I'm going to ramble a bit on several subjects.  Maybe it will give some insight on where I come from and what part I believe God has allowed me to have.
 
First I wish to say thank you to some doves and to John Tng.  His labor, patience and judgement have been steady for a number of years.  Thanks for posting my letters and correcting the occasional mistakes.  To those (Mark, Charles, Loni etc) who have posted remarks of appreciation for these letters of late, I appreciate your taking time to say thanks.  I don't seek the praise of men, but it really helps to know that what you write is being received in the way you hope.  I've written in years past about some of this and a few could see it.  I tend to think it has to do with God's timing.  When He is ready for folks to see these little plainly hidden revelations, then He is the one who opens the eyes.
 
To Loni from Israel, a special thanks and God bless.  While it may seem that the leaders of my nation are abandoning our brothers in Israel (Ben-Judah), there are many Christians who pray for your nation daily.  Unfortunately, you have troubles with your leaders as well.  I do not believe we can stem the tide of events that are unfolding.  We are locked now into God's final timetable.  God has put into place the leaders that will bring sin to fulfillment.  While the future looks bleak for your nation, Ephraim who thinks these troubles will not overtake her, is in for a rude awakening.  God has at least promised to bring your nation through the trial.  Ephraim will end in sudden and utter destruction.  Hang tight with Jesus and may you be part of the bride around the throne before the seals begin to break.
 
First and foremost, to God be all the glory and honor and dominion.  All that we do, if it is for our own glory we have received our reward.  But, for His glory we should do all things.  He created us and all that we enjoy in the creation.  He gave us His word and He gave us His Son.   It is by His power and might that all the events He prophesied were made to come true.  It is by the Holy Spirit that the truths in His word are revealed to us.  God does not give all the revelations of His word to any one individual.  He gives to one a little and to another a little, so that together, over time, we might add precept upon precept.  I might add that many truths lie hidden in plain sight until God decides to reveal them to us at His proper time.
 
Some have asked who I am.  I suppose they/you have a right to know.  I am just a common fellow.  Though I have a college degree and have attended quite a few other worldly indoctrination courses, my civilian and military education was not in the seminary.  My parents saw to it that I attended Sunday school and church regularly.  Was raised as a Southern Baptist.   As well, the Royal Ambassadors (a Christian youth program) played a big part in my relationship with Christ.  I accepted Christ when I was a child and during my early years had a close relationship with God.  When I asked I almost always received.  I knew and accepted that Mat 28:19-20 should be a part of my life.
 
Then, I grew older and making my place in the world overtook the Great Commission.  I went off to college and then into the army.  I still went to church, but occasionally not regularly.  I got married and had 4 kids.  We began to go to church more regularly, but I was not all that involved in church programs.  Between my civilian job with the Army Reserve and the Reserve weekends, I was pretty busy.  I was in one of those hybrid (active - reserve) units with an active duty mission.  I was also heavily involved in youth sports.  Over the years, I have attended and enjoyed religious services in addition to the Baptists with nearly every Protestant group, particularly the Methodist, Pentecostal and the Seventh Day Adventist.  Each seems to have some strong points and as well a few weaknesses.
 
But, I always had a peculiar interest in prophecy.  I read a lot of books, even took a long look into the conspiracies (note that I did not say theories).  As well, I explored educationally the operations of occult organizations and info about the demonic.  Note that I have never belonged to any such organization nor have never sought any demonic power.  I was just seeking to understand what was happening in this world.  Always, I compared scripture to what I was seeing and the information presented.  This study has given me considerable spiritual insight into our times.  To all who would also seek to do this, make sure you are grounded in God's word.  You and I are to have no part with them.
 
Since this web site is about the coming of our Lord Jesus, it is then the subject of God's prophecies.  One of the books which first got me going down this road was by an author I no longer remember.  He wrote a book maybe late 60's or early 70's subject "#? reasons why the Lord should return by 1988".  I do not remember the number, something like 144 or so.  I saw him on TV a few years back and it was like he was ashamed because the things he predicted did not happen.  When 1988 came and went I am sure he took his share of mocking.  Right after I read the book, I kept loaning it until it did not return.  I can't quote anything from it, but it had a lot of Biblical truths in it.  God had to have shown him much of it.  The facts are we all look through a glass darkly.  As we go through time, hindsight becomes clear and foresight slowly gets better.  The man has nothing to be ashamed of.   At the time he wrote the book, his prophetic vision was far ahead of the rest of us.  He turned on the light so that others who followed could take it a little farther.
 
