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Psalm 83 Update
Psalm 83: 2-4 – “Your enemies are making noises; those who hate you are getting ready to attack. They are making secret plans against your people; they plot against those you love. They say, “Come, let’s destroy them as a nation.”
Matthew 24:6 – “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.”
Zechariah 12:2-3 – “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
Wars and rumors of wars run rampant throughout the Middle East. The threats and pressures against Israel continue to mount. The war drums continue to beat louder and louder:
• Russia, the United States, France, and Great Britain are all positioning ships the region.
• Russia has declared that an attack against Tehran is the same as an attack against Moscow.
• The Iranians continue to threaten to close the Straits of Hormuz.
• Iran believes the return of Imam Mahdi, or the Twelfth (Hidden) Imam, is imminent.
• The Arab Spring is rapidly turning into the Arab Winter – democracy is giving way to the Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia Law.
• The blatant anti-Semitism being proclaimed with slogans like One Nation For A New Holocaust at soccer games indicates an imminent move against Israel.
The stage is being set for one or more of the following prophesied actions to take place:
• Isaiah 17 – The overnight destruction of Damascus.
• Psalm 83 – The attempted destruction of Israel by the Arab confederates.
• Jeremiah 49 – The destruction of Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam.
• Ezekiel 29 – The 40 year desolation of Egypt.
• Ezekiel 38-39 – The war of Gog/Magog against Israel.
We may, in fact, see these prophecies fulfilled in rapid succession, one after another. No wonder Jesus warned that the last days would be one of wars and rumors of wars!
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Russian, French Warships Off Syria, Iran, US Drones Over Iranian Coast.
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Egyptians Mass In Tahrir To Honor Uprising.
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One Nation For A New Holocaust.
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Prophecy continues to unfold as foretold by the Hebrew prophets. The stage is being set. That being said, one can only ask: “How imminent is the return of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach?”
The 144,000 Virgins
Revelation 14:1-5 – “I looked, and behold, Yeshua was standing on Mount Zion. With Him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one (οὐδείς oudeis G3762) could learn that song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who have been redeemed from the earth. These (οὗτος houtos G3778) are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins – they follow Yeshua wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among men (ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos G444) as first fruits to Yahweh and to Yeshua – and no lie was found in their mouth, they are blameless.”
The Common Interpretation:
Many scholars have interpreted these verses to mean that these individuals are from all nations, not just from the twelve tribes of Israel as are the 144,000 of Revelation 7:1-9, that they are the most like Yeshua of all who have ever walked the earth, and that they are obedient and follow the commandments without fault. With this I have no difference of opinion.
However, most of these scholars have also interpreted these verses to mean:
• These are men who have never married, remaining single until death,
• These are men who have never had sexual relations with any woman outside of marriage,
• These are men who, if they have married, have never cheated on their wife, or taken more than one wife,
• These are men who have never in some other way misused sex.
None of those additional interpretations are satisfactory to me, for several reasons:
• These additional interpretations appear to demonstrate carnal thinking,
• “Every man who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery . . .” (Matthew 5:28)
• Any man who had even had the slightest, most miniscule stray thought would be an adulterer,
• I have yet to meet even a twelve year old male that has never had a lustful thought,
• An adulterous man can not be considered a virgin – all have defiled themselves with women!,
• These interpretations do not appear to allow scripture to interpret scripture.
But even more importantly, none of these additional interpretations demonstrate spiritual thinking.
The Unique Interpretation:
Revelation is a study in contrasts between True Religion and false religion, between the True Messiah and the false messiah, between True Worship and false worship. In almost every other instance in Revelation a woman (harlot riding the beast, etc.) depicts false religion, or idol worship. Likewise, in many Old and New Testament scriptures a woman (or women) are used to depict false testimony, false religion, false worship, or false gods.
If we let scripture interpret scripture, then the following interpretation becomes evident and, to me, is considerably more satisfactory:
• These 144,000 virgins are those who have never, ever, defiled themselves by studying, accepting, or thinking about any lord other than Yahweh / Yeshua.
• These virgins have never bowed to any false god or lord,
• These virgins follow the example of Yeshua, who stated “I say only what the Father has taught me” – John 5:28,
• These virgins have never taught any other gospel than the one given in scripture,
• These virgins have never spoken any word about Yeshua other than those given in scripture,
• These virgins have never spoken any word about Yeshua other than those given specifically to them by the Holy Spirit.
Gender Neutrality:
The Greek words used for “men” (ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos G444) and for “one or ones” (οὐδείς oudeis, οὐθείς outheis, οὐδεμία oudemia, οὐδέν ouden, and οὐθέν outhen G3762) and for “these” (οὗτος houtos, αὕτη hautē, τοῦτο touto; G3778) are not necessarily male gender specific words. All three Greek words more accurately indicate humans in general, either male or female.
In light of these non-gender specific Greek words, one can therefore, also add the following interpretations:
• Every woman who looks at a man with lust for him has already committed adultery,
• An adulterous woman can not be considered a virgin – all have defiled themselves with men!
Conclusions:
When one thinks spiritually rather than carnally, it becomes quite clear that since these 144,000 humans (male or female) have never defiled themselves with any false religions or false lords (women), they are, in essence, virgins. Likewise, since they only speak that which is given by Yahweh, Yeshua, or the Holy Spirit (Qôdesh Rûach), there is no lie found in their mouth.
Therefore, I believe that Revelation 14:1-5 is talking about those humans who are spiritually and morally undefiled, not about those who are carnally or sexually undefiled, and is talking about humans that could be either male or female. This also more closely follows other scripture which states that there is neither male nor female in Christ, as stated in Galatians 5:27-28 – “You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. In Christ, there is no difference between Jew and Greek, slave and free person, male and female. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.”
This interpretation that these verses are about humans who are spiritually and morally undefiled, I believe, is a much more satisfactory interpretation, relies solely on spiritual thinking, rather than carnal thinking, and follows the overall study of contrasts between the true and the false found throughout Revelation and all scripture.
The Covenant With Death And Hell
Daniel 9:27 – “He will affirm a covenant with many for seven years. He will stop the offerings and sacrifices after three and one-half years; and in their place shall be an abomination that desolates, until finally the desecrator himself is destroyed.”
Blood Moons
Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries has discovered that since 1AD, a cycle of seven eclipses during a year has occurred seven times and each time major world events have occurred which were also major events impacting the Jewish peoples. In addition, in each of these years there was a cycle of four Blood Moon eclipses (a tetrad) with no partial eclipses between. These eclipses occurred on both Passover and Tabernacles. Three examples are listed below:
1492-1493 The Spanish Inquisition ― The Jews are expelled from Spain and Columbus discovers America. There is a Blood Moon on April 2, 1943 at Passover and on September 25, 1493 at the Feast of Tabernacles, and again on March 22,1494 and September 15, 1494.
1948-1949 The Rebirth of The Nation of Israel ― Israel is declared a nation May14, 1948. There is a Blood Moon on April 13, 1949 at Passover and again on October 7, 1949 at the Feast of Tabernacles, and again on April 2,1950 and September 26, 1950.
1967-1968 Jerusalem Captured ― The Jews recapture Jerusalem and make it their capital. There is a Blood Moon on April 24, 1967 at Passover and on October 18, 1967 on the eve of the Feast of Tabernacles, and again on April 13,1968 and October 6, 1968.
