“He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark” (Job 36:32).
When the average person who holds no particular allegiance or faith to the idea of a God who exists in Heaven, they may comically imagine in their heads some sort of grandfatherly figure with a white bushy beard lurking in Heaven shooting out thunderbolts upon the earth. In part, traditional Hollywood movies, paintings and story telling may have something to do with this comical/traditional image of God. In reality, lightning is indeed associated with God. As the world nears the end of the Age and toward divine judgment as per what we read in the Bible’s prophetic end times text, we can expect to see God send forth some selective judgments and warnings to the world that Christ’s coming again for the born again body of Christ in the rapture event followed by the judgment of the Tribulation period is drawing near. Such was the case, I believe, in this unfortunate White House lightning strike.
In what may be a bad omen of things shortly to come, four people (two men and two women) were struck by a lightning bolt near the White House in Lafayette Park … on Barack Obama’s birthday. Initially, two were killed and two were seriously injured in this unfortunate event.
Approximately 1-2 days later, the third person died from their injuries. In examining the details of this event, some very prophetically interesting clues begin to emerge – clues that seem to contain an allusion to the rise of not only the Antichrist of Biblical scripture, but seem to also contain identifiable hints that the rapture itself is about to occur. The Antichrist is thusly revealed in two of several key passages below …
“I am come in my father’s name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive” (John 5:43).
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Revelation 13:16-18).
For the biblical novice or new Christian who may not be aware of prophetic matters, when discussing the subject of the end times, it is first important to establish that we are in the end times based on the 1948 fulfillment of the reestablishment of the Matthew 24 fig tree – the nation of Israel – of which, the Luciferian globalists had a hand in recreating. But nevertheless, it is a stunning fulfillment of end times prophecy. Without this prophetic puzzle piece having not fallen into place, then we could not rightfully say that we are yet in the end times. But ever since then, we have been on a countdown to the fulfillment of Daniel’s 70th week called the Tribulation – which will be seven years of judgment upon Earth in which the prophecies of the book of Revelation will be fulfilled. Since that key date of 1948, prophetic fulfillment and last days signs have exponentially increased. By all indications, it appears that the year 2022 into 2023 may be key years to watch due to the Schmitta year/Sabbath cycle prophetic patterns of history. While is likely not possible that we will know the exact time of the occurrence of the rapture and start of the Tribulation, and perhaps not even the year, we have entered a very high watch time for its sudden arrival. The signs are indeed pointing us directly there. Jesus did tell us to “watch” for its arrival. He also even admonished to “watch for the signs” … and indeed, God is sending the world plenty of signs.
When discussing the subject of the coming Antichrist as seen in the pages of scripture, there is probably not a more enigmatic mystery to try to solve. When deciphering from whence the Antichrist of Revelation 13 will spring forth, we discover that the Antichrist springs forth from the lineage of the Seleucid dynasty, which extends down through to the royal houses of Rome:
“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined” (Daniel 9:26).
Here, we have an indication that the Antichrist will indeed be Roman. In light of this fact, it would seem to indicate a contradiction of scripture in light of the Bible’s indication that the Antichrist will spring forth from the tribe of Dan. The tribe of Dan is well established in the pages of biblical writ and history as being a tribe that is associated with idol worship. In fact, the Bible well establishes the idolatry of the tribe of Dan. This is one reason it is not mentioned among the 12 tribes in Revelation chapter 7 and is the lineage of the Antichrist. The Antichrist sets himself up as a god in the Jewish Temple and his beast as an idol, which he causes the false prophet to worship and commits the ultimate idolatry and abomination. There is another reason Dan is not among the twelve tribes of Israel. Genesis 49:16 tells us that Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. The word used for judge means to act as a judge, minister judgment, requite, vindicate, govern, contend, strive, to be at strife or quarrel. Dan will judge his people meaning that the Antichrist will be from the tribe of Dan and will cause them the greatest hardship by acting as a judge for his people causing their judgment. Genesis 49: 17 continues …
“Dan shall be a serpent by the way and adder in the path that bites the horses heels so that its rider shall fall backward.”
There are more examples of scripture that could be cited revealing his Danite connection, but for the sake of the subject matter of this article, lets keep this aspect of the narrative short, sweet and to the point. So, in combination with the Daniel 9:26 passage, all the biblical indications are that the Antichrist will come from more than one background. He will be Jewish and “of the people that destroyed the Temple“(Roman). Keep in mind that the Roman army also used foreign fighters in their military from what today are Muslim nations. Although most of the Roman army was indeed Roman, a minority of it were conscripts from Islamic lands they conquered. The Roman Empire was far-flung across the then-known world back then.
At this point, you may already be surmising that my conclusion is that Barack Obama is the Antichrist of biblical scripture. But in fact, you are incorrect. I have long thought that whomever eventually shows up on the world scene who may display some compelling and prophetic clues as to the identity of the Antichrist while the Church body of believers are still here pre-rapture may, in reality, be the forerunner of the Antichrist – much like John the Baptist was a forerunner of the arrival of Jesus Christ during His first Advent. The Apostle John tells us that John the Baptist was “sent from God,” using the Greek preposition “para,” meaning that John had come “from beside” God, giving him more significance than if he had simply been sent “by” God.
In like manner, I highly suspect that just before the arrival of the Antichrist, someone will arise onto the world scene that displays some rather peculiar prophetic anomalies, clues and hints that may signal to some that he could be the actual Antichrist, but in reality, will be the Antichrist’s forerunner announcing his arrival. As we shall discover, Barack Obama displays some rather peculiar and telling prophetic indicators of such. Although I cannot be dogmatic in saying that Barack Obama is not the Antichrist (he may indeed be), nor can I be dogmatic in saying that he is. It is here where I will jump off onto the subject of Barack Obama.
