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mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comTHE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGELINTRODUCTIONThe rapture is coming but the timing is mysterious. We are told in Scripture: ‘But of that day and hour knowsno man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.’ (Matthew 24:36) This means at best we mightpredict the year and month when the rapture is coming but not more accurately than that.We are adjured by the Savior to keep watch for the coming of the rapture: ‘Watch therefore: for ye knownot what hour your Lord doth come.’ (Matt. 24:42) In another passage the Savior said: ‘It will be good forthose servants whose Master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night.’(Luke 12:38)What else is there to watch at night than the stars in the sky? Some of the signs of the second coming thatthe servants of the Master are to watch for will be revealed in the stars in the night sky. Is this so shocking?Did not the shepherds see a choir of angels in the night sky praising the Lord at his first coming? ‘And therewere shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An Angel of the Lordappeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone round about Suddenly a great company of the heavenlyhost appeared with the angel, praising God, and saying ‘Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace tomen on whom his favor rests.’ (Luke 2:8-14)There is nothing un-Biblical about epochal changes being marked by observable events in the stars. Thewise men from the East who came to worship the Christ, spoke to Herod saying: ‘Where is he that is born Kingof the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him’. (Matt. 2:2)How long is a ‘watch of the night’? According to Moses: ‘For a thousand years in thy sight are but asyesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.’ (Psalm 90:4) So, when Jesus said he was coming ‘in thesecond or third watch of the night’ it means sometime between 1,000 and 3,000 years after his death. Weare almost 2,000 years after his death1. We are in the period of time when Christ predicted he would return.SUMMARYWe propose in this paper that a specific celestial event is predicted in the New Testament that saints are towatch for known as ‘the voice of the archangel’. We will show this has already occurred. Look at theevidence - you judge for yourself. We are convinced the predicted momentous sign in the stars we are towatch for has already arrived. Other signs will follow – not all signs of his coming are celestial.This means the sequence of prophetic events prior to the rapture is now well underway. We will provideevidence for that too.1If Jesus died in 33 AD, then 2000 years after his death is 2033.
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comTHE SIGNS OF THE TIMESThe Book of Revelations provides expert authority on the sequence of events following the death andresurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Almost all conservative Christian commentators of Scripture agree thatthe rapture of Christians will occur before the seven year period known as Daniel’s 70th Week, or the GreatTribulation. It is vital that the reader understand when the rapture occurs in the sequence of events recordedin the Book of Revelations. We believe the rapture occurs at the opening of the seventh seal, which coincideswith the first trumpet. We provide a detailed defense of this interpretation of prophecy in our paper: ‘TheSeven Seals’2. A graphic from this paper is presented below for your convenience:CrossTHE BOOK OF REVELATIONSResurrectionHoly SpiritGreatFalling AwayRaptureof SaintsAGE OF GRACEAbominationof DesolationSecondComingDANIEL'S 70th WEEKSatan LetLooseWhiteThroneMILLENNIUMCHURCH AGEBIRTH PANGS2 WITNESSESHARVESTREIGN OF CHRISTLAST BATTLE7 LAMPSTANDS7 SEALS7 TRUMPETS7 BOWLSTHRONESFIREBARLEY HARVESTFeast ofPentecostFeast ofFirst FruitsFeast ofPassoverWHEAT HARVESTFeast ofTrumpetsChristian history is laid out in the Book of Revelations from chapter 2 to 6. The seven churches of Revelationsare seven epochs of church history in the Age of Grace. The seven seals represent prophetic events whichmust occur prior to the rapture. During the time of the ‘Birth Pangs’ Christians will be decimated. The oneworld government under the one-world ruler, the Anti-Christ, will be established3. The opening of the firstseal is the event described as the ‘Voice of the Archangel.’ (Rev.6:1)2This document in available in section 4.0 PROPHECY on our website: www.biblenumbersforlife.comThe Anti-Christ himself will not be revealed until Christians are raptured, but his one-world government will be established. This istha necessary pre-condition of Daniel’s 70 week which begins when the Jewish nation makes a covenant with the Anti-Christ.3
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comTHE FIRST SEALThe account of the opening of the first seal in Scripture: (Rev. 6)‘And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of thefour beasts [living creatures] saying, Come and see.’ (v.1)‘And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him:and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.’ (v.2)Source: UnknownThe opening of the first seal reveals a rider on a white horse. He rides his steed [yes they are that close] toconquer. The rider is the False Prophet of the House of Judah. The bow and horse signify the Anti-Christ.How can the False Prophet / Anti-Christ appear if the church has not yet been raptured? Here is the mystery:the False Prophet / Anti-Christ have been called forth by God, but that does not mean they have appearedpublically. When the first seal is opened False Prophet / Anti-Christ are released to make war. But, they arecrafty. They will not permit their identity to be revealed before the appointed time. Until they have totalworld authority in their grip they must not reveal themselves. If they did they would become the top targetfor assassination of every nation on earth. After the Christians are gone, Anti-Christ will be revealed.Note carefully, the graphic above pictures the False Prophet as a beardless white man with dark eyes.Obviously, we cannot know in advance anything concerning his skin color, his facial hair, or his eye color.
