ALL:

In late July, 1997, (8 years ago) and into the first week of
August, the Lord was revealing the Book of Revelation to
me.  I had been ignoring this "Book" in my daily readings
but God had been working with me for about 2 years at
that point and I "felt" led to just sit down one morning and
start reading it.  It almost read like a comic book - with
SUCH simplicity - for the FIRST TIME!

EXACTLY 4 years ago this month the Lord told me to start
listening ONLY to Him.  Of course, what He meant was to
use "discernment" in my "listening".  He also let me to "NOW"
start posting.  My first post was on August 30, 2001 (a few
days prior to "911").  I found this out thanks to John Tng
giving me the address of Five Doves archives:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fivedoves.com

Letter 1 and 2 from 8/30/01:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020204054842/www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2001/calvinm830-1.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20020130165412/www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2001/calvinm830-2.htm

So, I have been "TRYING" to keep track of things since then.

Anyway...

Below are some things I found and wrote about recently.
They lends themselves to, I believe, the STRONG possibility
THAT WE HAVE VERY LITTLE TIME LEFT TO GET READY!
Revelation 12 describes "THE" singular time in history when
Jesus Christ comes and "THE END" begins:

...1 Corinthians 15:24-26
...24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the
...kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed
...all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must
...reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
...26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
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US' demise / the Perseids / the rapture!

99 moon cycles (29.53 days) is almost EXACTLY 8 years.

...365.25 X 8 = 2922 days

...29.53 X 99 = 2923.47 days

The number "8" means NEW BIRTH; REBIRTH; NEW
BEGINNINGS; "HURRY AWAY AND BE SEPARATE".

http://leesbiblepgs.topcities.com/Numerics.html

http://asis.com/~stag/numbtabl.html

Here is what James Harrison writes on page 326 of his
book, "The Pattern and the Prophecy":

...In Old Greek manuscripts the number 99 was often
...written at the end of a benediction or a prayer.  For
...centuries the meaning of this was a tiny mystery,
...until the 1900's  But consider:

......AMEN = 99 (he shows the Greek gematria)

...What could be more natural?  Significantly the last
...word in the entire Bible is Amen or 99.

The sign of Virgo, the virgin, has to do with "birth in the
heavens".  The "birth in the heavens" is ACTUALLY the
rapture as described in Revelation 12:5:

...5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule
...all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was
...SNATCHED UP to God and to his throne.

The "woman" or Virgin in Revelation 12 is "Israel" through
whom ALL Christianity has come!  The Jewish patriarchs
wrote the Bible PLUS Jesus was the promised Seed of
Abraham.  Paul talks about the Gentile relationship to
"Israel" in Romans 11:

...Romans 11
...All Israel Will Be Saved
...25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery,
...brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has
...experienced a hardening in part until the full number of
...the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be
...saved, as it is written:

......"The deliverer will come from Zion;
......he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
......27 And this is my covenant with them
......when I take away their sins."

...28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies
...on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they
...are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God's gifts
...and his call are irrevocable.

MANY, MANY churches and denominations HAVE VERY
MUCH become EXACTLY as is described by Paul - VERY
CONCEITED - because they think that, as a Christian, that
"THEY" have replaced "Israel".  This abomination is known
as "replacement theology" and has warped many minds
and made it EASIER on their flesh to NOT think of Israel
and NOT think of prophecy (because you REALLY can't
deal with prophecy if you believe in "replacement theology")!
I would not AT ALL be surprised if that EXACT thinking has
led to the MINDLESS DECLARATIONS AND ACTIONS of
George Bush and other leaders regarding Palestine!

This "barren woman" of Virgo has NEVER experienced
childbirth but, ON THE DAY OF THE RAPTURE, her
MANY CHILDREN will be taken up / "BIRTHED":

...Isaiah 54
...The Future Glory of Zion
...1 "Sing, O barren woman,
......you who never bore a child;
......burst into song, shout for joy,
......you who were never in labor;
......because more are the children of the desolate woman
......than of her who has a husband,"
...says the LORD.
...2 "Enlarge the place of your tent,
......stretch your tent curtains wide,
......do not hold back;
......lengthen your cords,
......strengthen your stakes.
...3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
......your descendants will dispossess nations
......and settle in their desolate cities.

This "Restoration of Israel" and the RAPTURE are also
covered in Isaiah 49:

...Isaiah 49
...Restoration of Israel
...8 This is what the LORD says:
......"In the time of my favor I will answer you,
......and in the day of salvation I will help you;
......I will keep you and will make you
......to be a covenant for the people,
......to restore the land
......and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
...9 to say to the captives, 'Come out,'
......and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'
......"They will feed beside the roads
......and find pasture on every barren hill.
......10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,
......nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them.
......He who has compassion on them will guide them
......and lead them beside springs of water.
......11 I will turn all my mountains into roads,
......and my highways will be raised up.
......12 See, they will come from afar-
......some from the north, some from the west,
......some from the region of Aswan."
......13 Shout for joy, O heavens;
......rejoice, O earth;
......burst into song, O mountains!
......For the LORD comforts his people
......and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
......14 But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me,
......the Lord has forgotten me."
......15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
......and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
......Though she may forget,
......I will not forget you!
......16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
......your walls are ever before me.
......17 Your sons hasten back,
......and those who laid you waste depart from you.
......18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
......all your sons gather and come to you.
......As surely as I live," declares the LORD,
......"you will wear them all as ornaments;
......you will put them on, like a bride.
......19 "Though you were ruined and made desolate
......and your land laid waste,
......now you will be too small for your people,
......and those who devoured you will be far away.
......20 The children born during your bereavement
......will yet say in your hearing,
.........'This place is too small for us;
.........give us more space to live in.'
......21 Then you will say in your heart,
.........'Who bore me these?
.........I was bereaved and barren;
.........I was exiled and rejected.
.........WHO BROUGHT THESE UP?
.........I was left all alone,
.........but these-where have they come from?' "
...22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
......"See, I WILL BECKON TO THE GENTILES,
......I will lift up my banner to the peoples;
......they will bring your sons in their arms
......and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
......23 Kings will be your foster fathers,
......and their queens your nursing mothers.
......They will bow down before you with their faces to
......the ground;
......they will lick the dust at your feet.
......Then you will know that I am the LORD;
......those who hope in me will not be disappointed."
...24 Can plunder be taken from warriors,
...or captives rescued from the fierce?
...25 But this is what the LORD says:
......"Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,
......and plunder retrieved from the fierce;
......I will contend with those who contend with you,
......and your children I will save.
......26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
......they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.
......Then all mankind will know
......that I, the LORD, am your Savior,
......your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

When it says above in verse 22...

......"See, I WILL BECKON TO THE GENTILES,
......I will lift up my banner to the peoples;
......they will bring your sons in their arms
......and carry your daughters on their shoulders.

...I believe this just means that the RAPTURE will be
a beckoning "CALL" to MANY JEWS!  We ALL need to
understand that Revelation 12 is ALL about this SINGULAR
TIME in history when the RAPTURED "BABY" is called or
SNATCHED UP and Israel remains down on earth, left, to
be "chased" by the devil (who is KICKED OUT of heaven)
and those who listen to him but God will protect Israel!

...Revelation 12
...13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the
...earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the
...male child. 14 The woman was given the two wings of a
...great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared
...for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of
...for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach.
...15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a
...river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the
...torrent. 16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its
...mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed
...out of his mouth. 17 Then the dragon was enraged at the
...woman and went off to make war against the rest of her
...offspring-those who obey God's commandments and hold
...to the testimony of Jesus.

So....."Why mention number 8?"

As we know, every year the Perseids meteor shower
occurs around August 11 and 12.

http://www.macsed.ngo.hu/z610.htm

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/get_ready_for_perseids.html

When looking BACK by using Sky and Telescope's excellent
"Sky Chart", it is MOST INTERESTING that THE ONLY TWO
TIMES, on August 11 and 12, that the moon was VERY NEAR
Virgo's feet over the last 8 years (or 99 moon cycles) was 1997
and this year, 2005!

...Revelation 12
...The Woman and the Dragon
...1 A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a
...woman clothed with the sun, WITH THE MOON
...UNDER HER FEET feet and a crown of twelve stars
...on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain
...as she was about to give birth.

...DATE..........................LOCATION OF THE MOON

...8:00 p.m. EDT 8/10/97.......level with Virgo's feet
...8:00 p.m. EDT 8/11/97.......just beneath Vigo's feet

...PLUS 99 moon cycles (or 8 years)

...8:00 p.m. EDT 8/11/05.......at Virgo's knee
...8:00 p.m. EDT 8/12/05.......just beneath Vigo's feet

Many have seen the numbers "11 11" in various forms.
Could these be the streaking "METEORS" of the Perseids
METEOR SHOWER AS REPRESENTING A "TIME" OF
THE RAPTURE?  I had a MOST powerful dream in the
spring of 1998:

...I had a dream where my brother, a stranger (those who
...would read about this dream in a post, etc.), and myself
...had enjoyed a very FULL day of the 'type' freedom, most
...likely, ONLY afforded by America.  Towards the end of this
...VERY satisfying day, we were near a cemetery (which
...actually exists) that is near a home where my family lived
...in the 70's and 80's in a small town in Mississippi.  As we
...were enjoying this, we looked up and saw a stream of twin
...11's coming in an endless column out of the North.

    ll ll
    ll ll
    ll ll
    ll ll
    ll ll
    ll ll

...We were frightened and started running towards my house
...to get news off the TV of what was happening.  ALSO,
...loudspeakers were blasting from across the bayou that
...there was 'SOME EMERGENCY'!  As we started running,
...I noticed the Statue of Liberty standing next to our home
...and, 'IMMEDIATELY', I was SWEPT into the torch area
...and met by a 'WARM, SMILING, GENTLEMAN' who put
...out his hand out to greet me.  Then I woke up.

