Dear Doves,
 
            Fresh evidence, which supports the seven year timeline of 2008 to 2015 has come to me from further study of Joseph while he sojourned in Egypt. The calculation that the Seventh Week of Daniel began in October 2008, first came to me from Marilyn Agee. If you have the time and inclination, please pray for the health and well being of Marilyn and her husband Edgar Agee. Apparently, Marilyn arrived at this conclusion through the ministry of Ron Reese.
         Ron Reese begain this insight into Joseph as a 'type' of Christ who redeemed his family and all of Israel when we brought them into the land of Goshen. After two brutal years without rain, famine and starvation stalked the lands of the entire Middle East. Rumors reached Judea and Sumaria, there was food aplenty in the granaries of far off Egypt. This two year famine was bad, but nobody knew that the greatest horrors were yet to come as there were five more years of famine remaining. Moses stressed this point several times when he recorded the story of Joseph. It would become necessary to spirit his family Israel out of their homes and transplant them into the lush lands prepared for them in Egypt. God protected his faithful remnant, which would someday bring forth the Lord Jesus Christ into this dying world.
          Goshen, was a land of fertile green fields located along one of the tributaries of the River Nile. It's symbolic of the glories that we will see when we come into the third Heaven. Like Israel, the Bride of Christ shall be spirited out of our current tribulation to a place Jesus Himself has prepared for us.           
           As I finished reading part one of Ron's post, it occured to me that several more aspects of Joseph's time laboring in Egypt after his brothers sold him into slavery echo the real life events of the last two years in the lives of many Christians. During the last century more Christians have been murdered, imprisoned and attacked than during all the years of Roman rule. Here, Jesus has endured an especially bad bit of abuse at the hands of an unjust government burearocracy, court systems and mainstream media. They're biased against Christ and people of faith 'who cling to their Bibles and guns'. Persecution of Christians over the last thirty years has reached unprecidented sporting levels. The parallels between the famine suffered by Israel and the persecution that Christians have endured over last two years are strikingly familiar.
           Another poster commented upon the timing of the coming Jewish High Holy days, he calculated that the new moon should be sighted making September 11th, 2010 Rosh Hashanah. As, I pondered that possibility I'm reminded of the tragedy of September 11th 2001. That Rosh Hashanah will occur exactly nine years after the WTC attack seemed strangely significant to me. When I remembered that beautiful Tuesday morning I couldn't forget being out of the house attending an early morning Men's Bible Study. I came home to turn on the television just after the first place hit the South Tower. The implications of this impossible coincedence in timing caused me to review the story of Joseph and the parallels between those days and now. This gets very exciting, so please bear with me.
            Joseph, you will recall had already spent 'nine years' as the top overseer of all business in Egypt by the time he delivered into safety his family Israel. As a part of God's overall fourteen year plan revealed to Pharoah in a vivid dream that was accurately interpreted by Joseph, there were to be seven 'fat' years followed by seven 'lean'
Upon being appointed Overseer Joseph immediately took unprecidented steps to build grain warehouses to protect and defend Egypt's strategic stockpiles of grain against the coming famine. Once again 'exactly nine years' elapsed between the time God began His redemptive plan for the starving people of Israel and their deliverence. The September 11th 2001 attacks dramatically signalled to the world that we were entering into a new and much more dangerous era. People have even added into the popular lexicon the term 'Pre 9/11', when we didn't take precautions and drastic steps to protect people from terrorism. Since that very sad day, the beginning of a new nine year countdown began. It's all leading up in time to the deliverence of the Church now left here on Earth?
            The timing could not be coincedential, there are exactly nine years between the terror of 9/11/01 and the presumptive rapture of the church on 9/11/2010. Take the strategic measures that you need to take today to ensure that you are part of the Bride of Christ. Then you can look forward to the great and terrible Day of the Lord, which will occur exactly five years later on September 18th 2015.
            Thank you for taking the time to read my post. May Jesus find you at His coming awake, alert and filled with the Holy Spirit. May God bless you and keep you from the great time of trial, which will come upon all the people of the Earth. Amen & Amen.
 
                                                    Agape,
 
                                                              Mike Curtiss