Tony Ellsworth (tony4yhwh)

Midnight Shout!

2008-08-06T08:23:00.000-07:00

I have not been able to post as much to my blog here since I have been working on completing my new book called: "Midnight Shout!"

You can read it for free at: www.midnightshout.com

Here is the teaser for the book:

Midnight Shout!

As a FREE gift I would like to give to you my eBook called “Midnight Shout!”

The Rapture is the “Preeminent Promise” from scripture for Christians.

In the book of Habakkuk God says that he will be doing something in our day that “we wouldn’t believe even if we were told in advance” (Habakkuk 1:5).

What could this “unorthodox end of days” possibly look like?

Did you know the Declaration of Independence is a Separation Document? If the Philadelphian Church were to be “separated” from the Laodicean Church could this document have any relevance regarding the coming Rapture?

Did you know that recently Google is offering $30 Million for a civilian moon enterprise calling it a “Revolution”?

Does man’s “giant leap” to the moon have any spiritual relevance to God’s “stars of the sky” promise to Abraham?

On December 24th 1968 the Apollo 8 mission to the moon saw the first “earthrise” and declared God’s glory and read the first ten verses of Genesis on the most watched television broadcast to date. The very next day an atheist sued and just a little over seven months later as man set foot on the moon for the first time he declared man’s glory in the statement “one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”

On May 5th 1969, a time within this critical “window” a commemorative stamp was issued for the Apollo 8 flight called “In the Beginning God…” – it was on this day 39 years ago that I was born.

I have dedicated my life to learning and communicating about this “Preeminent Promise” God holds out in front of us. God has called me to the purpose of studying about the Rapture and I’ve had several “Rapture Relevant” visions leading me to insight I feel compelled to share.

With worldwide events escalating at an alarming rate it is no longer difficult to believe we are in the time of the end which means the Rapture could happen any day now…

It is with all these reasons I want to share freely with you my writing called –

“Midnight Shout!”

It is my sincere hope that my writings help you draw closer to Jesus and find the “true” calling of your life.

Many rich blessings,

Tony Ellsworth
www.midnightshout.com

Early July Celestial outlook

2008-07-02T09:49:00.001-07:00

Aphelion

Earth will reach its aphelion on July 3rd.
The Aphelion is the point in Earth’s elliptical orbit that it is furthest from the Sun. This is the opposite point to the Perihelion when the Earth is at its closest point to the Sun, which occurs in January.
Solar Eclipse
A Solar Eclipse will occur on July 1st, 2008, but will only be visible across northern Asia.
The New moon for July occurs on Wednesday, July 2nd, which means the weekend of July 5-6 will be the best weekend for Dark Sky Viewing.

Mercury is the Morning Star in July, reaching it’s greatest western elongation on July 1st. Mercury is visible for about 3 weeks and will disappear into the glare of the Sun around July 19th.

Planets Align for the 4th of July

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/01jul_4thofjuly.htm

$30 Million Moon Prize too small...

2008-06-21T06:24:00.000-07:00

Google is offering a prize of $30mm to the 1st two civilian persons to land on the moon. It is called Moon 2.0 join the Revolution. See the video for yourself – it is very “eye opening”.

http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=240907_Moon2_Google

I’ve written several articles about the moon and its spiritual relevance. God is offering a lot more than a $30mm reward. He is offering eternal life with Him.
Matthew 13:43-45 (New International Version)
43Then the righteous will shine like the sun (the moon reflects the sun) in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl
44"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field (night sky & stars). When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

45"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46When he found one of great value (moon), he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

Blessings,

Tony

Moon articles at: www.tony4yhwh.com

The "Midnight Cry" went out...

2008-06-20T11:19:00.000-07:00

Doves,

What is Summer Solstice is the midnight Cry (it happens at midnight)…
Matthew 25:5-7 (King James Version)
5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
If you put this together with the range of dates I’ve written on in Rapture Empty Hourglass which are June 4th/June 18th – July 20th and these match up with the crop circles Kelly Herman pointed out: http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2008/kellyh620.htm

I wrote on the importance of Philadelphia and the Declaration of Independence, the two moon missions Apollo 8 & 11.

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2008/tonye620.htm

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2008/tonye620-1.htm

It seems we are getting close.

Anxiously Watching…

Tony

Crop Circle Commentary

2008-06-20T09:17:00.001-07:00

This link relating to my previously written articles: Rapture Hourglass Empty series

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=126531

Looking at this picture of a crop circle which came from a post by Kelly Herman from www.fivedoves.com

The legal symbol which shows up in the middle of this picture and shows up in the middle of this crop circle
is made up of the cycle of the moon. I have written several articles on the moon & its relation to “judgment” as a stamp or seal.

I think it is interesting that July 4th fall very close to the midpoint between these two dates. Also the Earth and moon are light on the June side and the earth is dark w/ the moon missing on the July or far side.

I can’t say I have much study time on crop circles at all, nor do I know what to make of them, but I am amazed by the relation to what I’ve recently be studying and writing so I thought its worth mentioning.

Anxiously watching…

Tony

Full Moon Crop Circle

2008-06-20T08:50:00.000-07:00

...this is a very interesting post from www.fivedoves.com relating to the articles Rapture Hourglass Empty

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=126531

Blessings,

Tony

"Stars of the Heaven..."

2008-06-20T06:36:00.000-07:00

Apollo 8 vs. Apollo 11: Totally different scenarios (God’s promise to Abraham: “…the stars of heaven…”) Genesis 22,26, 37 & Hebrews 11

Apollo 8: Genesis reading December 24th 1968: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo8_xmas.html
William Anders
"We are now approaching lunar sunrise and, for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Jim Lovell
"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Frank Borman
"And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth."

Apollo 11: July 20th 1969 (…a little over 7 months later): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
"That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
He then took Communion privately. At this time NASA was still fighting a lawsuit brought by atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair (who had objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Book of Genesis) which demanded that their astronauts refrain from religious activities while in space. As such, Aldrin (an Episcopalian) chose to refrain from directly mentioning this. He had kept the plan quiet (not even mentioning it to his wife) and did not reveal it publicly for several years.

Keep Watching Philadelphian's!

2008-06-18T16:49:00.000-07:00

John,

Can you add this to my prior post?

Church of Philadelphia

2008 – 1776 (Declaration of Independence) = 232

232 Gematria

232 + The Word of the Lord + Let there be light! + My Firstborn + Mighty, Strong + Eternal God + It is established forever + I lay (found) in Zion + The writing of God, graven upon the tables. (Ord) + The Blessing + The Memorial + Mighty + The eyes of the Lord thy God + Health + Salt

If you read my series of articles “Rapture: Hourglass Empty” you see a contrast between the faithful 1968 Apollo 8 Genesis reading and the July 1969 Apollo 11 “one giant leap for mankind”. This gives us a window until July 20th, so we should still be on the watch for sure. A good description of the contrast of churches mentioned in Revelation:
To the Church in Philadelphia
7"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 9I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. 10Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. 11I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. 13He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Notice 13 verses just like 13 colonies that signed the “Declaration of Independence”

Notice verse 19 which stands for judgment, where judgement is rendered and it ends at 22 the “separation” number (Lamentations each chapter w/ verses divisible by 11 or 22).
To the Church in Laodicea
14"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. 15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. 19Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. 20Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. 21To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

Blessings,

Tony

Keep Watching!!!

2008-06-18T15:34:00.001-07:00

I would recommend keeping watch. There are always things progressively that we don’t fully understand that progressively are revealed.

*In the military when I was on watch you would do your best everyday to be fully informed of the possibilities of sea (surface of the earth) and air (spiritual things).

1. For sure we should keep watch all the way until summer. With Pentecost, Full Moon and all the other signs we can never be exactly sure of what Jehovah will do to fulfill His promises. We explain things much better in retrospect.

2. In my writings about the moon relating to the Rapture (Rapture: Empty Hourglass I – IV & Epilogue – www.tony4yhwh.com ) I did mention that it would be possible to be watching up to July 20th which is when man proclaimed himself “god” on the moon in 1969. That is 19 years ago and 19 stands for judgment. The faithful act was December 24th 1968 and a little more than 7 months later the rebellion took place (much more info in the articles). In the summer between when Pentecost is and Trumpets is the celebration of July 4th. Obviously the United States is who God used (although not fulfilled wholly and we are seeing the downfall…) to preach to the nations. Philadelphia is the “faithful” church that will not see the tribulation and there could be a possibility of fulfillment during the pause and before the July 20th date. I think the United States is on its way from fully passing from the Philadelphian Church to the Laodicean (already very evident and full of corruption).

Ted Porter, I agree that the New Jerusalem could be circular as well. They didn’t have that option on Wikipedia. I’ve written some of my thoughts & hypothesis in my articles.

It is interesting that summer starts at midnight!!!

Thanks to John for keeping the sight which is an encouragement for all watchers! Thanks to all the posters as iron sharpens iron and we desperately need the encouragement down the stretch!

YBIC,

Tony

Golan Heights & the Departure Gate...

2008-06-08T13:00:00.001-07:00

Looking at a potential date for the Rapture between June 9th – June 11th (and really up to the coming of summer on June 20th 2008)…

I believe that the Capture and giving back of the Golan Heights may be an important bit of information in regards to timing. The Golan Heights were taken on June 10th 1967.

The Golan Heights are at the southern (slopes) end of Mount Hermon. The peak is notated below:

Picture of Mount Hermon. Mount Hermon means “Mountain of the Chief”:

Mount Hermon served as the Northern boundary of the promised land. It is also known as Seir (Joshua 11:17, 12:1 and 13:5).

The Gospels tell of Jesus and his disciples journeying north from Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee to the city of Caesarea Philippi at the southern base of Mount Hermon (Matthew 16:13; Mark 8:27). There, Jesus revealed to them his purpose to build his Church and to go to Jerusalem to die and be resurrected (Matt 16:18-21).
Mount Hermon was a possible site of the Transfiguration, where Jesus took three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John, up on a high mountain for prayer. Before their eyes, Jesus was transfigured. He became radiantly white and conversed with Moses and Elijah, who had appeared beside him. The disciples' amazement and fear were further increased, when a voice from Heaven exclaimed, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him!" (Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:29-36).
In the Book of Enoch (1 Enoch 6) in the Deuterocanon, Mount Hermon is the place where the Grigori ("Watcher") class of fallen angels descended to Earth. They swore upon the mountain that they would take wives among the daughters of men and return (see appendix at the end w/ excerpt from the Book of Enoch).
The Golan Heights are referred to as Bashan. There were many battles against the peoples of Bashan
Moses and Joshua had battles against Og the king of Bashan. Also David refers to it in the Psalms…
Psalm 22:11-13 (King James Version)
11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalm 68:14-16 (King James Version)
14When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
15The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
16Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
Ezekiel 39:18
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
…of course there have been many news stories recently about Israel reading to give away the Golan Heights. I can think that Satan would love nothing more. But if this is indeed a “gate” then YHWH may bar Satan from this until after the Rapture.
Watching…
Blessings,
Tony
Appendix: Book of Enoch excerpt mention of Mount Hermon:
In Enoch
Chapter 6:1 it says..
1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
2 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men
3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them:
In verse 7, it says that there were 200 chiefs on the summit of Mount Hermon, which is located on the border of Lebanon and Syria and stands over 9,000 feet high. They agreed to come to earth and cohabitate with women.
These 200 chiefs were each in charge of tens of thousands of other Watchers. So how many fell with them.We do not know, maybe they all did. That would put the number into the hundreds of thousands that fell from heaven and came to earth.

Chapter 7
1 And all the others together with them (this indicates their armies did follow them) took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms
2 and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they
3 became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed
4 all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against
5 them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and
6 fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood (cannibalism). Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

Chapter 8
1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all
2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they
3 were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven .

Chapter 9

1 And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being
2 shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. And they said one to another: The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryings up to the gates of heaven.
3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause
4 before the Most High. And they said to the Lord of the ages: Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the
5 ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all
6 things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which
7 men were striving to learn: And Semjaza, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the
9 women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. And the women have
10 borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are
11 wrought on the earth. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.

Chapter 10

1 Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech
2 and said to him: Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come
3 upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape
The following verses and chapters talk about their judgment and confinement, then in chapter 15 Yahweh speaks to Enoch directly, who the Watchers had approached to intercede for them on their behalf ..
Chapter 15
1 And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous
2 man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: "You should intercede" for men, and not men for you: Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children
4 of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons? And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die
5 and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget
6 children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. But you were formerly
7 spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.

Demons..
8 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon
9 the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin;
10 they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.]
11 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless
12 hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.

Looking towards Pentecost

2008-06-08T10:52:00.000-07:00

I realize that Pentecost could be this week June 9th / 10th or it could be June 15th a week from today on Sunday.

Watching the 1st of these two possibilities…

Here is the log of the 6 day war from 1967 the capture of Jerusalem (& Jericho/moon).

June 7 - 10.00 - Israel completes capture of Old City of Jerusalem.
12.15 - Final general retreat ordered for Jordanian forces.
14.25 - Israelis capture Bethlehem.
18.00 - Hebron captured.
19.30 - Jericho captured.
June 8 - 15.20 - Egypt accepts ceasefire.
June 9 - 01.00 - Advance Israeli armour reaches Suez Canal.
11.30 - Israelis begin advance on Syrian lines.
June 10 - 14.30 - Israelis capture Golan town of Kuneitra.
15.00 - Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan meets General Odd Bull of the UN, agrees to a ceasefire by 18.00
June 10th is the 2nd day of Pentecost if the 9/10th is correct. This is the date of the “ceasefire”.
Also June 11th is the 8th day of Sivan. It is also the 163rd day of the year. The Gemetria for 163 is living water. Of course it is the living water that the woman at the well with Jesus is mentioned. This woman a type of “church” and I have written extensively on the importance of wells in spiritual meaning in my article “Wives, Wells & Wormholes (www.tony4yhwh.com).
Biblewheel 163 link: http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_163.asp
So I would say that we should be watching all the way through Wednesday…
This day in history for:
June 8th: “prophet” Mohammed died, Allies invade Syria & Lebanon, USS Liberty incident during 1967 6 day war Israel accidentally attacks U.S. ship, World Ocean Day, multiple tornado events, Tony Blair 3rd term,
June 9th: Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 1st trans Pacific flight every by “Southern Cross”, Israel captures the Golan Heights in 6 day war, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown
June 10th: Tripolitan War (U.S. vs. Barbary states, pirates, Ottoman Empire), end of 6 day war, “Affirmed” won the Triple Crown, First Barbary war treaty, American-Mexican war – California declares independence, Spirit Rover is launched beginning NASA’s Mars exploration
June 11th: Continental Congress appoints Jefferson, Adams & Franklin among others to draft the Declaration of Independence, 6.9 Richter scale earthquake in Iran, Sir Barton wins 1st ever Triple Crown, Seattle Slew 1977 wins Triple Crown, Cease fire for 6 day war signed increasing Israel’s territory by a factor of 3
*additional note: On June 19, 1967, the National Unity Government [of Israel] voted unanimously to return the Sinai to Egypt and the Golan Heights to Syria in return for peace agreements.
The June 19 Israeli cabinet decision did not include the Gaza Strip, and left open the possibility of Israel permanently acquiring parts of the West Bank. On June 25-27, Israel incorporated East Jerusalem together with areas of the West Bank to the north and south into Jerusalem's new municipal boundaries
The aftermath of the war is also of religious significance. Under Jordanian rule, Jews and many Christians[127] were forbidden from entering the Old City of Jerusalem, which included the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site. Jewish sites were not maintained, and their cemeteries had been desecrated. After the annexation to Israel, each religious group was granted administration over their holy sites. Despite the Temple Mount's importance in Jewish tradition, the al-Aqsa Mosque is under sole administration of a Muslim Waqf, and Jews are barred from conducting services there

First day of summer is June 20th this year so we could be waiting up to the last day as the return of this land could be a “marker”.

Further: The 1967 War also laid the foundation for future discord in the region - as on November 22, 1967, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 242, the "land for peace" formula, which called for Israeli withdrawal "from territories occupied" in 1967 in return for "the termination of all claims or states of belligerency."

Blessings,
Tony

Lots to be Hopeful for...

2008-06-08T07:05:00.001-07:00

Well Big Brown did not win the Triple Crown yesterday, but there is a still lot to watch and be hopeful for.

Da’ Tara was the winner. Tara means “high hill” and “star”. Also, Terra is “goddess of the earth”

I am looking at Monday when Venus goes behind the Sun. The Sun stands for “God” or “Jesus”. Venus is a “type” of Satan. Venus is also Aphrodite – goddess of beauty.

Also there is a triangle conjunction w/ the moon, Regulus and Saturn between Sunday and Monday during this time. Saturn wears the “crown” or “ring” and also its ring is known as a sickle. Saturn is also said to regulate “time”. Regulus is in Leo, Lion of Judah – Jesus.

HEAVENLY TRIANGLE: Ringed planet. First-magnitude star. Crescent moon. Add them all together and you get a heavenly triangle visible tonight. Look up after sunset for Saturn, Regulus and the Moon in scalene formation: sky map.

Venus was associated with Taurus the bull (Big Brown). Taurus represents judgment. The triangular formation of Regulus, Saturn and the moon and the movement of Venus behind the Sun may denote judgment.

What was interesting is that Big Brown, the prohibitive favorite going into the race (the horse 2nd to Big Brown had to be withdrawn from the race) not only didn’t make 1st but came in last.

This reminds me of the biblical concept:

“the first shall be last and the last first…”

And Saturday is when Hillary Clinton finally endorsed Senator Obama. This is no small happening. I wrote a blog on him when he first announced his run for President.

And really we don’t need all of this since its obvious that either June 9th/10th or June 15th (from the best we can tell) is Pentecost or Shavuot and that has enough reasons in and of itself to be hopeful and watchful…

Blessings,

Tony

Triple Crown & Gemini

2008-06-07T12:50:00.001-07:00

Triple Crown & Gemini

I believe this may give us some prophetic insight into what may soon take place: the Rapture of God’s’ elect

It is obvious in Revelation and other places in the Bible the importance of a crown.

Referencing the Gospel in the Stars we are in the time of Gemini which itself portrays a marriage in the heavens. This goes hand in hand with Pentecost which also denotes marriage.

The Gemini couple are said to preside over public games particularly where horses are concerned.

“We have two youthful looking and most beautiful figures peacefully sitting together, with their feet resting on the Milky Way. Their heads lean against each other in a loving attitude. The one holds a great club in his right hand, whilst his left is clasped around the body of his companion. The other holds a harp in one hand and a bow and arrow in the other…The picture looks like a readiness for warlike action, but at the same time like a joyful repose after a great victory already gained.

*much, much more in the book “Gospel of the Stars” by Joseph A. Seiss that point to this month as special and relating to the “marriage” and the rapture.

The Triple Crown is won by a horse winning 3 horse races: The Kentucky Derby, Preakness & the Belmont Stakes (running today).

There has not been a Triple Crown winner in 30 years (Jesus started his ministry at 30)

The last winner was in 1978 and was named “Affirmed”.

Big Brown who won the 1st two races is trying to become the 12th Triple Crown winner in history (12 denotes government in the bible)

The last close attempt was 10 years ago when a horse name “Real Quiet” (like a “thief in the night”) won the 1st two races but lost the last by a “nose” (1998)

The same jockey rides Big Brown today in the hopes of completing what he missed out on “by a nose” in 1998.

“Charismatic” lost out in 1999 by breaking a leg down the stretch…

So what does “Big Brown” have to do with God? Well my own personal take is that the races started in May. The symbol for this month which had 2nd Passover in it is Judgment which is represented by a Bull or better described by the Bible as a Reem or Mighty Ox. I think of it as a Buffalo since I’m here in the Midwest.

I think there are some very interesting names in the list of historical “Triple Crown” winners:

Including “Whirlaway” (reminds you of Rapture doesn’t it???). And winners in 1948 (when Israel became a nation) and in 1973 (the year of the Yom Kippur War). Notice 1948 is named “Citation” as in certified as a country and in 1973 it was one of the most famous of all times “Secretariat” as in “witnessed” and “noted or written down”. Also, we have seen how 2007 & 2008 have many “tie ins” regarding the Rapture and the last winners were 1977 & 1978

History
U.S. Triple Crown Winners
Year Winner Jockey Trainer Owner
1919 Sir Barton
Johnny Loftus
H. Guy Bedwell
J. K. L. Ross

1930 Gallant Fox
Earl Sande
Jim Fitzsimmons
Belair Stud

1935 Omaha
Willie Saunders
Jim Fitzsimmons
Belair Stud

1937 War Admiral
Charley Kurtsinger
George Conway
Samuel D. Riddle

1941 Whirlaway
Eddie Arcaro
Ben A. Jones
Calumet Farm

1943 Count Fleet
Johnny Longden
G. Donald Cameron
Fannie Hertz

1946 Assault
Warren Mehrtens
Max Hirsch
King Ranch

1948 Citation
Eddie Arcaro
Horace A. Jones
Calumet Farm

1973 Secretariat
Ron Turcotte
Lucien Laurin
Meadow Stable

1977 Seattle Slew
Jean Cruguet
William H. Turner, Jr.
Karen L. Taylor

1978 Affirmed
Steve Cauthen
Laz Barrera
Harbor View Farm

Rapture: Empty Hourglass III

2008-06-04T12:30:00.000-07:00

Rapture: Empty Hourglass III

Jericho: June 7th

References: Rapture: Empty Hourglass I & II (II a.k.a. June 4th Rapture)

Please reference the prior two documents which are at my listed at my website (www.tony4yhwh.com) and also at www.fivedoves.com

Continuing the focusing of my “watch” binoculars, this seems to be coming to focus. I was in the military and understand the meaning of “need to know only” info. It is quite progressive in nature. Nonetheless, that is the environment of a “watch” and one must report as you see…

Given:

Prior reference:

Given (above reference): 14,400 days (360 biblical years X 40)
December 23rd 1968, The Apollo 8 reading of Genesis
+ 14,400 days
= May 28, 2008

+ 7 days and the last trumpet and shout
= June 4th 2008

The six day war seems to be a “model” and very relevant to this timeline. Both Jerusalem and Jericho were captured during the 1967, six day war. Jericho again means moon and you will have to read the prior documents to reference the full meaning.

Here is a log of these events of the Six day war concerning Jerusalem & Jericho:

June 5 07.45 - Israel launches a preemptive airstrike, hitting Egyptian air bases and destroying the bulk of the Egyptian air force.
June 6 Israeli troops continue to advance in the Sinai.
03.00 - Israeli troops capture the Latrun police fort on the edge of the West Bank; other troops cut the Jerusalem- Ramallah road.
06.15 - Israeli paratroops capture Jordanian outpost of Ammunition Hill in north Jerusalem, after fierce hand-to-hand fighting.
13.00 - Ramallah and Jenin surrender to the Israelis. Capture of Gaza Strip completed.
17.20 - Qalqilya captured.
20.00 - General retreat ordered for the Egyptian army.
24.00 - General retreat ordered for Jordanian Arab Legion.
June 7 - 10.00 - Israel completes capture of Old City of Jerusalem.
12.15 - Final general retreat ordered for Jordanian forces.
14.25 - Israelis capture Bethlehem.
18.00 - Hebron captured.
19.30 - Jericho captured.
June 8 - 15.20 - Egypt accepts ceasefire

You can see that it is June 7th that both the physical Jerusalem and the physical model, Jericho (moon) of the heavenly Jerusalem (remember Joshua and the 1st city captured in the Promised land which is Jericho which means “moon”).

Now lets go back and finish our Rapture “day count”

Given (above reference): 14,400 days (360 biblical years X 40)
December 23rd 1968, The Apollo 8 reading of Genesis
+ 14,400 days
= May 28, 2008

+ 7 days and the last trumpet and shout
= June 4th 2008

So the barrier or “walls” are down on June 4th (must be spiritual barrier)

June 5th the “Egyptian Air Force” is wiped out

By June 7th Jerusalem & Jericho are both captured.

In my over anxious anticipation of the Rapture when I was given the day count from December 24th 1968 I didn’t know completely what to do with it. Adding to this the 7 days for the marching of Joshua and then also it looks like 3 more days to enter and capture the city. We may be a type of “Rahab” with the red cord in which we need rescuing by Joshua (Jesus).

I also believe there is another clue in the signs of the sky. Venus is a type of “Satan”. Venus will be completely behind the Sun (standing for God) on Monday the 9th. Monday is “moon” day.

(thanks to Friedrich Wenz for pointing this out…)
FULL VENUS: On June 9th, Venus will pass directly behind the sun--an event astronomers call "superior conjunction." Sun-blocking coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are monitoring Venus as it disappears into the glare:

Too bad we can't peek around the sun's limb on June 9th to see Venus on the other side. Like the Moon, Venus has phases and on June 9th the planet will be gloriously full. The entire hemisphere facing Earth will be illuminated. Venus's acid-laced clouds are terrific reflectors and a full Venus would surely be visible during daylight hours, an intense pinprick of light in the blue sky. If only the sun were not in the way....

8 Bells is 4 a.m.

2008-06-04T09:57:00.001-07:00

Expert: Capt Lou
Date: 1/4/2007
Subject: Shipboard time...

Question
Capt. Lou:
How is shipboard time calculated?
You're always hearing (in movies and TV shows) some naval officer calling an officers meeting at "seven bells"...or some sailor testifying that he was on watch from "two to six bells". And I've just always wondered how "bell time" aboard ship is computed.
Any info you could share is greatly appreciated.
Warm regards,
David Gardner

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Going as far back as the days Christopher Columbus sailed to America, a bell was used to sound the time onboard a ship. I am told that time in those days was kept with an hourglass. Every half hour, the timekeeper would ring the bell. It was important for the ship's captain and crew to know the time, so that they could share the duties of sailling the ship. A crew's shift would last 4 hours, so a 24 hour day could have been divided into into six shifts, but in order to have the 6 shifts work different time periods during the day, (so that the same crew didn't work the same time every day, like every night or at dinner time) the work day was divided into 7 time periods for the 6 different crews, with two of the 7 time periods each lasting only two hours. So, what you ended up with was 5 four hour shifts and 2 two hour shifts. The 2 two hour shifts were called the "dog watches" and occurred each day the same time between 6 - 10PM. This way, each of the 6 crews worked a different 4 hour time period each day.

Here is a typical schedule a ship's crew would follow:
Shift 1 - Midnight to 4 AM (0000 - 0400)
Shift 2 - 4 AM to 8 AM (0400 - 0800)
Shift 3 - 8 AM to noon (0800 - 1200)
Shift 4 - Noon to 4 PM (1200 - 1600)
Shift 5 - First Dog Watch 4 PM to 6 PM (1600 - 1800)
Shift 6 - Second Dog Watch 6 PM to 8 PM (1800 - 2000)
Shift 1 - 8 PM to Midnight (2000 - 0000)
Shift 2 - Midnight to 4 AM
(See how each shift would work a different time during the day)

Now, I think you will understand how the bells worked. The bells were struck every half-hour, with a maximum of eight bells. For instance, the first shift starting at midnight would hear the the following bells:
12:30 AM - 1 bell
1:00 AM - 2 bells
1:30 AM - 3 bells
2:00 AM - 4 bells
2:30 AM - 5 bells
3:00 AM - 6 bells
3:30 AM - 7 bells
4:00 AM - 8 bells

At eight bells your watch was over! All other 4 hour watches followed this same procedure except the Dog Watches.
At the end of the First Dog Watch, only four bells were struck. The second Dog Watch bells were rung like the first Dog Watch, starting at 1 bell, but at the end of the second Dog Watch shift, 8 bells were struck.

That was the way it was done right up until 1915. Then a new law was passed and all U.S. Merchant vessels over 100 gross tons had to divide their crews into three shifts, working four hours on and eight hours off. This routine turned the 2 dog watches into 1 evening watch.

