Nisan 10 = 570?

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Joshua 4:19 says, "And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho."

Thus, the 10th day of the first month, Nisan 10, is a very significant day. It is the day the Israelites crossed the Jordan and into the Promised Land, very symbolic of our own spiritual journey and ultimate "crossing over." Nisan 10 is also the day Jesus presented Himself as the Messiah. This year Nisan 10 falls on April 15.

Today I received a fax from Bonnie Gaunt saying that she has discovered that the word "tenth" in the phrase "the tenth day of the first month" in Joshua 4:19 above has a Hebrew gematria value (added) of 576, and that multiplied it comes to 2520.

Both numbers are highly significant. We are currently in Hebrew year 5760 (or some believe it begins with the new sacred year on April 5/6). The year 2520 may represent the the number of years of the "times of the Gentiles." It derives from 7 times 360 -- God's perfect number times the number of days in a prophetic year. The number 2520 is also the number of days that Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar suffered insanity, some believe symbolic of the madness of the present Gentile age. His reign is when the times of the Gentiles may have begun.

Plus, if you take the 430 days prescribed for the sins of Israel and Judah in Ezekiel 4:1-8 (which God says to convert to years, v. 5), and deduct the 70 years of Babylonian exile, you have 360 years left. Three different times in Leviticus 14 God says he will punish Israel "seven times more," which some Bible students believe this means 7 X 360 = 2520.

Converting 2520 prophetic years to modern 365.24-day years = 2483.85 years. If you consider 517 B.C. as the date of completion of the Second Temple, and adjusting for the no-zero year between BC and AD, there are 2483.85 years to the recapture of the Temple Mount in the miraculous Six-Day War on June 7, 1967, possibly to the very day it is claimed, although the results may vary plus or minus a year due to rounding. This is especially significant prophetically because Jesus, in Luke 21:24, said Jerusalem would be trodden down by Gentiles "until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."

Clarification:  It might be clearer if I to explain that the 430 years of punishment prescribed in Ezekiel 4 may work out this way:

1. The first 70 years counted from the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC, ending in 517 BC. (Although some sources vary by one year.)
2. The next 360 are "seven times" from Leviticus 14, which = 2520.
3. After converting from Jewish to modern years, this takes you to 1967, depending on rounding and time of year when the count starts.

Of course, 1967 may have only marked "the beginning of the end" of the times of the Gentiles. It is interesting that Nisan 10 in the year 2000 (5760) is 33 years later, Jesus' age at His crucifixion.

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