Chapter
VII
Stuart
asked,
“Dave, can you pull up that Luke 10:18 verse you just quoted?”
Dave
brought it up on
his computer.
And
he
said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Luke 10:18
“Are
you telling
me?” continued Stuart, “Well, I guess you actually showed me.
There’s nothing I can really argue about. I saw the Hebrew
word for
“lightning” with my own eyes. But that means that for the
last
couple of thousand years, God has been hiding the name of the lawless
one in
plain sight. That’s pretty darn amazing!”
Virginia
and Evelyn
nodded in unison.
It
was late afternoon.
Chuck said he needed to make a quick phone call before the director
left for
the day. He left his copy of the script on the picnic table
as he stepped away
to call, using his cell phone. That still left the five of
them seated around
the picnic table, Dave, Obadiah, Virginia, Evelyn, and
Stuart. They were
talking and marveling among themselves regarding how much they had
learned the
last few days. And so much of it had been hidden in plain
sight.
Obadiah
said,
“There is one thing I don’t understand. Doesn’t the Bible
say something about not doing anything without first revealing it to
His
prophets?”
“Yes,”
said
Dave. “Let me find it.”
Surely
the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his
servants the
prophets.
Amos 3:7
“Well,”
started Obadiah, “Why didn’t he warn his prophets before the coming
of at least the first antichrist? We could have picked it up
from there. You would
have thought after well over 1500 years since Revelation He would have
told one
of His prophets, “Hey, get ready, the first horseman is about to
ride!”
“How
do you know
He didn’t?” answered Chuck, who had rejoined the group.
“Well,
if He did,
I missed it,” said Obadiah.
“Let
me be a
little cryptic with you,” said Chuck. “We all can agree that
Jesus
Christ gives revelations to His prophets. Let’s say that
Jesus Christ in
fact did give a further revelation to a prophet a couple of hundred
years before
the appearance of the first horseman. Let’s say that this
prophet gave
the credit and told everyone that this revelation was directly from
Jesus
Christ. Let’s even say that this prophet lived in the same
country as
the first horseman. Let’s even say what he wrote was
published far and
wide even outside his own country and translated into many
languages. Do you
think people would listen?”
“I’m
listening,” said Obadiah.
“Yes,
but maybe
you weren’t paying as close of attention as you thought you were,”
replied Chuck, “because all this has been hidden in plain sight for
hundreds of years. In fact, this prophet went on to name not
only the first
horseman, but essentially the second horseman, along with where the
second
horseman grew up. However, this prophet did not name the
third horseman, but
then the Bible does that. But, this prophet did name a close
associate and the
key person in the life of this third horseman. This key
person’s death
will be the sign for all who are watching for the rapture. He
will be our
Methuselah.”
“Isn’t
this
all supposed to happen on April 11, 2012?” said Dave. “Don’t
you just have to count back 1260 days from Yom Kippur, September 23,
2015? Or
count forward 1260 days from the covenant with many on October 29,
2008? Don’t
both ways give you the same date?”
“Yes,
they do.
And yes, April 11, 2012 makes a lot of sense to me also,” said
Chuck.
But as the Good Book says, God’s ways are not our ways. I
would expect
the Great Tribulation, the last 3 ½ years to start then. I’d
also expect
the third horseman antichrist to be possessed by satan on this
date. That date
is marked by God, for sure, in the skies.”
“I
saw that myself
on the internet,” said Dave. “Let me bring up the link.”
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2009/ronr1119.htm
It
states:
In 1996 and
1997, something happened
that caused a whole lot of excitement among Biblical astronomers and
astute
watchmen. Two bright comets crossed at the EXACT SAME
COORDINATES IN THE
SKY. Back then, there was MUCH written about this rare, if
not unique,
event. Perhaps someone reading this can give us more
information and
insight on everything that was involved with these two
comets. Now get
this. Comet Hyatuke crossed these coordinates in the sky on
APRIL 11,
1996, and comet Hale-Bopp crossed THESE SAME EXACT COORDINATES ON APRIL
11,
1997!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
According to Biblical astronomer Robert Wadsworth, this EXTREMELY RARE
crossing
of these two bright comets on Apr. 11, 1996, and Apr. 11, 1997, took
place in
the coordinates RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES OF ROSH SATAN!!! I
emphasize APRIL
11TH, AS THE DAY OF THE YEAR.
