Tony Ellsworth (12 Dec 2006)
"Elijah - wood, fire, water Rapture"


Elijah – wood, fire, water Rapture

This month there is 3 planets coming together in conjunction with one another.  See as follows:

Mercury, Mars and Jupiter in Triple Planetary Conjunction

Over a four day period from December 9th to December 12th a triple planetary conjunction will occur in the morning between the planets Mercury, Mars and Jupiter.

December 9th

Mercury, Mars and Jupiter will be within 1°30' of each other.

December 10th

Mercury and Jupiter will be within a mere 0°10' of each other, while Mars will be only 1° away from the pair.

December 11th

Jupiter and Mars will be within 0°50' of each other, while Mercury will be about 1°30' of the pair.

December 12th

Jupiter and Mars are still within 1° of each other.

According to the AstroPlanet website (http://astroplanet.org/index.php) these planets have the following meanings:

Jupiter:      wood (Jesus & the cross, also he is the branch)

Mars:         fire (Michael the Arch Angel related to war)

Mercury:     water (Gabriel and the messenger taking the Holy Spirit’s message to whom God chooses)

This makes sense as Jupiter often has been used as a symbol for God or Jesus (satan in his cheap copy uses various pagan gods for all the planets, remember satan is not a creator, but rather a deceiver – only YHWH is a creator). 

When I saw wood, fire and water – I immediately thought of Elijah and Mount Carmel.  Let’s investigate:

Elijah has gone before wicked King Ahab.  King Ahab calls Elijah a “troubler” of Israel, but Elijah says that it is in fact King Ahab.  A challenge is set forth and the original showdown at O.K. Corral takes place on Mount Carmel.  It is Elijah vs. 450 Baal Prophets and the King & Queen Jezebel.

God or Baal on Mount Carmel

 20So Ahab sent a message among all the sons of Israel and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel.

 21Elijah came near to all the people and said, "(R)How long will you hesitate between two opinions? (S)If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word.

 22Then Elijah said to the people, "I (T)alone am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal's prophets are (U)450 men.

22 being an “ticket number” to judgment and also Rapture it will be Elijah left on earth to minister to Israel and many false prophets under the anti-christ.

 23"Now let them give us two oxen; and let them choose one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood, and I will not put a fire under it.

 24"Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD, and (V)the God who answers by fire, He is God." And all the people said, "[b]That is a good idea."

Notice verse 24, 24 being the number for heavenly government and here a Royal Decree shall be issued, with Elijah setting up the parameters.  The Baal Prophets, King Ahab and Queen Jezebel consider themselves heavy favorites.

 25So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."

 26Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, "O Baal, answer us." But there was (W)no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the altar which they made.

 27It came about at noon, (high noon at the O.K. Corral) that Elijah mocked them and said, "Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god; either he is occupied or gone aside, or is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and needs to be awakened." (as parent’s we’d tell our children this isn’t being a good sport – I guess it’s okay in this context however…)

 28So they cried with a loud voice and (X)cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.

 29When midday was past, they raved (Y)until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice; but there was no voice, no one answered, and no one paid attention.

 30Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me." So all the people came near to him. And (Z)he repaired the altar of the LORD which had been torn down.

 31Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "(AA)Israel shall be your name."

The stones stand for men or people, remember Jesus as he was hailed King when he came into Jerusalem riding on a donkey said that “even the stones” would cry out.  12 is the number for earthly government (12 tribes of Israel and also 12 Apostles).

 32So with the stones he built an altar in (AB)the name of the LORD, and he made a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two measures of seed.

 33(AC)Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood.

Notice in verse 33 here that the ox is crucified and put on the wood.  Similar to Jesus and the crucifixion.  The Ox stands for the reem, which is known as Taurus.  Astrology is wicked and forbidden, but remember again satan is not a creator, but a deceiver and the reem, Taurus or Ox was sacrificed the first time, but Jesus will come with righteous indignation upon his second coming.

Here is a quick excerpt from “Gospel of the Stars” by Joseph A. Seiss regarding Taurus and the reem:

Pg. 102- 103, Gospel in the Stars

In mythology this Bull was always accounted snow-white, the color of righteousness and royal judgment.  According to some of the accounts, this form was assumed by Jupiter out of his passion for the beautiful Europa, whom he won by his gentleness and bore on his back across the seas to Crete.  The god of the sea demanded that he should be offered in sacrifice, but because of his beauty the king preserved him.  Afterward he became mad, and wrought great havoc and destruction among the Cretans and could neither be caught nor tamed except by Heracles. 

