March 8, 2023

IS THIS THE KEY TO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR?

I was listening to the Little Radio Bible Church Hour in Tampa, Florida on my car radio when I first heard of Edgar Whisenant. It was April 28, 1988 at 9 A. M. I was convicted in my soul when I heard the message of Jesus coming to get His CHURCH that year. I was thus introduced to a called servant of God named Edgar Whisenant. He was a nuclear scientist working with NASA to put a man on the moon. It was this man that correctly calculated the formula that allowed a man to land on the moon in a precise spot. It was a very, very delicate matter, since computers as we know them today were not that far advanced. Incredibly, he hit the very spot within 8 feet. More important, however, is the fact that this man was a man of God. He loved the Lord very much and was called, he said, to warn the world that the rapture was coming upon the Christian people. He wrote and published a small book titled “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988”. He send over 435,000 copies to ministers all over the world free of charge, that is at his own expense. He charged only $2 per copy to all others, just barely enough to cover the cost of printing and mailing and this charge was only because he had run out of money by financing the ministers' books. The books sold like hot cakes and the whole lot of the Christian world was shocked at his message. Preachers warned of the rapture that might take place on September, 1988. It was not at all like others, those like Camping who failed. Whisenant's message was true and resonated as a true alert with many back in 1988. I waited with baited breath for September to come along with my little family.

His message was that the rapture, foretold in I Thessalonians 4:16ff was to take place on Rosh Hoshana, September 11-13, 1988. He declared that the exact day would be determined by Israel's announcement of seeing the first sliver of the new moon and that occurred on September 13, 1988, according to the Gregorian calendar. Many waited during the three days until the time came and went without a rapture event. The world, especially the Christian world went back to work as usual, only this time with great scoffing, mocking, and ridicule of Whisenant. As for him, he pushed the event ahead to the Feast of Atonement (Yom Kippur) and then to the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) and so on. He finally was silenced a couple of years later by his appearance on the Phil Donahue Show, where Donahue humiliated him without mercy. His own son beat him unmercifully for not keeping the millions generated by his book. He died circa 1992.

I have all of his notes, manuals and copies of his book here in my files.

I know that his message was true and from the Lord. I, myself, was castigated by my friends also, but the Lord told me not to give up. He really did. So, I went to work to find out why what happened did indeed happen. It took me 34 years to finally understand. I have written about it and posted my explanation on Five Doves and have sent it to others. I know now what happened because the Lord, seeing my efforts, has showed it to me and I have tried to show it to others. I am sorry that Edgar Whisenant is not alive for me to show it to him. I state categorically that he was true in the message he received, and the Lord indeed did come in 1988. How dare I make such a statement? I will explain why I dare, and those with ears to hear will understand.

It was six long years from 1988 to 1994 when I saw the first post 1988 messenger, a lady named Gigi who resides in California, deliver a message about the rapture. She claimed to hear in dreams from the Lord. It wasn't long until I discovered yet more messengers with messages from the Lord. I knew by 1997 that Acts 2:17 was being fulfilled in my ears. The promise of the Lord to send dreams and visions to many was happening. The now up, running and vibrant internet was being used by the Lord to announce His soon return in the promised rapture. Without the internet's miraculous ability to communicate worldwide, the final message could not be delivered. No books, no personal letters....these were too slow. Instant communication was and is the key and that is why the Lord began in 1994 and not earlier.

I met, by way of the internet, quite a few godly Christians who claimed to have a calling via dreams and visions as well as miraculous occurrences from the Lord. All seemed to have the same goal, that is to identify the coming of the Lord for His saints in an event called the rapture. I, personally have written and posted literally hundreds of messages, each one as I felt led to post. In the process, I learned a great deal more in depth concerning the coming kingdom age and the rapture that was to go before it. I learned of the prophecy of Daniel and the tribulation and great tribulation periods. I read articles by John Tng, a very gifted man of God as he put them on his website called Five Doves. He is credited with identification of the coming man of sin, proving it to be Barack Hussein Obama as early as 2006 or 2007.

I pause here to provide a list of happenings over these years that bear on what I am going to reveal that the Lord has shown me.

The Lord wrote me a letter and sent it via Erin Vreeland, a prophetess who has a web site called the Sparrow's Nest. It came to me in July, 2013. In that letter He said that I was not to be closed to things He would show me. So I watched and I waited. Every day a watch and every day a wait. Over a period of time here is what I received and I did not close myself off to any of it:

>>Barack Obama is the coming man of sin. (this around 2006 or 2007)

He is going to destroy America as much as allowed by God.

He will set up an idol

He will continue past his 8 years presidency of America in the shadows

He knows who he is. He is very evil.

>>The Song of Solomon is a prophetic stage play given 900 years before Christ.

The Song of Solomon contains two rapture events and possibly a third one.

The Song of Solomon speaks of the taking of both Philadelphia and Laodicea

The Song of Solomon ties together the parable of the virgins and the tares/wheat.

The Song of Solomon also speaks of the honeymoon of the Lord and His wife.

The signs in the Song of Solomon are to be heeded.

There is much more in the Song of Solomon, and a rapture event not known to us.

>>December 25 is truly the birth date of the Lord. It is determined by gematria.

