Why I believe the 7-year Tribulation Started on December 19, 2013: Peace, Pentecost, and the Covenant 2/19/2014

Introduction I believe the 7-year Tribulation started on December 19, 2013. This is troublesome for many people, and was for me at first, but I know when I am obeying and when I am not, and I truly believe that obeying God right this second is saying this seemingly “crazy” thing. Faith is an important aspect of following God, without it we cannot please Him: Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him It was by faith that I first believed that the 7-year Tribulation, the last seven years leading up to the return of Jesus, began on December 19, 2013. But, in the last two months, God has shown me how this date agrees with the MAIN and PLAIN truths of the Bible. I will lay out in this little document how this is based on a simple and plain reading of the extensive scripture concerning this concept and a simple watching of the news. As you consider what I write below, I would ask that you ask yourself two simple questions: 1. Have I been studying Jesus’ end time plan? 2. Have I been willing to watch the news and see if there is anything to see? If you haven’t done either of these, I would ask that you hear me out. I will lay out lots of Bible verses and news stories that are essential “background knowledge” to consider my “radical” claim. I am not interested in anything I cannot see in my own Bible understood in partnership with my own conversation with the Holy Spirit. I recommend NO ONE TAKE MY WORD FOR ANYTHING, but I also know that I have to be faithful with the revelation I honestly believe I have been given. I am either crazy, deceived, deceitful, or I am right. Obviously, I believe I am hearing God and being faithful. If I am crazy, deceived, or deceitful, I will have the shortest career as a prophet ever! The things I am saying are so time-sensitive everyone will know one way or the other in a matter of months, not years. So naturally, the question arises “if this is all going to happen so soon, why not just wait and see it come to pass, Tom?” Great question! One I have been setting before the Lord with many tears. This is the answer: the start of the tribulation will push the Church into a hostile and violent atmosphere almost immediately. God is serious about me sounding an alarm so that this event does not catch His people off-guard. Right now the USA is feverishly working to broker and “confirm” (I’ll explain more below) a peace treaty in Israel. MANY do not understand that when a 7-year peace plan is announced, the end time violence begins within Jesus’ body. The tribulation STARTS WITH US, according to Jesus. Jesus took his disciples and privately told them this:

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Matthew 24:5-14 For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. (6) And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. (7) For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. (8) All these are the beginning of sorrows. We are already finishing up this time called “the beginning of sorrows.” Next comes tribulation. This is what I believe is months away: (9) "Then they will deliver you (disciples) up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations (global persecution) for My name's sake. OK. This requires a bit of explanation. There is a VERY clear answer to how Jesus is going to let this roll out. The tribulation starts at a VERY specific time, called “the end,” and you and I, Christians in the USA, are living in the middle of one of the worst places for this exact reality to occur. Yet in the USA, we are nearly asleep. This is why God is so serious about this message getting out. This is when the end starts: Daniel 9:26-27 "… The end of it shall be with a flood,(it comes suddenly) And till the end of the war desolations are determined. (27) Then he (antichrist) shall confirm a covenant with many for one week (7 years) ; But in the middle of the week (1,260 days later) He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate." On the day the 7-year peace plan is made public, many will say that the president who brokered it, and is guaranteeing it, is the greatest statesman to ever live. A large portion of the globe will LOVE this man. But, those who know the Bible and LOVE Jesus will HAVE TO SAY “This man is the antichrist.” To keep silent about this will be “treason” to Jesus Body, as well as to the children of God who have yet to be saved. Speaking of the truth about this man will start in small pockets where God has released understanding, but will quickly grow. The “Red State vs. Blue State” mentality of our country will go to a whole new level…a civil war level…almost immediately. Right now, the government is feverishly arming the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for civil unrest. Right now, a surveillance network is feverishly being built that encompasses the telephones, computers, license plate tracking systems, facial recognition systems that are computer based in every major city (remember the Boston bombing?). Right now, the US government is already sending monitors into television networks to ensure “fair” reporting: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billion-rounds-of-ammo-for-homelandsecurity-its-time-for-a-national-conversation/ http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/02/19/US-seeks-to-track-license-plate-locations/UPI36871392791400/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/02/11/day-fight-back-against-nsa-spying-and-big-governmentbig-secret/ Right now, summary executions of AMERICAN CITIZENS…with no trial…no evidence…is considered acceptable. We have already done this to a man named Anwar Al Awlaki. Add to that the fact that the DHS has internally recognized Bible believing Christians as legitimate terrorists, and you have a remaking of Nazi Germany perfectly in place for such a time as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=64247 http://christiannews.net/2012/07/04/christians-deemed-terrorists-in-study-funded-by-department-ofhomeland-security/ So, when this 7-year tribulation begins with a 7-year peace treaty in Israel, and loyal Christians begin warning people, and loyal “patriots”…those whose allegiance is to the government of the United States… begin resisting that warning, loyal to Jesus, vocal, Christians are going to be deemed “enemies of the state.” Just like in Nazi Germany, many Christians will compromise and go with the government. The government will hold up Christians that agree with the government and don’t “cause trouble” as “responsible Christians”…this is the “betrayal” Jesus was warned about. This will hit the Church with little warning (because Revelation has been seriously neglected), Jesus said there will be great offense, especially among those expecting to be raptured before the trouble starts. This will create a situation ripe for false teachers. This is the “Great Falling Away” Paul and Jesus taught: Matthew 24:10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. (11) Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. (12) And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. (13) But he who endures to the end shall be saved. (14) And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, (2) not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. (3) Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, (4) who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. THIS clear, but hidden, danger is why I am willing to speak this seemingly crazy idea out right now. When a 7-year peace plan is announced, it will be too late of a warning to avoid offense for many