The Idolatrous “Bamah” High Places
In Ezekiel 20:29, you can see the “high places” of idolatry that brought on Israel’s judgment. Guess what the name of those “high places” were? They were called “Bamah.” These idols that they were worshipping were demonic entities… and they were called the “Bamah” high places. You may be surprised to find out that Barack Obama fits all the required background to fulfill this role. I’m not sure Obama is the Antichrist or not (leaning toward doubt), but these “Bamah” high places and Obama himself being on the world scene may be indicative, or a biblical clue, that he just may possibly have something to do with the rise of the real Antichrist. Obama does have a Danite background for lineage, as well as all the other biblical requirements. Think idol worship when you think of the tribe of Dan, for this is Dan’s history and continuing reality. Also, think the “Bamah” high places of idol worship of Ezekiel 20:29. This is where the modern UFO phenomenon comes in as our government and the governments of the world are associating with these entities. Who knows. But most definitely, a Danite Antichrist is accurate. The Bible is very clear on that.
Further still, when reflecting on the overall theme of the “spirit” of Antichrist, it makes perfect sense that Obama “could” be a pattern of what is to come in the real Antichrist that will step forward. In the end, a prototype forerunner may be what we are looking at with these “Bamah” high places.
With that thought in mind, lets go to Luke 10:18 and observe the words of Jesus for a further clue that the “spirit” of Antichrist is continuing to rise and may soon show itself incarnate in fulfillment of the Revelation 6 rider on the white horse prophecy …
“And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18).
As most of us are aware, the New Testament text was written in Greek and then translated to English. However, Jesus originally spoke these words in Aramaic, which is the most ancient form of Hebrew. As most are also aware, the Old Testament was written in Hebrew. Thus, in modern Hebrew, Jesus would say that he saw Satan falling from Heaven (or the heavens) as lightning from the “heights” or “the heavens.” Interestingly, from the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary the words for “lightning, “”heavens” or “heights” from Hebrew in word number 1299 is “baraq.” It is a primitive word which means “to lighten,” or “lightening,” and to “cast forth.” In the Strong’s word number 1300, we see the word “lightning,” or by analogy “a gleam” or “a flashing sword” or a “brightness or glittering.”
So, lightning, or a flash of light, is pronounced “Baw-Rawk.” With this in mind, consider that the book of Isaiah is the source of understanding for the Christian concept and understanding of Satan – or “Lucifer” as Isaiah names him in Isaiah 14:12-19. Specifically, in verse 14, Lucifer, or Satan, is credited with saying the words, “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high.” In the verses of Isaiah that refer directly to Lucifer, several times it is mentioned that Lucifer has fallen from the “heights” or the “heavens.” The Hebrew word used in the text for the “heights” from which Satan fell is Strong’s Hebrew word 11:16, which is pronounced “Bam-maw.” Hearkening back to the aforementioned “Bamah” high places, the word “Bamah” is most commonly used to refer to a high sacred place – as well as to the height of the heavens or the clouds. In Hebrew, the letter “Waw” or “Vau” is often transliterated as a “U.” Some scholars use the “O” in transliteration. It is primarily used as a conjunction to join concepts together. So, Baraq “O” Bam-Maw or Baraq “U” Bam-Maw in Hebrew poetry, similar to the style written in Isaiah, would translate literally as “lightning” and “the heights or heavens. Or lightning from the heights or skies. The word SATAN is satan in Hebrew. It is a direct translation pronounced with a different emphasis on the letter pronunciation.
With that in mind, going back to Jesus’ prophecy in Luke 10:18, if spoken by a Jewish rabbi today who would be influenced by the poetry of Isaiah, he would say these words in Hebrew. He would say this prophecy as “I saw Satan as Baraq “O” Bam-maw fall from heaven.” Again, this is not to suggest that Barack Obama is the Antichrist, but that he may be a forerunner, or pattern, of the real Antichrist that will emerge in the soon future, much like John the Baptist was a forerunner and announcer of Jesus Christ’s arrival on the scene. There are many prophetic expositors who are convinced that Barack Obama is indeed the Antichrist. In looking at the peculiar prophetic clues concerning this man, one really cannot fault the person for thinking as much. Only time will tell, but at the very least, he may indeed be the Antichrist forerunner if not the Antichrist himself.
The “42” Lightning Strike Rapture Code Omen
As previously mentioned, the number of people involved are four (two men and two women) who were struck by lightning near the White House in Lafayette Park. Initially, two were reported injured along with the two that were reported killed. Given our discussion thus far concerning the Luke 10:18 passage its Hebrew translation possibly implicating Barack Obama’s name associated with lightning, have we just witnessed an omen of things to come in end times prophecy – namely, the soon appearance of Antichrist on the world stage … whoever he is? Is it indeed Barack Obama? Or is it someone who shall follow Barack Obama much like John the Baptist was a forerunner announcing Jesus Christ’s arrival on the scene?
This is not the only time that lightning has struck the White House. As seen in the picture below, it also happened in 2011 when Obama was still in office.
Interestingly, the lightning strike occurred on Easter day – a day that celebrates and commemorates the resurrection of Jesus. Tellingly, Obama ignored and never even acknowledged Easter on that day, but never seemed to overlook Muslim holidays. But fortunately, no one was killed unlike this time around.
Between the two lightning strike occurrences, the passage of 11 years have taken place. The number 11 turns out to hold a prophetically significant meaning in biblical scripture. It is a number that is known to represent chaos, disorder and judgment. Interestingly, the world is now approaching the end of the 10th Sabbath cycle in Bible prophecy since the reestablishment of the nation of Israel in 1948 – which fulfilled a major end times prophecy. The year 2022 marks 10 Sabbatical weeks since Israel became a nation in 1948. The number 10 relates to earthly kingdoms and judgment. The new one (11th Sabbath Cycle) will begin later this year. As we know, the approaching seven-year Tribulation Period will be a time of judgment on the earth beginning with the rise of the Antichrist on the symbolic white horse in Revelation chapter 6.
