There are no Accidents in Politics or Prophecy / Destiny of Nations

 

Politics is a dirty business.  Or more precisely a dirt business.  Gather dirt on your opponent and reveal it only to them and you may be able to either get your opponent to quit or promise you a position of power later in their administration.  If you are a “news” organization you can shop it around to the highest bidder on either side.  Is the dirt worth more if it’s published or if it’s “buried”.  All the time trying to keep one’s own hands from appearing dirty in the process. 

 

Ronald Reagan

Naida Deitsch was a Reagan Republican.  She was a party loyalist.  And Reagan had just been elected to a second term as President of the United States.

 

I knew Naida Deitsch.  And it was quite evident to me that Naida disliked then Vice-President George Herbert Walker Bush.  For the life of me, I could not figure out why.  Here she was one of the strongest party faithful I knew.  I had no issues at the time with HW.  Later I voted for him to be President, twice.  Full disclosure.  I voted for his son to be President, also twice.

 

One evening at a party at her house around 30 years ago I took the opportunity of asking Naida why she appeared to so dislike Vice-President Bush.  I’m guessing liquor had loosened her lips because she did not hold back.  She said that Reagan was forced into having Bush as his running mate.  I asked, like in blackmail?  She looked startled when I used the word “blackmail”.  It was as if I were waking her up to what she had just told me.  She moved closer to me and her voice got lower and much quieter, almost whispering, and she said that she had not said “blackmail”.  She had said “forced”.

 

Naida must have realized she had told me more than she should have.  Her next statement was that I could never tell anyone.  I then asked, like in forever, never?  Never is a long time.

 

Naida then got up from the sofa and went back to another room with her husband Pete.  After a while she returned and said I could tell only after three conditions had been met.  The first one was that 30 years had to pass since the event.  I guess she figured some sort of statute of limitations.  The second was that she was no longer alive.  It was to me as if she was fearing for her life.  And the third, almost as an afterthought, was that her husband wasn’t alive either. 

 

I thought Naida was being quite over dramatic at the time but I kept my word and pretty much forgot about the conversation till I read Mike Curtiss’ post, "Mitt Romney Attacks Donald Trump, Oops, the Truths Gets Exposed!"

 

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/mar2016/mikec36.htm

 

For the record, over 30 years have passed since the event, Naida’s husband preceded her in death, and she herself died in 2015.

 

I asked Naida at the time how she came about this information and she said that she was in the meeting when the agreement was reached.  Why her?  They had pulled her into the meeting because she was a Republican Party faithful, she knew shorthand to act as stenographer, and because the meeting was confidential.  Who attended the meeting beside Naida?  I don’t know and Naida wouldn’t say.

 

Who knows this one event, this one meeting, may now be corroborated by other witnesses.  But even if it is not corroborated publicly, looking back these over 30 years, this one meeting turned out to be one of the most important meetings politically in the history of the United States.

 

Without this meeting the political landscape changes significantly.  Without this meeting, Bush would not have been the vice-president in 1988 in line for the presidency.  George Bush’s son, named after him, would not have had the instant name recognition and political clout as the son of a president.  Without this, it is much less likely his son would have been elected President in 2000 and 2004.  It is amazing how much of the future can hinge on one meeting.

 

The following article by Michael Shore called, “Bush 41 And The Reagan Assassination Attempt” makes interesting reading:

 

http://rense.com/general53/assass.htm

 

In the next article, Steven Greffenius answers why Reagan's biggest mistake was the selection of George Bush as his running mate in 1980.

 

https://sites.google.com/site/thelastjeffersonian/articles/ronald-reagan-s-biggest-mistake

 

 

Donald Trump

It may totally surprise you but Richard Darman who was Reagan’s budget director, said that to understand Reagan, “you have to realize he is not a Republican and not a conservative.” To understand him, you should realize he is a man with a populist temperament and a populist outlook.

 

https://sites.google.com/site/thelastjeffersonian/books/dreams-of-wealth

 

Couldn’t the same thing though, I mean the exact same thing be said about Donald Trump?  In fact to go further, isn’t the Republican political landscape much like it was in 1980?  We have a populist candidate and his closest rival was also from Texas.

 

Around the world, what accomplishment is Ronald Reagan best known for?  What is considered Reagan’s greatest political achievement?  At the top of the list would have to be his imperative in Berlin, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”  That statement brought unwanted attention from nations around the world to the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world and set in motion the tearing down of the Berlin wall.

 

Whether you consider that Reagan influenced, coerced, bullied, or just publicly embarrassed the President of a sovereign nation whom Reagan had no authority over, the result was that Gorbachev tore down the wall.  Reagan showed he could influence, in fact even have power over Gorbachev.

 

Around the world, what accomplishment is Donald Trump best known for?  What is considered Trump’s greatest political achievement?  At the top of the list would have to be his imperative in essence, “Mr. Obama, produce your birth certificate.”  This statement brought unwanted attention from nations around the world to the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world and set in motion the production by Obama of his birth certificate.

 

Whether you consider that Trump influenced, coerced, bullied, or just publicly embarrassed the President of a sovereign nation whom Trump had no authority over, the result was that Obama produced his birth certificate.  Trump showed he could influence, in fact even have power over Obama.

 

Recently, Trump challenged Cruz’s constitutional qualifications for being President just as he did Obama’s.  There are similarities.  Neither one of their fathers were citizens of the United States.  There is compelling evidence that neither one were born in the United States.  Both have foreign citizenships, Obama in Indonesia, Cruz in Canada.

 

 

Prophecy

On June 7, 2016, Donald Trump received the final needed delegates to clinch his nomination at the upcoming Republican convention.  Now, let’s look back at another June 7th.  Early on the morning of June 7, 1967, on the advice of Moshe Dayan, the commanders of the Israeli army ordered the retaking of Jerusalem.  Jerusalem, that same day, for the first time since before the Babylonians in the time of Daniel, was again in hands of the sovereign nation of Israel.  No longer was Jerusalem under Gentile control.  No longer was Jerusalem under the foot, trodden down by the Gentiles.

 

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations:and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.  Luke 21:24

 

There is another prophecy recorded in the book of Daniel in the Bible called the 70 week prophecy.  Part of this prophecy in Daniel 9:25 deals with seven weeks and can be interpreted as stating that one can count seven weeks of years from the commandment to restore Jerusalem to the children of Israel till the same one who had been anointed for death, burial, and resurrection, the Anointed One, Messiah, returns as the conquering Prince. 

 

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore ……Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,…  Daniel 9:25

 

Counting seven weeks of calendar years from June 7, 1967 brings us to June 7, 2016.  Here we have to the exact same day Trump receiving the delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination.  This could lead to him becoming President over what is considered the most powerful nation in the world.

 

So there is no confusion, Trump is not the Holy One come down as Messiah nor come down as the Prince.  Trump admits he is a flawed individual.  But then, aren’t we all?  The Bible makes a point of emphasizing the flawed natures of the great leaders of Israel.  David, the man after God’s own heart, an adulterer and a murderer.  Moses, also a murderer.  The Bible makes the point not to excuse these sins but show how admitting of their sin and turning away from their sin led to their redemption, and all of Israel’s. 

 

But then, what kind of person steals the silverware, the china, and even the furniture from the White House?  And to declare that it is racist to say that the current president was not born in Hawaii is wrong on so many fronts.  For one, it was her campaign over eight years ago that uncovered evidence in Kenya.  It was her campaign who had access to the current President’s Grandmother in Kenya who was reported as saying she was present at the current President’s birth.  And has there ever been a more multiracial president?

 

All of the current President’s mitochondrial DNA which is only inherited from his mother would all be from her Irish roots.  This would likely be mostly descended from Noah’s son Japheth.  But it could also contain Noah’s son Shem as the Danite tribe of Israel has been said to have migrated through Denmark, naming the Danube after themselves, and ending up in Ireland.

 

On his father’s side he can be traced back to Noah’s son Ham through the Luo tribe along with both Ham and Shem through his Arab ancestry, (Ishmael was Abraham’s son through an Egyptian mother).  It was also reported that following his ancestry back, researchers could find no slaves.  However they did find slave ownership on both sides.

 

So we all have flaws.  For some it could be rationalized that there is the “public” truth and then there is the “private” truth.  That does not mean Trump is not being used by God to fulfill prophecy.  He could very well serve to herald the return of Messiah who will come as Prince to rule the Nations.  Trump could serve to announce the return of Messiah the Prince just as John the Baptist announced the first coming of Messiah, The Anointed One, The Lamb of God.

 

Remember, this 70 week prophecy penned by Daniel is only specific to the nearest week of years.  In other words, one could be within 3 ½ years and still be to the nearest week of years.  For that matter one would not be to the next week of years until after 7 years had passed.  We are still in the same week of years until the next week of years begins.

 

God is an exact God.  But His measurements are not our measurements.  His timing is not our timing.  When Daniel in captivity in Babylon thought the 70 years should have been up he prayed without ceasing for 21 days.  The Angel Gabriel came to answer his prayer and told him his answer had been delayed 21 days while the forces of God fought the forces of darkness.

 

It is interesting that if 21 days is a pattern which related to Jeremiah’s 70 year prophecy then 21 weeks would be the application of this pattern to Daniel’s 70 weeks of year’s prophecy.  Adding 21 weeks to June 7, 2016 brings us to November 1, 2016.  Applying the same interpretation that it is not 22 weeks until after another 7 days brings us to November 8, 2016, Election Day.

 

There is an old saying, “God said it.  I believe it.  That settles it.”  As has been pointed out by various theologians, this saying is misguided.  It really should be “God said it.  That settles it.”  Whether or not I believe it has no bearing on it being true.

 

But verses of prophecy are often subject to a whole lot of interpretation.  Sure, Trump matches the right timing for heralding in the second coming of Messiah.  But you could easily take the stance that unless the Bible mentions Trump, actually calls him out by name, and then, in regard to the second coming of Messiah, then and only then should we take notice.

