Chapter
VIII
Chuck
made his apologies. He needed to get back to rehearsals
before
the end of the day. He was supposed to meet with the director
to discuss that
day’s activities and hear what the director’s plans were for the
next day.
However,
Chuck thought he should be free again the next day. He told
them he was leaving them a copy of his script for “The Lawless One”
along with a copy of his supplemental notes.
They
all watched as Chuck walked off. Stuart was the first to pick
up
the manuscript.
“Let’s
see,” said Stuart, “Do we want to look at “Dan, Ham, and a
Girl Named Stan”, “Mabus and Methuselah”, “I’m in
Heaven”, “God’s Prophet”…”
“Hey
look, it
talks about the abomination in the west wing, except he’s spelling
abomination
with an “o”. Probably a misspelling, you think?
It’s then talking
about him taking up residence in the temple dedicated to Almighty God,
in the
nation dedicated to Almighty God, in the country whose motto is, “In
God
we Trust”. Here he has the Bible verse.”
He
will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the
'seven'
he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing [of the
temple] he
will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that
is
decreed is poured out on him."
Daniel 9:27
(NIV)
Stuart
continued,
“Hey look, it says “on a wing of the temple he will set up an
abomination”. He sure set up an abomination with is his
illegal
administration. And to boot, his office is in a wing of the
temple.”
“That’s
true,” said Obadiah. “The oval office is in the west wing of
the
White House. I agree. He set himself up in this
office after he was foreign
born, traveling with a foreign passport to countries US citizens were
not allowed
to visit, here as a foreign student, and foreign financed all the way
to boot.
When he did this he committed a complete and utter abomination to the
American
people. And he knew exactly what he was doing because he
taught US
constitutional law for 13 years. However, the American people
were still the
ones who selected a foreign man, a foreign god really, to rule over
them.”
“Yeah,”
said Stuart. “It even has this Bible verse that fits right in
with what
you’re saying.”
You
shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien
god.
Psalms 81:9
(NIV)
“Then
it goes on
to say that this abomination will make the American people desolate
with a
horrendous amount of wasteful payoffs and spending on the order of
trillions of
dollars.”
“That
sure seems
right on the money,” said Dave, smiling.
‘Haw,
haw,”
said Obadiah, “It doesn’t seem as funny when you realize they are
taking it out of your pocket.”
“I
feel pretty
desolate and destitute right now myself,” said Evelyn.
“You
haven’t
seen nuttin’ yet,” said Dave.
“Well,”
said
Stuart. “The manuscript goes on to say that the end of him is
decreed
for September 23, 2015. Interesting. It doesn’t
name him precisely. It
does talk about the time clues that in the middle of the larger seven
of years
that he will put an end to sacrifices and offerings to God.
We will no longer
be able to present ourselves as living sacrifices to God, only as dead
ones.
There will be mass beheadings.”
“Ugh,”
said
Evelyn.
Stuart
continued, “Then
Chuck’s script goes back and talks about the clues for the time of year
all this starts. That in the middle of the smaller seven of
days we have a
time clue as this being the day after Halloween. That would
be the day the
sacrifices and offerings to satan for the yearly high black sabbath
would be
over, would cease. That would be the dual meaning of this
scripture.”
“He
says that
there are dual meanings hidden everywhere. November 1st,
All Saints
Day, would be the day after Halloween. With seven days in a
week, like seven
arms of a menorah, we have the servant candle in the middle on All
Saints Day.
Counting back we have the start of the week on October 29, 2008 when he
makes a
verbal covenant agreement with many through a multimillion dollar 30
minute
commercial. Counting forward we have the end of the week on
November 4, 2008
when the covenant agreement was confirmed by over 66 million Americans.”
“Boy,
I need to
take a breather.” With that, Stuart let out a sigh.
“Yeah,
come up for
air,” said Virginia.
“Here,
let me take
a look,” said Obadiah. “Ok, it talks about where others have
tried
to fit the Roman Emperor Titus as the one who desecrated the wing of
the Jerusalem
temple in 70
AD. Others say it was Antiochus IV in 169 BC. Both
are said to have entered
the Holy of holies, the place where God had resided. Both are
said to have
desecrated this temple. However, it says that the Holy of
holies is definitely
not in a wing of the Jerusalem
temple. The Holy of holies is not away from the main
body. It is in the main
body. In fact, the Jerusalem
temple doesn’t even have wings. The holy of holies is a
rectangle which
is completely surrounded by another rectangle that makes up the
temple. There
are no wings.”
