Doves,

Recently I posted to 5Doves a couple of articles focusing on how a phrase in Psalm 119 may have exposed not only the starting point of the 7 year tribulation period but also the starting point of the ministry of the two end time witnesses and the arrival of the antichrist. With this starting point established many other dates can then be determined which fall within the context of the 7 years.

If you recall I said (thanks to Andrea's research) that the phrase “Thy Word” which happens 42 times in the course of 168 verses of Psalm 119 appears to describe the time frame of the 2 witnesses which is 3.5 years. The 168 verses in Psalm 119 viewed as weeks equal 42 months or 1260 days or 3.5 years which is the exact duration of their ministry as per scripture....... a ministry that will be preaching “Thy Word” (or the gospel) for that time period . And then there's the fact that the phrase “Thy Word” doesn't appear in Psalm 119 until after the 8th verse of the 176 verses. This appears to mean that the two witnesses will arrive on the world stage with an offset of 8 weeks.....first 8 verses no “Thy Word”phrase........ meaning their arrival will be offset those first 8 weeks of 2019........ landing on or near 1 March 2019.

Also if you will recall, I explained from scripture that the antichrist is to also show up at the same time and that their two ministries will run concurrently......one good ministry preaching the gospel and one bad ministry spending the same 1260 days formulating and developing the evil “new world order system” which will be headed up by the antichrist after he kills the two witnesses at the midpoint of the 7 years.

Ok....the above explanation once again establishes the back story.....now, can we find other areas of scripture that will shed more light on this scenario? Yes, most certainly

Zechariah 11 is a virtual treasure trove of information on this topic. It covers both the ministry of the two witnesses and the antichrist but does so in a totally symbolic format. Symbolism is in play for most of the chapter.

Let me remove that symbolism from Zechariah 11 and then relate to you what I believe this chapter says or implies which seems to perfectly agree with Daniel, Revelation and other areas of scripture. Only here in Zechariah much more information on the topic is revealed once the veil of symbolism has been removed.

So here is my unveiled version of Zechariah 11 without the symbolism.....I will be forced to insert my discernment of that symbolism so that the text becomes understandable. You obviously have the option to believe that I am on to something here, which I believe is very revealing...... or, to discount my explanation. But know that below this explanation of Zechariah 11...... I will reinforce this story line with several other related areas of scripture that gel together perfectly seemingly proving this whole symbolic story line in Zechariah 11 to be the truth.....very likely, the soon coming truth.

So....God in Zechariah 11 is portraying “a time frame of history” a time frame that we are living right now

God is saying that the church pastors, the church shepherds are feeding their flocks, their parishioners, false information and in doing so they (the parishioners) are being fattened for the slaughter or primed for hell and these pastors have no pity or remorse. God appears to say that church has become just a business, an entity, related to money......... not peoples souls or salvation.

God says that He will no longer pity these inhabitants of the land and that He will give them over to the control of someone else besides Himself (can you say antichrist). Give them over to bad rulers and that He (God) will remove His protection from their land. And whereas this is a generalization to all nations I believe that these comments are focused to a somewhat greater degree on Israel.

Then we see in verse 7 where God decides to directly feed the flock (to teach the flock) in an effort to save as many as He can before the great slaughter of the tribulation period begins. He does this by dispatching two evangelists to preach His gospel message which are the two end time witnesses. God gives nicknames to these two end time witnesses plus added symbolism. He refers to them as “staffs” and then names the two staffs Beauty and Bonds. He uses these two staffs / evangelists to feed / teach the flock, the world populous.......... for 1260 days.

Within that time period it appears the two witnesses are tasked differently. One witness “Beauty” will be primarily assigned to the Gentiles and the second “Bonds” will be primarily assigned to the Jews. Each promoting the gospel of Jesus to their assigned peoples. Both Beauty and Bond break their symbolic staffs signifying that there will be a religious separation, a dividing, a breaking of the brotherhood of both the Christian Church and also breaking the brotherhood among the Jews. When these two groups divide or break their brotherhood a faction will follow the teachings of the two witnesses and Jesus....... the other faction will choose apostasy from those biblical teachings of Jesus. From scripture we see that those who break off will be enamored by the antichrist and sucked into his evil agenda. They will at some point take his mark...... condemning them to hell.

In the same time frame when these two witnesses show up on earth God will also dismiss “three shepherds” in the period of one month (verse 8). We know that in scripture shepherds are religious personnel.....so He gets rid of / removes / dismisses / extracts three members of the religious community in the course of one month. The text says that God loathed these three shepherds and that these three shepherds abhorred (detested) Him.

It also says there in Zechariah 11 that God will not then feed (allow His two witnesses to minister to) the flock (this religious community) that was overseen by these three shepherds. God says.....”let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish”...... He (God) is cutting that religious community off and it appears that the two witnesses will shun them during their 1260 day ministry.

Who are these three religious personnel that God is to dismiss from the earth in the course of a month's time in conjunction with the arrival of the two witnesses?

Revelation 17 and Daniel 7 do a great job of answering that question. As per the information drawn there, these three shepherds would be three popes who are also kings being that they are the elected head of The Vatican State which is it's own country.

And yes, there are three popes, three shepherds, present on the world stage at this juncture of time. There is Francis, Benedict and John Paul II. Two who are walking around and one whose body has been fully preserved in the bowels of the Vatican enclosed in a cryogenic chamber.

Zechariah 11 says that within a month's time all three of these shepherds of the flock will be dismissed.....but......only to be replaced by another shepherd.

