It has always amazed me how the Jewish wedding customs models our near future. By understanding the Jewish feasts and customs, gives such a richer understanding of the Bible, God word laid out for us.
Remember, the darker it gets, the brighter and farther our little light shines!
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In Romans 10 Paul lays out how salvation is open to all, Jew and Gentile. He writes:
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” – Romans 10:4-5
What he is saying is now it is not about works or how closely to a “T” you follow the law. But that it is through God’s gift of grace through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. It is really that simple, and yet a hard step for some of us.
“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” – Romans 10:9
Christ is the narrow gate (Matthew 7:13-14), through faith in Him you will be saved. It is the only “works” that God requires for eternal salvation.
It is The Gospel of Jesus Christ. To learn more check out the following link.
Great case is made by JD of just how close we are to seeing our Lord and Savior in the clouds.
I think he used the expression – “a nats eyebrow”.
He also gives a good overview of the importance of the Jewish Feasts and their prophetic importance.
We are also seeing the Blood Moon alignments over the next year, we are seeing multiple events and they have all occurred with major events for Israel and their high holy days. Amazing! The Lord is amazing, he does not want us to be ignorant or surprised by what is coming.
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In Romans 10 Paul lays out how salvation is open to all, Jew and Gentile. He writes:
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” – Romans 10:4-5
What he is saying is now it is not about works or how closely to a “T” you follow the law. But that it is through God’s gift of grace through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. It is really that simple, and yet a hard step for some of us.
“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” – Romans 10:9
Christ is the narrow gate (Matthew 7:13-14), through faith in Him you will be saved. It is the only “works” that God requires for eternal salvation.
It is The Gospel of Jesus Christ. To learn more check out the following link.
JD does a great job laying out the major signs we have seen in the heavens and on earth just since the beginning of the year.
He skipped earthquakes because there are simply too many. I need to do a count but we are averaging a least one 6.0+ earthquake or more a day. A few years back you use to see a 6.0 maybe a dozen times a year. Things are very much heating up.
Click on the article title for a link to full original referenced article.
In Romans 10 Paul lays out how salvation is open to all, Jew and Gentile. He writes:
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” – Romans 10:4-5
What he is saying is now it is not about works or how closely to a “T” you follow the law. But that it is through God’s gift of grace through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. It is really that simple, and yet a hard step for some of us.
“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” – Romans 10:9
Christ is the narrow gate (Matthew 7:13-14), through faith in Him you will be saved. It is the only “works” that God requires for eternal salvation.
The article below caught my attention this morning, partly because of its topic but also because of its author. I respect Jack Kelly, he is linked to all over my site and has written some of my favorite articles. His most recent article goes contrary to a lot of the articles I have posted here in the last few weeks. I think it is a great read and something we should all ponder.
I agree with him that the key to these end times is to take everything to God in prayer, ask for discernment to know what is truth and what is deception.
That is what I try to do with this site, is bring topics and my perspective on what I have discerned for you to ponder as you study the Bible, the Lord’s Word.
His main point is that Revelations 12 can not be fulfilled until the previous chapters are since Revelations is mainly chronological. I believe both his point and the previous posts can be correct. Let me explain.
Throughout the Bible, many scriptures have dual meanings and fulfillment. Revelations 12 speaks of things to come but also depicts a sign in the heavens.
Question? Do you think God knew we would be able to predict where the stars would be in the future as well as the past? Do you think the thought that those that are “watchful” would be checking for future times around his “feasts” or “holy appointments”? I do but ponder that. I also do not believe what these watchful souls are doing is astrology. They are only looking for how Bible prophecy (“signs in the heavens”) could be fulfilled. God told us to watch the heavens for signs. He created the heavens and all of the signs within it. Are we ignore them, not look at them or for them? I am not sure that is what Jack is saying but I think it is dangerous to label what these believers are doing as Astrology or a sin.
Leviticus 19:26 (KJV) – “You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.”
I do not think I would place the acts of those watchmen as “divination or soothsaying”. Maybe a bit harsh there.
God never said that the signs we would see in the heavens would occur this day and then the next day events would happen. He only said that once we see these “signs” his return is near, that we are in the season or nearing midnight.
Will Elenin fulfill prophecy? I don’t know, but it is an interesting exercise in looking at what effects it could have on our little planet. How those align with events described in the Bible and how much deception there is on earth to cover them up. Would Satan try to cover up and hide God’s signs of the times? You bet. Are these them? I don’t know but that is why we must pray for discernment.
I don’t know when the Lord will return to rapture His bride (the church), but I do feel it is drawing near. There are signs all around us. I believe one set of those signs are His holy feasts or appointments that he laid out for us. The first four Christ fulfilled through his coming, dying for our sins, and over coming death to take His place in heaven next to His Father. I believe He will fulfill the rest of them as well.
So in summary, please read through Jack’s article below, I believe it gives us some good thoughts to ponder. Take everything back to the Lord in prayer; praying for discernment of the truth, God’s word.
You can hear the Messiah’s footsteps, the signs are overwhelming!
Judging by the questions I’ve received, a youTube video and an online article have apparently convinced a lot of people that the fulfillment of Rev. 12 and the rapture of the Church will both occur on Sept 29th of this year, which is the annual celebration of Rosh Hashanah, also known as the Feast of Trumpets. Can this be true?
