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The Dark Skies of Prophecy Chapter 3

Chapter 3

In the attempt to expose fallacy or weakness it is important that we do not generate slander nor label Christians as being heretics. The purpose is to educate the public and those who teach and promote Biblical Truth. It is important to expand our understanding of what God has communicated to us through His Word and the inspiration He continues to give us through the Holy Spirit. With that said, we should be careful how we word critical thoughts and how we label ideas and positions that people take.

It has been a custom among certain groups and television ministries to negatively label anyone who does not agree with their seven consecutive year pre-tribulation rapture viewpoint. They often use exaggeration and critical labeling to demote opposing viewpoints and promote their own ministry. Others use sensational concepts or theories to entertain their followers and raise money. This habit of labeling other groups is a form of slander and a way to put down or box out opposing viewpoints instead of having honest conversation and debate.

To be clear this book does not teach a preterist, partial-preterist, nor the amillennial viewpoint. The viewpoint presented in this book describes: “God’s Mercy and Love expressed through the 3.5-year ministry of Jesus Christ, followed by the Church Age, then closed out by the Rapture, and a 3.5 period of Divine Judgment called the Wrath of God.” Our two thousand yearlong Gospel-age is in the spotlight and embraced by two divine 3.5-year Holy periods that proclaim the Name of God as Savior and Judge, the Lamb and Lion, and the Alpha and Omega (the Beginning and End). The two prophetic 3.5 periods are God’s hands holding up the Church, the Light of God.

This Light points to God’s great mysteries in the Old and New Testament. In Ephesians 3:9, Paul declares that God’s grace was given him so that he could “make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.” The Holy Spirit and the Church were mysteries revealed by Jesus Christ. Another mystery was the miraculous birth and survival of the nation of Israel in 1948 and the miracle war of 1967 which released Jerusalem from Islamic control. These are signposts that point to the Lord’s 2nd Coming. The Cosmic Crossroad Countdown book series reveals other divine signs given to us to guide us such as God’s Festivals, the Jubilee years, the 7-Days of Creation, and God’s Great Sign of the Woman in Revelation 12. They show that we are in the “generation” that will see the rapture.

God’s plan was to defeat sin and death and transform His creation from a temporary and corrupt state to one that is eternal and perfect. The Futurists may label this inspired viewpoint as the “classic Pre-Wrath version.”  However, the classic Pre-Wrath end-time scenario demoted by the Futurists was based on a contiguous 7-year tribulation. This prophetic outline does not follow that concept and instead has the two 3.5-year periods embracing and uplifting the two-thousand-year Church Age. It makes sense that God would spiritually and physically embrace His Church as He puts all people in the world through tests and trials that will cause them to look up to Him. He wants to purify the Church and draw unbelievers to the Light so that everyone will have a chance to repent and obey Him. He encourages us by declaring; “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance,” James1:1-2.

In His Love God has made His Word available to the entire world through every method possible including through the printing press, radio, television, film, and digital drives. He has also allowed the 4 Horses of Revelation to shake the world’s foundation with disasters, famines, wars, rebellion, pestilence, and even the beasts of the earth. This shaking also happened during Old Testament time as shown in the following verses:

1) David called out to God in distress as enemies surrounded him: “My cry reached his ears. The world shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains quaked, they shook because he was angry. He shot his arrows and scattered them; with many lightening bolts he frightened them,” Ps. 18:7 and 14.”

 2) Psalm 97:1: “Hate evil, you who love the Lord. He guards the life of those who love Him, delivering them from domination by the wicked.”

3) Isaiah 40:4-5: “Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be lowered; the rough ground will become level, and the mountain ridges made a plain. Then the Glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity will see it at once, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

4) Haggai 2:6-9, “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty.”

It is IMPORTANT to note that in Haggai’s verse the phrase “in a little while” or others like “in the last hour” and the “70th week” can represent lengthy periods or spans of time now and into the future.

This idea of “super short time” representing a long amount of time is used by Jesus in replying to the woman at the well. Jesus says, “the hour will soon come when worship will not depend on a specific location but will be “in spirit and truth.” The Temple will not be necessary. God will move from the Temple to the human heart. “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you,” I Corinthians 3:16 ISV).

Paul the Apostle refers to the Haggai verse above suggesting that Jesus Christ “shook all the nations, filling this house with Glory.” Paul states in Hebrew: “Once again I will cause the earth to move. But this time I will cause heaven to move, “Hebrew 12:28. Although Paul does not say that Heaven and earth moved when Jesus defeated Satan and Death, could it still be true? He will again move both Heaven and Earth at the end of the age in the last half of the prophetic 7th Week. Was Haggai comparing earth’s Creation to what will happen at the end of time? During the Wrath of God, all temporary, created things—both in heaven and earth—will be transformed through a final, cosmic “shaking” or judgment. This will ensure that only the eternal, unshakable Kingdom of God will exist.

However, we know that Jesus Christ made all this possible by reversing death, sin, the temporary state of matter, and much of physics through God directed miracles while living in a sin filled world.. When he died a massive earthquake happened and the sky became dark for hours. The supernatural was shaking the natural. Thus, at both sides of our 2000-year period the effect on nature and “permanence of created things” change. Both 3.5-year periods show “cosmic events.” There is much more detail on these special cosmic events in the first Cosmic Crossroad Countdown book.

