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The Dark Sky of Prophecy – Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Was 19th Century biblical prophecy just an intellectual exercise that grew in popularity during a time of philosophical transition? This “renaissance in thinking” also saw the emergence of Marxism, Materialism, and Social Darwinism. The shift in theology began as did Darwin’s Origin of the Species around 1848. The author was Nelson Darby the father of modern dispensational theology. His system of thought predicts a 7-year “Wrath of God” that begins with the Anti-Christ deceiving Israel as he prepares to destroy the Jewish nation and take control of the entire world. The Anti-Christ’s deception involves a “false covenant” with the leader or leaders of Israel.

Darby promoted a new translation of a prophecy given to Daniel by the angel Gabriel in about 532 BC. Gabriel calls it the “70 weeks Prophecy.” The prophecy reveals that Jesus fulfilled 69 weeks when he made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, a week before his death on the cross. Darby and the Futurists believe that Daniel’s final week of 7 years has not been fulfilled. Today the majority who speak or write on biblical prophecy take this same position. These proponents dominate most Denominations and Prophecy conferences and rarely allow other viewpoints to be represented.

Baptists, Pentecostals, Methodists, Evangelicals, and members of Bible and non-denominational churches agree with the Futurists and teach that Daniel’s final week represents a 7-year “Wrath of God” still to come. They teach that the Anti-Christ will begin this final week of judgment by signing a false covenant with the nation of Israel. Then in the middle of the week or after 3.5 years the Anti-Christ will place the Abomination of Desolation in a Jewish Temple that must be built in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount.

This opens the idea that the Anti-Christ is alive today and may be Trump with his new peace initiative or an influential Jew like Jerud Kushner who recently established the Abraham Accord. We should not be looking for the Anti-Christ but should be looking for and sharing Jesus Christ. We should seek Him with all our heart, mind, and soul. Research shows those who read God’s Word at least 4 times per week will share more, memorize more, learn more, and will live healthier lives.  This may be due to Beta-endorphins that help us deal with stress, anxiety, and any challenge in life.

The 7-year “Wrath of God” concept inspires a false flag mentality that may motivate insecure people to distrust good leaders who are peacemakers with a popular following. The “evil covenant” conspiracy can generate inappropriate behavior and media hype that do not fit the context nor the basic logic of God’s message of love and grace. Why would God intend this? The Archangel Gabriel shared “Good News” of significant impact to both Mary and to Zechariah the father of John the Baptist concerning the births of Jesus and his cousin John. And we know Gabriel did not appear to Joseph to calm his anxiety about Mary’s pregnancy. That was not his mission. Precedence indicates that Gabriel’s purpose focused primarily on events related to the celebration of the coming Messiah.

When Gabriel spoke to Daniel, he was announcing the coming of an “anointed prince” or Messiah who “in the middle of the week” or after a 3.5-year ministry, will introduce a new covenant. Jesus Christ fulfilled this when he died for our sins after ministering God’s grace and love for 3.5 years. Soon after his baptism he manifested his majesty and power by defeating Satan’s temptations. He declared that he was bringing in the Kingdom of God and his public ministry overcame the effects of sin on the body and souls of countless people. He overcame Satan again at the Cross by defeating death and sin at the Resurrection. All this was done in public and it ended the need for “sacrifice and offerings.”

He was the one who was “made desolate” in the “wing of Abomination.” He was betrayed by Judas and in his time of need he” was abandoned by his disciples.  The Roman soldiers whipped, beat, mocked, and spit upon Him. They stripped off his clothes and forced a crown of thorns on his head. Alone on the Cross he took upon himself all the sins of the world past, present, and future. He was “made desolate on the wing of abomination.” No future commander nor Anti-Christ can fulfill this powerful divine prophecy.

Jesus Christ is our eternal sacrifice, and He purposefully ended the need for animal sacrifices and offerings for sin. From heaven He directed Gabriel to share this message of hope with Daniel to encourage the exiled Jewish nation in 532 BC and later as they endured four hundred years of silence. Also, God may have wanted to alert Jews and the young Christian Church in the first century of an impending attack on Jerusalem by a large Roman army.

The Roman Empire which tortured and persecuted both the Jewish nation and the early Church represents the iron-toothed fourth hybrid beast in Daniel’s vision of 4 Empire Beasts. The Roman Empire was also the iron legs in Nebuchadnezzar’s metallic giant. It is interesting to note that in 90-91 AD Jesus Christ gave John the Apostle a vision of two other beasts that would persecute the Church and the tribulation saints.

From a historical viewpoint it was “commander” Titus who ended all Jewish animal sacrifices through the siege and destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. Titus, as Daniel prophesied was just a commander, and not an emperor and was the one who destroyed “the temple and sanctuary.” As stated, Gabriel’s focus is not on the “commander” in verse twenty-six but on the main subject in the paragraph called the “anointed prince.” He is the one who ends the need for all animal sacrifices through the New Covenant of Grace. His sacrifice offers eternal forgiveness of sin. God’s plan would affect all of Heaven and earth. The New Covenant and Christ’s victory over sin and death is why history has the designation “Before Christ” and “After Christ.”

Gabriel’s message gave the Jewish people hope during their captivity. It would also influence what Daniel recorded on his scrolls. Teachers and students of the Bible agree that Daniel’s scrolls provided information that motivated Magi from the East five hundred years later to study the heavenly lights for a sign of a newborn King of the Jews. Gabriel’s focus was on the Messiah and his birth, linking prophecies given earlier by Isaiah, Malachi, Zechariah, Jeremiah, and King David to this special birth.

Gabriel’s announcement came after Daniel’s earlier vision of the multi-horned mutant beast with metallic teeth and Nebuchadnezzars’ dream of the metallic giant. Those supersized signs are like the Four Apocalyptic Horses and will follow throughout modern history giving each generation a healthy need to look up to God and  seek Him with faith and hope. God will be testing individuals, nations, and tribes and thus, His voice and shaking will impact society. Through trials and testing God will draw people to him as He did with Jacob, Joseph, Gideon, Moses, and the other heroes of the Bible.

According to Revelation 19:16-20, Jesus Christ returns from Heaven after the rapture with an army of Saints and destroys the armies of the Anti-Christ, thus fulfilling the prophecy behind the defeat of the two supernatural metallic-like avatars in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah, is the Rock that destroys Nebuchadnezzar’s metallic giant and the hero that overcomes the final metal toothed mutant beast in Daniel. He will also defeat the two beasts in Revelation. Changing or adding to any part of Gabriel’s important message would affect mankind’s understanding of God’s eternal plan and timing. It could alter our understanding of the Book of Revelation and the timing of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Note that God has warned us not to add or subtract from the message in Revelation.

Nelson Darby decided to change the interpretation of Daniel’s 70-week prophecy even though the early Church fathers did not entertain his theory. His theory runs contrary to the following comparison of Daniel’s prophecy in the books of Matthew and Revelation. Jesus is warning the disciples to flee Jerusalem when they see the Abomination of Desolation placed by Nero in the Temple. He warns them to immediately flee to the mountains. This is revealed in Matthew 24:15-17 ISV: “So when you see the destructive desecration, mentioned by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader take note) then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Anyone who’s on the housetop must not come down to get what is in his house.”

Jesus then states, “How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days. Pray that it may not be in winter or on a Sabbath when you flee, because at that time there will be great suffering, the kind that has not happened from the beginning of time until now and certainly won’t ever happen again,” Matthew 24:19-21 ISV.  This was a horrific event where all those who stayed in Jerusalem were starved to death, died of diseases, or were brutally killed when the seige ended.

Note that there two separate events where Jesus Christ warned the people to flee. Both were directed to those living in Jerusalem. The other one occurs at the 2nd Coming, when Jesus sets foot on the Mount of Olives and it splits in two. In this instance the people do not flee to the mountains. They flee through the eastern wall and the wide opening in the Mount of Olives. In this case all who see Jesus are saved and cry out “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.”  They are all divinely protected as they escape the forces of the Anti-Christ.