While Sept. 28-29 are the scheduled dates for Rosh Hashanah this year, and while the rapture could happen on any given day, Rev. 12 definitely can not be fulfilled on Sept. 29, nor on any other day this year or the next or the one after and here’s why.
Rev. 12 speaks primarily of three things. The first is an overview, given in signs, beginning with the time of the Lord’s birth. John used symbolism from Joseph’s 2nd dream (Genesis 37:9-11) to identify the pregnant woman in Rev. 12:1-2 as Israel (represented by Mary) about to give birth to the Messiah. An enormous dragon, identified as Satan in Rev. 12:9, was there waiting to devour the child the moment He was born. This means that from the beginning the Messiah was born to die, and when He did He was taken up to God’s throne. We know this as His crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. (Rev. 12:1-6)
Here is a timeline of what is coming our way this month. While I was at work today, I had a feeling come over me that I needed to layout this timeline on my site this evening. There is just so much coming our way and intersecting later this month. Low and behold, I open up Frank DiMora’s site and he has laid out just such a timeline.
The Lord works in mysterious and wonderful ways!
Read through this excerpt below. Frank covered all the points I had in my notes so see what is in store for us this month.
Also, check out the link at the end of the post back to Frank’s entire blog post this evening. A lot of good content there about other signs beyond this time line…
Since I have been warning you about all the events that are supposed to occur in the month of September in many of my posts, I wanted to give you a list of events that are supposed to be played out.
World and natural events continue to escalate at an alarming rate. The economy continues its slide into the abyss. Seismographic and volcanic activity are at historic highs and have risen dramatically in the last fee weeks. Comet Elenin approaches and may be signaling the event we have been preaching about called the Rapture. Bible prophecy continues to prove that the Bible is the true word of God.
Too much is happening to go over it all. Following is a list upcoming dates and their events and afterwards a commentary on the more important ones.
Sept 7: Obama to make speech on jobs and economy. Don’t expect to much from this speech!
Sept 11: Ten year anniversary of an events that began taking our rights in the name of safety and the illegal wars in the middle east.). Possible terror event to keep the population scared.
Sept 11: Comet Elenin’s closest point to the Sun, which some say will be the cause of some huge quakes.
Sept 11: The Movement for the Establishment of the Temple will hold a “Temple Feast” to bring attention to their cause. This article is short and worth reading. You can see how Revelation 11:1 is coming into play. The confirmation of the covenant in Daniel 9:27 will give the Jews the right to build the temple (it will be built during the Tribulation) and the Antichrist will go into this temple at the 42 month mark, claim to be God, and set up the abomination that causes desolation (Daniel 9, Matthew 24). As with all the prophecies you can see (more…)
This is very exciting and amazing. We are seeing signs all around us that Christ and the Lord foretold us would come as signposts that Christ’s return was near! The Last Days…the rapture…
This is a great video that walks through all of this very well. It is about an hour and a half long, so I am going to try to summarize it here with some screen captures, but I would highly recommend viewing the entire video it is amazing. The screen captures just do not do it justice.
If you are short on time, start at the 1:17 mark through 1:27 to see the context around the screen captures below.
If you don’t have time to watch the video now, here is a quick summary of the last 10 minutes.
First, what is the prophecy we are seeing fulfilled:
Revelations 12:1-6
The Woman and the Dragon
1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
We will see this play out in the heavens over the next couple months, September and October, 2011. Lets review the key actors or players in this signs in heaven.
Elenin – Comet or Dwarf Star (headed our way)
Moon – Earth’s Moon
Venus – Christ/Church (sometimes called the “morning star” which christ also refered to himself as.)
Revelation 22:16 – “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright MorningStar.”
Saturn – Dragon/Cronus
Sun – Our Sun
So lets break this down:
Revelations 12:1 – 1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
The woman is the constellation Virgo, she will be clothed in the sun (wearing the sun as a tunic) the moon will be under (at) her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head (Virgo has 12 stars that make up her head) and the Comet Elenin with its tail will shine like a blue crown in her head.
The Picture below is from Stellarium on 09-26-11 as the sign comes together… The four red arrows are Elenin, he put a tracker on it so we can see it move in the video.
Here is what we will see on September 26th, 2011 in the eastern sky.
Notice she is clothed in the sun. The other players Venus, Saturn, our Moon, and Elenin are moving into position.
Revelations 12:2 – She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.
Elein will shift up toward Virgo’s face and the comet tail makes it look like she is crying. I do not have a screen shot of this but he mentions it in the video and you can see it by playing the stary night application. Venus is also moving into Virgo’s womb as if she is pregnant with child (Venus). You will notice that Elenin is making its way past the sun and toward her head, Venus and Saturn are moving into her midsection, and the Moon is dropping toward her feet.
Revelations 12:3-4 – Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.
Saturn is known to represent Cronus, which is known as the dragon. If you look up Cronus in Wikipedia, it talks about the legend of Cronus devouring his children as he feared they would fulfill the prophecy of replacing him. Saturn this whole time all of these heavenly bodies are moving through the heavens is sitting still waiting for the birth of Venus (the morning star) so he can devour him.
