Could the end of the U.S.A. happen in or by 2028?
Yes.
There is an old tradition that the prophet Elijah taught that there would be six thousand years for humans to rule under Satan’s kingdom, followed by one thousand years of abundance in the kingdom of God.
That Jewish view is consistent with the views of early Christians and some associated with them. Some believed that since God made/recreated the world in six days and rested on the seventh day (Genesis 2:1-3), that humans would have 6,000 years to live on the earth under Satan’s influence. Humans surviving the Great Tribulation and Day of the Lord will have a 1,000 year period to be under Christ’s reign (the original creation of the universe may have been billions of years earlier c.f. Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 45:18); The 6,000 plus 1,000 years equals God’s seven thousand year plan.
Here are specific traditions related to this from the Jewish Babylonian Talmud:
R. Kattina said: Six thousand years shall the world exist, and one [thousand, the seventh], it shall be desolate, as it is written, And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day {Isaiah 2:11}.
Abaye said: it will be desolate two [thousand], as it is said, After two days will he revive us: in the third day, he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight {Hosea 6:2}.
It has been taught in accordance with R. Kattina: Just as the seventh year is one year of release in seven {Leviticus 25:1-7}, so is the world: one thousand years out of seven shall be fallow, as it is written, And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day’ {Isaiah 2:17}, and it is further said, A Psalm and song for the Sabbath day {Psalm 92:1}, meaning the day that is altogether Sabbath — and it is also said, For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past {Psalm 90:4}.
The Tanna debe Eliyyahu teaches: The world is to exist six thousand years. In the first two thousand there was desolation; two thousand years the Torah flourished; and the next two thousand years is the Messianic era … (Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 97a)
And while there are some errors from a Christian perspective in the above, Jewish sages have taught that there is a six thousand year plan, that the current two thousand years essentially represents the Messianic/Church era (which looks to end by 2031 or perhaps as late as 2035), and that a one thousand year period remains.
Note: I inserted the scriptures quoted or alluded to above within {} as many are in the footnotes associated with the above.
In a Jewish Midrash (a term that means “exposition” or “investigation”), Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer comments:
Six eons for going in and coming out, for war and peace. The seventh eon is entirely Shabbat and rest for life everlasting: (Pirke De Rabbi Eliezer, Gerald Friedlander, Sepher-Hermon Press, New York, 1981, p. 141)
Again, that is consistent with the view that the world as we know it will end after 6,000 years, followed by a 1,000 year millennium.
Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible (a Protestant source), related to Leviticus 25:1-7, states:
In the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, v. 4. Jews collect that vulgar tradition that after the world has stood six thousand years (a thousand years being to God as one day) it shall cease, and the eternal sabbath shall succeed …
Elsewhere, the Bible itself teaches that a thousand years seems to be as one day to God. This is a concept from both the Old and New Testaments:
4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past … 12 So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:4, 12)
8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3:8).
Is it not interesting that after stating a thousand years is as a day, the Psalmist was inspired to write that our own days are limited and we should number our days that we may have the heart of wisdom? Understanding approximately where we are in the 6,000 years, thus, looks to be a wise thing to do.
Notice also the following from the Book of Genesis (the first book of the Bible) which supports the view of a day being like a thousand years:
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)
How long was Adam’s day before he died?
5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died. (Genesis 5:5)
So, Adam died “in the day”--a day that was not too much less than 1,000 years long.
A day is to God as 1,000 years and that looks to be part of His plan.
Now, some may say, don’t the Jews say that we are in year 5781 which runs from September 19, 2020 to September 7, 2021?
Yes, the claimed year is 5781 AM (anno mundi) by the Jews.
However, the Jewish year claim confuses many people as the numbers do not add up with scripture.
Many Jewish scholars have recognized this error throughout history, and believe it was intentional (for details, check out the article Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?). The numbers related to the years were changed in the early 2nd century C.E./A.D. and are now off approximately 210 years.
