Culmination In the Year 2017-18?
I'm writing this to bring your attention to where we may be in the timeline of History spoken of in the Bible.
In the Bible we see that Israel is pivotal in history. Prophecy says that the generation that sees the rebirth of Israel will see God's Judgement and His bringing to and end this age of 6,000yrs (of man) since creation and usher in 1,000yrs of Peace the 7,000th, as in 6 days of creation and on the 7th God rested (peace)
How long is a generation. The bible talks of a generation as three score and ten ...70yrs.
So if we take the rebirth of Israel May 14th 1948 we get..
70 Jewish yrs. of 360 days per year =12 May 2017...
The bible says that a 7 year period of 3.5 years of Tribulation and 3.5 years of The Great Tribulation (God's Wrath) precedes the Return of Christ and 1,000 years peace.
This is very important, The Wrath of God comes after what Paul called a Mystery. The mystery is the Rapture, God taking His people from there Earth before The Great Tribulation.
1 Corinthians 15
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Thessalonians 4
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 5
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
The Parable of the Fig Tree ( Jesus talks of the End of the Age)
Matthew 24
32 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch (REBIRTH OF ISRAEL) has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
Just some of the many Prophetic proofs about the Return of Israel and the countdown of the End of the Age.
1).....The first is Ezekiel 37:21-22: "And say unto them, ‘Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.’"
"In this strange prophecy, Ezekiel is commanded to first lay on his left side for 390 days and then on his right side for 40 days, for a total of 430 days, as punishment for the iniquities of the house of Israel," explains Battlestein. "We are told that this punishment represents one day for each year. Taken alone, the prophecies in Leviticus and Ezekiel 7 fold punishment do not take on any specific significance. However, when we combine them, the results are astonishing."
He continues: "God decreed to Israel a total of 430 years of punishment for her sins against Him. That punishment consisted of physical removal from the land God had promised His people. Israel’s captivity in Babylon was exactly 70 years as prophesied by the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25:11-12; 29:10). Therefore, the first 70 years of Israel’s punishment was completed when the Babylonian captivity ended. By the decree of King Cyrus, conqueror or Babylon, the Jews were set free from their captivity in the year 538 B.C.E. The year 538 B.C.E, therefore becomes the base year with which we begin our calculations: 430 years minus 70 year captivity equals 360 years of remaining punishment to come."
That’s where the Leviticus prophecy 7 fold punishment kicks in, says Battlestein. The 360 years needed to be multiplied by seven, for a total of 2,520 years.
Using the 360-day Hebrew calendar, that totals 907,200 days. When converted to the 365-day calendar, the 2,520 years or 907,200 days becomes 2,485 years and five months or 2,485.5 years and months. If you subtract 538 years B.C.E, you get 1,947 years and five months.
Battlestein reminds that there was no year zero.
"Therefore, the year 1,947.5 we call the year 1948.5," he explains. "So exactly 1,947.5 years after 538 B.C.E., we come to the year 1948.5," he writes. "May is the fifth month of the modern calendar, and on May 14, 1948, Israel arose from the ashes of extinction to become a nation!"
FULFILLED
2).... Prophecy of Damascus
Damascus, Syria is the oldest inhabited city in world history. We are now seeing many Mideast events that could cause it to "cease to be a city", possibly igniting the Psalm 83 War.
Bible prophecy "See, Damascus will cease to be a city but will become a heap of ruins" Isaiah 17:1
TO BE FULFILLED Being Fulfilled
3)....Prophecy of rising nations against Israel.
And those who hate You have lifted up their head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people,
And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.
4 They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
5 For they have consulted together with one consent;
They form a confederacy against You:
Psalm 83 Coalition-
Tents of Edom = [decedents of Esau] Palestinian Refugees and Southern Jordanians
Ishmaelites = Saudi Arabians
Moab = Palestinian Refugees and Central Jordanians
Hagrites = Egyptians
Gebal = Northern Lebanese
Ammon = Palestinian Refugees and Northern Jordanians
Amalek = Arabs South of Israel
Philista = Palestinian Refugees and Hamas of Gaza Strip
Inhabitants of Tyre = Hezbollah and Southern Lebanese
Assyria = Syrians and perhaps Northern Iraqis included
Children of Lot = Moab and Ammon=Palestinian Refugees and Central and Northern Jordanians
BEING FULFILLED
4)......
Some Prophesies of the Rebirth of Israel.
Isaiah 43:6
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth—
FULFILLED And Still Being
Jeremiah 12:15
Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.
FULFILLED And Still Being
Jeremiah 16:15
but, ‘The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
FULFILLED And Still Being
Jeremiah 23:3
"But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
FULFILLED And Still Being
Jeremiah 30:3
For behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,’ says the LORD. ‘And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
FULFILLED
Amos 9:14
I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
FULFILLED
Zechariah 8:8
I will bring them back, And they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My people And I will be their God, In truth and righteousness.’
FULLY FULFILLED When they turn to the Messiah Jesus.
5)......
Some may have heard about Isaac Newton's calculations of 2016 regarding the return of Christ, it's pretty amazing coming from one of the most brilliant minds in the world. If he is right Harvest time is near, and we will soon be gathered together to be with the Lord.
Being and TO BE FULFILLED
Look we are all guilty, lets be honest. God wants to forgive us, He went to incredible lengths to make that possible, It's time everyone it's time to choose.
At Harvest time we find that the wheat bows down (from the weight of the head of grain). The Wheat representing believers bows down to Jesus and says you are Lord we submit to you, you are the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. But the tares (weeds) that look like wheat, come harvest time do not bow (bend) they are proud, rebellious and will not submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ the say in their hearts we will not have you as a King over us, and for such we read the fire awaits.
TIME IS SHORT: We have only two choices, Come into the true light of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom, or stay in the judged kingdom of the god of this worlds’.
"The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."[f] 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
If you believe that and say it, pray it, confess it with your mouth from your heart you will have made peace with God and receive eternal life."
May God Bless You and All Your Loved Ones
Much Love
John 3:16
John 3:36
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Did Jesus Tell Us of The
Times and Seasons to Expect
"His Return"
Are we living in the LAST DAYS. Many people are excited this time of year in regards to the Jewish Fall Feasts which fall on the 16-18th of September this year. Many believe Jesus fulfilled the Spring Feasts, His death on Passover, His Burial on Unleavened Bread and His Resurrection on First Fruits.
When He returns He will fulfil the Spring Feasts, Feast Of Trumpets, which many see as the Beginning of The Great Tribulation, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles. These Feast Days tend to be what Jesus and Paul alluded to, which we could easily over look not being familiar with Jewish customs and idioms.
This is a good video by Mark Biltz on the subject. For a Quick run down go to the 38 minute mark.
"His Return"
Are we living in the LAST DAYS. Many people are excited this time of year in regards to the Jewish Fall Feasts which fall on the 16-18th of September this year. Many believe Jesus fulfilled the Spring Feasts, His death on Passover, His Burial on Unleavened Bread and His Resurrection on First Fruits.
When He returns He will fulfil the Spring Feasts, Feast Of Trumpets, which many see as the Beginning of The Great Tribulation, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles. These Feast Days tend to be what Jesus and Paul alluded to, which we could easily over look not being familiar with Jewish customs and idioms.
This is a good video by Mark Biltz on the subject. For a Quick run down go to the 38 minute mark.
Gina McCray (21 Aug 2012)
"Rationales for a possible Rosh Hashanah/ Feast of Trumpets Rapture"
The first thing that is imperative to realize is that God's feast days that He outlined in the Torah, represent God's plan of redemption, compromising both His first and second coming.
Note that there are seven Levitical feast days outlined by God. The number seven represents completion and is God's perfect number.
Jesus has already fulfilled all the Spring Feast days with His first coming.
The upcoming Fall feast days represent the Rapture, His Second Coming and the Millennial period.
The next feast day to be fulfilled would be the first Fall festival, Rosh Hashanah.
It is important to remember that the feast days are NOT just Jewish feast days but are God's feast days. In the book of Leviticus, God stressed that they are HIS feast days.
Leviticus 23:
1The Lord said to Moses, 2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
So, the festival (feast) days belong to the Lord Himself. His followers, Jew and Gentile are to keep them.
If the Church had been observing God's feast days then they would have realized that His return for His own would come one Rosh Hashanah/ Yom Teruah.
It is noteworthy to realize that Rosh Hashanah has several different titles, all referring to the same festival.
It is also known as Yom Teruah,or the Feast of Trumpets. These titles, as well as other names for this important festival, will be used interchangeably throughout this entry.
Yom Teruah is the only one of God's feast days that starts on the sighting of the new moon.
The Jewish idiom for God's feast day of Yom Teruah, is the feast "of which no man knows the day or the hour".
Due to the dispersion of the Jewish people from their land in ancient days, the feast of the new moon/Yom Teruah could have been over before word of the sighting of the new moon spread to those dispersed in Babylon.
Therefore, Rosh Hashanah was celebrated as a two day festival but recognized as one long day. It is the only feast day that begins at the sighting of the new moon by two witnesses in Jerusalem.
Because of this, no one could know for certain, beforehand, the day or hour of the beginning of the feast of Yom Teruah.
Bear in mind that Yeshua (Jesus)was Jewish, speaking to His Jewish disciples when He used this well known Jewish idiom:
Matt. 24: 36“ No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Just as in American culture, one would know that if someone informed them that they would visit them on "Turkey Day'" that they were indicating Thanksgiving.
In the same manner, the Scripture indicates that our Jewish Savior was referring to the well known 2 day feast of Yom Teruah/"on a day or hour that no man knows" (which is also an idiom of this feast being representative of the Jewish Wedding).
"Of that day or hour no man knows, but my Father only" is the expression used by a Jewish groom when asked when he will go and steal away his bride "like a thief in the night".
1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
The Jewish groom (representing Jesus) goes away to prepare a place for his bride. When preparations on the bridal chamber are completed, the father of the groom (representing our Heavenly Father)tells his son it is time to fetch his bride.
The Feast of Trumpets is also known as the "wedding of the Messiah", and therefore, the expression about "not knowing the day or the hour" refers to the Jewish wedding custom in relation to this feast.
Believers are the Bride of Christ for whom the Bridegroom, Yeshua, (Jesus) will one day come to take to His Father's House, at the time of the Rapture.
Therefore, it is clear that the Rapture must take place on a Feast of Trumpets/the wedding of the Messiah.
Remember Jesus's assurance to us, His Bride:
Matthew 14:1“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2There is more than enough room in my Father’s home.a If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?b 3When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.
Thus, it can easily be seen how this feast day represents the Rapture, as the Bride of Christ, we are caught up in the air to be with the Lord and to attend the marriage supper of the Lamb.
The title, Yom Teruah, means Day of Trumpets in Hebrew. There is the blowing of 100 shofar blasts towards the very end of the celebration of this feast.
The one hundredth and last blast is called "THE LAST TRUMP".
Just as Jesus was Jewish speaking to a Jewish audience so was Paul, as a Jew, relating the well known Jewish name for the last shofar blast blown ending the Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah.
1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
On The Feast of Trumpets, the challah, or special bread, is baked into the shape of a circle, representing a crown.
It is on this day that the coronation of the King is to occur and the King which we know to be Yeshua Ha Mashiach, is to be enthroned on this festival/feast day. The shofar is blown during the coronation of a king.
As such, it can be seen that one day, on a Yom Teruah, (which means the "day of blowing") that the shofars will be blown announcing the coronation of King Jesus!
The thirty days prior to Yom Teruah are the month of Elul. Daily during this month, leading up to Rosh Hashanah, we are supposed to reflect on our lives because God's judgment is coming on Rosh Hashanah.
The message from Elul 1 to Rosh Hashanah is clear: Repent before Rosh Hashanah. Don’t wait until after Rosh Hashanah, or you will find yourself in the Days of Awe.
The Days of Awe are the seven days in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement.
These 7 days represent the 7 year Tribulation period and The Day of Atonement represents the Second Coming of Jesus.
God is so loving and merciful that He gave us each year, 30 days to search our hearts and repent prior to what one year will be the Rapture on a Yom Teruah.
Another name for Rosh Hashanah is Yom HaDin which means Day of Judgment. The Jewish people believe that on Rosh Hashanah the"books” are opened in heaven.
There are three books opened - that of life, for those whose works had been good; another of death, for those who had been thoroughly evil; and a third, intermediate.
Those classified as intermediate are those whose case will be decided on the Day of Atonement (seven days after Rosh Hoshanna on Yom Kippur).
The delay is granted for true repentance, which without, their names would be finally entered, into the book of of death.
For those who truly repent and forgive others, their names will be entered into the book of Life.
The opening of the books on Rosh Hashanah signifies the judgment of mankind wherein the righteous will be taken in the Rapture and the intermediates and wicked will be left behind to face the 7 year Tribulation.
The intermediates are those who Jesus called lukewarm and warned He would "vomit" them out of His mouth.
Revelation 3:15-17
15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,[a] I will vomit you out of My mouth.
Recognizing this, all professing Christians need to make sure their focus is on the things of God instead of the world:
Revelation 3: 17 Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked
Rosh Hashanah is also known as Yom HaKeseh (Day of the Hiding or Hidden Day) which one may translate into the raptured Bride of Christ being "hidden" in Heaven during the cataclysmic events of the 7 year Tribulation (correlating with the 7 days of Awe).
One of the reasons for blowing the shofar is to proclaim the resurrection of the dead. Jewish thought is that the resurrection of the dead will take place on a Rosh Hashanah.
