The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697, Text
The Rationality of this Calendar in a Review, and in Compare with the Numeral Calendar of the 2300 Evens. Morns. Or, a Table of Time, eſpecially of that part of it within the foregoing Calendar, and Explanatory of it ſo, that its Truth is Evinc'd, by i… Conformity to the Infinite Wiſdom, that hath made every Thing Beautiful in its Seaſon.
THE Great Reaſon of All Time, is the Allowance of ſpace to the World, for the variety of Action in it, under the Government of ſupreme Providence; whereby things are Roll'd this way and that way, between the Kingdom of Sathan in the Apoſtaſie of Humane Nature, and the Reſtoration of it by the Seed of the Woman, Jeſus Chriſt; until his Kingdom ſhall ſwallow up the Apoſtaſie, and appear in Glory; which Appearance in Glory is determined by God, who hath Reſerved Times and Seaſons in his own Power, to Come …igh upon the ſeventh Millenary of Time, which is the Grand Sabbatiſm under the Son of Man, the Lord of it, who is alſo the Son of God.
Time therefore, being ſeven Millenaries in the whole, as Incluſive of the Kingdom of Chriſt was for about the Firſt Half of it meaſur'd out by the Holy Line, of whom this Seed was to Come, according to the Great Revolutions, order'd by God with Relation to this Seed; As firſt by the Patriarchal Ages till Abraham; From Abraham to the Giving of Canan to his Seed; from the Giving of Canan to the Kingdom of David, and Solomon, the Great Type of the Kingdom of Chriſt; But becauſe This Kingdom fell from the very Glory of the Type by the Rending Ten Tribes from the Houſe of David at the Death of Solomon; and that within 390 years after, Both Houſes of Iſrael, and Judah were in Captivity; Time is drawn from Solomons Death to the Great Viſion of the Reſtoration of All Iſrael in Ezekiels Temple, and City, and by Forty Additional years to the Reſtoring the Houſe of Judah particularly, out of the Babyloniſh Captivity by Cyrus.
The other Half of Time, beginning ſoon after Ezekiels Viſion till the New Jeruſalem is call'd by our Lord, The Times of the Gentiles. 1. Becauſe the Jews, the then People of God, from that Time would be, till Ezekiels Viſion came into Effect under Gentile Servitude. 2. Becauſe the Church of God would, after the Death of Meſſiah by Jewiſh Hands, be to Remove from the Jews to the Gentiles; and ſo the Gentile Monarchies having the Jews and the Gentiles Chriſtianiz'd, under them, would be Fit Repreſentatives of the Ʋniverſal Monarchy of Chriſt over all Mankind; and yet till the Jews ſhall be perfectly reſtored according to that Viſion of Ezekiel, The Kingdom of Chriſt cannot Come, which ſhews the Superiority of the Jews in that Kingdom; ſhadowed therefore by their City and Temple, and called for their ſakes, The New Jeruſalem; This Honour they have, becauſe Chriſt, God over All in that Kingdom Bleſſed for Ever, Came of Them. 3. Becauſe however the Church of Chriſt was to be planted among the Gentiles, as Engrafted among the believing Jews, Yet ſo Great an Apoſtaſie was to Riſe in the Gentile Church, as uniting with the Pagan Gentiliſm, would Ecclipſe and ſtay off the Glory of Chriſts Kingdom from appearing during thoſe Gentile Times, and ſo till the foreign, or the Coming of the Glory of the Church out of its Ecclipſe among the Gentiles, Ezekiels Viſion cannot become Effect, nor All Iſrael ſav'd, Rom. 11. and thus the whole Gentiles Times are Times wholly oppoſite to the Kingdom of Chriſt, in its Glory, except about an 120 years of the Chriſtian Empire, which God ſupremely interpos'd, and the laſt Half Time or 180 years ſince the Reformation in part reconcil'd to it.
Theſe Gentiles-Times are double Calendar'd, becauſe of ſo Great Account.
