Hi John & All:
There is no doubt in my spirit but that all things come to
pass on pre-ordained specific dates, as it relates to God's plan for the
ages. This includes both the rapture of the Church, the start of the
Tribulation period, the fulfilment of those incredible prophecies in Ezekiel
38-39, the Second Coming of Christ to the Earth, etcetera.
When Moses led the children of Israel through the desert,
God taught them of His specifically timed feast days, and described Himself
as Moedim Yahweh, meaning the God of fixed dates. He never does things
haphazardly, or by the seat of his pants on a whim. Everything is both
intentionally and purposefully planned out in minutae. We see a very clear
New Testament example of this in the Book of Revelation --
"And the sixth angel sounded, and I
heard
a voice from the four horns of the
golden
altar which is before
God,
Saying to the sixth angel which had
the
trumpet, Loose
the four angels which are
bound in the great
river Euphrates.
And the four angels were loosed, which
were prepared for an
hour, and a day, and
a month, and a year, for to slay the
third
part of men."
- Revelation 9:
13-15
You can't get much more specific and
pre-ordained. These angels had been prepared for this mission, which was to take
place within not only a specific year ... but a specific month within that
year. Not only a specific month, but a specific day, within the specific
month, of that specific year. Then God takes it further, telling us they
were not only prepared to perform a specific work on a specific day of a
specific month of a specific year .... but that the deed was planned to
transpire on a specific hour, of that specific day, of that specific month,
of that specific year.
Do I need to specify further?
Listed below are some interesting
"coincidences" which transpired on either the Gregorian date of September 11th, or the Hebrew date of Elul 23 --
September 10th, 1917 - Elul 23, 5677
Colonel Edward M. House (the right-hand-man for
then President Woodrow Wilson), sends an emergency cable to the British
government, advising them that President Wilson is against
Britain issuing a declaration of support in favour of
Zionism.
September
11th, 1921 - Elul 8,
5681
Nahalel, the first moshav (a co-operative
agricultural community), is settled in Palestine (Israel).
September
11th, 1922 - Elul 18,
5682
The British Mandate for Palestine officially
begins.
September
11th, 1941 - Elul 19,
5701
The official groundbreaking takes place,
for the Pentagon Building.
September
11th, 1972 - Tishrei 3,
5753
The closing ceremonies of
the summer Olympics takes place, in Germany. It was the selfsame
Olympics where, just five days previously, what is known as the Munich Massacre occurred, in which 11 Israeli athletes were
brutally murdered by a group of PLO terrorists, one of the leaders of which
was Wael Zwaiter, the cousin of Yasser Arafat.
September
11th, 1978 - Elul 9,
5738
U. S. President, Jimmy Carter, Egyptian
President, Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, meet at
Camp David and commence the infamous "Peace Process", by agreeing on a
framework for peace between Egypt and Israel. It also included a (so-called)
comprehensive framework for peace in the Middle East, setting out broad
principles to guide negotiations between Israel and the Arab States. The
agreement also established some guidelines for a West Bank and Gaza
transitional regime of full autonomy for Palestinians residing in those
"territories".
September
11th, 1990 - Elul 21,
5750
United States President, George H. W. Bush,
delivers a nationally televised speech, in which he threatens the use of
force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded.
For the very first time, he publicly mentions the phrase - New
World Order.
September
11th, 1992 - Elul 13,
5752
Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging
hurricanes in United States history of its time, devastates Hawaii,
particularly the islands of Kauai and Oahu.
September 9th, 1993 - Elul 23, 5753
The devilish peace process continues, under
pressure from then President William Jefferson Clinton. A deal is finalized
between Israel and the terrorist leader of the P.L.O., Yasser Arafat, on
this day, when Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin gives a formally signed
letter of recognition to Arafat, in which Israel acknowledges the P.L.O. to
be the representative of the Palestinian people. In turn, Arafat delivers a
letter to both Rabin, and Norway's Foreign Minister, Johan Jorgen Holst (who
guided the initial secret talks), in which Arafat agreed to: Recognize
Israel as a State; Renounce the use of terrorism and other acts of violence;
and Render inoperative those articles within the Palestinian Covenant which
deny Israel's right to exist.
In an interesting turn of events, the formal
public signing was held on the lawn of the Whitehouse four days later on September 13th,
1993, and then Holst himself died unexpectedly from a
stroke exactly four months afterwards, on January
13th, 1994, a month for a day.
September
11th, 2001 - Elul 23, 5761
In an event that shocked the Western world, a
terrorist attack destroyed both towers (and Building Seven) of the World
Trade Center, located in the heart of New York City, killing almost three
thousand people. Shortly thereafter an airliner (or possibly a missle),
attacked the Pentagon Building, causing more carnage, on the 60th
anniversary of it's 1941 groundbreaking ceremony.
September
11th, 2005 - Elul 7,
5765
The State of Israel completes its unilateral
military disengagement from the Gaza strip, the forcible removal of all
Jewish residents complete. In less than 15 minutes later, the first of
the now abandoned Jewish Synagogues was set on fire by the
Palestinians.
See ya in the air, - Eric