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    by Published on 06-20-2012 10:05 PM     Number of Views: 5555 
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    Many people say you can't know when Jesus returns, but is that fair? We were able to know when Jesus would be cut off to the day (Friday, Nisan 14, Passover, April 1, 33 AD Gregorian, April Fool's Day) centuries before He died on the cross by Daniel's prophecy. We were able to know the month and year when Israel would become a nation again (May, 1948) because of Ezekiel's prophecy on his side. Similarly, we can know the day Jesus steps down on the mount of olives by the prophecy of the Tetrads, Daniel's final seven and partial rapture combined. I thought I would try a post without getting into as much details as I normally do so you can appreciate the basic working proof and not get bogged down by too much data.

    When people say you can't know the day or hour of when Jesus returns, I concede we can't know the hour like when your friend is to come over today but you don't know the hour. We can't know the day the Bible says if we are carnal Christians. The world can't know for they don't love Lord. We couldn't know before the time Israel became a nation again. And we shouldn't confuse the end of the world which we can't know with when Jesus returns which we can "know" even the very day "right at the door" (Matt. 24.33) once Israel is a nation again (v.32).

    Jesus would certainly return within a lifetime "right at the door." Rev. 6.12 occurs just before the Tribulation starts, before the great and terrible day of the Lord which spans Daniel's final seven. What then must occur?

    Three events must occur: A great earthquake. The earthquake in Haiti in 2010 had the second most deaths of any earthquake in history at 320,000 souls. The 4th greatest earthquake in history in terms of magnitude occurred in Japan, 2011. All 50+ nuclear power plants were shut down and it was the greatest financial loss in history.

    We know the feast Total Lunar Tetrad that occurs on passover and tabernacles, and again on passover and tabernacles, is 2014/15, the 8th since Christ. The 6th was when Israel became a nation and the 7th was when Israel entered Jerusalem. It won't happen again till 2582/83. 2014/15 will be the time of when the 3rd Temple construction begins to remain consistent with the 1949/50 and 1967/68 Tetrads, and it will also be the time the Tribulation starts, because the 3 events in Rev. 6.12 (Joel 2.31, Acts 2.20) occur right before the Tribulation starts with its first trumpet (8.7).

    If there is no major solar eclipse between 2010/11 and 2014/15 according to Rev. 6.12 then the whole proof falls on its head. The rarest of all solar eclipses of which there are 4 kinds occurs about 5% of the time, called the Hybrid. And there are three kinds of Hybrids, the rarest which is the H3 also occurring about 5% of the time. An H3 starts off as a partial and completes itself as a total eclipse to produce that black sackcloth effect. As it turns to my amazement on Nov. 3, 2013 we will witness an H3 solar eclipse. And they are even more rare when they are considered long-dated which means according to NASA they last more than 1 minute and 30 seconds. The H3 on this date is just such an eclipse. This one will be the 4th since Christ. It won't happen again till 2172/73.

    If it wasn't for the necessity of these events to take place and in exact order I would think nothing of it, but they do happen in the precise order as required by Rev. 6.12 before the Tribulation starts. Logically, therefore, the Tribulation can't start before 2015.

    If it were to start in 2015 it would need to be completed in 2022 to span a full 2,520 days (7 x 360) according to Dan. 9.27 to remain consistent with Daniel's 69 sevens. Incidentally, 2520 is the smallest number divisible by all numbers from 2 to 10. 2022 would also be the year the sign of the Son of Man takes place (Matt. 24.30). Nobody really knows what the sign of the Son of Man is so let's just look at 2022 and see if any special cosmic events take place. Two things will occur. In 2022 Jupiter will the be the closest to earth in hundreds of years, visible with the naked eye and apparently, it will be hit by many comets and asteroids which will cause its surface to sparkle in 2022. It will be a sight to behold! Additionally, in 2022 the planets of our solar system will be united in a one third section of the solar system which is also very rare. The last time this happened that I know of was during WWI and WWII. Uncanny!

    Should the 2,520 days of the Tribulation fall on special days? Of course, because that is what occurred in the past. Since the last 3 feasts pertain to when Jesus returns and the first of the last 3 feasts deals with rapture, the Tribulation must begin on Feast of Trumpets. Therefore, the 2,520th day must land on a special day. Again, if there is no special day on the 2,520th day then the whole proof is destroyed and falls on its face. The 2,520th day from Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 comes to Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. Unfortunately, there is no special holiday on this Sunday. However, to my amazement, Tisha B'Av is Aug. 6 (Av 9), but according to the Jews whenever it is dated on a Sabbath it is held the day after instead which is of course Av 10, Aug. 7, 2022. There you have it. It's a miracle! The 2,520th day in 2014-21 and 2016-23 does not land on Tisha B'Av. But is Tisha B'Av very important? It is the day the 1st and 2nd temples were destroyed. We underestimate the significance of this day, not appreciating it is the day Jesus returns to reign in the 3rd Temple on earth in person for 1000 years. Praise the Lord!

