Joseph was in Egypt 22 years before being reunited with his family at age 39.
Sold at age 17, brought in to Pharaoh at age 30, 7 years of plenty, then 2 years into the famine.
Jacob was 130, so the year can be calculated from the ages already given in the Torah:
1948 (birth of Abraham) + 100 (birth of Isaac) + 60 (birth of Jacob) + 130 (age of Jacob) = 2238
At this time, Joseph said,
Gen 45
6. For these two years has the famine been in the land; and yet there are five years, when there shall neither be plowing nor harvest:
7. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance:
They all came together in Egypt at this time, the 70 souls.
Then the timeline offers no distinct end mark for the completion of the famine. All those date markers but then what happened at the end of the five years.
22 years in Egypt. Plus yet another five.
Same pattern as the alef beit: 22 letters, and then five final letters.
The five final letters have their own values of 500 + 600 + 700 + 800 + 900 = 3500
The average value is 700, which is also the sum of the previous two letters (years): shin + tav.
But these final values are generally ignored, as they are not used for counting.
2238 + 3500 = 5738, which was 40 years ago.
Sunday, September 17, 1978
15 Elul, 5738
The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.[1] The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. The second of these frameworks (A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel) led directly to the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty. Due to the agreement, Sadat and Begin received the shared 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords
America + Israel + peace with Egypt, add another 40 years [in the wilderness]...
Camp David. This is a Gentile David (or rather, two Davids Eisenhower, father and grandson), so the spelling is a transliteration of the English pronunciation of David. DAY (דיי) -VID (וויד).
Hence the David (דייוויד) of Camp David = 50, which is David (דוד) + 36.
Who Knows 50? The distinguished number of transcendence.
3500 = 50 x 70
The regular values of the letters add up to 280 = 40 x 7, 70 x 4
20 + 40 + 50 + 80 + 90
(+ 40)
Dwight David Eisenhower II (born March 31, 1948) is an American author, public policy fellow, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the U.S. Presidential retreat, Camp David.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eisenhower
Wednesday, March 31, 1948
20 Adar II, 5708
David of Camp David turns 70 on Passover 5778.
pastorbill, I have a question concerning your analysis of the apostles’ questions of our Lord. You say:
“Tell us, when shall these things be?
and what shall be the sign of thy coming,
and of the end of the world?
These are three very distinct questions and the answers
to them cover time, from 70 Ad to our very present day”.
The THESE THINGS apostles asked him about were the same as the THESE THINGS in his statement: “See ye not all THESE THINGS?” speaking of the temple, and you’re right, their first question is in reference to the destruction of the temple. They’re asking for a TIME when that would occur, and of course, he will answer their question: “in this generation,” later in the chapter.
In Luke’s account, the disciples are said to have asked TWO questions:
1. Teacher, WHEN therefore shall THESE THINGS be?
2. …and what shall be the SIGN when THESE THINGS are
about to come to pass?
Aren’t the THESE THINGS in both their questions referring to the same things? The destruction of the temple, the same thing Jesus referred to when he used the same term in his statement? If not, why not? Why weren’t they asking for a TIME and a SIGN when the temple was destroyed and the age in which they were living ended?
This being true, Jesus’ answer wouldn’t refer to anything past their present generation and the destruction of the temple.
In your last sentence of part 6, how do you take the expression “end of the world”? Is it still the end of the age in your view?
Thanks for reading, and considering