Another year in which Blood Moons occurred on both Passover and Tabernacles was 1996, the three-thousand year anniversary of the Davidic Empire. A Blood Moon occurred on April 3, 1996 at Passover and again on September 26-27, 1966 on the eve of the Feast of Tabernacles.
According to NASA’s charts the tetrad pattern of lunar eclipses is expected to occur again in 2014 and 2015:
2014
April 15th…………………….. 1st day of Passover
October 8th …………………. 1st day of Tabernacles
2015
April 4th ……………………….. 1st day of Passover
September 28th ……………… 1st day of Tabernacles
The tetrad pattern, says NASA, will repeat in 2033-2034, and then again five more times this century. None of these tetrads, however fall on Hebrew calendar feast (מוֹעֵד Moed) days.
Sackcloth Suns
Solar eclipses connected with God’s Holy Days will also occur in 2014-2015:
Nisan 1 (new year)……………. March 20, 2015
Feast of Trumpets ……………. September 13, 2015
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Signing of the Covenant With Death and Hell
Isaiah 28:15-20 – “You have made a covenant with death and hell, and your covenant will not stand. When the terrible punishment comes, then you will be trampled down by it.”
One of the next major prophetic events to occur is the signing of the “Covenant with Hell”. This covenant will be signed between the Israelis and the Antichrist.
Genesis 1:14 – “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, and years.”
Joel 2:31 – “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.”
The pattern of lunar eclipses is extremely rare, and for this phenomenon to fall on both Passover and Sukkoth two years in a row in 2014 and 2015, and for a solar eclipse to occur on important Holy Days in the year, 2015, is beyond amazing.
Perhaps these blood moon and sackcloth sun signs in the heavens are portents warning everyone that this “Covenant with Death And Hell” will be signed during this period.
If so, Isaiah Chapter 28 tells us that this covenant with death and hell will not stand, but will in fact, bring on the “Great And Terrible Day Of The Lord”, the seven year tribulation, as noted above in Joel 2.
Prophecy continues to unfold as foretold by the Hebrew prophets. The stage is being set. That being said, one can only ask: “How imminent is the return of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach?”
Damascus Destroyed – Update
Isaiah 17:1-3, 14 – “ 1An oracle concerning Damascus. See, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins. 2Her towns will be deserted forever . . . 3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus . . . 14At evening time, lo, terror! Before morning, they are no more . . .”
Jeremiah 49:27 – “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus, and it will completely burn the strong cities of King Ben-Hadad.”
Amos 13:4-5 – “This is what the LORD says: “For the many crimes of Damascus, I will punish them. I will break the gate bars of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-Eden; and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir, says the LORD.”
Zechariah 9:4 – “But the Lord will take away all she has and destroy her power on the sea. That city will be destroyed by fire.”
Last year we learned that a nuclear reactor had once again been discovered nearby Damascus. I do not doubt that this reactor is of Iranian manufacture. We all know how much the Arabs and Iranians love guns, RPGs, bombs, IEDs, and other such killing items. The intelligence community believes that these items, biological agents, and other weapons of mass destruction are stored in or near Damascus.
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This year, Israel and Syria are braced for war, and even the Arab League has placed sanctions against Syria. The United States and Russia have built up their naval capacities in the waters around Syria and Iran and neither nation would be positioning powerful navies in the proximity of Syria and Iran unless they were certain a military confrontation was imminent.
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The Syrian regime continues to slaughter Syrian protesters at home, and its security forces have intensified their intimidation of any Syrian opposition in Europe. “Assad’s crackdown in Germany may even have resulted in the execution-style murder of a 35-year-old Syrian in his automobile,” says the Weekly Standard.
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A number of recent escapees from Syria have called for the nations of the world to bomb Syria because of its brutal and inhumane treatment of protesters and its citizens. Civil war seems to be poised to erupt at any moment.
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The link between Syrian and Turkish peoples is stronger than ever as they both agree that Western countries are trying to divide the region and destabilize it. Syria has often accused the United States of gross interference in Arab League affairs, and claims that The United States is one of the western nations attempting to rekindle violence in Syria and other Arab nations of the Middle East. The Arab spring may yet become an Arab winter!
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Syria’s President Assad has threatened to attack Israel if there is any Western military intervention in Syria’s domestic affairs. Assad states: “If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than 6 hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv.” He has also threatened “to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks.”
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Without doubt, Damascus is in for some interesting times, and will be destroyed. Isaiah 17 tells us that Damascus will be destroyed between evening and morning. Both Jeremiah 49 and Zechariah 9 tell us that God will destroy the city by fire. Amos 1 tells us that God will cut the people off. That time quickly approaches.
Note that Syria, however, is not one of the nations mentioned in Psalm 83! Is this because it has already been destroyed? Could all these conflicts listed above be the sparks that starts the war of Psalm 83 and destroys Damascus?
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Prophecy continues to unfold as foretold by the Hebrew prophets. The stage is being set. That being said, one can only ask: “How imminent is the return of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach?”
The Name of God
Exodus 3:15 – “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘The LORD (יהוה YHVH [H3068]), the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.”
Ezekiel 39:7 – “My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the LORD (יהוה), the Holy One in Israel.”
Malachi 3:6 – “I Am the LORD (יהוה), I do not change . . .”
Hebrews 13:8 – “Jesus (יְהוֹשׁוּעַ Yeshua [H3091]) Christ (מָשִׁיחַ Mashiach [H4899]) is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
In Exodus, when God met Moses at the burning bush, he commanded Moses to make known His name to the people in Egypt. In Ezekiel, He further clarified that His name is to be made known to all nations.
God’s name, commonly called the Tetragrammaton, is composed of four Hebrew letters: יהוה YHVH (i.e. Yehovah / Jehovah, or Yahveh / Yahweh [H3068]). The letters in the Tetragrammaton, יהוה, the four letter representation of God’s name, can be rearranged to spell the words:
היה He Was hayâh H1961
הוה He Is howêh H1934
יהיה He Will Be w’yihiyê From H3068
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God’s name, יַהְוֶה, Yahweh, firmly establishes His eternal nature and that He is the same yesterday, today, and for all eternity. He is loving, merciful, gracious, and desires that not one will perish. Place your faith in Him and His promises and receive eternal life.
The Great Deception
The Mighty Hunter Returns
Genesis 10:8-9: ― “Nimrod was the first on earth to become a mighty warrior. He was a mighty hunter.”
Scripture tells us that Nimrod was a “mighty hunter”. This term is also applied to many other historical and mythical persons, such as Apollo, Gilgamesh, and Osiris. Are these persons, perhaps, all the same person? Peter Goodgame, in his book The Giza Discovery believes that they are. The one the Bible calls Nimrod, the ancients know as Adonis, Apollo, Baal, Bacchus, Dumuzi, Dionysus, Eshmun, Gilgamesh, Melqart, Mithra, Orion, Osiris, Ra, or Tammuz.
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Tom Horn, in his book ApollyonRising2012 further identifies Nimrod with Apollo or Apollyon.
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Revelation 9:11 ― “They have as king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.”
In April 2003, the tomb of Gilgamesh (Apollo – Nimrod) was found and the body exhumed. According to some accounts, the military swooped in, took the body, and the whole affair was quickly hushed up.
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Genetic Manipulation
Jasher 4:18 ― “And the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord.