    Now that we know when the Tribulation starts and when Jesus returns, what should we do about it? All this knowledge God affords us in these latter days is to spiritually motivate us so that if we are watchful (Matt. 24.40-42), prayerful (Luke 21.36) and keep the word of His patience (Rev. 3.10) we can escape the hour of trial that is to come upon the whole world to be first raptured to 3rd heaven "before the throne" (7.9) before the 1st trumpet of the Tribulation (8.7) begins. This is God's promise to Christians who are overcomers. All Christians overcometh but not at the same time: firstfruits (Rev. 14.1-5) then a later harvest (vv.14-16). There are advanced parties and harbingers in every sphere. Not only will overcomers be raptured alive, but they will get to return with Christ (Jude 14,15) to reign over the nations (Rev. 2.26) for 1000 years like the 5 wise virgins (Matt. 25.1-13), whereas the 5 unwise virgins though saved and have eternal life which can never be lost (John 10.28) do not get to receive this reward.

    Thank you Lord Jesus for blessing us with this spiritual knowledge so that we may abide in your word daily and be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to happen. Amen.
    by Published on 06-18-2012 01:02 AM     Number of Views: 3931 
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    If 1 Tim. 4.10 "God is the Savior all men, specially those who believe" means in Calvinism "God is the Savior of all men [by faith], [particularly] those who believe" then why isn't everyone saved since He is the "Savior of all men"?

    OSAS Arminians teach God is the Savior of all men because He died on the cross for the sins of the whole world and provides sufficient grace to all to have the free choice.

    But to be the "Savior of all men [by faith]" in Calvinism would mean "all men" would have to be saved. Unless you mean "all men [in different places]." But then that would be nonsensically redundant because "[particularly] those who believe" are those "men [in different places]." And besides, who are those who are saved "[by faith]" who are not "those who believe"? There is just no way around this verse to help Calvinists support their faith.

    This is very powerful proof that Calvinists are not Christians because they refuse to repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated; therefore, they will go to Hell! They are a child of perdition; even worse, they are the unsaved tares that try to look like saved wheat who may have even come close to the door of salvation (2 Pet. 2.21) but refuse to enter. Instead, they pridefully on pedestal arrogantly and pompously prefer to assume they were irresistibly selected, and billions others were born for Hell to be given no opportunity for salvation. What love is that? Calvinists are sick bastards through and through! Jesus will put His sickle to them when He returns. There is no need for us to root them out as they grow up next to us and try to look like us who are God's chosen ones.

    Thus, anyone reading this who is still a Calvinist if you can't be convinced by this clarity and logic what will convince you to give your life to Jesus who died on the cross for the sins of the whole world and to the God who provides sufficient grace to all to have the free choice that whosoever believeth in Him shall be saved (regenerated)?

    Let me ask you simply again, what would the word of God have to say and how would you require it be worded to accept Jesus who died on the cross for the sins of the whole world and the God who provides sufficient grace to all to have the free choice?

    I propose to you here and now that there is no actual feasible way for the word of God to express itself in a way that could convince you to accept the God who predestinates by foreknowing our free-choice: a conditional election, unlimited atonement, resistible grace, for preservation of the saints.

    It is as though Calvinists have been preteritioned for Hell.

    Most of us know all too well Calvinists we have encountered will never repent; it is effectively too late for you now. You have long since decided what you want and whom you worship and where your allegiance lies. And that makes me very sad for you. May others who read this not be so deceived.
    by Published on 06-15-2012 01:00 AM     Number of Views: 5776 
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    Please forgive me if I am wrong about this, but I do not know how to interpret Rev. 17.16 and 8.7-11 any differently that would make any sense to me.

    The Lord showed me in His word what is to become of the Vatican before the end of this decade because the Roman Church is disgusting to God. God will allow Satan to destroy the Vatican, and Satan will want to do so (even though it has many false teachings well pleasing to the Devil) because it uses the name of Jesus as being God and atoned for sins but in a Quaternity not the Trinity.

    Since Rev. chapters 12 to 19 give the minor points of the Tribulation's major points provided in chapters 7 to 11, we can understand how the destruction of religious Rome (ch.17) occurs in the first half of the Tribulation in agreement with its 1st four trumpets (ch.8), and political Rome (ch.18) is destroyed in the 2nd half of the 7 year Tribulation with its last 3 trumpets or the 3 woes (chs.9-11).

    "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore [religious Rome], and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." (17.16).

    To burn the Vatican which sits on or near the 7 hills of Rome (17.9) would never occur in our day and age through any means other than a nuclear bomb. A nuclear bomb will blow up the Vatican before the end of this decade, "because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication" (14.8). This great harlot has many false teachings which are deplorable to God and that is not even the worst of it. She has killed many saints through the centuries. "I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration" (17.6). She rides on the beast of nations: "the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns" (v.7). She has amassed great wealth from her crimes against humanity: "the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication" (v.4). Her time is almost up! Just like the Merovingian said in the Matrix.

