PSALM 90:13 BALAAMIC RAPTURE PROPHECY ALERT: WILLIAM SHATNER LAUNCHES INTO OUTER SPACE AT 90 YEARS OLD ON THE 13TH OF OCTOBER

Many may not understand what a Balaamic prophecy actually is. In short, it is the idea that God is sovereign over all of creation and can (and does) speak through anything or situation that he chooses. We see this demonstrated in the Bible many times – one of which is documented in Numbers chapter 22 when the Lord spoke to Balaam through his donkey (see here). Another more recent example can be seen through a Massachusettes man who got gulped by a whale earlier this year back in the month of July. When one observes the details of that story, it can be noticed that there are several biblical peculiarities related to not only the biblical Jonah and the whale story, but peculiarities are also seen in the numbers associated with this incident indicating a prophetic sign of the end times (see story here). Many prophetic Bible scholars and expositors are observing that God can (and is) speaking to humanity today and, specifically the Church, that the rapture is soon to take place and judgment is about to strike the earth in what the Bible refers to as the seven -year Tribulation Period.

Many may know who William Shatner is. He is the actor who played the character of Captain Kirk on the popular hit 1960s T.V. show Star Trek. Years after that show went into syndication, Mr. Shatner reprised his role and starred in six Star Trek movies. Today, on October 10, 2021, we all observed Mr. Shatner on television lifting off into outer space aboard the “Blue Origin Rocket.”

In examining Mr. Shatner’s lift-off into outer space, we can observe a few prophetic peculiarities.

In two previous articles on this site, we observed that the book of 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 psalm. Each psalm appears to be related to a corresponding year in the 20th century and beyond. Each psalm and its number appears to be related to its corresponding year in the 20th and beyond in which an event, or theme, occurred in that year number of its respective psalm. For a more detailed demonstration of this, I would suggest going back and reading those two posts here and here.

We know that Jesus gave us the parable of the fig tree as a sign of his Second Coming in Matthew 24 by stating the following …

“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).“

We also note in Jesus’ prophecy that “this generation” shall not pass until all these things be fulfilled. According to many prophecy and biblical expositors, Psalm 90:10 gives us the best explanation or answer for the length of a biblical generation. It is 70-80 years in length. It reads as follows …

“Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away” (Psalm 90:10).

Israel, the fig tree, was prophetically reborn and reestablished in the year 1948/1949. Counting forward 80 years from that pivotal and crucial date will put us at the year 2028/2029. We know that the rapture of the true Church will occur before the seven years of the Tribulation begins. If you then subtract seven years for the length of the Tribulation Period, you will arrive at the year of 2021/2022.

It is with this thought in mind that we observe that William Shatner “lifted off” into outer space at 90 years old (remembering that Psalm 90:10 gives us the best idea of how long a generation is in relation to Jesus’ Matthew 24 fig tree generation. Now, it gets even more interesting. As I was sitting here today and watching his lift-off into outer space, my eyes kept wandering down to the headline on the bottom of the television screen stating that 90-year old William Shatner is the oldest man to travel to outer space. After a few moments, the thought suddenly dawned on me … “Psalm 90:10!” I then promptly asked my wife what the date is today. “It’s the 13th,” she replied. “Hmmmm” … I thought. I opened my Bible to Psalm 90 and looked at verse 13, and my suspicions were confirmed. It reads as follows …

“Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants” (Psalm 90:13).

If one counts forward from Psalm 90:10 (lets call it the William Shatner or Captain Kirk lift-off Psalm) to the year 2021 when Mr. Shatner “lifted off” into space, it fits nicely into Jesus’ fig tree generation prophecy of Matthew 24. It has been stated that the year 2022 will be the outer limit for the rapture if 2028/2029 is the fig tree cut-off year in the generation of Israel’s re-birth in 1948/1949. How interesting it is that, as you may remember in two previous postings, Psalm 122 displays a hint of the rapture event. But yet, in this year of 2021 (the Shatner lift-off Psalm) we have yet another prophetic-level hint in the structure of the Psalms that asks what we who are in the watching community are all asking “Return, O Lord, how long?!

So, it appears we have just been given a major nod and a wink from the Lord that our “lift-off” is soon to occur. Our departure date is drawing very, very near. If this was not a Balaamic prophecy sign, then I’ll take myself to the mental institution while eating a copy of the book of Psalms as I stair out the window and hum intently … no coercion needed.

Was this Balaamic prophecy sign God’s declaration to the watching community that he is coming back this year in 2021 to rapture home his Church? Or was it a sign that 2022 is the year that we “lift off?” Let us again observe Psalm 122, remembering that this psalm (2022) shows some very peculiar hints of our rapture lift-off …

“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).

Since Shatner lifted off this year in 2021 pointing to the rapture hint of Psalm 90:13 (90 years old on the 13th day), how shall we reconcile the two opposing years that seem to be both giving us a rapture clue? Is it more likely to happen sometime in the remainder of this year or next? The clue may be given in the fact that Shatner’s “lift-off” was delayed for … wait for it … wait for it … ONE DAY!

So then, although we have a rapture clue in Psalm 90:13 and its occurrence in the year 2021 with Shatner’s “lift-off,” the question of “Return O Lord, “How long?” seems to have been answered in Psalm 122 with it’s more precise rapture theme. The answer to the question of “how long” in Psalm 90:13 would seem to be ONE YEAR later corresponding to the ONE DAY “lift-off delay!”

