Part 2: The Prophetic Formula Pointing To 2030–2033

The 400-year prophecy and the Second Exodus

At this point we have established two important prophetic foundations.

The first is the prophetic day principle.

One day with Yahuah may represent one thousand years.

The second is Hosea's prophecy.

If Hosea's "two days" begin with the resurrection of Yahusha, then the opening of the third prophetic day falls approximately between 2030 and 2033.

Those two prophetic clocks are significant.

However, another biblical prophecy appears to describe an entirely different timeline that reaches the closing period of this age.

That prophecy begins with Abraham.

The prophecy given to Abraham

Long before Israel entered Egypt, Yahuah revealed that Abraham's descendants would experience a lengthy period of affliction.

Genesis 15:13–14

"And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance."

Notice the order of the prophecy.

First comes affliction.

Then judgment falls upon the oppressing nation.

Only afterward do Yahuah's people depart.

The sequence is important.

The prophecy does not say that the four hundredth year immediately ends with Israel entering the Promised Land.

Instead, it describes a process.

400 years.

↓

Judgment.

↓

Departure.

↓

Inheritance.

That pattern will become increasingly important as we compare it with the final Exodus described by the prophets.

The difference between the 400 years and the 430 years

Many people assume that Israel spent four hundred and thirty years in Egypt.

The biblical evidence does not support that conclusion.

Paul writes:

Galatians 3:17

"And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Messiah, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect."

Paul measures the four hundred and thirty years from the covenant made with Abraham until the giving of the Law.

The Septuagint reading of Exodus 12 also measures the sojourning in both Canaan and Egypt rather than Egypt alone.

This produces the following chronology.

Abraham enters Canaan.

↓

215 years in Canaan.

↓

Jacob enters Egypt.

↓

215 years in Egypt.

↓

Exodus.

Mathematically:

215 years in Canaan

• 
  

215 years in Egypt

=

430 years.

This distinction is extremely important.

The four hundred and thirty years describe the total covenantal sojourn.

The four hundred years describe the period of affliction announced in Genesis 15.

These are related prophecies.

They are not identical prophecies.

Egypt was not four hundred years of slavery

Another observation strengthens this distinction.

Israel did not enter Egypt as slaves.

They entered Egypt under Joseph's protection.

Genesis 47:11–12

"And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land... And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household..."

Only later did oppression begin.

Exodus 1:6–8

"And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly... Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph."

This means Israel's actual period of bondage was shorter than their total residence in Egypt.

If Israel lived approximately two hundred and fifteen years in Egypt, and slavery began only after Joseph's generation had passed away, then Egypt itself cannot literally contain four hundred years of national slavery.

The Egyptian captivity therefore becomes something else.

It becomes a prophetic pattern.

Egypt becomes the pattern

The first Exodus established a prophetic blueprint.

Israel entered a foreign land.

Israel lost freedom.

Israel cried unto Yahuah.

Yahuah judged the oppressing nation.

Israel departed.

Israel entered the wilderness.

Israel finally entered the inheritance.

The pattern may be summarized like this.

Captivity.

↓

Judgment.

↓

Departure.

↓

Wilderness.

↓

Inheritance.

The prophets repeatedly describe a future deliverance using the language of another Exodus.

The first Exodus therefore becomes a prophetic shadow of a greater deliverance still to come.

The completion of the four hundred years

If Genesis 15 ultimately describes a larger latter-day captivity, then the four hundred years become another prophetic clock.

Using 1619 as the beginning of the well-known English colonial slave system in Virginia:

1619

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400

=

2019. 
      

This calculation does not claim that Messiah had to return in 2019.

Genesis itself does not make that claim.

Genesis says something different.

Four hundred years.

↓

Judgment.

↓

Departure.

The completion of the four hundred years therefore marks the beginning of the final phase rather than its completion.

Within this model, 2019 becomes the expiration of the measured affliction.

The years following it become a period of increasing judgment, separation, awakening, and preparation for the greater Exodus.

A remarkable parallel

Notice how naturally the prophetic clocks begin to align.

The Genesis clock says:

400 years completed.

↓

Judgment begins.

The Hosea clock says:

Two prophetic days completed.

↓

Israel raised.

The creation clock says:

Six prophetic days completed.

↓

Messiah's Sabbath Kingdom begins.

Each prophecy begins from a different point in history.

Yet each one appears to move toward the same destination.

This is the reason the overall model becomes compelling.

No single prophecy stands alone.

Multiple prophetic clocks appear to converge.

The Second Exodus

The prophets repeatedly describe Israel leaving captivity once again.

Isaiah writes of Yahuah gathering His people from the nations.

Jeremiah speaks of a future deliverance so great that people no longer speak primarily of the Exodus from Egypt.

The first Exodus remains the pattern.

The latter Exodus becomes the greater fulfillment.

Within this framework, the sequence becomes:

Four hundred years completed.

↓

The oppressing power comes under judgment.

↓

Israel prepares to depart.

↓

The wilderness.

↓

Messiah establishes His Kingdom.

This sequence will become even more significant when we examine the final three and one-half years described by Daniel and Revelation.

Those passages introduce the final prophetic clock.

Remarkably, it occupies only the closing fraction of the sixth prophetic day, immediately before the Kingdom is established.

When placed beside Hosea, Genesis, and the Sabbath pattern, the final three and one-half years complete the prophetic formula.

More Tomorrow!