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But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.  – 2 Peter 3:8

Hello reader … this article has a lot of good information about the Revelation 12 sign that appeared in the Heavens on September 23, 2017.  This was the “Great Sign” that heralds the news from God that the “end” of the Church Age is near (the rapture of the Church) and the the remaining 7 years of the Jewish Age is getting ready to “begin” (the Tribulation period/Day of the Lord).  For the latest information about the signs of the imminent Rapture of the Church, click on this article: http://die2live.worthyofpraise.org/rapture-calendar

Come Maranatha Come!  – sung to my Maranatha girl – Juliana  (words and chords)

God is the the Know Man

We are the Watch men

Come Maranatha Come!

 

Happy to go

Happy to stay

Happy do it God’s way

 

We are Here until we Hear!

 

 

Click on the smiley face  to jump to that sign … and then click on it again  to jump back here to the index … but don’t jump to conclusions … be a Berean, read your Bible and investigate the information and claims made here for yourself to see if they are Truth and make up your own mind.  Only you are responsible to answer God for who Jesus is to you.   Blessings – Rogersings

 

 The Bottom Line (fast read option – 3 minutes)

 * Latest Updates and News *

 An Introduction to the Fullness of Time

The Seven Dispensations of God’s Order

The Seven Jewish Feasts of God’s Order

The Seven Thousand Year Timeline of God’s Order

The Exodus Error and Jewish 5777 Calendar Error

 The Revelation 12 Sign on September 21-23, 2017

 Trumpet, Trumpets, Trumpets  and Shouting!

 The Sign of the Bethlehem Star –  the two witnesses

 The Sign of the Great Pyramid – the Christ Angle 26.3%

The Sign of the 153 fishes

The Sign of Jonah – Solar Eclipse  August 21 2017

The Sign of the Jewish Wedding – no one knows the time

The Sign of Planet “X”  – *a false sign but fun reading*

The Sign of Israel today –  the Gog/Magog War

The Sign of Noah –  Mocking, Deception and Division

 Salvation in Jesus Christ – the only way of escape

 The Provocative Conclusion

     
            

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  The Bottom Line (fast read option – 3 minutes)

 

 

OK, here’s the bottom line “fast facts” concerning “the Revelation 12 sign”.

1.  There will be a “once in the lifetime of the cosmos”  configuration of stars and planet in the sky on  September 21-23, 2017 that marks the fulfillment of the “Great Sign” of God written in the book of Revelation Chapter 12.   The Revelation 12 Sign!

2.  Part of the prophecy spoken of in Revelation 12:1-6 will be fulfilled on September 21-23, 2017 and part of the prophecy will be fulfilled at the mid-way point of the Tribulation period, which will occur 3 1/2 years after the appearance of the Great Sign, on March 4, 2021.

3.  The part of the prophecy that will be fulfilled on September 21-23, 2017 is:

(a) the Church, the bride of Christ will be “raptured” to Heaven, “born” to new resurrected bodies.  

 

(b) The Gog/Magog war begins and God miraculously defeats Gog/Magog and defends His chosen children and land, Israel

 

(c) the Antichrist will make a covenant with Israel for seven years and establish a New World Order

4.  The part of the prophecy that will be fulfilled on March 4, 2021 is:

(a) Israel has a Spiritual “born again” awakening and accepts Jesus Christ as their Savior

 

(b) Satan and the fallen Angels will be kicked out of Heaven onto Earth

 

(c) God intervenes and protects Israel in the wilderness for the last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation

5.  Another sign that indicates the rapture of the Church is near is “The 5993 Sign“, which is the evidence that this is the 5,993 year since Adam walked on the earth. You can read more about the 5993 sign in this article.

6.  The real bottom line is that  … Jesus loves you! …  and He wants to have an amazing relationship with you.  Jesus wants to save you from your fears and it is “your sin” that causes you to fear death.  Jesus is the only One who has conquered the grave.  Jesus is the Son of God … He is also equal to God … He is part of the “uncreated” trinity … the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.   Jesus is God in the flesh who was born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, died in your place for your sin on a cross and rose on the third day!  Jesus is the most amazing sign that God exists and He loves us (John 3:16).  Understanding these signs in the Heavens that are declaring the Glory of God and understanding the mathematics of time which declare the wonder of God’s order and design CAN’T save you.  Jesus is the ONLY One who can save you from the penalty of sin and eternal separation from God … Jesus  wants to give you eternal life and Spiritual reconciliation with God.   Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Him – John 14:6.

Here are the ABC’s of the how to be saved:

A – Admit your a sinner

B – Believe Jesus is Lord

C – Call upon His name

(with the mind you believe and with the heart you receive)

7.  If you have accepted Christ as your Savior, “rest” in the assurance and promise that you belong to Christ … you are sealed by the Holy Spirit.  You are “born again” and you can not be unborn Spiritual anymore than you can be unborn physical.  And if you are born again Christian, get ready to meet your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on September 21-23, 2017 face to face and enjoy Him forever!  

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.  – Revelation 22:17

 

This is how you break down the prophecy of Revelation 12.

The interpretation of prophecy according to Arnold Fruchtenbaum is that the scripture of Biblical prophecy can have “Double Reference” but not a “Double Meaning”.  Scriptures are placed together to indicate two different prophecies “each” with it’s own fulfillment but a single scripture does NOT have a “double” fulfillment.

 

Prophecy 1 (P1)   The Rapture of the Church, the man-child, occurs Sept 21-23, 2017.

 

Prophecy 2 (P2)   The Spiritual rebirth of Israel, the born-again child of God, occurs 3 1/2 years later at the mid-way point of the Tribulation, 1260 days later March 4, 2021

 

Rev 12:1-2 (P1)  The sign of the Woman in the Heavens about to give birth to the resurrected Church

 

Rev 12:3-4 (P2)  The sign of the Dragon in the Heavens about to devour Israel, Satan is cast down from Heaven to Earth along with the fallen Angels (1/3 total)

 

Rev 12:5    (P1)  The man-child, raptured to Heaven, the Bride of Christ, the Church

 

Rev 12:6   (P2)  Israel is miraculously protected in the wilderness by God from the Dragon, Satan, the Antichrist

 

So you see Revelation 12 is a “tapestry of prophecy” that is weaved together giving a “Resurrected birth” to the Church and a “Spiritual birth” to Israel.  My analogy is that the woman has twins.

 

No, I’m not crazy … I’m praisey … Rogersings   +8^)  

            

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 *Latest Updates and News* 

“Do not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.” – Hebrews 10:25

If you want to know what God is doing at this time listen to this Church Missler’s video.  Chuck says there is a difference in rewards between the Church Body and the Church Bride.  The entire Church Body will be raptured to Heaven but some will be His Bride who long for His appearing while the rest will be more like the guests who enjoy participating in the wedding.  This is an explanation for why many Christians are unaware of the imminent return of the Groom for His Bride on September 21-23, 2017.  The Bride will co-reign with Christ!  Brothers and Sisters, purify yourself in the Lord so as to not forfeit your crown(s).   

In this video, Chuck Missler discusses the Olivet Discourse and the subtle differences between the Matthew 24 account and Luke 21 account.  Luke remarks about a Desolation of the Temple that occurs “before” the birth pains and sorrows of the Tribulation in 70 AD while Matthew remarks about the Abomination of Desolation that occurs “after” the birth pains and sorrows, at the mid-way point of the Tribulation.  Luke is sharing a message from Jesus that was spoken publicly and applies primarily to the Gentiles, the Church that will be and that is why Luke’s account doesn’t really address the Tribulation period.  While Matthew is sharing a message from Jesus that was spoken to His Disciples privately.  This message that applies primarily to the Jews and gives them information they will need to survive the Tribulation period.  However, there is information in the Matthew account for the Church to come … so you have to rightly divide the world of God to glean the gold of God’s word.

Here is encouraging videos by Brad with Revelation 12 Daily (parts 1, 2 and 3).  Brad’s personal message at the end of Part 3 is very heart felt and echo’s the feelings that I have about sharing the Revelation 12 sign with others.

Scottie who started the discussion gives us an update! 

A short video calling God’s people to repentance, prayer and fasting.

 

I am including this video as “NEWS” to announce the news concerning the depth and wonder of God’s word!  This is  a fascinating study of the Hebrew language.  God “spoke” everything into existence using the Hebrew language, LOGOS.  In the beginning was the word and the word was God.  It didn’t start with the Big Bang folks … it started with the Big Breath! 

 

This Christian brother has the best explanation of God’s order and purpose of the stars and the planets, the Mazzaroth.  It is a blessing to listen to him explain the glory of God that is revealed in the Heavens!

 

And finally a call to Salvation in Jesus Christ … don’t be left behind.  

 

            

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 An Introduction to the Fullness of Time  (the slow read option)

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery– so that you will not be wise in your own estimation– that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;  – Romans 11:25

Does it seem to you that man has walked on the earth for 5,993 years?  Yes, it makes me tired too just thinking about it.  Do you think that life will go on for another 5,993 years but we will just have some high-tech red-neck things like Phasers and Teleportation stations to keep us amused?  Do you think that a day with the Lord is like a thousand years and that the seven days of creation (Genesis 1:1-31 and 2:1) are a mirror of the 7,000 years of creation’s existence?  Have you ever considered that if sinful man will only walk upon the earth for 7,000 years and he has already waked for 5,993 years, that this year is the time that Christ will rapture His Bride, the born again believing Church to Heaven?  Because if you add the seven year Tribulation period and another 1,000 years for the Millennium period that brings you to 7,000 years.  Amazing!

5993 + 7 + 1000 = 7000 years   … the completion of the time for sinful man

Yes, that’s right, I am proposing in this article that this year marks the 5,993 year since creation and therefore this year “2017” is the year of the rapture which will occur on the Jewish feast of Rosh Hashanah on September 21-23, 2017!

Wow, Nelly!!!  At this point all non-believers reading this article have fallen off their chair laughing, while some believers are wondering “what is the rapture?” and the rest of the believers are rebuking me for claiming to know the time of the rapture since “no man knows the day or the hour” ( Matthew 24:36).  Well, if you are able to stop laughing, scratching your head and calling me a heretic for a little while … I implore you to look over the facts I have uncovered before moving on to the #1 YouTube Dog Tease video, that 188 million people have already watched.

What does a dog tease video have to do with this article about the rapture … absolutely nothing … but I want you to know that I have a sense of humor and I’m “not kidding” about the rapture.  I’m not offended by skepticism and doubt, in fact it’s a healthy sign that your faith in Christ is based on verifying a claim that is made, and proving to yourself that the claim matches the reality in the world and it matches the truth of God’s word.  And what I am saying is that the calculations I have made that creation is 5993 years old is based on the reality of time that has been observed by scientist who study the recorded events in the world using the date of 1463 BC for the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt (*see info below for BC/AD 1 year correction) + adding the beginning dates of time that is recorded in God’s word up to the Exodus which is 2513 AM and then adding the date of this year 2017 AD.  

2513 AM + 1463 BC + 2017 AD = 5993 AM !

I’m not crazy … I’m praisey!  I’m praising the Lord that He is coming soon and I want everyone to be on board the ark of His salvation when He comes.  I am not a prophet of God like the kind that walked the earth during the Old Testament time or like the apostles of Jesus time who saw visions and heard His voice.  God has not personally spoken to me and said that September 21-23, 2017 is the day He is coming to rapture the Church.  Yet, in some sense God has spoken to me through the revelation of His word, the reasoning of His order and the manifestation of His “Great Sign” in the Heavens.

Think about it, “math, logic and the stars” are the universal language of all people

I am a born-again man of God and I do enjoy studying God’s word, especially the third of His word that is about prophesy both that which has been fulfilled and that which has yet to be fulfilled.  I enjoy writing about the truth of God’s word exposing lies in the world.  I haven’t made any money on this research or any other material on my web site “die2live”.  By the way, I’m not against making money by writing and witnessing for God, for God’s word says that a servant is worthy of his wages (1 Timothy 5:18).  But you don’t walk toward God based on the premise that it will make you wealthy in this world but based on the promise that you are storing up treasures in Heaven for the time of Jesus’ return!  This is how you walk with God and grow in His grace … you first “step out” in faith with the light of Christ that is on your path and the further along you continue to walk by faith the more the “light of Christ” shines all around you until one day, like Enoch, you walk right into the Home of God.  

There are a lot of “watchmen” for Jesus declaring that this is the year He will come for His bride, the Church, primarily because of the Revelation 12 sign that will appear in the sky on September 21-23, 2017.  And I agree the Revelation 12 sign is a powerful sign that the Lord is coming this year.  And most of the people who are following this sign are like me, they are born again Christians who have been studying the scriptures for many years, seeking to know Jesus and know when He is coming.  And they are not trying to make a name for themselves but they are trying to get people to “look up to God” and “look into scripture” and “look at the evidence” in the sky, “the Revelation 12 sign” that Jesus is coming.  They are sharing the good news of this sign without cost and honestly asking people to look at the sign and join in the discussion.  These are grass root people or “true grass people” like myself, not big name people or TV evangelist but everyday working people like Anna and Simenon who where blessed with the knowledge of their Savior’s arrival … and beheld Him as they held Him …. Oh my.

From my observation, the Christians who are most interested in this topic are those who are  “praisey” like me.  Like me, they enjoy looking into the Bible to see if something is true, they like finding their own answers to satisfy their questioning mind, they like poking holes in explanations (even their own) and being very critical of information so it make sense to them.  They like looking into things they don’t understand and praying to God and being amazed and blessed when God answers their prayers.  They have a hunger to know God, to know who He is and how He works according to His word.  They have a hunger to see Him work in and through their life, their trails and their joy!  And I think those those who are in tune with the signs of the time are those who have a gift of prophecy from the Holy Spirit.

It is discouraging at  time because their brothers and sisters in Christ do not share the joy of this sign and the excitement and joy that it brings!  Some say we are being “fooled” by the reality of the evidence that we have thoroughly examined and verified … which doesn’t make any sense to us.

And have you ever stopped to consider that this is a sign from God too … the 1 Corinthians 1:28 sign?

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,  – 1 Corinthians 1:28

Yes … that’s me … I am a fool for Christ … a living stone on His walkway … and my writing skills are so weak.  I am a computer programmer and choose that line of work because I can’t spell and was always terrible in English class.  I don’t understand why God has chosen me to bring this message but like I said “God uses the weak people and ordinary things of the world to show His glory”.  Let’s take the story of Jesus’ first advent, a baby, born in a manger, no relatives there to greet the newborn King only the parents, the animals, Shepherds in the field “the watchmen”  and of course the Angles singing “Glory Hallelujah”!    

Luke 13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

      14“Glory to God in the highest,
            And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”  

   15When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.”16So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger. 17 When they had seen this, they made known the statement which had been told them about this Child. 18And all who heard it wondered at the things which were told them by the shepherds. 19But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart. 20The shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had been told them.

Don’t you see …  Maranata … He’s coming, Jesus is coming again!   The Bethlehem star that appeared on the day of Christ’s birth in 2 BC on Rosh Hosanna of that year has appeared “again” on June 20, 2015, announcing that our Home in Heaven is ready and Jesus is ready to receive His Bride, the Church!  The House Jesus has been building is ready for His Bride to move in.   

John 14 1“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also

The Bethlehem star this time is the “wedding announcement” before the wedding party arrives on September 21-23, 2017, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God (1 Thessalonians 4:16).  Don’t you see … the wise men did … they saw the the “birth announcement” of Jesus and came two years and three months later to His birthday party, bringing gifts for the King!  Gold to the King, Frankincense to the Priest and Myrrh to the Prophet.   And this time, we are also given 2 years and three extra months to invite people to the wedding feast and bring to the King our gifts of Time, Talents and Treasures that we have committed to Him for His glory!  

Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.  Matthew 22:9

The “Shekinah Glory” appeared in the sky and lead the wise men to the home of Jesus … and guess what He is about to do the same thing again!  The “Shekinah Glory” is going to appear again, in just a few days, and take His bride to the our home to be with Jesus.  Come on people, you can’t make this stuff up, you can’t write a love story or an adventure more compelling than the truth about Jesus Christ that is revealed in the word of God …  His love letter to us.  Can you hear the Groom whispering to His Bride “You’re Beautiful” … I’m coming … can you hear Her response to Him “You’re Beautiful”  … Come Lord Jesus, Come Maranatha Come.

I don’t want to annihilate my brothers and sisters in Christ.  I’m being faithful as a watchman for Jesus.  There is an urgent need to tell people about Christ before the restraining influence of the Holy Spirit is snatched up into the air to meet the groom and the darkness of the delusion sets in over the world, darkening the minds of those have rejected the wedding invitation, to the point where they can no longer here.  There is still time … there is still time … a few more days before Jesus comes to tell people about Jesus!

