Hello, John and Doves,
DP, your letter is a great lesson in Church history!
I think that the Spiritual event that will take place must be the incredible and sudden
spiritual tsunami that will take place after the Rapture, since the Rapture itself has no sign.
There are signs only for those events surrounding the Rapture.
If the success of the 144,000 super Billy Grahams is just around the corner, then the Rapture is “closer than it appears.”
Explanation: 
Tachyons travel in time.
Thus, I figure the Rapture will be here before we know it.
Then comes the crisis for Israel that has been postponed while
we have remained on Earth these 5+ years since the beginning of Daniel’s 70th week.
After that, Eretz Israel (Spiritual Israel born from the faithful preaching of the 144,000)
flees to eastern future Israel, in the vicinity of Bozrah.
It is written,
Who 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, the LORD, announcing your salvation! It is I, the
LORD, who has the power to save!"
~Blessings,
Mike
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http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2014/dp17.htm
DP (7 Jan 2014)
"FIRST THE NATURAL, THEN THE SPIRITUAL"
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. |
Regarding the upcoming Tetrad, I think the above verse needs to be taken into account!
The events that have happened on prior Tetrads have happened to the physical/ie natural/ nation of Israel.
Why should we 'expect' anything different?
It
is my opinion that ''something'' major will happen with regards to the
nation of Israel FIRST, Then something may happen to the Church
overcomers, the Spiritual Israel.
Going by memory here, as I
recall, after the the 1948 war of Independence of Israel..........the
Physical fulfillment.........then came the Great Healing Crusades of the
the 1950's..........the Spiritual after the Physical/Natural
fulfillment.
And after the the war of 1967 of physical Israel,
then the great Pentecostal Revivals regarding the spread of the Baptism
of the Holy Spirit started in several denominations!
So, we see the Pattern Set. First the Natural, then the Spiritual.
As
I was typing this to be sent in, I wondered.......... what Spiritual
'event/s' may have happened after the Tetrad associated with 1492?
I did some research, just now, and found this amazing article:
http://www.gci.org/bible/english
If
you read the history in the above article you will see that Guttenberg
developed the ability to print the Bible sometime before 1492. However,
there was NO major spread of the Bible until the 1500's..............ie
after 1492!!
Notice these excerpts:
A martyr’s death
''Tyndale
spent his final years in the free city of Antwerp, where he revised and
improved his New Testament and translated parts of the Old. In May
1535, Tyndale was betrayed, kidnapped and imprisoned by papal agents at
Vilvorde Castle near Brussels. After 15 months’ imprisonment, he was
tried for heresy and condemned to death. A decade earlier they had
burned the translation; now they resolved to burn the translator.
Tyndale
went boldly to the stake, still defending his belief that the English
should have a Bible in their own language. On October 6, 1536, he was
tied to a post and strangled, after which his body was burned to ashes. He
died bravely, with his last breath crying out with fervent zeal and a
loud voice, "Lord, open the eyes of the king of England!"
An answered prayer
Tyndale’s
prayer was even at that moment being fulfilled. An altered royal and
ecclesiastical attitude had emerged in England, following King Henry
VIII’s break with Rome and assumption of power as supreme head of the
Church of England. In the wake of that decisive event, Henry ordered
that an English Bible be placed in every church of the realm, and be
available to all people — a Bible, ironically, that was partly
Tyndale’s.
The Bible that King Henry approved had been published in
1535 by Miles Coverdale, while Tyndale was in prison awaiting execution.
It was the first full Bible to be printed in English. (Tyndale had
published only the New Testament.) Henry VIII authorized its circulation
after being assured by scholars that it did not contain any heresies.
Coverdale
knew neither Hebrew nor Greek. He was essentially an editor, gathering
together the best works and constructing a Bible that would be
acceptable to ecclesiastical authorities. His translation was based on
Luther’s German version, the Latin Vulgate, and Tyndale’s translations
of the New Testament and Pentateuch.
Bible translation was now in the
air. Coverdale’s translation was followed by a flood of other English
translations and revisions, including the Matthew Bible (1537),
Taverner’s Bible (1539), the Great Bible (1539), the Geneva Bible
(1560), the Bishops’ Bible (1568), and the Rheims-Douay Version (1582
and 1609-10). Each translator sought to correct the errors and improve
the language of the earlier ones. This bewildering multitude of Bibles
occasioned the next important chapter in the history of the English
Bible.
"One principal good one"
In
1603, King James I came to the throne following the death of Elizabeth
I. A year later, an important conference was convened at Hampton Court
Palace near London. It was a series of meetings between Anglican bishops
and Puritan leaders, presided over by King James. Its purpose was to
consider Puritan demands for reform in the church. Among the issues
discussed was a Puritan request for a new translation of the Bible, to
correct the imperfections of the current Bibles.
Some church leaders
countered that there were already too many translations. James replied
that another translation was needed precisely because there were too
many already. He wanted one Bible for the nation, as accurately rendered
as possible.
To carry out the work, King James appointed 54
scholars, drawn from Oxford and Cambridge universities and renowned for
their Greek and Hebrew expertise. They worked in six groups, the work of
each group being reviewed by the other groups. What distinguished the
King James Version from earlier printed Bibles was that it was produced
by a committee of scholars, rather than by one person. The translators
drew heavily on all that was good in previous translations. Their aim
was not to make an entirely new translation but, in their own words, "to
make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good
one."
Their New Testament was based largely on Tyndale’s translation.
It is estimated that 80 to 90 percent of Tyndale’s wording passed into
the King James Version of the New Testament. The King James translators
worked at their task for seven years, completing the project in 1611.
The King James or Authorized Version soon took the place of all other
English versions. Various edits were made in subsequent printings, and
the text as we know it now dates from 1769. For nearly 400 years, the
King James Version has been the household Bible of the English-speaking
world, renowned for its majesty of style and superb prose. But more
importantly, it has been the primary source of the knowledge of
salvation and the message of the gospel for untold numbers of sincere
readers.''
So we see that it was in the 1500's, after 1492, that there was a MAJOR SPREAD OF THE WORD OF GOD!
So
for EACH of the last 3 Tetrads we see the 'Natural' happening/s First,
followed by the Spiritual Happenings.....just as Paul gave the principle
in I Cor. 15:
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. |
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