THE WRITING ON THE WALL: THE HIDDEN 4TH LETTER AND THE 2022 RAPTURE “GATE” PSALM SIGN?

“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3).

“When shall these things be?” is a question that deals not only with the subject of dating the return of Christ, but with how those prophesied events will lay out in sequence, as well. What happens first, second, third, etc.?

If we gain a basic understanding of the sequence of events, many difficult passages become clear and lay out in their proper order. Sometimes a scripture passage will not deal specifically with a prophetic event, but will simply add highlights of otherwise hidden meaning through what we may call “implication.” Such is the case with Psalm 122.

More on that in a bit, but first, let us realize that there are at least three levels of Bible Scripture structure put in place by the Holy Spirit, thus three levels of interpretation, with each level complimenting the other: primary interpretation, practical application and prophetic implication. Once a Christian understands the chronology of events, those prophetically implied portions of Scripture will become clearer.

Therefore, I believe it is of utmost importance to understand the order of events as they are taught in the Bible, which I have been attempting in the on-going Revelation series. We shall not concern ourselves with the prophecies that relate to the First Coming of Christ, though there are many. Nor shall we concern ourselves with events following the rapture as I am already towards the end of doing such in the on-going Revelation series. Instead, I wish to take a momentary diversion from the Revelation series in light of the suspected nearness of the rapture of the Church.

First, let us look at this most exciting next event in God’s timeline of major prophetic events and the most recent, and what I and many others consider to be, astounding sign to occur this year. There have been many in the last several years, but I think the following one is a major stepping stone/milestone sign indicating that time is just about up for the Church and the body of born again believers is on the verge of going home.

There are many prophecies that relate to events occurring simultaneously. Sometimes, it is difficult to arrange them in chronological order. However, we shall try.

THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS THE DOOR

Before any end-time prophecy can make sense, we must understand that the Jews will return to a re-established nation of Israel, which occurred in 1948 …

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled” (Matthew 24:32-34).

The most important series of events in God’s timetable concerns the re-establishment of Israel. Before that point in history, there really was no superbly clear surface indication that the world had entered into the end times. The nation is described as a fig tree, uprooted and scattered among the nations. When that fig tree is replanted on its historic territory and comes to life again, it will mark the beginning of the last generation. No end-time prophecy can be understood without the re-establishment of the nation of Israel and the return of the Jews to their historic homeland.

Preparations for the return of Israel began in the late 1890s when Theodor Herzl organized the World Zionist Movement, an organization dedicated to the re-establishment of the nation of Israel. The long winter of world history was ended when General Allenby of the British army liberated the city of Jerusalem on December 9, 1917, and took Megiddo by September of 1918, for the purpose of returning the Jewish people to their homeland. On May 14, 1948, that effort became a reality.

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

With the development of Jews returning to the land at the turn of the 20th century, end-time prophecies began to be fulfilled. There were wars and rumors of wars. In 1914, “nation [rose] against nation and kingdom against kingdom” (Matthew 24:7). Again, in 1939, the whole scenario began all over again – two world wars that shaped history. Unfortunately, war-making did not stop there. More and greater wars loom on the horizon.

FAMINE, DISEASE AND EARTHQUAKES

Among all of the signs predicted for the end-time, earthquakes were listed in the top four – war, disease, famine and earthquakes …

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places” (Matthew 24:7).

The year 1945 was the year that saw mankind’s first world-wide famine. In 1973, U.S. News and World Report said that we have entered a new era, “the era of famine.” Today, over half the world goes to bed hungry every night. Not only that, here in the year 2021, we are now seeing man-made deliberately engineered shortages of food surface in the grocery stores of even the most wealthy, primarily western nations – including the head of them all – the United States of America, the land of plenty. Although at the time of this writing, the problem isn’t considered famine-like just yet, but the signs are ominously appearing. Because of labor shortages amidst the free handouts of stimulus checks from government and the fake “pandemic” of Covid-19 creating a growing supply chain problem, the problem is only worsening (see here). This is to say nothing of the massive crop-destroying man-made droughts of the Luciferian globalists to starve out the populations of the world and bring about their global government. We have the Federal Reserve printing money like crazy, thus producing rising inflation that will eventually result in a currency collapse altogether – which is their plan. This is to say nothing of the massive weather warfare weapons being used upon the world’s populations by these same globalists, including on the bread-basket areas of the United States.

All of these deliberate catastrophe-producing actions are serving to ensure that there is indeed a massive, global famine approaching. Although many prophecy expositors have traditionally pointed out the fact that Jesus’ warning of famine constitutes the conditions that we have seen in third world nations for a very long time, one cannot help but wonder if Jesus was actually speaking of what we’re beginning to see today in modern western and global society as a whole since 2020 and 2021. Perhaps both.

Also, in view of the prophecy, an examination of earthquake data should be in order. First of all, there were exactly 144 earthquakes in 1939 – the year World War 2 was launched. Before this time, earthquakes were rare. They were mostly very small (ranging less than 3 on the Richter scale) and averaged between 15 and 20 per year. In 1933, the year Hitler came to power, there were only 13 (what a spooky number). In 1934, there were 22 (the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet). From there, they began to increase dramatically.

In 1935, there were 45. The Hebrew letters used for the number 45 are מָה mah meaning “what!” It is an exclamation denoting frustration. It is used to express surprise. As a side note, interestingly, the theme of mah surfaced in the 45th U.S. presidential selection of Donald Trump. Mah מָה is sometimes translated as “how!” as in “how long?” The term is used in Psalm 35:17 to express frustration: “Lord, How long [כמה] wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions … ” It must be noted that in 1935, the year number corresponding to the psalm number, the theme of a concerted campaign against Jews was gearing up in Hitler’s administration.

