On Entering into Freedom, Sincerity and our Need for Tough Love

I expect to be writing more that is specifically focused on the times and seasons, but this ministry is about making the church glorious and this adventure some of us are on has two tracks that are bound together very tightly. The development of our character in this season is most critical.

To start out, here are two items some of you may find very helpful.

Others May, You Cannot
George Müller - Notes on living in faith

The Lord has been working many things on my heart and mind over the past several days. Aaron continues to be very intensely engaged by the Lord, and in this deeply penetrating work he has begun to embrace it, receiving a joy that comes from knowing in his innermost being how it is truly a rare privilege to be attended to with such profound love. We have both of us together been brought into a new place of abiding with strict discipline and contentment.

He who withholds his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently. ~ Proverbs 13:24

4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He scourges every son whom He receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. ~ Hebrews 12:4-11

I have received email from some precious saints who have been or are being approached and engaged in similar ways, being touched by the Master's hand in a firm, corrective and restorative manner. We perceive that we have turned the page and the Lord's requirements are quite different from before. We all need His constant help to follow His invitation to go beyond where we have been willing to go in previous seasons. I have also received email from some saints who have chosen to avoid such unpleasantries, and that weighs so heavily on my heart this morning. The contrast between those who have received the principles of the “hear-do cycle” and those who have not has never been more evident. Those who are wise hear the word of the Lord and obey, and are rewarded with a hearing ear, and this is also the purchase of the Lord's eye salve. Those who hear and fall short of obedience suffer the loss of what limited visual acuity or discernment they already had, and with that loss they fail even to perceive it. I continue to experience the strongly contrasting emotions that come as the Lord brings this survey before me.

12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
13 The one who despises the word will be in debt to it,
But the one who fears the commandment will be rewarded.
14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
To turn aside from the snares of death. ~ Proverbs 13:12-14

He who walks with wise men will be wise,
But the companion of fools will suffer harm. ~ Proverbs 13:20

8 Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you,
Reprove a wise man and he will love you.
9 Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser,
Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. ~ Proverbs 9:8-10

The Lord has been qualifying me to declare hard things that must be said in this season, which come from His merciful and abundant heart of love for His people. This is not to suggest that I'm perfect, but the Lord has a work to be done.

Most folks read this blog like they read the Bible, glossing over important bits while reading into it what they want to see. And, most will assure themselves that I wrote that about somebody else, but, I'm probably writing this for your benefit. How few there are who have truly paid attention to what has been written here in recent weeks. There was a swell of visitors to The Open Scroll over the past month or two, as traffic statistics indicate. I believe the increase was primarily due to a temporary interest in the perception of the potential for "the rapture" to occur. Evidence of this continues to manifest as people email and comment about Fall rapture possibilities or other possible scenarios.

No doubt this boldness is very offensive to some of you reading here now, and it should be if I actually have your attention. You'll think me arrogant and judgmental, but I'm not here to coddle or enable those who are content with what is going to produce in you a failed crop. I'm here to call you to wake up, by all means, and provide help with a fit word! Clean out your ears. Apply the eye salve liberally. Faith is failing all around and the blind are desperately grasping to find someone or something else to hope in.

I will repeat some of what I wrote in the previous post because it's that important.

“The value in knowing the time was first in knowing when it would come, and doing what was required for preparation. Then, the value was in that which was learned through diligent watching as it arrived. Now that the time has passed, the value is in grasping why. Those who don't believe that the appointed time really did pass fail to gain the benefit. That's you, if you're still looking toward the fall of this year for a rapture on a Fall Feast Day or for some other scenario to play out.

If you weren't paying very close attention to what has recently been written about the high strangeness of the zig zag time trajectory of Satan's fall, a time mission, an ark of salvation, and the epic hoax, I'll probably lose you at some point because I'm going to draw upon all that and the responsibility is yours to keep up with the pace. The Lord will help, or there is no help.

A span of time is going to be repeated, and what happens in the next version is going to be different.
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As it stands today, with no revealing of the lawless one and thus no sign for the Bride, there was no interaction that would result in the Romans 11:15 “acceptance” trigger. The time passed. Victory: Satan. But it's not over until it's over - and my God is sovereign.

There will be a rerun of this Pesah. Did you get that? I'm not predicting or speculating. If you are convinced that I am, I can only testify that you never truly came to know the time. It has passed. But, we're only going to advance linearly into the future for a set season, then we'll be returned back to some time prior to the 13th day of the 1st month. What those behind the CERN LHC effort are about to do will be largely responsible for this radical departure from the perceived continuum. With perfect timing, the Lord will involve His elect in a time reset mission, otherwise no flesh would be saved. No flesh at all.

Interest has been high in the CERN Time Machine YT video I made. Some new visitors to The Open Scroll have arrived through that work with their eyes open. Here's an mp3 we made from a recent Paul Begley interview that has been popular on YT. Thanks, everyone who brought this to our attention. I can't vet what “Mike From Around the World” is saying, but given what the Lord has revealed to Aaron and myself, there is value in considering what he has to say because it's not implausible.

Paul Begley interviews “Mike From Around the World” on the subject of CERN's LHC and the influence of dark matter

On to other business. Some long term readers of The Open Scroll have recently abandoned it entirely, or have gone into a detached lurker mode of one kind or another. My entire income is limited to what comes in through the PayPal donate button, and I can tell you that the sole regular sponsor of this work seems to have abandoned us. The last donation I received from anyone was on the 24th of March. Yet, since the level of gross income here has only ever been less than what some of you spend maintaining your pets, the impact of the cessation on my subsistence is pretty minimal. While scoffers and mockers are probably laughing with glee at that honest confession, some of you may find that candid report shocking and appalling. When my own resources ran out, Aaron's family generously took me in, and this has been the Lord's provision for the last few years. The Lord has been most kind to me and I have lacked nothing of all I have needed.

So, why haven't I just taken a clue, as some would advise, and given up on this seemingly fruitless venture, returning to my lucrative profession as a web developer after leaving at the peak of my career? I've had four really tempting opportunities present themselves over the past few years, none of which I sought to find. I chose to accept none of them, because each time I chose rather to abide in this humble position as your servant. I have no other source of income, no other employment. I collect no revenue from ads and do not engage in merchandising or profit in any way from other associations that would surely compromise me with conflicts of interest. High on the list of points of general failings of the saints who profess to aspire to become worthy of the Bridegroom is a matter that this lack of support indicates, that most fundamentally of sincerity of profession, hypocrisy.

The Lord's provision for me while in this temporal body presents me with options. I can choose those that involve deferral, forfeit here that purchases reward that is eternal. So can you. I freely admit to having become very frustrated with the lack of support in some former seasons, but eventually I have been brought, with much mercy, to a place of being able to abide with contentment, with an assurance that the Lord is pleased that it should be so, and, finding myself in this state, being able to identify very closely with the Apostle Paul himself.

In this season that is now of unknown duration, I have been led to update a legacy study and retitle it, Entering into the Freedom of Giving and Receiving. The study had previously featured a lengthy thematic analysis of 1 Corinthians 9, which I trimmed down because I upgraded the structural presentation to an interactive version. If you give it your attention you'll find this structure to be quite exquisite, beautifully elegant, and that the wisdom gleaned from it can be quite profound. The interactive version has also been embedded inside the study I just named. From that sudy, one of the included scriptures that addresses the support issue most simply is the following.

