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God gave us SEVEN prophecies to help us know when the end is near. (SEVEN. What a shock. Not.) These key passages are:

1. Daniel 7:25-26
2. Daniel 9:27
3. Daniel 12:5-13
4. Revelation 11:1-14
5. Revelation 12:1-15
6. Revelation 13:1-8
7. Revelation 20:1-10

N.b., I already blogged about 1 and 2 @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/the-last-seven-years-of-time/. And I will be working on 4-7 in future blogs.

Sometime after the Lord set me to do this extended study of the Book of Revelation, I had a dream about the numbers in the third of the seven passages – Daniel 12:5-13.

5 I, Daniel, looked and saw two others, one standing on either bank of the river. 6 One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, “How long shall it be to the end of these appalling things?”

7 The man clothed in linen, who was upstream, lifted his hands to heaven; and I heard him swear by him who lives forever that it should be for a time, two times, and half a time; and that, when the power of the destroyer of the holy people was brought to an end, all these things should end.

8 I heard, but I did not understand; so I asked, “My lord, what follows this?”

9 “Go, Daniel,” he said, “because the words are to be kept secret and sealed until the end time. 10 Many shall be refined, purified, and tested, but the wicked shall prove wicked; the wicked shall have no understanding, but those with insight shall. 11 From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the desolating abomination is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed are they who have patience and persevere for the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

13 Go, take your rest, you shall rise for your reward at the end of days.”

The message of the dream was, “What if it’s a word problem?” I woke up feeling excited, because word problems were my favorite thing in math class, probably because they were long on WORDS (which I love) and short on NUMBERS (which I do not love).

It’s been months since that dream, during which time I have been playing with the possibilities and pondering their meanings. Today, during my Bible study, I felt the Lord saying it was time for me to share my best guesses with all y’all.

The beginning point for the count is “the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished.” This happened when Jesus died once for all. I.e., 3793 in the Jewish calendar or 33 AD as we now count back on the common calendar.

One equation using 1,290 and the factors “a time” and “half a time” gets us to 1968.

You may recall from my blog “Jubilee” posted @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/jubilee/ that 1968 was the year I pegged as Jubilee Two.

This first equation leaves out 1,335 and the factor “two times.” The 1,335 passage can be interpreted to mean the time between the 1,290 date and the 1,335 date, which is a subtraction problem that uses “two” of the “times” given to us, thus completing the word problem and getting us to 2013.

Jesus died in April of 33 and the major capitulation by the Jews in 1968 was in May. Since we’re in June of 2013, we may have already passed the critical time when this equation set should have borne fruit and I’m just spitting in the wind here.

Or … maybe the months aren’t that important.

• 5773 will end September 4, 2013, so there are only about ten more weeks there. But we’ve still got six more months in 2013. And the United Nations General Assembly meets in September, which this year will overlap with the Jewish Feast of Booths (Sukkot, Tabernacles) in Tishri 5774. See http://www.cgsf.org/dbeattie/calendar/?roman=2013.
• Things are heating up in the Middle East, but this time, Israel does not have a strong ally in the United States. Instead, our government has been actively arming Muslims while simultaneously down-sizing and demoralizing the American military.
• I’m thinking there’s a distinct possibility that the Middle East could get so bad this summer that everybody feels compelled to hammer out yet another peace treat … one which just happens to be for 7 years and that just happens to allow for the Jews to rebuild the Temple.

The next six months should be interesting!

Sources:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Jewish_history
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Jerusalem

February 2014 UPDATE:

I kept a close eye on the United Nations General Assembly last September, but saw no sign of any seven year agreement. Since then, I’ve learned of the SEVEN highly unusual lunar events in the FIRST THREE months of 2014, which are closely followed (first one April 2014) by an even more unusual TETRAD of total lunar eclipses divided in half by a full solar eclipse, all of which hit major Jewish holidays.

It occurred to me that Jesus didn’t tell us what relationship the Rapture would have with the last seven years that begin with the firm covenant. The SEVEN lunar events in January, February and March of 2014 are all New Moons and Full Moons, which are symbols of BEGINNING and ENDING. And the first LUNAR ECLIPSE occurs the very next month, ON the very Passover I had highlighted as a potential Rapture time because of how the Roman and Orthodox Easters overlap with each other and with the Jewish Feast of Firstfruits.

I’ve been rethinking my End Times calendar in light of this new information and it seems like a good bet that the Rapture will come in April 2014 and that the global chaos that will inevitably follow will set the stage for that seven year agreement (possibly next fall when the second Blood Moon happens) and the Anti-Christ’s abrupt rise to global dictatorship.

My idea that the seven years will track with the Jewish calendar fits this scenario beautifully, because the Jewish year that begins next fall (5775) is a Shemitah year when all debts are forgiven. These happen every seven years. If year one of the last seven years is 5775, the next Shemitah year will begin right after Armageddon with Tishri 5782 – Yom Kippur (Atonement) and Sukkot (In-gathering).  Final Judgment!

San Sebastian de Garabandal is a small hamlet of some 80 humble dwellings located in the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain. Between 1961 and 1965, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared hundreds of times to four local girls who spoke openly and familiarly with her and said the rosary in her presence.

Three great supernatural events were prophesied at Garabandal.

1) The first is a worldwide Warning from God to be seen and then felt interiorly by everyone on Earth. At that moment, we will see the wrong we’ve done and the good we failed to do. The Warning will be sent to correct the conscience of the world and prepare it for the great Miracle, which is to come within twelve months of the Warning.