Lets see this play out over three days in September:
September 27th (below):
September 28th (below):
Venus has moved fully into her womb, she is still clothed in Sun, Elenin is moving into position to show as tears during the birth, and the moon has dropped further toward her feet. Saturn (the dragon) still waits by Venus to devour him once birthed.
September 29th (below) – Feast of Trumpets:
Venus and Saturn remain in her womb. The sun cloths her and Elenin is moving into her hair to show as a crown. The Moon its decent into a position by her feet.
Second View using Stary Night Program (you can see the comet’s tail better)
September 30th, 2011 (below):
Venus and Saturn remain in her womb. The sun clothes her and Elenin has moved into her hair to show as a crown. The Moon has moved into a position by her feet.
Revelations 12:5 – 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
This is associated with Jesus Christ and the Church being snatched up to God and his throne. Christ was taken up to heaven to rule with the Church (his bride) by His side following the rapture.
Revelations 12:6 -The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
Foreshadows the nation of Israel fleeing into the hills after the rise of the Antichrist, the dragon, that has tried for the length of history to devour God’s Son, Christ, his chosen people Israel, and Christ’s bride, the Church.
These images are taken from a free to download program called Stellarium that lets you see the positions of any heavenly body throughout time, even back to the time of Christ’s birth. (Check out: The Real Star of Bethlehem on youtube Here is the first part.)
I hope you get a chance to watch the entire video about the signs of what is to come. It is very exciting and amazing to see God’s word play out in front of our eyes! Christ said we need to stay watchful during these last days. We need to wake up those that aren’t.
A great article laying out what is coming this September from a prophecy stand point. The signs are in the heavens, I believe this is why Jesus said that when we see these things, look up because my return is near…
A spectacular series of events are coming together in the heavens and in the news that are either an incredible series of coincidences, or else they are the prophetic fulfillment of Revelation chapter 12. I believe these signs are prophetic fulfillment, and they are telling us that Daniel’s 70th week is about to begin.
Let me begin by saying that I have no idea when the rapture of the Church is going to take place. James, the brother of Jesus, told us that God is busy taking a people for Himself from among the Gentiles (Acts15:13-18). The only thing that is holding up the rapture is the arrival of the full number of Gentiles which God has determined in advance (Romans11:25and Acts15:13-18). We have no way of knowing what this number is, so we have no way of knowing when the rapture is going to take place. To make things even more impossible, we do not know how many people are already in heaven or at what rate they are arriving.
This article is not about when the rapture of the Church will happen. Instead, it deals with the beginning of Daniel’s 70th week and the 7 year period of tribulation that begins at the same time, complete with 3 sets of 7 judgments upon mankind. If you should happen to believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, as I do, then you will know that the rapture can (and most probably will) happen sooner that most believers expect.
Astrology is a sin and is strictly forbidden by God. However, God does use the position of the sun, moon, and stars to indicate certain holy days, feast dates, seasons, and even how to calculate the length of months and years. God used a sign in the heaven to guide the wise men to the infant Jesus. I have always believed that the moon, the stars, the planets, and all of the other lights in the heavens, such as galaxies, nebulas, asteroids, and even comets, are God’s jewelry which He has put on display for our enjoyment and for us to wonder at as we ponder His immense greatness. God wants us to admire his magnificence in the heavens, but he does not want us to worship anything that is there, other than Himself.
At the moment the comet Elenin is passing through our solar system. In ancient times, comets were seen as being messengers that brought warnings of natural disasters and times of tribulation on the earth. Could Elenin be a sign of the beginning of the 7 year period of tribulation before the 2nd Coming of our Lord, which we more accurately refer to as Daniel’s 70th Week? Or is Elenin’s appearance at this time and place in the sky just a series of coincidences that only appears to be a fulfillment of Revelation 12?
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; and she was with child; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his head were seven diadems. And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven, and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child. (Revelation 12: 1-4 NAS).
And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child (Revelation 12:13 NAS).
And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus (Revelation 12:17 NAS).
During the second half of September, the comet Elenin will be in the constellation of Virgo, the virgin. The sun will also be in Virgo, so the woman (Virgo) will be clothed with the sun. At the same time, the moon will be at the feet of Virgo. During the latter part of September, Elenin moves up the face of Virgo to a place where it would almost appear to be the tears coming from Virgo’s eye as she cries out in pain as she is about to give birth. Then Elenin moves further up Virgo’s face to rest on the top of her head, like a crown. Actually, it will look like a tiara among twelve stars above Virgo’s head. All of this will fall into place onSeptember 29, 2011.
Comets are rare, and for one to appear in this scenario with Virgo, the sun, moon, Saturn, and Venus would be incredibly rare, indeed. But there is more. . .
The planet Venus is in the mid-section of Virgo as if it were a child in its mother’s womb. Saturn is also present and in the right position, as if it were a dragon waiting for the child to be born, so that it could devour the child.
Perhaps it is just coincidence, but in the world of legend and the occult the Roman deity, Saturn, has always been regarded as a dragon and was identified with the deity Cronus. According to legend of Cronus, he was to be killed by one of his children, so Cronus would wait nearby each time one of his children was to be born and then he would devour the child as soon as it was delivered.