17 The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. 18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.” ~ I Timothy 5:17-18

What Paul expressed in 1 Corinthians 9 applies very personally to us, if I am likewise made your servant. Like Paul wrote in verse 15, “I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case.” If you have other servants also, and your Master directs you to provide care for them, do so accordingly. This is no guilt tripping conscience manipulation attempt to wrangle funds out of your wallets to pad my fat coffers.

In 2 Corinthians 8, Paul probed the sincerity of the saints at Corinth, who had announced their good intentions but had not yet followed through. “Put your money where your mouth is.” That's a familiar expression that comes to mind. So, let's give the matter of sincerity of profession or hypocrisy some consideration.

To say one thing and do another, that's hypocrisy.

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. ~ John 14:15

There are many commandments that were given specifically for the saints to walk in, yet how many of us care to actually do so? How we love to profess that we love God, when our deeds testify so loudly to the contrary that no one can hear a word of it above the din. Most of you who are even still reading this post or email have failed to allow the Lord to put the mirror of self-inspection before your face, to show you what you look like in His eyes. Many of you are shamelessly parading yourselves around the Internet and your churches and among your families and friends with an attitude judging yourselves to be fundamentally different from them, and better. You are all the more a hypocrite, if you are failing to acknowledge in that judgment the mercy that you are even now receiving from their Creator. Have you yet subjected your associations, religious, business and personal to the Lord's own approval? When conviction approaches you, do you flee it with ready excuses or don for protection some cosmetic image of your righteous self? Sloth and gluttony and self worship, these also have been brought to me as sins that must be named.

And, again, there is the matter of gender propriety. “Bob, really? Again with the gender propriety schtick?” People, your continued willingness to abide in rebellion against the Lord's appointment of authority has cost you plenty, and you don't even see it. Men and women alike foolishly sit at the feet of the women who teach in the church. I say this to your shame.

But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. ~ 1 Timothy 2:12

Fathers and mothers abide the unruliness of their children, and husbands of their wives, failing to seek and find the Lord's help in using His appointment of authority to His satisfaction. Testimonies of finding His approval in these things and of the reward of entering into the blessings of proper head covering are conspicuously lacking, not entirely, but to a very large degree.

Even yet, there is contentment to abide in these ways, and to profess how much God is loved and honored, but judgment has come for lawlessness and hypocrisy.

3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5 but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: 6 the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. ~ 1 John 2:3-6

Look around you. Does this world look like it's worth following? Is theirs the reward you want to enter into? WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! This may now be our final chance to get our priorities straight, getting right with our Maker. We haven't yet lost the opportunity to fall on that Stone.

And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust. ~ Matthew 21:44

Watching Still, We Consider the Model, Masked

On the morning of Tuesday, April 14, I was led to engage Aaron in a whiteboarding session where we considered the meaning of the masked model insight. Both of us were still suffering under the demands of the penalty levied the day before, which I've written about. I was not eager to do anything of my own initiative or presume that there would be any further service because it was evident that, although we proved faithful and were qualified through the previous round, we had to be requalified for continued service because the standard of the Master's requirements had been raised. The fear of God was upon us like never before. With our attention being turned to the masked model insight, it was the Lord's direction to pretty much pick up where we left off, with more attention being given to the times and seasons.

I had posed the question in the previous post: “Were we wrong about the time?” My answer was: “Yes and no.” The time declared as the appointed time was not wrong. The appointed time came and went, but that doesn't mean that it isn't still future. Right. What sense does that make? None, unless the Lord does something like what He did for Hezekiah, turning back the clock, in a figure.

The value in knowing the time was first in knowing when it would come, and doing what was required for preparation. Then, the value was in that which was learned through diligent watching as it arrived. Now that the time has passed, the value is in grasping why. Those who don't believe that the appointed time really did pass fail to gain the benefit. That's you, if you're still looking toward the fall of this year for a rapture on a Fall Feast Day or for some other scenario to play out.

If you weren't paying very close attention to what has recently been written about the high strangeness of the zig zag time trajectory of Satan's fall, a time mission, an ark of salvation, and the epic hoax, I'll probably lose you at some point because I'm going to draw upon all that and the responsibility is yours to keep up with the pace. The Lord will help, or there is no help.

A span of time is going to be repeated, and what happens in the next version is going to be different. The basis for this is biblical, and, Lord willing, I'll be sharing some of these insights on the blog. This model has even been illustrated very accurately in several films and TV shows. It's the modeling of this repetition that has been elaborately masked in this season. Most specifically, we'll see that it does primarily have to do with the revealing of the lawless one, as indicated in previous posts.

As it stands today, with no revealing of the lawless one and thus no sign for the Bride, there was no interaction that would result in the Romans 11:15 “acceptance” trigger. The time passed. Victory: Satan. But it's not over until it's over - and my God is sovereign.

Here's a diagram of a masked model, fruit of the whiteboarding session I mentioned above.

The Pesah will be repeated. Toward the close of that watch season, I suspected, and hoped, that it would be a small loop, probably going back 10 days from the 22nd to the 13th day of the 1st month as the time mission and ark scenarios played out, but it was not to be. I did not see it coming, but we have been given more grace for preparation, and it is absolutely necessary. The two most obvious questions at this point, I have no answer for: How long before time is reset to the past? How far into the past will it be restarting? I believe the Lord has given us some direction, but he's not yet given us much insight. We still see as through a glass darkly, and the path thus far is involving a lot of hard labor.

Remember the account of Saul's failure in 1 Samuel 13? I referenced it in the post about watching on the 23rd day.

8 Now he waited seven days, according to the appointed time set by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering from him. 9 So Saul said, “Bring to me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering. 10 As soon as he finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. 11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash, 12 therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.” 13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” ~ 1 Samuel 13:8-14

Saul correctly noted that the appointed days had passed, and that Samuel had not shown up as promised. That was no excuse. It was then that he took matters into his own hands. He offered a burnt offering, but it was a major offense, and there was forfeit. Huge forfeit. I see an example here.

In closing, here's another thematic study I just published. I'm going to be referencing this soon, Lord willing.

Daniel 12 - Interactive - Thematic Structure

We pray that you will stay alert and on watch, seeking above all to be found worthy of Him! We thank you for your prayers and kindness! Great reward awaits the faithful!

Still watching on the 28th day!

The Lord is just now returning me back to minister through posting to this blog. This has been a very intense week, and several very important things have been noted.

I have been fielding emails and comments posted to the blog, and for nearly all of them, I have little to report that's very good. There has only been a very small number who have been very rude, mocking and gloating over a perceived victory. We had a sign about Daniel and the lions den and we understood that the Lord was shielding us by stopping the mouths of the lions. A larger number seized upon the perceived opportunity to offer me a range of pet theories about why I failed to predict the time. Those actually began coming in well in advance of the Pesah week. Most of those offering their theories expressed gratitude for the work of The Open Scroll and encouragement to continue, and they were largely offered in sincerity. Most of the response fielded has been with the expression of much gratitude and the extension of mercy, encouraging us to continue. The vast majority of readers didn't weigh in at all. The smallest number who reported in actually indicated that they have a clear sense that what's really going on now is quite special, and that's a very, very small number.

If you read the latest post about “Please accept our apology - Retracting "A Word from the Lord" from November 20, 2014” and interpreted that to be an apology or admission of some other kind, you read into it.

If you emailed us and didn't get a response for a few days, or you watched how many days went by with no posting to the blog, and interpreted that to mean that we were discouraged about a failure to predict the time, you read into it.

