The Time of the End: 2008 - 2012

Israeli Airstrike Began as Deduced On This Site

2008-12-28T09:25:00.002Z

Dear friends!

Well, the massive strikes of Israel against Gaza began on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 27 which was Kislev30 on the Jewish calendar.

So it seems we got the timing for this event spot on. We have to wait and see now how this conflict escalets.

These attacks might be a chronological marker for the next big event we are to expect: a major terrorist attack.

Let's keep our eyes open and ask the Lord for guidance and wisdom.

May God bless his children,

Mike

War in Gaza is about to begin at Christmas time!

2008-12-21T13:56:00.003Z

The truce Officially ended in Gaza at 6 am local time, 19 Dec 08. The missile fire has continued. Israel has now approved a GAZA Operation. This Wednesdays Security Cabinet meeting is expected to approve the timing, final details and a list of targets for aerial bombardment.

The US, Russia and Egypt have already been informed. PM Olmert is to visit Turkey on Monday. Turkey may become involved when this war begins to spread, as Syrian or Iranian missiles may be directed at US Bases in Turkey. Turkish air space may also be used. Foreign Minister Livni will meet with European and UN Security Council Representatives.

The attack is expected to begin with an aerial bombardment of militant bases, storage and training facilities, infrastructure, communications and command systems; including the attempted assassinations of leadership personalities.

The militants are expected to respond with large barrages of missiles, which may reach Ashdod and Be'er Sheva. The possibility of suicide attacks within Israel is also high. As this progresses, it will acquire a life of it's own, resulting in the long expected ground invasion. For a general overview please re read THE IMMINENT MIDDLE EAST WAR page. It is highly likely to spread to Hezbullah and Iran. I have been warning of this. This spreading and escalation will appear to be natural and accidental, it is not; it has been planned, it is deliberate; and intended to make a complete change in the Middle East.

This entry, was made today, December 21.

The decision on a Gaza operation was made last Thursday. PM Olmert to visit Turkey tomorrow, with Livni and others presenting their case to the Europeans. Russia and Egypt have already been informed. Action will begin with an aerial bombardment and then gain a life of it's own as the enemy responds.

This Wednesday's Security Cabinet meeting is expected to approve target lists and decide on timing. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3641853,00.html

THE operations goal will be to overthrow and destroy Hamas and other militants. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gnzpS2-hKdyhbY3Y9lSYt9L6g0IA

We can expect the bombardment to begin any time after Wednesday, although the timing will be subject to political and military considerations.

On Saturday the US Chief of the General Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen announced that the Pentagon will surge up to 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan by early summer; subject to approval be President Obama. I have warned that this was coming. B Obama is saying that the war started in Afghanistan and will FINISH there. He intends to approve an Afghan offensive for next summer to destroy al Qaeda and end the war by fall. This presupposes that Hamas, Hezbullah and Iran have already been dealt with. This has all been carefully planned out and prepared for. It is all being allowed by Almighty God to fulfill His will and the Holy Scripture.

After 18 months of a Roller Coaster ride, covering the ups and downs of the ongoing events we are finally arriving at the core events that I have been warning of. May God bless his children, Mike

Kislev8, Pentecost, the calendar change and the GT

2008-12-08T14:50:00.003Z

Dear brothers in the hope!

It's been a while since my last post here.

I had to reconsider my findings, my position and our chronology. It is still not 100% fixed, we just see that things are brewing up and that the chronological model of the sanctuary still seems to be valid. But I feel that at least one vital aspect or understanding is missing and we have still to fine tune our understanding.

Nontheless I decided to inform all my readers of the following possibility.

We have discussed here and on www.2008-2012.org many times the possibility that the calendar change that occured in Nisan 1543 BCE where the start of the year was changed from Tishri (autumn) to Nisan (spring) is undone in Tishri 2008, 6000 years after Adam sinned.

Thus, if the divine counting of years was returned to the original manner, there is a chance that all the 3 major festivals of the Lord are also shifted by 6 months.

This would mean that the festival of Pentecost could be celebrated on Kislev6 instead of Sivan6.

According to the idealized 360 Biblical Lunar Calendar with 12 months to 30 days each, this date of Kislev6 will beginn today at sundown, December8 and would last until December9 sundown.

We know too that there is to be a fulfillment of Acts2 and Joel2 in the last days of this whole system, a fulfillment in the time of the end. Therefore on this day we might be experiencing a rushing stiff breeze, a 'violent blowing' (literal translation), maybe an explosion. This could be the first "fire from heaven" and a rising mushroom cloud from the sea of 1Kings18.

The fulfillment could be a terrorist attack on Manhattan (NYC), with a more or less simultaneous attack on the UK. These things would symbolize or announce the coming of Jesus on the clouds. If this event follows the pattern of the original Christian Pentecost scenario, they would occur between 8:40 and 9:40 am EST on December9.

Again and obviously, I might be wrong on that. It is not an inspired understanding but a deduction based on the chronological study of the Scriptures.

May God bless the faithful and save his children,

Michael
michael@2008-2012.org

What really is the “mark of the beast”?

2008-11-26T08:35:00.004Z

In biblical terms political empires are pictured as “beasts”. We can find such identifications in Isaiah30:6, Daniel7:12, 17 or Revelation13.

Now history shows us that every empire has an own currency and so every beast has coinage with its image upon it so really the image of the beast is the financial system it creates. Indeed the purpose of military conquest has in the past been to gain an unfair financial advantage, over your opponent, to make his a slave of your financial system, to make him worship your image.

Jesus asked the temple tax collectors: Whose image and inscription is this? But he might as well have said: Whose image and engraving (mark) is this. He is giving us a vital clue to the meaning of Revelation13.

Now the financial system has actually received a death stroke from either the huge mountain of securitized mortgage derivatives or actually from Hank Paulson when he dropped Lehman brothers which destroyed interbank lending and caused the credit crunch.

But just as the UK/US 7th world power has been militarily conquered by the UN 8th world power through the UNICC, which has the power to arrest the Commander in Chief of the US, so the image of the 7th power, the Dollar and the Pound, in fact the whole dollar based banking system must be replaced with a UN image, a financial system bearing the image of the UN, a UN financial system. This will be a new financial world order since every beast gets a financial system, its image.

So we know that the dollar and the pound will collapse and then the UN will be used to make a new world currency or currencies. The 2 horned beast of the UK/US will breathe political life into this new financial order.

Today people worship money not political entities like the UN.

The fascinating thing here is that the sword stroke/death stroke is a deliberate act. So the credit crunch was deliberately triggered. The present financial system has deliberately been given a death stroke 7 years after the controlled demolition of the World Trade Centres!

May God bless his children,

Michael
michael@2008-2012.org

Good News For All The Planet

2008-11-25T15:06:00.004Z

October 8, 2012 ----------------- 2012 Tishri/Ethanim 22

Is this the date of the release of the "great crowd" from the "great tribulation"?

This release will occur 11 biblical years (3960 days) after Oct. 9, 2001.

This event will mark the end of the 1335 days for the Great Crowd!

The "disgusting thing causing desolation" was placed in the United Nations on July 14, 2005 (2005Tammuz7)

We are getting close to the end of its first 1290 days of existence.

The "great crowd" of Revelation 7:9 will very likely be liberated from the "great tribulation" on 2012Ethanim22, on the last day of the Festival of Tabernacles or ‘Booths’, 11 years after the biblical trial against the "house of God" began on 2001Ethanim22 (see link).

It is no wonder that the "great crowd" of the vision has palm branches in their hands. After all, this is a representation of the festivities during the last day of the Feast of Booths on 22Ethanim. This day is a festival Sabbath, a day of rest and a lot of joy, according to the law (Leviticus 23:39, 40). The Kingdom of Thousand Years probably begins on this day.

How to deduce the date

The starting point is the conception of the Alliance of Civilizations on 2004Ethanim7 (Sept. 21) and its establishment in the United Nations 9 biblical months later, on 2005Tammuz7 (2005 July 14). We discovered that this Alliance is actually the "disgusting thing causing desolation", the emblem or sign that will be carried by the modern day devastating armies, the "ten horns" of the United Nations, when the UN will attack the traditional religious system.

There action will aim to achieve peace between the ‘seed of Isaac’ (Jews and Christians) and the ‘seed of Ishmael’ (Muslims), all the sons of Abraham. But actually it will be an ‘abomination’ intended to replace the Abrahamic Covenant, removing the true meaning of the promises of Jehovah, the God of the Bible.

This idol of apostasy was praised on November 13, 2008 (15 Heshvan) as the hope for peace in the 21^st century. This is the way to achieve peace and security will turn people away from God!

Just a few days ago we realized that since the birth of the Alliance of Civilizations, we would have to count "1290 days", that is 43 lunar months. These 1290 biblical days will be completed on 2008Shebat7. If we can properly determine the solar equivalent of this day we will know the start date of the "1335 days" that will be left until the release of the faithful.

If the biblical 2008 began in March this year Shebat7 will be January 2, 2009, if it began in April (according to the Jewish calendar) it will be February 1, 2009.

Are you ready to face the outlawing of true Christianity? It seems to start in Europe in early 2009, but the United Nations will ensure that this ban will spread throughout the world. So the "great tribulation" will be fully blowing around the Passover of 2009.

If we start to count the 1335 days of Daniel 12 on 2008Shebat7 however, the count of 44.5 biblical months will take us 2012Tishri/Ethanim22, the festival Sabbath of the festival of the ‘final ingathering’!!

Today, the authors of this site discovered that this will be exactly 11 biblical years (or ‘times’) after 2001Ethanim/Tishri22, when the organisation of true Christians disassociated itself from the UN-DPI. The accuracy of this period is surprising:

There are 1335 days between 2001Tishri22 and 2005Tammuz7.

There are 1290 days between 2005Tammuz7 and 2008Shebat7.
There are 1335 days between 2008Shebat7 and 2012Tishri22.

We wondered why there was a period of 1335 days before the placement of the "disgusting thing". The answer, quite simply, was that this amount is the number of missing biblical days to complete 11 years.

By adding 1,335 1,290 and 1,335 days, we get 3960 days (11 "times" of 360 days).

Before you consider that this is just a coincidence, let me show you the evidence that they actually release for the faithful happens on 2012Ethanim/Tishri22.

The end of the 11 "times"

The 3960 years (11 "times") began on BCE1949Ethanim22, when the Lord began to intervene in the life of Abraham, giving him a mandate to get out of Ur of the Chaldeans. Jesus died in the centre of that period, in the year that began in Ethanim 32 CE. Apparently the sacrifice of the Messiah occurred in Abib due to the calendar change commanded by YHWH at the time of the Exodus.

This explains why in the representation of the tabernacle in the wilderness there were "eleven tent clothes" (Exodus 26:7, 8.) Each "tent cloth" represented a "time".

⁷ “And you must make cloths of goat’s hair for the tent upon the tabernacle. You will make eleven tent cloths. ⁸ The length of each tent cloth is thirty cubits, and the width of each tent cloth is four cubits. There is one measure for the eleven tent cloths. (Exodus26)

This means that at the end of the 11 biblical years since 2001 there will have passed 11 full biblical ‘times’ of 360 years each since God began to speak to Abraham. The trial of those who purport to represent the Abrahamic Covenant will be implemented first through the Alliance of Civilizations.

These 3960 years can also be divided into 3 parts. The firstborn son was to receive double the inheritance of the second born. This means that Isaac inherited a double portion of time as regards the land while Ishmael inherited one part. The 2640 years of Isaac are counted from the autumn of 1949 BCE to the autumn of 692 BCE when the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem was completed. From that date until 2012 CE we are living in the designated time of Ishmael, who is represented by religious Muslims. It is therefore very likely that, the physical mosque/temple there will be destroyed forever on the 10th day of Ab 2012.

At the end of the 42-month ban which starts on 2008Shebat7, the time will come for God to intervene on behalf of his people and to release them from their afflictions and persecutions. In biblical terms, this period will end on 2012Ab7 (July 26). Then, about 3 days later on Ab10, - on the very same day that Jehovah’s temple was destroyed twice - the time for the final destruction of the shrines of all false religions will come.

Are not you glad you know all these things? The coming days will be days of spiritual wealth for true Christians. But it will also be a period of shaking for those who are not prepared spiritually. The choice is yours!

At an hour you do not think to be it the son of man is coming!

2008-11-14T19:11:00.001Z

44 You too prove yourselves ready for at an hour that you (plural) do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming (Matthew 24).

The son of man comes upon the mushroom cloud of 1Kings18 in our understanding. So that cloud too will come at an hour that we do not think to be it. If only we had seen that before! If you think clearly about what this scripture means, you discover that the true Christians, those who will prove themselves ready for the return of the son of man, will indeed think that he is coming at a certain hour, but that hour will be wrong!

The scripture means that true Christians will attempt to calculate the 'hour' of the return of the Christ. For if you make no effort to calculate the hour of his coming then he cannot come at an hour that you do not think to be it since you are not thinking about any hours.

In verse 42 of the same chapter the Christians who are chosen or abandoned at a coming of the Lord, do not know what day the their Lord is coming (to appoint a new church and reject an old one). In verse 50, the Master comes to the evil slave on a day that he did not expect and in an hour that he did not know .

But in verse 44 the son of man comes at an hour that his followers do not think to be it. So by comparison we see that his ready followers do know the day of his return. But the hour that they think to be it, is incorrect. Now 'hour' means day here and 'day' means month. Nobody cares what literal hour of the day Jesus turns up at after we have been waiting for him for nigh on 2,000 years!

Michael

michael@2008-2012.org

P.S.: Look what symbol will be centre piece at the G20 global financial summit...

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=956352

The Agenda for the Global Financial Summit

2008-11-13T17:31:00.002Z

Dear Readers!

We have warned about November15 for months now and we expect the empowering of an entity controlling the global financial system since the pubic announcement that there will be a financial summit in Washington on that very day…

Here is what I found today…

Preparations for the economic summit in Washington on November 15 are well advanced. Here are the five points which are currently on the agenda to be adopted by the invited heads of state. The overall philosophy is to continue globalization by reinforcing free trade and by creating a world economic government under the IMF.

The IMF Program reads as follows:

"1) require the credit rating agencies to be registered and monitored and submit to rules of governance;

2) halt the principle of a convergence of accounting standards and re-examine the application of the fair market value rule in the financial field, so as to improve its coherence with the rules of prudence and conservatism;

3) to resolve that no market segment, territory, or financial institution shall escape from a proportionate and adequate regulation, or at the least, surveillance;

4) set up a code of conduct to avoid excessive risk-taking in the financial industry, including in the area of compensation. Supervisors will have to follow this code in evaluating the risk profiles of financial institutions;

5) to entrust to the IMF the primary responsibility, along with the FSF (Financial Stability Forum - Basel), to recommend the necessary measures to restore confidence and stability.