This story remarkably interprets with reference to Christ and His Church, and the anger with which He is to visit the wicked world after the Church of the first-born has been safely landed in heaven.  The same becomes the more striking when we take in some other markings of the case.

Among the early nations there was a wide spread idea connecting this Bull with the Deluge, and the Pleiades-the seven stars, the Doves, the peculiar star-cluster of “sweet influences” – with the ark of Noah and those saved by it in the great judgment.  “The seven stars”, which the Scriptures also connect with the Church (Rev 1:16, 2:1), are on the back of this Bull, high up on his great shoulder.  The Pleiades, according to the myths, were the seven daughters of Atlas, the upholder of heaven and earth, who, with their sisters, the Hyades, in this Bull’s head, were placed in heaven because of their virtues and mutual sympathy and affection.  They beautifully symbolize the saints securely supported by the terrible Judge, and who, together with the holy angels whom they are like, thus move with Him and His inflictions upon the guilty world.

And when we take this fierce and enraged aurochs as the symbol of the glorious Head of His redeemed people, particularly in those scenes of judgment upon the apostate and unbelieving nations after the saints have been taken away, we have before our eyes in the stars the very picture which Isaiah describes where he prophesies of “the world, and all the things that come forth of it,” and says:  “The indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and His fury upon all their armies.  He hath delivered them to the slaughter.  Their slain also shall be case out, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.  The unicorns (the reems the precise animal which constitutes the figure in Taurus) shall come down, and the bullocks with the bulls, and their land shall be soaked with blood.  For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.” (34:2-8)

 34And he said, "Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood." And he said, "Do it a second time," and they did it a second time. And he said, "Do it a third time," and they did it a third time.

4 pitchers of water:

1st time = 4 corners of the earth, 4 is the number for earth, 4 directions (n, s, e, w), 4 seasons, etc.

2nd time = 8 is a number for new beginnings, and the water stands for God’s Holy Spirit being poured out upon the earth

3rd time = 12 is God’s number for earthly government.  By the time the pitcher of water, which is God’s Holy Spirit is poured out it will establish his earthly government.

 35The water flowed around the altar and he also filled the trench with water.

God’s Holy Spirit covering everything…

Elijah's Prayer

 36(AD)At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near and said, "(AE)O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that (AF)You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and (AG)I have done all these things at Your word.

 37"Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that You, O LORD, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again."

Huge stuff here…  It was at the evening sacrifice that Jesus died and was accepted, and so was the bull or ox here for that example. 

Elijah shall be used to turn Israel once again to YHWH and this time, his son Jesus as well.

37 is the Star of David number.  It is also the age of Jesus if he were to complete his ministry of 7 years, but it was cut off at midpoint in the crucifiction (3 ½ years).

 38Then the (AH)fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

More huge stuff… Notice fire comes to earth and the second destruction of the earth will be by fire (not water as in the time of Noah and the rainbow which is YHWH’s promise not to do it that way again).

Also, don’t skip over the part where wood, stones, dust and water is all consumed, or “taken” while this fire comes to earth.  You might expect that fire would consume, wood and maybe dust.  Fire consuming water must be really intense and I don’t even know if fire has ever consumed stones.  Let’s take a closer look here:

Wood & bull = Jesus and the bull/ox/reem dying for our sins

Dust = as our father Adam, we are made by dust of the earth

12 stones = God takes his elect from earthly government for heavenly government

Water = the Holy Spirit goes with these elect as well, also thus the fire and judgment coming to the earth

 39When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "(AI)The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God."

The Lord (or YHWH) is God is also Elijah’s name…

 40Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape." So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to (AJ)the brook Kishon, (AK)and slew them there.

 41Now Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower."

Now the Holy Spirit comes once Israel has again turned themselves to YHWH

 42So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of (AL)Carmel; and he (AM)crouched down on the earth and put his face between his knees.

 43He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." So he went up and looked and said, "There is nothing." And he said, "Go back" seven times.

 44It came about at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, (AN)a cloud as small as a man's hand is coming up from the sea." And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.'"

 45In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. And Ahab rode and went to (AO)Jezreel.

 46Then (AP)the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and (AQ)he girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel.