An exhibit of The Time of the Return
This exhibit holds that 2026 is the year, and names its days in advance on a full-moon, sunrise-day house countThis exhibit's house count anchors the month at the full-moon instant and numbers its first complete day from the next Jerusalem sunrise. The full moon is about 16:50 UTC on 26 September 2026 (19:50 Jerusalem time), after that day's sunrise; Tishri 1 begins at sunrise on Sunday 27 September. This is not the received Jewish calendar.: Yom TeruahYom Teruah: “a memorial of blowing of trumpets” on the 1st day of the 7th month (Lev 23:24). Later called Rosh Hashanah. from Jerusalem sunrise on 27 September, Yom KippurYom Kippur: the Day of Atonement, Tishri 10 (Lev 23:27). In the jubilee year the trumpet of liberty sounds on this day (Lev 25:9). from sunrise on 6 October, seven days of TabernaclesSukkot: the Feast of Tabernacles, 7 days from Tishri 15, living in booths in memory of the wilderness (Lev 23:34, 42–43). Also the feast of ingathering (Exod 23:16). from sunrise 11–17 October, and Shemini AtzeretShemini Atzeret: “the eighth day,” a solemn assembly after the 7 days of Tabernacles (Lev 23:36). from sunrise on 18 October 2026. Within the feast it holds “the midst of the feast,”“About the midst of the feast” (John 7:14): the middle days of the 7-day feast of Tishri 15–21, about Tishri 17–19. Tishri 17–19 (13–15 October), as a candidate window (John 7:14). These are the house count's daytime labels, not the received Jewish calendar's feast dates.
The full moon is approximately 16:50 UTC on 26 September (19:50 in Jerusalem), after that date’s approximately 03:30 UTC sunrise. The first numbered sunrise day is therefore 27 September. Counting inclusively, day 10 starts at sunrise on 6 October (about 03:36 UTC), day 15 at sunrise on 11 October (about 03:40 UTC), day 21 at sunrise on 17 October, and day 22 at sunrise on 18 October (about 03:45 UTC). October 5 and October 10 name only the preceding evening openings of Atonement and Tabernacles, not their sunrise-numbered house days. The third and ninth hours are counted from the daylight morning (roughly 09:00 and 15:00 when sunrise is near 06:00), but hour-counting alone does not prove when every religious day begins. Sabbath continues from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, independent of this sunrise numbering. A 03:00 UTC sky sample is before that morning’s sunrise.
The marker is the one the Lord named: public, sudden, and unmistakable, “as the lightning” (Matt 24:27), the heavens rent and Zion descending (Isa 64:1; Rev 21:2). If the days pass without it, the confessed-miss protocolThe confessed-miss protocol of the companion exhibits: if a dated terminus passes without its named marker, the miss is stated openly and applied to the chain’s arithmetic; the sourced entries stand. applies to the dating. The Scripture and the computed sky below stand either way. Why pre-register?Pre-registration: stating a dated expectation and its visible marker in advance, so readers can test it as the days pass, rather than reading meaning back afterward.
Select any lamp. Supplied sky positions are geocentric 03:00 UTC predawn samplesGeocentric: positions calculated from the Earth's centre. Local topocentric positions, particularly the Moon's, can differ. The listed 03:00 UTC samples occur about 30–45 minutes before Jerusalem sunrise and are displayed with the following sunrise-day, not measured within it., preceding Jerusalem sunrise on the labeled civil date; exact positions still require an independently reproducible audit.
Diagram summary. The lamps run left to right from 27 September (Tishri 1) to 18 October (Tishri 22). Lamps 1–10 mark the Days of Awe; lamps 15–21 mark seven sunrise-counted days of Tabernacles, followed by the eighth-day assembly on lamp 22. Selecting a lamp changes only the text card, not the dated expectation. Each quoted separation is an angular position, not an object visible beside the Sun or a proof of its name’s meaning.
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This exhibit does not claim the hour. It proposes a season, drawing on “when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors” (Matt 24:33). The watchman who sees the sword coming and blows no trumpet carries the blood (Ezek 33:6). spine for the quotations; conviction for applying them to 2026.
