Mike Curtiss (31
Dec 2010)
"The Beginning of the Tribulation"
Dear Bruce,
Heres the
post from Ron Reese supporting the 70th week of Daniel which IMHO has
already begun. Prayerfully consider the chaos we have been experiencing
since Hussein first came into office. Just like his evil role model,
Hussein will return to his own vomit. This regime is about the
accumulation of power within the executive branch rendering Congress
moot. Everyone who examines the rise of Hitler, Mousilini and
Stalin recognizes this phenomenon.
By Ron Reese (6 Nov 2008)
"OCT. 29, 2008 THRU SEPT. 23, 2015--HAVE WE ENTERED THE FINAL 7 YEARS???!"
Was
Oct. 29, 2008, the first day of the Final 7 Years, or the beginning of
the 70th week of Daniel?!!! I believe the evidence that I am about to
present to you makes a VERY strong case for this to be the truth. Most
of you believe that this could not be the case because there has been
no Rapture yet, and no confirming of a 7-year peace treaty by the
Antichrist. I believe there was an event one week ago on Oct. 29, 2008,
that thrust the world right smack dab into the Final 7 Years of human
history, as we know it. Please be patient enough to read this entire
letter because if what I am about to present to you is the truth, then
all of our lives will never be the same again.
I have been
waiting anxiously for somebody on Five Doves to see what I saw take
place one week ago on Oct.. 29, 2008, but nobody has come forth with it
yet. Ted Porter is the only one who has come close.
Like most of
you, I have been thrilled and fascinated by the abundance of evidence
pointing to 2008 thru 2015 as the Final 7 Years. It has been, and STILL
IS, OVERWHELMING. The only two years in my 35 years of studying the end
times that have come this close to creating this much evidence and
excitement have been 1998 and 1988. Notice, all 3 years end in 8, the
number of new beginnings.
The evidence for the autumn of 2015
being the 2nd Coming of Christ and the end of the Final 7 Years seems
to be staggering.. Some of you have given up for this year because we
are now into November and past the Feast Days for 2008. I hope what I
am about to present to you will renew your hope that 2008--2015 are
indeed the Final 7 Years before Christ returns.
During my
attendance at numerous Bible Prophecy Conferences, there has been one
speaker who has earned the respect of most all attendees and been the
most sought-after speaker, and the one who has the biggest crowds
around his book table. It is not Jack Van Impe or Hal Lindsey. It is
in-depth Bible Prophecy scholar J.R. Church, of Prophecy in the News,
author of Prophecies in the Psalms and numerous other books on the
end-times. J.R. has been consistent in his belief that the 70th week of
Daniel has to be during a 7-year Sabbatical cycle. I have seen him get
excited about the possible Rapture during 1987, 1994, 2001, and 2008
because these years were the beginning of 7-year Sabbatical cycles.
With the autumn of 2008 thru the autumn of 2015 being another 7-year
Sabbatical cycle, it seems the perfect time for the beginning of the
70th week of Daniel to begin, AND I BELIEVE IT HAS!!!
So much
evidence has come forth this year concerning 2015, including the lunar
and solar eclipses right before and right after Feast of Atonement,
Sept. 23, 2015. Jesus told us there would be evidence of his 2nd Coming
in the sun, moon, and stars. Do you believe Him??? According to Bonnie
Gaunt’s “Jubilee Study” in her Aug. 10, 2006, letter on Five Doves, and
several others, the autumn of 2015 begins not just a new Sabbatical
year but also a JUBILEE YEAR!!! WOW!!! That only happens once every 50
years.
Ted Porter of Five Doves has been pointing to this same
exact 7-year period of Oct. 29, 2008 thru Sept. 23, 2015, for being the
the Final 7 Years for quite some time and has even written a booklet
about it. I urge you to use the search engine on Five Doves and type in
Ted Porter. He will give you much more information about this 7-year
period that began last week than I can give you here. 7 X 7 = one
Jubilee cycle. It seems extremely likely that God would give Israel one
Jubilee cycle from the highly significant day of June 6-7, 1967, when
they recaptured their holy city of Jerusalem. 7 X 7 X 360 days (a
Jewish year) from that all-important day of June 6-7, 1967, takes you
to Feast of Atonement, Sept.. 23, 2015, right to the day!!! Amazing!!!
This should be the Final Day of the Final 7 Years, when Jesus returns
at the Battle of Armageddon. Everything points to this being the case.