In Revelation 12 the woman represents the nation of Israel. When the dragon persecutes the woman and makes war with the rest of her offspring we will be experiencing the 7 year tribulation period of Daniel’s 70th week.
I am not attempting to predict the exact date that Daniel’s 70th Week will begin. What I am saying is that a remarkable series of signs are coming together on the last couple of days of September that certainly seem to warn of the imminent resumption of Daniel’s 70th Week and the 7 year period of tribulation on the earth which is a part of Daniel’s 70th Week.
There is an excellent presentation of these events on You Tube by Anton Fiori of Crimson Pill TV entitled, Elenin & Prophecy: “Fulfills” Revelation Ch 12 on 9-29-11.
I am sure this is just a coincidence as well, but during the second week in September the Palestinians are going to seek full membership in the United Nations based on the borders prior to the war in 1967, withEast Jerusalemas their capital. God has made it very clear that He will not tolerate anyone taking land from His chosen people and He is particularly sensitive about His holy city,Jerusalem. I believe that if anyone wants to look for prophetic signposts they need to watchIsrael, and particularlyJerusalem. God considersIsrael, and particularlyJerusalem, to be the center of the world. I am not predicting that worldwide tribulation might break out because of these actions by the Palestinians. After all, things have been real peaceful and lovingly quiet over there for years – right? I am just glad that I will be on the opposite side of the planet on that day and if you find me hiding in a deep cave, that will just be a coincidence as well.
The Bible tells us that in the last daysIsraelwill be all alone in the world with few, if any, friends. The Lord warnedIsraelthat they would be hated and persecuted by all nations because of Him (Revelation 12:9). TheUnited Statesis one of only five nations that have veto power in the United Nations. If theUnited Statesshould fail to veto statehood for the Palestinians, this final piece of prophecy would come to pass.
Speaking of coincidences, the first day of Rosh Hashanah occurs on September 29, 2011(Tishrei 1). This is the Jewish New Year and it also the day that some believe is the actual birthday of Jesus. This could certainly be as good of a time as any for Daniel’s 70th Week to randomly begin ticking away again.
When the prophet Daniel was about 80 years old the angel Gabriel gave him a prophecy about the future. This prophecy is recorded in the chapter 9 of the Book of Daniel, and is often referred to as God’s Prophetic Time Clock.Israelwas given 70 weeks of years (490 years) to accomplish 6 goals. It further says that after 69 of those 70 weeks (483 years) the Messiah would come but would be rejected and killed, theTemplewould be destroyed, the prophetic time clock would stop, and the people would be dispersed. We know that during a gap in time of unspecified length God would take a people for Himself from among the Gentiles. When the full number of those Gentiles has “come in” God will turn His attention back toIsrael, and the clock will start running again for the last week (7 years). This is where, I believe, we are now – just seconds away from the clock beginning to tick again.
Rosh Hashanah is also known as the Feast of Trumpets. In the New Testament there are two very special occasions for the blowing of trumpets. They are the rapture and the 2nd Coming.
Rosh Hashanah takes place at the time of the new moon, rather than a full moon, when only a tiny sliver of its surface is visible. The timing of the new moon is difficult to predict, and a minimum of two visual sightings are required to confirm it. For this reason, Rosh Hashanah has come to be known as the feast where “no one knows the day or the hour”. It is also interesting to note that Jesus told us in 4 places in the Bible that “no one knows the day or hour” of His return. This is pure speculation on my part, but wouldn’t it be a remarkable coincidence if He was actually giving us a hint as to what day to look for His return?
Actually, I believe there are incredibly few things which occur in our universe that are truly random. Our God is an incredibly precise God and everything we see in our universe, from the motion of the planets and stars, to the microscopic world of the building blocks of life, to the infinitesimally small world of atomic particles, are incredibly precise. I believe that God rarely ever uses the word “approximately.” This is why I find it so hard to believe that either the rapture or the 2nd Coming of our Lord will occur on a day which has no special significance other than being the day when the counter on the gates of heaven just happen to click on the pre-determined number set in advance by God. Several thousand years from now when we are all sitting around in the New Jerusalem reminiscing about how it was “back in the day” on the “Big E” (earth), I am certain that there will be armchair quarterbacks with their 20/20 hindsight who will be proclaiming how they cannot possibly understand why the people on earth could have missed all of the signs and not possibly known the exact day of both the rapture and the 2nd Coming. What they will fail to realize is that looking backward is easy. Trying to interpret the signs of the times in advance is almost impossible because there are so many of them. There are so many signs out there it is becoming increasingly difficult to see the road.
There are many other events happening in the world at this moment that suggest the start of Daniel’s 70th Week is at hand. Daniel’s 70th Week will begin with a series of 3 sets of 7 judgments that will start off bad and get progressively worse until, the Bible tells us, all life will be destroyed if God does not intervene to stop them. The beginning of these judgments involves the four horsemen of the apocalypse which we find in chapter 6 of Revelation.
The first horseman rides a white horse and represents the anti-Christ, who goes forth conquering and to conquer (Revelation 6:2). The entire Islamic world is in turmoil at the moment and is without a leader. This huge power vacuum is going to be filled with somebody very soon because nature does not like a vacuum. I shudder to think who this person will be, but if he is the leader of all of the angry Muslims out there, he is not going to be a very nice guy.
