Gerry Almond (5
March 2012)
"Can you see the
lateness of the hour?"
To All
Doves:
There remains ONLY 37 days until the abomination that makes
delolate will make his declaration to be authoritative “as God”.
Why do I believe this enough to make such a bold statement?
Read on:
I have posted at least 4 times and possibly 6 times the corollary
between Noah’s days and the days of modern Israel. Here it
is again, for refreshing and to justify the statement that only 37
days remain during which time, at some time, the rapture of the
believers that are ready will, I believe, occur. Ron Reese
and others think a good day to watch is March 8/9, just 7 days
after the most severe tornadic outbreak in weather history for the
month of March in the U. S.
SOME NECESSARY BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Matthew is the gospel to the JEWS, presenting Jesus to them as
THEIR KING. It is the only gospel presented SOLELY to them
for their understanding of the end of days. However, it can
be used by US for our instruction IN the end of days as well.
First of all, the “end of days” is not the end of the world.
It is properly the end of the AGE. The Greek word used in
the King James Bible is aion, translated “world” but means
“age”. What age? The Age of Grace, of course.
Jesus told the early Jews who were His followers in Matthew 28:20,
“Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world (gr. Aion
= age)”. The Age of Grace is ending with the rapture of the
Church after which, the Law will take over again and the Holy
Spirit will “fall” upon whomever He pleases, when He pleases, but
will not be universally present as He is today. Thus,
mankind will only be able to respond to the Holy Spirit at He
deals individually one by one with them at His pleasure.
This was true during King David’s time, when he pleaded with God
to “take not thy Holy Spirit from me”. (Psalm 51:11).
ANTICIPATION OF A RAPTURE EVENT
We, who are ready, are greatly anticipating the rapture event, of
course. It is uppermost in our minds and is met with
scoffing and derision by those with whom we share our view of the
blessed hope. This scoffing is here for at least the second
time on a massive scale, the first being when, on September 12,
1988, the rapture did not occur per Edgar Whisenant, the author of
“88 Reasons Why the Rapture will be in 1988”. His book woke
up the whole Christian world to the imminence of our
rapture. But, of course, people scoffed their heads off when
it did not occur as predicted, and are doing it again because of
Harold Camping’s failed prediction of May 21, 2011 and later
October 21, 2011. Even so, in both cases, God has used it to
AWAKEN folks to the fact that there WILL BE the rapture of His
Bride. So, don’t give up…He is coming, and very soon.
AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH
Matthew 24 tells the Jewish people (and us) that “as it was in the
days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the
Son of Man”. We believe the coming is for His Bride, they of
course do not. In Noah’s days the earth was in a 360 days
per year rotation cycle of a perfect circle around the sun.
Going back to Genesis 6:3, we find 120 years was passed
judgmentally on mankind. God gave instructions to Noah to
build an ark “for the saving of his household”. Therefore,
120 years times 360 days per year equals 43,200 days total.
I don’t know how many days Noah took to actually construct the
ship, but he had to do it within 43,200 days.
THE SIGN OF NOAH
The sign of Noah in terms of 120 years time can be laid over the
modern times of Israel as it now exists in the land of their
forefathers. Reborn physically May 14, 1948, Israel has been
there for 63 years and a few days at this writing. But
Israel’s (re)birth did not begin in 1948. It actually
started on August 31, 1897, the LAST day of the FIRST Zionist
Congress, the first gathering since 70 A. D., at Basel,
Switzerland, when a document was signed with the British
government allowing Jews the right to return to Palestine, then
under rule of the Ottoman Empire. A few Arab nomads roamed
the land, but it was mostly a useless piece of real estate.
In exchange for British permission and future support, Theodor
Herzel, the father of modern Jewry and head of the Zionist
movement agreed to help the British in their war with the
Ottomans. This agreement was later, in 1922, called the
Balfour Declaration and was incorporated into the League of
Nations solution after WW2. This forerunner of the United Nations
which was to come later in 1945, was backed by both Europe and
America. Britain had won their war over the Ottomans in WW1
with the aid of Jewry. Thus on November 2, 1917, after the
Ottoman Empire (Turkey) was vanquished, it can be said that
Palestine was now open for the hardy Jewish souls so inclined to
go there and like early American explorers, a number did.
Modern Israel, not yet named, began receiving returnees to what
would, in 1948 be called Israel. (Incidentally, and just as
a side note, American author Samuel Clements, a. k. a. Mark Twain,
after a visit to Palestine about that time, noted that it was a
land so desolate, it was not fit to support even the mosquitoes).
Immediately after WW1, the first British event was the entrance
into the Holy Land by British General Edmund Allenby on December
9, 1917. He even proceeded to Jerusalem arriving there
December 11, 1917.
As already mentioned, the next major event chronologically,
occurred in 1922, when the League of Nations gave the British
Empire OVERSIGHT AND CONTROL of Palestine through the Balfour
Declaration. This opened the land further and Jews began to
“go home” in greater numbers. They, of course, found some
Jews already there and a desolate land, but a few hardy souls
stuck it out and began to make the land blossom, whereas the
nomadic Arabs did not care at all about it. These settlers
purchased the land from the Arabs. They did not simply squat
on it. They owned it.