At what point did I declare that we failed on some other point, and that we were discouraged as a result? Go look. Obviously, we're still here, and we're not denying or trying to cover or duck anything. I've claimed that I'm not concerned about my perceived credibility or reputation, and that's an honest report. I've been pretty well seasoned on those points. That's the Lord's business, not mine. So, here's the big question: Were we wrong about the time? Yes and no, and that's the thing, right there. Most of you assume we were simply wrong, and if you're content with that, I'm content with that. But that's not all there is to it.

So, are we discouraged? No. Not at all. We've been crushed, but that's not an emotional response to finding ourselves still here after the Pesah. While we were very disappointed, because hope deferred really does make the heart sick (Proverbs 13:12), the crushing has been the result of the Lord's dealing with us very deeply, with correction, discipline. If you haven't personally experienced this yet, and I mean very specifically within the past week, I pray you soon will, because it is a necessary work of this season. And, I do mean, pray. The Lord's dealing with Aaron and myself has been on the basis of some errors made in judgment, which, bottom line, is a reflection of our character. As the Sr. partner in this pairing, I am accountable. What was acceptable in the previous season no longer receives a passing grade. The requirements are much more stringent. After dealing with some personal failings, the next order of business was to unpublish two posts, the one from November 20 and one from the MOB Blog. The Lord made it plain what the problem was and what to do about it. The apology was posted to this blog, as directed. The Lord required a substantial penalty to be paid, and it was agonizing and there was much anguish and many tears. I didn't know if I would endure it or what the outcome might be. Aaron, who is not nearly so well seasoned as myself, is still working through it, and I bear no small amount of responsibility for failing to prepare him better. This is not about airing dirty laundry, but the testimony is for your benefit. While the main theme of the the 24th day of the 1st month (Monday April 13) was the crushing, we wrapped up the day with a season of prayer where Aaron got a touch of glory, where a word was received that we would be returning to ministry, and late at night we had a footwashing ceremony. That was encouraging but I can't say it was comforting, because there was no comfort to be had. There was no relief from the penalty until sometime the next day, but it became apparent that the Lord was satisfied. We survived.

So, we unpublished the November 20 post, and fixed and reposted the one from the MOB blog. What else did the Lord require of us? I had a book offered on Amazon in the Kindle version. I unpublished it and removed links to it from the websites. The problem with it wasn't the content, it was the relationship with Amazon. Regardless of how little money I could arrange to make off the sales, the matter of making any money off the sale, along with having a business relationship with Amazon, was no longer permissible. I can no longer legally offer the Kindle version, or a pdf of the contents. The book was titled, Who is Cain's Father? The controversial work is still available for reading on TheOpenScroll.com. What else did the Lord require? Excluding personal issues, that's pretty much it. I did also remove a few series links off the side bar of the blog because I wanted to review them for possible editing, since we've now got more insight into what's really going on. At some point, Beyond The Veil will get some updates, Lord willing, but first, the blog.

What should be noted is what the Lord did NOT require of us. There has been no direction to unpublish or retract anything else, or offer an apology for anything else. I am willing if the Lord requires it, this I know, and I think that has been adequately demonstrated. The retraction we did publish has been fully exposed on the blog for many days, and no effort has been made to obscure or minimize it.

There have been some pretty outrageous declarations made this month. There's more to be written about all that, and more to be written about what all this means for you. Lord willing.

We admit freely to knowing only in part, as those who have come before us. You may have noticed that I'm generally quite precise with my language, not wanting to come up short or go long of a thing, or be ambiguous when there's something to be declared. The results of my efforts aren't perfection, but the Lord has accepted my efforts and blessed them with much mercy and grace. He Has a plan and He's working it to perfection.

Please accept our apology - Retracting "A Word from the Lord" from November 20, 2014

The Lord had a dealing with us this morning. We had published a claimed “Word from the Lord” back in November that was impure. We acknowledge our failure in that. We accept whatever penalty is due. We offer no excuse. Aaron and I seek your forgiveness.

This is the post we took offline, from November 20.

“Tell My people that the time for their decision has passed. Those who have forsaken all else and chosen Me and My ways shall stand in the days ahead. Woe to those who have chosen to place their faith and trust in the flesh, for they shall be consumed in the fire of judgment.

The time of this season has nearly passed, and soon the days of power and glory of those who are truly Mine shall begin. Keep your eyes and heart focused upon Me and My ways, and I shall pour out My love and joy into your spirit. My provision will be sufficient, and I shall not fail.

Continue to press in and seek Me for all that you need in the short time that remains. Steel your hearts and minds and do not fear, for I am with you and shall be until the end.

Thus saith the Lord. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has spoken. ”

The fleshy word was not a fit word for the season. For clarity on where it fails, the passing of the time for decision was not the last instance of such an accounting in the season, which was clearly implied in the language used. While the declaration applied for that round, to imply that it was the final season for Bride qualification was wrong. We have had at least two more qualification rounds since the one that the false testimony was referencing. Each round has brought a fresh expectation for those whom the Lord qualified. We are bringing forth this apology and retraction because, although we found ourselves qualified to be in this unexpected new round, we failed to meet the Lord's standard for this present season. We should have discerned the false word and not published it. We had waited a few days after Aaron brought it forth before I decided to publish it, but I erred in judgment in accepting for confirmation what was actually no confirmation at all. I was willing to be deceived, and so I was. The Lord requires more of me. I won't attempt to make light of this error. It weighs heavily on both Aaron and myself. We are grieved over what harm has been done by our failure.

Bob Schlenker

Still watching on the 23rd day?

It's already the 23rd day of the 1st month in Israel, and we're still on watch. It's very much like we just finished a grueling marathon but the finish line had been erased. Temporarily. I'll explain more as the Lord provides, but we are being strengthened to recover from extreme battle fatigue. We were spent. We're now pressing on with resolve. When the Lord was arrested at Gethsemane, the disciples scattered like sheep without a shepherd. How did Peter feel then when he had denied the Lord 3 times and heard the rooster crow? How did he feel when the Savior died, with no apparent salvation having been made? How did he feel when the Lord had been dead and buried for 3 days? More than a little lost, a think. Don't despair. We're not just channeling Annie, singing about how the sun will come out tomorrow because we're just incurable optimists. It's because our Lord hasn't quit on us.

Some see this blog and wonder, why bother, but this isn't about us. There is food fit for the season that must be served at the proper time. Bread is still being broken and these servers, Bob and Aaron, are not AWOL, have not quit or gone on strike, or died. If it seems like we just don't care much what some folks think about our credibility or reputation, well, we don't. If how people appear to respond to The Open Scroll was our motivation, we'd fail like Saul, who judged by sight and trusted in his own reason.

8 Now he waited seven days, according to the appointed time set by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering from him. 9 So Saul said, “Bring to me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering. 10 As soon as he finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. 11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash, 12 therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.” 13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” ~ 1 Samuel 13:8-14

If we knew how everything was going to unfold perfectly already there would be no need to keep watching - but it is required that we stay alert, sober, and watching attentively. The knowing of the time has been an essential to bring us to this point, and although it may appear to you like the anchor has been severed from the boat and that we're adrift in the storm, this has been the Lord's plan all along. It's brilliant! As the Lord continues to provide, we are ready and able to do what remains to be done because we qualified in that intense and awesome round. Don't reject what has been written. Hold on tightly to it, because the sign of the Lord's mercy toward Hezekiah (Isaiah 38) was not a once-and-done kind of event.