On
Oct. 13, 2008, Ted Porter wrote to Five Doves an article entitled,
“When is Jesus Returning? The Answer is 42!” In that article, Ted did
an awesome job of telling us why the number 42 has been presented as
the one number in the Bible that means the 2nd Coming of Christ. The
re-capturing of Jerusalem on June 6-7, 1967, which most prophetic
scholars believe started the final generation before the 2nd Coming of
Christ, plus 42 JEWISH YEARS takes us to Oct. 29, 2008, which should be
the first day of the Final 7 Years. I have just showed you TWO AMAZING
CALCULATIONS THAT TAKE YOU TO THE FIRST DAY AND THE LAST DAY OF THE
7OTH WEEK OF DANIEL, THE FINAL 7 YEARS. It is my conviction that we
entered this 70th Week of Daniel on Oct. 29, 2008.
On Oct. 27,
2008, Jerry Grenough wrote to Five Doves with the article entitled, “It
All Fits for 2008 Rapture”. In that article he wrote, that Wednesday,
Oct. 29, 2008, will be Day One of the Tribulation. Ted Porter and
others have come up with the same calculations. Can it be just a
coincidence that there are so many things pointing to this 2520-day
period, this Sabbatical cycle, this Jubilee cycle, with everything
seeming to conclude on Feast of Atonement, Sept. 23, 2015, and
therefore, starting on October 29, 2008??? Never in history has there
been such a perfect fit for the Final 7 Years, not even close. Do you
honestly think things can go on like this for another 50 years (2
complete Jubilee cycles? Do you even think things can continue for
another Sabbatical cycle, or another 7 years? It appears highly
unlikely.
We have what many considered a 7-year warning on
9/11/2001. We have the economies of the world falling apart and ready
to plunge right into the economic doomsday that is presented in the
Book of Revelation. We have the world poised on the brink of World War
III. We have Iran and Israel poised to unleash weapons of mass
destruction at each other, not to mention the U.S., Russia, China, and
others. We have the likely Antichrist poised to become President of the
world’s only superpower. Can anybody say, “THE STAGE IS NOW SET!!!”
Most
of you are probably ready to agree with me that the stage is now set.
Many of you will agree with all of the above evidence that Oct.29, 2008
thru Sept. 23, 2015, appears to be the perfect time frame for the Final
7 Years. But the vast majority of you reading this still have two HUGE
problems with this time frame, which we entered on Oct. 29, 2008. #1,
there has been no rapture yet and #2, there has been no confirming of a
peace treaty with Israel by the Antichrist yet.
Several times I
have preached a sermon entitled, “17 Scriptural Reasons for a
Pre-Tribulation Rapture”. I have always believed the Rapture would
precede the 7-year Tribulation. You may have noticed that in this
letter I have called this 7-year period of Oct. 29, 2008 thru Feast of
Atonement, Sept. 23, 2015, the Final 7 Years. After reading Sherry
Vance’s article of last month and similar articles over the years, I
have to admit that even though they probably do overlap, the
Tribulation, the 70th Week of Daniel, and the Time of Jacob’s Trouble
may not be the EXACT same time periods.
I have always believed
and been taught in Bible School that the Tribulation would be 7 years,
and the Great Tribulation would comprise the last 3 and one-half years
of the 7-year Tribulation. I still believe the Book of Revelation
teaches a 3 and one-half year Great Tribulation and that the 70th week
of Daniel is 2520 days, or 7 Jewish years, long. The 2300 days
mentioned in the book of Daniel has always been a mystery for Bible
prophecy scholars. This 2300 days could very well be the shortened
Tribulation period.
For those of us who believe in a
Pre-Tribulation Rapture, this 2300-day theory would still give us
several more months and several more options for the Rapture, if indeed
the Great Tribulation and the 70th Week of Daniel concludes in the fall
of 2015. Even though I will be writing follow-up letters with at least
2 possible dates for the Rapture during the next few months, one in
2008 and one in the first half of 2009, I am a firm believer that the
Rapture will be the same day as the Sudden Destruction, and, therefore,
may or may not be a day that we can calculate.
This takes us to
the other obstacle for us already entering the Final 7 Years, which is
the confirming of a 7-year peace treaty with Israel by the Antichrist.
I was taught in Bible School, and have always believed this would be
the event that actually began the 7-year Tribulation. The signing, or
confirming, would be Day 1 of the 70th Week of Daniel. It is still my
contention that Daniel 9:27 takes place (or should I say already took
place) on Day 1 of the 70th Week of Daniel.
I believe there are
3 things that we need for Day 1 of the 70th Week of Daniel to take
place. I used to believe the Rapture was the 4th piece of the puzzle. I
no longer believe that because I believe we have entered the 70th Week
of Daniel, as of Oct. 29, 2008, and no Rapture has taken place. I
believe that will take place at the time of the Sudden Destruction,
sometime in the next 7 months. The 3 things are 1. A potential
Antichrist on the scene. 2. We need to be at the beginning of a 7-year
Sabbatical cycle. 3. We need a confirming of the covenant with many by
the potential Antichrist.