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comTHE FOUR LIVING CREATURESPrior to opening the first seal, the apostle John stood before the throne of God. ‘In the center, around thethrone, were four living creatures, and they were covered in eyes front and back.’ (Rev. 4:6) These are thesame cherubim in Ezekiel’s vision: ‘The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire were fourliving creatures each had four faces and four wings As I looked at the living creatures I saw a wheel on theground beside each creature Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel Their rims werehigh and awesome, and all four rims were full of eye all around.” (Ezekiel ch.1)4Regarding the four living creatures who stand before the throne in heaven: ‘Day and night never stop saying‘Holy, holy, holy is the LORD God Almighty who was, and who is, and who is to come.’ (Rev. 4:8) Therefore, atask of the four living creatures is to announce prophecy. The eyes are the stars, which ‘watch’ from above.The prophecy the living creatures announce is knowledge from the stars5. The four wheels are the circulationof the four celestial systems: (1) Moon around Earth (2) Earth and planets around the Sun (3) Sun around theGalactic Center (4) Galactic Center around the Universe Center: wheels which intersect with wheels.The four living creatures are guardian cherubs. They are the highest angelic creatures in the Universe. Theyare the ‘archangels’, or the ‘chief angels’. Lucifer was one of these before his fall: ‘You were anointed as aguardian cherub I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God’ (Ezekiel 28:14-15).45Winchester Bible Ilustration. Source: http://raebear.net/bibleart/displayimage.php?pos -203For a complete description of prophecy in the stars, please visit page 7.0 STARS on our website: www.biblenumbersforlife.com
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comTHE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGELJohn wrote: ‘‘And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder,one of the four beasts [living creatures] saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and hethat sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.’The ‘noise of thunder’ which ‘one of the four beasts’ declared was the voice of an archangel.Back in the Book of 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 Paul wrote this concerning the rapture: [KJV English translation]‘For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of theLord shall not prevent them which are asleep.’ (v. 15)‘For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with thetrump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.’ (v. 16)‘Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord inthe air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.’ (v. 17)Here is the key verse in the exact order that the words are written in Greek:Phrase 1:‘For the Lord himself,Phrase 2 (a)with a shout,Phrase 2 (b)with the voice of the archangel, and[the first seal] untoPhrase 2 (c)with the trump of God,[the sixth seal]Phrase 3:shall descend from heaven,Phrase 4:and the dead in Christ shall rise first.’ (v. 16)When we read verse 16 in the order it is written in Greek, we see that the voice of the archangel precedes thedescent of the Lord from heaven to gather his resurrected saints.This is in agreement with Revelations chapter six. The appearance of the rider on the white horse, the AntiChrist, is announced by the voice of an archangel, one of the four living creatures. The remaining seals, orprophetic events which must take place before the rapture, are opened one after the other. Then finallywhen the sixth seal is opened the rapture of the saints occurs. It is only after the opening of the sixth seal thatwe read ‘After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from everynation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearingwhite robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvationbelongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.’ (Rev. 7:9-10)