When the proper biblical chronologies are used, both Christians and Jews should realize that the 6,000 years likely will not extend more than a decade from now.
Based upon certain calculations that I am currently aware of, it seems that Adam and Eve were created and/or apparently left the garden of Eden between roughly 3959-3972 B.C. It is most likely that the 6,000 years began once Adam sinned as Adam had not rebelled before then.
This would mean that when Jesus began to preach (roughly 27 A.D., about four thousand years later) He started preaching late in thousand-year day four and then into day five. Day four is the middle of seven prophetic thousand year days, hence the fourth day is not one of the “last days.”
Interestingly, in the German language, the fourth day of the week is Mittwoch which means mid-full or mid-week—what we call in English Wednesday is not one of the last days, but the middle day.
Anyway, it is logical that days five, six, and seven would have been considered as part of the “last days” by the early disciples.
That being so, this helps explain why some New Testament figures indicated that they were in the last days:
14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh (Acts 2:14-17).
1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things (Hebrews 1:1-2).
If there is no 6,000 year plan of human rule followed by a 1,000 year millennial reign, then the New Testament statement above, about then being in the last days, makes little sense. But, since God does have a 7,000 year plan, these statements do make sense. And that also explains why the end has not come yet--there is still a little more time in “the last days.”
Since Jesus was preaching into “the last days,” He must have been doing some of that in day five of the seven one thousand year days.
Furthermore, since the events in Acts 2 appear to have happened c. 31 A.D. (or 30 A.D.), this would suggest that the 6,000 years should be up by 2031--though as late as 2035 may be possible.
Jesus was, of course, alive before 31 A.D., and perhaps the last days began as early as 28 to 30 A.D.
The Bible teaches that “the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10).
God’s word teaches that prophecy is important (cf. Isaiah 46:9-11).
In the early second century, Church of God leader Papias of Hierapolis (who was a hearer of the Apostle John and a friend of Polycarp of Smyrna) taught:
… there will be a period of a thousand years after the resurrection of the dead, and that the kingdom of Christ will be set up in material form on this very earth ... (Eusebius. The History of the Church, Book III, Chapter XXIX, Verse 12, p. 69)
The idea of a six/seven thousand year plan was taught by early Greco-Roman Catholic saints as well. In the late second century, Irenaeus of Lyon taught:
... that apostasy which has taken place during six thousand years. For in as many days as this world was made, in so many thousand years shall it be concluded. And for this reason the Scripture says: “Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their adornment. And God brought to a conclusion upon the sixth day the works that He had made; and God rested upon the seventh day from all His works.” This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to come. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days created things were completed: it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year... (Irenaeus. Adversus haereses, Book V, Chapter 28:2-3)
But when this Antichrist shall have devastated all things in this world, he will reign for three years and six months, and sit in the temple at Jerusalem; and then the Lord will come from heaven in the clouds, in the glory of the Father, sending this man and those who follow him into the lake of fire; but bringing in for the righteous the times of the kingdom, that is, the rest, the hallowed seventh day; and restoring to Abraham the promised inheritance, in which kingdom the Lord declared, (Irenaeus. Adversus haereses, Book V, Chapter 30:4)
So, Irenaeus claimed that the seven days of creation were a type of the seven thousand year plan, that the end of humanity’s rule would end after the 6,000 years ended, and would be followed by a type of rest in the Lord’s kingdom.
Hippolytus was, and is still considered to have been, an important Roman Catholic leader and saint:
Hippolytus was the most important theologian and the most prolific religious writer of the Roman Church in the pre-Constantinian era … (St. Hippolytus of Rome, The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1910)
Notice something Hippolytus wrote in the early 3rd century:
And 6,000 years must needs be accomplished, in order that the Sabbath may come, the rest, the holy day “on which God rested from all His works.” For the Sabbath is the type and emblem of the future kingdom of the saints, when they “shall reign with Christ,” when He comes from heaven, as John says in his Apocalypse: for “a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. “Since, then, in six days God made all things, it follows that 6,000 years must be fulfilled. (Hippolytus. On the HexaËmeron, Or Six Days’ Work. From Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture)
Notice therefore that “the most important theologian and the most prolific religious writer of the Roman Church in the pre-Constantinian era” taught the 7,000 year plan (6,000 for humankind, followed by 1,000 from God). According to him and others, the 6,000 years end when Jesus returns.
