As It Was in the Days of Noah and Days of Lot

In the Gospel of Luke, we read about as it was in the days of Noah and as it was in the days of Lot. Then, most people do two things. They conclude it was very bad in both those times, and they begin this insidious debate of who is picked first and connect that debate with the wheat and tares.

Luke 17:26-37 MKJV
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it also shall be in the days of the Son of Man.
(27)  They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came and destroyed them all.
(28)  So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
(29)  but the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed them all.
(30)  Even so it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
(31)  In that day he who shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise, he who is in the field, let him not return to the things behind.
(32)  Remember Lot’s wife.
(33)  Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
(34)  I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
(35)  Two shall be grinding together, one will be taken, and the other left.
(36)  Two shall be in the field, one will be taken, and the other left.
(37)  And they answered and said to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

We will find out once it happens, so stop wasting time and breath on who is whom. When you take up this debate, you obscure or neglect the weightier matter being given to us.

Luke 17:27-29 MKJV
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came and destroyed them all.
(28)  So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
(29)  but the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed them all.

They ate, they drank, they married wives, and were given in marriage, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built. Exactly the same things we do today. This did not make them bad. What it shows us is they did not know they were in a time of judgment until it was too late.

Days of Noah

In Noah’s time it was a judgment on the world.

Genesis 6:5-13 MKJV
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  (6)  And Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was angry to His heart.  (7)  And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air. For I repent that I have made them.  (8)  But Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.  (9)  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.  (10)  And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  (11)  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.  (12)  And God looked upon the earth. And, behold, it was corrupted! For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.  (13)  And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

We are told these things when Noah had three sons. By doing the chronology, we also know that Shem was 98 years old when the flood struck. This tells us that Noah learned there would be a flood, after Shem was born and began to warn the world for the next 98 years as he built the ark.

These 98 years are two Jubilee cycles.

Now compare that to the time Israel was founded by UN decree in 1947 which was a Jubilee year.

Then, connect this to the parable of the fig tree and metaphorically represent Israel’s becoming a nation in 1948 A.D. It was granted nationhood status by the UN in 1947 and declared as a nation by Israel in May 1948.

Matthew 24:3-35 MKJV
And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world?
(4)  And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
(5)  For many will come in My name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many.
(6)  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must occur; but the end is not yet.
(7)  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places.
(8)  All these are the beginning of sorrows.
(9)  Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name’s sake.
(10)  And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.
(11)  And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.
(12)  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.
(13)  But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.
(14)  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come.
(15)  Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand).
(16)  Then let those in Judea flee into the mountains.
(17)  Let him on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house;
(18)  nor let him in the field turn back to take his clothes.
(19)  And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!
(20)  But pray that your flight is not in the winter, nor on the sabbath day;
(21)  for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.
(22)  And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect’s sake, those days shall be shortened.
(23)  Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ! Or, There! Do not believe it.
(24)  For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders; so much so that, if it were possible, they would deceive even the elect.
(25)  Behold, I have told you beforehand.
(26)  Therefore if they shall say to you, Behold, He is in the desert! Do not go out. Behold, He is in the secret rooms! Do not believe it.
(27)  For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines even to the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.
(28)  For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered.
(29)  And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
(30)  And then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.
(31)  And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
(32)  Now learn a parable of the fig tree. When its branch is still tender and puts out leaves, you know that summer is near.
(33)  So you, likewise, when you see all these things, shall know that it is near, at the doors.
(34)  Truly I say to you, This generation shall not pass until all these things are fulfilled.
(35)  The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away.

We read about the seven species in the land of Israel in Deuteronomy:

Deuteronomy 8:8 MKJV
a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,

The fig tree in the Bible is a fruit that crops up repeatedly because Yehovah does nothing without purpose.

Throughout the Scriptures, the plant symbolizes prosperity, well-being, and security. Along with the vine, sitting under the plentiful shade of your fig tree is the epitome of safety, peace and well-being in many biblical passages. These plants don’t grow overnight, and it takes time to culture and nurture them—their maturity indicates that the gardener has been continuously and steadfastly there, tending to their growth over the years. For Israel, exile and wandering has been a byword for punishment and so sitting under your own vine and fig tree is a sign of blessing and security.

The fig tree in the Bible is also symbolic of Israel itself—it often symbolizes the health of the nation, both spiritually and physically.

Hosiah 9:10 MKJV
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruit in the fig tree at her first time. But they went to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing; and they became abominable like that which they loved.

1Kings 4:25 MKJV
And Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

Micah 4:3-5 MKJV
And He shall judge between many peoples, and will decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, And they shall not still learn war.
(4)  But they shall sit each one under his vine and under his fig tree; and there shall be no trembling; for the mouth of Jehovah of Hosts has spoken,
(5)  For all peoples will walk, each one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God forever and ever.