The formula is found in Matthew 1:21

It will be hard for you, He told me, to convince people of this fact.

He said that I, the Lord, will watch over you with these messages.

>>I will be alive at the time of the rapture. The letter said that the tevah (Chariot) would come for me and chariots come only for the living, not the dead. I will soon be 91 years of age.

>>Later, in a sort of “bullet through the brain” and not in the letter, He said, I will give you 12 Christian men. These will start out strong but will filter away in one way or another, just as the Apostles did in My day. That is good, but one of these will stay with you.

>>Donald J. Trump is My last trump, He said. He will usher in the last days.

He will seek to make America great, but I have already judged America.

(This was another “bullet” type revelation to me).

>>I have had numerous “bullets” over the years from 1988 to now. One of these was to realize that Israel's May 14, 1948 birth was the conception for her first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion on February 17, 1949. The seating of the first Jewish delegates ever in the U. N. on May 11,, 1948 occurred 280 days before her first Knesset formed on February 14, 1949. This is why I am convinced that the number 280 is of paramount importance.

>>The Lord did not give me this, my friend Calvin Montgomery did, but I add, there is a giant X in the process of being formed over the United States, the second and final swath to occur on April 8, 2024. It is my belief that this X is to be the destruction date of America. The first swath was August 21, 2017, These sweeps by solar eclipses are spaced 7 years apart.

God gave me a friend. He was one of the twelve. This prophecy friend has stuck with me and I with him for a long, long time. He understands what I am about, as much any one can. It needs to be said, however, that he was not involved with my experience in 1988, nor were any watchers of today, that I know of. Because of this, it is hard for moat to understand the great importance of what happened back then in 1988. And, without the Song of Solomon, it is not explainable, but with the Song of Solomon, it is easily seen. So, this is what the Song of Solomon says about what happened regarding the rapture that was to be in 1988.

The Song of Solomon says this as the Lord speaks: “I AM come into my garden, My sister, My spouse: I have gathered My myrhh with My spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with My honey; I have drunk My wine with My milk: eat, O friends: drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved”. (I think this is a reference to the wedding supper prepared for us).

She, the bride-to-be speaks: “I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, 'Open to Me, My sister, My love, My dove, My undefiled: for My head is filled with dew, and My locks with the drops of the night. I have put off My coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed My feet; how shall I defile them?'.

She continues to speak: “My Beloved put in His hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for Him. I rose up to open to my Beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. I opened to my Beloved; but my Beloved had withdrawn Himself, and was gone: my soul failed when He spake: I sought Him, but I could not find Him; I called Him, but He gave me no answer. The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me”.

How very sad for us, the watching CHURCH, that in spite of all, we were sleeping when Jesus came for us in 1988. Did the Lord not warn us? In the parable of the virgins (Matthew 25: 1-13)? Stay awake! Keep our lamps trimmed! His coming is unexpected.

I submit that this passage of the Song of Solomon describes what happened in the year 1988. It is an exact description in my mind and heart. So few, in spite of the massive attempt to alert the CHURCH were ready. Asleep at the switch, so to speak. Were we beaten up, smitten and wounded? O yes we were. I was for sure. My own family and friends berated me and scoffed and ridiculed, not just in words, but in expression and the way in which we interacted. O yes, they took our veil away. And the gospel preachers? They dared not mention it again. That is why, I think, we do not hear of it from the pulpit any longer. They are afraid of more and more ridicule and, of course, shrinking amounts in the offering plates.

I now submit that the Lord waited six years before He spoke to us again, only this time He fulfilled Acts 2:17 which says: “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams; and on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy”. It happened in 1994 and it ongoing today, in 2023. And it is very ACUTE today because of the nearness of the rapture which will alter all the lives of all mankind.

This is why I believe the great sign of two Rosh Hoshana's separated by 12,432 days, the exact length of the life span of Jesus Christ on earth, which can never occur again and occurred once and for all from 1988 to 2022. This is why I believe that the Lord gave me the formula for Jesus life span. This is why He gave me the prophetic understanding of the Song of Solomon. This is why I believe that the rapture event is tagged to the Song of Solomon chapter 5 plus a full life span count of days. This is why, when the rapture did not come on the second Rosh Hoshana, I did not grieve as before in 1988, but looked for delay, such as the 21 days delay experienced by Daniel the prophet when release of the Israeli captives from Babylon was to be. This is why I continued to search after Thanksgiving, Christmas, Orthodox Christmas, the Feast of the New Year of Trees, and the Feast of Purim. I know the pain of being fully committed and then being wrong!

I believe that the rapture will not be on a Feast day, or significant day of any Feast of Israel, but, as Jesus said, “On a day ye think not, the Son of man cometh”. It is only because several of God's messengers have said to watch one of the American holidays such as Memorial Day, Independence Day or Labor Day, that I watch these at all. He graciously gave us a hint that it would be near one of these in some year, not specified. I, personally have believed for 70 years that I would “know”.

Now, because of all the so called hints and experiences, I believe it will be this year and I believe it will be on or near Independence Day. It can be determined by the significance of the dates that occur as a result of counts provided by the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself. O how great and how gracious is our Lord God Almighty.

Maranatha

Gerry Almond