In 1936 there were 79 earthquakes. Note that the number of earthquakes now increasing significantly:

• In 1937 there were 110.
• In 1938 there were 188.
• In 1939 there were 144.

Is it possible that God was demonstrating his attention to the anti-Jewish campaign and suffering? The number 144 is highly significant, being the square of 12 – the number of governmental perfection. Three years later, in 1942, there were another 144 quakes recorded:

• In 1940 there were 141.
• In 1941 there were 94.
• In 1942 there were 144.
• In 1943 there were 93.
• In 1944 there were 127.
• In 1945 there were 189.

That year, there were three quakes registering as much as 5 on the Richter scale and 2 registering over 6. Until then, it was rare to see one register that much:

• In 1946 there were 4.
• In 1947 there were 4.
• In 1948 there were 4.
• In 1949 there were 395!

From the end of World War 2 until the birth of Israel, there were only 4 quakes each year! Four is the number of the “kingdom.” It appears quite significant that God only allowed 4 quakes a year during the time of Jewish return to their historic homeland. Is not this the very signature of God?

From 1949 until the present, earthquakes have risen sharply and with markedly more intensity. For example: In 1956, the year of Israel’s war with Egypt over the Gaza strip, there were 666 earthquakes. In 1967, the year of Israel’s six-day war, there were 5,181 earthquakes. In 1973, the year of the Yom Kippur war, there were 5,175. In 1991, the year of Operation Desert Storm, there were 16,484 earthquakes. In 1993, the year Israel signed the failed peace accord with Yasser Arafat, there were 21,476 earthquakes!

Earthquakes have increased in both number and intensity since the turn of the 1900s. Though some have debated whether this is so, the figures don’t lie. Now, rather than go through every year since then, take a look at the video below showing all the earthquakes and volcanoes that are popping off right now in the year 2021. It is truly getting insane.

THE NEXT GREAT EVENT: THE WRITING ON THE WALL (AND THE PSALM 122 RAPTURE GATE)?

The next great event in the calendar of prophecy will be the rapture of those who have personally received Christ. In short, those who have personally received Christ will suddenly disappear off the face of the earth and ascend into Heaven as Christ returns for his own. This is not the Second Coming event, which occurs seven years later with the return of Christ to Earth with those saints down through the ages including the raptured believers, but a coming of Christ for those who have died in him and for those who will be currently alive and living on Earth before death. We see this event clearly presented in Scripture with two of the most prominent found in the books of 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians …

“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” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).

This event occurs either on or before the beginning of the Tribulation Period. Many down through the years have stated that “it could occur today.” Although well-meaning and, generally speaking, they were correct given how close we have been to this event in the passage of years since 1948 and the re-establishment of Israel, technically, more prophetic time-marker events or milestones had to take place first before anyone teaching prophecy could realistically say that “truly, it could happen today.”

One of those milestone marker time examples can be seen in Jesus’ prophecy of the Vineyard in Matthew 21. In my observation, the number 400 plays a very significant role in Bible prophecy. The idea behind this 400 year importance when deciphering the high watch time of when the rapture is going to occur is that the ancient Israelites were in the bondage of Egypt (a prophetic prototype of the world) for 400 years until the Lord brought them out of Egypt (or the world) and they “crossed over” into the “Promised Land.” With the USA being the more-than-likely fulfillment of the great Vineyard prophecy, it was a pre-requisite condition that she fulfill her assigned time-span of 400 years of freedom to make the declaration of the Gospel message of salvation in Christ to the nations of the earth while still in the world, or shall we say, still in Egypt before the rapture could realistically take place. When America is observed from a prophetic stand-point, it displays a peculiar reflection of ancient Egypt.

Much like the pre-requisite condition of the 1948 reformation of Israel had to first occur before we could realistically say we were in the end times, so too it was pre-requisite for the Vineyard to reach its 400-year prophetic cycle. Many expositors of Bible prophecy down through the years have missed this all-important piece of the prophetic puzzle by failing to properly discern America’s location and role in Bible prophecy. Truly, expositors should have been looking to the year 2020 into 2021 with America’s identity as the Vineyard at the forefront for the big countdown to the rapture event. America’s identity as the Vineyard of Matthew 21 was expounded upon in greater detail in a previous article titled “AMERICA AND A PROPHETIC FOUR DIMENSIONAL TRIP THROUGH THE TABERNACLE OF MOSES.

Bible prophecy expositors weren’t exactly wrong in saying (before 2020) that we’re living in the end times as that statement has been true indeed since we’ve been living in the waning years of the Church Age since Israel’s rebirth as a nation in 1948. But we can truly say that true immanency arrived at the crossing of the 400 year prophetic time cycle – a cycle that began from the establishment of the Plymouth Colony of Vineyard USA in 1620. This fact became very obvious when the world suddenly started to go into upheaval with the arrival of the criminal Covid-19 “pandemic” con job and the intense push forward of the tyrannical New World Order through DNA altering so-called “vaccines.” At this point in Satan and his servant’s game, it has become obvious to those who are paying any kind of attention at all that an evil, sinister system of human extermination and control for the limited number of those allowed to live is being set up for humanity. A major component and foundation of this system are the injections that many say is introducing A.I. trans-humanistic tech that is being passed off by the Luciferian overlords as “vaccines.” In fact, for those science-minded doctors and actual scientists who are more inclined for the technical details and are in this field of study or career, a document titled “The Spartacus Letter” has been written and published by an anonymous scientist concerning COVID-19, outlines complete disease function and treatment, and revealing this outbreak to be a criminal conspiracy of such magnitude as to defy belief. Reportedly and understandably, the scientist fears career destruction and other ramifications if his identity is made known. If authentic, this only confirms what many others in the independent media have been revealing all along (read here).

