• May 14th 2006 is the 400th anniversary of the proclaiming of our nation as belonging to the Holy Spirit: Australia del Espiritu Santo — as reported in English (and Spanish) by Purchas, vol.iv, p.1432, 1625. It is also Mother's Day. "But the mother of us all, Jerusalem on high is free" says the scripture in Galatians 4:26. While Eve is the mother of all living, heavenly Jerusalem (Sarah) represents the mother of all who live by grace i.e. God's unmerited favour.
• And May 14th - 19th 2007 will be the 40th anniversary in the Jewish lunar calendar of the six day war to free Jerusalem. "For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to Jerusalem as she is now, she slaves with her children" - Galatians 4:25.
• One hotel in Jerusalem is currently promoting May 16th 2007 for bookings (that being the day Jerusalem actually came under Israeli control - though not Palestinian acceptance).
• And those words, six day war seem to me to be in themselves significant.
• According to calculations on the timeline page www.swcs.com.au/timeline.htm, it will then be the year 6,024 from Adam (with this year number commencing on Sep 23rd 2006).
• In the book of Revelation chapter 4, the number 24 is linked to 24 Elders who govern in heaven. It is a number related to God's government.
• It is also equal to 8*3. In the Scriptures, the number 8 refers both to Salvation and New Start - 8 people saved in the Ark - Christ raised early on the 8th day i.e. 1st day of the new week. In Hebrew & Western music, the 8th note in a diatonic scale is the 1st note in a new octave - being exactly twice the sound frequency of the 1st note in the lower octave. In the original Greek language, letters had individual values, and in the 6 letters of Jesus's name: I-H-S-O-U-S (pronounced in English as JESUS) 10+8+200+70+400+200 adds up to 888. We know Jesus is referred to as the 2nd man and is spiritually the 2nd person in the Godhead. And 2 coupled with 8 three times shows Christ's seal/stamp through 3 ages of God as the Trinity.

So, we'll then have been 6000 years on our own, and had 31 years with the Son of God (the bridegroom) with us — 2 BC - 31 AD. If Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born in the year we now call 2 BC, his 1st birthday would have occurred in 1 BC, his 2nd-31st birthdays in the years 1 AD - 30 AD, then in 31 AD crucified, risen Sunday (March 25th), ascended (May 4th).

So those years add up to 6031 both ways :-) yes, it's a bit like double entry book keeping.

Further thoughts since May 4 2006
Babylon crashing. Incidentally on this same day Ehud Olmert officially became 12th Prime Minister of Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported James Wolfensohn's resignation as special Mideast envoy. And an early subprime warning Merit Financial closed its doors.
Click here for reconciliation of 257 year difference with Jewish calendar that sees 6,024 as AM 5767.
Click here for Newspaper Reports since May 14, 2007.

Numbers do not rule us. Superstition i.e. fearful of the one (or ones) who distributes to each one his destiny, can be a starting place to finding the Father, as Paul preached on Mars Hill. And time indeed reveals a most detailed harmony, like music. "The secret, covered things belong to our Lord God: those uncovered belong to us and to our children forever, that we may accomplish every arrangement laid out there". Deuteronomy 29:29
"Surely the Lord God will do nothing, unless He reveals His intimate secret counsels to His servants the prophets." Amos 3:7  see too Genesis 18:17

In place of the inward peace of Christ, the outward confirmation — September 2006 — click here is in the news - see Daniel 9:27.
Eden in 2010: Then an intensely spiritual picture is seen, the Great Divorce between Heaven and Earth. Midway through seven years, the scriptures speak of seeing Eve in heaven, (now shining with the life-giving Spirit, Wisdom, Jerusalem our mother) bringing to birth a Man-child a corporate body of resurrected saints back to Abel, currently with Christ in the third heaven in Paradise. And as prophesied in Eden, the woman encounters Satan seeking to devour her seed. But her child is caught up to God and his throne, the Devil, forever "casting aspersions", is now "cast out" of Heaven, as Eve, on earth as well, flees into a wilderness place where she is nourished for 1,260 days Revelation 12:6.

It is a time of trial on earth. But the "nourish" word reminds us of the promise in Revelation 3:10 to the "Philadelphia" church i.e. wherever the church "Loves the brotherhood", that "Because you have kept the word of my endurance, I also will keep you from the hour / season of testing intended upon all the world, to test those whose home is down on the earth".

Click here for further thoughts on this church (and the other churches).

"For the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction (Heb. shod) from the Almighty (Heb. Shaddai) shall it come" Joel 1:15.
Click here for 24 other Old Testament references.

The time starts with a great earthquake, followed by the sun becoming black (sounding a little like a solar eclipse), the moon looking like blood, but then the stars drop, the sky, yes, the universe separates as when a writing scroll is wrapped together, and as everybody tries to hide, the Lord's face is revealed - Revelation 6:12-16 see too Matthew 24:29-30. And also the time when Revelation 12:12 says "alas for those whose home is down on the earth and the sea, for the malicious accuser - the devil - has come down to you having great anger, knowing that little time he has left."
"Where the body → the carcase is, there the eagles will be gathered together." Luke 17:37 and Matthew 24:28 quoting Job 39:30, see also 1 Cor 5:5. The physical city Jerusalem is assaulted - trampled into the dirt for 42 months - see Revelation 11:2 and Zechariah 14:2.

But as the Lord (1) pours out the spirit of grace — unmerited favour and supplications — earnest prayers on the House of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem — (2) and as they look upon Him whom they have pierced and grieve bitterly — (3) and as a fountain (of living waters) is opened for sin and impurity — God's focus will be on all of these to protect them, convert and refine them - see Zechariah 12-14, Matthew 24 and Romans 11:25-26. Highlighted by Elijah's return - see Malachi 4:5-6 "turning the heart of the fathers to the children - and vice-versa" — culminating in the Return of the King, with his saints.

So yes, if these dates reflect this coming situation, it is now very short. Come Lord Jesus.