The IMF must be equipped with the essential resources and suitable instruments to support countries in difficulty, and to exert its role of macroeconomic surveillance to the fullest."

The Great Tribulation that started September29/30 is about to reach the next level.

May God keep his children!

Michael

michael@2008-2012.org

The 2300 evening/mornings and the Great Tribulation

2008-11-12T18:33:00.002Z

An important connection linking the 1260 days of tribulation with the 2,300 evenings/mornings

The global ban on Christianity is about to begin.

Before the end of this autumn, the human society will change forever.

We communicate to our readers the most likely dates for the beginning of this tribulation:

Dec. 02/03, 2008 (Kislev 6)

Dec. 12/13, 2008 (Kislev 16)

We have managed to successfully reconstruct the chronology of human history according to the scriptures and we have discovered that history is divided into two enormous periods totalling 6037.5 years. This period is represented by the measurements of the divine sanctuary as given in the Bible. This sanctuary had two compartments called the ‘Holy’ and the ‘Most Holy’. The former is twice as long as the latter. The chronological model of the sanctuary has as its starting point the start of the life of Adam, the perfect first man in the autumn of 4027 BCE (BC) and it will be completed in spring 2012.

This model has proven very valuable to understand where we are in the flow of time. The period represented by the Holy began in the autumn of 4027 BCE and was completed in the fall of 2 BCE with the birth of Jesus, the second perfect man. 2012.5 years will have to elapse until the spring of 2012 when the greater divine shrine will be completed.

The reconstruction of the correct chronology allowed us to confirm these dates and we were also able to deduce the following:

There are 3000 years from the creation of Adam until the first temple of Jehovah was completed in the autumn of 1027 BCE.

There are 2000 years from when Jesus was found in the temple after the Passover aged 12 in the spring of the year 12 CE, until the spring of 2012.

There are 6000 years from the declaration of a promise about a ‘seed’ in the spring of 3993 BCE, when Adam was 33.5 years old, until the spring of 2008.

There are 1975 years, from the spring of 3993 BCE to the birth of Abraham, in the spring of 2018 BCE.

There are 1975 years from the inauguration of the Abrahamic Covenant, in the spring of 1943 BCE, until the inauguration of the New Covenant with Jesus Christ as Mediator in the spring of the year 33 CE. The New Covenant came into force on the day of Pentecost the year 33 CE.

There are 1975 years from the inauguration of the New Covenant, in the spring of the year 33 until the spring of 2008.

There are 90 years (a quarter of a ‘time’) from the beginning of the heavenly resurrection during the presence of Jesus Christ, in spring 1918 to the spring of 2008. It is likely that the exact date for this incident was the day of Pentecost.

There are 2520 years (‘7 times’) from the expulsion of Adam from the Paradise of Eden, in the spring of 3993 BCE, until the entry of Israel into the Promised Land, when the land covenant came into force in the spring of 1473 BCE.

There are 2520 years (‘7 times’) from the formal declaration of God's spirit in the autumn of 2492 BCE, to the baptism of Jesus Christ with the holy spirit in the autumn of the year 29 CE.

There are 2012.5 years from the inauguration of the Abrahamic Covenant, in the spring of 1943 BCE to the complete destruction of the Jewish system of worship in Jerusalem in 70 CE. In the centre of this period we find the beginning of the service of Elijah the prophet, in the spring of 939 BCE. The evidence establishes that Elijah started and finished his service on the day of Pentecost.

There are 2012.5 years of separation from the transfer of Enoch, in the spring of 3039 BCE, until the first temple of Jehovah was completed in the autumn of 1027 BCE. The evidence establishes that Enoch, who was a representation of chosen Christians, was born, began his work and was transferred on the day of Pentecost.

It is very likely that the second temple was completed in the spring of 514 BCE, precisely in the midpoint between the autumn of 1027 BCE when the first temple was completed and the autumn of 2 BCE, when Jesus Christ was born.

These and other deductions have enabled us to conclude that the model is correct and the building of the greater shrine will be completed in the spring of 2012. And it seems that the key day for the conclusion of this model will be 2012Sivan6, the day of Pentecost, which in 2012 coincides with May26/27.

This day will be 6000 years after the birth of Abel, who was conceived at the beginning of the autumn of 3990 BCE, this event marking the ‘foundation of the world’.

This would mean that the last three and half years prophesied in the Bible, in which the people of God on Earth would be persecuted, would begin sometime in the autumn of 2008. Until now we were not able to nail the date of the start of this tribulation exactly. This was because the Bible has ‘time lock’ and we did not have enough data to calculate correctly. Now, thanks to divine providence and the grace of the Lord, we were able to get closer with more precision. The start of this period is imminent.

A ban of 1,260 days or 42 months

The Bible gives us important keys and hints:

And a reed like a rod was given me as he said: “Get up and measure the temple [sanctuary] of God and the altar and those worshiping in it. ² But as for the courtyard that is outside the temple [sanctuary], cast it clear out and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. ³ And I will cause my two witnesses to prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days dressed in sackcloth.” (Revelation 11:1-3.)

This "temple" and "those who worship in it” are those who claim to be Christians. These must be brought to a final test for 1260 days or 42 months in which only the faithful will be loyal. The political establishment will bring forth the "disgusting thing causing desolation" soon, a ban on or persecution of true Christians.

This was foretold by the prophecy of Daniel about the "four great beasts." It has been seen that in the present fulfilment these entities represent the Quartet for peace in the Middle East (United States, Russia, EU and UN). Out of the "ten horns" of the UN a political entity arises that will oppress the people of God for 3.5 times.

²⁴ And as for the ten horns, out of that kingdom there are ten kings that will rise up; and still another one will rise up after them, and he himself will be different from the first ones, and three kings he will humiliate. ²⁵ And he will speak even words against the Most High, and he will harass continually the holy ones themselves of the Supreme One. And he will intend to change times and law, and they will be given into his hand for a time, and times and half a time. (Daniel7)

The prophecy of the "king of the north" and the "king of the south" also mentions a similar period and tells us that the "power of the holy people" is indeed 'shattered'.

⁵ And I saw, I Daniel, and, look! there were two others standing, one on the bank here of the stream and the other on the bank there of the stream. ⁶ Then one said to the man clothed with the linen, who was up above the waters of the stream: “How long will it be to the end of the wonderful things?” ⁷ And I began to hear the man clothed with the linen, who was up above the waters of the stream, as he proceeded to raise his right [hand] and his left [hand] to the heavens and to swear by the One who is alive for time indefinite: “It will be for an appointed time, appointed times and a half. And as soon as there will have been a finishing of the dashing of the power of the holy people to pieces, all these things will come to their finish.” (Daniel 12:5-7.)

And the book of Revelation mentions the same period in which the ‘holy ones’ will be 'defeated'. This will begin shortly after the New International Financial Order is born. This is the last stage in the quest of establishing the rule of the "wild beast."

⁴ And they worshiped the dragon because it gave the authority to the wild beast, and they worshiped the wild beast with the words: “Who is like the wild beast, and who can do battle with it?” ⁵ And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given it, and authority to act forty-two months was given it. ⁶ And it opened its mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his residence, even those residing in heaven. ⁷ And there was granted it to wage war with the holy ones and conquer them, and authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. (Revelation13)

The 1290 days!

Since 2008 was a year marked by biblical chronology, it was to be expected that Ethanim/Tishri1 would mark the beginning of the predicted period of 1335 days in Daniel 12:12. This period would conclude with a day of happiness or blessedness for God's people. We discovered that actually from 2008September29/30 until 2012May26/27 there are exactly 1335 days..

¹² “Happy is the one who is keeping in expectation and who arrives at the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days! (Daniel 12:12.)

According to the evidence, the period of 1290 days also predicted in Daniel 12:11 will begin on 2008November14/15 and expire also on 2012May26/27. As it seems, on Nov15, the groundwork for the ‘image of the beast’, even the "disgusting thing causing desolation", will be laid. The political system lead by the "false prophet" will cause all to accept this new control mechanism. They will attempt to "change times and laws" throughout the world. It is strangely coincidental that from this day there are only 1500 days left until 2012December22, a day promoted by the ‘New Age’ movement of the ‘false prophet’. Incidentally, there are exactly 4120 days from the fall of the towers of the WTC until December 22 2012, the sum of 2520 and 1600 days.

In fact it seems that the 1290 must start 45 after the 1335 days if they are to end on the same date. The first day of the 1290 remaining days is the 2008November14/15. The biblical day will start on November14 at sunset, probably as seen in the Middle East. That date coincides with the Heshvan17, the date of the beginning of the Flood in 2370 BCE and the date the Protestant Reformation began in 1517, 491 years ago. What will occur on that day?

¹¹ “And from the time that the constant [feature] has been removed and there has been a placing of the disgusting thing that is causing desolation, there will be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Daniel 12:11.)

It appears that day will see a decision to 'remove the constant feature’ (which probably is true Christian worship), and the 'erecting' of the "image of the beast". This will stand on a holy place, a place that belongs to sacred things only. We know that many Christians will compromise and bow to the "beast", but true Christians will not.

When will the 1260 days start?

If the 1260 days of tribulation for Christianity are solar days, then the "disgusting thing causing desolation" will stand in the "holy place" on December 13, 2008, probably in the United Nations headquarters. Thus 2008December14/15 will be the first day of the attack/persecution, starting 30 days after November14/15. However, it is possible that this period is measured in terms of the lunar calendar because the prophecy of Revelation links the 1260 days with 42 lunar months. If these three and a half years will be completed on Pentecost, 2012Sivan6 (the third month) they will begin on the 6^th day of Kislev (the ninth month), which in 2008 falls on December2/3.

It is interesting that if we add 1260 solar days to 2008December2/3 we reach 2012May16/17, which is Iyyar26, the date on which Jesus ascended to heaven in the year 33 CE. It would be nice if the Messiah returns on the very day he left.

⁹ And after he had said these things, while they were looking on, he was lifted up and a cloud caught him up from their vision. ¹⁰ And as they were gazing into the sky while he was on his way, also, look! two men in white garments stood alongside them, ¹¹ and they said: “Men of Gal´i·lee, why do YOU stand looking into the sky? This Jesus who was received up from YOU into the sky will come thus in the same manner as YOU have beheld him going into the sky.” (Acts1)

Therefore, Kislev6 seems to fulfil all requirements for being the day that we expect. And the truth is that there are even more temporal evidences:

Many expected that the Pentecost 2008, Sivan6, would make it obvious that the "time of the end" had begun, but they did not take into account the pending realignment of the sacred calendar that was changed at the Exodus of Israel, in 1513 BCE to start in spring instead of autumn. It seems reasonable to believe that from 2008Ethanim/Tishri1 the sacred calendar again begins in fall. And since the beginning of the year is no longer Abib/Nisan, it is wise to conclude that what was going to happen on 2008Sivan6 apparently will happen on 2008Kislev6, six lunar months later.

Also, December2/3 is 270 days after 2008Nisan1, the period of a pregnancy.

But the most powerful ‘coincidence’ that we have discovered with respect to Kislev6 is the date at which we arrive when we count 2300 days forward from this date. 2300 days are 6 years of 360 days, 4 months and 20 days. Taking the first day to be 2008December2/3, we see that the last of those 2300 days would be 2015March20/21.

What will happen at the end of the 2300 days?

If we check the lunar calendar for 2015 we will see that the month of Nisan begins with the new moon on March20, at the time of the spring equinox. So Nisan1 matches on March20/21, the last day of the 2300 days. The most impressive of this is not the (powerful) fact that the new moon coincides with the equinox but that a total solar eclipse will occur on that date, the first after the one in 2012! The path of this total eclipse will end exactly over the North Pole. Is this a heavenly sign that this is the end of 2300 days predicted in the prophecy of Daniel?

To answer this question, we have to confirm whether the ‘three and a half times’ of Daniel 7 and 12 and Revelation 13 starts simultaneously with the 2300 day. The language use in these prophecies seems to indicate that:

¹³ And I got to hear a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one proceeded to say to the particular one who was speaking: “How long will the vision be of the constant [feature] and of the transgression causing desolation, to make both [the] holy place and [the] army things to trample on?” ¹⁴ So he said to me: “Until two thousand three hundred evenings [and] mornings; and [the] holy place will certainly be brought into its right condition.” (Daniel 8:13, 14.)

Someone might think that 2015Nisan1 has no place in the biblical chronology, but in reality this date is only half a year away from the autumn of 2014, when the generation that fought in WW1 will be 120 years old. This addition of six months probably has to do with the realignment of the calendar of spring to autumn. In fact, although the "saints" could be reunited with the true Messiah at Pentecost 2012, it seems that the destruction of the enemies of God will have to happen during an extended period of time until the autumn of 2014 or the spring of 2015. At that time, the chronological model of the sanctuary will have been completed.

¹⁹ And the temple [sanctuary] of God that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple [sanctuary]. And there occurred lightnings and voices and thunders and an earthquake and a great hail.. (Revelation 11:19).

It is possible that after the completion of the model of the sanctuary in the spring of 2012, when the "saints" have already been collected, the plagues will be poured out that will finfish off this system of things. The situation will be similar to the Temple of Solomon in which certain priestly duties where carried out before the official inauguration.

⁵ And after these things I saw, and the sanctuary of the tent of the witness was opened in heaven, ⁶ and the seven angels with the seven plagues emerged from the sanctuary, clothed with clean, bright linen and girded about their breasts with golden girdles. ⁷ And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls that were full of the anger of God, who lives forever and ever. ⁸ And the sanctuary became filled with smoke because of the glory of God and because of his power, and no one was able to enter into the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished. (Revelation15)

Michael

michael@2008-2012.org

The NorthCom Exercise and Isaiah30:26

2008-11-12T14:43:00.003Z

Dear Readers!

I would like to share a letter with you that was played into my hands a concerned member of the political establishment…

***START OF LETTER***

Dear Dr. Fetzer:

Despite strong concerns generated by the Marriott Hotel Islamabad bombing as a fairly obvious inside job, I have felt reluctant to draft another alert unless we have something reasonably solid in terms of a major upcoming military exercise or geopolitical event as an anchor point that might also be coincident with a possible terror date code.

Today I uncovered a prime candidate. A Public Affairs Officer at USNORTHCOM told me that Vigilant Shield '09 is coming up around November 11th. (The exercise is "'09" because in October we enter the government fiscal year of 2009). It will be one of the two major exercises for the year, the other having been NLE 2-08 run from 1-8 May (specifically targeting Seattle) that we covered in a prior joint alert.

USNORTHCOM has not released any information yet on the upcoming exercise. The public affairs officer said that he was not aware of any other exercises between now and 11 November.