1. By a Calendar of Four Great Monarchies, Each latter in Succeſſion to the foregoingDan. 7. Monarchy. The laſt of which remains, till the Kingdom of Chriſt ſhall break that, and all others with it. To ſo Great a Monarchy of Chriſt, Theſe Monarchies laſting until it, are an agreeable Calendar. And becauſe the laſt State of the laſt Monarchy would be very long, and of Great Conſideration, There is a Numeral but Myſtic Calendar, of Time, Times, and Half a Time given to that Alone.
2. This Monarchic Calendar is arm'd with a Full Numeral Calendar, beginning atDan. 8. the end of the laſt Joynt of the whole Scripture Line before it. viz. at the end of Ezekiels laſt 40 Days for Years, and in the beginning of the ſecond of theſe Four Monarchies. viz. The Perſian.
The Monarchic and the Numeral Calendar admirably ſerve One Another; For ſo Great Pyramids of Time, as Ʋniverſal Monarchies and their Changes, cannot but be generally known and obſerved; and the Numeral Calendar keeps theſe Monarchies to their own Bounds; and particularly joyning with the Numeral Myſtic Calendar of the laſt part of the Fourth Monarchy binds it to its own Time, and alſo adjuſts the Kingdom of Chriſt after 75 years of preparation to its own Sabbatic Milenary by the note of 2300 Even. Morn. as Six Evens. Morns▪ led to the Firſt Sabbath.
The Calendar of Monarchies was duly given, when the Ten Tribes, Jeruſalem, as Sodom of Old, and Egypt alſo lay in Ruins under Litteral Babylon, that Rome or Myſtical Babylon bearing the names of all theſe, Spiritual Sodom, Egypt and of the City where Our Lord was Crucified, what was Irrecoverable in Them All, might fall into its Everlaſting Burnings.
The Calendar of the 2300 Even. Morn. is given moſt opportunely, preciſely, and exactly to adjuſt the Scripture Line of Time to the great Sabbatiſm, and ſo could neither be more nor fewer then the 2300 Even. Morn. to be prophetically Multiplyed into Years.
In this Numeral Calendar every part of Time is kept, not onelyonly to its own proper Time in regard of Time: but the Beauty of every part is ſeen in its own Seaſon, by the diſtribution of this great Calendar into ſeveral leſſer parts of the whole. Wherein though it be the Numeral Calendar of the Gentiles Times, yet there is particular reſpect to the Church of God under the Gentiles Times; as to the Jewiſh Church, till it was Renunciated by Chriſt; and ſo to the Gentile Church after, under the Apoſtaſie or Gentiliz'd Christianity.
This Numeral Calendar is united to Ezekiels viſion of the City, and Temple byDan. 8. v. 14. the note of the Sanctuary Cleans'd: It is united to the Monarchic Calendar by the Prince, viz. The Antichriſtian Prince, or Little Horn broken without Hand, the laſt of the Princes in the Monarchic Calendar.v. 25.
If we then take the firſt 75 years of the 2300, and account them by the Word going forth by the Three Perſ…n Kings, Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, for the Reſtoring Jeruſalem and Judah, we are ſo far aſſur'd by Scripture according to the Monarchic, and Numeral Calendar, that ſo many years may be allowed: and then parallel to theſe 75, the laſt 75 years at the end of the 2300. viz. from the laſt 1260 to 1335. in preparation for the New Jeruſalem; and the parallel is very beautiful of Litteral Babylon Falling, and the Litteral Jeruſalem Riſing at the beginning of the 2300. Even▪ Morn: and Myſtical Babylon Falling, and the New Jeruſalem Riſing at the End of the 2300 E. M. And 75 years at the Beginning, and at the End 75 years for the Reſtoring each Jeruſalem Anſwer One Another in number, and as a Time of preparation, one for the Litteral, the other for the New Jeruſalem.
The Jeruſalem, that then was being thus Reſtored, It was preſerv'd 70 Weeks of Years, or the 490 years immediately following the firſt 75, though in Straits, or Troublous Times, that in that as in the Holy City, the Type of the New Jeruſalem, Meſſiah might Found his Spiritual, and Evangelical Kingdom, and the Right to his Glorious Kingdom, becauſe to it the Kingdom was firſt to Come: And hereunto agree the Monarchic, and Numeral Calendar that 490 years might be thus diſpos'd▪ Jeruſalem having been preſerv'd ſo long under the Perſian, Graecian, and ſucceeding Roman Monarchy Ruling over Them.