“Guess
you could
say those people who believe that are believing in a wing and a
prayer,”
said Dave.
“Funny,”
said Virginia.
“Seriously
though,” said Obadiah. “What other building in what other
country
is like the White House? Remember, it serves as the center
for executive
power. Yet the center of that power, the place the President
wields that
power, the oval office, is not in the main body of the
building. It is in one
of its wings.”
“Let’s
not
count out those who believe this scripture is talking about a future Jerusalem
temple,”
said Dave. “Someone will need to tell them not to follow the
blueprint
in the Bible when they go to build it. They need to build it
this time with wings,
so they can fly.”
“You’re
making fun of them,” said Virginia.
“Maybe
a
little,” said Dave.
“But
maybe they
don’t have a sense of humor,” said Virginia.
“Good
point,” said Dave. “Don’t tell them I said anything.”
Obadiah
said,
“Let’s change the subject. Remember back before Chuck
left? I was
as amazed as the rest of you how God worked out seven weeks of
prophetic years
to be the credit for exactly 3,365 years. But why?
I can see 365 as being the
new number of days in a year, rounded off of course. That is
also the number
of years Enoch lived.”
Dave
said,
“Checking out its roots, it is divisible by 5 which stands for Grace,
and
673. That is a large prime. Let me check.
Yes, that is the first prime
number after 666. And of course, 666 is not prime.
The next numbers are
divisible by 2 or 3 until you get up to 671. And 671 is
divisible by 61 and 11.
There’s that number 61 again that keeps popping up with the
Lawless
One. It’s in his date of birth both right side up and upside
down as in
1961. It’s the 18th prime number as in
6+6+6. And I just
read an interesting article that went into even more:”
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2009/kevinh1123.htm
“I
figured,”
said Obadiah, ‘That it has more to do with the number of years extra
God
was allowing satan beyond what satan thought he was owed. We
have 701 BC,
which for addition is -700 without there being a zero year.
Then we have the 2
days of 1000 years or 2000 years which is supposed to be the Gentile
Age.
Adding these together I get 2700 years. So, what is 3365
minus 2700?”
Virginia
pushed a few buttons on her calculator and answered, “665”.
“Wow,”
said
Obadiah.
“Huh?”
asked
Virginia
“Well,”
started Obadiah. If you count inclusively starting at 2700
and ending at 3365
you end up with the number 666.”
“Wow,”
said Virginia
“God
certainly has
a sense of humor, doesn’t he.” said Dave.
…………………………
It
was getting dark and
the street lights were already coming on. They agreed it was
time to stop for
the night and meet back the next day at the theatre.
…………………………
Early
the next day, the
five of them met up in the room where they had first met
Chuck. However, Chuck
had not yet arrived. Stuart had taken with him to his hotel
the copy of the
manuscript Chuck had left them. Stuart pulled it
out. Dave was the first to speak.
“What
comes next
after the four horsemen?” asked Dave.
“The
Lease is
Up”, said Stuart.
“What
comes
last?” asked Evelyn.
“I’m
in
Heaven”, said Stuart.
“What’s
that
about?” asked Obadiah
“Let’s
see,” said Stuart. “It starts off with this Bible verse.”
My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:
seeing
thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Hosea 4:6
“It
then goes on
to talk about getting into the Kingdom of Heaven,”
said
Stuart, “about how it doesn’t matter what church or synagogue or
assembly you go to, or technically if you even go. Although
you should not
forsake the fellowship of like minded people who love Jesus
Christ. It then
says that it doesn’t matter for Heaven whether you get water baptized a
certain way or if you even do. That there are
churches which teach that one
must go to their church or be water baptized in their church to make it
into
the Kingdom
of Heaven
but it isn’t true. They
are false churches and are leading many into the depths of Gehenna with
their
false teachings. They are part of the end time apostasy that
has already come
upon the World.”
“It
goes on to say
that what matters is your heart and whether you have been baptized with
the
Spirit of the living God. Your heart is what is circumcised,
not your foreskin
or your body in water baptism. Those are only outward signs
you give for an
inward change. The bottom line is you must believe that Jesus
Christ is God,
the Son, the creator of Heaven and Earth, that He laid down His life
for yours,
and that you can have eternal life by confessing to Him that you are a
sinner
and asking him to forgive you of your sins. For only God, the
Creator of
Heaven and Earth, and the creator of you, can forgive sins.