Don’t be blocking and pushing against the door … welcome Jesus back into His church so He can tell this good news to His bride.   Get down on your knees and thank Him for your salvation … thank Him that you won’t have to face the “Day of the Lord” on this earth.  Thank Him with prayers, thank Him with tears, thank Him with joy and let your joy and the smile of your love for Him and His love for you spill over your cup and wet the feet of those who need Him too.

Unfortunately, when I talk to Christians about these Great Signs, I feel like Peter and John who faced criticism and opposition from the Jewish Leadership in their day.  They were told to “stop” preaching the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ, yet even among the unbelieving Jewish Leadership, a Pharisee named Gamaliel recognize that their message could be from God (Acts 5:38-39).  And that’s what I have, a message from God.  But to be honest, this analogy is not exactly fair because I am not being told by Christians to stop preaching the gospel.   As a matter of fact this is the point that many are trying to make “preach the gospel” (2 Timothy 4:2) … so for the most part I have stopped telling people about this sign unless they ask me about it or I sense that God wants me to share the sign with them.  It’s not because I don’t believe the sign is true but because I do believe it’s true and there is something more important to do than telling people about this sign … and that is to pray, pray, pray for the lost souls of this world.   I think this is God’s will for me now.  Blessings brothers and sisters in Christ, I join you in prayer for God’s great harvest of believers!  Maranatha!   

A common quotation that is attributed to Augustine  “in the essentials unity, in the non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”

I am not a “sign” worshiper or one who grasps at signs to make them fit my definition of what I want God to do.  Ironically enough, I was one of the Christian who was criticizing the reasoning of those claiming that the blood moons were the sign that Christ would come in 2014-2015 and the stock market would crash and all the world would end.  The interpretation of this sign was based on the belief of “replacement theology”, that the Church has replace Israel and the Church was under the Jewish laws of the Shemitah.  This of course is a false doctrine.  However, in the case of the Revelation 12 sign, it’s interpretation is based on the word of God and the reality of it’s manifestation in the Heavens!  What I am saying is that before you walk away, do your home work, do your own research, ask God if this is His sign that is spoken of in Revelation 12 and ask Him why is this sign appearing this year, September 21-23, 2017.  Frankly, I think the more people study this Great Sign, the more the evidence is going to reveal that this sign heralds the rapture of the Church and the beginning of the Tribulation period.   And I hope and pray that this sign will be posted everywhere, for all to see so that this watchman is not found guilty of sleeping on duty.

As I said before, this is a “true grass movement” of the Holy Spirit.  It is a movement among God’s people who deeply love Jesus and deeply love His word and they like to deeply dig into the truth of God’s word to prove that what is written is what is observed in the reality of the world.  Just like the reality of Jesus’s life, death and resurrection is a historically proven event that apologetic Christian investigate and celebrate.  The reality that Revelation 12 sign that will appear in the Heavens on September 21-23, 2017 is a proven observable fact that we need to investigate and celebrate.  The Revelation 12 sign is creating excitement within the body of Christ, like a bride that is getting ready to be married to her groom.   And that is what the Church is, the bride of Christ and that is what the rapture is, the moment that the groom comes and takes His bride to the wedding in Heaven.  And this is the exciting news that the trumpets will announce on the feast of Trumpet this year on September 21-23, 2017.

The Holy Spirit movement that is gaining momentum concerning the rapture of Christ’s bride, reminds me in a similar way of the Holy Spirit movement that I believed helped put Trump in the White House.   All the professional politicians “the Political-Pharisees” and the Main Steam Media “the Medianites” laughed in derision over the chance that Donald Trump would win the election.  But Trump appealed to the common person and their desire to work, to feed their family and to lead their family in a Godly way, with Godly values.  The Political-Pharisees and Medianites did everything they could to convince America that Hillary and the agenda of the “Global New World Order” were a done deal but God had something else in mind.

I think God put Trump in the White House against the odds of the world, not primarily to “Make America Great Again” but primarily to expose the lies of Liberalism and give people a few more months to see the truth and come to Christ.   I don’t know if Trump is a born again Christian but I do think he is the man God has chosen to expose the lies of the world.  As far as Biblical characters Trump reminds me most of Samson, but instead of using the jaw of a Jack-ass to silence his enemies, he acts like a Jack-ass using his own jaw to take down the enemies of Freedom.  I pray that Trump is a born again Christian because he ain’t gonna wanna be around “after” the rapture!

I have written about the Revelation 12 sign in this article and I have elaborated about what I believe is the interpretation of the scripture  … spoiler alert … Israel has a “Spiritual Birth” at the mid-way point of the Tribulation and the Church has a “Resurrection Birth” prior to the beginning of the Tribulation period.  Have you ever considered that “the Church” was conceived at Pentecost, not born.  We are sealed with the Holy Spirit the way a baby in a womb is sealed by her mother’s womb.  We are alive in Christ like a baby in the womb is alive.  We know Christ and serve Christ but we don’t have our resurrected body that can move like Christ, after His resurrection.  In a sense, the woman in labor in the Revelation 12 gives birth to twins!

A lot of people are posting information about the Revelation 12 sign but I don’t know of anyone posting anything about “the 5993 sign” and I thought I was perhaps the first … until I discovered that one of my favorite authors, Clarence Larkin stated in his book “Dispensational Truth” that the Lord would rapture His church in the year 5993.  http://www.preservedwords.com/disptruth/contents.htm  And Larkin even hoped that the date of the beginning of creation of 4004 BC was wrong so that he would be raptured in the year that he wrote the book “Dispensational Truth” in 1918 AD.  And not only was Larkin right about the 5993 year being the date of the rapture but he was right about the 4004 BC year being wrong to mark the beginning of creation.  According to my calculations in this article (below) creation began in the year 3976 BC so 3976 + 2017 = 5993.  The 5993 sign!

                               * NEWS ALERT *

I have recently discovered that  German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer,  Johannes Kepler, who is best known for his laws of planetary motion predicted also was a devote Christian and calculated that the beginning of time for Adam was 3977 BC according to this article (click here).  This is actually the correct date to look for, not 3976,r because I forgot that you have to subtract 1 year between BC and AD when you are adding dates.   I found information that Kepler added up the dates in the Bible like I did to come up with this date but I haven’t found his work.  And there are disputes about this date some saying it was 4977 so it’s kind of sketchy evidence.

 

However, there is very strong evidence by Robert A Makar in his book that he wrote in 2009 “The Messiah and His Kingdom to Come:  A Biblical Road Map” that 2017 is the year 5993 AM.  It’s a 200 page book packed with a detail Bible timeline that confirms my finding.  Well, in all honestly his work is much more thorough and compelling than mine (click here to read his book on Google Docs).

 

If you love Godly coincidences like me you will appreciate the fact that Robert A Maker’s initials spell “RAM” the trumpet of God … the horn of my salvation (Psalm 18:2) …  Shofar … so good … is absolutely right!  

To be honest, the more I research the 5993 sign, the more I discover that Christians and non-Christians for hundreds of years have been trying to figure out the actual date that creation began, so they can determine the year 5993.  Of course, I am not talking about humanistic scientist who think the world was created billions of years ago.  To refute their findings, my simple and Godly explanation for the appearance of age in the Universe is that God made the Universe to look fully grown, just He made Adam and Eve, fully grown.  If  you want to know what came first the chicken or the egg … it was the chicken.  But there are a lot of very smart and sincere believers of Christ that spend a lot of time doing archaeological researching to determine dates or researching Jewish customs and traditions to determine dates and then they are sadly disappointed when God does not shown up on time, according to “their time table.   And I will be very disappointed if I am wrong about God showing up this year.

And the uncertainty of predicting dates and the warning of God not to predict dates is the reason why when I bring  up the topic about the 5993 sign or the Revelation 12 sign among my close Christian friends almost all of them react with alarm like I suddenly grew two heads and some are even ready to burn me at the stake.  And I understand why they are skeptical … the “self proclaimed” prophets of today have been 100% wrong about the predicting “the day of the Lord” … at least so far.  But I am not claiming to be a prophet, God has not given me a vision or spoken to me about this sign.  Like I said before, I’m not crazy … I am praisey like Paul.

I asked one of my Christian friend if He believed that a configuration of stars as foretold by Revelation 12 would actually appear in the sky at some point and he said “yes” but  he also said that when the sign occurs it doesn’t imply that a Godly event will occur at  the same time as the sign.  And to a certain extent he is right because the sign that occurs this year, indicates Israel will flee into the wilderness for 3 1/2 years, yet Israel will not flee into the wilderness until the mid-way point of the Tribulation period, which will not occur for at least another 3 1/2 years.  But when you compare the Revelation 12 scripture with other similar scripture a “dual” prophecy is revealed, because in the Revelation 12 scripture there is a child that is “caught up” to Heaven and this child is “the Church” and this prophecy is fulfilled at the appearance of the Revelation 12 sign in the sky!

One fascinating thing to consider about the Revelation 12 sign is that it is really not observable from earth when it occurs on September 23, 2017 because it occurs during the day light time, when the woman is clothed with the sun that is shining brightly behind the constellation Virgo.  And during the time that John had the vision on the Island of Patmos, this sign, if it occurred in the Heavens during his day, probably would not have been recognizable to men on earth because they did not have the technology to view the details of this sign.  Today we have telescopes and satellites and computer programs that let us “watch the sky” from the comfort of our recliner, day or night.  A very popular and free program to download and view the stars is Stellarium, https://stellarium.en.softonic.com/.  

The Revelation 12 sign is given to God’s people today, to give them hope and tell them to sound the alarm that Jesus is coming!  The pattern of stars in the sky that will occur on September 21-23, 2017 is a “once in a life time of the cosmos event”.  This has been confirmed by both Christian and non-Christian astronomers, who have been working independently from one another, over many years.  In their professional opinion, there is “no doubt” that the Great Sign spoken of in Revelation 12 will manifest in the Heavens on September 21-23, 2017.  

The key piece of evidence that you need to examine about the Revelation 12 sign is you need to examine the sky and see if the stars and planet align this year on September 21-23, 2017 as stated in Revelation 12.  Unfortunately, I am not an astronomer.  I’m pretty good at math but I don’t understand the math that goes into calculating the positions of the stars and planets.  This buzz about this Great Sign in the sky this year has both Christian and non-Christian astronomers weighing in their opinion as to whether or not this star alignment is the “unique” one spoken of in Revelation 12.

In order to be fair to astronomers that are NOT in agreement about the Revelation 12 sign occurring this year, here is a good article that refutes the fact that the sign will occur this year or that it is unique in any way  https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/stars/what-will-happen-september-23-2017/.  

In order to be fair to astronomers that are in agreement about the Revelation 12 sign occurring this year, here is a good article that proves that the Revelation 12 sign will occur this year and it is very unique.  http://www.unsealed.org/2017/05/the-celestial-c-section-defense-of.html

And that is why I am writing about the 5993 sign.  I’m trying to bring down the hands from over the eyes and the ears of people and raise them up toward the Heavens.  Hallelujah!  What is God saying to us with this sign today?  Wake up children I’m bringing a  Revival!  Look out children I’m bringing Judgment!  Shut up children there’s nothing going on here!  or Look up children I’m coming to get you!

I’m not claiming to have interpreted some new information like the Da Vinci Code and I am not claiming that the Church (or the nation of America) has replaced the Jews and is subject to the Shemitah and the Jubilees (which, by the way, will occur this year).  I do think the Blood Moons from 2014-2015 were a sign from God’s that foretold the future date of the rapture but obviously they did not occur at the same time as the rapture, like the Revelation 12 sign.  Oddly enough, the number one sign that Jesus is returning soon is an increase in the “deception and lies” in the world.  And I have written extensively about the “fake news” media and the Spy vs Spy mentality of today on this web site.  And who is the king of deception … that’s right it’s Satan … and most of what is happening in the world today plays into Satan’s hand.  All the easy access to information and all the bad information, good information, useless information, harmful information and dis-information are making a giant “noisy” smoke screen of deception that keeps people confused, lost, frustrated and busy pointing their finger at one another instead of pointing the way to Christ.  

In one sense we have business as usual like in Noah’s time before the flood but in another sense we have an unhinged world where a boiling pot is getting ready to boil over.  There is also an increased sense of urgency in the world, an urgent need for people to to declare their cause and cling to their cause as though this is the significance for their life.  Of course this “cause seeking” is just a substitute reaction that people are having because the call of God is upon their heart to claim the “cause of Christ” where their real significance is found.  This world wide agitation is like a “Spiritual Hurricane” that gaining momentum and will soon release it’s Spiritual energy upon the earth.  The world has gone crazy … not praisey!  

God is stirring people to a repentance, prayer and fasting but people are reacting in rebellion, scoffing and doubting.  And it’s hard to hear the Jonah watchmen of today walking in the streets because of all the voices in the street yelling “look at me” while they pose for their “selfie” pictures.  All this racial tension and sexual identity confusion and political tribalism and “victim of life” mentality is just an inner cry to have peace with God.  At the same time the “real threats to peace” like the spread of Islam and the increase in gang violence and decaying morals and an increase in Christian persecution is tolerated and even celebrated.  To me, this is the biggest sign that Christ is coming to judge the world on Sept 23, 2017.

Just turn on the news and listen to self absorbed people yelling in the street to promote their cause …. “over top of” … the other self absorbed people who are yelling in the street to promote their cause … “over top of” … the other self absorbed people who are yelling in the street to promote their cause … I think you get my point.  It’s pure emotional gasoline waiting for the flame of violence to ignite and justify the release of their inner turmoil.  And this to me is an example of the kind of insanity that will be on the earth when the two witnesses of God walk around Jerusalem shooting fire from their mouth … they will be hated by those that don’t support “their” cause.

 

So is this article and this “rapture watching” just more deception that keeps people from seeking Christ or following Christ?  Well, honestly I think the subject of prophecy can distract people.  Prophecy is not an essential  teaching of Biblical teaching, in that a misunderstanding of future events foretold in the Bible will not prevent you from being saved.  The events that are essential to our faith is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ!  So when we take our eyes off the prize of Christ and winning souls to Christ we can get “distracted” from His purpose for us.  For instance, someone writes a book like “Left Behind” and hopes it will be a warning to unbelievers that they need to be receive Jesus as their Savior while there is still time.  But then the book become a best seller and a Block Buster film that depicts the epic battle of good against evil and people kind of discredit and disconnect from the reality of the event and instead of calling on Jesus to be saved, they think it’s just another movie like Star Wars where all you have to do is “use the force, Luke“.

My prayer is that the information I share in this article will draw people to Jesus, not to me or some new sensation or fade.  The underlying concept for my “discovery” is that creation and human history are “logical, ordered and reasoned” from the mind of God.  And I am applying “logic, order and reason ” from my mind to state that this is the year 5,993.  But in all honesty, I’m not sure that my research proves that this is the year 5,993 since I am mainly using other people’s research that I found on the Internet to make my case.  I have forwarded this information to several people who deal with Bible prophecy (more than I do) asking them for their critic and insight into “the 5993 sign” but I haven’t had a response back yet.

I think part of the difficulty of dating history or understanding prophecy is because God has hidden the understanding of prophecy until these last days, just like Daniel said he would.  The words of Jesus that “no one knows the day of the hour except the Father” (Matthew 24:36) was a message given to Jews who did not perceive the cross or the Church or His coming for the Church but we have God’s Spirit and His world to watch and be ready.  Awaken my brothers and sisters to God’s call and His truth.  God alone is the date setter and we who are enlightened to God’s work in the last days are not setting dates but declaring the date that God has set for the “Day of the Lord”.  This is not a time to relax and put your walk with the Lord on “cruise control” as we enter into God’s presence but this is a time to run the ran of faith with even more commitment and put the pedal to the metal and let it roar!

As a matter of fact the most important thing you can do with this information is be a “good Berean” and look into the scripture, see if it’s true and correct me if I’m wrong.  But I have found that most people won’t look into their Bibles or look at my math (below) and verify my references that prove that this is the year 5993 since creation.  And that in itself is another sign that Jesus is coming … the sign of indifference toward Godly things is the sign of Noah’s time.  Yet, to a certain degree people are just overwhelmed with “too much information” and most of it is useless information, so they end up tuning out all information (good and bad) except of course for information that tickles their ear and appeals to their own self interest and self preservation.  But, in a sense this is a sign too of Christ’s coming, the sign of “Global cooling”, where heart of man have become cold and callus toward God and the mind of man has turned soft and can no longer think critically to discern between good and evil (Matthew 24:12).

However, even if this is the year 5,993 that doesn’t prove that Jesus will return this year but I will admit that I am bias toward this conclusion, in that my deepest desire is to be home with the Lord.  Of course this was Paul’s desire too (Philippians 1:23) … yet like Paul, I trust the Lord for His perfecting timing in all things.  The bottom line is that I writing this article because I am compelled by God to know Him better and make Him better known!  

An elderly woman was a faithful churchgoer and an avid reader of the Bible. In fact, the Bible is all she read. A friend asked, “why don’t you read anything other than the Bible?”