At the Death, Reſurrection and Aſcenſion of Chriſt, Meſſiah had a Right to a Glorious Kingdom; But in Reſignation to the Divine Will, that had ſo determin'd; He ſeal'd or ſtay'd Propheſie from coming into the Effect of his Kingdom, which Kingdom might well be called Viſion, or Propheſie, becauſe It is the Reſtitution of All Things, and the Myſtery of God ſpoken of by all the Prophets; and ſo Chriſt bids Daniel ſeal Dan. 12▪ 4.the Book, and accordingly he Receives it from God Seal'd with ſeven Seals, andRevel. 5. Chriſt open'd in due order thoſe Seales, tho' it had been no Robbery to have taken the Kingdom immediately; Throughout the Four firſt Seals there was the Interceſſions of his Saints thro' his Blood for his Kingdom, and the word of his Teſtimony Revel. 6.vehemently urg'd, Come and ſee, and all along there ran a Courſe of Martyrdoms, which was compleated at the Fifth Seal in the greateſt and laſt Perſecution under Diocleſian; So at the Sixth Seal the Ancient Kingdom of Sathan the Dragon, and Old Serpent, Fell as from Heaven in the Deſolation of Heatheniſm thro' the Roman Empire; that is, It fell in a Prophetical Symbol, of what ſhall be fully done hereafter, rather then Hiſtorical of what was then done; And in the ſame Prophetical ſymboliſm Revel. 12. 10.in the Seventh or Sabbatical Seal; The Kingdom of Christ call'd the Kingdom of our God, made an appearance.
And theſe Seven ſeals muſt be within four hundred years after the Reſurrection; in which, what Time the Chriſtian Empire had, was cut off from the wounded ſixth Beſtian Head, or Pagan Emperour. For the 2300 Even. Morn. allow ſo much Time, and no more; and the Monarchic Calendar requires it to be before the Roman Empire was divided into 10 Kingdoms; So the Chriſtian Empire muſt begin 280 years after the Reſurrection, where it had Right to enter as a Symbol of Chriſt's Kingdom as made Perfect by Sufferings and his Saints overcomming by his Blood, by the word of his Teſtimony, and by not loving their Lives unto Death. And this Kingdom then laſted 120 years, before the Apoſtaſie had Eclips'd it, and ſeeing there was ſo much cut off from the Pagan Empire, if the Chriſtian Empire had not held that Time, Antichriſt had been Reveal'd before his own Time, and thus Hiſtory agrees. Nowforeign 2 Theſ. 2. 6 this appearance of the Kingdom of Christ in the midſt of a Beſtian Image of Monarchies and of the laſt Beſtian Monarchy was Immediately interpos'd by God, however againſt Nature.
Immediately hereupon even while Thirty eight years of the Chriſtian Empire remain'd in a ſupremacy over Rome tho' much fallen from Glory, the Apostaſie that was to bring forth the Revelation of the man of ſin, or his ſucceſſion at the end of thoſe 38 years enter'd in the Gentiles Months, and began the 1260 years; It enter'd thus ſoon, that the wounded Beast might be Heal'd and not dye, and becauſe the Christian Empire ſo unnatural according to Prophecy to the Bestian Monarchic Image ought to continue but a ſhort ſpace, and becauſe there remain'd onelyonly 1260 years of the Numeral Calendar beſides the 75 years of Preparation after them for the Kingdom of Christ; and becauſe here the Ten Kings (to be united to the Beast, were to Receive Power at the Ceſſation of the Christian Emperour, as at one Hour with the Beast) enter'd as Gentiles, tho' not as Kings till that Ceſſation: And here the Apoſtaſie muſt needs enter, becauſe it was to enter by way of undermine and Eclipſe upon the Kingdom of Christ, which it could onelyonly do, while this Christian Empire remain'd a Symbol of it.