OK? I hear 8 bells ringing, so I have to sign off!

Capt Lou

8 Bells

2008-06-04T09:45:00.001-07:00

What event caused the requirement for the Captain of a US Navy ship to
give permission before the striking of eight bells?
- It is related to an attempted mutiny on a US sailing vessel in the early 1800's.

- The signal to mutiny was the sounding of eight bells. The attempted
mutiny was discovered and thwarted.

- Since then the Captains permission is required to sound eight bells,
an indication all is well at the end of the watch.

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2008/ss64.htm

Steve Shackleton, I have significant testimony in the Navy regarding the Captain & watch. Also I’ve been following the “Triple Crown” and have had other fivedoves posts on this.

This Saturday “Big Brown” is going for the 1st Triple Crown in 30 years.

I appreciated your post!

Blessings,

Tony

Left Behind?: Rapture Basics

2008-06-02T16:14:00.000-07:00

Great sermon on what I would call the Rapture Basics

http://harvestreno.org/messages.asp

click on May 25th sermon called: Prophecy Update Signs in the Heavens

Hope this helps!

Blessings,

Tony

"Disappear"

2008-06-02T16:11:00.001-07:00

He may be right, the Rapture could happen. Interesting word choice…

Iran's Ahmadinejad says Israel will "disappear" – www.news.yahoo.com
Iran's president said on Monday Israel would soon disappear off the map and that the "satanic power" of the United States faced destruction, in his latest verbal attack on the Islamic Republic's arch-foes.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was speaking at a gathering of foreign guests marking this week's 19th anniversary of the death of Iran's late revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1989, the official IRNA news agency said.

"You should know that the criminal and terrorist Zionist regime which has 60 years of plundering, aggression and crimes in its file has reached the end of its work and will soon disappear off the geographical scene," he said.

Turning to the United States, he said the era of decline and destruction of its "satanic power" had begun and added: "The bell on the countdown of the destruction of the empire of power and wealth has begun to ring."

My Fathers

2008-06-02T15:21:00.001-07:00

My Fathers

* Personal testimony in regards to the June Rapture of 2008. Companion testimony to other writings: “Rapture Empty Hourglass I & II” and “My Prophetic Navy Experience”.

Foreward

I’ve written testimony telling a story which is at my website (www.tony4yhwh.com) called “My Prophetic Experience in the Navy”. Warmly I like to simply call it “My Captain Story”. This experience which I know with all my heart is a prophetic vision has been the basis for all my biblical knowledge and has been what ultimately has led me to firmly believe in God’s Sovereignty and Love.

This testimony happened in 1989 during my service in the U.S. Navy. It came in a very, very difficult time in my life. Recently I’ve written about the earthly Jerusalem and Heavenly Jerusalem which has to do with the years:

• 1967 – Israel’s recapture of Jerusalem
• 1968 – the Apollo 8 Genesis reading on December 24th
• 1969 – the Apollo 11 man on the moon

I was born in 1969 so all this was happening just as I was born. The Apollo 8 Genesis reading mission happened on Christmas Eve just at the end of 1968. A commemorative stamp was issued on behalf of this on May 5th 1969 which was my birthday.

I’ve learned these years have a prophetic connection to both earthly & Heavenly Jerusalem:

1987 1988 1989 2007 2008 2009
2 years 1967 physical 20 21 22 40 41 42
stands for 1968 spiritual 19 20 21 39 40 41
2,000 years 1969 judgment 18 19 20 38 39 40

Within a short time at the end of May 2008 God gave me two visions. One personal & one theological.

In two separate writings titled: “Rapture: Empty Hourglass I & II” I wrote all of the theological and news information leading me to a Rapture date of June 4th 2008.

The heart wins over the mind and to me there is nothing like personal testimony. Although solid theological foundation is needed – “a two strand cord that is not easily broken.” The personal testimony God gave me is 3 separate visions or testimony in my life all taking place in the month of June in the years 1987,1988 & 1989

It was only recently that I became fully aware that God had shown me not one vision via testimony, but three is successive years all in the same month – June.

~

My Fathers
~

Prologue

I was baptized as a baby Catholic which was my mother’s background. My father was Presbyterian, but deferred to keep our family all the same faith. Later in the early 70’s when I was 2 – 4 years old some Jehovah’s Witnesses stopped by. My mother took their message to heart. They had come proclaiming the “end of the world system” and the “coming tribulation”. They said this would take place in 1975. My mother and father took notice and action both of them becoming Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Even though I am no longer a Jehovah’s Witness I am grateful for this happening. I consider it Providential. My mother did a fine job teaching me God’s word and giving me a firm biblical background. My father, though not interested in deep theological things like my mother had a kind, giving and forgiving heart. He also passed on to me the ways of farming, ecology and agriculture. He is an estate planning attorney that works primarily with rural persons and small business owners. He has a great interest in life insurance, estate planning, farming and the environment. By Providence God knew how all of this was critical to my development for what he’d planted in my heart to do.

So here I am today writing about end times, prophecy and anxiously awaiting the Rapture. The Jehovah’s Witnesses do not believe in a Rapture. But even so, naysayers would say that I’ve simply become a product of my childhood. And they are right, but not in the way they think they are. This all reminds me of Jeremiah. Let me just quote an excerpt:

Jeremiah 1
The Call of Jeremiah
4Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5(I) "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,and before you were born(J) I consecrated you;I appointed you a prophet(K) to the nations."
6Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold,(L) I do not know how to speak,(M) for I am only a youth." 7But the LORD said to me,

"Do not say, 'I am only a youth';for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,and(N) whatever I command you, you shall speak. 8(O) Do not be afraid of them,(P) for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the LORD."
9(Q) Then the LORD put out his hand and(R) touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me,

"Behold, I have put(S) my words in your mouth. 10See, I have set you this day(T) over nations and over kingdoms,(U) to pluck up and to break down,to destroy and to overthrow,to build and to plant."
11And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,(V) "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see an almond[a] branch." 12Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."
I make no claim to audibly hear the voice of God and I’m no reincarnation of Jeremiah. But I see his testimony in God’s word and I feel his heart. I believe in all my heart in God’s Sovereignty and Love directing every step of my life so I have no reason to question, fear or be ashamed of my background.
And so I continually step out in faith and risk covered by prayer and grace…
June 1987

When I was in my early teen years I was baptized as a Jehovah’s Witness. I believed in Jehovah God with all my heart and wanted to make my family and the elders proud of me. They were encouraging baptism and I made good on this encouragement. Only a few years later I would begin to get “off track”. I began questioning things and rebellion was in my heart. I was “disfellowshipped” from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I suspect my parents were already growing apart, but this added to their division. My mother was deeply spiritual and an avid Jehovah’s Witness. My father was providing for his family and really still had a mainline Christianity background. They divorced towards the end of my Senior year of High School.

In this same time I had signed up for the Navy, but would have to wait another 9 – 10 months to leave for bootcamp. Our home in the country was sold. My mom had left with my two younger sisters and my other sister and I remained with my father. At this point I felt fairly orphaned as my father was trying to pick up his own pieces. To be clear, I do not blame either of my parents and I’m 39 years old now and have been through a failed marriage and divorce myself. I am simply setting the framework for what happened in my life.

I was always close and looked up to my Grandparents. I was close to my mom’s dad and on my father’s side I was close to Grammy & Grampy as we called them. My Grandfather was a small business owner of a company called Briggs Pump. They are a middle man supplier for plumbing and agricultural irrigation products. My Grandmother was always a treat as she cooked, took us shopping or just had fun with us in one way or another. They had a wonderful house outside of Omaha on a crystal clear and sand based lake called Ginger Cove. We had all our great holiday feasts there and I have many, many fond memories. I had an “Uncle” that smoked a pipe and I still love the smell of pipe tobacco to this day (although I’m not a smoker myself anymore). There home was full of joy and laughter all of my childhood.

I forget how I found out but I had a Great Uncle I had never met that lived up in Illinois. He was 100 years old! He heard of my troubles and decided to pay for my way on the “Ellsworth” fishing trip. This was a trip for men (although my Grandfather’s brother Bill had his wife Rae on the trip I went on. I’m not sure how they worked that). This was an annual trip up to Canada to a lake there were no roads to. You had to fly there by sea plane and land on the water. Needless to say it was remote (which also made it expensive I’m sure). I have never and will never forget this kind hearted gesture by my Uncle Harry. He had never seen me and didn’t know me. Further my family was in trouble and I had been in plenty myself. It wasn’t like I had earned a reward! But his grace, kindness and gentle spirit even though I’d never seen him reached out to me.

I left on this trip with my Grandfather and we joined with some other relatives in Des Moines, IA and drove up together to the Canadian border and beyond. I don’t remember our conversation or any specifics. I remember the plane ride which was quite a bit different than a commercial flight on a 747 or something similar. It really was quite a thrill!

When we arrived we stayed in a cabin and we had meals together around a table. Each day we went fishing. The guides would take us in a boat and show us where the best fishing was and we always pulled in quite a load. At lunch time they would take us to an island and they would make a fire and cook us fresh fish with some sides they brought along. Truth be told, I’m not much of an avid fisherman and also I was so spoiled by that fishing trip I haven’t done much more since.

But I’ll never forget my time there. I simply think of it as my “fathers”. Many pictures were taken, but someone got a rather large picture of all of us around the dinner table together in the cabin (12 X 18). I had to get a custom frame made for it. It hangs on my wall and often as I look at it I get lost in the memory of how special it was.

After the trip was over my father sold the house we had lived in and he, my sister Sarah and I moved to Ginger Cove with my Grandparents. I went to work with my Grandfather at Briggs Pump biding the time until I left for the Navy. It was a great time sharing with my Grandfather as he had been in the Navy as well. It was during this time that my Grandfather retired from Briggs and they gave him a special ring which I wrote more about in my Captain’s Story (My Prophetic Navy Experience). I’ll let you read more about it there.

June 1988

At this point I had been in the Navy since March 1, 1988 my date of active duty enlistment. I finished boot camp and basic Seamanship school. I came home from all of this which took place in Great Lakes, MI in June of 1988.
Towards the end of my leave (military for vacation time) I got a call from my mom letting me know she wanted to see me. I supposed that she wanted to see me and also wish me well as I went off to my Military Assignment.

I got to my mom’s and it wasn’t anything I expected. I wasn’t in the least bit prepared. As I wrote you before my mom is a Jehovah’s Witness. I had been “disfellowshipped” many years beforehand. Within the last year my parents had gotten divorced and my two younger sisters were staying with my mom, while my sister Sarah and I (I am the oldest) stayed with my father at my grandparents. Obviously once I was in the Navy I was somewhat “removed” from all of it. All this background led to some “ill” feelings.

My mom in her beliefs through the Jehovah’s Witnesses got her bible out and read to me. I can’t remember what verse but the idea was that I was “in sin” and as such she could no longer have a direct relationship with me. I tried to speak my feelings, but was not able to. She did bring me my two sisters to say “goodbye” as they were still in the Jehovah’s Witnesses. And then the door was shut.

I immediately collapsed in a heap outside her apartment door and just cried. At some point I made it to my car and cried more and eventually to my Grandfather’s house (her father, who I was also very close to – he since has passed away but was a devout Catholic). I buried my head in his chest, cried and told him all of what happened.

Again, this story is not a shot at my mother. For one, I don’t blame the Jehovah’s Witnesses or my mother’s beliefs. She is a very courageous woman who has overcome a lot of her past. Her and I were displaced since this day until about 2004. I had been through quite a bit of counseling and had written her a letter about my feelings regarding the divorce and this days happenings. I told her I forgave her and that I had been through my own divorce. I also told her that I knew God was with me the whole time – and He was.

My mom not only took the letter, but after I ignored calls from her she came to my house. My children let her in and before I could procrastinate the situation I was sitting on my living room couch with my mom. She just listened as I basically spoke the same words I had put in my letter. She let me pray over it and release it. It took some time after this but my mom watches my children and they have a wonderful Grandmother. My kids are also close with her husband Jeff and I have respect for him.

The Spiritual, rules over the emotional, which rules over logic which rules over the practical. All this was by God’s Sovereignty and Love and there is no need for bitterness. It is my very own Joseph like story between my mom & I. Though it was hard I love her and I know she loves me.

But back to the story…even though this has a good outcome 16 years later it was a deeply difficult time for me. After this I said my goodbyes to family left on a jet for San Diego. I hadn’t been much out of Nebraska only car trips to Denver Colorado with my mom where we had relatives.

I arrived in San Diego where I was met by two men in their Navy whites. I carried my bags over my back which was quite a load. We got into a white Navy van and I sat in the back. The two men finally said “do you know where you are going?” To which I said “USS Fort McHenry” as those were my orders. Keep in mind I hadn’t seen much outside farmland and the foothills of the mountains of Colorado. These men said to me “you are going on West Pac – 6 months out to sea”. “I don’t believe you” I said. Probably because I didn’t want to believe them. I figured I was the new guy and I knew that I would likely be the brunt of many jokes and was prepared for them.

We got to the base and it was late in the night. It all was overwhelming and very intimidating. All the ships, the military base and the massive black ocean. Totally scary to someone having been through what I’d been through and as naïve to the world as I was. Like they say “were not in Kansas anymore…”

After the van stopped I again hauled all my bags on my back (I got no sympathy or help). I stood at the base of this massive ship which was moored off of a very large dock. There was what is called a gangplank which is a temporary bridge with which to walk up from the pier to the quarterdeck or entry point of the ship. It was very intimidating and fairly narrow and made of aluminum like metal. As I was walking with my bags strapped to my back I felt like I could fall into the sea at any time.

Finally I made it up yet I was totally lost and amidst strangers. I was led through what seemed a myriad of passageways and ladders (stairs) to my quarters. In my quarters were other men obviously all strangers to me.

The next morning I awoke early and we reported to quarters on the flight deck of the ship. Luckily, the Chief felt sorry for me as no one was allowed to go to the pier to make phone calls home. The Chief made an exception for me and I called home to my father. “I’m going overseas for six months I told him. I don’t know the details or when I’ll be able to phone home next.” To which I received silence. I don’t think my dad knew what to say. He had never been in the military himself and he was thousands of miles away. What could he say or do???

I was off on an unknown journey…

1989

This is My Captain story. If you have enjoyed this so far, this is a great conclusion to everything leading up to this point. One of the very great parts of the story takes place in June of 1989. Take a look at my website (www.tony4whwh.com ) for the story called “My Prophetic Navy Experience”. I hope you’ll enjoy it!!!

3 years, 3 visions. I could write books on all the spiritual meaning; moral, practical, prophetic, etc. that these three years gave me. When I felt orphaned God took me in His loving hand and in His Sovereignty He taught me a lifetime worth of lessons and gave me a foundation that could never be broken.

I’ve learned there is freedom through submission and not rebellion. I am forever grateful to our Heavenly Father who so tenderly loves and cares for us.

Blessings,

Tony

Hebrews 5:7-9
7During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him

Wives, Wells & Wormholes

2008-06-02T15:20:00.001-07:00

Wives, Wells & Wormholes

Abraham is clearly a special man even among the kings and patriarchs. Scripture having at least 3 layers (historic, moral and prophetic), we take a look into the “archetypes” that the wife-sister narratives in Genesis.

At times we may feel small and insignificant especially compared to an Almighty Creator who is Sovereign over the entire Universe. One thing to remember is that with God it is “a family affair”. Angels were created like “sons” and with that came the rebellion of one son – Satan. Also, with his son Jesus came the redemption of mankind foretold before the beginning of the world.

In Revelation 21 God promises the one who overcomes the opportunity to be a son. We also have the promise to become a bride. These are the two terms God has referred to Israel, as a wife or as a son. I think we can feel these things “deep down”. Every man wants to be a true son to our Great Father and every woman wants to be a “bride” to her husband – a true beauty to be admired. We see this relationship in the Sun (Father), the Earth (Adam was created from the dust of the Earth) and Moon which has no light of its own but is a beauty in reflecting the Sun’s light (Eve was taken from Adam’s side). I’ve written much more on this relationship in Rapture: Empty Hourglass I & II.

All of this is important to the archetype that we’ll be looking at. Abram’s wife is Sarai and when God wants to show us emphasis He always does things in 3’s. There are 3 situations in Genesis where a wife gets called a “sister” in the protection of her husband. This happens two times with Abraham and once with Isaac. Let’s see what we can learn!

Wife-Sister Narrative I

We pick up this story in Genesis 12. My comments will be in blue.

Abram is a “type” of God the Father
Sarai is a “type” of Israel

Genesis 12
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10Now(L) there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Famine’s occur when God is about to change things. This famine parallels the famine which caused Jacob to move to Egypt with his son Joseph.

11When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, 12and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they(M) will kill me, but they will let you live. 13Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake."

Joseph when he went to Egypt became prominent after he foretold Pharaoh’s dreams. In this way Israel was “beautiful” to the Egyptians and Israel is a type of wife to YHWH. Abraham standing for YHWH or God the Father in saying “killing” means that the Egyptians would not fully accept him as their God (which was not His purpose).

14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. All this foreshadows Joseph.
17But the LORD(N) afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
This foreshadows the 10 plagues of Egypt. Notice this happens in a “physical” way which will contrast what happens later in our other narratives.
18So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go." 20And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
Prophetically this is the whole story of Joseph, Moses & Israel and the Exodus – Amazing!
Notice this happens in chapter 12 and of course Israel and there are the 12 tribes. The Lord afflicts Pharaoh in verse 17 which is 10 for ten plagues, ordinal completion + 7 spiritual intervention/completion. 18 which is 6 + 6 + 6 is Pharaoh’s answer. 19 the number for judgment is the release and 20 which is the number for ordinal completion.
After this The Lord promises Abram in chapter 13:
14The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are,(O) northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15for all the land that you see I will give(P) to you and(Q) to your offspring forever. 16(R) I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. 17Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
Notice that the promise is for the land and his offspring is as the “dust of the earth”. It is directly in relation to Israel.
This whets my appetite to see what we can learn from the two other narratives…

Wife-Sister Narrative II

Before we get to the next narrative there are some important changes.
In Chapter 15 YHWH gives Abraham a new promise
5And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and(E) number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him,(F) "So shall your offspring be." 6And(G) he believed the LORD, and(H) he counted it to him as righteousness.
Now YHWH has given Abraham a new promise of his offspring comparing them to the stars of the sky. This is an inheritance of the Universe vs. the dust of the earth – an earthly inheritance.
In Chapter 17 YHWH there is a name change. Abram is now Abraham and Sarai is now Sarah. YHWH is showing us differences in dispensations and his called people groups.

1When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be(A) blameless, 2that I may make my covenant between me and you, and(B) may multiply you greatly." 3Then Abram(C) fell on his face. And God said to him, 4"Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be(D) the father of a multitude of nations. 5No longer shall your name be called Abram,[b] but(E) your name shall be Abraham,[c](F) for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make(G) you into nations, and(H) kings shall come from you. 7And I will(I) establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant,(J) to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
There will be a day when we walk in front of the Lord and shall be made to be blameless. This is an inheritance to be given as is to be kings. YHWH did indeed make Abraham the father of Nations.
This next narrative is more complicated and has more pieces to it that the first one. Let’s move through one passage at a time to break it down.
Genesis 20
Abraham and Abimelech
1From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between(A) Kadesh and Shur; and he(B) sojourned in(C) Gerar. 2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife,(D) "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

Sarah again is proclaimed a “sister” and Abimelech takes her.

3(E) But God came to Abimelech(F) in a dream by night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife." 4Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said,(G) "Lord, will you kill an innocent people? 5Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this." 6Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning(H) against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. 7Now then, return the man’s wife,(I) for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you(J) and all who are yours."

Abimelech is much different than Pharaoh. Abimelech is a Philistine. Egypt is a type of word/earth secular/man system. Everything is physical and the plagues were physical. With Abimelech YHWH comes to him in a dream. This is spiritual. The Philistines stand for demonic/spiritual foes. It was Goliath, a Philistine who descended from the Nephilim that David defeated.
8So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things. And the men were very much afraid. 9Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done." 10And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?" 11Abraham said, "I did it because I thought,(K) There is no fear of God at all in this place, and(L) they will kill me because of my wife. 12Besides,(M) she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife. 13And when(N) God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come,(O) say of me, He is my brother.'"
14Then Abimelech(P) took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him. 15And Abimelech said, "Behold,(Q) my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you." 16To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given(R) your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is(S) a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all[a] who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated." 17Then(T) Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children. 18For the LORD(U) had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
It’s a little harder to explain all of this and I won’t speculate to much because there is so much other information that we can easily discern. The pieces of silver relate to Jesus. Also, remember that Sarah’s womb was closed but just as Abimelech’s women’s wombs were opened so was Sarah’s.
Right after this passage is the birth of Isaac in chapter 21. Remember 20 (10 X 2) stands for ordinal completion and 21 (7 X 3) for spiritual completion so the chapter numbering fits. Hagar and Ishmael are sent away. Hagar and Ishmael nearly die in the desert when God saves them:
17And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation." 19Then(Q) God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Notice the well which God opened her eyes to. Wells are spiritual “wormholes” or passages into the spiritual realm. Don’t believe it? I don’t blame, you but keep following and you’ll see more evidence. To be clear, I’m not saying that you can find any old well, jump into it and end up somewhere else. But it is obvious that wells are significant places where spiritual intervention takes place. Before I lose you let me give you some Biblical examples and then we’ll move on to part II of this story which involves wells (this is why I want to get your attention on this subject). Joseph, a model of Jesus is thrown down a well and ultimately ends up in Egypt. Canaan, the promised land and type of heaven is where he started he went down the well and ended up in Egypt a type of this earth/world. Isaac’s wife was found at a well, Jacob first saw Rachel, his beloved wife at a well and Jesus talks with the woman at the well, a type of church of which she refers to Jacob’s well. Well, well, well – hopefully all our eyes are beginning to open up a bit…
Abraham and Abimelech (Part II, still in chapter 21)
A Treaty with Abimelech
22At that time(S) Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham,(T) "God is with you in all that you do. 23Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but(U) as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned." 24And Abraham said, "I will swear."
25When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants(V) had seized, 26Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today." 27So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men(W) made a covenant. 28Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.
Notice the lambs which relate to Jesus and 7 being God’s number denoting spiritual completion.
29And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?" 30He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this[c] may be a witness for me that I dug this well." 31Therefore(X) that place was called Beersheba,[d] because there both of them swore an oath. 32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. 33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and(Y) called there on the name of the LORD,(Z) the Everlasting God. 34And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
The tree stands for the cross of Jesus. Somehow there were two agreements between Satan & YHWH. Yes YHWH does not “need” Satan in any way, but if you don’t think they make agreements then read the first part of Job again. This whole dispensation of 7,000 years is about the argument between Satan and YHWH being carried out.
In Chapter 22 Isaac is sacrificed. Abraham in the physical wanted the well. In the spiritual we get insight to know that YHWH the Father wanted the well and carried out His plan to sacrifice His son “…for God so loved the world that He sacrificed His only son…” and this is played out by Abraham and Isaac in chapter 22. This is one of the most “famous” archetypes giving us insight, but there are many more. Beginning to see what I mean about wells? I hope so.
…moving on to the third wife-sister narrative which is with Issac who stands for Jesus. Isaac had received his bride from the servant who found Rebecca by the well. Isaac and Rebecca are well known to be a model for Christ and the Church as well as the Rapture, so this makes it all the more interesting to move forward and see what we can find…
Genesis 26
God’s Promise to Isaac
1Now there was a famine in the land, besides(A) the former famine that was in the days of Abraham.

Another famine has happened just like the first one that occurred with Abram.

And Isaac went to Gerar to(B) Abimelech king of the(C) Philistines.

But this one does not involve Egypt (earth/world) but spiritual because it is with the Philistines (spiritual).

2And the LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell(D) in the land of which I shall tell you. 3(E) Sojourn in this land, and(F) I will be with you and will bless you, for(G) to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish(H) the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. 4(I) I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And(J) in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, 5because(K) Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

YHWH reiterates His promise to Isaac and tells him not to go down to Egypt and also uses the “stars of heaven” as the analogy also denoting spiritual and the heavens vs. earth, dust and Egypt.
Isaac and Abimelech
6So Isaac settled in Gerar. 7When the men of the place asked him about his wife,(L) he said, "She is my sister," for(M) he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because(N) she was attractive in appearance.

Here is the wife-sister narrative…

8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with[a] Rebekah his wife.

This time is different yet from the other times. The first time was handled with plagues on Egypt. The second time it was a dream. Both had threats of harm attached to them. This time Abimelech sees Isaac with what he is sure is his wife and not his sister through a “window”. Just like “wells” in the Bible other terms can give us insight. In this instance a window is like an opening from the spiritual to the physical to gain sight. We use a window in a house to gain site into the outside world. And so Abimelech used a window to gain insight into the relationship with Isaac and Rebecca.

9So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'" 10Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and(O) you would have brought guilt upon us." 11So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

This Abimelech (Abimelech may be a direct name, but may also be a title) whether it was the same man or his son learned from the first run-in with Abraham. Abraham and Abimelech had made an oath regarding the wells afterwards and so this Abimelech by his sight through a “window” is proactively making sure the “couple” (Jesus & his bride the Church) are not hurt, not necessarily because he is so good (Philistines stand for dark spiritual forces), but because he already knows the repercussions of disobedience. He gives the order to his subjects not to touch them at all or the penalty will be death.
12And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD(P) blessed him, 13and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. 14He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines(Q) envied him. 15(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells(R) that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) 16And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."
Isaac (standing for Jesus) was richly blessed, just as Jesus has been richly blessed by greater “herds” throughout the Church age. Finally the Philistines (dark forces) can no longer stand it and ask him to “go away”. Notice here again are the wells which really are wormholes. Notice the “dark forces” had stopped them up.
17So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
Gerar means “lodging place” and could relate to Jesus when he talks of the “many rooms” and/or similar to the ark.
18And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And(S) he gave them the names that his father had given them. 19But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, 20the herdsmen of Gerar(T) quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek,[b] because they contended with him. 21Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.[c] 22And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth,[d] saying, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
Notice Isaac (Jesus) digging the wells. Water is known to stand for “spirit” and makes sense that it would be in the well. Finally Isaac (Jesus) has success and digs a well and relating to the Rapture what he says should be exciting:
“For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”
Maybe this doesn’t make sense to you if you are expecting some “automatic button” to be pushed and Heaven to be clouds and harps. Remember the Promised Land which is a model. It was promised but it had to be taken by faith. So Isaac (Jesus) finds an establishment place for God’s elect.
23From there he went up to Beersheba. 24And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said,(U) "I am the God of Abraham your father.(V) Fear not, for(W) I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake." 25So he(X) built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.
Notice that the reaction to hearing from the LORD is to dig a well. YHWH affirms and gives confidence and they follow with action in digging a well (creating a wormhole).
26When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and(Y) Phicol the commander of his army, 27Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and(Z) have sent me away from you?" 28They said, "We see plainly that the LORD has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, 29that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace.(AA) You are now the blessed of the LORD."
Satan is not stupid he is a survivalist. As God’s word says all will not be done until the end of the Millennium. The Rapture does not end all things. Even at the end of the Millennium Satan and his forces rebel which finally lead us into eternity.
30So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31In the morning they rose early and(AB) exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.
Feasts are set times for oaths. Think you can’t dine with the enemy? What about Esther, Xerxes and Haman. Notice Isaac (Jesus) sent them on their way and they depart in peace. The Millennium is a time for peace.
32That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, "We have found water." 33He called it Shibah;[e] therefore the name of the city is(AC) Beersheba to this day.
Water, standing for spirit and the “living water” Jesus refers to with the “woman at the well” is necessary for a well to be any good.
34When Esau was forty years old, he took(AD) Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, 35and(AE) they made life bitter[f] for Isaac and Rebekah.
Esau and Jacob were both born from the marriage of Issac and Rebecca and what this all means is a whole other story…
Lots to learn, just in the book of Genesis.

