Dear friends:

On April,15, 2008, I was reminded of the U. S. government Web site that reveals the population of the world, updated every 60 seconds.  It is at http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html.

An update:

As I am writing this sentence, the world population has grown to 6,662,400,787 and rising minute by minute.

How rapidly?  My latest reading shows a rate of rise as 146-147 in one minute.  At 146 per minute, that is 8,760 per hour, and 210,240 per day.

I asked myself, "At that rate, how long will it take for the world population to reach 6,666,666,666?" 

As I previously pointed out, it calculates to May 10, 2008.  This was also confirmed by the Drudge Report last week.

At first, I saw nothing significant about that date, but I was so wrong!

Reader Dennis Pittinger points out to me that May 10, 2008 will fall on 5 Iyyar on the Hebrew calendar -- or exactly 60 years (another 6) to the day after Israel came into being on 5 Iyyar 1948.

Thank you, Dennis.  That is a very astute observation.  The date 5 Iyyar 1948 is one of the most important dates in all human history -- the very date Israel was reborn according to many ancient prophecies, starting God's end-time clock ticking.  Now we learn that the date in 2008 is the very day the world population is projected to be  6,666,666,666.  I find that amazing.

It seems things are getting more interesting just about every day!

Jim