This exercise will take place a little over seven weeks following the Marriott Hotel Islamabad bombing, compared to the roughly three weeks following the 3-11-2004 Madrid and London 7-7-2005 bombings when the BP Texas City refinery experienced explosions. However, the Bali 10-1-2005 and Amman, Jordan 11-9-2005 bombings came more than eleven weeks before what many believe was the aborted 1-31-2006 nuke attempt on BP Texas City, so we might see an echo of this second pattern rather than the first.

While it may be a little bit early yet to issue a full scale public alert based upon the limited information I have obtained so far about the VS09 exercise, it would help if recipients of this email could keep a sharp eye out for other possible exercise-related indicators, to include details about Vigilant Shield '09 itself.

I am trying to think of ways that there could be some kind of political logic for Al-CIA-Mossad-duh to stage a false flag domestic terror event after the 4 Nov elections as opposed to before them. As one idea, perhaps the Bush cabal handlers may reason that they will still have King George as their continuing Zombie-Golem to oversee a false flag attack in his capacity as lame duck President, but at the same time they will be able to closely advise the President-elect on how to react publicly to the grave consequences of a false flag event as training wheels for when he later assumes office.

I appreciate whatever input recipients of this email can provide.

Sadly, the latest update I got from Patti Woodard is that Capt May remains incapacitated, and it is still unknown when or if he may improve. Perhaps Patti can help me get this message out to all researchers.

Best regards,

Bill Fox

***END OF LETTER***

So we see that there is some major uproar about this exercise which we also be held during the global financial summit on Nov15.

Another reader sent me some comments about his thoughts on Isaiah 30:26:

“We had previously thought that the 7 years were the 7 calendar years starting Nisan2001; and that the 7 months were 7 calendar months from Nisan2008 to Tishri2008.

Reading your postings, I see that Heshvan15 converts in the Jewish calendar to November 12/13. A full moon starts on the morning of November 13.

I then looked at Heshvan7, 2001 on the BLC, and this is shown as 28 October 2001. Seven full Gregorian years takes us to 28th October 2008 which was a new moon.

The question then arises: Can Isaiah 30:26 be considered in terms of 7 Gregorian years followed by 7 lunar cycles which started on 28th October the first full moon being on the 13th of November?”

I replied that these might be different kinds of cycles or 'times'. The Scripture mentions the 'moon' and the 'glowing' representing the sun. Maybe that is a cryptic hint to take it just as you did. 7 cycles of real 'solar years' followed by 7 cycles of 7 lunar months!

The fascinating 'coincidence' is that the great NorthCom nuclear anti-terror exercise starts today... So it will be on during the full moon AND during the global summit…

May our Lord comes soon,

Michael

michael@2008-2012.org

Barack O bama as a sign of the time!

2008-11-11T18:47:00.002Z

Dear Brothers!

I have done an interesting word play after looking up Hebrew meanings using my BibleWorks. Here is what I found…

Part 1:

In Matthew 24:27, Jesus explains how his “coming” will be connected to lightning.

²⁷ For just as the lightning comes out of the east and shines over to the west, so the coming/presence of the Son of man will be. (Matthew24)

This verse was always strange to me, because as already Charles Russell pointed out, lightning as in a thunderstorm does not travel from the east to the west. In fact, usually in travels vertically! The ray of the sun does so metaphorically, this is why some translate this ‘astrape’ as ‘dawn’.

But let us see what happens if we take it to mean lightning. The word translated ‘for’ is ‘gar’ and can also be translated as ‘then”. Reading it that way, this travelling of the ‘lightning’ can be taken as a marker in time, as an event marking the coming of the Lord.

Here is the strange thing. Look up the Hebrew word for ‘lightning’. Here is a verse from Zechariah using the word translated ‘lightning’…

¹⁴ And over them Jehovah himself will be seen, and his arrow will certainly go forth just like lightning. And on the horn the Sovereign Lord Jehovah himself will blow, and he will certainly go with the windstorms of the south. (Zechariah9)

The Theological Word Book of the Old Testament shows that ‘lightning’ is…

(287b) qr'b' (b¹r¹q) II, Barak noun common masculine singular absolute.

Barack Obama grew up in the “East”, in the country of Indonesia! His political career is now about to shine upon the West, being president of the United States! Can it be, the “coming of the Son of Man” is nigh?

Part 2:

Since I found this idea interesting (well, weird but interesting), I looked for the meaning of Barack’s surname.

Well, here is a Scripture that has the word “bama” in it…

³² And Jer·o·bo´am went on to make a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that was in Judah, that he might make offerings upon the altar that he had made in Beth´el, to sacrifice to the calves that he had made; and he put in attendance at Beth´el the priests of the high places that he had made. (2Kings12)

Here is the comment of the TWOT…

1116 hm'B' bamah {bam-maw'}

• from an unused root (meaning to be high); TWOT - 253; n f

• AV - high place 100, heights 1, waves 1; 102

• 1) high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform)

As an aside, I want to point out that the 15^th day of the 8^th month is Heshvan15, November12/13 Jewish Calendar and November17/18 BLC.

Now what about the remaining ‘O’?

The Hebrew letter sometimes pronounced as an ‘o’ is the ‘waw’ or ‘vav’. Wikipedia tells us…

Vav Conjunctive: when a vav connects two words or parts of a sentence; it is a grammatical conjunction meaning 'and', cognate to the Arabic. This is the most common usage.

Vav can be used as a mater lectionis for an 'o' vowel, in which case it is usually pronounced as ‘o’.

So actually, we could read the name of the President-elect as “Lightning and Heights” or “Lightning and High Places”.

Michael

michael@2008-2012.org

About the 2300 evening-mornings

2008-11-11T14:43:00.002Z

We have not yet come to understand fully from when to start the 2300 evening/mornings of the vision of Daniel but here is another idea worth sharing:

13 And I got to hear a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one proceeded to say to the particular one who was speaking: “How long will the vision be of the constant [feature] and of the transgression causing desolation, to make both [the] holy place and [the] army things to trample on?” (Daniel 8:13, 14.)

The words used here seem to refer to the situations described in Daniel 7:25 and Revelation 11:2. So it is possible that this period begins either together with the 1290 or the 1260 days during which the people of God are ‘trodden down' by the political system. We assume for from our current understanding that the tribulation on the saints does not begin later than 30 days after 2008Heshvan17 (November 14-15), i.e. on 2008Kislev17 (December 14-15). Thus, the 2300 evening/mornings would end on the day of Pentecost 2015. What is the basis for this idea?

From the standpoint of the Biblical lunar calendar of 360 days, 2,300 days are 6 full years, 4 months and 20 days. We have checked that if the first day would be 2008Heshvan17 (the eighth month), the last day would be a 2015Iyyar6 (the second month), but if the first day was 2008Kislev17 (the ninth month), then this period would end on 2015Sivan6 (the third month), the day of Pentecost 2015. However, let us also consider a period of 2,300 solar days.

As regards the solar calculation, it is worth noting that 2015Nisan1, 2015March 20/21 the first day of the new Biblical year, is not only the day of the spring equinox but on this day the new moon will also cause a total solar eclipse [this is the first total solar eclipse after on 2012November13, after nearly three years]. The 2300 days from 2008Kislev17 would then end 2 weeks later, according to the BLC on the day of the Passover, Nisan14.

For 2015March20/21 to be the last of 2300 solar days they have to start on 2008December2/3. This date, (2008Kislev6 Jewish) is only 20 days after the international financial summit. Going forwards 3.5 years (or prophetic times) from Kislev6 we would also arrive on 2012Sivan6, Pentecost, 42 months later. This would be a strange coincidence if it not design

Michael
michael@2008-2012.org

Gordon Brown calls again for a New World Order

2008-11-11T14:39:00.001Z

Prime Minister Gordon Brown believes the world financial crisis offers the opportunity to establish a "truly global society".

Mr Brown will use a high-profile speech in the City of London to say that Britain, the US and Europe should join together to provide leadership in the creation of a "stronger and more just international order".

He wants this weekend's emergency summit of world leaders in Washington to reach consensus on a new framework for the international financial system, featuring a reformed IMF which will act as a global early-warning system for financial problems, he will say.

The Prime Minister promised to work with US President-elect Barack Obama to build a new global society in which the markets are subjected to morality and ordinary people's interests are put first.

In his annual foreign policy speech to the Lord Mayor of London's Guildhall banquet, Mr Brown will say that the transatlantic relationship between Britain and Europe and the USA can be the driving force behind the creation of a new international order.

"The alliance between Britain and the US - and more broadly between Europe and the US - can and must provide leadership, not in order to make the rules ourselves, but to lead the global effort to build a stronger and more just international order," Mr Brown will say.

"The transatlantic relationship has been the engine of effective multilateralism for the past 50 years.

"As America stands at its own dawn of hope, so let that hope be fulfilled through a pact with the wider world to lead and shape the 21st century as the century of a truly global society.

"And I believe the whole of Europe can work closely with America to meet the great challenges which will test our resolution and illuminate our convictions."

Michael

michael@2008-2015.org

NorthCom terror excersise during November15

2008-11-10T08:16:00.005Z

Dear Readers!

Have you heard of "Vigilant Shield 08"? It’s a five days exercise planned by the Northcom/Norad to simulate a state of Martial Law (!) due to a major catastrophe such as a "terrorist attack" in the USA.

The "Vigilant Shield 08" was scheduled for the period of October 15-20 2008 but was postponed and is going to start on November 12 2008. It will last until November 18 and its codename was switched to "Vigilant Shield 09"No official reason was given as to why the original dates of this mystery national security exercise were changed.

We have to remember that an elite brigade was recently repatriated in the USA from Iraq and placed under the command of the... North COM:

www.armytimes.com

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked the government for information on these military deployments within U.S. borders but didn’t received any satisfactory answer until today:

www.aclu.org

It’s worth to remember that the 9/11 "terrorist attack" happened precisely the day an anti-terrorist exercise involved the US Air Force so that New York and Washington were practically deprived of their protecting combat jets...

We also remember that the 7/7 "terrorist attack" in London happened precisely the day an anti-terrorist exercise was on in the area...

What is going to happen now? All what is known from the North COM is that the projected exercise beginning on November 12 will involve the simulation of three simultaneous nuclear explosions on the US territory...

***Quote taken from the official NORTHCOM site…***

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command will participate in Exercise Vigilant Shield 09 Nov. 12 - 18.

The focus of VS09 is on homeland defense and civil support. The exercise will include scenarios to achieve exercise objectives within the maritime, aerospace, ballistic missile defense, cyber, consequence management, strategic communications, and counter terrorism domains.

VS09 will run concurrent with other Department of Defense-sponsored and international exercises to more realistically test the synchronized response of federal, state, local and international mission partners in preparation for homeland defense, homeland security and civil support missions in the United States and abroad.

Concurrent exercises include U.S. Strategic Command GLOBAL LIGHTNING 09 and BULWARK DEFENDER 09; Canada Command DETERMINED DRAGON; California National Guard VIGILANT GUARD; and the State of California GOLDEN GUARDIAN.

VS09 is a Command Post Exercise. During a CPX, many of the forces involved in the exercise are notional and most of the real forces and equipment are not deployed from their home bases.

NORAD is the bi-national command charged with aerospace warning and control, missile warning as well as maritime for the United States and Canada. Formed in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, USNORTHCOM is responsible for Homeland Defense and civil support missions.

***END OF QUOTE***

While we can’t deduce much from that secular fact alone, combined with our biblical chronology and our calculation of the 1290 days until Pentecost 2012 starting 2008November15, I consider this to be a major piece of the jigsaw.

There might be a pattern as regards those attacks and scheduled ‘exercises’ and surely the period of this exercise covers our Biblical date of Heshvan17 as well as the global financial summit in Washington D.C.

Guess the stage is set now and we wait for the cast to appear…

Please consider again stocking up food, water, petrol, tools, gasoline for an emergency scenario and also consider taking money out of the banks now. The next collapse will be worse...

May God bless his children,

Michael

michael@2008-2012.org

Russian short-range missiles moved to NATO border

2008-11-06T15:05:00.003Z

As the World continues to celebrate the election of Barak Obama as the new President of the United States the same cannot be said within the walls of Kremlin today where President Medvedev has ordered the immediate stationing of nuclear missiles in Europe to counter an expected first strike by American Forces led by US Coup Forces intent upon keeping power despite their being thrown out of power.

Russian Intelligence Analysts are also reporting that those American Military Forces loyal to President Elect Obama are continuing their ‘furious’ assault upon the international drug empire used to finance the NeoCon backed Bush-CIA intent to topple the established government of the United States and plunging our world into Total War.

Russian Military Analysts further reported that information gained by Venezuela Military Intelligence Officers in their raid on Stanford International Bank, and passed onto Obama forces in the US, led to the immediate resignation of Colombia’s CIA-trained Military Chief, General Mario Montoya, implicated in this vast international drug empire, and the killing of innocent civilians, and to the shootdown yesterday of Mexico’s Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño’s jet aircraft, and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales ordering all US Drug Officials out of his nation.

The real trouble is that not only the NeoCons in the US act aggressively, but also the Russian bear is willing to use or at least display force.

President Medvedev ordered missiles to be stationed up against NATO’s borders yesterday to counter American plans to build a missile defence shield.

Speaking within hours of Barack Obama’s election, Mr Medvedev announced that Russia would base Iskander missiles in its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad – the former German city – next to the border with Poland.

He did not say whether the short-range missiles would carry nuclear warheads.

Taking advantage of the world’s attention on the US elections, Mr Medvedev also cancelled plans to withdraw three intercontinental ballistic missile regiments from western Russia by 2010.

In his first state-of-the-nation address, Mr Medvedev said the missiles would be deployed “to neutralise if necessary the antiballistic missile system in Europe”. He added that Russia was also ready to deploy its Navy off Kaliningrad and to install electronic jamming devices to interfere with the US shield, which relies on a radar station in the Czech Republic and ten interceptor missiles in Poland.

Nato’s eastern members greeted the Russian move with dismay.

A Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman described the Kremlin’s move as unfortunate. Lithuania’s President Adamkus accused his Russian counterpart of going back on his word.

But government ministers and parliamentary deputies assembled in the Kremlin applauded Mr Medvedev.

The President failed to congratulate Mr Obama or even to mention him by name during the 85-minute address televised live across Russia.

In a criticism directed at the US, Mr Medvedev said: “Mechanisms must be created to block mistaken, egotistical and sometimes simply dangerous decisions of certain members of the international community.” He accused the West of seeking to encircle Russia and blamed the US for encouraging Georgia’s “barbaric aggression” in the war over South Ossetia in August. He also gave warning that Russia would “not back down in the Caucasus”.