Blessings,

Tony

I phone, Apple & Eden repeat

2008-06-02T11:13:00.001-07:00

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Apple’s new iphone is like a new “power” in the palm of your hand. Sometimes I believe God has a sense of humor of just makes things simple.

The basic building blocks of life? Atoms or Adams? It can be that simple Evolutionists.

Genesis 3

6So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[b] she took of its fruit(D) and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her,(E) and he ate.

Prophetic News?

2008-06-02T10:56:00.000-07:00

Disclaimer: I know little to nothing about this group so I cannot make claims for or against. But the timing and wording seems prophetic.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361345,00.html

430 is the number of years from Israel to exodus (also 400 which is also a number used)

Judge Orders Return of 430 Children to Polygamist Sect
Monday, June 02, 2008

AP

SAN ANGELO, Texas — A Texas district judge on Monday ordered the immediate return of the more than 400 children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch, bringing a sudden end to one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history.
Texas District Judge Barbara Walther, responding to a state Supreme Court ruling last week, signed the order filed by attorneys for the parents and Child Protective Services, allowing the parents to begin picking their children up from foster care facilities around the state almost immediately.
The order requires the parents to stay in Texas, to attend parenting classes and to allow the children to be examined as part of any ongoing child abuse investigation. But it does not put restrictions on the children's fathers, require that polygamy is renounced or that parents live away from the Yearning For Zion Ranch.
"We're really grateful to get the order signed," said Willie Jessop, an elder for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the sect that runs the ranch.
Two months (2,000 years) in foster care has taken a toll on the children, who previously lived an insular life on the self-contained ranch where church teachings dominated the way of life, and he hoped for a less restrictive order, he said, without elaborating.
The order requires that parents allow CPS to make unannounced visits to the families and that they notify CPS if they plan to travel more than 100 miles from their homes.
The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed an appeals court ruling ordering Walther to reverse her decision in April putting all children from the ranch into foster case. The Supreme Court and the appeals court rejected the state's argument that all the children were in immediate danger from what it said was a cycle of sexual abuse of teenage girls at the ranch.
Half the children sent to foster care were no older than 5.
The FDLS denies any abuse of the children and says they are being persecuted for their religious beliefs.
The Third Court of Appeals (Trinity) last week ruled that the state failed to show that any more than five of the teenage girls were being sexually abused, and had offered no evidence of sexual or physical abuse against the other children.
Roughly 430 children from the ranch are in foster care after two births, numerous reclassifications of adult women initially held as minors and a handful of agreements allowing parents to keep custody while the Supreme Court considered the case.
It's not clear how many might return to the ranch right away (multiple raptures). Many of the parents have purchased or rented homes in Amarillo, San Antonio and other places around the state, where the children were placed in foster facilities.
The FLDS, which teaches that polygamy brings glorification in heaven, is a breakaway sect of the Mormon church, which renounced polygamy more than a century ago.

June 4th Rapture (2008)

2008-06-01T20:00:00.000-07:00

June 4th Rapture (2008)
Please Reference: Rapture: Empty Hourglass

To clarify what I am doing is watching and not saying I understand it all right away – like Paul I “see through a glass darkly” and it’s like bringing binoculars into focus. At my website I describe how in the military I was taught to watch and Jesus uses this same analogy when he describes His command for us to “watch” as we are followers of our True King - Jesus.

First of all I need to reference my prior writing called: “Rapture: Hourglass Empty” Please read it. It is at both my website (www.tony4yhwh.com) and posted at www.fivedoves.com under the letters: (http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2008/tonye530-1.htm )

Given (above reference): 14,400 days (360 biblical years X 40)
December 23rd 1968, The Apollo 8 reading of Genesis
+ 14,400 days
= May 28, 2008

Now…

It is understood that Joshua and his taking the Promised Land is also Prophetic by nature (all scripture is at least 3 fold: Historical, Moral & Prophetic).

We already see the earthly Joshua and Heavenly direct in the scripture:

Joshua 5

13 Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?” 14 He said, “No; rather I indeed come now as Captain of the Host of the Lord.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?” 15 The captain of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

This is Joshua (which in Hebrew is Jesus) the earthly captain meeting Jesus the Heavenly Captain.

Jericho means “moon”. Joshua conquers the earthly moon and 1st city in the Promised Land. Jesus will conquer the heavenly moon (the one you see just about every night!) as a type of 1st city leading to a Heavenly promised land. Remember as it has been said that Abraham’s children will be like the sand on the sea shore and the stars in the sky. Joshua and Jericho is as to the sand as Jesus and the moon are to the space frontier (galaxy or universe).

Joshua was instructed to march 6 days around Jericho (read Joshua 6)

Verse 14 says “thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did so for six days.

Verse 15 – 16 says “Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times.” 16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people “Shout” for the Lord has given you the city.

As you can see this is the “last trumpet” and also the “Shout”.

The walls come down (barrier)

Let me get to the date and then I will continue on in more detail. Here again is the figuring from the last document:

Given (above reference): 14,400 days (360 biblical years X 40)
December 23rd 1968, The Apollo 8 reading of Genesis
+ 14,400 days
= May 28, 2008

+ 7 days and the last trumpet and shout
= June 4th 2008

As Steve Berryman has been mentioning this falls on the correct creation day Wednesday the 4th day of the week (middle candle on the Menorah, the Servant candle).

This day is the first day of Sivan and New Moon, perfectly dark for the thief in the night which is Jesus. Also a Trumpet is blown on the New Moon (you can research Rosh Chodesh for yourself for more information).

Also Sivan 1 is significant to Noah as the day the flood waters subsided upon the earth. This took 150 days and if you move back 150 days this year you come to a very important day that I’ve already written about which is the 12th day of Christmas, 3 wise man day and Epiphany day. I have a Blog post on December 28th of 2007 that you can read regarding this day (www.tony4yhwh.com ) and there is lots information on this day you can research as well.

All of this brings us to June 4, 2008 as a day to focus your “binoculars” in on during your Rapture watch.

Here is some more scriptural validation lending insight:

Matthew 20 is the chapter where Jesus is in Jericho. In chapter 20 is the parable about the workers in the vineyard when workers are called at the 11th hour and he says the last shall be first and the first last. Also verse 17 reads “As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem…” then the “discussion” over which disciple will sit at Jesus’ right hand. Then when they are leaving Jericho a group asks for sight which are blind. Following this is Matthew 21 which is the Triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

In the story of the Good Samaritan Jesus said a “man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho”. This is a reference to the New Jerusalem and Jericho.

In Hebrews 11 in the faith “hall of fame” after talking about the search for a “True and Better” Country, references are made to the walls of Jericho falling down and Rahab.

Rahab in the story of Joshua is a prostitute that is saved by her faith. She hides the two spies (boy did Joshua learn that instead of sending in 12 spies of which 2 bring back a good report and 10 bring back a bad report that more is not better – just send in the 2 good ones!) and is told to hang out the red cord that she will be saved.

This passage in Isaiah is prophetic to this coming event (my comments in blue):

Isaiah 51
1"(A)Listen to me, you who (B)pursue righteousness,
Who seek the LORD:
Look to the (C)rock from which you were hewn (rock, moon, garden of Eden)
And to the quarry from which you were dug.
2"Look to (D)Abraham your father (Abraham’s bosom, Paradise)
And to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain;
When he (E)was but one I called him,
Then I blessed him and multiplied him." (stars in the sky)
3Indeed, (F)the LORD will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all her (G)waste places
And her (H)wilderness He will make like (I)Eden,
And her desert like the (J)garden of the LORD;
(K)Joy and gladness will be found in her,
Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.
4"(L)Pay attention to Me, O My people,
And give ear to Me, O My nation;
For a (M)law will go forth from Me,
And I will set My (N)justice for a (O)light of the peoples. (moon reflects suns light)
5"My (P)righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth,
And My (Q)arms will judge the peoples;
The (R)coastlands will wait for Me, (moon/Eden/New Jerusalem returns)
And for My (S)arm they will wait expectantly.
6"(T)Lift up your eyes to the sky, (where the moon is now)
Then look to the earth beneath; (where it will soon return)
For the (U)sky will vanish like smoke, (the distance or wall will be gone)
And the (V)earth will wear out like a garment
And its inhabitants will die in like manner;
But My (W)salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not wane.
7"(X)Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
A people in whose (Y)heart is My law;
Do not fear the (Z)reproach of man,
Nor be dismayed at their revilings.
8"For the (AA)moth will eat them like a garment,
And the (AB)grub will eat them like wool
But My (AC)righteousness will be forever,
And My salvation to all generations."
9(AD)Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD;
Awake as in the (AE)days of old, the generations of long ago
(AF)Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, (Rahab the prostitute dwelled in earthly Jericho, but it may be Rahab a demonic force who rules/guards the moon when it is overthrown)
Who pierced the (AG)dragon?
10Was it not You who (AH)dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
Who made the depths of the sea a pathway
For the (AI)redeemed to cross over? (redeemed cross over – Rapture reference)
11So the (AJ)ransomed of the LORD will return (returning!!!)
And come with joyful shouting to Zion,
And (AK)everlasting joy will be on their heads
They will obtain gladness and joy,
And (AL)sorrow and sighing will flee away.
12"I, even I, am He who (AM)comforts you
Who are you that you are afraid of (AN)man who dies
And of the son of man who is made (AO)like grass,
13That you have (AP)forgotten the LORD your Maker,
Who (AQ)stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth,
That you (AR)fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor,
As he makes ready to destroy?
But where is the fury of the (AS)oppressor?
14"The (AT)exile will soon be set free, and will not die in the dungeon, (AU)nor will his bread be lacking. (a promise that we will not always be here forever)
15"For I am the LORD your God, who (AV)stirs up the sea and its waves roar (the LORD of hosts is His name).
16"I have (AW)put My words in your mouth and have (AX)covered you with the shadow of My hand, to (AY)establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, 'You are My people.'"
17(AZ)Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Arise, O Jerusalem,
You who have (BA)drunk from the LORD'S hand the cup of His anger;
The chalice of reeling you have drained to the dregs.
18There is (BB)none to guide her among all the sons she has borne,
Nor is there one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has reared.
19These two things have befallen you;
Who will mourn for you?
The (BC)devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
How shall I comfort you?
20Your sons have fainted,
They (BD)lie helpless at the head of every street,
Like an (BE)antelope in a net,
Full of the wrath of the LORD,
The (BF)rebuke of your God.
21Therefore, please hear this, you (BG)afflicted,
Who are (BH)drunk, but not with wine:
22Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God
Who (BI)contends for His people,
"Behold, I have taken out of your hand the (BJ)cup of reeling,
The chalice of My anger;
You will never drink it again.
23"I will (BK)put it into the hand of your tormentors,
Who have said to you, '(BL)Lie down that we may walk over you.'
You have even made your back like the ground
And like the street for those who walk over it."
Next I’d like to show you some notes on what I’ve found relative to dates and recent prophetic events.

1987 1988 1989 2007 2008 2009
2 years 1967 physical 20 21 22 40 41 42
stands for 1968 spiritual 19 20 21 39 40 41
2,000 years 1969 judgment 18 19 20 38 39 40

18 = man (6 X 3)
19 = judgment (good or bad, for or against)
20 = ordinal completion (10 X 2, Jacob & Laban)
21 = Spiritual completion (7 X 3)

1967 – Physical Jerusalem

June 1967 was the Recapture of Jerusalem. The city of Jericho was recaptured during the 6 day war in 1967. It was one of the 1st cities handed over to the Palestinian Authority in the Oslo Accords in 1994.

As has been written by Steve Berryman as per the “law of stripes” one will not receive the 41st stripe. Also in the lashes one can receive the proper 40 or as Paul received 40 minus one which of course is 39. Utilizing the law of stripes you can see that each of these number falls under 2008.

1968 – Heavenly Jerusalem

I’ve already explained in my writing of “Rapture: Hourglass Empty” and prior here. But the December 24th 1968 and the Apollo 8 mission where Genesis was read was the prophetic archetype and beginning of the countdown. A commemorative stamp was made for this even on May 5th 1969 (which I show on my prior document). May 5th 2000 was the planet alignment.

1968 Shavout (Jewish) and Pentecost Christian both were on June 2nd

1969 – The Rebellion

Again please reference my prior writing for detail, but this was the Apollo 11 mission. A man on this mission took communion, but kept it secret because of the Atheist lawsuit after the Apollo 8 mission. Quite a contrast as the Genesis reading “God Created…” was broadcast to the largest audience ever at the time. The headline for this was man putting his foot on the moon. The middle of the Bible in Psalms 118:8 reads “…better to put your trust in God than man…”

Epilogue:

The central event that took place regarding the Moon that was “faithful” was the Genesis reading on Christmas Eve 1968. My favorite Christmas movie is “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Do you remember George Bailey and his discussion with Mary?
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You-you want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey, that's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon...Well, then you could swallow it. And it'll all dissolve, see. And the moon beams that shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair...Am I talking too much?
When a couple gets married you go on a honeymoon. Then there is the “man” in the moon and there are the Zodiac “lunar mansions”. All of these “concepts” come from somewhere. I hope some of this information has been helpful – Maranatha!
Appendix: A listing of events I found have bearing on this topic for the key years 1967,1968,1969/1987,1988,1989 & 2007,2008
Midpoint years (20) BTW…6/4/2008 adds up to 20

1987

• Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for the 1st time
• Iran Contra affair revelation where U.S. & Israel give Iran weapons in exchange for hostages
• Assemblies of God Jim Bakker defrocked
• The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the Treaty of Rome establishing the single European market and the European Political cooperation.
• Our Common Future is a report from the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development and was published.
• FCC rescinds the “fairness” doctrine which requires radio and television to “fairly” present controversial issues.
• The Harmonic Convergence was a loosely organized new age spiritual event that occurred on August 16 and August 17, 1987, when groups of people gathered in various sacred sites and "mystical" places all over the world to usher in a new era. The date was based primarily on the Maya calendar, but was also affected by interpretations of European and Asian astrology. It also marked a time in astronomy when a number of planets in our solar system came into alignment with one another.
• (Knighthood) August 19 - In London, The Order of the Garter is opened to women.
• October 19 - Black Monday: stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.
• October 23 - On a vote of 58-42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1988
• January 15 - In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Palestinians are injured.
• January 25 - U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.
• February 12 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• February 29 - A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations.
• March 16 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• March 24 - An Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
• April 14 - In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
• The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War.
• April 18 - United States Navy retaliates for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
• April 25 - In Israel, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused by survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction is later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
• May 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.
• June 30 - Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Ecône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.
• July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by missiles launched from the USS Vincennes.
• July 6 - The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers in the American Northeast on record.
• August 8 - 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
• August 20 - The Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.
• October 11 - Women are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag.
• October 28 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
• November 1 - In the Israeli election, Likud wins 47 seats, Labour wins 49, but Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains in office.
• November 8 - United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
• November 15 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46.
• November 16 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections were held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
• November 22 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
• December 2 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be of either Iranian or Libyan origin.

1989

• January 4 - Gulf of Sidra incident (1989): two Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are engaged and shot down by two US Navy F-14 Tomcats.
• January 20 - George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.
• February 2 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending 9 years of military occupation.
• February 7 - The Los Angeles, California City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
• February 10 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.
• February 11 - Barbara Clementine Harris is consecrated as the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
• February 14 - The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit.
• February 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
• February 23 - After protracted testimony, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11–9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.
• February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $3-million bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
• February 24 - After 44 years, Estonian flag is raised to the Pikk Hermann castle tower.
• March 1 - The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States.
• March 2 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
• March 7 - Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.
• March 13 - A geomagnetic storm caused the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. Six million people were left without power for nine hours. Some areas in the northeastern U.S. and in Sweden also lost power, and auroras seen as far as Texas.
• March 22 - Asteroid 4581 Asclepius approaches the Earth at a distance of 700,000 kilometers.
• March 23 - A 300 m (1,000 ft) diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 500,000 km (400,000 miles).
• March 24 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground.
• June 3 - The Ayatollah Khomeini dies.
• June 21 - British police arrest 250 people for celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge.
• July 14-July 16 - At the annual G-7 Summit, leaders call for restrictions on gas emissions.
• August 8 - STS-28: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret 5-day military mission.
• August 9 The asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged by radar from Arecibo.
• August 20 - In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in the family's den.
• August 23 - Two million indigenous people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, then still occupied by the Soviet Union, join hands to demand freedom and independence, forming an uninterrupted 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way.
• August 25 - Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton.
• October 5 - U.S. televangelist John Nunes is found guilty of embezzling $158 million.
• October 21 - The Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations issue the Langkawi Declaration on the Environment, making environmental sustainability one of the Commonwealth's main priorities.
• November 9 - Cold War: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began tearing the wall down).
• December 1 - Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist-dominated SED its monopoly on power. Egon Krenz, the Politburo and the Central Committee resign 2 days later.
• December 3 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.
• Homosexual Acts between consenting adults decriminalized in Western Australia.

1993 Oslo Accords

• An agreement on the withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Gaza Strip and Jericho area.

2007

*December 30th 2006 Sadaam Hussein is hanged to death.
• January 1 - Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
• January 1 - Slovenia adopts the euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
• January 1 - South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
• January 4 - Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
• January 10 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops in Iraq.
• January 11 - China successfully tests a ground-based ballistic missile capable of destroying satellites in orbit, drawing criticisms from other countries.
• January 12 - Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes perihelion.
• January 19 - Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority in order to bolster the president's position.[8]
• January 22 - A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq kills 88 people.
• January 25 - The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, takes a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
• January 29 - A suicide bomber kills three people in a bakery in Eilat, Israel.
• February 2 - Palestinian factional violence: Hamas and its rival Fatah renew their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
• February 3 - The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is found at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk, England.
• February 10 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announces a presidential bid in Springfield, Illinois.
• February 13 - North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.[9]
• March 1 - Airbus announces that it will cease work indefinitely on the A380F freight aircraft.
• March 3 - Total lunar eclipse.
• March 8 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admits that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
• March 17 - Chlorine bombs injure hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq.
• March 23 - Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
• March 25 - In Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate the 50-year Treaty of Rome.
• April 4 - Iran announced it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23. The captives arrive back in the UK the next day.
• April 16 - 32 people are killed in the Virginia Tech massacre on the premises of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
• April 24 - Abortion is legalized in Mexico City.
• April 25 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 135.95 points to close at 13089.89; its first close above 13000 in its history. (13 = rebellion)
• May 4 - Executive Directive 51, which specifies the procedures for continuity of the federal government of the United States in the event of a "catastrophic emergency" signed by President George W. Bush.
• May 10 - Tony Blair announces he will resign as British Prime Minister on 27 June triggering a Labour Party leadership election.
• May 16 - The General Assembly of the United Nations, recognizing that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaimed 2008 the International Year of Languages [1]. Babel
• May 17 - The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-united after eighty years of schism.
• May 26 - Russia is once again recognized as a full-fledged superpower by the United States.[12]
• May 31 - A calendar blue moon occurred in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
• June 5 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
• June 8 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-117.
• June 27 - Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; New Labour Party leader Gordon Brown is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II.
• June 30 - A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.
• July 2 - Venus and Saturn are in conjunction, separation 46 arcsecs.
• July 14 - Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
• July 19 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 for the first time in history.
• July 21 - The final book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.[24]
• August 4 - The Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
• August 6 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrives in historic Palestianian town of Jericho, moon becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in over seven years. Olmert met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
• August 8 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-118.
• August 17 Vladimir Putin issues a statement, revealing that Russia is to resume the flight exercises of its Strategic bombers in remote areas. The flights were suspended in 1991 after the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
• August 30 - 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident in which a B-52 flew from Minot AFB, ND to Barksdale AFB, LA carrying six nuclear warheads.
• September 12 - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and his entire cabinet resign.
• September 14 - The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program."

Rosh Hashanah 2007 was September 13th.

SELENE (Ancient Greek: Σελήνη, moon), better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya (かぐや?), is the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft.[1] Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and NASDA (both organizations that are now part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA), the spacecraft was launched September 14, 2007.
The name stands for Selenological and Engineering Explorer; Selene was a lunar deity in Greek mythology. The orbiter's nickname, Kaguya, which was selected by the general public, derives from the name of a lunar princess in the ancient Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.[2] After the successful release of its sub-satellites Rstar and Vstar, they were named Okina and Ouna, also from folklore.[3]
SELENE comes as part of a renewed interest in lunar exploration, being "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program",[4] and following up on Japan's first lunar probe, Hagoromo, launched in 1990.[1][5] China has launched the Chang'e 1 lunar explorer on October 24, 2007, with India's Chandrayaan and the United States Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter following in 2008. The United States, European countries, Russia, Japan and China are planning future manned lunar exploration missions or base construction on the moon for the year 2018 or later.[citation needed]
Full link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE

• September 14 - Viktor Zubkov is approved as the new Prime Minister of Russia after a vote in the Duma.
• October 18 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing 136, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.
• October 23 - The Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launched on mission STS-120.
• October 24 - In the space of a few hours, Comet Holmes develops a coma and flares up to half a million times its former brightness, becoming visible to the naked eye. Its coma would later become larger in volume than the Sun, making it the second comet to do so in 2007 after Comet McNaught.
• October 25 - The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ380, flew scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.
• November 27 - The Annapolis Conference, a peace conference trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, is held in Annapolis, Maryland in the United States.
• December 7 - Uranus' orbit will be positioned such that the sun shines directly above its equator (i.e. an equinox)
2008

Splitting Jerusalem: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517293053&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
2008 has been designated as:
International Year of Languages;[1]
International Year of Planet Earth;[2]
International Year of the Potato;[3]
International Year of Sanitation;[4]
European Year of Intercultural Dialogue;[5]

• January 2 - The price of petroleum hits US$100 per barrel for the first time.
• January 14 - At 19:04:39 UTC, the MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury.[12]
• January 24 - Iraqi Parliament adopts a new national flag, removing three stars associated with the Baath Party; a permanent design is expected within the next year.
• February 4 - Iran opens its first space center and launches a rocket to space.[25]
• February 4 - A Palestinian suicide bomber kills one and wounds thirteen in a Dimona, Israel shopping center.[26]
• February 7 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-122 to deliver the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station.
• February 20 - United States Navy destroys a spy satellite containing toxic fuel by shooting it down with a missile launched from USS Lake Erie in the Pacific ocean.[40]
• February 20 - Total lunar eclipse - North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Western Asia.
• March 3 - UN Security Council Resolution 1803 on Iran's Nuclear Program
• March 6 - Eight Israeli civilians are killed and nine wounded when a Palestinian attacker opens fire at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.
• March 9 - First European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, a cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station, launches from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
• March 19 - An exploding star halfway across the visible universe becomes the farthest known object ever visible to the naked eye.[54]
• March 20 - The United States enacts economic sanctions against Iran.
• April 3 - Jules Verne ATV docks to the International Space Station
• April 15–April 20 - Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States. Among his destinations are the White House, The Catholic University of America, the United Nations General Assembly, and the site of the fallen World Trade Center. Benedict XVI also celebrated Mass at Nationals Park and Yankee Stadium.
• April 18 - A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurs outside of West Salem, Illinois. It is one of the strongest earthquakes in the midwestern state in 40 years.

• May 8 - Vladimir Putin is confirmed as the 10th Prime Minister of Russia after a vote in the State Duma.
• May 12 - Over 60,000 are killed in central China by an earthquake measuring 7.9Mw. The epicenter is 90 kilometers (55 miles) west-northwest of Chengdu.
• May 15 - California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.[70]
• May 25 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands on Mars.
• May 31 - STS-124, Space Shuttle Discovery is launched at 5:02 EST.
• June - The Large Hadron Collider (located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland) is to begin operation; it will be the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
• June 3 - Launch of the The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST).
• ISRO Chandrayaan (Lunar Craft), orbiter and impactor to the Moon.

Rapture: Empty Hourglass

2008-05-29T13:57:00.000-07:00

Rapture: Empty Hourglass

With a coming Rapture to be followed by world wars, famine and disasters Satan is in preparation for deception.

Aliens will be used to explain the “disappearances” which is actuality the firstfruits Rapture. Harvesting in the Bible is the “parable” given to this prophetic event soon to come. In deception harvesting is also a term used to describe what the “evil” aliens are doing.

Global Warming is the deception preparing to explain the plagues, judgments, seals, bowls of wrath of Revelation in the Bible. Evolution via false science is the explanation used to get rid of a creator and Global Warming is the false explanation of what the earth and mankind will soon experience (although man has not been the steward/gardener that God set out for Adam/man to be).

We have been in a subliminal education program for some time. Movies, video games etc. One of the first video games to come out was Space Invaders followed by Asteroids – accident? No.

Be ready for Bush to be severely attacked (yes even more than now) in relation to a “second Christian” Crusade into the middle east and the Muslims are already terrorists so this will pave the way for a world wide religion since this is an explanation of our troubles with wars over the history of man.

Get ready for the Borg. If you have watched Star Trek than you know what I mean. If not, Borg is a combination of technology and humans. Have you been shopping at the supermarket and seen someone wandering around the produce section talking to themselves only then to notice they have the peculiar piece of technology attached to their ear? Daniel predicted this in this verse of the Bible:

Daniel 2:43
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

This is the prophecy of all the nations of the earth, the last of which is mentioned above. If your NIV or other “modern” translation doesn’t read exactly like this there is a reason for that called deception. Clay is man. Iron and the metals are spiritual. Notice how everything today is now Hybrids (cars, animals, food, even humans now, etc)? Think this is by accident? It isn’t. Jesus said that in the end times right before he came it would be “as in the days of Noah”. What was significant then? Fallen angels mingling (marrying and having relations creating offspring which are called the Nephilim) w/ man via women.
Genesis 6
The Corruption of Mankind
1Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
2that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
3Then the LORD said, "(A)My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, (B)because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
4The (C)Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
These were the “gods” of old which soon will be the “aliens” of new. Have you watched the movie Matrix? Remember how man was set up to be an infestation of earth? Well to Satan man is. This is a deep subject and I won’t go into all of this, but I believe Satan was the original ruler of the earth (set up before his sin by YHWH and this does help explain old earth vs. new earth and even dinosaurs, etc.) The easy thing to point out is that during Jesus’ 40 day temptation Satan offered rulership of the earth, of which Jesus did not dispute. Satan had “won” back the title deed to the earth through his 1st deception (he’s not done yet) via Adam & Eve. Jesus bought it back by dying on the cross.

Since Jesus “won back” the title deed of earth by paying for man’s sins Satan has to fight via proxy (representative). He does this several ways. Pharmaceuticals, steroids and other drugs, bionics or “borg” type technology and via “spirit guides”. Notice how the movies Terminator, Matrix, Star Trek, etc. are used to precondition, cell phones and chipping devices will be the number of the beast 666, but so much more. He is using all of this to “steer” mankind, which in fact is a set up for the 2nd Great deception of mankind.

The Second Great Deception of Man

Man lost earth the first time through sin. Eden was taken away and the earth was Satan’s again. Jesus died for man’s sins taking the title deed to earth back (but not Eden, more on this later). Man can be saved in grace through faith by Jesus. So, Satan has one other course of action. If man would reject the sacrifice made by Jesus then he could rule again. Now this has been taking place over the last 2,000 years since Jesus’ death on an individual basis. But, Satan needs this to happen on a “world wide” basis – mankind as a whole.

God will allow this to take place (just as he allowed the deception in the Garden of Eden). It will take two major events which by both Satan and God’s view point bring things to an eventual head which will truly be the war to end all wars – Armageddon.

