When Will the Lawless One be Revealed? Installment One

This follows the series of posts about Part 1 of The Sign for the Bride, one of the core studies on theopenscroll.com. It represents the first part of the revision of Part 2.
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When will the lawless one be revealed? The answer to this question matters plenty, as documented at length in Part 1 of The Sign for the Bride. If you haven't read that recently and thoroughly, I recommend doing so before proceeding.

So, how do we know when? Students of history have long observed that events with similar themes tend to occur on anniversaries of the same day, as accounted on the Lord's calendar. In keeping with this trend, the revealing of the lawless one is foreshadowed in biblical events that occurred on the thirteenth day of the first month! As we keep vigilant watch according to the Lord's commands we see signs validating this insight into the timing and our confidence is encouraged. Our faith is built in the Lord's faithfulness as He attends to our growing need.

The Adversary works toward this appointed day and prepares his own people as the Lord prepares His. The Devil's agents have been busy spilling the beans about their plans in media productions, giving us coded examples of the day of the year and sometimes even the year of their champion's revealing. For many years, fraudulent supernatural manifestations of a kind that began in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 have borne further testimony of this day. A former Pope who still lives at the Vatican was born and baptized on the same day, that very 13th day of the 1st month, which affords us insight into the companion beast of Revelation 13 known as the false prophet.

It should become apparent at some point in this study that the Lord Y'shua is faithful, who has promised to reveal all things at the appropriate time in the appropriate manner! This is what we need to avoid being deceived! If one can have the confidence to refute even a prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from the highest authority in the church in the absence of the sign, we must also be able to have a very high degree of confidence in our ability to recognize it in the day of strong delusion. Knowing what day of the year the sign will occur provides something approaching that level of confidence. Now that even the very year is known, this represents a substantial benefit.

At the appointed time, what this knowledge represents will provide for those who are not deceived to be a special witness to others. Those beneficiaries will have an epiphany about the baptism that reveals, about the identity of the impostor and through that, the genuine! (What Will Their Acceptance be but Life from the Dead?)

Barabbas

This first type of the lawless one I'd like to introduce is rather obscure. Barabbas is introduced in the Gospels where Jesus was delivered up before Pontius Pilate and the Jews had just been given one final opportunity to receive him as their King. A choice was offered to them according to the custom of releasing one prisoner to the Jews at Passover time.

17 So when the people gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” ~ Matthew 27:17

All four Gospels record this event, which is a notable feature. (Matthew 27:11-26; Mark 15:6-15; Luke 23:13-25; John 18:28-19:16 )

6 Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested. 7 The man named Barabbas had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection. 8 The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them. 9 Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” 10 For he was aware that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead. 12 Answering again, Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?” 13 They shouted back, “Crucify Him!” 14 But Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify Him!” 15 Wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified. ~ Mark 15:6-15

Although Pilate was highly motivated to release Jesus, the Jews demanded another. They rejected Jesus who is called Christ and accepted one Barabbas, a robber, murderer and insurrectionist. To understand this prophetic model it helps to know an obscure fact. According to some of the manuscripts used by Origen, several of the Caesarean manuscripts, the Sinaitic palimpsest, and the Palestinian Syriac lectionaries, this man Barabbas was actually named in Matthew's gospel record as Jesus Barabbas. (see Jesus Barabbas) The name, Jesus Barabbas, further translates to Jesus “son of the father.” Think about how the choice they were offered was between two men who could both be identified as Jesus “son of the father.”

I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ~ John 5:43

Barabbas was involved in political insurrection, in robbery, murder and rebellion. Who is this man's father? The deeds of Barabbas betray his father as the same one who fathered the chief priests who stirred up the crowd to receive him, according to our Lord's declaration in John 8.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ~ John 8:44

Forget about what you've seen on TV and heard in the pulpits and seminaries about this character. Jesus Barabbas represents an antithesis of the Jesus who was rejected, the sinless only begotten son of the Heavenly father. Pilate's offering is a prophetic model of what is to come. “Whom do you want me to release for you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” Antichrist, or Christ, which will it be? Jesus Barabbas was demanded and received by the crowd. As it was, so it will be in the appointed day.

Now, here's the key insight. Careful study will reveal that these two men were offered to the crowd on the day before Jesus was crucified. He was crucified as the Passover Lamb, sacrificed according to tradition on the 14th day of the 1st month. Jesus Barabbas, an alternate “Jesus son of the father” identity, was therefore presented for release, demanded and received on the 13th day of the 1st month. When you realize the significance of these historical modelings you will understand how the sacrifice of the Passover lamb and the custom of releasing one prisoner at the people's request were ordained so that we might have such a testimony as this, where attention given to the dates really matters!

Note that Jesus Barabbas had been a prisoner, restrained by the authorities, and consider well how this relates to the following revelation about the antitype.

And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:6

In Part 1, I wrote the following about this verse. “The point being made about keeping pneuma antichristos in check is that there is a set time for this. There is a season for restraining and a fit moment appointed for its release.” Pilate knew the appointed time for releasing a prisoner from his restraints was the time of the Feast. The chief priests and elders of the people also knew the time appointed for the release of a prisoner, and they probably had this custom in mind when planning the set-up, making the arrangement with Judas to betray Jesus to them. Do you perceive how the knowing of the time of the prisoner's release in advance is being illustrated? Some of us understand about appointed times, and when the lawless one is revealed on the 13th day of the 1st month, we will not be taken by surprise.

There's more links between the account of Barabbas and 2 Thessalonians 2 to be found in the conversation between Jesus and Pilate. In 2 Thessalonians 2:10 and 12 we read about receiving the love of the truth and believing the truth, in the context of being saved and of judgment. Compare this pertinent exchange on the subject of truth, and how a flipped “Barabbas” variant is coming soon.

36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.” 37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” 38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” ~ John 18:36-38

The other realm is referenced, where my Lord's kingdom or authority still is. The realm of pneuma antichristos authority is by contrast the underworld, and it is even now of this world, of this present kosmos.

Another cryptic time element embedded in the context of the Barabbas prophecy is the Shemitah count pattern that identifies this present season to us as the pivot of the age. I explain this at length in the blog series, To Number Our Days Aright. The pattern is where 3 things of a kind are followed by a 4th of a similar kind, but something notable happens in the 4th that distinguishes it from the first 3. This pattern represents weeks of years counted off from the celestial sign of Yom Teruah, 1991. I received it by revelation insight about Peter and his 3 instances of denial followed by a rooster crowing. You can see this pattern in the way the account of John 18 is given. In verses 25 to 27, Peter is denying the Lord, then he hears the rooster crow. In this context, it's a prophetic signal that we're in the season of the harvest. What follows is the account where Barabbas is going to be demanded and released.

That's one example, and here's another of the same Shemitah count pattern.

20 Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again, 21 but they kept on calling out, saying, “Crucify, crucify Him!” 22 And he said to them the third time, “Why, what evil has this man done? I have found in Him no guilt demanding death; therefore I will punish Him and release Him.” 23 But they were insistent, with loud voices asking that He be crucified. And their voices began to prevail. 24 And Pilate pronounced sentence that their demand be granted. 25 And he released the man they were asking for who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, but he delivered Jesus to their will. ~ Luke 23:20-25

Three times Pilate appeals to the crowd, but there is no change. Then he makes one more appeal, for absolution, with a token gesture, washing his hands of the matter. According to pattern, in that 4th instance in series, he releases the prisoner they demand, Jesus “son of the father.”

The Lord speaks to us through the subtle language of patterns about times and seasons so we are prepared in advance for the critical transitions of the ages. That's His habit, and He is consistent and faithful.

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More to follow, Lord willing.

The Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015

A very rare series of 4 lunar eclipses is about to begin, with the first coming up in another week on the 15th of April. This series is being called a blood moon tetrad, and the 4 will appear 6 months apart in 2014 and 2015 in close connection with the Spring and Fall Feasts on the Lord's calendar. I embedded an excellent video explaining the tetrad at the very end of this post.

This tetrad is being widely promoted by Messianic Pastor Mark Biltz. I agree with his conclusions only insofar that this may be considered as an important sign and that it comes in a season when the Lord's harvests will be reaped. This present Shemitah (2012-2019) represents the pivot of the age.

I can't speak to what I don't know, but I'm confident about weighing in on what is signified by 2 of the 4 blood moons because of the timing of other events I know about. The lunar eclipse coming on 4/4/15 has been given some attention already because that's when I'm expecting the lawless one to be revealed. This first one comes a month before mid-May, when I'm expecting a major transitional event that has a link to the flood of Noah, what I also believe is called the Black Awakening.

A lunar eclipse is recognized as a bad omen for Israel, according to Rabbinic tradition. A red moon at lunar eclipse is interpreted to indicate that a sword is coming for the whole world, and while that may or may not generally be so, when it comes to at least 2 of the blood moons of this tetrad, I concur with the Rabbis. A sword is coming for the whole world! This blood moon tetrad will bear witness to serious trouble for everyone as judgment rolls out in the earth!

