Dru (1
Apr 2011)
"J.R. Church's last article
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"It is Sunday afternoon and I've been taking a nap. I
lay around a lot
these
days. Fighting cancer is not a simple task. If I lay on my left side, I
can
breathe easier. So, each afternoon, I take a nap, hoping to shut down
my
thinking process and drift off to sleep for several hours. When I can't
get my
mind to stop thinking, I play brain games with God. He must be awfully
bored
with me by now. I'd like to think that He is paying attention.
You may recall that Habakkuk wrestled with God on a regular basis.
Then, there
was Jacob who, wrestled all night. So, I wrestle with God and propose
bargains
€”
you know, I'll do this if you'll do that! sort of thing. I'd like to
think
that God is amused with my juvenile antics. Partly, I play and partly
I'm
serious.
Each day, I sit in front of a neon ray tube for an hour, while a
97-watt
transmitter modulated by a series of audio tones attacks the virus that
lives in
the cancer cells of my liver and lungs. It is an old technology that
dates back
to the 1930s when Dr. Royal Rife learned how to explode a
micro-organism with a
sympathetic vibration of sound waves. He spent years in his laboratory
finding
the audio frequencies that resonate with various germs and viruses that
cause
diseases. In 1934, he and six other doctors from around the country
tested their
theory on 16 cancer patients at a clinic in California. His machine
(today
dubbed the Rife Machine) was able to bring all 16 people back to perfect
health€”
cancer free.
Years ago I wrote an article on Pentecost wherein I noted that
according to
Jewish custom, young Jewish ladies who were getting married for the
first time
were wed on Wednesdays. Widows and divorcees were expected to be
married on
Thursdays. Furthermore, on Pentecost night the Jews have a custom of
staying up
all night to decorate the bride. I took it to mean that every Jewish
bride
preparing for her evening escapade with her bridegroom would spend the
time
getting dressed in her bridal gown, adorning various pieces of jewelry
and
fixing her veil. That's what I think was meant by decorating the bride.
In all
Jewish communities across Europe there were hundreds of Jewish brides
needing
assistance on Tuesday evening. Of course, in the Jewish calendar,
Wednesday
would begin at sundown on Tuesday evening. The bride would gather her
10
virgins, i.e. bridesmaids for a gala but frantic time of getting
everyone
dressed for the occasion. The groom would be expected to show up
sometime
following the appearance of the second star of the evening. As in the
case of
the parable of the ten virgins, the bridegroom didn't come until
midnight. It
is
my thinking that the term, June bride, came from all those weddings on
Pentecost.
Ruth, the gentile bride, was married to Boaz on Pentecost. It was
around
midnight that she came to lay at his feet at the end of the barley
harvest. When
Solomon came to fetch his bride, in the Song of Solomon, chapter 2,
verses 10-13
he said Rise up my love and come away with me for the voice of the
turtledove
is heard in the land and the fig tree hath put forth its green figs.
These
are
statements pointing to Pentecost. We know it was Springtime because of
the voice
of the turtledove being heard in the land, but more specifically the
reference
to Pentecost is seen in the green figs. According to Jewish tradition,
Pentecost
was the day when the fruit of the trees was judged.
So as I drifted in and out of sleep this Sunday afternoon, a question
entered my
mind. Could June the 8th, 2011(Pentecost) occur on a Wednesday? I toyed
with the
question for a while and finally had to get up and consult a Jewish
calendar. To
my delight, Pentecost this year comes precisely on a Wednesday! In
Bible days,
Pentecost occurred on Sunday, but the Pharisees reinterpreted the
Sabbath to
mean simply, a day of rest and since Passover was a day of rest they
started
counting the Omer from the day after Pentecost, thus fixing the date in
the
Jewish calendar to Sivan 6. That's why in Jewish custom Pentecost is no
longer
observed on Sunday, but is fixed to the calendar date. Now, I cannot
tell you
that the rapture will occur on Tuesday night, say at midnight Jerusalem
time,
which would be 4:00 PM in the afternoon, Central Time because I shy
away from
being a date setter, but at least I wanted you to have something to
think about
as we approach Springtime.
If the Lord plans to take us home this Pentecost, than there are
certain things
which might occur leading up to that auspicious occasion. First of all,
in my
thinking, Egypt and Syria would have to mount another war against
Israel. In
watching the news lately, I am sure they would like to. I just don't
know if
they have the courage, or if they are even militarily prepared for such
a crazy
undertaking. I understand they have been pouring military supplies into
Gaza. It
is possible that they are arming Syria and the Hezbollah in Lebanon as
well. In
2009 our dear President sold Egypt $2 billion worth of military
supplies, only
to have them fall into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.
So what if Egypt, Syria and Lebanon launched a massive attack against
Israel? I
think Israel is already prepared for such a turn of events. Israel does
not have
a huge army capable of sustaining a lengthy war. Instead, they could
make it a
very short-lived battle by targeting the Aswan Dam with a nuclear
strike. This
could fulfill the prophecy in Ezekiel 29 that Egypt will become
desolate for 40
years. I have no proof that Israel would use that extreme tactic, but
common
sense points in that direction. With the massive buildup of weaponry in
these
Arab states, Israel may soon be dealing with a situation they are
unprepared to
handle. If missiles start raining down on Tel Aviv and populated
cities, would
they resort to such measures to protect their population?
Israel could also use a nuclear weapon against Damascus, thus
eliminating two
enemies in one decisive move, fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 17 in
which
Damascus becomes a ruinous heap. This is clearly a future prophecy.
Damascus has
never been destroyed in a way fitting this description. If this
happened in
April for example, Russia, Iran and their allies would be obligated to
launch a
war against Israel, fulfilling the Biblical prophecy in Ezekiel 38
about the
Battle of Gog and Magog. In any case, Israel will emerge victorious,
only to be
pressured by the political powers that be, to once again try to make
peace with
its old enemy.
Imagine the pressure the world would place upon already hated Israel if
they
bombed the Aswan Dam and nuked Damascus? The United Nations would be
quick to
condemn Israel's heavy-handed tactics. Who knows? Bill Clinton, who was
recently
featured on a television special with Chris Matthews, as President of
the
World, might be called upon to broker a peace following Israel's victory
over
Gog and Magog? Years ago when Clinton visited Indonesia, he came off
the
airplane to cries of peacemaker, peacemaker! When he visited Jerusalem
during
his Presidential days the people cried out, Give us a king like Clinton!
Naturally, the mild mannered, soft-hearted Israeli leadership would be
willing
to bend over backward to make peace with the Muslim Brotherhood and
Clinton
would like nothing more to go down in history as The Great Peacemaker.
He
might even be elected as the next Secretary General of the United
Nations. The
next leader of the UN is scheduled to take office on January 1, 2012.
But who am I to make such prognostications? I'm just lying here playing
brain
games with God and wondering what the future holds for us all."