Major event #1: The Rapture of God’s elect. There will be more than one Rapture. I’ll give you two quick examples to make my point.
1. The Law of the Harvest. The Rapture (a.k.a. alien invasion) operates on this law. There are 3 parts. Firstfruits, Main & gleanings.
2. The Apostles & women. Mary, John & Peter are early believers in the resurrection then the main group believes and then you have doubting Thomas who needs to put his finger in the holes before he claims – “My Lord and my God!”

Multiple raptures will create subsequent harvests and there are many Biblical examples of this.

Major event #2: The Deception. The same happening which provides for the escape of God’s elect also provides a means of deception for Satan and his plan. Satan wants to unite mankind against God. Utilizing the Rapture of God’s elect not only gets them out of the way (whistle blowers), but also provides the great event needed to bring mankind together against this great unknown and alien enemy.

The good Alien vs. the bad Alien.

When I was young I remember reading a comic which was published during the cold war era. In this comic an alien came and left, and never came back but in doing so it ended the cold war and united mankind against the possibility of a future alien invasion.

A World Government will be established to have a united military to end wars and protect against this potential alien invasion. It will also end world hunger, poverty, etc. Also, it can “band” together for taxes, technology and to fight against global warming. This will bring about the “mark of the beast” which will allow complete control of purchases, taxes, etc. Terrorism, child abductions, etc. help create the need for this. Be assured, everything Satan needs to accomplish in the world government he is creating a dire emergency in our societies right now.

A World Religion will be established. This is how the Jewish temple may be rebuilt as it will be said that “all roads lead to God”. Muslim terrorism and “Christian Crusades” will be done away with and religion will be blamed for all the wars (which is also a good part true. Satan always uses Paradoxes, truth mixed w/ a lie to deceive, just like in the garden w/ Eve). All denominations are being manipulated and infiltrated to prepare the way for this. Don’t put “all your marbles” on a denomination or religion because at some point it will fold up under this One World Religion. There will be an underground just like in the early Church days and these will be those that survive the tribulation and also the martyrs. Jesus is the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but through him! – Don’t buy into a Paradox. Ultimate sin is simply rebellion or choosing against God. This is the very definition of Satan and evil. To say there are multiple roads is not tolerance it is out and out rebellion. There is freedom through submission not rebellion.

Once the World Government and World Religion are established at some point will come the “good alien” (antichrist). He will come and let the world know that in his goodness (Satan appears like an angel of white or an alien of white) he will prepare them for this inevitable coming of the “bad alien” & army which in truth is Jesus and the Saints returning to fight Armageddon. For a short time period (which will likely be 3 ½ years after the antichrist proclaims himself – god or “good alien” whichever you prefer) there will be a population getting ready for this battle in a multitude of ways. Genocide will again be justified and the integration or “mingling” of technology and people. If you’ve every watched Star Trek the “borg” has direct relevance to a coming reality.

How is it going to happen?

I certainly don’t know everything, but those that are Raptured will be prepared and equipped for the battle by Jesus and the angels. Both sides will be preparing for war. How God equips us exactly I’m not sure but it will be similar to the passages regarding the Patriarchs such as Abraham and his war against the kings, David and his wars, Gideon, etc. The Bible is at least 3 layers thick: Historic, Moral and Prophetic. Everything that has been done is a picture of a future fulfillment as well. Persons who are attempting to show the importance of prophecy in the Bible and say that it is a certain % are wrong. The Bible is 100% Prophetic – the entire book cover to cover. It is so deep we could not possibly comprehend all of it as its Author is beyond our understanding.

The Moon, The Garden of Eden & The New Jerusalem

The Bible many times uses creation to explain things. Our planet & solar system are no exception. The sun stands for Jesus. The moon is the bride which has no light of its own, but instead reflects the light of the sun. What is the earth? It’s the husband or groom. Let me explain further. Adam was the first man and husband. God created Eve, his wife by taking the “womb” (not rib) from his side and thus created a “womb-an” or woman which became his wife. The triangle relationship is Eve or bride = moon, earth husband (Adam was created from the dust of the earth) is Adam and the Sun is Jesus (who is also the Son and also the basic building blocks of life are Atoms or adams – ha!).

Now let’s go to Revelation 21 where the New Jerusalem is coming down from heaven like a bride adorned for her husband. What is the bride? The moon. What’s the husband? The earth. After Adam & Eve sinned they were thrown out of the Garden. Well we’ve been on earth a long time where did it go? The answer is right where God put it – just out of our reach. Satan was in the Garden and deceived Eve also leading to Adam’s fall and they were thrown out of the Garden. Ever wonder why the whole Jewish calendar runs on lunar months and all the focus is on the “moon” and not the solar calendar? Well maybe now you know. God has known about the “full” redemption plan from the beginning.

Who owns the garden/moon? I’m not exactly sure, but Satan and his demons are there now. In 1967 in prophetic and miraculous fashion Israel captured earthly Jerusalem. Soon after this, in 1969 man landed on the moon or “New Jerusalem” the bride. Accident? No. Satan’s plan in manipulating man. Both God and Satan were about there business preparing for Armageddon which is to come. When Jesus died he redeemed man with forgiveness of his sins and also earth. Satan is the “spirit of the air” as the Bible calls it and I suspect he is limited to where he can go which is likely not beyond our galaxy. WW I at which General Allenby captured Jerusalem for the British and WW II which set up Israel as a nation are really all about Jerusalem earthly (Israel) and Jerusalem heavenly (United States).

Notice the satellites, the “star wars” programs, NASA, etc. they are all preparation for what ultimately will be Armageddon. Satan will significantly improve and intensify efforts especially when he is “thrown down” and becomes the anti-christ or “good alien” as he will impart much new technology.

The biblical prophecy of this event is in Daniel 2:

31Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
32This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
And (read the whole chapter for yourself)
45Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
The stone cut out without hands is the moon. It’s the bride, the Garden of Eden which God “carved out without hands”. And as the prophecy says in the end it will return with the Saints and Jesus and it will destroy the kingdoms of the earth. The great mountain that it becomes is the New Jerusalem and the ruling place for Jesus and the elect throughout the coming Millennium.

I also have some practical and even scientific information (although I am not even close to a scientist).

First of all the Bible says that the poles on the earth at some point will reverse.

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

It is scientifically known that the moon as it stands is moving away from us. Like I’ve described above it has been “carved out” by God without hands – the bride taken from the side of the husband.

There are several theories about the formation of our moon. Our moon is not a “normal” moon. It is abnormally large and we never see the “dark side” of the moon as it stays in rotation with us. It effects all the tides of the earth and many more interesting things that I’ll leave for your discovery.

One of the scientific theories is that the moon “spun off” the earth. This is not theological but scientific. I had formed a “supposition” theologically and then found out that there is also scientists who believe this as well (not that they are always right because they aren’t). But if you need some “practical” proof then here it is.

Now if the earth changes poles and who knows what else God may be doing along with this it may change things so that the moon changes direction and “returns” to earth. If this doesn’t sound too exciting since the moon looks like a grey ball with a bunch of potholes on it, then think of it as a tulip bulb. When the moon comes back and unfolds (by the time this happens the whole face of the earth will be different from all the things God is doing in Revelation, but Scientists speculate that it came from the Pacific Ocean area which may or may not be correct). Remember it’s a “womb”. Wombs are nothing quite like a “birth”, the beauty of new life and creation – springtime.

Another Biblical archetype for this is David and Goliath. Notice Goliath and David’s counter claims about the “feeding of flesh to the birds” which is the terminology for Armageddon. Also notice that David takes a stone and delivers the “head blow” which destroys goliath.

1 Samuel 17

44The Philistine also said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh (AT)to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field."
45Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, (AU)but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.
46"This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the (AV)dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, (AW)that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
47and that all this assembly may know that (AX)the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; (AY)for the battle is the LORD'S and He will give you into our hands."
48Then it happened when the Philistine rose and came and drew near to meet David, that (AZ)David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.
49And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground.
50Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David's hand.
51Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and (BA)took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it (BB)When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
Notice that the moon program to put man on the moon by the United States was called the “Apollo” program. Who is Apollo? A god from long ago. Will Apollo again be this “good alien”? Maybe. Satan has long been preparing for this inevitability.

Connection of years

1967 (20) 1987 (20) 2007 (40) pre
1968 (20) 1988 (20) 2008 (40) actual
1969 (20) 1989 (20) 2009 (40) post

• 1967 was the capture of the physical Jerusalem
• 1968 Apollo 8 reading of Genesis on December 24th http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading
• 1969 was the landing of man on the moon or New Jerusalem

Notice too old Jerusalem was 2 years prior to New (moon) standing for 2,000 years between.

1968 Apollo 8 Genesis reading

I believe this is a foreshadowing event of 40 years future 2008. It did take place 14,400 days to May 28, 2008 the day before May 29, 2008. Many are looking at 2008 as a time for the Rapture of which I am very hopeful as well. This may mean it could come at any time. * a biblical year is 360 days X 40 years = 14,400. As a “watcher” for Jesus’ coming this is a “clue” that it could be any time now.

I believe the Apollo 8 mission was a “faithful one” man did not yet set foot on the moon (New Jerusalem), but did read allow and testify to the earth’s creation. Here is the Wikipedia info on it:

Apollo 8 Genesis reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia •
On December 24, 1968, in what was the most watched television broadcast to date, the crew of Apollo 8 read in turn from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the moon. William Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman recited verses 1 through 10, using the King James Version text.[1]
If you take a look at the link it does say an atheist sued regarding this reading after it happened and also mentions that during the Apollo 11 mission:

After Buzz Aldrin took communion on the lunar surface shortly after his landing on Apollo 11, he kept his actions secret for many years.

8 in the Bible stands for new beginnings where 11 stands for separation. Notice the difference that took place in only a year. In 1968 the broadcast was watched all over the country openly. An atheist sued and by 1969 a man had to keep secret for years his beliefs and actions.

Apollo 8 was the first manned voyage to a celestial body and had a 3 man crew.

Here is the mission insignia which I think displays a “husband and wife” relationship with the earth and moon. It also has the “8” intertwined which is used for new beginnings and also infinity. Notice “love” is in the center within the name “Lovell” one of the pilots.

Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair later caused controversy by bringing a lawsuit against NASA over the reading from Genesis.[44] O'Hair wished the courts to ban US astronauts — who were all Government employees — from public prayer in space.[44] Though the case was rejected by the US Supreme Court for lack of jurisdiction,[45] it caused NASA to be skittish about the issue of religion throughout the rest of the Apollo program. Buzz Aldrin, on Apollo 11, took communion on the surface of the moon after landing;[46] he refrained from mentioning this publicly for several years, and only obliquely referred to it at the time.[46]
In 1969, the US Postal Service issued a postage stamp (Scott # 1371)
Bible Wheel 1371 Gemetria link: http://www.biblewheel.com/Gr/GR_Database.asp?SearchBy_Gematria=1371
commemorating the Apollo 8 flight around the moon. The stamp featured a detail of the famous photograph of the Earthrise over the moon taken by Anders on Christmas Eve, and the words, "In the beginning God..."[47]

Houston, TX - May 5, 1969

Shavuout (Penetcost): Interesting tidbits...

2008-05-26T16:52:00.001-07:00

I’ve been studying this feast here to come that we are all hopeful for. I thought I’d share some interesting tidbits.

From the Jews4Jesus site:

http://jewsforjesus.org/publications/newsletter/2005_06/shavuot
How to say it and what it means
The Hebrew is shah-voo-oat, but it is also correct to say Shavuos (shah-voo-ohs). Shavuot means "weeks." The Greek word for this holiday is Pentecost, which means "50th."
• Shavuot occurs 50 days or seven weeks after Passover.
• It is a harvest celebration commemorating God's provision for and sustenance of His people.
• Shavuot shares two important characteristics with the holidays Pesach (Passover) and Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles):
1. All three holidays involved a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
2. All three holidays involved firstfruit offerings at the Temple.
• Passover, in early spring, included firstfruits from the first harvest, barley.
• Shavuot, in late spring, included firstfruits from the wheat harvest. Among the many offerings given, was a "wave offering" of two loaves of leavened bread. This was the firstfruits offering.
• Sukkot, in the fall, was the final harvest and included firstfruits of olives and grapes.
Jewish tradition also suggests that King David both was born and died on Shavuot. The Resurrection connection: King David and Y'shua
Peter seemed to know the tradition that King David was born and died on Shavuot as he gave his sermon. He used the prophecies of David in the Psalms to speak of the resurrection of Jesus, the Son of David.
A 12th century Aramaic poem, Akdamut, which heralds the Messianic future, is read.
Link to the poem which is quite good and involves a marriage contract: http://www.ou.org/chagim/shavuot/akdamot.htm
"Akdamut" and "Ketuvah"
From one end of the Diaspora to the other, a need was felt to add components to the Service of Shavuot. The components added, "Akdamut," "Before I Speak," created in and added throughout the world of Ashkenazic Jewry, and "Ketuvah," "The Marriage Contract," created in and very popular in the world of Sefardic Jewry, were expressions of the unique conditions existing in those areas of the Exile.
The Story of Shavuot
(Much of the material in this section is adapted with permission, from Sefer HaTodaah of Rabbi Eliyahu Kitov)
What is the Story of Shavuot?
http://www.ou.org/chagim/shavuot/story.htm
…a few excerpts that I found particularly interesting:
The "stories" of many things, their background and purpose, can be told by explaining what they are called. To a great extent, this is true in general of the Jewish holidays and, in particular, it is true of the holiday of Shavuot. The names of this holiday are:
1. "Chag Shavuot" - The Feast (or Holiday) of Weeks
2. "Z'man Matan Torateinu" - The Time of the Giving of Our Torah
3. "Chag HaBikkurim" - The Holiday of the First Fruits
4. "Atzeret" - The Holiday of "Being Held Back, or Restrained, Close to Hashem, in the Temple"
5. "Chag HaKatzir" - The Holiday of the Cutting of the Crop
Whereas, Shavuot and Pesach have a special relationship which makes them really, in a sense, almost like one holiday, namely, the Holiday of Redemption, Physical and Spiritual, of the Jewish People.
However, there was another Jew who was a closer relative, and who therefore was first in line to be the redeemer. This individual, at this stage in the story, is referred to by the name "Tov," which may or may not, again, have been his real name but, in any case, means "good." When a person still has the opportunity to fulfill a responsibility, he is considered good. However, when confronted with the possibility of redemption, and advised that Ruth is also involved, Tov declines to accept the role because he is afraid to get involved with the Moabite controversy, and is referred to as "Ploni-Almoni," Mr. So-and-So.

Blessings,

Tony

My True Country: Memorial Day

2008-05-25T11:45:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (in 2008 on May 26). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who perished while in military service to their country. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War, it was expanded after World War I to include casualties of any war or military action .

Newsboys sing a song called “My True Country”. It is one of my favorites! Why? Well I do believe in our founding fathers of the United States and believe they built this country on Biblical principals which since have been tossed away – sad. It’s kind of like Israel on Pentecost as the giving of the 10 commandments telling Jehovah that they will always follow His laws. Ultimately, like a juggler, even the best one, we just can’t keep it up.

But many of us are looking for a “True Country” and everlasting Country…

Hebrews 11
14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
…and Memorial Day reminds me of our True Country and our True Veterans (not belittling our U.S. Military Veterans – I’m one myself! And besides they can be one in the same for God & Country!) It reminds me of the martyrs over the years or even those who have just persevered through trials and tribulations their whole lives. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is not to die, but to live. Anyway it is God in His Sovereignty that has a special plan or “mission” if you will for His military and His country – our True Country.

And this brings us to our ultimate hope which speaks of a Memorial Day yet to come where the “dead in Christ will rise first” and those of us active in His military will rise to meet him – and so we shall see Him face to face and be with him forevermore!!! No more tears crying or pain, the former things have passed away

~
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 (King James Version)
15For 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.
16For 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:
17Then 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.

Blessings,

Tony

Day 144: May 24

2008-05-22T07:42:00.000-07:00

May 24th coming this Saturday

From and including: Tuesday, January 1, 2008
To, but not including : Saturday, May 24, 2008
It is 144 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date

Genesis 5:24 (King James Version)

24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Blessings,

Tony

Philadelphian Pillar

2008-05-21T08:55:00.000-07:00

The Philadelphian Church is promised to be made “a pillar” in the temple of God.

Exodus 24:4

4(E)Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD Then he arose early in the morning, and built an (F)altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Marriage vows

7Then he took (I)the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, "(J)All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!"

Passover Confirmation (for us 2nd Passover)

8So (K)Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold (L)the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

Jesus & the elect go up…

9Then Moses went up with Aaron, (M)Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

Seeing God and the Wedding Supper!!!
10and (N)they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet (O)there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
11Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and (P)they saw God, and they ate and drank.
Blessings,

Tony

A Bride Wants to be Married

2008-05-21T08:37:00.001-07:00

Passover is critical in that it creates the legal agreement for life vs. death. It does create the “availability” and “bill of clean health” so to speak for the Bride.

But ultimately the Bride does not want to be “Passed over”, she wants to be married.

I believe that 2nd Passover and the account given in 2 Chronicles regarding Hezekiah relates to us today. We are not sinless or ritually prepared or clean in any way. We need Jesus who is our High King and Priest to intercede for us as Hezekiah did and ask Jehovah God our Father to forgive those who are “clean” in our hearts.

YHWH married Israel on Pentecost at Mount Sinai. Moses, in a model of Jesus interceded for them. YHWH’s promise to them then was that if they kept the commandments that they could be a Holy Nation of Kings and Priests. Clearly if they could have kept this promise then they would have fulfilled this promise. If they would have accepted Jesus (a man on a long journey and also a “dead” man relating to the 2nd Passover) they would have fulfilled this as well. Since they did not Jehovah turns His eyes to His elect in the Church. These are not worthy through the commandments and absence of leaven, but instead the 2nd Passover where they are right in their hearts through the touching of the “dead man” Jesus. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and also the Good Samaritan bring this truth to light.

The Feast of Weeks is referred to as a culmination of the experience of redemption (www.hebrew4christians.com ).

Pentecost at Mount Sinai is also to be considered the day in which Judaism was born (www.hebrew4christians.com ).

The book of Ruth which is read on Pentecost is about marriage and this is what the Bride is really looking for.

Also in the book of Genesis it is after the foreshadowing of Passover (Abraham & Issac) that Abraham sends out his servant (Holy Spirit) to get a bride for his son. Pentecost (marriage) after Passover.

There are lots of good reasons to be hopeful for Pentecost this year!!!

Blessings,

Tony

2nd Passover & Pentecost tie in

2008-05-21T07:51:00.000-07:00

…since the two loaves (Lev 23:15-21) were to baked w/ leaven before being waved by the Lord. Couldn’t 2nd Passover be the “crucial” legal reconciliation for the “Firstfruits” to be deemed acceptable for Pentecost?

I think this may be true. If so, we may or may not see anything in regards to 2nd Passover. Blessed are those who have not seen yet believe… so we may have to take it all in faith until the day. But I do think it makes sense that 2nd Passover and the leaven waved before the Lord are tied in together.

Blessings,

Tony

2nd Passover Testimony II

2008-05-19T11:35:00.003-07:00

Steve,

I understand what you are saying about Wednesday, 4th day and right to rule. I also understand Monday “moon day” which would relate to the Bride.

I can tell you that I felt the personal testimony and direct impact of a “death” on 2nd Passover Monday May 19th (see my post to Doug Martin) Jesus died and rose on the 3rd day. In this model:

Monday: Day 1 & Second Passover (full moon)

Tuesday: Day 2

Wednesday: Day 3 (on the third day we are revived)

In this way the “right to rule” may fall on the day you are proposing, but may not follow the exact days of death of Jesus.

Just a thought (smile)…

Iron Sharpens Iron,

Tony

2nd Passover Testimony I

2008-05-19T11:35:00.001-07:00

Doug,

I know how you feel brother. I too am unemployed and I just completed 4 interviews which started at the end of March. On the 3rd interview I was told to expect an offer maybe even the same day. I was asked to do one more “peer” interview where I was told by the man interviewing me that I would be recommended.

After follow up the last two weeks with no response (email & phone) I finally received a call today where I was told that the position I had put in for was suspended indefinitely.

I’ve had 4 years of touch and go finances and employment. This is “odd” in that I have my degree and had always held very good positions in the past.

Doug, I too have children to care for and my heart went out to you the moment I read your email. I confess at times when I am asked to pray for situations I’m disconnected from I don’t do a very good job at it. But when I read you email I wanted to let you know you are not alone.

I have a blended family with 8 total children.

It all seemed very appropriate today as it happens to be 2nd Passover. One thing about Passover is that we know Jesus died on the Cross and we also have our “Crosses” to bear. Seems like another death.

All these are reasons to look for a better way to provide for a family, protect a family, etc. It sounds like a good reason to put “all our Marbles” on God and His Sovereignty and Love.

Whatever happens, we can pray for each other Doug.

YBIC,

Tony

Battle at Kruger (utube video): Prophetic?

2008-05-19T08:48:00.000-07:00

This video has made the National News and is famous by word of mouth. There is a battle between Bulls, Lions and even Crocodiles. It is extremely unique and I believe may be prophetic. Below is the u tube video link and then some of my thoughts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

The month of May is represented in Gospel of the Stars by the Bull (Reem in the book of Job). The Bull stands for judgment.

****spoiler warning**** (watch the video first before reading on here if you have not seen it)

Notice the large Bull picks a fight with the lions

All the lions are actually lionesses – female and there are 5

After picking a fight w/ the lions the baby bull is allowed to be taken and thrown into the water (higher ground and lower ground – heaven & earth? The sea is used to represent the earth many times in the bible and lions can be used to describe Satan prowling around seeing who he can devour. This is why I point out that they are lionesses vs. a male lion as in the Lion of Judah. Jesus is also the Judge which is represented by May & the Bull).

The crocodile tries to pull the baby bull back into the lower part which is the water.

The lionesses do pull the baby bull out of the water and are “seeking to devour” but the baby bull is miraculously saved by all the Bulls which subsequently chase each and every lioness out – one even being hurled into the air by a Bull.

Some quick things about Taurus and Gospel of the Stars (by Joseph A. Seiss)

• The Zodiac are arranged in 3 sets of 4 (12) and Taurus (Judgment) starts the third set.

• The Bull was called the “Captain”

• Among the early nations there was a widespread idea connecting the Bull w/ the Deluge (“as in the days of Noah”) and the Pleides-the 7 stars, the Doves, the particular star cluster of “sweet influences”- with the ark of Noah and those saved by it in that great judgment. The stars are on the back of the Bull.

Isaiah 34:2-8 (King James Version)
2For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
The “unicorns” can also be quoted as Wild Bulls which are thought to be the Reems or the great Bulls.

Blessings,

Tony

Triple Crown still alive for Big Brown

2008-05-19T06:17:00.001-07:00

…I’ve never had an interesting in horse racing until it seems to possibly give some insight into the Rapture

Big Brown has won the 1st and 2nd parts of the Triple Crown. Its been 30 years since a Triple Crown winner with lots of close calls and heartache in the meantime (sound like the Rapture watch)…

ON Saturday June 7th (Shavout/Pentecost) is the potential run for the Triple Crown.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=3402141&sportCat=horse&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1

Blessings,

Tony

Journey 4 Jesus

2008-05-15T11:43:00.001-07:00

1st Passover:

Finding all the leaven (sin) and “combing” it all out. Fulfilling the requirements.

Attempting to fulfill this Passover will get you out of Egypt but not quite into the Promised Land (Moses saw it from afar).

2nd Passover:

Hezekiah is the only biblical example we have of this and he prayed:

2 Chronicles 30:18 - 19 “…May the good Lord pardon everyone who prepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though not according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”

Luke 18:9-14 (King James Version)
9And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
10Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
13And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Also:
Luke 13:20-21 (King James Version)
20And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
21It is like leaven, which a woman (Holy Spirit) took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened (woe to me for I am sinful).
And…
Luke 7:41-47 (King James Version)
41There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
42And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
43Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
44And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
45Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
46My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
47Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
For we are on a:

Journey (Prodigal & man left on the side of the road beaten up by thieves) 4 (number of the earth and the right to rule) and Jesus (the “dead man” and the Good Samaritan).
Numbers 9:6-13 (King James Version)
6And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
7And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
8And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
9And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

Blessings,

Tony

2nd Passover: Our Pardon

2008-05-13T12:59:00.000-07:00

I believe there are those that have the tribulation ending on Hanukah. According to this article Hannukah is the “2nd” Tabernacles or the mirror image of the 2nd Passover.

What makes the 2nd Passover so compelling to me is that we clearly are not worthy in any way. The 2nd Passover is for someone who touched a dead body and even lepers. Also I believe it relates to the Parable of the Prodigal Son (a man on a journey) and below it even mentions this to include someone close by that willfully does not partake in the first Passover. In every way without Jesus we are not a Holy People. In 2 Chronicles 30 where King Hezekiah pleads for those who had not even purified themselves for the 2nd Passover, but asked Jehovah to please “pardon everyone who prepares his heart to seek God…” I see what surely must be our means of redemption.

Anyway here is an excerpt of the article and then the link for further review if you’d like:

The Pesach lamb is a unique offering. Before the exodus from Egypt, all offerings were burnt completely on the altar. For man to attempt to eat that which was designated for HaShem would have been a desecration of the offering. The first meat of a offering that man was allowed to eat was the Pesach offering. Thus it was a declaration that Bnei Israel were 'a holy people', whose bodies were elevated to the holiness of an altar. Only they could eat that which was designated for HaShem; and when they did, it was considered as if the offering was burnt on the altar. This is why the Torah restricts our diet. Just as we may not desecrate the altar with an unacceptable offering, so too a Jew may not defile his body with food that the Torah deems unfit.

The Talmudic Sages go on to tell us who could celebrate Pesach Sheni, this wonderful opportunity to draw nearer to HaShem:

Pesachim 93a Our Rabbis taught: The following keep the second [Passover]: zabin and zaboth, male lepers and female lepers, niddoth and those who had intercourse with niddoth, and women after confinement, those who [do not observe the first Passover] inadvertently, and those who are forcibly prevented, and those who [neglect it] deliberately, and he who is unclean, and he who was in ‘a journey afar off’. If so, why is an unclean person mentioned? [You ask] ‘why is he mentioned’? [Surely to teach] that if he wishes to keep it at the first we do not permit him? Rather [the question is] why is [a person] on a journey afar off mentioned? — To exempt him from kareth, this being in accordance with the view that it is accepted.

Anyone who did not bring a Pesach offering, whether because of impurity or even because he had willfully transgressed HaShem's will, was thus given the opportunity to compensate for his shortcoming by bringing an offering on Pesach Sheni. This gave everyone the ability, late though it may be, to rejoin the community of Israel through his teshuva, his repentance.

Rashi, quoting the Talmud in Pesachim 93b, points out that there is a dot that appears in the Torah scroll on the last letter of the word ‘rechoka’ (on a distant journey). This dot comes to teach us that ‘rechoka’ need not be taken literally; indeed, even if a person stood on the threshold of the courtyard, right outside where the Pesach lamb is being sacrificed, on the 14th of Nisan, and intentionally refused to join in the sacrifice, even this person is to be given a second chance. In effect he had been on a distant journey; he wandered far away from serving HaShem.

Pesach Sheni, then, is like Chanukah, which was a make-up for Succoth. These are the only two festivals that provide a second chance for certain individuals to be able to celebrate. The fact that these are the only festivals with a make-up, suggests that these two festivals are related. This bi-modality of the months was discussed in greater detail in the study of rains.

http://www.betemunah.org/sheni.html#_Toc67627345

Blessings,

Tony

Earth Upside Down

2008-05-13T12:03:00.000-07:00

Isaiah 24:1

American Standard Version
Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

King James Bible
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 24:19

King James Bible
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

American Standard Version
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.