Followers of Christ realize that the Rapture is indeed the day of the Resurrection of the dead in Christ.
In addition, this feast is also known as the Day of the Awakening Blast or The Day of the Awakening Shout.
1 Thes 4:15-18 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
The blast of the shofar and the shout of the Lord will one day awaken those who now sleep.
With the dead in Christ, those who are alive and truly belong to the risen Lord, will be "caught up together with them into the clouds" into glorified bodies and everlasting life.
Also, the gates of Heaven are understood to be opened on Rosh Hashanah.
As such, it is further evidence that the Rapture of the believers in Christ will take place on a Rosh Hashanah when the gates of Heaven are open, in which we may enter in.
The time of sorrows (birth pains) have been steadily growing stronger and closer together just as Jesus prophesied they would as the time of the end drew near.
Matthew 24:6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Therefore, we can be able to recognize how close to the end we are on God's prophetic timeline.
The hour is growing late. We are at the end of the age and our Lord is returning.
May all realize that it is time to shift our focus from the things of the temporal to eternity.
May we all repent, forgive others and give the God of Heaven the priority that He deserves!
For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
BG Ellis (6 Aug 2012) "IMPORTANT!!! MUST READ!!!
Heads Up For 12th and 14th of AUGUST..........!!!!!Do the Signs in the Heavens point to the last week of Av (Second week of August 2012) as being the time of The Rapture and Sudden Destruction?"This is the most important post I have ever posted! After watching the following videos, it really opened my eyes that as prophesy in being fulfilled on earth, the same story is being told in the heavens. Mark Biltz came out with his studies in spring of 2008 on the blood red moons and the Lunar Tetrads of 2014 and 2015. Mark Biltz came out with more revelations and updates in the spring of 2012. Watch how Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 confirms the 2008 to 2015 timeline!
THIS IS A MUST SEE----! Next read “Mathmans article above” brilliant analysis: “MUST READ!! Love Story in the Sky!! 7 of 8 steps completed since February 25, 2012!!” Two articles below....IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU LOOK THIS OVER, BECAUSE I WILL CONTINUE WHERE HE LEFT OFF! A key date that Mathman mentioned (and I was looking for something major to happen) was: June 25th 2012. This was a major count day from December 7th 2015.
Did anything happen on earth or in the heavens on this specific date? YES!! There where two HUGE things that happened:
1. Obama declared a national emergency! (SEE: VIDEO!) This is HUGE! You cannot declare Marshal Law and put into effect all the Executive Orders he has signed, without first declaring a national emergency! You can compare this to firing a gun: You cannot fire a gun without first taking the gun off safety. Obama can now pull the trigger to Marshal Law at anytime, because he has declared a national emergency!
2. In order to see if anything was happening in the heavens on this date, I downloaded “Google Sky” for my phone. This is an astronomy program that allows me to search the heavens from my phone. It is amazing what The Lord has revealed to me through this program, which I will be revealing to you. On this date, Venus is the closest point to Jupiter and there is a very rare alignment (which has not happened for thousands of years, if ever) between: Jupiter, Venus, and the star Aldebaran. Are these two events a coincidence? I do not think so! There are no coincidences with The Lord! See the photo below: Next, The Lord impressed me to look at the date of December 7th 2015 and to see if anything is going on with Venus. What I found blew me away! On this date, the Moon does a very rare transit of Venus.
Next, The Lord had me back up in time and find out the last transit of the Moon with Venus. The program allows me to go forward or backward in time at the same time as I am following the tracking of Venus. What I found is awesome and the perfect representation of what the Rapture does: The Holy Spirit presenting The Bride to Jesus our Groom. When Venus left the Sun on June 5th, it took a straight path to Jupiter. It came the closest to Jupiter on June 25th and has been hanging around Jupiter ever since. However, since July 21st (the movie shooting date) it has reverse course and slowly started moving away from Jupiter. On Sunday, August 12th (the closing day of the London Olympics) a little after midnight (Jerusalem Time) the Moon (The Bride of Jesus) does a transit of Jupiter (Holy Spirit). Can you say: “The dead in Christ shall rise first!” (1 Thessalonians 4:16) Then the Moon makes a direct path to Venus (Jesus) and makes a transit of Venus on Tuesday, August 14th. The Moon completes the transit of Venus a little after midnight early Tuesday morning (Jerusalem Time).
Can you say: “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
Finally, The Lord drew my attention to another alignment. On August 14th 2012 there is an alignment of Saturn, Mars, and the star Spica. The last time this alignment took place was at the start of World War II. I believe that this alignment could signal the start of World War III. What I want to do is give you a day-by-day conjecture of what is happening behind the seen as what could be possibly going on based on the signs of the heavens. THIS IS PURE SPECULATION!!------ JUNE 5TH/ 6TH – This is the date of the Venus transit of the sun. Like Mathman, I believe that Jesus got the go ahead from God the Father to: “Go pick up your Bride”. Venus (Jesus) immediately left the Sun (God the Father) toward Jupiter (The Holy Spirit) to make sure all is ready. Never have I seen Venus in conjunction with Jupiter for over a month.
July 21st – This is the date of the movie shooting in Colorado. I believe that war in heaven broke out on this date. Remember, when the dead in Christ rise first, at the same time Satan and his angels are slammed down to earth and stranded here. August 12th – This is 21 days from the movie shooting; Satan and his angels have lost the war and are being cast down to earth as the dead in Christ are rising.
The Moon transit of Jupiter has begun and everyone starts to gather for the closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. What a perfect stage for Satan to present his alien (demon, fallen angel) invasion, you have the whole world at his attention.
On this date, it really starts to get weird what I am going to do is list some YouTube videos about this date. As a side note, it seems that they do not want this information to get out. There was one video that said the Rapture would occur at the closing of the Olympics, however when I went back to the link two weeks later it had already been taken down.
Here are the various videos on or around this date:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Xms5YhoDo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1938923/pg1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YycRaLSpCnk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://pub39.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3330765498&frmid=8549&msgid=896051&cmd=show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niOt-isApGw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBZ6Q8A4z0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
August 14th – This is the date for the completion of the Moon transit of Venus. I believe that this is the date that: “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:17) This is also the date where there is an alignment of Saturn, Mars, and the star Spica.
The last time this alignment took place was at the start of World War II. I believe that this alignment could signal the start of World War III. This is the time period (The second week of August) when WWIII is predicted to break out.
August 15th – This is a Wednesday (Av 27) this is the Jewish Wedding Day of the week. WE ARE UP IN HEAVEN FOR OUR WEDDING! Also this is the only day of the year where The Lord once again turns his attention towards Israel!! This is also the date where the local National Guard were being called up for what he could only be describe as a "Natural Catastrophic Event" soon to take place, whose end result would be (among other things) a large tsunami-earthquakes on the East Coast. This event was imminent and this was not part of a drill.
Sunday, August 19th 2012 – This is the ending of the Jewish month of Av. The Rapture takes place during the Jewish Month of Av, 2012! There is a Bible Code that states this! Also, Jesus met the late Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri and told him that he was coming in the month of Av!! Finally, the question has been asked: Why is the Rapture happening this late and not April 11th 2012? The short answer is: "2008-2015 TIMELINE - THE DAYS ARE SHORTENED!!!"
Scroll through articles below to see timeline chart...................
IN CLOSING-- I have a real quick, but VERY IMPORTANT question to ask you: If you were to die this very second, do you know for sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you would go to Heaven? If you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus, today is as good as any. The door on the Ark is closing, and when it does things on the outside will not be good, as with the days of Noah and Lot judgment on the people left behind proceeded their departure. The line is drawn in the sand, it is time, You must come to Jesus on His terms not your own. You must humble yourself before the Lord, He commands all to repent and ask for His forgiveness and be born again into His Family His Kingdom to follow Him.
“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”[e] (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”[f] 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
God Bless You
BG Ellis
The Great Tribulation......... When???
By Gerry Almond
There's some compelling evidence The Tribulation/ Great Tribulation may start some time in 2012. Here is a view held by Gerry Almond from his study on biblical prophecy and other events. He believes The Great Tribulation may start very soon. Click on picture above for clearer detail.
Posted 8th June 2012
May God richly bless you all this day.
There are some VERY exciting promises of the Bible about what the Lord said He would reveal in these end times. Some of these are in the following verses:
”And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, and years” (Gen 1:14).
In this verse, the Lord explicitly indicates stars and planets, galaxies and so forth will be used by Him as signs. Our job is to search for these signs in the heavens and understand how they apply to His plans for us today. Much has been written about these things in blogs and books, and papers. Application is the key now, as the end of the age is upon us.
“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Dan 12:4)
Here, the Lord tells us that He will reveal many secrets of the end times at the time of the end. This is called “progressive revelation” and is in full bloom now. In turn, we need to expect to know more of this knowledge, and this is exactly what is going on right now.
“Remember therefore how thou has received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.” (/Rev 3:3).
Here the Lord indicates that, if we don’t watch, we won’t know when He will come for us. Conversely, this must mean that if we DO watch, we WILL know when He will come for us. So, watch we must and watch we do. The great Apostle Paul said in I Thessalonians 5:4 that we are not children of the darkness, that day should overtake us as a thief. We are children of light, therefore we can and should know when Jesus is coming.
Please read carefully the remainder of this article.
Back on Rosh Hashana, last year, that is September 29/30, 2011, which was nine month ago, a constellation formed into a specific mode. That constellation is called Virgo. It was seen to be a fulfillment of the picture given in Revelation chapter 12. By way of review about this, the scripture says:
“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars”. (Rev 12:1).
This formation occurred exactly on Rosh Hashana, Sepetember 29/30, 2011. The constellation had the moon at the feet while the sun shone, and comet Elenin had broken apart giving the 12 stars at her head. “And she, being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered” (Rev 12:2). Found in the womb of Virgo was the planet Venus (the Jesus star).
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads”. (Rev 12:3). There was also in the womb with Venus, Saturn, the dragon star and both occupied the womb together.
“And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them down to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born”. (Rev 12:4) About the time of Hanukkah, Christmas time 2011, Venus had exited the womb of Virgo. Saturn was still there and no one knew for sure when it would exit. In the scripture, the dragon was to devour the child as soon as it was born. Folks, the woman was Israel, the child was Jesus Christ, and the dragon was Satan. The third of the stars was the heavenly host of angels that followed Satan in his rebellion against God Almighty.
What followed next is right now in progress!!
“And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God and to His throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days”. (Rev 5,6). Petra is the most likely place of the woman’s protective sojourn for three and one half years, which is the exact time of the great tribulation period.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels. And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him”. (Rev 12:7 – 9). This is the war that precedes the rapture of the Church, evidently, and which causes the Devil and his crowd to come down to the people of earth in person, and also which introduces the time period known as the GREAT TRIBULATION. It lasts 1,260 days.
It is noteworthy that there has been nine months since the constellation formed up. Saturn has exited the womb and is now engaged in war in heaven. I believe that he is at this moment fighting a 21 days engagement (found before in Daniel 10 when he fought against the release of the Jews from Babylonian captivity), only this time he will be expelled from heaven above. This is done so that we may go to heaven and be there without his presence. But woe, woe, woe to the earth for he has come down having great wrath, for he knows that his time is short.
It is not likely that you can miss the message of Virgo. However, let me briefly recap what is above just in case:
Virgo formed up nine months ago. She fulfilled the picture of Revelation chapter 12. Two heavenly bodies were found in her womb. Venus (Jesus star) and Saturn (the dragon’s star). Venus was “born” (which represented Jesus virgin birth, and He was whisked away to the throne of God. His mother nation, Israel, fled into the wilderness to escape the dragon. The dragon (Saturn) was born about nine months later and sought to eat the man child, Jesus, but He was with the Father in heaven, so the dragon could not. He declared war in heaven, but was cast out. Being extremely angry, he turned his attention to Israel, the descendants of the woman and sought to destroy them after he was cast down to earth. But, God prepared a safe haven for the Israelites where He protects them for 1,260 days during the Great Tribulation period. She gets to her protective place on wings of eagles, which are probably modern aircraft.
Immediately after the war in heaven, a “beast” rises out of the people on earth who proclaims himself to be God (Rev 13:1). He is called the antichrist. But, before that, the true Church, the people of God will be taken from earth to heaven in an event called the rapture, wherein the dead in Christ rise and the living go up to meet the Lord in the air.
Now, listen closely. A time line has been established scripturally that requires the beginning of the great tribulation, the final 1,260 days to begin June 26, 2012. So, working within that time frame, this is the situation as it appears today and may answer questions that may now be asked, such as “are there hints in scripture as to how long it will take for Satan to be cast out? Are there hints as to when Satan will be coming down to earth? And do we pass him on the way up? Let’s explore:
1. The transit of Venus began at 3 minutes after midnight Jerusalem standard time. In other words, it began just after midnight. This perfect timing points to the symbolism of our constellation sign in the heavens, given above about the casting out of Satan. It may be noteworthy that the transit to 6.66 hours to make it journey across the face of the sun. This may an indicator of the start of the final war in heaven.
2. Just 21 days later is June 25/26, the beginning of the great tribulation. No better way to begin this time period could be imagined than to have Satan cast to the earth, along with his unholy angels. From the transit in #1 to June 25/26 is an inclusive count of 21 days.
3. This strongly suggests that the final war in heaven is in its last 21 days. It also strongly suggests that we may be taken out any day now, but probably on the last of the 21 days, just as the Jews were delivered from Babylonian captivity on the last of the 21 days back then. This seems to say that we will be going up, as Satan is coming down. And just as Daniel was greatly beloved, so are we, the Church of Jesus Christ greatly beloved.
