WE MAY BE MERE DAYS FROM THE TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE & THE DESTRUCTION OF DAMASCUS

Damascus, Syria is the oldest inhabited city in world history. We are now seeing many Mideast events that could cause it to "cease to be a city", igniting the Psalm 83 War.

Once it all begins, it will be like a chain of dominoes falling.
 
“See, Damascus will cease to be a city but will become a heap of ruins" Isaiah 17:1

It is important to note that as a result of the coming Psalm 83 War, victorious Israel will no longer be bordered by her enemies. Her enemies will be vanquished and she will own all the land.

It appears very possible that Syria has now sent either chemical or biological weapons across the border of Syria, into the Golan Heights:

"Israel quarantines base in Golan Heights, near Syrian border, after outbreak of infection "

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/israel-quarantines-base-in-golan-heights-near-syrian-border-after-outbreak-of-infection/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158216#.UBCR0SLS3mU
 
A complete lock down of this military base, with people in Hazmat suits sanitizing every square inch, does not sound like any typical infectious process.

Surely, Israel has launched an intensive medical investigation into the exact source of the illness.

Once Israel fully investigates the disease process and it is determined to be either chemical or bio-warfare, Damascus would be a prime target.

We are but 2 days away from the 9th of Av, which "commemorates a list of catastrophes so severe it's clearly a day specially cursed by God."

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/946703/jewish/What-happened-on-the-Ninth-of-Av.htm

It would make sense that the prophesied "Time of Jacob's Trouble" (Israel's Trouble), would commence on the 9th of Av.

Thereby, it would send the message to all of Israel that the coming trials are those which were supernaturally prophesied, by the Holy One of Israel.

Please refer to Isaiah 17-18, which appears to shed much light on where we are prophetically headed at this very moment.
 
All the following players of the Psalm 83 War appear to now be on center stage:

Psalm 83 Coalition-

Tents of Edom = [decedents of Esau] Palestinian Refugees and Southern Jordanians

Ishmaelites = Saudi Arabians

Moab = Palestinian Refugees and Central Jordanians

Hagrites = Egyptians

Gebal = Northern Lebanese

Ammon = Palestinian Refugees and Northern Jordanians

Amalek = Arabs South of Israel

Philista = Palestinian Refugees and Hamas of Gaza Strip

Inhabitants of Tyre = Hezbollah and Southern Lebanese

Assyria = Syrians and perhaps Northern Iraqis included

Children of Lot = Moab and Ammon=Palestinian Refugees and Central and Northern Jordanians

Israel has developed a strategy if she is attacked by weapons of mass destruction (WMD's).  This protective move is named after Samson in the Bible.

Like Samson, who killed himself in order to destroy his enemies, Israel has the "Samson Option".

This is the military strategy wherein:

Israel would respond with massive retaliation according to the "alleged deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence, and possibly against other targets as well"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option


The Samson Option would probably be employed  if Israel is forced to strike Damascus. The Psalm 83 nations/allies of Syria would assuredly quickly jump into the fray once Israel has struck.

Scripture appears to indicate that Israel herself will suffer mass casualties in this conflict. However, her surrounding enemies will be decimated.

If Israel annihilates Damascus in order to protect her population from being annihilated by Syria's
WMD's, the world would blame only Israel.

After the Psalm 83 war, the anti-Zionist countries of the world would probably be reeling with hatred towards Israel at the carnage.

They viciously hate Israel anyway so it would really inflame them if Israel was to also take the land of her conquered enemies (especially Saudi Arabia's oil rich land).

No longer is it acceptable to seize and own land after military defeats as in the days of the "empires". The world would be livid about Israel's new "occupation" of the land of her defeated enemies.

This is where the "confirm a covenant with many" of Daniel 9:27 comes to play-

Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Everyone has always thought that the "covenant with many" would be a peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Palestinians will never agree to anything less than ALL of Israel and it’s total destruction  There will never be any "peace plan" acceptable.

Many have tried through the years but all have failed at their "peace plans". After the Psalm 83 war, a Mideast peace plan will be a moot point because the Palestinians will have perished in it.

The antichrist’s “covenant with many”, in the Book of Daniel, has to be an agreement already in place, as it is going to be "confirmed".

It appears that this covenant that is confirmed will not be of of men, but of God, as His covenant is all that is important-God does not care about mere men's agreements!

The covenant in question would be God's covenant with Abraham giving His land to Abraham and his descendants!

Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,21And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
 
When Israel defeats her many adversaries and victoriously wins much/most of her Abrahamic Covenant land back, the nations of the world will vehemently protest the mass acquisition of her covenant land.

It may be that after the Psalm 83 war, the antichrist will stand up, against the protests of all the nations, in favor of Israel's right to keep her God-given land.

He may even do so by acknowledging the fact that this land is actually God's covenant land given to Israel. Thus, he would "confirm" the covenant (God's covenant) with many.

Since the antichrist figure would be instrumental in Israel being able to retain and redeem her covenant land it would be thought by the children of Israel that he is their long awaited Messiah.