Now, since Pentecost Acts 2 appears to have been c. 31 A.D. (with as late as 36 A.D. being proposed as possible), this would suggest that the 6000 years should be up by 2031--unless the resurrection was in a later year (nothing later than 36 A.D. seems to be possible). 35 A.D. is of interest because that year, like 31 A.D., had a Tuesday Passover.
And presuming that the great tribulation begins (Matthew 24:21-22) 3 ½ years before the end of the 6,000 years (with the the end date 2031), then the 6,000 years would be up no later than 2028. Since that is before January 19, 2029, which is the end of the second presidential term from now, presuming this ‘last days’ calculation is correct, this is why the end of the U.S.A. could occur by then.
It also needs to be understood that there are two types of last days referred to in the New Testament. When some were stating that they were in the last days, this indicates the latter days of the 7,000 year week. However, in other places, New Testament writers sometimes are referring to the time of the final generation before Jesus returns as being the last days, as they indicate that this was not for the same time as they were writing (cf. 2 Peter 3:3).
The destruction of the U.S.A. is coming soon. Perhaps it should be pointed out that prophecies point to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom also being gone before 2028 (see also Anglo - America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel).
Getting back to Hippolytus, since he understood the “week” in Daniel 9:26-27 to be a seven-year period, his calculation would point to the deal of Daniel 9:27 occurring 7 years prior to the end of the 6,000 years.
In the early 20th century, the late Sabbatarian leader G.G. Rupert taught the 6,000 year plan followed by a 1,000 year millennium (Rupert GG. Time, Tradition, and Truth Concerning the End of the World, 3rd edition. Union Publishing Company, 1918, pp. 26-30).
The idea of 6,000-7,000 year plan is not unique to those who are Sabbath-keepers. According to even Roman Catholics, parts of this view have long been the belief of those who claim to believe at least part of the Bible:
E. Culligan (20th century): ... the time of the First Resurrection will end ... It is the time when the Seventh Millennium will set in, and will be the day of Sabbath in the plan of creation ... It has been the common opinion among Jews, Gentiles, and Latin and Greek Christians, that the present evil world will last no more than 6,000 years ... Christians and Jews, from the beginning of Christianity, and before, have taught that 6,000 years after the creation of Adam and Eve, the consummation will occur. The period after the consummation is to be the seventh day of creation--the Sabbath ... St. Jerome said, “It is a common belief that the world will last 6,000 years.” ... I believe that as the last days come to an end so will the sixth day of creation. (Culligan E. The Last World War and the End of Time. The book was blessed by Pope Paul VI, 1966. TAN Books, Rockford (IL), pp. 113-115)
Priest G. Rossi (19th century): One day with the Lord, then, is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. It is the common interpretation that each of the six days of creation is equivalent to one thousand years for the future existence of human generations. Now God employed six days in the creation of this world; this world, then, shall last only six thousand years; the Sabbath, or seventh day, representing eternity.
The learned Cornelius A. Lapide, in his erudite commentaries on the Bible, in the second chapter of Genesis and twentieth chapter of the Apocalypse, attests that it is a common opinion among Jews and Gentiles, among Latin and Greek Christians, that this world shall last only six thousand years.