Right in the midst of the tetrad is a solar eclipse.

15 April 2014 – Lunar (Aus., Pacific, Americas)
8 October 2014 – Lunar (Aus., Pacific, Pacific, Americas)
20 March 2015 – Solar ( n Atlantic, Faeroe Is, Svalbard)
4 April 2015 – Lunar (Aus., Pacific, Pacific, Americas)
28 September 2015 – Lunar (e Pacific, Americas, Europe, Africa, w Asia)

I'm going to provide links to what I've written about the Spring of 2015 near the end of this post. That's when the solar eclipse will be followed 2 weeks later by the lunar eclipse in a season the Bible has so much to say about. You can search this blog to find what's been written about the Black Awakening.

Here's some perspective on the sign of the moon that appears red as blood.

Signs are appearing in the heavens and in the earth. Signs are given to alert and inform us about something important that lies ahead. I have given some of these my attention on The Open Scroll in a study called Heavenly Sign Watching, where you'll find the meaning of comets and eclipses with other kinds of celestial events like gamma radiation bursts and rare planetary alignments. You'll also find links there to other studies where some very key celestial signs are described. A blood red moon is noted in a number of scriptures pertaining to these last days. Others speak of the moon being involved in signs in serious times, and I invite you to explore the contexts of the following as led.

10 Then He continued by saying to them, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, 11 and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. (Luke 21:20-11) There will be signs in sun and moon and stars (Luke 21:25)

the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky (Matthew 24:29b-30a)

‘And I will grant wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come. (Acts 2:20)

I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth (Revelation 6:12-13a)

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years (Genesis 1:14)

He made the moon for the seasons (Psalm 104:19a)

The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. 2 Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. (Psalm 19:1-2)

Sometimes this striking and ominous visual phenomenon is produced by a lunar eclipse, but not always. When the sky is very dusty or smoky the moon can appear orange or even blood red. Heavy volcanic activity, a nuclear explosion, an asteroid impact or some other event raising dust or smoke into the atmosphere causes such a phenomenon. In scriptures where the moon turning red is linked with the sun turning black, those kinds of atmospheric phenomenon are suggested. Consider Joel 2:28-32, which The Apostle Peter quoted on what may be considered the birthday of the church age, a very special Shavuot.

28 “It will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions. 29 “Even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. 30 “I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire and columns of smoke. 31 “The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood Before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 32 “And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the Lord Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem There will be those who escape, As the Lord has said, Even among the survivors whom the Lord calls. ~ Joel 2:28-32

Just before mentioning the moon turning into blood he mentions the sun being turned to darkness, and just before that he mentions fire and columns of smoke, which provides the atmospheric conditions that can so dramatically change the appearance of the sun and moon.

Was Joel identifying a total lunar eclipse like one of the blood moons of the upcoming tetrad? A lunar eclipse wouldn't cause the sun to be turned into darkness, so it's not likely, but that doesn't mean eclipses won't be involved. Certainly a solar eclipse turns the sun into darkness, and such celestial signs may well be synchronized with signs in the earth in days to come as they have been in the past.

It should be noted that there's a distinct bracketing function implied in the pronouncement that was made by Peter on what may be considered the opening day of this age because the events of the close of the age are specifically referenced.

Here's some posts I've published over the last few years linking the full moon and blood moon of April 4, 2015 with the revealing of the lawlessness one that is the subject of 2 Thessalonians 2. This is a very big deal.

Blood Red Moons and the One Who Left with a Bag of Money (6/17/11)
Part 29 - Celestial Stargates - The Celestial Sign of Antichrist * in I, Pet Goat II (12/15/13)
Part 6 - Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 - Fly Away on Wings of Wind (2/21/14)
Part 22 - Rango - The Surreal Dream Sequence and Bible Prophecy (10/22/11)
Part 6 - Pope Francis - Branded with a Celestial Sign Heralding Amaru's Return? (3/29/13)

For some perspective, it should be noted that there have been other tedrads that mark the Feasts, like in 1949-50 and 1967-1968 (historically significant with respect to Israel), and other lunar eclipses at the Holy Days that weren't involved in a tetrad series. This phenomenon is not as rare as some might think because the Jewish calendar is lunar based. However, let's not forget that the Creator planned it that way for his purposes, which makes this kind of sign no less worthy of note. Here's some that took place a few years back while I was watching such signs with interest, and there have been others even more recently.

• Pesach - April 15, 1995
• Sukkot - October 8, 1995
• Pesach - April 3, 1996
• Sukkot - September 27, 1997
• Purim - March 23, 1997 - As I watched this one from a favorite local viewing spot, the beautiful darkened and slightly orange-colored Moon in eclipse (all but the top, making it look like it was wearing a yalmarke) was in close proximity to the reddish planet Mars. On the other side of the sky, the comet Hale-Bopp was visible in a glorious display near its closest approach to the Earth.
• Another lunar eclipse occurred September 16, 1997, about two weeks before Rosh HaShanah, or, in the middle of the time of preparation for the approaching High Holy day season that focuses upon personal reflection and repentance (teshuvah).

The Sign for the Bride - The Eighth Installment of the Revision

This installment continues from the previous one and concludes this revision of Part 1 of The Sign for the Bride, one of the core studies on theopenscroll.com.
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The Particulars

For the few who are getting the foundation right by believing the truth and receiving the love of the truth in advance of the day of the break out event, entrance may be granted with much grace into that knowledge which is of a more specific nature. If you're fuzzy about how this works, you still haven't grasped the keys to developing a hearing ear, the simple but critical dynamic of the “Hear-Do cycle.” When it is written in Hosea 4:6 that, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” it's not some quantity of general knowledge they lacked but rather what was required for avoiding destruction, which is to say, what pertained to salvation in their specific situation. This can be identified with obedience on some level, which is truly a demonstration of sincere and genuine love. There are commandments and insights of both more and less universal kinds involved. In the season Paul entreated us about in 2 Thessalonians 2, it will be just that same way.

I have confidence that the Lord brings fit truth to all the right people at all the right times and in all the right ways. He can do this any way He wants, of course, because He's sovereign, but He brings us to a certain expectation by His faithfulness with a consistent record of preparing a people in advance of a work that comes together in the appointed time of need. I was made aware that I was being engaged in such an effort when He began to deal with me about the signs of the end times.

Earlier in this study I gave some attention to the subject of the particulars. In the section titled So That in his Time he will be Revealed I describe how the following verse offers a very subtle but key insight.

And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:6

If you are such a one who knows, really and truly knows, it's because you will have been entrusted with knowledge and understanding, extended on the basis of having received the love of the truth and believing the truth. You will have knowledge about what is meant by “in his time.” Until you are properly informed about that key element, you don't really know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. Unless you personally qualify for access to the secret, you're denied that great treasure. Even if I set it plainly before you, you won't believe it. Oh, you may think you do, mentally ascending to a superficial and merely intellectual mode of acceptance, but the good stuff is the tight relationship with attending insight into the Lord's schedule of appointments that only comes through having earned His trust. There's no substitute for that. This is tightly secured behind the veil, reserved for those who come in to see the light.

The lawless one will be revealed on the 13th day of the 1st month on the Lord's calendar. There it is. In 2015. That's probably April 4, just under a year from now, as I write. If you are convinced, like most are, that no one will know such things, you're still in the state of sleep Paul described in 1 Thessalonians 5, which is to be deceived, lacking the necessary vision and hearing of the seeing eye and hearing ear. Some will know the times and seasons with confidence, but even that truth is sealed, hidden for protection. Knowing when the lawless one is going to be revealed, with the implicit character and relationship and wisdom that comes in this package deal, is the knowledge that is the countermeasure for the epic hoax.

The ballpark figures of the kind of timeframes being promoted in Tom Horn's Zenith 2016 and associated with the Blood Moon tetrad promoted by Mark Biltz have a purpose, and these kinds of works may be seen as providing general witnesses. Just before brother David Flynn “went on ahead,” I noted that he had come to correctly identify the year 2012 as marking the beginning of this transitional week of years. When the critical season arrives when details are critical, flirting with the truth and believing the truth are two very different things. “Missed it by that much,” is still missing it. The bent tip of a spear will cause it to be ineffectual even if it looks to most like it hits the target. Remember the foundation for knowing, which is valid and cannot be dismissed. What seems to so many saints now like matters with distinctions being made that are of no consequence will be found to be analogous to the edge of a cliff. From one perspective there's a very fine line separating the two sides. When seen from another perspective, the difference is vast. I've written of persecution and betrayal and sacrifice, and a simple mention of this in this context should suffice.

When I claim to know who won't be deceived and why they won't be, and that most of you won't believe it until it's too late, this is not me, making stuff up to sound dramatic. There is a love test in progress, dear saints. Do you love Him? Really? He's finding out. I pray we will find the Lord's grace in conviction.