Revelation 17:8 ― “The beast you saw was once alive but isn’t now. And yet he will soon come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction.”
Numerous media articles have informed us that genetic manipulation and cloning is an established fact. Scientists are currently attempting to clone a wooly mammoth. Technology Review states: “Thanks to new genomics technologies, scientists have not only been able to read organisms’ genomes faster than ever before, they can also write increasingly complex changes into those genomes, creating organisms with new capabilities.” Hendrik Poinar, an evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, says: “Recreating extinct organisms is definitely within reason. It will be possible.” Colleges and even high school labs are experimenting with DNA splicing. Transhumanists predict that within 10 years, it will be possible to find genetic designs on the internet, download them to your computer, modify and adapt them to your needs, print them out, and then ingest or inject them, thereby changing your human genome.
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If Gilgamesh – Nimrod is back, and if he can and will be cloned, then Revelation 17 is about to be fulfilled. Apollyon is about to rise from the grave (bottomless pit), and lead the demonic hordes against humanity. Nimrod, scripture tells us, became (חָלַל chalal[ H2490c] הָיָה hayah [H1961] a mighty hunter – a גִּבּוֹר gibbor [H1368]. This may be quite indicative of a changed DNA, not just that he learned how to hunt better than other men of the time, as the Hebrew says he polluted or defiled (חָלַל chalal הָיָה hayah) himself to become mighty (גִּבּוֹר gibbor)!
The Return of the Ancient Gods Prophecies and 2012
Ancient prophecies and calendars predict the end of the sun’s orbit through the Milky Way Galaxy, the coming of a feathered, flying serpent or dragon, the beginning of a golden age, and a new form of enlightened human beings. Below are summaries of some of these prophecies:
● Crystal Skulls – New Mayan priests are claiming that the world will change and a new form of humanity is going to emerge.
● Kukulcan = Mayan plumed serpent, feathered serpent, snake deity, or dragon, who has power of the air.
● Q’uq’umatz = K’iche Maya deity, the feathered serpent god of the Popol Vuh in Guatemala’s western highlands.
● Quetzalcoatl = Aztec feathered serpent heralds the end of one way of existence and the return of another, in which the serpent god Quetzalcoatl reigns anew, bringing with him a wholly new way of living.
● Rattlesnake = Cherokee the Feathered Rattlesnake returns. A new age begins and all is reborn.
● Hindu = The golden age is going to come with the emergence of a new world order and an enlightened form of human beings
● The Sybil = A golden age is going to come, there will be an emergence of a new world order and an enlightened form of human beings coupled by winged serpents and demigods.
The Year 2012
Many prophecies indicate that 2012 is the time when this will happen.
● The Aztecs speak of five epochs of time, which began in 3113 BC and will end on December 24, 2011.
● NASA = On December 21, 2012 at 11:11am the Sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in 26,000 years. They also state that 2012 will be a peak year for the sun’s cycle and we should expect an increase in solar flares and coronal discharges.
● The Islamic Mahdi is an unparalleled political, military and religious leader that will emerge in the last-days, and is often referred to as the Twelfth (Hidden) Imam. He is expected to return in 2012.
● The I-Ching: The I-Ching graph line, produced by Terrance and Dennis McKenna in 1973, abruptly falls off the chart on December 21, 2012. The high and low parts of the line appear to correspond to major historical events.
● WebBot Project: Even the WebBot Project, which was created to help investors track and make stock market predictions, mysteriously began to predict world events. It has predicted global devastation in late December 2012 as a result of a shift in the magnetic poles.
● St. Malachy = The last pope will be Peter the Roman. According to many, Peter is supposed to be the next and last pope!
● Zohar = The ancient Hebrew Zohar predicts the coming of Messiah in 2012.
The Conclusion
2 Thessalonians 2:3-11 ― “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except that the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. When the son of perdition appears, Satan will pretend to work all kinds of miracles, wonders, and signs. Lost people will be fooled by his great deceptions. They could be saved, but they will refuse to love the truth and accept it.”
Ancient secular prophecies and Biblical scripture seem to be headed on parallel courses. The many headlines in today’s news indicate that genetic manipulation and cloning could produce the return of Apollo (son of perdition), and that it could be imminent. Hybrid beings are the rank and file of experimental creations coming out of laboratories today.
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The increase in UFO sightings and the insistence of the Vatican that we are about to meet ET is interesting, and telling, to say the least. People are being trained to accept an invasion by extra-terrestrials, which I believe are nothing more, nothing less, than the fallen angels of scripture. Is this why NASA is once again headed to the moon in an attempt to verify the presence of alien technology?
Movies about werewolves and vampires glorify the occult. People are enticed to become such demonic beings. Séances, spirit guides, and channeling are all commonplace. Instead of adhering to the Biblical mandate to have nothing to do with these things (Deuteronomy 18:10), people are being trained to accept and even desire to engage in such practices. One can even book ghost hunting vacations through a travel agent.
All of these things lend me to believe that the great deception spoken of in Thessalonians and other scriptures is about to be unleashed. The world is about to be deceived into believing that Yahweh and Yeshua are immaterial, and that humans were created by the aliens that are coming who will bring about a new golden age and enlightenment of our minds. Genetic manipulation will be the tool used to change our DNA and make us immortal. Satan’s deception that we can become like God will be believed. 2012 could well be a pivotal year in the commencement of this great deception.
Prophecy continues to unfold as foretold by the Hebrew prophets. The stage is being set. That being said, one can only ask: “How imminent is the return of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach?”
The Year In Review
Luke 21:11 – “And there shall be great earthquakes in various places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs from heaven.”
Mark 13:8 – “Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in many parts of the world, as well as famines. But these are only the beginnings of the birth pains, with more to come.”
This year has been filled with monumental disasters. It started out on January 1st with a great flood of “biblical” proportions in Queensland, Australia and a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Santiago Del Estero, Argentina. These were followed by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Araucania, Chile on January 2nd. Mid month saw major flooding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil that killed close to 550 people, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in the Loyalty Islands and a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Southwestern Pakistan.
In February Christchurch, New Zealand was hit with a major earthquake that caused widespread damage, several power outages, toppled buildings, and buckled streets. March saw the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Honshu, Japan that caused a tsunami that swept debris miles inland, and the destruction of the Fukushima nuclear plants.
At least six earthquakes greater than 6.5 magnitude hit various places in April and May, and then again in June a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Fox and Aleutian Islands, Alaska. May and June also saw several volcanic eruptions that impacted air travel and closed airports, as well as flooding in China. Hundreds to thousands of dead fish, frogs, and birds are found worldwide, but especially in Florida, Texas, Kansas, Connecticut, and New York. The United States was also hit with a series of tornados that according to some sources, was the worst tornado rampage in history of world, with nearly 200 tornados recorded and over 300 lives lost in just a single day, including four level EF5 events.
In July we began to hear reports of devastating famines, especially in Somalia, Africa and heat waves baked the United States and Canada throughout July and August, and a 7.6 magnitude earthquake just south of The Kermadic Islands near New Zealand in July, followed by three 7.0 or greater magnitude earthquakes in Vanuatu and Northern Peru.
September again saw a major earthquake in Vanuatu, and a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Fiji. Floods in Pakistan killed more than 200 people, and the famine in Somalia is expected to kill over 750,000 by the end of 2011.