ENTER THE NAZIS
The next major event was the awful WW 2, which began in 1938 when
Nazi Germany began to persecute the Jews, taking them over and
treating them as chattel. A short time later, the Nazi tanks
rolled over Austria, Chechoslavakia, and Poland. WW 2 was on
as a hot war and in December, 1941, the United States finally
entered it on behalf of Britain and France, after being attacked
in an undeclared surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the
Empire of Japan. About this same time, the Nazis came
up with the “final solution” for the world Jews. It was mass
murder of not only them, but weak, mentally challenged, and
crippled. The aim was to create a “master race” of Aryian
people, that is all white. After this great war, American
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, later
to be President of the U. S., discovered in 1945, the furnaces of
Auschwitsh, Treblinka, Dachau, Ravensbruck, etc. wherein 6,000,000
Jews and others had been burned to ashes in what was called the
“final solution” to the Jewish problem. As a result of this
absolute HORROR, the newly formed United Nations, primarily at the
insistence of the United States and England, gave birth IN ONE
DAY, to the modern state (nation) of Israel. As already
said, the date of birth was May 14, 1948.
BUT THEN GOD MOVED AGAIN
The next major event was the six days war of June 1967 during
which Israel liberated the HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM. It became
a Jewish city again after many centuries. Because of their
proclamation that Jerusalem would FOREVER be the capital of the
Jewish nation, it immediately became a “cup of trembling” to all
the world, and has been ever since. The Arab nations have
now surrounded the holy city and are threatening extinction of
God’s covenant people, the Jews.
THEN GOD MOVED AGAIN
The next major event was the 1973 Yom Kippur war which took the
Golan Hts away from the Syrians, and Israel annexed the Golan in
order to stop Syrian shelling of northern Israel from those
heights. This secured the Sea of Galilee and the cities
around it and separated Lebanon from Israel on a defense
front. It also took away Syria’s advantage in being able to
shell Israeli towns and cities in the north of Israel.
PEACE, PEACE WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE
Since then, there have several attempts at peace in the middle
east. But Islam is going to have none of that. They
are determined to drive Israel into the Mediterranean Sea.
Their goal, finally, is the total destruction of Israel, which
would then be the completion of Nazi Germany’s “final solution”.
TODAY
The next major event was the collapse of the world’s economic
systems. Massive debt caused the system to “fold up” when
the real estate bubble burst world-wide. The date was
September 28, 2008. This, I believe, is the direct
fulfillment of James chapter 5. “Go to, ye rich men, weep
and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you”.
It also said “ye have heaped treasures together for the LAST
DAYS.” It is a last days prophecy by the Apostle
James nearly 2,000 years ago.
The next major event of today's events was the election of Barack
Hussein Obama as President of the great United State, Israel’s
ONLY ally. The election was only 35 days after the big
economic bust. This man has, as of now, rejected the U. S.
support of Israel and has turned her over for destruction by her
enemies. He has driven the U. S. into bankruptcy in his effort to
destroy capitalism and make the U. S. socialist. The U. S.
Congress does not agree with President Obama yet, but prophecy
makes it clear that Israel will be abandoned by all. And as
of now, she has.
BUT GOD
Ah, that great phrase, “But God”. God will then fight
for Israel, as He did in the days of battle of old. Michael,
the archangel, will fight for Israel against her enemies.
That’s Bible and it will be fulfilled very soon.
BACK TO THE SIGN OF NOAH
Remember that we are counting 43,200 days total from the count of
Noah's day.
Seattle, WA. Pastor Mark Biltz and others have identified tetrads
of eclipses that bracketed the time October 29/30, 2008 through
September 23/24, 2015 as a 2,520 day period which is equal to the
time set forth by Daniel’s prophecy, backed by John’s Book of the
Revelation of Jesus Christ. These tetrads all occurred or
will occur on Jewish Sacred Feast Days. The middle point of
that time period is April 11/12, 2012, the date on which
antichrist will be proclaiming himself to be “God”, which is the
ultimate blasphemy. This count of days makes the Israeli
experience verify this count just like this:
8/31/1897……………+………….43, 125 days………………=…………9/23/2015.
1st Jewish Congress in 1,827 years
10/29/30/2008
4/11/12/2012
The
midpoint-----------------------------!---------------------------------------9/23/24/2015
1,260
days
1,260 days
This is exactly 75 fewer days than the days used by Noah in
building the ark. So, to find the difference, we turn to
Daniel chapter 12. In this chapter, Daniel is being told by
God’s messenger the archangel Michael, to “shut up the book and
seal it to the time of the end. Many will run to and fro and
knowledge will be increased”. Daniel was not fully satisfied
with this instruction and inquired further of the archangel.
He was informed that there would be 75 days MORE added to the end
point until the first day of the great kingdom age of 360,000 days
(360 days x 1,000 years = 360,000 days). After the Kingdom
Age, then would be eternity. Add the 75 days and this is the
time line.
8/31/1897…………43,175 days plus 75 days…………………….43,200 days
In Noah’s time line it was:
Day 1………………………….43,200 days………………… Rains and great Flood.
THIS CANNOT BE COINCIDENTAL AND THUS, SINCE GOD USES ISRAEL AS HIS
TIME CLOCK TO US, WE CAN BE SURE THAT THERE IS, AS OF TODAY,
11/18/11 ONLY 37 DAYS REMAINING UNTIL THE LAST DAY BEFORE WHAT THE
BIBLE CALLS THE GREAT TRIBULATION!
MY FOOTNOTE
I have always believed in the pre-tribulation rapture position and
I still do. I think that the rapture will be any day now and
will NOT go up to 4/11/2012 at all. That makes it
pre-tribulation BUT NOT pre-70th week. We are over 3 years
into the first ½ of the 70th week of Daniel.
ALL GLORY TO YAH, HIS SON YESHUA, AND TO THE HOLY GHOST!
YBIC
Gerry Almond