John the Apostle in Revelation 3:10 shares the strong exhortation given by Jesus Christ to all Churches (and this includes Christian authors, film makers, institutions) that act as His Light to the world: “Because you (Philadelphia Church) have obeyed my command to endure, I will keep you from the hour of testing that is coming in the whole world to test those living on the earth.” This “hour of testing” spans time to include our present age. It is an “hour” that includes world wars, Islamic invasions, worldwide pestilence like the Spanish Flu, and economic dictatorships like China. The White Horse and Rider will test the faith and devotion of the Church. The Red Horse and Rider will test their strength and obedience. And the Black and Green Horses will shake their faith, endurance, and convictions.

Jesus Christ showed his love for everyone including the demon possessed with miracles, comforting words, divine wisdom, and God’s plan expressed in parables and warnings. He set the stage for how a believer can overcome the world. He was purposefully directing a three-and-a-half-year ministry while he fulfilled hundreds of prophecies. Although he does not explicitly say, “I am fulfilling the first half of Daniel’s 70th week,” he implies this in the following Gospel passages:

1) In Luke 13:6-9 in the parable of the unfruitful Fig Tree Jesus Christ speaks of seeking fruit for “three years” and granted “one more year” to nurture and care for it. This is a good reference to his 3.5-year ministry.

2) The Gospel of John records at least three Passovers celebrated during Jesus’ ministry, ending with the Passover of his crucifixion. Since scholars believe that Jesus was born near late September during the Feast of Tabernacles, it suggests that he was baptized by John the Baptist in September during or after the Feast of Tabernacles. That would add six months to his ministry for a total of 3.5 years.

3) If you chose to use the word “confirm” at the Lord’s supper (Matthew 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20) one sees Jesus Christ confirming “the blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.” By doing this he is identifying himself as the “anointed prince” in Daniel 9:27.

4) And in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24:15): Jesus directly references Daniel 9:27: “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation’ standing in the holy place (let the reader understand).” By instructing the disciples using this key passage in Daniel he confirms his ministry and the subsequent events: which include the abomination Nero placed in the Temple in 67 AD and the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. The Abomination includes the execution the Apostles Paul and Peter by Nero and later the execution of all the Temple priests. It all “confirms” the abomination having been committed during the time of the early church and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

In Matthew 24:3-8:  Jesus replies after the disciples ask him what will happen to them, and what will be the sign of his coming and the end of the age:  “See to it that no one deceives you, because many will come in my name, proclaiming, I’m the Messiah, and they will deceive many people. You’ll begin to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you don’t panic. These things must take place, but the end won’t have come yet, because nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. But all these things are only a beginning of agonies.”  Could all these events happen between the crucifixion of the Lord and the 70 AD destruction of the Temple? The religious authorities in Jerusalem were determined to quench any talk of the resurrection and to arrest the leaders and smother the message of this new faith. The Roman dictatorship did not want rebellion and so followed the requests of the Pharisees and other Jewish leaders. Rebellion and lawlessness happened despite the caution. There were wars and rumors of wars with nations rising against nations. Deception and false Christs were evident in the book of Acts, so we can assume those were happening.

In Matthew 24:9-14: Jesus states, “Then they’ll hand you over to suffer and will kill you, and you’ll be hated by all the nations on account of my name. Then many people will fall away, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people, and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many people will grow cold. But the person who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the inhabited world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”

Heavy persecution unfortunately happened to the disciples and the Church. The religious leaders executed James the brother of Jesus and stoned to death Stephen. Believers fled their homes and moved to other cities across the Jordan river as they fled Roman edicts issued against Christians throughout Judea.

What does the phrase “and then the end will come” mean here. In Jewish tradition it suggests an end to both the heavy persecution by Rome and the religious leaders but also an end to their present evil age and the beginning of a glorious new age. Soon Rome under Caesar Constantine would accept Christianity and the Gospel would spread throughout the Roman Empire. During and after the siege and destruction of Jerusalem the Roman forces and the religious zealots fought each other for years. The Church had to flee but was able to regroup and survive in various areas inside and outside Israel as archeology shows evidence of Churches in the Decapolis, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Egypt, and Turkey.

In Matthew 24:15-20 Jesus states, “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, and anyone who’s in the field must not turn back to get his coat.  ‘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”

In this passage Jesus gave a warning to those in Jerusalem warning them to prepare to flee to the mountains of Judea. The Zealot rebellion around Judea begins 30 years later in 66 AD followed by the Roman siege in April of 70 AD. Jesus tells his disciples and the early church to leave Jerusalem before they are entrapped by this conflict. It does not refer to events in our future. Why do we know this? In the Matthew passage Jesus says “flee to the mountains” which is different than what happens at the “end of time” when Jesus sets foot on the Mount of Olives and the mountain splits in two. The believers in modern Jerusalem will flee directly to the Dead Sea area and will not need to “flee to the mountains.” They will not have to flee upwards and southward but will flee through the split open eastern wall of Jerusalem and through the split open Mount of Olives in the East and then downward to the Dead Sea. This will be a quicker and safer route. Zechariah 14:5 explains, “You will run away through my mountain valley…you will flee, as you fled the earthquake under King Uzziah. And so the Lord my God will come with his holy ones to accompany you.” Jesus Christ will guide and protect them and then return with them to establish the Kingdom of God in Jerusalem where Jesus puts His throne. This will begin the Millennium with a “Temple of the Lord” which has a throne and not the Ark of the Covenant.

Another passage in the Old Testament that critics use to “prove” that a pre-Millennium Temple will exist on the present Temple Mount is the vision that Ezekiel has. Ezekiel sees a glowing man with a measuring rod and line at the gate of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40:3-4). He is measuring the “new temple” which represents the New Testament believers and not a physical Temple. In II Corinthians 6:16, Paul teaches us what God’s plan is: “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of the real temple. That temple is within each believer and the Church as a whole.

