Birth pangs leading up to child birth is exactly the analogy that Jesus used in describing the “time of the end” or the “end of the age” in Matt 24.

Check this out!  According to all of the internet buzz, etc… there appears to be a link between “Comet” Elenin and the three major earthquakes during the past year and a half.  Do the math… there are 188 (189) Days between the Chile (Feb 27, 2010) and Christ Church (Sept 3, 2010 is the official USGS date) quake; however some sites such asWikipedia list it as Sept 4th; then another 188-189 days between Christ Church and Japan (Mar 11, 2011)… is this a pattern of divine intervention or just a coincidence?

Well, as these quakes appear to be making their way around the Pacific rim ”Ring of Fire”… 188 (189) days from March 11, 2011 land on Sept 14th-15th… which is also the “time-frame”, according to the NASA JPL Website that Saturn-Elenin-Earth are in alignment, and the way these events are going around the Pacific Rim (Ring of Fire) it looks like the West coast of North America could be next?  This is serious folks…. If you live on the West Coast or have family in that area I highly recommend that you forward this page to them and give them a warning!  Get some extra food and water, etc… just in case!  It is highly possible that the west coast of North America could experience a Japan size quake or greater the week of Sept 12th!

Also, as of yesterday (Sept 9, 2011)… did you notice the 6.4 M earthquake in Vancover, Canada? Here is the latest info presented by youtuber DutchSinse on the Vancover quake yesterday!

Well, according to the Rev 12:1 prophecy… the constellation Virgo is about to give birth on the 30th (Jewish Rosh Hashanah)… Feast of Trumpets… I’m just sayin!!!  Does this all sound like foolishness and one huge coincidence or does it appear that the earth is about to give birth to the Tribulation period?  Read Rev 6 and 8 for Gods word on “Cosmic Disturbances”…

Keep looking up…
In His Mighty Grip!
Kingdom Engineer

>>>UPDATE 9/11/11<<<

6.0 Magnitude Earthquake in Vanuatu — Uptick Continues

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ZECHARIAH’S VISIONS OF CHAPTER FIVE
HOLOCAUST BY FIRE — A FIRE JUDGMENT

[This is a possibility that qualifies for the “Sudden Destruction” as in 1 Thes 5:3]
PARTS 1-3 (Videos)

Gen 6:5-6 (KJV)

5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Joel 2:30 (KJV)

30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

Isaiah 17:1-2 (KJV) An Oracle Against Damascus

1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be aruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Zechariah 14:12 (KJV)

12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

(Thank you to YouTuber TiborasaurusRex for this excellent video study)

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More than likely this is in our not too distant future!  However; our Lord gave us a promise and hope that we can escape it (Lk 21:36) by obeying the word of God and being ready for the Rapture.  Warn your loved ones and everyone who will listen. The extremely imminent day of the Rapture and Sudden Destruction (1 Thes 5) will bring a whole new meaning to “SALVATION”.

Did you ever think that the “Rapture” was in the Old-Testament?

Isaiah 24:13-18 (KJV)

13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. (This is at the Rapture?)

15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. (This is at the Rapture?) But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare (As in Lk 21:35 below), are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

Isaiah 26:19-21 (KJV) (Pre-Tribulation Rapture ~ Bride enters the chambers for 7 Days just like a Jewish Wedding)

19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

The above chapter/verse explains how the bride is called by the bridegroom and goes into their chamber. In Jewish custom, they do this for 7 days, and in scripture, one day is as one year; therefore, they are in the chamber for 7 years).  You really have to study the “Jewish Wedding” in order to connect the dots!

The “Post-Trib” belief that this event is at the end of the tribulation just doesn’t make sense.  The Rapture is a mystery as Paul describes in 1 Cor 15:51-52… it’s not the 7th Trumpet Judgment in the book of Revelation.

Luke 21:23-36 (KJV) The “Escape” at the beginning of the Tribulation period…

34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape (This “Escape is most likely the “Rapture”) all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (Emphasis Added)

Near the end of the “7 Year Tribulation”, we (the Bride) come out of the closet and prepare for battle with our King at the Battle of Armageddon!

Joel 2:16 (KJV)

16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Isaiah 25:9 (KJV)

9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in HIS SALVATION. (Emphasis Added).

In His Mighty Grip!
Kingdom Engineer

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“No man knows the day or the hour” (Matt 24:36, Mark 13:32, Luke 12:40)

This post is about understanding the return of Jesus Christ.  It is ironic that the above quote from scripture is almost universally used by many Christians as a reason to stop any conversation about the end times. They don’t want to hear about it. They don’t want to think about it. So, they use this quote as an excuse not to watch for the return of Jesus Christ.

It is ironic because this quote is from those same sections of scripture where Jesus Christ Himself exhorts us to watch for His return! It is ironic because this quote, in context, was used by Jesus as a reason to watch for our coming Lord Jesus Christ!

But don’t take my word for it: take God’s Word and see the truth for yourself. Here are the pertinent verses (but open your Bible and read the whole chapters for yourself):

Matthew…

Mat 24:33  So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Mat 24:36  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Mat 24:42  Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Mat 24:44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Mat 25:13  Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Mark…

Mark 13:29  So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.

Mark 13:32  But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

Mark 13:33  Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

Mark 13:35  Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

Mark 13:36  Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Mark 13:37  And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

Luke…

Luke 12:37  Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: …

Luke 12:40  Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Luke 12:46  The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

The primary focus in each of these chapters is the exhortation to watch. It is indeed ironic that people use the quoted verse as an excuse not to watch!

Now that you know the truth (that Jesus Himself exhorts you to watch) and you are without excuse (for not watching); know this: we are in the end times, and His return is near – very near, even at the door! Read the rest of those chapters and open your eyes to the world events around you. Israel is God’s time clock; and it started ticking when Israel became a nation again in 1948.

But don’t expect to be informed about this by the lame-stream media. Shut off your TV and search the Internet for conservative and Christian news websites.  Better still, read your Bible, starting with the New Testament, and pray for the Holy Spirit to guide you into all knowledge, wisdom, understanding – and salvation.

• Many people think they can get to heaven on their own – but can’t.
• Many people think they don’t need to be saved – and won’t.
• Many people think they are saved – but aren’t.

Matt 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Are you saved? I’m not asking for an opinion – for that doesn’t count. I’m asking for a certainty, with evidence of a changed life according to God’s Word.

Matt 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Matt 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Matt 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

Matt 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Did you know that that verse (Mat 7:23) contains the scariest words ever written? (That is, if you truly understood them… Reconsider: “Many people think they are saved – but aren’t.”)

Don’t use these few quotes only, but use all of the New Testament Scripture to lead you to salvation and to prove your own salvation.

2 Cor 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. . .

If you are one of those few who are saved, then you should be praying according to:

Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

If you agree, use the sharing tool below; pass this around, share it with those you know and love.  If you don’t agree, pass this around – you might just save someone else and . . .

James 5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

James 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

YBIC,
Michael Hopp

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As of today, May 11, 2009, its the “17th day of the 2nd month” Iyyar 17 (Genesis 7:11), the day Noah entered the Ark.

