The Date

2007-11-10 14:25:00

JJ:

Using the scriptures in the 1970s I came to the conclusion that Jesus was not going to make his Second Coming by the year 2000 as most then believed. As the millennium rolled by I was proven right, but it seems that I am an anomaly because I cannot find anyone else who has done this.

Larry asks:

"Could you give us the details of how you arrived at this conclusion 'from the scriptures'?"

JJ:

I wrote down my thoughts on the matter around 1977-78 but on reflection I think I arrived at the conclusion as early as 1965. Then after I ran it by my soul it seemed correct to me.

My reason is for the prediction is from the account of the seven days of creation as related in Genesis -- see below. Even though I was a student of DK [Djwhal Khul] when I wrote this and realized the earth was billions of years old I still saw value in the cycle of seven and used the Law of Correspondences for the prediction.

This selection is from my book "Eternal Lives" and was written around 1977-78. At that time no religious person I knew thought the Second Coming would be after the year 2000. Most were expecting it within a decade. There was a lot of talk of 1984-5 being the date.

Selection from Eternal Lives -- written 1977-78 In the face of all this evidence many in the church still say that the Lord will come BEFORE the year 2000. We often hear people in the church say: "The coming of the Lord is nearer than you could imagine." Actually, it is farther away than they imagine and because they do not study the scriptures when the time passes that they expect the Lord to come and 2000, 2010, 2020 rolls by many will say "that Christ delayeth his coming until the end of the earth." (D&C 45:26) But what are they saying now? "The Lord is right on schedule!!!" They will not say that forever for the time will come when those who have not prepared will have their hearts and faith fail them.

In light of this evidence, why is it that so many expect the Lord to come before the year 2000? The answer is that a day with the Lord is a thousand years to man and since the Lord made the world in six days and rested on the seventh then since the year 2000 approximately begins the Lords seventh day then the Lord will cause his millennium to begin around the year 2000.

This is good reasoning as far as it goes, but again someone did not read the scriptures.. It is true that the millennium is symbolic of the Lord's day of rest, but the Lord did not rest at the beginning of the seventh day. He continued working: "And on the seventh day God ENDED his work which he had made." (Gen 2:2) Then the same chapter goes on to tell us that God actually made Adam's physical body on the seventh day and planted the garden of Eden. Next God created the physical animals on the seventh day. (See Gen 2:19.) Finally, he created the woman. (Verse 21)

All this is easily verified in the Doctrine and Covenants:

"Q: What are we to understand by the sounding of the trumpets, mentioned in the 8th chapter of Revelation?

We are to understand that as God made the world in six days and ON THE SEVENTH HE FINISHED HIS WORK, and sanctified it, and also formed man out of the dust of the earth, even so in the BEGINNING of the seventh thousand years will the Lord God sanctify the earth and complete the salvation of man, and judge all things, except that which he hath not put into his power, when he shall have sealed all things unto the end of all things; and the sounding of the trumpets of the seven angels are the preparing and finishing of his work, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTH THOUSAND YEARS - the preparing of the way BEFORE THE TIME OF HIS COMING. " (D&C 77:12)