“Wow!”
said
Evelyn. “That’s pretty neat.”
“Hang
onto your
hats”, continued Dave. “I also found at the following link:”
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/mar2008/daniell331.htm
“Here,
let me read
it.”
Apparently Bob
Wadsworth, who has done
intensive work plotting, and studying comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake
discovered
something interesting. A coincidence! While
plotting the paths of Hyakutake
during the month of April 96, against the projected path of comet
Hale-Bopp
during the month of April 97 an almost perfect [cross] is formed where
they
intersect at almost an 90 degree angle. Furthermore, both
comets crossed this
point on the EXACT same day of the year (April 11th). In
other words, on April
11th 1996, comet Hyakutake occupied the same spot in the sky that comet
Hale-Bopp did on April 11th 1997.
Now, where is
this point in the
sky? This point is in the constellation of Perseus, who holds
the severed head
of the Gorgon, Medusa. This intersection point just happens
to be the middle
of the head of Medusa at the eye. This eye is the star
ALGOL. Therefore, in
Greek mythology these two comets intersect on the same day, in
different years,
forming an almost perfect cross in the eye of Medusa!
Traditionally,
according to the
Starlore Handbook, ALGOL is the MOST MALEVOLENT star of the
heavens. More
interesting is what the Hebrews called this star. In Hebrew
it is known as the
HEAD OF SATAN!
“If
that
don’t be all!” said Stuart.
“That
is
remarkable,” said Chuck. “To think, that was all the way back
in
1997. Interestingly, I had found other evidence some years
ago back in 2004
when I read the following in the book, “Passion, Power &
Glory”. Let me read it to you.”
Chuck
pulled the book
out of his bag and turned to page 46.
And
there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies;
and
power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Revelation
13:5
This is
followed
with the beast making war on the saints and overcoming them which is
followed
by all the world worshiping the beast.
And
all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not
written in
the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Revelation
13:8
Which would
also be
a fulfillment of another prophecy made by Jesus::
I
am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall
come in
his own name, him
ye will receive.
John
5:43
- And
apparently on
the same Gregorian day! April 11th is
the same day that Jesus was
ultimately not
received as the
King of Kings in 32 AD when He rode into Jerusalem
on the back of the colt of a donkey to be received as the King of Kings.
A possible
interpretation of Daniel's last week is that the first half of the last
week ended
when the Messiah, Christ Jesus was cut off, on April 11, 32
AD. What a more
fitting day for the beast on April 11, 2012 AD to be given power to
fulfill the
last 3.5 years of Daniel's last week? Picture Jesus to be
rejected by the Jews
as Messiah and antichrist to be accepted by the Jews as Messiah, on the
same
day, exactly 1980 years apart. Is there any significance to 1980
years? The
number 1980 is the product of 30 times 66. The number 30
makes allusions to
the fact that 30 pieces of silver were used to pay off Judas which
associates
it with betrayal and blood money. And 60 by 6 cubits was the
size of the
Nebuchadnezzar's idol which associates 66 with idol worship.
“Wow,”
said
Obadiah. “So 30 times 66 equals 1980. How symbolic!”
“Yes,”
said
Chuck. “Although I don’t know about the first half of
Daniel’s last week being fulfilled in 32 AD. I personally
believe that
Daniel’s last week doesn’t get totally fulfilled till after Jesus
Christ’s 1000 year reign.”
“What?”
said
Dave. “I thought the Great Tribulation was the last half of
the last
week of Daniel?”
Continued
Chuck,
“I said “totally” fulfilled. The one week described as the
“covenant with many” never says it is the last week of the
70. It
could just as easily be the last week of the 7. Or
both. Either way it gets
fulfilled. Let me explain myself a little better.
Can you search for the
phrase “thousand years” with your online Bible in
Revelation?”
“Okay,”
replied Dave. “Here it is. There are 6 verses in a
row. How
interesting.”
