In these last days, there are certain rare and hard-fought data points (puzzle pieces, you might say) which the masses remain blissfully unaware of. Finding and arranging these pieces is a most worthy quest.

Godspeed.

In ancient Israel, the half shekel was the temple coin. At the time of Christ, the annual temple tax was a half shekel, though the coins themselves were struck in Tyre. This was the tax famously spoken of by Christ in Matthew 17. The tradition was based upon Exodus 38:26, which speaks of a half shekel per head for all adult males.

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?” He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?” And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”

— Matthew 17:24-27

In modern times, Israel’s Temple organizations have minted a new temple coin. This one commemorates Israel’s 70th anniversary of being a nation (in 2018) and contains images of Cyrus the Great and of Donald Trump. In fact, two versions of this coin have been minted, but one had an extremely small mintage since it was made of gold. But both coins show the same key elements: namely, Cyrus the Great and Donald Trump side by side.

Clearly, we are meant to see both men in the same light. Despite the different cultures and thousands of years between them, there is something about them which is strikingly similar. But what is it?

Let me put it quite simply. Both men are temple builders.

Donald Trump is the modern-day Cyrus the Great. Which, when rightly understood, means we are living through the Great Tribulation and on the very doorstep of Christ’s return.

Maranatha.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

— 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Seek ye where the broken twig lies and the dead stick molds away, where the clouds float together and the stones rest by the hillside, for all these mark the grave of Hiram who has carried my Will with him to the tomb. This eternal quest is yours until ye have found your Builder, until the cup giveth up its secret, until the grave giveth up its ghosts. No more shall I speak until ye have found and raised my beloved Son, and have listened to the words of my Messenger and with Him as your guide have finished the temple which I shall then inhabit. Amen.

— Manly P. Hall (The Lost Keys of Freemasonry)

Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of circling centuries begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom
The iron shall cease, the golden race arise,
Befriend him, chaste Lucina; 'tis thine own
Apollo reigns …

He shall receive the life of gods, and see
Heroes with gods commingling, and himself
Be seen of them, and with his father's worth
Reign o'er a world at peace.

— Virgil (Eclogue IV)

Since late 2024, I’ve been warning of a coming financial reset. For the dragon priests, this event will serve many purposes. But the primary one will be to usher in the New Golden Age of their Antichrist. The final dark age of this fallen world before the return of Christ.

In my book, God’s Final Battle, I had this say.

And numbers, I suspect, will play an important role in the worldwide initiation ritual we are all about to experience, as Antichrist’s kingdom is fully brought forth in the next year or two. Specifically, I am speaking of the numbers associated with money.

…

Mathematically speaking, the collapse of the old system has been inevitable for some time. But the timing will be controlled and therefore highly convenient. And the new monetary order will, I believe, go a long way towards producing the final age of prosperity which Satan intends to ensnare the hearts of many.

What you will be told to believe about the collapse and the restructuring which will follow, I cannot say for sure. We live in the era of massive narrative psyops. And most will not think too deeply about what logically lies behind it all.

No doubt, we will be told that the big bad forces behind the old monetary order have lost control. The new order will be like stepping into a whole new world of freedom and plenty. That is what it will seem like.

In case you haven’t already figured it out, all of the New World Order fearmongering and the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) posturing will fizzle out into nothing. Just as they were always intended to do. They were the telegraphed punch always meant to be dodged. We were destined for a final age of freedom and wealth and peace. This is the true New Order of the Ages towards which we have been steered. Courtesy of the Antichrist and the occultists.

This will be the false light of Lucifer on full display and it will deceive many.

— God’s Final Battle

That book was published November 1st, 2024. So, we are quickly approaching the two-year mark.

The question is, will my words fall to the ground and mean nothing? Or will there actually be a financial reset, a new system, and a phoenix rising from the ashes?

We will soon find out.

That said, I believe the clues to the coming collapse and new system are already all around us. For example, I believe this is the true reason behind the Iran War charade we’ve all been living through over the past six months. It’s all been a show for the deceived masses. But the real reason it has been orchestrated in this way is to constrain the world’s oil supply in unprecedented ways. This will serve to ignite the destruction of the old financial order, when the moment is right. And I believe that moment is nearly here.

It now seems that the particular timing of this collapse and reset will be highly coincidental. Or perhaps not so coincidental after all. Late summer to fall seems to have been coded. But why?

You see, Satan knows that Christ will return in the late summer to fall of 2028. He also knows that the return of Christ involves the ultimate de-creation event (the destruction of this entire physical realm), which will be closely followed by the establishment of the eternal kingdom. And so, it appears he is going to have one last counterfeit of that same structure by creating his own destruction to re-creation cycle.

Here in the late summer of 2026 the financial de-creation is nearly upon us. And then the new system will quickly rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the old, bringing with it ever more fervent promises of “the golden age” of America. But do not be deceived. This is all a short-lived counterfeit.

Now, why does this financial reset matter to my end times view? Well, here’s the thing, the reasoning undergirding my firm belief in Christ’s return in the year 2028 is based entirely on prophecies found in the Word of God. In other words, I see that God has kept his word in the past, and I trust him to keep it again by fulfilling those prophecies perfectly and precisely. As a human, it is possible that my interpretation of those prophecies is flawed. However, finding that eight separate prophecies all converge on 2028 goes a long way toward convincing me that the odds I am wrong are vanishingly small.

Now, the biblical scholar and teacher James B. Jordan has an interesting perspective for viewing the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. He says there are often four distinct fulfillments down through history.

• Anticipatory

• Definitive

• Progressive

• Culminative (or Final)

Jordan says that the anticipatory fulfillment is an early fulfillment which often serves to validate or authenticate the words of the prophet.

In my own study, I have found that Jordan’s view of four fulfillments works quite well for Old Testament prophecies where the definitive fulfillment is in Christ’s first coming. However, for a prophecy pointing all the way to the end itself, Christ’s Second Coming would be the definitive fulfillment. This means that for those particular prophecies, there can only ever be an anticipatory and a definitive fulfillment.

Now, since I have used Scripture to predict Christ’s return in 2028, I have essentially prophesied of the end (keep in mind that New Testament prophecy is quite different than OT prophecy, as Paul teaches, and does not mean speaking for God in the same way that the OT prophets did). The definitive fulfillment of that prophecy will occur when Christ returns in that very year and vindicates my proclamation. However, by that point, there will be little opportunity left for anyone to learn from this fulfillment. History will be rolled up like a scroll by that point.

Therefore, if there is an anticipatory fulfillment which occurs before 2028 and is inherent in my overall end times paradigm, it would be most useful in validating and authenticating my words. This 2026 financial reset is the only potential anticipatory fulfillment which is still future (at the time of writing) and which others might therefore be able to witness as both predicted in advance and then subsequently fulfilled. Keep in mind that as of today’s date, hardly anyone is calling for this sort of cataclysmic financial happening. After all, the SPY just hit another all time high a few days ago. I am a complete contrarian here, as usual. The question again is, will my words fall to the ground? Or will God uphold them?

Will there be a financial component to the final “New Golden Age” promised by the occult orders? Will there be peace and safety before the end?

Remember, whatever counterfeits we may soon be presented with, it is Christ who will bring the true golden age. And he will do it not in 2026, but in 2028. You can take that to the bank.

In the book of Revelation, there is an enigmatic reference to the number of the name of the beast. It is said to be 666.

This strange clue has spawned much wild speculation. And yet, the answer to the riddle is in the end surprisingly simple.