Revelation 13:5, describes length of time that the destructive beast called the Anti-Christ reigns. “The beast was given a mouth to utter boasts and blasphemies. It was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months (3.5 years).” Then Revelation 19:20 states: “The beast was captured, along with the false prophet who had performed signs on its behalf. By these signs the false prophet had deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and worshipped its image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.” This marks the end of the 3.5 years of the Wrath of God.

The above verse clearly states that the Beast, or Anti-Christ will “exercise authority”  for 3.5 years and not 7 years. Jesus Christ will throw him into the lake of fire at the end of the 3.5 year “Wrath of God.”  So, how can the Rider of the White Horse at the beginning of Darby’s 7-year Great Tribulation be the Anti-Christ? The Futurist insists on this because they claim the two 3.5-year periods are just one 7-year period, and that this one 7-year period is the Wrath of God. This requires that the Anti-Christ “exercise authority” for a full 7 years and not just forty-two months. This runs against what we just saw written in God’s Holy scripture.

Revelation 12:13-14 states, “When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that it might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times, half time (3.5 years).” Again, this verse warns of an attack on the “Woman” who is the nation of Israel and the male child which is both Jesus Christ and Christians (who have Christ in their heart). Those fleeing include the 144,000 “sealed” Jews and other believing Jews and Christians. This parallels the account in Matthew 24:15-21, where the believing Jews flee into the Judean mountains.

The woman and child are “taken care of” when they are quickly carried or transported on the “wings of eagles.” It is possible those Jewish saints flee Jerusalem in left-over tourist buses organized by Christians who have also prepared “the land” beforehand. This land is the Jordanian wilderness where dozens of Christian benefactors have bought and prepared hotels and motels for these refugees. They will “be taken care of for 3.5 years” while chaos worldwide is happening. As the Trumpet and Bowl judgments shake the entire world, they are protected.

Darby’s theory did not originate from any of the early Church fathers, not with John the Apostle the author of Revelation, nor with his associate Polycarp and Polycarp’s student Irenaeus. Their writings and those of other Church fathers do not entertain Darby’s interpretation. They saw and experienced great tribulation at the hands of cruel Ceasars such as Domitian, Nero, and Antonius Pius and were in the generation that witnessed the death of Paul, Peter, and James, and the destruction of Jerusalem. They were aware of the long rebellion and commotion that led to the seige organized by Titus. They knew that the Church had escaped due to the warning that Jesus gave them.  It had all started when Nero placed an image of himself in the Temple in 67 AD. The city fell 3.5 years later in 70 AD.

This rebellion and seige is the 3.5-year period described in Daniel 12:7.  Jesus refers to this in Matthew 24:9-10 when he says to his disciples, “Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name. Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.” This 3.5-year period foreshadows the 3.5-year Wrath of God that will occur at the end of time. The early Church fathers understood that both Daniel and Jesus had warned the Church and other inhabitants to flee Jerusalem before the total encirclement of the city by the Roman army.  This same warning will remind them to flee Jerusalem 2000 years later when the Anti-Christ invades.

Darby’s focus on a 7-year Wrath and the Anti-Christ covenant has affected the teaching of prophecy in churches around the world? Romans 15:4, states “For everything written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may endure.”  When we misinterpret scripture will it affect our hope and endurance? Revelation 1:3, states “Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud and blessed are those who hear and obey the words written in it because the time is near!”

The time is near!  This was stated to John the Apostle not us. Note that this is an exclamation. Does this imply that the 4 Horses of the Apocalypse happened soon after John was given God’s Revelation? This was a time when Caesar Domitian and others like Maximus killed many of the leaders of the church and committed severe persecution such as what happened in the Roman Colosseum. Many cults were forming, and many lies were being told. False Christs were trying to deceive young believers and non-believers, and wars and rumors of wars were spreading. The birth pains had begun and would continue to grow for almost 2000 years. Are we not ego-centric to think that our birth pains are the only ones that the Church has seen throughout history?

In his theory Darby sought to remove the idea that the Four Horses of the Apocalypse and their Riders had already been released. Artists, historians, and others however have depicted those “horses and riders” throughout history as causing cataclysmic geo-political events that ravaged nations, tribes, and entire regions. The early church fathers in the time of Irenaeus saw the death and distress caused by this Apocalyptic spirit in their generation. They and following generations experienced horrible wars, pestilence, famine, rebellion, and/or economic hardship such as slavery. We cannot ignore the bloody Arab invasion that occurred in the 8th century and the Ottoman Empire that persecuted Jews and the Church for over 400 years. World Wars and revolutions such as Mao’s cultural revolution and his war of independence killed millions of Christians and others.  Famines and pestilence killed millions more.

Romans 15:4 states, “Whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”  This refers to prophecy and the correct interpretation of the Word of God. Misguided leaders or teachers can affect the Churches understanding of both the timing and the sequence of prophetic signs, events, and warnings. Can this misinterpretation affect our hope and joy? The phrase, “in the middle of the week, sacrifices and offerings are ended,” is not a future event since Jesus Christ fulfilled it in 32 AD. Darby’s re-interpretation also ignores the true Abomination of Desolation that Nero committed around AD 67 when he put his own image in the Temple. We Christians are now the Temple and there won’t be an Abomination of Desolation in a future Temple.

Nero’s abomination caused a rebellion in Jerusalem that lasted over 3 years under four different emperors and the general Titus who continued the battle against the Jewish zealots and started the siege on Jerusalem. This siege began in April of AD 70 resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands and the total destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem. The five Roman leaders responsible were Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, and Titus the son of Vespasian. In its entirety it was a 3.5-year campaign against the Jewish leadership and the zealots. Can this atrocity be judged as an abomination? Since hundreds of thousands of innocent people died, it would seem so.

Does Darby’s change in interpretation demote the glorious sacrifice that Jesus made on the Cross for all who believe? No, but as shown, it does confuse all end time theology. The true message given to Gabriel transcends time offering Salvation to all who trust in Jesus Christ as both Savior and standard bearer of the New Covenant. His Name is above all names, and He is the New Covenant which supersedes the Old Covenant. The veil in the Temple was torn in two declaring that Jesus Christ is the mediator between God and man and no Temple is necessary.

In the 1st Coming Jesus Christ fulfils over 350 Prophecies given by God to Daniel and the other prophets. His Resurrection and the Gift of the Holy Spirit mark the beginning of the Church Age. The last 3.5 years or the “Wrath of God” will come after the Rapture of the Church and will begin after the great earthquake described in the 6th Seal Judgment. Following the chaos caused by this worldwide earthquake the devastated world will seek a strong leader who will be the Anti-Christ. He will take political control over the world and will organize a large force that will attack a rebellious nation of Israel and its capitol city Jerusalem.

The Anti-Christ’s army along with the million-man army from the East and the Arab armies will surround and destroy Jerusalem. This will be the third destruction of this great city. The first one occurred when Babylon conquered Jerusalem in 586 BC and the second when Nero claiming to be God put a statue of himself in the Temple. It was Nero who desecrated the Temple and caused the “abomination of desolation” mentioned by Paul in 2nd Thessalonians. He was the perfect Anti-Christ type. History describes him as the one who torched Rome and set live Christians on fire as living torches. Will the modern-day Anti-Christ behave in the same way? He will try to kill all those who do not receive the “number of the beast.” He will also kill the two witnesses that are preaching on the streets of Jerusalem. These two witnesses will begin their ministry before the attack on the city to warn its citizens and the citizens of other nations who sin against God. They will inspire the 144,000 who will be sealed by God, Revelation 7:3. The two witnesses will be killed by the Anti-Christ but will be resurrected by God in 3 days.