The Jewish Civil calendar starts at Rosh Hashana (Tishri 1 (Sept Time Frame) – Like our Jan 1) and the Jewish Religious calendar starts at Nisan 1 – March Time Frame)… Therefore, this is the month of Iyyar in the Jewish year 5769. (Download 2009 Jewish Calendar)

I don’t know about you, but I found this task to be quite remarkable. He’s a real life “Evan Almighty”!

by PastorBlog…

Dutch creationist Johan Huibers of Schagen, the Netherlands has built a massive replica of Noah’s Ark. Johan’s ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high, and 20 cubits wide, which approximates two-thirds of a football field in length and three stories tall in height. As big as it is, it is only 1/5 the size of the original Ark, which was 300 cubits long, 30 cubits high, and 50 cubits wide.

Johan got the idea to build the ark after having a dream about the Netherlands being flooded. He plans to set sail in September and travel to other parts of the country and eventually to major cities in Belgium and Germany.

The official website, which has lots of pictures and videos, is www.arkvannoach.com.

More coverage here:

• Answers in Genesis: Johan Huibers and His Ark
• BBC News: Dutchman builds modern Noah’s Ark
• Sydney Morning Herald: Dutchman’s biblical mission
• Worldwide Christian Network
• Noah’s Ark Replica Schagen Netherlands
• FOX News: Replica of Noah’s Ark Opens Doors To Visitors

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There is also a 2nd Ark that has been recently completed and opened to the public in Hong Kong:

• Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions

Time is very, very short my friends…. Be watchful, ready, and keep looking up because our redemption is drawing near!

In His Mighty Grip!
Kingdom Engineer

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By Pastor F. M. Riley

Colossians 2:16-17… “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”

Introduction to Pentecost… a Prophetic Picture of the Rapture

A year ago I wrote a Bible study entitled “So Simple!” In that study I emphasized how the Lord had shown me that only two of the Jewish Holy Days given to Israel in Leviticus 23 typify the resurrection and rapture of New Testament believers. Those two Jewish Holy Days are “firstfruits” and Pentecost. Proof of this truth is easily available to any reader willing to deal honestly with the Scriptures.

It was only on “firstfruits” that a “sheaf” [omer] of barley was lifted up and “waved” before the Lord, which subsequent history proved was a type of the resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ and the “firstfruit” saints [Leviticus 23:9-14; Matthew 27:52-53; 1 Corinthians 15:20-23].

The only other Jewish Holy Day where a “wave offering” was “waved before the Lord” was on Pentecost. The instructions given for the observance of this Jewish Holy Day are found in Leviticus 23:15-21:

¹⁵ ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.

¹⁶ Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD. ¹⁷ You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the LORD.

¹⁸ And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the LORD. ¹⁹ Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering.

²⁰ The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. ²¹ And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

In this study I want to “revisit” the Scriptures dealing with the observance of Pentecost. I invite our readers to join us and see what the Lord has yet to reveal to us in His wonderful inspired Word.

Last Year versus This Year

I have already stated a number of times to my readers that when the Lord revealed to me last year, shortly before Pentecost, that only the two Jewish Holy Days mentioned above have anything to do with the resurrection and rapture of New Testament believers, I immediately went to my calendar to see what “date” Pentecost would fall on last year. That was my own sad mistake for the Lord did not give me a “date” last year, and I have freely admitted that and have apologized for picking a “date” off my calendar several times. What the Lord graciously showed me last year is exactly what I have set before my readers, and am repeating again in this study; “firstfruits” and Pentecost.

Yes, I do understand why the Lord did not come last Spring on either of the two Jewish Holy Days. After Pentecost had passed last Spring, I went to the Lord in earnest prayer asking for more GRACE and insight into His Word. I was impressed to go over all of my studies and notes. In restudying the Book of Ruth, I noticed one little statement which I had previously read but which had not registered on my feeble brain the first time I read it. That one little statement made it very clear to me that the Lord was not coming last year.

I also restudied Psalm 108 which correlates with 2008. Verse 6 of that Psalm very clearly speaks of the rapture of God’s people. It is clear enough in the English translation, but it is even more clear when studied in the Hebrew text.

As I restudied it again, this time I noticed that the rapture of God’s people in that Scripture is clearly set forth in the future tense. That made me realize again that the rapture would not take place in 2008 as I had hoped, and as so many of God’s people were also hoping.

I have written these two paragraphs of explanation, not only for my readers, but also for my critics. Folks, I am not and have never claimed to be “infallible.” I am just another child of God and servant of the Lord who seriously studies the Word seeking to learn the truth. Until my critics can find “infallibility” in themselves, then I would suggest that they quit demanding it of others. Romans 2:1 is still in the Bible! But so is Titus 2:11-15, and I am going to keep right on searching the Scriptures and “watching” for my Lord without apology to anyone. Clear enough?

But now we living today are well into a new year. The Jewish Holy Day of “firstfruits,” which was this past Sunday, has now come and gone. It is now obvious that the Lord did not come on “firstfruits” this year. Therefore, if the resurrection and rapture of New Testament believers is going to occur this year on or in connection with one of these two Jewish Holy Days, then I have to believe that it will be “Pentecost.”

The Significance of 2009

If our readers will carefully study Psalm 109, which correlates with 2009, it is obvious that the entire Psalm is speaking about the arrival of the Antichrist on the world scene, and his dealings with Israel and with the Lord. This is highly significant of the very year in which we are living, for many of God’s people [true obedient/repentant believers] are convinced that the Antichrist is now on the world scene. According to 2 Thessalonians 2:3 he was predicted to be “revealed” [2:3] before “the day of Christ” [2:2], and many of God’s people today are convinced that he has been.

I want to emphasize to our readers that there is no contradiction between 2:3 and 2:8. The Antichrist is first revealed to God’s people, who have been given spiritual discernment [1 Corinthians 2:12-16], before the Tribulation begins. He is then revealed to the whole world during the Tribulation after the “Restrainer” has been “taken out of the way,” 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8. This isn’t hard to understand if more of God’s people would get serious about studying the Scriptures.

I don’t think any serious Bible believer would deny that the “signs” that are predicted to accompany the coming of the Antichrist [2 Thessalonians 2:9-12] are all about us today, just as are the “signs” that the Lord told His people to be “watching” for. I believe we are on very safe ground in believing that our Lord is coming to resurrect and rapture His people to glory this year, and it certainly could occur on or near Pentecost.

The Fulfillment of Pentecost…Shavuot??

I do not believe that the coming down of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost as recorded in Acts 2 was the complete and total fulfillment of Pentecost. The types set forth in the Law given to Israel in Leviticus 23:15-21 about Pentecost were not fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2. It is now obvious to every true Bible believer [or should be] that the “wave offering” on the day of “firstfruits” clearly typified the resurrection of Christ and the saints which came out of their graves after His resurrection.

So then why was there no resurrection on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2? It appears to me that since the “wave offering” on “firstfruits” portrayed a resurrection, then the “wave loaves” on Pentecost ought to also portray a resurrection. This is just being consistent in our understanding of the Scriptures. But no resurrection took place on Pentecost in Acts 2. Has Pentecost then been completely fulfilled? I personally think not!

