August 22, 2006

                                                                                               By Pastor F. M. Riley

     8…..     Eight is the Bible number that basically means ….. “new”

                              New birth, new creation, new life, new day, new week, new month, new year, new

                          outlook, new event, etc. indicating a sudden and complete change. 

 22…..     twenty-two is the bible number that basically means …..         

             “enlightenment”

                              To see, to understand, to discern, to know, to reveal, to make plain, to unlock,

                           to open up,  to unveil, to enlighten. 

   6…..      Six is the bible number that basically means ….. man

                               Man, mankind, the natural man, Satan’s influence over man. 

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 36…..      thirty-six is the bible number that basically means ….. enemy

                                Enemy, foe, adversary, opponent, etc. 

                                Add all the numbers from 1 through 36 and the sum is  “666.”

    I do not know what is going to happen on August 22, 2006 that will be prophetically significant.  There may not be anything of prophetic significance that will occur on that date.  It is all completely in the permissive or determining will of the Lord.  But I do know that the President of Iran has repeatedly referred to that date as:  (1) the date of the appearing of the Muslim Mahdi [Messiah], and (2) the day that he [the President of Iran] will show the whole world the power of Iran and the Muslim world, and (3) the day that Iran will lighten the whole city of Jerusalem as the (1) the Prophet Mohammad (2) the Muslim Mahdi returns to the holy mountain in Jerusalem. 

    If [I said if] the promises of the President of Iran are as certain, as he is certain to run his big mouth, then August 22, 2006 will indeed be a day that the whole world will long remember.  We will soon see, for as I write it is only a week away.  Keep in mind that it is all in God’s timing, and subject to His permissive and directive will….and God’s Name is not Allah. 

                                                                            Pastor F. M. Riley