A Word From the Lord: A Word of Hope and Encouragement

By Aaron Hermann ( Revelation of Babylon blog )

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Some of you have been experiencing an intense weight and heavy burden over the course of the last few weeks. Some of you may find yourselves going through a season of conviction characterized by a deep and troubling feeling when you contemplate your standing before the Lord. If you have been going through such a season then rejoice, for the Lord is doing an essential work in you, dear saint!

Bob and I shared an email correspondence with one another last night on this very matter, and those of you who have been following his revisions to the Sign of the Bride series know that he has been very focused on this for a prolonged season now. In a response to my email, Bob wrote the following,

It's also focused on the theme of qualification. Being good enough. It must be raised to the necessary level of importance in our minds and hearts. That's what counts, to not be deceived, sure, but beyond that the reason why, to be found worthy of reward, and that greatest reward of being accepted by and joined with the Bridegroom.

Now is the time for an honest self-assessment. I write to you not as one who is exempt from such things, but one who is called to walk out the very things that the Lord calls me to write about. With that being said, I would like to share my recent experience with you.

Very recently I went through an extremely difficult season of a very necessary humbling as the Lord revealed to me I was operating with a false sense of security pertaining to my standing, a fleshly over-confidence pertaining to my ability to deal with what lies ahead, and a deceitful notion of entitlement.

Not very pretty, is it?

The Lord brought all of this to the surface by directing me to read Foxes Book of Martyrs. As I was reading He showed me in those powerful pages that I am ready and able to handle absolutely nothing in and of my own strength.

The Lord convicted me of my foolish arrogance which caused me to allow myself to be deceived with false confidence and unwarranted optimism predicated on my own ability. A more stinging conviction came when the Lord showed me that I was operating with a sense of entitlement. As embarrassing as it is to admit, I had allowed myself to believe I was entitled because of my suffering. Quite frankly, I fell into the trap of thinking that God owed me something.

I am not ashamed to tell you that when the Lord showed me these very unflattering things about myself I was absolutely crushed to the point I could barely breathe. The only thing I could do was weep and pray for forgiveness and ask the Lord to help me not repeat these mistakes. The Lord comforted me and forgave me. The Lord's forgiveness and comfort was given not because of who I am but because of who He is, and He is so overwhelmingly good!

He brought me to the place of a full awareness of my complete dependence upon Him. I thought I had already come to a deep understanding of that, but He showed me that it was not yet deep enough. The Lord being faithful to His word was so good as to provide exactly what I needed at precisely the moment I needed it.

In our correspondence, Bob wrote the following to me pertaining to this very matter.

Israel has a legitimate entitlement. We do not. Coming to a place of awareness of our full dependence is something very special that only He can bring us to, in His time and way. Coming to a position in the Lord is something to be desired, and even that desire is from Him. To realize that does not deny how we ourselves have choices to make that matter, but a mature understanding of who we are in Him is beyond my ability to express. How awesome and amazing it is, the mercy, the grace, the glory. What love!

I am sharing these things with you in the hope that it speaks to those of you who find yourselves going through very similar experiences in this late hour. I know that most folks will simply carry on as confidently as ever, secure in their doctrinal positions and feeling no conviction or call to lay themselves bare before the Lord. This message is not for them, but it is for you who are being overcome with the desire to be of the Lord's Bride and be found worthy of that most blessed distinction.

This message is for those of you who are now feeling the weight of the Lord's conviction and are willing to humble yourselves before the Lord, confess your sins, and seek Him for forgiveness as He draws you into repentance so that you may be washed clean in the water of His word! Coming to understand our place in the Lord is such a wonderful and freeing experience, and it is one that is far beyond my ability to express.

After the Lord revealed these things to me the Lord gave me the following Word.

“Tell my people now is the time to forsake all else and seek Me with renewed zeal and vigor. Do not allow yourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security and fall asleep in the last hour. I am your strength and your hope and apart from Me you have no hope in the days ahead.

Steel your hearts and your minds against the attack of the enemy and look to Me for your strength and endurance.

Now is the time to lay yourselves bare before Me and confess all that you have tried to keep hidden. Nothing will remain hidden and all will be revealed in due time, so confess to Me now while I may still be found.

Do not grow weary for the days of your affliction are numbered. Do not lose hope, for I am the Rewarder of those who overcome and endure to the end. Call upon Me and I will answer you. Seek Me and you shall find Me. I will strengthen you and guide you through all that lies ahead, but you must trust Me and lay down your own thoughts and desires about where you think you are headed.

Soon things will change in a manner that will defy all belief, and you will find yourself in a world in which you know not. Do not be afraid when this happens for I will be with you and shall be your provision when all else has failed.

Now is the time to turn to Me and lay down all that is not of Me. Time is short and soon the dark one will have his hour and the darkness will reign. This is as it must be, but My light will shine in the darkness and when the end of all things has come the darkness shall be no more.

Love one another and comfort one another as I have told you from the beginning.

I love you and I will not fail you.”

I woke up this morning with these words still fresh in my heart and mind and engaged in an intense season of weeping, prayer, and repentance. The Lord washed me clean and comforted me as only He can. I so strongly wish for you to do the same. He is there waiting for you with open arms, dear saint!

I pray that this Word reaches all those for whom it is intended, and that Y'shua's loving embrace will comfort all those who are willing to repent and come to Him with a sincere and broken heart seeking forgiveness. If this message is speaking to you and you understand the conviction of which I speak and are seeking encouragement, take great comfort and encouragement in knowing that the Lord is continuing His precious work in you in this late hour!

The conviction is the encouragement, dear saint! He loves us and will not fail us, what could possibly be more encouraging than that?

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By Aaron Hermann ( Revelation of Babylon blog )
Please feel free to contact me through my Gmail account. (theultimateplan@)

The Sign for the Bride - A Seventh Installment of the Revision

As before, this installment continues from the previous one. I'm still updating one of the core studies on theopenscroll.com. This is going to reflect the expanded insight that has come more recently in this remarkable season. The revision may be found here, as The Sign for the Bride - Part 1. If I'm not responding to your email, please bear with me.
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Countermeasures Against Deception - The Lord's Provision and Our Access to It

To avoid being deceived, instructions are provided in the local context and given emphasis by the thematic patterns. Clues are provided in this code that lead us to search out more remote contexts to find the more deeply hidden treasure. Some of what you'll read here was discovered very early in this adventure of discovery but validating refinement has come in the intervening years, including very recently. When I claim to know who won't be deceived and why they won't be, and that most of you won't believe it until it's too late, this is not me, making stuff up to sound dramatic. I pray we will find the Lord's grace in conviction.

I'm going to start out by giving you a simple bottom line on who won't be deceived: The Bride, with 2 witnesses and in that same season, the 144k sons of Israel. That's it, and relative to the numbers, 144k is immense! If you're identifying yourself with the Bride company without having the assurance of direct and personal revelation insight from the Bridegroom concerning your end, you've been set up. Be honest and sober. We are candidates, potential members of that company who continue to strive for qualification, to be found worthy at the end of our struggle.

Now, let's observe how the paired components of verses 1-2 and 9-12 both exhibit the same pattern, a simple alternation. They match both in being paired together as companion elements and in sharing the same structural design.





In the closing section, the first and third lines feature the deception and the second and fourth, the countermeasures. Here's the thematic equation that declares the fundamentals of the countermeasures: “because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved” matches to “12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.” Most folks are content to gloss over the preachy bits, but if you have a sense of what's at stake, you won't. This revelation may seem kind of generic but there is in this the foundation for the particulars.
The Foundation

If you don't make the grade when “receiving the love of the truth” is the requirement of the day, or are assessed as one who does not believe the truth, you will absolutely be deceived. Some might ask, “Well then, what is the truth?” That's more than a little vague. And what exactly is meant by receiving the love of the truth? Is that what happens when we make a profession about Jesus as our savior and get baptized? If we're still relying on the same church authorities who have botched the lessons of the rest of the passage to provide these answers, well, good luck with that, as the expression goes. It's time to wake up. Hear me when I tell you that, if you don't get this right, the rest won't matter because access to the essential particulars will be denied.

The way most of us are taught to read the Bible, the good stuff applies to us, the bad stuff applies to them. We learn to think with lots of persuasion: “We're saved, we believe the truth, it's all good. No problem here.” “I once was blind but now I see,” as the song goes. We look at others and we are confident that those poor saps over there are in serious trouble and take solace in being able to perceive a difference. When our brand of salvation happens to be the standard for measurement preached by our respected and beloved teachers, we're content. The more popular church of the wider way sings a droning lullaby that continually assures us of our secure position through a twisting of the scriptures, and all the while they're impressing us with their genuine spiritual gifts and show of authority. It's a SET UP. If we've come this close, you and I, and we still miss out, shame on us! To simply say we're going to regret it is to understate the immensity of what we're going to experience and fully deserve.