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comSAGITTARIUS IS THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSEHere is a critical connection. The calling of the False Prophet / Anti-Christ is announced by an archangel. Thebusiness of the four living creatures is to proclaim prophetic revelation before the throne of God, specificallyprophetic revelation relating to knowledge contained in the starry heavens, in the four wheels of stars, whichincludes all stars in the entire universe.The revelation in the stars that the ‘Voice of the Archangel’ announces is prophecy contained in Sagittarius.Sagittarius is the constellation on the zodiac that portrays a centaur who wields a bow and conquers!Source: UnknownThe arrow of Sagittarius is pointed at the heart of Scorpio, the deadly scorpion. Scorpio represents the worldsystem6. The False Prophet / Anti-Christ will be sent by God to devastate the kingdoms of the earth. They willbe sent at a time, during the epoch of the church of Laodicea - the last of the seven churches, whenChristianity has ceased to be a functioning living organism and has ossified into an apostate religion that isriven by schisms, factions, and the ecclesiastical empires of men.There is a double level of prophetic meaning in the constellation Sagittarius. {Perhaps that is why the word isspelled with two ‘t’s or two ‘bows’}. When False Prophet / Anti-Christ defeat the kingdoms of the world andestablish a one-world government with themselves as the co-regents, they will morph into Scorpio, the Godrejecting world system! After the seven year period of the Great Tribulation, Christ will then return to earth,riding his white steed, as the second coming of Sagittarius so to speak, and vanquish the False Prophet / AntiChrist in similar fashion to how they vanquished their enemies!6For a full description of the and prophecies in Sagittarius and Scorpio please see our papers on page 7.0 STARS
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comAnti-Christ will claim to be God and man, the Messiah. In Sagittarius this is pictured by the dual nature ofhorse and man. John tells us False Prophet / Anti-Christ will be two men: a horse and a rider. Jesus is theonly true Messiah – the true Sagittarius: fully God and fully man.COULD THE ‘VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL’ ALSO BE A CELESTIAL SIGN?This is what we know so far: (1) Christians are commanded to ‘Watch for we do not know the day or hour ourLord may return’ (2) The watch is described as a ‘watch of the night’, in other words what we are watching isthe stars (3) The constellation to be announced by the archangel is Sagittarius, an object to keep our eyes onA scientific project called SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), possesses a vast array of antennae,named ‘Big Ear’, which point up at the night sky. Amazingly, SETI was established with the express purpose ofregistering messages sent to earth by advanced intelligent life elsewhere in the universe!On August 15, 1977 the SETI telescopes registered a most unusual signal in the constellation Sagittarius,known as the Wow Signal. Scientists consider the origin of this signal to be a major unsolved mystery.’7 For72 seconds a burst of microwaves at the Hydrogen wavelength 21.1 cm was received that peaked at 30 timesas intense as the background ‘white noise’ of the universe. Such a signal has never been seen since.Scientists have ruled out the possibility of an earth source for the signal since it was registered on anextremely narrow band. A signal that strong which originated from earth would have registered static on oneof the other 50 bands taking recordings on the Big Ear telescope. The diagram below shows the region in thenight sky from which the signal was received. It is above the right shoulder of Sagittarius8.78For a BBC presentation on the Wow! Signal view this 2 minute video clip: ly, the Anti-Christ received a ‘tap on the shoulder’ to go forth and conquer!