All of that is to say that America’s crossing of that all-important 400-year threshold at the arrival of the year 2020 resulted in not only the beginnings of her waning freedom to teach the true Gospel of Christ to the nations of the earth, but also the beginning of the absolute tyrannical destruction of the current world order. The bottom line: the current world order is literally and quite visibly now being destroyed and the new hellish world order is arising. A darkness has descended upon the world since America crossed that 400 year prophetic threshold in its function and assignment as the Vineyard. As we can all plainly see, the darkness is only getting thicker and heavier as we’ve seen throughout this year (2021) going into 2022. Already, we’re beginning to see a tyrannical system emerge that prevents people who are not vaccinated or wearing a useless, non-sensical mask from holding certain jobs, entering public places and, depending on where in the world, from entering grocery stores or other places to buy food. If somehow you doubt that statement, take a look at the sudden tyranny that is now occurring throughout many Western nations (see here). This sounds much like what we read in the book of Revelation wherein no one will be able to buy or sell if they don’t have the mark of the beast. Although we’re not there yet, we can see its ominous shadows emerging upon our world. Here, at this time juncture in history, it is absolutely crucial to understand that crunch time has now been truly reached for the departure of the body of Christ … and America has been a key to the arrival of that rapture-watch crunch time. This was examined in much more detail in a previous article titled “AMERICA THE VINEYARD AND THE YEAR 2020: THE 400 YEAR PROPHETIC CYCLE.”

The Writing on the Wall

Perhaps one of the biggest signs of the approaching rapture event just took place in the city of Jerusalem in Israel in late August of this year. Stunningly, people have started to notice that vines have been growing on the eastern retaining wall of the Temple Mount in the shape of Hebrew letters that spell out the Old Testament name of God (Yehovah).

This wall is an area that is bordered by a major thoroughfare. In what appears to be an eye-brow raising message from Heaven, the letters YHV have appeared in the site of all onlookers and passers-by on the thoroughfare. Obviously, the fourth letter ה (hey) of the name is missing and has yet to grow in. One other incredible timing aspect of this phenomenon is the fact that this seeming dramatic prophetic sign is occurring just as Israel is preparing to open its borders to tourists. Even more, it began to occur 4 years after the Revelation 12 rapture sign that occurred in September of 2017.

Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, ascribed the appearance of the letters to a verse in Deuteronomy …

“And all the peoples of the earth shall see that Hashem‘s name is proclaimed over you, and they shall stand in fear of you” (Deuteronomy 28:10).

“This verse is clearly describing being able to see God’s name in Israel in the end of days,” Rabbi Berger said, explaining that this vision was also described by the Prophet Isaiah ..

“In the days to come, The Mount of Hashem‘s House Shall stand firm above the mountains And tower above the hills; And all the nations Shall gaze on it with joy” (Isaiah 2:2).

“God’s name will become visible, undeniably in front of everyone’s eyes, Jews and non-Jews,” Rabbi Berger said. “We have seen in so many ways recently that the ways of nature are no longer sufficient. Nature is now becoming a stage to reveal God’s hidden nature. These are the signs and the wonders that are just a taste of what is to come. It is remarkable that this is appearing just as Israel is preparing to open its borders to tourists. God willing, by the time the tourists from the nations begin to arrive, the final heh will grow in. Very soon, all the nations will be coming to Jerusalem and will be able to see this, something they were not able to do for more than a year,” rabbi Berger said.

What makes the appearance of these letters all the more interesting is that it appears next to the Golden Gate Door of the wall. When Christ returns with the previously raptured body of Christ and all of those saints down through the ages who have already lived and died, He will enter Jerusalem through the Eastern Gate of the Old City walls …

“And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south” (Zechariah 14:4).

In Hebrew, it is Sha’ar Harahamim, the “Gate of Mercy.” Jesus Christ offers mercy to the unsaved through the giving of eternal life for those who personally receive him and what he did for each and every human being that has ever lived, is living currently and whoever will live in the future – but only for those who personally receive him. How interesting it is that these letters should appear near that very gate of his entry when the Tribulation Period has ended. Interestingly, the Muslims long ago erected a large Muslim cemetary in front of that gate. The Eastern Gate was sealed shut in AD 1540–41 by order of Suleiman the Magnificent, a sultan of the Ottoman Empire. It’s believed that the reason for the closing of the Eastern Gate was to prevent the Jewish Messiah from gaining entrance to Jerusalem. Jewish tradition states that the Messiah will pass through the Eastern Gate when He comes to rule. The Muslim Suleiman was attempting to thwart the Messiah’s plans with sixteen feet of cement. The Eastern Gate has remained sealed for nearly the past 500 years.

Here, it is of utmost importance to realize a foundational truth concerning the letters in the Hebrew alphabet when deciphering the deeper truth, or at least some nuggets of truth, of what appears to be a sign from God on the wall in Jerusalem. The Hebrew alphabet has a total of 22 letters with five final form letters in addition. The Old Testament books were originally composed into a total of 22 books. The theme or subject matter of each of these Old Testament books corresponds to the theme or meaning of each of the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet in their successive and respective orders. It is a phenomenon that serves to reveal the Divine and supernatural origin and structure of the Bible. This amazing information serves to prove that the Bible is to be taken seriously by even the most hardened of skeptics and reveals God’s fingerprints upon this most amazing book.

With that thought in mind, it is also most important to realize that this very same phenomenon also occurs within the books of the New Testament. Even further still, this phenomenon also occurs within the 22 chapters of the book of Revelation.

Understanding this, it is rather interesting that the 4th letter does not appear on the wall in the name, or perhaps should we say, it has not yet appeared. If one listens to their spiritual ears (he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches – the admonition given by Jesus in his letters to the Seven Churches of the book of Revelation), one might pick up on the implication of the fourth letter missing from the wall. One might say that the fourth letter on the wall is hidden, just as Jesus is hidden from the eyes of the Jews by Divine decree …

“For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer” (Isaiah 54:5-8).