I'm not going to launch into a diatribe on salvation. If you have not taken what I've written about matters of faith and obedience, like how to develop a hearing ear, the practice of headcovering and matters of gender propriety and the need to come to a place of being ready to lay down this life as a friend for a friend, you've taken a wrong approach to this work of The Open Scroll. This food service operation really isn't a buffet where you can simply get your fill at the dessert table while opting out on the bitter veggies and such, depending on the fast food joints dotting the neighborhood to round out your diet. I haven't been exposing the nature of this world by decoding Occult symbolism or examining reverse speach for its entertainment value. There's a greater purpose, which most of you reading here simply dismiss, and you know it. If this is you, what has been neglected in this lengthy season of preparation may yet be gained, which is what this season is for that we're transitioning into. Pure gold must be refined in the fire over and again until it is pure enough.

Here's a sobering observation you may have missed. If you're betting on attaining to the Wheat Harvest as a fall back plan if you should fail to qualify for the Barley, you should have a grasp of who is going to qualify for that.

13 Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?” 14 I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ~ Revelation 7:13-14

Read the context. The sealing of the 144k is pretty much concurrent with the Barley Harvest. The multitude pictured with white robes came out of the great tribulation, which means they had white robes already but were passed over as the Bride because they were soiled. Those saints live through the Bride Theft, and the revealing of the lawless one, and the Black Awakening, and every other threat of the approaching season. Will you? What if you don't, then what? There's one more harvest awaiting. There you go. Imagine the forfeit. Sure, there's going to be a scale of reward involved, but think about what Paul was given to reveal about the resurrection bodies in 1 Corinthians 15. Star differs from star in glory, sure, and that's awesome! But look up. How much brighter are the moon and the sun? Consider 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 as a simple companion to chapter 13's insight into the celestial display. How badly do you want The Truth? Enough?

When I tell you how few will qualify you should let this example bear witness. It's more than a morality tale like Aesop's Fables or a nebulous warning. Example means type, “typos,” a pattern to which a thing conforms like the imprint a seal makes in wax.

1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness. 6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.” 8 Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. 9 Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents. 10 Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. ~ 1 Corinthians 10:1-11

Think about the numbers. Joshua and Caleb were the only two adults who survived to enter the promised land. The others survived by the Lord's provision of mercy because He didn't hold those accountable who had been under the age of 20. Even Moses failed to enter in. So, how's your confidence level? Have I made the point? As it was with Israel in the wilderness, so it will be with the church. There's not going to a notable difference in leniency toward the saints. Unto whom much is given much more is required. I consider myself to be a hopeful candidate, daring to make no presumption about having the ability to rightly judge my own status.

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And, there's still more to follow, which will be posted soon, Lord willing.

Obama's Symbolic Gift Exchange with the Pope, a Sign of the Coming Flood?

On March 27, Obama had an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. They exchanged gifts in the Vatican Library. The gifts they exchanged were symbolic and I believe this event was an important sign. In this post I'm going to focus on that but will mention at the closing a few other items of interest that have appeared in this special watch season, where an impression of Genesis 6:3's pronouncement has been anticipated. I'm going to begin with pertinent details of the meeting and the gifts exchanged and follow that with my commentary. At the outset I must make note of how two very significant and timely news items were referenced in yesterday's posting in the series focused on The Sign for The Bride, which ALSO FEATURED REPORTS FROM THE VATICAN! This follows observations both Aaron and I made about signs to us personally and individually.

During the President's meeting with the Pope, he mentioned that he heard the Pope has decided to open gardens at the summer residence to the public. Obama gave the him a custom made seed chest featuring a variety of fruit and vegetable seeds used in the White House garden. The chest is made of American leather and reclaimed wood from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, MD.

"These I think are carrots," Obama said, holding a pouch. "Each one has a different seed in it. The box is made from timber from the first cathedral to open in the United States in Baltimore." The inscription on the chest reads:

Presented to His Holiness Pope Francis
by Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
March 27, 2014

Obama's small gift was a token of another, because Thomas Jefferson's Monticello will donate seeds that will yield several tons of produce to a charity of Pope Francis’ choosing. In return, Pope Francis gave Obama two medallions and a copy of his 2013 writing, Evangelii Gaudium, "The Joy of the Gospel."

The Basilica of the Assumption was designed as a tribute to religious freedom. Pope John Paul II, who visited it in 1995, referred to it as “the worldwide symbol of religious freedom.” The Basilica is recognized as the first Metropolitan Cathedral in the United States. According to the official website (https://www.archbalt.org/about-us/parishes/basilica/), it is “The Mother Church of Roman Catholicism in the United States”. The cornerstone was blessed by John Carroll at the start of construction in 1806, a Jesuit and America's first Bishop. When completed in 1821 it was dedicated by Archbishop Ambrose Marechal. It was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of the U.S. Capitol.

My commentary:

Adam and Eve wore loin covering of skin when they were driven out from the garden as the first refugees, so the seeds were covered with leather, not unlike the box. A seed Eve carried inside her womb when she was evicted from the garden was the Nachash seed (“your seed” of Genesis 3:14-15) that would produce Cain directly. Eve, the mother of all living (Gen. 3:20), is a secret identity of that leather “covered?” box made of the wood from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “The Mother Church.” Eve was the first “Blessed Virgin” mother, who conceived Cain (a man from the lord) before she “knew” a man. The reference to “her seed” made in Genesis 3:15 identifies the Savior of man, the only begotten son of God and last Adam (1 Cor. 15:45). The Basilica was named for his mother, whom the Romish church labels, the Blessed Virgin Mary. There's obviously a theme of messianic reproduction and lineage.

The gift box carried the seed from the White House garden, as from Eden. (White and Black together represent the knowledge of good and evil, which is really simple but the Lord actually gave me that insight by revelation so I would have confidence in what He would be showing me through that symbolism. White is the symbol of good, which should surprise no one, so the White House is the Good House.)

Obama took that seed and offered it to the Pope as a reenactment of Cain offering a sacrifice to the Lord.

So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground. ~ Genesis 4:3:

The box was made with American leather (ritual blood sacrifice). Cain's offering was not accepted, but in this reenactment, the offering was accepted. There's an important twist.

Obama's garden seed was given to the Pope for the purpose of being planted in the earth to bear fruit after its kind, intended for the Vatican garden. That garden was noted as having been private, being closed off from public access. It's being opened to the public, so there will be no more barring the people of the world from the garden. Think about that model. Seed that came from the White House Garden is reentering a Garden in the seat of God's supposed throne of authority on earth, on his own grounds, where access had long been denied but will soon be granted. There's clearly a messianic mission involved with this Occult ceremonial ritual that brings the age full circle. In this flipped version of Genesis 3:15, it's the serpent's seed that is going to bruise the head of “her seed”!

This seed-box compares to Eve and to the ark of Noah. All three are actually a near match. Obama's gift seems to be most nearly described as an anti-ark. It's a box with seed inside, an elegant symbol of the 8 seed-people and all the seed-animals onboard the ark. This model ark given to the Pope was conveyed over the vast waters that covered the earth by the Presidential envoy, bearing seed on it's way to the Vatican that is intended to be planted in the earth for all the world to enjoy.

The seed came from the White House garden, a symbol of how the ark of Noah's day had seed from the garden of Eden. The ark contained animals that were of both clean and unclean kinds, which is a pattern that witnesses to how there were both clean and unclean people onboard. In Genesis 6:9 we learn that Noah was perfect in his generations, technically, in his genes. It adds that he also walked with God, which makes reference to his character. He was unique in having the uncorrupted seed of Adam through Seth. Noah's wife, sons, and their wives are nowhere suggested to be perfect in their generations. There were eight people onboard including Noah. There were seven pairs of each of the unclean animals onboard. Think about it. Noah was clean and the others were unclean, with contaminated genetics persisted through the flood and repopulate the earth. Eve, like the ark, carried both the unclean and the clean, Cain and Abel, and their siblings. Cain slew Abel, but the seed of Adam was brought through Seth. That heritage was saved intact in Noah, while the mixture of Cain was saved in the other seven with him.

It's not the clean Adamic-through-Seth seed but the unclean Nachash-through-Cain “seed of the serpent” that is the cherished life in this Satanic ceremonial ritual. Obama's gift is the anti-ark traversing the waters of an anti-flood with anti-seed, modeling an undoing of what had been done.

The seed box was made from the timber of The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is a key symbol that identifies a looping connection with respect to the ark of Noah's day. As “The Mother Church,” this large “wooden box” had been seeded by the Jesuits. This represented their official planting in the New World land of the United States of America, the authorization of the sowing of a new crop of Catholic (which means Universal) people. Mystery Babylon, the NWO Global Mother of Harlots System. Because the Basilica is specifically dedicated to and identified with religious freedom, it speaks of the Jesuit seed being refugees, driven out of their former land as from the garden of Eden. They had traveled by wooden boat from their home base, their home church in Rome, like seeds in the ark. Now, wood from the official Mother Church has returned to the Vatican City, returning home to Rome with official seeds from their earlier planting. Full circle.

