However, in the last few decades, there has been a myriad of people attempting to predict when this will happen due to the influx of wars, cosmic events, natural disasters, diseases, etc that have occurred particularly over the last century.  These such events are described by Jesus as precursors to the end according to Matthew 24. Unfortunately, many people have used these events to set dates for Jesus' return only to fail each time. This has resulted in a great deal of skepticism and mockery from those who don’t believe Jesus will return, despite the Bible's historical accuracy and validity.  Not only did Jesus foretell of his return, but also foretold of the mockery that would precede it which is itself an indicator that we are living in the last days.

There are generally two schools of thought that Christians believe regarding this epic event.

1) That no man knows the day or the hour.  2) That we can know the timing of his return based upon a careful examination of biblical prophecy.  

Here at Wheel of Ages, we believe that both are true.  After all, the Bible is the only set of books that work in harmony successfully predicting the future concerning many events with absolute precision.

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Jesus said in reference to the day of the Lord, "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour" Matthew 25:13.  We will certainly not debate the words of Jesus for what he says is absolutely true, but was he referring to the Rapture or his second coming? Both are separate events that will occur. We know that Jesus could not have been referring to the Rapture because this event was not even revealed until about 15 years after Jesus' Olivet Discourse.  Let us also consider the words of the apostle Paul to the Christians at Thessalonica that the day of the Lord would not surprise them like a thief in the night because they were children of light and of the day.  This could imply that we can know the season of his return, specifically the season of the Rapture.  The scriptures revealed in advance when Jesus would come as the Lamb of God to be slain to pay the debt of sin that we owed. Is it unreasonable to think that he would give us clues for his return to keep us from the hour of trial that will come upon the whole world?

This question has led us to look intently into the scriptures to find the indicators of the second coming. Jesus himself spoke of the indicators of "birth pangs," but it is unclear if the mere influx of wars, celestial events, natural disasters, and diseases we are experiencing today are the indicators to his return since they have been happening for thousands of years, and are therefore unreliable as indicators. So, we looked deeper. Soon into our study, we discovered a very important key verse. Isaiah 46:10 says, “...I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying,'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose...” This caused us to take our eyes off of Revelation and go back to Genesis to discover how he first declared the end from the beginning.

In Genesis we find that God worked for 6 days and then rested on the 7th day. This structure has continued from the beginning of time until now, despite man's effort to change it. Within this structure, God created specific things on specific days and to our amazement we discovered that these were prophetic types or shadows of actual events that would later occur in the future. But how?

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By understanding the structure of how time has unfolded, first with the prophetic type, then its subsequent historical fulfillment, we can see God’s plan of redemption plainly laid out before us.  It further reveals to us that creation week and man's history are equal in God's sight, not necessarily in duration (although we believe that to be true), but rather in sequence.  By understanding the correlations between the prophetic types and their historical fulfillments and altogether their respective order within the sequence, we can not only determine why certain events happened in the order in which they did throughout history, but we may also determine how close we are to the conclusion of this current age. We know that after 6 days, God rested.  Could this mean that after 6 days (or six 1000 year periods or ages) that man will also rest?  That is our belief.  Now if we account for the 7 year tribulation period also known as "Jacob's Trouble" that will precede the turn of the 6th millennium, then the Rapture may take place in the year 2024, which will be 1,994 years (7 years short of 2000 or "2 days") since Jesus' death, burial, resurrection and ascension.  

We are excited to share this with you and by doing so hope this will help you obtain a greater understanding of biblical prophecy which will assist you in your own biblical study.  Please note that our intention is not to set dates for Jesus' return, rather it is to show how soon this event and other future events are likely to occur based upon our observations of historical fulfillments of biblical prophecy so that you may be encouraged as we wait together with great expectation the return of our Lord & Savior, Jesus!