    "The first angel sounded, and there was fire mingled with blood; and a third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up" (Rev. 8.7).

    "And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood" (v.8).

    "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters" (v.10).

    "And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter" (v.11).

    I am not sure in which of these 3 trumpets by these 3 angels the nuclear bomb will take place in agreement with 17.16 that gives details, but the first 4 trumpets are from Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 to Feb. 25, 2019 according to the Total Lunar Tetrads.

    For more on this harlot by Watchman Nee in "Come, Lord Jesus" read as follows.


    Rev. 2.20 “But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel . . . ; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols”—Who is this Jezebel?

    Jezebel, whose story is recorded in 1 Kings, was an unusual Old Testament personality. Ahab King of Israel took to wife this Jezebel, the daughter of a Sidonian king (1 Kings 16.31). She seduced the people into serving and worshiping another god, even Baal. The problem created at that time was more than simply a worshiping of idols; the children of Israel had also changed their God. They made Baal their god. Never before had there been any king to lead Israel to sin more than King Ahab. He was the first one who steered the people along to worship a foreign god. His sin surpassed even that of Jeroboam.

    The woman here mentioned is Jezebel. Both the woman mentioned in Revelation 17 and the woman who hid the leaven in three measures of meal as mentioned in Matthew 13 betoken the Roman Catholic system.

    Here is a woman who brings confusion to God’s people as well as to God’s word. She brings in idolatry. She calls herself a prophetess. She desires to preach and to teach. It is quite true that according to divine truth the church stands before God in the position of a woman. But whenever the church assumes the authority to teach, she turns into a Jezebel. The church of God has no right to speak on her own. In other words, the church has no doctrine of her own, since only the Son of God is the truth and has truths. Christ as the Head of the church alone can speak. How the Roman Catholic system, having turned into a Jezebel, insists on what the church says instead of what the Bible says or what the Lord says.

    Jezebel has committed adultery—she has joined herself to the world. The phenomenon of the Roman Catholic system for the past thousand and some odd years is, according to the epistle of James (4.4), an adultery of the first magnitude. Here we find that this church has lost her chastity.

    "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (James 4.4).

    The consequence of such adultery is idol-worship. We are faced with the fact that none other than the Roman Catholic Church has so many idols.

    “Thou sufferest the woman Jezebel . . . ; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols”—Why Jezebel? Because she introduces foreign gods and so can represent the Roman Catholic Church. How foreign deities have been taken over and labeled with Christian names, the most notable being the image of Mary. The Greeks had the goddess Venus, the eastern countries had the goddess of mercy, the Egyptians had the goddess of the nether region, but only Christianity had no goddess. For the sake of having a goddess, therefore, Mary was introduced. This is idolatry added on to fornication. The failure of the believers at Thyatira, says God, is to allow such teaching to prevail over them.

    2.21 “And I gave her time that she should repent; and she wiliest not to repent of her fornication”—There is only one woman in the whole world who has killed the prophets, and she is Jezebel. During the middle centuries, countless numbers of God’s children died a martyr’s death at the hand of the Roman Catholic Church. She insists that what she decides or judges is right, and she tries to control man’s thought. She will not repent.

    Satan will never repent, nor will the adherents of the Roman Church. The result will be the complete flattening of the Vatican.
    by Published on 06-09-2012 06:37 PM     Number of Views: 4783 
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    The argument goes as follows. Just as the wise men received two confirming signs of the star in the heavens for the baby Jesus, we have two confirming signs of when Jesus returns by the lunar tetrads 1949/50 when Israel became a nation May 14, 1948 and 1967/68 when Israel entered Jerusalem June 7, 1967. The Armistice treaty was signed 1949. These were not any normal Tetrads but they occurred on passover, tabernacles and again on passover and tabernacles. The 8th one since Christ will be 2014/15 and won't happen again till literally the year 2582/83. The probability calculation is as follows. Because there was only one century prior to the 20th century that had 2 feast Tetrads, the probability the Tetrad occurring twice in the 20th century was 1 in 19 centuries. And the probability one of the Tetrads would fall on one of those two key dates was 2/100 and the other landing on the other date was 1/99. This brings the total probability to ~ 1 in 100,00.

