The Pattern of Creation Week and the Menorah
A Golden Key to the Prophetic End Time  
I had studied prophecy for many years, gathering pieces, but not fully understanding how they fit into the end time puzzle.  Then one day, the Holy Spirit showed me a pattern found in the Creation Week.  Then He showed me it was the same pattern found in the 7 candle Menorah which lit the inner tabernacle.  Then He showed me Numbers 9 and Second Passover and how it was for the bride and groom.  Then He showed me how when you add Second Passover to the Spring Feasts, they create the same pattern within the 7 week Feast of Weeks.  Then He showed me how the key number in that pattern divides the 10.5 year period of the seals of Revelations and how this period is a battle over the right to rule.
 
I may be a college grad, but I am not that spiritually smart.  The things I am going to show you are the work of the Holy Spirit.  I'm no prophet.  There has never been even the slightest hint of that.  That requires perfection in prophecy and a death sentence if you miss.  That is not me.  But, the Holy Spirit speaks to every believer.  The problem is most are too busy with the noise of the world and they do not notice His voice.  He is meek and quiet.  I figure that is why the Lord spoke to Moses face to face.  God said Moses was meek above all men.  In order to hear the Holy Spirit one must "Stand Still" or "Be Still".  (Notice Numbers 9:8).  I think maybe the bride is good at this.  It is part of her close relationship with Jesus.
 
A few years back, the Lord more less removed me from the world.  He fenced me in.  I weren't all that quiet.  I whined and complained considerably.  I had doubts and fears, but I endured the chastening and did not turn away from His direction.  I did not run back to the world.  Bit by bit, precept upon precept, God gave me pieces, then He would show me where they went.  It may seem like a lot to some, but actually I have but a small part.  But, what I will show you here in this letter is a major key to unlocking the mysteries of Revelations and the understanding of the spring feasts, which is about first fruits.  With this key pattern, we can see which feast was for Jesus and the OT saints, which is for the bride and groom and which is for the tribulation saints and Holy Spirit.  With that knowledge, we can then figure out how the rapture of the bride events unfold and on what day of the week each part should take place.
 
The Holy Spirit gives in different measure to different people.  My measure is actually small.  There are many among the doves who have more.  Each of us have different gifts, some wisdom and understanding, some discernment, administration, teaching, preaching, healing, tongues, mathematics, geometry, celestial, and on and on.  Mine seem to be along the discernment, understanding and teaching line.  Yet, others who have the same gifts will be given understanding and wisdom in different areas or with a different angle or view.  We need the commitment of all the doves to unlock the many remaining mysteries in the short time before the rapture.  We are at the time of the end and the mysteries which were sealed are now being released.  We need to share what we see.  We all see only in part and through a glass darkly.  It was the same with the prophets and apostles.  We need all their views from all the scripture to put together appropriate understanding.  This web site is a wonderful tool for sharing.
 
My first company commander told me I have a gift for making the complex simple.  He went on to make Major General and we have been life long friends.  I was told that same thing on two other occasions by superiors.  I don't know if I have a little gift in that area or whether I'm just a simple Simon.   But, that is how I learn.  I organize things based on the simple threads I find that run through the complex.  Maybe that is why the Lord has whipped this pattern on me.  With it, much of prophecy falls into place.  From there, others will be able to see many other things.
 
Let us look at Creation Week.  This actually a figurative or symbolic week.  It is not a 7 day week of 24 hour days.  Such a view has caused great problems between those that believe in a God creation and those agnostics or unbelievers examining scientific evidence.  Yes, God created the heavens and earth, but they have been around a long time.  Note that the sun, moon and stars by which God said man would use for calendars was not created until day 4 (Gen 1:14-18).  Note Genesis 2:4 states, "These are the generations (plural) of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day (singular) that the Lord God made the earth and heavens."  Now, the point here is not to argue the validity of the length of the week.  That is not the point.  To God a day is as a thousand years.  When Jesus departed earth He told His disciples He would return after 2 days.  It has been about 2000 years.  The point is there is a figurative or symbolic nature to the week of 7 days.  There is a pattern hidden within it, a very important pattern which governs God's prophetic future.
 
First, we see a 7 day week.  On day one we see not only a beginning point, but we see something God calls earth and it is without form and void and darkness was upon the deep.  Then God created light and said the light was good.  He did not say that about darkness.  It is a fact that light drives out darkness, that darkness is the mere absence of light.  Darkness should have been eliminated, but God divided the light from the darkness giving each an equal portion.  He gave to light the day and to darkness the night.  Each ruled over a portion.  A big point here is there is division.  It is the first mentioned division in God's creation.
 
Next, we will skip to day 4.  It is the cardinal midpoint of the 7 day week.  It is the next point at which we see light created and the mention of dividing.  This is the actual creation of the sun, moon and stars.  Each of these are associated with physical light.  These lights (plural) are to divide the day from the night.  The celestial calendar is set in motion, i.e. "let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years."
Time began here.
 