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comDECIPHERING THE WOW SIGNAL: IT MEANS ‘MAN OF LAWLESSNESS’Of course, atheist scientists would never be able to decode the ‘Wow Signal’ for two reasons: (1) they wouldnot assume the existence of all-powerful God who might choose to send them a message, and; (2) they wouldnot understand the meaning of spiritual numbers required to decode it.Bible Numbers for Life is not constrained by either of those limitations. We enthusiastically accept theexistence of an all-powerful God. We know the spiritual meaning of some numbers9. Furthermore, as dutifulsaints and believers in Jesus we are awaiting a celestial sign in the constellation Sagittarius.Source10The diagram above shows the pulse which the Big Ear telescopes recorded. Two numbers jump out asdefining features of the pulse:30 the peak intensity relative to background star radiation in this band width72 the number of seconds of duration of the pulse, from beginning to endThe spiritual meaning of the numbers: EVANGELIST (72) of BLOOD (30). This is one way of looking at theMan of Lawlessness, the Anti-Christ. He will conquer all nations on the earth by war: BLOOD. In the mostperverse way, he will be an EVANGELIST since his ultimate goal is to cause men to worship a god (him)!9To the best of our ability. Perfect knowledge of spiritual numbers exists only in the mind of God.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow! signal#mediaviewer/File:Wow signal profile.svg10
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comDEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY OF THE WOW SIGNALIf we covered the Wow Signal pulse with a rectangle in such a way that the boundary was completely coveredwe would obtain an area of 2160 30 x 72 10 x 216The spiritual meaning of 2160 is ‘Testimony’ (10) that ‘Brotherly Love is Gone’ (216)In spiritual numbers Testimony (10) refers to the assembly or public identity of the saints. A church is meantto be a ‘light to the world’, a ‘lamp’ that is not hidden under a bushel but set on top of a hill for all to see. Thelife of a Christian fellowship was intended by the LORD to reflect his own divine nature: generous to a fault,gracious without limit, always loving, always forgiving, and freely offering salvation to a broken world.At the birth of the church this is what the world saw:‘They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and toprayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. Allthe believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave toanyone who had need. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts Andthe Lord added daily to their number those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:42-47)In the last days, the virtue and love in the fellowship of Christians will be gone.This is how the apostle John describes the church of Laodicia, which represents the last epoch of the church:‘I know your deeds that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish you were either one or the other! So becauseyou are lukewarm – I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and donot need a thing’ But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked ’ (Rev. 3:15-17)This is how Jesus described the conditions preceding the end of the Age of Grace:‘At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophetswill appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, THE LOVE OF MOST WILLGROW COLD (216), but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.’ (Matt. 24:10-13)The specific word spoken by the living creature to call forth the Anti-Christ are: ‘ερχου και βλεπε’ which mean‘Come and See!’ Their gematria is 1,328 which means New Man (8) who Detests Idol Worship (166). Thechurch, who was intended to be a light to the Gentiles, is sunken in lust for riches (see passage in Revelation 3quoted above) which is idolatry (Col. 3:5). The False Prophet / Anti-Christ who comes, the ‘New Man’, will‘Detest Idol Worship’! He will conquer all the godless kingdoms of the world and the people who live in thosecountries: people who wake up each day with only one thought on their minds: to make money!The dimensions of the Wow Signal correspond through interpretation by spiritual numbers to the character ofthe Anti-Christ and simultaneously to the flawed character of the Christian faith which reaches its lowest ebb.