    The last seven of Daniel's prophecy (Dan. 9.24-27) has yet to be fulfilled which is 2,520 days (7 x 360) like the other 69 sevens were. From the declaration to rebuild the Temple Nisan 1, 444 BC (Neh. 2), the 2nd Temple would be built in troublous times over seven sets of seven (7 x 7 x 360 = 17,640 days) then after another 62 sevens the Messiah would be cut off. 7 x (7+62) x 360 = 173,880 days. There are exactly 173,880 days from March 3, Nisan 1, 444 BC to March 28, 33 AD (Gregorian). March 28 was Nisan 10, Monday, the 1st day of the 4 day inspection of the lamb when Jesus rode into Jerusalem. The 4 day inspection was March 28, 29, 30, 31. Jesus died on a lunar eclipse April 1, 33 AD, Friday, Passover, Nisan 14, April Fool's Day as Satan mocks Jesus. Hundreds of years prior we could predict the exact day Jesus would die on the cross. Amazing! Should we not be able to predict when Jesus steps down on the mount of olives to reign on earth for 1000 years with His overcomers over the nations? Certainly. We knew the day the baby Jesus would be born and when He would die on the cross. Likewise, for those who are discerning, they will know when He returns. Praise the Lord!

    Let us be careful though, because all those verses that talk about you can't know the day or the hour should be read in context. Sometimes they deal with the end of the world (not when Jesus returns), speaking to carnal Christians who can't discern, or prior to when Israel would be a nation again since Matt. 24.33 days we can "know" when Jesus returns even the very day "right at the door" (Matt. 24.33) only once Israel is a nation again (v.32). It was around this time we knew when the Tetrads would take place as well.

    So before the great and terrible day of the Lord (Joel 2.31, Acts 2.20, Rev. 6.12) would occur three events in specific order: great earthquake, unique solar eclipse and unique lunar eclipse. In 2010, there were 320,000 people who died in Haiti due to an earthquake. It was the second most deaths of any earthquake in history and the most per capita of 1 in 27 souls. In 2011 was the greatest financial loss of any earthquake in history in Japan, 4th greatest in magnitude and all 50+ nuclear power plants were shut down. Never in history have two earthquakes of such massive proportions ever occurred back to back, year over year like that. Profound! We can calculate this to be a probability of ~ 1 in 2010. "For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" (Rev. 6.17) does follow verse 12.

    What follows next is the required rare lunar eclipse. There are 4 kinds of lunar eclipses. The rarest is the Hybrid occurring about 5% of the time. And there are 3 kinds of Hybrids--the rarest which is the H3 occurring 5% of the time. And they are even more rare according to NASA when they are the long version lasting more than 1 minute 30 seconds. It just so happens the 4th long H3 since Christ will be Nov. 3, 2013. Wowsy wowsers! It won't happen again till 2172. I am now getting interested. My interest is peaked!

    Since this long H3 has occurred 3 times since Christ over 2012 years, the chance of it occurring in 2013 just before the Tetrads 2014/15 to maintain the proper sequence in Revelation 6.12, gives us a probability of ~ 1 in 700. Amazingly rare stuff! And the probability of this correct order of these three events is 1 in 6.

    Thirdly, is the required rare lunar eclipse 2014/15. Since Rev. 6.12 occurs before the Tribulation starts with the first rapture "before the throne" (Rev. 7.9) in 3rd heaven before the 1st trumpet (8.7) of the Tribulation, and these three events are most certainly these three of events of 2010-15, we can be confident the 7 year Tribulation can't start before 2015.

    However, the Tribulation can't end any later than 2023, the latest possible date for Jesus' return, because "right at the door" (Matt. 24.33) after Israel is a nation again (v.32) in 1948 by all accounts should not be more than a lifetime, and a lifetime is no more than 75 years (Ps. 90.10). 75 years divided by 2000 years ~ 4%. 20% nor even 10% should be considered right at the door, but 4% seems quite reasonable as being right at the door and certainly within a lifetime at most. So we have two possible choices for the Tribulation. Either 2015-22 or 2016-23. Which is the correct one?

    Incidentally, 2520 is the smallest number divisible by all numbers from 2 to 10 so we see this as significant and not just some coincidence as a basic prophetic working unit Daniel discovered. There needs to be 2,520 days from the beginning feast to an ending holiday. The last 3 feasts of Israel pertain to His second coming, while the first 4 feasts already dealt with His first coming. Feast of Trumpets, the first of the last 3 feasts, deals with rapture. Since the first rapture "before the throne" (Rev. 7.9) occurs first before the Tribulation starts with its first trumpet (8.7), the 2,520 days should begin on Feast of Trumpets.

    What is the 2,520th day from Feast of Trumpets 2015 to the year 2022? it is a Sunday Aug. 7. But there is no holiday on that Sunday. With a little more investigation one finds out that Aug. 6 is Tisha B'Av, but it says right there in Wiki that whenever it falls on Saturday (Sabbath) it is held the day after instead. Praise the Lord! What a stroke of luck that was! Tisha B'Av is the date the 1st and 2nd Temples were destroyed. Jesus returns to reign in the 3rd Temple. The odds of Tisha B'Av held over from Saturday to Sunday is 1 in 7. What about from 2016 to 2023? There is no holiday in the vicinity for the 2,520th day from 2016 to 2023. There you have it. Case solved! As it turns out 7 out of every 19 years the 2,520th day lands on Tisha B'Av. Go figure! The odds of Jesus returning on the day He was resurrected is 1 in 7.

