Abstract from Kingdom of Priest - A History of Old Testament Israel by Eugene H. Merill p. 448

Note 1 

The number 3,023 is about 3,000. The number 3,000 is identified with the rebellion of the Golden Calf and the about 3,000 that were slain. During the Great Tribulation (Starting in 1994) where Satan gains complete control of the physical organized churches, those who remain in these physical organized churches and refuse to leave are marked for death (destruction). 

Exodus 32:23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

Exodus 32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

Exodus 32:26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

Exodus 32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

Exodus 32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Exodus 32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

Exodus 32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.

Exodus 32:31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

Exodus 32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

Exodus 32:34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

Exodus 32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. 

About 3,000 Flee from Ai. Ai is included in the province of Judea. The province of Judaea, as distinguished from Galilee and Samaria, included the territories of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Dan, Simeon, and part of Ephraim.  

Joshua 7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. 

During the time of Great Tribulation, physical Judaea (Spiritually typified as the Physical Organized Churches or Congregations) is under the rulership of Satan. The true believers that are scattered throughout the physical organized churches will flee the Physical Organized Churches prior to the return of Christ in the year 2012. 

Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains. 

Note 2 

2 X 7 X 185 = 2,590 

The number 2 is identified with the sending forth of the Gospel within the physical organized churches 

The number 7 is the completion of an unsuccesful summer harvest end which ends in 1996. 

The number 185 identifies with 185,000 (185 X1,000) that surrounded Jerusaleum and were smote during the night. The enemies of spiritual Jerusaleum effectively become the phyical dwellers of the physical organized churches as these churches fall under the leadership of Satan or the abomination of desolation. Those that fail to evetually leave the physical organized churches are marked for death (destruction). 

The surrounding of Jerusaleum that occurs at the end of the world true believer are told to flee physical jerusaleum Matthew 24:4-16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains. Physical Jerusaleuem typifies the physical organized churches since the physical churches is the only physical city that are suppposely associated with Christ at the end of the World: 

Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:  

Luke 21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.  

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Matthew 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 

2 X 5 X 259 = 2,590 

The number 2 is identified with the sending forth of the Gospel within the physical organized churches 

The number 5 is identified with judgment that comes upon the physical organized churches 

The number 259 

Bread was present but in scarce supply when the Babylonians surrounded Jerusalem, but did not exist at all after Tammuz 9: Note, this date is after Pentecost (Pentecost 1994 which is on Sivan 6 is the last possible Harvest Feast associated with the physical Church Age). Tammuz is associated with the harvesting of summer figs (first ripe figs -attributable to early rain), so this could be associated with 1994 (the total end of early rain fruit in the physical organized churches and the absence of latter rain [harvest] ).  

2Kings 25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land

Note 3 

8 X 8 X 13 = 832 

The number 8 is identified with 8 weeks of summer, which is the end of an unproductive Summer in the physical organized churches in 1996 and the start of a productive Summer outside the physical organized Churches. The fact that the factor 8 is repeated or raised to the 2nd power is emphasis added. 

The number 13 is identified with super fullness

Note 4 

29 X 89 = 2,581  

The number 29 is identified with 1 lunar months time 

The number 89 is identified with 3 lunar months time 

A lunar month is equivalent to 29.5 days 

29 days + 89 days = 118 days 

118 days divided by 29.5 days is 4 months 

God established the moon to determine seasons: 

Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:  

Jesus established that final season would be identified with 4 months:  

John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 

There are 2,581 (29 X 89) years from 587/586 BC to 1995/1996 AD. There are 16 year from 1996 to 2012. There are 16 weeks from summer to the Feast of Ingathering. The number 16 has factors of 4 (4 months from summer to the Feast of Ingathering) X4 (identified with the complete end). 

2000/2001 AD is identified as the first hour of day under a 24 year Final Tribulation Period. The total of those who actually died in the plague was 24,000 [12 (fullness) X 2 (certainty) X 1,000 (completeness)]. In the admonishment given to the physical churches of the plague in 1Corinthians 10:8 the total who actually died was 24,000. The 24,000 is associated with the 23,000 [23 (judgment) X 1,000 (completeness)] who died in one day. The 23rd hour in a day is the final hour or the last hour in a 24-hour day. 

Numbers 25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.  

1Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.  

The final harvest of figs are identified with a 12 year period[hour as years]. The beginning of the 12th hour is identified with day. Day is paralleled with Summer: in Genesis 8:22 : 

Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.  

The number 12 has factors of 4 (identified with the 4 months from Summer to the Feast of Ingathering and 3 (established by God). There are 12 years from 2000 to 2012.

Note 5 

5 X 149 = 745 

The number 5 is identified with the deliverance of the true believers from the enemies of Spiritual Jerusalem. 

The number 149 is identified with 149 days from the beginning of a year to Purim.

Purim: a lot, lots, a festival instituted by the Jews (Esther 9:24-32) in ironical commemoration of Haman’s consultation of the Pur (a Persian word), for the purpose of ascertaining the auspicious day for executing his cruel plot against their nation. It became a national institution by the common consent of the Jews, and is observed by them to the present day, on the 14th and 15th of the month Adar, a month before the Passover.

Reversal (See Book of Esther Outline)- The enemies ⁽¹⁾ of the true believers are the physical organized churches (typified as those that remain there are destroyed at Judgment Day by God, since they were not killed) by order of the King who reverses the killing of true believers to the killing of the unsaved who remain there until Judgment day, perish because of a lack of the latter rain, Amos 4:7.

Amos 4:7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

⁽¹⁾Horsemen under the rule of Satan -who kill⁽²⁾ the True Believers throughout the Final Tribulation,

Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

⁽²⁾The killing of the true believer is in terms of separation from the physical organized churches or the flesh and world, while the death of the unbelievers is in terms of destruction (damnation; hell)  

Death (killing) True Believer: 

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me: 

John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.  

Death of the Unbeliever: 

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.