The Futurist claims that the passage in Ezekiel 40 and later in Revelation 11 points to a new temple that will exist on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount before the Millennium. This is a failure in interpretation. The images of a Temple in both Ezekiel 40-48 and Revelation 11 are a symbolic fulfillment of the Promises and Prophecies made throughout scripture. Examples are in the following verses:

1) Ephesians 2:19, ISV states:

That is why you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the Messiah] Jesus himself being the cornerstone. In union with him the whole building is joined together and rises into a holy sanctuary for the Lord.

Jesus Christ is our “cornerstone” that fulfilled the Promises in the Old and New Testament. His spiritual Temple stands on the “foundation of the apostles and prophets” who received and recorded the Word of God and acted upon the commands and inspiration given by God. Even the Qumran community that interacted with John the Baptist and wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, believed that Ezekiel’s Temple was a spiritual temple. These Essenes helped shepherd the early Church. They hid their scrolls including the book of Daniel in caves. Did they understand that the Messiah was due at any moment and that John the Baptist had baptized him? John did declare openly that he was lesser and Jesus much greater.  Did they hide their scrolls for fear that they would be attacked by Roman forces during the entire period when believers and zealots were on the run?

2) Ezekiel’s vision beginning in Chapter 40 goes on for many chapters describing a symbolic place where his people will dwell forever, Ezekiel 43:7: “Son of dust, this is the place of my throne and my footstool, where I shall remain, living among the people of Israel forever. They and their kings will not defile my holy name any longer through the adulterous worship of other gods or by worshiping lifeless idols erected by their kings.”

The statement that God has his throne there forever implies that this is a picture of heaven and not the millennium. The millennium has a limit of 1000 years.

3)  Revelation 11:1 shows the Apostle John using a measuring rod to measure the Temple of God and the altar. John is measuring the Church and the number of martyrs that have given up their lives and are under the altar. Revelation 6:11, states that Jesus Christ tells the martyrs under the altar “to rest a little longer until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers was completed, who would be killed.” God has set the number of saints that will be martyred before His return. Jesus also measures the number of believers as the Gospel reaches people worldwide. The outer courtyard is not “measured” because it represents the number of those who persecute God’s people and who will “trample the Holy City for three- and one-half years,” Rev. 11:2.

All these key passages support the fact that a Jewish Temple for Jews to worship in is not built anytime in the future. The Ezekiel Temple is a spiritual Temple in Heaven representing perfection.

Prophecy Flying in the Dark – Chapter 1 & 2

Chapter 1

The traditional KJV interpretation of the Angel Gabriel’s message to Daniel is as follows:  “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,” Daniel 9:27.  Can you understand the message relayed?  The failure to give a clear yet accurate interpretation of this passage is a cause for concern. Who is the “he” in this passage? Modern day translators declare that the “he” is the Anti-Christ, yet according to proper grammatical analysis the subject here should be the “anointed prince.” This identity switch has flipped the meaning of current Prophecy projections and warnings.

The prior verse gives us the answer: “After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed Prince will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the commander (Anti-Christ) who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.” The “appointed prince” is in the singular whereas the “people of the coming commander” is in the plural tense. The “he” in verse twenty-seven is also in the singular and therefore should refer to the “appointed prince” and not to the “people of the commander.” The appointed prince is also the primary subject and since verses 26 and 27 belong in the same paragraph or in the same line of thought, the “he” in verse twenty-seven must be the “Anointed Prince.”  He, the “Anointed Prince” and not the commander, “shall confirm the Covenant with many for one week.” The word “confirm” is also incorrect. We will see that the favored translation of the Hebrew “gabar” is the word, “prevails,” not “confirms” and gives the message even more divine emphasis.

The commander’s army is the enemy of the Jews and will “destroy both the city (Jerusalem) and the Temple.” This happened at 70 A.D., and the commander did not confirm a covenant.  To suggest that this commander will “confirm” a covenant 2000 or more years in the future is not only a poor translation but also a very uncharacteristic message that God’s special messenger would relay. After all Gabriel was appointed to announce great news concerning God’s coming Messiah. This would definitely include God’s spectacular Covenant of Grace allowing anyone to be in a covenant relationship with Him forever.

This flip in translation caused teachers, pastors, and authors around the world to misunderstand and then misrepresent one of the most important prophecies and announcements in the Word of God.  Following the crowd is not a good excuse.  It is important for everyone to understand that the New Covenant “prevails” and this inauspicious commander and his false covenant do not.

The “anointed prince” is Jesus Christ who is in Heaven directing Gabriel to make this important announcement to Daniel. Why would Jesus ignore sharing the purpose of His birth, mission, and resurrection which “prevails” against sin and death and all forms of wickedness, anxiety, and fear? This is the power and hope of Gabriel’s message to the exiled nation and to all of us who read and study the book of Daniel. If any of this seems insignificant or obtuse follow along in the following chapters and you will clear some of the prophecy fog in your mind and receive a blessing as promised by Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation.

Why would Jesus Christ ignore his Promise to Israel and waste time announcing Satan’s future commander as a covenant maker 2000 years into the future? And why would God jump time from 538 BC (the time of Gabriel’s announcement) to 33 A.D. (the time of the Triumphal entrance as promoted by the futurist movement) and then leap forward again into an unknown time over 2000 years later (when the commander makes a false covenant with Israel)? This timeline skips Jesus’ three-and-a-half years of ministry beginning in 27 A.D. to then give the prophetic stage to Satan and his Anti-Christ at an unknown time far into the future?

This odd twist in the futurist interpretation of God’s message would demote the 4 Gospels and most of the New Testament. It ignores the promises and prophecies fulfilled in the New Testament.  How could this time jump be relevant in a Messianic message for the Jew who is looking for answers to their desperate situation? This is a dreadful manipulation of God’s purpose and eternal message of Grace and steadfast Love. It is a folly that must be exposed and that is why this book is so important.