Christian writers have taught the same opinion from the beginning of Christianity ... we learn, then, that the six mystic days of creation are intended to signify the six thousand years of the world’s duration. The seventh day, which, to the exclusion of the other six days, God has in a special manner blessed and sanctified, must be taken for the happy eternity of the blessed saints, for the holy sabbath of everlasting rest, for the blissful duration of perpetual peace, and perfect happiness to the elect of God, who will behold him face to face, praise, love, adore, and glorify him forevermore. …
For those who desire to examine many more Fathers and doctors of the Church, we will here supply a pretty long list of them: St. Cyprian, Lib. IV. Epist. 5; St. Ambrose, Comment. 2 Thess. 11; the famous book of St. Hypolitus, De Antichristo; St. Hilary, Can. in 17 Matt.; St. Augustine, De Civit Dei, Lib. XX. chap. 17; Lactautius Firmia- nus, Lib. VII. chaps. 14 and 15; St. Anastatius Sinaita, Lib. XVII. inHexamcr; St. Justin ad ortodox, Quest. 71; St. Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople, St. Cyril; the ancient writer, Q. Julius Hilarion; Cassiodorus, St. Isidore, Victorinus, Rabanus, Bellarmine, Genebrardus, etc., and many others, who, to use the words of Q. Julius Ililarion, unanimously affirm: Summa complela annorum sex millium fiet resurrectio. At the end of six thousand years shall take plaw the yeneral resurrection. Our kind critics will please pay some attention to these numerous and grave authorities before they disapprove what we here state.
From all the above-mentioned authorities we learn, then, that the six mystic days of creation are intended to signify the six thousand years of the world’s duration. The seventh day, which, to the exclusion of the other six days, God has in a special manner blessed and sanctified, must be taken for the happy eternity of the blessed saints, for the holy sabbath of everlasting rest, for the blissful duration of perpetual peace, and perfect happiness to the elect of God, who will behold him face to face, praise, love, adore, and glorify him forevermore. Amen!
Assuming now as pretty certain that this world shall last only about six thousand years, because such is the common opinion and expectation of humanity, how many years more, it may be asked, still remain to the end of this world. (Rossi, Gaudentius. The Christian Trumpet: Or, Previsions and Predictions about Impending General Calamities, the Universal Triumph of the Church, the Coming of the Anti-Christ, the Last Judgment, and the End of the World; Divided Into Three Parts, 4th edition. Patrick Donahoe, 1875, pp. 233-238)
While some Roman Catholics may point out that their church does not currently teach that, the truth is that early leaders it considers to be saints, did. Furthermore, the book by Emmett Culligan (also known as “the Culligan man”) “was blessed by Pope Paul VI, 1966,” and the book by priest Rossi was approved by his theological superior for publication.
Now it has been said that "if" is the biggest two-letter word in the English language.
IF certain step happen by the end of 2024 (like the confirmation of the deal of Daniel 9:27), and:
It looks like from certain Jewish, biblical, Christian, and Roman Catholic perspectives (and yes others associated with those faiths have other opinions), that the end of the U.S.A. may happen by 2028.
Repentance could delay the disaster coming to the USA (cf. Daniel 4:27)--but that is not expected.
Though many in the USA pay lip service to the Bible, more and more despise the word of God.
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:
“Because you despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
14 And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern.” (Isaiah 30:12-14)
Destruction is coming to the USA–as well as its British-descended allies (UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand)–and it will be worse than most people will believe. The 'great tribulation' will begin with an attack against the USA and/or its British-descended allies (e also When Will the Great Tribulation Begin?)
Jesus said to look for various signs (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21; see also When Will the Great Tribulation Begin?). Until we see certain of those signs, we will not know when the end of this age will be.
But, if we see certain ones in 2024, that would be consistent with the view the end of the 6,000 years could be no later than the Fall of 2031 and that the Great Tribulation would start no later than the Fall of 2028.
Perhaps it should be mentioned that since traditionally, the old Worldwide Church of God taught that the great tribulation would probably start in the Spring time (similar to the time of the Exodus) a Spring of 2028 date could mark the beginning of the end of the U.S.A.
The Continuing Church of God (CCOG) also has the following related video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:
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Thiel B. Might the U.S.A. Be Gone by 2028? COGwriter (c) 2021 https://www.cogwriter.com/usa-gone-2028.htm 2021 2022 2023 2024 0116