First, we must understand that the first beast of Revelation is equivalent to Daniel’s little horn, and that both were historically fulfilled by the Roman Catholic Church’s Papal power, which reigned over Europe and most of the civilized world from AD 538 to 1798 (1260 years). For a fuller treatment of the scriptural and historical basis behind this claim, you may read Chapter 5 of my book, God’s Final Battle, which is titled The Women Riding the Beast.

Therefore, in seeking for an explanation of the 666, we must be able to tie it to the Papal power structure.

Now, biblically, the number 666 only appears one other place. And this is in reference to the amount of gold king Solomon brought in every year (recorded in both 1 Kings 10:14 and 2 Chronicles 9:13).

So, because of this connection, we see that from the start the number 666 is biblically linked to opulence and wealth and to having more than you need. Given its link to the papacy, this is interesting.

Now, there is a danger in gematria and in trying to use numbers alone as primary evidence for some conclusion or other. And with the 666 many people fall into a tendency to do just this by randomly tying people or things whose letters (in one way or another) add up to 666 to the prophecy. This is often unwarranted. And this fascination seems to have especially grown in our own age of the internet as we can search out obscure numerical connections and jump to wild conclusions when in reality the “connections” are little more than coincidence. For one example, just look at the number of people on X from 2020 to 2024 predicting that Trump was going to return as President on this particular day or that particular day and using time stamps from Truth Social posts or who knows what other nonsense to make a seemingly plausible argument. And yet it was all based on the natural coincidences associated with numbers and it never amounted to anything in reality because Trump never publicly re-assumed power until after the 2024 election. Since 2024, of course, the fascination with numbers has not waned, there are now just a myriad of other popular events which folks commonly attempt to predict using numerical coincidences. At its core, this can appear to be little more than a pseudo-scientific means of divination.

Obviously, I do not condone any of the above, nor do I wish to be associated with it. That is not the type of 666 post I intend to write. This is not about grabbing some meaningless numerical coincidences and leaping to far-reaching conclusions. Instead, I think we must begin with primary evidence and proceed logically from there. In this case, we must first understand that the first beast of Revelation is the Papacy (see the post linked above), and then from there we can proceed to looking for the meaning of the 666 itself. We have to know the general starting point before we can hope to find the specific location.

Michael Scheifler sums up the situation well in his article on 666.

The number alone cannot identify the beast since numerous names can add up to 666. However, inasmuch as the beast has already been identified, the number 666 must have a relationship to this power.

— Michael Scheifler

Michael and I both agree on the starting point. The beast from the sea of Revelation 13 (the first beast of Revelation) is fulfilled in the Papacy. Now, there may potentially also be other historical fulfillments (multiple fulfillments of symbolic prophecies are certainly possible), but if that is indeed true of this beast, then I can only say that the Papacy appears to be the primary fulfillment. (An example of another potential fulfillment would be the first century fulfillment hypothesized by James B. Jordan. In my view, Jordan’s theory is a remote possibility, but it does not match the specifics nearly as well as the Papacy and so could only feasibly be a secondary fulfillment.) I do find, however, that looking for multiple fulfillments of every symbol in the Apocalypse tends to dilute the prophecy’s power. Therefore, I think it prudent to identify the primary fulfillment and to content ourselves with that.

Before we go further, here are the key verses from Revelation 13.

Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.

— Revelation 13:16-18

Now, it is important to note that these verses appear after the second beast has arisen from the land (Revelation 13:11). However, because the focus shifts back to the first beast in verses 12 through 15, it is logical to assume that the references to “the beast” in verses 16-18 point to the first beast. I would recommend reading verses 11 through 18 to thoroughly convince yourself of this basic point.

Notice how verse 17 alludes to the number of the beast’s name. And then verse 18 says that the number is 666. So, logically then, the number of the beast’s name is 666. However, based on the Greek word translated “name,” we must also allow for titles to equal 666 as well.

It might be argued by some that 666 must be applied to one man’s name, and that this will then help identify him as the antichrist. I would offer the following verse to show that 666 need not apply solely to a man’s name:

Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

The same Greek word translated as name (onoma: G3686) that appears in Revelation 13:17-18 is also used in chapter 19:16, so clearly the word can also apply to a title, and not just one man’s name. Now, we are told that it takes a certain understanding and wisdom to discern just how this number is actually applied. Based on the fact that 666 can apply to a title, below are several words and phrases that have been put forth over the centuries as probable solutions to the enigma of 666.

— Michael Scheifler

So, 666 could point to either a name or a title.

Vicarius Filii Dei is a Latin phrase that translates to “Vicar of the Son of God.” This title is loosely equivalent to saying, “in the place of the Son of God,” because a Vicar is by definition a substitute or someone who takes the place of someone else. So, it is in short a blasphemous title given to the Pope of Rome during the Medieval period. And, incidentally, it is also equivalent to the meaning of the name Antichrist.

The numeric value of this title, Vicarius Filii Dei, in Latin is 666. So, the title adds up to precisely 666. What are the odds?

What’s more there is strong historical evidence showing both that this title was used as early as 1054 and that it continued to be used frequently down until the time of Pope Paul VI in the 1960s and 1970s. In fact, Pope Paul VI used the phrase twice in official Papal decrees.

This seems to be the most probable meaning and historical fulfillment of Revelation 13. Simply put, I believe the name of the beast is Vicarius Filii Dei, which is 666.

In these last days, there are certain rare and hard-fought data points (puzzle pieces, you might say) which the masses remain blissfully unaware of. Finding and arranging these pieces is a most worthy quest.

Godspeed.

Things have never been the same since 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic was spawned by the release of a biologically engineered infectious agent on the world’s population. And the vaccines which rolled out at the end of that year took the damage to a whole new level. Eventually, roughly two thirds of the worlds population (67%) took the shots.

The mRNA vaccines were famously supposed to cause your own cells to “temporarily” create the spike protein from the COVID-19 virus. And yet, from the very beginning, concerned doctors and scientists warned of unintended consequences and the potential for genetic alteration. So called “long covid” eventually became an acknowledged thing, even though it’s prevalence was almost entirely among the vaccinated population.

A Yale study published as a pre-print in early 2025 showed that some vaccinated individuals with “Post-Vaccination Syndrome (PVS)” - their term for long covid - had spike protein in their blood over 700 days after their last vaccination. This was solid clinical evidence to support claims which many doctors and scientists had already been making for years. Namely, that the mRNA from the shots was being taken up (at least in some individuals) into cells and becoming part of the person’s DNA code.

Here’s the relevant quote from a Yale News article on the study.

“When the researchers measured levels of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein — the part of the virus that enables it to penetrate and infect host cells and what COVID-19 vaccines use to trigger immune responses against the virus — they found that some individuals with PVS, even those without evidence for infection, had higher levels of spike protein than controls. Typically spike protein can be detected for a few days after vaccination, but some participants with PVS had detectable levels more than 700 days after their last vaccination. Persistent spike protein has been associated with long COVID as well.”

— Mallory Locklear (Immune markers of post-vaccination syndrome indicate future research directions)

From a biological perspective, there is no way that the spike protein could be appearing in the blood of these vaccinated individuals at these levels 700 days post vaccination without the mRNA having been taken up into their DNA for future expression via the creation of spike proteins. At a minimum, that mechanism of incorporation into host DNA is the most plausible explanation.

But this Yale study is not the only evidence we have of this phenomenon.

Another study from 2025 showed conclusively that part of the Pfizer BNT162b2 DNA plasmid reference was indeed taken up into the DNA of a female bladder cancer patient.