It is rather interesting that the lift-off date was supposed to have happened a day sooner on the 12th rather than the 13th. But, God in his sovereignty seems to have saw to it that the lift-off day was postponed until the 13th in order to, perhaps, give us a prophetic clue that lined up with the 13th verse of Psalm 90 – just three verses after verse 10, which gives us the definition of a generation.

Further, let’s count the number of people who were in the pod “lifting off” with Mr. Shatner. Including him, there were four people in the pod. For those who have read the “sign on the wall” posting two articles back, you may know the quite likely prophetic significance of that number 4 – one of which is Revelation 4:1 which presents us with a picture of the rapture when the Apostle John is “caught up,” or “raptured” into Heaven after his Revelation of the Church Age has ended.

Even further, the fact that the “lift-off” date was delayed by one day seems to be pointing to the biblical concept or principle of a “year for a day” (see here). In this case, the lift-off was delayed by “one day,” hinting that “one year” later, the rapture will occur. Yet again, another biblical concept that is pointing to the year 2022 for the rapture.

But hold on, it gets even more interesting. If we are looking at the rapture occurring in 2022 corresponding to Psalm 122, it may be worth looking at the biblical meaning, or possible biblical connotation found in the number 2. Indeed, there seems to be.

The number 2 conveys the meaning of a union, division or the verification of facts by witnesses. A man and woman, though two in number, are made one in marriage (Genesis 2:23 – 24). There is also the union between Christ and the church (see 1 Corinthians 12).

The testimony of God is divided into Old and New Testaments. His agreements with mankind are divided into Old and New Covenants. And, though 2 in number, God the Father and God the Son (Jesus Christ) compose a single Godhead.

The first man, Adam, sinned and brought death and destruction into the world. Jesus, however, as the second (or last) Adam brings the hope of the resurrection and eternal life (1Corinthians 15:21 – 22, 45 – 49). Not only was William Shatner the oldest man to ever take space flight, he was also on board this particular craft’s 2nd space flight since its creation. Further still, the name of the human flight capsule in which Shatner “lifted off” into space on was called the … wait for … wait for it … “New Shepard” capsule. In John chapter 10 verse 11, Jesus reveals to us that he is the “Good Shepherd”:

“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep” (John 10:9-11).

Lets also take note of the first word in the name of the Shatner capsule – “New” Shepard. Jesus Christ is the testator of the “New” covenant … or shall we say – the “New” Testament. It is only through the “New” covenant of Christ that any man or woman will “lift off” (rapture) from planet Earth into Heaven. He is the only way.

The Shatner Lift-Off: The Sign of Approaching Judgment

In these quite amazing prophetic clues the Lord seems to be revealing to us through this particular space launch, one aspect of this launch is the fact that they do also seem to be displaying a clear warning of approaching judgment. In the Bible, numbers are very highly prophetically significant. The number 9 (Shatner is 90 years old at the time of this flight) conveys the meaning of judgment. In general, the number 9 is the largest and last digit correlating “finality” and completeness. The number of finality or judgment is committed unto Jesus as “the Son of man” (John 5:27; Acts 17:31). It marks the end and issue of all things as to man — the judgment of man and all his works (Bible Study).

Verse 10 of Psalm 90 gives us the definition of the length of a generation, just three verses before our subject matter of verse 13 in this same psalm we’re examining in this post (a generation possibly being the generation that Jesus spoke of in his Fig Tree Generation prophecy in Matthew 24). Another candidate for the start of Jesus’ fig tree generation based on the Psalm 90:10 text would be 1952 when Israel observed its 1st Sabbath Cycle once it was brought back to the Promised Land as a sovereign nation, resulting in 10 Sabbath Cycles to culminate in the 11th cycle, that of 2022, in the Fall. Thus, this would also point us to a 2022 rapture. In the Bible, the number 13 means the outworking of pride. The two Hebrew letters that make up the number 13 are YOD and GIMEL, translated to English these letters mean the hand or outworking, and pride or to be lifted up. It can also be used to symbolize rebellion and depravity or lawlessness, which ultimately leads to Divine judgment. The world since 2020 has observably careening down that path of lawlessness and rebellion. The number 10 in the Bible reveals to us the meaning of Divine Order (Shatner’s flight occurred in the 10th month). Such a number indicates the law, responsibility and a completeness of order in both Divine and human structures of society. Some scholars see this number as the number of Divine perfection.

So, ladies and gentleman, it looks like the Lord has “POSSIBLY” given us all the answer we have been looking for. It appears to me that we are in extremely high watch time as the Lord has seemingly slapped us all in the face with yet another amazing prophetic sign – a sign that is spitting thunder and lightning toward the year 2022.

I do not wish to be dogmatic on this assertion, but I’m just presenting what I feel to be a logical conclusion based on what appears to be the Providential evidence. As such, that Providential evidence appears to be pointing to a 2022 rapture. If the clue is pointing more to this year, then so be it. If neither, then so be it. This is what watching is all about. No matter when it will be, we are being given abundant signs that we are in the rapture go zone. The lights are flashing red. It is almost time.

If you’re reading this and you have not received Christ, I do strongly urge you to do it now. Time for procrastination is not on your side. It is the mother of all human folly to gamble with your eternal soul. Jesus promised that only those “born again” in him will enter Heaven and escape the coming judgment via the rapture.

GOD’S REQUIREMENT FOR YOUR INCLUSION IN THE RAPTURE AND ESCAPE FROM THE COMING WRATH

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.  You must repent of the sin 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 because of your sins.  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:

“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). 

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).

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