 

I can’t, the woman replied. I’m cramming for my finals!

By the way, did you know that September 21, 2017 is the “International Day of Peace” established by the United Nations?   Is this just another meaningless coincidence … or meaningful sign of God’s providence?  http://internationaldayofpeace.org/.

1 Thessalonians 5: 1Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. 2For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. 3While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. 4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; 5for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; 6so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. 7For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. 8But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.11Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. 

I will be honest with you, researching all this information and seeing the providential-coincidental hand of God in all these signs has me felling a little like Richard Dreyfuss in the move “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.  Not that I am expecting an “alien being” to show up in a space ship on a hill somewhere but I am preparing to have a close encounter with God.  And I wonder if this is how Enoch felt as he walked with God day by day … growing closer and closer to Him until one day God said … Enoch you are closer to my home today than to yours  … come on in.

            

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 The Seven Dispensations of God’s Order

The number seven is God’s divine number.  In six days He created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is created and on the seventh day He rested (Genesis 2:1-3).  This is the example for man, 6 days of work and a day of rest and worship unto God.  And this is the design for man on earth, for 6,000 years he will work and rule over men on the earth and for 1,000 year men will rest and Christ will reign upon the earth and rule over men with a rod of iron.  Then after the 7,000 years, God creates a New Heaven and Earth and we begin an eternal Age … well really only those who have accepted Christ as their personal Savior will enjoy the eternal Age in the New Heaven and Earth, those who did not receive Christ as their person Savior while they had the chance on earth will NOT be enjoying their accommodations in the Lake of Fire.

There are seven spirits of God (Revelation 1:4) and there are seven Jewish festivals, which I discuss in the next section.  There are seven lamps or lights on the Jewish Menorah candle stand, that represent the seven spirits of God and the pattern of the seven lamps reflects the pattern of the seven feats (3-1-3).  The greatest declaration of seven’s is found in the book of Revelation where there are seven letters to the seven types (or ages) of the Churches and seven Angels that guard and minister to the seven Churches.  

As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. – Revelation 1:20

And there is the scroll of God’s judgement, the last will and testament for planet earth, closed by seven seals.  When the first seal is opened this begins the seven year Tribulation period and the first five seals are quickly opened.  Then at the 3 1/2 year mark or midway into the Tribulation, the sixth seal is opened bringing it’s judgment in conjunction with the abomination of desolation that the Antichrist will perform in the Temple.  Then the seventh seal is opened and there is silence in Heaven for 1/2 hour and seven Angels are given seven trumpets.  As each Trumpet is sounded, it brings a terrible judgment to earth and I think all seven trumpets are sounded over a three day period, at the 3 1/3 year mark.

Then at the sounding of the seventh and “last” trumpet there is a pause in the telling of the judgement action that is occurring on earth and this bring us to Chapter 12 of Revelation, which is why we call the sign in Heaven the Revelation 12 sign.  John who first saw the sign in the vision and revelation from Christ just probably called it the “Great Sign”.  The sign talk about the Christ child being born and caught up to Heaven, Satan and his angles being cast to earth and Israel fleeing into the wilderness for protection for 3 1/2 years (see the full discussion of the Revelation 12 sign below).  Then at the close of the Tribulation period there are seven bowls judgments, filled with seven plagues that are poured out and the seventh bowl reveals the final battle of Armageddon and Christ’s return with His saints for victory!  So you see the book of Revelation is like a wheel within a wheel of sevens (Ezekiel 1:16) and the events unfold in a pattern similar to the Jewish festivals (3-1-3).  

And in creation there are seven colors of the rainbow (the promise of God to Noah) and seven levels of the periodic table.  In music there are seven major note and 5 minor notes (7 white keys + 5 black keys = 12, the number of completeness).  And I think the pattern of the white and black keys on the piano keyboard tell the story of Creation (white) and God’s intervention (black) upon the world.  It’s a fascinating study that I just recently considered.  If each major white key represents 1,000 years of creation, with the key of “C” as the beginning of creation.  Then playing your way up along the scale of the black keys, C# Noah is born, D# Abram is born, F# Jesus is birth, G# the Church fallen and split (in deep darkness of apostasy) , A#b Church body born to resurrection (rapture) – Jewish Spiritually born (tribulation).  Like, I said I just started contemplating this amazing coincidence of order.

The number 7 is used in the Bible more than seven hundred times.  There is no doubt that “Seven” is the signature of God and many who have studied scripture understand that God has dealt with man and will deal with man in seven different ways … called Dispensations.  A Dispensation is a period of time (but not exactly 1,000 years each) when God tests man and reveals Himself to man in a unique way specific to that period and God’s purpose.  A Dispensation does NOT define a unique way to be saved from sin because even since Adam all who have been saved and all who ever will be save have been saved the same way “by grace through faith in Jesus Christ”.  In Adam’s case it was the Christ who was to come and bruise the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15) and in our case it is the Christ has already come, stepped on the Satan and has risen from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-5).

 

 

#	Dispensation	Covenant	Man’s Responsibility	Man’s Failure	God’s Judgment
1	Innocence	Edenic	Trust God, don’t eat the forbidden fruit	Rebelled/original sin … ate the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil	Physical and Spiritual death, kicked out of the garden
2	Conscience	Adamic	Be fruitful and multiply the seed of man	Corrupted the seed of man by having sex with the Fallen Angels	Flood, all killed but those in the ark
3	Government	Noahic	Scatter and fill the Earth with nations	Stayed together and built the tower of Babel	Dispersed people and language was changed for each group dispersed
4	Promise	Abrahamic	Stay together as a distinct family of people and God will bless you	Sold Joseph, their brother, into slavery into Egypt	Egyptian Bondage
5	Law	Mosaic	Obey ceremonial laws and Sacrifice animals to confess your sin	Did not obey laws and sacrificed animals w/o confession of sin, just going thru the motions	Babylonian Captivity and Israel “cut off” during the Church age.  However, after 7 years of Tribulation the Jews alive on earth will be saved
6	Grace	Church	Repent of sin (Truth) and be born again to eternal life in Jesus (Spirit)	People think there is no such thing as sin and no need to repent from sin.  They think that Jesus was just a good person that taught us how to live together peacefully on earth.  People are overcome by the deception of the spirit of this world … Kumbaya!	Rapture of the Church (true believers) before the Tribulation, which removes the (Holy Spirit) restraining influence of evil in the world.  The seven year Tribulation period is God’s final judgement for planet earth.  The the Tribulation Saints will be martyred, final battle of Armageddon, all those with the mark of the beast removed from earth and Satan bound for 1,000 years
7	Peace	Millennium	Obey Christ as He rules with a rod of iron on earth	After 1,000 years of peace and keeping unbelievers “in check”, Satan is released, Gog the leader of Magog will make war and Christ will quickly end the rebellion.	Satan, Fallen Angels and unbelievers appear before White Throne of Judgment, cast into Lake of Fire.  The present cosmos destroyed by fire and God makes a New Heaven and Earth
8	Perfect	Eternal	Glorify God and enjoy Him forever!	N/A	N/A

 

 

            

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 The Seven Jewish Feasts of God’s Order

• 1. Passover:                                   April 11-12, 2017                     Month 1 
• 2. Feast of Unleavened Breads:   April 12-19, 2017                      Month 1
• 3. Feast of First Fruits:                  April 15-16, 2017                      Month 1 
• 4. Feast of Weeks/Pentecost:     June 3-4, 2017                           Month 3 
• 5. Feast of Trumpets:                   September 21-22, 2017            Month 6
• 6. Day of Atonement:                   September 30, 2017                  Month 6
• 7. Feast of Tabernacles:              October 5-12, 2017                    Month 6 and 7    

Yes, more amazing seven’s revealing the glory of God!  And if you look at the chart below you see the first four feast have been fulfilled in New Testament times, leaving the last three feasts (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot) to be fulfilled in the future and one of them will be fulfilled this year on September 21-23, 2017 when the Church is rapture to Heaven on the feast of Trumpets!  And here’s another amazing coincidence of God’s order and design, the seven feast occur over seven months.  The first three feasts occur in the first month and the last three feasts occur in the sixth and seventh month, with the feast of  “Weeks/ Pentecost” occurring in the middle.  The pattern of the feasts echo the design of Menorah lamps (3-1-3).   And have you ever considered that the 5 other months that fall outside of the 7 feast months are like the 5 black notes on the keyboard …  7 + 5 = 12 (the number of completion, like the 12 Tribes and 12 months).  Amazing!

And another amazing coincidence is that the end of the Church Age (at the feast of Trumpets in the sixth month) and the end of Gentile reign on earth (at the Day of Atonement in the sixth month) will occur at the end of the 6,000 year.  Man’s number is 6 because man was created on the sixth day.  The number 666 is not really a way to figure out the name of the Antichrist by adding up the numbers represented by the person’s name but 666  represents the trinity of lies; Satan (the false Father), the Antichrist (the false Son) and the Prophet (the false Holy Spirit).  This is basically all Satan knows how to do is copy-cat the Father and steal from the Father, his greatest desire being to steal the future that God has predestined for man.  Most people think Satan is some overbearing person like Hitler and when Satan is cast out of Heaven at the 3 1/2 year mark of the Tribulation he will reveal his true nature to the world.  But until at time, Satan is the most smooth talking being that every existed and he tells people what they want to hear, about how wonderful they are and how they deserve everything in the world.  The trick he has used since the beginning still works today … he tries to get people to doubt the goodness of God and the blessing that ONLY come from following Christ.

Old Testament Feast for the Jews	When	Old Testament Meaning	New Testament Fulfillment
1. Passover (Pesach)	Nisan 14-15	The Passover is called the “feast of freedom” since it celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt and memorializes the night when the faithful were protected and “passed over” from death by the blood of the lamb that they put on their door posts.	Jesus is the “pass over lamb” that takes away the sins of the world.  Jesus died once for all.  If you believe and receive Jesus you are passed over from death into eternal life!
2. Unleavened Bread (Chag Hamotzi) Feast of weeks	Nisan 15-22	This feast of seven days represents the way of life that God indented for us to live.  Leaven represents “sin” and an unleavened break represents living a life free from sin.  The seven day represent the “perfect week” and pattern that all weeks are to be lived.  The week marks the the seven days the Jews rested after traveling from the Exodus from Egypt and before the crossing of Red Sea.	Jesus fulfilled the feast of Unleavened Bread by living a perfect life on earth, free from sin.  He fulfilled the requirements of God, by living a perfect life as a man, therefore Jesus has the legal right to take our sin and die in our place.  After taking our sin (the leaven) He was put in a grave, as if to bury our sin.  This is picture of Baptism, buried and risen from sin!
3. Feast of First Fruits (Yom habikkurim)	Nisan 16-17	A green barley sheaf (Omar) was waved by the priest before the Lord.  This is assure the promise that crop will grow and the harvest will be plentiful.   When the Jews crossed through the Red Sea, this represented the First Fruits of Separation from the world and belonging to God.	The Resurrection! Jesus is the first fruit of promise.  Because Jesus lives those who believe in Him will get a Resurrected body like Jesus. Jesus took with Him to Heaven the first fruits of OT saints that were in Sheol.
4. Feast of Weeks (Shavuot)	Sivan 6-7	7×7 days after Passover + 1,  a week of weeks +1 day.  Moses came down from Mt Sinai with the 10 commandments in his hand and the Torah in his mind.  This occurred 40 days after being up on the Mt Sinai + 10 day from crossing the Red Sea.  This festival makes the birth of the Jewish nation, Christ’s Jewish bride.  However, when Moses came down the Jews had made a golden idol and they were judged by God and about 3,000 died that day, Exodus 23:28.	Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came and harvested/sealed souls.  This marks the conception of the Church, Christ’s Gentile Bride.  The Church is born at the Rapture, when we receive our resurrected bodies in Heaven!  On that day about 3,000 souls were saved, Acts 2:41.
5. Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)	Tishri 1	This is the beginning of the Jewish year and the beginning of the 10 days of remembrance, self-examination and prayer … “days of awe”.  A trumpet blasts is blown each day in the month of Elul, the last Summer month before Tishri.  Then on the first sighting of the new moon, the shofar trump is blown 100 times “the last trump”.  This is the time when the Jews will prepare to meet their Messiah and look upon the One whom they pierced.  It is hard to understand what “Exodus Experience” matches the rapture of the Church?  Perhaps the spies spotted the Giant men on this day but only the two faithful witness gave a good report and found favor with God and escaped God’s wrath, that took the other 10 spies in death as they wondered in the wilderness for 40 years.	The Rapture of the Church to Heaven to be with Jesus.  This event closes the Church age and reopens the Jewish age, the remaining seven year Tribulation period.  This day will most likely occur on the same day as the Great Sign of Revelation 12.  Sept 20-24, 2017 or Oct 19-22, 2017?
6. Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)	Tishri 10	The most holy day.  The coming of Jesus to restore the Jewish Kingdom and the final judgement of the world.  This festival marks the time time the twelve spies went into Canaan for 40 days Exodus 13:25-33.  When they returned 10 of the spies (representing the unfaithful Israel tribes) gave a report not to take the land, yet the two faithful witnessing tribes of Judah said go.  Note, there are 10 days leading up to this date, 3 days are Rosh Hashanah, then 7 days represent a judgement/discipline period … like the 7 years of the Tribulation.	At the end of the period Jesus comes Jesus with His saints at the battle of Armageddon.  All those who have taken the mark of the beast are removed from the earth and the rest go forward into the Millennium Kingdom.
7. Feast of Booths (Sukkot)	Tishri 15-22	This is a week long or 8 day festival to live in tents as they did when the Jews sojourned in the wilderness for 40 years while God provided for their needs.  It is the last of the festivals and a time to give thanks for God’s provision.	The Millennium Kingdom (1,000 years of rest).  During this period Jesus rules with a rod of iron so sin can not reign.  At the end of this period there is a brief battle of Gog to remove all unbelievers.

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 The Seven Thousand Year Timeline of God’s Order

OK, we have discussed the seven Dispensations of God and the seven Jewish Feasts of God but how do these line up along the Seven thousand years of man’s existence.  Well, from the first few chapters of Genesis it is relatively easy to calculate the length of the time since creation since each person’s name is stated and the year of their birth relative to their parent’s age is stated.  I made a Spreadsheet and added up the years and my calculations agreed with Ussher’s Annals of History (initially published in Latin in 1658 AD) to the very year that Jacob entered into Egypt in 2298 AM (Anno Mundi – After Creation) and my calculations agree with Usshers that the Jews left Egypt in 2513 AM.  You can even do the math yourself and check my results … it’s just addition. 

I have noticed that many people calculate Abraham’s birth to be on the same day as his brother Nahor and Harah based on  Genesis 11:26 – Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.  Note, this is same way the scripture is worded about the birth of the three sons of Noah, but they were not triplets.  The same is true in this case, Terah did not have triplets but this was a way of saying that how old Terah was when he first became a father.  Terah was 70 years old when his first born child “Nahor” was born in the year 1948 AM.  Note, the order of the births is first Nahor, then Abram then Haran.  The key to understanding when Abram is born is in determining when Terah died.  Genesis 11:32 states that Terah was 205 years old at his death in Haran and then the next scripture states that the Lord spoke to Abram to leave his home (Haran) and go to a land where the Lord lead him … and Abram was 75 at that time (Genesis 12:1-4).  

So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.  – Genesis 12:4

Therefore, you subtract 75 from the date of Terah death in 2083 – 75 = 2008 AM, which is the year of Abram’s birth.  There is a lot of information in the Book of Enoch about how Abram was hid from Nimrod, like Jesus was hid from Herod, so he wouldn’t be killed as a baby.  Note, it was Terah who took Abram and Lot and Sarai out of Ur into Canaan, as far as the city of Haran. (Gen 11:31). 