As revealed earlier, the last week of Gabriel’s 70-week prophecy bookends modern history with one 3.5-year period happening during the ministry of Jesus Christ and the second one happening at the end of the Church age. The 1st 3.5-year period begins with the baptism of Jesus Christ. It ends with His Ascension in 32 AD. The total time span between the Ascension of Jesus Christ and the uplifting of the Church in the rapture is about two thousand years. The last 3.5-year period might begin in 2028 and end in 2032. The whole “Church Age” covers the gap between these two 3.5-year periods and represents rise and fall of nations and the spreading of the Gospel throughout the world. The final 3.5 years are God’s Judgment on sin and His Victory over Satan, the false prophet, and Anti-Christ. It will end with Christs 2nd Coming, the battle of Armageddon and then the Millennial Kingdom will follow.

Prophets like Daniel, Zechariah, and Joel spoke of this final 3.5-year period as being the “Day of Lord.”  In the book of Revelation, this period has also been described as lasting only 3.5 years.  As stated earlier the Bible never states that the “Wrath of God” lasts 7 years. For instance, why is the White Horse in the first Seal Judgment considered part of the Wrath of God? This horse and rider represent deception and lies and not death. This is an Anti-Christ spirit that has been active since the Gospel began. Apostle John warns about this deception, I John 2:18, “Dear children this is the last hour; and as you have heard the anti-christ is coming, even now many anti-christs have come.” These Anti-Christs will prepare the way for the Rider of the Red Horse who brings death, terrorism, civil war, and even world war. This is man’s wrath upon man and not God’s Wrath.  The Black Horse and Rider represent economic suppression and a digital currency that will monitor all spending and savings. The Green Horse with Death as its Rider and followed by Hades represents the death of all those who are unbelievers. This has happened throughout history as God has guided “redeeming armies” to defeat the forces and powers of darkness.

Prophecy throughout scripture tells us that there will be a massive attack on Israel in the future. This large force will strike Israel and surround Jerusalem, and it will almost succeed since two thirds of the Jewish population will perish (Zechariah 13:8-9), “It will come about in all the land, declares the Lord, that two-thirds of the people living there will perish.”  In the last battle Jesus Christ will intervene as He splits the Mount of Olives in two allowing those who call upon His Name to flee down into the Dead Sea and then southward to lands prepared for their safe habitation. This is the second Coming of the Lord described in Revelation 19:11-21.  They will join the 144,000 Jews sealed by God (Rev.7:3) and others who fled into this southern wilderness over 3 years earlier, Revelation 12:14, “However, the woman was given the wings of a large eagle so that she could fly away from the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she could be taken of for a time, times, half a time” (three and one half years). All of these believing Jews and other Christians will be safe while the Trumpet and Bowl Judgments severely shake the rest of the world. This will be Wrath of God.

The prior chapter explained why Darby’s Anti-Christ will not make a covenant with Israel and will not end all sacrifices and offerings in a future physical Temple. We know that animal sacrifices cannot happen without a Jewish Temple constructed on the Temple Mount. We know that Islam has imbedded itself in nations around the world and will not allow the construction of a Jewish Temple near their Dome of the Rock. They would declare jihad throughout the West. Third we know that the average Jew and most secular people worldwide do not want animal sacrifices. And fourth we discovered that there is no “covenant” made by an enemy “commander of the people.”

 

It is likely that Darby misinterpreted Daniel’s use of the phrase “Most Holy Place” in Daniel 9:24. This phrase refers to the “Most Holy Place” discussed by Ezekiel and Zechariah and is not a future Temple on the Temple Mount.  Jesus would have told him that it was a Temple. No, this Holy Place will have the throne of David and will not bear the Ark of the Covenant. Nations will come to it for it is the Holy Seat of Government and Justice. Jesus Christ sits on throne with an iron scepter. The people who worship Him are the Temple of God.

The message from Gabriel does not point to the nation of Israel nor the corrupted Temple in the time of Jesus. There was no nation of Israel at this time. In his Triumphal entrance Jesus Christ cried for Jerusalem and condemned the religious leaders that had taken it hostage. The Temple Mount was therefore under God’s judgment. The Temple in Jerusalem at this time in history was not the “Most Holy Place.”

Also, the word “sacrifice” is not in italics in Daniel 9:27, but it is in Daniel 8, 11, and 12. This is because the word “sacrifice” was added by early translators, however it was not added in Daniel 9:27 since it was in the original text.  In the KJV any word not in the original text was in italic. The emphasis points to Jesus Christ ending the sacrifice. Note that Jesus, the Lamb of God, did not die in the Temple grounds, He was crucified on a cross “upon the wing of abomination,” or outside the walls of Jerusalem. The Temple Mount will only become the “Most Holy Place” in the Millennial Kingdom when Jesus Christ sits on David’s throne.

Darby’s Anti-Christ or “Commander” cannot and will not end the sacrificial system. There have not been any animal sacrifices since the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. If the Temple and its outer court were reconstructed today, it would be an “abomination of desolation” for the very fact that it would be a denial that Jesus Christ is the Eternal Sacrifice for all who receive Him. Christians, Jews, and even Islamists would be against it. For emphasis, most Jews do not believe that they need a Temple. They have lived two thousand years without animal sacrifices. The only supporters would be the ultra-orthodox and those zealot Christians who want to usher in the Anti-Christ.

The idea that the average Jew wants a Temple is a made-up theory. In fact, what prevents the destruction of Jerusalem by future anti-Jewish forces may be the very fact that the Dome of Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are still on the Temple Mount. The Israel Defense Forces know that it shielded Jerusalem’s ancient city walls from missile attacks. The future “Commander and his people” will seek to destroy Jerusalem and not the Temple Mount because their focus will be to decapitate the government and kill soldiers and other Jews. The Word of God says that the two witnesses will preach in the streets of Jerusalem and not on the area of the Temple Mount for the very reason that the Dome of the Rock is still there. Islamic religious leaders would not allow this preaching and would incite riots. The rebuilding of the Jewish Temple is not popular with any political group in Israel nor in the world.

My Thoughts from God’s Word on End Time Events after the Rapture

So what will happen?  The rapture of the Church will undermine all of America’s services and military, just as war breaks out worldwide.  Out of chaos will come a Daniel’s fourth beast which is composed of the 3 historical beasts: the Lion of the Babylonian Empire, the bear of the Medo-Persian empire, and the Leopard of the Greek Empire.  This 4th beast has body parts representing all 3 prior empires plus an Empire that extends into our present culture. This is the Roman Empire mixed with the Holy Roman Empire as we know it today.  This 4th Empire will be ruled by 10 kingdoms that will control the earth, Daniel 7:7-25.  This beast is also described in Revelation 13: 1-18 and Chapter 17.  In these passages John, sees a “composite” beast that rules the earth with 10 kings or kingdoms.  This ends when a small horn erupts that defeats 3 of the 10 horns producing a total of 8 horns or kingdoms or kings. The 8 horns last “1 hour” (a short time) out of which they will “give power and authority to the beast” or Anti-Christ (Rev.17:12-13). At the formation of this 8th horn, the Anti-Christ will impose his will upon the whole earth and will commit the Abomination of Desolation on the Temple grounds. Soon later he will assassinate the 2 witnesses who were ministering to Israel and to the world through the media for 3.5 years.  They have acted as dual prophet/judges and brought plagues and drought to those nations who disobey God.  Therefore, they are not popular and when they are killed people will celebrate by giving each other gifts such as candy.  This is a practice that is celebrated by Radical Islam when killing Jews.  It is important to note that Islam has also been associated with this practice and with the Swastika- a cosmic symbol of Nazism and revolt against God.

