96 / 232
days/year = 476.06 years. That is 476 years and 22 days added
to 445 B.C. brings us to 31 A.D. We subtract 1 year when we
cross from B.C. to A.D. This brings us into the first week of
April, 30 A.D., which is the appointed day for Messiah to ride
into Jerusalem.
It is during this week that Jesus said,
“If you, even you, had
only known on this day what would bring you peace —but
now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you
when your enemies will build an embankment against you and
encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you
to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They
will not leave one stone on another, because you did not rec-
ognize the time of God’s coming to you”
(Luke 19:42-44).
From history, we know that the above days, of which
Christ spoke, were fulfilled when Titus destroyed the temple in
70 A.D. We see in this passage that the 70 A.D. event had
been prophesied, and now understand that the prophecy was
spoken in 30 A.D. This passage shows a relationship between
30 A.D. and 70 A.D., when prophecy was fulfilled only 40
years after it was spoken—a quick fulfillment of Biblical proph-
ecy. When Messiah was asked by His disciples in Matthew 24,
“…when will this happen…”
(the stones not being left upon
another), the Lord gave them several prophecies.
The destruction of the temple was the prophecy that was
only 40 years away. He also spoke of several end time events.
God gave us one prophecy that happened quickly. This way,
we of so little faith can believe that the distant prophecies will
occur as well. The reality is that virtually all of the different end
time events revealed in scripture have been shown to be sepa-
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