As per the preceding Temple Mount Faithful link:

"The complete redemption of Israel, the rebuilding of the Temple, and the coming of Messiah Ben David are the next stages in G-d's end-time plans with Israel and the entire world."

In Judaism, they believe their coming Messiah is mandated to bring the world into alignment with the Word of God.

So, if/when the antichrist protects Israel's right to redeem God's covenant land, it would reason that he would be viewed as their long-awaited Messiah.

Since Israel would be recognized to own the land, the 3rd Temple could also be rebuilt.

All the preparations to build the Third Temple are completely ready:

http://theworldisshaking.blogspot.com/2010/07/third-temple-ready-and-waiting.html


According to the below, the revealing of the antichrist, by his role in confirming the above ”covenant with many", will be after the Rapture.

2 Thessalonians 2:6-8".. now you know what is restraining him from being revealed at this time; it is so that he may be manifested (revealed) in his own appointed time. For the mystery of lawlessness (that hidden principle of rebellion against constituted authority) is already at work in the world, but it is restrained only until he who restrains is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one (the antichrist) will be revealed "
 
Therefore, it appears that the Rapture of the Church will be coincide closely with the destruction of Damascus and the Psalm 83 war.

Many reputable Christians have validated their reasoning and are of the mindset that Obama may possibly be THE antichrist (or at least a forerunner).

Even though Obama is presently anti-Israel and pro-Arab-Muslim he could flip-flop (as is his method of operation).

After there is no Palestinian presence to give Israel's land away to, Obama could change his tune and instead advocate in favor of Israel, regaining her Covenant land.

If not Obama, someone else could come as a broker, to "confirm" this covenant, allowing Israel to redeem the rest of her Covenant land. 


The Psalm 83 War would probably be of very short duration due to all of our high tech, modern weapons of mass destruction.

The Rapture may instantly coincide with the coming sudden destruction, or in close proximity.

Therefore, there may not be a chance for people to continue a "wait and see" attitude, in order to decide to give up the things of the world, and to focus on God.

Those who choose to do so would be the foolish virgins, not having enough oil in their lamps.

God knows the intent of the heart. The discerner of men's hearts knows whether the affections for the world are only being released, because it is all about to be ripped away.

To be among the readied Bride, we have to love, obey and be so devoted to God that He is our focus, not the world.

To put the world over God is to be found in a state of adultery when Jesus, Yeshua Ha Mashiach, comes. Those found in such a condition will not be among the true Bride.

There will be much "weeping and gnashing of teeth" by those who allowed themselves to be entrapped by the fleeting allures of this life.

The time to REPENT and PUT GOD FIRST is TODAY, before it is too late!!

THE MANY REASONS WHY THE LORD'S FEAST DAY OF ROSH HASAHANAH, REPRESENTS THE RAPTURE

The first thing that is imperative to realize is that God's feast days that He outlined in the Torah, represent God's plan of redemption, compromising both His first and second coming. 

 

 Note that there are seven Levitical  feast days outlined by God. The number seven represents completion and is God's perfect number.

 

Please see the following website for an elaboration on God's perfect number being the number, 7 :

http://www.angelfire.com/az/rainbowbridge/seven.html

Jesus has already fulfilled all the Spring Feast days with His first coming.

 

The upcoming Fall feast days represent the Rapture, His Second Coming and the Millennial period. 


The next feast day to be fulfilled would be the first Fall festival, Rosh Hashanah.

It is important to remember that the feast days are NOT just Jewish feast days but are God's feast days. In the book of Leviticus, God stressed that they are HIS feast days. 

Leviticus 23: 

1The Lord said to Moses, 2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. 

So, the festival (feast) days belong to the Lord Himself. His followers, Jew and Gentile are to keep them. 

 

If the Church had been observing God's feast days then they would have realized that His return for His own would come one Rosh Hashanah/ Yom Teruah.

 

It is noteworthy to realize that Rosh Hashanah has several different titles, all referring to the same festival.

 

It is also known as Yom Teruah,or the Feast of Trumpets. These titles, as well as other names for this important festival, will be used interchangeably throughout this entry. 

 

Yom Teruah is the only one of God's feast days that starts on the sighting of the new moon. 

 

The Jewish idiom for God's feast day of Yom Teruah, is the feast "of which no man knows the day or the hour". 

 

Due to the dispersion of the Jewish people from their land in ancient days, the feast of the new moon/Yom Teruah could have been over before word of the sighting of the new moon in Jerusalem, spread to those who were dispersed in Babylon.

 

Therefore, Rosh Hashanah was celebrated as a two day festival but recognized as one long day. It is the only feast day that begins at the sighting of the new moon by two witnesses in Jerusalem. 

 

Because of this, no one could know for certain, beforehand, the day or hour of the beginning of the feast of Yom Teruah. 

 

Bear in mind that Yeshua (Jesus)was Jewish, speaking to His Jewish disciples when He used this well known Jewish idiom: 

 

Matt. 24: 36“ No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Just as in American culture, one would know that if someone informed them that they would visit them on "Turkey Day'" that they were indicating Thanksgiving. 