The highlighted portions of Isaiah 54 above indicate that Jesus Christ, the very one whom the Jews reject, shall be called the “God of the whole earth” and He has hidden his face from them. Here, we see one of the possible Providential messages being conveyed in the peculiarity of the missing, or “hidden,” fourth letter within the phenomenon of the letters on the wall. Jesus is currently “hidden” from the eyes of most Jews …

“And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.” (Ezekiel 39:21-24).

But after the war of Gog/Magog during the Tribulation Period after the rapture has occurred, it is revealed that he will reveal himself to them once again and cause them to recognize Jesus as the true Messiah …

“Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God” (verse 29).

Jesus is associated with the number 4. This is where it is important to observe the possible, and in my opinion, quite likely, association of the hidden, or missing, fourth letter on the wall with Jesus’ identification with the “door” of Revelation 4:1 and importantly, his declaration in the 4th book of the New Testament that he is the “door” to eternal life. Just in case you missed it, His declaration of himself as the door is found in the fourth book of the New Testament (the book of John/Gospel of John), corresponding to the meaning of the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet …

“Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture” (John 10:7-9).

The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the dalet, has an interesting shape. It is shaped like a lentil and a doorpost as seen below. It is the letter said to be called “the door.”

Interestingly, the book of John (4th book) is the book that declares and shows Jesus as the Son of God. In the book of Matthew, he is declared “the King.” In the book of Mark, he is the “Servant.” In the book of Luke, he is the “Son of Man,” but in the book of John, he is the declared the “Son of God” …

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

This same “Word” is declared to be “in the beginning” and revealed to be Jesus in John 1:1-10, and thus, he is declared to be the Creator of all things …

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not” (John 1:1-10).

In other words, Jesus was/is God. We find all of these marvelous declarations of Jesus’ Godhood in the 4th book of the Bible corresponding with the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. He is hidden to the eyes of the Jews and he is hidden to the lost world at large currently. It is quite remarkable that the fourth letter on the wall in Jerusalem is “hidden.” Question: will that 4th hidden/missing letter soon make an appearance? And an even more interesting question should be … “Instead of the final letter ה hey eventually and miraculously appearing on the wall to complete the Old Testament name of God, is it possible that God will instead suddenly astonish the eyes of the Jews (and the world for that matter) with the letter ד dalet in its place? After all, God has structured the individual letters of the Hebrew alphabet to correspond to the theme of all of the New Testament books. With the 4th letter dalet ד corresponding to the 4th book of the New Testament, the very book that declares Jesus as God and as the true Messiah, wouldn’t it be just like God to instead begin the process of opening the eyes of the Jew (and the world at large) by instead causing those vines to grow in this particular letter instead of the letter than everyone is expecting to grow there to complete his name? Just an interesting conjecture and an interesting thought. This is not to say that this will absolutely happen, but it would be very interesting if it did. In my estimation, and assuming this sign isn’t just a coincidence and akin to seeing shapes in the clouds outside on any given day, this would be a tremendous, undeniable and Earth-shaking message from the Almighty.

Further, assuming that this may be (perhaps) a real sign, we should consider further consider the fact that since we know God is going to open the eyes of the Jews in Israel during the Tribulation period, this name on the wall could very well be God’s initial ground-work stage-setting for that very purpose – and thus – that would mean that, by necessity, this is a sign that the rapture is around the corner since the rapture is a pre-tribulation event. Regarding the coming rapture of the body of Christ, it is pictured in chapter 4 verse 1 of Revelation …

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter” (Revelation 4:1).

The missing fourth letter on the retaining wall in Jerusalem may also be indicating the coming rapture of the body of believers (those who believe on Christ and have personally received him). This event is revealed in the fourth chapter of Revelation. It is incredible to say the least that the Name is next to the Golden Gate, or door, to the entrance of the city of Jerusalem, or shall we say the “House of God.” The prophetic hint for the Church right here is huge as the Church will disappear through John’s open door of Revelation 4:1. Further, the rapture event will be a “hidden” event and not widely seen by the world at large according to many rapture expositors – thus, the “hidden” and missing letter on the wall.

The Writing Near the Gate: The Psalm 122 Rapture “Gate?”

For those who may have read the previous posting on this site in the on-going chapter-by-chapter study of the book of Revelation (and a few other postings), it was (in my opinion sufficiently) demonstrated that the Psalms seem to tell the story of the 20th century. It can be observed and demonstrated that the psalms have been encoded with allusions to modern events that occurred in the specific year according to the number of the individual corresponding psalm number. In other words, each psalm and its number appears to be related to a corresponding year in the 20th century and beyond. With that thought in mind, let’s take a look at Psalm 122 again, corresponding to the year 2022 and the peculiar prophetic hints that we see emerge in this most fascinating psalm. We’ll do this to discover, and quite possibly, identify what the Lord “may” be telling us concerning the rapture of the Church and the onset of the Tribulation Period in 2022. I’ll highlight the obvious … shall we say … Holy Spirit coded … portions of this possibly “rapture studded” psalm. This time, unlike in the previous posting, I will highlight a particular section of the psalm not highlighted in the previous post that is related to the possible prophetic hint that has occurred at the name of God grown in on the wall in Jerusalem “near the “Golden Gate” …

“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good” (Psalm 122).