Event (the dates are based on my calculations)	Creation	Modern	Dispensation
Creation and  Adam and Eve’s sin	0 AM	3976 BC	1 ends, 2 begins
Enoch raptured to Heaven	987	2989 BC	2
Noah born	1056	2920 BC	2
The Flood	1656	2320 BC	2 ends, 3 begins
Nimrod and the Tower of Babel Judgement (estimate)	1762	2214 BC	3
Nahor born to Terah	1948	2048 BC	3
Abram born to Terah	2008	1968 BC	3
Abram has vision  (2083 + 430 = 2513 Exodus)	2083	1893 BC	3 ends, 4 begins
Isaac mocked by Ismael (2113 + 400 = 2513 Exodus)	2113	1863 BC	4
Isaac offered as sacrifice	2145	1831 BC	4
Jacob and Esau born to Rachel	2168	1808 BC	4
Jacob & Family go down to Egypt	2238	1738 BC	4
The Exodus and the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai	2513	1463 BC	4 ends, 5 begins
King Solomon builds the Temple	2993	983 BC	5
Birth of Christ (the sign of the Bethlehem star)	3978	2 1/2 BC	5
Death and Resurrection of Christ	4008	32 AD	5 on hold, 6 begins
Establishment of Israel	5924	1948 AD	6
Rapture of the Church and beginning of the 7 year Tribulation period	5993	2017 AD	6 end, 5 continues
Armageddon and beginning of Millennium period	6000	2024 AD	5 ends, 7 begins
Gog war, end of Millennium	7000	3024 AD	7 ends, 8 begins
Eternal Kingdom	∞	∞	8

My original intent was to add up every date in the Bible of everyone born or every event and this was relatively easy at first because the person born and the person who sired them was clearly given.  However, after Jacob (Israel) and his family entered Egypt, these kind of specific birth dates were no longer given.  I tried to follow along in Ussher’s book on how he determined dates but the book is almost 1,000 pages long and I couldn’t make sense of some of his references.  I finally decided to “cut to the chase” and use Usher’s creation date of 4004 BC (which is widely accepted as true) to determine today’s date since creation.  So 4004 (BC) + 2017 (AD this year) = 6021 AM.  Based on this answer, I was disappointed because this was beyond the year 5993 AM that I was hoping to find.  I then consulted the Jewish calendar and discovered that according to the Jewish timeline we are at the 5777 AM which is way less than the year 5993 I was hoping for.  At this point I was feeling a little like “Goldilocks” and I couldn’t understand why there was such a discrepancy of dates among the leading Bible “experts”.

So I went back to the point where in my calculation where Ussher and I agreed that the Jews left Egypt in 2513 AM and I noticed that Ussher claims that this date occurred in 1491 BC on the Gregorian calendar.  I did a Google search for the date of the Exodus and found that most Bible experts today claim the Exodus occurred in 1446 BC, based on work done by Steve Rudd.  So I added up the dates again 2513+1446+2017 = 5976 AM.  Oh yeah, I was getting warmer now but I was still 17 short of reaching the date 5993 AM.  I wondered did the Exodus actually occur in 1463 BC?   Well guess what, a Google search said “yes”.  

2513 AM + 1463 BC + 2017 AD = 5993 AM !

*Correction*   I now realize that when you do addition using BC and AD that you have to subtract “1” year because there is no “0” year, between BC and AD in the reckoning of time.   So, the year of the Jewish Exodus that I am trying to establish is 1464 BC, not 1463 BC.

            

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 The Exodus Error and Jewish 5777 Calendar Error

Like I said the majority of Bible scholars think the date for the Exodus is 1446 BC and this site gives the best explanation and reasoning for this date (Steve Rudd’s Bible.ca web site):  http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-date-1440bc.htm .  

However, according to this article by OP Armstrong  “Rudd is Wrong” about the date of Exodus and it actually occurred in 1463 BC.  https://www.scribd.com/document/240525329/Is-Rudd-Wrong

Add two more voices to the discussion, John Pratt’s analysis indicates that Exodus date was 1462 BC.  http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2003/exodus.html   and R C Wetzel also agrees that the Exodus date was 1462  http://www.morningword.net/digital%20library/WTZ_CHRN.PDF

And finally the Exodus of 1464 BC as indicated in the book  “The Messiah and His Kingdom to Come:  A Biblical Road Map” by Robert A Makar.    I am really excited about this find !   This book has the complete timeline of history laid out from the beginning in 3977 BC and it indicates that Jewish year 5777 matches up to the Georgian year 2017 because of a 216 year “mistake” by the Rabbi’s.  This is the evidence and proof  of the 5993 sign … the date of the rapture of the Church.   Of course my date of 3976 BC is off by one as previously explained about the BC to AD math issue I overlooked.  Click here to read part of Robert A Makar’s Timeline on Google Books

Here is a good discussion from Red Moon Rising on adding Biblical dates to determine that we are near the 6,000 year mark.  https://redmoonrapture.wordpress.com/2018/04/27/what-year-is-it-really-is-it-5991/

I have studied the Hebrews Calendar and almost all Rabbi’s admit that the Seder HaDorot or “Book of Generations” which was published in 1725 is not entirely historically accurate.  As a matter of fact, there is a lot of people both Jewish and non-Jewish who agree that there is at least a 165 year error that was made during the reign of the Persian Kingdom.  This web site http://christinprophecy.org/articles/the-jewish-calendar/  states that the Rabbi of the second century AD purposely shortened the duration of the “the Persian period” to discredit their reign.  The Babylonian Empire was overthrown by the Medo-Persian Empire (539 B.C.), and it is the length of the Persian period that is in dispute. The rabbinical chronology says it lasted 52 years (with 34 years of domination over Israel). The accepted chronology of historical experts says it lasted 207 years.

Mitchell First wrote a book “Jewish History in Conflict“ exposing the issue and many think the Persian period was shortened intentionally by the Rabbi’s in the second century AD to discredit Daniels prophecy concerning the arrival of Jesus, their Messiah and align the dates more with th rebellion of Bar Cochab in 132 AD.  And there appear to be other missing years as documented by this reference  http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/missing_years_(hebrew_calendar) .  And some Rabbi’s don’t think there is a mistake or they don’t want to talk about it.  And of course some Rabbi’s don’t even believe in the account of the Exodus or how God created the world.  However, almost all Rabbi’s understand that the end of man’s reign is 6,000 years and for this reason they would rather remain in the dark about that date and the coming judgement.  Then again I heard someone say that it is God who has hidden the revelation of the date to keep Satan guessing about when his time is up. 

But as we have discussed, these are the last days that Daniel spoke of, when the knowledge about prophecy is being revealed to those who are willing to seek it out and discover God’s truth.  I am not a Jewish Historian but I would like to propose the following information to account for the days of Bible history.  I am going to kind of go out on a limb and state that the Kingdom of Israel came into being at the time of 2 Samuel 7:1 Now it came about when the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest on every side from all his enemies.  When God made a covenant with David at that time 2 Samuel 7:16 “Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever”  The part where I go out on a limb is that I propose that this covenant occurred 15 years after David started to rule.  And when this covenant Kingdom of Israel began so did the clock to observe the Shemitah every 7 years and let the land rest and forgive debts.  But we know that the Jews didn’t let the land rest for 490 years after this date and that is why they went into Exile into Babylon and that is why they had to observe 70 years of captivity there before returning to their land.

In my chart above I added up the dates from Adam to Exodus and in this chart below I going to add up the dates from the Exodus to the Cross, to reconcile the “missing 214 years” difference in date between the Jewish Calendar 5779 and the Gregorian Calendar 5993, using the number 480 year timeline when Solomon built the Temple and the 490 year timeline of Daniels last days.

Event	Year AM	BC/AD	Remarks …  beginning of Creation is calculated from 3975 BC
Adam to Abraham	2008	1967 BC	The number of years “2008” can be calculated by adding up the birth dates from Adam to the birth of Abraham’s father, Terah in 1878 AM.  According to Genesis 11:16 when Terah was 70 years old he begot three sons Abram, Nahor and Haran.  However, as in the case of Noah these sons were not triplets but this is when Terah first had a male child, Haran in 1878+70=1948 AM.  Then he had Abram 60 years later and Nahor after that.  The way to establish Abram’s birth date is from the account of Terah’s death when he was 205 and Abram was 75 years (Genesis 11:32 and Genesis 12:4).  Therefore Terah was 205-70=135 years old when he begot Abram or 60 years after Haran.  Thus 1948+60=2008, the date of Abram’s birth.
Abraham to Exodus	2513	1461 BC	When Abraham was 75 years old the Lord appeared to him and promised He would give the land of Canaan to his descendants after 430 years, which happened at Mt Sinai (Genesis 12:7).  Later we read that from the giving of the promise to the giving of the Law was 430 years (Exodus 12:40, Galatians 3:17).   Therefore 2008+75+430=2513.  Note,  the 400 year prophecy from Genesis 12:13, was a period of affliction for Abraham’s offspring beginning when Issac was mocked by Ismael which occurred 30 years after this promise.
Exodus  to Israel Kingdom	2960	1014 BC	The importance of establishing the date of when the Israel Kingdom was in effect is significant in order to establish the date when God would have enforced the law of the Shemitah, the year of rest every seven years on the nation of Israel (Exodus 23:10-11).  I don’t think God disciplined the Jews as a nation for failing to observe the Shemitah while they were ruled by Moses, Judges or Saul but He enforced the law when David began to rule from Jerusalem.  To establish this date take the 480 years from the Exodus to the building of Solomon’s temple (1 Kings 6:1) and subtract the number of  years that David’s rule from Jerusalem.  Note, even though the 480 years begin in the 4th year of Solomon’s reign, I don’t subtract the 4 years of Solomon’s reign because this was an overlap with David’s rule (according to the information on this web site).  David ruled 7 years in Hebron and 33 in Jerusalem for 40 total years.  Therefore 480 – 33 (David’s rule in Jerusalem) = 447 (number of years Shemitah not enforced by God)  + 2513 = 2960 AM
Israel Kingdom to Exile	3450	524 BC	This date represent the addition of 490 years when the Jews were a nation (under the Kings ruled from Jerusalem) but they failed to observe the Shemitah and let the land rest for one year after every 6 years of use (2 Chronicles 36:21).  This is why the Jews went into captivity to Babylon for 70 years in order to pay the price of the 70 years of rest that they failed to observe.  You can see the pattern of God here, like His original design, 6 days of work and one of rest.  2960 + 490 = 3450 AM
Exile to Rebuild Jerusalem	3520	454 BC	This date represents the addition of 70 years of discipline of captivity in Babylon for failing to let the land rest one year for every 6 years of use as required by God (Exodus 23:10-11) until the decree to rebuild Jerusalem by Cyrus (Ezra 1:1-11).    3450 + 70 (captivity in Babylon)  = 3520 AM
Rebuild Jerusalem to Messiah	4003	29 AD	This date represent the addition of 483 years until the Messiah was cut-off as foretold  by Daniel 9:24-27, however I am using the cut-off date when Jesus began His ministry in 29 AD and the Cross was 3 1/2 years later in 33 AD.   3520 + 483 = 4003
Present day	5993	2019	This date is the addition of 1990 years since 29 AD to come to the present year 2019, the year of the Rapture of the Church, the 5993 sign!

Now back to the discussion of the Jewish Exodus from Egypt, in all cases Thutmoses III would have been the Pharaoh of Egypt but the “Armstrong’s Pharaoh” would have been 21 years old, while “Pratt’s Pharaoh” would have been 22 years old and the “Rudd’s Pharaoh” would have been 38 year old.  If Pratt’s analysis is correct or Armstrong’s analysis is only off by a year then this is the year 5993 and that this is the year of the rapture based on God’s order of seven!  If Rudd is right we have to wait 17 more years until, 2034 in order to reach the date of 5993 AM.

Thutmoses III was Phraoh of Egypt from (1485-1431)

1. (1485-1464) When he was a baby and his step-mother Hatshepsut ruled as co-regent for 21 years .

2. (1464-1446) Second, after Hatshepsut died he ruled as Pharaoh for 18 years

3. (1446-1431) Third, he ruled another 15 years

There are other sources that support the 1463 Exodus date.  Shirley J. Vaughn wrote a book called  “God’s March to the New Jerusalem” in 2012 and in the book she writes in great detail about the early history of the Bible and has a Bible timeline for each event.  She states the date of the Exodus was 1463 but she doesn’t really give a reason or reference for choosing this date.  I didn’t read the whole book but just the first chapter.  Of course there are even more sources that claim the whole Exodus story is just a myth that has no archaeological evidence.  The best conclusion is that the Exodus did occur under the reign of Pharaoh Thutmoses III sometime in the 1400 century before Christ … but exactly when?   

The jest of Armstrong’ argument is that the Jews left Egypt on a Thursday, Nissan 15 in the year 1463 BC, so the timeline of their travel days and their day of rest on the Sabbath matches the scripture.  This is just another amazing consider because I think the crucifixion of Christ occurred on “Good Thursday” on Nissan 15, 32 AD.  And guess what day of the week Sept 21, 2017 occurs on? … yes, that’s right Thursday.  And you want one more amazing coincidence, the planet Jupiter (Christ), who’s planet name’s sake is Thursday does into the constellation Virgo (the Virgin Israel) for 9 1/2 months (the time of pregnancy for a child http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=20106) .  The male-child, the Church, will give birth on Sept 21, 2017 … Thursday, Jupiter day or Friday, Sept 22, Venus, the morning star day … rapture day … or then again possibly on Saturday, Saturn, Satan’s planet or God’s day of rest and the very day the Revelation 12 sign appears in the Heavens!   Come on people, this is the signature of God, the being who is able to connect a billion different coincidences together so their is perfect order and symmetry!

And here’s another amazing coincidence, in the Revelation 12 sign the woman is clothed by the Sun, with the Sun behind.  Doesn’t this remind you of the sign of the eclipse of this year, when the sun is behind the moon on August 21, 2017 during the solar eclipse over America.  Then in 31-33 days comes Rosh Hashanah on September 21-23, 2017 and 40 days later after the eclipse comes Yom Kippur, the day of Judgment on September 30, 2017.  Isn’t it provocative that the moon is the planet that represents Israel in the sky since the lives of the Jewish people flow according to the rhythm of the lunar calendar.  And isn’t it also provocative that when the Sun is blocked behind the moon it makes a “wedding ring” in the sky.  Is this the wedding ring to announce the wedding of the Lamb?  And when the moon blocks the Sun you will be able to see the stars in Heaven, the King star “Regulus” coming for His bride!

And I like to leave you with one more thought from my friend Jim … have you every consider that a human life is like the moon.  We are designed by God with the purpose to absorb His light and reflect it into the world.  And the closer the moon gets to the “Sun” the more light it absorbs and the more light it reflects.  And when the moon goes away from the Son, hiding behind the world it stars to become dark and then darker still.  And if the moon is totally hidden by the earth it turn “blood red”, as if to die.  Oh Lord, may your glory shines into the darkened hearts of those who so desperately need you. 

For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.  –  2 Corinthians 4:6

            

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 The Revelation 12 Sign (September 21-23, 2017)

 

 

God has said from the beginning that the stars are for signs.

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.   Genesis 1:14

I have written a lot about the “Mazzaroth”, the Hebrew name for constellations.  If you have the time you may find this information interesting, about how God calls each star by name and associates Angels with stars and even Abraham’s descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the Heavens (Genesis 22:17).  And the stars in the Heaven tell the gospel story as they appear month by month in a year.  Unfortunately, this knowledge has been corrupted by Astrology today but Adam and early man understood the gospel story written in the sky.  http://die2live.worthyofpraise.org/mazzaroth-the-gospel-in-the-stars/

From all the material I have found on the Internet concerning the Revaluation 12 sign, Daniel Matson has the best “researched” information on his web site and he was one of the very first to write about this sign appearing in the Heavens on September 21-23, 2017  http://watchfortheday.org/ .  In this article Daniel explains that the Revelation 12:1-5 prophecy is a “double prophecy”, predicting two futures and it is related to Isaiah 66:7-8  http://watchfortheday.org/manchild.html  Daniel’s article is very good but as my Sicilian grandmother use to say after making her Spaghetti and meatballs … “I don’t meana to brag but this is the best I have ever made”.  And, I am not trying to brag either but I think my explanation about the Revelation 12 sign is the clearest and most rock solid reasoning for proclaiming that this sign declares the “Day of the Lord“, which begins with the rapture of the Church, ushers in the seven year Tribulation period with ends at the battle of Armageddon.

Revelation 12:1-6

       1: 1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 and she was with child; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

 

3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems. 4 And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

 

         5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

First prophecy (Revelation 12:1-6):   The Revelation 12 chapter comes after the chapters 4-11 that describe the judgement that occurs on earth up to the mid-way point, 3 1/2 years mark, of the Tribulation.  Therefore, logically chapter 12 of Revelation describes what happens around the “mid-way” point of the Tribulation and it does … to a certain extent.  However, the sign that is visible in the Heavens occurs this year on September 21-23, 2017 and WE ARE NOT IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.  Of course because of all the anxiety in the world today and division over the right direction for America’s and the world’s future, we are definitely living in “troubling times” … in the shadow of four horseman that are fast approaching … hearing the distance sound of their hoof prints as the gallop toward September 21-23, 2017.

But the simple fact that proves we are NOT in the Tribulation period is that there are NOT two witnesses of God clothed in sackcloth, marching around Jerusalem, prophecy of God’s glory with fire shooting out of their mouth devouring their enemy (Revelation 11:5).  These two witnesses show up (Moses and Elijah most likely) at the the very start of of the seven year Tribulation period and walk around the temple prophesying for God (Revelation 11:3).  I understand there is not presently a Jewish temple in Jerusalem but the two witnesses march around a “measured off area” at the place where the Temple will be built during the first 3 1/2 year of the Tribulation period (Revelation 11:1).   If you see fire coming out of someone’s mouth consuming another person and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them … well then … you are living in the Tribulation period … period! 