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believers. The Lord is saying that even if many do not receive what I am saying now, when these events happen, some will remember that He has remembered them. Even if they only have a few weeks of warning, the fact that God released the message in advance will be of great comfort, evidence that He is in control. MANY will feel abandoned by God and shaken in their faith because the Church has been unfaithful to teach the main and plain truth of tribulation, Revelation, Daniel, the Olivet Discourse, and the warnings of the minor prophets. The beginning of the 7-year Tribulation has inherent dates connected to it. The beginning of the Tribulation marks the last 2,520 days before Jesus returns. Jewish years only have 360 days in them, so it is important to count days when referring to this very specific prophecy. My belief that I know when the 7-Year Tribulation started IMPLIES that I also know when Jesus will return. I am not intentionally “predicting” Jesus return, but rather observing something that has already happened and connecting it to a prophecy in Revelation 2:11 (this will be laid out in detail below). However, because the Bible is SO specific about the end-time days and months, my observation has an INHERENT prediction of Jesus’ return associated with it. This is because of the way the Bible is written. The implied prediction of Jesus’ return is VERY troubling to some people, especially given all the bad theology surrounding Jesus’ return. The Bible code guys, the numerologists, The "Harold Camping" date setters…this is VERY dangerous water to be swimming in. I get that. Trust me, THAT I get. It is important to note at this point, that I have nothing to gain by teaching the information I am about to lay out. This sort of thing is exactly what destroys reputations. I am not trying sell a book (everything I do is free for the taking). I am not trying to build a ministry or gather a following. If anything, saying these things has strained many of my relationships that were just fine before I began. In fact, I am ONLY saying this seemingly crazy thing because I believe it is true, and I believe God is asking me to say it. I don’t have to say it. God isn’t making me say it. He is inviting me to agree with Him that it needs to be said. If I don’t say it, He will certainly raise up another who will. I am unwilling to miss the opportunity to partner with Him in this. Thirty two other people, according to Wikipedia, have predicted the return of Jesus. Some of those men are remembered generally as “good guys,” some plain old crazies, and just about everyone in between. Here is a partial list: John Wesley, Hippolatus, and Irenaeus, Harold Camping, Jerry Falwell, Ron Weinland, Ed Dobson, and Jack Van Impe. I will say, in my defense, that each of these men symbolized large portions of the Bible in order to calculate the day or year they focused on. They pushed the limits of hermeneutics. They pushed the limits of number sequences. They turned clear passages about days and imagined they meant years. Simply put, previous end-time prognosticators tried to “read between the lines” of scripture. I have not done any of these things. I have simply read the main and plain meaning of portions of the Bible few read anymore, and I have connected those things to what the news…another unpopular source of information…is saying right now. I am doing the same thing John the Beloved himself stated he did 2,000 years ago. John saw the persecution, the tribulation, the Spirit moving in the Church …everything Jesus told him to watch for, and then he…a man just like me…made this bold claim:

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1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. To predict the return of Jesus is technically not un-biblical, but many have mistakenly come to believe it is. Those who think it is heresy to talk about the timing of the Lord’s return have one verse to hang their hat on. The only verse that indicates the return of Jesus would be unknowable is here, in the Olivet Discourse: Matthew 24:36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But earlier in the same passage, Jesus refers His disciples (including us…the “reader”) back to Daniel: Matthew 24:15-16 "Therefore when you see the 'ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand), (16) "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Jesus gave Daniel “end time credibility” by referring to his prophecy, and Daniel was told the EXACT number of days from the time the “abomination of desolation” (this is the statue that the antichrist will set up in the new Jerusalem Temple exactly half way into the 7-Year Tribulation) until the Messiah…Jesus…returns to liberate Jews! Daniel 12:11 "From the time the daily sacrifice is stopped and the sacrilegious object that causes desecration is set up to be worshiped, there will be 1,290 days. 1,290 days until Jesus cleanses the temple the second time and turns it back into a House of Prayer. Elsewhere we hear the exact number of days the antichrist will operate mostly unhindered: Revelation 13:4-7 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" (5) And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. (6) Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. (7) It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. Revelation 11:2-3 But do not measure the outer courtyard, for it has been turned over to the nations. They will trample the holy city for 42 months. (3) And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy during those 1,260 days." So Jesus was basically saying “right now no one knows the day or the hour, but someday, everyone will know the day…to the exact day!” This is why SPECIFIC timeframes…seven years; times, time, and half a time; 1,260 days; 1,290 days; 1,335 days; 42 months…are given. We are SUPPOSED to know the times. Believers are supposed to know and STATE the times. Paul said the world would have no idea, but the “brothers” were not supposed to be in the dark!:

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1 Thessalonians 5:1-4 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. (2) For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. (3) For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. (4) But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. Paul said there were certain things that would tip off believers regarding the time. Daniel was told that the Great Tribulation (Daniel 12:1) would last 1,260 days, and that 30 more days would see the defeat of the antichrist and the cleansing of the temple. Jesus told the disciples that the Great Tribulation would begin with the setting up of the Abomination of Desolate in the Temple (Matthew 24). Paul added that when the disciples saw these things happening, they were supposed to “comfort each other” with the truth about Jesus’ return, which would correspond to the rapture. Knowing EXACTLY when the rapture (and the simultaneous the return of Jesus) would occur was supposed to be a comfort: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, (2) not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. (3) Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, (4) who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (5) Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— (52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the LAST trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (54) So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY." (55) "O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING? O HADES, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY?" (56) The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. (57) But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (58) Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 (15) For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. (16) For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. (17) Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. (18) Therefore comfort one another with these words. The last trumpet will be blown 1,260 days after the “half way point” of the 7-Year Tribulation…that means it occurs 2,520 days after the start of the 7-Year Tribulation. That is when Jesus comes back, and that is when I get my new body that can never die. According to Paul, this is what will carry believers

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through the intense days of the Tribulation. The first 1,260 days of the Tribulation are the HARDEST for the church. The second half…the second 1,260 days, the Church will be walking in the power of the “last PENTECOST” which is the pouring out of the “Spirit on All Flesh” Joel prophesied. The Spirit is given in great measure at the last (the third) Pentecost in order to bring in the “Great Harvest.” Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved: Joel 2:28-32 "And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. (29) And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. (30) "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. (31) The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. (32) And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, As the LORD has said, Among the remnant whom the LORD calls. Joel said this will happen in full when the “sun goes dark and the moon is blood red.” This is a VERY specific day in the Bible! There is only one Biblical day the sun turns dark and the moon turns as red as blood. This will happen at the beginning of the great tribulation when the 6th seal is opened: Revelation 6:12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. Here is what comes right after the sixth seal: the Great end time Harvest…everyone who called on the name of the Lord in the Great Tribulation!! Revelation 7:9-14 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, (10) and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" (11) All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, (12) saying: "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and power and might, Be to our God forever and ever. Amen." (13) Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?" (14) And I said to him, "Sir, you know." So he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Satan’s Plan to Deceive The Bible gives the exact number of days and months numerous times. Jesus said the days are limited…cut short…numbered… for the “sake of the elect”…like Paul said, you are going to be REALLY GLAD you know exactly the day Jesus is returning when it is illegal to be a Christian and martyrdom goes to a level previously unseen globally.