You can find more details on this second study here:

BREAKING: First Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Direct Molecular Evidence of mRNA “Vaccine” Genomic Integration

This second study shows the incorporation into human DNA in no uncertain terms. The shots are altering human genetics.

To be clear, the only way that the mRNA in these shots was shielded in order to get into the nucleus of the cell and corrupt our own highly-protected and God-given DNA was through the use of lipid nanoparticles in these vaccines. This is new technology (some claim it originated with DARPA) that hadn’t see any sort of widespread use prior to the 2020 vaccine rollout.

In other words, this hasn’t been happening for very long. But in 2020, the genetic corruption of mankind returned to our world.

What does this mean?

So, we now have human beings across the globe who have been genetically corrupted. This has been happening since 2020. But from the time of Noah’s flood until 2020 mankind as a whole had been largely free of such genetic tampering.

Prior to the flood, though, there was of course the infamous Genesis 6 episode, when the angels rebelled and mated with human women, producing the Nephilim. Ancient cultures around the world all speak of this same boundary defying transgression and the race of demi-gods or semi-divine beings which it spawned. They do this through a variety of different myths, yet there are common themes. One of those themes is that the old gods, or the Titans (in Greek mythology), were part man and part animal. In other words, they were hybrid beings. In some cases, the hybrid was explicitly between man and serpent. An example of these beings in Greek mythology are shown in the reliefs below from the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

Gigantomachy Stock photos by Vecteezy.

Gigantomachy Stock photos by Vecteezy.

This particular conception of the Nephilim being part man and part serpent was not unqiue to the Greeks. The Hindus and Buddhists also believe in the Nagas, which are a semi-divine race of human-serpent hybrids. The Nagas live in the netherworld but can occasionally take human, or at least part-human, form.

A nāga couple, featured as a Chennakeshava Temple relief. Photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France. (Creative Commons License)

Now, the Bible explicitly links serpents or snakes (nachash, in Hebrew) with angelic beings. So, the fact that these cultures depicted human-serpent hybrids is hardly surprising.

However, what I find curious about all this is that serpents are once again linked (both physically and symbolically) to the very same spike protein which has been used in this end times genetic corruption event.

The strongest evidence of this comes from a June 2020 French study which found that the COVID-19 spike protein contains a motif that is “homologous to that of snake neurotoxins.” Specifically, the snakes involved are the king cobra and the krait snake, and what this means is that an exposed loop of the spike protein is highly similar to venom proteins found in snakes.

Here’s the link to the full study so you can do your own digging and verification. The key details are found on page 36.

https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/article/CRBIOL_2020__343_1_33_0.pdf

This is an interesting fact because many of the symptoms of COVID-19 infection have always been incredibly strange for a respiratory virus. And since the early days of the pandemic a small number of journalists have been likening the biological damage caused by COVID-19 to the damage caused by snake venom.

Like Venom Coursing Through the Body: Researchers Identify Mechanism Driving COVID-19 Mortality

Additionally, a small number of researchers have also made this same connection.

Snakebites and COVID-19: two crises, one research and development opportunity

Toxin-like peptides in plasma, urine and faecal samples from COVID-19 patients

On their own, the articles and studies could easily be viewed as coincidental. But with the genetic evidence taken into account as well, it begins to look like COVID-19 was genetically engineered to have a spike protein which shared key traits with snake venom. And furthermore, it also appears that the secret societies which would have been ultimately behind the nation states doing this work may have arranged for this COVID-19 venom link to be quietly leaked to the public via articles and research papers like the ones above. They always have to hint at what they’ve done, not in a massively obvious way, but in a sneaky quiet way. They’re proud of what they’ve accomplished and how they’ve pulled the wool over the eyes of most of humanity.

The question is, how long will God allow this genetic corruption to continue here at the end of the age? Well, how long was King Nebuchadnezzar part man and part beast?

this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king, that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.

— Daniel 4:24-25

The dispensational view of the end times is extremely popular. Today, somewhere north of 100 million Christians around the world adhere to this paradigm of thought. And the timeline, as shown in the simple graphic below, is invariably the same.

The Church is raptured prior to the final seven years of this age, which they call the Tribulation. Exactly halfway through the Tribulation, the man of sin sits in a rebuilt third Temple in Jerusalem and commits the abomination of desolation. This kicks off the Great Tribulation, which lasts for the remaining 3.5 years.

After this, Christ comes back for the Day of the Lord, which is equivalent to his Second Coming.

Notice how the 1,000 year future millennial reign necessitates the breaking up of the Final Judgment into a minimum of two distinct and separate judgments. The saints simply must be rewarded before they can reign with Christ over the earth. Sometimes, dispensationalists will theorize as many as four distinct judgments, but two is sort of the standard doctrine. The key point is that the Bema Seat judgment and the Great White Throne judgment are decidedly different events in this paradigm. They are separated by many years.

Notice also how this present fallen earth continues to exist during the entire millennial reign and is not destroyed until the end of that time period.

Given the view’s popularity, you would think we could easily find Scripture passages to support this overall timeline of events. It must be explicitly stated somewhere in the good book. Right? I mean 100 million people can’t all be wrong, can they?

You must understand, this general eschatological timeline is practically universally agreed to within the dispensational community, and it has grown to represent sort of the cornerstone of dispensational thought. In other words, if this timeline goes down, it all goes down.

And the surprising truth is that instead of supporting this timeline the Scriptures themselves - when we take the time to simply read them - consistently contradict it.

Now, right up front I want to be clear that eschatology is not a first order issue. For the most part, matters of eschatology tend to fall in either the second or third order buckets. For example, I would say the relative timing of the rapture is a second order issue, since we need to know what we should be watching for leading up to Christ’s return. However, the existence of one versus two final judgments I would argue is a third order issue of even less importance, since it has little bearing on how we live our lives day to day.

Please understand, I am not saying that making sense of all this end times stuff is the most important thing in the Christian life. It is not. In fact, my family and I attend a Baptist church where the majority of folks are dispensational in their eschatology. Why have I chosen to attend this Church? The answer is simple. We agree on the first order issues. You see, there is a stream within the Baptist movement which I agree with on nearly 100% of the first order issues. It just so happens, though, that most Baptists are off in their eschatology. Still, eschatology is of lesser importance, and I don’t believe in letting things which matter more be subject to things which matter less.

Now, this does put me in the position of sometimes being forced to call out errors in the commonly held eschatological stance of our congregation. I attempt to do this graciously and with love, though at times I may fall short of the mark.

With all that being said, I want to examine how Scripture disproves three key elements of the dispensational (dispy) timeline.

1. The Pre-Trib Rapture

2. The Future Millennial Reign

3. The Two Distinct Judgments

There are many other “attack vectors” provided by the Scriptures in terms of refuting dispensationalism writ large. We could talk about “all Israel” as a theological construct in Romans 11, or about many of God’s Old Testament promises being explicitly mentioned as fulfilled in the book of Joshua, or about Christ reigning now and binding the “strong man” (Satan) at the cross, or we could discuss at great length the many nuances associated with Second Temple Period Jewish apocalyptic literature which includes the book of Revelation. These discussions would be informative, but they all require getting well off the beaten path and into the weeds. You should know that my perspective takes for granted that all of these various rabbit holes have already been thoroughly explored (by me) and the answers have more or less been collected and satisfactorily tallied up. Those answers are never all that favorable for dispensationalism, but explaining all of them in tedious detail here is not my desire.

Instead, I want to limit this post to only the strongest and the most blazingly obvious of logical scriptural arguments against this popular timeline. In other words, we don’t even need all the minor arguments. The major ones are powerful enough to thoroughly expose the sloppy thinking upon which today’s pop eschatology has been precariously built.