No, Obummer did NOT made a seven year covenant with Israel in March, 2013 and he is NOT the Antichrist (at this time) and this September is NOT the mid-way point of the Tribulation.  I will have to admit that Obummer does have excellent qualification for the Antichrist job, in that he is an eloquent liar, a closet Muslim, a hater of those who worship the true God and he is a man who wants to be a world leader again … so he can be worshiped as god.  And his follows today continue to worship Obummer and they are trying to overthrow the American government and put him back on the throne … to implement a Global New World Order.

And then there are many Christians who don’t think the Revelation 12 sign will have a physical manifestation in the sky by the stars and the planets … they think it’s just another “symbol” in the book of Revelation.  Yet, the wording of Revelation 12 clearly indicates it’s a visible sign in the sky … the constellation Virgo (the woman) with the sun at her back and the moon at her feet and 12 stars on her head.  This sign occurs THIS year, September 21-23, 2017, a one time only event of the cosmos, never to occur again.  Of course, some Christians don’t trust the science of the sky today, the computer programs that are able to calculate star movement over the course of time, both past and future.  So they cling to their interpretation that the sign will appear in the future, at the mid-way point of the Tribulation period.  And that is why some Christians think the rapture of the church will occur at the mid-way point of the Tribulation when the Christ child is “caught up” to Heaven.  Well guess what?  … there is a “mini-rapture” that occurs at the mid-way point of the Tribulation, when the dead bodies of the two witnesses laying the street of Jerusalem rise from the dead and then rise up to Heaven (Revelation 11:12) … but to be clear … they go up as an ascension to Heaven, like Jesus did, not in a sudden “rapture”.

Here’s something for the mid-trib rapture folks to think about, the “last” trumpet or seventh trumpet judgment in Revelation does indeed occur at the mid-way point of the Tribulation on the Passover feast on March 24-27, 2021, but it is a “trumpet of Judgement”.  The “last trumpet” that sounds on Rosh Hosanna on September 21-23, 2017 is one the announces the “celebration of something new” … our new resurrected bodies and it is actually is the “first” trumpet that is sounded when the “new” moon is spotted at twilight in the sky (the twinkling of the eye!).  But this trump is considered the a “last trump” because in this case it ushers in the “last things” … the Day of the Lord.  (see the Trumpet, Trumpet, Trumpets section in the article for more details).

One of the main reasons that the Church will not be on the earth during the seven year Tribulation is so the delusion and deception of the Antichrist can thrive during the first 3 1/2 years.  Otherwise, the “restraining” influence of the Holy Spirit, the Church, would readily expose the lies and plans of the Antichrist … just like Trump is exposing the lies of Liberalism and conservative talk show hosts are exposing the lies of Liberalism.  Christian conservatives are not fooled by smooth talking professional liars … I mean politicians.  Moreover, Trump won the White House because he spoke the honest “ugly truth” about the state of  America and the world.  This is why “truth tellers”, like the Church, must be gone on earth so the Antichrist can be revealed and he can lead the world in a lie of a Global New World Order that they are hungry to hear.

The last possibility is that though the Revelation sign appears this year, it is ONLY a “harbinger”, declaring the certainty of the “rapture of the Church and the start of the Tribulation” which will occur in the “future”.  And in the case of the Blood moons in 2015-2015, they were harbingers for a future sign and event that is occurring this year, on September 21-23, 2017.   But when you consider the very real possibility that this is the year 5993, the last year of the Church, it makes perfect sense that this is the year that Jesus comes for His bride the Church.   And even if we know the year of the Lord’s return (2017) and that He will return on the feast of Rosh Hosanna , this does not negate Jesus’s words ….

 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.  – Matthew 24:36

This is because the feast of Rosh Hosanna begins when the “new’ moon is spotted, which begins the Jewish civil year which begins the month of Tishri.  There is an art to observing the new moon in the sky and reporting it and then blowing the trumpet to announce it!  That is why it is a “two” day feast, so the observance is made over the two days.  The exact day and the hour of when the new year begins for Israel is at this point “unknown”.   I have a countdown clock on this web site which is set to the “twilight” on Sept 22 in Israel at 7 pm.  The time of around 7 pm is known as the “twinkling of the eye”, when the first three stars twinkle in the sky.  Yes, another amazing coincidence of God.

As a recap, the Revelation 12 sign “is” a harbinger for a future event that will occur 3 1/2 year from the date it is seen in the sky, when the Jews flee into the wilderness at the mid-way point of the Tribulation but it is also a fulfillment of “three” events that occur at the time of it’s appearing (1) the rapture of the Church (2) God’s intervention to stop the Gog/Magog war and (3) the signing of the covenant between the Antichrist and Israel which marks the beginning of the Tribulation period.

To me, all the evidence points to the fact that the Revelation 12 sign occurs this year and therefore the rapture of the Church occurs this year on September 21-23, 2017!  The Tribulation period is a time of Jacob’s trouble, the last seven years of discipline for the Jews.  This seven years is a period of time to complete the Jewish dispensation of the Law, and it is therefore not part of the Church’s dispensation of grace.  For the Church is not destined for the wrath of God but to obtains salvation in Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:).  Some Christian want to quibble over the word “wrath” and insist that the “Tribulation” period is only the last 3 1/2 years and to a certain extent they are correct.  The last 3 1/2 year is the “Great Tribulation” period but the entire 7 years is a Tribulation period for people who accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.  These believers are not the Church, since the Church is raptured before the Tribulation but these are “Tribulation Saints”.  And many people will be martyred for their faith in Christ during the first 3 1/2 years the Antichrist will rule on earth and behead those who will not take his mark or pay him tribute. 

The main prophetic event that aligns at the mid-way point of the Tribulation is that the Spiritual battle in Heaven that has been going on since the fall of man.  Suddenly at the mid-way point of the Tribulation this battle in Heaven reaches a turning point and Satan (the dragon) and 1/3 of the Angels (the stars) are cast out of Heaven onto earth (Revelation 12:4).  For the first 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation period, Israel has been in covenant agreement with the Antichrist and they really haven’t been feeling much pain but when the Antichrist goes into the temple and declares himself God, well that’s when he brings down the hammer of pain on the Jews and the labor pains begin for them (Revelation 12:2).

The “male Child” is the Christ Messiah the Jews have been waiting for who will rule with a rod of iron and the woman is the virgin Mary that represent the nation of Israel (Revelation 12:5).  But Christ was born over 2,000 years ago and He didn’t rule with a rod of iron at that time but He was rejected by His mother, Israel and instead of ruling, He died on the cross, rose from the dead and “ascended” into Heaven … He wasn’t “caught up” to Heaven.  It’s not till we get to Revelation 12:6 that the prophetic timeline starts to make sense again, in that the woman (the nation of Israel on earth at this time) flees from the dragon (Satan-Antichrist) into the wilderness (Petra?) for 1260 day, 3 1/2 years, where she is divinely protected until the Tribulation period is complete. 

And 2532 she brought forth 5088 5627 a man 730 child 5207, who 3739 was 3195 5719 to rule 4165 5721 all 3956 nations 1484 with 1722 a rod 4464 of iron 4603: and 2532her 846 child 5043 was caught up 726 5681 unto 4314 God 2316, and 2532 [to] his 846 throne 2362.  –  Revelation 12:5

The Revelation 12:5 verse is “out of place” with the respect to Tribulation timeline and the other verses in Revelation 12:1-6 … as thought it were “in a gap” between a Jewish Dispensation … hum … very interesting … seems like I remember this teaching now … Yes it is talking about the Church!  Revelation 12:5 talks about the Christ child being born but this child was born over 2,000 years ago and Christ did not didn’t rule with a rod of iron at that time but He will rule with the Saints, including the Church in the future, during the Millennium period.  Also after His resurrection, Jesus walked on earth for 40 days and then He ascended  (analambanó: to take up, raise) to Heaven ( Acts1:2).  Jesus was not “caught up” (harpazó: to seize, catch up, snatch away) to Heaven.  The Church however is “caught up” to Heaven to meet the Lord in the air … this is rapture and this is what verse Revelation 12:5 is referring too, the rapture of the Church.

Then we who are alive and remain will be “caught up” together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.  – 1 Thessalonians 4:17

Another interesting thing is there are three different Greek words used for child in this passage (Revelation 12:1-6).  The first “child” in verse 12:2 means a child in the womb, unborn.   The second man “child” in the first part of 12:5 means “son”, Son of man, Jesus Christ based on Strong’s word  5207:

5207  hyiós (“son”) emphasizes likeness of the believer to the heavenly Father, i.e. resembling His character more and more by living in faith(“God’s inwrought persuasons,” 

And the child in 12:4 and the second part of 12:5 is the Greek word téknon, meaning trusting like a child in Abba Father.

5043 téknon – properly, a child; (figuratively) anyone living in full dependence on the heavenly Father, i.e. fully (willingly) relying upon the Lord in glad submission. This prompts God to transform them into His likeness.

The child here represents a child that is grown and trusting their father, like the way Jesus told his followers how they should come to Him with child like faith … like the way a believer trust Christ, the way His bride, the Church trust her groom.  Also, think about the child this way too, the wise man came to see “a child that was two years and three months old” not a new born baby who’s birth was announced by the “Bethlehem star”, the two planets that aligned in the sky on that “night”.  But the star that lead the wise man to Jesus home in Bethlehem to celebrate His birth was the Shekinah Glory in the sky.  And the Shekinah Glory will appear again in in the sky on September 21-23, 2017, during the “day”, two years and three months after the appearance of the Bethlehem star on June 20, 2015.  The Bethlehem star two years ago announced the “wedding day”, to His bride, the Church, who will be “caught up” to meet her groom, Jesus, in the sky, who is also the Shekinah Glory!

The dilemma of this prophecy is that the Christ child that is born in Revelation 12 at the “mid-way” point of the Tribulation on March 24-27, 2021 has already been born over 2,000 years ago, yet the stars that align in the sky to manifest this sign occur at the “start” of the Tribulation period on September 21-23, 2017.  The simple explanation of this prophecy is that “something amazing” from God is going to happen on Sept 21-23, 2017, the day of Rosh Hashanah, at the start of the Tribulation and “something amazing” from God is going to happen around the mid-way point of the Tribulation on March 24-27, 2021, the day of Passover … but what is the amazing “child birth” prophecy that is going to happen on these two dates? 

Don’t you just love Bible Prophecy?  Well, you have to have a mind that loves God and loves seeking to find the answers to God’s puzzles in order to love Bible Prophecy that is this complex.  Let’s look at the related scripture about the birth of this “male child”.

Isaiah 66:7-9  KJV 

7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

 

8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

 

9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

 

Second prophecy (Isaiah 66:7-9)  The male child that is delivered is still Christ but this time the male child is delivered “before” she is in labor and before her pain came.  This is not a normal birth and we aren’t taking about a normal “she”.  Remember the labor pains and then the birth of the child in Revelation 12:2 come right “after” the mid-way point of the Tribulation period but in Isaiah 66:7 birth occurs “before” the labor pains … and really right before the Tribulation period.  And doesn’t the description of the earth giving birth in one day (Isaiah 66:8) remind you of a picture of people leaving the earth (like the rapture).  And the nation that is born all at once is the resurrected body and bride of Christ, the completed Church (another picture of the rapture).  

Then in the last part of Isaiah 66:8, we are back to talking about Zion giving birth to her children “after” the labor pains which is a picture of the nation of Israel coming to Christ.  Does this “coming to Christ” actually occur at the mid-way point of the Tribulation when Israel realizes that the Antichrist is NOT the real Christ but a snake in the grass?  Is it possible that the “children of Israel” at the mid-way point of the Tribulation “wake up” from their stupor and realize that Jesus is the Christ whom they crucified and they need seek His forgiveness?  And God answers their prayers of repentance and “awakens them” and protects them in the wilderness?

“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.” – Zechariah 12:10

Well, we know that at the end of the Tribulation period that the Jews look upon Christ whom they pierced and they will morn for Him.  They will see the evidence of His pierced hands and their hears will be fully His at this point.  Does this healing realization of who Jesus is come at the mid-way point for the Jews on March 24-27, 2021? 

Micah 5: 2“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
            Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
            From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.
            His goings forth are from long ago,
            From the days of eternity.”

 

      3 Therefore He will give them up until the time
            When she who is in labor has borne a child.
            Then the remainder of His brethren
            Will return to the sons of Israel.

 

      4 And He will arise and shepherd His flock
            In the strength of the LORD,
            In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God.
            And they will remain,
            Because at that time He will be great
            To the ends of the earth.

Third prophecy (Micah 5:2-4)

This prophecy of Micah’s was the hope of the Jews who followed Jesus.  They where looking for their conquering King to be born of a virgin and come rescue Israel from the enemies.  And there are many verses in the Bible that speak of the Messiah coming to fulfill His Kingly reign over the earth, which Jesus will do during the Millennium period.  However, we know Jesus first came to suffer for our sin and die on the cross and rise from the grave as proof that He is the Son of God!  When you read the Micah 5:2 “He will give them up until the time when she who is in labor has borne a child”  you get a sense that it is the “birth” that “causes” a change to occur in the “status” of the Jews before God.  

Before the birth, the Jews are “given up” to the Nations … under discipline by God … “cut off” from a Spiritual understanding of God’s purpose and timing.  After the birth, the Jews “return” as sons of Israel.   To me this speaks of a “Spiritual awakening”, a Spiritual “birth” by Israel that will occur at the mid-way point of the Tribulation period as predicted by the Revelation 12 sign, the birth of the Christ child in the stars.  At the time of the Jewish Spiritual birth the Lord will shepherd His flock in the wilderness so they “remain” protected for 3 1/2 year and at that time the Lord will be “great to the ends of the earth”!

Prophecy Wrap up

OK, lets tie up some loose ends to this dilemma of prophecy.  The male child that is born in Revelation 12 is not the physical Christ child but the “Spiritual belief” that the male child born born over 2,000 years ago is the Christ child, the Messiah of the Jews.  The mid-way point of the Tribulation marks the Spiritual birth of the nation of Israel, when the Jews accept responsibility for killing Christ their Savior and acknowledge Him as their Savior and King.  The Spiritual birth of the nation occurs “after” the birth pains of the first 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation but then the Jews have to wait another 3 1/2 years to see Him whom they pierced, like the way Joseph’s brothers had to wait to see him in Egypt and confess their mistake for selling him into slavery.  Then after the Jews have their Spiritual Awaking, they flee and are miraculously protected in the wilderness by God for the remainder of the Tribulation period (Revelation 12:6).  Isn’t it also an amazing coincident of God that the Spiritual overthrow of Satan and His army from Heaven occurs at the exact same time Israel accepts her true King!

The interpretation of the two prophecies from Isaiah and Revelation and the double prophecy contained within each prophecy, is that the male child that is born “before” the birth pains is “the Church”, the bride of Christ, that is “caught up” before the Tribulation period.  The earth will “give birth” to believers on planet earth on September 21-23, 2017 when they are raptured to Heaven and given their resurrected bodies.  And the male child that is born “after” the birth pains on March 24-27, 2021 is the “Spiritual birth” of the nation of Israel when they realize at the mid-way point of the Tribulation period that the Christ they crucified “is” their Messiah.

After the Church is raptured to Heaven, the resurrected children of God will come before the judgement seat of Christ, not to be judged for their sin, for that was decided at the cross but to be judged for “rewards” based on their faithful service to Christ on earth.  And what are these rewards given out at the judgement seat of Christ … well they have the privilege to give “more” service to Christ in the Kingdom to come.  You see, the service to Christ that we find hard to do now because we have to “deny” self and follow Him, will be the number one pleasure of Heaven but the privilege for this degree of pleasure will be determined by our service to Christ now on earth.  And some of the service will be to reign and rule with Christ during the Millennium period as He rules with a rod of iron.

As for Israel, at the mid-way point of the Tribulation period, after they realize whom they have pierced, the Holy Spirit will come upon them and give them a new heart … they will be “born again”.  Then God will miraculously protect them from the Satan, the dragon and the Antichrist and the terrible conditions and judgments that fall on the earth during the last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation period.

The Revelation 12 sign is visible in scripture at the mid-way point of the Tribulation to mark the “Spiritual birth of nation of Israel” and the Revelation 12 sign is visible in the sky immediately prior to the beginning of the Tribulation period to mark the “Resurrection body birth of the Church”.  Lord help me and forgive me if I have spoken wrong or if I have lead anyone astray but as far as I can reason with You tonight this interpretation of prophecy is correct  (8/3/2017).