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Mark 13:20 And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake, whom He chose, He shortened the days. What I am laying out in this document isn’t odd theology…I didn’t need to do a bunch of strange calculations or algorithms to come up with this. This is the main and plain statement of the Bible. The fact is, the Bible is clear that the timing is not only knowable, but there comes a distinct point in time everyone is supposed to not just know it but DECLARE it. There is a reason the exact number of years, months, and even days is listed NUMEROUS times in the Bible: Daniel 9:27 The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven, but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him." Revelation 11:3 And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy during those 1,260 days." Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place to care for her for 1,260 days. Revelation 13:5 Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months. Daniel 12:7 The man dressed in linen, who was standing above the river, raised both his hands toward heaven and took a solemn oath by the One who lives forever, saying, "It will go on for a time, times, and half a time. When the shattering of the holy people has finally come to an end, all these things will have happened." Daniel 12:11-12 "From the time the daily sacrifice is stopped and the sacrilegious object that causes desecration is set up to be worshiped, there will be 1,290 days. (12) And blessed are those who wait and remain until the end of the 1,335 days! There are tons of passages about the exact day. You can easily identify that the rapture, and Jesus' return, occurs 1,260 days after the breaking of the 7-year peace treaty. So my point is, the time BECOMES more and more knowable as time unfolds...most of the world will be terrified to say it for fear of looking like a Harold Camping...but, faithful people will say it, and as time unfolds, MANY will take comfort in those first bold ones being willing to speak it out. Just like a pregnancy, the timing gets more clear as the day draws near, until the day we can boldly proclaim "1,000 more days until Jesus' returns"...or "50 days until his return"...this is what comforts God's people through the tribulation.

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Satan has taken the mistaken predictions of men like John Wesley, Harold Camping, or Jack Van Impe, and turned them into a fear of heresy among the believers. This is a very intentional strategy the dragon has developed. It is designed to pull away the main source of comfort Paul said the Bride is supposed to enjoy in the final seven years! Satan always seeks to pollute the true living water so no one will drink. Satan seeks to counterfeit every true and good thing that God is doing. Satan is the serpent in the garden. He is the dragon in the Bible. The dragon is known for speaking a certain way: Revelation 13:11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. The false prophet in the Revelation 13 passage will speak like satan, we are told. The dragon always speaks the same way: He uses enough Bible truth to give credence to his words and then mixes in enough lies to create the necessary deception. Satan quotes Bible verses and then spins them just enough to move the unprepared heart off the path of truth. He has always operated this way: Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" Luke 4:9-12 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here. (10) For it is written: 'HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER YOU, TO KEEP YOU,' (11) and, 'IN THEIR HANDS THEY SHALL BEAR YOU UP, LEST YOU DASH YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.' " (12) And Jesus answered and said to him, "It has been said, 'YOU SHALL NOT TEMPT THE LORD YOUR GOD.' " 2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Satan has an agenda. He is desperately trying to avoid this moment in world history: Revelation 20:1-2 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. (2) He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; In order for Satan to avoid prison (blinding pride is what leads satan to actually think this is possible) his only hope is to exploit a specific promise Jesus made. Jesus said He would not return until Jewish leaders invited Him to be their Messiah on the temple mount as prophesied in Psalm 118. The writer of Psalm 118 prophesied that Israel would trust in a man to be her messiah rather than Jesus, the chief cornerstone that was rejected in 32 ad. Psalm 118 tells the story in advance of: 1. the soon-coming 7-year peace treaty that marks the beginning of Israel putting herself in the trust of a man, 2. the breaking of the peace treaty that leaves Israel “surrounded by her enemies like bees) 3. The final result of this worst moment in Israel’s future being to put the trust in the cornerstone once rejected 4. The final statement is the Israel cry to the true messiah “Save us, you ARE the blessed one in the name of the Lord”. This blessing comes from the temple mount…the house of the Lord:

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Psalms 118:8-26 It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man. (9) It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in princes. (10) All nations surrounded me, But in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. (11) They surrounded me, Yes, they surrounded me; But in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. (12) They surrounded me like bees; They were quenched like a fire of thorns; For in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. (13) You pushed me violently, that I might fall, But the LORD helped me. (14) The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation. (15) The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly. (16) The right hand of the LORD is exalted; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly. (17) I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD. (18) The LORD has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death. (19) Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the LORD. (20) This is the gate of the LORD, Through which the righteous shall enter. (21) I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation. (22) The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. (23) This was the LORD's doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. (24) This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. (25) Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity. (26) Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you from the house of the LORD. Understanding this story written in advance is key to understanding what is happening in the earth right now. Jesus confirmed Israel would not see Him again until they fulfilled this prophecy: Luke 13:34-35 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing! (35) See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!' " You can actually see the last desperate throes of satan in his attempts to keep Israel from controlling the temple mount in the news right now, if you will look. Satan is quickly losing the battle for the temple mount and, as prophesied, right now there is a man that is determined to make peace in Israel in order to put a false Jewish temple right next to Islam’s Dome of the Rock. The Nature of the Coming Peace The Bible calls this man-based peace that Israel is prophesied to enter into a “covenant with death”. This is the beginning of the passage from Psalm 118 I just quoted. Isaiah describes this evil covenant and the resulting temple. In the passage below, listen for the same concepts as described in Psalm 118! There is a stone that Israel is supposed to trust in, Jesus, the one they rejected. Instead they make the covenant with death. God finally gives them the man they have always looked for. The world’s greatest man…the humanistic messiah that will cause peace to be made for them. This is really a covenant with death. This man will break his promise and take over the temple to keep Jews from inviting Jesus back from there! This is the story of how the antichrist becomes the antichrist. When he promises to protect Israel, he is promising to be her god. He is doing this all because his secret father, satan, is desperate to keep Jews off that hill unless they are worshiping anyone other than God!:

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Isaiah 28:14-19 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, (15) Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves." (16) Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily. (17) Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place. (18) Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it. (19) As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning it will pass over, And by day and by night; It will be a terror just to understand the report." In Isaiah 66, God describes the heart of the Jewish leaders as they compromise with this man to build their temple. This is the tribulation temple. God says they might as well offer dogs, pigs blood, and humans as sacrifices there. Nothing about this temple agrees with God. He could build a temple in a minute with His own hands if he wanted a building to live in. He wants to live in their hearts, but they have given their heart…their trust…to a man called the antichrist. In this same passage, God reveals that despite the attempts of the dragon to deceive, and the rebellion of His people, God has a plan to redeem and rescue. He caused the nation of Israel to be “(re-)born in a day,” in agreement with this prophecy, in 1948. He says this should be assuring that He will finish what He started: Isaiah 66:1-9 Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? (2) For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist," Says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word. (3) "He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog's neck; He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine's blood; He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations, (4) So will I choose their delusions, And bring their fears on them; Because, when I called, no one answered, When I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight." (5) Hear the word of the LORD, You who tremble at His word: "Your brethren who hated you, Who cast you out for My name's sake, said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, That we may see your joy.' But they shall be ashamed." (6) The sound of noise from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the LORD, Who fully repays His enemies! (7) "Before she was in labor, she gave birth; Before her pain came, She delivered a male child. (8) Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children. (9) Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?" says the LORD. "Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?" says your God. The angel in Revelation shows John this same temple and tells him to “measure it.” God isn’t curious about how big they built it! He is telling John to study this temple, who built it, and why. This is not a good temple, but the tribulation temple of compromise. God “gives away” the two-state solution here.

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The” 42 months” is the same as 1,260 days. This is the length of the Great Tribulation…the worst time in Israel’s future, and the future of the world in rebellion to Jesus’ leadership: Revelation 11:1-2 Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. (2) But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. Pentecost and the Covenant Israel was supposed to trust in Jesus, but they refused…all except the 120 Jewish believers that made it to the first continuous, 24/7, “one accord” prayer meeting in the upper room. The rest of Israel wanted a man to save them. They didn’t like the Son of God on a donkey, they wanted Caesar, the man who also claimed to be a god: John 19:15 But they cried out, "Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" Only 120 wanted God’s covenant. At the Second Pentecost, on the feast day called “Pentecost”…50 days from Passover in 32 ad…God met every member of the nation of Israel that was committed to really keeping His covenant. They had gathered in the upper room at Jesus’ request, and God met them there! He poured out His Holy Spirit for the first time on these 120 faithful ones. This was so that they might keep the original Pentecost covenant. The First Pentecost happened on the day God gave Moses the 10 commandments…the covenant of the law. On the “Acts 2” day of Pentecost, the day marking the beginning of that first covenant, God empowered those first messianic Jews to, for the first time in human history, keep the covenant given to Moses! Before the Acts 2 Pentecost, which marked the day God gave the Holy Spirit back to any man willing, keeping the covenant was impossible for mankind. Jesus, taught His disciples how to keep the covenant with His help, but then said “don’t do ANYTHING until you have my power to do it” Luke 24:49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high." The entire world was changed by the pouring out of the spirit on 120 Jews faithful to the covenant, expressed in obeying the Messiah: Acts 2:1-4 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. (2) And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. (3) Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. (4) And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. This outpouring of the Spirit on 120 Jewish people was made possible by God offering the blood of His only Son, Jesus, the perfect Passover lamb, as the covenant between God and man. 50 days later, true

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to the covenant given to Moses after the Egypt Passover, God released the power of the blood to actually keep the covenant He had given Moses. Jesus came, not to do away with that first covenant, but to make it possible for mankind to fulfill that covenant, through faith! Matthew 5:17-19 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. (18) For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. (19) Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Passover, Pentecost, and the covenant Israel desired is super important to understand what God is doing right now. I had no idea any of this was true on December 19, 2011. December 19, 2013 – The Crazy Stuff On December 19, 2011, God had just begun to connect me to the idea we were living in the days leading up to His return. In the summer of 2011, I started to ask God for a very specific thing. I was just beginning to learn that there was SO much available to me in God’s kingdom, and that it was all there for the asking. So I began asking. Jesus said “ask, seek, and knock”…and so that is exactly what I did. I made a list of some things I wanted, and I began asking. Numerous times a day, whether I was at my office, or in my truck driving to a site, when I woke in the morning, before going to bed in the evening. “God, please give me wisdom and insight into your plans…your word, your will, and your ways.” This was the most important item to me on my first “list of requests”, and still is to this day. Numerous times a day I open my heart to the throne and reach for whatever God is willing to give me that day. Over the next several months, God began to reveal to me small pieces of His end time plans. I was preparing to write a book about it, called |Generation (which is available for free from www.generationbook.com) . On the morning of December 19, 2011, as I was sipping coffee and reading my Bible, I heard God say right into my heart, a short message. I had experienced a couple of encounters like this one, I knew it was God . This is what He said: “Listen to the strength of My words and the clarity of my voice. This day marks the beginning of the 7year period of tribulation.” He told me to write this in my Bible, and I did. However, I knew at the time that the tribulation could not start until a 7-year peace treaty had been confirmed between Israel and her neighbors. I had no idea what this meant, other than that December 19 was a significant day, and God had told me something that He REALLY wanted me to know. I wrote this in my Bible and kind of “shelved it” until God gave me more revelation. Later, in April of 2012, I published my book. I had also started teaching here and there on Jesus end-time plan to raise up night and day prayer prior to His return. At first, I was scared to talk in front of people, but I quickly found that there was something about saying what God had given me to say that exhilarated me. I was almost instantly hooked on teaching what God had given me to say. The idea of