This 8th horn represents and 8th kingdom that was and is and will be suggesting that it is an outgrowth of Hitler’s Reich.  Some believe that the Anti-Christ will represent a “resurrection” of Hitler or a Hitler-like figure that shows similar traits. Even today we see the swastika used by many groups that endorse lawlessness and brutality.  This spirit of the anti-Christ fulfills what both John and Jesus warned about. The Anti-Christ used the first 3.5 years to consolidate power over 10 kingdoms or the 10 horns and in the process will win over the world’s population including Israel with his charm and with the promise of peace and security. There is tribulation on the ten kingdoms or kings as the Seal Judgments are released by the Lamb of God.  The final Seal is a warning of the coming great Wrath to come. This is not the wrath of God nor the Day of the Lord.  The blood red moon and sackcloth sun along with the massive earthquake are warnings to the whole earth.  The Great Wrath comes only after a lead Angel commands 4 angels holding back the 4 winds “not to harm the land, sea, or trees until the 144,000 are sealed.”  Hence the Wrath begins after the 30 minutes of silence in heaven and after 144,000 pure Jews are sealed.  This happens during the 7th Seal and before the beginning of the 1st Trumpet judgment. The 144,000 are God’s agents to replace the raptured Church.

Prior to the formation of the 8 kingdoms and during the time of the ten kingdoms the White Horse will spread Lies and Deception (the Anti-Christ) and soon later rebellion will occur or the Red Horse.  This leads to economic hardship and the control of trade, money, and all goods including food by the Anti-Christ’s enforcers (the 3rd rider and black horse).  Sometime during the first 4 Riders of the Apocalypse God will appoint the 2 Witnesses in Israel.  The two witnesses may influence where the 4th Rider of Death followed by Hades is focused. Most of these 4 Seal judgments will occur outside Israel and in the 4th Seal ¼ of the earth is devastated with the sword, famine and plagues. This implies that it may also be affected by drought and fire, which is the power given to the witnesses.  This 4th Seal judgment does not kill ¼ of the earth’s population as many believe. And the earthquake in the 6th seal obviously affects the whole earth for every island and mountain will be moved.  Some think that the Seal judgments only affect Israel—it actuality it is just the opposite.

Mexico, Canada and the weakened United States may form one region.  South America and Central America along with most of the Caribbean may make up another region.  Africa and India along with other destroyed Asian nations such as Pakistan make up a 3rd region.  The rest of Southern Asia and Australia make up a 4th region.  The Philippines, and other Pacific Islands along with Hawaii, Japan, and Taiwan make up a 5 region.  Russia and its old USSR make up a 6th region, China forms the 7th, and finally the Middle Eastern nations including Turkey and Iran make up an 8th.   Initially prior to the formation of the 8 kingdoms fire, drought and civil war weakened 10 military zones or horns with its 10 kings. The Anti-Christ quells the rebellion, the Red Horse, with a superior force. He restores order with the Black Horse. During this time the Dome of the Rock is destroyed and out of this struggle the 8 major kingdoms are formed.  The Anti-Christ creates a treaty or covenant with Israel so that peace will be restored in the region and allows them to rebuild the Temple. The Temple is completed under a year and from there the Jews call out to Jews the world over to return to Israel.  The Anti-Christ allows this migration.  Among this is group i9are the two Witnesses who begin the next stage of their ministry on the Temple grounds.

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Anarchy leads to autocracy or strong controls to suppress rebellion for the sake of peace and security. When judges compromise justice and ignore the law—dogma and more rebellion arise along with lies and propaganda that feed the masses. This scenario will allow the Anti-Christ to spread consolidate his power—for Satan is the Father of lies. Right now, we are seeing the stage being prepared. The international nuclear watchdogs have confirmed that Iran is building a stockpile of highly enriched nuclear materials for the making of nuclear bombs or missiles. We just saw Iran’s balistic missiles and drones penetrate Israel’ defenses. Israel knows that allowing Iran to continue its pursuit of a nuclear weapon is an existential threat and so they will continue their attack. If Iran hits our military bases, we will join Israel in hitting deeper bunkers with bunker buster bombs.  And it will take us one step closer to world war.

I believe one reason Trump has been talking to Putin is to make sure that he understands that this attack is regional and not his business. There is a treaty between Iran and Russia —- so Trump is making sure that Putin understands that this attack is to prevent a nuclear war near Russia that could affect the underbelly of Russia. Hopefully he will abide by this effort and warning.

See with eyes that see so that you may know the Truth and walk in the Light and not the darkness. Pray in this time turmoil so that you may understand the Word of God. So many have misunderstood– that the Time of Tribulation is near. They have not seen the Signs nor heard the winds of the Spirit blow. The rider on the White Horse will soon run his ghostly race to subdue the earth with lies and deceit. Are you ready?  Time is short and therefore the Author seeks help in every venue to get the message out. God wants the world to know that the Great Sign of Revelation 12 was a divine warning of “Invisible Wars” both natural and supernatural that will continue to shake up the world.

In the last 8 years, America and Europe have lost their way allowing dictators, dark spiritual forces, and emotion to command the stage. An irrational woke mentality seeks to dictate truth and policy. Our national debt has soared, and the threat of nuclear war and internal rebellion has inflamed the fears and anxiety of the masses. The war in Ukraine and the threats in the middle East and Far East are taking the superpowers to the edge of war. Like the Bethlehem Star and the birth of the nation of Israel, the Great Sign of Revelation 12 was meant to get our attention. It has a powerful meaning for our day. God calls it the GREAT SIGN for a reason – so why are so few investigating its importance? Is it a Great Sign because God is warning us of the soon to come Great Tribulation and His Great Wrath?

As we study this Great Sign and Crossroad that connects to it, we will unwrap other mysteries and the path to the future. There is still time, but we must act now to pursue God’s Truth for it will save souls. To keep up with events, read new posts at: CosmicCrossroad.com and here. The fact that most people cannot open “the mysterious” Word of God shows its power and therefore it’s profound depth. In this book the Word is prayerfully used to reveal Answers. With God’s Word and the Holy Spirit, the blind can see and find hope. The rewards are inexpressible for Jesus Christ; the Author of Salvation is with us and wants an intimate relationship with us. He wants us to know and understand the love and hope in His message, many of which are revealed in his prophecies, warnings, and signs.  It is up to us to see with eyes that see and hear with ears that hear before these “Days of Noah” turn into the stage for the Anti-Christ.   Check this cool Movie Trailer that I made https://youtu.be/z2wQpcbLTD8

The New Book and Current Events:

First is a Preview of the latest edition of the Cosmic Crossroad Countdown: The Invisible War & Final Chapter and following is the summary:

INTRODUCTION: God has warned us, the Invisible War has begun. It has taken many forms from the spiritual to the physical, from angels to demons, from a virus to the deep ocean, across our borders and through our gateways. It enters our mouth, ears, eyes and heart. We are being invaded yet few understand the danger. Like Noah’s time people have ignored the rumbling and stirring of the deep, the signs from the heavens, the growing evil and the day-to-day warnings. Cities and those who celebrate evil along with the innocent nearby are in great danger as a mysterious great Dragon prepares the stage for the Final Chapter.

Just as God used Daniel and heavenly lights to point to Christ’s first coming, does it not make sense that He will again use His Heavenly Lights, Daniel’s 70-week Prophecy, and historical markers to point to His next coming? The Great Sign of Revelation 12 plus four Blood moons and 2 Solar Eclipses, a Virgin with child, a Dragon with a Lion, a comet titled P67, a demonic-like invasion of Israel, followed by Iran’s first attack against Israel, and now today’s worldwide condemnation of Israel point to God warning us about some major event soon to come.