* - for the open minded…
The moon is the Bride. The greater light rules over the day (Sun) and the moon rules over the night, but can only do so by reflecting the sun’s light – it has no light of its own. There is a triangle relationship with the Sun being the Son and the Moon the bride and the earth is the Groom. This is the same as YHWH, Adam & Eve. Eve, the Bride was taken from Adam’s side just as the Moon was taken from Earth’s (Husband) side. At some point earth will reverse polarity and shift poles and draw the moon towards itself. As it is now the moon is still moving away, but God will change this and use it all to coordinate and bring about the things written in Revelation including the New Jerusalem coming down as a Bride adorned for her husband. It is also this “rock” that will destroy the image of Daniel in the feet of clay and iron, just like David took the rock and destroyed Goliath with it. The saints will return with Christ, Paradise restored and the earth’s surface will not look anything like what it does now with the oceans. The moon will “fit into” and unfold in the Pacific Ocean, changing the entire planets surface. Don’t worry its all in God’s hands (clay in the potter’s hands). Don’t think the moon sounds like Eden? Well think of a tulip bulb and then a tulip…

Full Flower Moon: 2nd Passover May 19th

2008-05-13T07:12:00.001-07:00

May 19th 2008 (a.k.a. Iyar 14, Jewish calendar) is 2nd Passover

Also this date is Full Moon. This Full Moon is known as Full Flower. (It is also Monday which in its origins is “moon day”).

* - for the open minded…
The moon is the Bride. The greater light rules over the day (Sun) and the moon rules over the night, but can only do so by reflecting the sun’s light – it has no light of its own. There is a triangle relationship with the Sun being the Son and the Moon the bride and the earth is the Groom. This is the same as YHWH, Adam & Eve. Eve, the Bride was taken from Adam’s side just as the Moon was taken from Earth’s (Husband) side. At some point earth will reverse polarity and shift poles and draw the moon towards itself. As it is now the moon is still moving away, but God will change this and use it all to coordinate and bring about the things written in Revelation including the New Jerusalem coming down as a Bride adorned for her husband. It is also this “rock” that will destroy the image of Daniel in the feet of clay and iron, just like David took the rock and destroyed Goliath with it. The saints will return with Christ, Paradise restored and the earth’s surface will not look anything like what it does now with the oceans. The moon will “fit into” and unfold in the Pacific Ocean, changing the entire planets surface. Don’t worry its all in God’s hands (clay in the potter’s hands). Don’t think the moon sounds like Eden? Well think of a tulip bulb and then a tulip…

* Back to Second Passover…

The Full Flower Moon brings to mind the following verse in the Song of Songs:
Song of Solomon 2:11-13 (King James Version)
11For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
12The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
13The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Second Passover was put into effect for those not able to celebrate first Passover because they were unclean by touching a dead man or were away on a long journey.

There are two direct mentions of the second Passover in the Bible. The first is in Numbers 9:1-12 which describes how it came about and why. The second mention is in II Chronicles 30:1-26 where the whole nation of Israel has gone astray and King Hezekiah is calling them back to repentance. I highly recommend you read this passage as it definitely underscores the importance of this little know “second chance” feast.

Here is a brief excerpt:

18 Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, "May the LORD, who is good, pardon everyone 19 who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary." 20 And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

What a great foreshadowing of Jesus!!! Is there any wonder what God really wants? Our hearts. Amen, may you have all our hearts YHWH!

Even though these are the only two direct mentions of the second Passover, I believe Jesus spoke to the second Passover in parables. Here are my observations regarding two of the most famous parables:

The Good Samaritan: One of the most famous parables, the man “left for dead” on the side of the road is passed by the Priest and the Levite. They did this so that they would not be ritually unclean. The Samaritan was heading from Jerusalem to Jericho and I believe that the Priest and Levite were heading towards Jerusalem possibly for Passover. The Good Samaritan (who by the way would have been “unclean” by Jewish standards already by just being Samaritan) became unclean and was also on a journey.

The Prodigal: If the Good Samaritan isn’t the most famous parable then it might be the Prodigal Son. The Prodigal Son went on quite a journey and became quite unclean. In the United States we fashion ourselves to be a country of “second chances” and the Prodigal Son who “sowed his wild oats” before he began to sow “seeds of humility” went on quite a journey. Notice though that the Father came to the son even when the son was still “a long way off”. The other brother would have been someone that could fulfill the requirements of the first Passover, but not the Prodigal. But it was the Prodigal that was given the ring, the robe, and the feast of the fattened calf. Remind you of the Rapture? It should…

This year, 2008 1st Passover was April 20th and was full moon and 2nd Passover which is May 19th also will be full moon (full flower – consider the lilies of the field).

Watching anxiously!!!

Blessings,

Tony

Parables of Jesus

2008-05-12T16:11:00.001-07:00

1. Drawing in the Net, Matthew 13:47–50
Good & Bad fish relating to a final judgment. It may also refer to subsequent harvests and the tribulation as there will be a weeping and gnashing of teeth. Those weeping may repent and can be refined through fire, whereas those gnashing teeth will not be refined.
2. Laborers in the Vineyard, Matthew 20:1–16
The last shall be first and the first last. Humility and submission are of utmost importance. Just like the “other brother” who was jealous of the feast thrown for the prodigal.
3. Lost Money, Luke 15:8–10
The woman denoting the Holy Spirit and the lost coin in similarity to the Prodigal. Rejoicing for the redemption of the lost. Those lost now have “bought” humility and submission. This is what is needed to directly serve Jehovah.
4. The Faithful Servant, Luke 12:35–48
The Rapture and the watch for the Rapture. The judgment and separation of the Church.
5. The Good Samaritan, Luke 10:30–37
The Good Samaritan is Jesus the Inn Keeper is the Church. The man fallen are the elect whom God has allowed to be tested and refined.
6. The Seed Growing Secretly, Mark 4:26–29
God has us scatter the seed, but it is He that causes it to grow. Yet it is us who “reap” the crop, but the Glory is always God’s.
7. The Lost Sheep, Matthew 18:12–14, Luke 15:1–7
The Shepherd is Jesus and the mountain is Heaven. Jesus comes after the Prodigal to call him and make a way to come home. There is more rejoicing over the lost than those who stayed home. The treasure again is the humility and submission that is found in being utterly lost recognizing the true need for a Savior and God’s true position as Sovereign and heart in Love.
8. The Mustard Seed, Matthew 13:31–32 Mark 4:30–32 Luke 13:18–19
The last (smallest) shall be first and the first (largest) shall be last. The field is the earth and the birds of the air denotes heaven and future fulfillment.
9. The Pearl, Matthew 13:45–46
Putting all your “marbles” on God and “none” on this world. Taking your heart in every way out of this world and “betting” it on the next with no plan “B”.
10. The Prodigal Son, Luke 15:11–32
The Prodigal is the ruler under the Lord who asked for his estate and has come to this earth and sinned in “wild living”. Yet the Prodigal found humility in his weakness. In coming back he believes he brings back nothing, but in fact he brings exactly what the Sovereign Ruler in the universe needs; loyalty, humility, submission, etc. It is all of this that the “other brother” is missing. Instead because of his “good behavior” he believes he is “entitled”. God does not need anything from us. He is the Creator of all things and can bestow anything upon anyone. Since He is love He also gives us free will and will not make us submit. This is the one thing He needs especially from those closest to Him and holding the highest positions. This is why the Prodigal is given the robe and the ring and the “fattened calf” is slaughtered for him.
11. The Sower (The Four Soils), Matthew 13:3–23 Mark 4:1–20 Luke 8:5–15
Jesus interpreted this parable himself. The seed is the gospel message and the soil conditions are those of the heart. We also learn here a lesson in general about the parables that there is a spiritual application and that Jesus spoke in parables so that those of “good soil” can hear the message and produce a subsequent crop.

12. The Wedding Feast, Matthew 22:1–14, Luke 14:16–24
The wedding clothes are humility and lowliness of heart. Those without will be thrown out where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Those who weep may then find lowliness of heart.
13. Pharisee and the Publican, Luke 18:9–14
Again humility is the message. Notice like the Prodigal the publican stood “far off”. The other brother and the Pharisee are one in the same.
14. Ten Talents, Matthew 25:14–30, Luke 19:11–27
The last man with the talents kept them to himself and he did not “risk”. The others multiplied and thus must have “risked much” in order to gain for their Master. Again the weeping and gnashing implies tribulation.
15. The Budding Fig Tree, Matt 24:32–36, Mark 13:28–32, Luke 21:29–33
Those watching for the Lord’s return know when tribulation (summer) is near. After spring is summer. If indeed the Fig Tree is Israel then we have to look at 1948 and 1967. The time for the Lord’s coming and the Rapture is near.
16. The Friend at Night, Luke 11:5–8
Persistence matters – a lot!!! Midnight is the time of the Rapture and the door is a reference to the Rapture. The man doesn’t come to the door because of friendship but because of persistence.
17. The Hidden Treasure, Matthew 13:44
Selling all for God in the field, which is this world. Putting “all your marbles” on God.
18. The Importunate Widow, Luke 18:1–8
Again like the friend at night – persistence is worth a lot! In this parable Jesus stresses this even more because the judge is not even a Godly man.

19. The Leaven, Matthew 13:33, Luke 13:20–21
The woman is the Holy Spirit and she hides and spreads the leaven throughout the whole bread. Leaven stands for sin and the whole Church has sin in it. The Church needs to recognize its humble state and fully recognize its need for a Savior and also God’s Sovereignty and Love.
20. The Master and Servant, Luke 17:7–10
God owes us nothing. Again humility, loyalty and service are what God needs. Jesus demonstrated this by washing the Apostle’s feet.
21. The Rich Fool, Luke 12:16–21
Treasures in a temporary world are true foolishness. It requires faith and “investment risk” (our lives & service) to buy shares in the Kingdom.
22. The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus, Luke 16:19–31
I’m not even sure this is a Parable, but instead a small look at the beyond. Even so, the theme of the humble and poor carries. The rich man had no mercy on Lazarus and in this way put all “his marbles” on the temporary life. Also, worth mentioning is that Abraham tells him that he cannot relay a message and that his kin have the prophets to listen to.
23. The Tares, Matthew 13:24–30
This makes it obvious that the Church has “sown” into it corruption. Wheat and Tares look alike until they are mature at which time the Wheat bows its head and the Tares heads are still upright. Again Pride vs. Humility and the judgment to follow such attitudes of the heart.
24. The Ten Virgins, Matthew 25:1–13
This parable is about the Rapture and keeping watch. Virgins and the midnight call are clear clues. All fall asleep, but the wise virgins have done the necessary work in buying the oil for the lamp, which stands for the Holy Spirit. The foolish ones are too late.

25. The Two Debtors, Luke 7:41–47
The one who is forgiven the most understands our true position in relation to God. It is actually a great blessing to understand our deep sin nature and need for God. It needs to be a desperate longing and cannot be a question in one’s mind. Jesus tells this in relation to a woman who is clearly a sinner but is “falling at his feet” compared to someone comfortable with where they are. Though it is not desirable it is far better in the long run to be a “debtor” of some sort in this life. And the more the better depending on how much it takes to create the “correct” heart condition which is humility and submission to God.
26. The Two Sons, Matthew 21:28–32
Actions speak louder than words. And also added onto this is that the tax collectors & prostitutes are at the front of the line into the Kingdom reinforcing the last shall be first and the first last along with true humility.
27. The Unjust Steward, Luke 16:1–9
This is a parable of forgiveness. At some point we our time comes and we cannot possibly repay God or live up to His standards. “You will be forgiven as you forgave others”. If someone has wronged you they have also wronged God. Reduce the “bill” by forgiving the debt and then when your “time” comes it will go better with you.
28. The Wicked Husbandmen, Matthew 21:33–46, Mark 12:1–12, Luke 20:9–19
This parable is revealed in the end and the Pharisees knew Jesus was speaking of them. The “vineyard” would be given to another nation “the Church”.
29. The Wise and the Foolish Builders, Matthew 7:24–27
A house or dwelling can relate to our bodies & flesh. Those who build on Jesus have life everlasting and this cannot ever be taken by any storm of life. But anything that does not have this foundation can be taken away in the storm. Jesus not only needs to be present, but the foundation.

30. Unmerciful Servant, Matthew 18:23–35
You will be forgiven as you forgive. All of us owe God a debt greater than we can ever repay. In this, we should forgive our fellow human beings (neighbors) and even our enemies. Usually when true forgiveness comes into play isn’t an enemy that is hardest to forgive? Or someone that “truly” owes us? When this is true give or forgive freely because our Father owes us nothing and we are “dead to rights”.
31. Building a tower and waging war, Luke 14:28–33
It will not be easy, short lived, etc. in this life to inherit the Kingdom. You get what you pay for… If you expect much, expect the road to be extremely challenging all the way to death and maybe even death itself.
32. The Barren Fig Tree, Luke 13:6–9
Subsequent harvests and intercession by the first fruits in the Rapture. Notice this is the fig tree so it relates to Israel and the time of tribulation. The intercessor buys one more year to fertilize and dig to produce fruit.
33. The Guests, Luke 14:7–15
Again the last shall be first and the first last. Also, the humble of life will take the prominent places. Don’t be presumptuous but wait to be called. In the Kingdom humility will be valued over assertiveness which is quite different than this life. God is the ruler and creator. He does not need our gifts, but our absolute and unconditional submission.

Jewish Perspective on 2nd Passover

2008-05-12T09:42:00.000-07:00

A fascinating article on the 2nd Passover.

2nd Passover is on Monday (moon day) May 19th (Iyar 14) and falls on a full moon.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2900/jewish/Never-Too-Late.htm

Blessings,

Tony

More 2nd Passover

2008-05-07T11:55:00.001-07:00

I had made a mistake in my earlier post about 2nd Passover being Wednesday, May 14th when it is Iyar 14 which is May 19th. This led me to a study of Mercury and Hermes which I relate to Joseph (see prior post).

I did find this in my further study of the 2nd Passover:

The Talmud asks a very interesting question:

Succah 25b But is the law that he who is engaged on one religious duty is free from any other deduced from here? Is it not deduced from elsewhere, As it has been taught: And there were certain men who were unclean by the dead body of a man, etc. Who were these men? They were those who bore the coffin of Joseph,

The Midrash also gives us some insight into these mystery men:

Midrash Rabbah - Exodus XX:19 During the entire forty years’ wanderings in the wilderness, the bones of Joseph traveled with them. Because thou hast said: "I will feed you" to thy brothers, I assure thee that when thou art dead, thy bones will journey with them for forty years in the wilderness.

For the sake of thy bones shall they celebrate the lesser Passover.

Since Pesach Sheni serves as a "makeup" for Pesach Rishon, one might think it would be similar in all aspects; why do Pesach Rishon and Pesach Sheni differ so radically?

The answer teaches us the differences between those that use the energies of the times and those who must recover the lost time. Pesach Rishon is an emphasis on HaShem giving us our freedom through miracles. Pesach Sheni emphasizes that we can become a part of the community and regain our closeness to HaShem, in an instant.

I think this is the most awesome part. In 2 Chron. 30:18-20

For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than prescribed. For Hezekiah prayed for them saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone who prepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though not according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.” So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

In verse 23 it says they decided to celebrate the feast another 7 days. 2nd Passover is normally only one day.

Last verse 27 “Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

http://www.betemunah.org/sheni.html

May be relevant.

Blessings,

Tony

2nd Passover: May 19th or Iyar 14

2008-05-07T11:33:00.001-07:00

***2nd Passover is on Iyar 14 (not May 14) so it is on Monday (moon day). I have written much on the moon and its significance to the bride and New Jerusalem.

Even so, Wednesday and Hermes/Mercury may bear relevance in our watch for the Rapture.

Blessings,

Tony

Mercury meaning...

2008-05-07T08:37:00.001-07:00

Wednesday is a day that holds special meaning. This year 2nd Passover is on a Wednesday.

Wednesday comes from the Norse god Woden. Woden is also believed to be Mercury & Hermes. False gods get us nothing, but God’s word gets us everything. In searching through pagan meanings and tossing them aside and looking for what could be useful here, I believe that Joseph may have some tie-ins with Wednesday. Joseph was the dreamer, the father of Ephraim & Manasseh, and was called up to be 2nd to Pharaoh and given a gentile wife.

Here are some observations in regards to Wednesday, Mercury, Hermes & Joseph

Hermes is the god of boundaries, travelers, shepherds and cow herders (ranchers & farmers). He is a god of commerce and athletes. He is a robber, bringer of dreams and a watcher at night and a thief at the gates.

I don’t know what you see here, but I see some things that would relate to Joseph. Remember Satan never invented anything; he is a deceiver and not a creator. Don’t eat the banana peel, just the banana and see what sweet fruit you may find.

Hermes gives us our word Hermeneutics for the art of interpreting hidden meaning. Hermes is a messenger (and isn’t a prophet just that? Taking the word of the true God and delivering what they hear – so interpreting hidden meaning and messenger are one in the same for Biblical prophets of the true God YHWH). He can fly freely between heaven (Olympus) and earth and he is the youngest of the gods (as Joseph was the youngest of his brothers, and also as was David).

Hermes is an inventor of fire and also the escort for the dead (…and the dead will rise first). He is a thief and is very cunning (in the rapture won’t we be “stolen” away like a “thief in the night).

He was thought to be the god of “crossing over” (remember it was Joseph who pioneered and established Israel in Egypt and then also prophesied about the Exodus and had his bones brought out of Egypt w/ Moses).

He is a herald and carries a staff and he is the god of speed (godspeed). His staff had intertwined serpents (reminds me of the pole that Moses had in the wilderness and/or the standoff between Moses & Aaron and Janes & Jambres of Egypt). He also had his staff topped with something of Taurus the Bull (relating to May and also judgment). His mother was to be a gentle old woman (holy spirit) and of the Pleiades (also relating to May and Taurus).

Mercury was a god of trade, especially of grain relating to Joseph and the grain that was stored up in Egypt. Mercury’s pagan holiday is celebrated on May 15th the day after 2nd Passover.

Remember in all of this Paul himself was called “Hermes” and instead pointed to Jesus, which we need to keep firmly in mind as we search onward…

Acts 14
11When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!" 12Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker. 13The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.
14But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting: 15"Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them. 16In the past, he let all nations go their own way. 17Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy." 18Even with these words, they had difficulty keeping the crowd from sacrificing to them.
All this keenly in mind this month’s astronomy has Mercury and Pleiades involved…

On Tuesday and Wednesday the 6th and 7th, the waxing crescent Moon guides the way to Mercury in twilight . (These scenes are drawn for the middle of North America. European observers: move each Moon symbol a quarter of the way toward the one for the previous date.)

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/18363129.html

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2008/07may08/skymap_north.gif?PHPSESSID=2ubevh2vfgqrkepo7bir79sg52

Blessings,

Tony

Pondering the Captain

2008-04-29T12:37:00.000-07:00

Please reference my testimony of the Captain & the Navy at my website: www.tony4yhwh.com under about the Author and “My Prophetic Experience in the Navy”.

This is in reference to the dates of April 28th – June 22nd, but I am closely watching May 1st – 7th

19 is an important number 19 X 2 = 38 and it has been 38 years since man landed on the moon. The lunar (Hebrew) calendar repeats dates every 19 years. In 1989 during the Alaskan Oil Spill YHWH gave me a prophetic vision which I reference above. This was not a dream but rather a real life parable of which I had no understanding and I am still learning from it today. I suspect you have a real life parable/vision as well and this may help in some way.

…something about my watch in the Navy. When I was in deck I was the lowest department “deck” and then elevated to the highest Captain’s office – yeoman. In deck I stood watch and in the Captain’s office I did not. To make ready for this privilege a seemingly “bad” event happened in that I was sent “mess cranking”. In this time I took care of the Captain, although it was not time for me to directly serve in his office.

One day a “yeoman” fell and though I was unqualified and “not recommended” I was “approved” by the Captain. One night out to sea when I was standing a middle of the night watch, the Captain called my name and from that time I was released from deck department and put directly into service by the Captain. I served in his office taking care of his correspondence and also was by his side during wartime (GQ) relaying his commands to the rest of the ship. This happened in the month of May – June. Exactly on Rosh Hashanah 1989, September 30th he recognized me on the flight deck for service in his office and also sent word to my family for Sailor of the Quarter. I serve only two years in a program called the Navy Sea College Program. 19 years later and Rosh Hashanah will be on September 30th again. The lunar calendar repeats every 19 years.

19 is 10 (ordinal completion) and 9 (judgment), but also it is 12 (government) and 7 (spiritual perfection).

I’ve been working hard to try and figure out the date of the night the Captain “called my name”. We left to go up to the Oil Spill on April 28th

http://navysite.de/ships/lsd43.htm

and returned June 22nd. This covers dates that many others are looking for this year (Ascension Day, all the dates in regards to Israel and Jerusalem), Pentecost, Shavout, etc.

I am 38 years old (19 X 2) and will be 39 on May 5th. May 5th happens to be a significant Rapture watch date from the year 2000 (planet alignment) and 2005 (5/5/5 ascension day). May 5th this year falls on a Monday. Monday’s name originates from “moon” day. In 1969 I was born on Monday as well. As history shows 2 years after Jerusalem was retaken man landed on the moon in July of 1969 in the “Apollo” program.

I also did an analysis of my birth dates (like David said “Lord teach me to # my days) and I’ve had 6 Monday (moon day) birthdays, this May 5th will be the 7th. Also in 1989 on May 5th was Nissan 30th and Rosh Chodesh New Moon and this year is Rosh Chodesh New Moon.

I am not sure what day the Captain called my name, but I know I was standing a middle of the night watch and I believe we were underway to Alaska. I don’t remember how many days it took us to make our way up there but it is probable that we would have been there around the May 5th timeframe. Also, May 1st which is Ascension Day is a possibility.

I did some calculations knowing my ship left San Diego on April 29th 1989 and it had a maximum speed of 22 knots. Approximating the mileage to be about 3,700 then it likely took about 6 – 7 days which does put the time frame at around May 4th – 5th. May 4th in 1989 was Ascension Day.

I always used to wonder why someone would go on an Alaskan Cruise. But I’ll always remember when we pulled in between two snow capped mountains with Pine Trees. The water was completely placid and while I was on the Bridge I could see flying fish, porpoises, and everyone including the Office of the Deck dropped their jaws when several stark Black and white Killer Whales came up out of the water. It was amazing! When we finally got to the Oil Spill spot it was deeply disturbing. The area is called Prince William sound. It is also disturbing that this story is still in the news recently (19 years later) and Exxon which is experiencing record profits is trying to get out of its payments for this disaster which it never took responsibility for or fully cleaned up. God sees…

• Astronomy & Gospel of the Stars note: May is the Bull or Rheem in the Bible (Book of Job) and has the Pleiades 7 stars (the doves) and also the “Captain” (the chief star in the bull’s eye and its name means the Captain, Leader & Governor).

Many, many testaments to what God showed me personally during my time in the Navy. I am so grateful for my experience and His love.

Hope this helps in some way.

Blessings,

Tony

Rapture Confirmations: Head vs. Heart

2008-04-22T18:54:00.000-07:00

John, along w/ many of the other doves I want to thank you for your recent posts. I was fascinated reading them and best of all it is very compelling information regarding the Rapture and 2008.

Jim Bramlett I want to thank you for connecting me w/ Dr. Swanson and all of the unbelievable date knowledge he was willing to personally go over with me on the phone. I have a lot of respect for anyone willing to make their personal phone number and research available. That’s why I took advantage of such a great opportunity.

Doves,

There is quite a difference between head vs. heart confirmations. Don’t get me wrong, I love the numbers, the reason & logic, theology, etc. I have to say that I’ve never really been able to put a firm grip on dreams, but I know that this can be a heart type testimony.

For me, the greatest testimonies are those personal things that God has spoken directly into my heart. Personal miraculous experiences that go beyond the actual event. God’s word does this often such as Abraham and Isaac foreshadowing the Cross & Jesus.

If you had to put all your “marbles” on God where would you put them? In my life that would be “My Prophetic Navy Experience” that took place 19 years ago.

This is where both the head & heart come in to play together (a two strand cord & two witnesses). 19 is a very significant number. 19 according to E.W. Bullinger’s book “Number in Scripture” is made of “10” which stands for ordinal completion and “9” which stands for judgment.

Also, I have found that the lunar calendar repeats itself every 19 years. This is very, very significant to me because my greatest deep hearted testimony took place at this time and unbeknownst to me that year (1989) these events took place at first fruits, Pentecost and Rosh Hashanah. I am absolutely sure this is no coincidence.

All the Jewish feast dates from 19 years ago, 1989 are repeating themselves this year. In my mind and heart these events surely were a foreshadowing and with the knowledge the 19 means ordinal completion (10) and judgment (9) along with the dates repeating themselves I have to be on a “sharp lookout” (Jesus commanded that we watch).

My ship was involved in the clean up of the Alaskan oil spill when much of these prophetically significant events happened in my life. The dates and some brief info is as follows:

Following her return, FORT MCHENRY participated in the cleanup of the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill by deploying to Prince William Sound from 28 April to 22 June 1989. In recognition of the crew's effectiveness during the cleanup operation, FORT MCHENRY was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation and the Coast Guard's Special Operations Service Ribbon.

My full testimony on this is at my website (www.tony4yhwh.com ) under “About the Author” and “My Prophetic Navy Experience”. Our personal testimony means the most to us, but I still believe that it is important to pass it on as it is the “testimony of the Saints” that overcomes Satan. It is the living prophetic word in our lives modeling the Patriarchs and all of the testimony in God’s word.

I was just invited and recently my wife and I stayed at a castle in Colorado Springs, CO. We were in the castle on Passover this last weekend and not of our doing they had a red cord outside of our door. We also stayed in Room 206 which has the meaning “God’s Word” in the Biblewheel. It was a Navigators (military ministry) weekend event and I really felt the confirmation with my “My Prophetic Navy Experience” Testimony.

I am anxiously watching through this weekend, but even if it doesn’t happen I believe there are many important dates to be watching and an abundance of reasons to be hopeful for 2008 being the year of the Rapture.

Iron sharpens Iron,

Tony

Castle Preparations

2008-04-14T11:02:00.001-07:00

I just wanted to acknowledge Jim Bramlett and Dr. Swanson for taking the time and being open to a phone call regarding the Rapture & 2008 (Jim had posted Dr. Swanson’s number on the doves and I took him & Dr. Swanson up on the offer).

I had a wonderful conversation, which was mostly listening to 20 years of research and great insight.

Dr. Swanson is looking at this coming Saturday April 19th/20th.

I will mention a couple of things, but in now way shape or form could I even keep up with his 20 years of deep insight. I did take 5 pages of notes while we were on the phone.

I will just mention a couple of things that are fairly simple to understand and that I have looked at as well.

Pharaoh relates to Satan and also our Exodus from this earth. I found it interesting if my notes are right that Dr. Swanson said that Israel was 7 days from Passover to the Red Sea. I have always thought this same thing about Pharaoh and Moses’ parallels to Jesus. Also, I just wrote a post about the 8th day (2008), circumcision and first born sons. All of this has huge tie-ins with Israel and you’ll likely know that Israel did go out on the very day YHWH prophesied it to happen. He also mentioned the importance of the “full moon” which occurs on the 20th of April. You can look up my prior writings on how I believe the moon relates to New Jerusalem (www.tony4yhwh.com ).