October shook the Kermadic Islands and also Eastern Turkey with 7.4 and 7.2 magnitude earthquakes. Bangkok, Thailand hit with the worst flood in half a century and the death toll had risen to 320. In November, a relatively small earthquake hit Turkey toppling several hotels and killing at least 5 people, and there was flooding in Mexico and in Vermont.
December saw a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in the eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea, as well as a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Southwestern Siberia, Russia. Severe winter storms and flooding are expected in Alaska.
Worldwide there is a food shortage in many parts of the world. People in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen have been protesting food prices and overturning regimes in these states and nations. Farmers in Australia have been plagued by a mouse invasion. There have been many recalls of contaminated foods in the United States. Scientists have created a variety of “bird flu” so dangerous that they have been warned not to publish their processes. Bacteria have been found in New Delhi water supplies that are highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics. Yellow fever has been reported in Uganda, Chad, the Congo, Mali, and Côte d’Ivoire this year. Measles outbreaks have occurred in the United States, Spain, Romania, Macedonia, and Uzbekistan, resulting in over 26,000 measles cases this year and nine deaths.
Prophecy continues to unfold as foretold by the Hebrew prophets. The stage is being set, the birth pains are beginning to be more noticeable. That being said, one can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
Hallelujah Yeshua
I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.
(Luke 18:17, Mark 10:15)
Luke 2:8, As quoted by second graders:
“In the same region there were some shepherds staying out
in the fields and washing their socks by night.”
May Yahweh Bless You And Keep You
May Yahweh Make His Face Shine Upon You,
And Be Gracious To You
May Yahweh Grant You His Blessing,
And Give You Shalom
Be Happy, Be Joyful, Be Childlike
God Bless, Professor J
In A World of Hurt
The world is in a precarious place. So many things are happening so fast that it is hard to keep up with it all. Below are listed some of these things that tell me time is short, and that the Rapture and Tribulation Period are quickly approaching:
The Rise of Islam and Islamo-Facism: The friends of the Muslim Brotherhood are starting to line up with Obama in the lead. There have been burned churches in Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Tanzania, and mob attacks on Iraqi Christians and their businesses.
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Laodicean Church Rises: Christians will either stand upon the literal, truthful Word of the Bible, or bow to the secular worldview. John McTernan says: “It seems the more America mocks God by promoting abortion and homosexuality along with Obama attempts to divide Israel, the more the church becomes unconcerned. There is just a remnant that is standing for the LORD against this tsunami of sin. The Laodicean church has a powerful influence over America.”
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American Military: Our military is being sodomized and given over to bestiality. The secret RQ-170 drones are captured by Iran.
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Homosexual Agenda: The US has publicly declared it will fight discrimination against gays and lesbians abroad by using foreign aid and diplomacy to encourage reform. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience of diplomats in Geneva: “Gay rights are human rights”. Gay sex play forced on students.
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Financial Meltdown: Debt reigns supreme in Greece, Italy, Ireland, and Portugal. Standard & Poor’s lowered Belgium’s credit rating from AA+ to AA, and the U.S. credit rating from triple-A to AA+. Japan lost its triple rating, and the credit ratings of the European Union and some of the region’s largest banks may also be lowered in the coming weeks and months. Ten or more states in the US are facing financial deficits or bankruptcy in one or more financial sectors.
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One World Economy: Not only are the nations of the world calling for a one world government and one world bank, so is the Vatican on October 24, 2011 published a report calling for the establishment of a global authority and a central world bank to rule over the world’s diverse financial institutions.
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Wars and Rumors of Wars: Israel and Syria are bracing for a regional war between December 2011 and January 2012. Israel is getting ready to remove Iran’s nuclear ability.
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Earthquakes: So far this year, we have seen 181 magnitude 6.0 to 6.9 earthquakes, eighteen magnitude 7.0 to 8.9 earthquakes, and one magnitude 9.0 to 9.9 earthquakes that have been reported in diverse places in 2011. The nineteen 7.0 and larger earthquakes were in: Japan, The Kermadic Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, Peru, and Alaska. The latest 7.1 magnitude earthquake just hit Papua New Guinea today, December 14, 2011. Just in January there were four 7.0 & larger earthquakes in: Pakistan, Loyalty Islands, Chile, and Argentina.
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Prophecy continues to unfold as foretold by the Hebrew prophets. The stage is being set. That being said, one can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
Gog and Magog Get Hooked
Ezekiel 38:4-6 “And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of amour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.”
We have noted in other blogs how Russian and Iran have made coalitions of mutual support Alliances, and how Russia and Libya are making similar pacts Coalitions. The King of the North is becoming more identifiable with each passing day.
The Ezekiel passage above also tells us that Russia will be drawn, possibly against their will, into the war against Israel. Recent headlines indicate that this is exactly what is beginning to take form at this time. General Nikolai Makarov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, has warned that the risks of Russia being pulled into local conflicts that have the potential of turning nuclear have risen sharply, according to several sources.
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Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, has also stated that taking out the US missile shield in Europe would leave Israel completely exposed to Iranian missile attacks.
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Prophecy continues to unfold as foretold by the Hebrew prophets. The stage is being set. That being said, one can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
The Woman and The Beast
Revelation 17:3, 9-10, 18 – “ . . . and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored beast . . . having seven heads and ten horns . . . The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits. Five kings have already fallen, the sixth now reigns, and the seventh is yet to come, but his reign will be brief. The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”
In Revelation we are told that a woman will be sitting upon a red beast. In other words, a religious body will have control over the economic and governmental bodies. Revelation is quite clear that there are two beasts: “one a king and one a false prophet. There is reason to believe that a Pope may turn out to be the False Prophet . . . This is in fact suggested by the fact that the first beast rises from the sea but the second beast rises from the land” http://www.be-ready.org/pope.html.
Could we be seeing the rise of the woman who sits on the beast? If this is true, then is the woman the Roman Catholic Church? And does that mean that the head of this religious body is the “Antichrist”? Martin Luther is allegedly quoted as saying “I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist”. Pope Benedict XVI even declared that the woman in Revelation 12 is Mary, herself!
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We also have the prophecies of St. Malachy that predicts that Pope Benedict XVI will be the next to last pope, the last pope will be Peter the Roman who cooperates with the Antichrist, and that this cooperation will result in the city of seven hills being destroyed.
Read More: Analysis of Malachy Prophecies
If the end-times evil world system does end up centered in Rome and led by an individual of that city, then the pope becomes the most likely candidate! And Revelation is quite clear that the woman is finally removed from the back of the beast (Revelation 17:16). While this sentiment might tickle the ears, no matter how much we want to correlate the seven hills with Rome all of these passages in Revelation point to Babylon.
Revelation 13:16-17 – “And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
What is telling, however, is the scriptures that clearly state that the False Prophet is the one that forces all to take the mark of the beast, to worship the idol made in his image, and to be unable to conduct financial transactions unless one has that mark. In 2009 Pope Benedict claimed that the capitalist mentality was responsible for the global financial meltdown and called for the world’s nations to transfer part of their powers to a world financial authority and that there was also an urgent need for a world political authority (Caritas in Veritate encyclical). To read the full text of this manifest, log on to: Caritas-in-Veritate. Even more interesting is that the Vatican just recently the published a report calling for the establishment of a global authority and a central world bank to rule over the world’s diverse financial institutions. To read the full text of this manifest, log on to: Full-text-Financial-Reform.