Many of you came to experience the Lord's special touch and know His presence and abiding love like never before, and let us strongly encourage you to maintain the purity attained, walking in holiness and enduring to the end. Exercise your gifts with the authority gained thereby, according to His leading.

4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

Here's a small sampling of signs of the times, in pictures.

I saw that one again on 4/11, on the side of the bus stop, as I walked to the local market. Its a SIGN.

“The model has been elaborately masked,” as we reported, and here's what that looks like.



Water-As-Time pump failure causes flooding. LA - the city of Angels. LA = 12+1=13, and 13 is like 12 and 21, a special time number.



Water-As-Time wars.



Water-As-Time mysteriously missing?



Rango (2011) demonstrates how to kill the hawk (true god) with a Water-As-Time tower - filled with stone.

On 4/11, Obama meets with Castro, against the backdrop of doves, like spirit descending...

What was going on with Obama's special April 3rd meeting with LDS heads? Did that have to do with the Joseph Smith WHITE HORSE prophecy, which is a reversioning of Revelation?

What was the bee swarming at the White House on April 7 all about?

Telegraph.co.uk

“A group of unwelcome bees disrupted US President Barack Obama's storytelling session for children at the launch of the White House Easter egg roll on Monday. As the president was reading from 'Where the Wild Things Are', bees began buzzing around the children seated on the South Lawn. Mr Obama told the panicked children, "Bees are good. They won't land on you. They won't sting you. They'll be OK." The US president used this year's Easter egg roll event to support first lady Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' initiative to encourage children to exercise and eat healthily.”

Many call Easter eggs, resurrection eggs. Bees have long been associated with resurrection. In the film, Jupiter Ascending, there's a scene where bees swarm around a person, whose secret identity is immediately recognized as the owner of the world. Obama was reading from 'Where the Wild Things Are.' What does that have to do with the themes of the day's events? Research it for yourself. A movie shows Max in a boat on a stormy sea going to a distant land. It's obviously a time and dimensional transport scenario. He shows up on land and begins destroying things. Destroyer. The wild things are going to eat him - and he commands them "Be still!" Then he proclaims himself to be their king. Earlier in the movie, when he was "on earth," they showed a globe that was a gift from his dad, and on the globe was a little plaque that said, "To Max, owner of this world."

Was that The Sign we had watched for? No, the model was intricately masked, and the baptism and anointing did not happen on the 13th day of the 1st month, or even yet. Yet. In previous years, the Lord had me give Bill Clinton attention as the Antichrist model. This year was different. Very, very different.

Watching on the 21st day!

Well, this is the day we have been waiting for. The bonus season has been for sifting, with much mercy, for a final cleansing of robes. Those who truly love the truth and truly know what time it is are about to be well rewarded for their endurance. What comes next, few would believe. What has been masked is going to be unmasked.

After the 12:21 clock signs of the 14th and 15th days (the 15th, marking the declarations of, “This is the evil day” and “Night has fallen”) another came a couple days ago that was a little different. Today, another like the first two but with more drama came amidst other signal events and in a confirming context. Some of the email we're receiving is confirming what we expect, which is based upon further insight received in the past 24 hours or so. Scriptures have been illuminated and more light has been shed on key dreams and models we've mentioned. I'm not going to elaborate because it's just not necessary. The Lord is dealing with His Bride directly. If you've received what seems like a warning of exclusion, see it for what it is, a conditional promise of inclusion.

Here's one of the passages we understand better. Insight came after I completed a thematic study last night and Aaron and I reviewed it together. I published it online last night.

Thematic Structure - Interactive : Revelation 14

Here's one key layer to unlocking a sequencing. Verse 8 contains the familiar expression, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great.” Once the Barley has been harvested, MB is fallen. When the Wheat has been harvested, MB is fallen, again.

We're rejoicing to see this hour. We love you and do so appreciate your prayers on our behalf!

Bob and Aaron

Watching on the 20th day!

While there's not much new to report, as in different, we've been blessed with more of the same kinds of encouragements to hold fast and await His coming.

The model of Peter passing through the iron gate in Acts 12 was speaking to us, as Peter was a model of the sleeping church when the Bride was taken out. In verses 11 and 12, we see him as the Bride, only then grasping what had just happened.

Today, we were impressed upon how that these flesh bodies and minds remain subject to the law of sin and death, right up until we are unclothed with mortality and clothed upon with immortality

We have seen many vivid signs of the darkness having fallen, of this being the evil day.

Increasing numbers of saints look ahead to this fall for the fulfillment of their hope. Are you aware that fall feast "rapture" theory simply isn't viable? Would grapes be harvested first?

We are so excited to be so near to the goal! We hope, against hope, as it seems to some, but we are truly eager to be with the Bridegroom, and His saints. Faith that doesn't fail isn't something that can be manufactured. It's developed over time through trials of patience and endurance, and there's great benefit in that. Hold fast to what you've received.

Watching on the 18th day and rejoicing in the Lord's favor - Revelation 7

As the Lord has continued to bless and affirm us while we keep watch, I  have been really enjoying this time with Him. Much could shared about misc. items, and tomorrow I'll probably share more.

While on watch, I've been analyzing the thematic structure of chapters in the book of Revelation. I just published another, Revelation 7.

Updated June 19 to present this chapter in the larger context:
Thematic Symmetry of Revelation Chapters 4 through 11 - Interactive

A question posed in Revelation 7 is what the Lord prompted to bring the insight I had been seeking more and more specifically for about a year. It unlocked the insight identifying the Bride as distinct from the Body, highlighting her separation for me to resolve some critical issues. It was a major turning point for me.

Still Watching on the 17th Day

Updated - 1:14 pm

I watched the latest episode of “12 Monkeys” a couple nights ago. A lesson was being very distinctly repeated to Cole, the time traveler that the future depended on. His father told him, “The only failure is giving up.”

Just before that, I had finished watching “The Imitation Game,” based on the life of Alan Turing. As encouragement was repeated three times during the show. “Sometimes its the very people that no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”

Last night I walked to the local market and saw the poster at the bus stop. “Don't much like quitters, son.” Trending. The ad said to pass it on, and so I did. This is on the bus stop. Right. That's where people wait for the scheduled transport to show up. Think about it. Connect the dots. Recall Greg's comment about the bus driver leaving a rider behind when leaving a stop.

Aaron noticed last night how Y'shua's dicsiples didn't often get much in the way of understanding about what was coming in advance. (John 13:28-29 / Luke 22:49 / Luke 24:11 / Acts 1:1-8) The Lord hid things from them. He does that. It's His good pleasure to reveal them at just the right time to just the right people in just the right way. Patient endurance is required. If abiding faithfully was easy, everyone would do it. But very, very few do.

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John 14

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Hey, aren't we expecting something like this? Hmmmmm.

A new Jesus. Broadcast of contrived imagery - projections. (Thanks Michael, and everyone else keeping watch with us!)

A couple more current news bits of interest:

Amid Severe Drought, LA County Waterworks Facilities Lose 82K Gallons After Water Pump Malfunction -- Water-as-Time -- LA - as 12+1=13 and 13 is related to 12 as a time number.

The lost tomb of Jesus? Scientist claims he has 'virtually unequivocal evidence' that could help explain the whereabouts of Christ's remains

Watching on the 17th day

As I write it is the 17th day of the 1st month and signs of the season abound, and we hold fast, rejoicing in His comforting assurance.

