Came across a website by Tim McHyde that mentioned prerequisites for Jesus' return, based on the Bible. Haven't researched it or verified its truth but it makes for fascinating reading.
Legal Prerequisites To Jesus' Return
It is simple. There are several prerequisites given in Bible prophecy for the return of Jesus Christ and none of them are present or fulfilled yet. Without them happening, it is impossible for Jesus to come in 2010 or even in the few years following 2010. Being unaware of these prophecies, Christians are able to believe an event is possible that Scripture tells us is currently impossible.
What are these prerequisites? I can give you many examples:
- Great Tribulation — According to Daniel 9:27 and Matthew 24:15, Jesus must return after a 3½ year Great Tribulation. During this Great Tribulation the Antichrist will rule over the world for 42 months (Rev 13). He will force everyone to take a mark in their right hand or forehead during that time. We of course are not in the Great Tribulation and no mark of the beast issued yet.
- Abomination of Desolation — This Great Tribulation starts 30 days after the Abomination of Desolation is stood up on the Temple Mount (Mk 13:14). The abomination refers to the Image of the Beast statue being erected for worship. We have no such statue on the Temple Mount.
- Temple Mount Sacrifices — Similarly, on the day of the Abomination, daily oblation morning and evening sacrfices are to be stopped on the Temple Mount (Dan 12:11). As of 2010, no sacrifices have even started yet that can be stopped.
- Third Temple — Revelation 11 tells us that there will be a Third Temple on the Temple Mount at that time. The Antichrist must even sit in this end time temple and declare himself to be God (2Th 2:4). Of course, there is not even a temple under construction yet (although rumor has it that one is being prepared along with all the furnishing and a sequestered priesthood prepared to attend it).
- Sixth Seal — Finally, we have not seen the events of the sixth seal yet. If you read Revelation 6:12-17 carefully you willsee that it depicts the entire population panicking and running for cover in response to signs in the heavens and a tremendous global earthquake on earth moving every mountain and island out of place. Most people ignore this prophecy because they simply cannot make sense of it literally with all the errors Christianity has filled their head with (pretrib rapture, imminency, etc.). That leads to the typical practice of Bible prophecy interpretation today, not accepting the plain words for what they say and taking poetic license with them.
- Sabbath Year — When you carefully consider Daniel 9:27, Isaiah 61:1-2, and Luke 4:16-22 you will be led to the conclusion that the 70 weeks of Daniel are all sabbath year cycles. This idea is confirmed by Jesus' own mouth when he came at the end of the 69th week and declared it to be a sabbath year in the synagogue at Nazareth. This means that when he returns at the end of the 70th week, it too, again, will be a Sabbath year, just like his First Coming was in. So Jesus must return in a Sabbath year. Only one out of every seven years is a Sabbath year. But 2007 (or 2010) is not one of them according to the historical sabbath year cycle followed by Ancient Israel.
You may have heard that the Rabbis of Judaism consider 2007-2008 a Sabbath year. But that conclusion is based on the traditions of the Talmud, not on the consensus of Scripture and the best historical evidence. Christians assume that the Jews are accurate on such things such as the Biblical calendar, but Judaism has diverged much from the Old Testament. (For example, Judaism celebrates Pentecost/Shavuot on a fixed date (Sivan 6) instead of a floating date arrived at by counting 50 days from the sabbath following the harvest, as Scripture has it. It should fall sometime between Sivan 6 and 12 and always on a Sunday (Lev 23:15-16). Judaism has the year start in the Fall/7th Biblical month of Tishrei instead of the Spring/1st month as the Bible has it (Ex 12:2).
Judaism teaches that the Jubilee comes every 50th year instead of every 49th year according to Scripture (which is the 50th year using inclusive reckoning from year one of the start of the seven sabbath cycles you are to count). Their Sabbath year reckoning similarly departs from Scripture while it relies on tradition.)
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