Again, I must ask if we could be seeing the rise of the woman who sits on the beast? If so, then is the woman the Roman Catholic Church, and is the Pope the False Prophet? Perhaps the Vatican merely laying the groundwork and setting up the stage for the true False Prophet to arise with their belief that “a world Authority becomes the only horizon compatible with the new realities of our time and the needs of humankind” and “Only a spirit of concord that rises above divisions and conflicts will allow humanity to be authentically one family and to conceive of a new world with the creation of a world public Authority at the service of the common good.”
History is moving extremely quickly towards the prophesied one world government, the one world financial system, and the rise of both the Antichrist and the False Prophet. The stage is being set. That being said, one can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
The Final Holocaust
Throughout history Satan has tried many times to prove God to be a liar, to kill those from whom the messiah would come, and to so fully corrupt mankind that mankind could not be saved. Each time God has begun to move in behalf of mankind Satan has implemented a move to forestall God’s blessings.
In the beginning, as soon as God declared that a messiah would come from the seed of the woman, Satan tried to wipe out the ability for this to happen by killing the righteous Able (Genesis 4). He then began, through the fallen angels, to corrupt (mingle) the seed of both man and animal (Genesis 6). The many statues and carvings of satyrs, minotaurs, centaurs, and other mixed breeds that pervade the Greek and Roman areas are a mute testimony to this mingling of seeds. The Nephilim (נְפִילִים H5303), or giants, who “became mighty men which were of old, men of renown” – Genesis 6:4, are also a testimony to the mingling of the seeds, and to Satan’s attempts to so fully pollute the seed of man so that the messiah could not be born. God’s judgment on this mingling was the flood.
Satan’s next attempt to commit genocide against the Jews and to remove the ability of the Jewish race to bring forth a messiah took place in Egypt, when he had Pharaoh attempt to kill all of the baby boys. Later, as God brought His people out of Egypt, Satan once again used the Nephilim to forestall their entry into the promised land. God’s judgment on this to not allow the older generation into the promised land.
We next see the Nephilim in play at the time when God was raising up a king, David, whose heart was unto his own. God’s judgment on this move was the killing of Goliath and his four brothers, the only remaining giants in the land at that time (1 Samuel 17), and then Satan’s attempts to permanently remove the Jews through their dispersal to Assyria and Babylon, and subsequent attempts to have all of the Jews killed (Esther).
Once again, as God began to move on behalf of all mankind, Satan, through Pontius Pilate, tried to eliminate the ability of the Jews to bring the messiah into the world by killing all of the boys under 2 years of age in Bethlehem. And, again, Satan failed. God’s judgment on this was the birth of Jesus. Satan believed that he had finally outmaneuvered God when Jesus was crucified, but God’s judgment on this was Jesus’ resurrection!
In recent times, when the Jews began to once again to return to the land in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Satan again tried to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth using Hitler and the Holocaust of World War II. God’s judgment on this is the nation of Israel.
The Final Holocaust Is Imminent
Jesus declared that as it was in the time of Noah, so shall it be at the time of His coming. The final holocaust is coming – Satan’s final move is in play to remove the Jews and to so fully pollute the seed of man that mankind cannot be saved. Today there is a growing movement in the middle east to permanently remove the Jews from the face of the earth. There is also a growing movement in genetic and biologic circles to once again mix the seeds of man and animal, as well as to mix the seeds of plants. God’s judgment on this will be the second coming of Jesus.
Because Jesus foretold that Jerusalem would become a cup of trembling to the entire world (Joel 3:1-2 and Zechariah 12:2), and that genetic manipulation would happen just as it did in the time of Noah (Matthew 24:37-44), and that the evidence which shows it is now taking shape before our very eyes is becoming clearer and clearer, one can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
The Lord’s Supper
The Body:
1 Corinthians 11:23-26 – For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
The Manna
In Greek, ἄρτος artos G740. In Hebrew: מָן mân H4478, meaning: “What is it?”.
Numbers 11:7-8 – “Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars . .”
The coriander seed has a shell that has furrows, resembling the stripes on Jesus after the whipping he received at Pontius Pilate’s command. Coriander has to be beaten or ground in a mill before it can be used for cooking or eating. (Γεθσημανῆ Gethsēmanē G1068). Likewise, Jesus was crushed with the burden of the sin of the world in his Gethsēmanē and was bruised and beaten during the two trials.
Jesus spoke of the manna, revealing its true significance:
John 6:48-51 – “I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
The Matzo
In Hebrew: מַצָּה matstsâh H4682,
Exodus 12:8 – “And they shall eat the meat on that night, roasted over the fire, and matzos, with bitter herbs, shall they eat it.”
Maztzo is mentioned in the Torah several times in relation to the exodus from Egypt. Matzo is a perfect picture of the body of Messiah. First of all, matzo has no leaven. Leaven is a shadow and type of sin, and Yeshua knew no sin. Matzo also has stripes on it. This represents the stripes He bore for our healing. Matzo also has dark splotches over it’s surface from the baking process. This represents the bruises the He suffered for our iniquities. Matzo is also pierced so that it won’t curl up when baking. This represents the piercing that Yeshua suffered for our transgressions.
The Afikoman
In the Passover Seder meal the middle matzo is taken and broken in two. This is the portion that Yeshua broke during the Last Supper when He said, “This is my body that is broken for you”. One half of the broken Matzo is wrapped in a white cloth and hidden, to be found later in the meal, so that the children will stay awake. This portion is called the Afikoman. We remember that Jesus three times asked his disciples to “stay awake” (Matthew 26:36-46). We also remember that the middle person of the Godhead was broken for us at Passover, and hiding the middle matzo is a picture of His burial.
The nation of Israel has been taking the middle matzo, the afikoman, and doing this for centuries, not understanding that the Matzo that is broken, wrapped in a cloth, and buried is symbolic of Yeshua their Messiah.
The Blood:
Matthew 26:27-28 – “And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant (διαθήκη), which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.”
The Paschal Lamb Covenant
The most common picture of the blood is the sacrificial blood of the Lamb poured out during the Passover sacrifices and shed by Christ on the cross. But, is there more to the blood than just this picture? Indeed there is:
The Abrahamic Covenant
In Genesis, God pledged to Abraham that if either Abraham or himself would break the covenant, then God alone would shed his blood to fulfill the terms of that covenant. Normally, both parties would be pledging their lives to the endurance of the covenant relationship so the shedding of blood represented an inviolable commitment to loyalty on pain of death. However, in verse 17, God is the only one who walks through the blood sacrifice. Only He will pay the price with His life and blood if the covenant is broken. The covenant is restated in Genesis 17:2-9 and Deuteronomy 1:7-8 for the descendants of Abraham’s son, Isaac. Jesus fulfilled this covenant when He shed His blood on during the trials and ultimately on the cross.
The Wedding Covenant
In a Jewish marriage, the husband-to-be (groom) would establish and pay the purchase price for the bride. Jesus paid the ultimate price by being crucified and shedding his blood. He would then offer the cup of (the blood) betrothal to his prospective bride, thereby pledging his life to and for his bride. If the bride accepted this promise, she would then drink of the cup confirming that she, too, would pledge her life to and for her betrothed. In effect, both promised to shed their blood to fulfill the covenant.