Here, we see some remarkable hints taking place. At the rapture of the Church, our arrival in Heaven will see us “standing within the gates of Heaven” (verse 2). This would be hinting that the rapture event has taken place and we are now standing inside the “gates” of Heaven. Again, God’s name on the wall in Jerusalem appeared next to the “gate” of the city of Jerusalem. Our eternal home in Heaven is referred to as the “Holy City New Jerusalem” in Revelation 21:10. For the rest of the rapture correlation seen in this psalm, let’s review what Revelation 4:1-4 tells us (In addition to starting in chapter 4, also notice the verse number that John’s rapture description ends on – the number 4 …

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold” (Revelation 4:1-4).

Now, let’s review the rest of the psalm 122 rapture hints … “Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord” (verse 4). Here, we can see the hint of “going up, as in, going up in the rapture in John’s “Come up hither” reveal in verse 1 of John 4. “For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David” (Psalm 122 verse 5). After the rapture of Revelation 4:1, interestingly we see the picture of thrones in Heaven … Revelation 4 verses 2-6).

The Revelation 4 rapture verses coincides with the prophetic level of Psalm 122 (corresponding to the year 2022). After the body of Christ is raptured, this is the scene that we will see in Heaven. Are we looking at the rapture in 2022 as Psalm 122 seems to hint? And, most importantly as it relates to the subject of this posting regarding the mysterious appearance of God’s name on the wall in Jerusalem, have we seen a massive coded declaration of the approaching rapture event on the retaining wall near the “gate,” or “door” of Jerusalem’s eastern retaining wall on the Temple Mount?

In line with this thought, it is shortly after the rapture during the Tribulation Period after the battle of Gog/Magog has occurred that God reveals his face to them and does not hide his face from them anymore as already mentioned above in Ezekiel 39:29). If we are getting that close to the rapture and Tribulation Period, it only makes it that much more believable that a sign like this would appear on Jerusalem’s eastern retaining wall of the Temple Mount. If the appearance of these letters on the wall are strongly hinting at the soon departure of the Church in the rapture event and is meant to declare a message not only to the world, but also specifically to the Jewish people by appearing on the most important wall of their city, could it be said that we have a strong allusion to this idea in scripture in regards to the rapture and Israel’s reaction to it? Indeed, it can …

“Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net” (Micah 7:1-2).

Here, we have a very powerful Old Testament allusion and prophetic hint, or shall we say, type/shadow of the future rapture of the Church. This type and shadow feature is a phenomenon that we see time and time again in the Old Testament. First, the “good man” perishing out of the earth is a stark picture of the Church’s disappearance via the rapture. Crucial to understand in this profound text is that the Hebrew word for “perished” in verse 2 is “avad,” which means to “disappear.” The “Woe is me!” phrase in this portion of scripture is Israel’s/Jews reaction to it. In line with this thought and its possible (and likely) connection to timing signs, take a special note of the time span that occurred between the Great American Eclipse of August 2017 and the appearance of the three letters in God’s name on the wall in Jerusalem. The span was four years, right down to the same month. The eclipse occurred in the month of August and the wall sign also appeared in the month of August. There’s that number 4 hint again!

So, why and how does the American Eclipse relate and connect to this “possible” wall sign? Simple, read the aforementioned Micah 7:1-2 passage of scripture again above and take a special note which nation is hinted at while Micah is giving us the hint of the rapture and Israel’s reaction to it. It is the “Vineyard.” Micah uses the phrase “grape gleanings of the vintage.” Again, if you will recall, the case has been sufficiently made in a previous posting that America is either strongly associated with the prophecy of the vineyard in Matthew 21 or is the direct fulfillment of it. And four years after the Great American Eclipse, or for the purpose of making the prophetic point clear, should we say four years after the Great “Vintage” eclipse, we see the sign on the wall in Jerusalem directed to the Jews that the “good man” (saved Christians) are about to “perish” (be raptured) from the face of the earth, and that “good man” is heavily centered and connected to the vineyard (vintage – America). Could we say that Micah 7 is giving us a picture of the Jewish reaction to the “Vineyard” being X-ed out, or “crossed out” (i.e. the “X” of both of the eclipses) via the rapture of the “good man” from the face of the earth? In my opinion, that is exactly the picture that we see being displayed in Micah 7. Of course, we know that the “good man” (born again Christians) are in most every nation of the earth, but America seems to be a bulwark of Jewish support. Is it just me or do we have some heavy interplay and number 4 clues going on here between these two signs?

Remember that the Lord has been using the Church as his bride in order to make the Jewish people jealous …

“They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains” (Deuteronomy 32:21-22).

Scripture reveals this “foolish nation” to be none other than the Church itself (Romans 10:19 and 1 Peter 2:9). How poetic it would be to see God throw up a hint of the Church’s departure into Heaven as an act of provoking the ultimate jealousy (and judgment) from/to the Jewish people than to throw his name up on their most important wall signalling the immenency of the “good man’s” disappearance i.e. the rapture. I hope you all will join me in watching to see if that elusive missing 4th letter will appear in the form of a dalet ד instead of the expected ה hey. Is it possible (if this occurrence is indeed a sign) that God will not show the fourth letter until after the rapture has occurred? And further, will that letter be the expected ה hey or a Jewish eye-opening letter dalet ד, the letter that hints at Jesus Christ. Admittedly, something like that occurring is a massive speculation, but you must admit that it would make complete sense. An additional note to also keep in mind is that this wall sign also occurred four years after the Revelation 12 sign occurred that also depicted the rapture in the heavens (see here). It is also quite interesting that these wall letters have appeared just as the Vinyard (America) has crossed the ever-important biblical 400-year prophetic marker in 2020-2021 that began at its Plymouth Colony founding in 1620 (see here). And of course, important to know, the ancient Israelites spent 400 years in Egyptian captivity when he brought them out of Egypt. After 40 years of then wandering in the wilderness, they were finally allowed to enter the Promised Land.

