There are 1,317 years between the marriage of Jacob (a picture of Christ marriage to his true believers) to the 18th year of King Josiah's reign. The reign of Josiah in his 18th year is identified with the coming of Christ and the end of the Final Tribulation in the year 2012 which is also 18 years from the beginning of the actual departure date of 1994 for Christ and his true believers from Spiritual Egypt (the physical organized churches).

Background:

Rebekah and Isaac did not want their son Jacob to marry a Canaanite woman. Esau the twin brother of Jacob married a Canaanite woman at the age of 40. Jacob was sent to Laban's house where he worked for seven years,and at age of 67 he received wives Leah and Rachel.

Genesis 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

Genesis 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

Genesis 28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Genesis 28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

Genesis 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

Genesis 29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

Genesis 29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

Genesis 29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

Jacob was born in 2007 BC; 2007 BC plus 67 years equals the year 1940 BC (Jacob married Leah and Rachel at the age of 67). It is from Jacob 's marriage union with Leah and Rachel that the 12 tribes (spiritual representatives of all true believers) came forth.

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Revelation 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

The events in Josiah 18th year of his reign is particularly identified with the coming of Christ (641/640 BC plus 18 years equals 623 BC).

2Kings 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

2Kings 22:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

2Kings 22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

2Kings 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

Mark 13:26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

Josiah is also identified as a King that walked in the ways of David, 2Kings 22:2. King David is uniquely identified with the coming of Christ.

Revelation 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

Biblical Analysis of the Number 1,317 (439 * 3))

The number 3 typifies the purpose of God. The number 439 typifies the events associated with the last part of the Final Tribulation period.

Historical Event

Passage of Time

Date

Parabolic Significance

Children of Israel leave Egypt

1447 BC

During the Final Tribulation true believers are commanded to leave Spiritual Egypt which is represented by the physical organized churches typifies the start of the Final Tribulation.

David becomes King of Israel

439 years later

1008/1007 BC

Coming of Christ as King identified with the coming of David as King typifies the end of the Final Tribulation.

Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

Note

The children of Israel sojourned in Egypt for 430 years. The number 439 is 9 more than 430. The number 9 (18 = 2 x 9) or 10 could signify the passage of time between the time of the command to depart Egypt and the coming of Christ as King (typified as King David).

Exodus 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

Also, when we apply the Significant Biblical Event Timing Rule to the 1,317 Years between Marriage of Jacob to Leah and Rachel (Marriage of True believers to Christ at the End of the Tribulation period) to the 18th year of Josiah's reign (Final Judgment comes to the physical organized churches for its many high places and Christ Gathering of the True believers prior to this Final Judgment) we apparently discover the year 2012, as a possible year for the End of the World.