John, In the mid 1990's, shortly after returning to the Lord from a several year backslidden state, I began to, for the first time, discover through revelation, the eternal significance and spiritual importance of Israel and the city of Jerusalem, as well as develop a supernatural love and reverence for the nation and God's holy city. He gave me a love and admiration for the Jewish people, as well as instilled in me the knowledge of His ultimate plans for the nation he restored after nearly 1900 years of banishment, and His people, who were heirs to the eternal covenant he made, millennia ago, with their patriarch, Abraham. Around mid 1999, shortly after they began making the new style (cheaper) U.S. Quarters, even though I had never had an interest in saving old coins before, I began putting away and saving 1960s and early 1970s quarters whenever I would get them in my change. Soon after, whenever I would receive a 1967 quarter in my change, there just seemed to be something special about finding another quarter from the year that God supernaturally and miraculously reunified Jerusalem as a result of the six-day war. This reverence and admiration has onky grown over the years since, and I still am moved in my spirit every time I am given a 1967 quarter in my change. Around that same time, in the winters from 1999-2001, and again from 2004-2007, I began working part-time, lunches, running cash register, for a friend of mine who owned a couple of restaurants. As you can well imagine, over those few winters, I received numerous 1967 quarters while working lunches for my friend. I also began saving Bicentennial, 1976, quarters as well, since I was a senior in High School that year. Over the years, I believe I have accumulated roughly 125-150, year 1967 Quarters, and approximately 100 Bicentennial quarters. Now, you're probably asking what do all these quarters have to do with Israel going to war soon? Well, on Monday of this week, when I emptied the change from my pocket, I happened to notice a very dark looking coin. On closer inspection, I would see that the dark coin was a 1967 quarter. (bottom left in photo) You'll notice how much darker it is than the (upper left In photo) 1967 quarter which is a normal, brighter silver color, and accurately depicts the appearance of the other 150, 1967 quarters I've saved over the past 15 years. Nearly immediately, I heard the words "gun metal grey" in my spirit as I inspected this coin. Then, I looked in the rest of the change I had just taken from my pocket, and to my amazement, there was also a 1976, Bicentennial quarter In the midst of the same pile of change? One of each, one 1967 and one 1976 quarter in the same handful of change from a few day's cash transactions. Over the past couple of years, it has been much more rare that I am given either a 1967 or 1776 quarter in my change, maybe one every 3-4 months, or less. So, to have received one of each in my change over the span of a few days, seemed to be noteworthy, to say the least. Then, when I heard the words "gun metal grey"...I felt deep in my spirit that the Lord was impressing to me that Israel would soon be going to war with one or more of her neighboring Arab enemies. The fact that the 1976 quarter accompanied the 1967 quarter in the same pocket of change on Monday, March 31 is, I strongly believe, very significant. As that coin symbolizes and remembers one of our nation's most significant wars, a war fought on our own soil, and which ultimately led to the birth of our own nation. Similarly, the Six Day War Israel fought against her enemies, on her own soil, led to the reunification of Jerusalem, and control over portions of the City of David, for the first time in nearly 2000 years. http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/ReunificationJerusalem.asp Now, today, Thursday April 3, just 3 days after discovering those two coins in the same pocket of change, when I emptied my coins today, I thought I must have left the 1967 quarter in my pocket, because there was another one, nearly identical (not quite as dark) in appearance, to the one (lower left corner in photo) I had discovered on Monday. Coincidence....???....two, 1967 "gun metal grey" quarters received in change in a 3 day span, both starkly different in appearance compared to the other 150, 1967 quarters I have in my possession and have accumulated since 1999? I choose rather to believe that the same One who placed a reverent and passionate love for the nation of Israel deep in my heart, is the same One who owns every coin ever minted on the earth, and somehow, supernaturally, orchestrated those 3 coins to come into my possession this week, so as to let me know how close Israel, and the world, is to going to war. All this means we arebso very close to Him "catching away" His bride....!!! Amos 3:7 Amplified Bible (AMP) 7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing [a]without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets. Footnotes: Amos 3:7 God has always warned the world of coming judgments in order that it may not bring them upon itself. He warned Noah of the coming flood (Gen. 6:13ff.); Abraham and Lot of the future destruction of Sodom (Gen. 18:17; 19:14); Joseph of the seven-year famine (Gen. 41:30); Moses of the ten plagues on Egypt (Exod. 7:1ff.); Jonah of the destruction of Nineveh (Jonah 1:2; 3:4); Amos of the downfall of Syria, Philistia, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah, and Israel (Amos 1 and 2). Various prophets were told in detail about the final events in connection with the captivities of the chosen people, and in every case the warnings were startlingly executed. Jonah announced the destruction of Nineveh, but judgment was postponed following repentance. When later generations of Ninevites backslid and reverted to extreme wickedness, the warning of Nahum was carried out completely against them. Christ’s coming was foretold throughout the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi. Equally plain and inevitable of fulfillment are the warnings of Jesus and the prophets concerning the future that each day comes nearer to every nation on earth.