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speaking in front of people still scared me, but the thought of missing out on feeling God’s smile was even scarier! God began to open up more opportunities to preach, and every time He did, he placed another endtime message on my heart. I quickly realized that although I never set out to teach the Bible in front of people, I had been assigned a role in teaching one very specific topic: Jesus’ end-time plan. I really have no other message in me. Everything God shows me comes back to the same topic. So, in the fall of 2012, through a series of events, I began teaching the Book of Revelation verse by verse in my home. As I started to teach, God began “downloading“ (for lack of a better word) insight into Revelation into my mind. I say this because before I began preparing for each meeting, I would be clueless about the part of Revelation we needed to cover, and by the time the meeting came, I would have information literally pouring out of my mind like faucet. I was leading a small group for our church which met on Tuesdays. I would start preparing in my usual morning routine on Weds, with the hope of having a decent outline of what to discuss by the next Tuesday. On Wed, I would have very little to no insight on the Chapter we would be covering the next week. By that next Tuesday, I would literally have six pages of notes I was trying to pare down into a 50 minute discussion. Most of the revelation would come flooding at me in the HOURS before the meeting. I would study hard all week to get some insight…praying…asking, seeking, knocking…and sure enough, like clockwork, on the day I needed the message, God would flood me with insight…connecting me from Revelation to the Gospels to the Old Testament. I started to see God’s word in a whole new light. There are connections from Genesis to Revelation and everywhere in between that suddenly burst into life and meaning. I would feel the tingling sensation of the Holy Spirit as I would edit the notes so strongly that many days I would have to quit typing and just kind of sit there crying for 20 or 30 minutes at a time. Many nights, by the time the meeting happened, I had already had a day full of encounter with the Lord. I was still completely nervous to talk to even a group of 15 people…but the exhilaration of working with God on writing out the ideas was so overwhelming I would look forward to those Tuesdays like no other day. The Tuesday night home meetings resulted in several of the attendees asking if I would consider doing the teaching one more time. I had wanted to offer the information to people outside of my church who I had been in contact with and who were interested in Revelation, so I began teaching a Revelation class on Monday nights that was open to anyone in the spring of 2013. God continued to refine my insight into Revelation and each week, the information would continue to pour into my mind and out of my mouth. At the same time, something very unique began happening in Israel in the spring of 2013. The US President was planning his first visit to Israel. He had not visited Israel during his first term from 2009 to 2013, opting instead for a tour of Muslim countries as his first act as president in June 2009. One of the US President’s first acts in his second term was to visit Israel. It was explicitly stated in the news that this visit was not about restarting peace talks. In a very weird act of political showmanship, Israeli Prime

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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “named” the presidential visit. The visit was named “Brit Amim,” which is translated in Hebrew “covenant with the peoples” http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/israel-and-palestine/130218/obamasvisit-israel-gets-official-logo This odd name caught my attention, as I was teaching about the prophesied 7-year peace treaty described in Daniel 9 like this: Daniel 9:27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate." What came out of that meeting was, in fact, a new push for Israel-Palestinian peace. Shortly thereafter, the President assigned General John Allen to assess how we could make Israel more secure. Then, a new Secretary of State began facilitating intense negotiations in August 2013. The US Secretary of State has visited Israel 11 times in the last 8 months. Not to mention numerous other meetings abroad and in the US. This is UNPRECEDENTED activity for any Secretary of State! The current push towards peace in Israel is one of the major signs of the times and few understand the complexities of the prophecy, or the IMPLICATIONS of the current news. When man-made peace is made in Israel, and it WILL happen, it will change the entire globe, nearly overnight. MOST people...most Christian leaders...don't understand how quickly peace in Israel will change the world. It will suddenly cause "civil wars" between Christians and non-Christians all over the world. Let me explain, but to do that, I need to lay the groundwork: The entire scenario we are watching develop is like a very complex game of Chess that mankind is playing with God. We are in some of the final moves. The Bible actually tells us the moves in advance, and soon, there will be a move that is irreversible. That move IS the establishment of a seven year peace treaty in Israel. When mankind makes that move, the kingdom of God will say "check mate." That move of mankind will initiate a series of events that must happen. The “confirming” of a 7-year peace agreement will start the seven year period of tribulation for the world, that will be marked by two distinct halves: the tribulation is first 3.5 years, and the "great tribulation" is the second 3.5 years. The earth has never seen anything like the great tribulation. The great tribulation will make World War II look like a small skirmish, although, according to the Bible, it will be characterized by many of the same aspects globally as World War II: widespread persecution of the Jews, global war, at least two coalitions of nations scheming against each other. This time, there WILL NOT BE a good earthly military to keep the bad guys in check. The Allied Forces won't be the good guys, and the good guys won't be fighting with weapons. This time, the good guys will be the night and day praying Bride of Jesus, and the weapons will be "prayer to music." The coalitions of nations the Bible promises are important to understand, but it takes some focus. These are literally life and death details, so I challenge you to take a minute and pay attention.

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Daniel 7, Daniel 9, Daniel 11, and Revelation 17 and 18, and Ezekiel 38 and 39 would be the keys to understanding the two coalitions of nations that will be most prominent in the earth at the time the peace is made. These coalitions are happening right now for the first time ever! The reason understanding these complex prophecies is so important is because this is happening in real time today. If this isn't the time the Bible describes, then God is going to have to re-orchestrate something similar to the exact events we are seeing in the news today...the problem is, most people are not watching the news, and even fewer have taken the time to study or teach these prophecies, and so MOSTLY no one sees the dramatic fulfillment of prophecy taking place right before their eyes. The Bible describes two distinct coalitions of nations emerging in the earth. One organized by the "prince who is to come"...that is the antichrist, and the other being the coalition of Gog in Ezekiel 38 and 39. These both emerge at the same time. The antichrist coalition, described mostly in the Daniel 7 and 11 prophecies and Revelation 17 and 18, will include the last global superpower (called in the Bible the "Harlot Babylon"...I believe, for several reasons, that this is the US) who "appears" to be aligned with Israel, but oddly enough is also aligned with Israel's worst enemies who are bent on reviving a global Islamic Caliphate, which was the last global superpower before them, called the Ottoman Empire. This coalition includes Syria and Egypt, Jordan, and at least 7 other countries committed to the rebuilding of an Islamic caliphate. The organization currently in the earth that is committed to this idea is the Muslim Brotherhood. This is well documented in the news and in the records from the "Holy Land Trials" in which the Muslim Brotherhood and ISNA (the brotherhood's American arm) were thoroughly uncovered in their agenda. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land_Foundation_for_Relief_and_Development If you follow that link and go to the tab titled "an exploratory memorandum" you will see that our "friends" that we are almost exclusively partnering with in Egypt, Libya, and now Syria...actually want to make our entire country Muslim and take over the world. I have written extensively on this. If you are interested, please let me know and I will give you an overview of the theology connected to the end time Babylon, which covers this in great detail. Just to be clear, the antichrist is not Muslim, as many suppose. He believes he is God, a "humanistic messiah" for the world, just like Hitler believed. The antichrist "uses" Islam to advance his own agenda, just like he will use many Christians, again, like Hitler. This is all prophesied. This coalition of nations is the 4th beast of Daniel 7, the feet and toes of Daniel 2, and the 8th empire of Revelation 17. The toes of iron mixed with clay, I believe is referring to the mixture of liberal socialist ideology with the “iron” of Islam: Daniel 2:42-43 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. (43) As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. Right now, the USA is conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood in an unprecedented way. The Muslim Brotherhood is committed to reviving the Ottoman Empire, the 7th head of Revelation 13 and the 4th