“Whenever
something is important in the Bible,” started Chuck, “I’ve
noticed that it is repeated. We need to take
notice. When it is really
important, it is repeated a third time. For example we sing
about “Holy,
Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty”, which is directly out of
Revelation. It
is very important, as the Bible says for us to be holy in our
conversation,
just as God is Holy. But God is not just Holy, he is Holy,
Holy, Holy. Now
imagine doubling that to six. Dave can you read those six
verses?”
Dave
began reading.
And
he
laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan, and
bound him a thousand
years, Revelation
20:2
And
cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon
him,
that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years
should be fulfilled: and after that he must be
loosed a little season. Revelation
20:3
And
I
saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them:
and I
saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and
for the
word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither
had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they
lived
and reigned with Christ a thousand
years.
Revelation
20:4
But
the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years
were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation
20:5
Blessed
and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the
second
death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ,
and shall
reign with him a thousand
years. Revelation
20:6
“Why
do you think
it is so important to repeat “thousand years” six times in a row of
six verses?” asked Chuck.
Virginia
spoke up, “Because it is really important that people know. I
have some
friends that don’t believe in the millennium. In fact, they
talk about
how the world could end in 2012. They talk about the Mayan
prophecies and
other cultures throughout the world talking about the destruction of
the
world. They wouldn’t talk like that if they believed in the
millennium.”
“That’s
right,” said Chuck. “God knew that the apostasy would be
great,
even in the churches, and that millions would deny the
millennium. They would
think that we were coming to the “End of Days” not the “End
of Age”, and there is a vast difference.”
“Namely
one
thousand years,” said Obadiah.
“Namely
one
thousand years and a little season,” said Dave.
“Precisely,”
said Chuck, “The little season is right before the end of days and
right
after the thousand years. I was thinking that this little
season could be part
of or all of Daniel’s last week. You can’t bring in
everlasting
righteousness until everlasting begins. And everlasting
doesn’t begin
until after the little season. You have 70 weeks of Daniel
that is supposed to
cover the Jewish people for 70 centuries of mankind since
Adam. It
doesn’t end at 60 centuries.”
“Are
you saying,
asked Dave, that just like the 7 weeks or 49 years of Daniel’s 70 are
repeated so they occur both before Jesus Christ’s first and second
coming, that the last week could also repeat? The first
“last”
week could run concurrently with the last 7th
week segment and the
last “last” week could run be right after the millennium.”
“That’s
certainly a possibility,” said Chuck. “Two comings of Christ,
two
fulfillments of the 7 weeks, and two fulfillments of the last week.”
“You
know what I
was also thinking?” asked Dave. “Notice how the little season
is
separate from the 1000 years. We think of this world lasting
7000 years, 6000
of them under the dominion of man, or his designee so to
speak. But the Bible
talks about this little season being separate, not counted in the 1000
years.
It is AFTER the 1000 years. That made me really
think. If the last week of
Daniel’s 70 weeks is counted separate from the 1000 years ruled by
Jesus
Christ, then the previous 7 weeks of Daniel’s 70 weeks should be
counted
separate also.”
“Boy,
that opens
up a lot of possibilities,” said Chuck.
“Yes,”
said
Obadiah. “Wouldn’t that mean that the Gentile Age actually
ended
on June 6, 1967? There’s a verse about that in the Bible
about it ending
when Jerusalem
was no longer trodden down by the Gentiles.”
“I
know the
one,” said Dave. “Here it is.”
And
they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive
into
all nations: and Jerusalem
shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles
be
fulfilled.
Luke 21:24
“So
couldn’t
we pinpoint Jesus Christ’s birth date, counting back 2000 prophetic
years?” asked Obadiah.
“I
think it would
be Christ’s conception date,” said Dave.
“Regardless,”
said Obadiah, “You know what I mean.”
“Okay,
said Dave.
“Let’s do this right. Let’s bring up a calendar
converter.”
With
that, Dave put in
“calendar converter” in his search engine and found:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/
“Let’s
put
in June 7, 1967,” continued Dave. “That gives us a Julian Day
Count
of 2439648.5. The Julian Day Count is used by astronomers as
it makes it easy
to add and subtract day counts.”