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comMORE DEPTHS OF THE MYSTERY OF THE WOW SIGNALThe Wow Signal appears in the band of the Hydrogen wavelength, which is 21.106114 cm.Spiritual Number 21 means: LAWLESSNESS (21)Spiritual Number 211 means: EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (211) divides TESTIMONY (10)These meanings line up with the identity of the Anti-Christ, who is the Man of Lawlessness. It also supportsour belief that God sends him to wipe out the nations at the time in history when public Christian assemblies,or ‘testimonies’, cease to demonstrate the love of Jesus among one another. Instead they are not safe placesto be, even for Christians. The recent scandals of widespread child abuse by priests in the Catholic Church ismerely the sign of our times. Christian assemblies of all descriptions everywhere are beset with sins.We could also look at the Wow Signal from the perspective of the standard measurement in the Gizapyramids, which is the Royal Cubit11. The Royal Cubit is 20.6066 Pyramid Inches, or 20.8333 British Inches, or52.9165 cm. Note: Giza is a highly prophetic monument whose construction is a sign and wonder of God.The ratio of the Royal Cubit to the Hydrogen wavelength is 2.51 (52.9165 / 21.106114)The spiritual number 2.5 means ‘Payment for Sin’ (25) divided into ‘Testimony’ (10). The coming of theAnti-Christ will be a judgment of God upon the church of Laodicea. Yes, the church is not appointed forwrath, meaning eternal condemnation, but the church is nevertheless subject to discipline. As the Lordrepeats in his warnings to the seven churches: ‘if you do not repent your candlestick will be removed.’ (Rev.2:5) In other words, if the public assemblies don’t obey Jesus’ command to love one another, he will expelChristians from this world. The original letter of Revelations to the seven churches of Asia Minor was notobeyed. There are now no public Christian assemblies in that part of the modern country of Turkey. None!The spiritual number 2.51 means ‘Evil Spirit Control’ (251) divided into ‘The Holy Flock’ (100). This pointsto another sad dimension of the conditions of Christian fellowship on earth which bring the Lord’s stingingrebuttal and painful discipline. The church has turned away from Jesus Christ as the head of the church andhas appointed ecclesiastical overseers: pastors, priests, bishops, cardinals, et cetera. From the divineperspective of our holy Savior, this love of religion results in the church coming under the control of spirits ofdarkness and wickedness. The spotless bride of Christ has become just another harlot to so-called holy menwho pimp her to soak money from the faithful believers. Woe!The same God who put the meaning of spiritual numbers in the Bible is the same God who created theuniverse, who is the same God who inspired prophecy in the Book of Revelations, who is the same God whocreated the four living creatures, who is the same God who sent the Wow! Signal to planet earth.11For a full description of the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Egypt see page 12 GIZA
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comTHE STUPENDOUS IMPLICATIONS OF THE ‘VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL’If our analysis is correct and the Wow Signal is the prophetic Voice of the Archangel then the first Seal ofRevelations was opened on August 15, 1977!This author has looked into events that occurred in and around that date. Nothing strikes the observer asbeing particularly notable. The Vietnam War ended in 1975. Other than a small conflict between Somalia andEithiopia in 1977 the world was at peace. In America millions of Christians attended church on Sunday.This is exactly as the Lord warned us it would be:‘Now brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day ofthe LORD will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying ‘Peace and safety’, destruction will comeupon them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.’ (1 Thess. 5:1-3)Like a thief: the False Prophet / Anti-Christ, thunders into the sleepy camp of world nations to plunderIn the night: look for the sign of the sending of the Man of Lawlessness in the starsPeace and safety: the godless world system is at rest; revelling in all the money it makes from world tradeLabor pains: this is the prophetic time in the Age of Grace known as Birth Pangs (see diagram on page 2)The verses of Paul in his letter to the church in Thessalonica echo the warning of the Lord Jesus:‘Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their Master to return from awedding banquet, so that when he comes they can immediately open the door for him It will be good forthose servants who the Master finds ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night. Butunderstand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief [the Anti-Christ] was coming, hewould not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at anhour when you do not expect him.’ (Luke 13:35-40)We now have a marker. We know the date the end of the world began.We Christians must now face up to the startling reality that the world will soon radically change in a way thatis not friendly to us or our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Martyrs will soon be crying under the altar (fifth seal).We must now also come to the realisation that it was church sin, misrepresentation and twisting of the truthof Jesus Christ, that caused our Lord to send the False Prophet / Anti-Christ. Lament like Jeremiah!The period of the seven seals will be like a pot placed on the stove. The thief begins his work stealthily.Slowly and steadily the water will become hotter and hotter almost without noticing. By the time the pot isboiling over it is much too late. The LORD asked Jeremiah ‘What do you see?’ ‘I see a boiling pot’ (Jer.1:13)