4. Brother Ron Reese and many others as well, including myself have spoken of sudden destruction as simultaneous to our rapture event. I think the most probable scenario is earthquakes of 9 or 10 on the Richter, followed by massive tsunamis that will decimate the nations and cause worldwide panic and chaos. Out of that will come a forced new world order, complete with computer numbering in order to buy or sell. It will also trigger wars by nations hungry to gobble up other weaker ones. In other words, all hell is about to break loose on our planet. The sudden destruction/rapture fits perfectly here. Both destruction from God and destruction from man are in view.
5. The time line means that the first day of the Kingdom Age will begin with the coronation of King Jesus, which may last 7 days or so. It is interesting to note that Hanukkah 2015 begins on December 8 and runs 7 days through December 14. This is the probable time of the Coronation of King Jesus. Anyway, the very last day of the horrible great tribulation period will be December 7, 2015. This is absolutely verified scripturally by overlaying the days of Noah, that is 120 years of 360 days per year, which totals to 43,200 days on the time clock of God Almighty, tiny Israel. From the first vestige of return to Palestine by the Jews on August 29, 1897 which was the first day of the first Zionist Congress under their hero leader Theodor Herzl, until the end of the tetrads of eclipses so aptly presented by Bro. Mark Biltz some time ago, is 43,125 days. But, Daniel 12 demands the addition of 75 more days to the end time period bringing the total to exactly 43,200 days, an exact overlay on the days God gave Noah until SUDDEN DESTRUCTION/DELIVERANCE back then. Thus today, June 25/26 should be SUDDEN DESTRUCTION/RAPTURE for us now. The picture is perfect and it is entirely Bible based.
6. Being precisely exact, could the timing of the start of the transit of Venus be hinting for us to watch 3 minutes after midnight Jerusalem standard time 21 days later on June 25/26? If so, this translates to 6:03 p. m Eastern Daylight time on Monday evening, June 25, 2012.
7. Interestingly, this day, Monday/Tuesday is the traditional Jewish day when the bridegroom calls for his bride in what is known as the bridal call. The third day, Tuesday/Wednesday is the only day of the week popular for weddings because it is declared “good” twice, in Gen 1:10 and 12.
Oh, dear readers: If you are not ready, please take the time and effort to get that way. If you accept this message, then buy up the remaining days as they are truly evil times. Do what you can, but most importantly, prepare yourselves to meet Jesus Christ our soon coming King. Repent of all known sin. I know this is addressed to the choir so to speak, but it never hurts to be repetitive when it comes to being right with God.
Blessings on you and yours. All Glory to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Maranatha
Gerry M. Almond
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A LOVE STORY IN THE SKY (Written in the Heavens)
By MathMan, Love Story in the Sky!! 7 of 8 steps completed since February 25, 2012!! Next step is the Rapture!!"
This article is an absolute MUST READ!!
A Love Story, OUR Love Story, is being written in the sky by our Groom as we speak!! 7 of 8 steps in the Jewish Wedding Tradition have now been symbolically completed in the sky above us since February 25, 2012. The 8th and Final Step will be our Rapture, our marriage to the Ultimate Groom.
PLEASE, take the time to read the below to see the exciting details. Scripture is always the best place to start. Using the rule of "First Mention" in the Bible, the following is what God tells us to do with the stars, planets, Sun and the Moon:
Genesis 1:14 reads as follows: "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". This "command" to study the sky for signs is repeated MANY times in the New Testament!!
In our Jewish Wedding Tradition "Love Story", there will be four specific "characters" in the sky, each with their own specific purpose. I will first outline who they are and their role and then I will elaborate on each below:
- Venus as the Morning Star, our Groom (Jesus)!!
- Sun as the Father of the Groom (God)
- Jupiter as the Father of the Bride (the Holy Spirit)
- Moon as the Bride (the True Church)
Before moving on, please take an extra moment to re-read the above list and REALLY let the "characters" absorb in your mind before I explain why each "character" makes perfect sense. I find that it is usually better when one pre-visualizes there own reasons for such symbolism, which may add to those I listed below (or simply perhaps confirm the list below).
Venus as the Morning Star, our Groom (Jesus)
Jesus refers to Himself as the morning star (while it is also true that Satan had been called the morning star, as per Isaiah, Isaiah explains that this title no longer applied to Satan after he fell):
Revelation 22:16 reads as follows: "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."
This specific mention of Jesus as the morning star, Venus, in the Bible, has meant that, when something occurs with Venus, I sit up and take notice. This "characterization" was so important an observation that this formed a part of His very last words in the Bible. The very last chapter of the very last book to be specific!!
Sun as the Father of the Groom (God)
The Sun is often referred to as representing God the Father. It is so bright that one cannot stare at it without losing their sight. In comparison, God told Moses that looking on His full glory would cause instant death.No life on this planet would exist without the Sun, just like it wouldn’t exist without God (sorry evolutionists). The Sun supplies us with all of our energy. When we burn wood, we are burning stored sunlight. When we start our cars, we are burning stored sunlight.The power of the Sun is beyond comprehension. Similarly, the awesome power of its creator, GOD, the Father of the Groom, is also beyond comprehension!!
Jupiter as the Father of the Bride (the Holy Spirit)
Jupiter is known as the God planet due to being the biggest of all the planets. Its size completely dwarfs the earths. It is also one of the most visible of the planets from earth, easily visible with the naked eye. However, this planet also serves another purpose. Scientists have noticed that it frequently intercepts hurtling objects from space that could have later impacted the earth and destroyed all life, thereby protecting all of us. This protection from flying debris is due to its immense gravity from its massive size, attracting these rogue objects like metal to a magnet. In other words, similar to the Holy Spirit, Jupiter serves as our quiet, but extremely powerful, protector!!
Since the Sun already represents the Father of the Groom (God) and Venus already represents the Groom (Jesus), it would make sense to "characterize" the second biggest object in our solar system as the Father of the Bride (the Holy Spirit). As outlined above, the similarities are stunning.
But there is another similarity that makes the Holy Spirit similar to "the Father of the Bride"!! Notice that, in the New Testament, we are considered the Bride of Christ. However, He hasn’t sent for us yet and we are still waiting to go to our new home, travelling eagerly away from our "birth home, earth". In Jewish Tradition, the Father of the Bride continues to look after his daughter until the Groom calls for her. In a direct analogy, the Father of the Bride was literally sent to us at the first Pentecost after Christ died to do just that!! The Holy Spirit has been looking after us ever since, just like a loving and doting Father of the Bride would take great pride in doing for His Daughter. Again, this fits perfectly!!
Moon as the Bride (the True Church)
Like the Moon, we are a large part of the operation and sustainability of the earth!! AND YET, the earth is not AT ALL our home. Instead, we are visitors here on earth, but yet linked to the earth, waiting to be called to our eternal and true home with our precious Groom, Jesus!!
Like the Moon reflects the glory of the Sun, we the Bride merely reflect the glory of the Trinity, and Jesus in particular. Some reflect the Lord’s grace to a great extent (Full Moon), while some barely reflect His grace at all (New Moon), but yet we still share our salvation through the Only One Who Saves via Grace thru Faith alone.
Again, before moving on, please take another few extra moment to REALLY let the above "characters" absorb in your mind. The Jewish Wedding Tradition events that are about to unfold below depend on you understanding the precise roles each of these four "characters" will play (and symbolize)!!
COMPARISON TO JEWISH WEDDING TRADITION
During the course of this article, I will outline various quotes from the following Jewish source to show the strict adherence these celestial events as outlined below are being used to perfectly symbolize Jewish Wedding Tradition. Quotes from the following article will later be shown in black font:
http://www.bje.org.au/learning/lifecycle/marriage.html
Now, let us look to see what the sky is specifically telling us (as we are instructed to do in the Bible). However, before we do, it is important to emphasize that this analysis is Bible-based Astronomy, which has EVERYTHING to do with God!! This is NOT Astrology, which has NOTHING to do with God and is an abomination to God:
Step 1 of 8: February 25, 2012 - The Groom meets with the Father of the Bride and the Bride, wherein all three parties agree to a marriage "in principle"
CELESTIAL EVENT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Venus_Jupiter_Mercury_conjunction
CELESTIAL DESCRIPTION (from above link): "The 2012 Venus Jupiter Moon conjunction was an astrological conjunction that occurred on February 25, 2012 between the Moon, Venus and Jupiter, forming a triple conjunction. It was observed in the western sky at sunset globally."
APPLICABLE SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Moon = the Bride, Venus = the Groom, Jupiter = the Father of the Bride
INTERPRETATION: The Groom meets with both the Father of the Bride and the Bride at the same time to meet for compatibility. Eventually, after meeting, all parties present mutually agree to a marriage "in principle". In Jewish Tradition, the Bride is able to reject the proposal at this point. Obviously, we, the Bride, whole heartedly accept the Lord’s marriage proposal.
From Jewish article: "The very first stage of a traditional Jewish marriage is the shidduch, or matchmaking. In this manner, the process of finding a partner is not haphazard or based on purely external aspects. Rather, a close friend or relative of the young man or woman, who knows someone that they feel may be a compatible partner, suggests that they meet. The purpose of the meeting is for the prospective bride and groom to determine if they are indeed compatible"
Step 2 of 8: March 13, 2012 - The Groom once again meets with the Father of the Bride, this time to finalize the marriage contract
CELESTIAL EVENT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Venus_Jupiter_Mercury_conjunction
CELESTIAL DESCRIPTION (from above link): "On March 13, 2012, Venus and Jupiter reentered conjunction and 5 celestial signs were observable, all around sunset local time, globally."
APPLICABLE SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Venus = the Groom, Jupiter = the Father of the Bride, 5 other celestial signs = small reception
INTERPRETATION: With all parties present agreeing to the marriage "in principle" on February 25, 2012, the Bride leaves it to the Groom and her Father to discuss specifics of the marriage contract. To do this, the Groom meets once again with the Father of the Bride ("reentered conjunction"), but this time without the Bride, and the marriage contract is formalized and signed. We, the Bride, are now officially betrothed to Jesus in marriage (getting excited yet?). A small reception is then gathered together in order announce the occasion, which is, amazingly, perfectly represented in the skies by the outstanding and noteworthy presence of "5 celestial signs being observable" at the EXACT same time (known in Yiddish as a vort)!!
From Jewish article: "When the families have met, and the young couple has decided to marry, the families usually announce the occasion with a small reception, known in Yiddish as a vort. Some families sign a contract, the tenaim (conditions) that delineates the obligations of each side regarding the wedding and setting its final date. The tenaim symbolise the groom’s commitment to fulfil the promise to marry his bride. They are just as binding as the marriage contract itself, so they are usually signed before the ceremony."
Step 3 of 8: May 20, 2012 - The Father of the Groom ensures all is prepared to His satisfaction before telling His Son to "go get His Bride"
CELESTIAL EVENT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_20,_2012
CELESTIAL DESCRIPTION (from above link): "An annular solar eclipse took place on May 20, 2012 with a magnitude of 0.9439. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the Sun to look like a ring, blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide. This is also known as Ring of Fire."
APPLICABLE SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Moon = the Bride, Sun = the Father of the Groom (our Father-"in-Law")
INTERPRETATION: The Father of the Groom ensures that all is prepared to His satisfaction before He tells His Son to "go get His Bride". In Jewish tradition, the father makes sure all preparations are complete and adequate before "giving the order"!! One of the things He does is to make sure the Bride is fully prepared and ready to marry His Son. She meets with the Father of the Groom’s expectations!! How does the Groom find out? The shining ring in the sky on May 20th symbolically tells the Son that all went well and the He will soon give permission for Him to call His Bride!!
ADDITIONAL INTERPRETATION: A ring of commitment is a major event in any Bride’s life, signifying in a material way to the world that she is committing herself to one man. This is also particularly important in Jewish Marriage Tradition. According to Jewish tradition, this wedding / betrothal ring should be of great worth, reflecting just how much the Groom values His Bride. THIS IS JUST TOO PERFECT!! Given that the Sun and the Moon are both absolutely vital to life continuing on earth, there is nothing more valuable to the world than the Sun and the Moon!! In other words, the "Ring of Fire", our Wedding Ring, symbolizes a ring of infinite value.
Step 4 of 8: June 4, 2012 - The Father of the Groom sends out a final invitation to His Chosen Guests
CELESTIAL EVENT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_lunar_eclipse
CELESTIAL DESCRIPTION (from above link): "A partial lunar eclipse took place on June 4, 2012. The moon was about one third covered by the Earth's northern umbral shadow at maximum eclipse. The portion of the moon inside the umbral shadow was illuminated by sunlight refracted through the Earth's atmosphere, thus much dimmer, and having a reddish hue."
APPLICABLE SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Moon = the Bride, Sun = the Father of the Groom, Earth = His Chosen Guests, the Jews
INTERPRETATION: The Father of the Groom makes one last appeal to the Jews to come to the ceremony. His invitation is rejected, just like His Son had been rejected by the Jews all those centuries ago. However, 1/3rd will later change their mind, which is in the Biblical description that only 1/3rd of the Jews will heed the warning of the Lord about the coming wrath of the Anti-Christ and to flee to safety in the wilderness (Petra), away from the Anti-Christ’s grip of terror. That fact that this was a lunar eclipse is perfectly appropriate as lunar eclipses are considered to be specific warnings to the Jews, whereas solar eclipses are considered to be specific warnings for the Gentiles. However, not only was this event a Lunar Eclipse, but it was also a "1/3rd" Lunar Eclipse, again a PERFECT SYMBOL of what is about to occur in Israel!!