 

 In the same manner, the Scripture indicates that our Jewish Savior was referring to the well known 2 day feast of Yom Teruah/"on a day or hour that no man knows". This idiom is also indicates how this feast is representative of the Jewish Wedding. 

 

"Of that day or hour no man knows, but my Father only" is the expression used by a Jewish groom when asked when he will go and steal away his bride "like a thief in the night".

 

1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

 

The Jewish groom (representing Jesus) goes away to prepare a place for his bride. When preparations on the bridal chamber are completed, the father of the groom (representing our Heavenly Father)tells his son it is time to fetch his bride.

 

The Feast of Trumpets is also known as the "wedding of the Messiah", and therefore, the expression about "not knowing the day or the hour" again is shown to refer to the Jewish wedding custom in relation to this feast.

 

Believers are the Bride of Christ for whom the Bridegroom, Yeshua, (Jesus) will one day come to take to His Father's House, at the time of the Rapture.

 

Therefore, it is clear that the Rapture must take place on a Feast of Trumpets/the wedding of the Messiah.

 

Remember Jesus's assurance to us, His Bride:

Matthew 14:1“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2There is more than enough room in my Father’s home.^a If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?^b 3When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.

 

Thus, it can easily be seen how this feast day represents the Rapture, as the Bride of Christ, we are caught up in the air to be with the Lord and to attend the marriage supper of the Lamb.

The title, Yom Teruah, means Day of Trumpets in Hebrew. There is the blowing of 100 shofar blasts towards the very end of the celebration of this feast. 

The one hundredth and last blast is called "THE LAST TRUMP".  

Just as Jesus was Jewish speaking to a Jewish audience so was Paul, as a Jew, relating the well known Jewish name for the last shofar blast blown ending the Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah:

 

1 Corinthians 15:52 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.

  

On The Feast of Trumpets, the challah, or special bread, is baked into the shape of a circle, representing a crown.

It is on this day that the coronation of the King is to occur and the King which we know to be Yeshua Ha Mashiach, is to be enthroned on this festival/feast day. The shofar is blown during the coronation of a king. 

 As such, it can be seen that one day, on a Yom Teruah, (which means the "day of blowing") that the shofars will be blown announcing the coronation of King Jesus!

 

 The thirty days prior to Yom Teruah are the month of Elul. Daily during this month, leading up to Rosh Hashanah, we are supposed to reflect on our lives because God's judgment is coming on Rosh Hashanah.

 

The message from Elul 1 to Rosh Hashanah is clear: Repent before Rosh Hashanah. Don’t wait until after Rosh Hashanah, or you will find yourself in the Days of Awe.

The Days of Awe are the seven days in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement.

These 7 days represent the 7 year Tribulation period and The Day of Atonement represents the Second Coming of Jesus.




God is so loving and merciful that He gave us each year, 30 days to search our hearts and repent prior to what one year will be the Rapture on a Yom Teruah.

Another name for Rosh Hashanah is Yom HaDin which means Day of Judgment. The Jewish people believe that on Rosh Hashanah the"books” are opened in heaven. 

There are three books opened - that of life, for those whose works had been good; another of death, for those who had been thoroughly evil; and a third, intermediate.

Those classified as intermediate are those whose case will be decided on the Day of Atonement (seven days after Rosh Hoshanna on Yom Kippur).

The delay is granted for true repentance, which without, their names would be finally entered, into the book of of death. 



For those who truly repent and forgive others, their names will be entered into the book of Life.

The opening of the books on Rosh Hashanah signifies the judgment of mankind wherein the righteous will be taken in the Rapture and the intermediates and wicked will be left behind to face the 7 year Tribulation. 

The intermediates are those who Jesus called lukewarm and warned He would "vomit" them out of His mouth. 

Revelation 3:15-17

¹⁵ “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. ¹⁶ So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,^[a] I will vomit you out of My mouth. 

Recognizing this, all professing Christians need to make sure their focus is on the things of God instead of the world:

Revelation 3: 17 Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked

Rosh Hashanah is also known as Yom HaKeseh (Day of the Hiding or Hidden Day) which one may translate into the raptured Bride of Christ being "hidden" in Heaven during the cataclysmic events of the 7 year Tribulation (correlating with the 7 days of Awe).

One of the reasons for blowing the shofar is to proclaim the resurrection of the dead. Jewish thought is that the resurrection of the dead will take place on a Rosh Hashanah. 

Followers of Christ realize that the Rapture is indeed the day of the Resurrection of the dead in Christ. 

In addition, this feast  is also known as the Day of the Awakening Blast or The Day of the Awakening Shout.

1 Thes 4:15-18 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 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: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 

The blast of the shofar and the shout of the Lord will one day awaken those who now sleep.


With the dead in Christ, those who are alive and truly belong to the risen Lord, will be "caught up together with them into the clouds" into glorified bodies and everlasting life.