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Beast of Daniel 7. The Muslim Brotherhood has hijacked the Arab Spring revolutions in the Middle East, with our political backing (Egypt), our air support and weapons (Libya), and now we are actively talking about arming the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood calls the USA the great satan and Israel the little satan. They hate homosexuals (killing homosexuals is legal under Sharia law), they oppress women, and they hate capitalism and Israel. That is the link between the left wing of the US politics and the hard right of Islam: they both hate capitalism and Israel. http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=5871 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NItzJpToUc8&list=PLD2F5836862CF766A&index=1 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1773 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-ryan-obama-presidency-increasingly-lawless/

I won't parse all of that out right now, but the simple gist of this concept is that the leader of the last global superpower uses a coalition of conscripted Arab peoples to do his bidding in the Middle East, just like Nero, the Roman emperor, did in 70 AD. Actually, Josephus & Tacitus tell us that in 70 AD nearly all the 'Roman soldiers' who defeated Jerusalem, tore down the 2nd Temple, and killed over a million Jews were of Syrian, Egyptian and other Mideast descent. Titus, Nero's general, conscripted Syrian Roman legions, like most of the Roman army conscripted local people. We can see this happening again today, as the Muslim Brotherhood capitalizes on a wave of hope and change known as the "Arab Spring." In fact, in stunning prophetic fulfillment, the Arab Spring has already subdued two leaders in the Middle East: Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Ghaddaffi...and is diligently working on getting rid of Syrian President Bashar Assad! I believe these are the “3 horns” promised to be uprooted by the 4th beast of Daniel 7. Daniel 7:7-8 "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. (this is the Islamic ‘Ottoman” empire) It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. (in Revelation 17, we hear that the revived empire has 10 horns that align with the antichrist) (8) I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, (the 11th horn, the antichrist, comes up later and is different, he changes three of the horns by uprooting them) before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words. Daniel 7:19-22 "Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, broke in pieces, and trampled the residue with its feet; (20) and the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, before which three fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words, whose appearance was greater than his fellows. (21) "I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, (22) until the Ancient of

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Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom. Here is one of many books that detail this odd alliance: http://www.amazon.com/Unholy-Alliance-Radical-Islam-American/dp/0895260263 Here is our Secretary of State describing our involvement in Libya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y “Uproot” implies changing the very nature of the leadership. That is what the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the USA have done in Egypt, Libya, and are working on in Syria. This is dramatic fulfillment of prophecy, in my opinion. As I taught Revelation through the spring of 2013, God began showing me that the extreme acceleration of the peace talks in Israel were leading to the December 19th prophecy he had given me 18 months before. I began to understand God had revealed to me on December 19, 2011, that December 19, 2013 was the start of the 7-year tribulation otherwise known as the “70th week” of Daniel: Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. The seventy “weeks” of Daniel are WIDELY recognized as 70 “heptads” (7-year periods) of years. This means that God ordained 490 years for Israel to live outside of the covenant with God and reap the fruit of that rebellion. Most Bible scholars widely recognize that 483 of those years culminated with the crucifixion of Jesus in the spring of 32 ad. After that, God gave Israel the strong king she wanted (Caesar) and he destroyed the city of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 ad. For 1,800 years, Israel lived in exile. She rejected God’s perfect cornerstone, and got the trouble promised to her. For 1,800 years she was persecuted throughout Europe. Millions of Jews were killed in an attempt of satan to keep Jesus’ promise from coming true. Jews were nearly exterminated in several “pogroms” in Europe, the middle east, and Russia, culminating in the death of 6 million Jews in Nazi Germany. Then the miraculous happened! On May 15, Pentecost, 1948, God said to Israel “do you want to try this covenant thing in Israel one more time?” God supernaturally re-established Israel as a nation on ONE DAY just as Isaiah had prophesied. The Bible says that the last week of Daniel, the 7-year tribulation, called “the end,” would be marked by her making peace with her neighbors after being “brought back from the nations”. The antichrist “confirming” her peace plan makes Him the one Israel makes the last covenant with. This is the covenant with death Isaiah predicted. Even though God offered Israel another Pentecost, she will choose a man one last time. First it was Saul, then it was Caesar, and last it will be the antichrist. When a man decides to play God to Israel, he becomes the antichrist. The Bible says this will happen as an act of his own will to agree to be her God (her protector) for seven years. Antichrist will promise to protect Israel for seven years if she is willing to make peace with his friends. That “confirmation”…the