 

Sounds like an impossible hurdle.  But don’t count out the Bible yet, because the word “Trump” is found twice in the Bible, both times having to do with the second coming of Messiah.

 

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  1 Thessalonians 4:16

 

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  I Corinthians 15:52

 

Admittedly, one could argue this is all coincidence.  And really, what chance does Trump have of being elected as the next President?  The “mainstream” media has carefully crafted negative images of Trump to where he has been reported as even surpassing what the “mainstream” media admits is the second largest negative image, that belonging to the Democratic candidate.  The “mainstream” media would have you believe that no one can possibly vote for either candidate, just vote against the other candidate.  If only Barack could stay in office another four years.  That would be the ticket.  That is the ticket.

 

Regardless of whether God’s plan is to have Trump elected or just have him be the instrument of God to precede the Lord Himself’s arrival, exposing wickedness in high places, it is still all in God’s hands.  He raises up Kings and He brings down King’s.  He used the Babylonians to bring judgment upon the Jews in Daniel’s day.

 

There may be those who object to the phrase “trump of God” as if this somehow conveys Godlike qualities upon Trump.  But just consider that the phrase “people of the Prince” in Daniel’s prophecy refers to the 1^st century Romans.  Their use by the Prince was to bring prophesied judgment against Jerusalem.  The Holy One came first as Messiah, the anointed one to die for our sins.  After He was resurrected and exalted to the right hand of the Father as Prince, He used the 1^st century Romans to destroy Jerusalem.  It is no different.

 

For the record, the word “Donald” is not found in the Bible.  One should not be surprised either that the Luo African tribe name of “Obama” is also missing.  On the other hand, the Arabic name “Barack” one would think should have a chance.  Arabic is in the family of Semitic languages including Hebrew and Aramaic.  The latter were used extensively to write the Bible.  Although the word in the Bible is spelled “Barak”.  This word is the name of a Judge in the Bible and is found 13 times in the King James Bible.  Likewise, the meaning of the word “Barak” is “lightning”.  The word “lightning” is also found 13 times in the King James Bible.  I wonder if each being found 13 times has any significance.

 

But back to Trump.  We know that names of people in the Bible are significant.  People are even renamed when something significant happens to them such as Jacob being renamed Israel and Simon being renamed Peter.  So we should not be too quick to dismiss these two Bible verses with the name “Trump”.  There are no accidents in politics or prophecy!

 

 

Barack Obama

John Tng noticed that from Obama’s birth to when his second term officially is scheduled to end will be 666 months.  He was born on August 4^th, 1961 at 7:14 pm and his second term ends at noon EST on January 20^th, 2017.

 

We can get down to the minute in accuracy.  For that, all we needed was his birth certificate.  But then the question comes down to which birth certificate.  As we know, there has been a lot of controversy concerning his birth certificates.  Citizens of nations throughout the world have seen on the internet his Coast Province General Hospital of Mombasa, Kenya Certificate of Birth Number 32018 signed by the attending Doctor on August 5^th, 1961 complete with right footprint.  Citizens of nations throughout the world have also seen the Department of Health of Hawaii, USA, Certificate of Live Birth filed by the Registrar on August 8^th, 1961, but without a listed hospital or attending physician.  Both have the same time of birth listed as 7:41 pm on August 4^th.  However Hawaii is 13 hours behind Kenya.  That’s right, 13 hours.  Which means at 7:41 pm in Kenya it would have been 6:41 am in Hawaii.  Regardless of which location one picks though and how one adjusts for time zone differences, the day of the year is still August 4^th.

 

Does August 4^th have any historical significance?  This August 4^th on our modern Gregorian calendar matches the Roman date of August 4^th on the Julian calendar of the year 70 AD, also known as CE, when the Temple of God, the center of Jewish worship, was destroyed in Jerusalem.  To be exact, it is recorded the temple was set ablaze towards dusk.  What is dusk?  Nightfall, the darkest part of twilight.  In the Jewish definition it was after sunset when it was dark enough to see 3 prominent stars.  Technically the end of “civil twilight” is when the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon.

 

Pulling up a calendar showing August 4^th in Jerusalem we see sundown at 7:33 pm and the end of civil twilight at 7:59 pm.  Hmmm.  7:41 pm is right between the two.

 

http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/israel/jerusalem?month=8

 

One could argue that Jerusalem observes daylight saving time while Kenya does not.  So we are off an hour during the summer.  However, Kenya is in the UTC+3 time zone while Jerusalem is only in the UTC+2 time zone.  Which means during the summer the times for both locations are the same.  The birth may have been after dusk in Kenya at 7:41 pm but it was just before dusk in Jerusalem.

 

Many have noted that counting from January 1^st to August 4^th on the Julian calendar makes this the 216^th day of the year.  Counting from January 1^st to August 4^th on the Gregorian calendar in a non-leap year such as 1961 would also be the 216^th day of the year.  The reason for noting this is that the number 216 is the product of six times six times six.  For that reason, this same 216 was used as the number of the beast in the popular Left Behind series before the turn of this century.

 

While we are busy prognosticating on numbers, someone may have noticed that 741 as in the time of birth, is divisible by 13.

But back to the number of months noticed by John Tng.  If one uses 12 months composed of 365 days per year, then if born in Kenya, the exact number of months works out to 666.02.  If born in Hawaii, 666.03.  So, to an accuracy of one tenth of a month, the number is 666.0.

 

Even though the most common number of days in a year are 365, admittedly that is not the average number of days in the Gregorian calendar.  That average 365.2425 days per year.  Now using this number, regardless of whether calculating from Kenya or Hawaii, the number of months to the nearest hundredth is 665.58 months.  This is still 666 to the nearest month.

 

But wouldn’t it be a greater witness of God’s providence if we had exactly 666 months instead of 665.58?  Maybe not.  This is 42 one hundredths short of 666.  According to Don Kistler’s book, “Arithmetic of God”, the number 42 stands for the “Second Coming of Jesus.”  So, one way or another, the answer to life’s ultimate question regarding God, the universe, and everything, namely “When is the Son of God returning?”, the answer really does appear to be 42.  (For those of you familiar with “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.)

 

 

Destruction of Both Temples

Is it possible that this number 665.58 could come up again in history regarding time between two other very significant events?  Let’s see.

In 587 BC, Av 9 on the Hebrew Calendar, July 29 on the Julian calendar when extrapolated backward, July 23 on the Gregorian calendar when extrapolated backward, just prior to dusk, the first temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians.

 

http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(587_BC)

 

We also know that in 70 AD, again on Av 9 on the Hebrew Calendar, just prior to dusk, the second temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.  The two most traumatic events in the history of Israel center on the destruction of their temples.  And here we have recorded down to the same day on the Hebrew calendar, down to the same time of day, the same event, separated by over 600 years.

 

The book of Daniel was penned by Daniel while he was in exile in Babylon.  The number of days in a calendar year observed by the Babylonian Empire is believed to have been 360.  Although with such a calendar the planting seasons do not stay fixed with the calendar dates. 

 

Many of the prophecies in Daniel seem to affirm the counting of years by these number of days.  This has also been referred to by some writers as the number of days in a “prophetic year”.  Most notably, Sir Robert Anderson, in his classic, “The Coming Prince”.  We can recognize him today by referring to 360 day years as Anderson years.

 

Have you ever calculated or seen calculated the exact number of prophetic years or “Anderson” years from the destruction of the first temple till the destruction of the second?  That would seem to be something that could be really important, wouldn’t you think?  With modern back calculating calendars available on the internet, this task is greatly simplified.  Amazingly, rounding off to the nearest year, the number of prophetic years is 666.

 

Okay, it is not exactly 666 prophetic years.  Calculating down to an accuracy of one hundredth of a year the time is 665.58 prophetic years.

Wow!  That’s right, 42 one hundredths short of 666.  That’s right, the same exact number as the 666.58 months before.  That’s right, the same number down to an accuracy of one part in 66,658.  That’s right, more than the number of rows available for years in the two most commonly used computer spreadsheets. 

 

When Man creates something, the closer one looks, the more imperfections can be found.  When Man studies the creations of God in Nature and in His Word, the Bible, the closer one looks the more details can be found.  Just think, to find two time lengths that we can measure down to an accuracy of one part in 66,558 and which are separated by almost 2,000 years, to find them identical, that’s God.

 

I’ve noticed that various discoveries in the physical world bear the name of various physicists and mathematicians.  For example Prandtl and Reynold’s numbers.  I haven’t seen a similar practice for discoveries in the prophetic realm.  Yes, God is the author of both the physical and the prophetic.  Yes, worthy is our Lord to receive glory and honor and power.  Yet Psalms 8:5 declares he has crowned man with glory and honor.  I also believe He delights in His creation discovering His hidden gems, both in the physical and in the prophetic.  As such, I’d like to propose that we recognize John Tng who discovered this time period, which when measured to the hundredths of the number comes out to 665.58.  Who knows, more prophetic events may be discovered that work out to be a “Tng” number of 665.58.

 

So what is the takeaway?  Note that even though these periods of time are marked with the 666 number of the beast, we do not have the complete number of the beast at their end.  We can speculate what this means.  It could mean that after January 20^th, 2017, there could be a continuation of his term by 42 months.

 

If Obama is the beast and especially the third horseman for that matter, the price of food has not yet skyrocketed.  Of course, many do not expect this to happen until after he declares Martial Law and possibly nationalizes all the food supplies.

 

There are various people back at least 9 months ago who have looked at the week of November 20^th as when things are going to change.  It would obviously have to happen before another President could take his place.

 

Some have thought this would be related to WW3.  However, unlike the vivid descriptions of the first two horsemen, the third has no mention of war.  Instead there must be a reason for food becoming a hot commodity.

