I am no different than you. I, too, have to fight through the fears and verbal attacks from zealots.

 I am convinced that Jesus is coming back for His church with the Feast of Trumpets.

In case you were not aware of when that will take place, it happens in September when Israel is trying to get two people to be witnesses to the New Moon.

We are to do no judgmental actions without at least two witnesses. Since I don't grasp Jewish law I assume that this could be two random, but anxious Jewish strangers that might declare this to the priesthood in Israel. I would not be surprised to find out that someone, trustworthy, would go out and try to observe the event.

This quest to spot the new moon happens this year during a 48 hour window of opportunity that initiates at sundown on September 22.

(It has been advertised for several weeks now that the UN will meet on September 22, 2025. and continue through the 24th. It will be co-chaired by Emmanuel Macron, the President of France and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman , will push hard, fully expecting a declaration of peace and security to be signed by a majority of attendees, that will include President Donald Trump. A quote from i24 News states, “Macron said the objective is to rally the widest possible international support for a Two-State Solution, calling it “the only way to meet the legitimate aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians.” Considering that God, Himself, has made it clear that no one will split the land that He has given to Israel, and not pay a severe price for that action.) Commentary mine.

Consider the variability of this attempt to view the new moon and then get officials from the Synagogue to validate your finding. There are several scenarios, one of which could be cloud cover for the entire 48 hour time interval. Should that happen the priests will have no option but to declare that there was a New Moon and place its occurrence in the last minutes of that 48 window.

There is a problem for those of us that choose to use our brains and talk about it, and that is the hostile negativity, generated by religious folk, that will aggressively remind you that Matthew 24:36 says that NO MAN knows the day or the hour when Jesus will come to collect His bride.

The context has to do with the parable of the Fig Tree.

Matthew 24:32-36 NLT  “Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches bud and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near.  (33)  In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his return is very near, right at the door.  (34)  I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass from the scene until all these things take place.  (35)  Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.  (36)  “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.

I did a search on Duck Duck Go, which is AI assisted and it gave this understanding. “

“Yes, the statement "no one knows the day or hour" is an idiom that originated in Jewish culture, specifically related to the Feast of Trumpets, which begins with the sighting of the new moon. It reflects the uncertainty of knowing the exact timing of certain events, particularly in a religious context.”

An Idiom – is an expression.
That means the disciples who heard this idiom knew exactly what Jesus was talking about. He was talking about the day that nobody knows (another idiom) because it is a variable (as I have elaborated on, during which the officials from the Synagogue actively sought to spot the new moon which indicated the New Year.

Detective Sir Robert Anderson, of the famed Scotland Yard, did the math for us and demonstrated that the time frame ran from 444 BC to 32 BC. Jesus also did the math and placed Himself upon that Donkey on the precise day that would fulfill the prophecy and have Him ride through the Eastern gate, where the crowd hailed Him as Messiah. Problem, only a week later they yelled crucify Him. Robert Anderson had this to say, “THE INTERVAL WAS EXACTLY AND TO THE VERY DAY 173,880 DAYS, OR SEVEN TIMES SIXTY-NINE PROPHETIC YEARS OF 360 DAYS."

In Daniel and the Revelation there are references to a particular set of days and months.

Revelation 11:2-3 NLT  “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.”

42 months and 1,260 days are both equal in time spans. 1,260 days x 2 = 2,520 days, or seven years.

Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948. They have been a nation for 77 years. The scriptures tell us that the age range of a man is 70-80 years. If this is the measure for a generation, then Israel is well within that span.

Psalms 90:10 BSB  “The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”

Jesus told this to the disciples that were gathered there.

"Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you will know that He is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.” (Matthew 24:32-34 BSB)

Israel is the fig tree.

Since we know that it's branches have become tender and sprouted leaves, then we also know that the summer is near.

What does that mean?

1. For those that enjoy figs, it is time to eat.

2. The summer season is the time when kings go to war. Well, the summer is upon those of us in the Northern hemisphere.

3. Jesus went on to say, "when you see all these things, you will know that He is near, right at the door.”
   He, is Jesus and He is coming soon to retrieve His bride.

4. And finally, “ this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.”
   If the generation is those that were alive when Israel became a nation, well this is rapidly becoming a problem, because my father was one of those, and he just recently passed.

There is one more marker that signifies that we are at the end. The Apostle Paul, writing to the church in Thessalonica said this.

“Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you. For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”                     (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 BSB)

Verse 3 is read as people or they. The question is, who is the people that Paul is referring to. Since the context has everything to do with the catching away of the church, then our focus should be turned toward Israel and anyone that could have an impact on Israel.

Today's date is 09/08/25 and just yesterday the President of the United States, once again, tried demanding a peace deal by giving Hamas another of his ultimatums. Apparently Israel, or should I say, Prime Minister Netanyahu has indicated that Israel would be in agreement with this action.

Problems: 1. Hamas will not agree to any partition of Jerusalem because they want it all. This is NOT a new strategy for them for their destiny is to be at war with each other.