It is an undeniable truth that even all the events predicted by Peter in Acts 2, as he transliterated from Joel’s prophecy, were not fulfilled at that time. Some of those predicted events have not been fulfilled to this very day. I am primarily referring to Acts 2:19-20.

¹⁹ I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

²⁰ The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

However, in observing the world situation today and studying the prophecies of the end-time, I also think it is highly possible that these predicted events could take place in the next 46 days (May 30-Jun 7). If they do, no true believer will any longer have any doubts about where we stand in God’s great Plan of the Ages. May God have mercy on His people!

The Wave Loaves

Folks, the two “wave loaves” lifted up on Pentecost and “waved before the Lord” clearly appear to be a type of the completed resurrection harvest of New Testament believers. The grain had been gathered, ground in the mills into fine flour, prepared with “leaven,” then baked in the ovens into “loaves.” Two of these “loaves” were then brought to the priest to be lifted up and “waved before the Lord.” What a vivid portrayal of the resurrection of New Testament believers! Glory!

Barley is the first ripe grain in Israel in the Spring of the year. As such it is a perfect type of the Lord’s Gentile bride and people, who according to the prophetic Scriptures will be resurrected and raptured to glory before the Tribulation, and before the nation and people of Israel are resurrected. The Lord Himself clearly stated that the grain which represents Israel is not barley, but rather is “wheat,”

The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30:

²⁴ Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; ²⁵ but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.

²⁶ But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. ²⁷ So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

²⁸ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ ²⁹ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.

³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

The Parable of the Tares Explained

Matthew 13:36-43:

³⁶ Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.” ³⁷ He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.

³⁸ The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. ³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.

⁴⁰ Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,

⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

Just as the barley was cut down in the fields and ground in the mills into “fine flour,” even so New Testament believers throughout this dispensation have been cut down and ground in the mills of persecution and suffering at the hands of the wicked of this world. Many of God’s people today are so Biblically illiterate that they still do not realize that the day each of us chose to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we also were choosing to become “a partaker of His sufferings.”

See Matthew 10:24-25, 10:34-39, Luke 6:22-23, 14:25-30, John 15:18-19, 16:33, Romans 8:35-36, 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, Philippians 1:29, 2 Timothy 1:8-9, and 1 Peter 4:12-14:

Suffering for God’s Glory

¹² Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; ¹³ but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.

…And many other similar Scriptures.

Folks, the entire history of the Lord’s true church has been written in the blood of those of our Christian forefathers who suffered and bled and died to give us living today the gospel of “salvation in Christ.” Glory! Glory to God! Thanks be unto God for His marvelous GRACE!

It is also true that just as the “fine flour” was mixed with “leaven,” even so God’s people [true obedient/repentant believers] (added by Randall… NOT back sliding believers who intentionally sin without repentance) today still have a “sin nature” to contend with in these bodies of “sin and death” in which we presently reside. Read Romans 7:14-25 and take it to heart.

But just as the fire in those Jewish ovens baked the “leaven” out of those loaves, even so “the fire” of God’s Holy Spirit bakes the sin out of the lives of true obedient/repentant believers who will submit themselves to His will and leadership. Glory! Glory to God! Hallelujah!

Read John 14:16-17, 16:12-14, 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, Ephesians 1:12-14, 4:30, and Galatians 5:24-25.

Through this process we who are true obedient/repentant believers then become “a new lump,” 1 Corinthians 5:6-8:

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven (sin) leavens the whole lump? ⁷ Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. ⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Glory to God!

The “Lifting up” of the Loaves

It ought to be obvious to any reader that there came a time in Israel when the harvest was completed, the grain had been ground into fine flour, baked into loaves, removed from the oven and was then lifted up by the priest and “waved before the Lord,” a vivid type of the resurrection and rapture “harvest” of New Testament believers.

Even so, there is fast approaching a time when “the fullness of the Gentiles” [Romans 11:25] will be complete. This is a spiritual term which refers to the total number of Gentiles whom the Lord foreknew will be saved during this present dispensation. When that last precious soul is saved, the resurrection and rapture “harvest” of the believing Gentiles will immediately occur, Mark 4:26-29.

It is now so close that it could occur within days. Since the lifting up of the loaves are a definite type of the resurrection and rapture of New Testament believers, and since the loaves were to be lifted up and “waved before the Lord” on Pentecost, I highly suspect that the last precious soul to be included in “the fullness of the Gentiles” will be saved on or before Pentecost. However, since the Lord is as precise as He is shown to be throughout the Scriptures [as He was at “firstfruits”], the resurrection and rapture of “the dead in Christ” and “the living in Christ” [the two loaves] will very likely occur on Pentecost at the precise time appointed by Almighty God in Leviticus 23:15-21. Glory to God!

I might add that just as “the priest” lifted up the loaves and waved them “before the Lord,” even so it will be the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, our great “High Priest,” who will lift up His people from out of the graves and off the face of this earth, and take them “home” to glory, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Hallelujah! Glory to God!

The Comfort of Christ’s Coming

¹³ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

¹⁷ Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. ¹⁸ Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Coincidences…??

In view of what I have set forth in this study, is it then just “coincidence” that in John 4 the Lord met the Gentile woman at Jacob’s well precisely on Pentecost? Since Pentecost is not mentioned in that chapter, how do we know it was Pentecost? We know this to be so because in “a year of perfect order” it is exactly “four months” from Pentecost to Rosh HaShanah. Now look at the statement of the Lord Jesus in John 4:35:

³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

Did I mention that 2009 is “a year of perfect order”?

For those of our readers who are not familiar with this term, “year of perfect order,” it means that every day on the Jewish calendar in a given year falls on exactly the same day that it fell on during the personal ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is then more than “coincidence” that it is exactly four months to the day from Pentecost to Rosh Hashanah this year. Count the days for yourself, and as the Lord said, “be not faithless, but believing,” John 20:27.

Keep in mind that the Lord met the Gentile woman at Jacob’s well. Was this also a “coincidence”? She was drawing water out of that well, even as we Gentile believers today still draw “living water” from the inspired Scriptures handed down to us from God through the Jewish people. Praise the Lord! But both the meeting place and the date they met seem significant. Is it possible that the Lord’s meeting with the Gentile woman on Pentecost at Jacob’s well typifies the transition of the “gospel” from the Gentile “church” back into the hands of the Jewish people during the coming Tribulation period? Is that possible? I don’t know! I’m just studying the Scriptures and seeking to learn, like other true believers should also be doing.

I am also well aware that the Jewish Rabbis today expect the resurrection to take place at Rosh HaShanah. In fact, they insist that it cannot happen at any other time based on the traditional teaching that has been passed down to them by their Jewish sages. But the Lord Himself said in John 4:35-36 that the “harvest” was taking place right then. On Pentecost! Now who are we to believe? The Lord Himself? …..or, the Jewish Rabbis? I made my choice many years ago. I will take the Word of the Lord over that of any man.

