Let's go into the Christmas season with our hearts and minds on Jesus. Please read the rest with your Bible. Read the verses so that they will burn into your heart and mind as the truth. God's word has a simple beauty that tells us the exact time we can hear the trumpet and His voice say "Come up hither".The sign of the Fig tree (Mat 24:32-34, Mk 13:28-30, Lk 21:29-32) is Judah, the nation state known today as Israel. Specifically the sign spoken of is the June 1967 War in which the young (tender, not yet an adult) nation of Israel (born May 48, therefore 19 at the time, not an adult -- age 20, Num 14:29) gained a spring growth (just prior to summer solstace--summer was nigh) of the lands of Sinai, West Bank, Golan Heights and Jerusalem. This is the very land which is disputed and bargained for in the Oslo Accords and the very treaty (concerning this land) the Antichrist will confirm with many. The sign Jesus gives us here is clearly the June 67 event.
If you add 40 years (generational testing period) to the Fig tree you will get the spring of 2007. 40 (days/years) is the most used period in scripture and never is this period shortened or lengthened. You can expect Jesus to come for His bride this spring. 10 years later plus the number of months between the spring and fall feasts, Jesus will return with His angels and His saints to defeat the foe and begin His reign. This will be the Jubile (50) when all property is returned to the original owner. Jesus owns the title deed to this earth. In between the 40 and 50 markers, the seals of Revelations will be broken. The last 7 years will be the tribulation.
The importance of the 40 is in its many applications found in scripture. It first showed up at the flood when it rained 40 days/nights. This points to the end of the next age which culminates with the seals of Revelations. It shows next at Joseph's embalming period, therefore is tied to Joseph and the story of his children. It is tied to Moses, the bush and the passover of Ex 11 & 12 in that Moses life was divided into 3 sets of 40 years (Acts 7). Under Moses' leadership, the spies scouted the promised land 40 days and in Num 14:34 a day for a year relationship is established. The Hebrew Israelites wandered in the desert exactly 40 years before Joshua (an Ephraimite) led them across Jordon into the promised land. Moses was on the mountain to meet God and fasted 40 days (twice), Ex 24:18 and Deut 9: 25-26.
Other 40's: Elijah went up Mt Horeb to meet God and fasted 40 days, 1 Kgs 19: 2 & 8. He is another who is a player in the tribulation. Ninevah was on probation 40 days, Jonah 3:4. Ninevah was the capital of Assyria, who captured the 10 tribes of Israel. Goliath defied Saul and the army of Israel 40 days, 1 Sam 17:16. Surely, Goliath is foreshawdow of the coming antichrist. Jesus wandered in the wilderness, fasted and was tempted by Satan 40 days, Lk 4:1-2. Jesus appeared on the earth after his resurrection 40 days, Acts 1:3, ascending on the 40th day. Can't get any more rapture related than that.
This period is confirmed with another sign, the sign of the bush. See Mk 12:26-27 and Lk 20:35-38. This resurrection of the dead is the one found in 1 Thes 13-17 because it is a mirror reflected image (reversed image) of the original passover event in Ex 11:4-7. This will happen too at Passover, albeit it will happen at 2nd Passover (Num 9 & 2 Chron 30). At this Passover, there also will be a great midnight cry, but God will raise the firstborn dead of His church bride. In it He still demonstrates that He sets a difference between those who imbrace the world (Egypt) and those who imbrace Him (Israel -- His church bride). This time He is a God of the living, not the God of the dead.The bush is found in one of the sons of Joseph, Ephraim. Manesseh and Ephraim were blessed by Jacob to be a great nation and multitude of nations (states) in the last days, See Gen 48: 12-22. Ephraim, the younger was to be the greater. You can see the rapture event in the blessing on Joseph by Moses in Deut 33:16. Those of goodwill (the bride) who dwell in the bush are separated (divided from). In Jacob's blessing on Joseph in Gen 49: 22-26, you can see that those who have lived separate will receive a crown on their head. According to the first verse in this chapter, this is an end time blessing. The blessing on the sons in chp 48 was too and so is Moses blessing in Deut 33 (all last days). The first time the bush is ever mentioned in the Bible, you can see in Ex 3:7-8, that God was coming to deliever His people from the bondage of Egypt (the world).