The Archangel Gabriel also gave important messianic announcements to the Temple priest Zechariah and to the Virgin Mary. It would be out of character for him to digress from the theme of this divine message to introduce an Anti-Christ as the one who makes a covenant over 2000 years later. Why would God’s heavenly messenger skip the Messiah’s New Covenant that would end all sacrifices and offering? Why would he skip the message of hope and steadfast love that God was conveying to His exiled nation? And why would Garbriel ignore the “desolation” that Christ would suffer at the hands of this coming “commander?” The entire message recorded by Daniel would also comfort Jewish generations that would go through the trials of rebuilding Jerusalem and four hundred years of silence and severe testing.

We should note the three mistakes in translation as we adopt proper parsing, word meaning, and grammar:

1) The correct Hebrew translation for the verb “gabar” is not the word “confirms” but is the more commanding word “prevails.” The word “confirm” is only a secondary translation. In the Hebrew Lexicon the word “Gabar” is defined as “to cause to overpower.” Thus, verse 27 should read: “His Covenant will prevail with many for one week.”

The New Covenant of Grace “prevails” as the Anointed Prince defeats Satan in the wilderness, sets the captives free, brings sight to the blind, defeats death, and redeems humanity. Jesus is the 2nd Adam born fully man and fully God. He has come to reclaim the right of dominion from Satan and save mankind.  Using the word “confirm” would carry less power and authority. God “prevails” and overcomes Satan, sin and death through Jesus Christ and His Covenant of Grace. The New Covenant “prevails” over the Old Testament but does not abolish it.

2)  We can interpret the 2nd part of Daniel 9:27 as: “and He will be made desolate on the wings of abomination.”  Jesus Christ is the promised Messiah who fulfills all prophecy and therefore is the suffering servant who is made desolate. An obvious way to translate this entire passage is, “The covenant shall prevail for many for one week. In the middle of the week, “He (Jesus Christ)” shall cause the sacrifices and offerings to cease, and upon the wing of abomination He shall be made desolate.”  Jesus Christ was “made desolate” when He was betrayed by Judas, abandoned by his disciples, denied by Peter, and when he appeared alone before the High Priest who blasphemed God, the Jewish people that rejected him over Barabas, and Pilate who condemned Him.  He was again “made desolate” when he had to carry the cross on which he would be nailed to and died on, bearing the sins of all mankind past, present, and future. Nobody in history has been made so desolate for the sake of others. The commander or Anti-Christ was not desolate.

“The wings of Abomination” refers to the location or locations where this atrocity took place. The majority of Christ’s physical torture and mocking began in the Roman Antonia and ended on the Cross which are located in the North and Western “wings” of Mount Moriah. This “wing of abomination” could also refer to the Garden Tomb which is also on Mount Moriah but further away on the far North edge of the Mount,  Both are outside the city wall or on a wing outside the body of the Temple court.  In each case the Lord “was made desolate on the wing of abomination.”

3)  It is unfortunate that verse twenty-seven is one of the most misinterpreted verses in the entire Bible. In some versions the word “destroyed” replaces the word “desolate.” Again, “destroyed” is the wrong word to use for we know that Christ cannot be destroyed. He is “made desolate” when he is beaten up, scourged, and placed on a cross where He redeems the sins of the world.  Jesus Christ is not “destroyed.”  This incorrect translation is a result of improper interpretation throughout the Daniel 9:26-27 passage.

Improper translation in Daniel leads to wrong conclusions made in studying and teaching both Daniel and the book of Revelation. These teachers of prophecy claim that Daniel 9:26-27 proves that Revelation foretells an Abomination of Desolation in an “end time Temple” in Jerusalem. This is a false conclusion, for the book of Revelation never mentions the Abomination of Desolation.

Jesus warned His followers to look for the “desolation” spoken of by “Daniel the prophet.” This desolation began when Nero placed his image in the Temple in 67 AD and executed both Peter and Paul. The Roman siege of Jerusalem continued into 70 A.D. when the Roman commander Titus finally breached the walls and desecrated the Temple by burning it down. This is the final desecration and occurs 38 years after Jesus gave his Olivett Discourse in Matthew 24. Those in Jerusalem who did not flee with “just the clothes on their back” would die in Jerusalem. That is why Jesus warned his disciples to quickly leave Jerusalem when they saw Nero “set himself up as God” in the Temple in 67 A.D.

Teachers who are influenced by futurism point to Revelation 13:8-14, to say that “all who inhibit the earth will worship” the first beast and the second beast “is empowered to give life to the image of the beast.”  They claim this place of worship with a beast empowered to create a living image must take place in a future Temple built on the Temple Mount. And they claim this event is the Abomination of Desolation. Note that the book of Revelation does NOT state the location where any of these events happen.  If they happen, they could take place at the Vatican or in anywhere on earth including your home.

When asked by the author, no one attending futurist Prophecy conferences knew this and just took it for granted that Revelation mentions the Abomination of Desolation. The futurists declare that II Thessalonians 2:4 verifies their claim that “he opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship. As a result, he seats himself in the sanctuary] of God and himself declares that he is God.” However, they must admit that Paul wrote this prior to Nero placing the Abomination of Desolation in Herod’s Temple in 67 A.D. soon after he executes Peter and Paul. Thus, the sanctuary is the A.D. 67 Temple, and the Anti-Christ type was Nero, the Emperor of the Roman Empire. This also fits Daniel’s beast empire vision with iron teeth.  There will not be a future Temple with a future Abomination.