Step 5 of 8: June 5-6, 2012 - The Father of the Groom finally tells His Son it is time to go get His Bride
CELESTIAL EVENT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus,_2012
CELESTIAL DESCRIPTION (from above link): "The 2012 Transit of Venus, when the planet Venus appeared as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the Sun, began at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012, and finished at 04:49 UTC on 6 June."
APPLICABLE SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Sun = the Father of the Groom, Venus = the Groom
INTERPRETATION: Ensuring that everything for the upcoming marriage of His Son is absolutely perfect, the Father of the Groom tells His Son to leave His right side and get His Bride. From the "Sun’s perspective", that is EXACTLY what happened that day (it travelled from the Sun’s right side to its left side)!! Notice that this event is also exactly 21 days inclusive to June 25th / 26th; wherein this is a similar time span to the last war in heaven mentioned in the Book of Daniel (more on June 25th later)!! However, there is a LOT more to this and it has all been previously described in great detail in the following article:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2012/mathman612-1.htm
Step 6 of 8: June 17, 2012 - The Groom is seen approaching the Bride and the Father of the Groom from a distance
CELESTIAL EVENT: http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-jupiter-pair-up-before-sunrise-june-17
CELESTIAL DESCRIPTION (from above link): "Moon and Jupiter close together before sunrise June 17"
APPLICABLE SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Moon = the Bride, Jupiter = the Father of the Bride, Venus = the Groom
INTERPRETATION: While the Father of the Bride is standing with His Daughter, the Groom approaches them from a short distance away. Both the Groom and the Bride feel great excitement as they know their day will soon arrive!!
Step 7 of 8: June 18, 2012 - The Bride visits the Groom for the last time before the actual wedding ceremony while her Father supervises the meeting
CELESTIAL EVENT: http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-venus-below-jupiter-before-sunrise-june-18
CELESTIAL DESCRIPTION (from above link): "Moon, Venus below Jupiter before sunrise June 18"
APPLICABLE SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS INVOLVED: Moon = the Bride, Jupiter = the Father of the Bride, Venus = the Groom
INTERPRETATION: The Bride visits the Groom for the last time before the actual wedding ceremony while her Father supervises the meeting. According to Jewish Tradition, this will be the last time the Bride sees her Groom prior to the actual wedding. However, as is also strict Jewish tradition, she is still closely supervised by her Father during the meeting!!
Step 8 of 8: ???? – Soon after, the Groom comes back, announcing His arrival with a Trumpet Blast, signaling that He has come to finally marry us, His Bride, in the Rapture!!
The first seven steps illustrated above shows us just how soon it will be before the Groom finally has the Trumpet Player call for us, His Bride, to meet Him in the sky for our final journey home to be married!! FINALLY, we will be able to leave this temporary home in order to be married to the One we have so longed to be with.
In other words: The Rapture is the very next, eighth and final step!! Interestingly, eight is the number of New Beginnings, and WHAT A NEW BEGINNING IT WILL BE!!
BUT WAIT, THERE’S EVEN MORE…
ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS SHOWING INCREDIBLE ADHERENCE TO THE JEWISH TRADITION
There are still some other IMPORTANT SYMBOLIC SIMILARITIES to the Jewish Marriage Process that were strictly followed in the above symbolism in the sky that you simply must read about:
From Jewish article: "According to Jewish law, physical contact is not allowed between a man and a woman until they are married (except for certain close relatives), and they may not be alone together in a closed room or secluded area. This helps to ensure that one’s choice of partner will be based on intellect and emotion and not on physical desire alone."
Did you notice, in all of the above seven steps completed above, that Venus, representing the "man", and the Moon, representing the "woman", were NEVER alone together without Jupiter, the "father of the woman", being ever present?? How awesome is that?
From Jewish article: "Prior to the wedding day, the bride is required to visit the mikveh, the ritual bath, and immerse herself, to ensure a purified spiritual state as she prepares herself for married life. The bride must show proof of having visited the mikveh before she is eligible to sign the marriage contract."
Only those who have washed themselves in the blood of Christ and accepted His Sacrifice for our sins will be considered a part of the Bride, our debt completely paid in full by our Groom, making us completely eligible with proof of being able to sign the marriage contract!! If you haven’t already, please make sure this vital step has been completed NOW!!! It is almost too late to avoid the Great Tribulation!! Once the Rapture occurs, you are stuck for another 1260+ days of incredible despair and persecution (however, chances are you will be beheaded WAY before making it even close to that long – just make sure you never take the Mark of the Beast)!!
From Jewish article: "One week before the wedding the bride and groom, the chatan and kallah stop seeing each other in order to enhance the joy of their wedding through their separation."
THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING PART OF THIS WHOLE ARTICLE!!! Did you notice in Step 7 that Venus, representing the Groom, and the Moon, representing the Bride, are very close to each other for one last meeting, but yet still under complete supervision from Jupiter, representing the Father of the Bride? Could this symbolically represent the VERY LAST MEETING before the one week separation as is customary in Jewish Wedding Tradition!! That is, was the June 18th meeting symbolic of our very final meeting with the Groom prior to us being reunited with Him forever and ever in our wedding to the Lord Himself? If so, did you notice that one week from June 18th is just around the corner? And, IF SO, under Jewish Tradition, it is up to you to make yourself ready to be the proper Bride, ready to receive her Groom in marriage!!!! Are you absolutely SURE you are ready? You had better make sure!!
http://www.thefinal7yearsareherenow.com/docs/documents/x1o451bm.html
SIDE NOTE: IF June 25th turns out to be "our wedding day", look who "just happens" to be visiting Israel on that exact same day (Putin’s very first visit to Israel in SEVEN YEARS!!). Certainly not a pleasant start to those left behind, especially the Jews, ESPECIALLY given the HUGE role Russia will play in end-time prophecy as outlined Ezekiel 38 / 39!!
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/112409/
FINAL APPEAL: I normally would never ask this of you all, but IF you found the above inspiring and ONLY IF you feel inspired to do so, please write in to Five Doves with your thoughts AND a link to this article. The more this article is referred to and linked, the great the chances of those later left behind coming across this article and being able to understand God’s Ultimate Control!!
Seriously, this couldn't be written any better for us if we had wanted it to. MARANATHA!! Surely our redemption draws EXTREMELY near!! The SKY SCREAMS THAT IT IS SOON!!!!!!
YbiC, MathMan
"Everything points to May-June for the Start of the Great Tribulation and Rapture"
Ron Reese (8 May 2012)
After three and one-half long years of end-time Bible Prophecy ministry for me, it is finally coming to an end. Quite simply, the Great Tribulation HAS to begin in May or June of 2012, if the 2008--2015 timeline, is God's timeline. The 1260-day periods of the reign of the Antichrist, the ministry of the two witnesses, and the fleeing to the wilderness (Petra?), of the Jewish remnant, simply HAVE to begin in May or June of this year.
To fully comprehend this message, reading Part 1 and Part 2, are an absolute MUST. They are linked, in order, below:http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2012/ronr52.htm
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2012/ronr54.htm
In Part 1, we learned how the answers to the timing of the Rapture, and the Start of the Great Tribulation are found in Daniel 12. In Part 2, we learned how all of the Biblical evidence dovetails to one particular date for the END DATE OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. That date is Dec. 6--7, 2015. All evidence seemingly points to this date to be the date of:
1. The Battle of Armageddon.
2. The End Date of the Great Tribulation.
3. The End of Days in Daniel 12.
4. The End of the 1335 Days from Apr. 11, 2012, which is the proposed mid-point Date of the Final 7 Years.
5. The anniversary date of Pearl Harbor.
6. The End Date of the 120-year Noahic countdown, EXACTLY to the very day. This 120--year (Prophetic years) Noahic countdown began on Aug. 29, 1897, when the very first Jewish Congress was established. This truly is an astounding calculation. The number 120 means DIVINE PERIOD OF PROBATION.
7. The anniversary date of the laying of the foundation of the original Temple.
8. The probable date for the beginning of the Millennial Reign of Christ (in His New Temple). How perfectly appropriate!
9. Hanukkah Eve. Hanukkah is the historic miraculous Rescue Time of Israel, pointing us to the Battle of Armageddon, when God miraculously Rescues the nation of Israel once again from Sudden Destruction, at the hands of the armies of the world. Dec. 6--7, 2015, is the absolute PERFECT FIT.
10. Kislev 24, the day of the year referred to THREE TIMES in Haggai 2, as an extremely important day in end-time Bible Prophecy (Read all about it in Part 2).
11. The Final Day of the 2008--2015 timeline.
THAT IS A WHOLE LOT POINTING TO ONE PARTICULAR DAY!!! What are the odds that all of these end-time Bible Prophecies culminate on the VERY SAME DAY by sheer coincidence???!!! That is why I believe we should call KISLEV 24, HANUKKAH EVE, DEC. 6--7, 2015, GOD'S PRE-DESTINED DAY OF DESTINY FOR THE WORLD!!!
These 11 markers for the LAST DAY OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION are the reasons why it was important to establish the Final Day, before attempting to discover the 1st Day of the Great Tribulation. That is why you really need to read Part 2, before reading any more of Part 3.
In Part 2, we focused entirely on Day 1335 (of Dan. 12), the Ending Date of the Great Tribulation. ALL evidence puts that day at Kislev 24, Hanukkah Eve, Dec. 6--7, 2015. Today's post focuses on Day 1290. We read in Daniel 12:11, "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days."
Day 1335 is an X FACTOR in attempting to establish the time, and timing, of the Great Tribulation and the Rapture. Day 1290 is also an X FACTOR. There are different directions we can attempt to go with the 1290 days and the 1335 days. As I mentioned in Parts 1 and 2, God VALIDATED Apr. 11, 2012, by making it a MEGA-EARTHQUAKE DAY, as the mid-point day of the Final 7 Years.
NOTE: Reuters report on the internet about the April 11, 2012 mega earthquake twins which struck Sumatra on the same day of magnitudes 8.6 and 8.2; I was shocked to read them quoting a geologist about how rare this event actually was-in fact, it was a once in 2,000 year event!!
We added 1335 days to this mid-point pre-destined date, to arrive at Dec. 6--7, 2015. There are at least ELEVEN major things pointing to that day, in, what I believe, is God's pre-ordained timeline, as we just pointed out.
I believe the evidence presented above for Dec. 6--7, 2015, to be the LAST DAY OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION IS EXTREMELY COMPELLING, AND PROBABLY CONCLUSIVE. So, to arrive at the Start Date of the Great Tribulation, do we back up 1290 days, as per Dan. 12:11, or do we back up 1260 days, as most Bible Prophecy students do? Only Progessive Revelation will tell us for sure. Some say that the last half, or the Great Tribulation, is 1260 days. Others say it is 1290 days.
I am not going to draw a conclusive deduction for you today. If we back up 1260 days from Dec. 6--7, 2015, we arrive at June 25--26, 2012, for the Start Date of the Great Tribulation. If we back up 1290 days from Dec. 6--7, 2015, we arrive at May 26--27, 2012. In my opinion, the Final Day Date of Kislev 24, Hanukkah Eve, Dec. 6--7, 2015, is a FIXED DATE. With at least ELEVEN things pointing to this very date, it simply CANNOT be moved. This is NOT an approximate date.
This means that one of the above two dates will become the Starting Date of the Great Tribulation. In God's eyes, it is a FIXED DATE. It cannot be moved. It cannot be an approximate date. June 25--26, 2012, is the LAST DEADLINE DATE. In my opinion, the Great Tribulation MUST start, NO LATER than this date. We have three 1260-day timelines, mentioned above, that simply MUST begin by this date.
These three 1260-day timelines could all start on the same date. My guess is that at least two of them will start at the same time. Any of these 3 timelines could start today, or any day between now and June 25--26th of this year. The Rapture/Sudden Destruction could also take place any day between now and June 25--26th. The Rapture, as we all well know, remains the Mystery Day. What is fascinating, and intriguing, is that if we back up 1290 days from the proposed Final Day of the Great Tribulation of Dec. 6--7, 2015, we arrive at May 26--27, 2012, WHICH IS FEAST OF PENTECOST!!!
If you are a serious student of Bible Prophecy, I do not have to detail everything that is pointing to May 26--27, Feast of Pentecost, this year. The pertinent posts on http://www.fivedoves.com/ , the past few weeks, have been numerous, and excellent. It may very well be our long-awaited pre-destined day. I encourage you to research, and read several of these accounts. I just want to point out, and emphasize six things, out of the many, that seem to be pointing to Pentecost, May 26--27, 2012:
1. The most respected, and most read, Bible Prophecy scholar of our time, in my opinion, was the late J.R. Church. Every year, he would vacillate between Feast of Trumpets and Feast of Pentecost, as to the probable time of the Rapture of the Bride. As far as I know, he never did make up his mind, which Feast Day he favored more. If someone of his stature, had such a high regard for this Prophetic Feast Day, you and I should sit up and take notice of Feast of Pentcost as a high potential Rapture Day of the year.
2. There is so much typology that seems to point directly to Feast of Pentecost as a real potential day to be the Day of the Rapture. Some of the recent posts on 5 Doves, have been deep, relevant to this particular year of 2012, and frankly quite astounding. The evidence for Pentecost this year is becoming more compelling as we move closer to that date.