1. Because of the tremendous amount of
letters about Barack Hussein Obama on Five Doves in the past few
months, I will spare you in this letter all of the many reasons why I
now believe this man will come to fulfill his role as the Antichrist in
the very near future. Perhaps in another letter I will highlight a few
of the reasons. More and more Christians every day are jumping on the
bandwagon that this man, who is probably a Muslim, will fulfill his
role as the Antichrist. Count me among them. So many Christians have
this pre-conceived idea about the Antichrist, that they are totally
closed to the idea that Obama could be the Antichrist.
I jumped
off the Antichrist-must-come-from-Europe bandwagon a long time ago.
Perry Stone, at a prophecy conference that I attended, was the first
that I knew of who presented a case for the Antichrist coming from the
other half of the Old Roman Empire, which comprises much of the Muslim
Kingdom. It is difficult to imagine someone from Europe, with very
little nuclear power, or someone from Jordan or Syria, actually
controlling the whole world. However, a President of the United States,
the world’s only superpower, with its vast nuclear power, who shows his
true Muslim colors at the start of the 3 and one-half year Great
Tribulation, that is a different story. Who is more likely to cut off
your head if you do not take the Mark of the Beast, a European leader
like Prince Charles, or a great leader in the Muslim world??? So, I
believe we definitely have a potential Antichrist on the world scene in
Obama.
2. October 29, 2009, seemed to be a perfect fit to be the
first day of the 70th week of Daniel. As more and more evidence begin
piling up for Obama being the Antichrist and more and more evidence
pointed toward the Final Seven Years comprising the time period of Oct.
29, 2008?Sept. 23, 2015 (Feast of Atonement), I became increasingly
puzzzled during the last several weeks as to how Obama could sign or
confirm a 7-year peace treaty with Israel on Oct. 29, 2008, if he was
not even going to be in power until January, 2009. I could not
reconcile this dilemma.
I waited anxiously with all of you as we
went through the Fall Feast Days of 2008, anticipating the Rapture.
Like Ted Porter, Jerry Grenough, and others on Five Doves, after the
Feast Days, I was still anticipating something REALLY BIG to happen on
Oct 29, 2008!! Would it be the Rapture? Would it be the crash of the
stock market? Would it be the unleashing of nuclear weapons? Would it
be the signing of a Middle East peace treaty, that possibly Obama would
confirm, or strengthen, after he was sworn in as President in January
of 2009? Something just had to happen on this day, I reasoned. It was
just such a perfect fit.
3. In 35 years of studying Bible
Prophecy, I had never seen this much evidence pointing to one
particular day to start the Final Seven Years. I went to bed on Oct.
29, 2008, thinking we could be off one day because of Jewish inclusive
reckoning, or because of moon sightings in 2015. Still perplexed the
next day, as I anxiously scanned the newspaper for some secret signing
of a Middle East peace agreement, I went to Five Doves looking for
insight on the previous day’s events, which again was Oct. 29, 2008. I
began scanning the titles of the letters that appeared in Five Doves on
Oct. 30. When I read the title of Lewis Brackett’s letter entitled,
“Obama’s Covenant with Many”, it hit me like a bolt of lightning. My
spirit was electrified, as I heard the words come to me out of nowhere,
“IT HAS HAPPENED!!!”
The first opportunity I had I got out my
Strong’s Concordance and did a word study on Daniel 9:27, which says,
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week” What we, as
Bible students have always been taught, is the Antichrist will sign, or
strengthen, a 7-year peace treaty with Israel and several other
countries. This is another of our pre-conceived ideas, that I now
believe has proven to be false. It is a theory that has been derived
from an overall study of Bible prophecy. There is certainly no
Scripture that says the Antichrist will sign, or confirm, a 7-year
peace treaty with Israel and several other nations.
[COLOR="rgb(139,
0, 0)"]When Jesus came the first time, very, very few recognized Jesus
as the Messiah. It was because of their pre-conceived ideas, from
misinterpreting Scriptures, that they got it wrong.[/color] Do not let
your pre-conceived ideas about the Antichrist and a 7-year peace treaty
with Israel, and a Rapture before the Final 7 Years begins, keep you
from seeing what has just taken place. ANTICHRIST HAS CONFIRMED THE
COVENANT AND THE FINAL 7 YEARS, OR THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL HAS BEGUN!!!
We can know it has begun because of what has taken place on Oct. 29,
2008!!!