One glaring, yet exciting, reality when it comes to the study of the Antichrist and his eventual arrival on the world scene is that prophetic scripture reveals to us that all of those who are “born again” in Christ will supernaturally escape his rise to power and from the judgment that is to come upon the earth after his rise. For the novice or curious passer-by, we shall again cite the ever-important passages that give us a vivid account of the rapture of the true, born again Church that can be seen in the divinely inspired revelation of Paul the Apostle as he tells us of this most exciting event in the following verses of scripture:
“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” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).
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).
“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:8-9).
Here, we see the unmistakable narrative that there are a certain group of people in the world’s population that shall escape. When it comes to signs of the end times that the Lord will be sending to the world that this event is fast approaching, an important concept to remember concerning the fulfillment of future events is that history is going to repeat itself in Providentially ordained identifiable patterns within scripture. We see this concept stated without mistake in the book of Ecclesiastes …
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us”(Ecclesiastes 1:9-10).
“That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15).
In the latest of these four aforementioned linked articles above, I mentioned the concept that God raised up America and prophetically patterned this nation after ancient Israel and is the fulfillment of the Vineyard of Matthew 21 (see here). Thus, what occurred in ancient Israel will play itself out in America in some identifiable prophetic patterns and signs that point us to the past. In turn, these future prophetic events will then effect the whole entire world since the United States in ensconced in the fabric of the current world order. In essence, so goes America, so goes the world.
With this “repeating pattern” in future prophetic events concept planted firmly in your mind, we go back to the initial two deaths and two injuries (4 total) involved in this tragic lightning strike event. Prophetically speaking, it is rather interesting that “4” people were involved in this incident and that these four people are separated or demarcated with the number 2 (two dead and two injured). This observation inserts the number “42” into the equation. To begin, the number 4 in scripture is associated with the theme of a door. In Revelation 4:1, the Apostle John is called through a door that opens in the heavens – a typological representation of the rapture …
“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).
As has been covered before in previous articles on this site here, here, here and here, the number “42” holds prophetic significance in relation to the rapture event. Keeping in mind the prophetic concept of history repeating itself, it is in the story of the supernatural disappearance, or “rapture,” of the Old Testament prophet Elijah in 2 Kings chapter 2 that we see this number “42” appear.
In short, after the rapture of Elijah occurred, we see “42” young Israelite men appear on the scene and begin to mock Elisha concerning what just happened to Elijah. Just before his disappearance, by decree of the Lord, Elijah transferred his office and function of prophet to Elisha – who was walking beside him when he disappeared, or was “raptured.” As a result of these “42” young Israelites mocking Elisha, two she-bears emerged from the woods and mauled and killed all 42 of them. In short, we have the number “42” associated with the Old Testament picture of the rapture. Seen in this lightning strike in front of the White House wherein “4” people were effected with “2” killed and “2” injured (the number 42), we seem to have an ominous sign and picture of what is shortly to come given the fact that, prophetically speaking, the world has now arrived in the biblical end of days. For those who have personally received Christ as Savior, it will be an exciting event. But for those left behind and do not make it in the rapture, this lightning strike in front of the White House is an ominous portent of what is to shortly come. It appears that the Lord was sending a stern message. Will 42 important people soon be killed in America just like 42 mocking commoners in ancient Israel were killed for mocking the prophet of God over the rapture of Elijah? As we are all aware, America and the West are at severe odds and conflict with Russia – which holds the symbol of the bear – hearkening back to the two she-bears in the Elijah rapture story.
The Third Victim Dies – The “43” Rapture Code
Unfortunately, yet prophetically, a third person who initially was only injured passed away a day or so later. Here, the equation takes on an even more interesting, and yet significant (in my opinion), prophetic picture. When we take the number 4 for the number of people affected and the total of people who ended up dying (3), we then go from a coded number of “42” to “43.” How prophetically could that be significant?
It turns out that when we go to scripture, specifically in Matthew 1:17, there are a total of “42” generations from Abraham to Christ. We then observe that the Church is generation number “43,” a continuous and unending generation. If one looks at the day of Atonement in the Old Testament liturgies of the Jews, which was Yom Kippur, this was the day that the high priest would go in once a year and sprinkle blood on the Mercy Seat on the Ark of the Covenant, on the veil and on the four horns of the altar. According to Alfred Eldershine who wrote a book titled “The Temple” wrote that the priest would sprinkle the blood of the bull on his finger once down and seven times up. Then blood from the goat would be sprinkled once down and seven times up for sin atonement as seen in Leviticus 4. On the day of Atonement, atonement for sin was completed and the assignment for atonement was finished after the blood had been sprinkled a total of “43” times.
This proves to be quite interesting for the fact that from Abraham to Christ was a total of 42 generations. Then the Church is the 43rd generation from Abraham to after Christ. This means the atonement of Christ was complete and settled. He is now at the right hand of God in Heaven making intercession on behalf of all born again believers in the body of Christ, or the true Church.
The Importance of Vineyard America’s President 43
This is where it is crucial for the reader to understand that history repeats itself prophetically because God’s prophetic system is set up and designed to go in circles or cycles. When you start out in a circle, you eventually come back to the starting point in a full circle. God reveals the end of things by encoding them in the beginning of things. Many have said that the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed while the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. The future is hidden in the past. Prophetic history will repeat in cycles. This is the way that time itself was designed to operate. In Isaiah 46:10, we read that this is indeed the case …
“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isaiah 46:10).
This passage of scripture is deeper and richer in meaning than just saying that God knew the future from the beginning, which itself is true of course, but what we are also seeing in this passage of scripture is the fact that God is saying that “out of the beginning” or “what is going on in the beginning” he has declared the end. In short, if you want to understand what is going to happen at the end, one must first understand what happened in the beginning. This narrative ultimate gets into the reality of linear thought as opposed to cyclical thought. Most of us are trained to think in terms of linear thought in the progression of time. It is the way that man looks at things. It is a timeline. However, if one goes to scripture, one will see that everything works in cycles because God does not look at things the way that man does …
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 55:8).
