Absolument! It is a sign of the Rapture! RE: Jim Bramlett (24 Mar 2014)--"Duke falls to Mercer!"

Hello, John and Doves,

Absolument! It is a sign of the Rapture!

I am sure you have read:

David Kills Goliath

32“Don’t worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul. “I’ll go fight him!”

33“Don’t be ridiculous!” Saul replied. “There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.”

34But David persisted. “I have been taking care of my father’s sheep and goats,” he said. “When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, 35I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. 36I have done this to both lions and bears, and I’ll do it to this pagan Philistine, too, for he has defied the armies of the living God! 37The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”

Saul finally consented. “All right, go ahead,” he said. “And may the Lord be with you!”

38Then Saul gave David his own armor—a bronze helmet and a coat of mail. 39David put it on, strapped the sword over it, and took a step or two to see what it was like, for he had never worn such things before.

“I can’t go in these,” he protested to Saul. “I’m not used to them.” So David took them off again. 40He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd’s bag. Then, armed only with his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.

41Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, 42sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy. 43“Am I a dog,” he roared at David, “that you come at me with a stick?” And he cursed David by the names of his gods. 44“Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.

45David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel! 47And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!”

48As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him. 49Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground.

50So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword. 51Then David ran over and pulled Goliath’s sword from its sheath. David used it to kill him and cut off his head.

Israel Routs the Philistines

When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they turned and ran. 52Then the men of Israel and Judah gave a great shout of triumph and rushed after the Philistines, chasing them as far as Gath^g and the gates of Ekron. The bodies of the dead and wounded Philistines were strewn all along the road from Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron. 53Then the Israelite army returned and plundered the deserted Philistine camp. 54(David took the Philistine’s head to Jerusalem, but he stored the man’s armor in his own tent.)

55As Saul watched David go out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the commander of his army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?”

“I really don’t know,” Abner declared.

56“Well, find out who he is!” the king told him.

57As soon as David returned from killing Goliath, Abner brought him to Saul with the Philistine’s head still in his hand. 58“Tell me about your father, young man,” Saul said.

And David replied, “His name is Jesse, and we live in Bethlehem.”

1 Samuel 17:32-58 NLT

So, I think we have a connection between Mercer vs. Duke, David vs. Goliath, and God Himself.

Let us recall a passage from the top of the page:

1 Samuel 17:34-37

Another passage:

1 Samuel 17:45-47 NLT

In the same way, it is written,

1^aMobilize! Marshal your troops!

The enemy is laying siege to Jerusalem.

They will strike Israel’s leader

in the face with a rod.

A Ruler from Bethlehem

2^bBut you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,

are only a small village among all the people of Judah.

Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you,

one whose origins are from the distant past.

3The people of Israel will be abandoned to their enemies

until the woman in labor gives birth.

Then at last his fellow countrymen

will return from exile to their own land.

4And he will stand to lead his flock with the Lord’s strength,

in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.

Then his people will live there undisturbed,

for he will be highly honored around the world.

5And he will be the source of peace.

Micah 5:1-5 NLT

Micah 5:3 [3 being the number of the fullness of the Godhead--Colossians 2:9] may refer to this passage:

1Who is this who comes from Edom,

from the city of Bozrah,

with his clothing stained red?

Who is this in royal robes,

marching in his great strength?

“It is I AM, announcing your salvation!

It is I AM, who has the power to save!”

2Why are your clothes so red,

as if you have been treading out grapes?

3“I have been treading the winepress alone;

no one was there to help me.

In my anger I have trampled my enemies

as if they were grapes.

In my fury I have trampled my foes.

Their blood has stained my clothes.

4For the time has come for me to avenge my people,

to ransom them from their oppressors.

5I was amazed to see that no one intervened

to help the oppressed.

So I myself stepped in to save them with my strong arm,

and my wrath sustained me.

6I crushed the nations in my anger

and made them stagger and fall to the ground,

spilling their blood upon the earth.”

Isaiah 63:1-6 NLT [verse 1 edited by me]

Isaiah 63:5 [the number of grace]

is itself a remez to Isaiah 59:

14Our courts oppose the righteous,

and justice is nowhere to be found.

Truth stumbles in the streets,

and honesty has been outlawed.

15Yes, truth is gone,

and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.

The Lord looked and was displeased

to find there was no justice.

16He was amazed to see that no one intervened

to help the oppressed.

So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm,

and his justice sustained him.

17He put on righteousness as his body armor

and placed the helmet of salvation on his head.

He clothed himself with a robe of vengeance

and wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion.

18He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds.

His fury will fall on his foes.

He will pay them back even to the ends of the earth.

19In the west, people will respect the name of the Lord;

in the east, they will glorify him.

For he will come like a raging flood tide

driven by the breath of the Lord.^a

20“The Redeemer will come to Jerusalem

to buy back those in Israel

who have turned from their sins,”^b

says the Lord.

21“And this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children’s children forever. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Isaiah 59:14-21 NLT

Isaiah 59:20 [4 (representing God’s creative works) times 5 (the number of grace)] in turn points us to Leviticus 25 and the Jubilee year.

In its turn, Leviticus 25 points us to Daniel 9:24, talking about the seventy Jubilees, the first year of the first count having been set in motion by Joshua and Caleb [Leviticus 25:2] 40 years before the entire nation of Israel entered the Promised Land. 1415 BC to 2015 AD is 70 X 7 of shmita counts.

The shmita count expansion of Daniel 9:24 was authorized by none other than Yeshua HaMashiach in the following passage:

Parable of the Unforgiving Debtor

21Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someoneⁱ who sins against me? Seven times?”

22“No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!^j

23“Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from him.24In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars.^k25He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold—along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt.

26“But the man fell down before his master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.’27Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt.

28“But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars.^l He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment.

29“His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it,’ he pleaded.30But his creditor wouldn’t wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full.

31“When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened.32Then the king called in the man he had forgiven and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me.33Shouldn’t you have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’34Then the angry king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt.

35“That’s what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters^m from your heart.”

Matthew 18:21-35 NLT

Every shmita year, personal debts owed [Matthew 18:21] were to be forgiven [Deuteronomy 15:1].

The seventy Jubilee counts [70 X 7 X (shmita cycle)] culminate in the year 5776, the 70^th jubilee year.

On 10 Tishrei 5776, which starts the evening of Tuesday, 22 September 2015, Yeshua Ha Mashiach is due to announce the

start of the 70^th Jubilee year [Leviticus 25].

~Blessings,

Mike

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Jim Bramlett (24 Mar 2014)
"Duke falls to Mercer!"

Who could believe it? In the NCAA basketball tournament, mighty Duke falls to tiny Mercer!

Mercer is a small college in Macon, Georgia. How could this happen? Is this a sign of the apocalypse?