 

The Heavenly sign on September 21-23, 2017 has never occurred before and only occurs “once” in the history of the cosmos. Surely, this sign in the Heavens marks something significant and what is more significant to God than bringing home His sweet bride, the Church “before labor pains” and reconciling with His disobedience bride, Israel “after the labor pains”?  There are a lot of videos about the Revelation 12 sign but this is the best one I have found to explain the Revelation 12 sign.  This video also discusses the similarity between the Revelation 12 sign, Joseph’s sign and the Star of Bethlehem sign that occurred at Christ’s birth.

This video discusses the Revelation 15 sign:  

This video explains just how rare the Revelation 12 sign is:

If you like keeping up with “coincidences” of God’s providential timing and order check out this link which describes all the anniversaries that occur in 2017.   http://www.rapturewatch.net/apps/forums/topics/show/13442934-2017-anniversaries
            

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 Trumpets, Trumpets, Trumpets and Shouting

There is a lot of trumpet playing described in the Old Testament, that is because the “shofar”, the rams’s horn, was used for several different purposes by the Jews but it’s primary purpose was to call God’s people into a Holy Assembly before the Lord, on the Sabbath, the feast days and the Jubilee year.  There is even an old Jewish saying …  “shofar … so good”  … sorry about that.  I also want to apologize because I have copied the information below about the Shofar sound clip from this web site:  http://www.shofarcall.com/teaching—how—when–where.html

TE’KI’AH     –  a long blast with one or two notes.  Praise & Worship
SH’VA’RIM   – 3 medium blasts, two tones each. Repent & Broken
TE’RU’AH    – 9 short, staccato blasts. Warfare & Victory
TE’KI’AH GE’DO’LAH : an extra long single blast.  Celebration & Healing   It is the “jubilee” note extended as long as one can to call upon the Lord.  It represents the great last trumpet sound when the Lord appears in the air and when we who are saved, the Church, His Bride are caught up to Our Groom, the celebration of a wedding, to receive new bodies and we are healed.

There is also a silver trumpet in scripture but this is mainly a musical instrument for playing psalms or sometimes it is used in conjunction with the shofar during  Rosh Hashanah.  The Shofar is the instrument played to conduct “Spiritual” warfare and announce a meeting with God.  And who blew the trumpet better than Louis Armstrong?  Well, how about the priests who blew the trumpet while the Jews marched around Jericho but it was when the people shouted that the walls came tumbling down!

So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city.   – Joshua 6:20

There really isn’t a lot of information about the festival of Rosh Hashanah in the Bible.  The name mean the “head of the year” and Tishri 1 begins the Jewish Civil year, like our January 1, New Year’s Day.  There are just two verses in Leviticus which describe a day when the people gathered together and “shout to the Lord”.  Many have associated this day with the blowing of Trumpets because some translations use the word “blowing” instead of “shouting”.   I think this day is a reminder of the first victory that God gave the Jews at Jericho as they faithfully entered the promise land.  Yet the festival day occurs in in conjunction with the Day of Atonement 10 days later.  The entire period is known as the “Day of Awe”, a time of remembering the Awesome things God has done and He is going to do. It is a time to reflect on your life and repent of sin and a time to prepare to be used by God in the New Year.

Rosh Hashanah 

Leviticus  23Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets (or shouting), a holy convocation. 25‘You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD.’”

The Day of Atonement

26The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27“On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the LORD. 28“You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the LORD your God. 29“If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut off from his people. 30“As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 31“You shall do no work at all. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 32“It is to be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath.” 

1.  This festival begins when the “new” moon is sighted to begin the new Jewish year.  This is the day many thing the rapture of the Church will occur on, when Jesus comes in the sky “for” His saints from earth, to make us “new” with new resurrected bodies.  It is know as the day of the “Last Trump” because it ushers in the “last things” … the Day of the Lord, the time of Jacob’s trouble, the seven year Tribulation period.  The Trumpet is blown as a remembrance of a “future” work of the Messiah that the Jews didn’t understand.  http://rabbiyeshua.com/articles-by-kehilat/item/52-rosh-hashanah   

The Feast of Trumpets is also known as Yom Teruah which literally means the “Day of Blowing”. This is the only Feast Day when the shofar is blown during the service 100 times! They are blown in a set pattern of 3 different sounds, blown 3 times each for a total of 9 blasts. This series of patterns is repeated 11 times for a total of 99 blasts. The 100th blast is set apart and this is the blast that is known as the “Last Trump”!   http://www.elshaddaiministries.us/messages/rosh_hashanah.php

Listen and enjoy … and hold on!    

1 Corinthians 15: 50Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Thessalonians 4: 15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.18Therefore comfort one another with these words.

These two scriptures are the clearest teaching about the Rapture of the Church and they indicate the “Trumpet of God” will be sounded from Heaven, along with a shout from the Lord and the voice of the archangel, Michael.  Yet, it’s unclear if there is trumpet blowing on Rosh Hashanah or just shouting done but ttrumpet blowing does occur on day 10 of Tishri, Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement.  Some have said that because 2017 is a Jubilee this extends the time of Rosh Hashanah to the 10th or Tishir.  I have always thought that the rapture would occur at the start of the 10 day period, when the new moon is spotted at the “Twinkling of Eye”, sunset in Jerusalem. However, now that the Revelation 12 Sign has come and gone in 2017 and we are “waiting” for God’s perfect timing.  https://www.nehemiaswall.com/yom-teruah-day-shouting-became-rosh-hashanah

 

2.  The “Seven Trumpet Judgments” of Revelation, Chapters 8-11 are sounded during the Tribulation period, at the mid-way point.  

Revelation 11: 15Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” 16And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17saying, “We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign

4.  The “Great Trump” of Matthew 24:31 is sounded at the end of the Tribulation when Jesus comes to earth “with” His saints, to claim victory at Armageddon.  

Matthew 24:  29“But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30“And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. 31“And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Revelation 19: 11And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. 12His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. 13He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. 15From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. 16And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

 

4.  And don’t confuse all these Trumpets with “President Trump” who is sounding his own alarms of “fire and fury and power”!

These trumpets calls are each unique events unto themselves.  And it causes confusion when people try to combine them all together.  It makes you think that the rapture Trumpet occurs at the same time as the Trumpet judgments in the middle of the Tribulation or in conjunction with the Great Trump at the end of the seven year Tribulation period but it does’t.  It occurs prior to the Tribulation period, this year on September 21-23, 2017.

            

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 The Sign of the Bethlehem Star –  the two witnesses

After hearing the king, they went their way; and the star, which they had seen in the east, went on before them until it came and stood over the place where the Child was.  – Matthew 2:9

Yes there is no end to the depth and layers of revelation in God’s word.  Though we may come to a full understanding of God’s word when we have our resurrected body, free from sin, I think we will eternally marvel over the complexity and depth of God’s word and way scriptures tie together and build upon one another like a tapestry … the Greatest work of Art ever.  

Have you thought about God’s two witnesses in scripture.  There are the two cherub that witness and cover the mercy seat of God.  There are the two angles who came to rescue Lot from the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah.  There are two men, the first Adam of sin and the last Adam without sin, Jesus.  There are two men, the first naturally born man in sin, the second Spiritually born of God.  There are two sons, the first Esau represents the natural man, the second, Jacob represents the son of promise.  There are two kings, the first Saul represents the natural man of sin, the second David represents the man after God’s own heart.

here are two important trees in the garden of Eden, the tree of forbidden fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life.  There are two witnesses of God’s covenant with man, the Law and Grace.  There are two witnesses of mountains, Mt Sinai and Mt Zion (Mt Calvary).   And there are the two witness (Moses and Elijah or maybe Enoch and Elijah)  that stand before the Antichrist and declare God coming judgment for 3 1/2 years.  

But have you ever considered the two witnesses in the sky that declare the coming Messiah … the appearance of the Bethlehem star and the appearances of God’s glory in the sky two year later!  The Bethlehem star is really not a star at all but two planets Jupiter and Venus that align in a figure 8 pattern to light up the sky and become the brightest spot in the sky.  The Bethlehem star first appeared in the sky on September 11, 3 BC, declaring the birth of Jesus, the Light of the world come to earth (Matthew 2:2).  The Magi see this sign and make plans to go to Jerusalem to see the new born King.  About two years later the Magi show up in Jerusalem but discover that the King is not there.   Then at this point I think the “Shekinah Glory” of God appeared, like a star and lead them to Bethlehem, right to the very place of Jesus. (Matthew 2:9).  

The second witness of the Bethlehem star appeared June 30, 2015.  The first Bethlehem star announced the physical birth of God’s son into the earth and the second Bethlehem star announced the birth of the Church from the earth.  And sure enough after two years, the Revelation 12 sign is going to appear on September 21-23, 2017 and the wise man, Jesus, the “Shekinah Glory” of God will appear in the Heavens and He will raise us up on the third year, and rapture His bride, the Church, to Heaven that we may live before Him.

Also, have you ever considered that the prophecy of Hosea could be speaking of the the two days or two years from 2015 until 2017.   

“He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him”  – Hosea 6:2

I think the primary meaning of the scripture has to do with Israel’s reawakening from the present Spiritual stupor.  For this interpretation the two day are more like two thousand years, where the Church Age for almost two thousand years has s “cut off” their gospel ministry for Christ and their Spiritual awakening is also foreseen in the Revelation 12 sign.

            

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   The sign of the Great Pyramid – (points to the Revelation 12 sign in Heaven)

In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near its border.  It will become a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them.   –  Isaiah 19:19-20

Are you beginning to get the sense that a lot of things are lining up in a way they never have before and never will again.  I believe the Great Pyramida and the Sphinx are a sign from God and witness of God’s order for the Dispensations of man.  This pyramid, though similar to others, really stands apart in it’s design and construction.  For one thing no hieroglyphic writing is inside and no dead Egyptians bodies have been found in the Pyramid.  This is not a tomb for a pharaoh and I don’t think it was constructed by a pharaoh.  I think it may have been constructed by Enoch or Job with the help of Angels as a message from God about the ages to come.    http://www.coghomeschool.org/site/cog_archives/booklets/who_built_the_great_pyramid.htm

           “O you who tear yourself in your anger—
            For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
            Or the rock to be moved from its place?”  – Job 18:4

Unfortunately Satan and the Freemason Satan worshipers corrupted the teaching of God and His message in stone, turning the pyramid into some demonic sign of a  “New World Order” all under the “All seeing eye of the Occult”.  Hey look, I’m not making this stuff up … it’s right there on your dollar bill, put there by our American Freemason Forefathers to openly proclaim that Satan is the god of this world and the god of the Global New World Order.  Look, I don’t want to go into a long ugly explanation about our American heritage.  The good news is that  some of the Founding Father were born again Christians … praise God … but most were just believers in God who were most likely deceived by Freeman leadership into thinking they were doing some good work to make a New World Order here on earth.  The same thing goes on today in the Freemason organization, Satan just makes the fruit of man’s labor “seem good” but the root of the tree is rotten.  

Before I discuss the Great Pyramid, I want to briefly talk about the Sphinx statue that accompanies it.  This statue has the body of a lion and the head of a woman.  Is the Sphinx a cherub that protects the throne of God?  The purpose of the Sphinx is to mark the beginning of the story of redemption that God wrote in the Mazzorth … the constellation in the sky.  The story begins with “Virgo”, the virgin woman, who gives birth to Jesus Christ our Savior and the story ends after proceeding through the 12 constellation with “Leo” the lion from the tribe of Judah, who comes back to earth to reign and rule over the earth.  The head of the Sphinx is that of a African or Ethiopian woman, not an Egyptian woman.  This woman is the faithful Shulamite bride of Solomon, from the “Song of Songs”.  The Shulamite woman represents “the Bride of Christ”, the believers from Adam to the end of the Millennium who accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  This is is further proof that the Great Pyramid is God’s witness and time piece tor man. 

is reference is for the stars is The great mass of the stones and the precision by which they fit together is an engineering wonder that is beyond the explanation and capability of today’s technology.  Even the mortar that was used to unite the stones is a material that is harder than the stones, like a weld, and it can not be duplicated today.  And the mathematics precision of it’s exterior measurement and construction of it’s interior passage ways declare that it is a sign from God for man.  It in the Bible we have God’s written word that Spiritually reveals His plan for man, in Creation we have God’s Physical manifestation of His Greatness such that man is without excuse for not acknowledging God’s authority over man.  In the stars we have God’s witness of the gospel, order and signs for man, in Jesus we have God Himself in the flesh who walked the earth and clearly taught man about His plan for man to be reconciled to God through His Son.  But in the Great Pyramid we have an “object” built by God Himself to declare His great great and wonderful plan for man through the ages.

Click on the diagram to enlarge it and see the “R” Rapture passage for the Church!

There are a lot of good books written about the Great Pyramid and how it represents God’s plan for man through the ages.  However, after reading a lot of books and information on the Internet I have finally circled back to Clarence Larkin and his book “Dispensation Truth”.  Clarence continues to “take me to school”  and teach me about God’s ways and His prophetic word.  This diagram above is one of many drawings that Clarence Larkin made explaining the truth of God’s word in picture form.  You see, Clarence Larkin was a mechanical Engineer and wondered how God could use him in this capacity … well brother, I will tell you all about it when I see you in Heaven.  

The passage ways inside the Pyramid declare the order of time for man and the wonder of the architecture declares the glory of God to man.  The entrance represents Adam and the descending passage (B) represents the fall of man who and the continual fall of sinful and un-redeemed man into the camber below … hell (H).  The intersection of the passage ways represents the “Flood” judgement and the ascending  passage (D) is the way “up” that Noah, then Abraham and the Jews took toward God.   The ascending passage way opens into the Grand Gallery passage way at the intersection of the Queens chamber, the Jewish bride.   The Grand Gallery passage way is the Church Age, the great harvest of believers.

Notice at the very top of the Grand Gallery is the passage way (R) which indicates the Church of believers in Christ will be “raptued” to Heaven, into the Kings Camber (K), while unbelievers continues along the bottom passage way below (T), which represents the seven year Tribulation period for the Jews and the world.  Proceeding along, from that point the passage way get’s higher, which represents the Millennium period (M), then following along the passage way narrows for the final God and Magog war (P).  Following that you have the Kings Camber (K) which represents Heaven and the Eternal age!  Note, the only object inside the Great Pyramid is a coffin (C) which is empty, like the tomb of Jesus, and has the dimensions that could have held the ark of the covenant.  This is just more amazing proof that the Great Pyramid is built by God as a sign and altar unto Him.  Take a tour through the the Great Pyramid and see for yourself this amazing witness of God’s 7,000 year plan for man in stone!

Note, this diagram is wrong in terms of date setting but it shows how how men have tried.

Once you understand the purpose and layout of the Great Pyramid, the next thing everyone does is they measure the length of the passage ways in a unit of measure in order to associate the passage with the length of time in “years” for Dispensation of that passage way.  And, I’m no different … I have spent a lot of time trying to calculate the length of the passage ways to determine of years for a Dispensation period.  The chart above tries to do this but shows the Church age ends in 1844 AD?  It also tries to reconcile a start date of 4004 BC determined by Ussher, which we have already discussed is probably wrong, with and end date for the church in 1884 AD, which is definitely wrong.  It doesn’t even have the right length in Pyramid Inches (PI) for each passage way, the Grand Gallery is “1881” PI not 1813 PI but even 1881 + 32 AD = 1913 AD?  Once again, this date setting method is obviously wrong because the Church is still here and it 2017!  

So the word of the LORD to them will be, “Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.  – Isaiah 28:13

The total PI inches for both the ascending (1109+1543+1881) and descending (1109+3034+390) passage way = 4533  PI.  However, as we have been discussing the time for man is 6,000 years.   Yes, can make a ratio of 1.32 to multiply 4533 x 1.32 = 6,000 but 1881 x 1.32 = 2482 AD + 32 AD = 2514 AD for the Church Age to end and this throws off all the other calculations of God’s 7,000 year old calendar.  You can definitely see the problem of trying to determine the number of years of a Dispensation by the looking at how short the Millennium (M) way is in comparison to the other passage ways/Dispensations and how long the (T) and (P) passage ways are in comparison to the others.  The bottom line is that the passage ways don’t add up to tell us the number of years of the Dispensation they represent.

The best I can understand God to be saying here is that the passage ways represent God’s “Spiritual” presence among men on earth.  I think you need to pay attention to what Clarence wrote on his diagram “not drawn to scale”.  The Great Pyramid passage ways in height and length represent the salvation work of Jesus Christ in the world, with the greatest period of salvation occurring during the Church Age.  Until some one else comes up with a better answer, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.   And someone did … see the next diagram … the Pyramid is a 7,000 year clock.

This is just a brief summary of the tons of information (get it tons) that has been written about the Great Pyramid.   http://www.think-aboutit.com/rare-great-pyramid-data/  https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/larkin/dt/32.cfm    http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/great.htm     http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/pyramid

 

The above diagram is stating that the Great Pyramid does not set time by the length of it’s passages ways, but by tha “angles” of the passage ways!  The thing to remember about the Great Pyramid as it relates to the Revelation 12 sign and the birth of Christ is that both the ascending and descending passage ways are at angle of 26.3 degrees, which is the “Christ Angle”.