Conclusion

I could continue this study by setting forth a number of Scriptural reasons why this year, more than any previous year, appears to be the year the Lord is coming to resurrect and rapture His New Testament believers to glory. But it is in particular the Day of Pentecost that the Lord laid on my heart for this study, and I have now set it again before our readers for your consideration. So here is where I will bring this study to a conclusion. I urge every reader to study these things for yourself, pray about them, and draw your own conclusions.

May the Lord use this study to encourage the hearts of minds of His people [true obedient/repentant believers], and to impress upon those still lost in sin the shortness of time and their own personal need to seek the Lord as their Savior NOW.

If I can help any reader to find salvation in Christ, or any reader who is beset with doubts about their salvation to find assurance in the Lord, please feel free to contact me. I will count it a joy and a blessing to render spiritual help to anyone who will grant me that blessing. I want to meet every reader in glory. Please don’t disappoint me!

NOTICE: I urge and encourage every true believer or Christian ministry to reproduce copies of this study to share with others. Feel free to reproduce or forward this study, or to quote from it in context as written.

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Thank You F.M. Riley for this wonderful insight in this possible connection between Pentecost and the Escape… I’ve believed for about a year and a half now that Pentecost would be the First Fruits (Barley) harvest; Mid-Trib (no idea of the timing) would be the Main (Wheat) Harvest or Jewish Resurrection; and Armageddon would be the (Grape) Four Corners Harvest!

See my next post entitled: The Future: Palsms 109-119. This is truly a fascinating study in which we all have been deceived from the main stream pulpits!

In His Mighty Grip!
Kingdom Engineer

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Psalm 32:7-11

You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him. Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous; And shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Interesting words used there “You are my hiding place”….Our Lord is a very real refuge from the storm we see all around us. He shall preserve me from trouble, He shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Who will deliver us, preserve us? He will…..

1 Peter 3:20

…who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine long-suffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Luke 17:26

And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

Noah had an ark, we have the Son of God. “in Christ” we are in the ark. The Lord promised us an escape from all that’s about to happen. As the storm clouds move over us we get closer to the time of Jacob’s trouble, more and more people will begin to wonder whether the Lord meant what he said when he declared:

Luke 21:36

Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Those who are counting on the escape face a growing barrage of ridicule from the atheist, the godless and outright hate from the pre-wrath, post-trib crowd. I liken all of these people to those who stood around while Noah was driving nails and cutting boards for the Ark. They all stood around mocking and criticizing. Things won’t be so funny though on the day the ark rises up above the earth and some of us are nowhere to be found.

Today I want to encourage you to walk in uprightness and righteousness with the Lord so you are found worthy of the escape that’s coming. Satan and those who serve him go immediately after your faith by first creating doubt….”did God really say….?” Did God really say to pray for an escape from all that shall come to pass? Unless my eyes are deceiving me, YES He did tell us to pray for the escape. Is that being “escapist”? YEA, IT IS!

There seems to be many people these days who believe that they need to go through the tribulation for one reason or another…maybe they do. We each need to be firmly convinced of what we believe because what we really believe will be tested.

The Lord told me years ago “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” referring to some changes in thinking and behavior on my part. The easy way is for us to engage our mind, willpower, heart, and rear end to come into conformity with God’s will. The hard way is for the Lord to impose external pressure on you to get you to the same place. Same destination, two different ways of getting there.

Today there are people (back slidden, born-again “Christians”) on the earth whose attention does not belong to the Lord..yet. There is a pressure cooker coming though, called the Tribulation, that will burn off the impurities with fire and bring them “in Christ.” These are known as the Tribulation Saints.

For those living in today’s pre-tribulation world, who are “in Christ,” who have chosen the “easy way” of willingly and obediently following the Lord, its already mission accomplished if they continue “in Christ” up to the point in time of the escape. What difference is there between those who have died “in Christ” up till now, and those of us living today “in Christ?” If those who died before us “in Christ” did not go through “the” tribulation, give me a good argument for why we should? I’ve never heard one yet, and I’ve heard about everything out there.

The pre-tribulation “escape” will be a double edged sword. On one hand, it will devastate the apostate church. The day however many of us “escape” and they don’t what’s going to happen? What happens the day all the apostate preachers and teachers are still here, and we are not? There will be widespread defection and destruction of so called Christianity aided by the persecutions coming, aided by the great deception sent by the Lord himself to deceive those who refused to believe the truth.

2 Thes 2:9-12

The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

As history has proven, then and now, only a few will be saved through it all. It’s always a remnant, its always a few that make it “in Christ” no matter how you want to look at it.

Romans 9:27

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “ Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.

Romans 11:5

Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant chosen by the election of grace.

I didn’t make this stuff up guys. Go to an online bible search engine and type in “remnant” but make sure you pack a lunch because you will see it over and over and over again.

What does that mean? Always a remnant? It means its always a FEW who “get it.”

Matt 7:14

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

……that’s what it means. Writing these things to you is the core of what the Lord has given me to do in this life. Remind you of what’s already been written. The wrong time to be reminded of these things is after the escape, or after you die, whichever comes first.

I know much of what is written here is not pleasant to read, but my task is to put it out there. If one soul is turned away from their sin, what’s that worth? Its priceless…beyond measure. Each soul is unbelievably precious.

Predictably, just as the bible said, scoffers are on the increase. Anyone who points to Jesus alone (which in fact is “the Word of God”) is hated. We are not surprised by the hatred because if the Master was hated to the point of being murdered, should we expect the people around us to dance a joyful jig when we come saying the same exact things that got our Master crucified?

This alone puts the messages preached at the “mega churches” into perspective. Mr. Joel Olsteen goes out of his way to make sure there’s nothing offensive to anyone in anything he says. Results? The largest so called Christian church in America. Contrast the message of Osteen (and all those like him) to the message that got our Lord crucified…could they be any more different? One set of words leads to throngs worshiping you, the other set of words gets you killed. You figure it out….

Time is short guys. The coming reality for this world is stranger than fiction. I wonder if we’ll be around for the soon coming day when “the powers that be” disclose to the world that alien life has been here on earth for quite some time (Nephilim). I wonder what it will be like when these things/superheroes/aliens/demons in disguise get wheeled out. I don’t want to know, but that’s what’s coming. The bible clearly tells us that men’s hearts will fail them from fear of seeing these things that are “coming on the earth.”

Luke 21:26

Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Coming on the earth? From where? …for the powers of heaven (THE HEAVENS) shall be shaken. Outer space, that is, outside the earths atmosphere is where the heavens are.

We have before us both the carrot and the stick. We can choose what pleases our Lord today, or some can choose it later under a pressure that will melt the earth. Pray that you may be counted worthy of the escape from all that’s coming and stand before the Son of Man.

A clue to the physical location of where we escape to:

Where is the Son of Man?
Answer: Sitting at the right hand of the Father.

Where is the Father?
Answer: Sitting on his throne in the highest heavens.

Which means when you escape and are standing before Him who sits at the right hand of the Father, you WON’T be here on earth….grace and peace

Again, by Brother D

I couldn’t have said it better myself! Thank you Dave for your continuous dedication to God’s word and sharing your thoughts with us!

In His Mighty Grip!
Kingdom Engineer

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I found this to be quite interesting due to several other things I’ve learned in recent months (I’ll share some speculative highlights at the end).

