Can we discern from the scriptures how long this declared “delay” would last... before Adonai would intervene in His Great Day?  On previous occasions of diasporah, slavery, captivity or sojourn  He had indicated to His servants how long such interventions would last.

1.  The Egyptian Captivity

 In establishing his covenant with Abraham, Adonai told him that his descendants would be enslaved and mistreated for 400 years.  And it was so (Gen. 15:13).

2.  The Desert Sojourn

When His patience with the ever grumbling and rebellious people ran out on their journey to the promised land, Adonai told Moses that they would be stranded in the desert for 40 years, one year for every day of the spies’ surveillance.  And it was so (Num. 14:33,34).

3.  The Babylonian captivity

His patience having been tested for nearly five hundred years, Adonai declared to Jeremiah that the people of Judah would be taken captive by the Babylonians and be exiled for 70 years, one year for every Sabbatical year that the land was not given its rest.  And it was so (Jer. 29:10).

We can see how accurate and faithful Adonai’s timetable for His people is.  So, also, will He fulfil His great promises at the completion of Daniel’s 70 weeks.  However, an intervention has occurred - an intervention which He calls “delay.”

 Most noteworthy about all these time predictions is that, before the expiry of the predicted time, Adonai began to prepare for that culmination and the way forward.

1.1  Eighty years before the Exodus, Adonai raised up Moses who lived forty years in the palace of  Pharaoh and forty years in the desert before being commissioned.

2.1  Two months before the fulfilment of the desert sojourn, Adonai spoke to Moses…

       Deut. 1  :3    In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses

                            proclaimed to the Israelites all that Adonai had commanded him oncerning them.     

3.1  In the first year of Darius, predecessor of the Persian king Cyrus, who Adonai moved to decree deliverance, Daniel noted the 70 year prophecy from Jeremiah.  He proceeded to

       petition Adonai with fasting and prayer, in sackcloth and ash, confessing the sins of  Judah and all Israel.  This heartfelt prayer of contrition in Dan. 9 would have prepared the heart of

       Judah and Israel for the return which followed  the reign of king Darius.

   

We can see how Adonai began preparing the way for His following plan well in advance.

Would Adonai not, in a similar fashion, have foretold this present extended diasporah, called “delay”, and its time span?

The as yet unfulfilled prophecy of Hosea contains such an, as yet unfulfilled, prediction of time, associated with... the acharit hayemim... the latter days kingdom.

The prophet Hosea appears to have written during the time of the kings of Israel.  His words contain much evidence of the unfaithfulness of Israel to her husband... to her Elohim.  Adonai prevails on him to take a harlot, an unfaithful woman, for a wife to demonstrate to the prophet His own pain by the unfaithfulness of His own wife… Israel.  However, the words of the prophet also contain prediction of remorse, return to Adonai and restoration.  Prophesying, before the Babylonian exile, his prediction of restoration may appear to be linked thereto.  However this is not the case.

              Hos. 3    :3       Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a

                                      prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will live with you.”

                            :4       For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without

                                      sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol.

                            :5       Afterward the Israelites will return and seek Adonai their Elohim

                                      and David their king and to his blessings... in the acharit

                                      hayemim. (the latter days kingdom)

Has this latter days kingdom in the presence of Adonai and His Davidic Messiah ever manifested?  No.  And our study has revealed that it is a function of Yom Yahweh... in the future.

We then see the inspired response of the leaders of Israel.

              Hos. 6    :1       “Come let us return to Adonai.  He has torn us to pieces but He will heal

                                      us;  He has injured us but He will bind up our wounds.

                            :2       After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will restore us

                                      that we may live in His presence.

What do these “two days” and the “third day” have in common with Yom Yahweh and the acharit hayemim?  Everything!  The “presence” of Adonai  is a function of Yom Yahweh. And Rev. 20 tells us the extent of “the third day” …1000 years.   “A thousand years are as a day to Adonai” says Psalm 90:4.

Where do the preceding “two days” - two thousand years - take us?  It is now 1940 years since the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple according to the Gregorian Solar Calendar, which has 365 days to the year.  This relates to some 1965 years in terms of the Hebrew Lunar Calendar with its 360 days per year.  It is unclear how Rabbinic corrections would influence this.  Conversely, some1980 Solar years have elapsed since that fateful day of Pentecost when time stopped and “delay” was introduced.  This relates to 2005 Lunar years.  

It is not the purpose of this exercise to determine a date.  However, the signs of the times - the desperation of mankind - is there for all to see.  Can we not see in the events of the last 130 years the hand of Adonai preparing - as before - for Israel’s “revival after two days” so that He may “restore them on the third day and dwell in their midst” ...in His Sanctuary?

Rudimentary aliyah (1880)… the Zionist movement of Theodor Herzl (1890)... The Balfour Declaration (1917)... The United Nation Resolution and the rebirth of the State of Israel (1947/8)... Jerusalem again the capital of Israel (1967)... her constant struggle for survival against all odds...

Can we not expect a universe-moving event... even in our lifetime?

Can we do anything about it?  Perhaps we can:

              Matth. 18 :18  “I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in

                                       heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

                                      :19   Again I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you

                                      ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.”

Can we not agree… and loose that which has been in bondage… Adonai’s set times for Israel?   

 

THEREFORE.     “Lech lechah… Come out from her, My people…” both

                                 Church and Synagogue. (Rev.18:4)

               Joel 2     :11     ...The Day of Adonai is great; it is dreadful.  Who can endure it?

                            :12     “Even now,” declares Adonai, “return to Me with all your heart,

                                      with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

                            :13     Rend your heart and not your garments.  Return to Adonai your

                                      God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and

                                      abounding in love, and He relents from sending calamity. 

                            :14     Who knows but that He may turn and have pity and leave behind a

                                      blessing - grain offerings and drink offerings for Adonai our God.

 

MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY FOR YAHWEH!