16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. 24 For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. ~ Romans 8:16-25

I have been continuing to enjoy time with the Lord spent analyzing the thematic structure of Revelation 12. A timely result. Thematic Structure - Interactive : Revelation 12

A Word from the Lord

As days pass understanding will continue to increase. Continue to be patient and rejoice.

Soon I shall reveal the sign, and for those whom it has been appointed it shall be unmistakable.

Continue to hold fast to all that you have been given, and to all that I have brought forth as confirmation in this season of testing.

Rejoice and continue to rest in the promises and the perfect peace that I shall continue to bring forth and pour out in abundance.

Soon you shall be with Me, and the days of reward shall begin.

The LHC Restart is Officially Reported

Large Hadron Collider restarts after two-year rebuild

“The Large Hadron Collider has restarted, with protons circling the machine's 27km tunnel for the first time since 2013. Particle beams have now travelled in both directions, inside parallel pipes, at a whisker below the speed of light. Actual collisions will not begin for at least another month, but they will take place with nearly double the energy the LHC reached during its first run.”

I note how the image of the video featured has the imagery of multiple time event sequencing, as slices of a projection through time.

Watching on the 15th Day (Israel time)

As I write, it's the 15th day of the 1st month in Israel. We've just received a series of signs, and some of you may have too!

I was up early this morning, tired, but with the familiar fire burning that led me to my laptop for some blogging. I wrote and published the first post of the day titled, “Watching on the 14th Day.” The addition of Luke 22 came a few minutes after the initial publishing, a reminder prompted as a "seal on the deal." After it was published, I went downstairs and Aaron had just gotten up but had already read through the entire post. We read through it again together, marveling at what the Lord has been doing, having a sense of just how important this post is. At one point, I felt the Lord prompt me to pray, so we shut down the screen and settled in. I prayed for a while and stopped when I knew I was done. Aaron immediately prayed, and when he was done, he shared about how, when I had prayed about the Lord's Ephesians 6 provision of armor and weaponry for this day of evil, it had already been put in his mind just as I was praying about that, that “this is the evil day.” Right as he was sharing that with me, I suddenly had a vivid perception of a dark canopy appearing over the room, and I looked up toward the ceiling. There was a dark canopy overspreading, kind of over the ceiling, like a vision, and I declared, “Night has fallen.” Aaron and I then both found ourselves with our gaze fixed on the cable box digital clock. When it came into focus, I saw: 12:21. In unison, we blurted out, “How about that!” Aaron said that the peace and glory he had felt during our prayer season had suddenly turned, with a catch in his spirit, the moment after he had said, “This is the evil day,” and that was right as I looked up at the ceiling. At 12:21, that's the exact same time we received the most memorable sign of the previous day, about the intricate masking of the Antichrist model.

I knew I had to publish this right away, so I went back upstairs. Before I could really get started, Aaron came upstairs with some pieces of mail. When I had started upstairs, he saw the mail sitting on the kitchen table. He was going to toss the junk mail, but the Spirit of the Lord prompted him to take a closer look. WOW! One piece could not have had a more fitting set of images identifying the evil day. The other piece had a special invitation.

YOU'RE INVITED TO AN EXCLUSIVE
VIP EVENT

ONE DAY ONLY!
Saturday, April 11th 9am-9pm

Many other details about it affirmed what it was. By itself, like most signs, it means nothing. In the context, we can't help but to see it as something that is very, very special! There's a guaranteed gift for stopping by. A three tiered ceramic serving plate. Think about it.

The special invitation was addressed to “Aaron Hermann or current resident” - that's us. It said, "Invite your friends!" That's you! Are you joining us? Not for the symbolic event, but the real deal!

Watching on the 14th Day

As I write, it's the 14th day of the 1st month. Where's the revealing of the lawless one? Where's the hoax I've been writing about? Based on what Aaron and I saw and experienced yesterday, we're far from abandoning hope. Many of you aren't forsaking hope either, and we commend you for your faith. Not for faith in us, as men, but truly in our Lord.

Some critics began throwing stones on the 10th day, some even earlier, actually. And, so it must be. 1 Corinthians 4 is a text for the mature and I will probably have no other response for critics. I'm willing to be a fool. I trust that the Lord is good. “Not my will but Thine be done, Lord. May it be unto me according to Your good pleasure.” For Aaron and I, this is our profession.

So, what now? We persist, forsaking nothing, watching soberly and on high alert, because this is the season where faith fails. What is this unfailing faith based on? Patience, a refusal to judge before it's time because appearances are deceiving. Is this simply a stubborn denial of reality, Pollyanna-ism or blind optimism? Are we channeling Annie: “The sun'll come out tomorrow”? Are we just trying to save face? Hardly. This is not my first rodeo, so to speak. I've been bucked off and crushed into the dirt before. I endured, with much mercy learning some valuable lessons along the way. Aaron has not been seasoned through those same seasons of experience, but he has been strengthened through seasons of severe trial to be able to endure, and our present situation suggests why the rigorous endurance training has been necessary.

This post is not our version of a pep rally, but we hope you are encouraged, having genuinely sought the Lord and received His comforting touch and embrace, as we ourselves have. Aaron and I saw signs while on watch yesterday that spoke loudly to us as models of the revealing. Right after Noon (Pittsburgh time, when sunset ended the day in Israel), Aaron prayed, and then, beginning to reflect on the day, he received a revelation insight - and immediately we witnessed what could only be interpreted as a confirming sign that the model was masked in an elaborate way. I noted the time, 12:21. The mirrored time numbers. The same numbers we had been seeing stamped on almost everything.

If this watching was easy, or, if everything relevant could be casually marked on the calendar and then ignored until the time came, we would not be directed as we are in Matthew 24. Some will know when the Lord comes, like Noah knew when the flood would come. It was 7 days in advance when he got the certain word. He never abandoned the work. Even knowing what we have learned about the times and epochs, we are instructed to maintain vigilance. The Lord has made it obscure to prove us.

42 “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. 43 But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44 For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will. 45 “Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. 47 Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ~ Matthew 24:42-47

“For this reason you also must be ready.” If Aaron and I have served food at the proper time, receive this also. Stay on the alert. Hold fast to what you have been given. In due time, you will receive your reward. Those who endure to the end will be saved.

Based on some previous modeling, which hasn't been made public but that we've been reflecting on regularly since it happened, we're anticipating confirmation on the 15th day. That model happened when Aaron was hospitalized in January, and that stay was markedly different from all the other times he's been hospitalized in recent years. The 15th day also happens to be on the Pesah pattern, and Noah pattern, 1 week before the 21st.

This is a prophecy of our time, where the Bride is being modeled by the only one who can stay awake.

39 And He came out and proceeded as was His custom to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed Him. 40 When He arrived at the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” 41 And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and began to pray, 42 saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.” 43 Now an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him. 44 And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground. 45 When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow, 46 and said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation.” 47 While He was still speaking, behold, a crowd came, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was preceding them; and he approached Jesus to kiss Him. ~ Luke 22:39-47

Are you tempted to sleep from sorrow?

We watch, patiently, enduring. The Lord is faithful, who has promised. Let us pray for each other.

Seen while on watch...

So far, our full expectations are unfulfilled, but that's not to say that we're discouraged.

Here's one sign seen so far.

Louis Jordan, missing and thought dead, found alive and rescued after 66 days at sea.

The number 66 signals the abyss.

His sailboat, Angel, had a broken mast ~ angel with broken wings.

"Jordan" as the Jordan River means "their descent" - river of time.

He survived on fish and rainwater.

We watch, and as we do, we continue to be encouraged and strengthened in our resolve. How about you?