Also, the gates of Heaven are understood to be opened on Rosh Hashanah.  


As such, it is further evidence that the Rapture of the believers in Christ will take place on a Rosh Hashanah when the gates of Heaven are open, in which we may enter in.

The time of sorrows (birth pains) have been steadily growing stronger and closer together just as Jesus prophesied they would as the time of the end drew near.

 Matthew 24:⁶And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

 ⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

 ⁸All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Therefore, we can be able to recognize how close to the end we are on God's prophetic timeline. 

The hour is growing late. We are at the end of the age and our Lord is returning. 

May all realize that it is time to shift our focus from the things of the temporal to eternity.

May we all repent, forgive others and give the God of Heaven the priority that He deserves!

DEATH GRIP IN THESE LAST DAYS

Just think if the whole Church had been watching just as Jesus commanded and were excitedly seeing His prophetic Word coming to pass before our eyes!

What if all the pastors were crying out and proclaiming the clarion call for all to be ready??

Facebook, the Tower of Babel of modern days, would be abuzz with thousands upon thousands of believers connecting the dots of current end times world events.

All of those belonging to the risen Christ would be sounding the alarm of how today's escalating global chaos was all prophesied for the last days.

Not only would many lukewarm Christians be set ablaze by these facts, but many of the lost would be won for the Kingdom!

As it is, satan, the great deceiver and god of this world, has cleverly immersed much of the Church of Jesus Christ into the enticements of the temporal; to where they are drowning in the pursuits of pleasure. 

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money...lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God – having a form of godliness but denying its power..." (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

Therefore, many professing believers are so devoted to the world; that they don't even want to hear any mention that all the things they are so enamored with, might soon be ending.

If they would only realize, that God's plans set into motion from the beginning of time, will come to pass regardless.

We have to choose to either accept or reject the attractions of this world, offered to us by the enemy, ha satan.

If we choose to accept the world and give it priority; with our time, finances and efforts, we worship not Jesus, but Lucifer:

Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ⁹ “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

As a result, the vast array of worldly pleasures that so many professing Christians cling to with such a death grip...very might well be the death of them!

If only they would realize that the many worldly distractions that now demand much of their attention, will cease to even exist. 

Once the Lord has Raptured those who are ready, the many deceptive allures of the world will vanish instantly and be replaced by an avalanche of disaster, destruction and consuming fear.

The global headlines are growing darker and more grim each day; fulfilling God's prophetic Word and proving that we are now at the end of the age.

It is time to forsake the lusts of worldly seductions and give God and His Kingdom our total devotion.

When Yeshua Ha Mashiach returns, He will leave behind the lukewarm, who belong to the world, to face the wrath and horrors of the Tribulation.

We either belong to the world or to the Lord. We CANNOT have it both ways! IT IS TIME TO MAKE A CLEAR CHOICE!!

Matthew 25:30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 

 

 

COULD THE MISSILE LAUNCHED OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA INDICATE A SOON ATTACK UPON AMERICA??

Just this week there was a "Missile fired off California coast" and according to the following link; "The Pentagon is trying to find out if a missile was fired off the California coast, and who launched it." 

 

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8121612/Missile-fired-off-California-coast.html 

 Little known, there is a weapon that easily could devastate America within minutes of launching of only one missile. 

This technological possibility has not widely been disclosed to the public; perhaps purposefully, so as not to panic the "sheeple".

The below article explains how our dependence on modern technology in this electronic age could literally be "the death of us". 

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from a nuclear device or from a massive solar storm could instantly send our technologically dependent society back into the 1800's.

            "One EMP burst and the world goes dark "  

---

"The sky erupts. Cities darken, food spoils and homes fall silent. Civilization collapses.

End-of-the-world novel? A video game? Or could such a scenario loom in America's future?

There is talk of catastrophe ahead, depending on whom you believe, because of the threat of an electromagnetic pulse triggered by either a supersized solar storm or terrorist A-bomb, both capable of disabling the electric grid that powers modern life.

Electromagnetic pulses (EMP) are oversized outbursts of atmospheric electricity. Whether powered by geomagnetic storms or by nuclear blasts, their resultant intense magnetic fields can induce ground currents strong enough to burn out power lines and electrical equipment across state lines.

The threat has even become political fodder, drawing warnings from former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a likely presidential contender.

"We are not today hardened against this," he told a Heritage Foundation audience last year. "It is an enormous catastrophic threat."

Meanwhile, in Congress, a "Grid Act" bill aimed at the threat awaits Senate action, having passed in the House of Representatives.

Fear is evident. With the sun's 11-year solar cycle ramping up for its stormy maximum in 2012, and nuclear concerns swirling about Iran and North Korea, a drumbeat of reports and blue-ribbon panels center on electromagnetic pulse scenarios.

"We're taking this seriously," says Ed Legge of the Edison Electric Institute in Washington, which represents utilities. He points to a North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) report in June, conducted with the Energy Department, that found pulse threats to the grid "may be much greater than anticipated."

There are "some important reasons for concern," says physicist Yousaf Butt of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. "But there is also a lot of fluff."

