This week the stock market will suffer a devastating crash.
Furthermore, a major natural disaster is going to strike this month.
That's the prediction as several major (and minor) Biblical Prophecy threads intersect over the next few weeks.
What do you know about Biblical prophecy ... today?
· First, God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
· Second, God spoke to his people of old through the prophets.
· Therefore, we should expect God to be continually active, consist, faithful, revealing, and fulfilling today.
· And while we shouldn’t set dates (see Mt 24:36) …
· We should be always be watchful, ready, and looking for what Jesus called the, “Signs of the Times” (Mt 16:3).
Therefore, let me present what current prophecy scholars are saying could take place this month. Not setting dates. Just saying, “Hmm” … and “Isn’t that curious?” … and sometimes … “Doesn’t that almost defy coincidence?”
Let me reveal something that seems to stunningly defy coincidence …
· God’s calendar (the Jewish, lunar calendar) has 2555 days.
· 2555 days is actually six “normal years” … plus one “Sabbath (or shmita) year.” making a cohesive seven-year whole.
· Well, did you know that the last two major stock market crashes worldwide occurred on this exact same 2555th day of this Jewish cycle of years! (Coincidence? What are the odds?)
· And this 2555th day is significant because it was the precise day – every seven years – that God told Israel to “release” debts and settle accounts. (Coincidence?)
· If God’s people obeyed – voluntarily rested fields and released finances – God promised that this would be a year of blessing. But what if God’s people are not resting and releasing? Could this day – the Day of the Shmita – be a day of reckoning? a day that causes people to quit trusting in possessions and learn to trust in him?
· And did you know that the next Shmita occurs this Sunday – September 13 on our solar based calendar, Elul 29 on the Jewish, lunar calendar.
· What could happen?
Jonathan Cahn – a Messianic (Christ-believing) Jewish Rabbi in The Mystery of the Shemitah – has written a whole book analyzing the “beyond coincidence” events that are occurring every seventh/shmita year for the past hundred years.
· Every major event in Israel’s “rebirth” as a nation is tied to this seven-year pattern.
· World history and World Wars have been eerily tied to this seven-year pattern.
· Every major event in America’s rise (and perhaps now decline) as a superpower is tied to this seven year pattern.
· So has just about every major stock market shaking – seven year cycles, occurring mostly in the fall near this 2555th day … and the last two precisely on this 2555th day of reckoning (in 2001 in aftermath of 9/11, in 2008 right before the election of Obama as President).
Coincidence?
The Stock Market can’t collapse again on precisely this 2555th day. (In America it’s a Sunday.) But what’s God some even more speculative than usual is looking at modern Israel’s history in combination of this 2555th day. Every 49 years – seven cycles of seven – is to be a Jubilee year. The year of Jubilee start’s right after the 7th 2555th day.
Nobody knows when the Year of Jubilee is – because ancient Israel was never trusting-enough to actually celebrate it. Nevertheless, Jonathan Cahn speculates …
· What if Modern Israel was formed in a Jubilee year? (That would mean maybe the Jubilee was 1917-18, coinciding with the end of WWI, the fall of the Middle-East-ruling Ottoman Empire, and the British Balfour Declaration which paved the way for the Jewish state.)
· And what if Jerusalem, a conquered or divided city for over 2000 years, was reunified in a Jubilee year? (That would be forty night years later: 1966-67.)
· And if those years were Jubilees, then when does the next great prophetic year begin? Next Monday! 1915-1916! Hmmm.
The shmita ends with, ideally, a voluntary releasing of debt (or maybe a forced reckoning of finances) on the last day of the Jewish year -- Elul 29.
Then the new year always begins with the blowing of the trumpet.
Jonathan Cahn asks, “Could this be the year of Jubilee?”
“Could it involve a monumental shaking – designed to shake us (including an increasingly apostate America) awake?”
Pastor John Hagee looks at a different set of signs, but with equal apprehension (or anticipation) depending on how you read these things.
Hagee looks at the Tetrad of Four Blood Moons culminating with a Lunar Eclipse this September 28th. Only four times in modern history has a series of solar and lunar eclipses occurred in close series of appearance – and might I add, all on significant Jewish Holidays.
· In 1491-1492, this Tetrad of Blood Moons corresponded with the Jews being evicted from Spain … leading fleeing Jews, along with Columbus, to discover “the New World.”
· In 1947-1948, this Tetrad of Blood Moons corresponded with Israel becoming a state … after nearly 2000 years of Exile.
· In 1966-1967, this Tetrad of Blood Moons corresponded with the reunification of Jerusalem … after more than 2000 years of occupation and division.
· So what will happen on or around September 28 when this Tetrad falls on the major Jewish holiday of Sukkot?