3. It is truly fascinating that Enoch, who was our "type" of Rapture, as he was Raptured BEFORE THE SUDDEN DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD IN NOAH'S TIME, WAS BORN ON PENTECOST AND WAS RAPTURED ON PENTECOST. I believe also that Enoch and Elijah, the only two persons who were Raptured and never died, will be the two witnesses. God had to take them for a specific purpose. It is unlikely that he only took TWO by coincidence, the same number as the number of witnesses in Revelation, especially when Elijah is a near-unanimous choice to be one of the two witnesses.
God started the Church Age on Pentecost. Will He choose to end the church age on Pentecost, just as Enoc's life started, and ended, with his Rapture, on Pentecost? Enoch is a type of our Rapture. It seems like a very good possibility, especially in light of the mounting evidence for our potential Rapture to be on Pentecost, 2012, that God may have established the pattern with Enoch, who was Rapture at age 365, the number of days in a year. Was the Lord trying to tell us to look for the same day of the year as Enoch's Rapture?
4. There is a potential 7-day warning, just like Noah received, in the total solar eclipse on May 20th, 7 days before Feast of Pentecost, May 26--27th.
5. In Part 1, we learned that Daniel 12 gives us the answer to the timing, and the time, of the Rapture. Backing up 1290 days (Dan. 12:11) from the proposed Final Day of the Great Tribulation, Dec. 6--7, 2015, takes us EXACTLY to Feast of Pentecost, May 26--27th of this year.
6. More specifically, Daniel 12:11 MAY point us directly to Pentecost, May 26--27, 2012, as the Day of the Rapture. Details to follow below.
Other dates that are being mentioned often, as potential Rapture dates, in May and June of this year, include:
1. 2nd Passover Week, from May 6th through May 13th.
2. May 11th is Day 1290 from the Start Date of the Final 7 Years, Oct. 29, 2008.
3. May 14th, is Israel's 64th birthday. 64 is 8 X 8. Eight is the number of new beginnings.
4. May 17th, Ascension Day, the day of the year when Jesus ascended to Heaven.
5. May 20th, the day of the total solar eclipse.
6. Several other days have been suggested in early to mid-June.
7. June 25--26th. It seems to be God's pattern to take everything right to the last possible moment. In my opinion, June 25--26, 2012, is the last option for the starting date of the Great Tribulation. It appears that this, therefore, should be our last option for the Rapture/Sudden Destruction, for the 2008--2015 timeline.
8. Any day in the remainder of May, and up until June 25--26th. In other words, in a day when you think not. Many would choose this option.
Now I would like to present to you something BRAND NEW. In Part 1, we emphasized that Daniel 12 held the KEYS TO THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE AND THE START OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. In my opinion, in these three posts, we have shown the very likely date of the END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION AS KISLEV 24, HANUKKAH EVE, DEC. 6--7, 2015. This would seem to establish either June 25--26, 2012, or Pentecost, May 26--27, 2012, as the starting date of the Great Tribulation, depending on whether the Great Tribulation is 1260 days, or 1290 days.
But perhaps we can narrow down the potential Rapture Date to one day. If my interpretation of Dan. 12 is correct, we MAY be able to do that. I am suggesting to you that Dan. 12: 11--13, the Final 3 verses in Daniel, hold the key to the timing of the Rapture. They read as follows, "And from the TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE IS TAKEN AWAY, and the abomination of desolation set up, THERE SHALL BE A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS (1290 DAYS). Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days (1335 days). But go thou thy way TILL THE END BE: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot AT THE END OF THE DAYS."
I am suggesting to you that THE TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE IS TAKEN AWAY is referring to the DAY OF THE RAPTURE. The Lord looks at us as a DAILY LIVING SACRIFICE. We read in Romans 12: 1, "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, which is your reasonable service."
The phrase, "IS TAKEN AWAY", could easily be referring to the Day the Bride of Christ "IS TAKEN AWAY". The phrase in Dan. 12, that says, "THE TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE IS TAKEN AWAY", COULD ACTUALLY BE REFERRING TO THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE, WHEN THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO MAKE THEMSELVES LIVING SACRIFICES, ARE TAKEN AWAY TO HEAVEN.
Sherry Vance goes into great detail, and does an excellent job, in the following posts, of showing how there does NOT have to be a rebuilt temple for the Antichrist, nor animal sacrifices by the Jews during the Great Tribulation. She shows us, using many good Scriptures, how the DAILY SACRIFICE is referring to Christians, and not animal sacrifices:http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2012/sherryv112.htm
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2012/sherryv120.htm
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2012/sherryv117-1.htm
Two events are mentioned in verse 11:
1. The daily sacrifice is taken away (the Rapture).
2. The Abomination of Desolation is set up. For the purpose of this discussion, it is irrelevant what this event actually is.
I am further suggesting to you that these two events are NOT 1290 days apart, which is the common interpretation. I am suggesting to you that the proper interpretation is that the daily sacrifice being taken away (the Rapture), and the Abomination of Desolation being set up, take place on the same day. Then 1290 days from these two events on the very same day, a 3rd event, or Scriptural Day, takes place. The next two verses tell us when this is:
1. Verse 13 tells us these two same-day events take place "till the end be" (the end of the day count).
2. Verse 13 tells us that these two same-day events take place "at the end of the days (at the end of the day count)".
3. Verse 12 tells us when "the end of the days (the day count)" is: 1335 days.
4. Verse 11 tells us these two same-day events take place 1290 days from "the end of the days ( the day count of 1335 days)".
I believe, if you study Dan. 12: 11-13 carefully, you will come to the same conclusion. It is really the only interpretation, in light of where we are at, at this late stage of the Final 7--Year timeline, from 2008--2015, that makes any sense.
So, if we are interpreting these last three verses of Dan. 12 correctly, we just subtract 1290 days from Kislev 24, Hanukkah Eve, Dec. 6--7, 2015, to arrive at the Day of the Abomination of Desolation, and Day of the Rapture. THIS WOULD MAKE MAY 26--27TH, FEAST OF PENTECOST, THE DAY OF THE RAPTURE!!!
In light of everything else presented in this post, this is extremely exciting, and perhaps enlightening, news. One more giant piece of the Prophetic Puzzle MAY have just been discovered.
I have just one more interesting potential date revelation that also points directly to Pentecost, May 26--27th, of 2012. Many who believe in the timeline of the Fall of 2008, to the Fall of 2015, as the Final 7 Years, use Sept. 29, 2008, rather than Oct. 29, 2008, as the starting date. This is the day the U.S. stock market fell over 777 points in one day, an all-time record. The fact that this day is also Feast of Trumpets makes it even more interesting, and intriguing. Many Prophecy students have shown how the Fall of 2008, to the Fall of 2015, is a Sabbatical cycle, greatly increasing the chances for this to be the correct timeline, for the Final 7 Years.
A Sabbatical cycle MUST start on the Jewish New Year, Trumpets, and end on the same day of the year, Trumpets, 7 years later. So, if a Final 7-Year countdown began on Trumpets, Sept. 29, 2008, by adding the 1335 days (Double Reference Principle?) of Dan. 12: 12, we arrive EXACTLY AT FEAST OF PENTECOST, MAY 26--27, 2012!!!
So, the X FACTORS of Day 1290 and 1335 point us DIRECTLY TO FEAST OF PENTECOST, MAY 26--27, 2012, running frontwards, and running backwards. I am not ruling out any day in May or June of this year. The deadline remains June 25--26th of this year. But, by far, the bulk of the evidence, in my opinion, SEEMS TO BE POINTING DIRECTLY TO PENTECOST, MAY 26--27th, OF THIS YEAR!!!
I feel led to close this post, with Scriptures that point directly to the backslidden, compromising, worldly, and lukewarm Christians, who might be reading this. Revelation, Chapters 1--3, also do not bode well for this type of Christian.
!st John 2:15--17 gives the end-times Christian, a stern, and compelling warning, when it says, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. and the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he who does the will of God abides FOREVER."
WHAT AN EXTREMELY EXCITING TIME TO BE ALIVE AND SERVING THE LORD! ARE YOU READY???
Ron Reesergreese49@aol.com
Ron Reese (8 May 2012)
After three and one-half long years of end-time Bible Prophecy ministry for me, it is finally coming to an end. Quite simply, the Great Tribulation HAS to begin in May or June of 2012, if the 2008--2015 timeline, is God's timeline. The 1260-day periods of the reign of the Antichrist, the ministry of the two witnesses, and the fleeing to the wilderness (Petra?), of the Jewish remnant, simply HAVE to begin in May or June of this year.
To fully comprehend this message, reading Part 1 and Part 2, are an absolute MUST. They are linked, in order, below:http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2012/ronr52.htm
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2012/ronr54.htm
In Part 1, we learned how the answers to the timing of the Rapture, and the Start of the Great Tribulation are found in Daniel 12. In Part 2, we learned how all of the Biblical evidence dovetails to one particular date for the END DATE OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. That date is Dec. 6--7, 2015. All evidence seemingly points to this date to be the date of:
1. The Battle of Armageddon.
2. The End Date of the Great Tribulation.
3. The End of Days in Daniel 12.
4. The End of the 1335 Days from Apr. 11, 2012, which is the proposed mid-point Date of the Final 7 Years.
5. The anniversary date of Pearl Harbor.
6. The End Date of the 120-year Noahic countdown, EXACTLY to the very day. This 120--year (Prophetic years) Noahic countdown began on Aug. 29, 1897, when the very first Jewish Congress was established. This truly is an astounding calculation. The number 120 means DIVINE PERIOD OF PROBATION.
7. The anniversary date of the laying of the foundation of the original Temple.
8. The probable date for the beginning of the Millennial Reign of Christ (in His New Temple). How perfectly appropriate!
9. Hanukkah Eve. Hanukkah is the historic miraculous Rescue Time of Israel, pointing us to the Battle of Armageddon, when God miraculously Rescues the nation of Israel once again from Sudden Destruction, at the hands of the armies of the world. Dec. 6--7, 2015, is the absolute PERFECT FIT.
10. Kislev 24, the day of the year referred to THREE TIMES in Haggai 2, as an extremely important day in end-time Bible Prophecy (Read all about it in Part 2).
11. The Final Day of the 2008--2015 timeline.
THAT IS A WHOLE LOT POINTING TO ONE PARTICULAR DAY!!! What are the odds that all of these end-time Bible Prophecies culminate on the VERY SAME DAY by sheer coincidence???!!! That is why I believe we should call KISLEV 24, HANUKKAH EVE, DEC. 6--7, 2015, GOD'S PRE-DESTINED DAY OF DESTINY FOR THE WORLD!!!
These 11 markers for the LAST DAY OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION are the reasons why it was important to establish the Final Day, before attempting to discover the 1st Day of the Great Tribulation. That is why you really need to read Part 2, before reading any more of Part 3.
In Part 2, we focused entirely on Day 1335 (of Dan. 12), the Ending Date of the Great Tribulation. ALL evidence puts that day at Kislev 24, Hanukkah Eve, Dec. 6--7, 2015. Today's post focuses on Day 1290. We read in Daniel 12:11, "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days."
Day 1335 is an X FACTOR in attempting to establish the time, and timing, of the Great Tribulation and the Rapture. Day 1290 is also an X FACTOR. There are different directions we can attempt to go with the 1290 days and the 1335 days. As I mentioned in Parts 1 and 2, God VALIDATED Apr. 11, 2012, by making it a MEGA-EARTHQUAKE DAY, as the mid-point day of the Final 7 Years.
NOTE: Reuters report on the internet about the April 11, 2012 mega earthquake twins which struck Sumatra on the same day of magnitudes 8.6 and 8.2; I was shocked to read them quoting a geologist about how rare this event actually was-in fact, it was a once in 2,000 year event!!
We added 1335 days to this mid-point pre-destined date, to arrive at Dec. 6--7, 2015. There are at least ELEVEN major things pointing to that day, in, what I believe, is God's pre-ordained timeline, as we just pointed out.
I believe the evidence presented above for Dec. 6--7, 2015, to be the LAST DAY OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION IS EXTREMELY COMPELLING, AND PROBABLY CONCLUSIVE. So, to arrive at the Start Date of the Great Tribulation, do we back up 1290 days, as per Dan. 12:11, or do we back up 1260 days, as most Bible Prophecy students do? Only Progessive Revelation will tell us for sure. Some say that the last half, or the Great Tribulation, is 1260 days. Others say it is 1290 days.
I am not going to draw a conclusive deduction for you today. If we back up 1260 days from Dec. 6--7, 2015, we arrive at June 25--26, 2012, for the Start Date of the Great Tribulation. If we back up 1290 days from Dec. 6--7, 2015, we arrive at May 26--27, 2012. In my opinion, the Final Day Date of Kislev 24, Hanukkah Eve, Dec. 6--7, 2015, is a FIXED DATE. With at least ELEVEN things pointing to this very date, it simply CANNOT be moved. This is NOT an approximate date.
This means that one of the above two dates will become the Starting Date of the Great Tribulation. In God's eyes, it is a FIXED DATE. It cannot be moved. It cannot be an approximate date. June 25--26, 2012, is the LAST DEADLINE DATE. In my opinion, the Great Tribulation MUST start, NO LATER than this date. We have three 1260-day timelines, mentioned above, that simply MUST begin by this date.
These three 1260-day timelines could all start on the same date. My guess is that at least two of them will start at the same time. Any of these 3 timelines could start today, or any day between now and June 25--26th of this year. The Rapture/Sudden Destruction could also take place any day between now and June 25--26th. The Rapture, as we all well know, remains the Mystery Day. What is fascinating, and intriguing, is that if we back up 1290 days from the proposed Final Day of the Great Tribulation of Dec. 6--7, 2015, we arrive at May 26--27, 2012, WHICH IS FEAST OF PENTECOST!!!