 

And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!"  Revelation 6:6 ESV

 

(Note a denarius was equal in biblical times to a day’s wages for a common laborer, i.e. Matthew 20:2 ESV.)

 

With America considered the “breadbasket of the world”, this would place Obama in a position to be a second Joseph of the Old Testament.  Remember Joseph?  One of 12 sons of Jacob, renamed Israel, who saved the World at that time from starvation.  Except in this case we know he would be an anti-savior.  I find it interesting that the Egyptian name given Joseph was “Zaphnath Paaneah” whose numerical value is 13 times 98.

 

Now we realize that time will remain after January 20, 2017 before Christ returns to establish His millennial kingdom.  We would expect though that it would have to be before there is no longer a seven week count of years from June 7, 1967.  In other words we know the seven week count brought us to September 23, 2015.  I know that there is a tendency to not have a gap between the seven and the last just as there was a tendency for past Bible scholars to not have a gap between the sixty two and the seven.  Personally, I keep the gap and place the last week between the millennium and eternity.  However, the counting by weeks still means the resolution of our count of seven weeks is still seven weeks until it is eight. 

 

This means a half a week count past September 23, 2015 brings us to March 6, 2019 and a full week count brings us to August 17, 2022.  Following this timeline we would expect the millennial reign to start on the outside, before August 17, 2022.

 

For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.  Matthew 23:39

 

 

Antichrist

There are a multitude of prophecies in the Bible regarding the Christ.  There is also a general understanding among the Jewish people of what He would accomplish and how He would save His people.  Yet most of the Jews did not recognize His first coming.  They expected Him to save them from the Romans.  They were not looking for someone to save them from their sins.  Are we who call ourselves Christians of that much better understanding of the Holy Scriptures, we who don’t even speak the same tongue as the original scriptures, that we will recognize the antichrist?

 

There are also many prophecies in the Bible regarding the antichrist.  To put Obama in this role, he must fulfill every single one of those prophecies.  He must fulfill not just one, not just two, but every single one.  If he fails to fulfill any one, he cannot be the antichrist.  We can closely analyze each prophecy, and we should as diligent Christians, but there is one we will save for last that we must really honestly examine as to whether he fulfills.

 

First, there is some confusion about what the anti- prefix in Greek really means.  While many only think of it as meaning “against” or “opposite”, when you look at how the Greek “anti” is actually translated from its original meaning in the Bible, we find many instances of “instead of”, “in exchange for”, and “as a substitute for”.  Christ came as a substitute for the penalty of our sins before a Holy God.  Think of the antichrist as a substitute for Christ.

 

Remember “satan” wants mankind to accept him, to worship him instead of God.  Remember, he wants to be the one and only substitute for God.  Remember, he won’t be able to do that without deceiving mankind.  So everyone who thinks there is no way they could be deceived and that they will instantly recognize the antichrist needs to consider whether they believe themselves more perceptive than Eve or Peter the Apostle.

 

The technique is the same.  In order to deceive, satan must first say the Word of God is not true, whether speaking through the serpent or Peter.

 

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:  Genesis 3:1-4

 

From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord:this shall not be unto thee. 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:thou art an offence unto me:for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.  Matthew 16:21-23

 

So, just as satan is “lucifer” who appears as an “Angel of Light”, we should be on the lookout for Christ like qualities that could fool even the elect if that were possible.

 

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.  Matthew 24:24

 

What did Jesus, the Anointed One, come to fulfill?

 

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,  Luke 4:18

 

Then how are we to recognize the antichrist who portrays Christ-like qualities?  Because, those qualities will always be with a distinctive evil twist.  For example consider the following quality of Christ.

 

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.  And the servant abideth not in the house for ever:but the Son abideth ever.  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.  John 8:34-36

 

But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins,  Matthew 9:6, Mark 2:10, and Luke 5:24

 

Obama, as President of the United States, has the power to forgive the sins of prisoners, commute their sentences, and even set them free.  He has in fact set more prisoners free than any of the past nine presidents, combined.  Let that sink in for a moment.

 

However, when you examine what crimes he has pardoned or commuted, many can be seen as self-serving.  For example, he has admitted to using cocaine.  How much, for what period of time, how long ago did he stop, has he stopped, have all been disputed.  Others have willingly undergone lie-detector tests and written about their first hand knowledge regarding his use.  If he could use his influence to make cocaine legal, all his illegal usage could be absolved.

 

Going on.  With such an extraordinary number of presidential pardons and commutations of sentences, one would expect that these have been spread throughout his almost eight years as president.  Actually, almost half of these were done on one particular day.  He has now commuted the sentences of more people in one day than any other president before him.  The closest was FDR.

 

Guess which day he picked and decide for yourself whether it speaks to his nature.  He picked the 216^th day of 2016, August 3^rd, 2016.  That’s right, ignoring the zero which is nothing, two 216’s. Two 6 times 6 times 6.  It would be all the more obvious this day was deliberately picked had he set free a total of 216 with 66.6, okay rounding up to 67 having life sentences.  Officially he did pardon 67 with life sentences.  Although he officially missed the 216 by two at 214.  Maybe the last two he reserved symbolically for him and his wife?  Or maybe this is all a huge coincidence.

 

Six Hundred Three Score and Six - With that we will start with the most famous of all prophecies regarding the antichrist.  The one with his number being 666.

 

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.  Revelation 13:18

 

What is it about this number 666?  In James Harrison’s 1995 book, “The Pattern and the Prophecy”, on page 59, he states:

 

Originally, Satan was one of the Lord’s three created archangels, endowed with free will and awe inspiring powers.  Being part of the first creation, his triangle number, 666, reflects potent features.  When he fell “like lightning from heaven,” he lost his place and his number, but not his strength.  In the final years of the coming Tribulation, Lucifer will mock God by somehow associating his original celestial number, 666, with his apprentice, the Antichrist.

 

Mr. Harrison goes on to state that this number 666 for Lucifer before his fall has been replaced by the number 13 after his fall and this number stands for rebellion.  He goes on to show how every single name or title for satan in the Bible along with lists from Bullinger, in all over 30 different examples, every single name’s numerical value is divisible by the number 13.

 

It may surprise western people that words have numerical values.  Not only that, but numbers have meanings just as words have meanings.  Originally there were no numbers separate from the alphabet.  A number was also a letter or word.  The first letter of the alphabet had the numerical value of one and meant one, unity.  The second letter had the numerical value of two and meant separated in two, divided.  As the numbers progressed their meanings became less obvious. 

 

Each of the first ten letters of the alphabet represent their respective number count.  After ten the eleventh letter of the alphabet didn’t need to be used to represent eleven because eleven could be represented by the tenth letter and the first letter.  Instead the eleventh letter represented the number twenty.  One counted by tens till reaching one hundred.  Then one counted by one hundreds.

 

The ancient Semitic languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic along with Greek all follow this order.  Arab scholars however changed this for their language and introduced numbers not associated with the letters of their alphabet.  This system known as Arabic numbers is now used almost universally around the world.  They also introduced the number 0 originally as a place holder.  Before that time, no alphabet of any language had a letter that represented the absence of anything, in other words, nothing.

 

It can be hypothesized that Arab scholars introduced separate numbers disassociated with letters of their alphabet from the belief that the future Antichrist would have an Arabic name.  By using numbers not associated with their alphabet this would obscure being able to recognize him by the number of his name.

 

Now for English.  The letter which is also the number 6 is F.  The letter which is also the number 60 is O.  The letter which is also the number 600 is X.  So the simplest English word which is also the number 666 is FOX.  Is it surprising then that Jesus calls the murderer Herod who sought to kill him who was a type of antichrist, “that fox”?

 

The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence:for Herod will kill thee. 32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.  Luke 13:31-32

 

We can similarly find that the name “Obama” in English adds up to 104 which is not 666.  Although it is divisible by 13.  The name “Barack” in English adds up to 117 which also is not 666.  Although it also is divisible by 13.  Finally the name “Hussein” in English adds up to 572 which also is not 666.  Although it too is divisible by 13.

 

The sum of these three numbers is 793 which also is not 666.  Although we would already know this since all three numbers are divisible by 13 and 666 is not.   Any group of numbers all divisible by 13 can never add up to 666.  This number 793 is 13 times 61 and is also the same numerical value as, “the oval office”.  How fitting.

 

But then scripture states it takes wisdom and understanding to count the number to equal 666.  I know many people aren’t good at math but those who have studied these fields are familiar with raising numbers to powers.  If one were first to sequentially number the billions of people who have lived since creation.  Then if one would take each digit making up each counted number to the power of 3 and sum the results, one would find that each of these numbers would resurrect or recreate themselves as a new number.  If one then took this new number and did the same, and kept doing it, one would find that sooner or later all these billions of numbers would resurrect themselves to just a few numbers.  Exactly one third of these numbers, every number divisible by three, would resurrect themselves sooner or later to the number 153.  And once on the number 153 would stay there forever as one cubed plus five cubed plus three cubed is 153.

 

I used the word “resurrect” because that is the meaning of the number 3.  Likewise “satan and his influence” is the meaning of the number 6.  I didn’t come up with these meanings.  But for those never exposed to the meaning of numbers, this may sound bizarre.  Regardless of their meanings though, the above mathematical procedure is true.  Also true is if instead of resurrecting numbers we raise each integer to the power of “satan and his influence”, we quickly go unstable.  Look at the sequence.  One to the sixth power is still one but two to the sixth power is 64 and three to the sixth power is 729.  One may notice that just with these three numbers one can reach 666 as 729 – 64 + 1 = 666.  One may also notice that just with using two of these three numbers one will reach 793 as 729 + 64 = 793.

 

If this were the end of his connection to 666, that would be one thing.  But prophecy is like peeling away an onion from the inside.  As each layer is revealed, a larger picture is revealed. 

