It is no secret that God has secrets. Thank God that He shares His secrets with His friends, "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." (John 15:15)
His secrets are with the righteous and them that fear Him, "For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous." (Proverbs 3:32); "The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant." (Psalms 25:14)
God hides things and He does so gloriously, "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter." (Proverbs 25:2)
It is our honour, as kings and priests ("And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father" Rev 1:6), to search out these secrets concealed gloriously by our God who is the Numberer of Secrets. As His friends and those who fear Him, surely we are interested to find out some of His secrets especially those pertaining to our gathering unto Him and the timing of His return.
The LORD has shared with me a secret verse recently. This secret verse opens up a whole new approach to searching His secrets hidden in the Bible. I trust that you will find it interesting and even exciting.
A Secret Verse
The secret verse God shared with me is Proverbs 2:3, "Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;" This verse is hardly the kind of prophetic scripture one expects; it contains zero hint on our much-awaited rapture.
Well, not so fast. We need to dig a little deeper into the verse to find the hidden gems.
The Hebrew gematria of Proverbs 2:3 is 2368. This number is the Greek gematria of JESUS CHRIST !!!
Proverbs 2:3 is the sixth and last Hebrew scripture with 2368 gematria value in the Old Testament. Surely this is a very special verse to deserve having the LORD's signature stamped on it.
I am indebted to Wade Balzer, the owner of this wonderful website, https://www.newjerusalem.org, for bringing out into the open one of God's hidden secrets in His Holy Word. This secret transforms an "ordinary" wisdom scripture into an exciting prophetic verse that is instantly relevant to our watching.
On the New Jerusalem website, if you enter a number into its search box, the site returns several lists of search results that include Strong's numbers, verse positions, gematria values, and most intriguingly the BCV numbers -- bible-chapter-verse numbers.
The BCV number for the secret verse, Proverbs 2:3, is 2023 !!!!!!
Proverbs is the 20th book of the Bible; combine the book number with the chapter and verse numbers, the BCV number for Proverbs 2:3 is 2023, the current year we are in.
I would not have stumbled upon this secret verse had it not for the BCV number feature. On Wade's website, I was actually searching for scriptures with 2368, the Greek gematria of "Jesus Christ". With the inclusion of the BCV numbers listed next to the verses in the search results, the number 2023 stood out as I scanned through the list of 6 Hebrew scriptures with gematria value 2368. I decided to take a deep dive into Proverbs 2:3. The more I dug into the secret verse, the more intrigued I became.
A shout-out to Wade for including this feature on his unique and wonderful website on Biblical numbers.
There you have it -- the secret of Jesus Christ (2368) for this current year (2023) hidden in Proverbs 2:3, the secret verse that the LORD has shared with me.
What is the Secret Message?
Okay Lord, you got my attention. You hid a secret in a wisdom verse that points to 2023. What are you trying to tell me about this year? What is going to happen in year 2023?
The author of the Book of Proverbs exhorts us with these words, "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her." (Proverbs 3:13-15)
Wisdom is more precious than silver, fine gold and rubies. She is incomparable to anything you set your heart's desires on.
What is the secret message of Proverbs 2:3, a verse about wisdom in a book about wisdom?
"Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;"
A Gem of a Find
I did not expect to find the Antichrist connection in this secret verse, but find I did. Readers should know who I think he is. I make no apologies for naming him over and over again as the Antichrist. I only share what the LORD has shown me. It's perfectly fine if you do not see it the same way as I do. It gives me no pleasure to see Obama rise but I really want to get off this planet and be with the LORD. The reason I keep finding him in my search for the Rapture and its timing is because they are intimately linked.
The first shocking thing I found is the verse position of Proverbs 2:3, counting from the end of the Bible; it is verse 14,666 !!!!!!
The second shocking thing I found is the chapter position of Proverbs 2:3, counting from the start of the Bible; it is chapter 630.
The difference between 793 and 163 is 630; both numbers are English gematrias (standard and ordinal) of Barack Hussein Obama !!!!!!