I always try and tie my “facts” w/ how the Holy Spirit is working personally in my life. I believe that a loving father would do this. In counseling circles this would be called “rules with relationship”. My wife last year were married. I have already written a lot of personal testimony regarding our marriage and the prophetic parallels which I believe YHWH has allowed me to see (all of it is at my website). Last year our honeymoon was in the mountains of Colorado where Kellie & I always head when we are able to take a trip (Kellie & I have a blended family w/ 8 children). On our honeymoon we went to Colorado Springs where “Garden of the gods”, “Pike’s Peak” are located. We went to Pike’s Peak and it was raining so we didn’t get out at the Garden of the gods. We “accidentally” ran into the HQ for Navigators. One of my very best friends is a missionary in Australia for them and we’ve supported them as we are able. Navigators owns a castle by their HQ’s called Glen Eryie Castle. Unfortunately the Castle was closed and gated for the day and we were not able to get in to see it. Recently Kellie and I received an invitation from the Navigators to stay a few nights at the Castle. It turns out my friend John from the Navigators put us in for this outing where they are hosting some donors. The room & food are free, and we just have to get there. I mention all of this because of the timing which is in line with Passover this Saturday/Sunday, the full moon, etc. I felt that in many ways Kellie & my wedding had personal prophetic implications so it is very interesting that we were not able to get into the Castle and this year by God’s Sovereignty we will be staying there freely. Our marriage was signed by the courts last year on Pentecost (May 22nd) and I was on top of Pike’s peak with the electricity (which was quite an odd feeling) on Ascension day May 17th. Our wedding day was May 12th and then we had a 7 day honeymoon. I received the invitation from the Navigators this year on Tu’B Shevat.

I am anxiously awaiting and watching intently. I have had disappointments before. I like that Jim Bramlett called Dr. Swanson the Thomas Edison of the Rapture (or something like that). I told Dr. Swanson that I feel like some sort of apprentice trying to glean what I can. If the 19th/20th don’t turn out, I also have reason to believe that the 26th & 27th which may be first fruits (although Dr. Swanson is looking at the 19th & 20th if my notes are correct for first fruits). Anyways, I’m an apprentice learner and expert watcher! So I’ll continue the watch!

Blessings,

Tony

The 8th day; 2008

2008-04-13T16:13:00.001-07:00

The 8th Day, 2008

The 8th day is important to firstborn, circumcision and many other things (do a search on “eighth day”). This helps us to understand how important the year 2008 may be while we are anxiously watching for our redemption.

Firstborn

Exodus 22
29 Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam (mother); on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
Mother is likened to the Holy Spirit. The wise Virgins, Barley, etc. have taken to the guiding of the Holy Spirit and now it is time to “wean” away and be given to the Father.
Circumcision
Moses…
Leviticus 12:2-4 (King James Version)
2Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
3And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
This all started with Abraham…
Genesis 17
1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
9 And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations.
10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you.
12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed.
13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
16 And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.
17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
So late in the world’s life Abraham & Sarah, the father and mother of nations will give birth to a child. The 8th day and circumcision is critical.
Jesus was circumcised (also first born) and then presented in the temple…
Luke 2
21And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Circumcision is critical. Moses is nearly killed because of not circumcising his sons
Exodus
22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
24And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision
Wow. With all Jehovah planned with Moses and yet His word reads that He was ready to kill him for a lack of circumcision of his son.
Also, notice there has been a theme during the Exodus and then Jesus’ birth of a battle of killing “first born sons” between Satan and Jehovah. Pharaoh and Herod killed all the first born sons. Moses escaped in a basket as a child and then when fully grown and trained came back to free his people. Free his people he did and in the process Egypt and Pharaoh wept as the Angel of Death wiped out their firstborn. Jesus has yet to bring about his divine retribution since His first coming.
Circumcision and firstborn and warfare all a theme. This tells us how important the 8th day is. This 8th day may be 2008.
Circumcision of the Heart
Just like the temple is not the building, but the body, the circumcision is not the opening of skin, but the opening of the heart.
Romans 2:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Deuteronomy 10:16
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Circumcision is taking off the flesh…
Colossians 2:10-12
10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
The ultimate firstborn son and “circumcision” example – Jesus
Hebrews 5:7-9
7During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
I submit to you that this “circumcision” of the heart is also this “reverent submission” spoken of in Hebrews of the ultimate firstborn son – Jesus Christ.
And it was Jesus that was taken up as the Sacrificial Lamb on Passover, the Unleavened Bread without sin and waved as a Firstfruits offering before the throne.
So it is now in 2008 that we look forward in hope and anticipation to this season…
Watching anxiously…
Tony

2008: 8th day & firstborn

2008-04-13T11:28:00.000-07:00

Exodus 22:28-30
28 Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people.
29 Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
Blessings,
Tony

2008 Rapture Proclamation

2008-04-11T08:46:00.000-07:00

First fruits are marked and then taken to the temple. I have kept this note in my head regarding the “forever stamps” that the United States issued last year. We are coming on the one year anniversary at April 12th which is a Saturday. The price of the stamp went from 39 cents to 41 cents which almost seems to line up with the year timeline regarding 1967 and Jerusalem (freedom before the 41st stripe).

Forever stamps

Certain vending machines dispense stamps with denomination printed according to the buyers' choice via keypads.

In 2006, the US Postal Service applied for permission to issue a stamp similar to non-denominated stamps in the UK, termed the "forever stamp", for first-class postage.[1]

On March 26, 2007, the US Postal service unveiled the first such stamp, which went on sale April 12, 2007, for 41 cents (US$0.41).[2] The first NVI stamp issued by the USPS was the so-called "Liberty Bell" stamp, which is marked "USA FIRST-CLASS FOREVER".

On the stamps is the Liberty Bell. This is not insignificant. Philadelphia is of course the Church in Revelation that is kept “from the hour of testing” and is made “a pillar in the temple of God”. The U.S. has been the great light and witness in these last times, but we are in the final stages of the full transition from Philadelphia to Laodicea.

The Liberty Bell, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a bell of great historic significance. The Liberty Bell is one of the most prominent symbols associated with the American Revolutionary War. It is one of the most familiar symbols of independence within the United States, and has been described as an international icon of liberty and justice for all.[1]

According to tradition, its most famous ringing occurred on July 8, 1776, to summon citizens of Philadelphia for the reading of the Declaration of Independence

[edit] Inscription

The inscription on the Liberty Bell reads as follows:

“
Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV X

By Order of the ASSEMBLY of the Province of PENSYLVANIA for the State House in Philada
Pass and Stow
Philada
MDCCLIII
”

The source of the inscription is Leviticus 25:10, which reads "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." The inscription was intended to mark the 50th anniversary of William Penn's Charter of Privileges of 1701.

This inscription on the Liberty bell is significant as well. Many have written on the timing of 2007 – 2008 as a Sabbatical year (50). The wheat cent may be a marker as well. It ran for 49 years or 7 X 7. It’s last year was 1958 or 50 (Sabbatical) years ago.

Wheat cent
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A 1937 Wheat cent.

The Lincoln Wheat Ears Cent (sometimes referred to as a Wheat penny, a Wheatback, a Wheat Head, or a Wheatie) was a United States one-cent coin produced from 1909 to 1958.

Blessings,

Tony

Famine Rider on his way...

2008-04-02T06:08:00.001-07:00

'Silent' famine sweeps globe
Rice, fertilizer shortages, food costs, higher energy prices equal world crisis

________________________________________
Posted: April 01, 2008
8:59 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – From India to Africa to North Korea to Pakistan and even in New York City, higher grain prices, fertilizer shortages and rising energy costs are combining to spell hunger for millions in what is being characterized as a global "silent famine."

Global food prices, based on United Nations records, rose 35 percent in the last year, escalating a trend that began in 2002. Since then, prices have risen 65 percent.

Last year, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's world food index, dairy prices rose nearly 80 percent and grain 42 percent.
Not here yet, but well on its way…

Revelation 6

5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ

2008-03-31T07:40:00.000-07:00

What is it about storms, thunder and lightning that remind us of God?

There is this loud and intimidating noise that comes from the “heavens” and reminds us that we are not alone

There is the lightning the comes so quickly and with so much power that we cannot withstand it

Even with all our technology we cannot stand against tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and other disasters that come from above.

Then there are the white fluffy clouds on a blue sky day. What do they remind us of?

The Lamb of God that was perfect and peaceful and though no wrong was found in Him yet He gave His life for each one of ours.

The Apostles thought that when they found Jesus He would be as a Lion and yet He was a Lamb.

Is it possible Believers could be wrong twice?

Is it possible that Jesus will come back as the Lion and not the Lamb?

I have a Bible that I love for a specific reason. It lists out the whole name of the last book of the Bible – “The Revelation of Jesus Christ”.
Revelation 1
1The Revelation of Jesus Christ…
14His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

Blessings,

Tony

Economic Cycles discovered by Joseph

2008-03-30T08:55:00.001-07:00

Almost eerily, Buffett linked Joseph's seven-year cycles with the performance of the Dow Jones at the close of the 20th century. He recognized that the concept of economic cycles discovered by Joseph is as relevant today as it was then, and could only be ignored at our own peril.

The concept of economic cycles discovered by Joseph is as relevant today as it was then, and could only be ignored at our own peril.

And so, just about seven years after the bull market again began to roar in 2001, the seven "fat cows" of prosperity are being swallowed up the "lean cows" of sub-prime mortgage defaults, bankruptcies and hedge-fund collapses in 2008.

http://www.aish.com/societyWork/work/When_The_Dow_Goes_Down.asp

Blessings, Tony

NFL Draft & the Rapture

2008-03-26T09:07:00.001-07:00

TJ,

I too am a fan of the NFL draft. You have to be a fan to enjoy watching something that can be as “dry” as the draft. Its good on the doves to share these things – you never know when someone else has the same interest.

I am a Broncos fan and my favorite draft recently was two years ago when they moved up to draft Jay Cutler.

I’ve been told that I relate everything to prophecy and its probably an accurate assessment. I think the draft has some things to learn from that for those who are interested God could be speaking into our hearts.

You see on draft day, the players are chosen by the team and not the other way around (way different than college recruiting). I feel this is similar to how God chooses us.

Many times when a team is considering a player they may call them ahead of time. But many times they have no idea or there can be false alarms. The teams need to keep there intentions secret since other teams may then pick the very player they are targeting. This reminds me of how Jesus comes for us as a thief in the night.

Then finally the team makes its selection and the Commissioner takes it to the podium to make the formal announcement. For fan favorite picks there may be cheering. Usually in the team rooms there is always cheering when “they get their guy”. Next you see the player on the phone with the head coach or owner. Soon after this they are hurried to a private jet where they are flown to be directly with the team that very day. Then there is all the hoopla of a media conference where the player gets to share there testimony of how they got to this point of such a great honor to be selected by an NFL team. This all reminds me very much of the Rapture!!!

TJ, even though I’m not a Cowboy fan I’ll give you a “How bout them Cowboys” anyways as my brother!

YBIC,

Tony

3 years since May 5th 2005

2008-03-14T08:35:00.000-07:00

I appreciated what you wrote about Paul, Arabia & 3 years. I have been thinking about that lately. Also about being revived on the “3rd day”.

In Galatians 1:17-18 Paul explicitly stated, “Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.”

I have looked after prophecy my whole life and the Rapture for about 8 years. But the first date that I sat and waited out every minute was May 5th 2005. I studied every minute of every day for several months leading up to it. Needless to say, it was a let down & discouraging. Several dates have gone by since then.

This year will be 3 years since then and for whatever reason I have been thinking about that aspect of Paul, Arabia and the mountain.

I am eagerly watching this spring starting with Palm Sunday, Purim, & Easter weekend, but will be watching through Pentecost (& beyond if need be).

Blessings,

Tony

Evangelicals now largest group: Caution!

2008-02-29T06:56:00.001-08:00

Evangelicals have taken over Catholics as the largest number of Christians in the Country.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080226/NATION/902727579

Some would take this as good news. I would ask you to be very cautious with your enthusiasm for this statistic. I’ve noticed in watching the polls on politics and it seems to me that the persons conducting the polls are rather open with what they classify as an “evangelical” person.

To me this gives more evidence regardless of denomination that we are in the age of the Church of Laodicea.

I would encourage you to read your Bible and especially Revelation (of Jesus Christ). In Revelation there are 7 letters to the Churches. It will be good to be aware of them and what is mentioned regarding each.

The last 3 are Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.

Sardis has some good thing said about it, but also Jesus tells them that if they don’t watch He will come upon them like a thief. Jesus mentions multiple times that at His coming we are commanded to watch. It looks fairly obvious that this group misses the first Rapture.

Philadelphia would be the group that everyone wants to be if you read through the seven churches. Let me mention something though. This group is weak, has to display great patience and will be surrounded by wrongful accusers. The passage clearly shows that they miss the Great Tribulation, but it seems they have proactively stood through their own personal tribulations of life.

Laodicea would be the group no one would want to be, yet anyone that was part of this group wouldn’t be able to see it right away because as Jesus says they are blind, lukewarm and believe they are rich. Jesus says that those he loves he rebukes, chastens and refines by fire. This group is part of the Church but is in for a big “wake up” call and will likely go through the tribulation. They may even die for their faith.

Here are the passages so that you can read them for yourselves.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%203;&version=9;

Blessings,

Tony

Father, Bride & Groom's Heart

2008-02-20T22:37:00.001-08:00

In answer to my own question in the Post “The Judge’s Signature”

Last nights sky event w/ the full/blood red moon, Saturn & Regulus and what it might mean:

It may be the Father (Saturn), the Bride (Moon) & the heart of the Groom for His Bride (Regulus)

Blessings,

Tony

The Judge's Signature

2008-02-20T22:09:00.000-08:00

The Judge's Signature

I hope you had a chance last night to “witness” and “watch” the night sky – it was significant. Here is a quick overview:

Full Moon, Total Lunar Eclipse, Blood Red Moon w/ Saturn and Regulus at either side.

Here is an excerpt from the article and then the article itself:

LOS ANGELES — The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs Wednesday night, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the veiled full moon.

Jack Horkheimer, host of the PBS show "Star Gazer," called the event "the moon, the lord of the rings and heart of the lion eclipse."
Wednesday's event will be the last total lunar eclipse until Dec. 20, 2010.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331408,00.html

You can see some great photos at this link:

http://spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_20feb08.htm?PHPSESSID=dila93b4gen1ef0c3e7u79dq71

I have already written quite a bit regarding the moon which would relate to the full moon as well and the Bible, specifically Revelation refers to the significance of a “Blood Red Moon” which we had tonight.

Let me mention a bit about Saturn and Regulus.

The event in the sky last night I believe very may well be like an important signature on a signed legal document.

Saturn is the King Planet and wears the crown (Saturn is most known for its unique rings). It stands for Jehovah or YHWH. Saturn stands for the harvest and the sickle and also the Judge (all info from Wikipedia). When Saturn was first observed by Galileo Galilei in 1610 with his telescope he wrote “The planet Saturn is not alone, but is composed of three.”

Regulus stands for Jesus and is the brightest star in the Leo constellation. Regulus is positioned at the center of Leo’s chest – that’s how Regulus got its name “heart of the lion”.

The process for a legal document after the signing is delivery and carrying the order out. I will be watching intently the next few days to see what might happen. For example the day that this occurred is Adar 14 (as Wade Balzer mentioned in his post) which normally is Purim. This is a leap year and so Adar 14 is called Purim Katan. See how on this date Esther petitioned the king:

Esther 9

13Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

Esther 9 discusses Adar 13, 14 & 15 so I would definitely be watching through February 22nd. Also it may be a 30 day notice as Purim is March 21st this year and lands between Palm Sunday and Easter. Also, February 22nd happens to be 153 days after September 22nd 2007 which was Yom Kippur this year (Day of Atonement or Judgment).

Why do you think the King/crown planet and the heart of the Lion would be on either side of the Moon which stands for the Bride?

I believe that it signals that we shall indeed be delivered shortly.

What does Satan think about all of this?

When the Rapture occurs and the antichrist is revealed he knows he has precious little time to work with. He is already working out his plan of deception. Aliens will be the explanation for the missing persons and he will attempt to bring the peoples & governments together to prepare for an alien attack which in fact will be Jesus Christ and his returning saints for the battle of Armegedon.

I love what the founding fathers of the United States stood for and I was in the Navy myself, but I believe this was Satan’s response to the “Signed Document” and approval of the Bride:

SPY-SAT HIT! US officials say the US Navy has successfully hit spy satellite USA 193 with a missile over the Pacific Ocean. "Due to the relatively low altitude of the satellite at the time of the engagement, debris will begin to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere immediately," says the US Dept. of Defense. "Nearly all of the debris will burn up on reentry within 24-48 hours and the remaining debris should re-enter within 40 days."

Watching intently and anxiously awaiting our redemption!

Blessings,

Tony

Fireball meteor comes down, so does Atlantis...

2008-02-20T12:11:00.000-08:00

Space shuttle Atlantis touches down at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Welcome Home
Space shuttle Atlantis makes safe Wednesday-morning landing at Cape Canaveral

SPOKANE, Wash. — An apparent meteor streaked through the sky over the Pacific Northwest early Tuesday, drawing reports of bright lights and sonic booms in parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Although a witness reported seeing the object strike the Earth in a remote part of Adams County, in southeast Washington, it had not been found.
"I'm convinced it was a meteor," said Geoff Chester, spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. "It was a classic description of a fireball."

Possibly Coincidentally...

2008-02-20T10:37:00.000-08:00

Excerpt from below article:

The satellite passes overhead at about 5:30 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, or 10:30 p.m. EST; the FAA has restricted the airspace from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Hawaiian time Wednesday, and then again on Thursday.

Possibly coincidentally, a lunar eclipse will begin in Hawaii at about 5 p.m., aiding visibility. Sunset will be at about 6:30 p.m.

The Navy plans to hit USA 193, also knows as NROL-21, with a heat-seeking Aegis missile fired from the Lake Erie.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331432,00.html

Blessings,

Tony

Hide me in your Pavillion Jehovah!

2008-02-19T07:59:00.000-08:00

Psalm
27:5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Good verse for the day Jan!

In the article where the Navy will shoot down the Satellite it will be done by an Aegis cruiser. Aegis has further meaning:

aegis (ē′jis)
noun
1. GR. MYTH. a shield borne by Zeus and, later, by his daughter Athena and occasionally by Apollo
Apollo is the space program that started it all, landing on the moon which began in 1967 and was accomplished in 1969.
I also noticed further in the article that there is a range for the time of the “shoot down” from 9:30 p.m. eastern + 2.5 hours which would be midnight eastern.
The total eclipse runs from 10:01 eastern – 10:51 p.m. eastern and the whole cycle partial to total back to partial goes from 8:43 p.m. – 12:09 a.m. eastern.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/02/18/satellite.intercept/index.html

Blessings,

Tony

Satellite shootdown coincides w/ Eclipse - Watch!!!

2008-02-19T06:56:00.000-08:00

Please read my prior posts as a reference

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2008/tonye219-1.htm

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2008/tonye219-2.htm

There are several “alarming” things with the coming “shoot down” of the satellite

• It will be done from the Pacific Ocean which has a “tie in” with the moon (read above posts for info)
• The time they are scheduled to shoot it down is 9:30 eastern. The eclipse runs from 8:43 p.m. – 12:09 p.m. Eastern time. Very odd coincidence don’t you think?
• The article specifically states the timing is when Atlantis hits the ground. This is also something I mention in the above posts.
• This will be done by the Navy which personally means much to me as I have my most impactful testimony in my life from the years I spent on active duty in the Navy in the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/02/18/satellite.intercept/index.html

I don’t pretend to know exactly what is going on, but these are very strange coincidences that may not be coincidences at all.

I will be watching intently!

Blessings,

Tony

Moon, Marriage & New Jerusalem

2008-02-18T17:05:00.001-08:00

Moon Home, Marriage & New Jerusalem

This is a discussion of all the occurrences in the sky, moon & otherwise I previously reported on with additional commentary pertaining to insight that may be helpful:

• Atlantis is scheduled to land Wednesday morning. Both the Kennedy Space Center and the backup landing site in California will be ready; the space agency wants the shuttle down that day to give the military enough time to destroy a damaged spy satellite.
• ISS Update: Atlantis has undocked from the ISS and the "double flybys" have begun. Amateur astronomer Ashmeet Singh sends this photo and a movie recorded less than an hour ago in New Delhi, India

Atlantis is the city/society that at some distant past was the demons & followers of Satan’s time of glory. It is this past and lost glory that they would love to recreate. On this day Atlantis will be returning to earth. I believe that is Satan’s ultimate goal that he will attempt to recreate utilizing the antichrist and world government – “Atlantis returning to earth.”

• SPY SATELLITE: Doomed spy satellite USA 193 is still orbiting Earth and making evening flybys of US towns and cities. Last night it passed over Bishop, California, "right on time," reports Ray Finch who was alerted by a Spaceweather phone call. Brightness estimates by experienced sky watchers range from magnitude +1.5 to -0.5, similar to the stars of Orion. USA 193 may grow even brighter if, as planned, the US Navy hits it with an Aegis missile after Feb. 20th. Stay tuned for updates

I believe that when the Rapture happens it will be explained away with some sort of alien involvement. I believe that shortly thereafter the next level of deception will be the antichrist preparing humanity to take on this “alien” attacker. This is how Satan will deceive the world into attempting to attack Jesus when he returns from the sky with His saints to destroy the “kings of the earth”. Notice recently how China, the U.S. and other nations are increasing their capabilities to shoot missiles skyward. There have been numerous missions to these satellites and now coming to importance is the ability to carry out missile strikes into space. Nations are showing this capability by shooting down satellites in the sky.

Atlantis coming down to earth, a demonstration of strength with capability to shoot down satellites in orbit and a blood red moon all happening at the same time. Coincidence? Coincidence is not a kosher word…

The moon has special meaning for God’s elect.

• February 20th/21st is full moon in North America

• February 20th/21st is “Blood Moon” or Lunar Eclipse in North America
February 20th is Wednesday and according to Wikipedia: According to the Hebrew Bible, Wednesday is the day when the Sun and Moon were created.
Each Jewish month and the new year, Rosh Hashanah start off with the sighing of the moon.

The Moon is the Bride (Eve). The Sun is Jesus (God). The earth is the Husband (Adam). Let me explain…

Genesis 2:20-22 (King James Version)
20And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
(Notice that this chapter in verse in Genesis just happen to match the dates in which we are talking about February 20-22nd).

Adam was made from the dust of the earth. He is man. Eve was taken from his side. Our text says a rib, but I’ve read several times that this instead may have been a “womb” of which the term to call Eve came “womb-man” or “woman”. Remember too, that the Church (Bride) was created when Jesus’ side was pierced.

When Adam and Eve disobeyed God then separated them from the Garden of Eden, which I believe may be connected with the Paradise Jesus refers to and also the New Jerusalem.

A Man and Woman were meant to be together to reflect the image of the creator.

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Many Christians are worried about the verses where Jesus was asked about marriage and he said:

Matthew 22:30
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

Scary concept when marriage is one of the most fulfilling things that Jehovah created for this life. For men you have to come to terms with being the “bride of Christ” and then when we all get there we lose the fulfillment of marriage – Yikes!

Hold on! I have some good news. Just like we will cash in Hope & Faith for Happiness & Fulfillment you will also gladly trade in Marriage to truly become one. What is the joy of sex within the confines of marriage where a husband and wife become one and have the opportunity to create another life in an image of their own will become a reality and state of being. I feel like God shared this with me as I had this very concern when my wife Kellie & I were at a marriage conference. I never have heard an “out loud” voice, but nonetheless he is loud and clear and right on time – A truly loving Father that cares for His children.

Okay I digress, back to when Adam & Eve sinned and were separated from the Garden of Eden.

Like Jehovah took Adam’s wife Eve from his side, he took the “Bride” the New Jerusalem, the Garden of Eden from the side of the earth. I suspect the Pacific Ocean. I’m not totally sure about this but when Jehovah took it from the earth I’m quite sure the earth is not configured as it is today and also when He puts it back it will not be configured like it is now – He will make it ready.

Much of this I suspected in various things I had learned and I am nothing of a scientist, but to my surprise several secular scientists believe exactly this:

The Moon is moving away from the earth like a bouncing ball away from a surface. If you reverse this formula the Moon would have come from the earth. Many reputable scientists believe that early on something happened and the moon was spun off to where it is now. Here is the theory in short:

Fission Theory - Early speculation proposed that the Moon broke off from the Earth's crust because of centrifugal forces, leaving a basin (presumed to be the Pacific Ocean) behind as a scar.

More detail:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974Moon...11...53B

There are many things unique to our moon making it far different than others:

• Our moon controls tides (tying it to the ocean where it may rejoin the earth someday)
• Our moon is so large compared to our world many scientists consider it a binary planet system vs. world & moon system.
• Our moon is 27% of our earth. Only Pluto’s moon Charon, is larger compared to its host planet.
• Our moon is slowly moving away from the planet earth 1.5” per year.
• From the planet earth we never see the “dark side of the moon” (the moon rotates right along with us so we never see the “other side”).

Here are some things that man/Satan is prompting to “clue us in” that there may be more to the moon than meets the eye:

• In 1967 Israel took control of Jerusalem. In 1967 The Apollo program with its intent of landing the 1st man on the moon which did happen two years later in 1969. I think that this program is named after the god “Apollo” should give us some insight.
• Over 5,000 satellites have been put into orbit
• NASA has a goal of having a permanent station on the moon
• There are entities out there selling moon land plots
• The Cold War started the Star Wars program and now the U.S. & other nations are competing for the “new frontier”.

Here are some things in Fables that point us to something peculiar about the moon:

• Man on the moon
• Moon Mansions in Astrology. Many ancient cultures hold the lunar zodiac in higher importance than the solar. If it can be said that the solar zodiac carries the message of the Gospel – Gospel of the Stars then we can find many things as well in the Lunar Zodiac. Isn’t it interesting that there are Lunar Mansions?
• Talmudic tradition says Jacob lives on the moon
• The moons cycles in many cultures is linked to a woman’s menstrual cycle

Scripture pointing to the Moon & New Jerusalem

Daniel’s prophecy of the “Rock” that comes to earth to destroy the feet of the image and becomes the Kingdom. Could this heavenly rock be the moon?

Daniel 2:31-35 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
31Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
32This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Revelation 21 (King James Version)
1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Notice there the verse says “there is no more sea”. This does not verify, but does fit in nicely with the theory that the moon came from the Pacific Ocean. I know God will have His way to put it together to create in perfect order the New Heaven & New Earth.

2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
It comes down from Heaven as a Bride adorned for her husband. If the moon is the bride would it not again be joined with her husband? Like Adam and Eve and the promise finally fulfilled in Marriage we shall truly be one as the image of God is found in the union of man and woman and the moon & earth shall be one – “like a bride adorned for her husband.”
10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
What will men do? What will Satan and the antichrist do when they see the moon coming down from heaven? This explains all there current actions and fascination with the moon, aliens and the whole “space race”.

Eclipses can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are all in a straight line. Solar eclipses occur near a new moon, when the Moon is between the Sun and Earth. In contrast, lunar eclipses occur near a full moon, when the Earth is between the Sun and Moon.
This week there will be a lunar eclipse on February 20th/21st. Here is more information on it:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/15357796.html?1=1

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html

We have had 3 lunar eclipse’s this year and will not have another in North America until December 2010.

What will happen? I don’t know but I will be watching intently!!!

Blessings,

Tony

Feb 20-22nd: SkyWatch!!!