1. The Pre-Trib Rapture

Now, first of all, the Scriptures do hint strongly that there is an end times rapture of believers to the Father’s house. See John 14:1-3 and Isaiah 26:20-21.

So, to be clear, I’m not questioning the existence of the rapture here. The question in my mind, though, is what is the relative timing of this event. Is is prior to the last seven years? Or is it after those seven years and at the very end of this fallen age?

As usual, I want to see what Scripture actually has to say. I’m not interested in blindly trusting the well-entrenched favorite doctrines of our particular generation. There’s simply too much at stake for that sort of sloppy approach.

Let’s start with a classic rapture passage.

For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

— I Thessalonians 4:15-17

This passage speaks directly to the rapture event where we are “caught up” to meet Christ in the air. Importantly, it links the rapture and resurrection. Those two are clearly a single event.

I Corinthians 15:51-52 also confirms that the resurrection and rapture are a single event, and it further links this event to “the last trumpet.”

Now, what does Christ have to say about the timing of the resurrection?

“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

— John 6:40

Based on the dispensational timeline I’ve already shown, the “last day” could conceivably take place in one of two spots. It could either be at the return of Christ on the last day of this age, before the 1,000-year future reign of Christ (if such a thing exists). Or it could be the very last and final day of this fallen earth, which would occur after the 1,000 years have ended. (It could also be both, if both do in fact occur on the same day, as we will see.)

But either way, the “last day” can never conceivably be seven years before the Second Coming of Christ. Do you see? The idea that the rapture and resurrection occur seven years prior to the Second Coming of Christ can never be a literal interpretation of John 6:40, which means that dispensationalists quite simply do not take Christ’s words here literally. They cannot.

However, this is not even the strongest argument against pre-trib timing. I believe the strongest argument comes from two verses which both plainly state the relative timing of the rapture event. And, importantly, both of these passages agree quite closely with each other.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

— Luke 17:28-30

Notice how Lot was delivered from Sodom “on the day” that fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed the wicked ones and their entire culture. Jesus said that it would be the same when the Son of Man is revealed. In other words, the end times believers will be delivered (raptured and resurrected) on the same day that Christ is revealed for his Second Coming. And what’s more this is also the same day that the evil doers will be destroyed as the fire comes down; they don’t get a seven-year reprieve any more than the people of Sodom did.

God almost always confirms key truths in his Word by providing at least two passages which both say the same thing. And the relative timing of the rapture is no different. He repeats himself for our benefit and in doing so he confirms the correct interpretation for us. We need only take notice and choose to believe what he tells us.

Here’s the confirmation.

This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

— II Thessalonians 1:5-8

When do we as believers get relief? What does the passage say? It says we get relief when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in flaming fire. We clearly don’t get relief seven years before this dreadful event, as the dispensationalists would have it. We get relief on the same day Christ is revealed in flaming fire, that is the day we are rescued and delivered from this present evil age. Not before.

These two passages are both saying the same thing. Believers are delivered on the last day, when Christ is revealed in flaming fire, taking vengeance on the evil doers.

The pre-trib rapture, therefore, is not scriptural. It is little more than a fairly tale. It is a psyop for those who cannot be bothered to simply visit these two passages, to read them, and to believe what God has revealed.

2. The Future Millennial Reign

After what we’ve seen so far straight from the Scriptures, it’s clear that cracks are beginning to form in the dispy timeline. But this is only the beginning.

Now, there is a strong argument to be made from Scripture that Christ is reigning already right now (see Revelation 3:21 for a single verse which shows it, but there is much, much more to unpack here). There is also a strong argument to be made that Revelation 19 and 20 are a classic case of recapitulation, or describing the same event twice from different frames of reference. This was a typical motif utilized in Second Temple Period Jewish apocalyptic literature, of which the Apostle John’s Apocalypse is a prominent example. However, while they are persuasive, I do not intend to fully flesh these arguments out here. Instead, I will stick with even simpler reasoning.

In this section, I want to make two logical arguments against a future millennial reign. However, the content in Section 3 will provide yet another argument which not only disproves the notion of two distinct judgments, but it also (if we are thinking carefully) disproves the future millennium as well. So, in total, I will provide three strong yet simple arguments.

First, let’s continue our examination of the rapture timing we began above, and see if this can shed any additional light on the ordering of key end times events.

We’ve already seen that the resurrection and the rapture are a single event, and that this event occurs on the last day. Now, let’s see what other events are linked to this same day in Scripture.

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

— II Thessalonians 2:1-2

This additional passage now links our gathering together to Christ (the resurrection/rapture event) to the coming of Christ (read “Second Coming,” because that is the logical equivalent) and also to the “day of the Lord.”

So, here’s the logic so far:

• Resurrection/Rapture = Last Day = Second Coming = Day of the Lord

Now, the “day of the Lord” is a recurring Old Testament theme with a significant contextual background. It’s often associated with a day of destruction and doom.

Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations. Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.

— Joel 2:1-3

Joel links the Day of the Lord to darkness, gloom, and devouring fire.

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come! … Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.

— Isaiah 13:6 & 9

Isaiah further links the day of the Lord to destruction which leaves the land desolate and destroys the sinners from it.

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’ For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

— Ezekiel 30:1-3

Ezekiel says it’s a time of doom for the nations.

The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there. A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements. I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

— Zephaniah 1:14-18

Zephaniah has much to say, and he links the day of the Lord to fire once again, and also to a sudden end of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Are you getting a picture of what this day looks like? I hope so, but we’re not quite done with our string of New Testament logic.

As a reminder, so far we’ve linked the resurrection and rapture to the last day, to the Second Coming of Christ, and to the day of the Lord.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

— II Peter 3:10-13

As Augustine famously said, “In the Old Testament the New is concealed, in the New the Old is revealed.” This means we should absolutely expect to learn more about the day of the Lord in the New Testament than in the Old Testament. But what is contained in the New should also still align with what is found in the Old.

And here in Second Peter, we have the payoff.

Peter declares that the day of the Lord involves the destruction and dissolution of this entire physical realm, going an important step further than anything we find in the Old Testament. He links the day to fire, just as the OT prophets did, saying that the heavens will be “set on fire and dissolved.” And in case you aren’t quite sure, he even seals the deal by stating plainly in verse 13 that we are awaiting new heavens and a new earth. In other words, there’s going to be nothing of the old one left anymore once it’s dissolved. This is not some minor dissolving we are talking about here, some minor destruction. This is total destruction to the point that the old earth is done and gone. After all, he says the heavens will “pass away.” This is the end of this fallen world that Peter is describing here, and he links it firmly to “the day of the Lord.”

So, let’s update our string of logic on the last day one more time.

• Resurrection/Rapture = Last Day = Second Coming = Day of the Lord = Destruction of Entire Physical World

How does this fit with the dispy timeline?

As you can see for yourself, it doesn’t. The Bible collapses this whole fake timeline into a pile of rubble. Everything above the timeline pretty much collapses down, as you can see, into a single event. In short, the rapture happens at the Second Coming of Christ, which is also know as the day of the Lord and which involves the utter and complete destruction of this fallen world.

Notice that there has been no rocket science here. There has only been the simple examination of Scripture, the simple use of God-given logic, and the simple act of humbling ourselves before the text itself. You don’t need to be a Greek scholar to figure this out. Frankly, you don’t even need to have a high IQ. You only need to believe God’s word. But perhaps that is the hard part.