 

At this point one may argue that we are not using his real name.  There is validity to this statement.  His mother found herself pregnant at the hands of a married man when she was a freshman in college.  There is evidence to suggest his mother was completely unaware he was already married as they were subsequently married in February, 1961.  At the end of the semester from many various accounts, they went to visit his parents in Kenya.  Which is when she apparently found out he already had a wife.  Her reaction was predictable.  She had no intention of being another one of his wives and staying in Kenya where it is legal to have more than one wife.

 

Needless to say when she tried to fly back to Hawaii she was prevented because of the lateness of her pregnancy.  However, within a couple of days after giving birth, judging by when she registered her son’s birth with the State of Hawaii, she flew back to Hawaii without her “husband”.  From then on it appears the only time Barack Hussein II saw his father was one time at an airport.

 

No marriage license from the state of Hawaii has been uncovered by investigators from the evidence I’ve read.  Considering the fact that the husband could be charged with bigamy in the United States, being married in a ceremony without a marriage license makes sense. 

 

So in the State’s eyes without a marriage license, the marriage would not be recognized as valid.  If we then use his mother’s maiden name of “Dunham” we find the number of this name as 403.  There is no way to use this number though to come up with the number 666 with the rest of his name, although it too is divisible by 13.

 

Within a few years his mother remarried and moved to Indonesia where her husband from various accounts adopted a young Barack, or Barry as he was called, as his own.  From then on through High School he was known as Barry Soetoro.  This name’s number is 1458 which is not divisible by 13.  However, it is amazingly another number that can be derived from factors of six raised to the 6^th power.  Instead of 2^6 + 3^6 for the full name by which he now goes by, this name is 3^6 + 3^6.

 

When Barry went away to college he evidently did not like his Indonesian last name because he modified it slightly to a more African sounding name and started going by Barry Soebarkah.  This name has a number equal to 1170.  While not 666, this number too is divisible by 13.

 

By the end of College we know he started using the name “Barack Hussein Obama”.  We have tried counting the number of this name to 666 but it counts to 793.  However, Pastor Gallup in 2008 showed how we are using the English counting method for non-English words.  When one translates these names into their English meanings and then count the number of the names, the total is amazingly 666.  “Barack” is Arabic for the English word translated “Blessed”.  Likewise, “Hussein” is Arabic for the English word translated “Handsome”.  Finally, “Obama” is from the Luo African tribal language for the English word translated “Leaning”.  This translated name has the numerical value of 666.  We have just peeled from the inside out a whole layer of the onion.  Ready for another layer?

 

To be able to legally receive wages, i.e. sell your labor, or engage in commerce involving buying and selling in the United States one needs what is called a Social Security Number.  Many have recognized this number as having the same functionality as the number of the beast described in Revelation. 

 

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.  Revelation 13:17

 

This has still confounded people for centuries.  Consider that a “mark” is currency.  In fact the German currency is called the “Mark”.  Without currency, either paper or electronic, no man can buy or sell.  The paper currency currently in circulation in the United States has imprinted on it “Federal Reserve Note”.  The institution called the Federal Reserve took over the money supply in the United States with the “Federal Reserve Act” of 1913.  Another 13.  The number of the phrase “Federal Reserve Act” is 1040 which is also divisible by 13.  And the first tax year for the U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, also known as Form 1040, was the year 1913.

 

But more than that, all transactions are like a mark in a ledger book as it represents nothing tangible, just a debt.  It is backed by no assets but the good faith of the country to repay that debt.  This debit and credit system of banking and the reporting of income tax in the United States is all linked back to one’s Social Security Number.  One can have a debit currency or one can have a debit card or a credit card.  One can get access to one’s bank account having one’s social security card in one’s hand or knowing the number in one’s head.  Obama is the current head of the strongest nation in a world ruled by a debit money system.

 

By law a Social Security number cannot start with the number 666.  That would definitely freak many people out if they were assigned a Social Security number starting with 666.  So how can this number equal 666?  Technically this number is three numbers separated by hyphens and as now computerized, padded with leading zeros to make a total of 9 digits.  The first number is a maximum three in length, the second, two, and the third, four.  It is also required for licenses as recorded in Title 42, United States Code, Section 666.

 

42 US 666 (13) Recording of social security numbers in certain family matters.— Procedures requiring that the social security number of—(A) any applicant for a professional license, driver’s license, occupational license, recreational license, or marriage license be recorded on the application;

 

Which leaves us to ponder the next verse.

 

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.  Revelation 13:18

 

The beast, if Obama, as now the head speaks for the beast in this verse, has taken upon himself a Social Security number allowing himself to buy and sell.  The number he takes is not his own but we are told in this verse is the number of a man.  Why would Obama need to take the number belonging to a man?  The answer would logically be because he doesn’t already have one.  He must not be assigned his own number just as millions of illegal aliens in the United States cannot be assigned their own numbers.  How do you think they are being paid?  They either are receiving money off the books or their wages are being credited to a Social Security account that is not their own.

 

We have records that in and since college Obama did use the Social Security number of a man and we even know the name of that man.  His name was Harrison J. Bounel.  Records show he was born in 1890, registered for a Social Security number in Connecticut in the 1930’s and did not show up in any United States Census from 1940 on forward to the present time.  In other words he can be assumed to have died without a death certificate.  What we do know is his Social Security number was never marked as deceased.  Can it be that after almost 2000 years we finally know the name of the man in Revelation 13:18?  The man, Harrison Bounel?

 

Remember, Social Security numbers considered legitimate are not reused, even after death.  However at death they are marked as being deceased preventing others from reusing those numbers illegally.  With millions of illegal immigrants in the United States though, the black market for active Social Security numbers where the owner can be reasonably assumed to have died is phenomenal.

 

For the past almost 2000 years many Bible Scholars have thought the number of the beast would be based totally on converting the name of the man in Revelation 13:18 to a number.  This verse by itself could support such an interpretation.  But when one expands outside this verse, we see the number is required to buy or sell.  Converting a name to its word number equivalent in no way has anything to do with using this word number equivalent to buy or sell.  Instead, one used to get a social security number when one first wanted to sell one’s labor.  Now one’s parents get social security numbers for their children because when they report their income on their income tax return they get a discount on their taxes for each social security number they have registered for each of their children they support.

 

We know the second beast in Revelation 13 will need to use the number of a man to enable himself to buy and sell.  And we now know that man’s number will equal 666 for those who understand.  What is there to understand?  For one, the Social Security number is actually three numbers.  These three numbers are the area number, the group number, and the serial number.  Put together, they make the Social Security number.  Calculated together for those who have knowledge, Harrison’s SS number equals the same for those who have knowledge as the number 666.

 

It does not take advanced knowledge of calculus, algebra, or geometry.  It only takes knowledge of multiplication and addition.  For example with the one number 666 it is simple to multiply the digits of 6, 6 and 6 together and arrive at 216.  This is exactly what the popular “Left Behind” series did to arrive at 216 for the number of the beast.  Likewise it is almost as simple to try the same method with Harrison’s Social Security number.  It’s just that there are three numbers instead of one.  One still multiplies the digits of each number together.  Then with the resulting three numbers one just adds them together.

 

So when Harrison’s area number digits are multiplied together the result is 8.  Likewise when his group number digits are multiplied together the result is 48.  Finally when his serial number digits are multiplied together the result is 160.  These three numbers when added together come to 216.

 

Comes in his own Name – Did Obama come to be received by the Jews, for that matter all Americans, in the name given him by his father, or did he come in his own name?

 

I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not:if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.  John 5:43

 

The first part of this verse Jesus is setting up a comparison between himself and the future antichrist.  Jesus is saying that he had come in His Father’s name.  So the first question to be answered is what does this mean?  Is He talking about His Heavenly Father, God the Father or is He talking about His earthly adoptive father, Joseph?  Who would His listeners think He was referring to?  Most likely His earthly father.

 

Regardless, Jesus is not the same name as Jehovah or Joseph.  What is clear is that Joseph did not give his adopted son Jesus the name of himself, Joseph.  Nor did he give him the name Jehovah.  He did give Jesus the name which does translate as “God with us”.  Joseph also married His mom who was already pregnant and gave his adoptive son his good name and reputation.  Jesus was not born illegitimately.  Joseph also bestowed upon Jesus his name as an infant, naming Him Jesus.  Jesus was considered His legal name.

 

So now we come to the second part of the statement, “and ye receive me not”.  God’s chosen people did not receive the only begotten Son of God.  Instead they had him crucified.

 

The next part of the verse is, “if another shall come in his own name”.  This means there will be another which will come in his own name, not his legal name.

 

This is where one must look at the evidence and decide for oneself.  For Barack Obama Jr.’s name to have been legally Barack Obama at any time in his life, Barack Obama Sr. would have had to legally marry Ann Dunham.  And isn’t it illegal in the United States to marry more than one wife, (polygamy), and by accounts on both sides of the fence, Barack Obama Sr. was already married?  In other words Barack Obama Sr. could not legally marry Ann Dunham in the United States.  And there is no evidence another marriage ceremony was performed in Kenya.  So it can be concluded that Barack Obama Sr. never legally gave his biological son his last name.

 

So what name did Barack Obama go by while he was growing up, what name did his parents and grandparents call him before reaching adulthood?  He was called Barry Soetoro.  He was enrolled in school as Barry Soetoro.  He was legally adopted by his mom’s husband and given the last name of Soetoro.  By this name he attended grade school and high school.

 

When he went off to college, it appears he went by various names, Harry Bounel because of the Social Security issue and also Barry Soebarkah.  There is not much difference between Harry and Barry.

 

However, the transformation wasn’t complete.  Before leaving Columbia College he started going by Barack Hussein Obama, not even Barack Hussein Obama Jr. but Barack Hussein Obama.  He came into politics in and with the name of his own choosing.