“The August crisis only accelerated the arrival of the crucial moment of truth. We proved, including to those who had been sponsoring the current regime in Georgia, that we are strong enough to defend our citizens and that we can indeed defend our national interests,” Mr Medvedev said.

“What we’ve had to deal with in the last few years – the construction of a global missile defence system, the encirclement of Russia by military blocs, unrestrained Nato enlargement and other gifts...

The impression is we are being tested to the limit.” The outgoing President Bush insists that the missile shield is aimed at rogue states such as Iran, but the plan has infuriated Moscow, which argues that it threatens Russia’s security.

Mr Medvedev said that Russia had been forced to cancel its plans to withdraw the intercontinental ballistic missiles, which have a range of 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometres). He said: “We want to act together. But they, unfortunately, don’t want to listen to us.”

Mr Medvedev blamed the US for the global financial crisis, saying that the rest of the world had been “dragged down with it into recession”. He said that the era of American dominance after the collapse of the Soviet Union was over. “The world cannot be ruled from one capital. Those who do not want to understand this will only create new problems for themselves and others,” he said.

I want to add that I consider these words quite powerful and threatening. While Medvedev is known for playing the strong man, Bible prophecy suggests that he will be willing to actually use his power to make his point.

May God bless his children,

Michael

michae@2008-2012.org

I was wrong on Nov. 3/4

2008-11-05T09:38:00.004Z

Dear Readers!

Well, November3/4 came and went, the Democratic canditate Barack Obama was elected President of the USA and there was no event that stopped that from occuring and no event that kept George W. Bush in power by using "martial law".

The conclusion from a prophetic standpoint must be that the prophecy of the fall of the "towers" (plural) in Isaiah30 was only referring to the towers of the World Trade Centre and not to a different kind of 'fall' of another so called "Tower" one lunar month later on October11, 2001.

This does still not mean that the association of the organisation with the United Nations for over 10 years was okay from God's point of view, it just means that Isaiah30 was not speaking about this abomination.

While there are still plenty of reasons to expect a big terror/war event against the United States in the immediate future from a Biblical perspective, I have to admit that it now looks less likely from a secular perspective.

But then again, Joe Bidens remarks about a "generated crisis" that President Obama will have to face to "test his mettle" soon after he is elected still ring powerful in the ears of many.

I here on this blog and together with Emmanuel on www.2008-2012.org, will keep researching Bible prophecy and chronology and will continue to base our interpretations and warnings solely on the Bible.

November15

So our focus is now on the events that will surround the global financial summit President Bush called for in Washington on November15, 2008. As we have pointed out, the last 1335 days before the "happiness" or "blessedness" of the faithful according to Daniel12, began on September29/30 2008, the day the Dow Jones dropped 777 points. 1335 days later is the festival of Pentecost 2012.

Now if we take the same end date for the 1290 days also mentioned in Daniel12, we see that these must start 45 days later. Interestingly, this takes us exactly to November15, the day of the summit. This is Heshvan17 according to the Jewish calendar which was the day Noah's fllod started and the rebbelion of the Northern Kingdom of Israel occured.

I thus predict that a "global financial authority" that governs the financial system of the future will be installed on that summit. This new entity will wield great power and authority and will probably be backed by the United Nations.

I also deduce that this organisation will be used to bring about the so called "mark of the beast" according to Revelation13.

May God bless his children,

Michael
michael@2008-2012.org

WARNING! - November 3/4

2008-10-29T09:49:00.005Z

UPDATE NOVEMBER 1:

Using the prophetic calendar of 360 days, the Twin Towers were destroyed on the 1^st day of the seventh month of 2001 (September 11-12). One lunar month later, on the 1^st day of the eighth month of 2001 (October 11-12), the legal entity used by true Christians, disassociated itself from the United Nations. In 2008, 7 prophetic years later, the 1st of the seventh month coincided with the October 4/5 and the 1st of the eighth month will coincide with November 3/4.

Please consider that November 3/4 is actually Bul/Heshvan 6 on the Jewish calendar; the same day that Christians began their flight from Jerusalem in the year 66 after Cestius retreated. The "abomination causing desolation" had been placed in the "holy place" the day before. So this could be an important date. It might be a destructive event in New York or Chicago, just before the presidential elections in the United States.

We previously stated:

There is a Scriptural possibility that a catastrophic event, comparable to the fall of the Twin Towers, occurs on October29/30, 2008 somewhere in the USA.

The fall of the global financial system became visible 7 years after the collapse of World Trade Centre and 7 years and 7 days later we saw the drop of 777 points of the Dow Jones on Wall Street.

One lunar month after 9/11 2001, the organization used by modern true Christians, disassociated itself from the United Nations Organizations due to media pressure on October 11, 2001. Another “tower” fell. If this event was part of the fulfilment of the prophecy in Isaiah30:25-26, it is possible that a significant event happens one month after Ethanim/Tishri1 this year, on Bul/Heshvan1.

Preliminary reports indicate that a major disaster “manufactured” by the “false prophet” could occur prior to the presidential election in the United States on November 4. This would be with the intention of promoting the rapid creation of a “New International Order”. In addition, the prophecy about the “death-stroke” against a political system (Revelation 13:14) suggests, that this event will be an action related to war. If these things occur not later than Nov 2/3 (Bul/Heshvan5), then this would be the real sign that Christians have been waiting for, heralding that they begin their “flight” to escape from the final destruction of the antitypical "Jerusalem".

Michael

michael@2008-2012.org

Dirty nukes in cities as the "October surprise"?

2008-10-28T15:15:00.004Z

Dear Readers!

At a news conference on October 22, 2008, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama was asked about a comment by his Vice Presidential running mate Joe Biden that Obama could expect to be tested within six months of the new presidential term by a “generated” international crisis that will force him to make unpopular decisions. Obama said the Delaware senator has occasionally engaged in "rhetorical flourishes," but the essential point was that the new President could expect to be challenged no matter who wins.

Obama held the news conference following a meeting with his national security advisers, who include long standing globalist asset Zbignew Brezezinski. He denied the meeting with his advisors had been called because of political damage stemming from Biden's remarks, in my view a classic ploy for calling more attention to it.

Colin Powell, former Secretary of State (2001-2005), echoed Biden’s warning by referring to an unknown crisis that will come a day or two after the inauguration:

I would start with talking to the American people and talking to the world and conveying a new image of American leadership, a new image of America’s role in the world. The problems will always be there and there's going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January that we don't even know about right now. So I think what the President has to start to do is to start using the power of the Oval Office and the power of his personality to convince the American people and convince the world that America is solid, that America is going to move forward, we are going to fix our economic problems, we're going to meet our overseas obligations.

John McCain and Madeleine Albright added to the furor. Albright called Biden’s statement “a statement of fact,” in that one always has to be prepared “for something unexpected.” McCain raised the specter of nuclear war as he resumed his attack against Obama’s judgment by warning that the next president "won't have time to get used to the office."

Alternative news analysts speculated on the import of these simultaneous warnings by public figures, including their possible relation to a new false flag:

Albright, like Biden and Powell, is an insider minion, so she may know something is up. It is rather suspect that all these voices are saying basically the same thing: Obama will be “tested,” either by an [al-Qaeda] attack, a war or confrontation in the Middle East – read Iran, or Russia….Hopefully, the ACLU’s [Freedom of Information Act request regarding the combat unit deployed domestically as of 10/1/2008] will turn up more information on the emerging police state control grid going online. Unfortunately, we are but one “terrorist event” away from this system being used to identify, track, trace, and round up the opposition. If we are to believe Joe Biden, Colin Powell, and Madeleine Albright, this event may happen as soon as the end of January, 2009.

There has also been wide speculation about an imminent false flag, to be blamed on al-Qaeda, as an “October surprise” designed to influence the outcome of the election. The two scenarios, a staged event before the voting and another manufactured crisis following inauguration, are not mutually exclusive. In this article I argue for both occurring, as part of a multi-phased shock and awe campaign designed to move us into full scale martial law with the help of Barak Obama as the new national savior in a time of peril.

In my view, an October surprise consisting of a staged event in Obama’s home state, such as a dirty nuke detonated in Chicago, is a hypothesis worth exploring. Such an attack would be designed in part to focus attention on Obama as the global elite’s U.S. President of choice. In a crisis such as urban “terrorism,” the propaganda machine could spring into action to spin Obama’s popular appeal in a time of crisis as well as his argument that the Republicans have failed miserably in not apprehending bin Laden seven years after 9/11.

I believe an urban attack would in fact be but step one in a broader psyop by the globalists to condition the public to accept Obama as a new protective father figure to replace George Bush as part of their final push for a full blown police state on a global scale. This possibility brings into bold relief Colin Powell’s reference (in answering fellow Council of Foreign Relations spin-meister Tom Brokaw’s query about how to respond to the post-inaugural crisis Powell had warned about) to the “power of the President’s personality to convince the American people that America is solid.” As Naomi Klein has revealed in her work on the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism, in the CIA’s basic interrogation manual declassified in 1963, a window of opportunity is highlighted in which torture reduces its victim to a state of traumatized disorientation and childlike regression, creating an opening for the interrogator to be transformed into a protective father figure. This is one of the classic tactics of tyrants across the planet. In the view of Klein and others, it was used after the shock of 9/11 to permit George Bush and others to offer a narrative on the shocking events allowing the profoundly disoriented victims to make sense of the trauma. Hence the extraordinary power of the mind control matrix known as the War on Terror.

My core argument is that the globalists’ final battle plan for world dominance is as follows: the current economic implosion that they themselves engineered, its ongoing exploitation to advance their agenda for worldwide financial and economic control, and finally, additional engineered crises designed to enable full-blown martial law as part of an international police state under their power.

I do not believe the globalists want to see riots or other forms of protest on any major scale in the U.S. because of the huge number of guns still in the hands of the populace and because of their uncertainty about the ability (and willingness) of their forces to prevail in armed conflict with Americans. They worry, in my view, that things could become similarly messy in other parts of the globe. Another mass trauma on the scale of 9/11 – or several back-to-back mass traumas involving large numbers across the globe - would be far more efficient for implementing and justifying worldwide full scale martial law, with its attendant confiscation of guns and detention of dissidents.

There is growing recognition of the commonplace use of false flag operations as a cold-blooded tool, even in so-called democracies, for promoting agendas that serve the interests of the power elite at the price of massive suffering for the common man. The most recent evidence of this criminal culture of death was a revelation by renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in July 2008 that Bush administration officials had recently held a meeting in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran. The discussion addressed the idea of disguising Navy seals to look like Iranians, put them on specially built boats that look like Iranian PT boats, and start a fake attack on them in the Straits of Hormuz.

The prospect of an October surprise has already factored into the 2008 campaign, including warnings of another al-Qaeda terrorist attack both from U.S. intelligence sources and allegedly from al Qaeda itself.

The term “October surprise” stems from the 1980 election campaign between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter to refer to last-minute sensations with the potential to reshape a Presidential race. Such a sensation occurred in the last Presidential campaign in 2004. Going into the final weekend of the campaign, Democratic candidate John Kerry had a good chance of winning. Then an alleged Osama bin Laden videotape was issued: Bush went on to beat Kerry and both men attributed the result to the influence of the tape.

Michael

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In adding my voice to the widespread speculation about the spate of warnings of coming crises, I again proffer the hypothesis of a staged terrorist attack as an imminent October surprise going into the final weekend of the current campaign.

Internationl financial meltdown predicted in the Bible!

2008-10-27T10:56:00.003Z

Dear Readers!

The current and global financial crisis predicted in the OT around Tishri1!

I was doing research on the Biblical prophecies predicting the current financial crisis and I was able to find some remarkable warnings.

It was of special interest for me to see that the financial meltdown is associated with the “last days”, the “end” and especially with the “Day of the Trumpet blast”, Ethanim/Tishri1…

First we see in Ezekiel 7 that a “unique” calamity is associated with a “turn of events” (markets) at the coming of the end…

(Ezekiel 7) ⁵ “This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘A calamity, a unique calamity, look! it is coming. ⁶ An end itself must come. The end must come; it must awaken for you. Look! It is coming. ⁷ The turn of events must come to you, O inhabiter of the earth, the time must come, the day is near. There is confusion, and not the shouting of the mountains.

Ezekiel continues giving is a cryptic hint for the time of the year (not the year itself) when these financially catastrophic events would unfold. It is at the time of the trumpet blast when all Jews are preparing for Atonement Day…

(Ezekiel 7:14-19) ¹⁴ “‘They have blown the trumpet and there has been a preparing of everybody, but there is no one going to the battle, because my hot feeling is against all its crowd. ¹⁵ The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine are inside. Whoever is in the field, by the sword he will die, and whoever are in the city, famine and pestilence themselves will devour them. ¹⁶ And their escapees will certainly make their escape and become on the mountains like the doves of the valleys, all of which are moaning, each one in his own error. ¹⁷ As for all the hands, they keep dropping down; and as for all knees, they keep dripping with water. ¹⁸ And they have girded on sackcloth, and shuddering has covered them; and on all faces there is shame and on all their heads there is baldness. ¹⁹ “‘Into the streets they will throw their very silver, and an abhorrent thing their own gold will become. Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s fury. . .

So we see that “gold and silver”, - literally but also symbolic representing money -, would become worthless in these days. From this prophecy we see that famine and war will be resulting in the near future.

Well, according to the Scriptures, everything is established as true by the word of at least 2 witnesses.

This is why also Zephaniah is connecting the day of YHWH (the Great Tribulation leading to Armageddon) with the failing of gold and silver…

(Zephaniah 1:14-18) ¹⁴ “The great day of Jehovah is near. It is near, and there is a hurrying [of it] very much. The sound of the day of Jehovah is bitter. There a mighty man is letting out a cry. ¹⁵ That day is a day of fury, a day of distress and of anguish, a day of storm and of desolation, a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick gloom, ¹⁶ a day of horn and of alarm signal, against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers. ¹⁷ And I will cause distress to mankind, and they will certainly walk like blind men; because it is against Jehovah that they have sinned. And their blood will actually be poured out like dust, and their bowels like the dung. ¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s fury; but by the fire of his zeal the whole earth will be devoured, because he will make an extermination, indeed a terrible one, of all the inhabitants of the earth.”

Yes, also the NT affirms the concept that riches, gold and silver will become worthless in the last days. Our 3^rd witness:

(James 5:1-3) 5 Come, now, YOU rich [men], weep, howling over YOUR miseries that are coming upon YOU. ² YOUR riches have rotted, and YOUR outer garments have become moth-eaten. ³ YOUR gold and silver are rusted away, and their rust will be as a witness against YOU and will eat YOUR fleshy parts. Something like fire is what YOU have stored up in the last days..

