Israel failed to recognize the time of its visitation at the Messiah's first coming. Yet this does not mean that God's promises concerning Israel have lost their force. On the contrary, God will preserve and restore the remnant of Israel and fulfill everything He has spoken through the prophets. Thus, encouraging the faith of Jewish believers living in the Dispersion, the Apostle James wrote:
2. Gog of the Land of Magog: The End of This World
At the end of the twentieth century, numerous publications appeared predicting the destruction of civilization in 1999, 2000, or 2001. The proposed catastrophic scenarios captured the imagination: thermonuclear war, an invasion of extraterrestrials, a collision of the Earth with a comet, the explosion of the Sun or of a nearby supernova, a shift in the Earth's center of gravity, a reversal of its rotation, the decay of the metastable vacuum, and other similar scenarios.
Numbers
In the Bible, with the numbers, the account is maintained homogeneous units (including time periods), based generally on the decimal system [F. 1]. Numbers, except for the objective function value in the Scriptures are often more symbolic and [L.2]. For example, the number "four" marks the integrity of the created world [L.1], and the number "seven" symbolizes completeness, perfection, perfection [L.2, 3].