The Psalm 122 Rapture Challenger: The 2024/2025 4-Year Wilderness Rapture

Given the obvious prophetic picture that God has displayed in the Old Testament when it comes to prophetic patterns of future fulfillment, could the crucial that the forty years ancient Israelites spent in the wilderness after God brought them out of Egypt be a pattern that the Church, so closely threaded and weaved with the U.S.A. (the vineyard) be indicative that the Church will spend another four years on Earth in the Proverbial wilderness? Interestingly enough, counting forward four years from the year 2020 (the year that the Vineyard reached its 400 year mark) will bring us to 2024 – the year that the second Great American Eclipse will occur, marking an X over America.

Taking this a major prophetic sign of America’s demise, or shall we say, “crossing out America,” we have to ask the question, “Is this double eclipse sign telling us that America will meet its demise in 2024 because of the rapture? Remember that not only does Micah 7 give us a picture of the Jews/Israel’s reaction to the “good man” “perishing” (raptured) from the earth, but it also presents us a picture of the “vintage” in the very first verse, a prophetic hint alluding to the Vineyard (America). The U.S.A. will no longer be on the scene in alliance with Israel because it has collapsed as a result of her born again Christians disappearing from the midst of it. Given the difference in Hebrew calendars and the Gregorian calendar, the 2024 eclipse completing the X over America may be signalling the year 2025 when the Church disappears. On the Hebrew calendar, the Gregorian year 2025 will still be the Hebrew year 2024 up until September, or Feast of Trumpets New Year. That means that four years will have passed between the letters on the wall sign in Jerusalem and their New Year. Further still, four years have passed between the 2017 Great American eclipse and the appearance of the letters on the wall earlier this year in August. There it is, that number 4 comes into play yet again.

So, notice that the letters on the wall sign appears sandwhiched in between the two American eclipses – four years from the 2017 eclipse and 3 and-a-half from the 2024 eclipse. Keep in mind that the 2024 eclipse may be signalling four years from the Jerusalem wall sign for the rapture event. This would put the rapture at 2025 if this model is accurate. Also, keep in mind that, just like the Revelation 12 sign in the heavens pictured the rapture event in the soon future and also occurred four years before the Jerusalem wall sign but did not happen on the actual day it occurred in the heavens, so too would the 2024 Great American Eclipse signal a certain duration of the passage of time forward from its occurrence date until the actual rapture itself that the sign was signaling actually occurs in 2025, thus retaining the consistency of the 4-year pattern we see displayed here in these signs quite nicely. If I could pictorially present it, here is a visual demonstration of that fact. Just imagine that the 2024 eclipse map below is sitting to the right of the wall sign picture instead of at the bottom.

Yet another peculiarity we see emerging in the favor of the 4-year Church wilderness 2025 rapture model is that, when the Israelites were in the wilderness for 40 years, the one big theme of their sojourning in the wilderness was their scarcity of food. God provided manna from Heaven to sustain them, but they longed for the spices and foods back in Egypt. So much so, they complained. As a result of their murmering and complaining, God sent vipers among them, which started killing them.

And so it is here, in the Vineyard (America) at the first year past the 400 year cycle mark of 2020, we are now beginning to see the beginning stages of food disappearance with rising prices along with scarcity on the store shelves of America. This precisely parallels the time period just like back in the 40-year wilderness wandering experience of the ancient Israelites when they came out of ancient Egypt after 400 years before being allowed to cross over into the Promised Land (see here and here). Could it be that, instead of having to endure 40 years in the proverbial wilderness past the 400-year cycle time marker like the Israelites of old, the Church will have to endure 4 years in the proverbial wilderness of food scarcity/lack and hardship before being allowed to “pass over” into the “Promised Land” of Heaven via the rapture? This idea would certainly line up with the ancient Israelite wilderness story and fit nicely in with the second American eclipse signalling the “crossing out” of America via the rapture. Also, the 4-year prophetic pattern is maintained.

If the rapture is truly destined to occur either in the year 2022 according to the Psalm 122 model or the 40-year Israelite wilderness/4 year Church wilderness 2025 rapture eclipse model, then which one of these is more likely to be the correct one for the rapture? Again, just assuming that one of them is destined to be the correct one for the sake of argument. Obviously, both cannot be correct. Both models have much evidence (in my humble opinion) to recommend them.

The Ezekiel 44 Church Age Number Code?

In regards to the Golden Gate next to where the Hebrew letters have appeared, it is now necessary to take a look at Ezekiel 40–48. Here, Ezekiel is given a detailed vision of a grand and glorious temple. This lengthy vision has been the subject of much speculation and various interpretations through the years. Many hold that this glorious temple is none other than the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem during the Tribulation Period. But skipping to chapter 44 of the lengthy vision, Ezekiel is brought back to the gate of the outer sanctuary. Here, Ezekiel observes as the gate is shut …

“Then he brought me toward the gate of the outward Sanctuary, which turneth toward the East, and it was shut. Then said the Lord unto me, This gate shall be shut, and shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel hath entered by it, and it shall be shut. It appertaineth to the Prince: the Prince himself shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord: he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same” (Ezekiel 44:1-4).

It is rather interesting that Ezekiel observes a shut gate. The Golden Gate on the Temple Mount Wall is currently shut. Many conclude that the currently shut Golden Gate is what Ezekiel saw in his vision. It is made all the more interesting considering that the vision identifies the gate as being “toward the east.” The Golden Gate is on the east side, called the Eastern Gate of the Temple Mount. Interestingly, here in Ezekiel’s vision, we see the number 4, yet again, associated with this Gate as the vision appears in the 44th chapter. Many conclude that the prince that is mentioned in verse 43 and again in verse 46 is Christ himself, However, the prince in Ezekiel’s vision, according to some, is not the Messiah given the fact that he must make a sin offering for himself as well as the people, revealing that he has a sinful human nature. Rather, he seems to be the overseer of Jerusalem, serving under the Messiah’s authority.

