Dear friends:

The link I shared yesterday about Isaac Newton and the year 2006 reminded me of the 1997 book by Michael Drosnin, The Bible Code.

I believe the Bible codes are from God, but experience has shown that they are not reliable as predictors, at least at this stage of our understanding.  Nevertheless, it is interesting that Drosnin’s book clearly points to the year 2006.

Written in 1997, Drosnin says, “I checked every year in the next hundred years.  Only two years, 2000 and 2006, were clearly encoded with ‘World War’…

At first I thought, “World war in 2000?  It didn’t happen.  So much for Drosnin.”

But then  I realized it did!  The Palestinian Intifada started on September 29, 2000.  That could be considered the real beginning of the present world war on terrorism.  Within a year, the most horrendous attack ever on American soil occurred, on September 11, 2001.

Further evidence: Rabbis in Israel concluded that the 2000 Intifida began "the time of Jacob's trouble," referred to in Jeremiah 30:7. The declaration was reportedly signed by 27 of the leading Orthodox and Chassidic sages.

Previously I reported that in 1958-1959, the grandmother of a Dr. James Brooks told him that biblical judgment would begin sometime after the year 2000. She told him that a sign that judgment was beginning would be when a large building in New York City was destroyed by people from a Muslim country, which happened on 9-11.

On July 25, 2001, I reported that Hebrew archeologist and researcher Vendyl Jones wrote: "This is the Jewish year 5761 or CE 2000-2001. On Rosh Hashanah, September 27-28, the present Amalek crisis began. That very date is the beginning of the Shmittah (Sabbatical) year. This is the seventh Shmittah (Sabbatical) year since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948."  By Amalek crisis, he means Intifada, or uprising of the sons of Amalek.

In 2002, I reported the following from Bible teacher Billye Brim: "When I went to my Jewish source in Israel, he reminded me again that September 11, 1999 was ‘the year everything changed’ and the beginning of the judgment of the nations."

The modern-day Bible-believing church age began when Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic church and nailed his biblical thesis to the church door. This was on October 31, 1517. In Daniel we read about a 483-year period in Jewish history before the 1st coming of Christ. Could God also have given a similar 483-year period to the Church before the final countdown? If you count 483 years from A.D. 1517, you arrive in the year 2000, the time frame we are discussing.

CONCLUSION.  Drosnin’s book points to the years 2000 and 2006 for world wars, and it appears he was correct about 2000.  Will he be correct about 2006?  Remember, the link yesterday said Sir Isaac Newton’s research points to the year 2006 as only being the beginning of the countdown to Armageddon, not necessarily Armageddon.

With the nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea, and the near explosion between Israel, Hamas and the PLO, all blossoming in 2006, it just may be true.

Jim
 

(Yesterday’s link was http://www.triumphpro.com/2006,_bible_codes,_newton.htm)