Chapter 2  One Week equals Two 3.5-year Divine Periods

John the Apostle authored the Book of Revelation 20 years after the real Abomination of Desolation happened in Jerusalem in 67 AD. That is why it is not part of John’s vision given to him by Jesus Christ and portrayed in the book of Revelation. Both Paul and Jesus warned about the abomination of desolation because it had not happened. It would happen soon after Nero executed Paul on June 29, 67 A.D. In the Olivett Discourse Jesus warned his disciples about an abomination of desolation that would soon come and told them to flee before a three-and-a-half-year Roman attack would trap them. Before Titus, “the commander” destroyed the Temple and killed everyone in the siege, three other Caesars would enforce their control in Judea and Samaria that would lead to conflicts with zealots and heavy persecution against all Jews.

In summary the main theme of Gabriel’s message in about 539 BC was to announce to Daniel and to those who read Daniel’s scroll that a specific time was set for the Messiah to appear. This Messiah or Prince is Jesus Christ who proclaims the Kingdom of God and ministers for half a week, or 3.5 years. He is crucified near the end of this period. This represents the first 3.5-years. His death and resurrection end the need for sacrifices and offerings. During this “desolation” He redeems mankind. The Resurrection ends the need for a Temple since Jesus Christ is “the Temple” that He said would be “raised up after 3 days” and He is the New Covenant that redeems all those who place their trust in Him. He told the Pharisees that the “Kingdom of God is within us.” All who receive Him are a spiritual “Temple of God.”

The second 3.5-year period entitled “The Wrath of God” by Jesus Christ, John, and Paul was orchestrated by God from the beginning of Time to occur much later in the last generation.  We are that “last generation” as defined by the parable of the Fig tree in Matthew 24. This parable and the Great Sign of Revelation 12 are discussed intensively in the author’s first book: Cosmic Crossroad Countdown: The Fig Tree and the Prophetic Generation.  It will help you understand that the “WEEK” spoken about in Daniel 9:27 is divided prophetically into two 3.5-year periods—and only the first one has been fulfilled.

Alert #1: 3.5 YEAR BOOKENDS WITH CHURCH AGE INBETWEEN

Our generation began with the birth of the nation of Israel and may mark the end of the Church age. The Church age represents a 2000-plus-year span of time, like the 69-week span of time in Daniel’s 70-week Prophecy. This means that the final 3.5-year period of Daniel’s 70th week may start at any moment in the future. This will happen after the rapture and at a time when the God’s Wrath will impact earth as the sin of the world is judged. Jesus discusses this final 3.5-year period of wrath in his last discourse with the disciples and never mentions a 7-year period. Even though Jesus referred to Daniel’s 70-weeks prophecy, He did not warn of a “Wrath of God” that would last 7 years. Why not? Instead, he infers that his ministry represents only the first half of the 7-year period.  This will be detailed more in Chapter 3.

Jesus warned His followers to look for the “desolation” spoken of by “Daniel the prophet.” This desolation began when Nero placed his image in the Temple in 67 AD and executed both Peter and Paul. The Roman siege of Jerusalem continued into 70 A.D. when the Roman commander Titus finally breached the walls and desecrated the Temple by burning it down. This is the final desecration and occurs 38 years after Jesus gave his Olivett Discourse in Matthew 24. Those in Jerusalem who did not flee with “just the clothes on their back” would die in Jerusalem. That is why Jesus warned his disciples to quickly leave Jerusalem when they saw Nero “set himself up as God” in the Temple in 67 A.D. As stated earlier, this is the abomination seated in the Temple described by Paul in II Thessalonians. After this Temple is destroyed by Titus there will not be another Temple. nor another desecration.

Twenty years after the 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem, John the Apostle wrote in Revelation about a time of “great tribulation” that would last 3.5 years.  The “Abomination of Desolation” had already happened in Jerusalem and now Jesus Christ visiting John from Heaven gives a vision of end time events that will happen on earth and in Heaven. Chapters 11, 12, and 13 describe events that last a total of three-and one-half years. Jesus does not describe any 7-year period of tribulation nor any 7-year “Wrath of God.”

Surely his detailed visions would reveal something about a 7-year judgment or wrath to come. But Jesus Christ never makes this declaration!  This clearly suggests that He fulfilled the first 3.5 years of the 70th week and therefore was the Covenant Maker who ended sacrifices and offerings for eternity. Therefore, when Gabriel declares, “he will make a binding covenant for one week,” the Binding Covenant is the New Covenant that spans the time from His Resurrection all the way into our time and beyond into the final 3.5 years. The Week of time ends up being thousands of years-The Gospel Age of the Church.

In conclusion: 1) The Word of God reveals that we will be looking forward to a three-and one-half-year Wrath of God and not to a “7-Year Wrath of God” popularized by the futurist prophecy movement. 2) Jesus Christ has fulfilled the first 3.5 years of Daniel’s 70th Week Prophecy. This means that both the “covenant” and the betrayal following that covenant by the “commander” or Anti-Christ will not happen. Both were fulfilled by Jesus Christ. What Jesus and Paul described as “abomination of desolation” happened in their generation, in about 67 A.D. under the leadership of Nero and eventually Titus.  3) Therefore, the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Jesus in the Olivette Discourse and by Paul in his letter to the Thessalonians has already been fulfilled.

4) And note that there will be an Anti-Christ, but he will have “authority for only three-and one-half years.” 5) The covenant that Gabriel announces is the New Covenant given unconditionally to all who receive Jesus Christ as Savior and not Satan’s or the Anti-Christ’s covenant. 6) We are not looking forward to an “abomination of desolation” that Darby and others claim will happen in a Temple on the Temple Mount.  7) Both the Jews and secular believers do not want a Temple. A new Temple on the Temple Mount will not be constructed. What appears to be a minor issue has become a major deviation of Truth concerning the whole of end time Biblical Prophecy.