At risk are the more than 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines that cross North America, supplying 1,800 utilities the power for TVs, lights, refrigerators and air conditioners in homes, and for the businesses, hospitals and police stations that take care of us all.

"The electric grid's vulnerability to cyber and to other attacks is one of the single greatest threats to our national security," Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said in June as he introduced the bill to the House of Representatives.

Simple physics, big worry-

The electromagnetic pulse threat is a function of simple physics: Electromagnetic pulses and geomagnetic storms can alter Earth's magnetic field. Changing magnetic fields in the atmosphere, in turn, can trigger surging currents in power lines.

"It is a well-understood phenomenon," says Butt, who this year reviewed geomagnetic and nuke blast worries in The Space Review."

"The high-altitude nuclear-weapon-generated electromagnetic pulse is one of a small number of threats that has the potential to hold our society seriously at risk," concluded a 2008 EMP Commission report headed by William Graham, a former science adviser to President Reagan."

The terror effect:

"In the nuclear scenario, the detonation of an atomic bomb anywhere from 25 to 500 miles high electrifies, or ionizes, the atmosphere about 25 miles up, triggering a series of electromagnetic pulses. The pulse's reach varies with the size of the bomb, the height of its blast and design.

Gingrich last year cited the EMP Commission report in warning, "One weapon of this kind that went off over Omaha would eliminate most of the electrical production in the United States."

Super solar storm:

On the solar front, the big fear is a solar super storm, a large, fast, coronal mass ejection with a magnetic field that lines up with an orientation perfectly opposite the Earth's own magnetic field, says solar physicist Bruce Tsurutani of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Tsuritani and other solar physicists view such an event as inevitable in the next 10 to 100 years."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-10-26-emp_N.htm  

The following synopsis of the immediate effects of an EMP illustrates the formidable threat that one simple "E-bomb" is to our modernized society:

"The E -BOMB'

"In the blink of an eye, electromagnetic bombs could throw civilization back 200 years ; and terrorists can build them for only $400 ...."

"Text by : JIM WILSON, and educative illustration by : JOHN BATCHELOR"

"The next Pearl Harbor will not announce itself with a searing flash of nuclear light.  You only will hear a sharp crack in the distance.  By the time you mistakenly identify this sound as an innocent clap of thunder, the civilized world will have become unhinged.  Fluorescent lights and television sets will glow eerily bright, despite being turned off.  The aroma of ozone mixed with smoldering plastic will seep from outlet covers as electric wires arc and telephone lines melt.  Your Palm Pilot and MP3 player will feel warm to the touch, their batteries overloaded.  Your computer, and every bit of data on it, will be toast. And then you will notice that the world sounds different too.  The background music of civilization, the whirl of internal-combustion engines, will have stopped.  Save a few diesels, engines will never start again.  You, however, will remain unharmed, as you find yourself thrust backward 200 years, to a time when electricity meant a lightning bolt fracturing the night sky.  This is not a hypothetical, son-of-Y2K scenario.  It is a realistic assessment of the damage the Pentagon believes could be inflicted by a new generation of weapons : E-bombs ...."

"CONCLUSION :»  to knock out electric power, computers and telecommunication and you've destroyed the foundation of modern society.  In the age of Third World-sponsored terrorism, the E-bomb is the great equalizer"

http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/emp-terror.htm

In fact, there is an excellent book, Earthquake Resurrection, by author David Lowe, that theorizes that the Rapture itself could be a nuclear event. 

The transformation of mortal bodies into glorified bodies would probably result in the manipulation of atoms of which all matter(our physical bodies) is made.

This transformation from mortal into immortal could yield an atomic rearrangement resulting in a nuclear event. 

This possible worldwide occurrence of multiple nuclear events could precipitate global seismic activity. Hence, the title of David Lowe's amazing book, Earthquake Resurrection.

http://www.earthquakeresurrection.com/#ersynopsis

It would seem that this potential for nuclear events around the globe caused by the Rapture could also conceivably and theoretically create the potential for EMP's worldwide.

Either theory is predictive of "sudden destruction"coinciding with the readied Bride being translated and removed to safety.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

This recent mysterious event off the coast of California will probably be explained away by our government as to not panic the masses.

However, it is in within the realm of probability that this evident missile launch could actually be a"dry run" for a terrorist organization or a rogue country; desiring to dismantle the power of America. 

This could be accomplished by literally disrupting the electrical/electronic power of the United States.

Due to the many unknowns facing us in the near future, it is vital that we all know and are known by the true power of the universe, the one true living God, through His Son, Yeshua the Savior of mankind.

NEW COMPREHENSION OF GOD'S HEAVENLY CALENDAR SHOWS HOW WE MISCALCULATED THE RAPTURE DATE!!

What a grand deception by the great deceiver! God's people have been following the wrong calendar, one that has been contrived by the enemy to deceive.

Without the correct understanding of God's appointed method of time-keeping, we are clueless as to where we really are on God's timeline.