Now I for one do believe that God still works thru visions… and more so in the days to come during the Tribulation as stated in Joel 2:28. Obviously, we just have to know God’s word in order to be discerning between trash and truth.

I also want to point out one thing the author says below…

“all I ask you is to remember what you read here. It’s not important to believe this, but I beg you to remember”.

On with the Vision…(Aurthur Unknown)

The Rapture Vision of 1996
The coming events or warnings to happen just before the rapture takes place.

Dearly beloved doves, and brothers and sisters in Jesus name. This is the vision given in 1996 concerning world wide events to happen from one to three weeks before the actual Rapture. This I told to many friends, and was often hurt at the disbelief, and cold shoulders of many Christian friends that I finally just put it on the back shelf, and let it sit for the last 13 years. I now feel that the Rapture is so close that it needs to be told, urgently. I agree with our Christian brother John Tng that there has been so many dreams and visions of the Rapture that probably no one will believe this one either, but that is okay. All I pray for is everyone to remember. Like our Bible says, the vision will prove itself with time and testing. By remembering these visions, it will or can save you much needless suffering. The Lord does not want to hurt his bride.

There is going to appear above the earth (in the sky) a strange object, it will be large and sphere shaped, like a ball. It will look like it’s been built in sections, like a football with huge rivets at the seams. Many will call this a UFO, I don’t know. It will have the color of copper or bronze. It will be on every TV around the world. People will be shocked like the World Trade Center. People will be glued to their TV’s but you don’t. The minute you see this, run to the closest food store and get enough canned food and bottled water for about three weeks, because between one and 24 hours after this object is seen world wide there is going to be a massive impact or collision on our sun’s surface. It is going to happen on our blind side, we can’t see it coming. It’s going to be a super size twin asteroid hitting the sun in a vital spot, releasing a major solar storm, knocking out all of earth’s electricity, all over the world. Those of you who read this will save yourself and your family much misery.

Now, this is what’s going to happen in the next 2 or 3 weeks, while the electricity is off. Within a few days the whole world will start to go crazy with hunger. The banks and ATM’s can’t work without electricity. No gas pumps for food transportation, no refrigeration, total darkness. The robbers, rapists, and murderers will see right away that no one can call the police for help, because the solar storm has burned up all communication satellites, cell phones and telephones. The law can’t even call each other. It’s going to be total breakdown in large cities. There will be gun shots and screams all night long. Millions will be behind locked doors, praying and begging for God’s mercy, for help and protection. He will answer millions of prayers. Millions will ask for forgiveness, and the Lord and his saints will perform millions of miracles during these three weeks.

Then after about 3 weeks of this, the Rapture will happen. Although there are different time zones around the world, the Lord showed it will be night here in Florida, USA.

In this vision, I was taken in the spirit out in the woods behind my house in Florida. During the spring or early summer, it started at night. I didn’t hear any trumpets or words (come up hither) but I know there’s going to be, because the Bible says so. As I was standing there in the spirit of course, in the middle of some trees, a huge blue beam of light came down like a big flashlight, about a thirty foot circle around me. The blue light was identical in color to a welder’s arc light at night. It was so blinding I put my hands over my eyes to see if I could see where or what this light was coming from. Then I noticed in the distant night sky, north, south, east, and west of me, blue colored stars jetting off the ground spiraling upwards traveling fast, they were heading for the bright blue object that was shining that beam of light down on me. It could have been the Lord or an open door to heaven. I really could not tell, it was so bright and blinding.

Anyway, these little blue stars were going up in clusters. Different numbers depending on the size of town around me. Then all of a sudden when they reached about 9:00 high they burst into 10 times their size. Then I realized it was those alive in Christ joining those dead in Christ. I was too far away to see any new regenerated bodies or white gowns, but I’m sure they were. Then suddenly I was again taken out of my body off to the side to look at myself standing in the light. That’s when I saw my own flesh glossing white as lightning, all my flesh, head and arms, my clothes remained the same. Then instantly, I vanished and my clothes fell to the ground. From what I saw in this vision, I was the last to go because all the alive in Christ had joined the risen dead.

The next afternoon, I had been reading my Bible for about an hour and then stood up in my living room to take a break, when suddenly at arm’s length from my face appeared a blue cloud, the same color as the beam in the Rapture vision. In the shape of something like a football on its side, about 3 ft long and 2 ft high – white, a brilliant white 21 in the middle of it. I never did understand the meaning of the 21, maybe it was the day of the Rapture. I base no idea, your guess is as good as mine. Well, that startled me, so I sat down, shocked again because this was in the middle of the day and I wasn’t even praying.

Well, my son was in the kitchen making some tea and he said we were out of sugar. I said OK, I’ll go down the road and get some. I began to sit up when this small newborn baby appeared before my eyes. I’m starting to come unglued now, because it hadn’t been 5 minutes since the blue cloud, when this happened. I told myself, O my Lord, am I losing my mind? What, O God, does this baby have to do with the Bible? I must be losing my mind. I really started crying, it was blowing my mind. Then I noticed this newborn baby had this horrible growth on the side of it s head, almost as big as the baby’s head. It was scary ugly, that’s how bad. After about 20 seconds, the vision disappeared, the baby was gone. I told myself I’ve got to get out of here or I’m going to start crying again.

Well, I left and went after the sugar, about 2 miles away. I walked into the store, the owner and myself were the only ones there. He was on the telephone talking to some friend of his. I was at the counter waiting to him to get off the phone, when suddenly a young woman came into the store. She walked right up beside me and spoke to my friend on the phone. She said, you haven’t seen my brand new baby have you and he said no ma’am. I happened to look down at the baby and nearly fainted. There was the same baby I’d seen 10 minutes earlier. My legs went like rubber and I had to lean on the counter to keep myself from falling. This action made this young woman mad, I mean angry, my reaction insulted her greatly. She yelled at me and said, the doctor says it’s just a birth mark, and it will shrink and go away. She then stormed out of the store. My friend said, did you see that thing on the baby’s head? I said yes, I saw it 10 minutes before I came here. That was the last one, never again in 13 years. The only thing I can figure out is, He was showing me that every vision he had shown me was going to happen.

My friends, all I ask you is to remember what you read here. It’s not important to believe this, but I beg you to remember.

Your brother in Christ
Unknown Servant
www.FiveDoves.com

Here are a few speculative points that I have discovered in recent months that I find oddly enough to be somewhat related:

• He stated above that it happened in the “Spring or Early Summer”… There’s reason to believe that the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) has not actually completed yet; but we know and believe that Pentecost was the birth of the Church in Acts 2. Therefore, the “Rapture” may very well be on a Pentecost instead on Feast of Trumpets as some believe; concluding the” Church Age”? Think of it like Pentecost in reverse! When you study the three main harvests of the Jewish culture, Pentecost is a “FirstFruits” harvest (offering).

• If Planet X/Nibiru is real… Currently/supposedly it’s only visible from the South Pole. There’s a tremendous amount of garbage on the web regarding this subject… so reader beware!