Now the last part of the prophecy is, “him ye will receive”.  God’s chosen people will chose this man to lead them.  And in two elections, the largest group of the Jewish remnant which also happen to live in the United States, overwhelmingly voted for the person who came in the name of Barack Hussein Obama.

 

But wait, there is also replacement theology that has Christians being God’s chosen people.  In one sense they are, not by bloodline but by belief in Jesus Christ.

 

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God:but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.  Romans 9:8

 

This country, the United States of America, has many times declared itself a Christian nation.  Yet it has twice by a supposed majority of the voters elected Obama as their leader.  Him they did indeed receive.

 

He shall Not Desire Women. – Regardless of how many other prophecies Mr. Obama has appeared to fulfill, he must fulfill every single one, or we must look for another.  And the fact there is a Mrs. Obama appears to be prima facia evidence and the fatal flaw in accepting all these other prophecies for Obama.

 

Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god:for he shall magnify himself above all.  Daniel 11:37 (Compare with II Thess. 2:4)

 

Yet it is remarkable how the rest of this verse seems to fit.  We start out with him not regarding the god of his fathers.  This tells us that he will have more than one father and they will worship the same god.  Both of his fathers, his biological father, Barack Obama Sr. and his adoptive father, Lolo Soetoro, followed the god of Islam.  Yet, Mr. Obama has carried in his pocket for years a monkey god talisman from the Hindu religion.  But he apparently doesn’t regard any of these gods.

 

Yes, much has been written about his desire of men.  One can hardly deny while Senator he maintained a close relationship with Donald Young, the black choir master at Trinity Church in Chicago, given the easily available evidence.  Books have been written about this lifestyle, the pastor of Trinity Church, and Obama’s involvement in it.  Books such as Keith Boykin’s “Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America” and Larry Sinclair’s “Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder.”

 

One explanation for Mrs. Obama that could be seen as fulfilling this verse is he really has no desire for women but she provides the cover for his lifestyle.  As detailed on wnd.com:

 

The wife, the Down Low Club member explained, is “your ‘beard,’ your cover – so you can look like you’re living a straight life, even though you’re not.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/trinity-church-members-reveal-obama-shocker

 

The other possibility for Mr. Obama to still fulfill this prophecy of having no desire for women, which would be a real shocker, is that Mrs. Obama is actually a man.  Does this sound ridiculous?  If Mrs. Clinton is elected in the next election, Mr. Clinton would no longer be the “First Lady” to be a man.

 

Okay, besides that, remember homosexual marriage was illegal everywhere in the United States when the Obamas got married.  This would be the ultimate deception, the ultimate con, the ultimate fraud.

 

Can you imagine the world wide reaction if such a revelation were true?  No longer could the United States call another nation the “Evil Empire” without being laughed off the world stage.  No longer could the United States claim moral superiority in any sphere of influence.  In fact, nations like China and Russia may consider it their moral right, their moral obligation, their moral duty to destroy the decadent United States.  Just as Pompeii, Sodom, and Gomorra were said to have been destroyed by God for their homosexual deviancies, would not the world see God using these other nations to bring about the same judgment?  We should not say, “God Save the Queen” but “Heaven Help the United States”.

 

Some have wondered whether Matthew 24:38 in mentioning marriage twice is referring to the deviant union now legal in all 50 states, thanks in large part to Obama.  We have been told that just prior to the flood, man was sexually deviant beyond all description where God had no choice but to wipe all mankind off the face of the earth, save eight.

 

But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,  And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  Matthew 24:37-39

 

Some may point out that the verse in Luke mentioning marriage also mentions wives.

 

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.  Luke 17:27

 

However, the original Greek does not have the word “wives” and the words used in the verse are not gender-specific.  In other words, esthion, “they were eating”, epinon, “they were drinking”, egamoun, “they were marrying”, and egamizonto, “they were being given in marriage”.

 

With all these signs we can take hope that we have not long to wait.  With the recent “interpretation” of the Obama administration to withhold federal school funds to schools segregating bathrooms based on sex, how much longer can it be?  Although the whole administrations emphasis on sex has been said to be mainly to distract a populace from economic policies that are robbing the world to bring about the fulfillment of the third horseman.  I’m not denying or trying to detract from this going on.  Still, arguments of having to have a DNA test or birth certificate before going to the bathroom apparently captures the attention of the decadent public.

 

Which brings up the birth certificate of Mrs. Michelle Obama.  There are various sites purporting to show Mrs. Michelle Obama was born male, was born Michael Robinson.  And there have been women athletes who have commented on Michelle’s biceps.  Regardless, the public deserves to know the truth.  Perhaps Donald Trump demanded the wrong Obama’s birth certificate.

 

 

God’s Judgments

Much of Revelation is dedicated to describing in vivid blow-by-blow detail, God’s judgments in the coming destruction of life on earth by fire.  We know God is just and would not destroy the earth if society could be saved.  But once men choose as their life partners other men, and women choose as their life partners other women, and they publically announce this in the sacrament of matrimony, is there any hope for that society?  Or is society trapped in a downward spiral where the existence of all mankind will eventually be doomed without God intervening?

 

Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife:and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.  Matthew 19:4-6

 

God did not join man to man nor woman to woman.

 

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination:they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.  Leviticus 20:13

 

God created man in His own image and then gave him a commandment which this act prevents, is actually an act of defiance against.

 

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.  Genesis 1:27-28

 

And after destroying a defiant society by water, God gave the surviving eight the same commandment.

 

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.  And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,  Genesis 9:7-8

 

Just as yeast leavens the whole loaf, can we have any doubt all of society would be doomed without God’s intervention?  But just as the time of the coming of the Son of man will be like the time of Noah and of Lot with destruction upon a sinful society, God saved Noah’s family and Lot and his two daughters from the coming destruction.  There may be a correlation regarding this salvation timing and our salvation timing between when Jesus multiplied the 2 fish, representing God’s chosen, and the 5 loaves, representing the leavened rest of society.

 

 

Newtonian Prophecy

In the study of Biblical prophecy, there are many branches.  Many branches leading in sometimes opposite directions.  However, the branch I think has the most potential for providing the framework for unifying prophecy is what I term as Newtonian prophecy.

 

It surprises many non-students of prophecy to discover that Sir Isaac Newton, regarded by many as the greatest scientist who ever lived, spent more time devoted to studying and writing about Biblical prophecy than science.  Wouldn’t it be interesting if future generations considered him the greatest prophecy scholar as well?

 

One of his highest achievements in the realm of Bible prophecy has to be his declaration that it does injustice to the scriptures to combine the 62 weeks and the 7 weeks of Daniel’s 70 week prophecy as many of his predecessors had done.  Prophetic frameworks which combine the 62 and the 7 weeks into 69 continuous weeks of years we can call non-Newtonian.  While prophetic frameworks which separate the 62 from the 7 weeks in time we can call Newtonian.

 

One particular framework or timeline utilizing Newtonian prophecy also utilizes the Anderson year.  The beginning of the 70 week prophecy, namely the first 62 weeks, begins with the commandment by Nehemiah as Governor of Jerusalem to his fellow Jews to rebuild Jerusalem in around 433 BC.  When examining all other timelines that purport to start the 70 weeks with the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem by various non-Jewish kings one must ask one question.  Did the non-Jewish king command Jerusalem to be rebuilt?  On the other hand, did he merely give permission for the Jews to return or possibly undertake rebuilding themselves?  If the king had commanded it instead of just giving permission, why wasn’t the commandment fulfilled?  Why did it take a Jew, Nehemiah to command his fellow Jews for the actual rebuilding?

 

Now counting forward 62 weeks of Anderson years from 433 BC we arrive in 5 BC.  This is the most commonly recognized year for the birth and conception of Christ considering evidence Herod died soon after the spring equinox in 4 BC.

 

For those who are used to arriving at the baptism of Jesus or the death of Jesus for when Jesus became Christ, (Messiah in Hebrew, The Anointed One in English), one must ask oneself one question.  Was Jesus, “The Christ” from His conception, or from one of these later events?  Before you answer, consider the following scriptures.

 

And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.  Matthew 2:4

 

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.  Luke 2:11

 

These scriptures declare Jesus was already Christ when He was born.  He did not have to wait to become Christ, the Messiah.  Therefore the timing of the 62 weeks till Jesus as Messiah must be from the command by Nehemiah to build Jerusalem till His conception.  Likewise the timing of the 7 weeks till Jesus as the Prince of Peace must be from the command to restore Jerusalem to the Jewish people till His Second Coming.

 

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks:…  Daniel 9:25

 

A lot is contained within this one verse.  We can also easily figure out which event corresponds to the 62 weeks as directly after these 62 weeks scripture states Messiah is circumcised, (literally the foreskin is cut off).

 

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off,….    Daniel 9:26

 

There are canons which are now considered extra Biblical which we can deduce 2,000 years from Christ to the end of the Gentile Age or as some call it, Church Age.  Using the Newtonian framework for a gap after 62 weeks we can add 2,000 Anderson years to 5 BC and arrive at the year 1967.  As we know during the early morning hours of June 7, 1967 the command was given to the Israeli army to restore Jerusalem to Israel.  Adding 7 weeks of Anderson years to 1967 we arrive at to the day, Yom Kippur, September 23, 2015.  Remember, technically we have 7 weeks until we no longer have 7 weeks, which is when we have 8 weeks, which won’t happen till August 17, 2022.

 

The argument could be made that Newtonian prophecy should also embrace the time period Newton gave for the return of Jesus.  This time He was coming as Prince to establish His Millennial Kingdom on Earth.  The first time Jesus came, it was as Messiah, anointed from conception as the perfect sacrifice to take away the sins of the World for all that would call on Him.  Newton wrote later in life that he didn’t think the second coming of Jesus would be until after 2060 AD.  And we can arrive at around this same time period saying that the end of the Jewish Age was not at the birth of Christ, was not at the death of Christ, but 40 years later at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

 

Adding 2,000 calendar years to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD brings us to 2070 AD.  Adding 2,000 Anderson years brings us to the fall of 2041.  Some would have us believe these dates are closer to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.  This would give at least a couple of decades between the current riding of the third horseman and the riding of the fourth and final horseman before the Second Coming.