2) The second is a Miracle that will take place at the grove of pine trees on a bluff overlooking the village of Garabandal. It will occur on a Thursday evening at 8:30, on or between the eighth and the sixteenth of April, on a feast-day of a martyred Saint for the Eucharist. It will also coincide with a great event in the Church, but not a feast-day of Our Lady or Our Lord. All those either in the village or surrounding mountains will see it. The sick who are present will be cured, sinners converted and the incredulous will believe. It will be able to be filmed, photographed and televised. As a result of the Miracle, Russia will be converted.

3) The third is a Sign. After the Miracle, a permanent visible supernatural sign will remain at the pines in Garabandal until the end of time. This visible proof of our Blessed Mother’s love for all humanity will be a “thing” never before seen upon the earth that can be photographed but not touched.

The date of the Miracle

The visionary named Conchita was told the date. She is to announce it eight days in advance which one supposes would give the faithful who wish to be there time to travel. The means of communicating the date to the world will be a miracle in itself. Conchita is presently about 64 years old; unless she’s going to be appearing from beyond the grave to announce the date, we can suppose the Miracle will occur within the next 30 years or so.

Conchita looked up the date on the calendar in her home and found it to be the feast day of a Holy Martyr related to the Eucharist. She has told us that he has a very rare name. Eucharistic martyrs aren’t all that thick on the ground; in fact, I found none on the general calendar for April 8-16. However, there is one on the LOCAL calendar for SPAIN.

The Feast of St. Hermengild, Patron of Seville and Martyr for the Eucharist, is on April 13th. His name is rare, to say the least! Hermengild was one of two sons of Leovigild, the Arian King of the Visigoths (569-86). He was beheaded on Easter, April 13, 585, by order of his own father, for refusing to receive Holy Communion from the hands of an Arian bishop. Arianism is a heresy which rejects the divinity of Jesus.

Remember when I worked out the triple conjunctions of Roman and Orthodox Easters with Jewish Feasts of Firstfruits and pondered whether the Rapture might not occur in April of 2014? See https://polination.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/will-the-rapture-occur-in-april-2014/

Did you happen to notice that between now and 2028, only 2014 and 2017 feature triple conjunctions?

And do you remember when I explained the significance of the Hebrew year 5777? See https://polination.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/1917-to-2017-and-the-significance-of-three-five-and-seven/.

Did you happen to notice that the Easter-Passover season of April 2017 will fall in the Jewish year 5777?

Check it out!

In 2017, April 13th, the Feast of St. Hermengild, who was martyred for his faith in the Holy Eucharist, will fall on Holy Thursday … the Feast of the Institution of the Holy Eucharist!

There is another calendar anomaly here worth noting which is that the dates in Nisan, 33, when the first Passover-Easter occurred, will match the dates in April, 2017.

The RCC has not passed judgment on the validity of Garabandal apparitions

Because the events prophesied have not taken place, the Church considers the Garabandal events to be incomplete and has therefore withheld judgment. Despite this very proper caution in granting the church’s stamp of approval to the apparitions, the local Bishop studied the content of the messages the seers reported Our Lady gave them and wrote in 1965,

“We have not found anything deserving of ecclesiastical censorship or condemnation either in the doctrine or in the spiritual recommendations that have been publicized as having been addressed to the faithful, for these contain an exhortation to prayer and sacrifice, to Eucharistic devotion, to veneration of Our Lady in traditional praiseworthy ways, and to holy fear of God offended by our sins. They simply repeat the common doctrine of the Church in these matters.”

Sources:

• http://www.indefenseofthecross.com/garabandal.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garabandal_apparitions
• http://www.garabandal.org/warning.shtml
• http://www.garabandal.org/miracle.shtml
• http://www.virgendegarabandal.com/conferencia_jose_luisENGLISH.htm
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07276a.htm
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10068a.htm

Whenever people talk about when the Rapture might occur or if the End Times are near, someone else inevitably tries to shut them up by quoting Jesus’ line, “Of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Matt 24:36

I haven’t read any comments or emails about my “Rapture in April 2014” posting yesterday, so if you said this to me, please be assured that I am not singling anyone out. I’ve been hearing the same criticism for months from many quarters.

I don’t pooh-pooh anything Jesus said, so obviously I looked up the actual passage and read it carefully in context. Frankly, I was astonished! It’s full of parables I’ve been hearing out of context my whole life.

And it is part of a long teaching by Jesus that is called the Olivet Discourse, which I’d never heard of, despite the fact that it is as long or longer than the very famous and familiar Sermon on the Mount.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught us how to live a holy life; in the Olivet Discourse, He taught us to be ready for His return and for Final Judgment. The Olivet Discourse appears in Mark 13 and Luke 21, but the fullest treatment is in Matthew 24-25.

In Matthew and Mark, the line about not knowing the day or hour (Matt 24:36, Mark 13:32) is preceded by the EXACT same lines:

“Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near. In the same way, when you see all these things, know that he is near, at the gates.” Matt 24:32-33; Mark 13:28-29

In Luke, the line about not knowing the day or hour does not even appear, yet the lesson of the fig tree does!

“Consider the fig tree and all the other trees. When their buds burst open, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near; in the same way, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.” Luke 21:29-31

What I get out of all this is that, while we cannot know the precise time when Jesus will return, we are supposed to watch carefully for the signs of His coming so we can be READY.

This reminds me of when our kids were deployed. We never knew the “day and hour” they’d return either, but we certainly knew the season. And as the great day approached, we’d get progress reports as they made the long trip home.

Then, as the actual hour approached, we would gather in the bleachers with our signs and our flags and our squirmy kids. And we would wait. And wait. And wait. WATCHING for the JOYFUL MOMENT when that door would burst open and our loved ones would march in!

I strongly encourage you to read the entire Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24 and 25.