It then has this
Bible verse:”
And,
behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed:
and Jesus
seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good
cheer; thy
sins be forgiven thee. And, behold, certain of the scribes
said within
themselves, This man blasphemeth. And Jesus knowing their
thoughts said,
Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? For whether is
easier, to say, Thy
sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that
ye may know that
the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to
the sick
of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Matthew 9:2-6
“Hey,
this
“I’m in Heaven” section seems to be about getting saved. But
then it has.”
Who
hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind
in his
fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all
the
ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if
thou canst
tell?
Proverbs 30:4
“What’s
that
about?” asked Stuart.
“I
would think it
would show anyone that has accepted the Old Testament as the Word of
God,” said Obadiah, “That the Old Testament testifies of the Son of
God and the New Testament tells us the name of the Son of God, which is
Jesus
Christ, Amen and Amen.”
“But
what’s
this about who has ascended and descended into heaven,” said
Stuart.
“I thought we were the ones ascending into Heaven. Let me
read
more.”
And
no
man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even
the Son
of man which is in heaven.
John 3:13
“No
man has
ascended into heaven except the Son of man who is in heaven.
Seems pretty
straightforward. I see, it is again talking about
Jesus. And while it can be
described as a twinkling of an eye when we die, Judgment day is not for
over
1,000 years, after the Millennium. We all will
sleep. We all will be judged.
We can’t go to heaven until we’re judged worthy. Those that
have
the blood of Jesus covering their sins will live forever.
Those that
don’t will be burnt up in the lake of fire. When we die, we
don’t
go to Purgatory as the pagans believe, we go to paradise. It
then quotes the
verse about us judging angels.”
Know
ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to
this
life?
I Corinthians
6:3
“It
then says that
obviously we will only judge the angels that sinned. And
obviously it will not
be till Judgment day for it is also written:”
For
if
God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and
delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
II Peter 2:4
And
the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own
habitation, he
hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of
the
great day.
Jude 1:6
Therefore
judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring
to
light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the
counsels of the
hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
I Corinthians
4:3
“And
then it says
that God sent Judges to rule his people throughout the Old
Testament. But
people hated the Judges. They killed the Judges.
God sent Moses as a judge
and ruler, and the people further objected:”
This
Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the
same
did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel
which
appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 7:35
“Boy,
it sure
talks about people hating to be judged. Ain’t that that
truth. They
want to do what they want to do when they want to do it. And
they don’t
want anyone to tell them not to or hold them accountable or make them
pay the
consequences. But often the law of natural consequences
catches up with
them.”
“Then
it talks
about how we are called to be judges ourselves and to live pure, holy,
and
blameless lives after we have been redeemed. And that we will
be held
accountable if we do not judge wisely. Here are the verses.”
And
said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but
for the
LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
II Chronicles
19:6
They
are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked:
they
judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and
the
right of the needy do they not judge. Shall I not visit for
these things?
saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah
5:28-29
Virginia
said, “Don’t you think it’s amazing how we are called to
judge the cause of the fatherless, the rights of the needy.
That makes you
think.” said Virginia.
“So
true,”
said Obadiah. “There’s the verse in the Bible that I
memorized as
a youth regarding true religion. It states.”
Pure
religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted from
the world.
James 1:27
“Puts
things in
perspective,” said Dave.
“That
all before
got me thinking and I’m a little confused,” said Evelyn. “I
read theses stories and see movies where someone like Saint Peter is at
the
pearly gates of Heaven. He has this book where he looks up
each person’s
name when they die and show up at the gates. If he finds
their name in the
book, he lets them in. I never thought that was how it really
was. Never saw
that in the Bible. But it makes a good story. But
what is the real
story?”
Dave
answered,
“It’s partly based on the Bible. There is a book of life
which
contains the names of everyone that gets into heaven. But it
doesn’t get
opened till the end of time when heaven and earth pass away.
Here, let’s
look up “book” and “life” in the same verse. Here we
go, this is what I was looking for. Let me read it.
And
I
saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the
earth and
the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the
dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and
another
book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged
out of
those things which were written in the books, according to their
works. Revelation
20:11-12
And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of
fire. Revelation
20:15
“I’m
sure
glad my name’s written in the book of life,” said Evelyn.
“Amen,”
said
Obadiah.
“I’ll
second
that,” said Dave. The other two, Virginia and Stuart, nodded
in
agreement.
……………………
Chuck
entered the room.
“What’d I miss?” said Chuck.
“We
were going
through your script,” said Stuart.