    The final clue is that as a reenactment of the declaration to rebuild the Temple, we find that there are exactly 7 sets of 7 from June 7, 1967 when Israel reclaimed Jerusalem to the Day of Atonement Sept. 23, 2015. Wow! That's 17,640 days (7 x 7 x 360). A deeper study (pleases request this from me) will reveal going back adding up the ages in Israel that 2015 is a Jubilee year as well, once every 50 years. What is also interesting is that there are 2300 days (Dan. 8.14) from the 4th day inspection of the lamb, the day before Passover, to Tisha B'Av when the Temple is cleansed for Jesus steps down on the mount of olives on that day of Aug. 7, 2022 (Zech. 14.4, Acts 1.11, Rev. 1.7).

    Let us resist all of Satan's attempts to try to convince us through his wiles that we can't now when the Lord returns.

    Jesus then judges the nations for 30 days from the 1260th day of the Great Tribulation to the 1290th day. 45 days more are needed to set up Israel as the center of all nations. Amazingly, yet again, we find that the 1335th day, also another key number in the Bible, lands on the 4th day from Simchat Torah, the last of the Jewish holiday, 2 days after Tabernacles ends--the last of the 7 feasts of Israel.

    I am in awe! How about you? Let's run that calculation now.

    (1 in 100,000) x (1 in 2010) x (1 in 700) x (1 in 6) x (7 out of 19) x (1 in 7) x (1 in 7) = 1 in 112 trillion.

    That is,

    1 in 112,000,000,000,000.

    Coincidence? I think not.

    What I am particularly fond of about all this is that the final seven begins on the 120th Jubilee of 6000 years. Some may think isn't that Calvinistic? Not at all. God is placing His divine plan within the span of those 6000 years before His second coming whether people like it or not! We aren't robots.
    by Published on 05-14-2012 09:05 PM     Number of Views: 11237 
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    Do you think it is reasonable for Jesus to return within a lifetime when Israel becomes a nation again?

    "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh" (Matt. 24.32).

    I think we can all agree the fig tree represents Israel and the summer is the millennial kingdom. The branch was tender no later than May 14, 1948 when Israel became a nation again.

    "Summer is nigh" would be no longer than within a lifetime. "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away" (Ps. 90.10).

    Abraham entered the promise land at the age of 75. "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran" (Gen. 12.4).

    1948 + 75 = 2023. Therefore, Jesus steps down on the mount of olives no later than 2023 so the very latest the Tribulation would be is from 2016-23.

    Before the Tribulation starts certain events must take place.

    "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood" (Joel 2.31, Rev. 6.12).

    Haiti 2010 was the second greatest number of deaths of any earthquake in history. Japan 2011 caused Japan to shut down all 50+ of is nuclear power plants and it was the 4th greatest earthquake in history in terms of magnitude. Back to back, year over year, the world has never seen two earthquakes together this devastating. Never! Wake up people!

    There are 4 kinds of solar eclipses. The rarest is the Hybrid occurring about 5% of the time. And there are 3 kinds of hybrids. The H3 the rarest occurring about 5% of the time. And a solar eclipse is even more rare when it is a long version, that is, lasting longer than 1 minute and 30 seconds according to NASA. Amazingly, on Nov. 3, 2013 is the rarest of all solar eclipses--the long H3 Hybrid. The H3 Hybrid starts as a partial eclipse and finishes off as a total eclipse to produce that black sackcloth effect. This is the 4th one since Christ and won't happen again till the year 2172.

    What follows next is the 2014/15 Total Lunar Tetrad that lands on passover, tabernacles and again on passover and tabernacles. The 6th one since Christ was 1949/50 when Israel became a nation May 14, 1948. The Armistice treaty was signed 1949. The 7th Tetrad was 1967/68 when Israel entered Jerusalem June 7, 1967. It won't happen again till 2582/83, and there is no unique solar eclipse preceding it.

    "So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors" (Matt. 24.33). Within a lifetime!

    When does the 7 year Tribulation take place? It is not going to start in 2012 or 2013 or 2014 because the Temple construction must begin by the start of the Tribulation so the Antichrist can reign in it by the middle of the Tribulation.

    "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months" (Dan. 9.27, Matt. 24.15, 2 Thess. 2.4, Rev. 11.2).

    The 7 year Tribulation is 2,520 days (7 x 360) like all of Daniel's sixty-nine sevens were. 2,520 is the smallest number divisible by all numbers from 2 to 10. The 69th seven is concluded 4 days before Jesus died on the cross based on the sevens being 2,520 days each. The feasts of Israel are a rehearsal. The last 3 feasts deal with Jesus' second coming. Feast of Trumpets is the first of the last 3 feasts and pertains to rapture. Therefore, we should expect the Tribulation to start on Feast of Trumpets. This can be confirmed.