The test of every claim is written into the passage. “If any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect… If they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not” (Matt 24:23–26). “Every eye shall see him” (Rev 1:7). Anything that needs a guide, a venue, or an announcement fails by definition. The real appearing needs no one to point it out. spine
And pray, as He said, “that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day” (Matt 24:20). Genesis 8:22 names “summer and winter”; on this exhibit’s equinox-based seasonal division, Saturday 26 September falls after the equinox. The Sabbath itself runs Friday evening to Saturday evening; neither passage assigns an equinox boundary or the full moon to Matthew’s warning. conviction for the proposed seasonal link.
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The lamb chosen (Exod 12:3). Israel through the Jordan into the land (Josh 4:19). Jesus, whose name is Joshua, into Jerusalem, with palm branches and “HosannaHosanna: from Hebrew hoshi’a na, “save now” (Ps 118:25), the cry of the Tabernacles procession and of the crowd at the triumphal entry.,” the species and the cry of Tabernacles (Lev 23:40; Ps 118:25). The entry was staged as a Sukkot scene in spring.
“Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubileThe jubilee: the 50th year after 7 sabbaths of years, proclaimed by trumpet on the Day of Atonement, with liberty throughout the land (Lev 25:8–10). to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement” (Lev 25:9). 5 days later, Tabernacles: God dwelling with His people (Lev 23:42–43; Rev 21:3), and all nations going up “to keep the feast of tabernacles” (Zech 14:16).
The hinge between them is Psalm 118. The crowd sang it at the entry (Matt 21:9); the Lord answered with its corner-stone (21:42); and His last words before the Olivet discourse were, “Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord” (Matt 23:39). spine The symmetry is conviction.
The 10 days carry their own pedigree: “ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life” (Rev 2:10); Daniel’s 10-day test (Dan 1:12–14); the 10 Days of AweThe Days of Awe (Yamim Nora’im): the 10 days from Yom Teruah to Yom Kippur, traditionally given to repentance and reconciliation. from Yom Teruah to Yom Kippur. spine
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Venus and Rhadamanthus through the 22 days.
Supplied 03:00 UTC angular-distance series, Venus to 38083 Rhadamanthus38083 Rhadamanthus: a trans-Neptunian object named for the judge of the dead in Greek myth. Magnitude 23; seen only by telescope. On the Virgo–Libra border in autumn 2026., attributed to JPL Horizons. The query settings, observer, reference frame, dates, and raw output are not provided here, so the values have not been independently verified.
Chart summary. The supplied separations fall from 1.18° on Tishri 1 to a 0.99° minimum on Tishri 4. They are 1.07° on the stated station day, 1.41° on Tishri 10, 2.30° on Tishri 15, and 5.09° on Tishri 22. A dashed horizontal line marks 1.5°; a shaded strip covers days 1–10. The line shows separation only, not motion toward a physical judge or a statistical rarity test.
In the supplied series, from Yom Teruah through Yom Kippur, Venus stays within 1.41° of Rhadamanthus. It comes closest on Tishri 4 (0.99°), has a reported stationA planetary station: the day a planet appears to stand still before reversing its direction against the stars. Venus stations twice in each 19-month cycle. on Tishri 6, and then separates: 2.30° on Tishri 15 and 5.09° on Tishri 22. These 03:00 UTC samples precede the Jerusalem sunrise used to name each house day. The event times and separations remain unverified computed claims because no independent ephemeris check is presented here.
The evening star of the birth, which stood over the cradle at the Manger in 7 BCE, keeps watch at the judge’s side for exactly the days of judgment, and departs when the Day of Atonement is past. wink
Base rate: Venus stations twice every 19 months, and Rhadamanthus is invisible without a telescope. What is specific to 2026 is where the station fell and how long Venus lingered there.