Another book I read, maybe in the late 70's or early 80's was America and Britain in Prophecy by Herbert Armstrong.  He was a member and leader of the Seventh Day Adventists.  Back in that day, they were the only church that I am aware that was interested in prophecy.  I went to several studies.  Again, I loaned my book and it found some new home.  I couldn't begin to quote any passages, but I was amazed how much the man was saying seemed to have truth in the Bible.  Folks, I do not believe things I read unless I can find it in scripture.  It set me on a path to search out the truth in God's word.  Actually, I now believe that a lack of seminary training has aided me in understanding prophecy.  I am not hindered by any theological church doctrines.  I am convinced that Satan long ago jumped right in the middle of all the various seminaries and did all he could to distort truths in the Bible, particularly prophecy.  Satan understands the role of leadership and it is on leaders where he spends his greatest efforts.  Beware his # 1 tool, pride.
 
Since some of what I have written hinges on the understanding that Ephraim is the USA, I want to add that I know very little of British Israelism?  I am not really sure what that entails.  I haven't had or read the book in over 20 years and I don't remember anything like that in the book.  I do stand by the things I have written because I can plainly see it in scripture and as well it fits the nature of the God that has been revealed in His word.  I see what is portrayed, that is there are two major divisions in God's Hebrew peoples.  One is Judah into which Jesus Christ was born.  They provided us God's word, the apostles and some of the earliest Christians.  I see the so called lost tribes of Israel led by Ephraim and Manasseh who have been Joseph's blessing to the bounding hills of the gentiles.  They over the last few hundred years have been primarily responsible for taking Christianity to the world and hence the multi-colored coat of Joseph.  I would never say they replaced Judah (nation-state we call Israel).  The sceptre was promised to be with Judah always and unto Judah will the people (all tribes) eventually return.  Our coming King is the Son of the Most High God, but He is also a Jew.
 
Beware of the enemy.  He seeks to discredit God's word and to distort the truth.  You can see even now how Christians who stand on the truth of God's word are being discredited with grievous lies and called vile names.  Many who do this are not only leaders in our country, they sit in church right next to you.  He has no problem calling the truth a lie and a lie the truth, as well good evil and evil good.
 
Other prophetically inclined watchmen did follow like Hal Lindsey and Marilyn Agee.  God showed them many hidden revelations, but He didn't give them everything.  They took God's mission to be a watchman seriously and made some predictions.  Folks, if they had not tried to put some timetables to events, then there would be no excited doves.  That's what is wrong in our churches.  Pastors are willing to say it might be any day, but in the same breath they hedge and say it might be another 1000 years.  What kind of watchman is that.....one that says "I see the enemy coming, but it might be a 1000 years before he arrives".   Time overtook some of those predictions, but the facts are these folks were ahead of others at the time.  They have opened the door and shed light for those that follow.  As God's watchmen they had courage, they risked ridicule and did their jobs.
 
In 1990, my oldest son died.  A few years later my wife separated and our children were torn in two directions.  Life was painful.  By the turn of the century when everyone was talking about the coming millennium, I had enough years with the government and reserves to hang it up.  God seemed to be driving me out as well and was revealing some very interesting things to me.  I loved prophecy and truly expected the Lord to show any time.  I asked God to give me a role, a mission.  I had neglected His great commission, but now I wanted a chance to serve.  Over time, He seemed to impress on me the role of watchman on the wall, so I petitioned Him for that role.  After a lot of testing, God showed me that He was honoring that request by showing me some specific signs, signs that others just didn't seem to see.
 
I'm no prophet, just an ordinary man.  Know what?  So were the prophets and apostles.  But I have spent a lot of time in God's word.  Studying at Jesus' feet is what made the apostles learned men.  The thing about being a watchman is you not only need to know what it is you are looking for, i.e. specific signs, you must be willing to tell others what you see.  God did His part.  I'm sure there is more, but that is what God has allowed me.  Now, I must be willing to sound the alarm even though there is risk of ridicule if events do not follow exactly.  If a watchman does not sound the alarm, God says the people's blood is on his hands.  If the watchman sounds the alarm and they do not believe, their blood is not on your hands.  What I see, tells me time is near.  It is this spring and if not then, the rapture of the bride will certainly be no later than the next.  The seals will follow.  It is the job of the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to the truth and make you believe.
 
The bride probably has several characteristics, but I am positive that the one characteristic the bride must have is that she must love the Lord.  No man wants a bride that is not in love with him.  Jesus says those that love him "keep His commandments" and as well they "watch".  They long for and constantly watch for His return.
 
Now, I am going to jump into some calendar stuff and some numbers stuff that God has shown me.
 
To Cor 10:31 who doesn't know when Second Passover is, look in Numbers 9:11 (interesting ch/vs huh).  It is exactly 30 days after First Passover on the same calendar date in the Second Month (Zif). Vs 14 shows us it is an exact replica of First Passover.  It does throw the day of the week 2 days later.   The only time it was ever celebrated after this was in 2 Chron 30, Hezekiah's Second Passover.  It had a unique 7 + 7 day arrangement.  I do believe that Job's "Secrets (pl) of Wisdom are double to that which is" (Job 11:6) is not only applicable to the bush sign, but also to Second Passover.
 