The second horseman rides a red horse and is going to take peace from the earth (Revelation 6:3-4). I can certainly see how theMiddle Eastis ready to explode into war and pull the rest of the world into the conflict. In fact, I am truly amazed that we have had peace for this long.
The third horseman rides a black horse and is going to bring famine and economic collapse (Revelation 6:5-6). As I sit here and type, there are 12 million people inAfricawho are starving in the severest drought in 60 years. In fact, this drought has been declared the worst humanitarian crisis in all of history. North Koreais also experiencing severe famine, as well as parts ofChina,India,Pakistan, and many other parts of the world. As for economic collapse, most of the world’s countries are in serious economic trouble withGreece,Ireland,Spain,Italy, andPortugalon the verge of default. TheUnited Statesis not doing real well at the moment, either.
The fourth horseman rides a pale horse and brings death, followed by hell (Revelation 6:7-8). One-fourth of the world’s population will die in the seal judgments (Revelation 6:8), and a third of those who survive will die in the trumpet judgments (Revelation9:15). I can certainly see how deaths could easily number into the hundreds of millions as a result of the first three horsemen riding forth. I can also see how hell could follow closely behind. There will be incredibly few believers around when the four horsemen start their ride, especially if the rapture of the Church has already occurred. Unbelievers who die go to hell, yet I seriously doubt that there are any unbelievers in hell once they get there.
When I look at conditions in the world at this moment, I cannot help but wonder how things could have become this bad without Daniel’s 70th Week actually starting, but we still have to see someone confirm a covenant, or series of covenants, with Israel (Daniel 9:27).
I am sure that it is also a coincidence, but September is when the “don’t ask, don’t tell” restrictions will be officially lifted in our military and homosexuals will obtain the special, privileged status they have sought after for so long. September is also when Egyptis scheduled to have its elections in which the Muslim Brotherhood is expected to win. September 11, 2011, will also be the 10th anniversary of when our nation was attacked.
God has given each of us gifts in this life and we are expected to be good stewards of both our lives and these gifts. If we think that we know the date when our Lord will return, it is important that we continue to be good stewards of our lives and our gifts until the Lord actually arrives. It is also very important that we do not cause any of our brothers or sisters to be harmed by our guessing. The most important thing for us to do is to be ready when the Lord does arrive.
If anybody should happen to read this article and wants to either agree or disagree with me, my e-mail address is oaktree3168@aol.com.
One of the big items that looks to be aligning with other prophecy events this September is ELENIN showing up and crossing between Earth and our Sun. There has been much mystery about how big this object is and what exactly it is but we do know it will be showing up with its closest approach to earth on 9/29/11. Does that date ring any bells? It is this years Feast of Trumpets! Wow!
This is something you should look into as it has impacts across multiple prophecies. There is still a lot of varying information out there on the name and size of the object but the most recent sizing is much larger than Frank has in his post below. Current estimates show that it exceeds 200,000 km in size. Just for comparison sakes, the Earth is a little under 18,000 km in diameter with the Sun weighing in a little over 1,300,000 km. So it is 16 X the size of Earth. Something to pay attention to? Government experts are saying it will have no impact on earth. Does that seem logical? Possible?
The gravitational impact of something like that on our planet could be significant. Could it produce some of the events the bible speaks of? I would say yes. I will post more as I uncover it and verify it.
Very exciting, time is drawing short! His return draws nigh!
Prophecy Sign: Jesus in Luke 21:11, 25 warn us of the signs that will come from the sun, the moon, and the stars. Finally in the main stream news today CNN has reported on this object coming toward Earth. This is the object that will arrive during the Feast of Trumpets. Will this huge mass cause the “great earthquakes and the roaring of the seas and waves Jesus warned us about? Stay tuned, September is just around the corner.
Nov 9, 2011 the earth will supposedly cross the threshold of the debris tail of ELENIN on the same plain (assuming ELENIN is a real object that would be catastrophic).
This is a cool interactive NASA chart displaying the comets trajectory through the solar system:
ELENIN, according to some researchers stands for Extinction Level Event Notable Impact November — also encoded into the name is Elevin Nine (Nov. 9), and LEONID (a meteor shower that peaks in November).
So is NASA worried? Not on the surface. They did release this internal video for their employees concerning emergency preparedness, though:
This incoming object appears to be massive. The strange thing is that only a select few sources worldwide have seen the object a few of which we traced back to DARPA directly.
Big seems to be the appropriate word for we now have the first actual astronomical calculations that puts the coma (the part they can see is 50,000 miles in diameter) Yes a big rock!
“On April 8th at our Russian observatory we carried out planned observations of Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin). An analysis of the results of the observations shows a rapid growth of the coma. Besides the internal compact gas envelope, the forming rarified external coma is also visible in the image.
Its diameter exceeds 1 minute of arc, or 80,000 km! It is possible that such a rapid growth of the coma is associated with the apparent superposition over it of the comet’s dust tail, which after opposition, still remains invisible to the earthly observer.”
The coma is what astronomers actually see and is actually much bigger than the core. It’s the green in the second above picture that they are saying is 80,000 km or 50,000 miles across. We could estimate that the core might be half the diameter of the coma or approximately 25,000 miles. Big enough—it seems to be already stirring up the Earth under our feet.
