THE TETRAD AND THE TEMPLE PROPHETIC KEYS TO SEQUENTIAL RESTITUTION Olivet Discourse Blueprint of Israel’s History by Luis B. Vega [email protected] www.PostScripts.org for illustration in chart section Jesus came out from the Temple and was going away when His Disciples came up to point out the Temple buildings to Him. And He said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down." As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your Coming, and of the end of the Age?"… - Matthew 24:2-3 The Tetrad theory basically asserts that an event or series of events of Biblical proportion, regarding Israel and/or the Jews has and will happen when 4 consecutive total Blood Moons occur in a row without partial eclipses in-between them. What the Tetrad theory postulates is that a Tetrad is deemed to be ‘prophetic’ when the 4 Blood Moons fall on the Feast Days of Passover and Sukkot. Sukkot is also referred to as Tabernacles. The Tetrad theory has basically been ascribed to Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries, but there have been others who have studied and written about these eclipse patterns for several years as well. What the Tetrad theory hinges on is even more distinctive when taking into account the whole Tetrad sequences since Christ but especially since the last 3 in particular. The emphasis of the Tetrad theory is on the possible prophetic significance of the last 3 Tetrads of 1949-50, 1967-68, and 2014-15. As it pertains to the End of Days and Biblical prophecy in relation to the Tetrads, this study will attempt to show that the Tetrad sequence follows the outline by Jesus Christ in His Olivet Discourse to His Disciples concerning the Temple, Jerusalem and Israel. The Olivet outline or blueprint gives the 3 prophetic keys that appear to be corresponding to these 3 factors and are being fulfilled in reverse order. The 1949-50 Tetrad appears to have been correlated to when the Jews began returning from their Diaspora back to the Land of Israel after World War 2. The 1967-68 Tetrad correlates to the recapture of the Old City of Jerusalem by Israel during the 6-Day War in 1967. This was the first time since the destruction of the Holy Temple in AD 70 that the Jews were able to worship on the Temple Mount on which the Holy Temple once stood. Thus the argument has been made that a certain prophetic event relevant to Israel or that of the Jews in general will be fulfilled during the time of the 2014-15 Lunar Tetrad related to the 3rd Temple. 1 This Tetrad in question starts on April 15, 2014 and ends on September 28, 2015 spanning 531 days or almost 76 weeks by 15 days. Thanks to NASA’s calculations and cataloging of eclipses, any type of eclipse for thousands of years can be mathematically derived as a result; in fact 5 millennia from -1999 BC to AD 3000 to be precise. The Tetrad hypothesis stipulates that a prophetic event will occur, perhaps during or soon thereafter in the case of the 2014-15 Lunar Tetrad. This Tetrad event fulfillment will not just be an ordinary occurrence but one of Biblical proportions like Israel being reborn or the Old City of Jerusalem recaptured by Israel. The hypothesis of this coming 3rd Biblical fulfillment presented in this study is based on the blueprint pattern given by Jesus Christ during the Olivet Discourse. The Olivet Discourse basically consisted of a prophetic outline that would involve the restitution of 3 factors that have to be in place before the LORD’s 2nd Coming. The factors disclosed by Christ start with the Temple, then Jerusalem and ended with Israel. Christ foretold that these 3 factors would be destroyed, in that precise order. The Olivet Discourse went on to disclose that miraculously, the same would involve a reinstitution but in reverse order. This would occur at the End of Days signaled by the budding of the Fig Tree, Israel and concluding with the rebuilding of the 3rd Temple. The acceptance of Israel as a sovereign nation into the UN occurred at the middle of the 1949-50 Tetrad. Israel, as the fulfillment of the Fig Tree Prophecy began to bud in 1947 and started this Olivet Discourse countdown. The recapture of the Old City of Jerusalem to include the Temple Mount occurred at the beginning of the 1967-68 Tetrad. If this pattern is reliable, then the 3rd Temple will be either start to be built and/or dedicated towards the end of the 2014-15 Tetrad. The 3 Keys of Biblical Prophecy The event or event(s) associated with the