Dr. Hofmann will unravel how carefully God unfolds history to warn us of things to come, linking the natural to the supernatural as he fulfills promises in a mysterious pattern revealed in the Word He gave us.. In the center is the birth of Jesus Christ, a mistake made in the annals of world history, the Great Sign of Revelation 12, God’s city Jerusalem, the mystery of the number 7 & 8, and the divine connection to Hebrew Festivals and Generations. In God’s Light there is a warning beacon drawing us to Him which will protect us in the storm and will solve the puzzle of the century before it is too late. Just as the world missed the Bethlehem Star, most people will not see the truth behind the Great Sign unless they read this book. Unfortunately, it is because our leaders have a skewed view of Revelation 12 due to tradition, a false logic, and/or a reluctance to reveal the truth in this book. People do not want to hear about the Red Dragon and the actual date of his casting down to earth with all his wicked angels. Nor do they want to see how both the Church and the Jewish people are deeply connected to its message.

The Bible has many mysteries, but the greatest combination lies in Chapter 12 of the book of Revelation. Although confused scholars have chosen to cast it and Revelation in the dust bin of “history long ago,” Jesus Christ declares that its truth is a blessing to all who read it, hear it, or understand it, and a curse to anyone who changes it or adds to it. Why? Because God wants each of us to know the Truth before His soon to come Return.

Revelation 12 has many significant Signs: Number one is related to the birth of Jesus Christ, the nation of Israel, and the start of the Church which are timed to happen before the next major Sign:which is the casting out of Satan and his angels from Heaven. They are a warning to all mankind for it states that “Satan is furious because he knows his time is short”. God chose to put this Great Sign in the middle of His Revelation and not in chronological order because He wants us to know that it is has a timeless connection to all Prophecy and to both the beginning of time and to His Return. Like the Bethlehem Star the Great Sign is designed to give us Hope while at the same time serving as a warning beacon in the darkness.

Currently we see tragedies happening all over the world with many innocent people suffering due to the evil of others.  This has also happened in New Orleans & Vegas where evil is celebrated with gambling, prostitution, and dark arts  – And in Los Angeles which is the epicenter of pornography and a movie industry that promotes an anti-Christ agenda and mentality imbued with sex, horror, violence, gross materialism and hedonism.  God is warning us.

God motivated and inspired Dr. Hofmann to share this because the Tribulation period is fast approaching. He gave Dr. Hofmann the vision of a great technicolor scroll flying in the sky with Hebrew letters and showed him that it was not a dream by dividing it into 3 scrolls-each in a Primary color – and bringing them together again. Things are not going back to normal as Satan desires to destroy both Israel and the Church. Billons of people and well-known corporations and lesser-known entities are under his dark spell. Just as with the spread of Covid, every level and sector of society is being affected by invisible forces that celebrate evil. God wants the world to know the truth and to seek Him with open hearts before it is too late. Learn more here: https://youtu.be/fqLjdlPb7Eo?si=ytZ1E0hYQe4nYRA4

The Seed of the Red Dragon vs. the Seed of the Woman

Do you realize how much we depend on signs? Signs tell us how fast we can drive, where to eat, how far to go, where we live, or when our plane arrives. Frankly, we take signs for granted. In ancient times there were few man-made signs, so many people depended on the stars, moon, sun, and shadows to tell them when where, and how to navigate distances and time. This may be the reason why people have failed to comprehend the convergence of 3 important signs. It involved planets, stars, our moon, the Jubilee year, Jewish Holy Festivals, & Generation periods. God had promised that “A Star shall come out of Jacob; a scepter shall rise out of Israel.” He used Heavenly Lights to proclaim Jesus Christ. And when He placed those Lights in alignment and in timely order or patterns such as in the “womb” of the Constellation Virgo for 9 months, then we know He is trying to get our attention.  We know that the main star in Virgo is “Spica” which means Seed, and this suggests a connection between Eve and Genesis 3:15, the Virgin Mary and Jesus, and the Great Sign of Revelation 12 and the Red Dragon. It points to the epic battle in between good & evil.

Over a span of 3-and one-half years the first Blood moon fell on the feast of Passover 2014 and 3 other Blood moons also fell on key Jewish Festivals: each with earth’s red shadow cast on it. It makes sense that they may have been used to announce the Great Sign of Revelation 12 which Jesus Christ revealed to the Apostle John.  The Sign happened on September 23, 2017, as declared by astronomers who were amazed by how Jupiter’s retrograde motion kept it in the “womb” of Virgo for over 9 months. And prior to that, Venus moved in conjunction with Jupiter across the Solar System for exactly 400 days. Then Venus (representing Jesus as High Priest) departed the womb and moved in perfect alignment with Mars (Son of Man) and Mercury (Jesus is the Word) to form a perfect line pointing to the star Regulus (Royalty) which the heart of the constellation Leo.  God gave us constellations to help us, to explain His plan for the Universe and to be a Sign of His Promise to defeat the Red Dragon or Satan and deliver Israel. The Big Dipper for instance pointed out the North Star and the North Star guided navigation on both sea and desert. The constellation Virgo, the Virgin Eve, led the way, with Leo the Lion closing out the epic Promise. Some students of Egyptology suggest that the pagan priests taught that the Virgo-Leo position was a portal into the underworld for eternal bliss in the “Field of Reeds.” This may be why the Sphinx had the head of the Virgin and the body of a Lion.

The Great Sign is also connected to God’s promise to the Virgin Eve and the Serpent Dragon in Gen. 3:15: “I will put enmity between you (speaking to the Serpent) and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Both involve the Virgin, the Seed, a Dragon, and the Hero. Both reflect the birth of the Savior and His Resurrection and the defeat of Satan, death, and sin. Jesus’s first coming was announced with Heavenly lights, the Bethlehem Star. It was God’s beacon that was not noticed by the leaders, scribes, and Pharisees. It was “seen” only by the Kings of the East who were trained by the prophet Daniel. Likewise, our Great Sign was not seen by the Spiritual leaders of today. In fact, it was virtually invisible since it appeared so low on the horizon. Plus, the minute the sun came up and positioned itself on the Woman’s shoulder you could not see the sign for the sun would blind you! So why would God call the Sign of Revelation 12 the “Great Sign” if it was “invisible” to the naked eye? God knew that astronomers with their telescopes and star maps would see it. Maybe part of the message was to warn us of “invisible” unseen agents: which can be both supernatural and natural (viruses, hacking, saboteurs).  This is precisely what the Lord told me.

Since then, we have seen unusual increases in wicked, perverse, and corrupt thinking. We have had Invisible attacks in many forms: hacking and cyber-attacks, extreme winds (including hurricanes), and Covid-19. Are we in a final countdown to End-Time Prophecy? This is a warning to those who have wandered from the faith. Jesus who is the Light of the World warned religious leaders of his time that they were oblivious to His Sign and the epic change that was coming. These blind leaders feared the voice of God for it threatened their control and wealth. Is this happening today? Are our faith leaders and those millions who are living comfortably afraid of the voice of God declaring His soon return?  Divine Signs do not mean much to the apathetic. It would be like you or I seeing a sign written in a foreign alphabet. That ignorance, however, does not mean that it will not affect us. If you miss a stop sign or stop light, you may suffer severe consequences.

The Great Sign of Revelation 12 appeared as a war in heaven was taking place and Satan and his angels are cast out. Revelation 12:12 states, “Therefore rejoice O heavens, and you dwell in them! Woe to the earth and the sea, for the Devil has come down to you with great fury, because he knows he has a short time.” There is NOT much time, and have you noticed how crazy and insane things appear to be? This is part of the shadow that is spreading throughout the earth. But God and His angels are here to protect us. We will find refuge in the Shadow of His wings despite the Valley of the Shadow of death.  Since 2017 we have seen increasing chaos, uncertainty, and fear as our enemies grew in strength and God’s people went through dark & wicked threats like Oct.7th, an upturned the Presidency, massive border crossings and the ensuing criminal activity.  Are these warnings?  Will America see Oct. 7th type “internal” attacks on its infrastructure and military bases? What will happen next? Revelation 12: 1-8 explains why we are seeing an irrational war attacking the soul of the family and the individual.  Satan and his angels have been cast out of heaven and “Satan is furious because he knows his time is short,” !2:12.  God’s enemies are ready and eager to pounce and once the Church is raptured the world will fall apart. Right now, God is testing the Church by fire to strengthen it. The book Cosmic Crossroad Countdown: The Invisible War & Final Chapter, exposes the Red Dragon.