When one looks at the progression of time and it’s prophetic future the way that man chooses to, then the big picture will easily be missed. This is why it is crucial that if you wish to have an understanding of how God is going to bring about the future, you must look at it the way God looks at it as revealed in scripture.
If one imagines a circle, or cycle if you will, there is a starting point. As you move around that circle as you come to the end of that circle, you are now at the beginning. This illustrates that the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. If we want to understand what is going on now, then we have got to go back and understand what has already happened. A good illustration is an apple seed or any seed. Within that seed is the tree, the root of the tree, the trunk, the branches, the leaves the fruit and the very seed that is going to be contained within that fruit. Here in this illustration, you can see that the progression of the seed ended up back into the display of the seed within the fruit at the end – the very seed that is going to be contained in that fruit when it was produced. It all comes full circle, or shall we say, full cycle. Where was it? It was all contained right in the very beginning. When one goes to examine that tree with it’s branches, it’s fruit and it’s foliage, you know that all of this at the end came forth from the beginning – the seed. This will be crucial to understand when deciphering the prophetic happenings regarding America and the peculiar emergence of prophetic signs as it relates to it’s completion of a 400 year cycle, all pointing us to the end.
Ultimately, the circle of time will complete and, as we say, come full circle. The book of Acts paints the picture as such regarding “the restitution of all things” …
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began” (Acts 3:19-21).
Let’s take a quick look at Ecclesiastes to enrich the concept that history repeats itself:
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us” (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10).
“That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15).
Another point that should be made is that the smaller cycles within the circle fits within the larger cycle, which in turn, fits into an even larger cycle etc. All of these cycles are working together interdependently. Ultimately, what are they saying to us? First, the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end. That everything moves in cycles. When one cycle is complete, simultaneously, another cycle is initiated. These cycles are like ripples in a pond moving outward.
As they move outward, where are they ultimately taking us to? Again, we go back to Acts 2 and the “restitution (or restoration) of all things.” All things, if you will, come in full circle. If you believe that we are living in the last days and you want to get a grasp, or a pulse, on what is happening right now, you must interpret it from the book of Genesis in conjunction with the end times book of Revelation and other scripture in other books of the Bible that deal with the end times.
Here is where a quite fascinating evidence of history repeating itself can be seen. For example, if you were to go back to the story of Ahab and Jezebel in 1 Kings chapters 16-22, you will find the prophetic patterns of what happened during America’s 42nd presidency under Bill and Hillary Clinton. It is the only place in scripture where it is stated that they lived in an “Ivory House” (White House) (1 Kings 22:39).
Ahab (a man) was the leader, but the woman (Jezebel) was really running things behind the scenes. I think we all remember the situation with Hillary Clinton in that administration don’t we? You then have the woman (Jezebel) signing papers in Ahab’s name (1 Kings 21:1-16) while in President Clinton’s administration, you had the Rose Law Firm scandal involving documents.
During Ahab and Jezebel’s rule of ancient Israel, you also had a land deal in which an innocent man named Naboth died. In the Clinton Administration, you had the White Water Scandal involving a land deal in which Vince Foster was found dead under very suspicious circumstances. It kept going to the point where scripture reveals that a “lying spirit came against him” and deceived him (1 Kings 22:20-23). Of course, President Clinton was accused of lying to the grand jury. A spirit of lying surrounded the Clinton administration. From there, it keeps going to the point that when Ahab no longer resided in the “Ivory House,” Jezebel herself ended up remaining there in that “white house.” Of course, Hillary Clinton went on to become Senator and ended up in an “Ivory tower” so to speak. She even ran for President, or for the White House, two times and lost both times. So, there is that pattern there as well. This is to drive the point home that scripture declares the end from the beginning.
We now take note that Israel had 42 kings before it was invaded and taken into captivity by the aforementioned Babylonian Empire. During it’s 42nd and final king (king Zedekiah) it started to see trouble brewing in Babylon. It saw the nation divided and Jerusalem invaded and destroyed. King Zedekiah marked the completion of 14 generations from King David (Matthew 1:17). Interestingly enough, under America’s 42nd president, we began to see a pattern play out with Bill Clinton’s dealings with Saddam Hussein of Iraq (the land of ancient Babylon that took Israel into captivity).
In fact, Baghdad is not far from the ruins of ancient Babylon, home of Nebuchadnezzar. During the reign of president 42 in the White House, Clinton dealt with Saddam Hussein. Hussein became a “thorn in the flesh” of the 42nd president. Babylon under Hussein was an enemy of America during that time as the spirit of Babylon again emerged. Another interesting side note to this prophetically peculiar parallel is the fact that the previous king of Israel, Jehoiachin (king number 41), also had dealings with Babylon as he was carried away into exile by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon and imprisoned. King Jehoiachin (number 41) was only king for a few months when he was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar into Babylon. In like manner, America’s 41st president George Bush only saw one term and not a second term. As we all know, president Bush (President 41) also dealt with the territory of ancient Babylon with operation Desert Storm.
Bush’s reign was short like Jehoiachin, with both bearing the same ruler-ship number – number 41.
You will also note that King Hussein of Jordan died while the 42nd President Bill Clinton was in office. According to Jordanian newspapers, Hussein was the 42nd descendant of Mohammed, the founder of Islam.
This means that the Islamic religion entered it’s 43rd generation of leaders in Jordan while the vineyard America inaugurated it’s 43rd president, which saw the “war on Islamic terror” begin after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Since the number 42 also refers to completion, it relates to the 42nd American presidency. Clinton’s administration ended a millennium. Although the new millennium was celebrated at the start of the year 2000, the new millennium actually started in 2001. Therefore, the 42nd President concluded the old millennium, and the 43rd president began the new millennium at his inauguration on January 20, 2001.