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.

Deception or just bad Exegesis among Prophecy Speakers?

We have been deceived: Many Prophecy books, speeches, sermons, and film declare that ¼ of the world’s population are killed in the 4th Seal or during the ride of Death followed by Hades on the Green Horse. This is often used to support the idea that this must represent God’s great Wrath or the Day of the Lord. This lie is then shared by those who have been deceived. And so now 9 out of 10 people have been deceived. Open your Bible and read: Revelation 6:8 says, “I looked, and behold, a green horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.”

It does not say that a fourth of the earth’s population is killed like many have been told and now share with others! There may only be tens of thousands who die as we have seen in Ukraine where there is total devastation of buildings and infrastructure, yet mostly soldiers have been killed. In Chapter 7, an angel appears that commands the 4 angels that have held back the 4 winds, not to harm the land, the sea, and the trees until God has sealed the 144,000 on their foreheads. This infers that in Chapter 6 even the “trees and land” were not devastated by that 4th Horseman on the Green Horse.

This is not God’s Great Wrath nor the Day of the Lord as many prophecy speakers want you to believe. WWI and WWII were much more devastating. The point is in the 6 Seals God gives us Signs or warnings of the Coming Wrath of God or the Day of the Lord. Logically it makes sense, for God wants to first Seal the 144,000 who will replace the Church which was raptured before this final 7-year Tribulation. In His Grace and Mercy, God wants to save as many people as possible. By this time the Kings of the Earth are shaken Revelation 6:15, and the Anti-Christ is in control and raising his army while consolidating his power over 10 Kings.

God wants to save as many as possible before they receive the Mark of the Beast and are forever forsaken. Even the 6th Seal with its massive earthquake and the impact by many “falling stars” is not the “Day of the Lord.” As stated in the book of Joel and declared by Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:29 these are birth pains or signs marked by a blood moon and sackcloth sun. They warn of God’s Wrath in the coming Trumpet Judgments which will devastate 1/3 of the earth and sea. During this time the Anti-Christ will commit the Abomination of Desolation and will kill the two Witnesses.

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.

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 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.

The Emergent

What are we doing?  So many sermons promote the concept of a defeated toothless Satan.  Is this true?  As Jesus stated, “I have come that they may have life and have to the full,” In the same thought He also emphatically stated that Satan, the enemy, has “come to kill, steal, and destroy.”  This does not sound like a defeated foe.  Yes, in the cosmic spiritual battle that spans all time, Jesus defeated Satan at the Cross.  And Satan is no match against Jesus Christ nor against anyone who invites Christ into their heart.

However, there is a fact that we must all accept.  Believers are not immune to a violent death at the hands of those who may love Satan and hate God.  Everyone who dies and has died believing and trusting in Jesus Christ will be eternally Saved and will have defeated sin and “death” as He did.  These supernaturally empowered believers will therefore be “victorious over Satan” and his angels.  All the Apostles except for John who wrote Revelation were victorious, yet they were violently killed, and since then millions more have been persecuted and killed.

The book of Revelation, presented to John by Jesus Christ, explains that billions will die in a span of just 7 years, and will include millions upon millions of “new believers in Jesus Christ.”  This is not a “defeated Satan.”  To teach this is to create a complacent, apathetic, and indifferent church.  By the way this is what many pastor’s and the Papacy want so that they can maintain control. This and the lie that the book of Revelation is just a spiritualization of a person’s salvation and/or personal torment are some of biggest LIES from Satan, who is the Father of Lies. Whole denominations including the Catholic Church promote these falsehoods.

This is part of Satan’s preparation for the Anti-Christ and False Prophet.  He is the “Emergent” that will have control over both of these “Beasts” and will seek to kill and destroy every Jew and Christian alive.  Right now he is preparing nations and people for his army of evil minions.  He wants chaos.  At any given moment the world can be turned into an inferno of war and calamity.  A twitchy finger on a nuclear warhead or a series of balistic missiles from Iran will change the topography of the earth and will intiate a series of wars of Biblical proportions.  This will not be like any other war and entire continents will be left burning.  The fools who worry about climate change had better spend their time and billions trying to stop this fanaticism. Instead they are in self denial and refuse to see or hear the Truth related to the Oct 7th attack on innocent women & children.

Evil has been unleashed in America and around the world.  A 72 old great grandmother named, Lavrenz, who went to Washington DC January 6, to pray and walked into the White House as police officers stood by “acting as if to invite people in” was recently convicted of “insurrection” facing many years in prison and over $100,000 in fines.  Yet all those anarchists that burned down buildings, attacked federal officers, and destroyed people’s lives, were not arrested nor faced a hunt-down like what we are seeing related to all the J6 walk-ins.  Just this week in Dearborn, Michigan there were military aged Muslim men declaring “Death to America,” yet they were not arrested nor prosecuted.  An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor was given a 10-year sentence for protesting in front of an abortion clinic. Are we headed towards a Biden led Totalitarian government? Is the world falling apart and therefore preparing for a one-World Government?  Evil has been turned to good and good to evil by compromised authorities and leaders worldwide.  Putin’s war on Ukraine, mass killings, America’s acceptance of puberty blockers and abortion, the widespread lawlessness in Haiti and our big cities, and the vicous terrorism in the Middle East, India, and Africa are all  symptoms of darkness and the deeper darkness that is coming.