To begin with, it is important to realize that the use of the constellations has been contorted by the enemy into use by soothsayers as if they are for the purpose of divination. 

In actuality, the constellations were placed in the heavens by God, the creator, to tell the story of His plan of redemption for fallen mankind. 

The "Zodiac" of today's secular astrology is called the Mazzaroth in Hebrew.

The constellations were created for use in time keeping; in order for man to keep track of the seasons according to God's infallible calendar in the heavens.

Genesis 1:14-18, "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for SEASONS. (emphasis mine)

Please note that in the Torah, of the Old Testament, we are told that astrology is not simply a superstition, but a capital crime - punishable by death! Misuse of God's Mazzaroth for ungodly pursuits holds fatal consequences!

"The names of these stars, Virgo, Pisces, Capricorn, Leo etc., are familiar to us today, because they are used by astronomers and navigators to designate various areas of the sky. Sadly they have also been exploited by astrologers for occultic purposes which are so very far from the truth. The 12 signs have nothing to say about man, however they do have a great deal to say about God's plan of redemption for mankind - from the virgin birth (Virgo) to the triumph of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Leo)!" ~Chuck Missler

The following details by Robert Rose explains how by the Mazzaroth, the seasons were to be determined and accordingly, the calendars:

"Our ancient fathers used to look to the sky to see where the sun and moon were in relation to the fixed stars, in order to know what month they were in.

Aries is the first month of Nisan and the symbol is the RAM or passover ram/lamb. The ancients always started the first month in Aries to kill the passover lamb during this time when the sun was in Aries.

Libra is the 7th Month Tirshri and is the symbol of Judgement or Righteous Justice.

The equinox used to start in Aries, but because the "Precession of the Equinox's" they drift back through time and now they start in Pisces.

Stars are the only heavenly bodies that are fixed. The Sun, Moon, Equinox's, Solstice's and Planets move all over the ecliptic and are not fixed. You HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS FIXED IN ORDER TO HAVE A REFERENCE POINT in the heavens.

Since the sun was in Aries when our ancient fathers started Nisan on the New Moon and the Sun was in Libra during the 7th Month new moon and the stars are fixed unlike everything else....

I don't see why we shouldn't be celebrating the appointed feasts of the LORD in their proper season.

The stars are fixed! Satan cannot tamper with them! But he can give us a New Jewish "Hillel" calendar and a "Gregorian" or "Julian calendar", and everyone will accept that and swallow the lie.

Based on all this....

2010 Nisan = May New Moon
2010 Tishri = November New Moon

2017 Nisan = April New Moon
2017 Tishri = October New Moon

Man's seasons begin according to the Sun and Equinox instead of the GOD's explanation above.

Man currently looks to flawed calendars that never existed in antiquity to observe the LORD's feasts, thereby being in error by their own ignorance."

Hosea 4: 6 My people perish from a lack of knowledge. 

Therefore, according to the stars that God has fixed in the heavens, the proper calendar dating has the first month of Nisan (including the Spring Feasts); to actually have started in May 2010 when the sun and new moon were in the constellation of Aries.

Accordingly, the genuine seventh month of Tishri (beginning God's Fall Feast days)will begin this November when the sun and the coming new moon are in the constellation of Libra, the scales.

It is well known that satan is the father of lies and deception. What better deception than to have mankind to be ignorant of the true and actual time and date-

According to Biblical astronomy the sun has just moved into the constellation of Libra, indicating the beginning of the seventh month, at the new moon.

Consequently, God's astronomical timekeeping proves to us that we will soon be entering the truly valid seventh month of Tishri and the Fall Feast Days.

According to NASA, the coming new moon will be November 8th which would then begin the real Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah (according to God's determination by the Mazzaroth).

However, according to Scripture, Rosh Hashanah begins only at the visual sighting by two witnesses. 

So, the actual true Rosh Hashanah (determined by the constellations of the Mazzaroth) may be from November 8th to several days later; depending on the sighting of the new moon.

Please see the previous entry detailing the vast rationales why the Rapture of the readied Bride appears to occur on a Rosh Hashanah:

http://theworldisshaking.blogspot.com/2010/09/gods-feast-day-of-rosh-hashanahyom.html

Interestingly, the 30 days prior to the the Feast of Trumpets, the month of Elul, is when daily there is supposed to be self-examination and repentance because judgment is coming.

The scales of the constellation of Libra, with which the seventh month of God's astronomical calendar begins, coincides perfectly with the judgment that comes when all humanity is weighed on Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah also is considered to be the Wedding of the Messiah. The Church is the Bride of Christ and the Rapture is when the Church is caught up to heaven to be wed with Christ.

In ancient Judaism, Tuesday night was when a Jewish Groom came back to receive His Bride. 

Notable is the fact that the newly recognized Rosh Hashanah of November 8th, starts on  Monday night which correlates to Tuesday by Jewish time keeping. 

As pointed out, Tuesday is the day of the week on which the Bridegroom comes to retrieve His Bride. 