To Cindy who is struggling with calendars, let me suggest that you stick with God's calendar.  When you try to inject it with man's calendar, it is easy to get confused.  The first month of Abib (Nisan) has 30 days.  The second month is Zif, but is often just called the Second Month.  That's really all we need to get us from First Passover all way to Ascension Day.  Pentecost is 10 days after Ascension Day.   The lamb is brought into the home on the 10th of Abib and is killed on the 14th.  This is passover preparation day.  Technically, passover is on the 15th, though the passover meal is eaten on the evening of the 14th.  When the sun sets, it begins the next day.  At midnight between the 14th and 15th by our way of thinking was the midnight cry.  Passover, then is on the 15th.  It is the day the Israelites began the exodus.  Jesus was resurrected on Sunday the 18th, the same day the Israelites crossed the Red Sea.  The 40 days that He walked after His resurrection began on the 18th and concluded on a Thursday, the 27th of Zif.
 
Now, let's look at how Second Passover fits in there.  Now this date counting will start at Passover preparation (the 14th Zif) instead of the 18th.  There is no direct connection here to resurrection day.  Counting inclusively from the 14th to the 27th we can see 14 days.  Unleavened bread covers the first half of this 14 day count.  Hezekiah's celebration also covered 14 days, divided into 7 and then 7 more.  It is quite possible that the 3 parts of the rapture (resurrection of the dead/midnight cry),(changing of the wise living to immortal) & (departure/ascension of the wise living) will take place over 14 days.  The parable of the 10 virgins (Mat 25) indicates time to talk through each of these phases.  We should be prepared for this.  How we trim our lamps may well (might) have an effect on our changing.  It will sure be an interesting period.
 
For the days of the week to work out, Passover preparation (the day they killed the lamb), must be on a Wednesday.  That would make the day they brought the lamb into the home a Saturday, Passover would be on a Thursday and resurrection day Sunday.  Ascension day would be on Thursday and Pentecost again on Sunday.  For the last few years that I have tried to celebrate Passover, it was always marked on our calendar on a Thursday as it should be.  I noticed this year a couple of calendars I looked at had Passover on a Tuesday.  I am not sure if they are marked wrong or if it had something to do with the moon cycle being different, but it certainly seems to me that for the last few years Passover has been on a Thursday.
 
The part that was always in doubt about Passover each year was whether it was the right month.  Whoever is responsible for determining the date has been using NASA's moon charts in order to mark the calendars months ahead for printing and distribution.  But, God had a requirement that the barley crops had to be a certain ripeness called abib.  If they were not, then the calendar had to wait another moon cycle to begin.  From reports, they got that part right this year.  Israel had an early spring.  So hopefully, we are at least established in the right month.  This day of the week thing throws me off, but I kind of think God will stick to His day of the week.  When the day of the week is right, Second Passover preparation day is a Friday and the passover meal is then eaten that night.  The midnight cry is then on a Sabbath.  In fact, it is the 4th Sabbath Omer of the Feast of Weeks.
 
Now for a little of the number stuff I promised.  Notice that ascension day is on the 27th of Zif.  Could there be any connection from that to 2007?  You might say that is a stretch and by itself it would be.
 
 Some years back while was at Ft Lee taking a course, I was also reading a Marilyn Agee Book.  It was one of those periods when it felt like God isolated me and was pouring out His Spirit and revelation.  I was taking a statistics course so number crunching was at the forefront.  God showed me His English alphabet and numbered it 1-26.  No gematria, just a simple numbering system.  The vowels could be counted separate and then added together with the consonants for additional revelation.  I am not saying this replaces or is better than the Hebrew language and gematria, but there is something to it.  God promised the lost tribes and particularly Joseph's descendents a new name and a new language.  It was just like God to make it the international language of the world.  Of course, God is the author of all languages and you can bet His signature is in the language of Joseph.  God put the alphabet in the order He wanted.  It is also the same alphabet used by all the lost tribes in the western industrial world.  We have the same numbers as well.
 
Let's look at the word rapture:  r+p+t+r = 72    a+u+e = 27      27 + 72 = 99   (27 & 72 are mirror images)
For your consideration and thought:  If 6 is the number of man, 9 is the number of immortal man.
 
Let's look at saints:  72 + 10 =  82
Let's look at lamb:    27 + 1  =   28   (Saints and Lamb are mirror images in every sense) (We can again see the 9 in the 2 + 7).
 