If you are a serious student of Bible Prophecy, I do not have to detail everything that is pointing to May 26--27, Feast of Pentecost, this year. The pertinent posts on http://www.fivedoves.com/ , the past few weeks, have been numerous, and excellent. It may very well be our long-awaited pre-destined day. I encourage you to research, and read several of these accounts. I just want to point out, and emphasize six things, out of the many, that seem to be pointing to Pentecost, May 26--27, 2012:
1. The most respected, and most read, Bible Prophecy scholar of our time, in my opinion, was the late J.R. Church. Every year, he would vacillate between Feast of Trumpets and Feast of Pentecost, as to the probable time of the Rapture of the Bride. As far as I know, he never did make up his mind, which Feast Day he favored more. If someone of his stature, had such a high regard for this Prophetic Feast Day, you and I should sit up and take notice of Feast of Pentcost as a high potential Rapture Day of the year.
2. There is so much typology that seems to point directly to Feast of Pentecost as a real potential day to be the Day of the Rapture. Some of the recent posts on 5 Doves, have been deep, relevant to this particular year of 2012, and frankly quite astounding. The evidence for Pentecost this year is becoming more compelling as we move closer to that date.
3. It is truly fascinating that Enoch, who was our "type" of Rapture, as he was Raptured BEFORE THE SUDDEN DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD IN NOAH'S TIME, WAS BORN ON PENTECOST AND WAS RAPTURED ON PENTECOST. I believe also that Enoch and Elijah, the only two persons who were Raptured and never died, will be the two witnesses. God had to take them for a specific purpose. It is unlikely that he only took TWO by coincidence, the same number as the number of witnesses in Revelation, especially when Elijah is a near-unanimous choice to be one of the two witnesses.
God started the Church Age on Pentecost. Will He choose to end the church age on Pentecost, just as Enoc's life started, and ended, with his Rapture, on Pentecost? Enoch is a type of our Rapture. It seems like a very good possibility, especially in light of the mounting evidence for our potential Rapture to be on Pentecost, 2012, that God may have established the pattern with Enoch, who was Rapture at age 365, the number of days in a year. Was the Lord trying to tell us to look for the same day of the year as Enoch's Rapture?
4. There is a potential 7-day warning, just like Noah received, in the total solar eclipse on May 20th, 7 days before Feast of Pentecost, May 26--27th.
5. In Part 1, we learned that Daniel 12 gives us the answer to the timing, and the time, of the Rapture. Backing up 1290 days (Dan. 12:11) from the proposed Final Day of the Great Tribulation, Dec. 6--7, 2015, takes us EXACTLY to Feast of Pentecost, May 26--27th of this year.
6. More specifically, Daniel 12:11 MAY point us directly to Pentecost, May 26--27, 2012, as the Day of the Rapture. Details to follow below.
Other dates that are being mentioned often, as potential Rapture dates, in May and June of this year, include:
1. 2nd Passover Week, from May 6th through May 13th.
2. May 11th is Day 1290 from the Start Date of the Final 7 Years, Oct. 29, 2008.
3. May 14th, is Israel's 64th birthday. 64 is 8 X 8. Eight is the number of new beginnings.
4. May 17th, Ascension Day, the day of the year when Jesus ascended to Heaven.
5. May 20th, the day of the total solar eclipse.
6. Several other days have been suggested in early to mid-June.
7. June 25--26th. It seems to be God's pattern to take everything right to the last possible moment. In my opinion, June 25--26, 2012, is the last option for the starting date of the Great Tribulation. It appears that this, therefore, should be our last option for the Rapture/Sudden Destruction, for the 2008--2015 timeline.
8. Any day in the remainder of May, and up until June 25--26th. In other words, in a day when you think not. Many would choose this option.
Now I would like to present to you something BRAND NEW. In Part 1, we emphasized that Daniel 12 held the KEYS TO THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE AND THE START OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. In my opinion, in these three posts, we have shown the very likely date of the END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION AS KISLEV 24, HANUKKAH EVE, DEC. 6--7, 2015. This would seem to establish either June 25--26, 2012, or Pentecost, May 26--27, 2012, as the starting date of the Great Tribulation, depending on whether the Great Tribulation is 1260 days, or 1290 days.
But perhaps we can narrow down the potential Rapture Date to one day. If my interpretation of Dan. 12 is correct, we MAY be able to do that. I am suggesting to you that Dan. 12: 11--13, the Final 3 verses in Daniel, hold the key to the timing of the Rapture. They read as follows, "And from the TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE IS TAKEN AWAY, and the abomination of desolation set up, THERE SHALL BE A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS (1290 DAYS). Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days (1335 days). But go thou thy way TILL THE END BE: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot AT THE END OF THE DAYS."
I am suggesting to you that THE TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE IS TAKEN AWAY is referring to the DAY OF THE RAPTURE. The Lord looks at us as a DAILY LIVING SACRIFICE. We read in Romans 12: 1, "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, which is your reasonable service."
The phrase, "IS TAKEN AWAY", could easily be referring to the Day the Bride of Christ "IS TAKEN AWAY". The phrase in Dan. 12, that says, "THE TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE IS TAKEN AWAY", COULD ACTUALLY BE REFERRING TO THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE, WHEN THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO MAKE THEMSELVES LIVING SACRIFICES, ARE TAKEN AWAY TO HEAVEN.
Sherry Vance goes into great detail, and does an excellent job, in the following posts, of showing how there does NOT have to be a rebuilt temple for the Antichrist, nor animal sacrifices by the Jews during the Great Tribulation. She shows us, using many good Scriptures, how the DAILY SACRIFICE is referring to Christians, and not animal sacrifices:http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2012/sherryv112.htm
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2012/sherryv120.htm
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2012/sherryv117-1.htm
Two events are mentioned in verse 11:
1. The daily sacrifice is taken away (the Rapture).
2. The Abomination of Desolation is set up. For the purpose of this discussion, it is irrelevant what this event actually is.
I am further suggesting to you that these two events are NOT 1290 days apart, which is the common interpretation. I am suggesting to you that the proper interpretation is that the daily sacrifice being taken away (the Rapture), and the Abomination of Desolation being set up, take place on the same day. Then 1290 days from these two events on the very same day, a 3rd event, or Scriptural Day, takes place. The next two verses tell us when this is:
1. Verse 13 tells us these two same-day events take place "till the end be" (the end of the day count).
2. Verse 13 tells us that these two same-day events take place "at the end of the days (at the end of the day count)".
3. Verse 12 tells us when "the end of the days (the day count)" is: 1335 days.
4. Verse 11 tells us these two same-day events take place 1290 days from "the end of the days ( the day count of 1335 days)".
I believe, if you study Dan. 12: 11-13 carefully, you will come to the same conclusion. It is really the only interpretation, in light of where we are at, at this late stage of the Final 7--Year timeline, from 2008--2015, that makes any sense.
So, if we are interpreting these last three verses of Dan. 12 correctly, we just subtract 1290 days from Kislev 24, Hanukkah Eve, Dec. 6--7, 2015, to arrive at the Day of the Abomination of Desolation, and Day of the Rapture. THIS WOULD MAKE MAY 26--27TH, FEAST OF PENTECOST, THE DAY OF THE RAPTURE!!!
In light of everything else presented in this post, this is extremely exciting, and perhaps enlightening, news. One more giant piece of the Prophetic Puzzle MAY have just been discovered.
I have just one more interesting potential date revelation that also points directly to Pentecost, May 26--27th, of 2012. Many who believe in the timeline of the Fall of 2008, to the Fall of 2015, as the Final 7 Years, use Sept. 29, 2008, rather than Oct. 29, 2008, as the starting date. This is the day the U.S. stock market fell over 777 points in one day, an all-time record. The fact that this day is also Feast of Trumpets makes it even more interesting, and intriguing. Many Prophecy students have shown how the Fall of 2008, to the Fall of 2015, is a Sabbatical cycle, greatly increasing the chances for this to be the correct timeline, for the Final 7 Years.
A Sabbatical cycle MUST start on the Jewish New Year, Trumpets, and end on the same day of the year, Trumpets, 7 years later. So, if a Final 7-Year countdown began on Trumpets, Sept. 29, 2008, by adding the 1335 days (Double Reference Principle?) of Dan. 12: 12, we arrive EXACTLY AT FEAST OF PENTECOST, MAY 26--27, 2012!!!
So, the X FACTORS of Day 1290 and 1335 point us DIRECTLY TO FEAST OF PENTECOST, MAY 26--27, 2012, running frontwards, and running backwards. I am not ruling out any day in May or June of this year. The deadline remains June 25--26th of this year. But, by far, the bulk of the evidence, in my opinion, SEEMS TO BE POINTING DIRECTLY TO PENTECOST, MAY 26--27th, OF THIS YEAR!!!
I feel led to close this post, with Scriptures that point directly to the backslidden, compromising, worldly, and lukewarm Christians, who might be reading this. Revelation, Chapters 1--3, also do not bode well for this type of Christian.
!st John 2:15--17 gives the end-times Christian, a stern, and compelling warning, when it says, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. and the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he who does the will of God abides FOREVER."
WHAT AN EXTREMELY EXCITING TIME TO BE ALIVE AND SERVING THE LORD! ARE YOU READY???
Ron Reesergreese49@aol.com
Laws That Govern Us and the Universe
Rom 1:19-20. Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
You, me our children, all things, where made for a reason and for a purpose, deep inside we know this, and why we tell our children like, can we really look upon a new born child and say there is no God. We are without excuse.Laws That GovernWe also see Gods workings in the laws which govern our universe all the stars, planets and moons, indeed every celestial body go about their courses in accordance to the laws of gravity and maybe some dynamic laws we know nothing or little about. We also see a law of sowing and reaping, Be not deceived; (Gal 6:7 God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap) we see this in our environment if we disrupt this harmony (break these laws) which governs our physical world we reap many harmful side effects, we have become in debt to these laws.
Like the laws that govern our physical world, so are there laws which govern our moral and ethical world, we know intrinsically that we should not murder, steal, commit adultery, bare false witness, lie, etc The bible says even though we may not have been raised in these laws we do by nature the things contained in the law, these show the work of the law written on our hearts, our conscience also bearing witness to the fact. Rom 1:14-16.
Our Standards vs Gods
We often judge ourselves, our actions, our behaviour, what we say, and how we live etc by our own standards. Often when we use our own standards to measure ourselves we look pretty good, especially when we compare ourselves with others, like Adolph Hitler and other murderers, rapists, bank robbers etc, I use to do the same, and wrongly still do quiet often, if we are honest with ourselves you would say the same like wise. To see ourselves in true light we must examine ourselves by Gods perfect law, which is not tainted or prejudice like our standards.
This little story illustrates this for us; a little girl remarked to her mother how clean some sheep looked against the green grass. Then, as snow began to fall, this same girl noticed how dirty the sheep looked against the white snow. The background made all the difference.
If you and I judge ourselves using the background of human standards, we come up quite clean. We can find plenty of people who are worst than us. The average person as said before looks almost pure compared to an Adolph Hitler. God however will not judge us using human standards, but by the absolute standard of His Law, the Ten Commandments.
Until the snow fell, the little girl didn’t know what real purity was.
You, me our children, all things, where made for a reason and for a purpose, deep inside we know this, and why we tell our children like, can we really look upon a new born child and say there is no God. We are without excuse.Laws That GovernWe also see Gods workings in the laws which govern our universe all the stars, planets and moons, indeed every celestial body go about their courses in accordance to the laws of gravity and maybe some dynamic laws we know nothing or little about. We also see a law of sowing and reaping, Be not deceived; (Gal 6:7 God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap) we see this in our environment if we disrupt this harmony (break these laws) which governs our physical world we reap many harmful side effects, we have become in debt to these laws.
Like the laws that govern our physical world, so are there laws which govern our moral and ethical world, we know intrinsically that we should not murder, steal, commit adultery, bare false witness, lie, etc The bible says even though we may not have been raised in these laws we do by nature the things contained in the law, these show the work of the law written on our hearts, our conscience also bearing witness to the fact. Rom 1:14-16.
Our Standards vs Gods
We often judge ourselves, our actions, our behaviour, what we say, and how we live etc by our own standards. Often when we use our own standards to measure ourselves we look pretty good, especially when we compare ourselves with others, like Adolph Hitler and other murderers, rapists, bank robbers etc, I use to do the same, and wrongly still do quiet often, if we are honest with ourselves you would say the same like wise. To see ourselves in true light we must examine ourselves by Gods perfect law, which is not tainted or prejudice like our standards.
This little story illustrates this for us; a little girl remarked to her mother how clean some sheep looked against the green grass. Then, as snow began to fall, this same girl noticed how dirty the sheep looked against the white snow. The background made all the difference.
If you and I judge ourselves using the background of human standards, we come up quite clean. We can find plenty of people who are worst than us. The average person as said before looks almost pure compared to an Adolph Hitler. God however will not judge us using human standards, but by the absolute standard of His Law, the Ten Commandments.
Until the snow fell, the little girl didn’t know what real purity was.
If we are honest with ourselves we will acknowledge that we have broken at least some of Gods Laws if not by deed then by thought, we see the out workings of this and the consequences it produces in our lives and through out the world. The order of the universe shows us that if we break a law we are in debt to it, to say otherwise would be to live in denial.