• It is believed by many scholars and students of bible prophecy that the escape “Rapture” will happen on one of two time frames… either the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) or on the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) on any given year; however, there are many, many pieces of the puzzle pointing to 2009-2012… (BTW: If you’re one who lives the scripture verse “No man knows the day or hour” then I highly recommend that you study the Jewish Feast Days because both of these feasts consist of multiple days; and Jesus DID say that we would know when His coming was near… Even At The Door – Just continue to pray that you’re counted worthy to “Escape” all these things that are coming (i.e., the Tribulation). Lk 21:36

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The text below is an excerpt from the article above “Space Storm Alert: 90 Seconds from Catastrophe”… I wanted to include it here because it outlines the chain of events that could/would transpire after a Solar Storm… somewhat validating what the author explained above. Again, this is just something to keep in the back of your mind. Some bible scholars believe that the event of the Rapture very well may provide a type of EMP (Electro Magetic Pulse) effect that could knock out power grids across the globe.

Our modern way of life, with its reliance on technology, has unwittingly exposed us to an extraordinary danger: plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.

The projections of just how catastrophic make chilling reading. “We’re moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster,” says Daniel Baker, a space weather expert based at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and chair of the NAS committee responsible for the report.

It is hard to conceive of the sun wiping out a large amount of our hard-earned progress. Nevertheless, it is possible. The surface of the sun is a roiling mass of plasma – charged high-energy particles – some of which escape the surface and travel through space as the solar wind. From time to time, that wind carries a billion-tonne glob of plasma, a fireball known as a coronal mass ejection (see “When hell comes to Earth”). If one should hit the Earth’s magnetic shield, the result could be truly devastating.

The incursion of the plasma into our atmosphere causes rapid changes in the configuration of Earth’s magnetic field which, in turn, induce currents in the long wires of the power grids. The grids were not built to handle this sort of direct current electricity. The greatest danger is at the step-up and step-down transformers used to convert power from its transport voltage to domestically useful voltage. The increased DC current creates strong magnetic fields that saturate a transformer’s magnetic core. The result is runaway current in the transformer’s copper wiring, which rapidly heats up and melts. This is exactly what happened in the Canadian province of Quebec in March 1989, and six million people spent 9 hours without electricity. But things could get much, much worse than that.

Worse than Katrina

The most serious space weather event in history happened in 1859. It is known as the Carrington event, after the British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, who was the first to note its cause: “two patches of intensely bright and white light” emanating from a large group of sunspots. The Carrington event comprised eight days of severe space weather.

There were eyewitness accounts of stunning auroras, even at equatorial latitudes. The world’s telegraph networks experienced severe disruptions, and Victorian magnetometers were driven off the scale.

Though a solar outburst could conceivably be more powerful, “we haven’t found an example of anything worse than a Carrington event”, says James Green, head of NASA’s planetary division and an expert on the events of 1859. “From a scientific perspective, that would be the one that we’d want to survive.” However, the prognosis from the NAS analysis is that, thanks to our technological prowess, many of us may not.

There are two problems to face:

The first is the modern electricity grid, which is designed to operate at ever higher voltages over ever larger areas. Though this provides a more efficient way to run the electricity networks, minimizing power losses and wastage through overproduction, it has made them much more vulnerable to space weather. The high-power grids act as particularly efficient antennas, channeling enormous direct currents into the power transformers.

The second problem is the grid’s interdependence with the systems that support our lives: water and sewage treatment, supermarket delivery infrastructures, power station controls, financial markets and many others all rely on electricity. Put the two together, and it is clear that a repeat of the Carrington event could produce a catastrophe the likes of which the world has never seen.

“It’s just the opposite of how we usually think of natural disasters,” says John Kappenman, a power industry analyst with the Metatech Corporation of Goleta, California, and an advisor to the NAS committee that produced the report. “Usually the less developed regions of the world are most vulnerable, not the highly sophisticated technological regions.”

According to the NAS report, a severe space weather event in the US could induce ground currents that would knock out 300 key transformers within about 90 seconds, cutting off the power for more than 130 million people (see map). From that moment, the clock is ticking for America.

First to go – immediately for some people – is drinkable water. Anyone living in a high-rise apartment, where water has to be pumped to reach them, would be cut off straight away. For the rest, drinking water will still come through the taps for maybe half a day. With no electricity to pump water from reservoirs, there is no more after that.

There is simply no electrically powered transport: no trains, underground or overground. Our just-in-time culture for delivery networks may represent the pinnacle of efficiency, but it means that supermarket shelves would empty very quickly – delivery trucks could only keep running until their tanks ran out of fuel, and there is no electricity to pump any more from the underground tanks at filling stations.

Back-up generators would run at pivotal sites – but only until their fuel ran out. For hospitals, that would mean about 72 hours of running a bare-bones, essential care only, service. After that, no more modern healthcare.

The truly shocking finding is that this whole situation would not improve for months, maybe years: melted transformer hubs cannot be repaired, only replaced.

“From the surveys I’ve done, you might have a few spare transformers around, but installing a new one takes a well-trained crew a week or more,” says Kappenman. “A major electrical utility might have one suitably trained crew, maybe two.”

Within a month, then, the handful of spare transformers would be used up. The rest will have to be built to order, something that can take up to 12 months.

Even when some systems are capable of receiving power again, there is no guarantee there will be any to deliver. Almost all natural gas and fuel pipelines require electricity to operate. Coal-fired power stations usually keep reserves to last 30 days, but with no transport systems running to bring more fuel, there will be no electricity in the second month.

Nuclear power stations wouldn’t fare much better. They are programmed to shut down in the event of serious grid problems and are not allowed to restart until the power grid is up and running.

With no power for heating, cooling or refrigeration systems, people could begin to die within days. There is immediate danger for those who rely on medication. Lose power to New Jersey, for instance, and you have lost a major center of production of pharmaceuticals for the entire US. Perishable medications such as insulin will soon be in short supply.

“In the US alone there are a million people with diabetes,” Kappenman says. “Shut down production, distribution and storage and you put all those lives at risk in very short order.”

Help is not coming any time soon, either. If it is dark from the eastern seaboard to Chicago, some affected areas are hundreds, maybe thousands of miles away from anyone who might help. And those willing to help are likely to be ill-equipped to deal with the sheer scale of the disaster. “If a Carrington event happened now, it would be like a hurricane Katrina, but 10 times worse,” says Paul Kintner, a plasma physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

In reality, it would be much worse than that. Hurricane Katrina’s societal and economic impact has been measured at $81 billion to $125 billion. According to the NAS report, the impact of what it terms a “severe geomagnetic storm scenario” could be as high as $2 trillion. And that’s just the first year after the storm. The NAS puts the recovery time at four to 10 years. It is questionable whether the US would ever bounce back.

“I don’t think the NAS report is scaremongering,” says Mike Hapgood, who chairs the European Space Agency’s space weather team. Green agrees. “Scientists are conservative by nature and this group is really thoughtful,” he says. “This is a fair and balanced report.”