“Yes,”
said
Dave. “I was especially curious about the section titled,
“Mabus
and Methuselah.”
“Well,”
said
Chuck. “Okay. You know who Methuselah was.”
“Sure,”
said
Dave. “He was the oldest man who ever lived.”
“Right,”
said Chuck. “What else?”
“He
died right
before the flood,” said Obadiah. “In fact his name means
“his death shall bring”. He is said to have been named by his
father based on God supernaturally telling his father that a flood
judgment
would come upon the whole earth, but not until his son died.”
“That’s
exactly right,” said Chuck. “And it appears that we have a
similar
Methuselah in our own time. Have you heard of Nostradamus?”
“Who
hasn’t,” said Stuart.
“Well,”
said
Chuck, “Nostradamus claimed that the prophecies he received came
directly
from Jesus Christ. He said that Jesus Christ came directly to
him and he wrote
down exactly what he was told to write down. What he wrote
down, people did
not understand. He explained this in more detail to the King
of France of how
there were bad agents in the world and that if these words of prophecy
were
understood by them, they would keep these prophecies from the people.”
“Reminds
me of
what Jesus told both Daniel and John the disciple with sealing up what
Jesus
showed them,” said Dave.
“That’s
absolutely correct,” said Chuck. “I’ve got the Bible
verses.”
But
thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time
of the
end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel 12:4
And
when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write:
and I
heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which
the seven
thunders uttered, and write them not.
Revelation 10:4
“You
see,”
continued Chuck, “Nostradamus was already famous for his amazingly
accurate yearly almanacs. However, Nostradamus was quick to
point out that
these came only from his understanding of the signs in the sun, moon,
and
stars, with guidance from the Holy Spirit. I’ve got these
Bible verses
to read:
And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and
upon
the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves
roaring;
Luke 21:25
And
God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day
from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and
years: Genesis
1:14
And
of course there were
the Magi from Persia
who were said to have been educated by the descendents of people
educated by
Daniel for looking for the sign of the star in the East foretelling the
Messiah. And then we have the Bible verses:
Now
we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of
God;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of
God. Which things
also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy
Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
I Corinthians
2:12-13
While
Nostradamus gave
the credit to the Holy Spirit acting upon his understanding of the
signs in the
sky, he said that this was completely different from the direct
revelation he
received regarding his quatrains in “The Prophecies” that he was
really just the scribe.”
“But
what about
Mabus?” asked Dave, “Who is he?”
“All
in good
time”, said Chuck. “Just think of Mabus as our Methuselah,
our
canary that we can use to warn us of approaching terror and I would
think our
salvation, the Rapture. Unfortunately, if you do much
research on Nostradamus
you will find much disinformation. But you will also see much
that parallels
the book of Revelation. You will see Nostradamus naming in a
way, the first
and second horseman in Revelation, the first and second antichrists, so
to
speak. The first is named as an anagram of Napoleon
Roy. The second is named
very similar to Hitler in Hister. This name Hister doubles as
the older name
of the Danube
river, on whose banks Hitler
grew up as a child. The third antichrist is not named but his
reign of terror
is linked in a quatrain to start at the death of Mabus.”
“I’ve
seen
much of this myself,” said Stuart. “Someone took the last two
letters of the last name of the current US
president and the first three letters of the last name of the previous US
president and Walla, there was the name “Mabus”. I didn’t
this was it. I thought it had more to do with the letter “b”
being
substituted for “l” in the older word “Malus”. Nostradamus
was well known for using older words, and switching from French to
Latin when
he spoke of Christian things.”
“Don’t
leave
us in suspense,” said Virginia.
“What does “Malus” mean?”
“Malus”
is
Latin and can be translated, “the evil one”, continued
Stuart.
Pretty appropriate if you ask me. But it doesn’t tell us
anything we
don’t already know. It can also be translated as just the
word
“evil”, and surprisingly, the word “apple”. So the
tree of knowledge of good and evil when read in the Latin Bible could
be read
as the tree of knowledge of good and apple. Sort of like a
play on words.
Also connects satan I would think with both. You know how he
appeared as the
snake in the garden.”
“Pretty
neat,” said Evelyn.
“Yeh,”
said
Stuart. “I read that apple and evil part in Joe Kovac’s,
“Shocked by the Bible”, book. I thought it was kind of
interesting. Of course, I was thinking if you take out the
middle
“l” and put in a “b”, there you are. And guess who’s
first name starts with “b” and the first consonant in his last name
is “b”. And you know, Hebrew doesn’t even have vowels so you
could ignore the first vowel anyway, and there you go.