    In 2015 Feast of Trumpets is Sept. 14, 2015 and the 2,520th day is Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022 (1260th day), the day the first and second Temples were destroyed. Jesus returns to reign in the third Temple. The 2,550th day (1290th) from Feast of Trumpets in 2016 is the Day of Atonement in 2023. So which of these two 7 year periods will be the Tribulation?

    It takes 2300 days before the Temple is cleansed. "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed" (Dan. 8.14).

    There are 2300 days from April 21, 2016 the 4th day inspection of the lamb, the day before Passover, to Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022. The same is true for 2017 to 2023. So we need another clue. There are seven sets of seven (7 x 7 x 360) from June 7, 1967 when Israel took over Jerusalem to Sept. 23, 2015 Day of Atonement (total of 17,640 days). This suggests that 2015 is the starting year of the Tribulation so the Tribulation would be Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 to Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022.

    At any rate the first rapture according to readiness is on Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 or Feast of Trumpets Oct. 3, 2016. I favor 2015 for several other reasons, because it is a Jubilee year, once every 50 years and it is a Sabbath year once every seven years. And Tisha B'Av in 2022 lands on a Sunday.
    by Published on 05-12-2012 02:47 PM     Number of Views: 10309 
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    When you read, or hear someone tell you, you can't know the day or the hour, keep in mind they could not know then, obviously, since they could not calculate according to the Tetrads (signs in the sun and the moon), but once Israel is a nation again you can know. Moreover, you can't know when the end of the world is (Matt. 24.35-36), but you can know when Jesus returns which is 1000 years before the end of the world. Jesus did not say He would forever not know. Likewise, as we approach the season or find ourselves in the season as we are now, we can know. And lastly, you can't know the day or hour if you are a carnal Christian; only a spiritual Christian can discern the signs of the times because he is watchful and overcoming. Make sure when you read these passages about the day and the hour you read them in context.

    We are coming to a turning point in history, because never has prophecy and the cosmos ever been this aligned before as it is now, and it all begins with the phrase when the "branch is tender" (Matt. 24.32) then you can "know" when Jesus returns "right at the door" (v.33). Israel represents the fig tree in the OT and Jesus even cursed the fig tree representing Israel because it had leaves, but no fruit showing its outward display was not right while inwardly it was corrupt having no fruit. One would think within a lifetime constitutes easily "right at the door". 70 to 80 years is a lifetime (Ps. 90.10), and Abraham entered the promise land at 75. 75 years added to 1948 when Israel became a nation brings us to 2023 so the Tribulation can occur no later than the 7 year period from 2016 to 2023.

    Just as all of Daniel's sixty-nine sevens (Dan. 9.25,26) were 2,520 days each (7 x 360) so too will be the 70th seven-the final seven (v.27; see Matt. 24.15). From the declaration to rebuild the Temple Nisan 1, 444 BC (Neh. 2.1) there would be 7 sets of 7 (49 years) then another sixty-two sets of seven, for a total of 69 sevens after which the Messiah would be cut off. 69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days. There are exactly 173,880 days from Nisan 1, 444 BC to March 28, 33 AD (Gregorian) which is the 1st day of the 4 day inspection of the lamb March 28, 29, 30, 31. Then Jesus was cut off April 1, April Fool's Day, 33 AD, Nisan 14, Passover.

    And Ezekiel's prophecy on his side for 390 days also brings us to precisely as prophesied when Israel would become a nation again to the month of May. Israel became a nation again in a day on May 14, 1948. Wow!

    So we are looking for a 7 year period that lasts 2,520 days. Incidentally, 2,520 is the smallest number divisible by all numbers for 2 to 10 as a basic working prophetic unit. Just as there were two signs in the heavens for the wise men to find the child of Bethlehem, we should expect two more signs-the second being the confirmation-in the heavens to know when Jesus returns. A feast Total Lunar Tetrad is when there is a red blood moon on passover, tabernacles, and again on passover and tabernacles over a 2 year period. They are very rare. The 6th one since Christ was 1949/50. Israel signed the Armistice treaty in 1949. The 7th was 1967/68 when Israel took over Jerusalem June 7, 1967. Never before in history were two Tetrads closer than 18 years apart. The 8th will be 2014/15. From the nation of Israel to its capital Jerusalem next will follow the building of the 3rd Temple. The Total Lunar Tetrad won't happen again till 2582/83. Wow! So this is it!