[Aside: The number 793 is the standard English gematria of Barack Hussein Obama.
A=1, B=2, ... , I=9, J=10, K=20, ... , R=90, S=100, T=200, ..., Z=800The number 163 is the ordinal English gematria of Barack Hussein Obama.
BARACK = 2+1+90+1+3+20 = 117
HUSSEIN = 8+300+100+100+5+9+50 = 572
OBAMA = 60+2+1+40+1 = 104
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA = 117 + 572 + 104 = 793
A=1, B=2, C=3, ..., X=24, Y=25, Z=26So it appears that the secret message hidden in Proverb 2:3 is the rise of Obama, the 666 beast, in the year 2023 !!!!!!
BARACK = 2+1+18+1+3+11 = 36
HUSSEIN = 8+21+19+19+5+9+14 = 95
OBAMA = 15+2+1+13+1 = 32
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA = 36 + 95 + 32 = 163 ]
But where is the Rapture?
A Hidden Rapture Verse
Perhaps some readers may feel a bit uncomfortable with all the numbering and counting done on a verse that has nothing to do with the Rapture it seems on the surface. I can understand that. In fact, I too, am a little disconcerted at first. But as I dig deeper, I am astounded by what I found, rapture-wise.
Our God's wisdom and intelligence is without limits. He created all things including the languages, symbols, and numbers. We can fully expect Him to be able to code not just in numbers but also in words if He so chooses. In fact, He has done that here with Proverbs 2:3, the accidental verse that could have been easily missed if not for the fact that it is stamped with the signature of Jesus Christ (2368).
WISDOM is personified in Proverbs chapter 8. Many Bible students believe that the Holy Spirit is speaking in the first person in Proverbs 8, verses 4 to 36; for example, in verse 34, "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors."
When I compared the opening verse of Proverbs chapter 8 with the secret verse, Proverbs 2:3, I had an epiphany moment!
Proverbs 8:1 (NKJV) "Does not wisdom cry outH7121, And understanding lift upH5414 her voice?"Notice how similar the two scriptures are -- the cry for wisdom/discernment and the lifting up of voice for understanding.
Proverbs 2:3 (NKJV) "Yes, if you cry outH7121 for discernment, And lift upH5414 your voice for understanding,"
The Spirit and the bride are in view here!
The bride (Proverbs 2:3) is exhorted by the Spirit (Proverbs 8:1) to cry out for wisdom and understanding; both cry out in unison not unlike the heartfelt cry of the Spirit and the bride in Revelation 22:17, "Come, Lord Jesus" !!!
Proverbs 2:3 is a hidden rapture verse !
Another Hidden Rapture Verse?
The secret message hidden in Proverbs 2:3 is unbelievable. Embolden by this find, I began to search for another secret rapture verse. I wanted to see if a similar secret verse can be found in the New Testament. The discovery came fast and furious and totally blew me away.
The NT secret rapture verse is James 2:3. The book of James is the 20th book of the New Testament; hence, the BCV number is also 2023.
James 2:3, "And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:"Enigmatically, the Book of James is the New Testament pocket book of wisdom !!!
Once again, on the surface, James 2:3 does not appear to be a rapture verse. Just like before, we will consider both Biblical numbers and words to see if we can unearth some hidden treasures.
James chapter 2 is chapter 1148 counting from the start of the Bible. This is 518 chapters after Proverbs chapter 2, which is chapter 630 (1148 - 630 = 518). But 518 is the Greek gematria of HARPAZO (ἁρπαγησόμεθα; in-text word of Strong's G726 in 1 Thess 4:17), the snatching away of saints at the Rapture !!!!!!
This is corroborated by the first secret verse, Proverbs 2:3; its second Hebrew word is Strong's 518 (im; translated as "if") !!!!!!
Thus, the HARPAZO (518) rapture is hidden in both secret rapture verses, Proverbs 2:3 and James 2:3.
O death, where is thy sting?