We can also see how Yehovah would bring destruction and failure of crops as part of His judgement against Israel, specifying empty fig trees that were stripped bare and fruitless.

Joel 1:5-12 MKJV
Awake, drunkards, and weep; and howl, all drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
(6)  For a nation has come up on My land, strong and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw teeth of a lioness.
(7)  He has laid My vine waste and splintered My fig tree. He has stripped it and cast it away; its branches grow white.
(8)  Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
(9)  The food offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.
(10)  The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up; the oil tree droops.
(11)  Be ashamed, husbandmen; howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
(12)  The vine is dried up, and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.

Yehovah will also bless the land when we obey and that blessing comes in the form of the fig.

Joel 2:21-26 MKJV
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice. For Jehovah will do great things.
(22)  Do not be afraid, beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness grow green; for the tree bears its fruit, and the fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
(23)  Be glad then, sons of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God. For He has given you the former rain according to righteousness, and He will cause the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain in the first month.
(24)  And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
(25)  And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, My great army which I sent among you.
(26)  And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of Jehovah your God, who has dealt with you wonderfully; and My people shall never be ashamed.

Again, in Amos, we can see the fig as representing Israel when they sin.

Amos 4:6-13 MKJV
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, and you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.
(7)  And I have also withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest. And I caused rain to fall on one city and caused it not to rain on another city; one piece was rained on, and the piece on which it did not rain dried up.
(8)  So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.
(9)  I have stricken you with blasting and mildew. When your gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees. and your olive trees increased, the creeping locust devoured them; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.
(10)  I have sent the plague among you in the way of Egypt; I have slain your young men with the sword, and have taken away your horses. And I have made the stench of your camps to come up into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.
(11)  I have overthrown some among you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked out of the burning; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.
(12)  So I will do this to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
(13)  For lo, He forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what his thought is. He who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth; Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is His name.

So, yes, when Jesus said, “When you see the fig tree blooming again, know that the season is changing,” he’s speaking metaphorically or in a parable, and the meaning of what he’s saying is, “When you see Israel ( the fig tree) become a nation again (bloom again), know that the end is near.”

One more scripture to point out about figs.

Revelation 6:12-13 MKJV
And when He had opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.
(13)  And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind.

Untimely figs are those that do not ripen. This is telling us to look for the stars to fall before or around the start of the 5th month. It is at this time that the first of the figs are ripe in Israel.

On April 14, 2024, Iran launched the largest-ever missile attack in the history of the world against Israel. Expect another such attack or greater around the start of the 5th biblical month in the years to come.

Sodom and Gomorrah were also judged by Yehovah.

Genesis 18:16-21 MKJV
And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham was going with them to bring them on the way.
(17)  And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do,
(18)  And Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the persons of the earth shall be blessed in him?
(19)  For I know him, that he will command his sons and his house after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do justice and judgment, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken of him.
(20)  And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
(21)  I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come to Me. And if not, I will know.

Days of Lot

We learn that with Sodom and Gomorrah, Yehovah sent two witnesses just as He says He will in the last days.

We are being shown a pattern, and we need to heed and understand that pattern to see prophecy.

Genesis 19:1-11 MKJV
And there came two angels to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot rose up to meet them when he saw them. And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,
(2)  and said, Behold now, my lords, please turn into your servant’s house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way. And they said, No, but we will stay in the street.
(3)  But he urgently pressed on them, and they turned in to him and entered into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
(4)  But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.
(5)  And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men which came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.
(6)  And Lot went out to the door to them, and shut the door after him.
(7)  And he said, I pray you, brothers, do not act evilly.
(8)  Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man. I pray you, let me bring them out to you, and you do to them as you see fit. But do nothing to these men, for this is why they came under the shadow of my roof.
(9)  And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came in to stay, and must he judge always? Now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to breaking the door.
(10)  But the men put out their hands and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
(11)  And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

The Third Witness

In addition to what we are told in Luke, we also have a third witness to the timing of Yehovah’s judgment during the flood and Sodom’s destruction: the seven years of plenty and seven years of famine in Egypt.

But none of these three judgments come to light until you look at when they took place in their respective Jubilee cycle and compare that to our current Jubilee cycle we live in now.

The first chart below is our current Jubilee cycle showing you our year 2024 A.D. and the end of this age after 2044 A.D. That is the start of the 7th millennium.

The second chart shows you the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah one year before Isaac was born in the year 1789 B.C. (2048 after the creation of Adam). Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed at Passover in the 3rd year of the 6th Sabbatical cycle.