The Presidential gifting reenactment closes a loop. I believe it demonstrates the full circle connection to the time of the flood of Noah, closing the loop with sympathetic magick. This speaks loudly to me as a sign, coming when a projection based upon Psalm 90:4 links our time with the declaration made in Genesis 6:3, if we peg it as coming 120 years before the flood, or, 1536 years from Adam. (On the Mark 13:37 Watch)

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. ~ Genesis 6:3

That verse declares a change in the limit of the lifespan of mankind, in the context of the coming flood. This transition would involve a purge and repopulation, and the impact that had on the Nachash heritage is still a real sore spot with them. The spiritual war being waged is an epic grudge match. The modeling of the ark done by Obama and Pope Francis is a magickal ritual and a sign.

We link the declaration to the flood that would follow, and just like that, Obama's little gift was a token, an object statement bearing witness to the nature of what would follow. This small gift of the packets of seed in a box was a token of a larger gift, Monticello's more substantial donation of a large quantity of seed that would later be delivered to some charity of the Pope's naming. Their seed is heritage seed. Given the timing and symbolism, I suspect this gift was a token of another more substantial gift, the ancient seed or DNA sample or code of the same related to the Antichrist beast host and incarnation.

The Pope and the Vatican and the White House and a National Shrine - these are all sun god cult entities, so we're really looking at the counterfeit messianic reproductive scheme that began with Cain and that is most frequently referenced in the language of ancient Egypt, with Osiris resurrecting into Horus through the magick of Isis. It is the scheme that has been advanced by fallen angels in the days of Noah and now, full circle, in the days of the coming of the son of man.

Quoting from President Obama has a gift for Pope Francis, “The Pope also presented Obama with two medallions, one of which was a symbol of the need for solidarity and peace between the two hemispheres.” That speaks loudly to me of the Mother Church boxed seed harvest returning home, closing the loop.

Quoting from Obama Gives Pope Vegetable Seeds, Francis Gives Obama Writings on Morality, “it [the Evaneglii Gaudium] contains strong condemnations of abortion as well as asking the faithful to care for the poor.” Pope's gift addresses the killing of children, heritage seed.

Quoting from Obama's gift to Pope Francis: A seed chest, “The private meeting was widely expected to be cordial -- while providing Francis with an opportunity to raise some prickly issues. The Vatican opposes the Affordable Care Act mandate that Catholic hospitals and institutions provide health plans that cover contraceptive drugs and abortifacients such as morning-after pills, which the church opposes on moral grounds.” Again, there's the highlighting of the importance of the heritage seed. Obama's business meeting was actually conducted with Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, not the Pope. Another quote from the same theusatoday.com article reads, “The statement [a brief from the Vatican on the meeting] also included a mutual commitment to ending human trafficking.” Isn't Obama's trading his seed in a box as an ceremonial ark for two medallions and a book a form of human trafficking?

One source reported that, “A gift from Francis fell over, making a loud crash and frustrating Vatican officials that finally shrugged it off.” There's a sign. We'll see what comes of all this business.

In one of the articles about the meeting I read that “Obama invited Francis to visit the U.S. next year.” - That's 2015, 7 years from Pope Benedict's key prophetic trip in 2008, when he joined with Bill Clinton in a timely modeling of the revealing of the lawless one.

Now, other interesting items have been noted in this watch season relative to the pre-flood proclamation of Genesis 6:3 and the most probably target date projection of 4/2/14.
On that day, Bill Clinton was on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Wednesday night - Alien disclosure was the subject. (source) That seems to be a bit of a look further ahead to the revealing of the lawless one in 2015.

"Oh, you're trying to give me a hint that there are aliens!" Kimmel exclaimed."No, I'm trying to tell you I don't know," Mr. Clinton insisted. "But if we were visited some day, I wouldn't be surprised. I just hope that it's not like 'Independence Day,' the movie -- that it's, you know, a conflict." (Bill Clinton on aliens visiting Earth: "Wouldn't be surprised")

Of course the controversial movie titled “Noah” was just released at the theaters, and is continuing to be making waves, metaphorically speaking. That certainly has to be seen as timely and significant.

Another major item is the tsunami generated by the huge earthquake off the coast of Chile on the evening of April 1st. A tsunami is of course a wall of water that causes a flood. What's incredible is that only 5 deaths have been attributed to the event - miraculous? One of the big concerns reported is that about 300 inmates escaped from a women's prison in the city of Iquique. With regard to the fact that the flood of Noah's day resulted in the spirits of the dead offspring of the fallen watchers being imprisoned, that's very interesting. They are soon to be released in resurrection, which the number 3 signifies, and this is for the purpose of bringing judgment, retribution, revenge and payback.

Today, University of Leicester physics students says Noah’s Ark would have floated with two each of 35,000 species of animal.

Other items of interest with some apparent correspondence include:
http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/02/report-epa-tested-deadly-pollutants-on-humans-to-push-obama-admins-agenda/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/discovery-science-televise-live-moon-692978
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Active-Shooter-Reported-at-Fort-Hood-253636461.html

The Sign for the Bride - A Sixth Installment of the Revision

As before, this installment continues from the previous one. I'm still updating one of the core studies on theopenscroll.com. This is going to reflect the expanded insight that has come more recently in this remarkable season. The revision may be found here, as The Sign for the Bride - Part 1. If I'm not responding to your email, please bear with me.
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What kind of spirit-message-letter-supposed-to-have-come-from-us could possibly be so convincing? The simple answer is, one that has a spell on it, even what kind of deluding influence will come from the sovereign God Himself. The description of the manner of transmitting the lie is given in the text as, mede throeisthai mete dia pneumatos mete dia logou mete di’ epistoles, which the Interlinear renders, “nor to be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as if by us.” There are three components that I believe may be understand as three facets of the delivery of the lie appointed for the near future.

It's going to have a logou, word, or message, which we know is to the effect that the day of the Lord has come - and gone, by implication. It's going to involve documentation that carries the weight of highest authority of the church, even of the early Apostles, which means it will be fully authorized as biblical canon. Together with the first component, spirit, it's a triple whammy, if you will. The potent combination will overwhelm any resistance to the message and result in a mass epiphany. With full conviction, even the leaders of the church, from the middle of the road out to the bike lane and to the outer edge of the shoulder, will confess that the day of the Lord has come. The proof will be impossible to deny, the evidence, bulletproof. Well, almost. That's why we have a sign! While nearly all the saints will have whatever faith they may have had destroyed, and turn to receive the savior waiting in the wings along with the rest of the global population, some will be immune to the delusion, prepared in advance for that day and for a critical mission. The countermeasures for this deceptive assault are provided for us, but we have largely dismissed them, as encouraged and led by church authorities. I will address those at length. That's one of the primary objectives of this lengthy exercise in preparation for the final Bride work appointed for this season in these bodies of flesh.

What the thematic equation adds for our benefit is first an emphasis upon the nature of the deception involved. This will attend the baptism event that reveals the lawless one but it is most directly linked to the lie that will eliminate their resistance to welcoming the impostor as their own savior. Yes, I'm being a little repetitive here, but bear with me. There will be terasin pseudous, which the Interlinear renders as “wonders of falsehood.” In verse 10 we read, pase apate adikias, “every deceit of wickedness,” and verse 11 informs us that energeian planes, “a working of delusion,” is sent by God Himself. Even today, many of us can see this beginning to work, where the entertainments of public ceremonies have such a spell on them. “The mystery of lawlessness is already at work,” according to verse 7 of this passage in 2 Thessalonians 2.

So far as the technical nature of the spirit-message-letter deception goes, I can't really describe it better than I already did in Part 3 - Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 - The Ultimate Hoax, where it was so evidently on proud display. Lies were spouted throughout the ceremony, with professional commentators misrepresenting to us what was really being enacted while using NLP to craft the intended message in a brilliant demonstration of mass mind control. The language of visual symbolism that has become so familiar to me as an exhibit of the Luciferian sorcery behind it was attended by a hypnotic soundtrack that referenced powerful memories with great subtlety. The new technologies involved in that dramatic presentation in the stadium merged the real with a projection that was nearly indistinguishable from the real. That overlay of the virtual upon the real will be further enhanced and extended.

This and other presentations like it are akin to rehearsals for the Opening Day of an epic farce. These should be recognized for what they really are, elaborate workings of sympathetic magick that are practiced according to the way of ancient magicians. What will result from all this effort is going to be the science-magick of an alchemical working, the binding of heaven and earth, the exploitation of control temporarily granted over time-space for the breaching of a boundary layer and interface between heaven and earth. I believe a live-action transmission through time itself will bring forth evidence in such a way that is incomprehensible to us outside the experience of personally receiving insight via divine revelation. This streaming connection may well facilitate interaction through the portal. Yet, it will be fraudulent, contrived to convince the world of a lie. CERN is mostly offline in 2014, and expected to come back online in 2015 with far greater power than before. According to some witnesses, the LHC has produced certain kinds of “special effects” that should not be discounted. I believe new and ancient technologies will all be exploited in this epic multimedia hoax, and with the sovereign God providing the energeian planes, “a working of delusion,” you can be assured that this deception will accomplish everything intended!