Combining this scientific Blood Moon phenomenon … with major events in Jewish history … and a Joel 2:31 prophecy about the moons turning to blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord, has many saying, “Hmmm?!”
It’s caused others to go a step further.
This “Feast of Tabernacles” is a harvest festival, leading some people to wander if this Blood Moon harvesting could have anything to do with the End of Days Harvesting (often called the Rapture).
Jan Markell – another Messianic Jewish author – has noticed another almost-too-strange-to-be-true-coincidence. Though President Truman and America were major players in the forming of Israel in 1948, not all congresses and presidents have been equally favorable to Israel. And Markell has noticed that within days of every American rebuff of Israel, a significant natural disaster has occurred. For example …
· Hurricanes Andrew and George coincide with land-for-peace talks in 1992 and 1998.
· Massive flooding in Texas coincides with negotiations with the PLO in 1998.
· President Clinton’s talks with Syria, attempting to strip Israel of the Golan Heights, coincide with the infamous Northridge Earthquake in 1994.
· President Clinton’s negotiations with the PLO in 1999 coincide with the most powerful tornado ever recorded – 316mph winds tear apart sections of Oklahoma and Texas.
· Other Clinton land-for-peace talks coincide with stock market falls, scandals breaking (Lewinsky), and the President’s impeachment.
· Not to be outdone, the first President Bush started a land for peace conference in 1991, a freak east-to-west storm hit the American northeast with the largest waves ever – including 35-foot swells damaging the President’s Kennebunkport, Maine home.
· And while the U.S. prompts the evicting of West Banks settlers in 1989 the Dow drops, a hurricane slams North Carolina, and 7.1 earthquake slams the Southwest (all on consecutive days).
Coincidence?
Well what happens this month when (and if) the Senate refuses (as expected) to override a promised veto of the President, essentially guaranteeing a nuclear pathway to a nation (Iran) who promises to destroy Israel?
Some are predicting a natural disaster.
So if the veto isn’t overridden and a disaster occurs is it judgment? or another coincidence? Hmm?!
Those are three strange coincidences set to converge in September. The question is: What do we do about such things?
1. We always stay ready? Christ revealed that he could (and would) come at an expected time. And even if “this time” does not occur in any of our lifetimes, any of us could get hit by a bus tomorrow … and tomorrow could be our end times.
2. We really should start watching for the signs of the times.
i. Not fearfully. (After all, God did not give us a Spirit of Fear.)
ii. Not hysterically. (Some set dates and get hysterical … leading others farther from God because we look like a bunch of crazies.)
iii. But with anticipation and expectation. (As Saint Paul essentially said in Romans 13:11, our salvation – including Christ’s coming again – is nearer now than when we first believed.)
3. And this my urging – We start believing that God really is up to something in our world today.
As a nation we’re falling further and further from Biblical principles. And just like individuals can’t expect blessings in their lives when they turn away from God, we shouldn’t expect for God to bless America when we keep choosing to walk further and further away.
Our nation needs to repent. You and I do too. And that’s the beginning of revival. In 2 Chronicles 7:14, God said, “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked way, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sins and heal their land.” Yes, God was speaking specifically to Israel in this passage. Nevertheless, this is how God works.
If we humble ourselves.
And if we pray.
And if we seek his face.
And if we turn from our wicked ways.
I honestly believe something big is going on our world today. I’m not necessarily saying that it’s apocalyptic, but it’s big. And your future starts with you.
· Jesus died to save you … and the whole world.
· He wants to bless you … and the whole world.
· He wants your heart back … and the whole world’s hearts back.
· He loves you … and, John 3:16, he loves the whole world.
And nothing we do (or nothing that ever happens to us) will ever make sense until we let him more fully into our lives, trusting his provision and his forgiveness, and living his way.
Because Jesus is in my life, I am not afraid of whatever’s coming (including the 2.5-mile-wide comet that some soothsayers are prophesying will hit this month).
So … even if the economy crashes again, I know that my redeemer lives. Even if there’s a natural disaster, my God is the unshakable rock upon whom I stand. Even if America is toppled from its perch, no human is my king and no nation is my hope.
Our God reigns. And that’s the victorious hope we need to always proclaim.
And simultaneously, let’s be a little curious! Let’s keep looking for what God is doing and saying – prophetically, even apocalyptically – in our world today!
· God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
· God spoke to his people of old through the prophets.
· Therefore, we should expect God to be continually active, consist, faithful, revealing, and fulfilling today.
· And while we shouldn’t set dates (see Mt 24:36) …
· We should be always be watchful, ready, and looking for what Jesus called the, “Signs of the Times” (Mt 16:3).
In Christ’s Love,
a watchman on the wall
who’s not sure
what he’s seeing
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