“I’ve
got a
calculator,” said Virginia.
“I can get the day count. I’m putting in 2000 times 360,” as
she pushed the buttons. “That equals 720,000.”
“Very
good,”
said Dave. “Now subtract 2439648.5”
“Okay,
that would
be -1719648.5,” said Virginia.
“Okay,
changing
the sign, let’s see the display, okay 171968.5, let me type that into
the
converter,” said Dave. “That gives me a Gregorian date of
February
20, -4, which would be 5 BC, a Julian Calendar date of February 22, -5,
and a
Hebrew calendar date of Adar 14, 3756. Hey, it would have
been a full
moon!”
“Well,”
said
Chuck. “That’s about as good a date as any others I’ve
heard. From what I’ve researched there were three census held
by Caesar
Augustus, around every 20 years. They were in 28 BC, 8 BC,
and 14 AD.
Everyone goes with the middle census as it was before that one person
was
governor of Syria
and because Herod died in 2 BC. Since it could take several
years for the
census takers to make it throughout the Roman
Empire,
hey, sounds plausible to me.”
“Sounds
good to me
also,” interjected Stuart.
“You
know what I
was thinking,” said Dave. “You know how satan is the accuser
of
the brethren and he spends day and night before God accusing us?”
“Yeah,
He’s
the best and worst lawyer of all time, depending on your perspective,”
quipped Stuart.
“Well,
let me find
the verse,” continued Dave.
And
I
heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and
strength, and
the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of
our
brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Revelation
12:10
“Now,
you know how
all around the world at about 701 BC they all noticed that the year was
no
longer 360 days long and from new moon to new moon was no longer 30?”
said Dave.
“I’ve
read
about that also before,” said Chuck. “Here, let me find it in
“Passion, Power & Glory”. I found it on page 27:”
The month and
the
year are also units of time but they are not multiples of a week or
even a day
and so we will not consider them as fundamental. Our word
"month"
comes from the word "moon" and is around the same period of
time.
The moon takes 29.530588 days to travel around to the same place on the
earth
from our vantage point on the earth. There is evidence that
has been
documented from many civilizations that prior to around March 20/21,
701 B.C.,
the solar year consisted of 360 days. That was when a theorized close
encounter
from Mars caused the Earth's orbit to shift to where it now takes
365.242199
days per year to orbit the sun. Mar's orbit was said to have
previously come
very close to earth, sometimes even going between the earth and the
moon's
orbit. These close encounters happened on average every 54
years, alternating
between March and October.
“Very,
good,” continued Dave. “Now satan knows that God gave man
6000
years of dominion over the earth. And of course, satan sort
of used a
lawyer’s legal trick to get man to assign it to him back in the Garden
of
Eden. Now, because of the decay introduced in the world,
helped out by Mars,
the “god of war”, the year is a little over 5 days longer.
Can’t
you see satan arguing before god that he is technically owed those 5
extra days
per year as of 701 BC? God can’t just keep counting years off
using 360
days per year and end it at 6000 360 day years. That wouldn’t
be fair.
Isn’t God a just god? So in the end, God gave man and satan
49 more 360
day years. That would be the 7 weeks of Daniel’s 70
weeks. And they
would start after the 6000 years were up on June 7, 1967.”
Evelyn
chimed in,
“I was just thinking. Imagine that you lived before 701
BC. It sure
would have been hard being an atheist with there being exactly 360 days
in a
year. How would you explain that? Sounds like a God
moment to me.”
“That’s
a
good point,” said Obadiah. “It took exactly 360 days, no
more, no
less. And the moon took exactly 30 days, no more, no less.”
“Anyway,”
said Dave. “I thought we could calculate out the number of
years that
had accumulated from these extra days to see where it takes
us. From 701 BC to
Christ’s birth in 5 BC would be 696 years. All these years
would have
been short around 5 ¼ days each. Let me write it out.
696
* (365.25 - 360) /
365.25
“What
does that
calculate to, Virginia?”
“10.004”,
answered Virginia.
“Whoa,”
said
Evelyn, “I feel another God moment coming on.”