Revelation is the only book that promises a Blessing to anyone who reads it, hears it, or understands it.  And it promises a curse to anyone who changes or adds to it.  Yet many Bible translators are willing to change the meaning of the word “Chloros” which is used to describe the color of the 4th Horse of the Apocalypse. We get chlorophyll from that word and chlorophyll is bright green. The color means “Green” and not “pale or ashen?”  Yet these translators use pale or ashen and not “green” because it fits the color of natural horses.  The rider, however, is a supernatural being called “Death,” so, why would he be riding a biological earth dwelling horse? The word Chloros is also used in Mark 6:39 to describe the “green grass” that Jesus and others were sitting upon. God chose Green for a key reason. The colors Green, White, Red, and Black copy the colors of all the Arab nations threatening Israel. In Revelation 6 the martyrs had their heads cut off which points to Islamic executions. Has the Church failed to properly warn the public?  It has now been 7 years since the Great Sign of Revelation 12.  Is this a foreshadow of the 7-years of Tribulation?

Many have heard the powerful story about Rahab, her faith, and the sign she would give to save herself and her family. The sign she used to alert the Israelites was a scarlet threaded rope hung from a window on the wall. The Israelite army marched around the city for 6 days then on the 7th day, they marched around 7 times, and 7 priests blew 7 trumpets 7 times. God used specific numbers and actions to prepare for the divine destruction of evil. He used Rahab’s red rope to remind us that divine Grace runs like a scarlet thread throughout “His story,” tying His Promise to great events and people in history. That is why the Great Sign of Revelation 12 is so important. It is anchored in God’s Grace and starts the “Countdown” to the 4 Horses of the Apocalypse (Greek for “the Uncovering”) and the Return of Jesus Christ for His Bride, the Church. The number 7 also plays a key role in Daniel’s prophecy as it leads to the uncovering of the Anti-Christ and his betrayal of Israel, followed by the defeat of his armies and the casting of the Red Dragon into the Abyss. The judgment upon Satan’s forces and all the evil on the earth will happen with 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, and 7 Bowls soon after the Church which is represented by 7 golden lampstands is raptured. Whoever reads this must open their heart to Jesus Christ soon.

Why are we seeing an influx of dark unseen forces and invisible agents? We have little clue as to who is crossing the border. We have seen hundreds of military age Chinese without ID’s freely cross into California. Drones are spying on our military bases and large trafficking gangs are threatening cities around the country.  Malware such as ransomware has been used to disrupt and control hospitals & infrastructure.  Other invisible forces include propaganda and censorship on our Airwaves. This comes from elites in High Tech, television, Hollywood, and radio.  The Red Dragon or Satan is behind this invasion for he is the Prince of the Air. He is using radical Islam, Xi in China, and Putin to create division and undermine the superpowers before the great war of Gog and Magog begins. God, however, will fulfill His Promise in Genesis 3:15 with the Seed of the Woman of Revelation 12, and will crush the head of the “seed of the Serpent.” Israel, the Woman, will see Jesus Christ in all His Glory and will believe.  As with Moses, they will follow the Lord into the wilderness “with wings of an eagle”, Rev. 12: 14?  They will be delivered as was Moses and Israel when they crossed the Red Sea into Arabia and to Mt. Horeb.  Presently the Church is under the “shadow of His wings” and will have its own “red-sea” crossing and time of trial. What happens next could be the “great disappearance” of billions of Christians or an intense series of birth pains as God purifies the Church.  A purified humbled Church will act as a Light and Salt to the lost world. God wants the Church to save the lost and help Israel before it is too late. In the meantime, Satan is preparing the world -stage for the Anti-Christ and will seek to destroy everything related to God including the American Constitution, its institutions and the nation of Israel. This will be a time of lies, deceit and severe testing- so we must keep in sincere prayer and in His Word. Go to CosmicCrossroad.com or ToGodBtheGlory.org or my sites on Facebook.

The Wrath of God

The Wrath of God:

Do we believe in a loving Merciful God who will allow the 4 Horses of the Apocalypse to shake up the Church and motivate a final revival on the earth? Will God wait until after these Seal Judgments to rapture the Church? Do we want to believe that the last seal, the 6th Seal (Rev. 6:12), overlaps the 1st seal (Rev. 6:2) when in Revelation 6:15 the 6th Seal states “the Wrath of God is here.” If this is true, we must ask why would an event or a degree of judgment work backwards in time to affect the 1st seal? It seems obvious that there is a progression of time from one seal to the next and it would make more sense for God to have said that the “Wrath of God is here” in the description of the release of the 1st Seal. Can the late use of this very important phrase imply that the Wrath began earlier? I do not think so. It is obvious that God wants us to know that each seal brings new judgments and consequences different from the prior ones. The 6th seal is a unique one causing every mountain and island to be “shaken.” It also results in the “kings” and other leaders of the earth to hide in fear in “caves” (or bunkers) as they behold the power and reality of judgment from the Almighty God. And read to the end to note that Jesus also makes reference to this.
God does not mention “His wrath” in any of the earlier seal judgments. It seems to indicate that God reserves His Wrath for the sixth seal: When He opened the sixth seal, v. 12 there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand? This seems to indicate that the sixth Seal is the beginning of God’s Wrath— and NOT any earlier!
Yet many Prophecy gurus are determined to ignore the sequence of these verses and teach that God’s Wrath begins with the 1st Seal. When we read Revelation Chapter 6, the first 5 seals do not mention the Wrath of God but do reveal a type of persecution against Israel and the Church that is spreading in the world today. Thousands of Christian converts are being slaughtered in places like Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Southern Sudan, and now Burkina Faso. Israel is in the middle of both an internal and external war with divisions among its own Jewish population. Anti-Semitism along with a repressive Marxism mixed with Islamic radicalism is spreading worldwide increasing the threat of a nuclear war and violent civil unrest. The threat of the Red Horse along with the Lies of the White Horse are affecting politics and policies throughout the “free world.”
Verse 12 of this sixth seal is important. The book of Revelation states that when He opened the sixth seal, “and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.” Note that this catastrophic world-wide earthquake happens only after the 4 Horses of the Apocalypse. This unique series of events correlates with the Prophetic Warning in Joel 2:4-10, “They have the appearance of horses; They gallop along like cavalry. 5 With a noise like that of chariots they leap over the mountaintops, like a crackling fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army drawn up for battle. 6 At the sight of them, nations are in anguish; every face turns pale. 7 They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. They all march in line, not swerving from their course. 8 They do not jostle each other; each march straight ahead. They plunge through defenses without breaking ranks. 9 They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows. {DOES THIS REFLECT THE TERROR SEEN ON OCTOBER 7TH IN ISRAEL?}
NOW CONTINUE WITH JOEL 2:10 “Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened”- (in the King James it states, “the sun becomes black as sackcloth and the moon becomes like blood.”) This great sign is identical to what we just saw in Revelation 6:12! Note that this is Sign of huge magnitude that is only mentioned a few times in God’s Word. It correclates with the 6th Seal of the Book of Revelation and the massive worldwide earthquake.
How can anyone ignore this—yet most pastors and prophecy gurus refuse to acknowledge this as they promote a rapture that will happen before the “Wrath of God” while placing this “Wrath” before the first 4 Seal Judgments which are the 4 Horses of the Apocalypse. This is not the sequence revealed in the Word of God. The “Wrath” only begins in the 6th Seal which is after the 4 Horses of the Apocalypse. Thus the rapture occurs in the middle of the Seal judgments and before or during the “great earthquake” that shakes every island and mountain.
Note verse 11 and 12 in the prophetic book of Joel: The Day of the Lord is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it? Rend Your Heart 12 “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” This great “Day of the Lord” correlates to the “Wrath of God” throughout scripture and indicates that God’s Wrath occurs after the “horses” trample the earth and right after a great sign appears: the “sackcloth sun and a blood red moon.” The only other way to explain away this connection and sequence is to say that God will generate TWO different signs with a sackcloth sun and a blood moon. This was admited by the biggest proponent of the pretrib rapture movement: the lawyer and prophecy speaker John Hitchcock.
You must decide on your own after you pray and study His Word. In Matthew 24:15, Jesus Christ warns about the abomination of desolation which Daniel indicates happens in the middle of the 7 years. The first 3 and 1/2 years of the 7 years includes the majority of the Seal Judgments. In reference to this time Jesus Christ states: “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
This fits the description of the Seal Judgments involving the White, Red, Black and Green Horses that cause massive chaos in the world. Next Jesus warns of a greater persecution and shaking that appears to be the “Wrath of God”: Verse 15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’[a] spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. 18 Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. 19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.”
The Question is — when does the rapture occur in the sequence of events leading up to the Abomination of Desolation. Will it happen prior to the Seal Judgments? Those in Africa suffering severe persecution would say that they are already in the events of the Seal Judgments and yet have not been raptured. Will America soon face the persecution seen there?
Will God shake the American Church in order to bring repentance and obedience among its members? Will He wait until the Abomination to rapture a weak and spoiled “Western” Church? I pray that God Will rapture the Church prior to all the Seal Judgments — but as you can see from the evidence above — the American Church may have to face the Seal Judgments prior to the rapture. Keep in prayer, obey God’s Word, and share the Gospel.