 

Factor X: Cosmic Signs, Election Signs, and Invisible to Visible Wars

Stats show that there are close to 7 million Jews in Israel and 7 million living outside Israel. Stats also show that the earth’s present population is near 7 billion and that the population prior to the Great flood was also 7 billion based on a 2000-year period and on the average age of 912 (which is the average age recorded in Genesis). The number 7 is the perfect number of completion in God;s eye. The number 7 is used consistently in the book of Revelation and in Creation. 7 Churches, 7 Lampstands, 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, 7 Bowls, 7 Days of Creation, 7 Feasts to Celebrate the Lord, 7 Eyes and Horns of the Lamb, the 7 Spirits, the 7 stars, and the 7 Thunders.

Is God giving us a picture of judgment to come and the beginning of the promised Prophetic events. The world today is in spiritual rebellion and physical uncertainty with broken borders and regional wars. Is something greater soon to come? As we were launching a massive retaliatory strike in Yemen with the support of over a dozen allied nations, a record-breaking artic dome was forming over America. The very first part of our election process is about to happen in the middle of this storm in temps at around minus 15 in Iowa. Is this part of God’s warning? On our southern border the Texas Governor is defying Biden’s failed border policy and is stationing the Texas National Guard on key areas along the border blocking the Federal Customs agents from interfering. This is an effort to protect our border and to bring the Supreme Court into the decision-making process. Biden’s open-border policy most agree is putting not only Texas but the entire nation in jeopardy. Will this lead Biden to arrest the Governor and bring in the U.S. Army?

Jonathan Cahn brought up an interesting comparison and warning going back to Roe vs Wade and the first 3 years of abortions from 1970 to 1973 comparing the 1.3 million abortions or deaths of “children” to a matching number of people lost to Covid 19 according to the CDC in its first 3 years. Both were 1.3 million. We have recently seen an incredible and almost totally irrational shift of our nation’s agenda focused on issues that go against Natural Law and/or National Security. It is as if a spiritual wave of darkness has swept over us and instead of glorifying God and His blessings, we have opened our gates to an invasion by both physical and spiritual forces.

Will soon to come major events bring the world to its knees. Is Europe about to weather a major record breaking cold front like the one that is presently spreading throughout our nation? Will war rise to unprecedented levels, and will this also include Taiwan, Iran, Lebanon, and other fronts? The year 2024 may be linked to God’s prophetic timetable which is anchored in Genesis & interwoven throughout His Word.

The war against the Houthis in Yemen just escalated with Iran’s capture of a Greek tanker in the Gulf of Oman. Will that now initiate a new front in the Persian Gulf as the U.S. and the allies move their warships to that area too? Will this lead to Iran’s involvement and a much bigger war? Will Iran shut down all trade along the Persian Gulf? And because of the Treaty agreement with Russia, will this lead to its involvement?

Despite all the threats in the Middle East, Baron’s and other investment firms are stating that the biggest threat to business in America is not Ukraine nor Yemen but is our own election. This is easy to understand considering that each election since 2012 has generated more and more controversy and havoc. This election will introduce unknown factors such as 8 million illegal aliens and a million or so get-a-ways that could be secret agents of Iran or China or another group such as the Houthis.

Another question is in the Cosmic realm as America will have another major Solar Eclipse crossing its boundaries–this time North to South. After the West to East Solar/Moon shadow crossed our entire nation, we saw 3 major hurricanes causing more damage than any time in history.

third factor is Trump who is very divisive—one side believing he should be in jail and the other convinced that he is the only one that can take on the deep state and the mess that America is in. The 4th factor is Ai, ChatGPT and other electronic factors such as social media which can be used to deceive the masses and cause riots or rebellion.

All of these factors, especially if Trump loses the election, will in some form weaken our country and may lessen the support that we give Israel. It could also inspire China to attack Taiwan or Russia to initiate expansion of its power and influence in Africa. American power and influence is wanning in Africa and South America and more signs of weakness will diminish respect even more and can easily embolden our enemies to undermine the dollar and attack our economic, diplomatic and military assets throughout the world.

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Jesus Warned Us: Countdown to the End

Most of you are not paying attention to Prophecy and God’s warnings, and that is understandable since we are distracted by so many challenges in the economy and in world news. The fact is we are treading new ground in the Prophetic timeline. So, you ask “How do you know, Who gave you that knowledge, and Why?” A day before Jesus Christ was crucified he spoke to his disciples on the Mount of Olives and told them (and therefore us who live in the future) that the end would come when certain key events happened:

1) Wars and rumors of wars. “Nations will rise against Nations.” Never in history have we faced extinction level war from so many directions. We have active, ever-increasing threats coming from the European front, from the Middle East, from the Far East — each of which may cause the launching or transport of American Nuclear warheads. And note that each of these war fronts is increasing in intensity! China is actively seeking to undermine us and recently made pacts with Saudi Arabia and Brazil to undercut the dollar.

2) He warned us of Pestilence. This is the first time in history that a worldwide “pestilence” has done so much damage to every level and sector of society on every continent (even Antartica). Ironically this “invisible” virus was created and launched from the “Red Dragon” nation of China.

3) Jesus said, “Watch that no one deceives you.” Today we are seeing lies coming from every direction especially from leaders who are hiding their intentions, their past, and who seek to manipulate the present. Millions are being brainwashed throughout the world by America’s international media and economic machine which includes big box media like MSNBC AND CNN, Hollywood and sitcoms, major corporations like Nike, Coca Cola, Vanguard, and Black Rock. Information is being generated at such high rates that wisdom is being left behind as millions are transfixed by their cell phones, word bites, and sound bites. Others are transfixed by ads and music pulsating with falsehoods and deceit. I was just overseas listening to CNN and the lies concerning what is going on here in America is alarming– Republicans, Christians and especially Trump are being denegrated, maligned, and slandered on the air. False Christs and false teachers are promoting a man-made Kingdom soon to come. Biden says inflation is under control but just around the corner are big economic challenges like the price of oil that will create severe hardship for many.