We have news out of Cornell University that sustains the view that Elenin is playing a direct part in causing large earthquakes.
Past Elenin Alignments and Earthquakes:
Past Alignments Date Location Magnitude
Elenin – Earth – Sun Feb 20 2008 Indonesia 7.4
Elenin – Earth – Sun Feb 25 2008 Indonesia 7.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 12 2008 China 7.9
Elenin – Earth – Sun Feb 18 2009 Kermadec Islands 7.0
Elenin – Earth -Jupiter May 18 2009 Los Angeles, US 4.7
Elenin – Mercury- Earth July 15 2009 New Zealand 7.8
Elenin – Mercury – Earth Aug 09 2009 Japan 7.1
Elenin – Sun – Earth Sept 09 2009 Sunola islands 8.1
Elenin – Earth – Venus Feb 18 2010 China/RU/N.Korea 6.9
Elenin – Earth-Sun Feb 25 2010 China 5.2
Elenin – Earth-Sun Feb 26 2010 Japan 7.0
Elenin – Earth- Sun Feb 27 2010 Chile 8.8 [Earth knocked off axis]
Elenin – Earth- Sun Feb 27 2010 Argentina 6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 04 2010 Taiwan 6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 04 2010 Vanuatu 6.5
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 05 2010 Chile 6.6
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 05 2010 Indonesia 6.3
Elenin – Earth – Mercury Mar 08 2010 Turkey 6.1
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 05 2010 Indonesia 6.6
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 06 2010 Chile 6.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 09 2010 Indonesia 7.2
Elenin – Earth – Neptune May 14 2010 Algeria 5.2
Elenin – Earth – Jupiter Jan 03 2011 Chile 7.0
Elenin – Earth – Sun March 11 2011 Japan 9.0
Editor’s Note: We received this email message from an A-O reader and felt it was worth sharing with you. – Something to think about.
One thing to be aware of… the Rabbinical calendar was created by Hillel the 2nd in the 4th century. The Hillel calendar was created as the last act of the Sanhedrin as they were being expelled from Israel. The calendar ignores the Biblical reckoning of time, and is primarily responsible for many misunderstandings regarding feast days.
Rosh HaShanah begins tonight and is celebrated over two days, due to the difficulty in determining exactly when the new moon begins.
The article below goes through some of the traditions and the significance to the Jewish people.
I have also included a link to an overview of the Jewish Feasts and the significance to Christians. You can also use the categories on the right to search for more on the feasts.
The sonorous call of the ram’s horn – the Shofar – will herald the start of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year on Wednesday evening, and nearly a month of holidays in the Hebrew month of Tishrei.
As always, IDF soldiers are among the first to heed the call.
These videos have been around for a while, I saw them on Frank’s site again and listened to them again. The thing that I think they drill home the best is how critical it is to understand the biblical calendar.
There were so many events that occurred on Jewish Feast days. And a lot of solar activity that aligns with them in the coming years as well. I don’t get to hung up on dates but more what signs are significant to watch.
What beyond that does it tell us, I am not sure, but God’s plan is not by chance. He has meticulously laid out the plan from the creation of the earth. So there has to be something to it, whether it is the signs spoken of in the Bible Prophecy, or just part of the miraculous signs in the heavens as part of the birth pains, it is something to watch.
Prophecy Sign: Since the peace talks are supposed to start in Sept. of this year again you may want to know about the Jewish Feasts. My Friend Pastor Mark Biltz provides you will excellent information. Keep in mind 1Thess 5:3 when you listen to Mark.
Important points: they are called “Feasts of the Lord” not Jewish feasts or feasts of Israel.
The Lord gave these feasts:
So Israel and the Church will remember the past and teach it to their children.
So Israel and the Church will have a better understanding of what God has done and what God will do (have a prophetic view of the future).
Note: Diagram (above) from Frank DiMora’s Blog site.
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE PROPHETIC
Understanding the Feasts of the Lord will help us understand what’s going on.
The three spring feasts are prophecies about the First Coming of Jesus. (They have been perfectly or LITERALLY fulfilled.)
The one summer feast is a prophecy about the Church age. (It is currently being fulfilled.)
The three fall feasts appear to be prophecies connected with the Second Coming of Jesus. (They will probably be perfectly or LITERALLY fulfilled in the near future.)
Every time the Jews have celebrated a feast day for about 3500 years from the time of Moses until today, they have remembered a segment of their history and revealed a prophecy about the first coming of Jesus, the Church or the Second Coming of Jesus.
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE FASTS, CELEBRATIONS & PROPHECIES
Christians sometimes think of a feast as a meal. But to the Jew a feast day could be just the opposite. A feast day could be a fast day instead of a meal or it could be a celebration instead of a meal. Some feast days were fast days (for morning or affliction) and some feast days were celebrations (for rejoicing) but the Feasts of the Lord were fasts, celebrations and prophecies.
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE ALSO THANKSGIVING FOR THREE HARVESTS
The spring harvest or thanksgiving.
The Feast of First Fruits thanks God for the barley harvest (the resurrection of Jesus and others).
The summer harvest or thanksgiving.
The Feast of Weeks thanks God for the wheat harvest (the beginning of the Church).
