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.
3. The Lord's Day
In the biblical prophetic books, the phrase «the Day of the Lord» (ancient Hebrew Yom Yahweh – יוֹם יְהוָה [Ref. 3]), as well as, in certain contexts, the closely related expression «that day» refers to a special time of God’s intervention, when the Creator of the universe “intervenes in human history for judgment and salvation” [Ref. 1; 2–4]. In prophetic texts, unlike ordinary indications of time, this expression takes on a clear theological and eschatological meaning.
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].