Noteworthy is the fact that the Arab leaders have given a November 8th deadline to Obama for the Israeli "land for peace" situation to be resolved. 

If there is no resolution, the Arab solution may turn out to be war. Any future military conflict between Israel and her neighbors will result in the prophesied Psalm 83 War. Please see the following for details of this upcoming war:

http://theworldisshaking.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-is-psalm-83-war-here-are-details.html

According to the majority of Bible prophecy scholars and students, based on numerous findings, it appears that Daniel's Seventieth Week, or the time known as the seven year Tribulation, ends in the year 2017. 

Counting backwards seven years prior lands us in the year 2010. As such, it appears that the 7 year Tribulation is soon to commence.

God's Holy Feast Days are representative of His plan of redemption. Therefore,we can look towards the next few weeks, from the properly recognized date for Rosh Hashanah through the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, with anticipation that our Lord may soon returning for us!

May we all forgive others and repent while praying to be accounted "...worthy to escape the wrath to come and to stand before the Son of Man". ~ Luke 21:36

 

HAS GOD GIVEN US A MODERN DAY METHUSELAH WHOSE DEATH WILL BRING THE TRIBULATION AND COMING JUDGMENT?

Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri was a venerated Jewish rabbi who died in 2006 at the age of 108.  Before his death, the aged rabbi had a vision of who the Messiah was. 

Rabbi Kaduri left a note that was to opened a year after his death. When the note was opened, the note gave the Hebrew name of the Messiah as Yeshua, who we know to be Jesus, the Savior of mankind.

 In addition, the rabbi left a prophecy that the Messiah would come after  Ariel Sharon had died. Ariel Sharon is the Israeli prime minister who orchestrated the unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

In August 2005, against the emotionally charged protests of many Israelis, PM Sharon ordered the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to forcefully evict Israelis from their homes in the Gaza Strip.

The result was the armed forces of Israel physically removing their own people from their homes in order to give their entire life’s work and their very communities over to the Palestinians.

Not only was this decision by Sharon against his own people but it was also against the God of Israel. Ariel Sharon gave away God’s Covenant land which was given only to the children of Israel.

Please see the following video for the astounding details regarding Rabbi Kaduri’s revelation:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATJ4PRXEJk

The now 82 years old P.M. Sharon suffered a series of two debilitating strokes within a few months after he ordered the forced removal of God’s chosen people from their Covenant land.

By January 2006, the then 77 year old Ariel Sharon lay unresponsive in a coma and continues to be comatose, to date. 

There were a multitude of medical setbacks  in the early stages of Sharon's four 3/4years illness that even a very young, healthy man would have succumbed to.

It is indeed extraordinary that Ariel Sharon has survived for these past four ¾ years in a coma. 

From a medical standpoint, the fact that he even survived all the multiple potentially fatal medical complications, experienced early on, is nothing short of a miracle.

Following is a rundown on the many medical complications that from a medical perspective, would/should/could have ordinarily been fatal.

P.M. Sharon apparently initially had a embolitic (traveling clot) stroke caused by an atrial septal defect (ASD) commonly known as a "hole" in his heart.

Note that an ASD is usually a congenital (at birth) defect that is usually surgically repaired in early childhood. At that time, Sharon was preparing to have cardiac evaluation for the repair of the ASD.

Granted that the medical field was not as advanced in Sharon's youth, but one would think that the ASD would have necessitated repair prior to the age of 77. 

Ironically, Sharon had his first stroke the night before he was going to undergo a cardiac catheterization for evaluation of his ASD.

The ASD was purported to be the cause of the first stroke which caused an embolus (clot) that traveled to and obstructed his cerebral arteries in his brain.

Apparently the anticoagulant (blood thinner)that was used to treat this first stroke in mid December 2005 helped precipitate Sharon's second and more debilitating stroke that occurred on January 2, 2006.

Sharon’s second stroke resulted from a blood vessel rupturing and bleeding into the cranium (skull). 

Due to the increased intracranial pressure from the massive hemorrhaging (bleeding) into his skull from this second (hemorrhagic) stroke, Sharon afterwards underwent two lengthy neurosurgeries to control the bleeding.

The first neurosurgery(brain surgery)lasted SEVEN hours and the second neurosurgery lasted FOURTEEN hours.

After the second prolonged 14-hour surgery, Sharon was placed on a ventilator and some reports suggested that he was suffering from paralysis in his lower body, while others said he was still fighting for his life."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illnesses_of_Ariel_Sharon#Stroke_of_December_2005

Note that about 30% to 60% of people with an intracerebral hemorrhage (brain bleed) die (as was Sharon's second stroke). 

In those who survive long enough to reach an emergency room, bleeding usually has stopped by the time they are seen by a doctor.

Many people with ruptured aneurysms or subarachnoid hemorrhages usually do not even survive long enough to reach a hospital. Of those who do, about 50% die within the first month of treatment.

Therefore, Sharon surviving the second stroke was against incredible odds to begin with. The complications following that he survived as well are beyond incredible from a medical standpoint.