The fall harvest or thanksgiving.
The Feast of Tabernacles thanks God for the remainder of the harvest of the earth: fruit, dates, etc. (the Tribulation Saints, Israel, etc.).
So the Feasts of the Lord are multi-purpose: fasts, celebrations, prophecies, and thanksgiving.
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE ABOUT JESUS
1. The Feast of PASSOVER (About the sacrifice of Jesus; the redemption of Israel and the redemption of the Church)
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even CHRIST OUR PASSOVER is sacrificed for us: (I Cor. 5:7).
2. The Feast of Unleavened BREAD (About the burial of Jesus; holy living; living without sin, etc.)
And JESUS said unto them, I am the BREAD of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (Jn. 6:35)
3. The Feast of FIRST FRUITS (About the resurrection of Jesus; then all of His)
But now is CHRIST risen from the dead, and become the FIRSTFRUITS of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. (I Cor. 15:20-23).
4. The Feast of Weeks or PENTECOST (About the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus; harvest; the birth of the Church)
And when the day of PENTECOST was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:1-4).
5. The Feast of TRUMPETS (About gathering; appears to be the Rapture or gathering of the Church and Israel gathered to be grafted back in)
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the TRUMP of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (I Thess. 4:13-17).
Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last TRUMP: for the TRUMPET shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (I Cor. 15:51-52).
6. The Feast of ATONEMENT (About sorrow and repentance of Israel; appears to be the Second Coming of Jesus with His Church to rescue Israel at the Battle of Armageddon)
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the ATONEMENT (Rom. 5:11).
7. The Feast of TABERNACLES (About Kingdom rest and restoration; appears to be the beginning of the Millennial Reign of Jesus on the Throne of David with Satan bound and chained for a thousand years)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt [TABERNACLED] among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (Jn. 1:14).
Yet have I set my king UPON MY HOLY HILL OF ZION (Psa. 2:6).
Thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall becalled the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID: and he shall reign OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end (Luke 1:31-33).
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE “SET APART”
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be HOLY CONVOCATIONS, even these are my feasts (Lev. 23:1-2).
The feasts of the Lord are “HOLY CONVOCATIONS.”
Holy means the Feasts of the Lord are “set apart” by God.
Convocations means the Feasts of the Lord are “assemblies” or “rehearsals.”
The Feasts of the Lord are set apart by God to assemble or rehearse the people for the real thing.
We can rehearse events that are past or future.
Some people rehearse the Civil War which means they remember a past event.
Some people rehearse a play which means they rehearse for a future event.
The feasts of the Lord are holy convocations that do both.
They point backwards and forwards. They remind us of past events, but they also look forward to future events. (The Lord’s Supper is an example.)
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s DEATH till he COME (I Cor. 11:26).
The Lord’s Supper is an assembly or a rehearsal that reminds us of the past (the DEATH of Jesus). And the Lord’s Supper is an assembly or a rehearsal that reminds us of the future (the SECOND COMING of Jesus). The Feasts of the Lord are selected past events that reveal facts about selected future events.
This is an interesting article. When ever I hear peace talks with Israel, my mind clicks to the Bible Prophecy concerning a peace treaty which will be signed between Israel and the Antichrist. It will be for seven years of peace and security. At the midpoint, the peace will be broken by the Antichrist, as he declares himself god in the rebuilt Jewish temple. (I am not saying we know the identity of the Antichrist, but you will know when the seven-year treaty is signed.)
Daniel 9:27 – “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.” (In the Bible years are often spoken of as weeks, so one week would equal 7 years.)
A couple of things that also caught my eye in this article where the fact that Peace talks will begin on September 2nd with a summit hosted by Barack Obama. The Quartet thinks it can achieve an agreement within 12 months.
The reason this is significant is that if you follow the Jewish feasts, September is the time for the Rosh Hashanah (Feast of the Trumpets). If you study the Jewish Feasts, you realize that Christ has fulfilled each feast up to Rosh Hashanah. There are four feasts remaining that are yet to be fulfilled, and are believed to be related to our current age and the end times.
God’s word when speaking of the Rapture, talks about a trumpet sounding and Christ gathering his church in the clouds. Rosh Hashanah is the Feast of Trumpets, the first fall feast, and the “Jewish New Year”. It is also, never known until the day of the Feast which day it will fall on since it is based on the new moon. (Today, Jews actually celebrate it on two days unlike any other feast because it is so hard to determine when it starts.)
Once the new moon is seen, a trumpet is sounded and all of the Jews stop what they are doing and go to worship. It was common to have Jews and non-jews working side by side in the fields, and when the trumpet sounded, the Jews would stop what they were doing and the non-jews would continue working. Sound familiar to any other scripture we have heard?
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 – “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 – “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last TRUMP: for the TRUMPET shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Now I am not saying that there is a specific day known on which the Rapture will occur, but it is very interesting study that the Feast of Trumpets, some year soon, may be the time…. The key is for us to remain watchful and the timing should not matter.
Rosh Hashanah will occur on the following days of the Gregorian calendar:
Jewish Year 5771: sunset September 8, 2010 – nightfall September 10, 2010
Jewish Year 5772: sunset September 28, 2011 – nightfall September 30, 2011
Jewish Year 5773: sunset September 16, 2012 – nightfall September 18, 2012
Another piece of data, if you believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, which I do, then the rapture would have to occur before the signing of the seven-year peace treaty, since that would signal the beginning of Daniel’s 70th week (the seven-year tribulation).
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Middle East treaty creating a Palestinian state at peace with Israel can be completed in one year of negotiations, said major powers who were due on Friday to invite both parties to start talks in two weeks.
A diplomatic source in the United States said the Quartet of world powers engaged in Middle East peace-making had agreed on the details of the invitation on Thursday and would issue it formally on Friday.
Israeli and Palestinian officials said they expected to see the statement and U.S. invitation by the end of the day.
“We are waiting to see the formulation of the American invitation draft. Our position remains that we don’t want preconditions,” an Israeli official said.
A Palestinian official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “If the statement meets what we are calling for, we will say yes of course.”
The Palestinians were focused on the statement they expect from the Quartet — the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations — which would set out terms of reference for the talks. Negotiations would begin with a summit hosted by President Barack Obama on Sept 2.
A draft statement that was being discussed by the partners on Thursday says 12 months should be sufficient. A Quartet statement in June said a deal could be concluded in 24 months.
The seven Jewish feasts that were ordained by God and given to Moses in Leviticus 23 have an order to them, a flow of continuity in a chronological manner. This is the pattern evidenced in the fulfillments of the first four feasts. Order and consistency has been the hallmark of God’s plan for the ages, not a haphazard, after-thought and mish-mash of events. He is sovereign; He knows the beginning from the end and orderliness is characteristic of His plans.
For review, the seven feasts are: Feast of Passover; Feast of Unleavened Bread; Feast of First Fruits; Feast of Weeks (Pentecost); Feast of Trumpets; Feast of Atonement; and Feast of Tabernacles.
Passover, however, was introduced at the time of the Exodus and later combined with the other six feasts. The seven feasts appear to highlight the redemptive ministry of Jesus Christ in the world, from the cross to His second coming. Colossians 2:16-17 tells us that the feasts are shadows of things to come, but “the body is of Christ”. So the feasts are commemorations of future events to be fulfilled, and we can readily see that in the fulfillments of the first four. And, as well, it identifies them with the person and ministry of Christ; they are not unrelated or isolated occasions of religious practice.
Christ was the Passover lamb, was buried (pictured by the nature of unleavened bread), and rose again the third day as the first fruits of the resurrection. Fifty days later, at Pentecost, the Hold Spirit came upon the little band of believers, indwelling them, just as Jesus had promised the disciples in John 14:17, “He dwells with you and will be in you”.
My argument is that there is one fulfillment for each feast, and they come about in the order they were given. For example, the next feast to be fulfilled in order is the Feast of Trumpets and it’s certainly no accident that the descriptive details of that festive activity are highlighted in Paul’s description of the rapture in I Thessalonians 4:16-17. The parallel is too apparent to conclude otherwise.
This next feast has been ignored or given little significance in the plan of God, or plugged in at the time of the Second Coming of Christ all too often. I suspect that the reluctance to give it a proper position in the scheme of end-time events has a lot to do with a fear of being labeled a “date-setter” because it pinpoints the rapture to a certain time-frame. And that is a valid concern, but certainly no excuse for avoiding a straight-forward consideration of the teaching of scripture. Jesus did tell us to “watch, for you know not what hour your Lord comes”, and we are certainly pressing toward that hour.
If one is ready for Jesus to come, it will not matter a lot if he does not know the day or the hour. I suppose Enoch, who “walked with God, and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24) was not aware of what God was about to do, but he was totally engrossed in who he was with. That is our challenge today.
I have thought some on the way a shadow performs in the sunlight. Our bodies cast a shadow as the sun shines on us, and as the day progresses the shadow becomes shorter and shorter, until a high noon, we are standing on top of our shadow. In a sense we have fulfilled the pronouncement of our shadow. The Colossians 2:16-17 identity of the feasts as shadows of the Christ who is to come, or the things having to do with Him, works out the same way. One day soon the fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets will turn its shadow into reality.
The issue of “the day and the hour” is no simple calculation. We have established time zones and an international date line that puts some locations in a different day than others. We have daylight saving time to further confuse the issue. And, more confusing is this—my daughter lives in the Denver, Colorado, area, and I am in southern Idaho. Both are in the Mountain Time Zone, yet we were talking on the phone once and she remarked that it was dark there, while I noted that we still had sunlight in Idaho. Over the time zones to Israel, the time here in Idaho would be nine hours later(I think). Only God can figure this out, so I choose to let Him do it!
The last two feasts portray the fulfillment of two final events in Jesus’ redemptive ministry, that of the Jews’ acceptance of Jesus as their true Messiah and true atonement (the Feast of Atonement) part-way into the “time of Jacob’s trouble”, the seven-year tribulation period. And, finally, the Feast of Tabernacles, which pictures the Lord coming to dwell with His people, which He will do at His second coming to the earth.
Great Video laying out the Jewish Feasts. They is not very well know by Christians but by understanding them, we can understand God’s calendar verses our calendar. I was amazed at how so many major events align with it and how Christ’s life and death aligned as well!
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