The Rapture is going to be the most spectacular event in human history when millions of believers vanish into thin air in a death-defying feat of biblical proportions.
The defeat of death is surprisingly coded in James 2:3 !!!
In just three words, "under my footstool", the KJV clues us into the greatest disappearing act of all time a.k.a. the Rapture.
The textual proof is found in Paul's 'twinkling-of-an-eye' rapture recorded in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Prior to dropping the mystery bombshell that not all shall die (i.e. cheat death) in verse 51, Paul described at length the resurrection and its opposite, death, in the preceding verses. In verses 25-26 he wrote, "For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
"under his feet" is literally "footstool" in Greek. Strong's 5286 (hupopodion; a footstool), is a compound of "hupo" and "pous", literally means "under the feet"; its constituent words, "hupo" (Strong's G5259; under) and "pous" (Strong's G4228; a foot), are used by Paul as a combo to describe the placing of all enemies, including the last enemy, death, under the feet of the Lord Jesus.
1 Cor 15:25-26 "For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies underG5259 his feetG4228. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
The Holy Spirit embedded a code in James 2:3 that intimates the victory over death that clearly will be partially fulfilled at the Rapture in a one-off mass disappearance that will never be repeated (death itself will eventually die for good and be finally thrown into the lake of fire 1,000 years later; Rev 20:14).
For sure, James 2:3 is another hidden rapture verse.
In Plain Sight
The next hidden gem in James 2:3 is an elephant in the room. The English word gay only appears once in the KJV in this very scripture, "weareth the gay clothing". We are living in the days of Lot. With the current trend of increasing worldwide LGBT acceptance (now even the World Bank gets into the act; see link), it is no longer politically correct to judge such matters. You don't judge a person for liking coffee and not tea; it's only a preference. So goes the perverse reasoning, conveniently relegating moral issues to simply liking or not. It doesn't help that Pope Francis chimed in the LGBT conversation with his famous remark, "who am I to judge".
We must fear God more than we fear man. Listen to God's words in Romans 1:26-27 and contrast that to what the Pope said, "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
The word gay is Strong's G2986, lampros, for "bright". The word is translated "goodly" as an adjective for apparel in the KJV just one verse before James 2:3, basically referring to the same person that "weareth the gay clothing". Other translations from different Bible versions include "fine" (most frequently translated), "bright", "radiant", "fancy", and "splendid". Besides the KJV, two other Bible versions that translated lampros as "gay" are: Webster's Bible Translation and Young's Literal Translation.
James 2:3 conceals a code in plain sight that clearly exhibit the Sodom-and-Gomorrah end-time sign of our day in 2023. Indeed, the enemy has made such inroads into the churches that the recent decision made by the Church of England in Feb 2023, to offer blessings to same-sex couples (not marriage yet), barely caused a stir. This is hardly surprising since for years, many churches, both Protestant and Catholic, have openly accepted ordained homosexual ministers and priests into their ministry (see link).
According to 2 Thess 2:3, the falling away or apostasy, is a sure sign that the Rapture is close (notice in this verse 2023 is hidden in the book and verse numbers of 2 Thess 2:3!).
Bright Clothing
The word lampros, translated in the KJV as "gay" in James 2:3, appears a total of 9 times in the New Testament. It is used in a negative sense in James 2:2, 2:3 (goodly and gay clothing) and Rev 18:14 (luxurious and splendid goods of Mystery Babylon).
A sharp contrast is observed in the remaining six occurrences of lampros (G2986); they refer to the "garb" worn by Jesus (x2), angels (x2) and the Spirit (as manifestation; x1) and the bride (x1) !!!!!!
Wow !!!
Just meditating on the "garb" worn by the Spirit and the bride alone is such a comforting thought; it confirms the hidden rapture in James 2:3 -- 1) the Spirit: "And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clearG2986 as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." (Rev 22:1); and 2) the bride: "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and whiteG2986: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." (Rev 19:8)
The word lampros describes the wedding dress of the bride, clean and whiteG2986 !!!