When the 43rd president of vineyard America was placed into office, it marked the beginning of the end of a 40-year prophetic cycle – a cycle of unbelief. In 30 A.D., Jesus predicted that the Temple would be destroyed and the Jews would be scattered. Forty years later in 70 A.D., it happened. In Psalm 95, a generation of unbelief is revealed to be 40 years …
“Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways” (Psalm 95:10).
We know that Jesus upbraided his generation for their unbelief, which caused the Lord’s allowance of the Temple’s destruction and the judgment on national Israel to begin. In 1967, Jerusalem was a divided city. The Jewish people regained the Temple Mount area, the Western Wall, the Mount of Olives and the Kidron Valley. They had reunited Jerusalem to make it the capital of Israel. That was a major fulfillment of prophecy for the reason being that we read in Psalms 102 that when the Lord builds up Zion, then he will appear in his glory …
“When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory” (Psalm 102:16).
From 1967-68 to 2007-2008 was a 40 year cycle. An important side-note to understand here is that the reason that the two years are used instead of just saying 2007 is because the Jewish calendar comes in earlier than our calendar. So, this prophetic cycle just so “happened” to conclude on the very year that saw the 400th year anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, the very first colony of the vineyard (Matthew 21). So, from 1967-68 to 2007-2008 was a 40 year cycle. The Gentile nations are now falling into severe unbelief. Once, Christianity from the West was welcomed, whereas now, those nations rise up with a hostility, and in many places, with the sword against Christianity and against Americans themselves. Some have even said that when a missionary would show an American passport, they would be welcomed with hospitality and a genuinely warm and sincere welcome, whereas now, in many places, they would get spit on and threatened. The major prophetic point that is to be gleaned from this is that the number 43 is prophetically very important. It is important for Israel, for the Day of Atonement and for America the vineyard.
Keeping in mind that the Church is the 43rd continuous and unending generation, it should be quite interesting to anyone who has any spiritual sense about them at all that the year 2007-2008 was prophetically very significant. It saw the ending of the 43rd presidency of the United States, the vineyard whose God-ordained assignment it is to spread forth the gospel message to the nations of the world. The number 43 is prophetically important and prophetically significant as we’ve already seen with the priest sprinkling the blood in the Tabernacle a total of 43 times as noted.
To further demonstrate the prophetic importance and significance of this prophetic time frame, we should now take a look at the interesting and peculiar final vote tally during the George W. Bush and Al Gore election to the presidency. As we can all remember, the election of 2000 was the most controversial and hotly contested election in the history of America. Court battles between the Bush campaign and the Gore campaign carried on for a considerable time before Bush was declared the winner. As a side note, I am well aware that the occupant of the presidency is selected by the global Luciferian elite beforehand and not by actual vote. But the “official” kabuki theatre final vote number in Florida that was so hotly contested and would “decide” the winner after the court battles between Gore and Bush ended was 930. That number is significant because the first man Adam died at 930 years of age. Interestingly, this number surfaced during president number 43. This number 43, as previously discussed, happens to be the number of the Church generation before president 44 kicked in. In scripture, Jesus Christ is given the title of the “second Adam” in 1 Corinthians 15 …
“It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly” (1 Corinthians 15:44-48).
Immediately after Jesus Christ is revealed to be the second Adam in this verse of scripture, we find the narrative diving directly into the well-known passage revealing the rapture of the true Church from the earth at the end of the age …
“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (verses 49-53).
How interesting it is that the number of years that Adam lived should show up at the 43rd presidency of Vineyard America in the final vote tally that decided it’s outcome. The reason for this is simple. God was showing us that the world was entering into a very important prophetic season that is leading to the soon return of the second Adam for the true church in the rapture event. This is starkly confirmed given that Christ is named the second Adam in the well-known passage of the rapture. Of course, after pointing something like that out, it should also be noted that Christ is called the second Adam because Adam is a prototype, or picture, of Jesus Christ himself. Adam took the fall for Eve in the Garden of Eden just as Christ took the fall for the future Church; 43 being the church generation since God counts time by covenants.
We also saw a culmination of sorts in America’s dealings with the territory of ancient Babylon under President George W. Bush with the 2003 invasion of Iraq – a prophetic pattern that first emerged under president 41 and continued under president 42 as previously discussed.
The year 2007-2008 was an important marker for the ending of a prophetic 400 year cycle for vineyard America. By logical deduction, we should have started to see a transition taking place after the exit of president 43 and the beginning of the 44th presidency. Alas, we started to see exactly that. An important fact to take note of at this point is that after Adam, there was a prophetic shifting, or transition, that took place from after the death of Adam into the seasons of Noah. Jesus himself reveals that the end times just before his return will be like the “days of Noah …
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:37-39).
By logical deduction, we should have started to see a shifting, or transition, begin to take place under the 44th presidency that would signal the beginning of the preparation phase for the departure of the church into Heaven via the rapture event. We started to see exactly that.
With the number “43” so significant to the Church Age, the rapture and the 43rd presidency of Vineyard America, it is rather ominous and yet interesting that we should see this number emerge in such a dramatic and unfortunate incident in front of that very same White House after the initial “42.”