Here is what my word study in the Hebrew has revealed to
me.. Of all the words in that verse, the word “covenant” was the
hardest to gain insight on. There was nothing about a peace agreement,
nothing about a treaty. In fact, in the Hebrew, there was nothing even
anything remotely suggesting that “the covenant” was any type of peace
agreement, or a treaty of any kind. Study it for yourself. Covenant
means to come together, to be of one mind, and promises. The Hebrew for
“week” does mean seven years. There is nothing in the Hebrew to suggest
the word “many” would involve a peace treaty with a handful of Middle
East countries, as we have been let to believe. Instead, the Hebrew
word “many”, indicates an abundant number, ten thousands, or millions,
a HUGE number, or a multitude. The Hebrew meaning of “confirm’ would
indicate to strengthen, to put more strength to, to prevail, to exceed,
to be great, to be mighty.
I do believe the “he” in Daniel 9:27,
does represent the Antichrist, who comes in Daniel 7:25 “to CHANGE
TIMES AND LAWS”. Based on the word study on Daniel 9:27, which says,
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week”, here is
what I believed happened on October 29, 2008:
Barack Hussein
Obama put himself on nationwide TV, on 7 major TV networks, and in
front of over 33 million people, confirmed, or strengthened, or
re-affirmed, or summarized his platform, his promises, to be of one
mind and to all come together, or his COVENANT with the people. He
strengthened his covenant (his promises). The intention of his
covenant, or his promises, was not only TO STRENGTHEN, but also to
PREVAIL on Election Day, to EXCEED during his presidency, TO BE GREAT,
and TO BE MIGHTY. The title of his message was, “A Closing Argument to
the Everyman”. I would say that Everyman would sure include a whole lot
of people. Besides the 33 million that watched his speech on Oct. 29 on
TV, millions more saw it later on news broadcasts and on the Internet.
Certainly, the “many” involved an abundant number, a huge number, a
multitude, yes, millions upon millions of people, not just a handful of
countries that we have come to expect the “many” to represent.
During
this speech, Obama said he was going to change the country and CHANGE
THE WORLD!!! His main platform has been to “PREPARE FOR CHANGE”. Daniel
7:25 says the Antichrist is coming to CHANGE times and laws. The
“confirming of the covenant with many for ONE WEEK”, simply was put in
Scripture so we could identify the 70TH WEEK of Daniel. In other words,
God is allowing us to identify the Antichrist and the first day of the
70th WEEK of Daniel at the same time. I BELIEVE GOD IS SAYING THAT WHEN
YOU SEE A PRIME CANDIDATE FOR THE ANTICHRIST CONFIRMING A COVENANT (OR
PROMISES) IN FRONT OF MANY (MILLIONS AND MILLIONS) ON THE VERY SAME DAY
THAT CALCULATES OUT TO BE THE VERY FIRST DAY OF THE FINAL 7 YEARS, KNOW
THAT YOU HAVE ENTERED THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL.
WHEN WE SEE AN
OUTSTANDING CANDIDATE TO BE THE ANTICHRIST STRENGTEN OR CONFIRM HIS
COVENANT OR PROMISES IN FRONT OF MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON THE
EXACT DAY THAT EVERYTHING POINTED TO BE THE FIRST DAY OF THE 70TH WEEK
OF DANIEL, WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO THINK???? That it was all just
coincidence??? A word study of Daniel 9:27 in the Hebrew tells us that
WHAT TOOK PLACE WITH OBAMA ON 0CT. 29, 2008, WAS, INDEED THE
FULFILLMENT OF DANIEL 9:27.
There is nothing at all in the
Hebrew language that would even remotely suggest that this verse was
talking about a peace treaty with Israel and a handful of other
nations. Apparently, it really has nothing to do with a 7-year peace
treaty with Israel. That is not to say that a peace treaty or agreement
with Israel is not coming in the near future, but based on all the
evidence in this letter, it will not be a fulfillment of Daniel 9:27.
I
strongly encourage you not to reject the message of this letter because
of pre-conceived ideas of how end-times prophecy must play itself out.
Please re-read this letter when you have time and remember to pray
first that the Lord would show you if the message in this letter is
true or whether it is false. Nobody, especially me, wants to be a part
of deceiving anybody. I pray that you will let this letter change your
life. Let it give you a new sense of urgency like you have never had
before, to accomplish what the Lord wants you to do in these VERY, VERY
LAST DAYS that we are now living in. That is my prayer for myself and
for all of you.
I leave you with my favorite verses, Luke
21:34-36, “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting (partying), and drunkenness, and CARES OF
THIS LIFE, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare
(trap) shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole
earth.. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye be accounted
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand
before the Son of man (Jesus).”