Now, the thematic equations inherent in the text of 2 Thessalonians 2 add further benefit by emphasizing the basis for the countermeasures to the deception. I'm going to get to that but I must pause for some current events.

Since my attention and effort began to be been focused on this passage of scripture, two noteworthy reports have come forward from the Vatican. The timing is no coincidence. Since the Papal agent will stand in for John the Baptist at the fraudulent baptism, the Vatican is going to grant its authority. This first report came out a couple weeks ago.

“The Vatican library began a project on Thursday to digitize thousands of historical manuscripts, dating from the origins of the Church to the 20th century, and make them available online. Working with the Japanese technology group NTT Data, the library intends to scan and digitally archive about 1.5 million pages from the library's collection of manuscripts, which comprises some 82,000 items and 41 million pages. The initial project will take four years and may be extended.”

Vatican library will digitize its archives and put them online (3/20/14)

The Apostle Paul entreated us, warning us of “a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.” Who is likely to produce such a document, one that might be quickly authenticated as coming from an apostle of the early church? Is the Vatican setting us up, planning to “discover” such a document while sifting through their vast archive of manuscripts? Do they intend to produce it at some propitious moment in the advancement of some hidden agenda? That seems plausible.

This next report just came out.

“Pope Francis will become the first pontiff seen globally in 3D during the upcoming April 27 ceremony in St. Peter’s Square when two of his predecessors, John Paul II and John XXIII, will be canonised as saints. The unprecedented double canonisation event will be produced in 3D by the Vatican TV Center (CTV) in a partnership with Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia, BSkyB and Sky Deutschland payboxes, and Sony. The ceremony will also be beamed into 3D movie theatres across Europe and in North and South America, in what is being touted as the first convergence of HD, 3D and 4K technologies for such a high-profile multimedia 3D event. At a press conference in the Vatican, CTV chief Monignor Dario Vigano said the live transmission will require “more satellites than the Sochi Olympics.” Vigano underlined that the Vatican decided to offer the canonisation ceremony to the world in 3D in order to give people who would want to attend but cannot, for many reasons including economic ones, the chance to get a “fully immersive” experience. The production will use 13 3D cameras positioned in spots that will give a unique and exclusive vantage point of St Peter’s Square. ”

Pope Francis To Usher In Vatican 3D TV Transmission At Unprecedented Canonisation Ceremony (3/31/14)

WOW! Okay. Haven't I been writing about something like this?

-- offered to the world
-- the first convergence of HD, 3D and 4K technologies (a triple whammy)
-- double canonisation event
-- live transmission
-- a “fully immersive” experience
-- 13 3D cameras

The Sochi Olympics are even mentioned in a comparison of the technologies that are beyond earth. I did mention how such a letter or epistle component would have to be fully authorized as biblical canon, right? In Revelation 13, there's a double canonisation in view as 2 beasts arise with authority. Catholics pray to canonised saints.

Ritual pre-enactments must be done as sympathetic magick brings forth the abstract over into tangible physical reality. It's the Adversary's twist on prophetic modeling. From another perspective, dear saints, beans have to be spilled. This is how their game is played. We will not be able to offer excuses of any kind for being duped. “But nobody told me...” The Adversary's way of concealing and revealing is not going to let them off the hook for what they do because there is a judgment and they will be held accountable, and those who are duped into sinning will also meet with judgment. We have been warned of the consequences of sin, and are being told in ways both general and specific - over and over again. Are we listening, and hearing yet? This scenario given to Paul to lay out for our benefit is coming and it's going to be one slick trick.

From the observatories on Mt Graham, Jesuit Vatican astronomers are eagerly and expectantly watching for the approach of something of enormous consequence. Tom Horn has been demonstrating how the Vatican is suggesting in increasingly less obscure ways that ancient visitors are coming to earth from afar, staging a return that will require a significant change in doctrinal interpretation. The Romish church is posturing and positioning itself to appear alongside the returning incarnating king as the inheritors of all authority in the earth. Guess what this is going to look like in the day of disclosure? By now, you should be able to make a pretty well educated guess.

Yet, if you think seeing all this clearly now is going to assure that you're adequately prepared for what's coming, you're still underestimating the potency and scale of the deception. Your optimism is unwarranted. That's not going to be enough. It's just not going to be that easy.

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And, there's still more to follow, which will be posted soon, Lord willing.

On the Mark 13:37 Watch

Today is the first day of the new year on the Sacred-Harvest cycle. Happy New Moon and Happy Aviv! We are in the season of rare and most difficult accounting of the New Moon, according to the Karaite reports.

On the Mark 13:37 watch, we've reached the point in this present Shemitah that aligns with the 120 day warning that came in advance of the flood, Genesis 6:3. Pertinent signs on a personal level have just been observed, so make note of what you too may receive or perceive in this regard. According to my prospective accounting methods (which you can find here in Part 8 - To Number Our Days Aright - The Coming "Flood"), the method of Psalm 90:4 projecting that is the most difficult seems to be proving out, where the year within which the millennia compresses has Yom Teruah for end points. It is the Lord's calendar and His accounting.

The projection of the flood of Noah into our day is not far away, and there is no reason to think it's going to be subtle when it arrives. If you have given this your attention you may have already noticed something very, eh, interesting about the day of the year the flood began.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, 14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds. ~ Genesis 7:11-14

This is worth our attention. The Lord brought this to Aaron's attention not long ago. If memory serves me correctly this is something the Lord brought to me also some time back in my studies.

We have begun the 1st month. Karaites project the next new moon will be sighted on 4/30, and this seems very likely to me. The 1st day of the second month is therefore expected to end at sunset May 1, and the 17th day of the 2nd month is expected to span from sunset to sunset, May 16-17. Now, if you project the 600th year of Noah's life into this Shemitah, using the same Yom Teruah bracketing method mentioned earlier and which I've published on the link given above, the target date is 5/18/14. Take a few minutes to think about that. Longer if necessary.

Compressing the 1 year and 10 day length of the in-ark flood season down on this scale equates to a little over 9 hours, so the entire span of the flood matches to that single day. All the living that were appointed for salvation entered the ark, and exited intact. Is trouble on a major scale coming then, perhaps the Black Awakening, as a counter flood? I wouldn't bet against it. Are some going to be miraculously preserved through it, as then? Again, I wouldn't bet against it.

If you find this compelling, I think you'll want to give this one a look, too, because there's more to this for signs to be mindful of: Part 10 - To Number Our Days Aright - As it Was in the Days of Noah

This projection is not a guessing game and I'm not planning to ride out any trouble on some remote island. My ark is the Lord Y'shua, and either I'm preserved or not when trouble comes. That's plan A, and that's plan B. I don't have a personal preference or stake in all that. Aaron and I are of the same mind. If we survive this season, well, we'll just take it from there. We know the Lord Himself is behind this operation, and we trust that He is good!

If your eyes are opening and you know the fear of God, take comfort and encouragement in that. Seek to be convicted of sin and be brought into humble obedience. In that there is great reward, live or die.

The Sign for the Bride - A Fifth Installment of the Revision

As before, this installment continues from the previous one. I'm still updating one of the core studies on theopenscroll.com. This is going to reflect the expanded insight that has come more recently in this remarkable season. The revision may be found here, as The Sign for the Bride - Part 1. If I'm not responding to your email, please bear with me.
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When we read in the opening line of verse 3, “Let no one in any way deceive you,” we want to observe how a notable deception had just been described in verses 1 and 2. The thematic companion to verses 1 and 2 is easily seen to have deception as it's primary theme, too. In a reading of the passage as it is normally read, straight through in sequence, we must connect what's in verses 9-12 with the event of the revealing of the man of lawlessness. That's entirely valid, of course, and we should understand how this signal event we've identified as a fraudulent messianic baptism will be attended by terasin pseudous, which the Interlinear renders as “wonders of falsehood.” Yet, with the benefit of having discovered the Author's link to verses 1 and 2, we should perceive how the nature of the deception described in verses 9-12, which is so evidently supernatural, applies to the disturbing lie about the gathering to the Lord being past that is the subject of Paul's entreaty. One side of the thematic equation sheds light on the other.

What is being conveyed by the divine link is how the same kind of deceiving supernatural dynamic that is associated with the baptism is also at work in the message that threatens to quickly shake the composure of the saints.

Here's the first component, with the more granular structure indicated by highlighting one set of paired elements. The pairing of the second line of verse 1 with the second line of verse 2 speaks to how the entreaty is primarily for those who live in the day of the Lord, during the season of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that this is when the threat will come.

Here's the matching component, which shares the same pattern of simple alternation.

This insight into the connection between the massive deception that attends the revealing and the threatening report that precedes it is actually a very big deal. If it weren't, it wouldn't be concealed in a code that has to be broken to expose the link, and which has possibly been hidden until now. What it means is that the baptism has a prelude that is equally cloaked. It reveals something of the composite character of the threat.