God’s “Still Small voice”

The Lord has sent a Great Sign and few have had the eyes to see and He has sent a still/small voice of Warning and few have had ears to hear. Maybe God is trying to get your attention! It is no coincidence that our Christian “leaders” are coming under heavy trials.

The enemy is here and is affecting the whole world yet the Church is not keeping up with discernment and commitment.
The Church is giving up Holy Ground and is in retreat in many parts of America because of poor discernment and lack of faithful, Godly
determination.  Perhaps the greatest measure of our Christian life is here. Perhaps we can take our true spiritual temperature by the amount of trials heaped upon us. Perhaps the abundant life is more about having joy in the midst of trials than the absence of those trials. J.B. Phillips translates James 1:2 this way: “Don’t resent trials as intruders, but welcome them as friends.”

If you teach error you will reap trials. God is seeking those with a “wholesome tongue” to speak out — yet there is silence.
God blessed us for a reason. This is a time of trial, so stand up against error, falsehood, and apathy. Where is the voice crying in the wilderness calling for repentance? Seek God in fervent prayer while reading His Word. When we have the “Dollar” on the premier “christian” TV production company speaking “christ” and abortion” in the same breath…. — then we have Apostasy.

When we have “christianity” mixed with puberty blockers and the promotion of baby killing on the same platform then we have wickedness.

When God’s people allow “christian” voices to speak against His Promise, then you have embraced the Lie. Wake up,
God wants to Bless and Restore — yet the “Church is silent and not speaking  the whole Truth and the Warning’s that He has proclaimed.

Red Dragon Confusion

“Faith comes by hearing and Hearing by the Word of God.”  What does this mean?  God is simply and distinctly saying that our FAITH is dependent on us studying and knowing the Word of God.  Do not depend on a priest, pastor, or denomination to give you the FULL unadulterated TRUTH that God wants you to Trust in and rely on to guide your LIFE in HIM.  This may sound radical, but it is as simple and direct as the verse indicates.  Whole denominations have relegated the Book of Revelation to the trash bin of allegory and spiritual mumbo jumbo.

Jesus Christ himself, directed John the Apostle to write everything down in His Revelation for He would show John the scope of His plan for the Church and for those who fail to Trust in Him.  It is very clear that Judgement of the world and of the individual is coming — and at the same time a Rescue is coming which is the HOPE and Eternal Rescue of those who trust in the Lord.  It includes those who are raptured before the 7-year Tribulation and those who end up going through the Tribulation but who do NOT receive the Mark of the Beast.  Prior to all this happening God provides a Warning Sign to mark the Countdown.

He is very clear about this, yet almost 100 percent of those who teach on Revelation either ignore Chapter 12 or use an old concept that they were taught in seminary–that this key Chapter happens before the beginning of time or during the 7-year Tribulation.  Neither makes any sense for why God would call the Sign that begins the Chapter, “A Great Sign.”  Like the Bethlehem Star this Sign is both Astronomical and Prophetic– in that God uses the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Wandering Stars or planets to make the announcement to the whole world–not just Israel- that He is Coming to fulfill Prophecy. In this Great Sign, He tells us that He is Coming to fulfill all Prophecy since the beginning of Time.  For this reason, He is giving us a Countdown that should be clear to everyone, yet just as in the case of Bethlehem Star—the world and the elitist teachers and scribes today are oblivious to its timing and its meaning.

The Sign connects the Garden of Eden to the Birth of Christ and to the Countdown to His 2nd Coming that we are now in. Verse 12 of Chapter 12 is ignored by all those preachers and pundits that want to promote their false interpretation of this key Chapter that is also a Warning to All people of All nations and to the nation of Israel in particular.  One cannot ignore its connection to Israel and to its end-time destruction by the Red Dragon.  But this is only one layer of warning.  The Dragon also fights the Seed of the Woman who is the Church and Jesus Christ.  The Sign if Timeless for it begins with Genesis and ends with the final Chapters of Revelation.

Jonathan Cahn’s new book only captures a small part of the warning and prophecy concerning the Red Dragon.  It is important for those pastors and writers to understand the curse related to misrepresenting the Word specific to the Book of Revelation: “for all who add or subtract from this revelation will be cursed.”  This is shown true in the near-fatal illnesses of prophecy speakers and fires in churches.  Why is this happening?  Could it be because the Red Dragon is being very successful in fooling both the world system and the weak leaders in the Church who are so focused on promoting their little world of influence with their books and short-sighted concepts that were birthed years ago.  They are afraid to walk back past conclusions and bad logic or inspiration.  God says, “Repent and read or hear my Word as if I am speaking directly to you.”  God will not tolerate falsehoods and misrepresentations in reference to this final warning to His Church.

Red Dragon Alert

Until you understand this — you are out of the “warning loop” that God has provided for us to prepare us for what is about to come. This is a Red Alert- the Red Dragon- Satan & his minions are here to cause chaos & confusion.   Israel & the Church stand in his way & he’s furious because he knows his time is short: Rev. 12:12. And note, God does not just use numbers with impunity—those numbers are part of the warning.

God does not play games……and yet countless pastors, prophecy gurus and other “elites” were like the Pharisees of old and discounted God’s Great Sign for our time——-many will pay a heavy price but what is worse is that most have not taken the warning seriously enough to warn others around them especially their loved ones.  At least Noah tried with all the time, ability, resources, that he had to forewarn the world around him to seek shelter in God before disaster hit. We are NOW again in the “time of Noah” and if you cannot see this then you have been blinded by Satan as the countless other lemmings that we can see each day glorifying sex transition, abortion, Kamala and Walz.  As a voice crying in the wilderness — God wants this message to reach you as before it is too late– and as in the message of John the Baptist – seek repentance, baptism, and prepare for the Lord’s Coming.  But the religious leaders in the time of John and Noah did not – nor did those in the time of the birth of Christ see the first great Cosmic Sign given for the Lord’s first coming-Bethlehem Star.