Updating the Watch Report, and (Part 56) Rango's Water-As-Time Theme

The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You. ~ Isaiah 26:3

It's now the 13th day of the 1st month, the day we've been waiting for, for the sign for the Bride. And, the hoax. What will the day bring? We keep watch.

The Pope had a baptizing session for 13 already. Perhaps he was just getting warmed up.

Pope washes the feet of 12 inmates, 1 infant at Rome prison in Holy Thursday ritual

When I reported in the previous post that there hadn't been any dreams or visions in the last few days, that situation changed as I was writing and publishing it. Aaron just had a season. While I'm not led to publish details, we took encouragement. Then, as we prayed together a couple hours ago, the Lord brought more glory and healing, just what we needed to sustain us with provision fit for the moment. We continue to operate as we have been, in faith with hope, and the Lord continues to encourage us.

It's funny that Aaron and I would joke about what we wouldn't be doing in this season, blogging about Rango. Funny. Here we are, blogging about Rango. Add it to the list of things we didn't see coming.

Rango - Series Links

I could have revisited Rango many times in seasons past, expanding on what I've learned since publishing the 55 post series about Code 33, celestial stargates, the goddess and mark of the beast symbolism. I haven't. It ended almost 3 years ago, following a pretty remarkable season. What I did know and publish on was plenty, but the central water-as-time theme was sorely neglected. The Lord reserved that insight for this season of closure. With what I've learned since post #55, on top of what I had left unpublished in the queue of notes, I could probably double the number, but there's no time for that, of course, and no need.

Here's an image of what was in the vault of the Bank of Dirt. Nothing says, water-as-time quite like this screenshot.



When the last remaining water in town was stolen from the bank, bottle and all, the quest and battle to get it back modeled a war over time. Familiar theme, right?

I've written about time codes in media vehicles, and Rango has this feature. At 1 hour and 13 minutes in, Rango is golfing with the antagonist, Mayor John, and his minions. The conversation hints at the revealing of the lawless one on the 13th day of the 1st month.


Rango: But what if somebody did rob the bank before they got there?
MJ: And who would do that, Mr. Rango?
Rango: I was hoping you could tell me.
MJ: That sounds marginally near to an accusation.
Rango: Take it any way you like.

13:08 MJ sinks bug-ball in hole.

Rango: Something you said keeps rattling around in my frontal lobe.
MJ: What's that?

1.13.13 Rango lines up bug-ball shot.

Rango: “Control the water and you control everything.”
MJ: Come on, Mr. Rango. You attribute divine power to me. How on earth could I possibly control the water?

1.13.28 MJ sinks putt.

Rango: Well you've obviously mastered this game.
MJ: I've been playing it for many years, sir. I was here before the highway split this great valley. I watched the march of progress and I learned a thing or two. Perhaps it's time you started to take the long view, began to appreciate the broad sweep of history. Look out there, son. You could almost see time passing.

1.13.58 Rango looks through surveying telescope to see three large water pipes in a construction project.

Rango: What are you building out here?
MJ: The future, Mr. Rango. The future. One day soon, all this is going to fade into myth; the frontier town, the lawman, the gunslinger, there's just no place for them anymore. We're civilized now. That's what the future holds. you can either be part of it or you can be left behind.
Rango: Is that what happened to Mr. Merrimack? Did he get left behind?

Control the water-TIME and you control everything. That's the Devil's plan. MJ's response. “You attribute divine power to me.” Yes, really. How on earth, on earth. Space. Control water-as-time. How indeed. So, a demonstration. When he putts, he's sitting in a mechanical wheelchair that models a heavenly throne vehicle. With clouds as heavenly vehicles in the background.



See the mechanical arm as signaling XXX 666, but also as the ancient water wave glyph. Time. A time wave. Controlling time-space with an apparatus. The putter strikes the ball (particle collision?) and gravity drops it in the cup. Score. Rango says, “Well you've obviously mastered this game.” The kind of well that water is drawn from, modeled by the cup? But despite the show, who is really the master of time-space? My God is!

Maybe I'll post more tomorrow. OR, MAYBE I'M DONE WITH THIS. Lord willing.

Reporting on Day Twelve - Signs

As I write, it's the 12th day of the 1st month, and there is tension in the air. I was relieved to be able to finally publish the really pressing content of the previous post. That was huge.

Aaron and I haven't been given any special dreams or visions in the last few days, and there have been no angelic visitations, but we haven't been led to expect them either. What we have received hasn't been unexpected. Further revelation insight, and adversity. We're not insensitive, and the Lord doesn't entirely shield us from spiritual assaults, but He allows us to take hits. We respond by seeking Him for help. He has given us assurrance us that He will help, and that's just what He does! He is faithful! This morning we were praying as led and the Lord's presence was evident from the start as I began with an immediate and unmistakable feeling of elation. He gave us both a touch of glory as I prayed and it was just what we needed to sustain us. Aaron prayed and the Lord's presence was tangible. He has been constant with provision, with timely miracles of healing to maintain health when crises loom, and to sustain us in every other area of need. We remain confident that the Lord is watching over His Bride and the 144k sons of Israel very attentively, nurturing and guiding until the moment comes for big things to happen. What we expect within the next couple days seems crazy to some but we'd really have to be insane to declare anything else, given what the Lord has done and is doing.

Here's a timely sign. This is the Drudge Report headline last night, early on this 12th day of the 1st month. Water wars = Time wars. Crops are at stake. We've been reading about flooding in the Chilean desert and the Nile and Euphrates drying out.

Here's another sign. A reader is expecting his first child. He's in the hospital right now with his wife, and the baby is overdue. She is 41 weeks pregnant, and she was admitted on 4/1 into room 411. They are expecting a girl and they plan to name her, Holland.

Holland, or, the Netherlands, is generally known for windmills and tulips. According to Wikipedia, “Continuous drainage is necessary to keep Holland from flooding. In earlier centuries windmills were used for this task. The landscape was (and in places still is) dotted with windmills, which have become a symbol of Holland.” The classic windmill is a water pump, in metaphor, a time machine. Powered by the wind, or spirit. With dikes, (water-time barriers), they provide for the cultivation of fields of tulips. The tulip is used as a metaphor for a female, because of the two lips - two sets of lips - labia of the genitalia. We see this symbol leveraged in the TV series, Fringe. For one example, Water Bishop believed God gave him the white tulip when he prayed for a sign. The white tulip is a symbol of the virgin goddess. For another example, Olivia Dunham once fled to a field of white tulips as a place of refuge when she was a little girl. She was found there by Peter Bishop, a name you can easily identify as symbolic of the male genitalia.

At last report, the mother is expected to go into labor at any moment. 1 Thessalonians 5 should come to mind. The process of birthing usually begins with labor pains and the water breaking. “It's time!” That's what is usually said in response. Who's in charge of when labor comes and the water breaks? It's kind of a Dutch windmill scenario, a Spirit driven time machine, bringing a new life to birth. The numbers 41, 4/1 and 411. Matt's Mom's Pastor's atomic projection clock was stopped at 4:11 for a sign. Information! “It's later than you think.” Now, it's 4/2, Tuesday.

Sure, people generally tend to read to much into things, but yet, signs are real and are given to confirm what things are declared in other ways. Believers don't just follow signs, but signs do follow believers. The projection clock and room number don't prove anything, or disprove anything, and the headline news about water wars doesn't either, but this is what we're seeing as we keep watch, and signs should certainly be expected. This is how God works, and historians like Josephus provide plenty of documentation that this is not a new thing.