And here let us behold with Humble Admiration, and Aſtoniſhment the Reſignation of Chriſt to the divine will; For with Readineſs he Seal… up the Glory of his 144000, and ſo of his own Kingdom, and Swears; It ſhould be ſo for Times, Times, and Half, while the daily Sacrifice or pure Worſhip of his Goſpel, ſhould be taken away; But then he ſwears; There ſhould be no more ſuch Time of Eclipſe, but all along to the 1290th year from thence, and by the 1335 year from thence, viz. in the firſt 75 years of the ſeventh Trumpet, the Myſtery of his Kingdom ſhould be Finiſh'd, and it ſhould Appear.
And here behold again the Beauty of Providence in this Seaſon; For there was a Dilemma upon this Time; If Beaſtian, the Kingdom of Chriſt appearing in the Chriſtian Empire, muſt be revers'd; whereas as in a Symbol, It ſhould never be revers'd, the manly Birth was caught up to the Throne of God: If not Beaſtian, how would the Monarchic Calendar be ſecur'd? For the Beaſtian Image ſtands, till the Glory of Chriſts Kingdom, which we are ſure is not yet; or how the Numeral Calendar, whoſe 2300 Even. Norn. would want 1260 years? Loe then the Divineneſs of the Reconciliation; The very Ecclipſe of the Sun is a Confeſſion of the Sun. Elſe there could be no Moon in Brightneſs Ecclipſing it; If no Chriſt, no Antichriſt, no ſuch Vicar: Oh ominous Name, Vicar of Chriſt, what is the Greek Original for Vicar of Chriſt, but Antichrist; His High Pretenſions anſwered by the Ten Kings Giving their Power to Him, is a Confeſſion of Chriſt, and of his Supreme Monarchy. This therefore and no other Beastiaeniſm could now Be, or Laſt till the Kingdom of Christ. But on the other ſide, Antichristianiſm is Beastianiſm; The Ecclipſe, and Undermine are Beaſtian; Chriſt therefore ſubmits to the Ecclipſe of his Kingdom for 1260 years, becauſe It was to laſt ſo long according to both theſe Prophetical Calendars, as in the Little Horn or Antichrist; and then He allows to the finiſhing of the Mystery 75 years after, that his Kingdom might Come in its own Time, as on the Evening of the Sabbatical Millenary, appointed for it by the Father; And then the Ecclipſing Moon vaniſhes by that B…ig…neſs of Chriſts Coming, call'd therefore ſo often foreign; and becomes a w…ndring Star, for which is reſerv'd the blackneſs of Darkneſs for ever. Let us therefore2 … 3. 17. every one fear to Fall from our own Fixation in the Goſpel Firmament.
Now whoever Lays all theſe Things together, and ſhall conſider the Reaſon of them, and them, and when the Ten Kings entred the Roman Empire, and how long ago the Chriſtian Empire was; how near on All Accounts the End of the 1260 Days, muſt be; will conclude; They cannot end later then 1697; we might rather think They might have ended ſooner, then now, even ſome years ago, had not Event and this Numeral Calendar guided us; but later then 1697. They cannot end.
And what we may expect till then, we cannot ſo poſitively determine; But as the ſeven T…nde…s Ʋtter…nces Seal'd gaug'd to each Church the meaſure of its State in the Beginning of the Reformation: So I obſerve in theſe Three Nations of England, Scotland, (Ir…land, the Bulk o… whoſe Natives were always Rebels to the Refor…tion) the very State each was in, as to the Reformation then, caſts anew a very remarkable Glance of it ſelf … this Day: There is now therefore to be expected … Turn in each, as it were Heliotropically toward the Philadelphian 97. according to the diſtance of Time to it; wherein the Church Cloath'd with the Sun, ſhall come out o… …s Eclipſe; which being ſo near, ſhould both Animate, and ſteer all our Counſels, and accordingly the God of Heaven (however differing parties may deſign) will Inſpire Them: To write all the Correſpondencies of Scripture and its Propheſies to theſe Great Ends, The World would hardly contain the Books: What Conſideration then does This Thing deſerve; Or how can we neglect it! Except we can overthrow Divine Oracles, or diſprove what I have written as Founded on them, which, I am well aſſured, cannot be done.
THE END.
End of the text · Thomas Beverley, The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 (1689)