If you measure along the base and then 26.3 degrees north you point directly to the birthplace of Christ … Bethlehem.  And on September 21-23, 2017 the alignment of the ascending passage way points up in the Heavens like never before, declaring the Day of the Lord to the Glory of God!   The passage way points to the Regulus star of the constellation of the Lion, the tribe of Judah and the planet Venus, the bright and morning star.   This diagram above asks the question “Is the Revelation 12 sign also the birth of the Antichrist?” and …. yes, that’s part of the mystery too.  May the “living stones” of God’s people prepare to met the maker of living stones!  This diagram was take from the following article which does an excellent job of tying the Great Pyramid with the Revelation 12 sign.  http://watchfortheday.org/signsoftheend/giza2024.html

 

            

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 The Sign of the 153 fishes

I just have to share this sign with you guys …it’s something that recently came to mind … and I haven’t ever heard of anyone else proposing this interpretation of the 153 fishes … so you be the judge.  Note, the picture above is not what I am about to explaining but it is yet another amazing coincidence of God.  Most Christians know the story where the “Resurrected” Jesus meets the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias and the disciples had been out fishing all night long … catching nothing  (John 21:1-17).  Jesus tells them to cast their net on the “right” side of the boat and suddenly the net was full of fish.  Peter immediately jumps in the water and swims to Jesus on the shore!

Well some Bible commentators have supposed that 153 is the number of people that Jesus blessed during His ministry or those that were saved at the time of Christ’s return after the resurrection and prior to His ascension into Heaven.  And there are numerous other conjunctions that have made about the number 153.  Another thought I recently had is that I have discovered that there are very few people who have a knowledge or conviction about the Rapture on Sept 21-23, 2017, perhaps about 153 people on the earth at this time. As Chuck Missler would say “very provocative”. 

Back to the story about the fishes … it’s a key passage because Jesus reminds Peter in a loving way of the three times he denied Him and the purpose that Peter was chosen … “Do you love Me more than these?”  Of course this strikes up a debate too because some think Jesus was asking Peter if his love for Jesus was greater than the other disciples who loved Jesus.  But I think Jesus was referring to the fish.  My interpretation has always been that Jesus was asking Peter if he was going to return to his old fishing profession or become the rock of faith that Jesus recognized him to be … “Do you love fishing more than Me?”

The number 153 has several amazing mathematical properties. It is the sum of the first 17 integers “1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17 = 153”.  Did you know the number 17 is the number for “victory” in the Bible?  It is the combination of the number 10, which is the ordinal perfection for man (referring to the 10 commandments) and the number 7, which is the Spiritual perfection of God (this is His divine signature).  The Jews passed through the Red Sea on the 17th of the month, this is when Jesus rose from grave, the First Fruits of the resurrection from the dead.  Will the Church be rapture on the 17th day? 

And 153 is also the sum of the first five positive factorials, 1! + 2! + 3! + 4! + 5! = 153.   Since   , it is by definition a 3-narcissistic number (this is the first time I’ve heard of number that is self absorbed?).   The number 153 is the smallest three-digit number which can be expressed as the sum of cubes of its digits.  This is something a friend recently pointed out to me. 

This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. – Revelation 13:8

Here’s something else amazing about 153. 153 + 513 = 666 which is the number of the Beast and the number of man (Revelation 13:8).  Man is created on the 6th day, so his number 6.  666 is the unholy trinity of the Beast which is composed of Satan, the Antichrist and the False Prophet.  God’s number of perfect order is 7. The Beast tries to imitate the 777 holy trinity of the God Head (the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) in order to deceive and destroy man.  1 = God who is One in Nature (holy) and 3 = God who is three in person (lover, beloved and love) and 5 = Grace (the 5 wise virgins who have the Holy Spirit oil of Salvation by Grace) … therefore the number 153 represents a believer, who is in the family of Grace (5) and who is held securely in between God’s nature (1) and God’s person (3).  The number 513 represents the unbeliever who has “5” – the Grace of God set before him but he has not accepted this Grace and therefore he doesn’t have the Revelation from God (1) and Salvation of God (3) that occurs “after” the acceptance of Grace. 

The number 153 represents 0.22972972972973 of 666 or almost 23% of the total.  Does this represent the percent of people that will be saved?

If the number 153 is associated to the number of people that Jesus personally saved while he was on earth, is the number 153 also associated with the number of born again Christians that make up the entire Church Age? 

Well 153 cubed or to the third power or 153 x 153 x 153 =  3,581,577 or about 3.58 billion.

Could it be that there are 3.58 billion total “born again” Christians that make up the Church age?

If you take the current figure of 6.95 billion people on the earth now and 3.58 billion Christians this give you 51.5 %, which matches the Great Pyramid angle for the exterior stones.

 

If you take the 6.95 billion people and the 1.82 billion Christians on earth now … this is 26.3 %, the Christ angle of the interior passage ways of the Great Pyramid.

 

If you take the 6.95 billion people and the 1.82 billion Muslims on earth now  … this is 26.3 %, the Christ angle of the interior passage ways of the Great Pyramid.

Look, I am in no way setting a limit on the saving hand of God’s grace but I have a “praisey” inquisitive mind and this is how is works.  My desire is the same as God’s desire, for none to perish  but for all to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).  

Isn’t it interesting that the Revelation 12 sign is the appearance of Christ in the air for His Church but it is also coincides with the “appearance of the Antichrist on the earth” to assume his role over the Global New World Order.  This is yet another thing that Satan, the counterfeit Christ does, as he masquerades as the morning light and tries to take the place of Christ, the light of the world (John 8:12).

Lately, I fell like the guy from Avatar, in that all the time that “my mind” spends pondering my new home in Heaven makes it seem more real to me than this world where “my body” currently dwells.

            

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 The Sign of Jonah – American Solar Eclipse (August 21 2017)

The sun will be turned to darkness … before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.  – Joel 2:31

Have you noticed that the path of the solar eclipse on Aug 21, 2017 crosses through the middle of America dividing it in two, which is the definition of America today, a nation divided politically in two.  Then seven years later another eclipse crosses America, forming an “x” or is it a “cross”.   What do these two eclipse signs mean, if anything?  Well, the first eclipse I think is a warning of the beginning of the seven year Tribulation period on Sept 23, 2017 and the second eclipse is a warning that the last seven bowl judgments will occur on May 18, 2024 and then the close of the Tribulation and the battle of Armageddon on Yom Kippur, Oct 12, 2024.

If you want learn something about the science and the difference between a “solar eclipse”, where the moon casts it’s shadow from the sun onto the earth, as oppose to a lunar eclipse, where the earth casts it’s shadow from the sun onto the moon … also called a “Blood Moon”, then I recommend you watch this video.  

And don’t look directly at the sun during the total eclipse because the remaining light being protected around the moon “the “, is 4,000 times brighter than normal.  Regular sun glasses won’t protect you either.  You need something like a welder’s mask or cheap mylar glasses you can buy made for viewing the eclipse.  Don’t even think of looking at it with binoculars.  I remember as a boy (I think 1963) making a hole in a piece of cardboard and projecting the light from the hole onto a piece of paper.

A friend posted this link on Facebook and it allows you to view an animation of the solar eclipse from the zip code where you are located.  It’s pretty cool … not as cool as actually being in the path of the total solar eclipse … but it is less harmful to the eyes.

http://amp.timeinc.net/time/4882923/total-solar-eclipse-map-places-view/

Jesus says “I stand at the door and knock” (Revelation 3:20) … and many people attribute this as a call to salvation for the unbeliever and it’s a good way to let people know that God is always knocking on the door of their heart and seeking a relationship with them.  However, this message from Jesus is given to the lazy, rich and carnal Church of Laodicea.  This picture of Jesus knocking on the door, is a picture of the groom, Jesus, trying to get the attention of His bride, the Church, so She will hurry up and get dressed in her wedding garments for the wedding and the marriage supper of the Lamb.  

  Revelation 3:  14“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
      The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:

      15‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. 17‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, 18I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. 19‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. 20‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21‘He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

The solar eclipse is coming over America 31 days prior to the “day of the rapture – Rosh Hosanna” and 40 days prior to “the day of Judgement – Yom Kipur”.  I think for one thing, the eclipse is a sign from God, knocking on the door for His bride, the Church, telling her, He is coming for her.  But the eclipse is also a sign for this evil and adulterous generation.  And when it comes to evil and adultery and taking of innocent lives, America ranks high on the list.  America may not be the number one most evil nation that has ever existed but America is high on the list when it comes to the number of babies that have been aborted and the legalizing of immoral behavior.  Plus I think America may have “fallen the furthest” from it’s zenith of Godliness, more so than any other nation.  America has lost the love of God and the truth of God upon which is was founded and at least “half” of America is hell bent on making America into a socialist country that can join the ranks of the Global New World Order.  God has blessed America over the years because America has blessed God, spreading His word to the far reaches of the world.  But the America of today is no longer …  

One nation

under God,

indivisible

with liberty and justice for all

The America of today is a polarized nation fighting in a civil information war, over the definition of what is good and what is evil.  The Liberals want a good that “seems right to men” and the Conservatives what the good that “is right from God”.  Every day I see some new display of crazy talk or crazy action of people that want to silence the freedom of speech and the freedom of thought of what “is right with God” and establish a “thought police” that will silence the truth and allow only thoughts and speech that “seem right to men”.  Like I say there are hundreds of example I could give as evidence that this is a “sign of the times”, the sign that man no longer has ears to hear the truth or reason logically to discern the truth.  Here’s just the latest example of lunacy, where a Democratic congress woman who sits on the committee for Home Land Security and National Terrorism labels Dana Loesche (a mom, patriot and spokesperson for the NRA) a bigger Domestic Threat than the rouge gang MS-13 that is terrorizing and killing Americas.  Seriously, when did it become illegal to follow the constitution of the United States of America?  

The battle for truth has been going since the beginning of time when Satan tempted Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden to doubt the truth of God disobey God.  But this battle is reaching a tipping point and a turning point in our time.  The believers of God are trying to “restrain” the lies of the world but the “resisters of truth” and “suppressors of the truth” are digging in their heels and preparing for war against the truth … which is a war against God that is described in the book of Revelation.  The truth is the person of Jesus Christ, for Jesus said,  “I am the truth, the life and the way” (John 14:6).  The Pharisees and Sadducees came up publicly and tested Jesus asking Him to give them a sign from Heaven to prove that He was the Son of God and Jesus rebuked them this way …

“An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.”  Matthew 16:4

The sign of Jonah that was given in Jesus’ time was the fact that Jesus was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights and He rose from the dead, which is similar to the way Jonah was in the fish 3 days and 3 nights before being spewed up on the shore … at Nineveh.  But there is another sign that occurred during Jonah’s time, according to astrological records, a solar ellipse crossed over Nineveh while Jonah was walking around town on June 15, 763 BC.  

Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”  – Jonah 3:4

Wouldn’t be just like the providential timing of God that the solar eclipse over Nineveh occurred exactly as Jonah started to preach his message of repentance toward God.  This year the eclipse over America occurs on August 21, 2017 and 31-33 days after the eclipse marks “Rosh Hashanah” the feast of Trumpets (the Rapture of the Church and the beginning of the Tribulation) on September 21-23, 2017 and 40 days after the eclipse marks the “Day of Atonement – Yom Kippur” on Sept 30, 2017.  In the case of judgement that was declared upon the Assyrians by Jonah, the Assyrians repented and God stayed His judgment upon them.  And though it was a great miracle that Jonah was able to survive in a fish for three days and nights but it was even a greater miracle that the whole city of Nineveh repented.  However, 50 years later the Assyrians were sacked by the Babylonians … in the Jubilee year from the date of their repentance.  Did Nineveh return to their wicked ways?  Well, we might have to wait to find out when we see Jesus … which by the way won’t be very long.

But unlike the eclipse over Nineveh, this eclipse on Aug 21, 2017 is not just a sign for America to repent but for the whole world to repent.  Perhaps more specifically, this is a sign for America to repent and lead the way again for God!  But we are going to need more than a catchy slogan like  “Make God Great Again” to reach the cold, worldly hearts of Americans.  Look, I’m not callous like Jonah who went up on a hill hoping to see God rain down fireworks on Nineveh.  I would love to see a Revival in America and I would love to see everyone in the world receive Christ as their Savior and give God the glory He is due … but I just don’t see this happening.  Of course that is why God is in charge and not me … He knows what is best.  I still might go up on a hill on Sept 21-23, 2017 like Jonah did, but not hoping to see God’s judgment come raining down but just to get a little closer to Him when He comes to rapture His bride!

How do you like this Godly coincidence … the eclipse begins in Salem Oregon at the exact same time that the sun sets on that day in Jeru-Salem!  Salem mean “peace”..  In Abraham’s time the place now call Jerusalem was called Salem.   “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.” (Genesis 14:18)   Add to that the fact that there are 7 Salems in the path of totality as you have discovered, and it cannot be coincidence because patterns of 7s like this are the signature of God.

 

            

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 The Sign of the Jewish Wedding – No One Knows the Day or Hour

“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”  –  Matthew 24:36

Most Christians who at least have some understand of the rapture act like “Parakeets”, repeating that “no one knows the day or the hour except God the Father (Matthew 24:36)” but I am relying on the “Paraclete“, the Holy Spirit that is telling me the time is very short and to stand strong for Christ and finish well for Jesus!  The expression “no one knows the day or hour” was used by the Jewish groom in Jesus’ day to declare that no one knew the time the groom would come for His bride until the Father approved the addition His Son made to the Father’s home for His bride. 

I think Jesus knew the time of His return but He used this expression to tell us about His future bride, the Church and give her hope.  He also didn’t give us the exact time or we would just sit with our noses to the window waiting on Him to come, instead of being about His business which is loving others and spreading the good news about salvation in Jesus Christ.  And even though the bride didn’t know the exact time her groom would come, she knew the approximate time, usually about a year later, after the accommodations for her were ready and approved by the father of the groom.

“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” – John 14:3

It is also the Jewish tradition that one of the grooms party would go ahead of the bridegroom, leading the way to the bride’s house – and shout – “Behold, the bridegroom comes.”  (the archangel) This would be followed by the sounding of the shofar.  (the trumpet of God)  At the sounding of the shofar the entire wedding processional would go through the streets of the city to the bride’s house (Heaven). 

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  – Thessalonians 4:16

It is only because “knowledge has increased” in the last days and it can flow “back and forth” easily on the Internet that I am able to make the calculations to determine that that this is the year 5993.  And the “knowledge” that is being referred to in Daniel 12:4 is “prophetic knowledge” … God is revealing His mysteries to His bride in these last days … but He is speaking to her in an intimate whisper.  You have to be seeking Christ’s return with all your heart to hear His whisper today … “get ready my bride, trim your lamps, grid your loins, adorn yourself in my righteousness … I’m coming … I’m right at the door”.  Ironically, the increase of wordly knowledge and the easy access to it has made it “more difficult” to distinguish the truth from the lies, as the “noise” of all the information coming at us is drowning out the still small voice of God. 

“But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase.” – Daniel 12:4

The poetry of Solomon comes to mind and this is what we should be hearing but we are hearing, instead of the crazy voices of the world.    Here is an excellent study on Song of Solomon http://timshen.faithweb.com/sos/topic4.htm

          Song of Solomon 2:2-4

       2“May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
            For your love is better than wine.

      3“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance,
            Your name is like purified oil;
            Therefore the maidens love you.

      4“Draw me after you and let us run together!
            The king has brought me into his chambers.”               

Look, I am a guy and the idea of being a bride and referred to as “she” is a little strange to my ear.  But I know what it is like to be in love with a woman.  There is no drug on earth that is as powerful and wonderful as the love between a man and a woman.  This kind of “romantic” love is a beautiful and wonderful thing that God has given us, a mystery … the two become One.  And if you are married, this is gift to treasure and thank God for everyday but I don’t want to go down that trail right now … I was  divorced … then born again … and then remarried and my wife is with the Lord right now in Heaven.  So I’m headed there to see her.  I know we won’t be married to one another because we will be married to the Lord.  God has an unconditional love for us, an “agape” love that never fades or waivers. 

Romantic love can come and go

       but the love of Christ forever flows!

“To the awaiting Bride of Jesus Christ, His return for her is unspeakably important and an utter obsession.  She will give up her life for Him without thinking twice.  Nothing is more important to her;  not friends, not family, nothing on this earth.  The Bride is so hungry for this “midnight shout” that she unabashedly hungers and clings to every possibility.  She listens to every prophecy, dream and vision in hopes of gleaning just one more clue as to when He may come for her.  She can FEEL it’s near and it’s is a part of her every inner thought.  She will NEVER give up.”