Debt Free
How do we restore this harmony become debt free to the law? You may try to be a better person pray, fast, meditate, go to church feed the poor, but still be in debt, these things can be commendable but often only leads us to self righteousness (I’m not as bad as so and so because I do, or I’ve done, or I don’t do. Every person, you, me whether priest, monk, saint, butcher or baker the whole of humanity are in the very same predicament bankrupt and in debt to the law.
What must we do? How can we receive payment for our debts? We all have to go to the same person, one who is debt free, one who can and has paid our debts in full, one who can stand in your place, one who never broke the law on your behalf, one who lived perfectly by the law on your behalf, one who was able to place your debts upon himself and pay the ultimate price death itself on your behalf, putting to death your debts by his life and death, fulfilling Gods Laws, His universal and just requirements.
When we go to the philosopher and all the other religions of the world and ask what must I do to find peace with God they will tell you to do this, do that and the other, true religion that is found in the pages of the bible says it is done, Jesus has done it, on our behalf, before the law we are found guilty, sentenced and held captive, Jesus pays our ransom price to set us free by the payment of His life (living his life 100% obedient to the law on our behalf) By His death ( shedding his blood for our debts dying the death we deserved) By His resurrection from the dead for us( For He had no sin. The law and death had no legal hold over him. And now we can with Him be raised to new life, all our debts passed, present and future having been paid for, and now settled, we are no longer under the law and in debt, but under the law of Grace.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. You must turn your faith and trust in yourself to try to get right standing with God, which only leads to self righteousness, and put your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and what he has done, to give us right standing and peace before God and His just and perfect law.
By grace you are saved (forgiven, saved from eternal death) by faith; and that not of yourself (not based on anything you have done), lest anyone should boast, it is the free gift from God.Heavenly CitizenshipPhilippians 3:20
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
I would like to start by sharing with you this illustrative story about a young family, The husband and wife where Australians living over seas, now they had a little child while living abroad, not long after the baby was born they went back to Australia, now the child grew up only knowing the Australian way of life.
He spoke like an Australian, acted like an Australian. He liked the same kind of foods, liked the same kind of sports, he had the same ideals as an Australian like a fair go for every one. To look and to talk to this young man, you would think he was an Australian, not at all dissimilar to you and me, or that of the many other people that call Australia home.
Now I ask you, was this man an Australian, no, no he wasn’t!
We might except him as an Australian, afford him certain rights, and privileges, and so on, but he isn’t nor ever was, you see this young gentleman, had never become a citizen, a citizen of Australia, a legal citizen, with the full legal rights of an Australian citizen, the rights that anyone who has been born here, is fully entitled to, by the sovereign authority of this country.
He could, we could, call him an Australian, but not in the full legal sense of the word.
Now there are some similarities, in becoming a citizen of a particular country, as there is in becoming a citizen of heaven, a citizen of the heavenly home that God has prepared, for those that are called according to His purpose. There are people here today that are citizens of heaven, that have been redeemed, and purchased, by the blood of Jesus. And there are some who have no interest in Jesus and Heaven, and there are some who have never really thought through such things.
But when it comes to such matters as your eternal destiny there will be no rest for you, until you’re conscious is satisfied, that you have exhausted all avenues, for no matter how hard you may try to ignore what God has put on your heart, consciously or subconsciously, it will always be a bother to you. Let’s have a look at scripture, to see another one of these great witnesses, God has put on the hearts, of men and women about such things.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
Because eternity has been placed on your heart, is why it plays so heavily on our conscience, because it wants know where you will spend it. And the last two types of people we shall look at are those among us today who believe they are citizens of heaven, citizens of the body of Christ and of His church but are not. And the last embodies a large array of people, who believe they have a heavenly home that awaits them, and they shall enter because, of what they have or haven’t done, they believe the scales have been weighed in their favor, and basically the good they have done, out weighs the bad, this is the case for many people who call themselves Christians and for many who don’t.
There are many people like this young man in our story, he was born to Australian parents lived out most his life in Australia, and truly thought he thought he was an Australian, and thought his citizenship was assured, but mere thinking doesn’t guarantee nor ever would, make him Australian.
1) You may have been born to Christian parents but this doesn’t make you a Christian.
2) You may of gone to church all your life, bible studies prayer meetings, volunteered for various church duties, no my friends this doesn’t make you a Christian, a citizen of heaven.
3) You may pray to God or read your bible every day, maybe three or four times a day or more. But, no my friend this doesn’t make you a citizen of heaven.
4) You may put your trust in your church your pope your creeds your traditions, you may say to me I was baptized by my church by the priest, by my minister as a baby; surely I’m a Christian, a citizen of heaven. Now some of these things are good things,
To pray, read Gods word, fellowship, but no, none of these things, make you a Christian, or even a good person.
My dear friends no where in the bible, will you find, that any of these things makes, you a citizen of heaven. Like in our story the young man sounded, looked, walked and talked like an Australian, he even thought and believed he was an Australian but he was not. No he was missing one vital thing, citizenship. An, in full, legally binding citizenship that nothing, nor anyone, could take from him.
I know many here rejoice in their hearts, for they know they are heaven bound, that they have a heavenly citizenship. I hope in what is said here today, will greatly, encourage you, to appreciate more deeply all that you have in Christ, and to help you reflect upon, where you have come, and where you are now, and where you are destined in Christ. I pray that anyone who has not yet will now consider this heavenly home, a place of rest, when we shed this mortal coil. Where righteousness, peace and joy reside where there will be no more death, sickness envy or strife when God Himself will wipe away every tear from your eye.
Rev 21:1-4 Rev:22 1-4
I hope you are saying right now to yourself, how I can become a citizen of heaven, Oh how can I partake of this mysterious and divine, heavenly calling. Well for you, it is not unlike what this young man must do. For him to get citizenship, he must go to the authority of that nation.
As with you, you to must go to the authority of that heavenly kingdom, to the ruler and maker of the heavens and the earth, you to must go to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, you to must go, to the only name, under heaven and on earth, given unto men by which it is given to be saved by, you to must go, go to the name above all names, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Almighty Lord, and Saviour of men.
A Word of Warning
Do not try and do what some do, and try and cross that vast expanse that separates us from that heavenly home. Well in truth we all have tried, or are trying, to do this very thing, and that is, to try and cross the celestial ocean, to the heavenly shore, under their own steam, they hoist their sails, and say, I will make it on my own, but what they really say is they wish to do it on their own terms, by their own standards by their own set of rules.
How self deceived they have become, for the sails they set, are no more than sails, of a proud and boastful self righteousness, they flatter themselves and say my good deeds will see me across this ocean; they wipe their lips and say I have done no wrong, the scales are weighed in my favor. Oh how the pride of life, and of their own ability, blinds them to the ill sails they have hoisted, In fact if only their eyes where truly opened, they would see that the sails they hoist are riddled full of holes, unable to hold any wind, any wind that might take them closer to that favored shore.
For even if they could catch, and hold any wind, it will do them no good, for even the slightest wind, that they may blow, into their sails, is of an unfavorable wind, for it is the wind that bares witness against us, it is the wind filled with the foul stench, the stench of vile things, that our God given conscience brings forth from the corners of our mind, where you have tried to hide and suppress them.
Lets turn to. John 3:19-21
To see why men hide from Gods Light.
19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
This wind is the wind of our iniquities, the stench of pride, jealousies, hatred, envy, blasphemy, the wind of rebellious contempt, for any, of Gods ways. Their sails barely flutter, in that foul wind, filthy and torn they are, and of no use at all, only are they fit for the fire. Lets see what Isaiah says our good works are like.
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.
What an ignorant and contemptible thing it is to raise such sails, these filthy rags of our self righteousness, Oh the vanity of man, how quick are we to raise them up the mast, of our foolish pride. Many have flown, such vain things, before the Lord Jesus Christ, who sees all, and to whom nothing, is hidden. in his sight. It is a serious delusion to think He does not see all.
Oh man, when will you get wisdom when will you get understanding, for if you ignore the Lord this day, and depart this world with out Him, in the day of your reckoning, in the day of your eternal voyage is about to depart, it will be a day of such calamity for you that you would wish you had never been born.
Let’s see what Divine wisdom will say on that day.
Proverbs Ch 1: 20
The Call of Wisdom
20 Wisdom calls aloud outside;
She raises her voice in the open squares.
21 She cries out in the chief concourses,[b]
At the openings of the gates in the city
She speaks her words:
22 “ How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.
23 Turn at my rebuke;
Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.
24 Because I have called and you refused,
I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,
25 Because you disdained all my counsel,
And would have none of my rebuke,
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your terror comes,
27 When your terror comes like a storm,
And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.
28 “ Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.
29 Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the LORD,
30 They would have none of my counsel
And despised my every rebuke.
31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way,
And be filled to the full with their own fancies.
32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them,
And the complacency of fools will destroy them;
33 But whoever listens to me will dwell safely,
And will be secure, without fear of evil.” Oh, who would still dare to venture fourth, you may say to yourselves, but you would be surprised, at how many still do set their sails. For great is the folly and pride of most of us,
for the sin of self righteousness is the sin that deceives us all, and we have all been deceived by it, and we would all continue in it to our doom, unless the Lord himself turn us. For no one can turn themselves, for if you think so, you forget the scripture the heart is deceitful above all else and who can know it,
We see the deception of the heart at the very beginning, that which through, all mankind fell, and that is the lie that the serpent said to Eve, you will be as God if you eat of the fruit and Adams and Eve’s heart did deceive them, and they did eat. And that same lie still deceives, and drives many to this day, to say to themselves, my ship is trust worthy, and I am its captain, I have patched it good, (reformed my ways) and I have arrayed it finely with my good works, and they are on display. Look how it shines in the sun under it’s fresh, new paint, not even a blemish to be seen, it will see me across this expanse, for I can make it, by my own means, to the land, flowing with milk and honey,
No, no, no, my friends the vessel that you speak of, is as described by our Lord Jesus, when he gives reference to the Pharisees robes,, they are all clean on the outside, clean like white washed tombs, but full of dead mans, decaying, bones on the inside. Hypocrites he says. A thin layer of white wash is all you have he says, like your painted decks and hulls of your ill fated ship, the thin coat of paint that tries to hide the rot of sin that has corrupted the whole vessel, a rot that barely holds your weight on the deck on which you walk.
If not for Gods restraining hand your foot would crash through it right now taking you like a cast off anchor, weighed down only by your sin, you will be taken straight to the bottom, of the eternal abyss. But I am the captain of my own ship and a good one, I can drive her in any course I wish, and if it is to a heavenly home then so it shall be. Now to steer a ship you need a good rudder and as the captain you need to know in which direction to steer her too. Now the rudder we do steer our ship by, is the tongue, it is our rudder that steers us through life.
Let’s look at what James says
James Ch 3: 4-6
You see the tongue being such an unruly thing it will not steer our ship in the right direction, Unless Jesus Christ be your Captain the Lord of your life, your tongue will land you shipwrecked upon the rocks, and see now, how many times has it already left you ship wrecked.
You may have like many people, managed to re-float your ship, it’s been done before, but there will come one day a storm so great that no one can with stand it by themselves, and so great will be the wreckage, that you will be unable to salvage any thing. I said, for you can not do anything, there is nothing we can do to save ourselves. But there is one who can, no matter how great the disaster, no matter how great the wreckage of ones life is, no matter what we have done in this life, no matter how great the mischief we have inflicted on ourselves, and on that of others, God forgives all that come to Him.
In John Chapter 3 of Gods word.
We see a Pharisee a Hebrew spiritual leader named Nicodemus he goes to see Jesus. Jesus begins talking to Him of a new birth, first we are born of flesh, of or earthly parents, Jesus says here we must be born again, but this time, be His spirit, For it is only by His Spirit can we see let alone enter in to heaven, for flesh and blood do not inherent eternal life. Only by the spirit and workings of God, and His divine sovereignty, good pleasure and will do we attain citizenship.
You may ask how I can be born again into the kingdom of God. Only God can do this and he does, but first God says we must repent of our sins, and in that, it is also good to repent of the things we might think make us except-able to Him, For it is only what Christ has done, that can make us except-able to Him, Only by Christ’s Righteousness and not ours are we made except-able to Him,
Only by his life and by his death upon the cross, the shedding of His blood for our sins, and His resurrection from the dead, that any of us can be saved. Only when we put our faith and trust solely in the works of Christ in obtaining a right standing, on our behalf, before God, can we say I am born of God, and my heavenly citizenship, my eternal peace and joy, is secured in Him forever, glory, glory, glory for ever amen.A Letter to Pastors and Elders,Dear Friends,
I trust that this letter finds you well. I know we would be hard pressed to say that life is hard, God having us born into such a blessed country, even though it is not without its trials and challenges.
I’m writing this because I’ve been impressed upon of late by God I believe to send this letter and literature to you and others in the hope that it may be a blessing to you.
What has been such a blessing to me and so many countless others directly and indirectly over the centuries are the great teachings of the bible that have always been held to dearly by a remnant from the very beginning, and so gloriously brought to light when the world was in such darkness, superstition and ignorance, being held captive of such things, predominately by the catholic church, these great teachings being, the liberating biblical truths of the reformation.
We so often over look, and are yet are so richly blessed by the legacy of the reformation and the expounders of these biblical truths. We can not go far with out having to stop and thank God for raising such men as Hus, Wycliffe, Tyndale, Knox, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Bunyan, Owens, Edwards, Whitfield, Wesley, Spurgeon. A list so great it goes on and on, and without God raising up people as such, we would still likely find ourselves to this day, in those dark ages. As you would agree, we stand today, not out of something we have obtained on our own but by the grace of God, who has kept his Word and faithful servants by His power, who have proclaimed His truth through all so many persecutions and imprisonments, having been put to the flame and sword, mocked and tortured, and yet advanced the gospel in such a way that had never been seen since the early church.
