The Return of Jesus

Dating the Return of Jesus to AD 2035

By Robert Lakey

Introduction

First, what I mean by "dating the return of Jesus to AD 2035" is the date Jesus ushers in the Millennium. The actual return of Jesus will be one year earlier.

"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."(2 Peter 3:8)

It occurs to me that the above verse gives humanity a clue as to the year in which Jesus will return to Earth to begin the Millennium. Jesus returned into heaven two thousand years ago and promised to come back when finished making a place for His followers.

“…I am going to prepare a place for you…And I am coming again…” (John 14:3)

The Bible also tells how He will return.

“This is how it will happen. Jesus Himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout…then the believers who have died will rise from the dead. At the same time those of us who are still alive will rise with them through the clouds to meet Jesus in the air. After that we will be with Him forever. So, encourage each other with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:1618)

Chapter One

Years from the Creation of Adam to the Return of Jesus

While studying that scripture I discovered that the scripture allows us to add up the years going backwards from the birth of Jesus to the creation of Adam. Those years add up to exactly three thousand nine hundred sixty-five years in the English translations of the Hebrew Masoretic Text.

Jesus’s birth back to end of the Babylonian Captivity 483 years

(Daniel 9:24-25)

Years in captivity 70 years

(Jeremiah 25:11)

Reign of the Kings of Judah back to start of the second Temple 419 years

(1 Kings 6:1 through 2 Kings 24:8)

Temple to the Exodus from Egypt 480 years

(1 Kings 6:1)

Exodus back to Abraham’s entry into Canaan 430 years

Exodus 12:40-41; Acts 7:4)

Birth of Terah back to beginning of world-wide flood 427 years

(Genesis 5:3-32; 7:6. 11; 11:30)

Flood back to creation of Adam 1,656 years

(Genesis 2:7 through 3:23)

Sum of the years from birth of Jesus birth back to creation of Adam 3,965 years

NOTE: The AD (Anno Domini) dating system was invented by Dionysius Exuguus starting at the birth of Jesus. If each day of creation represents a thousand years, there remains two thousand thirty-five years until we reach the six thousandth year from the creation of Adam. That will be 2035 AD, the date the Millennium begins.

Coincidence? You decide for yourself.

Chapter Two

Fiftieth Year Jubilee

“Count seven times seven years, a total of forty-nine years. Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, send someone to blow a trumpet throughout the whole land. In this way you shall set the FIFTIETH year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. A Jubilee year shall this one be..." (Leviticus 25:9-11)

A Jubilee refers to the celebration of a special event. The fiftieth year Jubilee above is a special event for Israel to celebrate. During that celebration every slave was set free, all financial debt was cancelled, and all the land allotted among the twelve tribes of Israel was returned to the original owners.

I think God gave a hint of the final Jubilee when He told Noah that He would not allow humanity to live forever but would limit humanity to 120 years.

"Then the LORD said, "I will not allow humanity to live forever; they are mortal. They will live 120 years." (Genesis 6:3)

Some humans who lived after the above declaration from God lived much longer than 120 years, for example…

“… when Shem was one hundred years old, he had a son, Arpachshad. After that, he lived another five hundred years.” (Genesis 11:10:11)

Maybe God was telling Noah that he would limit humanity's dominion of the Earth to 120 Jubilee years. If so,120 Jubilees from Adam's creation would be exactly six thousand years (120 X 50 = 6,000).

Coincidence? You decide for yourself.

Chapter Three

Years from the Rejection of Jesus to His Return

"The people say, “Let us return to the LORD! He has hurt us, but He will be sure to heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage our wounds, won't he? After TWO DAYS, during the third day he will revive us, and we will live in His presence. Let us try to know the LORD. He will come.” (Hosea 6:1-3)

Israel rejected Jesus as the Messiah when He came the first time, and the Romans crucified Him at Israel’s request. The crucifixion of Jesus occurred on the first day of the Jewish Passover festival which is a celebration of their deliverance from Egyptian slavery. Nevertheless, Jesus forgave them because they did not understand what they were doing.

“Father, forgive them, they do not understand what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34)

That Israel would be saved even after rejecting Jesus was a secret revealed to the Apostle Paul.

“I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.” (Romans 11:25-27)

Israel has been punished for rejecting Jesus for almost two thousand years. It is interesting that the prophet Hosea told Israel that after “two days” their Savior would come to heal them. Jesus is their Savior. If one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, Hosea may have been telling Israel that their Savior would come and heal Israel two thousand years after they had rejected Him as their Messiah. Again, Jesus promised to return, and told His followers they should watch for His return.

