could take place in the distant future. I suppose they could, but I simply do not see the world surviving more than a few more decades without the return of Jesus for many reasons. Food for thought: If I am near right on any one of these projections I will be near right on them all.

My main criticism will come from those who believe in fairyland Dominionism where the Church Christianizes the world and makes it a paradise before Jesus can return. In their fairyland, the events of Bible prophecy do not actually happen on earth or they happen but in some remote century or millennia after the world becomes Christianized. If you believe in Dominionism, anything I say about end time Bible prophecy is just foolishness to you and anything you say about this issue is totally absurd to me.

Something astute Evangelical Christians might observe, is that those who fail to take end time Bible prophecy literally often have secular humanistic views on major world issues. In many cases they are on the wrong side of issues of Christian faith and practice. Take the secular humanist dominionist path at your own risk and also do not waste your Dominion Theology, Preterist, or Replacement Theology arguments on me. I simply am not receptive to such distortions of scripture.

I take what I believe is the biblical view that unregenerate man is basically evil and that the world gets into increasingly self destructive behavior with increasingly self destructive tools at his disposal until the second coming of Jesus Christ. I also come from the point of view that prophetic scripture will be fulfilled in a literal sense and not in some allegorical spiritual way in a mystical Kingdom of Heaven.
What is now on this table is all I can come up with at this point in time, I have dismissed some speculations that I know about but I am also sure I have missed some timelines that could have more valid implications. I will add them and update this table if they come to my attention.

I intend for this table to be dynamic. If you have a fairly good timeline that you want to add to this table, email me at don@thepropheticyears.com. I will give you credit on the table for what you send me unless you say otherwise. Be aware, that if your name appears in the table and your name is uncommon it might soon appear near the top of a search engine search. I am only going to add timelines that make sense to me. That means no prophecies from self proclaimed prophets or mystics. Also, if you get your projected date from the chapter number of Psalms send them to J.R. Church and not to me (He also recently died so you might no longer want to do that). No stretch of one's imagination like that will appear here. Additionally, it means don't send me direct messages or prophecies from God revealed only to You. Yeah, I actually do receive emails like that.

Check out the links on this article for more detailed information on some of the timeline events that I used.
If you're one of those who think the coming of the Lord has to be sooner then what I suggest, check out my 25 world trends that correlate to indicate that the coming of Jesus is still one to three decades in the future.

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  1. According to the present situation All the signs about the soon coming of Jesus are in place. I have been studying this for 50 years. Now the awareness is very strong and it becomes more and more stronger. This will surely occur close to 2034 .The interpretation of Dr. Don Koenig is completely True. Mihilal Fernando

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    1. I agree with anyone that studies it. My personal opinion is anytime from 2017 on for a rapture, but i hold to 2022. There are some good years after that. But yeah it could be 2034 with a rapture about 2027

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    2. According to 2 Peter 3:8(NAB) "But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day." and Revelation 19:1(NAB) "...worship God. Witness to Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." Is it possible with these two verses alone to come to the determination that as of the year 2000, we entered into the "third day" after the death of "Jesus"-or the death of the spirit of prophecy-and the "resurrection" of "Jesus"-or the return of the spirit of prophecy- happening in our time?

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    3. Sorry, that is Revelation 19:10.

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  2. 2nd coming of Jesus will occur somewhere close to 2034

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    1. CARE for or not, the facts remain as the percentages of data prove.

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    2. 1. A global dictator.
      2. A one world religion.
      3. A one world government.
      4. A Roman or European demonic duo.
      5. These same also tell us the demonic duo would emerge from WITHIN the church.
      6. A temple does NOT need rebuilding.
      7. The 200 million are not from China or India.
      8. The harlot IS NOT Christianity or the Roman empire or Catholicism.
      9. The mark of the beast IS NOT a worldwide computer technology etc.
      I'm willing to challenge any of your heretical eschatology. None of the above is scriptural. The man of sin and his false prophet come from Islam. The empire of the beast isn't global but limited to the Middle-East, probably an Islamic Caliphate.
      I would believe the Pope before any of these so called 'prominent prophecy teachers.'