Taking The Supper Rightly:
1 Corinthians 11:27-29 – “Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.”
If you are taking the bread without fully comprehending that Jesus is the bread (manna, matzo, afikoman), then perhaps you are taking the bread in an unworthy manner. If you are taking the cup without fully comprehending that Jesus’ blood is the blood of the covenants and that in taking the cup you are pledging your life to Jesus just as he has given his life for you then perhaps you are taking the wine in an unworthy manner.
1 Corinthians 11:30-32 – “For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.. But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.”
Taking the Lord’s Supper in an unworthy manner brings judgment. Therefore, take the Lord’s Supper in a worthy manner, for the time grows short and one does not want to be found wanting when Christ returns.
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Additional Scripture and Notes
Manna is derived from the Hebrew word מָן mân H4478, meaning: “What is it?”
Exodus 16:15 – “And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as hoarfrost on the ground. When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, ‘What is it?’ For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, ‘It is the bread which The Lord has given you to eat . . .’ ”
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Numbers 11:9 – “When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.”
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Exodus 16:19-35 – The people were only to gather enough manna for one day because it would otherwise spoil. However, they were to gather enough for two days on the sixth day because no manna would be given on the Sabbath, and neither would it spoil. The manna began about one month after the leaving Egypt and was given for the entire forty years of their passage through the wilderness.
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Joshua 5:12 – “The manna ceased on the day they ate the produce of the land, and the Israelites no longer had manna; they ate the crops of the land of Canaan that year.”
John 6:31-33 – “Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” Jesus then said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.’ ”
Matzo
Exodus 12:18 – “In the first month, in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, you shall eat matzos, until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.”
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Deuteronomy 16:3 – “You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat matzos, the bread of affliction; for in haste did you come forth out of the land of Egypt; that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.”
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Deuteronomy 16:8 – “Six days you shall eat matzos and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work therein.”
The Abrahamic Covenant
Genesis 15:9, 10, 17 – 9. “And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10. “And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.” 17. “And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.”
The Supper
Matthew 26:27-28 – “And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant (διαθήκη), which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.”
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Mark 14:22-23 – “And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
And He said to them, ‘This is My blood of the covenant (διαθήκη), which is poured out for many’.”
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Luke 22:20 – “Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new (καινός) testament (διαθήκη) in my blood, which is shed for you.”
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διαθήκη diathēkē G1242; a disposition that is, specifically, a contract, covenant, or testament.
καινός kainos G2537; new, fresh, new things.
Snatched Away on Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah – Day of the Rapture?
Will I really be snatched up to the clouds September 28th or 29th 2011, to be with Jesus? I sure hope so, but “of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Matthew 24:36
Jesus cautioned His followers not to speculate on the exact time of the Rapture, but in the light of eternity past and future, “day and hour” is a very narrow slice of time. Jesus gave us at least fifteen specific signs that would be happening in the last days, clearly wanting us to know when the time of His return was rapidly approaching. Many of the fifteen signs are being fulfilled today which strongly indicates we are living in the last days. We are, after all, living through revolutions, wars and rumors of wars, and horrifying persecution, for starters. Without doubt, that “day and hour” is imminent!
So why expect Rosh Hashanah might be the day of the rapture?
Rosh Hashanah is one of the major candidates for the day of the Rapture. Only when two witnesses see the edge of the moon, can the festival start. There is a two day period in which they knew it would happen, but not the exact time. Hence, “You do not know the day or the hour.”
Rosh Hashanah is also called The Feast of Trumpets or the Feast Of The New Moon. Its three main themes are Resurrection of the Righteous, Kingship of the Lord, and Marriage of the Lamb, all rapture images.
Another name for Rosh Hashanah is Yom Hakish – the day of hiding. Those who wait for the rapture expect to be hidden in Heaven during the tribulation period.
The flood came when the fullness of the days of Lot and Noah were complete. The coming of Christ shall be as in the days of Noah. In short, the genetic manipulation and mingling of seeds today points to a time exactly like the time of Noah and Lot when the seed of man, animals, and plants was also corrupt, or mingled.
In 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, the apostle Paul writes that “the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God . . .” The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) uses 100 distinct shofar blasts but only four different types of blasts during the festival. The fourth and final type is known to the Jews as the “Last Trump” or as the “Trump of God”. In Exodus 19, when this trump was sounded, God came down and Moses went up! Paul states that when the trumpet of God sounds, “those who have died believing in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive will be gathered up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And we will be with the Lord forever.”
What If
What if the rapture does not happen tomorrow or the next day? Will you be disappointed?
Remember, its three main themes are Resurrection of the Righteous, Kingship of the Lord, and Marriage of the Lamb, which are also very strong second coming images. The resurrection and judgment of Old Testament peoples occurs just after the second coming of Christ. Believers are ushered into the millennium kingdom, unbelievers are consigned to hell.
Remember, all of the feasts are rehearsals for the real thing. The spring feasts were fulfilled at Christ’s first coming and the fall feasts will ultimately be fulfilled at His second coming.
Remember, in the millennial reign, as in eternity, believers will be “hidden in Christ” forever.
Conclusion:
I know not if I really will be snatched up to the clouds on Rosh Hashanah to be with Jesus. Rosh Hashanah is as good a day as any to pick as an example of what could happen September 28th or 29th, should the Lord decide to call his bride home immediately, but is more accurately a picture of His second coming and beginning of His millennial reign.
While some may be disappointed, I will not be (for long). The Jews for thousands of years proclaimed: “Next year in Jerusalem” until that day in 1967 when Jerusalem was theirs. Until the rapture happens, I will simply continue to proclaim: “Wish I were with you, Jesus, in Heaven. Perhaps today or tomorrow – only your Father truly knows the day and hour. Maranatha! May that day come quickly. Amen and Amen.”
With all of the signs being fulfilled today which strongly indicates we are living in the last days, one can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
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PS: 9/30/11 – Not surprising, I’m still Here! As expected, since only Yahweh knows the day and hour, I continue to look forward with hope to that glorious day when the rapture occurs. May that day come quickly. Stay tuned for more posts.
Headed For Hellfire And Destruction
Headed For Hellfire
Galatians 1:8-9 “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed! As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!”
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 “No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.”
People today who do not accept the Bible as the literal truth of God are literally headed for Hell and the Lake of Fire. Mormonism, Islam, and other religions are simply deceptions that have been founded by men who claim to have been given by “angels” a “new” or “more accurate” version of scripture than the Bible. Joseph Smith claimed he had seen a vision of Jesus Christ. Muhammad claimed to have been instructed by the angel Jibril. According to the above scripture, Both have received a “different gospel”. Both have perverted the gospel of Christ. In short, both Smith and Muhammad were deceived, no doubt, by Satan or one of his demons masquerading as angels of light and are responsible, therefore, for deceiving millions, if not billions, of people to believe they will be headed for heaven when both Smith, Muhammad, and those people are accursed, i.e. headed to hell and the lake of fire! The only virgin a Muslim Jihadist will see will be the virgin flame of the flames of fire in Hell.
Headed For Destruction
Joel 3:1-2 1 “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.”
Haggai 2:6-7 “For thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land. ‘I will shake all the nations . . . ”
Haggai 2:21-22 “I am going to shake the heavens and the earth. I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will go down, everyone by the sword of another.”