Such nightmare scenarios are not restricted to North America. High latitude nations such as Sweden and Norway have been aware for a while that, while regular views of the aurora are pretty, they are also reminders of an ever-present threat to their electricity grids. However, the trend towards installing extremely high voltage grids means that lower latitude countries are also at risk. For example, China is on the way to implementing a 1000-kilovolt electrical grid, twice the voltage of the US grid. This would be a superb conduit for space weather-induced disaster because the grid’s efficiency to act as an antenna rises as the voltage between the grid and the ground increases. “China is going to discover at some point that they have a problem,” Kappenman says.

Neither is Europe sufficiently prepared. Responsibility for dealing with space weather issues is “very fragmented” in Europe, says Hapgood.

Europe’s electricity grids, on the other hand, are highly interconnected and extremely vulnerable to cascading failures. In 2006, the routine switch-off of a small part of Germany’s grid – to let a ship pass safely under high-voltage cables – caused a cascade power failure across western Europe. In France alone, five million people were left without electricity for two hours.

“These systems are so complicated we don’t fully understand the effects of twiddling at one place,” Hapgood says. “Most of the time it’s alright, but occasionally it will get you.”

The good news is that, given enough warning, the utility companies can take precautions, such as adjusting voltages and loads, and restricting transfers of energy so that sudden spikes in current don’t cause cascade failures. There is still more bad news, however. Our early warning system is becoming more unreliable by the day.

By far the most important indicator of incoming space weather is NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE). The probe, launched in 1997, has a solar orbit that keeps it directly between the sun and Earth. Its uninterrupted view of the sun means it gives us continuous reports on the direction and velocity of the solar wind and other streams of charged particles that flow past its sensors. ACE can provide between 15 and 45 minutes’ warning of any incoming geomagnetic storms. The power companies need about 15 minutes to prepare their systems for a critical event, so that would seem passable.

However, observations of the sun and magnetometer readings during the Carrington event shows that the coronal mass ejection was traveling so fast it took less than 15 minutes to get from where ACE is positioned to Earth. “It arrived faster than we can do anything,” Hapgood says.

There is another problem. ACE is 11 years old, and operating well beyond its planned lifespan. The onboard detectors are not as sensitive as they used to be, and there is no telling when they will finally give up the ghost. Furthermore, its sensors become saturated in the event of a really powerful solar flare. “It was built to look at average conditions rather than extremes,” Baker says.

He was part of a space weather commission that three years ago warned about the problems of relying on ACE. “It’s been on my mind for a long time,” he says. “To not have a spare, or a strategy to replace it if and when it should fail, is rather foolish.”

There is no replacement for ACE due any time soon. Other solar observation satellites, such as the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) can provide some warning, but with less detailed information and – crucially – much later. “It’s quite hard to assess what the impact of losing ACE will be,” Hapgood says. “We will largely lose the early warning capability.”

The world will, most probably, yawn at the prospect of a devastating solar storm until it happens. Kintner says his students show a “deep indifference” when he lectures on the impact of space weather. But if policy-makers show a similar indifference in the face of the latest NAS report, it could cost tens of millions of lives, Kappenman reckons. “It could conceivably be the worst natural disaster possible,” he says.

The report outlines the worst case scenario for the US. The “perfect storm” is most likely on a spring or autumn night in a year of heightened solar activity – something like 2012. Around the equinoxes, the orientation of the Earth’s field to the sun makes us particularly vulnerable to a plasma strike.

What’s more, at these times of year, electricity demand is relatively low because no one needs too much heating or air conditioning. With only a handful of the US grid’s power stations running, the system relies on computer algorithms shunting large amounts of power around the grid and this leaves the network highly vulnerable to sudden spikes.

If ACE has failed by then, or a plasma ball flies at us too fast for any warning from ACE to reach us, the consequences could be staggering. “A really large storm could be a planetary disaster,” Kappenman says.

So what should be done? No one knows yet – the report is meant to spark that conversation. Baker is worried, though, that the odds are stacked against that conversation really getting started. As the NAS report notes, it is terribly difficult to inspire people to prepare for a potential crisis that has never happened before and may not happen for decades to come. “It takes a lot of effort to educate policy-makers, and that is especially true with these low-frequency events,” he says.

We should learn the lessons of hurricane Katrina, though, and realize that “unlikely” doesn’t mean “won’t happen”. Especially when the stakes are so high. The fact is, it could come in the next three or four years – and with devastating effects.

“The Carrington event happened during a mediocre, ho-hum solar cycle,” Kintner says. “It came out of nowhere, so we just don’t know when something like that is going to happen again.”

In His Mighty Grip!
Randall
Kingdom Engineers

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by Brother Dave… (emphasis added)

The Lord dropped this one straight into my head this afternoon with some commentary:

Rev 3: 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. (YLT)

Who is he talking to here? The Church.

What’s he talking about? Watching!

Watching for what? His arrival, His coming!

This is very specific and timely. We know there are people within the church today who specifically refuse to watch for his coming today because their doctrine says he can’t show up until sometime mid-trib,post-trib, pre-wrath.

What does the Lord say about these people, these who “will not watch?” He will come like a thief to them. Why? They WEREN’T WATCHING. The only time a thief would surprise someone is if he came when they were not watching, correct?

Contrast the groups for yourself:

Which group is watching for the Lord’s return today and everyday till he reveals himself? Pre-trib, pre-flood, pre-fire and brimstone (Noah and Lot), Escape from all believers.

Who specifically in the church is not watching for the Lord’s return today and will argue with anyone and everyone who claims he can return today? Mid-Trib, Pre-Wrath, Post-Trib teachers, and those who think there is no escape at all.

The church has been warned in very plain language. Jesus will come like a thief to those who are caught not watching when he shows up. The only group I know of who will not possibly be affected by the sudden and unexpected return of the Lord “like a thief” are those who believe the word of God literally, those who heed to warning to be ready every day for Jesus Christ.

This is an open and shut case folks. It’s as easy as pinning down someone with the question on the escape.

If you are mid-trib, pre-wrath, post-trib and not praying to escape all, why not? Doesn’t the word of God tell you to? If you are praying to escape all, why? Your doctrine nullifies the word of God relating to the escape..

If you are mid-trib, pre-wrath, post-trib, are you watching today for the arrival of the Lord? (NO) Does’nt the word tell us that those caught by surprise (like a thief) are those who are not watching when he shows up?

How can those who are looking for the Lord’s return everyday be caught on the wrong side of “watching?” They can’t, they’re continually watching for the return of the Lord.

How can the mid-trib, pre-wrath, post-trib teacher be caught “like a thief,” unprepared, not watching for the Lord’s return? Easy, Jesus could show up today.

The message is clear. The church has been warned. The people who teach doctrines that conflict with the straightforward reading of God’s word will pay a price for it. If that price means missing the escape and entering the tribulation, oh my…

grace and peace…by Brother Dave…

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I think you’ll find this teaching to be one of the most intriguing and interesting subjects ever revealed by the Holy Spirit.

I took some pretty good notes throughout the entire video teaching of Perry’s talk on this subject. I’m posting the text in detail because it seems that the video taping #316 doesn’t always play very well. To see the video of this teaching; click The Future:Genesis In Reverse and view all 3 parts: Otherwise, read on!

A foundational scripture to keep in mind throughout this teaching is Eccl 1:9:

“That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”

And again in Eccl 3:14-15, where it says the same thing.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past.