“At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near…So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:27-28, 36)

In Chapter Four I will show that Jesus was crucified in the year 35 AD. If so, the two thousandth year after His crucifixion will be 2035 AD!

Coincidence? You decide for yourself.

Chapter Four

The Day Jesus Was Crucified

"...He went out, carrying His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called, Golgotha. There they crucified Him." (John 19:17-18)

The Jewish festival of Unleavened Bread begins on Passover. It is a multi-day holiday season celebrating Israel’s exodus from Egypt. There are two “high” sabbath days during that festival in addition to the weekly sabbath. These two “high” days are called Passover and Firstfruits.

"Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a HIGH DAY), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away."(John 19:31)

The day before Passover is called "the day of preparation". It is the day that Jewish people repeat the first Passover sacrifice and the eating of the first Passover meal. The first "high day" (Passover) follows the eating of the Passover meal and is the first of the seven days of the festival of Unleavened Bread. The second "high day" is Firstfruits which is the day following the weekly sabbath during that seven-day festival.

Jesus told the Jewish leaders that the only miracle they would be given to prove He was the Messiah was that He would die and remain entombed for three days and three nights.

"The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of the prophet Jonah. In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." (Matthew 12:39-40)

The tradition that Jesus died on Friday could not be correct because it does NOT allow Him to have been entombed for three full days and three full nights before His resurrection. According to the bible, a day begins at sundown and ends the next day at sundown. In the year He was crucified, Jesus ate the Passover meal with His disciples on the day of preparation for the Passover which had to be on a Tuesday after sundown. Jesus was arrested later that night and brought before the Jewish leaders early Wednesday morning which was still the preparation day for Passover. He was tried, convicted of blasphemy, and delivered to the Romans as a criminal deserving of death. They asked Pilot the Roman leader to put Jesus to death and he reluctantly granted their request. He crucified Jesus around noon on Wednesday and Jesus died around 3:00 that Wednesday afternoon just before sundown which was still the day of preparation.

Again, there are three sabbath days during the seven-day festival of Unleavened Bread, two "high days" of Passover and Firstfruits, and one weekly sabbath. It is clear to me that the events occurred as follows:

Jesus ate the Passover meal with His disciples on Tuesday night after sundown.

He was crucified on Wednesday at about noon on the day of preparation.

He died at 3:00 and entombed just before sunset on Wednesday.

He remained in the tomb the three days and three nights.

He was raised from death on Saturday at sundown, the beginning of the "high day" of Firstfruits.

At sunrise on Sunday morning the women came to the tomb.

Only the above scenario fulfills all the biblical accounts I find in the scripture about His crucifixion, entombment, and resurrection.

The bible uses a lunar calendar and does not recognize the names of the days of the week we currently use which were invented by the Romans. Therefore, the Roman day during the events of the festival of Unleavened Bread changes from year to year. For Jesus to have been crucified in 35 AD, the crucifixion of Jesus that year had to be on a Wednesday – and it was!...according to the Hebrew Calendar website and the day of the week calculator website.

http://www.cgsf.org/dbeattie/calendar/?roman=35

http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html

These websites show that if Jesus died in 35 AD, he was crucified on Wednesday, April 11.

If I am correct, then the year AD 2035 will be two thousand years after His crucifixion, 120 Jubilees from the creation of Adam, and six thousand years from the creation of Adam.

Will Jesus return in AD 2035 to begin the Millennium? Or is all of the above just a coincidence?

Again, you decide for yourself.

Chapter Five

The Year of His Return for Believers

Again, if I am correct, the year AD 2035 will be two thousand years after His crucifixion, 120 Jubilees from the creation of Adam, and six thousand years from the creation of Adam. At that time Jesus will begin the Millennium. However, Jesus will return for Believers one year earlier in AD 2034 (the Rapture). They will be called up into the air to meet Jesus, and then He will begin the Day of the Lord, pouring out the wrath of God on the world government of the Antichrist for one year, ending with the battle of Armageddon.

"For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution for the cause of Zion." (Isaiah 34:8)

"Be strong, do not fear; your God will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you." (Isaiah 35:3-4)

"...to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to.comfort all who mourn..." (Isaiah 61:2)

"For the day of vengeance was in my heart, the year of my redemption has come." (Isaiah 63:4)

The book of Revelation details that one year period with the opening of the seventh seal, one half hour of silence in heaven, and the beginning of the seven trumpet judgments.

"And when he opens the seventh seal, a hush occurred in heaven for half an hour. And I perceived the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them." (Revelation 8:1-2)

Believers will be taken up to meet Jesus in the half hour of silence for the Apostle Paul assures us that we are not appointed to the following one year period of the wrath of God.

"For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance by our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thessalonians 5:9)