 

There is another possibility that eliminates this problem.  The fourth and final horseman riding to unite the world against God and Christ, could very well be the leader used by satan that rises up directly after the millennium, not directly before.  This also fits with the antichrist apparently also being the third horseman and not the fourth horseman.

 

On the last Yom Kippur, September 23, 2015 celebration, a group of rabbis officially declared the counting of the Jubilee.  In Hebrew thought some believe this must be officially declared and surprisingly sets apart not this Jubilee but the next which is September 20, 2064 to October 10, 2065.  This is closer to the 2060 date that seems to have gathered the most media attention.  Although Newton had written the calculations, dates and years down earlier in life for arriving at a date three decades earlier.

 

The year was 1666.  The Great Plague was devastating England.  London lost almost a quarter of its population.  At the time it seemed like the world was coming to an end.  The fact that 666 was the last three digits of the year was not lost on the populace.

 

The Great Plague ended up only lasted from 1665 to 1666 and it was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to hit England.  London lost 15% of its population during this time.  Oxford had been evacuated and while Isaac Newton was in seclusion during the Plague he invented Calculus.  He went on to other great scientific discoveries but he wrote more on Biblical prophecy, especially those of Daniel and John the Revelator, than natural science.  In his “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”, at the end of Chapter 8 the earliest date he gives is 774 AD to which he says to add 1260 solar days.  From that we arrive at the date 2034 AD.  This also matches 2000 calendar years after when Newton believed the year of the crucifixion occurred in 34 AD.  And 34 AD matches another culture’s recording of darkness for 3 hours during the afternoon, generally agreed as having to be an object in space considerably larger than the moon and which caused earthquakes during its near earth approach.

 

Although Newton does not mention using 360 day years at this time in his writing, adding 1260 “Anderson” years to 774 AD brings us to 2016 AD.

Later in life, after he had been knighted, he had written down the earliest he thought Christ’s thousand year might start, although it could be later, was 2060.

 

So then the time times & half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years & an half, recconing twelve months to a yeare & 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year. And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived [sic] kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings A.C. 800, will end A.C. 2060. It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fancifull men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, & by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail. Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons wch God hath put into his own breast.

 

What is interesting at this point near the end of his life is that Newton makes mention of using 12 months to a year and 30 days to a month and calling these the “primitive” year.  This gives validity from Newton to use his earliest 774 AD date to arrive at 2016 AD.

 

So while Anderson was not the first to use 360 day years and his application can be considered all wrong in when he starts his week count, the number of weeks he uses, and what year he arrives at for Messiah being “cut” off, he did popularize the use of 360 day years in Bible prophecy.

What is also interesting is that many people in Newton’s time all down through the ages were looking for the second coming of Christ and speculating on His soon return and the time of the end of this age.  Well, even the disciples of Jesus were asking this of Jesus.

 

There have been many fanciful conjectures throughout the past 2000 years but at the same time does not Jesus Christ state he will only come as a thief in the night to those who are in darkness and not of the light?

 

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day:we are not of the night, nor of darkness.  I Thessalonians 5:2-5

 

That does not mean we should not continually be watching.

 

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.  I Thessalonians 5:6

 

If we have to wait another 50 years, so be it.  But for this to be true, one would expect Jerusalem this year, 2016, to be completely restored to the children of Jacob.  One would then look at June 7, 1967 as only a partial restoration of Jerusalem to the children of Jacob, the children of Judah, the people of Daniel.  Then the real timing of the 7 weeks of years of the 70 week prophecy would begin.  But we should know which is correct shortly.

 

 

Destiny of Nations

 

 

Beast of the Sea

The narrator begins, “As it is written in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Chapter 13, verses 1&2”:

 

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion:and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”

 

The curtain rises.  In the middle of the stage stands a golden Egyptian sarcophagus.  Behind, spread out across the stage stand seven obelisks.  The first two on the left have plaques reading “Rome” and “Byzantium”.  To the right, the last two have plaques reading “New York”, and “London”.  A pronouncement in a deep commanding voice blares from the auditorium speakers.

 

“I, The Perfect God, Son of Ra, Thutmosis III, greatest of all Egyptian Pharaohs, have turned the nation of Egypt along the Nile into an Empire.  Let it be known that Egypt is the first head of the beast and the Egyptian Empire grew out of that head.  That empire, my empire is the first horn of the beast.  There is a crown that rules the horn and I am the greatest to wear that crown.”

 

“I have seen and I have conquered.  I have laid waste to Har Megiddo which in Greek is Armageddon.  To me it was but the conquest of a thousand towns.  My country in times past has been a refuge and fed the world in times of famine.  I now have expanded its borders far beyond the Nile.”

“I have left a legacy in the form of these seven obelisks you see before you.  I will now reveal to you their secret.  He who holds my obelisks controls the destiny of nations.”

 

From the shadows of the stage a man dressed in war gear with a long curly beard squared off at the bottom and wavy hair.  Another pronouncement blares from the speakers.

 

“I, Ashurbanipal II, greatest of all Assyrian kings, come from the land of Mesopotamia north of Babylonia to conquer Egypt and the world.  I own 666 BC.  While my city of Assur is quite prosperous, my city of Nineveh is now the largest city in the world.  It will remain the largest for five decades.  Sitting on the banks of the Tigris River, my city of Nineveh was visited by the prophet Jonah a century earlier.  My Assyria is the second head of the beast and my Assyrian Empire that grows out of that head is the second horn.  Be it known that I am the greatest king to wear the crown on the second horn.”

 

“Likewise, I have taken slaves of the males in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, led by the tribe of Dan, leaving only the Southern Kingdom, led by the tribe of Judah.  I have then taken other males from across my vast kingdom into the Northern Kingdom of Dan to cross-breed, creating Samaria.  That way I have assured the Northern Kingdom will never rise again.  I am master of the largest empire the world has ever seen.”

From the shadows appears another man dressed in an elegantly adorned red velvet robe.  Upon his head is a golden crown.  Again, the speakers blare a pronouncement.

 

“I, Nebuchadnezzar, greatest of all Babylonian kings, am emperor of the vast Babylonian Empire.  Nineveh has fallen at the hands of my father.  Be it known that Babylon is the third head of the beast and my empire is the third horn which grows out of the third head.  I currently wear the crown on top of the third horn.  Be it also known that I am the golden lion that makes up the mouth of the beast.”

“Look, I have enslaved Jerusalem and sent males to my capital of Babylon.  I am the destroyer of the land of the tribe of Judah and Solomon’s Temple.  The date I destroy the temple, Av 9 on the Jewish calendar, 587 BC on the Roman, is forever seared on the consciences of the Jews.  I am the instrument of God to carry out His judgments.”

 

“Let it be known, God’s judgment fell in days of old on the children of Israel because they refused to enter the Promised Land.  After God led them out of the land of Egypt, the land of bondage, and commanded them to possess the Promised Land; on Av 9, they refused.  Of the 12 reports of the 12 scouts from the 12 tribes, ten were bad and only two, Joshua and Caleb’s, were good.  So shall those who believed the report of the ten die in the wilderness.  So shall the tribes of Israel be divided.”

 

 “Remember, that unbelieving generation wandered in the wilderness for 40 years after being led out of Egypt by Moses.  Remember, for 40 years the judgment of God fell upon the unbelieving children of Israel each and every Av 9.  On that day, and on that day alone, for 40 years, the unbelieving generation died till all of the unbelieving generation was dead.  For 40 years, the tribe of Israel dug graves in the wilderness, each for themselves, on the day before Av 9.  Those that died in the night were buried with the dirt they had removed from their own grave.  After 40 years, no one died the night before.  After 40 years the new generation obeyed the voice of God and crossed the Jordan River, taking possession of their promised land.”

 

From the shadows of the stage, another man dressed in hammered silver plate armor takes his place beside the other two.  From the speakers come another emphatic pronouncement.

 

“I, Cyrus II, the Persian, greatest general of the Medes and the Persians, have defeated the Babylonians and founded the first Persian Empire.  In 539 BC I dried up the mighty Euphrates and marched into Babylon on its riverbed, laying waste to this supposedly impenetrable city.  Be it known that Persia is the fourth head and the MedoPersian Empire is the fourth horn.  I am the first one to wear the crown of the Empire.  I am the grizzled silver bear that make up the feet of the beast.”

 

“I, Cyrus, have freed the tribe of Judah to return to their homeland.  My kingdom has allowed the rebuilding and rededication of the Hebrew Temple.”

 

The narrator begins, “In modern times, King Cyrus will again be remembered as history repeats itself.  When former United States President Harry S. Truman was being introduced in 1953 as the man who helped create the State of Israel in 1948, Truman retorted, "What do you mean, "helped to create"?  I am Cyrus.  I am Cyrus."

 

From the shadows emerges a soldier with a spotlight shining on a hammered brass shield and brass light armor.  From the speakers comes yet another pronouncement.

 

“I, Alexander III of Macedon, greatest conqueror the World has ever seen, have made the nations my footstool.  I am tutored at an early age by Aristotle himself of Greece.  I own 333 BC.  I started leading armies before the age of 20 and following the death of my father, I have now become King of Macedonia, Pharaoh of Egypt, King of Persia, and King of Asia.  I have with these conquered kingdoms all accompanying titles including “The Perfect God”.  All this I have done in 13 years.  By 323 BC I am dead.  I am only 32.  Still, the remains of my Macedonian empire remains Hellenistic for hundreds of years.  I leave my empire to the strongest.  It will be split four ways, my General Cassander in Greece, Ptolemy in Egypt, Seleucus in Mesopotamia and Iran, and Lysimachus in Thrace.  Be it known that Macedonia is the fifth head and out of it grows four horns.  The first horn is Greece, the second Egypt, the third Mesopotamia which includes Iran, and the fourth Thrace.  On each of these horns sits a crown which makes a total of four crowns.  These four crowns are worn by my four Generals and their successors.  These horns and crowns are the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth of the beast.  Let it be known that the part of beast which is like the brass colored leopard represents my Macedonian Empire.”