The month following the hemorrhagic stroke,in  February 2006, Sharon had to undergo two more surgeries for bowel and stomach complications:

"Sharon underwent subsequent surgeries the following month. On 11 February 2006, doctors performed emergency surgery to remove 50 cm of his large intestine that had become necrotic, probably because of a blood clot.[32] On 22 February, he underwent an additional procedure to drain excess fluid from his stomach, discovered during a CT scan." 
   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illnesses_of_Ariel_Sharon#Stroke_of_December_2005
 
In July 2006, Sharon’s condition worsened with his kidneys starting to fail so he was put on hemodialysis and he also was treated for a blood infection (sepsis).

By August 2006, he was diagnosed with double pneumonia which was treated and resolved.

The following November in 2006, Sharon was back again in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) being treated for a cardiac (heart) infection which too, was successfully resolved.

To recap, Ariel Sharon was a 77 year old obese man with a cardiac defect experiencing both an embolitic and a hemorrhagic stroke within a 3 week period. 

Due to the massive uncontrolled bleeding in his brain from the second stroke he underwent first, a SEVEN hour surgery and then a FOURTEEN hour surgery that left him paralyzed.

Within a month, he underwent yet another surgery, this time removing necrotic gut (part of the large intestine had died from a clot). 

Shortly after that surgical intervention, there was another surgery required, this time on his stomach for fluid accumulation.

Next medical setback, he started hemodialysis for failing kidneys and also had a blood infection (sepsis). 

He then had double pneumonia and later a cardiac (heart) infection which were all resolved with IV antibiotics.

So within less than a year after his TWO strokes, Ariel Sharon had FOUR surgeries, a bout of double pneumonia, a blood infection (sepsis), a heart infection and renal (kidney) failure requiring hemodialysis.

Any redundancy of the facts is in order to firmly establish the case of the many serious complications suffered by Sharon. Each one of these serious medical problems could be fatal in itself.  

As well known, the more ill and compromised a patient, the less reserves there are to fight infections. 

In P.M. Sharon’s weakened state of health, it is incredible that he was able to survive such serious infections and other complications.
 
Since, the last reported complication back in November 2006, it appears as though Ariel Sharon has been status quo for the past 4 years and still in a coma. It is unclear if he is still paralyzed or on a ventilator(breathing machine).

Bearing in mind that patients who are inactive due to being bedridden are more at risk for pneumonia and bedsores (which themselves can lead to infection and clots).

The fact that Sharon is already predisposed to clot formation (with a history of the previous stroke and intestinal clot) it is surprising that with his inactivity that there have been no further complications from clots. Note that one clot to the lungs or to the brain can be instantly fatal.

It appears that it may be God's grace and divine planning that Ariel Sharon ever survived to begin with as well as the fact that he has no had no further serious complications since November 2006. 

According to Rabbi Kaduri, Ariel Sharon’s demise will usher in the coming of Yeshua, the Messiah. From this perspective it appears as if God may be allowing Ariel Sharon's remarkable survival for HIS purposes.

Just as Methuselah’s, the oldest man to ever live, death was prophesied to usher in worldwide judgment with the flood of Noah; so may Ariel Sharon’s death usher in the return of the Messiah and the coming judgment of the upcoming Tribulation period.

Methuselah was the grandfather of Noah and together they attempted to persuade the wicked people of the earth to return to godliness. 

Methuselah was the last human being to have personally known Adam, who had personally known and walked with God.

Methuselah and the others before him were taught and could "know" about God directly from Adam. Noah was the first one in Adam’s lineage to not have known and been able to learn about the things of God directly from Adam.

As such, Noah did not have the first hand account by which to have been taught; so Noah was the first to believe solely by faith. 

God planned to bring the flood of Noah after all the men who walked in the ways of the Lord had been removed.

Methuselah lived during the construction of Noah's ark but died right before the flood as God had promised him that he would not be killed with the unrighteous.

The name Methuselah translates,“When he is dead it shall be sent”; meaning ‘the deluge' of judgment would come after his death.

Therefore, Methuselah's death marked the end of mankind's grace period and the coming of the Great Flood.

Perhaps it will be that after the announcement of Ariel Sharon's death, those who are alive and living for the Lord, will not die but be raptured and be removed; just as Methuselah died before the flood so that he would not be "killed with the unrighteous" in the coming "flood of judgment."

Just as Methuselah’s death indicated the coming literal flood of judgment so might Ariel Sharon’s death signify the coming flood of judgment upon an unrepentant world.

Rabbi Kaduri’s prophesy of the coming of the Messiah after the death of Ariel Sharon may perhaps equate to the meeting of the readied Bride with the Lord in the air (Rapture).

Conversely, the Jews, of whom many will accept the coming antichrist, may think that Kaduri's prophecy referred to the coming antichrist as being their Messiah.

Is Ariel Sharon our modern day Methuselah? Only time will tell. But in the meantime, may we remember to pray for the salvation of Ariel Sharon and for the many not covered by the blood of the Lamb and for the peace of Jerusalem!