The Word of God is truly a double-edged sword. Paul wrote, "To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life." (NKJV 2 Cor 2:16a) The same word lampros may be applied to the harlot or the bride.
It is interesting that the LGBT movement adopted a SIX-color pride flag (also known as the rainbow flag) in 1978 when the SIXTH color, indigo, was dropped from the rainbow spectrum. Lest we forget, man was created on the SIXTH day. Thus, a subliminal SIX-SIX-SIX code is displayed openly whenever the pride flag is waved during Pride parade or whenever pride apparel is flaunted in public.
It is also interesting that when the seven colors of the rainbow are combined as lights (“additive mixing”), they turn into a whiteG2986 light. The church is closely associated with the number seven. Jesus the Bridegroom confirms that the seven lampstands of Revelation are the seven churches (Rev 1:20). The wedding dress of the bride is clean and whiteG2986 !!!
It is fairly obvious why there are only six colors in a pride flag; it used to be eight-color prior to the change.
Beam Me Up, Lord!
The two Biblical words used in James 2:3, lampros (bright or gay) and hupopodion (footstool), led to scriptures that describe the wedding dress of the bride of Christ (Rev 19:8) in the context of the marriage of the Lamb and victory over death (1 Cor 15:26) in the context of resurrection and the twinkling-of-an-eye change to incorruptible resurrection body. Both Biblical words clearly point to the Rapture, hopefully in 2023.
Proverbs 2:3, together with its almost identical scripture, Proverbs 8:1, appear to point to the Spirit and the bride; the crying after knowledge and lifting up of voices for understanding and wisdom appear to conceal their longing for Jesus to "come" (Rev 22:17).
Proverbs 2:3 hides another rapture code in the KJV; I reserve this last because it is the most exciting!
A search in the KJV for the English word, "liftest", returns four verses. The clustering of these four verses is interesting (see word distribution chart below): 1) The first verse, Job 30:22, is found in chapter 466 of the Bible, just one chapter after the middle chapter of the Old Testament, chapter 465; and 2) The last verse, Proverbs 2:3, is found in the middle book of the Old Testament, the Book of Proverbs.
The most exciting part about these secret verses is essentially the beam-me-up scriptures:
Job 30:22 "Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance."The first two scriptures have clear reference to the Rapture: "Thou liftest me up to the wind;" (Job 30:22) and "thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:" (Psa 9:13). In these two verses, via Job and the Psalmist, the saints appear to be asking God to beam them up from hell on earth to the wind in the clouds, that is, the Rapture !!!
Psa 9:13 "Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:"
Psa 18:48 "He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man."
Prov 2:3 "Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;"
The first scripture, Job 30:22, is most intriguing. The context is Job's intense suffering and his desperation for deliverance. (I believe a lot of us are going through our own Job experience in this late hour; how we wish the Rapture was yesterday.) The next verse appears to be pointing to the dead in Christ and we that are alive at the Rapture, "For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living." (Job 30:23) Job knew he would die like all men; but he also knew he would live in the land of the living after his death.
But the most intriguing part of Job 30:22 is the phrase "dissolvest my substance". It is a strange phrase to say the least. Scientifically, one wonders, how is the substance of a person dissolved? I would like to suggest the substance of a person is dissolved during the changing of our vile body to be fashioned like unto his glorious body (Phil 3:21) at the Rapture !!!
Just as the old heaven and old earth must first melt away before the new heaven and new earth is created, this old and vile body of ours must first be dissolved before it is changed into the new glorious body. The old shall pass away; behold, the new shall come.
The English word, "dissolved", appears 9 times in the KJV; its three occurrences in the New Testament show convincingly that dissolving the body/substance is step one in getting a new body in return. Of course, this only applies to the redeemed.
2 Cor 5:1 "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."In the first scripture above, the earthly house/tabernacle refers to our body that will be dissolved at the resurrection/rapture. A few verses later in verse 8, Paul famously penned these words, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." This is most emphatically the Rapture!