Their deep desire to see people set free by the power of the truth revealed in the gospels of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, saw them endure so much, the many laboured hours, candle in one hand and bible in the other, and so many in prayer, a blessed labour that bought us such a rich array of deep, but clear teaching, exposition and expounding of the full council of the Word of God, which we now bask in, Spiritually, Civilly in Governments and Posterity, and for such, we have much to be grateful for.
This leads me to write to you and send you this letter and literature, for I believe that the God given passion, labour, zeal, insight, wisdom and power of the expounding of the full council of Gods Word, that the men, predominantly of this time brought forth, has been so neglected, that we to may fall into a similar state, like many in the world today, who do not realize the blessed conditions of our liberties and freedoms of our society are the direct result of the principals of Christianity, that have been applied to and adhered to in the past. Without the acknowledgment of, and the abandoning of these truths of the bible, as our standard, we will no doubt see more and more error abound in the sense of what’s right and wrong, true and false.
So I’m afraid likewise with us, if we stop looking back to, and drawing upon that rich source, we will continue to witness the watering down of the gospel till when it is no gospel (good news) at all.
What will become of us if we neglect to go to the rich store houses of God which he has laid up for us in His Word? If we neglect to go to the godly teachers that He has raised up over the centuries that have so beautifully displayed these truths for us, so that we to can be all the more wise and discerning, able to rightly divide the Word of God, and in so bring glory and honour to His name.
Sadly I believe we could all say, that with all the spiritual blessings we have in Christ, we see only small flickers present in His body, when there is a blazing fire that shines brighter than a thousand suns in between the pages of His Word waiting once more to be bought forth in Spirit and Truth to burst forth in all their glory.
There have always been enemies of Gods Word, and along with the old there is an abundant of new enemies, one being post modernist philosophies, (which in bases is not new at all) that promote no absolutes, and hence, no one truth, which one truth there can only be. Another is the error which in its various types has even permeated the church and that being, a man centered world view, man as the captain of his own destiny, replacing a God centered world view, of God who is Lord over all with the destiny of man, and all things firmly in his hands. When we examine these errors under the light of scripture, we see how far man has erred from the truth, as scripture says, thinking they have become wise they have become fools.
Therefore I humbly ask of you, please look at the works of these servants of the Lord, of which I have only mentioned but a handful, they spoke with one accord in most every sphere of scripture, and in my most humble opinion, unveil such deep truths that are so God glorifying and so comforting to believers and yet so humbling to the pride of man, so Christ centered and Glorifying to Him and His Name, and yet so flesh withering and disarming to us. And in so doing, insuring that God receive all the Honour, Glory, Power and Praise that rightly and deservingly belongs to Him and Him alone.
I hope and pray that when the full council of Gods Word, the very power of God unto salvation, in all its glory, rings out aloud once more, we may again see revival, which once accompanied, the powerful proclamation of the Word of God Amen.An Open Letter
There are many things which are wrongly associated with true biblical Christianity, such as the false teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and many other such beliefs and traditions of men. God is eternal as is His Word, which has been in written form for thousands of years. Heaven and earth will pass away but His word will remain. No matter what we may think there is absolute truth and it resides in Jesus Christ the Living Word of God. He said I am the Way the Truth and the Life. Jesus is the embodiment of compassion and reason. Quote SM Lockridge, “He is the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this world, He’s the center piece of civilization, He’s unparalleled, He’s unprecedented, He’s the loftiest idea in literature, He’s the highest personality in philosophy; He is Gods Son, He is the only one qualified to be an all sufficient Saviour” end quote, a Saviour which we all need, because we are and will be judged by our character. I say this as a chief of all sinners with an absolute flawed character. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Char-ac-ter, The aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing. Like the laws that govern our physical world the stars and the moons etc , so are there laws which govern our moral and ethical world, we know intrinsically that we should not murder, steal, commit adultery, bare false witness, lie, etc. If we’re honest with ourselves we would say that we have broken if not in body then in thought at least one of these.
God is not mocked we reap what we sow. There is a price to pay; we see the out working of this every day. Our attempts to pay our debts which we are often compelled to do by our conscience can be commendable, but in the end only leads to self-righteousness (I’m not as bad as so and so because I do, or I’ve done, or I don’t do). Every person, you, me whether priest, monk, guru, saint, butcher or baker the whole of humanity are in the very same predicament, bankrupt and in debt to the law. Jesus paid for all our debts (to the laws that govern us) in full by dying the death we deserve. Rather than trusting in yourself and your own righteousness, to give you a clear conscience and right standing with God, which leads to nothing more than self righteousness. We are called to put our faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, in His righteousness and what He has done, to give us right standing and peace with God and His just and perfect law.
By grace you are saved (forgiven, saved from eternal death) through faith; and that not of yourself, it is the free gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast, For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.In Search
I would like to say this is written in good spirit. I’m sure most would agree that we should always endeavor to keep open minds to all the evidence presented from both sides and all sources whether they are from the sciences, religious, philosophical etc in a discussion. As we form our world views we should give our best unbiased thought and time to such. As former evolutionist and atheist I never really heard the other side of the discussion, regarding how many things can be explained as being designed with a purpose. Children being born into a world with a destiny for a reason created with intent. Quote, Calvin Smith “Consider the atheist who has a universe devoid of design, ultimate purpose, and without transcendent meaning or direction. It is irrational by definition” No matter how you look at it the full out working of such a system ultimately is, everything is “Meaningless” I haven’t so far come across a person who brings their children up with this as their basis of life. I believe there is something transcended in us that compels us to invoke in our children a reason and ultimate purpose to it all. Even though I am open to other views and to examine them which I have of many, I have yet to find anything that comes close to the wisdom, knowledge and truth revealed to us by Jesus Christ and the Word of God the bible. I implore any honest seeker of the truth to consider all the evidence. The bible is a good start. The internet (google creation) also has lots about the evidence for a special designed universe, world, you and me.Gods Assurance
One of the most comforting things we can have in life is assurance. It can come in many ways.
If you where a farmer, to have assurance that given a good season, you could be assured of a good harvest. If you where a Builder given good tradesmen you could be assured that your project would meet its deadlines and budgets. The children of Israel where given great assurance by God, that if they kept His commandments they could be assured of entering into the promised land, God would defeat all their enemies that came up against them, and prosper them in all they put their hand to.
We can have complete assurance that, until the end of the age, the sun will once again arise in its place tomorrow. As Christians we can have no greater assurance, than to know that we have been given eternal life, God is able to keep all who are His and not one is lost
Jude 1:24
[ Doxology ] To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—
1st John 5:13 says, "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life."
Eternal – Greek meaning
1) without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be
2) without beginning
3) without end, never to cease, everlasting
Now the gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ died for sinners so that they may have eternal life. Now we, who believe in Jesus for eternal salvation, have received this gift according to His will and good pleasure. We have received a gift, which transcends all other things, in wonder, beauty and majesty, in heaven and on earth that could ever be extolled upon man.
Sadly what we see so much of today, and what is a most impoverishing thing, to the Christians Life, is that many do not understand the totally, unshakable, eternal security, that we have in Christ, and that this unmovable, unshakable assurance of salvation, rests totally in the finished work, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and Him alone. We contribute absolutely nothing, and as the scriptures declare, as we read in.
Ephesians:2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
And to the truly born again Christian if there is nothing we contribute to salvation, and then there is nothing that God will allow, us to do, or happen to us, in all of creation that can take that salvation away.
In the following illustration, scriptures and other I will attempt to show the error or the unfounded doubt in many a Christians understanding, in that they believe that their salvation, their eternal assurance, can be lost, one way or another.
Now if you were feeling quiet ill, and having great concerns for your health, you went and saw your doctor, and after a great barrage of tests, he was to sit you down, and then with great reluctance proceeded to tell you some very bad news, that all the tests had returned a very grave report, showing that you had a terrible disease, and there was nothing he could do for you, and short of a miracle you hadn’t long to live.
Now that is not unlike sin, doctor’s councilors, friends, no medicine change of diet or life, can cure you and not short of a miracle you will surely die, for the law of sin is death. That is the bad news.
Now the doctor sends you home to convalesce. After some time at home you start feeling a little better, but then remembering what the doctor said, that at times you would feel better but eventually you would succumb to your disease, so as you attend your monthly check up, you have no reason at all, to feel positive about your situation. You’re sitting there in the doctors’ surgery wondering just how far the disease has progressed.
The doctor comes into the room with a startled look on his face. He declares that he has some very, very good news for you and begins to tell you, that there is no sign of any of the disease in any of the tests and as far as he is concerned you are fully cured. But he then says, But there is always the possibility though, that it may return and that you may fully succumb in the end, so all he can honestly say, is that it is good news for now, what you might call temporary good news.
Now this is not unlike the supposed good news that is sadly professed by many a Christian today, and what being a lot worse, is what you often hear from many a pulpit today, from men who should now better.
What is the good news they profess that if you turn to Jesus and repent and believe onto Him for salvation that He will wash and cleanse you by His precious blood. Oh free from sin and its curse, eternal life and heaven bound. But they then say, but what, is this not good news or isn’t it. Oh yes it is but, you must be sure that you do not, loose that salvation.
Well I must say along with scripture that, that is not just good news but bad news as well. This so called good news that many profess today, is only good news in part you see, you may be saved from sin and heaven bound today, but who knows what tomorrow may holds for you.
But to anyone of reason, were to give it a little more thought, it is very bad news, for if one where only to find, that at the end of a life of faith in Christ, you where only to loose grip for a second, and fall into the fires of hell, eternal judgment, well that my friend is very bad news.
That is not what our Lord Jesus proclaims, for He never proclaimed a good news in part, oh indeed not, but a GOOD NEWS IN FULL, a Good News in all fullness, to bring all that are called according to His purpose into His fold, for the good news of the gospel is that Jesus is able to save to the utter most, it is an eternal salvation, hence the very word eternal, I give you ETERNAL LIFE, in full, not in part, not a temporary salvation, the gospel is not temporary good news, it is eternal good news, eternal good news to all who hear and receive it by faith. For to say that the gospel is good news but only in part, is a contradiction in terms, for you either have good news or you don’t. Jesus didn’t come proclaiming good news and bad news, pertaining to matters of eternal security and salvation; He has come to proclaim The GOOD NEWS. There is no bad news in it, for all His elect.
We can see in our Doctor, patient, illustration, that this temporary good news, that the doctor has told his patient, is not dissimilar to this error in the understanding of the good news in the gospel, The doctor says, that it is good news today, the tests have all come back clear, The Minister may say to you, believe in Christ today is the day of salvation all your sins have been washed away.
The doctor says, but we can not guarantee of your condition tomorrow. The Minister says but there is no guarantee of your eternal condition tomorrow. Good news with a “but” attached to it, becomes good news with a condition, Just as if you where to say you are saved by Grace “but”, leaves a condition.
God by his grace has shown us Mercy “but” leaves a condition and any of these with a condition attached to them, nullifies the very term.
Grace no longer is grace and mercy is no longer mercy.
So the Good News that Jesus proclaims, especially to all that have been found in Him before the foundation of the world, we can have in no other way.
Let us see now some scripture proofs in regards to this wonderful unconditional truth of eternally assured salvation to all the Father draws unto Jesus. Just before we do I’d like to remind you that these scriptures, we are to look at and many others, the reformers and many believers through out time saw as a testament to Gods Love toward us, and His promise of our eternal assurance rested upon Christ. We can take great comfort that hundreds if not thousands of these God given berean spirited teachers, scholars, theologians, of all walks of life and background again and again testify that, in allowing scripture to interpret scripture it is plan and clear to see that they can be understood in no other way, than as to assure us that our salvation is secured in Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords our great and mighty Saviour.
Philippians 1:6 (New King James Version)
6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
We can have assurance of this very thing, this good thing that God begun this work of our salvation, faith, sanctification all things, all good things pertaining to fullness that is in Christ he will complete it in us until the day of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 12:2 (New King James Version)
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
What a great promise what great comfort we have in these words Jesus is the author, He is the writer of history, HIS- STORY, From beginning to end it is fixed, nothing can be changed, in His story, He has authored our salvation our Faith and in heaven there we are seated nothing can go there and take that away.
Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”[a]
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Hosea 14
1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Luke 15:4 (New King James Version)
4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
As one of God’s flock, and being like all sheep, we are prone to wonder off. Skipping through the hills on our own, oblivious to the hidden snares that can so easily entrap us, and the many pits we can fall into, and of course the ready recognizable wolves that prowl around ready to consume us, and off course the wolves more dangerous to Gods people, the wolves in sheep’s clothing who try to deceive, and lead astray Gods people from sound doctrine, and with their false teachings, go out to entertain them that have itching ears. But as we have just read Jesus does not leave us their he will come looking for us and when he finds us lift us up, and over His shoulders and on them He will carry us back into His fold
• John 6:36
This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
• John 10:29
My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
Now there are many a peril that lie await for a child of God, but as we have Jesus, who is our great Shepard, he will not let us wonder to close, to the many cliffs of danger that abound, and even in all our stubborn and rebellious self willing, in all our wonderings, He will not let us get to close to those cliffs, let alone fall off.
Jude 1:24
[ Doxology ] To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—