Tetrad of 2014-15 will be just a prophetic ‘step’ towards the ultimate restitution of all things as the convergence of all Biblical prophecy will culminate in Israel’s redemption and the LORD Jesus Christ’s 2nd Coming. This study will present and examine why the Lunar Tetrad of 2014-15 is unique and relevant to a coming convergence of Biblically prophecy. The framework of this study will seek to establish that indeed there is relevance between the Lunar Tetrad of 2014-15 and Biblical prophecy as it pertains to the 3 ‘prophetic keys’ given by the LORD Jesus Christ during His discourse on the Mt. of Olives. These 3 ‘keys’ of Biblical prophecy pertain to the Temple, Jerusalem and Israel in that precise order as the LORD spoke about each in the context of His 2nd Coming. As it was stated, it was the order in which the 3 factors were destroyed but as this study will show, they will be restored in reverse order. This current generation has seen the first 2 Biblical prophecies fulfilled; that is the return to and rebirth of Israel and the unification of the Old City of Jerusalem. What remains to be prophetically fulfilled, based on this Olivet blueprint is the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. 2 It was at this place and time, on the Mt. of Olives overlooking Herod’s Temple or the 2nd Temple built by Zerubbabel’s after the 2nd Diaspora from Babylon, that Christ Jesus outlined the context of the coming convergence of all Biblical prophecy and restitution. According to Messiah, these 3 factors would have to be in place first before His 2nd Advent specifically related to Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple. This prophetic blueprint or framework was given by Jesus Christ in Luke 21 as a discourse to the Disciple’s question about the 2nd Temple that stood during their day. Christ specifically linked it to the time just prior to all restoration as foretold by the Prophet Daniel at the End of Day just before Messiah’s return. It was in this context that the 3 ‘prophetic keys’ were divulged in the very discourse itself given by the LORD Jesus to His Disciples that will unlock the sequence and timing of such a prophetic time that referenced the Sun, Moon and the Stars as sign posts and prophetic time-markers. Specifically, the 3 ‘prophetic keys’ Messiah mentioned during the Olivet Discourse have to do with 1) the very Temple they were gazing upon that would be leveled to the ground 2) the armies that would surround Jerusalem and 3) the Diaspora that would occur thereafter or exile from the Land of Israel. The timeframe for the beginning of this all-encompassing restitution of Israel would be signaled by the ominous day of the 9th of Av, that was around August 11, 70 AD and the giving of the Fig Tree metaphor for a future miraculous re-budding of the nation inferred by the Fig Tree allegory. This study strongly suggests that the Fig Tree in turn would constitute the prophetic start of the countdown in which the 3 restitutions of Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple would be corresponding to the Tetrads sequence of 1949- 1967-2014 to be completed before Messiah’s return. This is the context and premise for the Tetrad theory presented in this study. The 3 ‘prophetic keys’ will be shown that these 3 factors of the prophetic restitution are correlating to the last 3 Lunar Tetrads of 1949-1967-2014 according to the blueprint of the Olivet Discourse outline given the LORD Jesus Christ Himself. There can be no denying that since 1948 with the rebirth of Israel, the Lunar Tetrads appear to directly correlate prophetically to the sequence of the Olivet Discourse in how the Temple, Jerusalem and Israel have started to be restored, but in reverse order. The first 2 restorations have been in-step with the last 2 Lunar Tetrads since the Jews returned to the Land of Israel and forged a nation in 1948 as foretold in Isaiah 66. Thus this study, based on in the context of the Olivet Discourse pattern, postulates that the 3rd Lunar Tetrad of 2014-15 since 1948 will be in step with the restoration of the Holy Temple. What this means is that in terms of eschatology or the study of End- Times, the Tetrad of 2014-15, the last Tetrad in the 1949-1967-2014 sequence will be correlating to the 3rd ‘key’. Thus this 2014-15 Tetrad is based on the prophetic blueprint of the Olivet Discourse will be correlating to the Biblical restitution -in the present generation of the 3rd Temple of YHVH.