4) Jesus warned of earthquakes that will increase in intensity like birth pains. It is no coincidence that one of the greatest earthquakes of the modern era just happened only a few miles from the Holy lands and cities that birthed Christianity in Asia Minor and only a few hundred miles from Jerusalem.

5) He warned of famines – and famines are affecting millions in sub-Sahara Africa and in parts of Asia. Experts in the UN are warning that these will intensify due to the war in Ukraine where much of the wheat and other products cannot be exported. Also American wheat and corn storehouses have een depleted in the past year. Flooding this year may also affect wheat and corn production.

6) Jesus warned of Lawlessness. Mayorkas, our Homeland Security Secretary, refuses to call the border a crisis despite the fact that in the last few days Texas special agents caught more than 30 illegals in a remote cave dressed in camo fatigues and stopped two cars with hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills. In the past vew weeks the border patrol has intercepted 1,700 Chinese nationals – most of them military age men and women along with others from 150 other nations. It seems obvious that many criminal elements are not being detected as fentanyl is still killing thousands. The question is how many of these are potential assasins that will disrupt our election in 2024. It is clear that the Biden Administration intends to weaken the security of Texas and other border states and has no remorse for the thousands of deaths related to fentanyl poisoning.

Frustration and futility at the border is leading to burnout and even suicide of border agents. This Lawlessness is promoting the death of thousands of people who are killed by those criminal elements and by incidental accidents caused by them on our roads. In fact a grandmother and her grandson were recently killed by a fleeing truck carrying hidden illegals. Jesus Christ warned that Lawlessness will be one of the Signs of the end.

7) Implied in the Warnings that Jesus gives is a vacuum in leadership and a failure of the Church to impact the direction of nations. We are witnessing a failed leadership that has gotten almost everything wrong. It has failed to preserve the integrity, honor, and virtue in its political and social arena. It has failed to provide the security and wise leadership to insure world peace. It has failed to keep the cost of energy and other staples down and therefore has generated worldwide inflation and economic struggles for familes everywhere. It has failed to keep its promises of unifying the nation and instead has caused deep divisions including the indictment of an ex-President for political reasons.

Is all of this preparing the stage for a false Christ or false Savior and Anti-Christ to step in to unite the world under one “safe” and peaceful unbrella of leadership and resource?

So, who gave me this info? The Word of God and the Holy Spirit have filled me with a zeal and an intense desire to share a message and warning that God has quickened my heart and mind to share. I believe that this quickening is happening now in a greater intensity because we are approaching heavier persecution and collapse and of our rights and privileges. Revival can happen and we must keep in prayer. The economic power of America will soon fall and each of us must prepare for this. The Church must wake up and motivate its members to prepare correctly and to share the Gospel.

So the BIG question is Why Now? This is the message that the LORD put in my heart and I believe is trying to put in your hearts. It is systematically laid out in the message God has given us in the Books of Daniel, Revelation, Ezekiel, and Genesis — a message that has been ignored by Pastors and maybe that is why God is using me and others to write about it– in my case it is in the Cosmic Crossroad Countdown trilogy. As I was teaching the Word at our ministry called Answers on the Rock, at our local lake called White Rock Lake, the a stranger came up and asked about the meaning of Revelation 12. I did not know how to respond since it is very apparent that this Chapter is most enignimatic passage in the Bible– yet as I spoke an answer came to mind that could only have come from God and so I had to write it down myself. That was nexus for writing my first book: Cosmic Crossroad Countdown: the Fig Tree & Prophetic Generation. Everything in the first book came true and so I am 100 percent convinced that it the answer came from God.

It is apparent that a divine paradigm changed in 1948 when the nation of Israel was formed. This was confirmed by the Sign of Revelation 12 – which was in turn confirmed by Star maps and astronomers around the world. This may seem trivial but remember God warned the inhabitants of the world and His people through scrolls written by Daniel before the birth of Christ. Daniel was God’s Prophetic agent for both Christ’s first and second Coming. Those Words were read by the Magi who then looked for the Sign in the Stars. When they saw it, they were convicted by its message even though they were pagans or gentiles and not part of God’s chosen people. They acted by faith. Like the Pharisees of old many of our leaders think they have all the answers and are not willing to listen to those guided by the HOLY SPIRIT. I have been told that what is necessary is a degree in theology or archeology. Jesus scolded the Pharisees for not seeing the Sign in front of them and it looks like mos the Church is blinded by pride and false theology. It is God’s creation, His pure Word, and His science that is declaring the Truth. The star maps show that the configuration of heavenly lights is similar to that which appeared in the Great Sign of Revelation 12 (read the 3rd book to understand all the details.)

The birth of Christ began a new paradigm that we call the 1st Coming and the Revelation 12 configuration of heavenly lights forewarn us of Satan’s arrival with his demon angels and of Jesus Christ’s 2nd Coming soon to follow. The word “soon” is relative to God’s timeline spanning the prophecies of both Daniel and Genesis. However, there is an immediacy implied in Revelation 12 because God defines it as a “Great Sign.” Nowhere in the entire Word of God does He emphatically call any of His other Signs a “Great Sign”. We have to be careful not to DISPARAGE GOD’S WARNING to us and therefore we must act according to His will which is laid out in His Word. The Word says, “Be Alert and of sound mind so that you can Pray.” Right before His death, Jesus calms his disciples and us by saying, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But Take Heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33.