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At the stated 03:00 UTC predawn sampling time, a field around the SunJPL small-body identification: a NASA service listing every known asteroid in a patch of sky at a given moment. Used here for fields of 2°–2.5° around the Sun, Venus, and Jupiter each morning. was reportedly searched for named asteroids. The selected names change across the days. Every field contains named objects; the full input catalog, search thresholds, and unselected matches are not provided, so this selection cannot establish rarity. The JPL query settings and output are also not included, and the reported positions have not been independently verified. wink
Yom Teruah and the day after: Aglaja47 Aglaja: named for Aglaia, “splendour, glory,” one of the 3 Graces. Isaiah 61:3 in the Greek: “glory instead of ashes.” (glory) inside the Sun’s disk; Centesima513 Centesima: Latin for “the hundredth.” The Vulgate uses the word in Nehemiah 5:11 for the hundredth part, the interest Nehemiah ordered returned to the poor. (the hundredth, the debt released, Neh 5:11); Aegina91 Aegina: in Ovid (Metamorphoses 7), the island emptied by plague and repeopled overnight; King Aeacus woke in the morning to find a new people., the island emptied by plague and repeopled by morning; Pompeja203 Pompeja: named for Pompeii, the city in Campania buried in ash by Vesuvius in 79 CE., the city buried in ash, whose wall bore the words “SODOMA GOMORA”“SODOMA GOMORA”: words scratched on a wall in Pompeii before the eruption of 79 CE, catalogued as CIL IV 4976 (Corpus of Latin Inscriptions).. The Sun at ZaniahZaniah (η Virginis) and Zavijava (β Virginis): both names come from Arabic al-zāwiya, “the corner, the angle.”, “the corner.” Beauty for ashes; joy in the morning (Isa 61:3; Ps 30:5).
Tishri 4: Magdalena318 Magdalena: named for Mary Magdalene, the first witness of the resurrection, who came “at the rising of the sun” and was sent to tell the disciples (Mark 16:2; John 20:17–18)., herald of the resurrection, at her nearest to the Sun.
Yom Kippur eve: the old crescent at the Manger (PraesepePraesepe (M44): the star cluster the Greeks called Φάτνη, “the Manger,” Luke’s word for the sign (Luke 2:12). See The Manger in the Sky., 0.63°), and at the Virgin’s corner, Lucia (light), Philia (love), and Laetitia (joy)222 Lucia (Latin lux, “light”), 280 Philia (Greek, “love, friendship”), and 39 Laetitia (Latin, “joy”: “ad matutinum laetitia,” joy in the morning, Ps 30:5 in the Vulgate)..
Tabernacles: AlkmeneAlkmene: in Greek myth, the mortal woman who bore Heracles to Zeus after the god lengthened the night into 3. The pagan world’s distorted echo of a son born of God and a woman. at the Sun on the first day; Mars at the Manger on the second (0.25°); RuthRuth: the Moabite gleaner redeemed by her kinsman Boaz. “Spread therefore thy skirt (kanaf) over thine handmaid” (Ruth 3:9): the same word as the “wings” of Malachi 4:2., the gleaner under the kinsman’s kanafכָּנָף (kanaf): wing, and also the hem or corner of a garment. “Healing in his wings” (Mal 4:2); “spread thy skirt over thine handmaid” (Ruth 3:9); the woman touched “the hem of his garment” (Matt 9:20)., through the week of ingathering; AmbrosiaAmbrosia: in Greek myth, the food of the immortals. At Sukkot, the feast of the wilderness booths where manna fed Israel. beside Venus in the week of the wilderness booths, where manna fell.
The last great day: “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink” (John 7:37). The identification with Tishri 21 is disputedHoshana Rabbah: the 7th day of Sukkot, Tishri 21. Whether John 7:37 describes this day or the following eighth-day assembly is debated; the Gospel does not explicitly name Hoshana Rabbah.; the quotation is spine, the day assigned to it is scaffold.
Honesty on one name: 790 Pretoria790 Pretoria: named for the South African city, itself named for Andries Pretorius, not for the praetorium, Pilate’s judgment hall (Mark 15:16). The sound fits; the naming does not., 0.3° from Venus on Tishri 8, is named for a city, not for Pilate’s judgment hall.