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“deciding” in his heart to play God to Israel… marks the beginning of “the end” promised to come like a flood: Daniel 9:26-27 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. | pause for 1,800 years| The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined. (27) Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate." This idea of the last seven years…the 7-year tribulation…being described as a week is super important. As I was teaching and studying Revelation, I started to realize that a significant prophetic insight had been given to John the Beloved regarding the persecuted church going in to the end times. Before describing the events of Revelation, Jesus addresses His divided Bride-to-be and tells her how to get ready to overcome the tribulation. He shows her where she is doing well and where she needs work. The seven “characteristic” churches in Revelation 2 and 3 become one pure and spotless Bride through the tribulation events described in Revelation 5 through 19. God highlighted to me something about Smyrna, the persecuted church: Revelation 2:8-11 "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, 'These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life: (9) "I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. (10) Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. (11) "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death." ' This idea of Smyrna, the persecuted church, undergoing tribulation “10 days” is very important. Every other church was expecting 7 days…the last week of Daniel. Jesus told Smyrna she would go into tribulation 3 years before all the other churches, hence 10 days of trouble. According to Voice of the Martyrs, the persecuted church is the 10/40 window church…the Church in north Africa and the Middle East. I strongly believe Smyrna represents a large portion of the “10/40 window” church of our day. That was the prophecy: some of the persecuted church would get 3 extra years of tribulation. I didn’t think too much of this when God revealed it to me in the spring of 2013. So much was happening and I was watching and teaching with great interest on the events transpiring around our current US president’s attempts to broker peace in the middle east. Whoever makes peace in the middle east will be the Nobel Peace Prize ”man of the century,” but the news was hardly covering the frenzied push by the US. Israel began to accuse the US administration of acting “messianic.” http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/14/22298718-israeli-minister-apologizes-to-kerryfor-messianic-remarks?lite

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As December 19, 2013 came closer and closer, the push for peace became more clear. The US proposed a security solution in early December that included Israel remaining in the west bank (Biblical Samaria) for 10 years. The Palestinians wanted anyone BUT Israel there no more than 4 years. Rumors were abounding that the US had offered Netanyahu US troops in place of Israeli troops to monitor the security in the west bank. The average of 4 and 10 is seven years, and suddenly the US was lining up exactly with the prophetic requirements for the last week of Daniel to start. I was super focused on watching the news the week of December 19, 2013. Sure enough, no big announcement of a 7-year peace predicated on the US protecting Israel was made! This is the only news story to come out that I found significant on December 19, 2013: http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-sends-letter-to-obama-complaining-about-kerry/ So, on December 19, 2013, the media was reporting that the Palestinian President had appealed to the US president complaining that he did not want Israel troops in his new country for 10 years and he wanted the US President to “fix” his Secretary of State’s misguided thinking. Remember, I said that the “confirming” of the covenant is the Daniel 9:27 Biblical requirement. Confirming to “play God to Israel” is something that will happen privately in the antichrist’s heart well before anyone knows about this. Just like Judas Iscariot deciding in his heart to betray Jesus. Only Jesus and Judas knew about the betrayal. The disciples found out much later, once the intensity had started. The antichrist’s betrayal of God will happen the same way. What happens in the heart is what matters to God. The “confirmation” is what starts the clock. In faith, because God had shown me all of these things, I took it in faith that this is what had likely happened on December 19, 2013. Whoever would eventually come out in public “confirming” to protect Israel like her God for seven years, made that “heart-level” decision on December 19, 2013. I simply believed it because God had shouted it into my heart and whispered me into an understanding of what he originally yelled. I determined to never mention this to anyone, since I had no proof or Bible verses to back it up, whatsoever. All that was well and good until January 9, 2014. On January 9, my wife emailed me an article about the sudden doubling of martyr deaths in the middle east. According to a Pew foundation study, martyrdom rose significantly globally between 2012 and 2013, due to the Arab Spring I previously mentioned. The same Muslim Brotherhood the US administration has gotten in bed with, and toppled the presidents of Egypt, Libya, and now is working to topple Syria with, has been killing Christians all over the middle east for the last few years. Here is the article: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/survey-reported-christian-martyr-deaths-double-in-2013/ but there are many more. Here is another: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/jan/02/middle-east-arab-spring-christianwinter

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I felt the Lord prompt me to write a post about this information tied to the Smyrna Church in Revelation 2. So I began writing: “Because most of us don't live in the 10/40 window, it is easy to miss the fact that violence against Christians has dramatically escalated with the Arab Spring, which began…” I couldn’t remember exactly when the Arab Spring had begun. Was it 2010 or 2011? I decided to look it up on Google. Can you guess the day the Arab Spring started? That is right, December 19th (some sources say 18th) 2010. So the spark that I believe has resulted in the fulfillment of the Daniel and Revelation passages concerning the kingdoms, the horns, and the man who aligns it all, is the Arab Spring, which also marked the beginning of the increase in martyrdom in the persecuted church in the Middle East on December 19, 2010…three years before December 19, 2013. This information flooded me on the afternoon of January 9, 2014 as I put the dates and Bible verses together. But this isn’t all…there is a beauty in what God is revealing in the fulfillment of prophecy. There is a reason God picked Pentecost 1948 to restore the nation of Israel. There is a reason God picked Pentecost in 32ad to fill the believers with power from on high! We have to go back to Pentecost to get the full picture of what I believe God is doing right this minute. I believe with my whole heart that the man currently negotiating peace…pushing peace…actually demanding peace…in Israel and promising to secure it with our own young men and women…is going to break that same peace treaty 1,260 days after December 19, 2013. Remember, when I first heard “December 19th” back in 2011, I had little to no understanding of most of these concepts. I only had the vaguest understanding of the 7-year time period corresponding to the Daniel prophecies. God steadily increased my understanding of this information as I studied it and taught it. This is EXACTLY the promise in Revelation 1:3: Revelation 1:3 God blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy to the church, and He blesses all who listen to its message and obey what it says, for the time is near. What I have done is Biblical. I simply took the Bible at face value and did my best to agree with Jesus. By my simple “reach” to believe the Revelation 1:3 blessing, God answered and filled in the insight, wisdom, and the understanding. Before you are quick to dismiss this, I would encourage you to consider, have you done this, too? As I became more and more confident of the December 19, 2013 date in mid January 2014, I started to count days, just like Daniel asked the angel in Revelation 12 “how long will all this take God? When will it happen.” Well, 1,260 days from December 19, 2013 is June 1, 2017. Do you want to guess what day that is? Yes! Pentecost in 2017 is June 1, 2017! Pentecost, known in Israel as the holiday of Shavout, or the Feast of Weeks, is the day God offered Israel the covenant of the law on the mountain, 50 days after he spared their first born in Egypt. Pentecost is the day God poured out His spirit on those first 120 believers in the upper room after offering HIS firstborn to allow them the grace to keep that original Pentecost Covenant. Pentecost is the day that in