      1) 1. A global dictator.
      2) 2. A one world religion. (Religion of democracy and finances could apply, but the BIBLE IS CLEAR that a One world Religion occurs from a City on Seven Hills.

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    3. In fact to save time 1-3 is a fact. 4) is a fact. 5) is speculation and is in fact Moses and Elijah, 6) yes and no. The oblation can start in a Tabernacle. 7 Is a fact 8 is a fact

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    4. WELL nice vaguarities that stumbled into ramblings but I'll try to respond succintly without laughing too hard.

      I am not young nor am I uneducated.

      1) The World Leader does not have the whole world under control, his reign and areas of influence are already well documented.
      2) The World religion does not have the whole world under control, it's powers and it's influences are well documented.
      3) Words, and word structures are more than serious for me, a jew, having to explain details to gentiles who love hasty, short and vague generalizations than detailed organized perpetual studies I am involved in.
      4) NO ONE MAN will rule the world, the One Man rule is detailed in Daniels interpretation of the Dream of Nebuchanezzar and the lesser "world dominant rule" is detailed by mirey clay and ten toes.
      5) I know hebrew, I know other references. The city is set on seven hills, that is a fact. Your premise of interpretation is a non sequitur.
      5) Since the Post is about Probabilities and many people ideas, the matthew 24 statement is relevant only to those who support it. The Prophecy Research & Development group I am part of details the accurate "pre trib" rapture/Natzsal/raptuouros "snatch away" and the inaccurate ones Matthew 24 is self self explanatory:

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    5. And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

      2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

      3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

      4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

      5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

      6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

      7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

      8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

      9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

      10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

      11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

      12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

      13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

      14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

      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:

      17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

      18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

      19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

      20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

      21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

      22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

      23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

      24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

      25 Behold, I have told you before.

      26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

      27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

      28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

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    6. Matthew 24 Self Explanatory:
      29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

      30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

      31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

      32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

      33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

      34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

      35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

      36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

      37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

      38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

      39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

      40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

      41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

      42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

      43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

      44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

      45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

      46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

      47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

      48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

      49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

      50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

      51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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  7. The Islamic idea about End Times is about 50 years old and an American Recent invention and compeletly false and easily disproven

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    2. NO ONE NEEDS TO DISPROVE the Islamic Blunder, it's a self defeating idea that as time goes on reveals the lack of Muslim Input in understanding the Tribal Conflicts in Islam and how NOT UNIFIED the Middle Eastern Muslim community is. Try getting a Lebanonese Muslim to agree with anything a Syriac Muslim says,,,........the failure of Western books on speculating a caliphate is the lack of knowledge of the people they were writing about.

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    4. Elect is Elect yes is Yes and no is no.

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    1. The rest of your Comments are by FAMOUS PEOPLE you already said readers can't get away from and yet you do as You CLAIMED others false.

      YOU PROVED HYPOCRISY IN ATTACHING ACCUSATIONS TO OTHERS YOU COOUDL NOT LIVE AND POSTED YOURSELF INTO BEING ONE.

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    2. Biblical Prophecy existed before Islam. The Prophet Mohammed took from the bible. Sorry your claims have become less than forthright and false. You are done here.

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    1. NO That reveals a lack of knowledge of WHO gave the prophecy in the first place (GOD) and how he fulfills it exactly.

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    2. NO < Everybody's TIMELINE is different > the biblical scholars i work with and several others i know personally agree on TIMELINES. YOUR ASSERTION of "Everyone" is a truism and false. Also called a formal fallacy.

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    3. NO < God has blessed us all in that Mathew 24 AND the Revelation are a sequence of events.> Matthew is an overview NOT A TIMELINE and the Book of revelation has sequences in it but is not sequential.

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  10. NO I understand God's timing and fulfillment of Scipture, it is called sequential events located in integral specificity relevant to each integer.............BUT I REALIZE YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND.

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  11. NO Some people may be misled, but God said If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. IF YOU DON"T KNOW< THATS YOUR FAULT. I know lots of Christians who do know.