2008-02-18T10:02:00.001-08:00

Lots of interesting things taking place in the sky from February 20th on…

February 20th/21st is full moon in North America

February 20th/21st is “Blood Moon” or Lunar Eclipse in North America

Also:

SPY SATELLITE: Doomed spy satellite USA 193 is still orbiting Earth and making evening flybys of US towns and cities. Last night it passed over Bishop, California, "right on time," reports Ray Finch who was alerted by a Spaceweather phone call. Brightness estimates by experienced sky watchers range from magnitude +1.5 to -0.5, similar to the stars of Orion. USA 193 may grow even brighter if, as planned, the US Navy hits it with an Aegis missile after Feb. 20th. Stay tuned for updates

February 20th is Wednesday and according to Wikipedia: According to the Hebrew Bible, Wednesday is the day when the Sun and Moon were created.

ISS Update: Atlantis has undocked from the ISS and the "double flybys" have begun. Amateur astronomer Ashmeet Singh sends this photo and a movie recorded less than an hour ago in New Delhi, India

Atlantis is scheduled to land Wednesday morning. Both the Kennedy Space Center and the backup landing site in California will be ready; the space agency wants the shuttle down that day to give the military enough time to destroy a damaged spy satellite.
Blessings,

Tony

Scriptures for Blood Red Moon: Feb 20th-22nd

2008-02-18T08:08:00.000-08:00

Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
Joel 2:30-32 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Acts 2:20
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
Acts 2:19-21 (in Context) Acts 2 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 6:12
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Revelation 6:11-13 (in Context) Revelation 6 (Whole Chapter)

Eclipse of the Moon: Watchdays Feb 20-22

2008-02-18T07:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/15357796.html?1=1

Blessings,

Tony

Presidential Prophecy

2008-02-11T14:28:00.001-08:00

Jim,

I just wanted to add a comment onto your post if I may for my “widow’s mite” (two cents)

You mentioned this:

(10 is the number of government) and indicated that Gov. Mike Huckabee was God's choice for the next President."

I’d like to mention that if it were true that Mike Huckabee was God’s choice for the next Presidential candidate it doesn’t necessarily follow that he will be elected President.

How’s that you say??? Well, God had Saul become king first because it was who the people wanted. His choice for king was David.

Many of the things we deal with today Israel dealt with in another form. Their people worshipped Baal and Ashtera which involved sexual immorality and also baby sacrifice for the cause of money and power. Today we still deal with sin in regards to sexual immorality (gay marriage, pornography, etc.), baby sacrifice (abortion) and it all lends itself to the secular agenda and money and power. Hollywood orchestrates much of this and leads the Jezebel Spirit which is destroying our country. They are the priests and priestesses of the false religion that is deluding the world. I’m not sure that this is technically correct, but they (Hollywood) definitely remind me of the “whore” riding the beast that is mentioned in Revelation.

God punished not only those who partook in the corruption, but also those who stuck around, stayed on the sideline, etc.

Everyone has to vote, not vote, etc. to their own conscience. I would not be presumptuous to say what that should be for you.

Clearly needs to be covered in prayer, discernment and proper action. For me, I am a fervent supporter of Mike Huckabee. I’m glad he’s majoring in miracles instead of math 

Blessings,

Tony

5 Smooth Stones

2008-02-06T16:23:00.000-08:00

I couldn’t help but notice the similarities in the same timeframe.

Before Super Tuesday Mike Huckabee made a reference several times to needing “five smooth” stones, obviously a reference to David’s stones of which he only needed one to kill Goliath (although it was rumored he had 4 brothers).

1 Samuel 17:40
And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

Surprising the pundits, Mike Huckabee won 5 states. He won one unexpectedly and lost two others by narrow margins, so the number could have been much different.

Mike Huckabee: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia

Not in the same states but still 5 southern states the tornadoes came.

Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.

LAFAYETTE, Tenn. — Residents in five Southern states tried to salvage what they could Wednesday from homes reduced to piles of debris, a day after the deadliest cluster of tornadoes in nearly a decade tore through the region, snapping trees and crumpling homes. At least 50 people were dead.
**To be clear, I am a Mike Huckabee supporter. At this point it sure would be a miracle win and I rather expect that Hillary and/or Obama (they may run together) will win and will move the world to a One World Government and Religion. Oprah is already getting the curriculum ready.

I am not sure what God is doing here, but it seemed to much not to notice.

Blessings,

Tony

Barak Obama: be informed

2008-01-28T10:48:00.000-08:00

Just watching Obama & all his early endorsements and early followers I thought I would repost what I wrote when he first announced his run for President:

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Barack Obama - be informed

Barack Obama

http://www.barackobama.com/

He just announced his intent to run for President in 2008

He has had an amazing rise to power, fame and popularity

He has a message to bridge the divide between Democrats and Republicans.

He said his name means “one who’s blessed”

He says there is no black or white. He is a child of a black father, white mother who were divorced when he was two.

He has an “Amazing ability to talk between divides”

“he gives a sense of hope”

…no differences in anything – we must all be the same and united

Attends United Church of Christ.

More info on United Church of Christ:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ

The motto of the United Church of Christ comes from John 17:21: "That they may all be one.

The text displayed on the screen says "Jesus didn't turn people away. Neither do we."

The resolution "In support of equal marriage rights for all", supported by an estimated 80% of the 884 General Synod Delegates, made the United Church of Christ General Synod the first major Christian deliberative body in the U.S. to make a statement of support for equal marriage rights for all people

The language used that asserts no distinction between same sex marriage and different sex marriage.

United Church of Christ General Synod XV also passed two resolutions concerning the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Middle East, calls upon Israel to remove the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank. Opponents of the "Tear Down the Wall" resolution have noted that the wall's purpose is to prevent terrorist attacks, and that the resolution does not call for a stop to these attacks.

In 2007, the UCC will hold its General Synod 26. It will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UCC.

Howard Dean and Bill Gates also attend.
[edit] Controversial "God Is Still Speaking" identity campaign
Main article: God is Still Speaking

Example from UCC media branding campaign
At the 2003 General Synod, the United Church of Christ began a campaign with "emphasis on expanding the UCC's name-brand identity through modern advertising and marketing."[15] that was formally launched Advent 2004. The campaign included coordinated program of evangelism and hospitality training for congregations paired with national and local television "brand" advertising, known as the "God is Still Speaking" campaign or "The Stillspeaking Initiative." The initiative was themed around the quote "Never place a period where God has placed a comma,"

Blessings,

Tony

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Candlemas & Groundhog's Day: Early Spring for the Bride?

2008-01-27T12:22:00.000-08:00

"The serpent will come from the hole
On the brown Day of Bride,
Though there should be three feet of snow
On the flat surface of the ground."

February 2nd/3rd is many holidays in one.

Candlemas: Purification of the Virgin & Presentation of Jesus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemas_Day

Groundhogs Day: First celebrated in Pennsylvania & New York, weather & early spring prognostication. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_day

Imbloc: Thought to be the Pagan precursor to Groundhogs day. Satan never creates only deceives. See what truth is left here once you carve away his lies. The above poem is from this day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc

All three have potential Rapture implications. Here are but a few:

1. 40 days from Christmas (Candlemas)
2. Purification of the Virgin. Those ready are described as such. (Candlemas)
3. Presentation of Jesus. We are a model of Jesus, a presentation of the man-child at the heavenly temple in New Jerusalem (Candlemas)
4. Early Spring or more winter? Doesn’t it seem odd that when the groundhog does not see his shadow because of gloomy conditions it is time for early spring? When it is most gloomy this is when our Savior will finally bring spring. (All 3 have a version of this regarding Spring)
5. This is when the prophet & prophetess, Simeon & Anna saw their Savior in the temple after a long wait. – Luke 2:22-40 (Candlemas)
6. Marks the end of the Epiphany season (Candlemas)
7. On a less serious note, watch the movie Groundhog’s Day w/ Bill Murray. He is doomed to repeat the day (refinement) until he can have a good heart. Unintentionally, rather prophetic. (Groundhog’s Day)
8. Fire and purification are an important aspect of this festival. (Imbloc)
9. The above poem with reference to the serpent and the bride. (Imbloc)
10. The lighting of candles and fires represents the return of warmth and the increasing power of the Sun over the coming months. (Revelation & Sun representing Jesus’ rein). – (Imbloc)
11. Among agrarian peoples, Imbolc has been traditionally associated with the onset of lactation of ewes, soon to give birth to the spring lambs. (Imbloc)
12. In Irish, Imbolc (pronounced im'olk) from the Old Irish, meaning "in the belly" (i mbolg), referring to the pregnancy of ewes, and is also a Celtic term for spring. (Imbloc)

Blessings,

Tony

Electrical Universe & potential Rapture implications

2008-01-27T09:17:00.000-08:00

January 22nd is one week before January 29th & TU 24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2008_stock_market_downturn (January 22nd)

http://www.tu24.org/ (January 29th) – Asteroid & electrical Universe

Candlemas on February 2nd/3rd, Saturday & Sunday to follow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemas

I had mentioned January 22nd and February 2nd/3rd as watch days. I came to these days through an intersection of personal testimony & Jewish and Christian feast days. However, my wife & I are leaving by air to New Mexico from Omaha to Denver flying over the Rocky Mountains for our job at the Open Door Mission on the 29th. The Southern Rocky Mountains are in New Mexico and on Saturday February 2nd we plan to be at the “Blood of Christ Mountains” at Glorieta Pass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_of_christ_mountains

From my personal testimony that happened last year January 22nd was a delay and prelude to finality on February 2nd.

You never know what will happen for sure, but we are to be “watchers”. I will be watching with great anticipation from January 29th – February 3rd.

There is a lot more information at my website under the blog section.

Blessings,

Tony

Jan 22nd: Tu B'Shevat - Tree Day!

2008-01-21T11:06:00.000-08:00

Throughout the centuries, Kabbalists have used the tree as a metaphor to understand God's relationship to the spiritual and physical worlds. (Aish.com)

Trees are rooted in the earth, but reach up towards the sky. They bear fruit. In spring they grow leaves, in fall they turn colors and in winter they lose their leaves to start all over again. Through the Bible at times God’s people improperly worshipped trees. Although this is true, Trees have a connection to the spiritual which is not improper.

Remember that “it” all started in the Garden of Eden of an issue of the fruit of a tree. And there were two significant Trees in the Garden, the Tree of Life & the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil.

Let’s look at Abraham and Oaks:

Genesis 12:6
6Abram passed through the land as far as the site of (A)Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land
Genesis 13:18
18Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the (A)oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built (B)an altar to the LORD.
Genesis 14:13
Then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew Now he was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were allies with Abram.

Genesis 18:1
[ Birth of Isaac Promised ] Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Also Jacob before God named him Israel:

Genesis 35:3-5
3and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make (A)an altar there to God, (B)who answered me in the day of my distress and (C)has been with me wherever I have gone."
4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
5As they journeyed, there was (D)a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
And verse 10

10(O)God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob,
But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel.

Oaks are mentioned multiple times with Joshua and the Promised Land…

Gideon when the Angel of the Lord appeared to him:

Judges 6:18-20
18"Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." And He said, "I will remain until you return."
19Then Gideon went in and (A)prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an [a]ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them out to him under the oak and presented them.
20The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." And he did so.
Also:

Anointing of Saul as King

Absalom when his hair became caught on a tree was an Oak.

Jesus & trees

Isaiah 61:3
To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting, so they will be called Oaks of Righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Jesus in his ministry, as prophetic fulfillment of himself read most of what appeared right before this verse regarding “Oaks of Righteousness”. Some translations simply say Trees vs. Oaks and I think this leaves something important out. Oak is a symbol of strength and quality and it fits the context of what this section of Isaiah is saying. Let’s read on to see what else it says about these “Oaks of Righteousness”…

Mark 8:23-25 (King James Version)
23And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. 24And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. 25After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
I believe that this is in God’s word for a reason. Did Jesus accidentally do this? No. Is it recorded by accident. No. So why did Jesus allow this man in the healing to see men as trees. Why the mention in Isaiah? There is something more here than a metaphor.
Since the Holy Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people could no longer bring the First Fruits (Bikkurim) to Jerusalem. On Tu B'Shvat we offer instead the fruit of our lips, to praise God for all the fruit trees in the world. (Aish.com)
Tu B’Shvat is known as Rosh Hashanah for trees. Since we know that Rosh Hashanah has a tie in with the Rapture and trees has a tie in with God’s planting or elect and that this holiday has a connection with first fruits as well, it certainly bears watching.
Tu B’ Shvat marks the 1st day of Spring in Israel.
The Mishnah in Tractate Rosh Hashana says that Tu B'Shvat is New Year for the TREE (singular). This reference to a singular tree alludes to The Tree -- the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. (Aish.com)
Last Year I wrote the below about Tu B’ Shvat which was on February 2nd and the same day as Candlemas (purification of the virgin and the presentation of Jesus at the Temple). I am watching January 22nd and February 2nd/3rd very carefully this year.
Also, notice that the riders mentioned below are seen by Zechariah in the 11th month on the 24th day. This would be January 31st this year.

Tree of Life
(Written January 9, 2007)

Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who hold her fast.
Trees…

Branches, roots, and fruit – can we glean anything from this?

February 2nd this year is Tu B'Shevat, also known as Rosh Hashana for trees.

It is interesting that this falls in the “Season of Esther” – the month of Tebeth until Purim. Hadassa means “Flowering Myrtle Tree”. Maybe there is something to learn here.

Myrtle Tree:

It has yellowish-white blossoms, and blooms in February or early March. The nuts are mature about October. Further proof of God’s Sovereignty and that he forms us in the womb. Hadassah is Esther’s Jewish name. Purim is of course the Jewish holiday named after Esther and Mordecai who overthrew the evil Haman and his plot against God’s people. This holiday takes place in February or March each year.
God always leaves much deep meaning for us to glean from. The “fruit” of this tree, which are nuts mature about October. The branches of this tree are used in Sukkoth. Also, they are used as wedding decorations.
Through struggles and stress, Myrtle trees form beautiful pictures in their wood. With a little imagination one can see animals, ocean scenes, mountains, or rivers. If you are lucky enough to find a piece with a pink or orange streak, you may even see a sunset.
Also, they grow in lush valleys and are nearly symmetrical and look already pruned when they in fact have not been.

Here are a couple of interesting Bible passages on Myrtle trees that are deeply prophetic. Like Esther/Hadassah, these trees represent a select people God has a special plan for:

Zechariah 1:7-17

"Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem"

Clearly the horses and riders are angelic riders, one of them probably Jesus. Since they are positioned among the Myrtle trees they are there for defense and protection. You’ve heard the saying the “fruit grows in the valley”. The Myrtle trees grow and grow their fruit in the valley. Their fruit comes full in the fall, with their blossoms corresponding to Purim or a time of war and defense. Through stress (refinement by YHWH) each develops a unique pattern (Spiritual gifting/character).

Also Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign.

and

When you come to the land and you plant any tree, you shall treat its fruit as forbidden; for three years it will be forbidden and not eaten. In the fourth year, all of its fruit shall be sanctified to praise the LORD. In the fifth year, you may eat its fruit. -Leviticus 19:23-25

From the Judiasm 101 website:

There are four new years... the first of Shevat is the new year for trees according to the ruling of Beit Shammai; Beit Hillel, however, places it on the fifteenth of that month. -Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1
Tu B'Shevat, the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shevat, is a holiday also known as the New Year for Trees.
Jewish Year 5767 : sunset February 2, 2007 - nightfall February 3, 2007

According to www.hebrew4christians.com Tu B’Shevat marks the first day of Spring in Israel as well.

YHWH cares about trees, had rules to live by and also compared them to man. There is no doubt they have a connection to man, which we will go into further later. Israel even got them in trouble for worshipping trees. Seem silly? Well, there are lots of things that we don’t understand in our secular society now that made spiritual sense that we have lost. We will find that although these practices were idolatry much that was done long ago was not because people were some sort of “Neanderthals” and didn’t have our science, but rather it is we who have lost a deep understanding of the origins and deep truths. However, this is no excuse to worship trees.
Deuteronomy 20:19
19"When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?
Again from the www.hebrew4christians website:

A story from the Talmud discusses planting trees for subsequent generations. This story represents the concept of tikkun olam – the repair of the world.

Isaiah 55:12 “…and the trees of the fields will clap their hands…”

Isaiah 60:13 “The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the juniper, the box tree and the cypress together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I shall make the place of My feet glorious.”

Who are these trees? What will this mean?

It looks like there are many types, and with many types comes many meanings. I have to go to the most prominent place I can think of regarding trees and start there:
Isaiah 61:3
To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting, so they will be called Oaks of Righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Jesus in his ministry, as prophetic fulfillment of himself read most of what appeared right before this verse regarding “Oaks of Righteousness”. Some translations simply say Trees vs. Oaks and I think this leaves something important out. Oak is a symbol of strength and quality and it fits the context of what this section of Isaiah is saying. Let’s read on to see what else it says about these “Oaks of Righteousness”…

What they will do (4 is the number of earth):

4Then they will (L)rebuild the ancient ruins,
They will raise up the former devastations;
And they will repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.

What they will possess (5 is the number of Grace):

5(M)Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks,
And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

What their official position is (6 is the number of man):

6But you will be called the (N)priests of the LORD;
You will be spoken of as (O)ministers of our God
You will eat the (P)wealth of nations,
And in their riches you will boast.

Their redemption (7 is God’s number – Spiritual Perfection):

7Instead of your (Q)shame you will have a (R)double portion,
And instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion
Therefore they will possess a double portion in their land,
(S)Everlasting joy will be theirs.

Justice and a New Covenant! (8 is God’s number for new beginnings)

8For I, the LORD, (T)love justice,
I hate robbery in the burnt offering;
And I will faithfully give them their recompense
And make an (U)everlasting covenant with them.

Their family will be blessed (9 is the last chance plague for Pharaoh, who lost his firstborn – 9 is finality)

9Then their offspring will be known among the nations,
And their descendants in the midst of the peoples.
All who see them will recognize them
Because they are the (V)offspring whom the LORD has blessed.

Rejoicing and Marriage (10 is the number for ordinal completion)

10I will (W)rejoice greatly in the LORD,
My soul will exult in (X)my God;
For He has (Y)clothed me with garments of salvation,
He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
And (Z)as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

New beginnings (11 is the number for change, redemption for the righteous and judgment for the wicked. It comes right after 10 which is ordinal completion and before 12 which is the number for earthly government)

11For as the (AA)earth brings forth its sprouts,
And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up,
So the Lord GOD will (AB)cause (AC)righteousness and praise
To spring up before all the nations.

Let’s look at Abraham and Oaks:
Genesis 12:6
6Abram passed through the land as far as the site of (A)Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land
Genesis 13:18
18Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the (A)oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built (B)an altar to the LORD.
Genesis 14:13
Then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew Now he was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were allies with Abram.

Genesis 18:1
[ Birth of Isaac Promised ] Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Also Jacob before God named him Israel:

Genesis 35:3-5
3and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make (A)an altar there to God, (B)who answered me in the day of my distress and (C)has been with me wherever I have gone."
4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
5As they journeyed, there was (D)a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
And verse 10

10(O)God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob,
But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel.

Oaks are mentioned multiple times with Joshua and the Promised Land…

Gideon when the Angel of the Lord appeared to him:

Judges 6:18-20
18"Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." And He said, "I will remain until you return."
19Then Gideon went in and (A)prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an [a]ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them out to him under the oak and presented them.
20The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." And he did so.
Also:

Anointing of Saul as King

Absalom when his hair became caught on a tree was an Oak.

If you do some reading and searching regarding Oaks in the Bible you will see both good and bad. It really started out good and Isaiah prophesies about the Oaks of Righteousness. Israel with it’s fallen human nature took something good and worshipped the created instead of the Creator.

There is a lot more to study on trees in the Bible, but this is a good start.

Blessings,

Tony

A Soldier, An economist, A Pastor

2008-01-18T16:10:00.001-08:00

This sounds like some sort of joke, but as we struggle through war and terrorism, an economy that is about to collapse we are faced with a decision for the Republican candidate for President:

A Soldier: John McCain
A Economist: Mitt Romney
A Pastor: Mike Huckabee

For my vote I’m going with the prayer.

Blessings,

Tony

MIke Huckabee Contributions

2008-01-16T07:29:00.000-08:00

I am new at this, but I did sign up as a Huckabee Ranger. You can read my earlier January blog in regards to my thoughts on Mike Huckabee for President. Please click on the link below if you would like to get more involved by contributions, emails or otherwise.

Thank you and Blessings! Tony Els

http://my.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Account.Fundraising

P.S. - If it is easier just to go to his site then my donor code is: R6326 I have a very small goal of raising $100 right now. If I meet that then I will move on from there!

Rapture: Martha, Mary & Lazarus

2008-01-15T07:18:00.001-08:00

I am watching closely the following dates:

January 22nd, which is Tu B’ Shevat, Rosh Hashanah for Trees, and marks the 1st day of Spring in Israel

And February 2nd/3rd which is Candlemas (40 days from Christmas) and the day of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of the Virgin. It is also Groundhog day which is a mark for the timing of Spring.

I have really found the article regarding the archetype for the Rapture regarding Lazarus, Martha, Mary and Jesus extremely important. It clearly shows Martha as the “type” for the first fruits rapture, Mary as the main harvest rapture and Lazarus as the type for Israel. Read it for yourself with his explanation. It is really very, very good.

http://www.ffruits.org/firstfruits/lazarusarticle.aspx

Now regarding some of my thoughts on timing (not a prediction, but thoughts)

Lazarus’ raising from the dead is recorded in one book in the Bible – John. It is significant. Jesus shows before His triumphant entry into Jerusalem and His death on the cross for us that He indeed can defeat death. This so upset the Religious leaders at the time that they not only decided to kill Jesus, but also Lazarus.

Everyday I spend time in prayer, meditation, study and trying to listen and discern God’s voice in regards to His will and certainly hoping for the Rapture. I know you do this as well. As I was thinking about what could be some of the most significant models in the Bible that would give us a clue. Before relooking at the article listed above that I had read some time ago, I knew that Jesus defeating death before the cross would be significant. Here is a supposition in regards to some of my thinking about the timeline:

In pondering, Acts clearly is a foreshadowing of the Church during the time of the tribulation. The Holy Spirit is poured out, tribulation occurs and it is after the ascension of Jesus and the raising of the dead.

We know the raising of Lazarus occurs before Palm Sunday and Passover. Even though Jesus raises Lazarus to show that He can indeed defeat death, Lazarus representing Israel, it is critical to show “all” that He can defeat death. In the Rapture death is defeated in a different manner than when the dead are raised, but it is a necessary requirement being that it was the penalty for sin which we have all inherited. Notice in the account that neither Martha or Mary die, but Lazarus dies. More important Jesus says this to Martha:

John 11:25-26 (KJV) Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Earlier in the account we read Martha comes out first – this along with other clues tell us about the first fruit & main harvest:

John 11:20 (KJV) Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

I encourage you to read the article in full from the link above. I have the website listed at my blog section and you can read more about the coming dates there.

If this is a “model” and it is the only account in the book of John, then potentially we can draw something from this in regards to timing. Remember in Revelation John is called up to Heaven and then sees the Lamb that is slain. We know this Lamb to be Jesus who has died for our sins. I believe that even though the Rapture is miraculous that this account in Revelation is accurate and like John says he does, we may weep greatly at our own sins and the sins of the world realizing how greatly we NEED Salvation and Jesus. If we were Raptured and did have a chance to see the Heavenly view of our redemption, when would this potentially take place? Passover. If so, then the Rapture may be before Passover. I also believe that it may be before, Palm Sunday. Since we are a model of Jesus and he rode into Jerusalem this day, we may also have a chance to ride into Heavenly Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday this year is in March. Now if we will get a chance to see and experience Jesus defeating death, and if this model of Martha & Jesus is a clue for us then there may be a possibility for the Rapture before Palm Sunday. This would have to be after Hanukkah and before Palm Sunday, likely putting it into January or February.

Lots of interesting speculation and only God knows for sure. Thank goodness we can rest in His Sovereignty and Love.

Blessings,

Tony

Mike Huckabee, Politics & the Rapture

2008-01-14T16:35:00.000-08:00

I know politics can be a hard thing to discuss, but they say the same thing about religion. My opinion is that if people respectfully exchange ideas without personal attacks it can be good and Satan wants us all to stay in our “isolation caves”. I call it “round tabling” (I’m sure I’m not the first, but it does get the point across).

Anyone I’m sending this to is a Rapture Watcher, so like me you may be thinking “what does it matter” since we may be gone and the world is going to the Anti-Christ sometime soon here (as well as to “hell” in a handbasket!)

But, I believe that God expects us to “fight” up until the last moment for the things that we believe that are important to him. Even if we are gone, we should be lovingly doing what we can for those left behind and we cannot be for sure how long the Lord should tarry. God has us fight for our faith and refinement and so many other things so never give up the fight. Persevere onward!

All that said, I am backing Mike Huckabee for President. The first two issues by far that I look at regarding the “fruit” of a candidate is where they stand on Abortion and Marriage. Are these the only issues? No. But, they tell me right away something about what kind of stand in the society we live in they would take on other Biblical vs. Worldview issues. These are not popular issues to stand on, so if they are doing so publicly then I get a very good indication (with research and confirmation being a good idea) on other Biblical issues.

This is the response that really got me interested in Mike Huckabee regarding creation. He did this before winning Iowa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BFEhkIujA

I know many brothers & sisters in Christ would differ on this subject, and I’ll say in advance that I respect your opinion and right to vote for whoever you want. I certainly would listen to anything you might have to say. I already have listened to all the criticisms of the media and other candidates.

My opinion is that he is the only (with the exception of Ron Paul) candidate that I fully trust to stand for Biblical values (however, I’m not judging anyone else either). As someone who considers himself a struggling middle class citizen I feel great that I can vote for a candidate that I believe really stands for Biblical values, believes in God (and says so unashamedly) and is speaking about doing something for the middleclass citizen. I love his line that he says “I’d rather be like the guy you work with than the guy who laid you off”. Well “Hallelujah” to that! He says he wants to help out with healthcare, tax cuts and oil prices and boy do I need that my gas bill doubled last month with the price of oil going over $100 – Yikes. That bill alone got me hoping more and more for the Rapture!

I know we all are anxiously and desperately waiting for the Rapture. Even so, I’m going out riding high with my guns blazing!

YBIC & Blessings,

Tony

Standing Watch for Jesus

2008-01-09T10:02:00.001-08:00

I was in the Navy aboard a ship and fulfilled my active duty requirement just before Desert Storm broke out. Regularly I stood watch. I relate my testimony and standing watch to now standing watch for the events leading up to and the event itself of Christ’s return.

When a sailor was about to take over the helm watch of the ship it was required that you would “take in” and memorize in a certain format all of the current observed conditions and orders and then salute the Officer of the Deck and recite these perfectly before asking permission to relieve the current helmsman. There were other watches as well not involving the Helm (driving the ship), Lee helm (controlling the speed). There were Starboard (right) and Port (left) watches, Aft (back) and Aft steering (emergency). There was also a watch for “tracking” everything that had already been spotted in the water. This could involve things having to do with nature, ships, debris, etc.

I was involved in the rescue and “bailing out” of a U.S. Embassy under attack and the Alaskan Oil Spill cleanup. During the Embassy mission I was assigned watch on a .50 caliber machine gun. During this time there were several threats of small boats potentially loaded with bombs and such. I can tell that after standing this watch with a gun locked and loaded ready to fire on order or to return fire it was very scary.

Recently Iran ran some similar boats at our U.S. Navy ships. I am asking you to please not minimize this threat in any way as it is very real. There is no effective difference in shooting military missiles or crashing jet liners (9-11) or boats loaded with bombs. The loss of life is still very tragic and there would be Radical Muslim groups claiming military victory.