The water wars headline came online as I finished a session of recording notes about Rango, the movie, which revolves around the theme of water-as-time. Wouldn't you know, it features water wars as time wars. In this late hour, I may just add another post to the Rango series. Lord willing. We've had several other rather detailed signs lately, none of them published to the blog. We continue to be encouraged and to press in to get and give all there is to be gotten and given in this season, according to the Lord's good pleasure.

It is those who endure to the end who will receive the reward.

The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You. ~ Isaiah 26:3

Megas Thlipsis - The Pending Time Storm and Awaiting Ark

"The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You. ~ Isaiah 26:3

As I write, it's the 11th day of the 1st month, with merely a double digit numbering of hours remaining until the revealing of the lawless one. The reporting of what Aaron and I believe are the days that will be cut short continues.

21 For then there will be a great “tribulation”, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. 22 Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. ~ Matthew 24:21-22

If it is as we think it is, and we have no legitimate reason to doubt, “those days,” when the Devil has control over time, are nearly upon us. Those referred to as the elect are about to be preserved in a space-time ark of sorts. It's going to be confusing and very complicated, but the Lord has made adequate provision. I know so little about so much, but I am assured that it is enough.

With regard to “those days,” there will come a resurrection event, and it will be for the Bride, a barley harvest. Prior to that there will come a great hoax that will shatter the faith and hope of many, convincing them them that there is no further hope of resurrection because it already passed. Aaron and I have written about the fraud for years, and we think a resurrection won't need to be faked. Lies will be told to misrepresent what is seen, but we think the resurrection will be legitimate. We had accepted the familiar theory about the dead being raised an instant before the living, but if that's true, some of what the Lord has been revealing to us makes no sense. The dead will be raised first because the witness of their rising is important, and some or all of them have roles that must be fulfilled before the living, who are appointed to that same harvest, are changed.

13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Even though we read “in the twinkling of an eye,” from 1 Corinthians 15:52, it can not be claimed that the dead will be raised and the living changed in the same moment. Consider The account given in Luke 13.

22 And He was passing through from one city and village to another, teaching, and proceeding on His way to Jerusalem. 23 And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them, 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up to us!’ then He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets’; 27 and He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from; depart from Me, all you evildoers.’ 28 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out. 29 And they will come from east and west and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. 30 And behold, some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last.” ~ Luke 13:22-30

Those who are not qualified will be shut out, as from an ark of salvation. How will those evildoers then see Abraham and the others but themselves thrown out? Abraham is only dead until he is raised, and when he and those with him are gathered, they will recline at the table in the kingdom of God, which speaks to me of the “last supper” promise Y'shua made about drinking this fruit of the vine in Matthew 26:29, at “the Passover.” He spoke (v. 30) of rank and order in the Kingdom, which is a key subject of 1 Corinthians 15. Will that part of the hoax need a fraudulent resurrection (or attending “chariots”) or just a great cover story?

Consider the balance of Luke 13.

31 Just at that time some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, “Go away, leave here, for Herod wants to kill You.” 32 And He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach My goal.’ 33 Nevertheless I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem. 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! 35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” ~ Luke 13:31-35

Herod = Antichrist. (Passing Through the Iron Gate ) As we should well know, “fox” is 666, by Occult letter numerology. Did the Lord not know we'd be speaking English in these last days? “Third day” is resurrection code. (Resurrection on the Third Day) Has the Lord not appointed a time for His brood to be gathered? Is it not Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God his brood, finally gathered under “her” wings “from east and west and from north and south” in resurrection? The house of Israel is left desolate, for those who believe in this age are separated out, becoming part of the church, technically distinct. It will no more be desolate when the saints of this age have entered through the narrow door and it is shut, and then those 144k sons of Israel accept the Shepherd of that Sheepfold as the God of their fathers. (What Will Their Acceptance be but Life from the Dead?) Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai!

Perhaps resurrection will also be faked, with fake heavenly vehicles. “Invasion is imminent.”

Part of the show will probably involve porting live streaming content from the past, sowing confusion with lies about the following account.

50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many. 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” ~ Matthew 27:50-54

We think there will be a complex leveraging of not only cultural memes but personal memories and fears during this season of megas thlipsis, when time is in flux.

Before I move on to other kinds of models, I'd like to elaborate on a scriptural model I mentioned previously in brief. When Joshua led Israel across the Jordan and took Jericho (The Jericho Scenario), it modeled megas thlipsis. Jordan was the river of time, and Israel crossed through like they had through the Red Sea. Word of that got around and it terrified everyone. Megas thlipsis. There are multiple ark of salvation models here. Even though the river crossing was a Pesah scenario and the taking of Jericho followed after, the six days of circling the city followed by the seven times around on the seventh day was also a Pesah model.

The following, from Passover and the Structure of Joshua 2 - by Peter J. Leithart, follows his observations about parallels and connections linking Joshua and Moses.

“With this in the background, it is not surprising that the events of Joshua 1-6 closely parallel Israel’s deliverance from Egypt. Since the conquest completes the exodus (cf. Exodus 15:14-18), it is fitting that the entry into the land is larded over with Passover-Exodus allusions. In chapter 3, the Jordan parts and Israel crosses on dry ground; then the Israelite men are circumcised and they celebrate Passover, which is immediately followed by the destruction of the city and the deliverance of Rahab’s house. The exodus followed this pattern: Destruction of Egypt, Passover, Water crossing. Now the entry into the land chiastically reverses the sequence: Water crossing, Passover, Destruction of Jericho. (The two spies who enter a house in a doomed city also reminds us of the two angels visiting Sodom and delivering Lot’s house; Jericho is both Sodom and Egypt, cf. Rev. 11:8. ”

About the thematic structure of 2:15-21, Leithart notes:

“The structure highlights the Passover connections in several ways. It underlines what is evident in the narrative, namely, that the window with the scarlet cord is a way of escape (the cord parallels the rope), like the bloody doorway of Passover. This is reinforced by the parallel of 2:18a and 2:19, where the scarlet cord is linked with blood guilt: If the cord of blood is not displayed, then the blood of Rahab’s family will be shed, with impunity, by Israel; only a display of "blood" will save Rahab from a bloody death. Finally, the center of this section repeats the command of Exodus 12:22. These structural indications should eliminate doubt (commonly expressed by commentators) that Rahab’s deliverance is to be understood as a Passover.”

Passover. The ark of salvation. Sealed with the blood of the lamb. I note that when the walls of Jericho were made to fall flat at the shouting and sounding of trumpets, Rahab's house was in the wall. Those inside her house were supernaturally protected, as well as being spared when Israel went in to destroy every man and woman, ox, sheep and donkey with the edge of the sword.

There are accounts of storms on the sea that speak so loudly to Aaron and I of the time war in the season of megas thlipis and the supernatural protection provided for some. Considering these accounts in context makes them even more compelling.

I wrote long ago about how the Sea of Galilee was a symbol of the time of great tribulation, and that the accounts had coded time references. I also see it this way with the abbreviated version of megas thlipsis, in this Pesah season. Water-as-time. Boat as ark of salvation. Some of the 12 disciples were seasoned fishermen, and they had no doubt, weathered some storms. All were Galileans (Acts 2:7). Here's one account.