The third chart shows the flood in 2181 B.C. (1656 after Adam’s creation), as it was in the Days of Noah. The judgment of the world took place on the 17th day of the 2nd month, or the 2nd Passover, in the 6th Sabbatical Cycle and in the 4th year of that 6th Sabbatical Cycle.

Chart 1 – Current Jubilee Cycle

Chart 2 – Days of Lot

Chart 3 – Days of Noah

This next chart shows the seven years of plenty from 1607 B.C. to 1599 B.C. and the seven years of famine from 1600 B.C. to 1594 B.C. The judgment on Egypt came to completion in the third year of the sixth Sabbatical cycle just as it did in both Noah’s and Lot’s Jubilee cycle.

7 Years of Plenty, 7 Years of Famine

What makes all of this so interesting is seeing clearly how they all seem to match up with our year 2033 A.D., which is also the third year of the sixth Sabbatical Cycle.

We must understand the Holy Days of Leviticus 23 to dig deeper and extract more information from these Jubilee Cycles. The next chart shows the 7th month and the Holy Days associated with it.

The first of the Seventh month is the Feast of Trumpets. This is the Day Jesus was born and the same day He will return. This Holy Day is also called the Day and Hour No Man Knows because it begins with two witnesses spotting the crescent moon.

Between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement are the 10 days of judgment known as the Days of Awe. During this time, you must repent to find your name in the Book of Life. At the end of this time, when the final Shofar is blown long and loud at the end of the Day of Atonement, the books are closed.

The Day of Atonement is on the 10th day of this 7th month. This is the day of Fasting. It is the day when Satan is locked away for the 7th millennium, and at the end of the 7th millennium, he will be thrown in the lake of fire. This is the day people will realize Yehovah is the one who died for your sins as the goat that was sacrificed as your sin offering.

The Feast of Tabernacles is a week-long celebration representing the wedding at the end of the 7th millennium.

The 8th Day Feast, Shemini Atzeret, is the consummation of the wedding feast and the end of all time (so no 8th millennium) and the beginning of Eternity when we will dwell with Yehovah forever.

This next chart again represents the 7th month with the Holy Days, but now with there the corresponding years as they match up in the 120th Jubilee cycle.

I am trying to help you see what each day for a year in prophecy looks like.

For each of the 10 Days of Awe there are the first 7 Trumpet Plagues of Revelation 8 and then the last 3 1/2 years are added the 7 last bowl plagues.

As it was in the days of Noah and as it was in the day of Lot so shall it be in the last days.

The world is oblivious to what is about to happen, just as it was on both those judgment dates.

The flood took place at the 2nd Passover in the 4th year of the 6th Sabbatical Cycle.

In the Days of Lot, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, took place at Passover in the 3rd year of the 6th Sabbatical Cycle.

Final judgment on the Day of Atonement takes place in between those two dates in the 3rd year of the 6th Sabbatical cycle in our day, which will be 2033 A.D.

The year 2024 A.D. is the start of the 10 Days of Awe, the final 10 years for mankind to repent and return to Yehovah so that we might find our names in the Book of Life before the Tekila Gedolah, the blowing of the Shofar to mark the end of the Day of Atonement in 2033 A.D..

Yehshua also warned us that it was going to get so bad that no flesh would be save unless those days were cut short. This is why the end is on the year that represent the Day of Atonement and not the last year in this final Jubilee cycle before the 7th millennium begins.

Matthew 24:22 MKJV
And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect’s sake, those days shall be shortened.

It is also in this final year of 2033 that the dead in Christ will be raised up on the Feast of Shavuot. Those of us who are alive will be changed in the twinkle of an eye immediately after the dead who rise first are restored to life.

1 Corinthians 15:50-52 MKJV
And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
(51)  Behold, I speak a mystery to you; we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed;
(52)  in a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.

The Coming of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 MKJV
But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.
(14)  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
(15)  For we say this to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep.
(16)  For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
(17)  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.
(18)  Therefore comfort one another with these words.

We know this is the year 2033 because the Saints in Revelation come out of the grave at that time and are then joined to Yehovah in heaven.

A Great Multitude from Every Nation

Revelation 7:9-17 MKJV
After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands.
(10)  And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb.
(11)  And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God,
(12)  saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
(13)  And one of the elders answered, saying to me, Who are these who are arrayed in white robes, and from where do they come?
(14)  And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.
(15)  Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His temple. And He sitting on the throne will dwell among them.
(16)  They will not hunger any more, nor thirst any more, nor will the sun light on them, nor any heat.
(17)  For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them and will lead them to the fountains of living waters. And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.

So, that is my understanding at this point in time. This is the case I present to you.

If you are still skeptical, that’s good… you must prove this for yourself.

So, let’s keep going as there is more evidence that makes all this even clearer and will help you recognise the times we are living in.

Let’s now explore: Fishers and Hunters.