    The 7 feasts of Israel are a rehearsal of things to come related to the Messiah. The first four feasts pertain to Jesus' first coming. The last 3 feasts to his second coming. Passover represents His atoning sacrifice. Feast of Unleavened Bread represents Jesus being in the grave for 3 days. Firstfruits typifies His resurrection. And Pentecost depicts the giving of the Holy Spirit to indwell believers now that Jesus is at the right hand of the Father. The last 3 feasts are about His second coming. Feast of Trumpets deals with the rapture according to readiness before the Tribulation starts since Matt. 24.40-42, Luke 21.36 and Rev. 3.10 are conditional if/then statements for Christians to be received up "before the throne" (7.9) at the first rapture before the first trumpet (8.7) of the Tribulation commences, if they keep the word of His patience, are prayerful and watchful. Most Christians alive at the time will lose this reward because they preferred to be carnal Christians. Though they can't lose eternal life, they can lose the reward of being received up before the throne ahead of time and escape the hour of trial that is to come upon the whole world. They will have to wait to meet the Lord in the air at the last trumpet instead. Next is the Day of Atonement which depicts all those who are saved when Jesus returns. And finally Tabernacles would be Jesus tabernacling among men for 1000 years, reigning with a "rod of iron" over the nations with His overcomers (Rev. 2.26, 12.5).

    Hence, the Tribulation must start on Feast of Trumpets. Every two years or so the 2,520th day (7 x 360) of the Tribulation-the 1260th day of the Great Tribulation-lands on Tisha B'Av when the 1st and 2nd Temples were destroyed, for Jesus returns to reign in the 3rd Temple. In alternating years, amazingly enough, the 2,550th day-the 1290th day-lands on the Day of Atonement. Is this a coincidence? I think not. The Bible references the 1260th and 1290th day several times.

    The problem before us is how do we determine which 7 year period is the Tribulation? Is it in the years the 2,550th day lands on Day of Atonement or when the 2,520th day lands on Tisha B'Av? There are a few clues that help us. There are seven sets of seven ( 7 x 7 x 360) from June 7, 1967 when Israel took over Jerusalem to the Day of Atonement Sept. 23, 2015 for a total of 17,640 days. Could this be a double fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy towards the rebuilding of the Temple? This suggests the Tribulation begins in the year 2015, not 2014 or 2016. Moreover, there's no 2,520 days from Feast of Trumpets and Tisha B'Av for 2014-21 or 2016-23. Recall Jesus steps down on the mount of olives no later than 2023 for us to enter the promise land. "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran" (Gen. 12.4). Another major clue is that the Temple is cleansed after 2300 days (Dan. 8.14) so there should be 2300 days from around passover to the 1260th or 1290th day. What we find is in years that the 2,520th day lands on Tisha B'Av there are 2300 days from the 4th day inspection of the lamb to Tisha B'Av; that is, there are 2300 days from April 21, 2016 to Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022. This is not the case for years when the 2,550th day lands on Day of Atonement. Therefore, we can be quite confident the Tribulation is Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 to Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022. There is also 1260 days from the 1st day inspection of the lamb April 18, 2016 to Feast of Trumpets Sept. 30, 2019. This could be the time of the Two Witnesses Enoch and Elijah, the only two persons in the Bible who did not die, who will die in the Great Tribulation then be raised up after 3 and 1/2 days. The 1335th day after the middle of the Tribulation (another key number in the Bible), or 2595th day of the Tribulation, in years the 2,520th day lands on Tisha B'Av ends up being the 4th day from Simchat Torah after Tabernacles ends. For Simchat Torah the Jews use to take out the Torah Scroll from the Holy of Holies and read it once a year so seems quite important. Whereas the 1335th day when the 2,550th day lands on Day of Atonement ends up in November with no significant feast or holiday attached to it.

    Is there anything else to support the 2015-22 period? Indeed. Rev. 6.12 and Joel 2.31 tell us three events must take place in exact order shortly before the Tribulation begins. First is the great earthquake. Haiti 2010 had the 2nd greatest number of deaths of any earthquake in history and most deaths per capita (1 in 27 people). Japan 2011 had the greatest financial loss (all 50+ of their nuclear power plants were shut down and it was the 4th greatest in magnitude in human history). Year over year, no two earthquakes were this devastating. It was a new record broken in the Guinness Book of Records. Next is the black sackcloth sun. There are 4 kinds of solar eclipses, the rarest which is he Hybrid occurring about 5% of the time. The rarest kind of Hybrid is the H3 occurring again another 5% of the time (5% x 5% = .03%). The H3 starts off as partial eclipse then finishes as a total eclipse to produce that black sackcloth effect. A solar eclipse is even more rare when it is a long one and not a short one. A long solar eclipse is when it lasts longer than 1 minute and 30 seconds according to NASA. The 4th long H3 since Christ will be Nov. 3, 2013 and it won't happen again till 2172. Wow! Last but not least is the 8th Total Lunar Tetrad since Christ on passover, tabernacles and again on passover and tabernacles in 2014/15 and won't happen again till 2582/83. Interestingly, there are no rare solar eclipses and red blood moons associated to that date so the time is now!