Often we’ve heard that history will eventually repeat itself. For Example:

In the beginning of Jesus’ ministry He fasted for 40 days (Matt 4:2); At the end of His ministry He was alive for 40 days. (Acts 1:3) There’s a pattern of 40 days here.

At the beginning of Jesus’ ministry Satan said “If you are the Son of God…” (Matt 4:3); At the end of His ministry they were saying “If you are the Son of God…” (Matt 27:57-60)

At the beginning of Jesus’ ministry there was a King Herod (Matt 2:1) who died after His birth; At the end of Jesus’ ministry there was another King Herod. (Luke 9:7-9)

Things generally end the way they begin… And as they began, so will they end. History repeats itself.

Take another example the life of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy (JFK):

• They were elected exactly 100 years apart.
• Both of their VPs were born 100 years apart.
• Both of their assigns were born 100 years apart.
• Both of them were shot in the head in the presence of their wife.
• Both lost a child while living in the White House as President.
• Both foresaw that they were going to be killed.
• Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater; Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln automobile.
• Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy; Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.

These are only just a few parallels showing (Eccl 1:9 – “The thing that has been, so it shall be…”)

Also, consider the parallels of King Herod and to Yasser Arafat:

• Both were leaders in an area known as Palestine.
• Both were sick when there was an eclipse of the moon.
• The cause of their illnesses was unknown.
• Both went outside their home to find a cure.
• Both had political dealings with the Jews.
• Both were hated by the majority of the Jews.
• Both met with men from Babylon (Magi) and Persian leaders.
• Both dealt with traitors in a violent manner.
• Both died in the month of November.
• It was speculated that both were poisoned.
• Both had very large funerals in their country.
• Both had dealings with Bethlehem (Herod is buried there).
• Both ordered innocent children to be killed (Herod the babies of Bethlehem; Arafat through terrorism).
• Both were reported dead before they actually died.
• Both escaped death several times during their lifetime.
• Both named no successor which caused confusion as to who was in charge.
• Both lived in a time when Christ was coming to earth.
• Both were very wealthy-much of it hidden from the population.

Again, what’s most interesting here is that you see how history repeats itself. The history of the past is the prophetic future.

Now turn to Genesis Ch. 11. Going backwards lets look at each chapter and see if there are words, phrases, or clues that parallel the end of days according to Revelation.

Chapter 11 deals with the Nations and the Tower of Babel:

• There is a universal language (Ch. 11:1-2, 4, 9)… Today, English is the universal language.
• Also, a group of men came from the east from the land of Shanar; A tower had been build and was destroyed.

Now if we look at what has caused the entire world to change, it’s all centered around 9/11. The “War on Terror” has affected the world. A group of men who are from the East came and destroyed the Twin Towers.

What’s interesting is that the tower of Babel fell in Babylon; which is today Iraq where war is fought and people are scattered. You say, “ok”, but keep reading!

Chapter 10 has a pattern that deals with the Sons of Japheth who are Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meschech, and Tiras:

This is important because one of the events that HAS NOT happened yet is the “Battle of Gog and Magog” of Ezekiel Ch. 38 & 39.

Gen 10:10 talks about the kingdom of Babel (a picture of Iraq). Verse 25 talks about “Peleg”, which in the Greek means “Earthquake”, “Division”, “The Earth was Divided”. The parallel is that these are the same territories that are spoken of in Ezk 38 & 39 as signs of the End-Times.

Chapter 9 discusses the days of Noah:

And in Luke 17:26 it talks about “And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

Now notice these three clues:

1. Gen 9:6 – “ Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God he made man”. This is a warning about shedding innocent blood which is going on all over the word today with abortions.
   

   The Days of Noah

2. Gen 9:21 – Noah planted a vineyard – “Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.” The pattern here is drunkenness as Luke warned about as a sign of the last days (Luke 21:34).
3. Gen 9:22 - “And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.” Vs. 25 “So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.” The pattern here is homosexuality and its acceptance world-wide.

Chapter 8: One of the main themes listed here is the Dove, which is mentioned three different times in verses 9-12. According to Matthew 3:16, the Dove is a picture of the Holy Spirit.

This is a picture of God pouring out His Spirit in the last days, which happens prior to the Lord coming for the Bride (Rapture). We can of course already see an outpouring of the Spirit during the last century. More so as of late where you see more Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans, etc. being baptized in the Holy Spirit. It’s not just limited to the Charismatic churches any longer.

Chapter 7: One of the keys here is in verse 11:

“…on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”

This alludes to terrible weather patterns coming (i.e., Tsunamis from the “deep”, and Hurricanes/Storms from the “windows of heaven”.) As birth pains come upon a woman with child, so will there be more upon us very soon.

Chapter 6: It tells us that the earth has become extremely populated.

And “that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” “And that violence had filled the earth.”

This is already happening and will only continue to happen until the Lord comes.

Now in 2 Thessalonians 2:7, the bible speaks of when violence reaches it peak, or that the cup of iniquity is full, the Lord returns and the “Man of Sin” is revealed.

Chapter 5:24: This is where Enoch is out walking with the Lord and is caught up, or translated to Heaven to be with the Lord. This is a picture of the Rapture.

Chapter 4:8: Here you have Cane killing Able. And we know from the bible that people will be killed and martyred for receiving Jesus Christ during the Tribulation period.

Then in verse 15, you have a Mark being put on Cane’s head. This could be a hint concerning the “Mark of the Beast”, that will be on the Right Hand or Forehead, which is found in Rev 13:16. Could this be yet again, more proof of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture?

Cane is also saying that his punishment will be 7 times or 7 fold… And the coming Tribulation period is 7 years in length split into two periods of 42 months (Rev 11:2, 13:5). This is an allusion of the Tribulation Period.

Isn’t this amazing how God appears to be letting us know the future by these patterns and parallels?

Chapter 3: This chapter deals with the binding of Satan.

Verse 15 says, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Therefore; after the Tribulation God deals with the binding of Satan Rev 20:2-3.

“He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.”

This is the predicted defeat of Satan.

Chapter 2: After the binding of Satan; Jesus rules and reigns for 1000 years.

Verse 2:1 says: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.” V4 “This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created…” This could be alluding to the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ.

Then after the Millennial reign we step into Eternity where everything is created perfect.

Chapter 1: Everything was perfect at the time God created the Garden of Eden.

It’s going to end the way it started!

Check this out:

In Chapters 1&2, there’s NO Sin, NO Pain; NO Sorrow; NO Death; NO Mention of the Devil; and God walks with Man; and the last two chapters of Revelation there is NO SIN; NO Pain; NO Sorrow; NO Death; NO Mention of the Devil; and God walks with Man. It’s going to end the way it started.

Our God is a God of patterns, symbolism, types, and shadows. In order to tap into the deeper things of God you have to know how God works.

Remember Eccl 1:9 “That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”

One of the main key points to this entire study is how in Ch. 5 Enoch is translated (Raptured) to Heaven BEFORE the Tribulation of Ch. 4.

Although this is a very unique way to look at scripture and it’s only a theory; it very well could be true.

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