“Interesting
theory”, said Chuck. “Definitely connects him. But
hear me out.
I was thinking that Mabus actually means Mabus. The prophecy
says that he will
soon die. That connects him with the evil one as a
sign. But it doesn’t
make him the evil one if he soon dies. Here’s my translation:
Mabus
will soon die and it will come
Of people and animals a horrible judgment, like a flood
Suddenly the evil one will seek revenge,
A Hundred hand (400 inches), dehydration, starvation, when the comet
will
cross.
Century
II, Quatrain 62
“Sounds
like the
time of the two witnesses,” said Obadiah. You know, when it
doesn’t rain at all during their ministry. They do what
Elijah did in
stopping the rain. And without rain you get dehydrated and
you can’t
grow food, and you can starve. I’ve got the verse,
handy. Oh, yeah,
here it is:”
These
have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their
prophecy: and
have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth
with all
plagues, as often as they will.
Revelation 11:6
Chuck
said, “Good point,
but back to the first word of this prophecy, as I was saying.
Now Ray Mabus is
the United States Secretary of the Navy reporting to the
President. He was
born in 1948, the same year that Israel
became a nation. And like
you, Stuart, I think that Mabus can also be an anagram of sorts for
“”malus”. However, another definition of the word
“malus” in Latin is “mast”, which is derived from the
shape of an apple and stem at the top of a ship’s mast. Let
me look at
my notes. Oh, yes, here is the internet source.”
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Pyxis.htm
Chuck
continued,
“Since antiquity there has been a constellation called
“Malus” which is the mast of the ship on the larger constellation,
“Argo Navis”. Christian history relates the constellation
“Argo Navis” with Noah’s Ark.”
http://constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/ArgoNavis.html
Dave
said, “As in
the days of Noah.”
Obadiah
said, “How
about that. And I was noticing how “Argo Navis” is about a
ship
and “Navis” would be where we get our word “Navy”. And
Ray Mabus is Secretary of the Navy. Thanks Chuck, that’s
pretty good
work.”
Dave
said, “Yes
thanks.”
Chuck
said, “Now
what if there was a double sign, not only of Mabus dying, but of a
comet
crossing over the mast or “Mabus” of “Argo Navis”.
Wouldn’t that be cool!”
Stuart
said, “Yes,
that would be cool, but all of this is speculation. You can’t
just guess
what Nostradamus meant by using the future. It doesn’t prove
a
thing.”
Evelyn
said,
“I’m going to have to go with Stuart on this one. Speculation
based on what a supposed said over 400 years ago based on future events
doesn’t prove anything. Maybe he was a prophet, maybe he
wasn’t.
There are a ton of people now-a-days that call themselves prophets that
aren’t. You can’t be wrong and say you are speaking for God,
or
say that you can get to Heaven without the blood of Jesus and say you
are
speaking for God. I wouldn’t believe any of them.”
“What
about David
Wilkerson and Timothy Snodgrass?” asked Virginia.
“Well,
I’m
sure there are some that are genuine,” said Evelyn. “But how
are
you going to tell?”
“According
to the
Bible,” said Obadiah. “There are tests for prophets of
God.
I’ll show you in my Bible, in fact. Let me look up the word
“prophet” in my concordance. Okay, we find the first instance
of
the word “prophet” being where God refers to Abraham as a
“prophet”. God appears to a king that is about to take
Abraham’s wife as his own because Abraham failed to tell the king that
his half-sister was also his wife. We have:
Now
therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall
pray for
thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that
thou
shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
Genesis 20:7
The
second is when God
refers to Aaron, Moses brother, as a “prophet:”
And
the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and
Aaron thy
brother shall be thy prophet.
Exodus 7:1
We
also have:
And
he
said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD
will make
myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Numbers 12:6
What
I find interesting
is that the test of a prophet of God is not just that he predicts the
future
correctly. If he predicts the future correctly but tries to
lead people away
from the Lord, then he also is a false prophet and must be put to
death. Here
are some of the verses.
If
there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth
thee a sign
or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake
unto
thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known,
and let us
serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or
that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether
ye love
the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Ye shall walk
after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and
obey his
voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that
prophet, or that
dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to
turn you
away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
Egypt, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way
which
the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil
away
from the midst of thee. Deuteronomy 13:1-5
But
the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I
have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
even
that prophet shall die.