Do you see how this much beloved timeline is exposed as complete rubbish by the Scriptures themselves? Compared to the beautiful simplicity revealed in Scripture, man’s doctrines seem painfully convoluted and contrived. And yet, they hold feeble minds fast.

Let’s look at one more straightforward argument against the future millennium before moving on to the topic of the two distinct judgments.

In First Corinthians 15, Paul has quite a bit to say about the resurrection and the rapture and about what it all means. I encourage a careful reading of verses 12 through 58 to sharpen your understanding of Paul’s end times perspective.

Here is one of the sections I want to focus on.

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

— I Corinthians 15:23-25

(Side note from verse 24: Christ is reigning now. This means that the millennium of Revelation 20:1-10 is taking place right now! Christ is reigning from his throne in heaven and the dead saints are reigning with him. The millennium is taking place in heaven right now, it is not some future earthly state. Revelation 20 is simply a recasting of Revelation 19, written from a heavenly perspective.)

Specifically, I want you to notice how Paul says in verse 25 that, “the last enemy to be destroyed [after the resurrection, as indicated by the broader context of verses 20-25] is death.” This is interesting. The last enemy is destroyed at the resurrection, when Christ comes, and when he delivers up (why not “establishes” if pre-millennialism is true) the kingdom to the Father.

Now, just in case you think that this defeat of death happens at some time other than at the resurrection of the just, Paul has more to say on the matter.

I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”

“O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

— I Corinthians 15:50-55

Do you see how Paul is tying this back to what he said earlier in verse 25? When is death defeated? At the last trumpet, when we are changed in the twinkling of an eye.

Now, all pre-millennialists agree that there will be death of animals and non-believers during the millennial reign. But if that is the case, what kind of hollow victory is this which Paul speaks of? Death is defeated at the rapture for the saints, yet they will continue to live in a fallen world full of death for 1,000 more years? Nonsense.

You cannot take I Corinthians 15 literally and hold to a future millennial reign. It just does not work, logically speaking. I realize that pre-millennialists can potentially try to argue that death is simply no longer a factor for the saints themselves, although it remains a reality for others. However, this argument doesn’t stand up to scrutiny either. Notice that Paul says death is the “last” enemy to be defeated. Do we really expect the “last enemy” to be defeated at the “last trumpet” on the “last day” but yet this all occurs 1,007 years before the end of this fallen world? Hate to break it to you, but last means last.

Here’s what God says about the eternal state in the new heavens and new earth.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

— Revelation 21:1-4

Instead of claiming that death is “defeated” 1,007 years before this other time when “death shall be no more,” doesn’t it make far more sense to have them both occurring at the same general time? After all, the simpler explanation of the two (Occam’s razor) is more likely to be correct.

3. The Two Distinct Judgments

Now for the fun part. Let’s examine one last simple argument that absolutely levels whatever is left of the dispy timeline.

I love this one because realistically the opposing side has no remotely coherent way of countering it.

Over the years, an elaborate doctrine of the Bema Seat judgment (as referenced by Paul in Romans 14:10-12 and 2 Corinthians 5:10) as separate and distinct from the Great White Throne judgment (referred to in Revelation 20:11-15) has taken hold within dispensational circles. They make the claim that the Bema Seat is for the rewarding of believers only. Likewise, they claim that no believers will be present at the Great White Throne judgment, as this judgment is for unbelievers only.

Often, it seems that dispensationalists do not even bother acknowledging opposing views on the final judgment. Instead, they typically present their own claims as though they are self-evident from the text and should be obvious to everyone who reads the Bible. However, nothing could be further from the truth.

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

— Acts 17:30-31

In the Greek, the word “day” here is singular. There is a single day on which God will judge “the world.” Not unbelievers only. Not the righteous only. The whole world.

on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

— Romans 2:16

Once again, day is singular in the Greek. And notice how God has again repeated himself for our benefit. He doesn’t want us to miss this important detail.

Based on just these first two verses, we already have no reason to break up the Bema Seat and the Great White Throne into two distinct judgments. Why couldn’t they simply be two different ways of describing the same event?

But there is more.

The key thing that the dispensationalists are trying to do by breaking the final judgment up is to provide a way for the saints to be rewarded prior to the future millennial reign (which we’ve already demonstrated above is not scripturally supported). In other words, the saints must be rewarded separately from the judgment of the sinners, and from the destruction of the Devil and his angels, for the timeline to stand.

The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

— Revelation 11:18

The Greek word translated “the time” is again singular. The time. The one time. The only time. The saints are rewarded at the same time as the wicked are judged and the Devil and his angels are destroyed. Do you see it? It’s all right here in this plain verse. The more important question may be: will you choose to believe what God has said? Or will you instead look for a fancy way to make this verse say the exact opposite of what it actually says? The irony of doing that to this particular verse, is that you will be stealing from your own future eternal reward if you choose to twist its plain meaning. Your choice.

What I find interesting, is that even Revelation chapter 20 itself refutes the idea of two judgments.

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

— Revelation 20:11-15

The KJV translation of verse 15 is a bit unfortunate, but the ESV reading shown above is a better translation of the original Greek. “And if anyone’s name” is a good reading because the Greek literally says “And if anyone.” Three separate words. But crucially the word “if” is present. This indicates that it is not a foregone conclusion that all those present at the Great White Throne are not in the book of life. Why would God include the word “if” here if that was the case? Logically, based on the inclusion of this word, some people at this judgment are in the book and some are not. Remember, our God is a God of logic. We didn’t invent logic, he did.

The dispensationalist would have you believe that the book of life is brought out at the Great White Throne judgment only as a token ceremony. They would have you believe that the “if” in the Greek is entirely meaningless, since 100% of people at this judgment are thrown into the lake of fire. But does this view pass the test of strict logic?

You must understand, the dispensational timeline does not simply twist the one or two dozen verses we’ve examined so far on the rapture, the millennium, and the final judgment. It also is forced to twist the plain meaning of dozens of other passages throughout the Bible, some of which we all know and love. Think of the parables of Christ, for example.

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.” He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

— Matthew 13:36-43

In saying that the good seed and the weeds are gathered at the same time (the Greek word translated “the harvest” is, perhaps unsurprisingly by now, singular) this passage hardly comports with the dispy timeline. Christ could have at least given us a clue here if there were to be multiple future harvests. But instead he dispenses with any such silly notion. Likewise, he could have indicated that the good seed is harvested many long years before the weeds are eventually thrown into the fire. Yet he does no such thing.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

— Matthew 13:47-50

This is just more of the same. An added confirmation on top of everything else. Why this talk of separating the evil from the righteous at the end of the age if the reality is to be so confusingly different?

As the coup de grace, we have Matthew 25.

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. … “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. … And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

— Matthew 25:31-34, 41, & 46

The dispensationalist would have us believe that Christ’s words here are little more than a fanciful fairy tale. Their timeline does not allow for the final judgment event Christ speaks of to ever actually take place. The sheep and the goats never appear before the throne together. Instead, they appear 1,000 years apart.

This is not a respectful view of Scripture. It is not a literal view. It is a view which does repeated violence to the text. And it is, quite frankly, a view which will bear its own shame at the last day.

Closing Thoughts

With the dispy timeline clearly off the table as a viable paradigm of thought, where does this leave us? Are we to throw up our hands and say: “Well, we know it can’t be this (dispy timeline), but how it all actually plays out, we have no earthly idea.”

No, I don’t believe we must do anything of the sort. Now, the Word does not tell us every detail of the end times story, but it does provide enough of a framework for us to glimpse the big picture.