But regardless, this “appears” to be during the millennial reign of Christ and only this prince will enter through that gate – and these three Hebrew letters in God’s name have now appeared on the wall near that gate. Considering the number 4 associated with this sign and that 4th missing letter, we have this description of the millennial prince entering that gate found in chapter 44 – of all chapters. Further still, by these Hebrew letters appearing on the wall at this specific time in prophetic history touting the missing 4th letter (number 4 representing Jesus,) how interesting it is that they should appear right now at the end of the Church Age. Here is the punch line – the above description of the prince entering in at the sealed gate appears in verses 2 and 3. In Revelation chapters 2 & 3, we read of the description of all seven churches representing the seven church ages of time up until the rapture in chapter 4! Chapter 3 ends with the last church and the last age it represents (the current Laodicea age) – again, the last Church Age period in time before the rapture.

But wait, we can see yet another layer of prophetic hint. The next verse (verse 4) after verses 2 & 3, we see the “glory of the Lord” appearing …

“Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell upon my face” (Ezekiel 44:4).

Remember, the Lord shall appear for the Church in chapter 4 of Revelation. The Hebrew letters appearing on the wall next to the Golden Gate, carrying the theme of number 4 by way of its missing 4th letter (representing Jesus), can certainly be considered an announcement or pre-display of the coming physical and visible “Glory of the Lord” as described in verse 4 of Ezekiel 44 immediately after the description of the shut gate! The number 4 strikes again.

Could this be a chapter and verse prophetic coding that the Holy Spirit has tucked away inside scripture to give us a clue of what has just occurred on the Eastern Wall in Jerusalem? Without being dogmatic about it, it certainly appears to be so.

So, could the fact that this sign appeared next to the “gate” in the year 2021 be indicative of the fact that the Lord is telling us that he will appear to take the body of Christ home in 2022 i.e. the “gate” rapture of psalm 122? In addition to this (what I consider to be) very credible evidence, let us also keep in mind that the 2028/2029 outer limit of Jesus’ fig tree generation for the Second Coming event pointing to a 2021-2022 rapture (see here and here) would also coincide with the Psalm 122 “gate rapture” sign seen here on the wall in Jerusalem. Timing-wise, they both (fig tree generation year and Psalm 122) “seem” to be pointing to a possible 2022 rapture. It is amazing to say the least to see these two timing signs converge, coalesce and meld with each other so smoothly. I would also have to admit that my conjecture that we’re looking at a 2022 rapture is speculation as well. But, one does have to admit that it is speculation based on some rather observably peculiar sign anomalies.

Only time in the next several months will torture us enough to find out. If not, then the second option will likely be the undisputed heavyweight champion of all rapture models. However, the one problem I see with the second 40-year Israelite wilderness/4-year Church wilderness American eclipse rapture model is the fact that it would fall outside of Jesus’ 2022 fig tree generation statement. If the second model is indeed the more accurate one for the rapture and we the body of born again believers are still here past 2022, then that might mean the general belief among some in the watching community of what exactly constitutes the length of a generation as spoken by Jesus in the fig tree parable actually is may have to be re-examined.

It looks like we have some waiting to do until we find out the answer whichever way it may go. In the meantime, if you’re not a Christian and/or you’ve never personally received Christ, let me tell you that you are in dire straits and that time is quickly running out on you. Just doing nothing and sitting back and watching the show won’t cut it. No one gets into God’s heavenly Kingdom unless you’ve received God’s substitutionary payment for your salvation. It is not automatic and applied to everyone. If you’ve read this and you’re wondering what your position and standing will be in God’s swiftly approaching end game grand plan, I implore you to keep reading below and discover what it is you need to do in order to be a part of Christ’s approaching Kingdom. Yes, your entrance to Heaven.

THE RAPTURE AND YOUR ESCAPE FROM THE APPROACHING GREAT TRIBULATION JUDGMENT: YOUR ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN

The demonstrably divinely inspired text that we call the Bible promises a coming horrendous seven-year Tribulation period of judgment upon Earth for all of mankind, no matter what your religion, belief or creed is, and even to those who don’t believe anything spiritual at all.  We can now clearly see the signs of this approaching nightmare.  However, as we’ve already seen, this same divinely inspired text that we call the Bible promises a dramatic escape from off the face of the earth before this horrendous time of judgment only to a certain category of people.  

Put simply, an event is coming that will be so stupendous that it strains the mind to contemplate such an event happening.  It is an event that will see millions upon millions of people across the globe suddenly disappear without warning.  The millions of disappeared will have literally ascended into Heaven itself after instantaneously receiving a new glorified body fit for Heaven.  A body that will be able to withstand the atmosphere and glory of Heaven.  This event is known as the “Rapture.”  But the promise of escape is only to those who are “born again” in Christ.  This is why it is crucial to understand what Christ meant when he declared in no uncertain terms that only those who are “born again” in him will enter the Kingdom of God.  For the explanation of this, keep reading below.