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John 7 is the Tabernacles chapter, and it runs in a pattern. His brothers urge Him, “shew thyself to the world” (7:4). He answers, “My time is not yet come” (7:6), recalling Cana. He goes up “not openly, but as it were in secret” (7:10), while the crowds ask, “Where is he?” (7:11). Then, in the midst of the feast, He appears in the temple and teaches openly (7:14), and on the last great day He cries, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink” (7:37). spine for the account; reading this sequence as a pattern for a future appearing is conviction.
On the stated sunrise count, the proposed middle window is Tishri 17–19, 13–15 October 2026. In the supplied 03:00 UTC predawn series on those civil dates, 193 AmbrosiaAmbrosia: in Greek myth, the food of the immortals. At Sukkot, the feast of the wilderness booths where manna fed Israel., named for the food of the immortals, closes on Venus: 1.4°, 0.7°, then 0.4°. Those samples precede each labeled day’s sunrise; they do not establish which object is nearest over a continuous interval. In the week of the wilderness booths, where manna fell, the Lord said, “This is that bread which came down from heaven… he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever” (John 6:58). spine for the quotation; wink for the name; no continuous-time audit is presented, so the positions remain supplied claims rather than independently verified results.
This exhibit therefore holds Tishri 17–19 as a candidate window for the bearer of the promise of eternal life to appear, as He did in the midst of the feast. conviction It is pre-registered above. And it remains under the test of Matthew 24:26–27: an appearing in the midst of the feast will be public as the lightning, not whispered in a secret chamber.
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The hour. No one knows the day or hour (Matt 24:36). This exhibit names a season and pre-registers its days so that the claim can be tested, not so that it can be protected.
The calendar. These civil daytime dates follow a house full-moon anchor and Jerusalem sunrise count: Tishri 10 is October 6, Tishri 15 is October 11, Tishri 21 is October 17, and Tishri 22 is October 18. October 5 and October 10 are the preceding evening openings only. Sabbath remains Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. On the received Jewish calendarThe rabbinic calendar: the fixed Jewish calendar in use since the 4th century, with months beginning at the new moon. Its Yom Kippur 2026 fell on 21 September., Yom Kippur 2026 falls from the evening of 20 September to the evening of 21 September.
The names and data. Asteroid names are modern human choices. Every field contains many; the selected names remain WINK, not evidence of an ancient sky map. The supplied positions and claims of nearest approach require a reproducible astronomy audit of all searched names and dates.
Visibility. Every asteroid here is far below naked-eye sight. Venus, Mars, the Moon, and the Sun are the only lights a watcher can see.
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“Here am I; send me” (Isa 6:8). First steps, named, one for each gate of the season.
Tell 1 person you love, plainly and without drama, that the Lord is near and that you are watching. Ezekiel 33:6 is the reason.
Each morning, read 1 chapter of the Olivet discourseThe Olivet discourse: Jesus’s teaching on the Mount of Olives about the end of the age and His coming (Matt 24–25; Mark 13; Luke 21). (Matt 24–25) and pray Psalm 139:23–24. Settle 1 account you have left open with a person.
If your health permits, consider a daytime fast and read Jonah. A sunrise-to-sunset fast is this exhibit’s suggested practice, not the traditional sunset-to-sunset Yom Kippur fast or a substitute for medical advice.
Leviticus 23:42–43 describes living in booths to remember Israel’s wilderness dwelling. If you also choose a night watch, do so as an added prayer practice, not as the definition of the booth. Read John 7–8 and invite a stranger to your table. The eighth-day assembly is 18 October in this count.
If anyone points you to a place or a person as the Christ, stay put and say Matthew 24:26 aloud. Warn others the same way.
Before dawn, look east for Jupiter in Leo and Mars in Cancer; after sunset, find Venus low in the west-southwest. On 12 October, Mars sits at the Manger. In Stellarium WebStellarium Web (stellarium-web.org): a free planetarium in the browser. Reliable for modern dates such as 2026., search “Rhadamanthus” to see Venus beside it.
“Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him” (Matt 25:6).
The Time of the Return
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