Are there any hints in the above that 2007 might be the year, just like ascension day is Zif 27.  As well, on the 4th day of the exodus (the 18th of Abib, same as resurrection day), the Israelites crossed the Red sea.  At this point they really felt safe from the Egyptians.  Red = 27.  Hmmm.
 
I don't know, maybe just a whale of a coincidence, but I have seen 27 or some configuration of it like 270, 207, 2700 etc some uncanny number of times in the daily newspaper.  It has happened way to many times to be a coincidence.  I just don't know which side is orchestrating it.
 
Let's look at some other interesting numbers from this method.
 
faith:  34 + 10 = 44
hope: 24 + 20 = 44   (faith + hope then = 88) (by the way Emmanuel = 84, but Immanuel = 88)
I have pointed out the 4 from day 4 of creation all way to Revelations along with the 40 and 400.
We know that Jesus walked 40 days on the earth after resurrection, but if you consider 4 more days from a Wednesday death day, you will have 44.  Isn't it amazing that faith and hope would count up to this number of days.   You won't believe how many times when I was down, depressed and hurting, God has shown me the 44 on a clock.
 
Let's look at Jesus:  48 + 26 = 74  (Did we not see the pattern 1 + 4 + 7 in creation week and the menorah)
Joshua:  37 + 37 = 74  (Many compare Him to Jesus. He was an Ephraimite who led the people across Jordan to the Promised Land).
Lucifer: 39 + 35 = 74 (Makes you wonder a bit doesn't it)
 
Let's look at fruit:  44 + 30 = 74  (Can you not see faith & hope mixed with Holy Spirit = Jesus Christ)
 
God:  7 + 15 + 4 = 26  (You can see the 7 and 4 as Jesus, 1+ 5 = 6 the number of man) (Now go back and look at the numbers which made up Jesus 48 + 26 = 74)  (I believe God is showing you a relationship between His Son and man).
 
Christ = 77 (perfection/perfection)
 
You can do more in this area if you desire.  I have found much more, but I just wanted to show you some of the connections it has with the material we have covered.  Rapture 2007.  You can't help but smile and hope.
 
Let's look at the numbers which the whole western world uses.
 
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0
 
1, 2, 3 are often linked to the Trinity as God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit.  As well the 1 is a number of unity and building block of all other numbers.   Its' single vertical line is emphatic.  The number 2 is the first number that can be evenly divided.  He is the divider and this principle can be seen in Roman Numeral II.  When you do that, you can see the relationship of the II (2) to the number 11 which is often mentioned as a number of rebellion.  Again, Jesus, the Light, from day 1 and day 4 is a divider/separator.
 
4 is often in Biblical scripture associated with the creation.  There are 4 corners of the earth, 4 winds and 4 corners of heaven.  As well, New Jerusalem is depicted as having 4 sides.  Since we have seen as well how the 4th day is associated with light, division/separation, calendars and importantly rulership in creation week and in the menorah, let's look also closely at it's shape.  It has a vertical element much like the 1.  You can also see the cross in it.  It is unique in it's written shape from all the rest of the numbers.  Creation must have government (rulers).  Perfection in government seems to be represented by 12 and you can see it in the home of the bride, New Jerusalem, as well as the 12 apostles and 12 tribes.  12 x 12 = 144,000.  It's amazing how that 4 shows up when you discuss rulership.  The cross in the 4 is important in that when Jesus willingly died on that cross for man, He sealed His right to be awarded the throne by the Father.  When He died, it was finished, it was done.  He would one day be crowned King over all creation (4).
 
5 is a number of grace and notice how closely it is related in shape to the 2.  Note though as well we see the occult using that number, usually in an upside down form.  Note then as well that God chose that number in the parable of 10 virgins to denote separation/division.
 
6 is the number of man from his creation on the 6th day.  The 6 & 9 are closely related in shape.  There seems to me many hints that the 9 is man when he is perfected in his immortal body.  Remember above rapture: 27 (9) + 72 (9) = 99.
 
7 is perfection and also completion.  It like the 4 is a bit unique among the numbers.
 
8 is the number of Jesus as God and man.  He is Son of God (2) + man (6).  2 + 6 = 8.  8 on its side is infinity (eternity).  The 3 and the 8 seem to be related as far as shape.   God = 26.
 
I guess that is enough of my playing around. People like Bob Ware are much better with the numbers.  Thanks again to those who have made comments and or offered notes of appreciation.  It helps to know that someone got something out of your labor.  Now that you see the signs, weren't they just laying there in plain sight all along?
 
I'll get back to the real work I promised tomorrow.  Next is the role of the left behind, their hope and their glory.  Then I will get into the seals of Revelations, how the different time periods should unfold.
 
Your friend and fellow laborer in Jesus Christ, Steve