 

From the shadows emerges another soldier with a spotlight shining on a hammered iron shield and iron strips protecting his torso.  From the speakers comes another pronouncement.

 

“I, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Augustus, greatest emperor of Rome, the first official king, the first official monarch of the greatest empire ever seen by man.  My crown is fitting for a royal king, a diadem.  This is an empire like no other.  This empire in one form or another lasts twice as long as all the previous five empires combined.  I rule from 284 to 305 AD.  I have separated civil and military services.  I have reorganized the empire's provincial divisions.  I have broken the Empire in half to be better ruled by two people and then halved that again to be ruled by yet another two.  I have established the largest and most bureaucratic government in the history of the Roman Empire.”

 

“My Roman emperor predecessors have subdued the Grecian Empire.  In 70 AD we completely destroyed every man, woman, and child within the walls of Jerusalem.  We laid siege to Jerusalem, starving them into submission, reducing them to cannibalism.  Here’s how we did it.”

“The city population swelled for Passover with Jews making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem from around the World.  But then our great Roman army surrounded the city and we allowed no one to leave.  We waited and we waited.  Counting from the beginning of Passover to the end of Av 9, we waited 113 days before we set fire to the temple.  When we did enter, dead bodies from the starved lay everywhere, and of the living we made sure blood flowed through the streets.  As the city of Jerusalem burned, not one stone was left upon another in Herod’s temple.”

 

“That day, Av 9, is forever emblazoned on the Jewish conscience.  That day, Av 9, was the same day their first temple was destroyed in 587 BC by Nebuchadnezzar.  The Zoroastrian Magi calendar used by Nebuchadnezzar’s Empire had 360 days.  On that calendar, 70 AD was the 666^th year since the first temple was destroyed in 587 BC.”

 

“On the Roman calendar, Av 9, 70 AD falls in the most august of months, the month named after Rome’s first Emperor, born on the Fall Equinox in 64 BC, namely Augustus, the name I and all Roman Emperors share title to.”

 

“In August of 70 AD, the date the second Temple was destroyed, was the fourth day of our Julian month.  Towards dusk the temple was set ablaze and it continued to burn through most of the next day.  It is not by accident that August 4^th in a non-leap year like 70 AD is the 216^th day of the Roman year.  For those with understanding will count the number of the second beast which rises from the remains of all the other Empires.  Rome’s number is evident for anyone who knows Roman Numerals.  For the counting of all Roman Numerals results in the number 666.  When Rome’s number is up, the beast which rises from the remains will also have the number 666.  Those with understanding will count six times six times six and arrive at the same number as the day count of the Roman year the Jerusalem temple was destroyed, 216.”

 

From the shadows emerges a soldier like the one before with a spotlight shining on a hammered iron shield and iron strips protecting his torso.  As he moves forward, the previous soldier walks backwards and disappears behind the curtain.  From the speakers comes another pronouncement.

“I, Constantine the Great, am the greatest Roman Emperor by far.  Diocletianus, my predecessor, broke the Roman Empire into four parts where he appointed three others to rule with him in a tetrarchy.  He cannot be the greatest.  I wear the crown all by myself.  I rule from rule from 306 AD to 337 AD.  I own 333 AD.”

 

“Let it be known that Rome is the sixth head and the Roman Empire is the ninth horn.  I wear the ninth crown.  I move the capital of the Roman Empire to the New Rome, Byzantium, renaming it Constantinople, after myself.  Looking into the future I see my capital named after me lasting long after I am gone, long after the Roman Empire is gone, being the modern day Istanbul.”

 

“Let it be known that the Eastern leg of Daniel’s Metal Man, the Eastern leg of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire with its capital of Constantinople will soon have its own Emperor.  This Empire will last long after the Western Roman Empire has collapsed.  In the 5^th century the Western leg collapses.  It was invaded and taken over by Germanic tribes.”

 

“When does the Eastern leg finally collapse?  The Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire in 1453.  But that is not the end of Rome as we live on in the feet of iron and clay.  The Ottoman rulers actually adopt the title “Caesar of Rome” till the Ottoman Empire ends in 1922.”

 

“Do not lament that Rome has lost half of its kingdom for the Eastern half has taken upon itself a life of its own.  Constantinople is the 7^th head, the Eastern half of the Roman Empire becomes the 10^th horn, and the 10^th crown is worn by the ruler of the Eastern half of the old Roman Empire.”

 

The narrator starts again, “For as it is written in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Chapter 13, verses 3&4”:

 

“And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed:and all the world wondered after the beast.  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast:and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?”

 

The narrator continues, “Remember, Western Rome is the sixth head, one of the seven, and it is wounded to death.  It is sacked in 410 AD and 455 AD and overrun by Germanic tribes.  Finally it is reclaimed by the army of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire in 538 AD.

 From the shadows emerge 10 ragtag men carrying weapons of varying degree.  One a mace, another a sword, still another a spear.  From the speakers come another pronouncement.

 

“We are tribes, nomads, wanderers, nations without lands, which invade the Roman Empire.”

 

At this announcement, the man on the audience’s far left steps forward into the spotlight.

 

“I am leader of the Visigoths, the Western Goths.  We are Germanic.  We came into the Roman Empire from the plains of Hungary in 376 AD to escape the Huns.  We killed the Roman Emperor in 378 AD.  We besiege, capture, burn, and sack Rome in 410 AD before we disappeared from history.

 

The second from the audience’s left of the 10 steps forward.

 

“I am King of the Vandals.  We were pushed into Spain where the Visigoths expelled us.  We conquered North Africa, built a fleet, and sacked Rome in 455 to an even greater extent than the Visigoths.  We lasted until 533 AD when five million of us were killed by the East Roman Emperor Justinian and we disappear into history.”

 

The third from the left steps forward.

 

“I am Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, the Eastern Goths.  I control Italy as of 493 AD and have imprisoned Pope John I.  To appease me, I have been given title as the regent of the emperor in Constantinople.  I continue to control Italy till my death in 526 AD.  Within 40 years of my death, we are driven from Italy by the army of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian.  We then move north of the Alps and disappear from history.  We are the last of the three nations including the Vandals and the Visigoths to be wiped completely out after conquering Rome.”

The narrator starts again, “For as it is written in the book of Daniel Chapter 7, Verse 8:

 

“I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things”

 

            “And again in Daniel Chapter 7 verse 24:”

 

“And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings”

 

The narrator continues.  “Thus the little horn was established after the plucking up by the roots of the Visigoths, Vandals, and Ostrogoths.  As it is written in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Chapter 13, verses 5 through 8:

 

“And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.  If any man have an ear, let him hear.  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity:he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”

 

The narrator continues, “Let it be known that the Western Roman Empire did not die, it recovered from its deadly wound and became ecclesiastical in nature, proclaiming its unholy empire “Holy”.  From then on until 1798 AD, nations in Europe would come to get the blessing and recognition of the head of this ecclesiastical power, the pope.  The pope’s assumed titles included “pontifex maximus”, the supreme pathfinder, bridge maker, between the physical world and the spiritual.  Their authority and power came from the dragon, satan.  They sat on satan’s throne as had the previous “pontifex maximus’” all the way back to Pergamum and before that Babylon.  For as it is written in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Chapter 2 verses 12 & 13:

 

“And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;  I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is:and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.”

 

“That is why their practice is called the Babylon Mystery Religion for as it is written in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Chapter 17, verses 1-7:”

 

“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness:and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:  And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.  And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus:and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.”

 

The fourth from the left steps forward.

 

“I am Charlemagne, King of the Franks.  We will settle in France, named after us.  I will conquer the Germanic tribes in Germany and the Lombards of Italy.  I am King of the Franks from 768 to 814 AD, King of the Lombards from 774 AD to 814 AD and the Holy Roman Emperor from 800 AD – 814 AD.  I am the first recognized emperor in Western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire when I am crowned by Pope Leo III.  I rule from my imperial capital of Aachen which is in what is now called Germany.  While popes continue to crown kings and emperors, the official “Holy Roman Empire of Germanic Nations” or “Holy Roman Empire” for short lasts from 962 to 1806 AD.  At that time the last Holy Roman Emperor abdicated after a military defeat at the hands of Napoleon.  Even Voltaire exclaimed that, “This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.”

 

Finally, the fifth from the left steps forward.

 

“I am Henry VIII, King of the Anglo-Saxons, the Anglos and Saxons Germanic tribes.  We have settled in Anglo’s land or England, named after us.  I am King from 1509 AD till my death in 1547 AD.  We have given homage to the pope but I will break off my country from its control and form the “Church of England”.  I dissolve the monasteries and convert the money formerly paid to Rome into my own royal revenue.  You ask me whether the power of the pope to continue the prophesied 42 months ends with me?  I have broken the yoke of tyranny only for England but the 42 months are not yet fulfilled.  Let us count the years.”

 

“Consider that 42 months of years is 1260 years.  Recognize that the old yoke was broken when the Western Roman Empire fell around 455 AD with the Vandals sacking Rome.  Recognize that the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian decreed in 533 AD that the Bishop of Rome was to be the head of all Christian churches.  However, since the Eastern Roman Empire did not control Italy this decree had no teeth.  This changed when Justinian’s General Belisarius defeated the Vandals in 534 AD at the Battle of Tricamarum.  Then Belisarius took Rome in 536 AD.  The Ostrogoths then rallied and laid siege to Rome in 537 AD.  This siege was broken in March of 538.  This was the pivotal moment which allowed the planting of the little horn and the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome over the Church.”