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comTIMING OF LAST DAY EVENTSThere are seven seals. No place in Scripture does it say seven seals means seven years. We will propose atime line. Let the reader judge whether the Spirit of God confirms or denies these thoughts. We do not cometo you with an authoritative interpretation. We bring you our thoughts. Perhaps we are right or wrong.Jeremiah was the prophet in the time of the exile of Judah to Babylon. His prophecy acidly heaped shameupon Judah because they had witnessed the exile of the Northern tribes of Israel by the Assyrians. Theyshould have known Jehovah would judge them when He saw them commit the same sins the Northern tribeshad committed. In the same way, Christians will feel extra shame when God judges us for our idolatry. Weshould have seen it coming because we saw God judge the Jews and exile them from the Holy Land – twice!We believe that the prophecies of Jeremiah have a dual application: to Judah and the nations around Judah inthe time of Jeremiah, and to the church at the end of the Age of Grace and the nations of our present day.The reader who wishes to explore this connection is invited to read our papers on page 4.0 PROPHECY on ourwebsite as well as the up-to-date posts on our Facebook page.The word of the LORD according to Jeremiah:‘Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts; because you have not heard my words,’ (v.8)‘Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king ofBabylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against allthese nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing[literally ‘shrieks’], and perpetual desolations.’ (v.9)‘Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,and the voice of the bride [the body of Christ], the sound of the millstones [preaching of Christian workers],and the light of the candle [public testimony of Christ in the world].’ (v.10)‘And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king ofBabylon seventy years.’ (v.11)This False Prophet / Anti-Christ was sent was August 15 1977. Seventy years means the end of the judgmentswill be August 15 2047. The date the Jews (believers in that age) returned to the Holy Land – corresponds tothe year believers in this age return to earth – which corresponds to the year the Anti-Christ will be destroyed.The Anti-Christ will be destroyed at the end of Daniel’s 70th week, the seven year period of the GreatTribulation, when Christ will destroy him (Rev. 19:11-21) with the breath of his mouth (1 Thess. 2:8). Sevenyears prior to the end of the Great Tribulation is the rapture. Therefore according to these predictions therapture will occur in 2040. No one knows the day or the hour. Scripture never said we couldn’t know themonth and the year. (Note: prophetic years are 360 days – so it gets complicated quickly!)
mark h lanewww.biblenumbersforlife.comTHE KING OF BABYLONOn June 29, 2014 history records an amazing event:“The {Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's} original aim was to establish an Islamic state in the Sunni-majorityregions of Iraq. Following its involvement in the Syrian Civil War, this expanded to include controlling Sunnimajority areas of Syria. It proclaimed a worldwide caliphate on 29 June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—knownby his supporters as Amir al-Mu'minin, Caliph Ibrahim—was named as its caliph, and the group was renamedthe Islamic State. In its self-proclaimed status as a caliphate, it claims religious authority over all Muslimsworldwide, and aims to bring most Muslim-inhabited regions of the world under its political control”12The word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet: (chapter 25)‘Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar THE KING OFBABYLON, MY SERVANT, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, andagainst all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and anhissing, and perpetual desolations.’ (v.9)The period of elapsed history from the breaking of the first seal, August 15 1977, to the establishment of theIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant, June 29 2014, is 37 years (36.896 to be precise).The spiritual number 37 means ‘CHOSEN SERVANT’The exact number of days from August 15, 1977 to June 29, 2014 is 13,467 3 x 67 x 67. The spiritual number67 means ‘Gentiles Praise God’ (67). The spiritual number 67 x 67 means ‘Gentiles Praise God’ (67) ‘Exalted’(squared), or the time when any ethnic person can be saved through faith in Christ: the Age of Grace. Thespiritual number 3 means ‘Binding’, so 13,467 means ‘Binding’(3) the ‘Age of Grace’ (67 2). This is what theIslamic State will do. It will terrify. It will conquer. It will destroy churches. It will make the preaching of thegospel of Christ impossible. As jihadist Isla
How long is a ‘watch of the night’? According to Moses: ZFor a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. (Psalm 90:4) So, when Jesus said he was coming Zin the second or third watch of the night [ it means s