That is an amazing realization and I base my prediction of the further collapse of world trade, currencies and whole national economies on these prophecies! Banks, markets and currencies will collapse first and neither Europe nor Asia will be safe from these calamities. There is no escape until one centralized institution will come up with a so called “international rescue solution”.

Michael

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Europe on the brink of currency crisis meltdown

2008-10-27T07:35:00.003Z

The financial crisis spreading like wildfire across the former Soviet bloc threatens to set off a second and more dangerous banking crisis in Western Europe, tipping the whole Continent into a fully-fledged economic slump.

Currency pegs are being tested to destruction on the fringes of Europe’s monetary union in a traumatic upheaval that recalls the collapse of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992. “This is the biggest currency crisis the world has ever seen,” said Neil Mellor, a strategist at Bank of New York Mellon.

Experts fear the mayhem may soon trigger a chain reaction within the eurozone itself. The risk is a surge in capital flight from Austria – the country, as it happens, that set off the global banking collapse of May 1931 when Credit-Anstalt went down – and from a string of Club Med countries that rely on foreign funding to cover huge current account deficits.

The latest data from the Bank for International Settlements shows that Western European banks hold almost all the exposure to the emerging market bubble, now busting with spectacular effect.

They account for three-quarters of the total $4.7 trillion £2.96 trillion) in cross-border bank loans to Eastern Europe, Latin America and emerging Asia extended during the global credit boom – a sum that vastly exceeds the scale of both the US sub-prime and Alt-A debacles. Europe has already had its first foretaste of what this may mean. Iceland’s demise has left them nursing likely losses of $74bn (£47bn). The Germans have lost $22bn.

Stephen Jen, currency chief at Morgan Stanley, says the emerging market crash is a vastly underestimated risk. It threatens to become “the second epicentre of the global financial crisis”, this time unfolding in Europe rather than America. Austria’s bank exposure to emerging markets is equal to 85pc of GDP – with a heavy concentration in Hungary, Ukraine, and Serbia – all now queuing up (with Belarus) for rescue packages from the International Monetary Fund.

Exposure is 50pc of GDP for Switzerland, 25pc for Sweden, 24pc for the UK, and 23pc for Spain. The US figure is just 4pc. America is the staid old lady in this drama.

Amazingly, Spanish banks alone have lent $316bn to Latin America, almost twice the lending by all US banks combined ($172bn) to what was once the US backyard. Hence the growing doubts about the health of Spain’s financial system – already under stress from its own property crash – as Argentina spirals towards another default, and Brazil’s currency, bonds and stocks all go into freefall.

Broadly speaking, the US and Japan sat out the emerging market credit boom. The lending spree has been a European play – often using dollar balance sheets, adding another ugly twist as global “deleveraging” causes the dollar to rocket. Nowhere has this been more extreme than in the ex-Soviet bloc.

The region has borrowed $1.6 trillion in dollars, euros, and Swiss francs. A few dare-devil homeowners in Hungary and Latvia took out mortgages in Japanese yen. They have just suffered a 40pc rise in their debt since July. Nobody warned them what happens when the Japanese carry trade goes into brutal reverse, as it does when the cycle turns.

The IMF’s experts drafted a report two years ago – Asia 1996 and Eastern Europe 2006 – Déjà vu all over again? – warning that the region exhibited the most dangerous excesses in the world. Inexplicably, the text was never published, though underground copies circulated. Little was done to cool credit growth, or to halt the fatal reliance on foreign capital. Last week, the silent authors had their moment of vindication as Eastern Europe went haywire.

Hungary stunned the markets by raising rates 3pc to 11.5pc in a last-ditch attempt to defend the forint’s currency peg in the ERM.

It is just blood in the water for hedge funds sharks, eyeing a long line of currency kills. “The economy is not strong enough to take it, so you know it is unsustainable,” said Simon Derrick, currency strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon.

Romania raised its overnight lending to 900pc to stem capital flight, recalling the near-crazed gestures by Scandinavia’s central banks in the final days of the 1992 ERM crisis – political moves that turned the Nordic banking crisis into a disaster.

Russia too is in the eye of the storm, despite its energy wealth – or because of it. The cost of insuring Russian sovereign debt through credit default swaps (CDS) surged to 1,200 basis points last week, higher than Iceland’s debt before Götterdammerung struck Reykjavik.

The markets no longer believe that the spending structure of the Russian state is viable as oil threatens to plunge below $60 a barrel. The foreign debt of the oligarchs ($530bn) has surpassed the country’s foreign reserves. Some $47bn has to be repaid over the next two months.

Traders are paying close attention as contagion moves from the periphery of the eurozone into the core. They are tracking the yield spreads between Italian and German 10-year bonds, the stress barometer of monetary union. The spreads reached a post-EMU high of 93 last week.

Nobody knows where the snapping point is, but anything above 100 would be viewed as a red alarm. The market took careful note on Friday that Portugal’s biggest banks, Millenium, BPI, and Banco Espirito Santo are preparing to take up the state’s emergency credit guarantees.

Hans Redeker, currency chief at BNP Paribas, says there is an imminent danger that East Europe’s currency pegs will be smashed unless the EU authorities wake up to the full gravity of the threat, and that in turn will trigger a dangerous crisis for EMU itself.

“The system is paralysed, and it is starting to look like Black Wednesday in 1992. I’m afraid this is going to have a very deflationary effect on the economy of Western Europe. It is almost guaranteed that euroland money supply is about to implode,” he said.

A grain of comfort for British readers: UK banks have almost no exposure to the ex-Communist bloc, except in Poland – one of the less vulnerable states.

Michael

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Joseph introducing state control in Egypt

2008-10-26T10:48:00.005Z

Dear Brothers!

Right on schedule, the politician puppets are promising to save us from the crisis caused by the banker puppets by creating "a new world financial order."

Nicholas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown are calling for a "new international financial architecture for the global age" which will establish Rothschild global governance under the guise of "reforming and regulating" markets.

Well, I was studying and tried to see if I could find this pattern in the Scriptures and here is a surprising analogy that I found. It is way off our current interpretation of that account but maybe it applies in an untouched thread…

The manipulation of calamities to re-make society can be traced back to Biblical times. Joseph is best known for predicting seven years of abundance (inflation) followed by seven years of famine (credit- contraction or deflation.)

He is less well known for using this "business cycle" to establish a form of state control. All the cultivated land in Egypt became the property of the crown, and the people farmed it for the king, giving him one-fifth of the produce.

In Genesis 47, Joseph, second in command to Pharaoh, warned of a coming famine, and prepared stock-piles of grain to aid the people through the crisis. When the famine hit the land, the people came to Joseph to buy food stock. A simple transaction was made; the citizens used the national currency to purchase grain.

In verses 14 and 15 however we find an unusual development. After the grain was purchased, Joseph intentionally held the money back, keeping it from being re-circulated into the local economy. The result is predictably catastrophic for the people: Economic crisis.

According to the King James Version, "the money failed" (vs.15), and in the New World Translation it says that the " money has run out". Egypt experienced intentional, government-sponsored deflation in the midst of a natural calamity. The money collapsed.

Needing to eat, what did the citizens do? They brought Joseph their livestock in exchange for grain (vs.16-17). As an agrarian society, livestock represented the industrial basis of the people. Hence, placing this power in the hands of the government, the people's commercial activity was effectively abolished.

They couldn’t just eat the animals instead of trading them for grain because obviously there was no way to keep the meat fresh. Grain would have been the most valuable and stable food source during a drought. Now the people had neither money nor livestock; and a year later they were out of food.

Returning to Joseph, who obviously was in charge of the storehouses, the people begged their leader to take their land and themselves in trade for food (vs.18-19). Property was therefore consolidated under the state, and the citizens literally became slaves in their own country (vs.20-21).

This is a masterful population control strategy. Once the wealth of the nation had been consolidated under Pharaoh's banner via Joseph's actions - monetary wealth, the industrial base, land and productivity, and the people as economic assets - then Joseph instituted a new farming and taxation system (vs.20-24). How did the people respond? They gladly relinquished control of their wealth, property, and themselves (gave up their freedom) for the promise of state-dictated security.

Keep in mind; all of this started through a debasing of the currency system. The manipulation of money is, arguably, the most potent method to rearrange society.

Consider what the father of modern economics, John Maynard Keynes, had to say in 1919.

"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society han to debauch the currency." - John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

Roughly speaking, it's the idea that governments can stimulate the economy through interest rate management and other state-instituted incentive programs. Although the above quote was aimed primarily at inflationary actions, the same conclusion could be made regarding deflationary leveraging.

Anyway, I never thought about it why Joseph acted so harshly with the Egyptians. Mind you, the "king of the south" is the greater modern "Egypt", the US-UK coalition.

Also think about this: Finally "Joseph" was called by a name or title that in truth only belongs to Jesus Christ!!!! He was called "saviour of the earth", "Zaph´e·nath-pa·ne´ah". The NWT explains that the Hebrews understood it as "revealer of hidden things", but that does not matter, since Pharaoh and the Egyptians gave him that name/title and they (and thus he himself) understood it as "saviour of the world".

Is that a pattern, a story of the coming "anti Christ" or "son of perdition?"

Does the Great Tribulation continue for 3.5 years after the faithful are raptured and there are 7 more years to come?

Michael

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Panic May Force Market Shutdown!

2008-10-24T17:41:00.003+01:00

Dear Readers!

I have warned you about 3 weeks ago of a pending "bank run" and an enforced "bank holiday" to prevent it. That's why I adviced all my readers to take out their money now and stock up supplies. This article appeared on the Bloomberg today...

Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Hundreds of hedge funds will fail and policy makers may need to shut financial markets for a week or more as the crisis forces investors to dump assets, New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini said. ``We've reached a situation of sheer panic,'' Roubini, who predicted the financial crisis in 2006, told a conference of hedge-fund managers in London today. ``There will be massive dumping of assets'' and ``hundreds of hedge funds are going to go bust,'' he said.

Group of Seven policy makers have stopped short of market suspensions to stem the crisis after the U.S. pledged on Oct. 14 to invest about $125 billion in nine banks and the Federal Reserve led a global coordinated move to cut interest rates on Oct. 8. Emmanuel Roman, co-chief executive officer at GLG Partners Inc., said today that as many as 30 percent of hedge funds will close.

``Systemic risk has become bigger and bigger,'' Roubini said at the Hedge 2008 conference. ``We're seeing the beginning of a run on a big chunk of the hedge funds,'' and ``don't be surprised if policy makers need to close down markets for a week or two in coming days,'' he said. Roubini predicted in July 2006 that the U.S. would enter an economic recession. In February this year, he forecast a ``catastrophic'' financial meltdown that central bankers would fail to prevent, leading to the bankruptcy of large banks exposed to mortgages and a ``sharp drop'' in equities.

Bear, Lehman

The comments preceded the collapse of Bear Stearns & Cos. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. as well as the government seizure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a benchmark for American equities, has lost 37 percent this year, including its biggest daily drop in more than twenty years on Oct. 15. The Dow average rose 2.5 percent to 8728.73 as of 10:55 a.m. today in New York. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi roiled international markets on Oct. 10, first saying world leaders were discussing shutting down global financial exchanges, and then saying he didn't mean it.

``In a fairly Darwinian manner, many hedge funds will simply disappear,'' Roman said, speaking at the same event as Roubini. The hedge fund industry is stumbling through its worst year in two decades and posted its biggest monthly drop for a decade in September. Hedge funds are mostly private pools of capital whose managers participate substantially in the profits from their speculation on whether the price of assets will rise or fall.

`Very Ugly' `

Things are getting very ugly also in the emerging markets,'' Roubini said. ``The usual saying is when the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Unfortunately, this time around the U.S. is not just sneezing, it has a severe case of chronic and persistent pneumonia. It's becoming a mess in emerging markets.''

Developing nations' borrowing costs jumped to the highest in six years today as Belarus joined Hungary, Ukraine and Pakistan in seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund to help weather frozen money markets and a slump in commodities. Argentina risks defaulting for the second time this decade.

``There are about a dozen emerging markets that are now in severe financial trouble,'' Roubini said. ``Even a small country can have a systemic effect on the global economy,'' he added. ``There is not going to be enough IMF money to support them.'' Roubini, a former senior adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department, earlier this month said that the world's biggest economy will suffer its worst recession in 40 years. ``This is the worst financial crisis in the U.S., Europe and now emerging markets that we've seen in a long time,'' Roubini said. ``Things will get much worse before they get better. I fear the worst is ahead of us.''

Now I think it is really time to get your savings if you have not already done it...
Michael
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The U.S. Dollar Death Dance and Gold

2008-10-24T17:32:00.003+01:00

Dear Readers!

Here is a great article for all of you who wondered why the USD is going up during this crisis…

Jim Willie
The Market Oracle
Friday, Oct 24, 2008

The US Dollar rally in the last several weeks has been remarkable. At closer examination, it highly resembles a spurt prior to death. Imagine an old man who just had a heart attack, lost feeling in certain body parts, his mind not working right, plenty of nonsense gibberish coming from his mouth, and now he is dancing hard on some last gasps. The vast liquidation movement is akin to the old man going through an embalming process while dancing atop the tables at the funeral parlor, as bidding proceeds for his cadaver.

Are Americans last to realize the financial structure destruction means the US Economy does not enter a recession, but rather a bizarre unprecedented disintegration? It seems so. The liquidation of speculative positions, the massive de-leveraging, the payout’s of defaulted bonds, these events are the opposite of developments toward revival or resuscitation, like business investment!!

Liquidation is the exact opposite of investment, and precedes job cuts, not job creation.

The following survey of important issues is covered in depth in the October Hat Trick Letter. This month, an additional Crisis Coverage report was included, since too much has been happening, most of it confusing. Plenty of stories are occurring behind the stories, many covered. Here is a quick survey touching the surface on issues discussed and analyzed more in depth for subscribers.

FACTORS BEHIND US DOLLAR RALLY
What is pushing the US Dollar up cannot be construed as anything remotely resembling healthy factors. In no way whatsoever does it resemble investment. It is more like paid off death contracts, paid off death investments, paid off transfers from toxic US bonds into what are falsely regarded as safer US bonds with a guarantee from a crippled USGovt. Foreign financial entities are liquidating on massive scale. They need a tremendous amount of US Dollars in order to complete transactions. Also, a tremendous amount of US Dollars are needed for CDSwap payout’s as defaulted bonds are resolved. Almost all CDSwap and other credit derivatives are paid out in US Dollars The Lehman Brothers payout was full of lies, again. The Lehman Brothers total volume of corporate bonds was $160 billion, but $400 billion existed in total CDS volume tied to them! It is no surprise that the Dow and S&P500 stock indexes fell hard (by almost 400 points on Dow) and on the Lehman resolution day. And market mavens boasted of no impact on the Lehman funeral date!

The DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corp) reported only a net $5.2 billion payout on the Lehman Brothers failure CDSwap resolution. The ‘Dis-Trust Clearing Corp’ might want to check credit derivative experts who claim between $220 billion and $270 billion in that total after netting. By the way, the DTCC is the official banking entity that oversees all stock clearing overnight, including all the naked shorting. The de-leveraging process has left the central bankers empty handed, exposed as having empty financial cupboards. Thus the need for massive central bank swaps from the US Fed, which has perversely farmed out its function to foreigners. In fact, the foreign central banks might be in possession of more US$ inventory items than the US Fed So the US central bank has asked foreign central banks to do its job, and to manage the world reserve currency? This amidst a US$ rally!?!

The Credit Default Swaps are capable of burning Hiroshima holes all over the US financial system, resulting in US Economic implosion from eliminated bank and financial system structures almost entirely. The process has only begun, but in darkness. The other purpose for big bailouts was to prevent CDSwap explosions, risking a string of bombs to go off. The key aspect of CDSwap contracts is their hidden nature, with fuses intersecting in the dark.

When the market mavens talk about the de-leverage process, they refer to speculative investments being liquidated. Oftentimes, they do not include in the story how Wall Street firms, desperate to stave off bankruptcy, are targeting viciously their own clients. The big accounts lie in hedge funds, where the private wealthy are being decimated. Credit is being pulled. Margin calls are being delivered. Margin ratios are being raised. Those funds whose positions are aligned with the predators on Wall Street continue in their investment portfolios. Those funds in opposition are attacked with artillery, carpet bombs, and early morning raids. The US Dollar is rallying amidst this type of sinister liquidation.

The result has been numerous spread trades anchored by the USTreasury Bond are forced into sale. That means a USTBond buyback occurs from the short cover on the trade. Whether a spread on mortgage bonds, corporate bonds, emerging market bonds, or crude oil, or gold, the trade is liquidated, and a USTBond is bought back. NO TANGIBLE END DEMAND, ONLY USTREASRY BOND SHORT COVERS. This is the basis for a US$ rally?

WORSENING US$ FUNDAMENTALS
How many times have we seen the US stock market go down, non-government bond yields rise, the US Dollar rise, and the USTBond yields fall? That has been the norm in the last few weeks. These are death signals, not investment signals. The US Economy cannot afford liquidation and constricted credit, a well-known fact, seemingly forgotten today. These signals come amidst falling confidence, more bank distress measures, more job loss, more home foreclosures, and lately, trouble with letters of credit at port facilities.

Financial markets, including the US Dollar, have yet to factor in the deep US Economic recession.

The US Dollar rally flies in the face of deteriorating fundamentals. See job cut announcements at Caterpillar, Merrill Lynch, General Motors, Chrysler, several Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs today. Weekly jobless claims at close to half a million per week, equal to peak during the unrecognized 2001 recession. See the UMichigan consumer sentiment, Philly Fed index, Empire Fed index, leading economic indicators, durable goods orders, on and on. Retail sales, the backbone of the backwards US Economy, are plummeting. That is, the plummet is before inflation price adjustments. Car sales are plummeting also.

Exports are to be worse from the higher US$ exchange rate on the table, combined with slower foreign economies. The improved export trade has been a big boast from the lunatics running the asylum. The US Economy is accelerating in its decline, certain to produce a recession and huge USGovt deficits. That deficit is likely to at least double and possible quadruple next year. USTreasury Bond issuance cannot conceivably finance all, or at least half, of the commitments. The printing press will do the rest, which will cut down the US$ valuation. The US Dollar decline lies ahead, when the distortions slow or come to an end. Gold will soar on the other side of this liquidation.

An extreme backlash attack is coming against the US Dollar Rising import prices in foreign economies have already caused alarm. Foreigners will soon attack the US$ in a matter of time, using heavy US$-based reserves. Their banking sectors are in disarray, primarily because they are intimately tied to the US$ and USTBonds. The process has begun with Brazil and Mexico in Latin America, to use their strong reserves and sell into this queer US$ strength. That is what reserves are for. The process will spread to other nations.

John Embry of Sprott Asset Mgmt has raised the possibility of a December gold futures contract default. He is not predicting it, or claiming it as certain, but rather mentions how talk centers on the December gold contract as having extreme stress for actual delivery. Pressure is building. The December contract not only is end of quarter, but end of year. He suggests a possible default. He said, “there is probably going to be such an event to change perceptions.” He cited a possible force majeure that could act as a “seminal event that defines the whole situation.” He explained that the physical gold price would then dictate the paper gold price, a return to normalcy, and with a gigantic move up in the gold price. Right now the paper gold market is overwhelming the physical side, but the physical side is constricted on supply. He explained that hedge funds are being unwound on a massive scale, slaughtered by margin calls. The long side must call for delivery on many contracts. He also expects there will be many questions on the Exchange Traded Funds soon as well, although those are surely not as important as the COMEX contract defaults.

Michael
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What will Obama's 'international crisis' be?

2008-10-23T14:54:00.004+01:00

Dear Readers!

Joe Biden’s “guarantee” that an “international crisis” will unfold shortly after President Obama takes office conjures up several different possibilities, but it seems the likely outcome will revolve around an announcement that Iran has developed a nuclear bomb, prompting a potential military attack.

“It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,” Biden told an audience in Seattle this past weekend.

“Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

The assured tone with which Biden delivered his forecast was staggeringly convincing, and left the observer in no doubt that there will be a major world crisis shortly after Obama takes office. “Mark my words, mark my words,” Biden stressed, adding that “tough” and “unpopular” foreign policy decisions will have to be made.

“I promise you it will occur,” Biden added, “As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it is going to happen.”

Biden’s use of the word “generated” is even more startling. One of the dictionary definitions we find for the word “generated” is “to bring into existence; cause to be; produce,” which begs the question, will this be another staged and manufactured crisis like the 9/11 attacks, which occurred less than 8 months after Bush took office?

Or will it be something even more serious, a nuclear conflagration involving Russia or Iran?

John McCain raised the specter of nuclear war yesterday when he warned that the United States faces “many challenges here at home, and many enemies abroad in this dangerous world,” before mentioning the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis.

Echoing Biden’s comments, McCain said the next president “won’t have time to get used to the office” and “I know how close we came to a nuclear war and I will not be a president that needs to be tested. I have been tested. Senator Obama has not.”

What is the test to which McCain and Biden refer, and how can they be so sure that it will arrive shortly after Obama takes office should he win the election as expected? What was Colin Powell referring to on Meet The Press when he said, “There’s going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now.”

The most likely scenario seems to revolve around Iran announcing, or the U.S. government claiming, that they are ready to build their first nuclear bomb.

Indeed, the Mossad front news outlet Debka File reported yesterday that “Iran will be ready to build its first bomb just one month after the next US president is sworn in.” The very next sentence of the report ties this in with Biden’s promise of an international crisis immediately after Obama takes office.

“DEBKAfile’s military sources cite the new US timeline: By late January, 2009, Iran will have accumulated enough low-grade enriched uranium (up to 5%) for its “break-out” to weapons grade (90%) material within a short time. For this, the Iranians have achieved the necessary technology. In February, they can move on to start building their first nuclear bomb,” according to the report.

Of course, the legitimacy of these claims are likely to be completely fabricated - the official U.S. National Intelligence Estimate concluded in December that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons campaign in late 2003 - but the Israelis may be laying the groundwork for a propaganda offensive similar to the “weapons of mass destruction” scam that preceded the invasion of Iraq.

Will the military assault on Iran occur not under the highly unpopular Bush administration, as many had predicted, but under an Obama presidency? Riding into office on a wave of popular approval and support, Obama will have the political capital to get the country behind the attack if the threat of imminent danger is cited - or at least stand by and allow Israel to do the dirty work.

Will a nuclear flash point on the scale of the Cuban Missile Crisis turn out to be the “international crisis” that Biden so vehemently promised? Or will the event take on a different characteristic.

Bush exploited 9/11 to realize the pre-set agenda of his Neo-Con masters months after he was inaugurated and Bill Clinton seized upon the Oklahoma City Bombing shortly into his second term to expand federal power. What will Obama’s crisis be that enables him to offer his contribution to

building the American police state?

- A terror attack, or a series of attacks, on major American cities, possibly involving crudely designed nuclear bombs or dirty bombs?

- A complete economic collapse and a new great depression leading to food riots and the imposition of martial law?

- A military showdown with Russia should Russia attempt to invade Georgia or another pro-U.S. Russian satellite country?

- A nuclear showdown with Russia should Russia start a nuclear war with Ukraine, as has been threatened?

- The necessity for another military attack on Afghanistan should the Taliban continue to regain control of the country?

- A confrontation with Venezuela should it be revealed that Hugo Chavez is receiving nuclear bomb technology from Russia or Iran?

- A new escalation in the Middle East should Israel deploy its nuclear arsenal to attack Iran, Syria Lebanon, or even Egypt?

Whatever the new “international crisis” that we have been guaranteed turns out to be, you can bet your bottom dollar that the response to it will ultimately lead to more carnage and a further assault on the fast-disappearing freedoms that we still enjoy - and in that sense under an Obama presidency, the more things “change,” the more they will stay the same.

Michael
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Colin Powell Warns Of Coming Crisis “We Don’t Even Know About Right Now

2008-10-22T16:07:00.004+01:00

Dear Readers!

Yesterday I commented on Joe Biden predicting a "crisis" to "test Obama". Today I realized that Colin Powell has made bizarre comments that echo the recent declaration by Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden that there will be an “international crisis” early into Barack Obama’s presidency that will test the new president by forcing him to make unpopular decisions.

Speaking on meet the press two days ago, Powell officially endorsed Obama and also made the following statement:

“The problems will always be there and there’s going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now.

So I think what the President has to start to do is to start using the power of the oval office and the power of his personality to convince the American people and convince the world that America is solid, that America is going to move forward, we are going to fix our economic problems, we’re going to meet out overseas obligations.”

Is Colin Powell referring to a theoretical crisis that could occur at any time? If so why does he choose a specific date, within the first two days after the inauguration? Also why does he refer to general problems that the new president will have to deal with in a separate context? We are already in an economic crisis, everyone knows that, so what new crisis is Powell talking about?

Whatever you read into Powell’s comments, they sound somewhat bizarre, particularly as they come on the back of Joe Biden’s “guarantee” of a “generated crisis” to “test the mettle” of the new leader within six months of the new presidential term:

What does Biden mean by “generated crisis”? It is an undeniably strange term to use.

His reference to John F. Kennedy indicates that Biden may have been referring some kind of geopolitical crisis in the vain of the Cuban missile crisis of April 1961. The confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba at the height of the Cold War came within the first four months of JFK’s presidency.

Obama’s running mate made the comments at a fundraising event in Seattle two days ago, on the same day Powell also spoke of a coming crisis.

We shouldn’t be surprised at Powell’s comments however, given that the former Secretary of State seemingly has a knack for predicting events before they take place.

Previous to the beginning of the Iraq war in February 2003, an audio tape containing a voice described as that of Osama Bin Laden was touted as proof positive of Al Qaeda links with Saddam Hussein.

Hours before the tape was discovered and aired by TV channel Al Jazeera, Powell announced in the US Senate that a “Bin Laden tape is coming proving Iraq’s links with Al-Qaeda.”

This led some to raise the question how does Colin Powell know what Al Jazeera are going to broadcast before they do?

In an amazing and timely coincidence, the tape came barely a week after Powell’s attempts to link Al Qaeda and Saddam in his botched presentation of lies and exaggerations before the UN Security Council.

Surely those people know the plans of the elite and the NWO people, if not in detail, so in general, So something big is brewing up, such as we predict from the Scriptures.

Michael

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Let your Kingdom come...

2008-10-22T16:04:00.001+01:00

Dear Readers

It is tragic that most of the major denominations - Roman Catholic and Protestant - embrace an eschatology ("study of last things") that is amillennial: a view that does not envision a literal rule of Christ on the Throne of David on the Planet Earth.

While there are many different, yet defendable, views regarding many aspects of end-time prophecies, this basic divergence - denying a literal Millennium - is particularly dangerous in that it would appear to be an attack on the very character of God! It does violence to His numerous and explicit promises and commitments that pervade both the Old and New Testaments.

The Old Testament is replete with commitments for a literal Messiah ultimately ruling the world through Israel from His throne in Jerusalem. There are at least 1,845 references in the Old Testament and 17 books give prominence to the event. The ancient rabbinical aspirations were dominated by it. In fact, this obsession obscured their recognizing the Messiah when He made His initial appearance.

There are at least 318 references in 216 chapters of the New Testament and 23 of its 27 books give prominence to the event. The early church looked longingly for His promised return as their "Blessed Hope" to rid their desperate world of its evil rulers. How and where did this skepticism known as "Amillennialism" begin?

Origen

Pious, popular, and persuasive, Origen stands out as one of the great figures of the 3rd century church. Even at the age of 18, he stood out spectacularly well as a teacher in Alexandria. (In misguided obedience to Matthew 19:12, he emasculated himself, which he later regretted.) Later, as a prolific writer based in Caesarea, his De Principiis systematically laid out Christian doctrine in terms of Hellenic thinking and set the pattern for most subsequent theological thought for many years. His numerous sermons and commentaries, however, tragically also established an extreme pattern of allegorizing Scripture, which was to strongly influence Augustine in subsequent years.

Augustine

Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), was one of the most influential leaders of the Western church, living during the turbulent days of the disintegration of the Roman Empire. He lived a sensuous, dissolute life, but following a dramatic conversion he experienced a total change of character. In 391 he was ordained as a priest in North Africa and four years later was elevated to the Bishop of Hippo. He embarked on a writing career and his extensive doctrinal writings deeply affected the Medieval Roman Catholic Church. Augustine's most elaborate writing, The City of God , was written as the Empire lay crumbling under a siege by half-civilized tribes. It portrayed the Church as a new civic order in the midst of the ruins of the Roman Empire. Augustine died while the Vandals were besieging the very gates of Hippo in A.D. 430.

Although his writings effectively defeated a number of heresies emerging in those turbulent times, the allegorizing influences of Origen left an amillennial eschatology in their wake. As the Church had increasingly become an instrument of the state, it wasn't politically expedient to look toward a literal return of Christ to rid the world of its evil rulers! The allegorical reposturing of those passages was more "politically correct."

The Reformation Shortfall

A thousand years later, under the influences of Martin Luther and others, the Reformation brought an intensive return to the authority of the Scriptures which, in turn, resulted in the subsequent reform in soteriology (the study of salvation) with its emphasis on salvation by faith alone. Many were willingly burned at the stake for their commitment to a Biblical perspective. However, one of the unfortunate shortcomings of the Reformation was that it failed to also re-examine the eschatology of the Medieval Church in the light of Scripture. Thus, the allegorizing alchemy of Origen, institutionalized by Augustine, left a denial of the Millennium that still continues to pervade the doctrines of most Protestant denominations today.

