How often have you heard it said of the Lord's return, "No man knows the day or the hour"? Well, you know what? Technically they're right! But this is no excuse to ignore the soon coming of the Lord. In fact, Jesus lectured on His return at some length finishing with the command to "be on the alert." In this book I will examine the Jewish calendar, and point out its limitations. Then I will attempt to date a number of key historical Biblical events using a variety of dating methods. Finally I will use these dates and a number of different theories to show when the Lord will, according to those theories, visibly, physically, return to earth at the Battle of Armageddon. I will also explore the timing of the Rapture, a topic of great interest to all evangelical Christians. I won't be able to give you the exact day or hour of the Lord's return at the Rapture, but I will give you a number of possibilities, and you may be amazed to find that all the possibilities cluster together within just a few years. I hope you'll find this as exciting as I do!
Doug Witmer (1949 - ) has graduate degrees in Computer Science and Linguistics. Doug became a Christian in 1973, and wrote a Bible translation program in 1991. His passion is estimating the dates in the Bible -- especially those related to the return of Christ. Daniel and Revelation are his two favorite books of the Bible.