“That
is
amazing,” said Obadiah. “Exactly 10 years down to rounding
down
number 4 in the thousandth decimal place. I wonder what would
happen if we
could increase the accuracy even further.”
“Yes,
let’s
use,” Chuck was flipping back a few pages in his book, “365.242199
for the length of the year. That’s nine significant digits.”
“And
let’s
add in the 9 months to take it to Christ’s birth,” said Stuart
“And
don’t
forget to write down all those zeros after the 360 this time to show
how exact
it is,” said Evelyn.
“Okay,”
said
Dave, “first the 9 months that would add to the 696.” Dave
began
to write on the paper again.
9
* 30 / 365.242199
“That’s
0.739235501 said Virginia.
“Let me
write out the whole formula,” said Dave, looking up
and grinning at Evelyn.
696.739235501
* (365.242199 - 360.000000) / 365.242199
“That
comes to 10.00006” said Virginia,
passing the calculator around for
all to see.
“Wow,”
said Obadiah, “We’ve just increased the
accuracy almost 100 times.”
“Catch
me baby,
I’m about to faint,” said Evelyn
They
all smiled at Evelyn. And then they looked at each other for
a
while. They were all in there own little world, thinking to
themselves.
Stuart
broke the silence when he said, “Where do we go from
here.”
“Well,
where I really was going,” said Dave, “was
figuring out the total number of extra years satan thought he was
owed. God
gave him 49 prophetic years or undecayed years or uncorrupted
years.
We’ve been working in actual years. I’m thinking of just a
rough
number. If we just take from 701 BC to 1967 AD that is 2667
years. We can do
the same calculation as before but divide by 360 to get prophetic
years.” Dave wrote out.
2667 *
(365.242 - 360) / 360
Virginia
hesitated for a moment, looked at the equation, punched some numbers
and then
announced, “38.849”
“So,”
said Obadiah, “the accuser of the brethren was
going for 39 undecayed years and God gave him 49. And it was
satans fault in
the first place they were decayed.”
“Reminds
me of the story of the devil and Daniel Webster,”
said Virginia.
“I was
wondering,” said Obadiah, “how many years
these 49 prophetic years accumulating at 5 ¼ days a years expand out
to.”
“Good
question,” said Dave. “We have 49 years of 360
days from June 7, 1967 to September 23, 2015. How many days
is that?”
Virginia
punches a few buttons on her calculator and announces, “17,640”
“Okay,”
said Dave. “We have 17,640 days that have
been accumulating at 5 ¼ days per how many years. Virginia,
what’s 17,640 divided by
5.25”
Virginia
punches a few more buttons and states,”3,360”
“Exactly?”
asks Dave.
“Exactly,”
answers Virginia.
“But it
is not exactly 5 ¼ days per year,” said Stuart.
“It’s closer to 5.24. You should use that.”
“I can
see where this is going,” said Dave. “Before,
when we got more accurate we could see that God was getting more
accurate with
exactly 360 days per year. That was a great testimony to
God. Now granted,
this won’t work for every calculation that we can come up
with. It may
not even work for this one. But let me write out the equation
and then start
increasing the accuracy and see what happens. Let’s see, the
length of
the solar year we had before was 365.242199 to 9 significant
figures. Virginia, you
let me
know the results to 10 significant figures. I’ll start off
with 3
significant figures for the number of days in a year.”
Dave
started writing with Virginia
punching in the numbers and announcing the results so Dave could write
them
down:
49 *
360 / (365 – 360) = 3528.000000
49 *
360.0 / (365.2 – 360.0) = 3392.307692
49 *
360.00 / (365.24 – 360.00) = 3366.412214
49 *
360.000 / (365.242 – 360.000) = 3365.127814
49 *
360.0000 / (365.2422 – 360.0000) = 3364.999428
49 *
360.00000 / (365.24220 – 360.00000) = 3364.999428
49 *
360.000000 / (365.242199 – 360.000000) = 3365.000070
“Oh
my,”
said Stuart.
“Take
me now Lord,
take me now!” yelled Evelyn.
©
12/7/2009 – Ted Porter