Reality of the Millennium

For anyone who takes the Bible seriously, the numerous explicit commitments of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that the Messiah would literally rule from Zion cannot be ignored or explained away. At the same time, however, the more we learn about the Millennium, the more questions are raised.

Michael

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Major crisis predicted by Joe Biden

2008-10-21T17:32:00.002+01:00

ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.

"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

Not only will the next administration have to deal with foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with the current economic crisis.

"Gird your loins," Biden told the crowd. "We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy."

Biden said the Democratic ticket is equipped to meet the challenges head on.

"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it," the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of Obama. "This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us."

"There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision'," Biden continued. "Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound."

Biden emphasized that the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border is of particular concern, with Osama bin Laden "alive and well" and Pakistan "bristling with nuclear weapons."

"You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region," Biden said in recalling when his helicopter was forced down due to a snowstorm there. "The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it's real."

"We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes," he cautioned. "It's so much more important than that. It's so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it."

"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here," he joked.

"All kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place," he then said of the Bush regime, promptly wrapping up his remarks. "We have the ability to straighten it out. It's gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us."

Michael
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What is God's original purpose?

2008-10-21T15:09:00.001+01:00

Dear Readers!

What is the "original purpose" of Jehovah? Well, that is a very big question! Many churches teach that his purpose was that Adam and Eve stay perfect, make the whole planet a garden and fill it with perfect offspring...

That sounds romantic but I don't think it is true. Listen why. When God created Adam there were billions of angels, seraphim, cherubs etc around. Now we understand that they are all "free willed beings", free moral agents that can decide for themselves what they do and what not. They are not "worship robots"!

Now obviously, Jehovah is good in mathematics and in "probability calculus". So given a population of billions of free willed beings and given an indefinite amount of time (eternity) it is not only "likely" that someone WILL rebel against him, it is certain!

So Jehovah knew quite well that SOMEONE will rebel. Funnily enough, it was the cherub over Eden that became "Satan" which proofs that what we see today in man is also true for angels: Power corrupts!!!

In turn man was also created with free will, as a free moral agent. Adam had "knowledge" because he was taught by Jehovah, but he did not have "experience" or "wisdom" because "wisdom" is trained discernment. So he surely was an easy prey for the one that would rebel.

But here was God's dilemma. He IS love by definition (1. John4:16) and as any good father, he wants his children (cration) to become perfect, yes like he himself is. But love can only grow in an enviroment of free will. Free will is a prerequisite for love. Ther is no chance for love without free will. Worship roboters without free will would be obidient but they never would develop love and thus finally become perfect as their heavenly father...

(Matthew 5:48) 48 YOU must accordingly be perfect, as YOUR heavenly Father is perfect.

So God had no other choice than creating free willed beings KNOWING the probability (or certainty) that someone WILL rebel and use his free will in a different way. But Jehovah also knew that there the way to perfect love leads through the "valley of tears". Free moral agents need experience and have to develop "wisdom" to see that sin does not pay off and that Jehovah's requirements are a minimum set of rules for a society to live in an harmonious and "sustainable" way.

We all need to develop the deep internal understanding that our heavenly father knows best and his way of perfect love is the goal all creation wants to achieve. Then and only then will we start to be a law to ourselves, we will act righteously not because we fear punishment or because we are forced to, but out of free will and wisdom and out of love for our neighbour who is our brother, another son of the Creator.

THIS is God's true original purpose that all his creatures (spiritual or physical) learn to use their free will in a perfectly loving manner out of their own initiative!

Michael
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An awfully true quote...

2008-10-20T21:11:00.002+01:00

Dear Readers!

I want to point out a quote that was sent to me in a comment by one of my readers...

Instituting the mark-of-the-beast system could come after the “not ... a dollar of coin or currency in circulation” scenario envisioned by Robert Hemphill, Credit Manager of the “Federal” Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who stated:

“If all the bank loans were paid no one would have a bank deposit and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.”

Michael

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Reports on American Collapse

2008-10-20T21:05:00.004+01:00

Dear Readers!

A stunning report circulating in the Kremlin today states the Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, has told both the Syrian President and Lebanon’s Hezbollah Leadership that the next American president would the ‘last one’ during secret meetings he held in Beirut this past week.

Equally as stunning, these reports continue, President Bush had secretly delivered to Syrian President Assad a ‘guarantee’ that Israel would be made to withdrawal from the Golan Heights in exchange for its breaking of its alliance with Iran, news which shocked the Israeli government who stated they were unaware of this latest American move against them.

Russian Military Analysts state that these latest US moves are designed around the planned ascendancy to the US Presidency of Barak Obama who they report is slated to lead the United States into the worst period of their history since their 1860-65 Civil War, and which like that conflict is due to fracture the American Nation from its present position as a First World Nation State to one of at least 3 separate countries based upon ethnic and religious lines.

Russian experts are already planning on the breakup of the United States due to the ascendancy of the most radical US Governor in decades, Sarah Palin, who has risen to prominence based upon her long-standing affiliation with the Alaskan Independence Party that has long championed a break with Washington D.C.

Not being understood by the American people about their coming demise is that the template their destruction is being based upon is an exact mirror image of the one that brought down the last World Superpower, the Soviet Union, and which the ‘main warning sign’ is the total collapse of Global oil prices, and which were warned about this past March by Kuwaiti oil industry analyst Kamel A Al-Harami, and who stated:

“Al-Harami speaking exclusively to Kuwait Times yesterday, explained the inevitability of an oil market price correction by the end of 2008 saying, "Definitely there will have to be a correction... Nobody can sustain such high prices, whether it is the $10 a gallon in Europe or $5 and $6 in the USA -- it is not sustainable." He added, "...most likely anything that goes up quickly comes down also, so I see oil prices coming down in the near future. I cannot tell you a specific day, but eventually it will come down and it will crash. It will crash by all means because it did not take anything for oil prices to reach $107, $108, $109...or even the $100 level..." He stated that when the correction comes, "It is going to hit hard the economies of everyone, whether it is the oil producers or the oil consumers.”

This is of critical importance for the American people to understand as just like the United States today, the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s was embroiled in an unending war against the Muslim peoples of the World when the price of oil collapsed cutting off its access for much needed foreign currency leading to its complete economic implosion and its end as a Superpower.

Today the United States, as the 17^th largest exporter of oil in the World, has seen its daily oil export revenues decrease by an astounding $700 billion per day as the price of this commodity has fallen from its 3-month-ago high near $150 a barrel to its current price near $70, and all occurring during a time that the American people are facing their worst economic crisis since the Great Depression leaving them unable to borrow on the World Markets the funds needed to finance their wars, or lifestyles.

Even worse, the United States has been forced to surrender its power to appoint the World Bank president, a power it has held since the ending of World War II which was delegated to it by the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (known also as the Bretton Woods conference) to ‘regulate the international monetary and financial order’ after the conclusion of the war.

To coincide with the coming destruction of the United States, the monetary and financial order of the World is also being changed to reflect this fact as French President Sarkozy and European Commission President Barroso have just forced President Bush to accede to Global demands to hold an emergency summit in November where the US Dollar will lose its long standing as the reserve currency for Global transactions, most particularly in oil.

The American people, however, continue to remain in near total ignorance of their impending fate still failing to realize that a United States economy supported by 70 percent of its citizens continually buying things they don’t need while they owe over $25 Trillion in debt on their credit cards they are now using for their most basis of needs, is an economic system that can do nothing else but collapse in a way that will shock these poor people unlike anything ever occurring in their lifetime.

Not to be overlooked is that with the coming breakup of the United States their once stalwart ally Israel will be doomed as the Americans continue to be the only Nation still supporting the Jewish State against a rising tide of World condemnation for their imprisonment of the Palestinian people.

Most surprising of all of these events is that unlike the warnings being shouted to the American people, like us from outside their shores, that they have continually mocked and ignored, now these warnings are being issued in their own country, and two examples of this are:

On their most watched cable news network CNN it is being reported that members of the US Congress were threatened with martial law and further stated that nearly all of America’s elite political class have been buying up books on post World War I Germany’s Weimar Republic which they state the United States is soon to resemble with interest rates hitting astronomical highs as the US dollar totally collapses.

Top American writer Naomi Wolf has warned her fellow citizens: “Because Americans like me were born in freedom, we have a hard time even considering that it is possible for us to become as unfree - domestically - as many other nations. Because we no longer learn much about our rights or our system of government - the task of being aware of the constitution has been outsourced from citizens' ownership to being the domain of professionals such as lawyers and professors - we scarcely recognise the checks and balances that the founders put in place, even as they are being systematically dismantled. Because we don't learn much about European history, the setting up of a department of "homeland" security - remember who else was keen on the word "homeland" - didn't raise the alarm bells it might have.”

But, to the full consequences of their coming breakup the American people are facing Ms Wolf has issued her most dire warning yet in stating that for the first time since their Civil War US Combat Troops are ready to take to the streets throughout the United States to eliminate any, and all, dissention against them.

One can only wonder when, or if, these American people will finally awaken to the dangers they face so that they might prepare themselves for survival in the strange World suddenly enveloping them in its evil embrace. For them to do nothing borders on the insane, but if this past decade has shown us anything it is that most of them are.

Michael

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The Exiles of the Northern Kingdom, Judah and Jerusalem

2008-10-19T18:42:00.003+01:00

Dear Readers!

This study will prove that there was more than one period of 70 years involved in the Babylonian exile. It were 2 houses, the house of Israel, the Northern Kingdom, Samaria and the house of Judah, the Southern Kingdom, that both missed their land sabbaths that were part of the Mosaic Covenant...

2 'You should keep my Sabbaths and stand in awe of my sanctuary, I am Jehovah'. (Leviticus 26)

The penalty for breaching this was (verses 34,35):

34 'At that time the land will pay off its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolated, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will keep Sabbath, as it must repay its Sabbaths.
35 All the days of its lying desolated it will keep Sabbath, for the reason that it did not keep Sabbath during your Sabbaths when you were dwelling upon it (Leviticus 26).

This penalty is saying that the number of years of exile will equal the number of missed Land Sabbath years. Now we know from various scriptures, that this exile was 70 years long.

Jeremiah warned the Northern Kingdoms about the coming punishment for the missed land Sabbaths:

1 The word that occurred to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the 4th year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, that is, the first year of Nebuchadrezzar [aka Nebuchanezzar] the king of Babylon [604 BC].
2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke concerning all the people of Judah and concerning all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
3 From the 13th year of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, and down to this day, these 23 years [from 626 BC to 604 BC] the word of Jehovah has occurred to me, and I kept speaking to you people, rising up early and speaking, but you did not listen (Jeremiah 25).

8 Therefore this is what Jehovah of armies has said, 'For the reason that you did not obey my words,
9 here I am sending and I will take all the families of the north [the Northern Kingdom of Israel was already under the authority of Nebuchadnezzar since the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital to the Babylonians in 612 and then the fall of Harran, their secondary captial, to Nabopolassar in 609 - Cambridge Ancient History - Wikipedia. The Assyrians ruled Samaria until they were defeated by the Babylonians. But the Babylonians implemented exile programs], is the utterance of Jehovah, even [sending] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of astonishment and something to whistle at and places devastated to time indefinite.
10 And I will destroy out of them the sound of exultation and the sound of rejoicing, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the hand mill and the light of the lamp.
11 And all this land must become a devastated place, an object of astonishment, and these nations [the ones round about and the Northern Kingdom of Israel, but not Judah or Jerusalem] will have to serve the king of Babylon 70 years.'
12 'And it must occur that when 70 years have been fulfilled I shall call to account against the king of Babylon and against that nation,' is the utterance of Jehovah, 'their error, even against the land of the Chaldeans [Cyrus took Babylon in 539Tishri BC], and I will make it desolate wastes to time indefinite (Jeremiah 25)

So the period of 70 years of servitude for the Northern Kingdom and the nations round about ended in 539Tishri, when Babylon fell to Cyrus, and so began in 609Tishri. 609Tishri was the end of the last land Sabbath which was missed only by the Northern Kingdom.

The situation was different for Judah...

12 So the angel of Jehovah answered and said: O Jehovah of armies how long will you yourself not show mercy to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, whom you have denounced these 70 years? (Zechariah 1).

The 70 years period of servitude for the North was a 70 year period of denunciation for the south, for Judah and Jerusalem. Now Jerusalem was destroyed and the temple was burnt by Nebuchadnezzar on 586Ab10 (historical date)

12 And in the 5th month, on the 10th day of the month, that is, [in] the 19th year of King Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the chief of the bodyguard, who was standing before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem [586Ab10].
13 And he proceeded to burn the house of Jehovah and the house of the king and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great house he burned with fire.
14 And all the walls of Jerusalem, round about, all the military forces of the Chaldeans that were with the chief of the bodyguard pulled down.
15 And some of the lowly ones of the people and the rest of the people that were left remaining in the city and the deserters that had fallen away to the king of Babylon and the rest of the master workmen Nebuzaradan the chief of the bodyguard took into exile (Jeremiah 52).

21 ...Thus Judah went into exile from off its soil (Jeremiah 52).

The situation was different again for Jerusalem which went into exile twice!

12 At length Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he with his mother and his servants and his princes and his court officials; and the king of Babylon got to take him in the 8th year of his [Nebuchadnezzar's, 597] being king.
13 Then he brought out from there all the treasures of the house of Jehovah and the treasures of the king's house, and went on to cut to pieces all the gold utensils that Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah, just as Jehovah had spoken.
14 And he took into exile all Jerusalem and all the princes and all the valiant, mighty men, 10,000 he was taking into exile and also every craftsman and builder of bulwarks. No one had been left behind except the lowly class of the people of the land.
15 Thus he took Jehoiachin into exile to Babylon; and the king's mother and the king's wives and his court officials and the foremost men of the land he led away as exiled people from Jerusalem to Babylon (2 Kings 24).

1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin;
2 to whom the word of Jehovah occurred in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, in the 13th year of his reigning [626 BC].
3 And it kept on occurring in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the completion of the 11th year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until Jerusalem went into exile in the 5th month [586Ab] (Jeremiah 1).

So Jerusalem went into exile in 597 when the court of Jehoiachin was removed and then again in 586Ab when the court of Zedekiah was removed. Whereas Judah did not go into exile until the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar, which was 586, in particular on 586Ab10 when Jerusalem was finally and fully destroyed.