I would add that God established this celestial calendar to show all creation that time marches toward an appointed day in which Satan's rebellion would be finished.  It points to a day when darkness (sin) is judged and separated.  Day and Night exchange rule at the evening and morning.  These mark the changing of the day.  It is no wonder we see a flaming fiery sunrise and sunset to mark this exchange.  It speaks of a future judgement.  It is a struggle over right to rule.
 
There is more to this day 4.  God created the greater light to rule the day and the lessor light to rule the night.  He created the stars also.  Darkness now has a competitor in his rule over the night.  It is obvious the greater light is the sun and the lessor is the moon.  But these have a spiritual meaning as well, just as everything in this creation.  The sun surely spiritually represents the Son.  The moon surely represents the bride.  She rules over darkness in the night, but she does not have her own light, but reflects the light of the sun.  The stars also shine in the darkness.  I am not quite sure the spiritual meaning.  Maybe they are God's holy angels watching from afar.  Verse 18 sums up two very important traits of the sun and moon.  They rule and they divide.  (Always keep in mind, divide and separate are synonyms).
 
Now one might jump to day six as very important in that is the day God created man and gave the earth to him.  He was told to be fruitful and to multiply and to subdue the earth.  Man was the highlight in the creation week and so God turned it over to him and said it was good.  The problem is man was deceived by that old serpent, the Devil.  By his sin, man gave control of himself and the earth over to Satan.
 
That leads us to day 7.  Being the last number in the week of 7, it is a number of completion or conclusion.  It is also a number of perfection.  This leads us to the showdown between God and Satan when things must be concluded, i.e. drawn to a close.  The battle between light and darkness for right to rule must reach its destiny, so there can again be peace.  There must be a victor and the loser judged and banished (divided/separated).  Each day through day 6 when God closed the creation events, He said it was good.  But, the 7th day God blessed it and sanctified it.  He then rested from all His works.  These last two remarks tells us perfection must be reached (blessed/sanctified), then comes completion and rest.  Both these are achieved on the 7th day.  It is the grand finale and conclusion.  Order is restored in the creation and the foe defeated, judged and separated.  Perfection and conclusion are reached in the battle between light and darkness which began at day 1.
 
What one should see here is a figure of 7 in which the 1, 4 and 7 are prominent particularly in respect to the battle between light and darkness.  Each of these are prominent in the creation week story concerning dividing (separating) and right to rule.  But without doubt, day 4 stands out as preeminent.  It takes the battle from the spiritual heavens to the physical creation and specifically to man's home, the earth.  It is the day in which the celestial calendar and time is began setting forth a prophetic day when Satan would be finished.  This day is seen in Revelations 10 when Satan is thrown out of heaven.  Verses 6 and 7 tell us time should be no more and the mystery of God should be finished.
 
But, most importantly we see the role of the 4 in right to rule and in dividing (separating).  Specifically the sun (Son) and moon (bride) are seen in these roles, ruling over darkness and dividing day and night.  It is a battle over the right to rule and the victor gets the right to divide (separate).
 
This 1 - 4 - 7 pattern is seen also in the Menorah candlestick, a figure with 7 candles.  The Menorah provided light to the inner tabernacle, that which was most holy.  I  might add it shines a pattern.  A description of it is found in Exodus 25: 31-40.  It is described as a candle with six branches coming out of it.  God told Moses the pattern should be as the one He showed him on the mount.  The odds are very good this pattern is the same one found before the throne in Revelations 1:12-20.  The 4th candle is the mid point divider and main candle dividing the 6.  It had the almond shaped bowl which contained the oil (Holy Spirit) which fed the other candles that they might burn providing light.  As in Creation Week, the 1st and 7th candles are prominent in marking a beginning and end, but the 4th is preeminent as both a divider and ruler.
 
Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end.  In Revelations 1:12-13, He is seen in the midst (middle) of seven golden candlesticks.  These remarks point to the pattern of 1 -4 - 7.   He was descended from Judah, the 4th born of Jacob.  He came to earth at the end of the 4th day (end of 400 years) and died on a cross for the redemption of man.  You can physically see the cross in the number 4.  When Jesus died on the cross, He said it was finished.  The battle was over and He had won the right to rule.  When He left the earth, He said He was going to the Father, to get Himself a Kingdom.  The number 4 in Creation Week is clearly seen as a number of the groom and bride, establishing their right to rule and divide.  It is from day 4, that the 40 (period of generational testing) and the 400 (period of blessing) comes.
 