Also, I want to show a real life example of a military watch and how it relates to an “end times” watch. Perry Stone has a good study on this and when Jesus and the Apostles were admonishing us to “WATCH” for Jesus’ return they many times utilized military parables. Perry Stone in his study of this said that if a Israelite soldier was caught sleeping on watch he would be stripped “naked”. It certainly seems to relate to this scripture:

Revelation 16:15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Live footage of the Iranian attack:

http://video.newsmax.com/?assetId=V1409768?s=al&promo_code=429D-1

Blessings,

Tony

P.S. – My testimony and how I believe it has prophetic relevance is available at www.tony4yhwh.com

Trees & the Third Watch

2008-01-08T18:02:00.000-08:00

Coming soon is a little known minor Jewish Feast Holiday called Tu’ B Shevat, which is known as the Rosh Hashanah for Trees (New Year for Trees). I have seen it related as an “Arbor Day” of sorts. I believe that this sells it short because in the bible trees are far more significant than what a “secular” person might think of simply planting a new tree to make a contribution to the environment.

I do not believe that the Rapture will happen on this day which is January 22nd, but I am watching it for a yet unknown significant event. Here are a couple of reasons to watch:

It is the Rosh Hashanah for Trees (more information on why trees are so significant to YHWH to follow)
This is a full moon day
Seasons of the year correspond to a time on the clock (Torah.org). “Fall is analogous to evening-time, the dead of wintr to mid-night, spring to dawn, and summer to mid-day. That being so, it follows that Tu B’Shvat is about 3 or 4 a.m., since it’s smack-dab in the middle of winter season.”

Part of the significance of the New Year for Trees is the “tithe” requirement. Based on when the fruit from the tree forms relevant to the Tu’ B Shevat date each year makes a difference in the “tithe” similar to our “fiscal year”. As I was reading this the first thing I thought of was Jesus’ mention of the fig tree, especially since Tu’ B Shevat is considered the first day of spring in Israel (a tie in also to February 2/3 Candlemas Day, which is also our Groundhog day).

Matthew 24
32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Luke 13
6He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
7Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
8And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Matthew 3:10And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Men Are Trees
Mark 8:23-25 (King James Version)
23And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
24And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
25After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Isaiah 61:3 (King James Version)
3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
- A person is like the tree of a field... (Deut. 20:19)
- For as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people. (Isaiah 65:22)
- He will be like a tree planted near water... (Jeremiah 17:8)
Isaiah 55:12 “the trees of the field shall clap their hands…”
Holy Spirit
Tu B'Shvat is technically the day when trees stop absorbing water from the ground, and instead draw nourishment from their sap.(Aish.com) I believe this relates to drawing from the Holy Spirit and/or the “blood of Christ”. In fact the sap is called the “blood” in the “heart” of the tree. A change is made from drawing from the earth to drawing from within.

Luke 17:21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

However, to be clear this within would be through the “blood of Christ” and not a new age form. It is “through and by Christ” alone.

Tu B’ Shvat & Candlemas tie-ins

Tu B’ Shevat is a minor jewish holiday and Candlemas is a Christian holiday (little known as well). Last year these two holidays overlapped on February 2nd. This year Tu B’ Shevat is on January 22nd and February 2/3rd is Candlemas. February 2nd is also Groundhog Day. Both the Jewish and Christian observance are early looks and indications of spring.

I’ll be writing more and I am looking anxiously at these dates.

Blessings,

Tony

Christmas Season Continues

2007-12-28T09:48:00.000-08:00

Christmas Season Continues…

I am watching a couple of dates that seem significant. Christmas season is not over and though there may be pagan origins, just like YHWH showed in Egypt He is Sovereign and He knows the beginning and the end and He can use these celebrations for His own Glory if He pleases. I have personal testimony that points me towards January 22nd & February 2/3rd. I am intently watching these dates. I have been watching intently since Christmas since these dates are tied in with Christmas. It is still the “Christmas Season”. And as we have already seen with the assasination of Benazir Bhutto significant things can happen quickly only as YHWH can know and has planned them. Our command is to watch!

When I was in the Navy before watch we took in all the information that would seem relevant so that when something came up we could more quickly decipher what action to take. This would be different from date setting, although to those on the outside it may seem to be the same. Nonetheless, we stand our watch…

January 5/6: The 12 days of Christmas end with the “Epiphany” of Jesus

January 22: Tu B’ Shevat: Rosh Hashanah for Trees. I will put more information under separate cover for this. Last year Candlemas and Tu B’ Shevat overlapped.

and February 2/3rd: Candlemas, Purification of the Virgin, Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

Here is some extrapolated information from Wikipedia. You may choose to do more research on any certain one, but this is an overview.

Christmastide (also Christmas or the Christmas season) is one of the seasons of the liturgical year of most Christian churches. It tends to be defined (with slight variations) as the period from Christmas Day to evening of 5 January, the day before the start of the octave of Epiphany (The date of the feast was very early fixed on January 6).

This period is also commonly known as the twelve days of Christmas
Epiphany (Greek: επιφάνεια, "appearance" or "manifestation") is a Christian feast intended to celebrate the "shining forth" or revelation of God to mankind in human form, in the person of Jesus. Some Christians commemorate the visitation of the Magi to the child Jesus on this day, while others use the day to commemorate the baptism of Jesus as an adult. The feast is also called Twelfth Day — being the twelfth day after Christmas — or Three Kings Day for those commemorating the Magi. It is also called Theophany, especially by those commemorating Christ's baptism.
The date of the feast was very early fixed on January 6

The earliest reference to Epiphany as a Christian feast was in the year 361, by Ammianus Marcellinus [2] St. Epiphanius says that the January 6 is hemera genethlion toutestin epiphanion (Christ's "Birthday; that is, His Epiphany").[3] He also asserts that the miracle at Cana occurred on the same calendar day.[4]
Western Christian Churches
By the year 534 the Western Church had separated out the celebration of the Nativity of Christ into the feast of Christmas and set its date as December 25, reserving January 6 as a commemoration of the coming of the Magi. The East continued to celebrate January 6 as a composite feast, only later adopting December 25 to commemorate both Jesus' birth and the coming of the Magi, but leaving January 6 as a commemoration of his Baptism.However comprehensively and unanimously today the epiphany day is symbolic of God's Incarnation in Jesus Christ and the star that led the Magi to the the Holy Child with the three gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh ; all symbolic about the different facets of Jesus's Life on earth.
Liturgical Practice
The West generally acknowledges a twelve-day festival, starting on December 25, and ending on January 5, known as Christmastide or the twelve days of Christmas, although some Christian cultures, especially those of Latin America and some in Europe extend it to as many as forty days, ending on Candlemas (February 2).
The Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (also known as Candlemas or Feast of the Purification of the Virgin) celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus
In many Western liturgical churches, Evening Prayer (or Night Prayer) on the Feast of the Presentation marks the end of the Epiphany season. In the Church of England, the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) is a Principal Feast celebrated either on 2 February or on the Sunday between 28 January and 3 February. In some Protestant churches, the feast is known as the Naming of Jesus.
Its formal name is either the festival of the Purification of the Virgin (especially in the uniate rites of the Catholic Church), or the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (especially in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church). In the Orthodox Church it is known as The Feast of the Presentation of our Lord and Savior in the Temple, and in Anglican Churches it is known by various names[1]
Scripture
The event is described in the Gospel of Luke 2:22–40. According to the gospel, Mary and Joseph took the baby Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days after his birth to dedicate him to God, in line with Jewish law of the time.
Upon bringing Jesus to the temple, the family encountered Simeon; the gospel records that Simeon had been promised "he should not see death before he had seen the Messiah of the Lord." (Luke 2:26) Simeon prayed the prayer that would become known as the Nunc Dimittis, or Canticle of Simeon, and prophesied regarding Jesus. The prophetess Anna (Bible) was also in the Temple, and offered prayers and praise to God for Jesus.
Date
In the Catholic liturgical calendar the Presentation of the Lord falls on February 2, forty days after Christmas. In the Church of England it may be celebrated on this day, or on the Sunday between 28 January and 3 February. In those Eastern churches that have kept the Julian Calendar, 2 February comes out as February 15 of the modern calendar.

Scooby Doo Spooky: As in antichrist

2007-12-24T11:17:00.001-08:00

Okay, the Emperor in Star Wars appeared like this and this is altogether way too much like a Left Behind Movie…

Prince Charles' hologram to appear at conference - Written by Chris Perver - www.prophecynews.co.uk

The United Kingdom's Prince Charles is to appear at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi next month, in a new drive to promote renewable sources of energy. But following recent criticism of pop-stars, Al "Big Foot" Gore (his carbon footprint) and even the Prince himself, all of whom hired private jets to fly around the world promoting the religion of global warming, Prince Charles will not be attending the summit in person. But a holographic image of him will attend the summit, saving around 15 tonnes of carbon emissions and hopefully proving the point that Prince Charles practices what he preaches.

Quote: "Instead, a three-dimensional image of the Prince will be seen giving a five-minute talk. Charles recorded the message at Highgrove last month. It will be transformed into a hologram-style image using technology based on a Victorian music-hall technique called "ghosting". A video projector will beam an image of the Prince on to the floor. It is then reflected up on to a paper-thin sheet of foil to create an optical illusion that makes him appear as a 3-D image on stage. Former US Vice-President Al Gore used similar technology to appear as a hologram at Wembley Stadium at the beginning of the Live Earth concerts earlier this year.

Following the reformation, the British monarchy adopted the title "Defender of the Faith", seemingly to express their opposition to Popish rule over England. But the title was originally given to King Henry VIII by the Pope himself for the king's treatise against the reformer Martin Luther. Prince Charles has made it clear that if he is ever crowned King of England, he wants to be known as "Defender of Faiths" - plural. For Prince Charles is heavily into the New Age movement, and this is also the reason for his strong support of conservationalism. In Brazil they have made a bronze image of a god-like Prince Charles, complete with angelic wings and loin-cloth, subtitled "Saviour of the World". Prince Charles also claims to be of the bloodline of Jesus Christ, and the most direct descendant of the ancient King of the Holy Roman Empire, Charlemagne. It was this claim that led him to submit a request to the European Commission to be crowned King of Europe, but his request was turned down.

I personally doubt whether Prince Charles will be the Antichrist, but there is no doubt he may be an antichrist. News about holographic images of world leaders reminds us of that passage in the book of Revelation, where the false prophet will manufacture an image of the Antichrist. His image will have the power of speech and appear to have some sort of artificial intelligence. Of course a hologram can't kill you, and so perhaps this image would need to be either robotic in nature, or at least be demonically controlled.

Revelation 13:14-15
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Prince Charles claims to be of the bloodline of Jesus Christ. We know that can't be possible. But praise God we can claim something more infinitely precious. We are bought by His blood (Revelation 5:9). Have you been washed in the blood of the Lamb? Trust in Him for salvation today.

Miracle Finding Family: lots of hidden meaning

2007-12-20T09:55:00.000-08:00

Great Read Arch!

It is awesome, he gives credit to Jesus! A great testimony as we head into Christmas.

His three children’s name meanings are interesting:

Lexi: Protector of Mandkind
Chris: Christ Bearer
Josh: Joshua, which is the same as Jesus and also means God saves

His name Frederick means: Peaceful powerful ruler

He spent 3 days lost (Jesus 3 days in the tomb)

Also, they were seeking shelter similar to how Mary & Joseph were seeking shelter for their child

Frederick (father’s) Christlike statement:

"You just go to survival mode," Frederick Dominguez said. "Every parent would do that. You would do anything, sacrifice yourself, because these are your kids."

He used branches to spell “help” Jesus is the branch
Zech 3:8-I WILL BRING FORTH MY SERVANT THE BRANCH Zech 6:12-THE BRANCH...HE SHALL BUILD

They were taken out by helicopter or “up in the air”
The four were reported missing Monday night by Dominguez's former wife and the children's mother, Lisa Sams, according to police in Paradise, California, a town of 27,000 people north of Sacramento.
Mayor Alan White said he and many others in and around Paradise have cut Christmas trees in the same place where the family vanished
Jesus before he died told the thief “you will be with me in Paradise”

Lexi was hurt in the foot (Jesus bruised in the heel & the Apostles needed their feet washed)

Lexi is age 14 and the first to hear the helicopter. 14 has this meaning in gematria:
14 + Beloved, David + Loves him + Heart (Ord) + Nun (Ord) + Pride, Lifting Up + Hand + Gold + Spoil, Booty + Despise + Aha

The oldest son Chris was an encourager (Christ bearer) age 18 and 18 has this meaning in gematria:
18 + Adam (Ord) + Alive, living + Sin, Sinner + My Beloved + My Beloved + Tsaddi (Ord) + Fishhook + Enmity, Hatred + Rinse, Wash

Josh who’s name means Jesus & God saves is age 12. 12 is the number for earthly government & Jesus was 12 at the temple. Here is the gematria:
12 + Lamed (Ord) + He + In Me + Nail (Vav)

Their ages added together: 14+18+12= 44
44’s gematria:
44 + Blood + Birth + and bare (gave birth) (Ord) + Father + Mother + In my heart + One God + Praise (Ord) + The Lord Lives!

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/20/family.found/

Hectic Isn't it???

2007-12-12T17:05:00.001-08:00

Christmas shouldn’t be hectic you say???

It should be like a white dove hovering over a fluffy snow bank…

I don’ think so.

Maybe all the hustle and bustle shouldn’t be focused on commercialism
and there are many things that have nothing to do with the true meaning of Christmas

But…

I think it was rather hectic to be out of town traveling for a census, while

Being 9 months pregnant riding a camel

And, looking through town to find out you are the straggler
hearing “no vacancy” over & over again

All the while the king has a plot to seek and destroy your child

I believe the first Christmas was rather hectic…

This is why God give us the gift of:

Peace that surpasses all understanding!

Merry Christmas!

Tony

White Snow & Jesus

2007-12-07T06:42:00.001-08:00

Snow in the wintertime it falls down

Each individual snowflake is its own
You can barely see the detail of each…
…unless it melts on glass in front of your eyes

It covers everything like a white blanket

There is just something about Christmas, white, snow & Jesus!

I’m praying for a White Christmas!!!

Isaiah 1:18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Daniel 7:9I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

Revelation 1:14His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

Merry Christmas,

Tony

Omaha Tragedy & the Snow

2007-12-07T06:41:00.001-08:00

Headline: President Bush Visits Omaha

Let it be said that no man can save us

Psalm 118:9It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

Headline: Omaha Mall Shooting Leaves 9 dead

…from our sins

Romans 3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Headline: Snow Expected Today

Save Jesus – Immanuel God with Us

Isaiah 1:18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Christmas Judge & the Birthday

2007-12-07T06:40:00.000-08:00

The Christmas Judge & the Birthday

Let’s lay aside our intellectualism for a moment. Let’s lay aside our misconceptions & misperceptions, our differences if you will - just for a moment…

Maybe Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th, but then again we weren’t there, so maybe he was…

For a moment, let’s just think about Immanuel. God with us…How deeply have you thought about that? Have you breathed it into your soul?

God with us. If in Star Wars, Obi Won is the only hope then what about Jesus?

Think of all the times you were wrong. Think of all the times you got away with one. Think of all the times nobody saw. Indeed, think of ALL the times.

Have you ever sat on a bench waiting for court to come in session? Have you felt the nervousness of standing when the Judge enters the room? Have you?

If you haven’t then maybe there is something else that can help you relate. Has your fate ever hung in the balance? Not knowing what the outcome would be? Ponder that for a moment…
Revelation 5: The Book with Seven Seals
1I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals.
2And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?"
3And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.
4Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it;
Have you ever been guilty, but yet set free? How unjust! How absurd!

God to earth to set me free. From wonders I’ve never known to three dimensions.

The Bible tells me demons left their abode and took what they saw. Jesus left his abode and gave his life. Quite a contrast, don’t you think? Think of what could be, then think of what is…

5and one of the elders said to me, "Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals."

Immanuel…God with us!!!

While they say "Peace"

2007-11-27T06:17:00.000-08:00

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/11_26-12/TOP

1 Thessalonians 5:3 (New American Standard Bible)
3While they are saying, "(A)Peace and safety!" then (B)destruction will come upon them suddenly like (C)labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.

More context:

The Day of the Lord

1Now as to the (A)times and the epochs, brethren, you (B)have no need of anything to be written to you.
2For you yourselves know full well that (C)the day of the Lord will come (D)just like a thief in the night.
3While they are saying, "(E)Peace and safety!" then (F)destruction will come upon them suddenly like (G)labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
4But you, brethren, are not in (H)darkness, that the day would overtake you (I)like a thief;
5for you are all (J)sons of light and sons of day We are not of night nor of (K)darkness;
6so then let us not (L)sleep as (M)others do, but let us be alert and [a](N)sober.

Blessings,

Tony

Looking through the 29th...

2007-11-24T14:26:00.001-08:00

There are several important dates that may hold relevance to the upcoming Annapolis peace conference:

In 1863 Abraham Lincoln declared the first National Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving took place on the last Thursday of November. In 1863 this last Thursday of November was November 26th. This date would be the 144th anniversary. If it was kept we’d be celebrating Thanksgiving this coming Thursday the 29th.

But instead…

November 26th 66 years ago President Roosevelt signed a bill that changed Thanksgiving to the 3rd Thursday to encourage earlier Christmas sales. The next day was Thanksgiving on the 27th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_%28United_States%29#Lincoln_and_the_Civil_War

On November 24th 1859 was the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 148 years ago. The gematria for 148 is “Passover”. Also, victory, sons of god, promises, ever, always, clay & flour

http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_148.asp

November 25th 2002 Homeland Security was created in response to terrorism.

On November 29th 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 creating the Jewish state, 60 years ago, the number 60 has meaning in regards to Jerusalem according to the Biblewheel:

http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_60.asp

We have just passed the 40 year anniversary of November 22nd and UN Resolution 242 which was the resolution of the 6 day war of Jerusalem.

November 22nd is when the Arab nations got together to decide their united front with which they will take to Annapolis. As I have mentioned in earlier posts it will be good to watch from November 22nd – 29th. With all the parallels in Israel’s fall feasts and our Thanksgiving, 7 days, all the significant and relevant prophetic events and the United States ties with Israel it all bears close watching.

Blessings,

Tony

Peace Agreement & November 22nd

2007-11-21T11:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=924519&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Arabs to be united and agree on a stance. What if behind closed doors we heard an agreement that they would make “high” demands for peace and then agree to it keeping in mind that they could then break it later on.

Not rocket science is it? There is already a track record of this and it is happening on November 22nd which we are already aware of…

Blessings,

Tony

Thursday, Thor, Lightning & EMP

2007-11-21T06:22:00.000-08:00

In looking at Thanksgiving and Rapture possibilities, I also looked the significance of Thursday and the meaning behind it. Thursday is a day named after Thor, the thunder God and also Jupiter the king planet. These both give us potential insight in case something may happen.

Jupiter could be representative of the Most High God. Thor & the thunder/lightning could have implications regarding Jesus’ return.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday

Jesus has said that:

He comes quickly, as lightning flashes from east to west and also in the twinkling of an eye…

Perry Stone has a great sermon on this and how it may relate to preparation for an EMP attack, which would knock out all electronics & technology. What if it wasn’t an EMP attack, but instead Jesus coming back like lightning for His own, but had the effect of an EMP attack? Also, this would result in a blackout, which would be a great strategy for a “thief in the night” as Jesus has mentioned in regards to His return.

Perry Stone, Mannafest #370

https://www.voiceofevangelism.org/video.cfm

Watching and waiting!

Blessings,

Tony

May & Flower: Prophetic Significance

2007-11-20T08:09:00.001-08:00

The turkey vote has come in:

Supporting information on this and what it means prophetically in my prior post:

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2007/tonye1120-1.htm

Here is the link to the winner that won at 24% (24 of course being a number for heavenly government)

The winner was May & Flower – both significant names. The Mayflower of course was the ship that was used by Pilgrims in their trip to the “New World”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

I also have recently written that we have just passed (November 11th) 387 years from when the Mayflower compact was signed which is the supporting document for the United States Constitution.

387 is an ominous number and may be a marker for the anti-christ. As many have been watching along with myself the deterioration of the United States, our move as a country away from the founding fathers, constitution and most of all “One Nation under God”.

Here is the Biblewheel link for 387:

http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_387.asp

Blessings,

Tony

Rapture Passengers, fasten your seatbelts!

2007-11-19T11:13:00.001-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_242

In summary it is the agreement/resolution from made by the UN after the 6 day war in which Israel took Jerusalem:

It calls for "the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East" to be achieved by "the application of both the following principles:" "Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" (see semantic dispute) and: "Termination of all claims or states of belligerency" and respect for the right of every state in the area to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.

40 (I’m not going to reiterate the meaning or importance of 40 here) years from this date here we are about to divide Jerusalem/give it back or away.

I received this note from Doug: Arab League chief Amr Moussa, who visited Damascus this week, said Arab states would come up with a united stand on the conference at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers to be held in Cairo Nov. 22-23.

If you were looking for Jesus to return 40 years from when Israel took Jerusalem, this may be the date since we have already passed the 6 day war dates in June.

There are so many reasons to watch on this date. I have posted them all on fivedoves and is also available at the blog section of my website (www.tony4yhwh.com ).

I would watch from November 22nd – 29th (the 29th would be the old Thanksgiving day date & in the model of Tabernacles the 7th day, also it is day 333). I will be flabbergasted if these dates come and go with no major occurrence.

I will be eating my turkey and not taking my normal nap – I’ll be having both eyes open the whole day WATCHING (not just football, but for Jesus)!!! I’m recommending you do the same J

(Yes, it could really happen – it only takes one twinkling of an eye, continue the watch!)

Blessings & YBIC,

Thankgiving Rapture Significance Summary

2007-11-18T14:58:00.001-08:00

Reasons to take a look at November 22nd, Thanksgiving (American) as a potential Rapture date or significant happening (up to and including the 29th).

I believe there are several reasons that make “watching” on this day very, very important!

These are not all the reasons, but a brief summary.

Abraham Lincoln in 1863 made Thanksgiving a National Holiday. Pilgrims and others did celebrate the holiday, but it was not until after Abraham Lincoln’s own conversion to Christ that he made this officially a National Holiday in the United States. This was 144 years ago and will be the 144th National celebration by the United States of Thanksgiving. 144 is a hugely relevant number in terms of Heavenly Government and God’s elect.

On November 22nd 40 years ago (1967), after the 6 day war, the U.N. passed resolution 242 to settle the peace of Jerusalem. Here we are 40 years later and the United States, at Annapolis is ready to force/coerce Israel to “divide” Jerusalem. 40 is clearly a significant number in the Bible. Many were looking at the 40 year anniversary in June, so this is worth looking at as well.

Psalm 107 verse 22. Many believe that the Psalms relate to prophetic years. Not going into supporting detail of that Psalm 107 would relate to 2007 according to that theory. Psalm 107:22 reads “Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of His works with joyful singing”.

November 22nd 2007 (Thanksgiving)– October 14th 2014 (last day, 7th of the Jewish fall feast of Tabernacles) is 2520 days, or 7 biblical (360 day) years. There are a multitude of parallels, similarities, models, etc. between the Jewish Fall Feasts and Thanksgiving. My favorite relating to the Rapture may be the Cornucopia which is a Horn of Abundance. Of course we know the Great Trump and how it relates to the Rapture. If God’s attention turns from America to the Jews and also Jesus comes again to earth on the last day of Tabernacles then this timeline would be significant.

1777, one year after our Nations birth George Washington declared Thanksgiving, which became a holiday at the State level. Thomas Jefferson then did away with this. 777 would be YHWH’s number!

66 years ago President Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving from the last Thursday of November to the 3rd. This was to help out the Christmas shopping season. At one time it was considered inappropriate to commercialize Christmas until after Thanksgiving. Clearly this is no longer the case. In a way this may be a modeling of the 7 days of Tabernacles since the original Thanksgiving would have been on the 29th of this month (7 days between the 1st and last like Tabernacles), so it surely will be worth watching through the 29th. 66 is a multiple of both 11 & 22 which I believe is the separation number. I believe that Lamentations is written not only for Israel but America as well (more info on this at my website if interested). Lamentations books all have 22 verses except for chapter 3. Revelation ends at Chapter 22 and the Key of David, which is also mentioned in reading about the Church of Philadelphia in on Isaiah 22:22 (see the Biblewheel for more in depth info on 22).

Blessings,

Tony

Jehovah Jireh & 22: Thanksgiving

2007-11-16T13:05:00.001-08:00

UN resolution 242 calling for peace after 6 day war of 1967 on November 22nd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_242

Plus 40 years is this November 22nd which is Thanksgiving

242 meaning on the Biblewheel

http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_242.asp

11 X 22 = 242

Key verse Genesis 22

Jehovah Jireh

Blessings,

Tony

The Great Horn of THanksgiving!

2007-11-16T12:59:00.003-08:00

believe the Cornucopia as has Rapture significance, Last Trump, and again is a tie-in between the Jewish Fall Feasts and Thanksgiving. The Cornucopia is related to abundance.

Here is more information from Wikipedia:

Cornucopia
The cornucopia (Latin: Cornu Copiae) is a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th Century BCE, also referred to as Horn of Plenty, Horn of Amalthea, and harvest cone.
In Greek mythology, Amalthea raised Zeus on the milk of a goat. In return Zeus gave Amalthea the goat's horn. It had the power to give to the person in possession of it whatever he or she wished for. This gave rise to the legend of the cornucopia. The original depictions were of the goat's horn filled with fruits and flowers: deities, especially Fortuna, would be depicted with the horn of plenty.
In modern depiction, the cornucopia is typically a hollow, horn-shaped wicker basket typically filled with various kinds of festive fruit and vegetables. The cornucopia has come to be associated with Thanksgiving and the harvest.
Cornucopia is also the name of Whistler's annual Wine and Food celebration held in November.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia

Blessings,

Tony

Hasty Shelters

2007-11-16T12:59:00.001-08:00

Doesn’t the word “hasty shelters” remind you of Tabernacles?

After a prayer service, the Pilgrims began building hasty shelters. However, unprepared for the starvation and sickness of a harsh New England winter, nearly half died before spring. Yet, persevering in prayer, and assisted by helpful Indians, they reaped a bountiful harvest the following summer.
The grateful Pilgrims then declared a three-day feast, starting on December 13, 1621, to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends. While this was not the first Thanksgiving in America (thanksgiving services were held in Virginia as early as 1607), it was America's first Thanksgiving Festival.

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-wall/wal-g007.html

Blessings,

Tony

144th Anniversary of Thanksgiving!

2007-11-16T12:58:00.001-08:00

Lincoln's original 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation came - spiritually speaking - at a pivotal point in his life. During the first week of July of that year, the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, resulting in the loss of some 60,000 American lives. Four months later in November, Lincoln delivered his famous "Gettsysburg Address." It was while Lincoln was walking among the thousands of graves there at Gettysburg that he committed his life to Christ. As he explained to a friend:
When I left Springfield [to assume the Presidency] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving each year, we hope they will retain the original gratefulness to God displayed by the Pilgrims and many other founding fathers , and remember that it is to those early and courageous Pilgrims that they owe not only the traditional Thanksgiving holiday but also the concepts of self-government, the "hard-work" ethic, self-reliant communities, and devout religious faith.
This proclamation is at its 144th anniversary! Happy Thanksgiving J May God richly bless you and your family.

And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Revelation 14.1
Blessings,

Tony

22nd verse of Psalm 107

2007-11-16T12:57:00.001-08:00

More Thanksgiving:

Psalm 107

Verse 22: Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of His works with joyful singing.

It has been said Psalm 107 relates to 2007 & Thanksgiving is November 22nd.

Blessings,

Tony

1967 + 40 = Nov 22nd

2007-11-16T12:56:00.000-08:00

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242

1967 on November 22nd. The UN settling things after the 6 day war. 40 years later and Jerusalem may be split again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_242

44 years ago on this day John F. Kennedy assassinated

Also on this date in history Blackbeard is killed

Blessings,

Tony