A key End Times prophecy often missed by evangelical Protestants is the prophecy foretelling that the Millennium will start after 6,000 years from the creation of Adam. The six thousand year prophecy is found in three important sources: one from the Book of Enoch, one from the Epistle of Barnabas, and another, given less weight but still corroborating the Book of Enoch, which is 2 Enoch. This is one part of calculating the time of the coming of Christ, and it can be used to verify a second, more precise calculation.
While nobody but God knows the exact time, an approximation is possible using these four sources.
The Book of Enoch’s “Prophecy of the Ten Weeks” leads to the conclusion that Christ will come after 6,000 years from the time of the creation of Adam. It actually points to a 7,000-year period because it includes the Millennium. Even without analyzing how long a week might be, we arrive at a total of 7,000 years for ten “weeks,” where each “week” must therefore be 700 years long. The words in Semitic languages for “week” and “seven” are similar, which supports this interpretation. The Epistle of Barnabas and 2 Enoch both uphold the six and seven millennia prophecies. The Epistle of Barnabas specifically speaks of a sabbath millennium, a millennium of rest.
The second, more precise calculation involves a fourth prophecy source, which can be used to approximate the year of Christ's coming to around 2060 AD. This fourth prophecy source leads to the conclusion that Christ will come 2,800 years after the Assyrian conquest of Samaria. The Book of Enoch’s “Dream of Beasts” (chapters 89 and 90 by the R.H. Charles chapter numbering) leads to a year of 2060 for Christ’s coming because that is approximately when 2,800 years after the Assyrian Conquest ends.
The derivation of this conclusion is complex. The prophecy mentions 70 periods of angelic rule but does not specify the length of these periods, although it provides many clues. In ancient times, it would have been impossible to decipher these clues. However, with the hindsight of history, we can now approximate the dates of these events. These periods align with historical events occurring at specific times. Fitting the periods to the dates of these events leads to the conclusion that each period is forty years long. This seems correct, given that a king ruling for forty years was considered in scripture to have had a complete reign period according to heavenly custom and God’s ways. Thus, each angel shepherding Israel had a forty-year term of rule. With seventy consecutive terms, all the terms are completed in 2,800 years from the Assyrian Conquest until the coming of Christ. Adding another thousand years brings us to the end of the Millennium and the Day of Judgment, which is around 3060 AD—perhaps later if we account for some time for the war between good and evil.
Now, we can compare this with the Ten Weeks in the Book of Enoch. We can examine the events Enoch says were scheduled by God to happen at certain points during these “weeks.” Given that these “weeks” are seven hundred-year periods, the fit with historic events is quite accurate. The historic dates of these events align well with our more precise calculation, suggesting that the weeks end around approximately 3060 AD, plus or minus a century or two. This verifies our approximation of 3060 AD for the Day of Judgment and 2060 AD for the coming of Christ.
The 7,000-year prophecy and the Millennium in the seventh period of a thousand years, similar to the sabbath millennium, were upheld by many religions throughout history. The 2,800 years, on the other hand, is a relatively new discovery and may be unique to my studies and conclusions. If the fourth horseman of Revelation, who is given power over a quarter of the world to bring deaths by war and pestilence, ties to the Second World War, this would be consistent with a timeline that predicts Christ’s coming in 2060. This would follow the events since the fourth horseman, sequentially spanning the just over 120-year gap from 1939 to 2060.