The upcoming vote in the United Nations, should it actually take place, will place every single nation that opposes Israel and supports the Palestinians at risk of judgment and destruction. One simply cannot שַׁיִן and חֶרֶא on Israel and expect God Almighty, YHWH, to ignore such brazen insults to Himself, His land, and His people. Scripture is very clear, Damascus will become a heap of ruins (Isaiah 17), Esau [Palestinians] will be no more (Obadiah 1, Jeremiah 49), and the nations of Ishmael [Arabs] will be destroyed (Jeremiah 49-51).
We are facing a critical time in the world. The world stands in unbelief and refuses to hear God’s Word and voice which plainly warns of judgment for dividing the land of Israel and/or Jerusalem. War and destructions are decreed when this happens. Most of the Arab nations and the Palestinians, Hezbollah-ites, and Hamas-ians are going to be destroyed and this will free Israel to build the third temple. Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ will follow shortly thereafter. God is about to glorify His name above all other names: god-will-glorify-his-name-before-the-nations
Because scripture foretold this would happen and the evidence clearly indicates that it is now taking shape, One can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
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H2716 חֲרִי חֶרֶא khar-ee’: From a vulgar root word meaning to evacuate the bowels – to s…. (expel a turd)
Is Transhumanism The Mark Of The Beast?
“When the Son of Man comes, it will be like what happened during Noah’s time . . .” – Matthew 24:37-44
“God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth” – Genesis 6:11
Will mankind’s unceasing search to be smarter, faster, more powerful, and immune to disease eventually cause God to once again rain judgment down upon the earth as He did during Noah’s time? Will this search ultimately lead to a human that ain’t quite human and become the “Mark of the Beast”?
Let us examine these possibilities:
For decades, now, TV shows and films have been portraying mankind’s desire to more than human, in short to be trans-human. In the 1970s Six Million Dollar Man made its debut. In 1982 Blade Runner hit the box office. Since then, there has been no shortage of movies and shows that feature enhanced humans: Dollhouse, The Terminator, Spider-Man, Splice, and The Matrix, just to name a few. But the movies pale in comparison to some of the real enhancements that have been introduced in recent years.
For instance:
Just days ago a thin, high-tech electronic body monitor printed on a flexible Band-Aid like substance was heralded. Some prophecy teachers wondered if this could become the Mark of the Beast. Not likely in my opinion. Read More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2025102/Electronic-skin-How-hi-tech-tattoo-monitor-patients-vital-signs.html
On August 16, 2011, fourteen year old British car-racing fan Matthew James made headlines when he was given a state-of-the-art, cyborg-style hand and forearm. Read More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2025859/Mercedes-car-firm-grants-35k-bionic-hand-wish-Formula-One-fan-Matthew-James.html
IBM has unveiled an experimental computer chip it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks. Read More: http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2102735/ibm-unveils-chips-mimic-human-brain
Cambridge University researchers have created the first-ever animal with artificial information in its genetic code. Read More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14492948
Transhumanism
Human enhancement is at the center of the transhumanism debate, and the media announces almost every scientific transhuman breakthrough as beneficial to mankind. Read more about transhumanism at: http://humanityplus.org/learn/transhumanist-faq/
According to the WND article, http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=334589, Tom Horn states that “even more sinister genetic tinkering” is taking place behind closed doors. When Obama repealed the Bush era restrictions on human/animal/plant genetic engineering, this process took off at an alarming rate of speed and is now being fast-tracked with billions of dollars by the Pentagon and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Horn “suggests people, as we now know them, are in the process of a man-made redesign in order to make them superbeings or even non-human entities . . . . what they may do is lead us literally into the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.”
In the summer of 2008, Representative Brad Sherman chaired a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee focusing on the diplomatic and security implications of the spread of “genetics and other human-modification technologies.”
Additionally, Congress has been discussing topics such as biotech’s potential for creating super soldiers, super intelligence and super animals. It was noted that the convergence of nanotech, biotech, computers and cognitive sciences, along with new applications could “put agents of unprecedented lethal force” in the hands of friendly and enemy sources. Even the topics of genetic discrimination, eugenics, and the civil rights of humans and animals whose bodies and intelligence might be enhanced to the point of inability to tell if such a combination is human, or animal, was broached.
Jesus said: “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” – Matthew 24:21-22.
In short, if the transhumanist movement succeeds in transforming humans into something that is posthuman that no longer needs flesh covered bones to survive, then these words of Jesus take on an entirely different meaning. Jesus states that “no flesh will survive”, not that “humanity will not survive”, according to Britt Gillette. Read More: http://brittgillette.com/WordPress/?p=49
Conclusion:
If Tom Horn, Britt Gillette, and others are correct, then perhaps a human that ain’t quite human, rather than some simple injection of a microchip could, indeed, be the “Mark of the Beast”. Artificial hands, artificial eyes. Artificial brains! Now that would certainly set apart real humans from Beast approved humans, eh?
Scripture tells us that in Noah’s day, the seed of man, animal, and plant had all become corrupt (i.e.: intermingled). Transhumanism and the enhanced human movement seem destined to take us right back to that condition.
Because scripture foretold this would happen and the evidence that it is now taking shape before our very eyes is becoming clearer and clearer, One can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
Elenin – Sign In The Heavens
Psalm 19:1-2 – The heavens tell the glory of God, and the skies announce what his hands have made. Day after day they tell the story; night after night they tell it again.
Revelation12:1 – 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; and she was with child; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.
The Comet Elenin and Jesus’ Birth
The birth of this child in Revelation 12 (whom John the Apostle identified with Jesus) should have occurred while the Sun was “clothing” the woman, when the Sun was mid-bodied to Virgo. The birth of Jesus also had to be at a time when the moon was at the feet of the virgin (Virgo) and when the sun was mid-bodied to Virgo. In the year 3BC, these two factors came to precise agreement for about an hour and a half, as observed from Palestine or Patmos, between August 27 to September 15 in 3BC.
A number of years ago a film was produced called “The Star of Bethlehem” http://www.bethlehemstar.net/. This film documented the signs given above in relation to the birth of Jesus in 3BC, using a software program called “Starry Night” http://store.starrynight.com/software.html
What this film did not document was the fact that at that time the comet Elenin was also one of the heavenly objects connected to this occurrence. Al Gendii has uploaded a video called “The Star of Bethlehem and Comet Elenin” to YouTube that graphically shows this connection, again using the Starry Night software program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-TxSUhI8U
Genesis 49:10 – The scepter shall not depart from Judah, until the coming of the one to whom it belongs, the one whom all nations will honor.
At the time of Jesus birth, Elenin was in the constellation of Leo when Jupiter crowned Regulus. Jupiter went retrograde when it reached Elenin, and it was in conjunction with Venus very near Elenin. For three thousand years Elenin has passed between the feet of Leo, but this year will pass from Leo to Virgo just as Jupiter did 2000 years ago!
The Comet Elenin and Jesus’ Return
Revelation12:4 – And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.