“And the Angel of the Lord continued, See now, you are with child and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Ishmael [God hears], because the Lord has heard and paid attention to your affliction. And he [Ishmael] will be as a wild ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will live to the east and on the borders of all his kinsmen.” (Genesis 16:11-12 AMP)

If it helps there is this understanding of Esau.

“... Esau I hated. I made his hills a wasteland and gave his inheritance to jackals of the wilderness.” (Malachi 1:3 TLV)

So, if you have not heard, French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salmon, on September 22^nd through the 24^th, right in the midst of the feast of trumpets, will co-chair a vast UN committee with the sole purpose of making a declaration that splits Jerusalem and invokes a treaty that will finally bring – here it comes – peace and security.

If, God holds to His revealed word, which we, only moments ago, read; then those involved with this attempt at splitting God's city, will suffer a sudden destruction.

Where is the church during this moment of crisis?

I am one of those voices that believes that Jesus will come for His bride at the last trump, an aspect of the feast of trumpets.

I have to tell you that I am rather disgusted with any who come against us advocate for this window of opportunity, for that is what it is, a window. I cannot tell you where, within this 48 hour window, that begins on September 22, at sundown and ends on September 24, at sundown.

While it will come like a thief in the night for those who are complacent and argumentative, because they refuse to be alert and watch. Jesus said in John 8:12 that "He who follows me will NOT be walking in the dark.

If "the Day of the Lord" is specifically talking about God's wrath suddenly being poured out, then it should be energizing to know that the Day of the Lord cannot come until we, the church, are removed.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 LSV  “do not let anyone deceive you in any way, because if the departure may not come first, the man of lawlessness may not be revealed—the son of destruction,”

The narratives surrounding Lot and Noah both show that God had His people removed before destruction.

“but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.” (Luke 17:29 NASB)

Find the origins of this narrative and you will find that angels were telling Lot that they could do nothing until Lot and his family were safely removed. In the case of Noah, seven days before the rains came God had Noah and family get in the ark and then God closed the door.

If you do not have a personal relationship with Jesus it comes when you ask Him to come into your life. He took all your sin and shame to the cross with Him, and He made you Holy and sanctified for the Father's word by pouring His own blood out upon the heavenly altar. In Him you are lacking nothing. 

 

We are going home soon.

Difficult times will come. Revelation 6:12-17 and the sixth seal.

 Do you understand why I am writing about the Revelation and trying to explain it?

It is because, I, like you, wanted to understand what was going on around me. Having grown up I church I have heard every absurd teaching – some not so ridiculous, but I could not comprehend nor remember what they said; and, none of it made sense. My attempts at understanding the prophetic aspects of the bible, were, for years, like swimming in dirty water, the more you move about in it, the muddier it gets.

One day, many years ago, after my life collapsed around me, I had to move back in with the parents. I was walking back to my room after a shower and my father was watching Glenn Beck, when he was still on Fox News, he interviewed the author Joel Richardson. Joel was talking about his recent book, The Islamic Antichrist, and explaining it; suddenly, the Bible began to come clear. I ordered the book and began looking at the scriptures he used.

Since that time, there is rarely a time when I find myself struggling to understand end-time events (Eschatology.) To be honest, I have been looking at end-times events in my Bible for over ten years, and there is hardly a day that goes by in which I am made aware of something I have been looking at improperly; an example of that would be 2 Thessalonians 2:3.

The passage has been read and quoted just as you see here.

(3) Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction. [NASB]

I would read this verse above and think, by this standard, the apostasy, which is understood to be the falling away of the church, must happen first. (The church, being understood as the body of Christ, and therefore, the Christians.) Why would that be important? I don't know. Does it mean the entirety of Christians, or simply a majority; or, does it mean that the religious organizations under which we stand will fall away? Just this morning (05/07/2021) I saw that a Methodist church was going to install a transgender pastor. No matter, for the church body, as a whole, and the religious organizations have in en-mass, fallen away.

Just trying to think through 2 Thessalonians 2:3 used to cause me grief. The solution to my grief came just within this last year as Dr. Andy Woods explained that the original word apostasia was originally perceived as the departure of the church back to Jesus.

If departure is the correct way of understanding this, then it makes sense that the church has to be gone for the antichrist to come on the scene, as we are the thing that has been holding back the advance of the antichrist.

Add this new understanding to what I see in 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8, where there is no false allusion about the need for the church to be removed to allow for the antichrist to come on the scene, for it is easy to see that one verse validates the other, and no longer stands out as a conflicting statement.

With that exhausting introduction let's jump in.

A quick overview of Revelation chapter six gives us the antichrist, the rider on the white horse. This character goes out conquering and to conquer. Next, virtually all peace is removed from the earth; this is primarily accomplished through people.

Isn't that enough?

Much like the frying pan salesperson at the county fair, who exclaims, “Is that all? No, there is more,” for the people of the earth will be hit with hyper-inflation; we are already beginning to see that happening - if you don't think so, try to buy a sheet of plywood. Here in California that seven dollar sheet is now over ninety-five dollars a sheet. If I was looking for reasons for this monetary madness I could look at truckers who value their lives and are not making deliveries into unsafe areas. (For the most part, we don't have that problem in California.)

