Dear friends:

You probably remember the amazing celestial event of 1994 when comets slammed into the planet Jupiter. I wrote the following about it 18 years ago in 1997:

April 3, 1997

There is more evidence that the 21 fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy Comet that slammed into the planet Jupiter on July 16-22, 1994 was a heavenly sign of Messiah's soon return. The total force of the 21 collisions is estimated at 100 million megatons of TNT (World Book Encyclopedia); the first collision alone at 200,000 megatons, more than all the combined nuclear arsenals of the world, leaving a hole in Jupiter half the size of the Earth.

Historically, the planet has been linked to the Jewish Messiah. The nine planets of our solar system may symbolize the pattern of the nine-lamp Hanukkah menorah. Jupiter, the fifth planet, is in the position of the "servant lamp," an apt symbolism of Messiah (we know as the "suffering servant"). According to J. R. Church, at the time of the collision, Jupiter was near Scorpio (a serpent in the Egyptian zodiac, symbolic of Satan and the antichrist) and moving toward the lamp of Libra. Church suggests the signs may indicate that Lucifer may be trying to seize the lamp and become the light of the world in place of Christ! He also points out that the moon was under Virgo on the night of July 16, 1994, and that Revelation 12 states that the moon is under the feet of Virgo when the great red dragon tries to "devour" the Messiah, all this portraying warfare in the heavenlies.

The date of initial impact, July 16, is significant. It was the anniversary of the date of the very first atomic explosion on Earth at Alamogordo, New Mexico, (exactly 49 years earlier, a good biblical number of 7 X 7) when one scientist exclaimed, "My God, we have created hell."

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When I wrote this 18 years ago I had no idea that the 21 fragments probably represented years and that 1994 + 21 years = 2015, exactly where we are today. In fact, friend and prophecy writer Ron Reese believes that takes us to precisely where we are today.


Ron wrote:

This Shoemaker--Levy Comet broke off into 21 pieces representing the 21 JUDGMENTS in the Tribulation. It also represented 21 Years, taking us to the Year of 2015 . The first impact, of this monumental and Prophetic collision, struck at EXACTLY 11:11 a.m., Jerusalem time. There were many, many more Prophetic aspects of this most spectacular astronomical event in our lifetime, as you can read about below, from my previous post.

I believe that our all-powerful God was giving us the year of 2015, and also the day of the year of ELEVEN ELEVEN (November 11) for the starting time of His 21 Judgments to fall on mankind. This conclusion is backed up even further with this latest brand new discovery that I have made this week.

21 fragments of the Comet leads us to the 21 JUDGMENTS in the Tribulation. 21 fragments also leads us to 2015, as the start of these 21 Judgments in the Tribulation. 21 years to the day from 9th of Av, July 16, 1994, leads us to July 16, 2015. So, I then added the number of days until November 11, 2015, and the total number inclusively, counting July 16h as Day 1, and counting Nov. 11th as the Final Day, is 119 days. At first I was a little bit disappointed that it did not come out to 120 days, as that is a REAL important Biblical number.

In my "BIBLICAL MATHEMATICS" book, there are only 9 triple digit numbers that are listed with Biblical meanings. I did not think that 119 was one of those numbers with a Biblical meaning. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised. There were SEVEN complete pages, written exclusively about God's extremely important number of ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN. It turns out to be one of the most important numbers in the entire Bible!!!

Are you ready for this? Adding 119 days inclusively to July 16th of this year (which is 21 years from the date of this historic and extremely Prophetic Day, of this most spectacular event in the heavens, in our lifetime, takes us EXACTLY to ELEVEN ELEVEN of this year. So, what does the number one hundred nineteen mean? It means THE RESURRECTION DAY!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!

But July 16-17, 1994 is even more significant. It overlaps with the 9th of Av on the Jewish calendar, a date that historically has meant destruction and tragedy for the Jews, and is commemorated by them as a dark day. The Midrah states that God marked the 9th of Av as a day of catastrophe and declared it an eternal day of mourning. Both Solomon's and Herod's Temples were destroyed by invaders on that very same day.

July 16 and the 9th of Av do not always coincide. Friend Randy Bullock has discovered that the first fragment of Shoemaker-Levy hit at exactly 4:11 p.m. eastern time, or 11:11 p.m. Jerusalem time, July 16, exactly five hours into the 9th of Av. That brief overlap, he states, "is a very poignant one to remember war and destruction."

Why? He checked his Hebrew calendar starting with 1920 through 2020 and found that the two dates overlap only six hours every 19 years, one of which was on July 16, 1994. Further calculations revealed only a 1 in 27,759 chance of the overlap occurring at the time the comet hit Jupiter. In view of all the historical symbolisms involved, it is extremely unlikely that the timing was a coincidence. It is more likely that this is a "sign" in the heavens, revealing to those who have ears to hear the soon rise of antichrist and the "time of Jacob's trouble" just ahead.

This is speculation, but it may be no accident that the comet collisions extended over seven days, possibly representing the seven years of the Tribulation. The 21 separate comet collisions may represent the seven seals, seven trumpets and seven bowls of Revelation. Also, the seven-day collisions ended July 22, the very day before the Jewish joyous celebration of Tu Be-Av, which I am told could symbolize the Millennium.

There seem to be several celestial signs in 1996-1997. In 1996, there were two full "red-moon" eclipses over Jerusalem during important religious festivals: April 3 (Feast of Passover) and September 26 (eve of Feast of Tabernacles). Apparently, such is rare, maybe unprecedented. In 1997, the extremely rare, bright and only recently discovered Hale-Bopp Comet will appear brightest in the heavens on or about March 23, coinciding with the Feast of Purim, and also a 90 percent lunar, probably "red moon" eclipse seen in Jerusalem on that same day. And on September 16, 1997, there will be another full "red moon" eclipse seen in Jerusalem coinciding with "Days of Teshuva (repentance)."

The Hale-Bopp comet reminds us of the comet, reported by the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus, that hovered "like a sword" over Jerusalem just before the Jewish-Roman War of A.D. 66-73 when Jerusalem was last destroyed. This seven-year war may have been a type of the end-time Tribulation as both are described in Matthew 24. Interestingly, recent scientific estimates of the comet's path indicate it has been about 4,200 years since Earth dwellers last saw it. According to biblical chronology, this places it during Noah's lifetime! This immediately reminds us of Jesus' words that at His coming the world will be "as it was in the days of Noah."