The Great Sign of Revelation 12 happened almost exactly 7 years ago as a foreshadow of events to come.  That is why God has called it a “GREAT SIGN.”  IT WOULD NOT BE A GREAT SIGN IF IT HAPPENED AT THE BEGINGING OF TIME as 40% or more of pastors and prophecy gurus teach, nor would it be a Great Sign if it Happens in the Middle of the 7-Year Tribulation, or Jacob’s Trouble as the other 60% teach!!  Why would God wait until Judgment has already come to give His Great Sign? And astronomers know exactly the date and time of this Glorious arrangement of wandering stars, Sun, Moon, and distant stars that made up the Great Sign of the Woman (and if you do not know how glorious it was – read any of the Cosmic Crossroad Countdown books–that the LORD commissioned me to write and which I openly give away for free at our mission “Answers on the Rock,” at White Rock Lake.)  My friend Angie and I have been giving away these and other free books for the last 14 years!

How wrong can these “teachers” be to ignore God’s stellar or cosmic billboard in the sky? Ignoring God’s Magnificent and Glorious warning may be equal to the apostasy of macro-evolution, changing the sex of children, pushing puberty blockers, homosexuality, and transgenderism.

The Red Dragon has been cast to earth and is persecuting the Woman who is Israel.  The Church, the real Church that is in Christ imbued with the Holy Spirit, is the Power of God holding back Satan and his minions until the right moment when God will lift them up along with the dead in Christ who will meet Christ in the clouds.  This is a warning that God wants all to hear. God has commissioned me and others who sought answers in prayer to announce this warning to those who have ears to hear yet have not heard and eyes to see yet have NOT seen.  Let’s keep in prayer, share God’s Word with each other, share the Gospel, and give God all the Praise and Glory.  Peace and Hope be with you.

Not Much Time Left II

God can use what man intended for evil to accomplish good for His Purpose and His will.  He will shake the Church and all those who live in apathy and self-confidence. God is not interested in our agendas and idol worship.  He wants us to repent of our laziness and blindness and to grow up and share the greatest Gift on Earth to all who are lost. He will allow churches to burn down, pastors to fall, and anxiety to sweep this nation.  He is trying to get our attention because the leaders today are like the Pharisees of old and have ignored His warnings and the Signs of the Time.

Despite the “Crooks,” “the Stealers, Liars, and  “Cheat—els” Trump stands tall above the fray as God’s man for his time.   Is the existential threat to Democracy, Trump who won two primaries, or Harris who came in last place in her one primary, yet was appointed millions of dollars raised by the Biden candidacy? Is this a dictatorship or a democracy? Apparently Harris has been appointed by the Elites, not by the normal legal process established by both parties in the primaries. He lies claimed Biden was in great physical shape and healthy, and as usual the present Biden/Harris campaign is using Lies to claim that Trump is a threat to Democracy when they themselves are the Biggest Threat.

Now we are being pummeled with lies– as the media and the elite remake the image of Harris.  She is now a capable speaker able to be President and Biden who was shoved aside for his failed mental capacity is capable to be President for the next 5 months. And now these pundits are saying that Trump is too old to run– this hypocrisy is undeniable.

The contrast between Trump and Harris are at the absolute opposite ends of the spectrum.  God could not have created a more obvious choice between competent and incompetent, good and evil, statesman and clown, sacrificial and self-motivated, protector of the innocent vs baby killer, pro-Israel vs. anti-Israel, and family man vs the woman who seduced Willie Brown to get into office. This is to give America a clear choice before judgment comes.  I have listened to many Prophetic voices, and most are saying that a war in the Middle East will happen before September ends.  They say it will be the Psalm 83 war.  That is a joke when one considers that Iran as a nation is feeding weapons to Israel’s neighbors and threatening a retaliation for Israel’s aggression against Hamas and against them. Dark forces seem to be controlling even our “prophetic human centered” voices.

The next war may be ignited by Iran seeking revenge in Israel or right in our own back yard. We could see a civil like war initiated by a Trojan-like attack from Chinese, Islamic, and Venezuelan agents soon after the election when the nation will be reeling from election controversy. These foreign agents and their governments will see an opportune time to initiate chaos to stoke a civil war.  They will attack churches, military bases, small businesses on Main Street, and all of our vulnerable infrastructure which includes the Grid, rail and highways, food and water sources, and all those who are sworn to our security and safety. This environment will be aided by the Lies that permeate our media and social media in TikTok and other popular sources of “news” and “data.”  We have a population that has been brainwashed by propaganda that will believe almost any lie.

This is not based on a dream or a whim but on the state of our world and what is revealed in the Word of God.  Read the Cosmic Crossroad Countdown books.  Everything in the first groundbreaking book has come true.  And we already see that the 3rd book is showing a pattern of historicity with the recent assassination attempt on Trump. That final book has the subtitle: The Invisible War & Final Chapter.

Out of Order

The world is “Out of Order” the Judge in the Court of the Heavens is hammering His gavel – a Sign of approaching Judgment. The world is more and more under the sway of the Devil. Devil means liar–and this Father of Lies is gaining more and more ears and control. Jesus warned that they hear with their ears yet do not hear, and see with their eyes and yet do not see. Each of the major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel) warned their people of this and then Jerusalem fell. Trump gave God credit on the stage at the RNC and the big Box media scoffed– then God struck high tech worldwide crippling travel, finances, trade, and just about every major function– by crippling CloudStrike—yes it was GodStruck!
Grown men are lying about their sex and even their age to compete against women (just this year 692 women had scholarships, metals, or records taken away from them by men.) The Church is here to fulfill the Great Commission yet mainline churches are having debates whether they should ordain homosexuals or bless their weddings– a great percentage of the church is Out of Order. We are commanded to examine ourselves to SEE if we are in the faith! Is Jesus Christ in you? We grieve when a whale dies yet celebrate abortion or call the killing of babies a medical procedure. We are Out of Order. This is the Invisible War destroying the hearts of men and women. Public education allows men to dress like women and preach to children yet arrests or fires a coach who kneels on the grass and prays after a game. OUT OF ORDER declares the LORD, as He prepares to lower the gavel.
Under Biden, America’s leadership has abondoned our allies in Afganistan, hamstrung Israel, and now disrupted our democracy by ignoring the Primary vote.  Loyd Austin our top General disappeared into hospital garb because he knew Biden was not accessible and not meeting with cabinet members.  Who is leading our nation and is Biden capable of leading?  Our enemies see a leader that has captitulated to the far left, that is weak, and has allowed a party coup to upend democracy. Read Cosmic Crossroad Countdown: The Invisible War & Final Chapter to understand deeper issues and signs of what is happening.
So, who is the existential threat to Democracy, Trump who won two primaries, or Harris who came in last in her one primary yet was appointed millions of dollars raised by the Biden candidacy in the last 3 years? How can this be called democracy? You have a candidate who had not raised a penny for her race yet claims the Biden bank account for her own race. She was appointed by the Elites not by the normal legal process established by both parties in the primaries. Lies claimed Biden was actively Healthy and the Biden/Harris campaign is using Lies to claim that Trump is a threat to Democracy when they themselves are the Biggest Threat. At this time America needs strong resolute leadership at such a perilous time. Yet again we are being pummeled with lies–stating that Biden is capable to be President but not to run for office. And now the pundits are saying that Trump is too old to run– this hypocrisy is undeniable.
This is a bridge to nowhere when you have a Biden presidency that perpetuates itself on Lies—if he cannot run for office why is he still in office? Why was Cheatle given a sweet condolence letter by Jill as she resigns from office? Was she a good friend of Jill? What qualifications did she have? Was this a conspiracy to open the doors for an assasination attempt against Trump? What is the morale level now in the Secret Service and how quickly can this failed administration resolve this?  God Help us with a Great Spiritual Revival before the Final Chapter commences.