The Genesis of 2520
How this study began...
In March of 2015 a good friend passed away just 3 months shy of his centennial birthday. Shortly thereafter I re-read an e-mail that he'd sent me 7 years before, in 2008.
One particular sentence got my attention, and the more I considered it, the more I realized the time period to which it referred was too precise not to have God's fingerprint on it.
- "There are exactly forty-nine years from the day Israel captured The Temple Mount on June 7, 1967 to Yom Kippur, September 23, 2015."
Seven year cycles were important to the nation of Israel in biblical times, and seven 7-year cycles (7 x 7 = 49) were even more significant. There yet remains one final seven-year period in the future that will be the culmination of God's redemptive plan for His people, Israel and His city, Jerusalem. "I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there."
June 7, 1967 was the beginning of a Jubilee cycle that concluded on September 23, 2015, the only day that could be termed a "Day of Jubilee" in a 49-year cycle. If Israel had recaptured The Temple Mount either a day earlier or a day later, it would have failed to mark a Jubilee cycle because a Jubilee cycle can only conclude on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), the 10th day of the month of Tishri on the Jewish calendar. In 2015, this Holy Day occurred on the 23rd of September (Leviticus 25:8-12).
Most ancient calendars (Hebrew, Egyptian, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, and Sumerian) were based upon a 360-day calendar. Prophetic passages in the Bible are delineated in terms of 30 day months; therefore, a biblical year is 360 days.
- September 23, 2015 marked the culmination of a precise forty-nine (7 x 7) year period which began on June 7, 1967. This length of time can be more precisely measured as a 2520-week period.
- 7 x 7 years = 49 years x 360 days = 17,640 days ÷ 7 weeks = 2520 weeks
What are the mathematical odds of a Biblical cycle beginning and ending on such historic and significant days in both Israel's modern history and its ancient calendar?
It became apparent that this present period of time could not be a coincidence, that a Jubilee cycle this precise could only be the LORD fulfilling His plan to the nation of Israel. Later that same day, I found a chart on LA Marzulli's website. His blog post that day, Sunday, March 22, 2015 was entitled, Why Israel - Why Now?.
Within 24 hours, I encountered two unrelated sources on the significance of June 7, 1967.
The questions which prompted further study were:
- How does this current period of 49 years relate to Israel being re-established in the Promised Land in May of 1948 and their recapturing of Jerusalem in June of 1967?
- How does this current cycle of 49 years relate to the future seven-year Tribulation?
I then remembered a message by David Moore referencing Ezekiel 4 and Leviticus 26 entitled, "Living in the Light of Christ's Return." He made the case that these two passages contained a prophecy that was fulfilled to the day with the re-establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
A pattern to a countdown with the same number began to come to light. May 14, 1948 and June 7, 1967 were certainly historical days of the twentieth century for Israel, but more importantly, they were both culminations of 2520-year biblical cycles that were fulfilled to the exact day. The 49-year period described above could also be more precisely termed a 2520-week period of time that mirrored a perfect Jubilee cycle. That's when I realized that the future 7-year period of the Tribulation (also called the 70th Week of Daniel) is more precisely measured as a 2520-day period.
2520 years, 2520 weeks, 2520 days
Bill Keller - March 19, 2015
The Intent of the Study
The purpose of this website is to demonstrate that the number 2520 is the ultimate number of perfection and represents completion, fullness, and wholeness. The number 2520 is proof of the existence of God as our Creator, and that this same number found in Creation is also discovered in the Bible, and also can be found as a marker in history as it relates to the nation of Israel.
No part of the twenty5twenty.net website discusses astrology, or the use of numbers to predict one's future. One particular Christian denomination recognized the significance of 2520 in the 1800s, but they erred because they attempted to predict the Second Coming of Christ by a misuse of the number. This website has nothing to say about God's unique program with the Church or the timing of the Return of Christ.
The entirety of this website demonstrates that the number 2520 is rooted in God's unconditional covenant He established with Abraham and his descendants in Genesis 15 and this same number is found in the most descriptive chapter of the entire Bible as to the identity of the Messiah, Isaiah 53. This 53rd chapter of Isaiah is the conclusion of the trail of breadcrumbs found elsewhere in Creation and the Bible.
No calculations are being made for any future events, but as Sir Isaac Newton said,
- "God gave the Prophecies, not to gratify men’s curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might may be interpreted by the event. For the event of things predicted many ages before, will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by Providence."
~ Daryl Bernard
August 2022
(The first edition of the website was developed in May 2015, but much additional info has been learned, and the need to make it mobile-friendly, prompted us to update the site 7 years later.)