Now, when looking at biblical prophecy, and the book of Revelation in particular, if we are to get away from dispensational futurism we don’t necessarily need to jump straight to the other extreme, which is the preterist position. Christ did not come back in AD 70. That idea is intellectually bankrupt. We should instead, I believe, walk the narrow road of historicism, which recognizes that John’s Apocalypse has been being fulfilled down through history. Yes, the final bit is still yet to be fulfilled at and immediately following Christ’s return, but that doesn’t mean that the whole book is still waiting to be fulfilled during the final seven years, as the dispensationalists would have it.

So, here is how I believe we should replace the dispensational time, based on Scripture.

You’ve likely never heard of a view quite like this. So, let’s unpack my paradigm.

The sort of typical Amillennial view of the Second Coming is that everything happens on the same day, including the final judgment. This seems to make good sense of some passages, like for example Matthew 13 and 25 which we just saw. However, it creates issues with other passages and raises many additional questions.

Importantly, this view reduces the rapture into little more than a jump into the clouds to meet Christ in the air before we boomerang right back down to earth for the final judgment. And what happened to the total destruction of the physical world which Peter speaks of? If the heavens are being destroyed, are we still up there in the air somewhere with Christ just hanging out? Does the old world get destroyed and the new one get created that quickly?

I believe that the rapture is more than a giant boomerang event.

Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

— John 14:1-3

Christ seems to indicate that we will be going to the Father’s house (presumably, Heaven) at some point after he returns for us.

Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by. For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.

— Isaiah 26:20-21

If you read the context of Isaiah 25 and 26, you will see that this entering into the chambers occurs after the resurrection. And we know that the resurrection and rapture are a single event. So, here we find the reason for the rapture event. It is to protect us from the wrath poured out on the Day of the Lord. The wrath which destroys the sinners from the land and which ultimately destroys the entire physical world.

(Notice how a rapture 7 years before the Second Coming of Christ completely nullifies this the true purpose for the rapture, replacing it with man-made ideas of what God’s wrath looks like.)

Now, I have thoroughly dealt with God’s master timeline and how the ancient Jewish feasts foreshadow key redemptive events within this timeline in my book, God’s Final Week. It is not my intent to entirely rehash that here, but I will give a quick flavor of what that story looks like.

There are seven yearly feasts in the ceremonial calendar God instituted for the children of Israel, following the Exodus.

The four spring feasts were fulfilled in order at Christ’s first coming, during the year of the cross (year 4000). It is a safe assumption (and the typology aligns perfectly) that the three remaining fall feasts will likewise be fulfilled in order at Christ’s Second Coming (year 6000).

but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.

— Revelation 10:7

The next feast in line to be fulfilled is the two-day Feast of Trumpets, which occurs at the start of the fall harvest and perfectly types the return of Christ.

However, I believe the Scriptures give us a tantalizing end times clue when they reveal that the Jubilee year did not begin on Tishri 1. Instead, it began ten days later, on Tishri 10. What could the possible reason for this gap be? Could it have been pointing to an end times mystery all along?

You see the ancient Galileans had a wedding ceremony which involved seven days of feasting. And Christ famously used wedding typology at the Last Supper. Is it possible that the pre-tribbers are half right in claiming that this typology points also to the rapture of the Church? Could there yet be a gone for seven? But perhaps instead of the ill-conceived seven years, there is something more like seven days in the wedding chambers? Believe it or not, the month of Tishri seems to allow for such a time frame.

Interestingly, there is a gap of exactly seven days between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement is the next feast in line to be fulfilled and it falls on Tishri 10. Remember that this is the same day on which the Jubilee Year (with the themes of liberty proclaimed and land restored) begins. And the fact that the Day of Atonement types the final judgment is unequivocal.

Is God using the timing sequence of the fall feasts within the month of Tishri to tell us something? I believe he is.

In the end, the idea of everything being fulfilled in the year 6000, during the month of Tishri, is far simpler than concocting something as convoluted as the dispy timeline. It also has far more scriptural support. But however things play out in the days between Christ’s return and the final judgment, this much is clear from Scripture: 1) the rapture and resurrection take place post-trib and pre-wrath, 2) there is no future millennium, and 3) there is a single final judgment which awaits all of humanity.

If Scripture is so painfully clear on these topics, why is it that the masses of Christianity have become so confused on eschatology? Well, it’s interesting to note that dispensationalism has only come into prominence within the Church within the last 200 years or so (arguments to the contrary are incredibly lacking in scholarly rigor). And this timing is highly suspect when we realize that Satan surely knows the ending point of 2028, just as we do. What this means is that Satan has likely utilized dispensationalism as a means of distracting much of Christendom from some important end times truths. Not that all of the doctrine’s views are wrong, but rather that it has errors baked in at some critical points.

So, what is the goal of this deception? I believe that answer is quite simple. It is to distract Christians from the abomination of desolation. When Christ’s disciples asked him on the Mount of Olives, just a few days before his death, what the sign of his coming and of the end of the age would be, he gave them a detailed answer. But at the heart of that answer was a mysterious event called the abomination of desolation. That event, it is reasonable to conclude, is the ultimate sign of his coming and of the end of the age. And I have found this to be all too true as a believer in this final generation who has witnessed the incredible final end times fulfillment of Matthew 24:15 (let the reader understand). The abomination makes the end obvious. And yet, in dispensationalism, this event takes place 3.5 years after believers are raptured. So, people have been conditioned to never watch for this key sign. They ignore it and instead chase their own tails by making endless conjectures on red heifers, and third temple locations, and implantable chips and all the rest. This serves the Devil’s purpose, as it distracts from the deeper truths playing out in these last days, right in front of the unseeing eyes of the indoctrinated plebeian masses.

If you have been fooled by this clever and elaborate ploy, I do not blame you. But it is high time to awaken.

Note: seven of these prophecies and their fulfillments are described in more detail in my book God’s Final Week. The eighth (number 4 in the list below) is covered in Nugget #1. The point of this post is to bring them all together into one place for quick accessibility.

There are eight numeric prophecies contained in the sacred Scriptures which, when rightly understood, serve as markers pointing to the year of Christ’s return.

8 - The First Decree and the 49 Jubilees

One of the interesting aspects of the 70 weeks prophecy, which often does not get the attention it deserves, is how the first 69 weeks are divided into 7 and 62 in verse 25. The year-for-a-day principle (Numbers 14:34), in which a prophetic day is considered to be symbolic of a year, allows us to make sense of these weeks. Indeed, it has been widely known for much of Church history, and has been calculated many times over, that the 483 years – which equals 69 weeks of 7 years each – takes us from approximately 457 BC up to AD 27. This leads us up to the exact starting point of Yeshua’s ministry. (Remember, whenever you cross over from BC to AD, you must subtract a year, since there is no zero year.)

A great deal of scholarly work has gone into the identification of the 457 BC date for Artaxerxes’ decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. For our purposes, the important point is that it can likely be trusted to be accurate within one year (quite a feat given that it took place nearly 2,500 years ago).

Is this why some astute Jews, including many of Yeshua’s disciples, were looking for the Messiah to appear right around the time when his earthly ministry began? Had they done the math based on the 70 weeks prophecy? It appears many had.

And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not …

— Luke 3:15

Still, we have the question of why the 69 weeks were not listed plainly as such. Why 7 and 62? Clearly, the math from Artaxerxes’ decree to the beginning of Yeshua’s ministry is much too close to 483 years to be purely coincidental. Yet, as we know, prophecies in Scripture can sometimes point to more than one future fulfillment. Is there perhaps a double meaning to this prophecy?

Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest minds to be found in all of the sixth millennial day, certainly thought so. He believed that the 7 and the 62 somehow spoke both to the Messiah’s first appearance, and also to his second appearance at the end of the age. I am inclined to believe he was right.

I believe I have found, by God’s grace, the key which unlocks the meaning of this core prophecy. In the end, the solution is not nearly as complex as you might imagine. Simplicity is, after all, the ultimate sophistication. And yet, we must with humility realize that it is far easier for us to glimpse the beautifully simple truth from our vantage point here at the end of the age. These things were sealed up for many years, only for the scrolls to finally be unwound here in their proper time.

The seven weeks is indeed intended to be counted as years – 49 in all – and added to the 62 weeks of years to arrive at the Messiah’s first coming, as we have seen. These 483 years are precise and lead directly without a gap to the seventieth week. (Note that I believe there are two separate fulfillments of the 490 years.)

However, the seven weeks has a double meaning and is also intended to be counted as 49 Jubilee years. This is the number of Jubilee years between the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. I believe that the Messiah’s return will coincide with or slightly precede (by mere days) the announcement of the 50th Jubilee year, and so this last Jubilee is not counted with the others. Notice how these 49 Jubilee years are a mathematically beautiful reflection of the 490 years contained within the 70 weeks themselves.

Upon consideration, this is also simply a cleverly devised magnification of the Jubilee cycle itself. There are 49 “regular” Jubilees in the prophecy, followed by a fiftieth Super Jubilee, which I believe is only announced shortly after the Second Coming. This fiftieth Jubilee is the final Jubilee, the 120th Jubilee, the ultimate entry into the land of true freedom and the eternal state.

With this realization, we understand that there was only one 50-year period in all of history which the prophecy of Daniel could have pointed to so as to provide such a mathematically beautiful riddle. It had to point to a decree given after the 70th Jubilee from creation, but before the 71st.

The nearest Jubilee marker we have comes from Ezekiel Chapter 1.

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity …

— Ezekiel 1:1-2

Historically speaking, we know that this fifth year of Jehoiachin’s captivity occurred in approximately 594 BC. Verse 1 tells us this year was the thirtieth year of the Jubilee cycle. Let us assume that the Jubilee cycle was faithfully observed – or at a minimum kept track of – as 50 years in length prior to Israel’s captivity; a safe assumption, in my view. This would place the next Jubilee at 574 BC. (I believe the true date to actually be 573 BC, but either year is close enough for our purposes at the moment.)

This Jubilee at 573 BC would have been the 68th from creation. The seventieth Jubilee would have fallen on 473 BC, and sixteen years later, in 457 BC, the decree to rebuild Jerusalem went out, starting the clock for the 490 years.

Incidentally, using this math gives us the 80th Jubilee staring on Tishri 10 of AD 28. And then the 120th Jubilee should follow on Tishri 10 of 2028.

7 - The 2,200 Years

In Daniel Chapter 8, there is the famously misunderstood 2,300 days prophecy. This prophecy is often assumed by most of Christendom to point directly to Antiochus Epiphanes, a Greek king of the second century BC. Because of this, further meaning is often not looked for from the prophecy. However, I believe that several verses in the chapter contain clues pointing to the end times.

So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision … And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

— Daniel 8:17 & 19

Does this sound like something that was fulfilled over two thousand years ago? Does it sound like something that was fulfilled in 1844? These sorts of interpretations do not agree with the plain language of the text.

Now, I do agree that the first 12 verses of the text do point to Antiochus Epiphanes. This much, in my view, is correct. However, the key distinction for this prophecy lies in a correct understanding of verse 14.

And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

— Daniel 8:14

Interestingly, the Septuagint has the number 2,400 in this verse. Adding to the perplexity of this is the fact that many of the old Masoretic texts contain evidence of this number being edited or tampered with. This can be hard to reconcile until one considers the witnesses of ancient historians. Fortunately for us, both Jerome and Josephus have recorded that some copies of Daniel available in their day yet long since lost to us contained the number 2,200.

It seems most likely that one of the texts upon which the Septuagint was based had over the years developed a scribal error in this particular spot. The Hebrew words for two hundred were simply repeated twice, leading to a value of 2,400. This number then made its way into the Septuagint’s Greek translation. The scribes of the Masoretic scrolls, confronted with texts pointing both to 2,200 and 2,400, might have logically chosen to split the difference and go with 2,300. Hence, the evidence of editing in these scrolls.

Given the historical details we have, it seems that 2,200 was most likely the original number given to Daniel.

Our present histories tell us that in 170 BC, Antiochus – a prefiguring of the Antichrist – entered the Holy of Holies and plundered it, taking away its gold and silver vessels and the seven-branched golden menorah. This may be the starting point from which the “How long?” in Daniel 8:13 is meant to be reckoned, given the context.

Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?

— Daniel 8:13

Are we to accept it as mere coincidence that 170 BC is 2,197 years from the year AD 2028? Three years of uncertainty in the second century BC is actually quite accurate. Accordingly, I believe the correct starting year is most likely either 173 BC or the later part of 174 BC. And the last end of the indignation will come precisely 2,200 years later, in the year AD 2028.

Incidentally, I find it remarkable that the edited number of 2,300 also has a way of pointing to the Temple and its desolation. Specifically, it points to a New Testament verse linking the concept of a Temple with a physical body.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body.

— John 2:19-21

When you multiply 46 by the Jubilee cycle of 50, you arrive at 2,300. Or, put another way, there are precisely 46 Jubilee years within a period of 2,300 regular years.

6 - The Third (Seventh) Day

The Millennial Day perspective is undergirded by dozens of repeated typological patterns found in Scripture. However, there is also this revealing prophecy from Hosea.

Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.

— Hosea 6:1-2

Since the cross occurred in year 4,000 (the start of Millenial Day 5), we know that the year 6,000 is the start of the third millennial day from the cross. It is also the start of the seventh day from creation. This means that Christ’s resurrection on the third day was in fact symbolic of our future resurrection, which also comes on a third day.

Given the prophecy in Ezekiel 4 and a siege of Jerusalem beginning 3 days before Passover in AD 70 (an accepted historical fact), we can triangulate the year of the cross to AD 29. (There is also some testimony from a few early Church fathers which supports AD 29 as one of the earliest accepted years for the cross.) If Passover AD 29 fell within year 4000, then this means year 4000 must have begun in the fall (Tishri 1) of AD 28.

This means that year 6000 will begin in the fall of AD 2028.

5 - The 1,335 Years

The final chapter of the book of Daniel contains one last cryptic prophecy.

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

— Daniel 12:1-4

The reference to the resurrection here is unmistakable. This prophecy is speaking of the very end.

And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

— Daniel 12:9-13

I have seen very few good explanations for the meaning of the 1,290 and the 1,335 days spoken of here, at the very last gasp of this prophetic book. However, I have found one particular interpretation which points to the same endpoint as the 49 Jubilees of the seventy weeks prophecy and the 2,200 years of Daniel 8. Now, I must acknowledge that I did not arrive at this interpretation of Daniel 12 on my own. Instead, finding one that fits well with the other prophecies, I have adopted it into my overall paradigm.

Before I share the interpretation, you must understand that Daniel Chapter 12 stands alone to a certain extent and is not directly linked to the other prophetic passages which precede it. I believe it is also crucial to realize that Daniel 12 is clearly focused on the end of days, the climactic ending of all human history. We can therefore safely rule out any interpretation of the 1,290 and 1,335 which points to an end date hundreds or even thousands of years in the past.