     

      

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 The Genesis sign fulfilled (planet “X” collides with Jupiter and comes to earth)

“And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.”  – Genesis 3:15

*Warning* I am currently fact checking the information in this section so take it with a gain of salt … or whatever seasoning you like.  I find this topic about a rouge hidden planet interesting and provocative but I want to find verifiable evidence before I move this from the conspiracy theory column to the Godly coincidental fact column.   I think some people who cover this subject have been doing if for a long time but only for amusement and to increase traffic to their web site in order to make money.  I think there is a possibility that an object will appear in the cosmos, around the mid-way point of the Tribulation and cause catastrophic damage to the earth and it’s possible that even now it’s magnetic pull is causing the birth pains of severe weather on earth.  Look, if there was actual sign in the Heavens “right now” like a giant planet headed toward earth then the world would be crisis mode, like a block buster movie and people would panic and they might even go to Church and get saved (but Jesus is whispering to His bride right now to get ready for the wedding).  Businesses would shut down and there would have to be martial law enforced … like it will be under the rule of the Antichrist … after the rapture. This kind of flashy stuff is more like a sign of the world and Satan … not of God … He has the cross! 

There is another sign in the Heavens called “the Nibiru” or “planet X” or it’s scientific name “2016 WF9” that I have just started researching https://www.ithasbeenwritten.com/revelation-12-damascus-gog-and-mag .  The jest of this sign is that there is a comet or a large planetary object that is headed toward earth.  The planet is made up of red iron oxide and the tail is a million miles long made up of asteroids.  It will come into view by the naked eye in the sky right after September 23, 2017.  It’s trajectory will cause it to bruise it’s head (Satan) on the heel of Jupiter (the Lion from the tribe of Judah) at the mid-way point of the Tribulation as it continues toward earth, this occurs at the same time that Satan falls to earth at the mid-way part of the Tribulation.  Planet “X” is not going to collide with earth but the closeness of it’s presence to earth will cause gravitational and weather anomalies and the asteroids in it’s tail will most likely hit earth.  

The climate changes we are experiencing today are not a caused by man-made CO2 which is causing Global Warning but the “core” of earth is experiencing changes due to the arrival of Planet X.  Changes in the earth’s core is causing more earthquake and volcano action and it is causing the “static shield” of earth’s electromagnetic protection to be compromised, allowing in more of the Sun’s energy to strike the earth.  We are going to need something better than a giant bottle SF 30 sun block to overcome this problem.  

Many people are speculating that the comet is the means of the destruction of God’s wrath on the earth.  I just heard that NASA is now covering up a portion of the sky telescopes where the Planet X dragon sign is located in the sky … what?  If you use the program “SkyView” by NASA, you can see the “dragon” looking planet approaching us before NASA closed down the sky telescopes in that area of the sky.  Watch the video for the details.

The Vatican watches the sky using their LUCIFER telescopes to look for extra territorial life … Angels … Demons?  This guy is an astronomer speaking very calmly about the evidence proving Planet X exists and the real threat to it’s arrival near planet earth.

This guy is a Ex-Navy Intelligence officer, who explains that people with money are preparing their underground bunkers to ride out the effects of Planet X.  And he says the government is aware of this pending disaster but they are withholding this information to avoid panic so commerce continues as usual.  Like I said, this is the ultimate conspiracy theory but this guy makes a point that when the real threat of a Global disaster is hovering over earth people will probably be in favor of a Global martial law to bring some kind of law and order … buying and selling … the mark of the Beast .. the Antichrist rule.  Like I said, I have kind of gone from Biblical truth to science fiction but it does make sense in a sad and scary way.  Thank God I am not living with the fear of what is going to happen on earth because my hope is in Christ and my home is in Heaven.

 

            

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 The sign Israel and the Gog/Magog War

There are crazy and troubling times … not as crazy as it will be during the Tribulation period … but we are experiencing the “pre birth pains” of pregnancy, the uncomfortable pains of carrying a baby right before the labor pains begin.  These “pre-labor” pains are the Spiritual intensity that God’s dear born again children are experiencing as they sense the coming Troubles for the world and anticipate with excitement meeting the Lord in the air.  The Church is not going to experience God’s wrath of the Tribulation but like a baby in the womb, we are experiencing the emotional tension of the mother, Israel, who is anxious about her birth and apprehensive about bringing a baby into a dangerous world where he is hated.

The sign of Israel today “should” be His people, the Jews, anxiously announcing to the world that the Lord is returning on September 21-23, 2017 to finish dealing with them.  But the people “of the Book” who are the “apple of God’s eye” are still in a Spiritual stupor after rejecting Jesus as the Messiah.  Israel today is primarily getting ready to go to war with Iran or Syria or Russia … the God/MaGog war.  God miraculously brought His people back from dispersion into their home land in 1948 and He miraculously intervened to demonstrate His love for Israel in 1967 during the Six Day War and now 50 years later, on the “Jubilee”, God is getting ready to demonstrate His love once again when He miraculously intervenes and defeats Israel’s enemy during the Gog/Magog war.  The Lord is coming on September 21-23, 2017 to claim His bride, the Church, and remind His bride, Israel, that He gave them the Temple Mount and He is the only One worthy of worship there.

The question that Bible students like myself like to ponder is does the Gog/Magog war of Ezekiel 38-39 occur before the Tribulation or is it the same war that is described at the end of the Millennium period?  The most logical analysis is that there are “two” Gog/Magog wars, one at the close of the Millennium period and this one that occurs right before the Tribulation period.  The prophecy of this war is also linked to the destruction of Damascus by the Jews.  Essentially, my interpretation is that God brings victory to the Jews on September 23, 2017, right after the rapture of the Church.  And the victory is why the Antichrist makes a covenant with Israel for seven years and allows them to build the Temple on the Temple mount in Jerusalem.

In brief Gog, who is Russia, is joined by Turkey, Iran, Syria, Ethiopia, Libya and Eastern Europe in a war to annihilate Israel.  Like I said, I think it is prophetically logical  that this war will occur slightly before the rapture on Sept 21-23, 2017 or it might occur right after the rapture and be wrapped up in a few days.  You see God intervenes in the war and wipes out a large portion of the warring countries and Israel is “at peace” in the world, which I think is related to the seven year covenant of peace that is made with the Antichrist.  Who is the Antichrist?  I don’t know who he is exactly but I think the Antichrist is on the world scene today, ready to “smooth talk” his way into the hearts and minds of people “left behind” on planet earth who desperately want a “Global New World Order”.  

The first 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation period will not be relatively peaceful for Israel because they will be under a covenant of protection with the Antichrist.  He will allow the Jews to rebuild the Temple on the Temple mount and resume sacrifices to “god”.  And all the while, God’s two witnesses will be walking around Jerusalem, rebuking the Antichrist and declaring the truth about the One true God of Israel.  I think the Jews will kind of accept the Antichrist as their Messiah, helping Him establish His Kingdom over the earth.  This is what they wanted Jesus to do … but He told them plainly many times that He was establishing a Kingdom in Heaven at His first advent … not a Kingdom on earth.  

The Jews therefore will not experience the “labor pains” of persecution during the first 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation but those who receive the Messiah who “went to the cross” will be persecuted.  If you publicly acknowledge your faith in Jesus, you will be beheaded and those who refuse to take the mark of the Beast will have to pay a tax to the Antichrist and be unable to buy and sell in the public market place.  The Church will be gone, raptured to Heaven, prior to the Tribulation period but these who die for their belief in Christ during the Tribulation period are “Tribulation Saints”, the martyrs who are before the throne of God in Heaven, who cry out to God for justice.

Revelation 6:  9When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; 10and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.

And God answers their cry, at the mid-way point of the Tribulation … the tables are turned as the Antichrist enters the Temple and declares himself god, the true God in Heaven throws Satan and his fallen Angels out of Heaven and onto earth.  The Antichrist turns on Israel to persecute her … the labor pains of birth described in Revelation 12 and Israel has a birth … a Spiritual awakening about the truth of God and about the truth of Jesus!  At the mid-way point of the Tribulation, the Jews confess their sin and are “born again”!   At this point God miraculously for the nation of Israel once again and hides them in a place in the wilderness prepared for them … Petra “rock” … in Jordan.

There are so many fascinating studies you can do about Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, Mt Zion.  The first mention of Jerusalem is when the king and priest (Melchizedek) of Salem (Jerusalem) comes to meet Abraham after he defeats the 4 kings and rescues his nephew Lot.   Melchizedek is a pre-incarnate Christ, since he is said to have no genealogy (Hebrews 7:3).   Christ offers Abraham bread and wine as He did to his disciples at the Last Supper.  And this is what the children of Christ do today, eat the bread and wine of communion in remembrance and thankfulness for the sacrifice Christ made for their sin.

Later, David bought the threshing floor of Mt Zion as the place to sacrifice to God and Solomon built the temple there to sacrifice to God and worship Him at that place.  Then later still, Jesus is sacrificed on the cross, at Mt Calvary, not on the Temple mount in the city but on the hill above the city of Jerusalem, Mt Zion!  A book written by 40 different authors over the course of thousands of year, with all the stories, intertwining and agreeing and declaring the wonderful name of Jesus.  It is no doubt the Bible is God’s word, the Jews are God’s people and Mt Zion is the place of His presence and glory.

For those who follow news in Israel you understand that there is always opposition and conflict there.  Israel is Satan’s one target because it’s the only promise left from God that he can try to destroy … the covenant of God that there will always be a people of God, the Jews and they will always have a place on earth, Israel.  If Satan can destroy God’s people or take away their land, he will have proved God a liar and undo his sentence of punishment in the Lake of Fire.  Of course God is not a liar or a created being like Satan who has to lie and steal from God in order to declare their is no God.  Yes, Satan is clearly insane but so is every man  who remains a slave to the sin they are born with, choosing a future of their own demise over a blessed future under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

The most obvious evidence that the Gog/Magog war is getting ready to erupt (probably on September 23, immediately after the rapture) is this message from Amir Tsarfati from St Petersburg Russia on August 18, 2017.  Click on his web site “Behold Israel” for his prophecy news updates.  Amir has a wealth of knowledge about Israel and it’s surrounding enemies.  He is a born again Christian, a Messianic Jew.  His insights into what is happening behind the scenes in the middle east is by far the best reporting on the Internet.  Ironically, as Amir reveals the evidence of the Gog/Magog war developing right before our eyes, he does support the evidence of the Revelation 12 sign which is being revealed right before our eyes.  It’s Mazzaroth not Mazel Tov.

            

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 The sign of Noah … Mocking and Deception

Don’t you just love Noah’s helpers and audience in this picture …. cats!  In a certain kind of way, by building this web site and these articles that declare that God is coming soon in judgement, I am like Noah building an ark.   And how was Noah’s message received by those around him?  … with ridicule and apathy.  Note, Noah wasn’t physically persecuted for his belief but he was mocked for his belief and he did suffer for God’s sake as he took on the reproach of those who called him crazy for believing in a God that would judge the world.  Look, who is going to spend their time building a giant boat in a place were there is no water, except that he was serving and honoring God?  And who is going to spend their time building a web page on a site where there are rarely any visitors, except that he is serving and honoring God?  As I said before … I’m not crazy … I’m praisey!  

Have you noticed that the world labels Christians as fearful of everyone who does not share their same belief, calling Christians Islamaphobic and Homophobic, yet it’s really the world who changed the standard of what is considered good and true to the point where the world is now “Christianophobic”.  

Those that mocked Noah viewed him as a fool and those that mock Bible believing Christians today think we are fools that can’t be trusted.  Well, to be more specific we can’t be trusted to do what “seems right to the world” because we are trusting in the Lord who “is right” and obeying what “He says is right even if it doesn’t seem right”.  If you don’t know Jesus this reasoning may seem weird but if you do know Jesus, well, this reasoning makes all the sense in this world and the world to come, as a matter of fact making decisions based on trusting Christ is called WISDOM.  Noah didn’t close the door of the ark and leave all the people behind … God did.  And yet, God’s desire is that none should perish (1 Peter 3:9).  How do you explain such a dilemma?

Well, scholars have been debating this issue for years but the simple truth is that God yields His desire for all people to be saved to the desire of his created beings.  God is still sovereign over His creation and He has the foreknowledge of what is going to happen (since God is outside of time).  God knows when sin will come to an end for man (7,000 years?) and He knows the ones that are going to call upon His name so their names remain in the “Lambs Book of Life”.  God gives each person sufficient grace so that each person is “without excuse” for rejecting Christ as their personal Savior.  God takes not pleasure in their rejection and blotting out their name from the Book, yet He doesn’t force, trick or control people so they will love Him against their will.  For that is what love is … it is a relationship based on trust and giving of self to the One you trust.  Those who have received Jesus into their heart have put their trust in God and God holds this trust eternally.  For those that reject Jesus … well God honors their free-will desire above His desire for them to be saved and He allows them to remain separated from Him for all eternity.  

There are hundreds of signs that man’s love has grown cold in the last days and the deception of the world and the time of the Gentiles has reached it’s fullness.  The world is pining for  a Global New World Order and the Antichrist to come rule over them.  The Tribulation period will give them what they want once the restraining influence of the Church (Holy Spirit) is removed by the rapture.  

            

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 Salvation in Jesus Christ – the only way of escape

Now is the time for Christians to … “Get Ready for Jesus” and for non-Christians to “Get Right with Jesus”.  When you say Jesus, it changes everything … the demon tremble and people stop and listen because there’s power in that name.   Now is the time to call upon the name of the Lord and be saved.  Jesus was born from a virgin, He lived a perfect life (in our place), He died for our sin (in our place), He was buried and on the third day He arose, conquering sin and death! (1 Corinthians 15:1-5)  God wants you to have the victory of the new life and eternal life in Jesus Christ.  Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good but He came to make dead people alive.  You are born dead in your sin, Spiritually separated from God.   There is no good work you can do to please God.  The only way to God is through Jesus Christ.  John 3:16 is not just a catchy slogan on a football banner … it’s God promise to you.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”   – John 3:16

People try religion and that doesn’t work for them, they blocking out the voice of God but that doesn’t work, they try living a good life by their rules but that doesn’t work either.  Nothing works to bring you peace in this world and the next, except a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  I have heard a lot of people tell me what doesn’t work for them but I’ve never met one person that said “my Jesus doesn’t work for me”.  He works, He lives, He cares, He loves, He is the way, the truth and life, no one comes to the Father except by Him.  – John 14:6.  

Here are the ABC’s of the how to be saved.

A – Admit your a sinner

B – Believe Jesus is Lord

C – Call upon His name

(with the mind you believe and with the heart you receive)

Hey Christians … celebrate, don’t castigate.  If we who are following the Revelation 12 sign are wrong about the timing of the rapture, well perhaps our enthusiasm and love for Jesus will spill over and save some lost soul in these desperate and deceptive times that we live in.

Hebrews 10: 23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; 24and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, 25not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

When all is said and done “THE CROSS HAS THE FINAL WORD!“.

 

            

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 The Provocative Conclusion

Look, I am a computer programmer and system analyst by profession.  At one point I started to write a book called “From Mainframes to Mayhem” to explain the crazy world of Information Technology and how God is like the “Central Mainframe of Information”, “Logos” (John 1:1), that you can always trust and man is like the “Mayhem of Distributed computers” that you can’t trust.  God has given me a gift of bringing automation and order out of the mayhem processes of the world and that is what a good computer system does … it provides order.  And if you think about it that’s what God is … He is the ultimate programmer, in that He created a world of order from the mayhem of formless matter (Genesis 1:2).  Unfortunately, like any computer programmer knows, a hacker can break into a  computer system and destroy it.  And that’s kind of what happened on planet earth, the hacker was Satan and he was allowed by God to hack into creation and tempt God’s created beings, Adam and Eve, into rebelling against God and destroying the world with the virus of (sin).  And that my friends is why you need the Antivirus program of “salvation in Jesus Christ”!  

Hey, this has been a pretty serious expedition but take a minute or two to listen to Mark Lowry talk about the rapture of the church and a few other things.

 

If the concept of Rapture as you confused, don’t worry about it.  Get right with Jesus and keep the melody of His love in Your heart.  Listen to Mark Lowry’s and the Gathiers quartet sing “What’s Not to Love”.

Hey, I could give a million reason to believe in God but all these reasons are crap if you don’t understand that above all these reasons … God loves you.  The song “Yes, Jesus loves me” says it best.  Yes, it’s true … Jesus loves me … sweet wonderful Jesus.  God wants the best for you and He know what is best for you.  He is concerned for you and for everything you do, think and say.  Yea, God doesn’t really want to have any personal boundaries but after all He did create your very soul.  Where do you want to live for all eternity?  In the hell and darkness of your own selfish sinful thoughts or in the light and presence of your creator?  I’m at a lost for words but I do have a song to share with you that I wrote called “God’s Love”.

Blessings to you – Rogersings  +8^)   

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