The impression many saints have is that they are already equipped to identify the lawless one as an impostor when he's revealed. Many, of course, are convinced they will be raptured to make their escape before he can be revealed, so, already subject to delusion, they will be completely unable to resist accepting his false claims. Many have certain elements of the scenario in mind; a short list of potential candidates, some kind of UFO/alien presence and disclosure, a Petrus Romanus to lend it the Vatican's authority, yet, that's not going to suffice. They will fall prey because the Lord has assured it by appointing massive deception for the segue into the revealing. An opening salvo is appointed that will lay waste to their faith in one quick offensive like a spiritual Blitzkrieg. Their front line of hope will be obliterated. They will be found to have no more defense than the rest of the global population against this supernatural onslaught. Then the lawless one will be revealed!

I know who won't be deceived, and I know why. And, I'm going to tell you, but I also know that most of you still won't believe it, until it's too late. We think, never, no way, not us, but so it will be, for most!

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And, there's still more to follow, which will be posted soon, Lord willing.

The Sign for the Bride - A Fourth Installment of the Revision

As before, this installment continues from the previous one. I'm still updating one of the core studies on theopenscroll.com. This is going to reflect the expanded insight that has come more recently in this remarkable season. The revision may be found here, as The Sign for the Bride - Part 1. If I'm not responding to your email, please bear with me.
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A Sign to Refute the Lie

Now, with the subject more clearly in view, what we're being warned about in this passage makes sense. In the overview offered in this study's introduction I wrote that the revealing of the lawless one can be seen as a sign, as a special kind of evidence intended to assure us that the gathering to the Lord, in the Day of the Lord, has not yet happened. While that's the main thrust of the message there's more to it than that. Before we explore further let's make sure we're clear on the main point, which everything else hangs on.

When we read through verses 1-12 of 2 Thessalonians 2 we can see how there's an abundance of what might be considered extraneous information. It's not superfluous, of course. Paul isn't just rambling on in a clumsy attempt to communicate some vague sense of comfort, as demonstrated by the thematic structure that betrays its divine source, but we have to distill from all that what point is being made. The Author has not made it easy for us to discern the truth of it. The essential message can be distilled from the first 3 verses.

1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

Paul is making a request, entreating, beseeching, imploring. His concern is that the saints will be quickly shaken from their composure. The threat is very specific. It involves some report to the effect that the day of the Lord has come, which is to say that it has already past. Why is it so important that the composure of the saints is not quickly shaken? What difference does it make if the saints are disturbed by such a report? Our hope is at stake, our reward! If there is no ingathering to the Lord in our future because this is already past, our hope is for naught and our faith is destroyed. Consider what he had just written in chapter 1.

4 therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure. 5 This is a plain indication of God’s righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering. 6 For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 10 when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed—for our testimony to you was believed. ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:4-10

Whew. When you have mopped up your tears and regained your composure (oh, the Lord is so good to us!), consider the value of this hope we have. If you have not already had such a personal revelation about it, try to imagine if there were some demonstration of evidence that convinced you that your hope was unfounded. If you had truly had such a hope you would be completely devastated. Here's what Paul wrote to the Corinthians when he was about to share with them some comforting truth about their hope.

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, `Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.` ~ 1 Corinthians 15:32 (1 Corinthians 15 - Interactive Display of the Symmetry)

What Paul was entreating the Thessalonians about in the focal passage wasn't unwarranted. He wasn't just responding to rumors. Paul's robust description of the threat reveals that it's more substantial than just a rumor. Although rumors with false evidence had probably been circulating in their communities and the faith of some had already been shaken, his entreaty was not just for them, then. It was for every saint where this epistle was read, providing for us, even today, a substantial basis for maintaining a reliable defense that can stand up in the face of convincing lies about the harvest having come and gone, with all hope of just reward.

When saints are confronted with such a lie and there is substantial evidence provided in support of the claim, how can such as that be refuted with confidence? We have been given a sign for just that reason, and either it is so adequately defined and reliably recognizable that even in its absence we can be fully assured of our hope, or Paul's elaborate precautionary entreaty is impotent, feeble and pointless, a swing and a miss. So, which is it? Is the church going to fall into apostasy and then the lawless one will be revealed? Or, is the church going to be raptured then the lawless one will be revealed? Is there substance in any of that to refute anything, or is that not the point of the message? Is there anything in such nonsense but confusion? How absurd. What a ludicrous mess, that doctrine of devils!

The pre-trib rapture theory being promoted by so-called prophecy experts is utter claptrap. What a huge set-up. The other popular theories, mid-, post-, pan-, pre-wrath - all of them are faulty, part-truth and therefore untrue and wholly unreliable. Brethren, what you believe matters. Plenty. Do you have false hope? That's bad. Is your faith based on lies? This is going to be exposed, and your faith will fail.

I'm not making nebulous warnings here. I'm going to give it to you straight from the scriptures, untwisted, with the Lord's help. Some months ago, the Lord began to impress upon me how this message of 2 Thessalonians 2 was most particularly and very specifically intended for a people who will witness the event described as the sign - perhaps you or someone who hears your testimony, because it's now not far distant.

Many claim that this is not the stuff of salvation, but that is another one of the Devil's lies. Folks, we've been set up! If it has been easy to be deceived in this day and hour, just wait another year! When you see what the divinely appointed thematic equation has to reveal about the primary audience for Paul's cryptic message, which has been so incredibly targeted by the ministers of misinformation and disinformation, you'll understand why I've been required to update this study with this insight in this late hour.

16 “Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light. 17 For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. 18 So take care how you listen; for whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him.” ~ Luke 8:16-18

A Sign for the Bride

Now, one of the implications of this very obscure message delivered by Paul is that, at the revealing of the lawless one, that which was promised would not come first will logically follow after that signal event. Once the sign is witnessed, those who recognize it will know that the gathering to the Lord is impending. At least some of them, perhaps all those involved as witnesses in that day, will know that three harvests will come in sequence at their appointed times, and at least some of those saints will understand about their role in the impending Barley Harvest, which I also refer to as the Bride Theft. The baptism and anointing of the Antichrist beast will thus be a sign for the Bride when it happens, who alone will be awake and alert and sober in that day, excepting the 144k sons of Israel and 2 witnesses. The dramatic revealing will indicate the nearness of her Bridegroom's approach. Given how the Body of Christ today appears to be suffering from an overspreading blindness, if the Lord has opened your eyes and ears and granted you the grace to perceive the truth about the sign, I encourage you to thank Him and honor that by pursuing hard after the opportunities that appear before you, to enter fully into the Lord's provision and accept the sufferings and the glory.

The Lying Report - A Supernatural Multimedia Hoax

I mentioned at the outset how a third element in the sequence of events is directly related to the two that follow it. That element is the lie itself, the threatening report Paul was entreating us about, which is to the effect that the day of the Lord has already come. Like I just mentioned, the Lord has been impressing upon me how this message of 2 Thessalonians 2 was intended primarily for the saints who would actually witness the revealing of the lawless one. What had so long ago threatened to shake the composure of the Thessalonians was a foreshadowing of what is about to come. After He began to impress this upon me I began to see models of this being dramatized in media. I wrote at some length about this during the recent Winter Olympics, because this deceptive report was modeled during the opening ceremony and then again in the closing ceremony. If you read Part 3 - Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 - The Ultimate Hoax, which I recommend for a collateral study, you'll find a fair synopsis of much of what you are reading here. What I discovered since the Olympics is what I'm about to demonstrate.

I believe what the Lord was revealing about a supernatural multimedia hoax is validated by the thematic structure of 2 Thessalonians 2!

A little over a week ago I returned to my earlier work, a version of the structure I think was unchanged from 1991, except for updating the presentation to one that is interactive. It was speaking to me of a need for further refinement because it was not as granular as I suspected the divine design probably was, based upon insight acquired during the hundreds of hours I invested over the years in the analysis of entire chapters of scripture. The Lord granted me the favor to bring it into the state you explored earlier, in the interactive frame, and which you see below. After becoming satisfied with this refined version, which I find far more compelling, I reflected upon the deeper insights offered by the newly discovered thematic equations.

What the Lord had worked with me to discover in 1991, which facilitated the key insight about the baptism, was quite intact. What really struck me now was how the extensive description of the massive deception that would obviously attend a baptism and subsequent fraudulent messianic ministry was directly matching to the description of the report that Paul was entreating us about. Wow!

The connections I'm going to be pointing out weren't apparent prior to this recent analysis. All the content describing the sign is set within bracketing elements that describe the deception. When I shared this refined presentation with Aaron, we marveled together at how awesome and masterful the Lord is in crafting His Word. How touching is His loving care in tending to our need in these last days! What is coming is going to be most challenging, but the Lord has ordained that there will be Overcomers!

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And, there's still more to follow, which will be posted soon, Lord willing.