You can see in Deut 33:17 that after this separation event, Ephraim and Manasseh push the peoples of the world together, i.e. they form the one world government that H.W. Bush announced publicly after Desert Storm in 1991 as the New World Order. Joseph's children (leaders of the 10 tribes God calls Israel) received a double portion of the good blessing. At the very end, when they have rejected their God, they will receive a double (even 7 times) portion of cursing. Read the blessings and cursings chapters in Deut 27 - 30. It is a faithful promise from God. God surely has a two fold nature, one is love and the other is wrath. After those of goodwill are separated (the bride), Ephraim and Manesseh are no longer the double blessed, but double cursed and known as Babylon. Rev 18 is about her destruction. The bride is removed in vs 4 and 23. Her blessing of double is doubled twice in cursing, vs 6.
Micah 5: 5-15 is another quick read of our future. It takes us from Desert Storm to the same end found in Rev 18. Remember after DS is when H.W. Bush announced the NWO. Ezekial, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos and many other scripture tells us of the fate of Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph on whom fell the name Israel, Gen 48:16. I will go into some of the many prophecies we can identify as last days for these two in a later letter. For now, it is no accident that USA is in the middle of Jerusalem. For those who say that America is not mentioned in God's prophecies, you just don't know what it is that God calls them. Their importance was established in the 48th and 49th chapters of Genesis.
Now, on to the bush sign which also points to this spring:
The bush is a tare just like the thistles and thorns which appeared on the earth after Adam and Eve sinned. God cursed the serpent and He cursed the ground and it began to bear things other than goodly fruitful trees and plants, Gen 3:14-18. Jesus gave us a parable about the tares in Mat 13:24-30. When the servants told the master about the tares in the wheat field, Jesus replied that an enemy had sowed them. Further, He told them not to dig up the tares because they were similar to the wheat at a young age and some of the wheat might be destroyed. He told them to let them grow up together and then He would gather the wheat into the barn and then burn the tares in a consuming fire. Remember as well, that when Moses saw the bush, he was amazed that the fire did not harm the bush. You can bet the bush will be consumed in the end when God burns those tares.
The Bush family is a tare. Jesus tells us Satan sowed the tares. There is much deception going on with the enemy. If you look at the other son of Joseph, Manasseh (Great Britain, the older), you will notice that there is a throne associated there. It is a throne which has a crown and all the appropriate symbols associated with Jesus, but also his chief enemy, Satan. The crown has 12 points. For many centuries, its kings were coronated in a chair with a rock underneath it that they claimed was Jacob's pillar rock. It is the richest and most powerful throne in the world today. I suspect that while the Bush is in Ephraim, another powerful tribulation figure will come out of that throne. Note Joseph's role during the famine in Egypt found in Gen 47:13-26. It is the foreshadowing story of the antichrist and the tribulation.
Please, nobody think that I am trying to be political. I could care less about either party. I know the democrats look wicked, as wicked as any dragon. Even Hillary looks to be the future Isis of Babylon. But, do not get charmed by the bush. It may appear to be a goodly tree, but it is always associated with the thorns, thistles and poisonous vines. By experience and in scripture, we know that here we also find serpents, stinging bees, scorpions etc.
The Fig tree and the bush, the two most important signs of our time. Well, you say there has been two Bush presidents? Yes, that is a sign from God. Job 11:6 tells us the secrets (pl) of wisdom are double to that which is. Bush # 2, second term fits perfectly with the sign of the Fig tree + 40. This spring at the time of the Second Passover will be momentous. God still reigns. Look up, our salvation draws near, very near.
Steve