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  12. NO. Straw man Arguement formal fallacy false gneralization < They typically study what has already been studied by prominent people who just can't break away from what they've been misled to believe.> If you don't have the Spirit of God to teach you that is your fault not HIS.

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  13. NO NO ONE LIKE THAT HAS BEEN QUOTED nor is any references taken from any authors or famous speakers. The post above details errors even in the works of some.............YOU APPARENTLY DID NOT READ AND ARE PONTIFICATING.

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    1. From the understanding of scripture God allows me, I believe that God is going to show Himself and "humble" the United States in the year 2054. I also believe that in the year 2096, God is going to make catholicism/christianity a "desolate city". This will happen during the reign, or upon the death of pope #275.The calculation for these events is written into scripture. The starting point for the timing of these events was a recent celestial event.

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    2. For you, I suppose your study is as you said, We who have studied DO NOT SEE ANY PROBABILITY of the Lords Return after 2034.

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  14. MR MARTEL has nothing to contribute now.

    His posting here are ended on this thread.

    Future comments will be deleted as he has failed his own criteria he accused others of. Postive commentary was welcomed and answered as questions. Should others have questions they can and will be answered. Mr Martel is done

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  23. THE QUESTION: According to 2 Peter 3:8(NAB) "But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day." and Revelation 19:1(NAB) "...worship God. Witness to Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." Is it possible with these two verses alone to come to the determination that as of the year 2000, we entered into the "third day" after the death of "Jesus"-or the death of the spirit of prophecy-and the "resurrection" of "Jesus"-or the return of the spirit of prophecy- happening in our time?

    RESPONSE: Time Sequencing has been tried and failed by many who use this scripture "day as a thousand years, thousand years as a day" .

    Each choosing a different variable to try to analyze and use this "jewish expression" describing the time equivalent of God being in a place where time doe not exist.

    Time is stated as being relevant to Creation by the formation of Sun, Moon, Stars, planets and light and dark for in Genesis as Seasons and Times, Day and Night.

    Time is never attached to the Creator of the Universe except as in metaphors and Jewish proverbial expressions like this one "a day is as............"

    THE KEY BEING "as" that said if a DAY WERE a 1000 years the expression would not have the qualifier "as" since it does it is not a time derivative but an adjective of the quality of God who exist outside of time.

    Some use the exponential hypothesis of 'eternal now' because Einstein proved time is not set but variable.

    God is a not a variable so the expression cannot be used as a sequencer to designate his return.

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    From the understanding of scripture God allows me, I believe that God is going to show Himself and "humble" the United States in the year 2054. I also believe that in the year 2096, God is going to make catholicism/christianity a "desolate city". This will happen during the reign, or upon the death of pope #275.The calculation for these events is written into scripture. The starting point for the timing of these events was a recent celestial event.

    Response: While celestial events are nice, the second coming, the rapture, the natszal, the snatching away, all events of the book of Revelation except the 1000 yr reign which begins after the Great tribulation would have to occur before the generation that say israel become a nation passed away. ALL PROPHETIC TIMETABLES BEGIN WITH THE NATION ISRAEL RESTORED, if not, they are false.

    A generation can be between 40 and 120yrs respectively.

    Some scholars use Jerusalem as undivided in 1967 as start and pick 2007, 2047, 2087.
    While significant and closer to Sir Isaac Newtons prediction of the Apocalypse would come in 2060 – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire.

    While many theories exist, Probability Study is not about one persons idea's but the cumulative study and analysis of all valid or seeming speculative postulates that can establish a range of likelihood of the Lord's return.

    2017-2034 has been established by that study and has been kept as 2017-2022 for 20yrs or more with the extension to 2034 added recently.

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  25. Anonymous tried to post a derogatory post against pastors and ministers, It was rejected.

    Anonymous tried to preach without commentary on the material present, His post was rejected.

    Until such time as anonymous learns self discipline all his post will be censored before posting.

    People who have genuine interest ask questions, not pontificate.

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