You can see the number 4 in the battle over right to rule and in dividing the period of the seals of Revelations into 3 each 3.5 year periods.  Revelations 2:10 tells us we shall have tribulation 10 days, i.e. 10 years.  Actually it runs an additional 5 or 6 months from the spring feast time in which it begins to the fall feast time in which it ends.  I will let others discuss the implications of a shortened tribulation.  We are only talking 50-60 days here.  I am showing you the basic picture.  The seals open on Pentecost Sunday, 10 days after the ascension of the living wise bride on Ascension Day.  There will be a great Holy Spirit outpouring on the left behind tribulation saints and they are the white horse that rides leading a world wide revival.  I will discuss the tribulation period later and go into the details, but the white horse is not the antichrist coming to power peaceably.  The white, red, black and pale horses will ride during this first 3.5 year period..
 
The antichrist is the first beast and his name is Death.  That is because he establishes the mark and commands all to worship the beast, under penalty of death.  The false prophet is the second beast.  He is known as Hell.  Death and Hell come to power at the end of the 4th seal, following the 4th (pale) horse (Revelations 6:8).  Remember the # 4 and its association with right to rule and dividing.  These will come to power in the fall.  Remember Israel's kings generally took over their thrones in the fall.  These two will confirm the covenant of Daniel 9:27, concerning the disputed lands and 7 year false peace treaty.  Every aspect of the Oslo accords all way to Annapolis have been conducted/agreed upon in the fall.  They come to power in the fall of 2011.  The red, black and pale horses were orchestrated by these and their horns to set the stage for the nations of the world to accept a global government.  After these events, the nations of the world will listen to their peaceable talk.  They are not happy about the white horse and the mark of the beast is their answer.  They rule 42 months (3.5 years)
 
The two witnesses are also here 1260 days (3.5 years).  They come when the 2 beasts come to power at the end of the 4th seal.  Elijah will battle the antichrist much as he did King Ahab and Jezebel.  Elijah has the power to with hold rain.  This middle 3.5 year period will be a battle royal over right to rule.  The tribulation saints have had their hey day and are now being greatly persecuted and killed.  Angels preach.  It is a time of great spiritual battle.
 
Satan is thrown out of heaven in Revelations 10.  He then embodies the false prophet and takes over. This will be in the spring of 2015.  This is at the end of the 4th trumpet.  Remember the # 4 with right to rule and division.  He kills the two witnesses and when they are resurrected the tribulation saints are also resurrected and ascend with them in a cloud (Rev 11:12).  This will be on a Pentecost Sunday, exactly 7 years after the initial Holy Spirit outpouring.  It is at this point, the 144,000 sealed mortal men of the tribes of Israel are hidden in the wilderness for 1260 days (Rev 12:6).  Satan then subdues (makes fall) 3 of the kings (horns).  He rules the last 3.5 years.  This is the period of the Woes (5th, 6th and 7th trumpets).  The 7th trumpet is the vials of God's wrath.  But, God lets Satan have all his demons which have been locked in hell since the flood, even his most bad and key allies.  Jesus and His angels will do battle with Satan, his demons and armies of men.  Jesus will then return with His saints in the fall of 2018.  I do not know, but I suspect on the Feast of Trumpets.  To me that would signify triumphal entry of a royal victor.
 
The spring feasts also display a 1 - 4 - 7 pattern.  This pattern is seen in the 7 week Feast of Weeks, a feast about first fruits of the harvest.  One would never notice this pattern without including Second Passover.  It falls exactly on the 4th Sabbath Omer of the Feast of Weeks.  Remember the # 4 and right to rule.  First Passover begins the Feast of Weeks and Pentecost concludes it.  I will discuss these feasts in detail later, but Jesus and the OT saints are associated with First Passover, the groom and bride associated with Second Passover and the tribulation saints with Pentecost.  Pentecost will conclude the work of the Holy Spirit and that is why the two loaves are presented to the Lord on Pentecost (Lev 23:17).  The Holy Spirit will then rest as did God in Genesis 2:2.  The OT saints attend the wedding as the groom's bridal party and the bride attends the wedding.  The tribulation saints arrive 7 years later and attend the wedding supper.
 
We will discuss in detail later, but I will show you the pattern in Hezekiah's Second Passover which tells us how the events of the rapture play out.  Suffice to say quickly here, that the midnight cry (resurrection of the dead) will occur on a Second Passover Friday evening/Saturday Sabbath day.  It will be both a regular 7th day Sabbath and a High Sabbath Feast Day.  7 days later following the Feast of Unleavened Bread (same as the virgins trimming their lamps), there will be a "changing" to immortal of the living wise.  This is in the twinkling of an eye.  7 days later on a Thursday evening, the bride will ascend on Ascension Day.  10 days later there will be a Holy Spirit outpouring on the left behind tribulation saints, on a Pentecost Sunday.  Ecclesiasties 1:9, what has been shall be, there is nothing new under the sun.
 
Steve