88 is identified with the completion of the Final 3 months of Harvest
1997 - 2012 Last 3 months (88 days) of Harvest (Tammuz to the Feast of Ingathering)
Last 3 months (88 days) of the Flood during Noah's Day typified a Final Harvest attributable to Latter Rain
The final hour of the Final Harvest is typified as the 11th hour which end with sunset (the end of day), Matthew 20:6-9.
The Fig Tree Harvest typifies the last 12 years of Final Harvest activity.
The number 4 is identified with the universal (worldwide) and the number 4 Biblical usage is connected with the end of an event. For examples, the Children of Israel were in the wilderness for 40 years which has multiples of 10 (completeness) X 4 (end) and God's four sore judgments upon Jerusalem. The complete end of their wilderness journey ended in 40 years and the four sore judgments which result in the end of Physical Jerusalem.
Numbers 32:13 And the LORD’S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
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