From 43 (Church Age Generation) To “56”
Consider that two of the people who were killed were a senior couple who were celebrating their “56th” wedding anniversary. This piece of information turns out to be prophetically telling. The year was “56 A.D.” when, as part of his “3rd” evangelistic journey, the Apostle Paul traveled from Macedonia to Troas where he had to resurrect a man back from the dead who had been killed from falling out of his chair – plunging down from the 3rd loft to his death when he had fallen asleep during one of Paul’s long late night messages (Acts 20:6-11). Did you notice the number “3” pattern in that story? He fell from the “3rd” loft. Paul’s “3rd” missionary journey. A total of “3” people died in the White House lightning strike with “4” people affected in total – thus the “43” number for the Church connected to the rapture event. Further, he came to Troas in “5” days (the number of grace) and he stayed there for “7” days (the biblical number of completion and perfection). As revealed in Paul’s aforementioned rapture passage, the wording reveals that “those who are “dead” in Christ will be resurrected first while those of us still alive will receive new bodies before being raptured. Further, the man died because he had “fallen asleep“ during Paul’s evangelistic message. When those of us who are alive and remain get our new bodies just before being raptured, Paul tells us that “we shall not all sleep.” Those who are “dead in Christ” and resurrected first are referred to as being “asleep.” Let’s read the passage again …
“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).
Here, in this lightning strike incident, it seems we have the number “56” pointing us to the rapture of the “dead” in Christ and those of us who “shall not sleep” such as the sleepy fellow that Paul had to resurrect from the dead.
Further, the husband of this couple owned a dry-wall business before retirement, which has to do with building things. As we know, building things involves carpentry. Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete form-work, etc. Jesus was a carpenter. Meanwhile, the wife of the elderly couple was a retired teacher who was “75” years old. This proves to be quite interesting, and in my humble opinion, quite significant as Abram (later Abraham), at 70, leaves his hometown of Ur with his wife Sarai (later Sarah) and his entire family. The family lives in the city of Haran until five years later, Abram’s father Terah dies. It is at this moment that Abraham, at age “75” in 1885 B.C., is called by God and told to travel to Canaan …
“And the Lord said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house into a land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation . . . And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:1 – 3).
The calling of Abraham is one of the greatest events of the Old Testament. It is from this point forward that the narrative in the Bible primarily focuses on the history of Abraham’s descendants. It is through the covenant of Abraham (the covenant of Grace) that salvation of the human soul through faith in Christ rests upon. The Church Age is known as the “Age of Grace,” which will end at the rapture. The Revelation 12 rapture sign occurred in 2017 (the year that Donald “Trump” came into the office of President of the U.S.A. (Trump = the rapture). Counting forward “5 years” from then (the number for “grace” in the Bible) until now (2022), we suddenly see a lightning strike take place that displays some rather peculiar prophetic hints – as well as a divine warning.
In looking at the details of the one survivor of these four affected by the lightning strike, she was working for a nonprofit advocacy group called “Threshold” Giving. As we are aware, a “threshold” represents a “door.” In Revelation 4:1, we see the description of a door open in Heaven as the Apostle John is caught up through that door – a picture of the rapture when the current Church Age ends. Further, the number 4 itself represents a door in scripture – there were four affected by the lightning strike. It appears that she is of Greek origin (the New Testament is originally written in Greek). She was born in 1994. In Strong’s Greek Bible Concordance, 1994 means “to turn,” “to return” or “come again/come back.” In the first instance, God requires anyone who will inherit eternal life and make it to Heaven to “turn” to Christ for salvation. In the second instance, it is obvious – hinting at the “return” of Christ. One cannot help but get the strong impression that God was pointing His finger at the “Greek” Strong’s Concordance in a massive hint drop. Her husbands name is “Achilles” – which means “pain.” She is in “pain” and scripture reveals the Tribulation Period and the signs leading up to it as a time of “birth pains” that will birth the return of Christ. It is a “birthing” process. Amazingly, the pain she felt for a few days after the incident was described by her mother as “unbearable” pain and making her “feel like her stomach is on fire.” The stomach area is where the obvious signs of a pregnant woman ready to birth a baby is located (obviously). This is the exact sign that we saw in the heavens in 2017 referred to as the “Revelation 12 rapture sign.” It involved the moon under the feet of the constellation Virgo and was clothed with the sun. Amazingly, the “king” planet Jupiter (the Child) ended its nine months circling within the womb of Virgo and finally exited east past her feet.
As stated previously, from the Revelation 12 sign until this year, it will have been “5” years – the biblical number for “grace.” The Church Age that has existed since the time of Christ that shall be raptured into Heaven is commonly called and known as the “Age of Grace.” Further still, when she was struck by the lightning, it was her birthday – just as it was Barack Obama’s birthday. This would seem to give yet more legitimacy to the prophetic hints being dropped here – first the rapture seen in the prophetic connotations surrounding her, then the rise of the Antichrist with Obama likely being the forerunner of the Antichrist or Antichrist himself (My guess is the former).
Her husband was planning on “picking her up” shortly – as in, Christ is going to “pick up those of us who are born again in the body of Christ shortly” when the rapture occurs. We are going “up” into Heaven. He had “dinner plans” for him and her after he was going to pick her up. Upon the arrival of all born again believers into Heaven at the rapture event, the great banquet feast with Christ will occur.
Further still, her heart literally stopped and she was “raised from the dead” and her survival is now being called a “miracle.” At the return of Christ during the aforementioned rapture verse, the “dead in Christ” are going to be raised first just before the living are raised into Heaven.
As you can see, God does nothing haphazardly in sending the world a wake-up call – in this case, a deadly lightning strike with prophetically significant numbers, which in turn, displays some rather peculiar prophetic end times connotations. The warning message that God seems to be sending the world here is that the rapture is about to occur and the Antichrist will soon arrive on the scene.
The Barack “61” Lightning Code
Interestingly, in addition to the White House area lightning strike that effected 4 people on Barack Obama’s birthday, lightning struck the clock tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on the very same day (see here).