But Jeremiah had been speaking God's word to them since the 13th year of Josiah, which was 626. So presumably he started denouncing them in 609, when the Northern Kingdom started serving the King of Babylon. So Judah got 23 years of denunciation followed by 47 years of exile and servitude, whereas the Northern kingdom and the kingdoms around about got 70 years of servitude. Jerusalem got 12 years of denunciation followed by 58 years of exile. The land exiles of Jerusalem and of Judah ended with the decree of Cyrus in his first year of 539...

1 And in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia, that Jehovah's word from the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah roused the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia so that he caused a cry to pass through all his realm, and also in writing, saying:
2 This is what Cyrus the king of Persia has said, 'All the kingdoms of the earth Jehovah the God of the heavens has given me, and he himself has commissioned me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God prove to be with him. So let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of Jehovah the God of Israel he is the [true] God which was in Jerusalem.
4 As for anyone that is left from all the places where he is residing as an alien, let the men of his place assist him with silver and with gold and with goods and with domestic animals along with the voluntary offering for the house of the [true] God, which was in Jerusalem (Ezra 1).

So we see that the agricultural year in which sons of Jacob were again cultivating the ground of Israel was the year 539Tishri to 538Tishri.

Michael
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2012 confirmed

2008-10-19T12:18:00.003+01:00

Dear Readers!

I want you to see this fantastic and ultimate proof that God allowed me to see today!

Jesus will truly start ruling God’s Kingdom in 2012. In fact, we can now narrow down the period for the start to 21 days! Hallelujah!

Here is the thing. Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539Tishri BCE and the 70 year exile for the northern kingdom ended then. In fact the 70 year exile for all the land of Israel ended then. So the first post-exilic agricultural year that the Israelites could grow any crops in their own land started on 538Tishri. So the land Sabbath system of the law restarted then.

So 439Tishri-438Tishri BCE was a Jubilee. So 39Tishri-38Tishri BCE was a Jubilee. So 62Tishri-63Tishri CE was a Jubilee.

Let’s do the big math: If we add 39 Jubilees to 62Tishri CE, we have to add 1950 years to 62 CE.

62 + 1950 = 2012!

Now this proofs very powerfully that the Kingdom of God really begins in 2012Tishri, It could start with the Jubilee Day, the day of the trumpet blast, Tishri1 or with Atonement Day, Tishri10 when God reconciles (“at one ment”) mankind with himself, or with the last day of Booth (“Tabernacles”) when the faithful leave their temporal dwellings on Tishri22.

So, together with the chronological model of the Sanctuary, we have just nailed the start of the Kingdom of God to a period of 3 weeks!

Hosannah, Glory to the King!

Michael
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Warning of imminent danger!

2008-10-19T12:04:00.001+01:00

Dear Readers!

It is likely that we see either a global security threatening event or a global economy threatening event on Monday, October 21, 2008

On September 29/30, 2008 [Ethanim/Tishri1] the downfall of the "wall" that protects "Babylon the Great" started. Her waters are tried up. From that day onwards we are counting 1335 solar days until Pentecost 2012.

The prophecy about the 7 times (years) that would pass from the fall of the Towers of the World Trade Centre until the great breakdown of world trade is fulfilled (Isaiah 30:25, 26). The symbolic city of Jericho, - organized Christian Churches -, is watching her protection crumble before her own eyes.

However, according to the lunar calendar, there are 1335 days (44.5 lunar months) from October 20/21, 2008 [Ethanim/Tishri22] until Pentecost 2012. Tishri22 is the date of the attack against the city of Jerusalem in the year 66 CE. Could history be repeating itself on a global scale?

The last 3.5 "times" of the final tribulation would begin on October 20 at noon, EST. We expect this to be an important day in the collapse of the “wall”, which may refer to the “Wall Street”, the NYSE.

These 3.5 "times" will be completed on Abib/Nisan21, at the end of the Feast of Unfermented Cakes, simultaneously with the 1290 solar days counting from Ethanim/Tishri1 2008.

Michael
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The call for a global currency - the mark approaching

2008-10-19T11:51:00.004+01:00

Dear Readers!

If we are to believe the Washington Post, French president and current EU leader Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged to save us from nameless “freewheeling bankers and traders” who get the blame for the current economic crisis.

Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, and EU honcho José Manuel Barroso are talking up an international summit to discuss an “urgent overhaul of the world’s financial architecture,” that is to say a new Bretton Woods to establish a brand spanking new international economic order. Sarkozy has managed to grab George Bush’s ear and he will travel to Washington on Saturday to lay the groundwork for a conference.

In 1944, 44 allied nations met at a resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to fiddle with monetary standards, fix exchange rates, and create the IMF and World Bank. “Launching a remake of this old model — particularly in such a short time, with so many new participants — would represent a daunting challenge at any time, but particularly during the twilight of the Bush presidency and the crisis that is still jolting banks and stock markets around the world,” reports the Post.

Sarkozy and the EU leaders would have us believe this new Bretton Woods will call for “globally coordinated regulation of the financial industry, elimination of tax havens and a compensation system in which traders are not rewarded for dangerous risk-taking,” among other things.

It was the demise of Bretton Woods in 1971, insists European Central Bank president Jean- Claude Trichet, that led to the abandonment of regulation and subsequent market turmoil. “The explosion of the first Bretton Woods in a way could be interpreted as a rejection of discipline,” said Trichet, reports Bloomberg.

Gordon Brown, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, wants to fix that turmoil with a new spate of regulations aimed at international finance. On October 13 in London, Brown said “we must devise new rules for a world of global capital flows” just as the founders of Bretton Woods “devised rules for a world of limited capital flows.”

“We now have global financial markets but what we do not have is anything other than national and regional regulation and supervision,” Brown lamented from Brussels.

All of this is nonsense. It should be obvious by now the bankers engineered the current crisis in order to consolidate their hold on the global economy and all the talk about rogue traders, tax havens, and over-compensated executives is merely that — talk, or more specifically a sales pitch, a slick parlor trick devised to fool the commoners.

Glossed over in all the corporate media coverage is the global elite demand that a global currency be established. “Europe wants to present a blueprint for a new worldwide currency system,” reports the AFP in the video here.

“Another subject in tomorrow’s world is that of the great currencies,” Reuters reported Sarkozy musing on October 16. “How many should there be? What should the agreement between these great currencies be?

Should we organize a discussion?”

Any discussion would be purely academic, as the ruling elite long ago decided to force a global currency down our throats. In fact, a global currency is at the very core of their plan to dominate the world. Control money and you control the destiny of states, you eliminate national sovereignty. “The control of money and credit strikes at the very heart of national sovereignty,” A.W. Clausen, president of Bank of America once observed.

As Georgetown professor and CFR historian Carroll Quigley noted, the goal of the banking families and their minions consists of “nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole… controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.”

It remains to be seen if the EU will realize its “solution” to the world economic crisis. In 2007, Robert Mundell, “the father of the euro,” noted that “international monetary reform usually becomes possible only in response to a felt need and the threat of a global crisis.”

Certainly, the elite cooked up an appropriate global crisis, now they will engage in a full court press to establish a global currency and eventually a global government.

Michael
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New regulations and a clamp down on Hedge Funds

2008-10-16T10:11:00.003+01:00

Dear Readers!

I post two news articles, that show and proof that we are going toward a totally controlled monetary system. These events are a preparation for introducin what the Revelation calls "the mark of the beast". Nobody will be able to buy or sell without signing an agreement to take this "mark".

World events are moving quickly. Now that basically all goverments have given guarantees and have huge liabilities on their accounts, we will see an even worse breakdown of the markets. But this time it will not be banks that need to be "bailed out" because of bankruptcy, it will be states and goverments. Only the UN will be able to do that on this advanced level. Total control will be the result...

BRUSSELS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy called at a European Union summit on Wednesday for a clamp-down on hedge funds and offshore centres as part of efforts to better regulate the world financial system.

"I would propose a simple principle, that no financial institution should escape regulation and supervision," he said according to a copy of a speech to the EU summit in Brussels.

"I am thinking, for example, of the regulation that we must apply to the rating agencies, and of the necessary supervision of hedge funds...We must also work to eliminate the grey areas that undermine our efforts at coordination, in this case the offshore centres," he said. (Reporting by Francois Murphy; writing by Mark John)

European Union leaders are set to call Thursday for the creation of international boards to oversee at least the world's 30 biggest banks and financial institutions.

The latest effort to step up regulation to address the global financial crisis is based on a proposal by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and comes as Mr. Brown and the EU have taken the lead in responding to the crisis. The proposed supervisory body would consist of regulatory officials from big countries and financial centers, EU officials said.

The goal would be to enhance communication and response plans for bank operations world-wide, they said. That would face the significant challenge of getting the U.S. and others to cooperate.

"These are the kinds of issues that have been discussed at the Financial Stability Forum and the IMF. We will have an opportunity to discuss these -- and the ideas of others -- at the appropriate time," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto. EU leaders backed the idea of a supervisory body at the start of a two-day summit Wednesday, according to diplomats from three countries.

The summit comes days after the EU's biggest economies agreed on a coordinated €2 trillion ($2.7 trillion) plan to prop up their biggest banks by buying equity stakes and guaranteeing debt. That move, which echoed a call by the Group of Seven leading nations, was rapidly followed by the U.S. All 27 EU members voted Wednesday to approve the bailout plan.

Mr. Brown said the world needs a "new Bretton Woods," a reference to the 1944 conference in New Hampshire that set up the basic rules for international banking, finance and monetary policy, and established the International Monetary Fund, which bails out countries in crisis. Mr. Brown began pushing for such a body in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis, when he was U.K. Treasury chief. The proposals are expected to be included in the summit's conclusions Thursday. Mr. Brown wants new and stricter international standards for the amount of capital reserves banks should hold and rules forcing financial markets to open their books, U.K. diplomats said.

The White House released a joint statement from the Group of Eight leading nations -- four EU countries and Japan, Canada, Russia and the U.S. -- promising to meet "at an appropriate time in the near future" to discuss ways of reforming regulation of the world's financial sectors.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other European leaders claimed credit for imposing calm on financial markets. "For the first time Europeans showed their ability to act in an emergency in a coordinated way," said Mr. Sarkozy. "The reform can't stop at Europe. The economy is global." EU leaders have no option but to take their campaign for tighter supervision of international banks beyond Europe's borders, Mr. Sarkozy said, "because it doesn't work if you regulate one half of the world lightly, and ignore the other half."

The French president said he was confident he could win over China and the U.S. He said he will visit both countries in the next two weeks. EU diplomats dismissed concerns that even with U.S. backing, they might have a hard time selling their plan to the rest of the world, considering that the Doha Round of world trade talks collapsed this summer because the world's biggest economic powers -- the EU, U.S., China, Japan, India and Brazil -- couldn't find common ground.

Any move to create supervisory agencies would build on an existing EU proposal for regulators from the countries in which a bank operates to share information on the bank and coordinate a response if it gets into trouble. EU countries could also end up bickering among themselves about the fine print. The U.K. is unlikely to agree with Mr. Sarkozy's call for financial supervision to be extended to hedge funds, or to eliminate offshore financial centers. London is a big center for hedge funds, and on the European stage the U.K. represents the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, which are large offshore financial centers.

The talks on finance overshadowed other items on the EU summit's agenda: Georgia's conflict with Russia, EU carbon-emissions targets and Ireland's referendum vote to block a treaty that would give the EU its first permanent president. —John D. McKinnon in Washington contributed to this article.

Michael
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The "Shekinah" and upcoming satanic fakes

2008-10-15T16:24:00.003+01:00

Most people have little understanding of what the Shekinah Glory of YHWH God is, let alone realize the prophetic significance of this manifestation of God. The Jewish rabbis coined this extra-biblical expression, and it is form of a Hebrew word that literally means "he caused to dwell" -- signifying that it was a divine visitation of the presence or dwelling of YHWH God on this earth.

The Shekinah is said to be the "majestic manifestation of god which has descended to dwell with mankind. The word Shekinah is taken from passages referring to god dwelling in the tabernacle among the people.

In the Encyclopedia Judaica the "Shekinah" is defined as "the Divine Presence, the numinous immanence of God in the world”.

The Shekinah appeared as a cloudy pillar in the day and a fiery pillar at night. The nation of Moses was led by the Shekinah for 40 years.

According to biblical interpretations and general acceptance, the Shekinah descended:

1. to the garden of Eden

2. When the tower of Babel was built

3. to Sodom

4. to Egypt

5. When Red Sea was parted

6. upon Sinai

7. in the pillar of cloud

8. to the sanctuary

9. upon the burning bush

And it is supposed to appear again at the time of Gog and Magog

There was yet another writer who recorded the fact of the "Shekinah" presence of YHWH God moving from the Temple in Jerusalem just before the war with the Romans. Josephus mentioned that in the spring of 66 A.D. some astonishing events took place within the Temple. He recorded three miracles associated with YHWH's "Shekinah" and the Temple -- and each one showed clearly that the "Shekinah" was departing from the Holy of Holies. In War VI, 290 he stated "that a GREAT LIGHT shone over the altar for thirty minutes at 3 o'clock in the morning (a week before Passover in A.D. 66) and then it DEPARTED. He said the scribes interpreted this sign as a bad omen for the Temple. It was like the Shekinah Glory moving away from the Tabernacle in the wilderness as a sign to disassemble the Tabernacle and transport it to another location".

Since Revelation states that God will descend to dwell with mankind, it seems that a new hoax of some sort may be perpetrated.

Whether it will be an “alien presence”, or a holographic hoax by man, remains to be seen.

It could likely be the "abomination" that is spoken of as this "thing" presents itself as the creator-in-fact.

A few months ago, the Pope made some statement about 'aliens are our friends' and now the Catholic Church has decreed to do away with the name Yahweh and its derivatives (Jehovah). Could this organization be gradually setting people up for something like this to take place?

So, if a thing appears as a "physical manifestation of God"...would you believe it?

The Vatican is preparing its flocks to play nicey-nice with aliens (demons) during the --whatever the New-Agers call it -- the convergence (?) to the "One World Higher Consciousness".

Some think they are aliens, the New-Agers think they are their "spirit guides" and "masters" from long ago who will return, etc. What they are going to be making nicey-nice with (when these beings manifest themselves) is nothing but ages-old rebellious angels also known as “demons”. Revelation gives a pretty good picture of all the "fun" these people are going to be having with their "spirit guides."

The "signs and wonders" are for those who -- having rejected salvation through Jesus -- will by default come under a "strong delusion." (Without truth, there's nothing left but deception).

The antichrist (and aliens and signs and wonders and holograms, and whatever "fireworks" displays these “Techno-Satans” will use) will appear first before the Lord returns. The fake has to, and will, come first. Hence, “deception”. Keep in mind that there is no fake or forgery in the absence of an original. So Satan will mimic and copy what is going to happen as his last trick.

Michael

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