2 Pet 3:10-12 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?"
The verses in 2 Peter chapter 3 describe the first step before God makes all things new. The old cosmos with its billions upon billions of galaxies must first be dissolved before the new heaven and new earth can birth forth. The cross reference of 2 Pet 3:10 is Isa 34:4, "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree."
The Rapture event prefigures Creation 2.0 on a grand scale when millions of dead and living saints will receive their makeover bodies, a massive sign that foreshadows the renewal/regeneration/restoration of all things. Perhaps this is why Peter likens the day of the Lord to a thief in the night (read "the Rapture") when the 7th Millennial Day will commence God's final redemptive acts. A day is to God a thousand years. The Rapture is the trigger event that will usher in the day of the Lord.
Sooner Than We Think, I Hope!
I mentioned this last hidden code is the most exciting. The code consists of four secret rapture verses that contain the English word, liftest, in the KJV: Job 30:22, Psa 9:13, Psa 18:48 and Prov 2:3.
What started this post was the observation that the BCV number for Prov 2:3, the original secret rapture verse, is 2023; we were led to it by the Hebrew gematria of this verse, 2368 (Jesus Christ in Greek gematria).
What I am about to share is surreal. I sure hope it is real. Add the CV (chapter-verse) numbers of the first three scriptures (Job 30:22, Psa 9:13, Psa 18:48) that contain the beam-me-up phrase, "liftest me up", 3022+913+1848 = 5783, the current Hebrew year for 2023 !!!!!!
But that is not all.
Notice the CV of the first verse, when read from right to left, 2203, looks like 2023; its verse position, is 2023 + 834 away from the verse position of the last verse, Prov 2:3 !!!!!!
v16437 (Prov 2:3) - v13580 (Job 30:22) = 2023 + 834
2023, when measured using the Bible ruler, is 834 !!!!!! (see my post)
The 29th time JESUS is mentioned in the New Testament is Matt 8:34 when he was asked to DEPART !!! 29 is the number for departure. Will we depart this year 2023/834 ?
In this code, we have multiple confirmations for the Gregorian year 2023 and one huge double witness to the Hebrew year 5783.
I sure hope this is it, doves.
How much longer, Lord?
Come, Lord Jesus!
John
Postscript
These postscript insights are added here partly because they are fresh from the oven and partly because they do not fall under the 'secret verses' category. They are posted here because of their connections to the Greek gematria of JESUS CHRIST, 2368.
The numbers I will be sharing are taken from the Genesis Pyramid (see this post for full details). Below are the only two combinations of numbers that add to 2368 out of the 40,515 possible combinations of numbers from 4 x 2701 colored stones.
2368 (Jesus Christ) = 1585 (black) + 783 (blue)
2368 (Jesus Christ) = 1647 (black) + 721 (green)
The two numbers highlighted in blue above, 783 and 721, just happen to correspond to the current Hebrew year 783 (Gregorian 2023) and Hebrew year 721 (Gregorian 1961).
I previously surmised that Jesus Christ (2368) hid these two Hebrew years in the Genesis Pyramid to point to the birth year of Obama, 1961, and his rising again in 2023.
My hunch was not baseless after all. It turns out if you consider their mirror numbers, 127 (mirror of 721) and 387 (mirror of 783), startling confirmations show up unexpectedly.
The first mirror number, 127, when added to 666, is 793, the English gematria of Barack Hussein Obama !!!!!!
God's Holy Word confirms this code with the only scripture with gematria value 666, "And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel." (Num 10:20) How coincidental Numbers chapter 10 is chapter 127 !!!
Now take a look at the second mirror number, 387. Add 793 to it the sum is 1180, the chapter number of Revelation chapter 13, the most notorious chapter in the whole Bible that ends with the 666 number of the beast in verse 18 (6+6+6).
A M A Z I N G !!!!!!
To show you more clearly, see the flow of numbers below.
ch127 (mirror 721) + 666 => 793 (Obama) + 387 (mirror 783) => ch1180 (666)
Obama is a strange attractor of 666.