In order to accept the offer of God’s grace and his salvation, you must take the crucial three steps of …

1. Agreeing – A belief and agreeing with God in all that he says in his word, the Bible, about the fact that you are separated from God, as every man and woman on the face of the earth are before accepting his salvation.  The Bible reveals that all are separated from him in a spiritual state of death, or said another way that the Bible reveals it, in a state of sin, that will result in damnation in the afterlife.  Agreeing with God in your heart that you are in need of his salvation.  The Bible reveals that God looks upon the heart of a man or woman, and thus, responds accordingly to the person who comes to him for salvation in recognition of his inability to save himself.  The Bible makes these facts very clear – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).  “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).  The Bible describes these three kinds of death:  

• physical death (the state experienced when life leaves our bodies).
• spiritual death (spiritual separation from God caused by our state of spiritual death inherited from the first man Adam – the state of sin that results in our daily outward acts of sin, whether deliberate or not, whether omissive or not; and finally …
• the second death (the fixed state entered into by the individual who dies physically while he or she is dead spiritually). This state is entered into after the death of the body which results in punishment in the afterlife until the event of the Great White Throne Judgment occurs wherein the damned are resurrected from Hades, or Hell, and are judged according to their works and finally destroyed and cease to exist after being cast into the Lake of Fire. Revelation 14 refers to this tragic end of the unsaved as the “Second Death” (verse 14). It is this state of suffering entered into after physical death and then final destruction at the Great White Throne Judgment in particular which is the horrible result of receiving the wages of sin (unforgiven due to unbelief and rejection of Christ). The Lord Jesus Christ frequently described such a death as being irrevocable in a destiny which he called Hell.  He described Hell as a literal place of judgment (Matthew 13:42); a place of everlasting fire (Matthew 18:8); a place of torment (Luke 16:24,28); a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:50); a place of remorse (Mark 9:44-48); of bitter memory (Luke 16:25), and a place originally prepared for the Devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41).  In fact, Jesus more often warned about Hell than he spoke about Heaven.

It is not God’s will or desire that any person should be consigned to perish in Hell (2 Peter 3:9), but rather that all should come to repentance of unbelief toward him and believe on him for the salvation of the individual’s soul.  But God’s justice requires that the “soul who sins” (remains in it’s state of death or state of sin) is the one who will die a second time after a long period of torment (Ezekiel 18:4).  So, agree with God, admitting that you are unable to save yourself and in a state of sin under God’s just condemnation for that sin and that you are in need of his salvation.

2. Believing – Then, believe that God does not want you to perish eternally in the torment of Hell because of your sin.  Believe that God loves you so much that he provided a way whereby he could still be a just, holy and righteous God, and yet pardon you.  Believe that God did not just overlook sin, but that he sent his only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to provide salvation by personally paying the penalty for sin.  Believe that Jesus Christ, whose life, death, burial and resurrection is the best-attested fact of antiquity, did come to earth to live, die, rise again and ascend to Heaven in order to provide justification and salvation for all who trust him.  Believe that he, and he alone, can save you because he has fully satisfied the just demands of God.  Believe that you can’t become righteous in God’s sight by your own effort.  Believe that he wants to save you and that he will save you.  The Bible provides a solid basis for such belief …

“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:16-17). 

“But God demonstrates his love toward us in this:  while we were yet sinners,  Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). 

God presented him (Jesus Christ) as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in his blood.  He did this to demonstrate his justice because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished – he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies the man or woman who has faith in Jesus (Romans 3:25-26). 

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;  And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures … ” (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). 

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). 

“Jesus answered, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).  “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).

“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out [drive away]” (John 6:37).

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:20).

3. Calling – It is not enough to agree with God, admit your need, and believe that Christ can and will save you.  You must act upon those facts. God’s requirement is that you repent of your unbelief toward him and actively call upon him for the salvation of your soul based on the fact that you cannot save yourself. It is unbelief in particular that damns the soul to its horrible fate …

“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18).

You must be willing to completely turn from your own efforts to save yourself or from any other hope.  You must come to Christ, calling upon him for salvation and counting on the fact that he will do what he has promised.  This means simply taking the gift of pardon and eternal life which he offers.  Merely believing about Jesus Christ without coming to him makes as much sense and is as effective as believing that a medication can successfully treat a fatal disease, but failing to take it.  Yet again, the Bible emphatically and authoritatively provides the basis for such statements.

The word translated “believe” here means to “rest one’s entire weight and trust on the object or person in which the belief is placed.”  It requires action in keeping with the intellectual assent of that belief.

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13).

” … but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

The logical question you may be asking at this point is:  “how do I come to Christ and call upon him?”  The answer is that “calling upon the Lord” is just another term for praying, or talking to God.  To talk to God is not a complicated process, dependent upon some special rituals.  God has invited people to approach him through his Son in simple, straightforward terms.  In fact, Jesus approved of the dishonest, despised tax collector who simply prayed, “God be merciful to me, a sinner.”  While the exact words of your prayer to God are not of vital importance (since God sees and knows the attitude of your heart), the following is the kind of prayer that you could pray in calling upon God for salvation …

“Dear Lord Jesus:  I realize that I need you.  I admit that I have sinned and that I deserve your just, eternal punishment for that sin.  But I am sorry for my sin and I am turning to you and asking for forgiveness.  I believe that you died and rose again to pay sin’s penalty on my behalf.  I come to you and open my heart to you.  I ask you to come into my life, forgive me for all of my sin and make me your child.  I invite you to take control of my life and to cause me to be the kind of person you would have me to be.  I thank you for doing this because you have promised that whosoever calls upon you, as I am doing now, shall be saved.  I pray this in the name of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen.”

If this prayer expresses the desire of your heart, I urge you to sincerely and genuinely express it to God as your prayer.  The Bible makes clear that when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in our heart, God forgives our sins and counts us righteous, and that when we openly confess with our mouth what we have done in our heart,  God gives us assurance of that salvation (Romans 10:9-10).

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:3-7).

Recommended Reading and Viewing:
PROPHETIC SIGN POSTS: A HISTORICAL RECAP LESSON – Signs in the Heavens Above and in the Earth Below
HANDWRITING ON THE WALLS: PENDING TRANSITION OF AGES – Study in Prophetic Correlations from Book of Daniel
LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE
GOD AND HIS FIG TREE
THE FIG TREE, THE FESTIVALS AND THE DOCTRINE OF IMMENENCY
WAS A MESSAGE JUST CONVEYED IN AN EARTHQUAKE?

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