The Sign for the Bride - A Third Installment of the Revision

Many of us have way too much confidence in the reliability of the acclaimed teachers of the past and present, taking comfort in what's popular and familiar. We have been set-up for a great fall. The large numbers are going to fail to find the narrow gate. Belief in the widely accepted doctrines that are being promoted and maintained will assure it.

As with the previous post, this picks up where that left off. I'm still updating one of the core studies on theopenscroll.com. This is going to reflect the expanded insight that has come more recently in this remarkable season. The revision may be found here, as The Sign for the Bride - Part 1. If I'm not responding to your email, please bear with me.
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Now, let's take a closer look at 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7, the cryptic secret companion to where apostasia is found. As we consider the text in a literal fashion with an eye to the changing positional relationships of unseen entities in the heavenly realm we'll find a substantial validation for the explanation I've been offering and more light being shed on the supernatural dynamic at the revealing of the lawless one. Let's keep our minds anchored and focused so they don't return to old habits and snap into auto-pilot mode to fly off to some remote location, to some foreign context. Let's keep what valuable lesson we've learned about context firmly in mind.
Here are a few versions of interest.

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 (NASB): 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 (KJV): 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 (YLT): 6 and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time, 7 for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now [will hinder] -- till he may be out of the way,

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 (Interlinear): 6 And now that which is restraining you know for to be revealed him in his time 7 the indeed mystery already is working of lawlessness only the restraining at present until out of midst he might be

A Greek word that appears in both verses 6 and 7 is being variously translated as “what restrains,” “what withholdeth” and “he who now letteth,” “is keeping down” and “is restraining.” The word is katecho, Strong's G2722. The sense of this word is given to us as, “to hold fast, keep secure, keep firm possession of” and “to restrain, hinder (the course or progress of)” and “to check a ship's headway i.e. to hold or head the ship.” There's nothing amiss about these definitions. To understand what it means we just have to remain in context, focused. A simple faithful rendering of ginomai ek mesos, which appears in the NASB as, “he is taken out of the way” is “gone from among,” or, “out of midst he be.” Some being or entity is emerging out of the midst of something. The topic is the hindering and eventual enabling of this entity's emergence.

Now, with the constraining thematic equation in mind to establish the context for us, we see how the message harmonizes perfectly with its companion. What is going to emerge out of the midst of some heavenly realm is pneuma antichristos, the anointing that will manifest as a sign during the baptism of an impostor. At present, this spiritual entity is held in check, restrained from emerging. There is an active working of this pneuma antichristos at present (which we know also from 1 John 2:18), but a special appointment has been reserved for the climactic messianic hoax. When he or it is released, as verse 3 declares, then “shall have come the [standing away from] first and shall have been revealed the man of lawlessness.” There it is! It's quite simple, really, when you give the natural symmetry of the scriptures due respect. Allowing, of course, that the Author has opened our eyes and granted us the requisite revelation insight. He is so good to us!

What we've covered thus far is merely the core of what must be learned about this passage. Because of the manifold doctrines of demons that have been swirling around this passage, attention has been drawn away from a key aspect of the event. Much has been made of who or what is the agent responsible for doing the restraining while the subject that should be the focus of our attention is overlooked. The matter of timing is a constant thread in verses 6 and 7 and in the surrounding context, and this really demands our attention.

So That in his Time he will be Revealed

Paul indicates that his readers have been adequately informed on the subject of the restraining.

6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:6

He's not inviting us to speculate about what or who is the restraining agency. Most of us scratch our heads and wonder if we might have been absent when he gave that lecture, but he actually makes his point right here in the immediate context. But few take notice. The point being made about keeping pneuma antichristos in check is that there is a set time for this. There is a season for restraining and a fit moment appointed for its release. Reread verse 6 until this sinks in. The Greek word used here for “time” is kairos: “2a - a fixed and definite time.”

If you're generally ignorant about how the Lord keeps a tight schedule in this age and that the key events have been encoded into His calendar, you have not been doing your homework. For a long time. I don't mean to be insulting, but the Lord has been revealing these things and had his servants publish them to make it accessible for many years and many of us are guilty of negligence.

Paul made a declaration in his first letter to the Thessalonians that is similar to verse 6 above. That will be understood as having had paramount importance in the day appointed for the revealing of the lawless one, when it will be seen that ignorance of these scheduled appointments, and this one in particular, has costly consequences.

Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. 2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2

I expect to be writing more on that subject, having recently refined and expanded the work I had done years ago on the thematic structure of the passage that includes chapter 4 in its scope. The saints have been misled about the basis for destruction. We have been set-up. And we have deserved it.

If you digested the recommended study titled Baptism - The Prophecy, you understand how Yom Kippur, aka the Day of Atonement, was instituted as a holy day, in no small part, to prophesy of, describe in its fulfillment while legal matters in the spiritual realm were addressed, and memorialize our Lord's baptism. If you are familiar with the collateral study titled When Jesus was Baptized - The Celestial Signs, you have even more insight into how things are done in the Lord's economy.

The understanding of times and seasons compares to the frame of a jigsaw puzzle in how it provides essential scale and defines the fundamentals of contextual relation. Until you are made privy to the Lord's schedule of appointments, the events marked out, both future and past, and their relationships are at best, poorly defined. When the Lord corrected my error concerning whether or not the timing of key transitional events like the harvests would be known in advance it was quite another epiphany! (Will No One Know the Day?) They will be! The Lord Y'shua was baptized and anointed on Yom Kippur, but the Antichrist anointing is appointed for a different day on the calendar, a day positioned nearly exactly opposite on the annual cycle. There are several historical examples modeling the event with its timing for us in the scriptures, and these are the subject of the next part in this bookish online series on the subject of The Sign for the Bride. There have also been validation signs of the event and the day appointed since I've been on watch for it over the span of the last nearly 20 years.

So, until you've been properly informed about the critical matters of timing, you have not yet been properly informed. Those who have not been adequately informed have wrongly supposed “not knowing” makes no difference, stumbling on ahead in the dark with imaginative speculation. Hey - been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Returning our attention back to verse 6, we see now that Paul's message wasn't placing emphasis on the identity of the restraining agency so much as on the importance of knowing there is a season appointed for the restraint that has a set limit. When the appointed time arrives there will come an end to it.

6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:6

The pneuma antichristos will be released at the appointed time, according to plan. The sovereign God will assure it. The host and the agent appointed as his baptizing high priest will be fully ready in this perfectly synchronized action. The setting will be precisely according to design and there will be a fit reception awaiting the big debut! According to the model of John 13:27, Jesus Himself will give the signal. At His word, a dimensional portal will open and that spiritual entity will fall away, “apostasia,” and the special anointing will descend upon the host. This will reveal him - with the attendant supernatural manifestation of lying signs and wonders. The debutante's coming out party will be spectacular and unrivaled. At least, that is, until the one shows up who will end his masquerade. If you want to see a party, just wait until you see His welcome party!

If you've been reading the blog for a while, you have come to understand this event in the language of the ancient celestial stargates and deities. Horus, by one name, will transit the Silver Gate to incarnate into the prepared host. You may note that the clocks and timers and hourglasses that often appear in the symbolic Occult context suggests how this comes at an appointed time, as well as in connection with a special provision of control over the activation of time-space portals.

With all this insight into the meaning of the passage, there's still much more to be gleaned. We've only got the core of it thus far in this document, but we should at least have that with full confidence.

The Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Gathering Together to Him

Much of the theological sleight of hand giving a spin to the truth presented here has been facilitated by the doctrine of demons that makes a false distinction between the constructs that reveal the critical matter of timing. This, too, finds a corrective contextual guide in the thematic structure.

The second part of verse 1 is matched to the second part of verse 2, so one sheds light on the other side in this thematic equation. Because “with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,” compares to “either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come,” we can and must equate and clarify the descriptive constructs. These are represented in “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,” “our gathering together to Him,” and “the day of the Lord.”

The day of the Lord is a millennial day, the 7th, and we crossed over on Yom Teruah of 1999, as I've documented with confidence. There are mistaken notions about this, which aren't really germane to this study. I've sufficiently addressed this in other studies. The coming of the Lord can be represented in a long sequence of events that actually began, from a very important perspective in 1991. That's when the celestial sign marking Yom Teruah identified to us the beginning of His coming in judgment. In this sequence of events, the kind being brought to our attention is called “our gathering together to Him.” I say, “kind,” because there's actually three of these ingatherings appointed, which are called in some contexts, harvests. All three of these are in view. They are appointed to follow each other in sequence, just as laid out on the Lord's calendar. These will all three of them happen in connection with the coming of the Lord, not independent of it. These three will also occur during the Day of the Lord, and again, for the sake of clarity, not independent of that. This understanding is in harmony with the divine organization of the message.

The nonsensical fractured mishandling of these constructs by the church authorities conflicts with this divine thematic pairing, and this distortion is used to do much further damage to the message. The problem here isn't just a matter of the innocent being ignorant. This will become very apparent when we've come to the end of this presentation.

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Again, there's plenty more to follow, which will be posted soon, Lord willing.