To me, this VERY LIKELY could be describing a time
around the "Perseids" which occur around the "11th" each
year in our "8th" month!  THIS YEAR, more than EVER
before, I feel that THE FALL OF THIS NATION is at the
"DOOR" as is the rapture.  I believe, without a doubt, that
this nation's fall is "hidden" inside of scripture from most
but is about to occur "AS" we are taken up.  I believe that
THIS was happening in my dream as those "freedoms"
which we were enjoying in my dream are TAKEN AWAY
by "EMERGENCIES"!  I believe other descriptions of this
FALL of the "Babylon" of the New Testament (the US) are
also in Revelation 18 and Jeremiah 50 and 51!

We, MOST DEFINITELY, are living in a VERY SOBERING
TIME!!!  I VERY MUCH agree with Merla Watson's words:

..."There is something in the realm of the spirit that is about
...to happen, and my whole being is ON GUARD!
...I'm holding my breath."

http://www.injesus.com/Groups/ViewMessage.cfm?MessageId=KB00723F&UCD=x3v

She goes on with a warning which I conclude with:

..."I feel at gut level that there is an emergency summons
...upon us all to get our hearts purified before the Lord,
...and to "have done with lesser things!". This is not a time
...for dishonesty, hidden immorality, lack of forgiveness, playing
...church, or unsolved family and friend feuds. LET IT GO!!
...People - get it together - His coming is at the door!  And
...some of us are going to be caught "red-handed"! I heard a
...song years ago that said: 'It won't always be like this, my
...friend - it won't always be like this!" What a travesty that
...most churches hardly ever mention the inevitable final
...scenario.  Where are the songs of His coming in glory??

...We are so very localized. It's almost as if we should stop
...all church programmes, and get down on our knees
...for city-wide, nation-wide, and world-wide repentance.
...CANCEL THEM!!
 
...Ministries which blatantly bathe in financial extravagance
...will be brought to shame and an abrupt halt. Whole
...governments are about to topple. Natural disasters are even
...at our doorstep. Men's hearts will indeed fail from fear. Human
...plans are being thwarted. Prodigals will be shaken to their roots.
...Can you feel the pounding heart of the Father in all this?

...And yet... that burden I am experiencing today is curiously
...intertwined with a culminating joy, believe it or not!
 
...I am reminded of that very simple song:

......'There never was a day like this day to me,
......There never was day like this day I see,
......There never was a light that shines so bright as THIS day,
......this GLORIOUS day!'

...Painful, pulsating, birthing, NECESSARY........may we
...filled with JOY - no, -  ECSTASY - when Zion happens!!"

GOD BLESS!!!

Calvin

PS:

There have been 2 Gamma Ray Bursts from VIRGO in the
last 2 days:

http://grb.sonoma.edu/index.php

From VIRGO on 8/1:

http://grb.sonoma.edu/details.php?grb_id=GRB+050801A&date=2005%2F08%2F01&time=18%3A28%3A02&mission=Swift&description=&id=181&Submit=Tell+me+more+about+this+burst

From VIRGO on 7/30:

http://grb.sonoma.edu/details.php?grb_id=GRB+050730A&date=2005%2F07%2F30&time=19%3A58%3A23&mission=Swift&description=&id=180&Submit=Tell+me+more+about+this+burst

I was curious to see just where the last Gamma Ray Bursts
have come from and checked back through May.  In May,
June, and July there have been NO OTHER (of the 28 busts
during these months) FROM VIRGO!  Below is the list of
their locations:

Virgo 8/1
Virgo 7/30
Centaurus 7/26
Scorpius 7/24
Ophiuchus 7/21
Centaurus 7/17
Lacerta 7/16
Sextans 7/15
Crater 7/14
Casseopeia 7/14
Cepheus 7/13
Cepheus 7/13
Camelopardalis 7/12
Grus 7/9
Circinus 7/1
Crux 6/26
Aquila 6/7
Taurus 6/6
Fornax 6/3
Andromeda 5/28
Lyra 5/25
Coma Berenices 5/22
Coma Berenices 5/20
Coma Berenices 5/9
Eridanus 5/7
Leo 5/5
Canes Venatici 5/4
Leo 5/2
Canes Venatici 5/2

As we know, there are 2 PARTS to the "BABY" (which
represent the Body of Christ) which are SNATCHED UP
at the rapture.  The digits "6" and "9" seem to symbolize
these two TYPES of babies because they LOOK LIKE
"TWIN" BABIES IN A WOMB!

What is VERY interesting, therefore, is the number of
months in 8 years when using the Gregorian / Gentile
calendar:  12 X 8 = 96!  Does this "96" represent the
TWO or "TWIN TYPES" who are raptured!?

Hopefully so!!!

...a "6" represents the DEAD IN CHRIST (head down)
...a "9" represents those ALIVE at His coming (head up)

...1 Thessalonians 4
...16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven,
...with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel
...and with the trumpet call of God, and THE DEAD IN
...CHRIST will rise first.
...17After that, WE WHO ARE STILL ALIVE and are
...left will be caught up together with them in the clouds
...to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the
...Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage each other with
...these words.

...Revelation 12
...5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule
...all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was
...SNATCHED UP to God and to his throne.