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I can see how shipping costs could worsen the situation; and yet, another would be price gouging. We have seen price gouging in states affected by hurricanes, as there is a mad rush to board up buildings. Price gouging of this sort would make more sense if we had perpetual riots, much like Portland Oregon, where boarding up windows is an attempt at preventing looting. Since the elections ended rioting seems to be isolated to Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington, and Michigan. Lumber is not the only thing to go through the roof, as food and gasoline will quickly become un-affordable.

You would think that having peace removed from earth would be bad enough, and yet the next riders are death and hades.

Here in this sixth seal, there is NO defined character riding a horse, and yet, as the result of God's wrath being poured out, there will be upwards of two billion people dying.

What comes under this sixth seal?

Revelation 6:12-17 NASB (12) I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; (13) and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. (14) The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. (15) Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; (16) and they *said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; (17) for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

In breaking it down:

• Another massive earthquake.

• The sun becomes black as sackcloth and the moon becomes like the color of blood.

  China has experienced the sun like sackcloth, to the point that the government had to put up video screens to reminded people of what they were missing. As for blood moons, didn't many of us pursue the theories associated with the blood moons, just a few years ago? What made them appear to be blood moons? For us, in California, the aerial spraying of chemical trails created lovely, deep red moons, especially if you could catch it in the horizon. Can the sun being darkened and the mood turning to blood cause you much grief? Strangely, this is exactly what Bill Gates has proposed to do. Perhaps he rarely emerges into the atmosphere and is not aware of the damage his friends are already doing.

• The stars of the sky fell to the earth.

  What is the practicality of that? It seems impossible, however, there is the potential for massive asteroids striking the earth, and NASA has already been making ineffective contingency plans for just such a thing. Based upon the potential size it will be devastating, and that is what we are seeing here.

• The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up.

All we have is imagination, but I can tell you the prospects are horrifying.

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• Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

  We have already seen several massive earthquakes, but what of the magnitude which decimates mountains and islands?

• And then there is this: Revelation 6:15-16

  (15) Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

  These are not rocks and caves as we often picture, but it could be.

  
  
  

  Or, would you prefer an old missile silo?

  
  
  
  

  Eventually, they will be crying out in fear of the Lord.

  
  
  
  

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(16) and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb

These are things that will happen in the last days, specifically the time of God's wrath, the time that most call the Great Tribulation.

Calling it the Tribulation has been a source of constant friction and confusion to “Christians,” as they start ranting about how we will have to go through the tribulation years (post-tribulation), or, at least half of it (mid-tribulation).

As I have migrated through seals, I pointed out that all of these things are God's wrath.

NONE of it is directed at the body of Christ – the church. In short, because we are out of here before the wrath starts. If you can think of the church as the body of Christ, which it is, then it should be easier for you to comprehend that Jesus took ALL the wrath that is due those who have rejected Him.

Here are some passages that help to define this wrath being poured out upon the world, and why.

Romans 1:18 “What is revealed is God's anger from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people who in their wickedness keep suppressing the truth;” [CJB]

Did you notice that these wicked people keep suppressing the truth?

1 Peter 2:24 [ERV] “Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you were healed.”

Jesus took SIN to the cross in His body, so that we could live without sin.

Romans 8:3 [NIV] “For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,

God bypassed a huge problem, and that was a genetically broken human nature and its propensity to go after its own will. To do this meant that God would have to provide His own fertilized egg and convince Mary to be a surrogate mother, that way there was NO damaged genetic material transferred into Jesus.

With that in mind, you should recognize that Jesus had done nothing, legally, to get Himself put on that cross. Instead, he put Himself there voluntarily. To prove my point He told Pilate, that Pilate could do nothing unless He and the Father allowed it.

John 19:10-11 NASB “So Pilate *said to Him, "You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?" (11) Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin."

All this wrath, placed upon Jesus, was done for our benefit; and that is why we, the church, will NOT suffer God's wrath.

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 [NASB] “For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, (10) who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him”

So things are getting tough; these are the tribulations that Jesus said would come. For many, they surround us daily, and for some they are deadly, but it is NOT God's wrath; it is merely life, in most cases.

Paul, in writing his second letter to Timothy, said,

“But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.” 2 Timothy 3:1 NASB

Here, in 2 Timothy 3:1, Paul is NOT talking about the things that will happen in the “tribulation,” but a lead into God's wrath. As you can see above, chapter six is filled with bad news.

The last seal we have seen opened is the sixth seal.

At this point you need to understand something; the Revelation works on a pattern: there are six seals, bowls, and trumpets signifying some form of God's wrath being poured out upon the nations and Israel. The seventh occurrence of these items: seals, bowls, trumpets; ALWAYS announce the next set of events to be poured out.

We DO NOT see the seventh seal opened until we get to Revelation 8:1

“When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” NASB Revelation 8:1

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