Interestingly, as most know, it is said that Barack Obama has Islamic roots. Putting the picture together, one could realistically say that God is telling us that the “time” (the strike on the clock tower) for the “rapture” (the strike in front of the White House that displays a curious “42” pattern from the 2 Kings chapter 2 rapture narrative) is near. Although lightning has struck the Mecca clock tower a few times before in previous years, the fact that it would do so again on the same day as the front of the White House also got struck on Obama’s birthday is, in my opinion, very telling. Previously, I’ve reported on the peculiar “41” code sign that began to emerge last year related to this number’s seeming clue to the 41st chapter of the book of Genesis and its documentation of the famine that hit ancient Egypt in the days of the reign of the Pharaoh and “Joseph” (see the “Recommended Reading and Viewing” section further below. It is interesting that now, a most dramatic omen has occurred showing us “42,” the number after “41.” Add to this a “Trump,” as in, Donald Trump (the Trump that shall sound when the rapture occurs), and you have the makings of a really bad sign for the world – and a blessing signal for those “born again” in Christ. Say, don’t we have a president by the name of “Joseph” who was Obama’s Vice-President?
One cannot help but be reminded of Zechariah 9:14 …
“And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south” (Zechariah 9:14).
Here, we can see the theme of lightning being associated with the sound of a trumpet. As we know, a trumpet will sound at the rapture event and the Lord shall stand “in the clouds” or “in the heavens” [over them] as the rapture occurs and call those in the body of Christ on Earth home to Heaven.
Keeping in mind that this lightning strike occurred on Obama’s birthday, it is noteworthy to point out that Barack Obama turned 61 years of age on the day this lightning strike occurred. When one looks at Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, the KJV translates Strong’s G61 as “a catching or hunting/that which is taken in hunting/of fish- a draught or a haul.” Importantly, Jesus himself told His disciples and those that are converted thereafter to become “fishers of men” (Matthew 4:18-22), meaning to go out and hunt or fish for the souls of men and women by presenting the Gospel message of salvation through Christ to them. Christianity is likened to fish and possesses the symbol of a fish.
Further, Thayer’s Greek Lexicon Strong’s New Testament number 61: ἄγρα means the following:
ἄγρα, (ας, ἡ (ἄγω); (1) a catching, hunting: Luke 5:4. (2) the thing caught: ἡ ἄγρα τῶν ἰχθύων ‘ the catch or haul of fish’ i. e. the fishes taken (A. V. draught), Luke 5:9.
When the rapture occurs, the net that caught all the souls (the fish) of those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior will be hauled in.
Further still, in Exodus 19:16, we also see lightning associated with a trumpet as God descended and Moses ascended the mountain, which is an Old Testament prototype picture of the rapture …
“On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled” (Exodus 19:16).
Notice that it occurred on the “third day.” Here, in the year 2022, the White House lightning strike, containing some intriguing prophetic signs/clues of the approaching rapture (the number “42”), has occurred at a time when the world has now reached that prophetic third day in which the end of the Church Age has arrived (see more on the prophetic importance of the “third day” in this article here). Further, the lightning strike occurred at 6:50 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Prophetically speaking, the world has now reached the end of the “6,000th year” of man upon Earth before judgment is set to strike (possibly representing the number 6 in the hour of the lightning strike. America has a total of “50″ states (possibly representing the minute marker in the time of the lightning strike).
But keep this in mind – just seven days earlier (the number 7 is the number of perfection and completion in the Bible), 72 nations participated in worshipping 72 Satanic idols in a televised Luciferian ritual while celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay creepily stalked frightened lambs.
For those of us who are in Christ, the rapture awaits as we escape the wrath to come. As for the asleep and unsaved world, it is far down the road toward judgment – and it is reaching its end.
In the meantime, we wait and we watch.
WHITE HOUSE LIGHTNING STRIKE OMEN UPDATE 1:
The Mar-A-Lago/Elias 2071 Rapture Omen
August 8, 2022
In what can be considered as yet another ominous portent of events to come in our immediate future, the Mar-a-Lago estate owned by Donald Trump has (supposedly) just come under an “unannounced” (wink, wink) “FBI Raid” (wink, wink). As many may be aware, much of what we see as “breaking news” in the media are really nothing more than scripted theater to create a narrative in the minds of the masses with a targeted end result. In fact, according to some expositors, it is nothing more than ritualistic occultism in play – complete with the orchestrated numbers. It is a safe bet that Donald Trump was not at all “surprised” by this turn of events as he is controlled so-called “opposition.”
Prophetically speaking in relation to the White House lightning strike omen, this proves to be yet another nod from on high that our time here is growing short and that judgment is around the bend for the left behind world – and the Mar-a-Lago raid’s prophetic significance centers on a man named “Marc E. “Elias.” First, “Elias” is simply the New Testament Greek form of the Hebrew name “Elijah.“ The Elias referred to on the Mount of Transfiguration in Matthew 17:3 [Matt. 17:3], as the footnote states, is the Old Testament prophet Elijah the Tishbite.
Recalling the earlier importance of Elias/Elijah in the Old Testament’s 2 Kings 2 rapture narrative and the striking blow upon the “42” mocking young Israelites over his rapture into Heaven, we seem to have yet another rapture omen playing out in these end of days Vineyard America in conjunction with the White House lightning strike. First, the supposed “raid” occurred just “4” days after the White House lightning strike – which itself affected “4” people. This reminds us of the Revelation 4:1 rapture typology.
The “4th” letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter “dalet.” Its numeric value is the number 4.
The pictogram or symbol behind the shape of the letter dalet is a doorpost or lintel. The word for door in Hebrew is “delet,” or door. The word “dalet” in Hebrew is spelled with the letters “dalet,” “lamed” and “tahv” pictured below.
The word for a door or gate in Hebrew is “delet, also spelled with a “dalet,” lamed” and “tahv.” In this instance, though spelled the same, is pronounced slightly differently. “The dalet also alludes to dahl, pauper, who knocks on doors begging for alms … The shape of the dalet is like that of a door with it’s lintel spreading right and left, and it’s doorpost reaching up and down.” So, the idea in view with this fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is clear. It is a door or gate.
