The time of reckoning has come

The time of reckoning has come

Wednesday 26 March 2014

PROBATION TIMES





                                                            CHAPTER FIVE
                                        PROBATION TIMES

Every unit of time in God’s Calendar of Salvation which is listed above serves as a time of probation depending on God’s agenda for us during that particular unit of time. At the end of every unit of time, God demands accountability from us from the perspective of the agenda that He has for us during any given unit of time.

Therefore, the end of every unit of time marks the close of probation for God’s agenda for that particular unit of time.  God would not create all the units of time for nothing. The different units of time are not just for mere decorations or for beauty purposes. They communicate deep spiritual lessons the depth of which we shall never reach or understand until the coming of Jesus. The secrets of the Plan of Salvation are tightly hidden in the symbolism of those units of time.


Each unit of time in God’s language is merely called ‘a time’.  God will talk of ‘one time’, ‘two times’ and that kind of language. You will know what unit of time He is referring to depending on the subject in question and who is being addressed. The Church was cursed for ‘a time, times and half a time’ and Nebuchadnezar was punished for ‘seven times’.  This is God’s way of describing His units of time.

All the larger units of time which are modeled after the template of the week of seven days are used by God to achieve special far reaching-goals for the Church in as far as the Plan of Salvation is concerned. Those units which have been modeled after the week of seven days are also used to provide long-term and end-time prophetic timelines for the Church.

Therefore, the week of seven years as well as the week of 49 years features prominently when God is giving prophetic predictions and timelines. Close observation reveals that since Israel never lived up to God’s expectation during any given unit of time or probationary time, He has traditionally been extending His deadline by delaying His judgment at the end of every unit of time up to the ‘middle of the following week’.
Therefore if for instance we are dealing with the week of seven years, it means the ‘middle of the following week’ is the 4th year when God comes down to demand accountability for the delayed and postponed justice thanks to His marvelous grace.  Therefore instead of the decreed 7 years of probation, God extends man’s probation by three years to become 10 years. This is how we get number ten which symbolizes the longsuffering and the patience of God.

In the case of the week of 49 years which is a full Jubilee calendar or cycle, we find that God also extends His deadline up to the middle of the following week of 49 years. Since the week of 49 years is made up of seven weeks of seven years each, the week which falls in the middle is the 4th week which starts from the 22nd to the 28th year of the next Jubilee calendar. This is the week dedicated to carrying out postponed and delayed judgment courtesy of God’s grace after the end of the probationary 49 years Jubilee Calendar.

This means the extension is for 21 years or three weeks of seven years each. If you add 21 to 49 you get 70 yrs. That’s how God arrived at 70 years as an official time for church probation. That’s how we get number 70 symbolizing the fullness of God’s mercies. That’s how God came up with number 70 to represent His longsuffering and patience the same way he came up with number 10.

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