Isaiah 18:5a.. For before the harvest, WHEN THE BUD IS PERFECT, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower The barley harvest is abib and as of 11:00 pm 4/6/08, the “bud” HAS NOT BEEN proclaimed perfect!
WHY THE DELAY? Looking at the previous 15 years of history, it should have been perfect 6 days ago! The longest period of time between “Fluffy white” and “Peak bloom” is 8 days on our graph. Are the ‘Conspirators of Psalm 2:1-3’ “jaws hooked” and fulfilling this prophecy and the United States is going to be “torn asunder and broken” Jeremiah 50:22-32, on or soon after its proclaimation?
Click the link scroll down to the graph and notice the STILL UNFILLED ‘Peak bloom’ BOX at the top right. http://www.nps.gov/nama/planyourvisit/cherry-blossom-bloom.htm when it is filled will our destruction “suddenly” come?
PURIM HAS ENDED
When Shushan Purim ended at sundown March 23, 2008 it left but 200 days until Daniel’s vision of 2300 days ends on Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement October 9, 2008. As of today April 7, 2008 we have but 185 days until that 'year of jubilee' begins!
During Purim, March 21-23, the book of Esther was read in all Jewish, Orthodox and Messianic synagogues. Inside the book is many prophetic parallels to the times we are in but these four in the first three chapters caught my eye.
1.) King Achashverosh parallels Admadinejhad, Iran’s present leader who has threatened to ‘destroy Israel from the face of the earth’.
2.) Shushan is the very city Daniel received his ‘2300 day vision’ recorded in Daniel 8:13-14, that manifested itself as the Presidents’ vision of a ‘Roadmap to Peace’
3.) 1 Nisan is 13 days from March 24, 2008 and is referenced in Esther 3:7 as the day Haman began casting lots for the total annihilation of Israel.
4.) The numerical 180 days and seven days totaling 187 days in the first chapter is the most significant.
Here’s the text, Esther 1:4 And he displayed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor of his great majesty for many days, 180 days. 5 When these days were completed, the king gave a banquet lasting seven days for all the people who were present at the citadel in Shushan, from the greatest to the least, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.
200 days – 187 days = 13 days which is the time between March 24 and April 6 that just happens to fall on the Hebraic calendar day of 1 Nisan, the first day of the first month.
LOOKING AT ISAIAH 18
My brief commentary on Isaiah 18:5, “For before the barley is harvested and sometime on or shortly after the “bud will be proclaimed perfect” is the United States going to be “torn asunder and broken” Jeremiah 50:23-24?
The original text;
Isaiah 18:3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, you see, when he lifts up an ensign on the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet, you hear. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place, like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest 5 For before the harvest, WHEN THE BUD IS PERFECT, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, AND TAKE AWAY and cut down the branches.
If the above happens on or soon after Peak Bloom/Perfect Bud, then in the Middle East, sometime between the ‘new moon’ of 1 Nisan, April 6, 2008 and the full moon and Passover April 20th, Damascus could become a “ruinous heap” and Israel’s regional enemies who are prophesied to fall in Psalm 83, could both be fulfilled?
Isaiah 17:11 In the day you shall make thy plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make thy seed to flourish: but THE HARVEST SHALL BE A HEAP in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Joel 1:11 Be ashamed, O farmer, Wail, O vinedressers, for the WHEAT AND THE BARLEY; because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
Good cross references; Isaiah 22:12-13, Passover, Isaiah 32:9-20, Fast of firstborn, Isaiah 5:1-7, Parable of vineyard, USA, Hosea 9 USA destroyed during Passover Hosea 9:5-6
A DAY AND A YEAR 1 NISAN STARTS THE NEW YEAR
The following verses make a case for two separate events on two separate days, near the first month of the year?
It will be, Isaiah 34:8 “THE DAY of the LORD’S vengeance, and THE YEAR of recompense for the controversy of Zion”,
Isaiah 35:1, The wilderness and the desert shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as a rose. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; HE WILL COME AND SAVE YOU.
Isaiah 61:2b…and THE DAY of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; and again in Isaiah 63:4 For THE DAY of vengeance is in mine heart, AND THE YEAR of my redeemed is come.
Isaiah 18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, (Isaiah 56:9, Ezekiel 32:1-8) and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 7 In that time SHALL THE PRESENT BE BROUGHT unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning here to now; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
WILDERNESS FIRST THEN RAPTURE ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Within three or four days after the above events, will Vladmir Putin/Gog "think an evil thought", Ezekiel 38:10-11 and go after those 'millions of redeemed' that God's army of angels have just brought from the four corners of the world, into the safety and security of the wilderness.
Good ‘wilderness scriptures; Psalm 91:7-11, Isaiah 35:4-11, Ezekiel 20:33-37, Zephaniah 3:10, Micah 2:12-13
It will be at this time, God will 'sanctify' His name before the nations and destroy 83% of Gogs army in and on the mountains of Israel!
Giving Him the glory, an Ezekiel 33:6 watching one REPENT the Kingdom of God is at hand, make your election SURE