Not just an entrance way, but a barrier that can be opened and must be opened in order to enter. When one opens a door or gate, you pass through what was a barrier. You leave one area and you “cross over” and enter another area. How magnificent it is, then, to look at Revelation 4 (the number of the dalet) and see in verse 1 the picture of the rapture of all those who are born again in Christ into Heaven as we leave this world behind and escape God’s judgment upon an unbelieving world …
“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).
Further still, let’s take a look at the position that the letter dalet holds in the Hebrew alphabet. It is the 4th letter. It is on the 4th day of creation that God created the sun, moon and stars. God placed them in the heavens to give light on the earth and to separate the light from darkness. On day 1, God had created light. God separated the light from the darkness. On day 2, God separated the waters below from the waters above. On day 3, God had commanded that the waters below be gathered into one place, separated from dry land. But on day 4, God commanded that the sun, moon and stars be set in place in order to separate the light from the darkness. In this idea of separation from one space to another, you are either in one space or in the other. You cannot see what is on the other side, but you can see the means of crossing over to the other side. You have to approach the door, reach out and open it. When it opens, one can cross over. You choose to recognize the door and you choose to approach the door. Jesus said the following words …
“I am the door, if anyone enters through me, he will be saved” (John 10:9).
Jesus was not speaking randomly. He was saying plainly that he is the means of crossing over from dark to light. From death to life. He is the door. Jesus was alluding to things written about in the Old Testament. When Israel came out of Egypt, they had to take some of the blood of an innocent sacrificed lamb and apply the blood to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses they lived in …
“And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it” (Exodus 12:7).
When the angel of death saw the blood, he passed over the house and the Israelite family inside under the blood was spared death. Psalm 118 is a Messianic Psalm. It speaks of Jesus …
“Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord: This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter. I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation” (Psalm 118:19-21).
The term salvation is the Hebrew name for Jesus.
The sun, set in place on the 4th day of creation, is a sign pointing to Jesus. Malachi was the last of the Old Testament prophets. Malachi in Hebrew means “my messenger.” His final writings say ..
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall” (Malachi 4:1-2).
On the very same day of the supposed Mar-a-Lago raid, a man with the last name of “Elias” came forth onto social media like the corrupt blood-thirsty hound that he has been proven to be and began salivating at the possibility of disqualifying Trump from holding future office as President.
In the law, section 2071 has excited the imagination of some of the corrupt establishment because of a line that states that a convicted party can “be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
Critics such as “Elias” were not particularly interested in whether Trump might have some suspended misdemeanor sentence. Rather, even before learning if any evidence of criminal conduct was found, critics turned to the ability to use the charge to disqualify Trump from future office. Notably, “Elias” was Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer who was a critical player in pushing the false Russian collusion claims in the Steele dossier. In addition to accusations that he may have lied about the funding of the Steele dossier, “Elias” has been sanctioned in court for his conduct.
With that fact in mind, lets take a look at the prophetic tell-tale signs in this orchestrated event to lead us in the direction of where the Lord is pointing his finger to. As you will recall, after the ascension, or rapture, of “Elias”/Elijah into Heaven, the 42 mockers began mocking Elisha over “Elias’s” rapture. Today, “4” days after the lightning strike on the White House, we have a corrupt lawyer named “Elias” verbally attacking a “Trump” [Trump = rapture] at the possibility of disqualifying him. The narrative involves the theme of an unjust attack against Trump, who’s name represents the rapture – just as the mocking attack against Elisha occurred amidst his report of “Elias” being raptured and the “42” mocking Israelites were mauled by two she-bears.
Further still, notice the U.S. code law that “Elias” posted to his twitter account – it is code 2071 – which bears the defining words of “Concealment,” “Removal” or “Mutilation.”
This is the sequence of events that occurred at the rapture of “Elias.” “Elias” was “concealed,” “removed” and then, a “mutilation” of the “42” mockers occurred. In like manner, those in the true body of Christ will be “concealed and removed at the rapture and a mutilation of some kind will take place after the Church’s removal from Earth. When looking at the Bible Strong’s number “2071,” the number of the U.S. Law code cited by “Elias,” we see the following words displayed … “should be,” “shall come to pass” and “may have.” It appears as though the Lord, through this ominous sign, is telling us loud and clear – “IT SHALL COME TO PASS! SOON!”
Speaking of the two she-bears that emerged after Elijah’s rapture, as if right on cue, at the same time that the Mar-A-Lago “Elias” sign occurred/was occurring, we saw Russian Spy Planes Enter Alaska Air Defense Zones In 1st Since Ukraine War: NORAD. I do not have to remind most of you that Russia’s emblem is the bear. In Luke 1:17, we have the story of John the Baptist (a forerunner of Christ) going before Jesus “in the spirit of Elias” to prepare the way of the Lord. A “preparation” phase takes place.
To have this remarkable, yet ominous, rapture omen emerge at a prophetic “4” days (Revelation 4:1) after the White House lightning omen struck is a remarkable signal from on high that, for those of us in Christ, our time here is growing crucially short. For the left behind world, God is signaling of rapidly approaching judgment. The storm of the Tribulation is almost here.
GOD’S REQUIREMENT FOR YOUR INCLUSION IN THE RAPTURE AND ESCAPE FROM THE COMING WRATH
Let’s be frank: when Christ Jesus comes back [SOON], He’ll be kicking ass and taking names. NOW is the brief opportunity to take the FREE GIFT of total forgiveness, eternal life, and everlasting joy in His presence forever. But the opportunity is ending… and SOON…
“HOW WILL WE ESCAPE, HAVING NEGLECTED SUCH GREAT SALVATION?” (Hebrews 2:3).
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 suffer this fate 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).
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).
“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:15).
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:
THE ANTICHRIST SPIRIT OMEN
END TIMES: DARKNESS DESCENDING 
ET:DD, thank you! Great job pulling all these pieces together. Every day we see more and more indicators/signs/warnings of the days we are in. Surely the Lord comes quickly! The Spirit and the Bride say come. Blessings!
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Re: update–excellent. Thank you!
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