 

“Let us count 1260 Roman years from March of 538.  Those 1260 years would end in February of 1798.  You ask me what pivotal event happened in February of 1798?  I’ll tell you.  Napoleon.  His French Army took Rome, established a Republic, and dethroned the pope on February 15, 1798.  That ended the reign of the sixth head, the little horn of Daniel.”

 

“While you let that sink in, let’s talk about my six wives.  No, on second thought, let’s not.  Oh, you want to know what happens to the seventh head.  Have you considered Daniel’s four metal man statue?  The seventh head of the beast, the Eastern Roman Empire, is the eastern leg of the statue.  It is the seventh head because it forms after the 6^th head, Rome Even though this head is called the Eastern Roman Empire they speak Greek while the Romans spoke Latin.  This area exists as a head after the 6^th head disappears.  The Ottoman Turks rule as an extension of the Roman Empire in Constantinople.  They claim the title of Roman Emperor just as the Germanic tribes claimed they were the Holy Roman Empire in the West.  This 7^th head exists until 1922.”

 

The speakers make another pronouncement.  “From the East comes tribes of nations”.

 

At this announcement, the one on audience’s far right of the ten steps forward into the spotlight.

 

“I am King of the Persians, leader of the Sasanian Empire.  Emperor Justinian I paid me 440,000 pieces of gold in 532 AD to keep "eternal peace" between myself and Rome.  In 540 AD, I break the treaty and invade Syria, sacking Antioch and requiring ransom from many cities of Rome.  I conquer Jerusalem in 614 AD.

 

The second from the right of the 10 steps forward.

 

“I am King of the Arabs.  I started invading the Eastern Roman Empire and taking land at the death of Muhammad in 632 AD.  By 642 AD, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and North Africa are under my Muslim Arab control.  I conquer Jerusalem in 638 AD.  On the Temple Mount I build the Dome on the Rock in 691 AD and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 709 AD.

 

The third from the right steps forward.

 

“I am King of the Normans.  We may be small in number but we are large in size.  We came as Vikings from Scandinavia to conquer.  We travel west to America earlier than Christopher Columbus.  We travel south to France where we are given land to keep us from pillaging.  Our name comes from where we reside in France, Normandy, which means North men.  The Eastern Roman Emperor in the 11^th century made concessions to the West for help against us Normans in the East along with help against the Seljuq Turks.  Believe it or not, those concessions included giving to us same Normans who also resided in the West.”

 

The fourth from the right steps forward.

 

“I am King of the Seljuq Turks.  Crusades from West at the request of the Eastern Empire may have helped some against us Turks.  However those crusades did not discriminate between us Turks and the Eastern Roman Empire itself.

 

The fifth from the right steps forward.

 

“I am King of the Ottoman Turks and the head of the Ottoman Empire.  We conquer the remains of the Byzantine Empire and Constantinople in 1453.  From that date forward we call our King, “Caesar of Rome”.”

 

“This title lasts until our sultanate is abolished in 1922.  But really by this time, in 1918 our empire lost “The Great War”, World War I.  It was like one shoe dropping after another.  We had already lost Mecca in 1916, Jerusalem in 1917, and then Constantinople in 1918.  We tried to hold our empire together through World War I but failed.  The British and French financed the Arab revolt against us from 1916 to 1918.  Can you believe they turned our fellow Muslims against us?  Those infidels.  At least the Bedouins demanded gold coin before they would fight against us.  Bribe money.  Blood money.  They will be repaid in kind.”

 

“We knew the British and French had entered into an unholy alliance with Grand Sharif Hussein, the guardian of our most holy city of Mecca.  How dare he accuse us of firing on Islam’s most holy city when he was fighting against us.  Then we lost Jerusalem, the original city set on 7 hills, Islam’s most holy city after Mecca.  That was even worse.  That was the pivotal moment.  That was the breaking point.  Having infidels entering our holy city.  At least we lost Mecca to fellow Muslims,”

 

“I know, Jerusalem is the most sacred city to both the Jews and the Christians but our religion is the only true religion.  Judaism and Christianity have both wandered from the true faith and we are now the only ones keeping the true faith.  We will kill all the infidels.  We will prevail.”

 

“After the Great War, we became involved in the Greco-Turkish war.  It is then in 1922 that we got our revenge.  Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as their state religion and we have now wiped the Armenians off the face of the earth.  While the world watched and did nothing we systematically murdered the Christian Armenians and Greeks in what we renamed Turkey.  The world called it genocide.  We called it justice for the infidels.  As the refugees fled from us advancing Turks, they crowded into the port city of Infidel Smyrna.  We took the city on September 9th, 1922.  Over 21 warships from the allied nations could have done something.  Instead they watched from the harbor as we set the Armenian and Greek sections of the city aflame.  The date was September 13^th, 1922.  The richest city of our Ottoman empire, our crown jewel, we have destroyed ourselves.”

 

“Infidel Smyrna burns for 10 days to fulfill your Holy Scriptures.  Are we not then the instrument of God?  For is it not written in your Revelation of Jesus Christ, Chapter 2, verses 8 through 10:

 

“And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”

 

The curtains close from the sides.

 

 

70 Weeks

From the left side of the stage steps a man in front of the curtain, dressed in a brown robe.

 

“I, Daniel, writer of what you know as the 27^th book of the Old Testament, have lived through the time of Jerusalem and our temple being desolated by the Babylonians.  I have now seen Babylon in like manner being desolated by the Medes and the Persians.  Is it not recorded in Jeremiah 25, verses 11 and 12:”

 

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.  And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

 

“Was it wrong to wonder why my people, God’s chosen people, were still captives in a foreign land?  Was it wrong to wonder what was to become of my people and our city?  We have been justly punished a year for each Sabbath year during 70 weeks of years we did not leave the ground fallow.”

 

“I have read how our Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah and told him 70 years would be accomplished in the desolations of Jerusalem.  By my counting of years, after the manner of the Babylonians, that time had passed.  But I know my ways are not God’s ways.  I had to have patience and trust.  Yes, my people remained enslaved and Jerusalem remained desolate.  I considered that the Most High God would not restore my people, His people, to Jerusalem and me and my people would disappear off the face of the earth.  Yet Cyrus, within the year, in the month of Nisan, the same month of the Egyptian Exodus, allowed the remnant to return to Jerusalem.”

 

“The Angel Gabriel visited me and brought me understanding.  He let me, Daniel, know that I am greatly loved, and to understand the matter, and consider the vision.  Not 70 years, but 70 weeks of years are determined upon my people and upon my holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.”

 

“Consider these 70 weeks of years.  Now consider the transgressions against God will not be finished till the end of time.  Sins will not end till the end of time.  Everlasting righteousness will not happen till after time as we know it has passed away and we have entered eternity.”

 

“Now consider that reconciliation to the Most Holy God cannot happen till the price has been paid for each and every chosen one’s iniquity.  Reconciliation cannot happen till sins have been redeemed.  But there is no one worthy to redeem man’s iniquity but the Most Holy, the Lamb of God Himself.  The Most Holy will be anointed for death, as the perfect sacrifice.  Do you not know that the title “Anointed One” is in Hebrew “Messiah” and in Greek, “Christ”? 

 

“Be it known and understand that the Most Holy visited Man first as Messiah and then will visit as the Prince.  As Messiah He fulfilled Isaiah 61, verse 1 and half of 2.

 

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;  To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

 

“As the Prince He shall fulfill the rest of verse 2 and the rest of Isaiah 61.  Finishing 2 through verse 3 we have:”

 

and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

 

“Be it known that from the going forth of the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem by my people unto Messiah was threescore and two weeks.  Be it known that from the going forth of the commandment to restore Jerusalem by your people unto the Prince shall be seven weeks.  The streets were built again, and the wall, even in troublous times, in the times of Nehemiah.  Counting from Nehemiah’s commandment to build Jerusalem until the conception of Christ was threescore and two weeks.  After threescore and two weeks Messiah was circumcised as an infant after the manner of God’s chosen people.  Messiah’s foreskin was cut off, representing the covenant between God and man.  But Messiah was not circumcised for himself, because He is already fully God and therefore fully reconciled to Himself.  But it was to be our example, to fulfill all righteousness.”

 

“Messiah was crucified by my people to be the perfect anointed sacrifice for all chosen people’s sins throughout all time.  Messiah was then exalted to the right hand of our Father in Heaven as Prince of Princes.  The people appointed by the Prince then came and destroyed both Jerusalem and the temple; and the end thereof was like a flood, and unto the end of the war Jerusalem was made completely desolate.”

 

“I Daniel, looking through time, can testify that the Messiah the Prince confirmed the covenant made with the sign of circumcision and with the sign of the blood of lambs and goats with the offering of his own blood to fulfill the covenant made with man for 7000 years.  In the midst of these 7000 years he caused these sacrifices and the oblations to cease in 70 AD.  This was decades after He made the perfect sacrifice, decades after the heavy curtain separating man from the Holy of Holies was wrent in two, decades after the High Priest being shown their sacrifice was not accepted by God.  And for the overspreading of abominations made by these priests after His perfect sacrifice, He shall make Jerusalem and the temple desolate, even until the consummation by fire of the same, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

From the right of the stage in front of the curtain, a man with a white beard dressed in light grey appears.  The man speaks.

 

“I, John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, the disciple whom Jesus asked to watch over His mother, the disciple whom Jesus visited in my old age when I was imprisoned on the island of Patmos.  I John, writer of what you know as the 27^th book of the New Testament, have lived through the time of Jerusalem and our temple being desolated by the Romans.”

 

To be continued…..