This new shepherd who will oversee the same flock, the Roman Catholic Church, will as per Zechariah 11 be a “foolish shepherd”. A shepherd who will not care for those who are “cut off”(the Catholics)....who will not seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those who still stand. But that he will try to destroy them. As referenced above it appears the two witnesses will shun the followers of Rome that's why the term “cut off” was used describing the antichrist.

It then says in verse 17 that he, this foolish shepherd, will, at some point, leave the flock or break ranks with the Roman Catholic Church and form a whole new religion / following / demonic cult. Daniel 11:36-39 explains this in great detail as follows.....

36 "Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.

37 He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all.

38 But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things.

39 Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.

 

It also says in Zechariah 11 that (at some point) he, this foolish shepherd, will be attacked and suffer wounds to his arm and right eye. His arm will wither and he will loose sight in his right eye.

 

I have written pages and pages over the years to 5Doves on how this whole replacement process, the...... removal of three shepherds....and addition of one shepherd scenario works and who this final shepherd is that becomes the antichrist or the first beast as is described in scripture.

Let me yet again give you a condensed version of what will transpire according to scripture.

As per Zechariah 11:8 God will dismiss / remove 3 shepherds / religious personnel from the world stage in conjunction with the timing of the arrival of the two end time witnesses. He will remove all three of them within the duration of one months time. These 3 shepherds will...... after solving the riddles in Daniel 7 and Revelation 17...... be...... 3 popes.

At that time another shepherd, the foolish shepherd as described in Zechariah 11 will enter onto the world stage to take over the reigns, the control, of the Roman Catholic Church. But when the light of biblical truth is shined on this new foolish shepherd as to his identity..... the way way beyond bizarre becomes reality.

Revelation 17:8 says that this new foolish shepherd, this king, this pope is not new at all. It says that the whole world will recognize this man and be totally amazed because this man..... who had been alive and loved by the world....died (Revelation 13:3 was mortally wounded).... yet here he is again..... seemingly alive and well again on the world stage. He was a beloved pope, the sixth king of a country started in 1929 known as the Vatican State.

Revelation 17:11 says that he will not only be the sixth king of this country but he will also become the eighth and “will be the beast” and go into perdition. Scripture being correct (and it always is).......here's this guy who died years ago who is somehow back.

How can this be? How can someone who was definitely dead somehow appear to be alive back on the world stage.

Revelation 17 and Daniel 7 have answers. Revelation 17:8 says that this king, this pope, this foolish shepherd that was alive, and was not (he died) and yet is back..... is a beast, a demonic spirit entity who will rise from the bottomless pit....he is not a man but a being who arises from the bottomless pit.

Daniel 7:24 sheds more light on this when there God uses the word subdue. Daniel says this king who he calls “different”(he's different alright) subdues 3 kings (or the 3 shepherds as per Zechariah 11)

I believe God used the word “subdue” in Daniel 7 because of it's exacting / particular definition. One of the meanings for “subdue” is.....”altered in sense and form by association with something”

Ok....are the lights and the bells and whistles going off in your head? They should be.

When God dismisses the 3 shepherds in Zechariah 11, two of them will be gone-gone but the third shepherd whose body has been kept viable in a cryogenic chamber under the Vatican will be ...”altered in sense and form by association with something”. This “shell” of John Paul II for lack of a better term will be indwelled by the spirit of a demonic being now in the bottomless pit. As per Revelation 9 the head demon...if you will...of that bottomless pit is named Abaddon or Apollyon. It appears that it is this “entity” that will initially indwell the “body shell” of John Paul II to become what the bible calls the first beast or the son of perdition, the foolish shepherd, the little horn, the prince that is to come or as mankind has tagged him......the antichrist. It also appears that later in the tribulation period that Satan himself will also indwell this shell.....a shell which will bear the form / appearance of John Paul II but have the “sense” within that shell of demons.

All of this I believe.....coming soon to a theater near you.

Kidding aside, there is a great likelihood that if my 1 March 2019 date is correct as to the arrival of the two witnesses then as per scripture we will see 3 popes dismissed from the world stage and the arrival of the foolish shepherd, the beast. A beast that will for 1260 days or 3.5 years (or the first half of the 7 year period) be able to charm the pants off a snake.....Revelation 13:4....they marveled and followed the beast.... they worshiped the beast.....who is like the beast??

Then, after these initial 42 months or the same time frame as the ministry of the two witnesses, he will change 180 degrees and turn into the monster “it” (this entity from hell) is …... and will then (at nearly the half way point of the 7 years) start doing all the terrible things that are listed in scripture.

He will then at nearly the half way point in the 7 years.....

Declare himself to be the god of all and everything

Blaspheme the true God and everything which the true God represents

Cancel all sacrifices and offerings by all religions and demand these to be directed to him and him only under the penalty of death

Kill the two witnesses to prove his authority (only because it was allowed by God)

Take authority over every tribe, tongue and nation (at the midpoint of the 7 years)

Cast off the God and the religion of his fathers

Erect a talking idol of himself in Jerusalem and forces all to worship it under the penalty of death.......the abomination of desolation

Have no desire for women and exalt himself above all gods

Reign down his wrath and destruction upon the earth and it's inhabitants especially those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.

 

Again if I am correct with the 1 March 2019 date seemingly derived by analyzing Psalm 119 and the phrase “Thy Word” and where that phrase is used...... then we don't have much time left before there are popes missing....witnesses arriving.....and a very bad “entity” re-establishing himself back on the world stage only with different components.....demonic ones.

 

Time will soon tell....

Blessings Doves..........John B