    Conclusively, the Tribulation can't start before 2015 because the Temple must be well under construction before then to be completed on time (before the 2300 days start), but nor can it start after 2016 because that is not deemed "right at the door," and the political/economic/global confrontation doesn't allow for a later date (see below). The Antichrist will inhabit the Temple (2 Thess. 2.4) so there must be a Temple to inhabit (constructed and completed). Since 2016 doesn't fit the profile to end on Tisha B'Av we are stuck with 2015 as the starting year of the Tribulation. What else? The sign of the Son of man (Matt. 24.30) must occur in the year 2022 and not 2023 if the 2015-22 timeline is the correct one. Amazingly, in the year 2022 Jupiter will the be closest to earth it has been in several centuries visible to the naked eye and expected to be hit with many comets showing a flashing or sparkling show. A sight to behold!

    Isn't this amazing? I needed a sign in 2022 and I got it! I needed the 2,520th day from Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 to land on a feast day or significant holiday. When I found the 2,520th day Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 did not directly state there was a Jewish holiday on it I was concerned, but amazingly as I was reading on wiki, I discovered when Tisha B'Av is on a Saturday, it is commemorated the day after instead. In 2022, Tisha B'Av is on Saturday Aug. 6, so it is held on the 7th instead. Praise the Lord!

    Is there any other data we can access? A very strong factor are the oil industry reports which say there is only 900 billion barrels of oil left in the world so at an average of 100 million barrels a day used up, there will be no conventional oil left by 2035. Any war that occurs will occur a good 15 years before that to control the flow of oil in the middle east. By 2020 the Great Tribulation will be well underway. Since in Rev. 9 the 1st woe is 5 months, the 2nd woe is 13 months, we easily can conclude the 3rd woe is 24 months for a total of 42 months of the Great Trib. Simply by using a calendar we can count down the days from the start of the Tribulation to know that the Great Tribulation starts Feb. 25, 2019, the 2nd woe begins July 25, 2019 and the 3rd woe begins Aug. 20, 2020. Rev. 9.16 says 200 million military units will congregate in the middle east in the 2nd woe. This was not possible before. And 1/3 of people of the earth will die in fire and brimstone, a nuclear exchange, also not possible before (v.18).

    Rev. 8 contains the 4 trumpets that make up the first half of the Tribulation, that is, the first 42 months. Rev. 17.16 gives further details, and all that I would ask is that you read both chapter 8 and Rev. 17.16 together and imagine from that language if you can see a nuclear bomb blowing up the Vatican, the great harlot of religious Rome (ch. 17), that makes drunk the nations with the wine of the wrath of her fornications (14.8). I am convinced it will happen into the first half of the Trib so likely somewhere between 2016 and 2019.

    We can now render a conclusion with 100% certainty for the Bible to remain consistent in its prophecies. We know the first rapture according to readiness is Feast of Trumpets Sept. 14, 2015 and Jesus steps down on the mount of olives Tisha B'Av Aug. 7, 2022 (Zech. 14.4, Acts 1.11, Rev. 1.7, 19.11-16). The last trumpet rapture and resurrection of all those saints who are alive and left, together with those who are asleep, will be taken up just before the 7th Trumpet bowls of wrath (Rev. 11.15, 1 Cor. 15.50-52, 1 Thess. 4.14-18) because were are not appointed unto wrath. Obviously, those who are alive are left. Why this apparent unnecessary redundancy? Fortunately it is only apparent. What is meant is that if you are a saint who is alive it is because you were left and not taken at the first rapture.
    by Published on 04-28-2012 09:33 AM     Number of Views: 3866 
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    You can't convince a Calvinist to realize Calvinism is wrong by telling him it is wrong to send people to Hell by giving them no opportunity for salvation. The conscience of a Calvinist is willing to believe that God created a soul, allows that soul to be born into the world and not given prevenient grace to have any opportunity to be saved but passed over for Hell even though it was not their fault they were born into sin.

    Even though it is evil for us to treat each other this way the Calvinist has no problem believing his god operates differently where it is ok to preterition people to Hell when he could have done more as we human beings would have done more for fellow man. To the Calvinist, his conscience does not register with the fact God can't have a conscience below our own standards.

    How then do you reason with a Calvinist and reach out to him? You could show all those verses that speak about Jesus dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world. But every time you do that the Calvinist changes those verses to sins of all those who would be saved in the world or all those in different places. Silly nonsense.

    So I believe the best argument to show Calvinism is wrong is by simply quoting verses where God implores you and pleads with you believe in Him, thus giving you the free choice. For example, "I have set before you life and death.... Choose life.... Love the LORD thy God" (Deut. 30.19-20). Would a loving and righteous and holy God plead with you and implore you to believe in Him if you were not given sufficient grace to have the free choice? Of course not.

    Therefore, God does not irresistibly impose repentance, faith and regeneration, but you can freely obtain these gifts if you were genuinely and sincerely searching God out with all your heart and soul then you shall surely find Him.

    In conclusion, we observe that Calvinists have not sincerely and genuinely searched God out with all their hearts and souls, and that's why they haven't found Him yet.


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