22 Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched out. 23 But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger. 24 They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm. 25 And He said to them, “Where is your faith?” They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?” ~ Luke 8:22-25

There's similar accounts in Mark 4:35-41 and Matthew 8:18-27. Don't bother trying to mash these together because they each have their lessons. There are diverse people in different groups and situations represented. There will be megas thlipsis, with prevailing intense stress and anxiety, and a people hemmed in, protected, in arks of salvation. The Body of Christ is asleep, as the first Adam was just prior to having a Bride taken out. Boats will begin to be swamped, as in the water-as-time scenarios, but those appointed for it will be saved. My Savior is Lord of heaven, the spiritual realm (winds), and of time (water).

When you study these accounts, and you probably should, note the context. Here's the segue into the account given above.

19 And His mother and brothers came to Him, and they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd. 20 And it was reported to Him, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wishing to see You.” 21 But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.” ~ Luke 8:19-21

It's the Lord keeping out those who don't qualify, who don't hear the word of God and do it. Those who qualify go into the ark and the door is shut, even to the Lord's family, even to the body of Christ. Prior to that, the Lord sheds light on the qualification, which is in no small part to us right now, about the last days when the crop comes ready for a great harvest, in a time prophecy of the Keystone pattern.

The lead in to the stormy megas thlipsis in Mark 4 is also about the age that is comes to its end. The birds of the air in the mustard tree is a picture of the demon infested church of Mystery Babylon. The parable of the seed in verses 26-29 is another example of the Keystone Pattern, which I haven't identified as such until this writing.

26 And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; 27 and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know. 28 The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, [1] then the head [2], then the mature grain in the head. [3] 29 But when the crop permits [4], he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” ~ Mark 4:26-29

Friends, does the crop not now permit? Will He not immediately put in the sickle? That remains our hopeful expectation.

Here's the opening of the storm passage from Matthew 8.

18 Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, He gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea. 19 Then a scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” 20 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” 21 Another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.” ~ Matthew 8:18-22

Foxes and birds of the air, this world is their home, and those represented as scribes (religious hypocrites, who will NOT follow him where he goes, into this ark of salvation) slumber as in the night. In contrast, this world is not our home, if ours is with the Son of Man, and this about to manifest. He has nowhere HERE to lay His head. No sleeping, metaphorically, for the alert and sober virginal Bride. So, how can the dead bury the dead or do anything at all, because they are dead? These dead are the sleeping, as drunk in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5. Here's a verse about the denial of entry into the ark.

While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:3

No ark of salvation for them, whether these virgins have oil for their lamps or not. Those who can follow the Lord into the boat and go across the stormy sea must let the dead bury their own dead, tending still to the burden of this life that must be sacrificed willingly for the robe to be washed clean in the blood of the Lamb. Those who qualify to enter the ark have already taken up the cross at the cost of their lives. They have proven their friendship and received the love of the Truth. 2 Thessalonians 2.

Now, consider what follows the storm in those accounts. When they get to the other side, which is to say, after the Bride Theft, those who were left behind are dealt with. Gnashing of teeth, the demoniac. Those cast out, knocking but rejected.

And they cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?” ~ Matthew 8:29

It will soon be time. Given leave, the demons enter about 2000 swine, who rush down to be drowned in the sea. Time code. The church age. Birds of the air in the mustard tree. Foxes with dens. Whatever is in the Lord's harvest field that is not fit for harvest with the barley. Bad fish. Goats. The wild olive branch is broken off (Romans 11) and yet in the Lord's awesome mercy they may still embrace the way of the cross, but for reduced benefit. The great wheat harvest awaits. Shavuot. We believe the Wheat saints will do as the Bride will have done, as modeled by Peter, who would return and strengthen his brothers after being sifted by Satan.

Some accounts of time-storms on the Sea of Galilee feature walking on water, as moving above and untouched by water, beyond this time-space realm.

45 Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the crowd away. 46 After bidding them farewell, He left for the mountain to pray. 47 When it was evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land. 48 Seeing them straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, at about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea; and He intended to pass by them. 49 But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out; 50 for they all saw Him and were terrified. But immediately He spoke with them and said to them, “Take courage; it is I, do not be afraid.” 51 Then He got into the boat with them, and the wind stopped; and they were utterly astonished, 52 for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened. ~ Mark 6:45-52

They were terrified, and in a boat. Megas Thlipsis. Those disciples supposed it was a ghost - phantasma, a phantasm. Really? What's going on here? Prophecy. He intended to pass them by. They weren't in the ark of salvation for Barley, you see. He got in the boat with them, but these disciples had hard hearts. They didn't gain any insight from the incident of the loaves. It was following the feeding of the 5000 that, immediately, Jesus made His disciples get into the boat. Have you gained any insight about the incident of the loaves?

39 And He commanded them all to sit down by groups on the green grass. 40 They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties. 41 And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He kept giving them to the disciples to set before them; and He divided up the two fish among them all. 42 They all ate and were satisfied, 43 and they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish. 44 There were five thousand men who ate the loaves. ~ Mark 6:39-44

How many baskets full? Where did the fish come from? How many men were fed? Organized how?

Here's another account, from John 6, which also follows the sign of the 5 barley loaves and 2 fish.

15 So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. 16 Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, 17 and after getting into a boat, they started to cross the sea to Capernaum. It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. 18 The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. 19 Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were frightened. 20 But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” 21 So they were willing to receive Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going. 22 The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone. 23 There came other small boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus. 25 When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?” ~ John 6:15-25

Not how, but WHEN. “Rabbi, when did You get here?” In a time numbered verse 21, note that “immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.” Now how does that happen? Zig Zag. Prior to launching out, the crowd was intending to take Jesus by force to make him king. They couldn't. It speaks to us of another being made king in his stead, one like unto Jesus Barabbas.

“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts. 2 “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. ~ Malachi 3:1-2

Matthew 14 features another account of Y'shua walking on the water of the stormy Sea of Galilee, but Peter walks on water too, until he begins to sink. He gets wet, touched by water, like, in Luke 8:23, how the boat the disciples were in was getting swamped in the storm.

28 Peter said to Him, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” 29 And He said, “Come!” And Peter got out of the boat, and walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!” 31 Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” 32 When they got into the boat, the wind stopped. 33 And those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “You are certainly God’s Son!” ~ Matthew 14:28-33

Immediately. And who else will be in the boat-ark? Sons of Israel, 144,000, 12,000 from each of 12 tribes. Romans 11:15!

Here's a time-storm megas thlipsis account from Acts. Again, the “third day” is a resurrection signal. There are many opportunities for dot connecting here.

18 The next day as we were being violently storm-tossed, they began to jettison the cargo; 19 and on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. 20 Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned. 21 When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss. 22 Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. 23 For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me, 24 saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who are sailing with you.’ 25 Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told. 26 But we must run aground on a certain island.” 27 But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land. 28 They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms. 29 Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak. 30 But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow, 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved.” 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away. 33 Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing. 34 Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.” 35 Having said this, he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it and began to eat. 36 All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food. 37 All of us in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six persons. 38 When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea. 39 When day came, they could not recognize the land; but they did observe a bay with a beach, and they resolved to drive the ship onto it if they could. 40 And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they were heading for the beach. 41 But striking a reef where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to be broken up by the force of the waves. 42 The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape; 43 but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land, 44 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land. ~ Acts 27:18-44

Note, breaking bread signals the giving of insight as the Lord opens the eyes and ears. Note the passing of 14 days.

When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea. ~ Acts 27:38

The Wheat didn't make it ashore, being cast out into the sea. No other provision was made, no disobedient trickster sailors attempting to save their own lives would have been saved.