We return to Revelation 12 and find that once again the comet Elenin is in play. This time, it is heading away from the feet of the constellation of Leo (Judah), and is headed towards the constellation of Virgo. Carl Worline writes:
“During the second half of September, the comet Elenin will be in the constellation of Virgo, the virgin. The sun will also be in Virgo, so the woman (Virgo) will be clothed with the sun. At the same time, the moon will be at the feet of Virgo. During the latter part of September, Elenin moves up the face of Virgo to a place where it would almost appear to be the tears coming from Virgo’s eye as she cries out in pain as she is about to give birth. Then Elenin moves further up Virgo’s face to rest on the top of her head, like a crown. Actually, it will look like a tiara among twelve stars above Virgo’s head.” He also writes that “The planet Venus is in the mid-section of Virgo as if it were a child in its mother’s womb. Saturn is also present and in the right position, as if it were a dragon waiting for the child to be born, so that it could devour the child.” His full essay can be found at: http://www.raptureready.com/soap/worline3.html
Antonin Feori of The Crimson Pill has an excellent video on YouTube describing this. It can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3DvFkY8bnA
The Crowning of Virgo happens around September 29, 2011. Is it coincidence that the Palestinians are going to seek full membership in the United Nations around this same time as well? Rosh Hashanah also occurs at this time, but because the festival can only start when the new moon is visible, two witnesses must verify that it is visible. Rosh Hashanah, therefore, is referred to as the feast where “no one knows the day or the hour”. Is it also coincidental that Jesus tells us that of His return “no one knows the day or the hour”, or is all of this God’s timing?
Again, can this really be just coincidence, or are the Sun, Moon, and stars telling us something important?
Genesis 1:14 : ‘And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years” .’
Luke 21:25 –There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations . . .
When end-times signs in the heavens after end-times signs in the heavens begins to be fulfilled, One can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
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From Signs in the Sun, Moon, and Stars:
The constellation known as Bootes, or “The Coming One,” shows a man with a sickle coming to reap a harvest, and, according to some, is a heavenly sign predicting the return of Jesus to Earth.
Another sign in the heavens has been seen. It may or not be a comet, but it is described as a flying X-pattern with trailing streamers, a flying cross, or perhaps a Star of David.
Ninth of Av
According to history, many events considered disastrous by the Jews have occurred on the Ninth of Av, also called Tisha B’Av,the saddest day in Jewish history:
• Av 9, 1312 BC - Only two of the twelve spies sent by Moses to observe the land of Canaan returned with a positive report. For this, God decreed that for all generations this date would become one of crying and misfortune for their descendants, the Jewish people. (Numbers Chapters 13–14)
• Av 9, 422 BC - The First Temple built by King Solomon was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and the Judeans were sent into the Babylonian exile.
• Av 9, 70 AD - The Second Temple built by Ezra and Nehemiah was destroyed by the Romans on August 4, 70 AD.
• Av 9, 71 AD - The Roman army plowed Jerusalem with salt on July 25, 71 AD.
• Av 9, 132 AD - The Romans crushed Bar Kokhba’s revolt and destroyed the city of Betar, killing over 100,000 Jews, on July 8, 132.
• Av 9, 135 AD - The destruction of Simeon Bar Cochba’s army on August 5, 135 AD.
• Av 9, 1095 AD - The First Crusade was declared by Pope Urban II on July 20, 1095.
• Av 9, 1190 AD - 500 Jews died as a result of the rich storming a castle in York England on July 14, 1190.
• Av 9, 1290 AD - July 25, 1290 Jews forced out of England.
• Av 9, 1492 AD - August 11, 1492 Jews forced out of Spain.
• Av 9, 1914 AD - World War I begins on August 1, 1914. Russia also launches persecutions against the Jews in Eastern Russia on this same day.
• Av 9, 1942 AD - The mass deportation began of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, en route to Treblinka began On the eve of July 23, 1942.
• Av 9, 1994 AD - The Jewish community center in Buenos Aires was bombed killing 86 and wounding 300 others on Monday July 18, 1994.
• Av 9, 2005 AD - Starting at midnight on August 14, 2005, the entry and presence of Israeli citizens in the Gaza Strip is prohibited.
Let us pray that Av 9, 2011, which falls on August 9, 2011, is not yet another day of disaster for our Jewish brothers.
Russian – Libyan Coalition
Ezekiel 38:4-5 I will turn you [Russia] around and put hooks in your jaws. And I will bring you out with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all of whom will be dressed in beautiful uniforms. They will be a large army with large and small shields and all having swords. Persia, Cush [Ethiopia], and Put [Libya] will be with them, all of them having shields and helmets.
The Biblical prophets predicted that in the end days, there would be four main superpowers (or spheres of power) in four geographic regions in relation to Israel. They are the King of the North – Daniel 11, the Kings of the East – Revelation 16, the King of the West – Jeremiah 25 & Revelation 13, and the King of the South – Daniel 11. The prophets further predicted that there would be alliances formed between some of these kings, including an alliance between Russia and Libya. Russia has already formed alliances with Iran and China, and recent news headlines may be pointing to the Russian-Libyan alliance beginning to form.
According to Debkafile on July 14, 2011: http://www.debka.com/article/21115/, the Libyan war ended when Obama called upon Medvedev to take the lead in ending the conflict. In doing so, Obama thereby accepted the Russian-Libyan method for ending the war instead of the NATO approach.
On Monday, July 18, 2011, Gary Stearman of Prophecy in the News highlighted this very interesting news – http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/category/daily-update/. This can also be seen at: http://vimeo.com/26583333.
When end-times prophecy after end-times prophecy begins to be fulfilled, One can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
Chrislam 3 – The Coming One World Religion
Galatians 1:8-9 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed! As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!
Exodus 23:13 “Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, those names must not come out of your mouth.”
Scripture tells us that the world is moving towards a one world economy, a one world government, and a one world religion. Chrislam, I believe, is going to be the foundation upon which the coming one world religion will be built. This unholy blending of Christianity and Islam, follows the path of the interfaith movement belief that all religions are equally valid paths to the same destination, and is being taught in churches, colleges, and in the media all over the globe.
On June 26th, the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. and approximately 50 other churches in 26 U.S. states publicly read from the Quran during their Sunday worship services. This is all part of the beliefs promoted by the Interfaith Alliance and Human Rights First. The theme of this Sunday was Faith Shared: Uniting in Prayer and Understanding, attempting to show how much Christianity in the United States mirrors Islam in the rest of the world. Here are some of the churches that participated in this unholy union:
● Christ Church in New York City
● All Saints Church in Pasadena, California
● Park Hill Congregational in Denver
● Hillview United Methodist in Boise, Idaho
● First United Lutheran in San Francisco
● St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Honolulu
And here are some of the “Christian” leaders who have participated in this movement, sometimes referred to as the Emergent Church movement:
●Brian McLaren celebrated Ramadan back in 2009.
●Rick Warren has been a guest speaker at the national conference of the Islamic Society of North America.
●Rick Warren, Robert Schuller, Brian McLaren, Richard Cizik and Bill Hybels all signed a letter to the Islamic community that was entitled “Loving God And Neighbor Together”. This letter made it abundantly clear that these Christians leaders consider Allah and the Christian God to be the same entity.
Exodus 20:3-6 ”Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
The “Interfaith Movement” is barreling forth at full speed. The One World Religion is forming and Chrislam, I believe, is the foundation upon which this movement will be built. The many similarities between the two faiths will make this deception palatable to many, and many will be deceived. Take care that you do not become one who gets deceived.
Because scripture foretold this would happen and the evidence that it is now taking shape before our very eyes is becoming clearer and clearer, One can only ask: “How close are we to the return of Christ?”
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From Chrislam 1 – A Doctrine of Demons /2011/06/19/chrislam-a-doctrine-of-demons/
From Chrislam 2 – A Doctrine of Deception /2011/06/26/chrislam-2-a-doctrine-of-deception/