Deuteronomy
18:20
When
a
prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor
come to
pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet
hath
spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy
18:22
“Good
words,” said Dave. “Regardless, personally I believe that
during
the end times there will be a multitude of people that prophecy,
anyway. Don’t
know if that makes them a full-fledged prophet. But here, let
me look up the
verse.”
And
it
shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my
Spirit
upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and
your young
men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Acts 2:17
“However,
Evelyn I’m
still agreeing with you. Right now there are many people that
say they are
speaking for God and they contradict each other. We know that
God is not the
author of confusion. We also know that at one time Elijah was
the only prophet
of God against 450 prophets of Baal. We can expect similar
odds now,
especially with all the current apostasy.”
“I
agree,”
said Chuck. “And the bottom line is God is in control of
everything.
And you could even expect God to leave more clues for His children who
are
watching. Guess what? He has!”
“I
figured,
continued Chuck, “if Ray Mabus was so closely associated with the third
antichrist in his death, he would be just as closely associated with
him in his
birth. I thought God would leave His people that clue at
least. And guess
what? He did. There are 13 prophetic years from the
birth of Ray Mabus to the
birth of the lawless one.
“Well,
yeah!”
said Stuart. “That would be true about anyone born in 1948.”
“I’m
talking
to the exact day,” said Chuck.
Dave
said, “We all
know that the number of every name of the lawless one is divisible by
the
number 13. And we all know that from 1948 to 1961 are 13
regular years just by
looking. But you are saying we will need to calculate out the
number of
prophetic years. Let’s see, let me look up the date of birth
for Ray
Mabus.”
Dave
typed on his laptop
and then announced, “October 11th, 1948.”
“Thanks,”
continued Chuck. “And we all probably know by heart, or at
least I do,
the lawless one’s birthdate, seeing as it is the 216th
day of
the year, or 6 times 6 times 6. And seeing that it was Av 9
on the Julian
calendar in 70 AD when the Jerusalem
temple was destroyed. So the other date we are trying to get
to is August 4,
1961. Dave, can you type into your spreadsheet the October
11, 1948 date in
one cell and then in the next, add to it 13 times 360?”
Dave
typed into Cell A1:
10/11/1948
Followed
by typing into
Cell A2:
=
A1 + 13 * 360
They
all looked at the
results which were:
8/4/1961
“I’ve
got
goosebumps all over my body,” said Evelyn.
“Me
to,”
said Dave, as he stared at the screen.
“What
a God
moment!” remarked Virginia.
“What
a second
witness,” said Chuck. “But I’ve got a third witness, if you
can handle it. Obadiah, what’s the most common number for
counting days
in Revelation?”
“That’s
easy,” said Obadiah. “1260 days.”
“That’s
right,” said Chuck. “Here, let me just share with you the
verses I
have in my notes.”
1260
Days
And
I
will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a
thousand two
hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation 11:3
And
the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of
God,
that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore
days.
Revelation 12:6
1260
Days as 42 Prophetic Months of 30 Days Each
But
the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not;
for it is
given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot
forty
and two months. Revelation
11:2
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
1260
Days as 3 ½ Prophetic Years or Time, Times, and the Dividing of Times
And
he
shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the
saints of
the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be
given into
his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Daniel 7:25
And
I
heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river,
when he
held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him
that liveth
for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he
shall
have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these
things
shall be finished.
Daniel 12:7
Elias
was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly
that it
might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three
years and
six months.
James 5:17
And
to
the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly
into the
wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and
times, and
half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Revelation
12:14
“You’ve
convinced us,” said Stuart.
“You
sure
have,” said Dave, “and got our attention. Go on!”
Chuck
said, “Dave,
now subtract 1260 days from the date October 11, 1948 you have in cell
A1.”
Dave
typed into Cell A3:
=
A1 - 1260
They
all again looked at
the results which were:
4/30/1945
Chuck
said, “Guess
what date that is?”
“I
give up,”
said Virginia.
“Just
tell
us,” said Stuart.
“Yes,
don’t
leave us any longer in suspense,” said Obadiah.
“That
date, April
30th, 1945,” said Chuck, “Amazingly, is the
exact date
that the second antichrist, Adolph Hitler, died.”
The
group of five, who
had come separately to watch the rehearsals of “The Lawless One”, and
had become fast friends the last few days, all sat there dumbstruck,
with their
mouths open and blank expressions on their faces, not saying a word.
©
12/8/2009 – Ted Porter