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1948, after 1,800 years of exile for refusing God’s covenant and instead choosing Caesar, God offered Israel one more chance to enter into the promised land and live in covenant with Him. AND Pentecost 2017 will be the day that God will allow the final man they choose (instead of Jesus) to break His covenant with Israel…on June 1, 2017! Because Pentecost moves around on the calendar, there is only one “December 19th” in modern history that will have a Pentecost holiday 1,260 days after it, and that was the December 19, 2013 that God yelled to me in December 2011, and then whispered understanding to me through the Bible and the news right up until the day it happened. This is a sign and a wonder to me. Night and Day Prayer Is The Answer! This brings me great joy…great comfort…as I watch the world around me grope for truth. Truth is truly stumbling in the streets right now: Isaiah 59:14-21 Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed. (15) Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find there was no justice. (16) He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So He Himself stepped in to save them with His strong arm, and His justice sustained Him. (17) He put on righteousness as His body armor and placed the helmet of salvation on His head. He clothed Himself with a robe of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of divine passion. (18) He will repay His enemies for their evil deeds. His fury will fall on His foes. He will pay them back even to the ends of the earth. (19) In the west, people will respect the name of the LORD; in the east, they will glorify Him. For He will come like a raging flood tide driven by the breath of the LORD. (20) "The Redeemer will come to Jerusalem to buy back those in Israel who have turned from their sins," says the LORD. (21) "And this is My covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children's children forever. I, the LORD, have spoken! This is really what is happening before our eyes. Jesus said it will always take faith to see it: Matthew 24:37-44 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (38) For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, (39) and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (40) Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. (41) Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. (42) Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. (43) But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. (44) Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. But Jesus doesn’t stop there. Next, He describes exactly what is available to EVERY servant of His..the opportunity to be wise and faithful. Rather than be distracted by the business of the days…the chaos of our generation…God allowed anyone, like little ole’ me, to choose to agree with Him about the hour…to be a faithful and wise servant by simply taking God up on the promise in Revelation 1:3, that there is a

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blessing for reading and teaching the Book of Revelation. Jesus said that the wise servant feeds the other servants “food in due season.” Matthew 24:45-51 "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? (46) Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. (47) Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. (48) But if that evil servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' (49) and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, (50) the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, (51) and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Jesus said “food” was God’s word: Matthew 4:4 But He answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' " This means that the faithful and wise servants in the end times will feed the truth of God’s word at exactly the right time so that all of God’s people would grow in readiness, watchfulness, and prayerfulness. This is what we should ALL be about. If you believe what I am saying is true, great. If you don’t, no problem. This isn’t doctrine essential to salvation. This is a disputable matter. I am no Bible scholar, I am no pastor, and I am no teacher. I am just a guy who sincerely loves Jesus and believes this enough to risk it all to say it to you, with nothing to gain but the smile of God and the belief that either way…whether you take it or leave it…I am more than confident that I will hear “well done good and faithful servant.” If you do happen to believe this is true, the answer to being ready is NOT any of these things: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Selling your house Cashing in your savings Buying guns Storing food Pulling your kids out of school/college/etc. Quitting your job Ignoring your debts Moving to a warmer climate Moving to an underground bunker Hoarding anything Wearing a sandwich board in the park Any dramatic change in your external life

Being ready means simply agreeing with God about what is happening in the earth and the endurance needed. There is ONE solution for the Bride:

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Luke 18:7-8 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? (8) I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?" This is what the Bride is going to do: come together in one accord, tear their hearts by breaking their agreement with the American dream and choosing to put all their strength in prayer and worship. The only solution is the same one the disciples had in Acts 2…worship and pray in one accord in “upper rooms” all over the world contending for the “pouring out of the Spirit on all flesh” so that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Building night and day prayer in your current city is God’s main and plain plan. This is the answer for Jerusalem, for Kalamazoo, and every other place where people want to agree with God: Joel 2:11-32 The LORD is at the head of the column. He leads them with a shout. This is His mighty army, and they follow His orders. The day of the LORD is an awesome, terrible thing. Who can possibly survive? (12) That is why the LORD says, "Turn to Me now, while there is time. Give Me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. (13) Don't tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead." Return to the LORD your God, for He is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. (14) Who knows? Perhaps He will give you a reprieve, sending you a blessing instead of this curse. Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine to the LORD your God as before. (15) Blow the ram's horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. (16) Gather all the people—the elders, the children, and even the babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room. (17) Let the priests, who minister in the LORD's presence, stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar. Let them pray, "Spare Your people, LORD! Don't let Your special possession become an object of mockery. Don't let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say, 'Has the God of Israel left them?'" (18) Then the LORD will pity His people and jealously guard the honor of His land. (19) The LORD will reply, "Look! I am sending you grain and new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy your needs. You will no longer be an object of mockery among the surrounding nations. (20) I will drive away these armies from the north. I will send them into the parched wastelands. Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea, and those at the rear into the Mediterranean. The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land." Surely the LORD has done great things! (21) Don't be afraid, My people. Be glad now and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things. (22) Don't be afraid, you animals of the field, for the wilderness pastures will soon be green. The trees will again be filled with fruit; fig trees and grapevines will be loaded down once more. (23) Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the LORD your God! For the rain He sends demonstrates His faithfulness. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring. (24) The threshing floors will again be piled high with grain, and the presses will overflow with new wine and olive oil. (25) The LORD says, "I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this great destroying army against you. (26) Once again you will have all the food you want, and you will praise the LORD your God, who does these miracles for you. Never again will My people be disgraced. (27) Then you will know that I am among My people Israel, that I am the LORD your God, and

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there is no other. Never again will My people be disgraced. (28) "Then, after doing all those things, I will pour out My Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions. (29) In those days I will pour out My Spirit even on servants—men and women alike. (30) And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth—blood and fire and columns of smoke. (31) The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and terrible day of the LORD arrives. (32) But everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved, for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape, just as the LORD has said. These will be among the survivors whom the LORD has called.

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