In the apocryphal book of 2 Maccabees, there is a passage describing the prophet Jeremiah’s taking away of the daily sacrifice in Jerusalem just prior to Nebuchadnezzar’s victory over the city.

It was also in the writing that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him and that he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of God. And Jeremiah came and found a cave, and he brought there the tent and the ark and the altar of incense, and he sealed up the entrance. Some of those who followed him came up to mark the way, but could not find it. When Jeremiah learned of it, he rebuked them and declared: ‘The place shall be unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy.’

— 2 Maccabees 2:4-7 (ESV)

Now, I am by no means claiming that 2 Maccabees or the other books of the Apocrypha are inspired. However, many of these hidden books are valuable historical sources, though they admittedly do not belong in the Bible. First and Second Maccabees are among the most highly regarded for their historical account of the Intertestamental Period, also known as the Second Temple Period. Perhaps it is for this reason that they were a part of the Apocrypha section of the original 1611 King James Version and were printed between the Old and New Testaments until the mid 1800s. (Most present-day Protestant believers are unaware of this fact.)

The pertinent point is that, while they are uninspired, many of the Apocryphal books contain valuable history for our use.

Jeremiah’s taking of the altar of incense from Jerusalem has been dated to approximately 598 BC. This was the daily sacrifice being taken away.

In AD 692, which just so happens to be 1,289 years later, the Dome of the Rock – an Islamic shrine – was dedicated and built on the Temple Mount, the very ground where the Temple once stood. This, in my view, is an apt outward example of the abomination of desolation and the defilement of the Temple. (It is even more striking for those who grasp the occult symbolism of the dome and its links to the goddess Isis.) And the Daniel 12 prophecy appears to point directly to this particular example.

When you add 1,335 years to 692, you get 2027 to 2028, depending on the time of year when the reckoning began. This is the time period when those who wait will at last be blessed.

4 - The Second Decree and the 490 Years

The ancient Jews expected three fulfillments for key prophecies. So, we should not be surprised to find in history a third fulfillment of Daniel 9 which perfectly aligns with all the rest and with 2028.

Now, from the outset, I want to be clear. All credit for discovering this critical second decree goes to Dr. Christian Widener. I did not discover the decree. I only discovered Widener.

This was truly a monumental discovery, and one which rightfully belongs to Dr. Widener’s name.

This second decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem was issued by Sultan Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire. You will find no reference to this decree in our history books (by design, no doubt), though Suleiman himself is well documented. However, God saw fit to preserve the record of this crucial decree literally in stone for us in Jerusalem. And it was Dr. Widener who in these last days discovered the stones which bear witness to this old decree.

In his book, Widener explains that plaza and moat look like the best words to translate rechob and charuwts in Daniel 9:25. He then provides the evidence for Suleiman’s decree, linking it firmly both to a moat and to the Temple Plaza.

There is an actual moat within the Old City of Jerusalem, and it has a plaque proclaiming its restoration by Suleiman; however, there is no date on this specific plaque. Perhaps it was left off, or as the “ … ” suggests at the end of the inscription, the final portion was damaged and became illegible. Fortunately, that is not the only plaque I want to show you. Suleiman also extensively repaired the plaza of the temple, and he placed a fountain (sabil) and another plaque with an inscription to document its restoration. It not only confirms that the Temple Mount was an area restored by Suleiman, but it also gives us a date for his decree. It is called Sabil Bab el Atm, meaning fountain at the Gate of Darkness (see photo, top of next page[174]).

The translation of the plaque (photo above)[175] is: “He has ordered the construction of this blessed Sabil, our Master, the Sultan, the greatest Sultan and the honourable Hakan, who rules the necks of the nations, the Sultan of the lands of Rum, the Arabs and Persians (ajams), the Sultan Suleyman, son of Sultan Selim Khan, may Allah perpetuate his reign and sultanate, On the date of Hijra of the Prophet at the beginning of Shaban the blessed in the year 943. And blessings be upon Muhammad and upon his followers.”[176]

— Dr. Christian Widener (Witnessing the End: Daniel’s Seventy Sevens and the Final Decree Everyone Missed)

In footnote 176, Widener states the source of the plaque translation and then continues.

Tutuncu. Turkish Jerusalem, 74; In total, Suleiman had nearly three dozen inscriptions documenting his work in Jerusalem between 1536-1541. Within the walls of the city, the oldest is at the Sabil el Wad, which is near the Bab el Kattanin (Cotton Merchants Gate) of the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount). It is dated December 14th, 1536. The next oldest one is at another fountain (sabil) in the city called, Sabil Bab el Silsile, dated January 4, 1537. These dates are all very close.

It is worth noting here that Widener discards the older date from December 1536, which logically should have been the date the decree was first issued (or at least within a few weeks of it), and instead accepts the second date which occurred over a month later, precisely because it allows him to link that second date with the year 2020. He realizes the important of 2020. He just thinks it’s the COVID narrative from early 2020 which is at play. He doesn’t grasp what actually occurred in December 2020. This illogical choice of the second date is a weakness in Widener’s view. We must find a way to make the oldest inscription fit within our paradigm.

And yet December 14, 1536 seems to be exactly one year too old to fit with the rest of the prophecies. What a coincidence.

Sabil el Wad in Jerusalem. Photo by Juandev. (Creative Commons License)

The inscriptions, as you may have noticed above do not reference Gregorian years. Instead, they refer to Islamic years, or Hijri years, which are based on the Islamic lunar calendar. The counting for this system began in AD 622 when Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina. Because the system is lunar based, the starting time of the year is not tethered to the seasons, as our Gregorian calendar is. In other words, it rotates over time, since the year is only 354 days in length. In Hijri year 943, for example, the year would have begun in July.

Now, there are few possible sources of error when our mainstream history went about correlating Hijri years to Gregorian years. But I think the one most likely to have been responsible for this one-year delta is the starting year. They may have gotten the starting year wrong. What if in all actuality it was AD 623? Then everything would be off by one year.

This is what I believe most likely happened. After all, AD 623 was over 1,400 years ago. We do not necessarily have 100% precision on dates that old. Frankly, being one year off is well within reasonable expectations for the starting point of the Islamic calendar.

In short, I believe the correct starting point for the decree, based on the evidence we have, is December 14, 1537. Now, could the decree actually have been given two or three weeks before that day, and the oldest inscription was simply crafted a bit later, after the workers had had enough time to construct the fountain? That is entirely plausible and I would say even likely. But it doesn’t really change anything. If the decree was given November 26th (a random date), everything else would still fit perfectly. Either way, the abomination takes place early in the seventieth week, leaving seven full years for burning weapons (Ezekiel 39:8-9).

Based on accepting the December 14, 1537 date as the best one we have, then December 14, 2020 was exactly 483 years and 1 day after the decree. In other words, it was 1 day into the seventieth week.

Now, because the abomination took place almost immediately at the start of the seventieth week, there are seven years between the abomination and the start of the 490th year. The 490th year must begin in order for the prophecy to be fulfilled. But it also must not end prior to the return of Christ. Do you see? The 490th year must begin. But the 491st must not.

This simple logic, then, gives us a one-year time window for the return of Christ. He must return after 12/14/2027, yet before 12/14/2028.

3 - The Fig Tree Generation

Jesus Christ is not just a Priest, and he is not just a King. He is also a Prophet.

From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

— Matthew 24:32-34

The parable of the fig tree is often contemplated for its eschatological meaning, yet seldom is it properly understood.

In Scripture, there are three trees used to symbolize Israel. The vine and the olive tree are often used as symbols of Israel’s spiritual and religious privileges. And the fig tree is often used as a symbol of Israel’s national privileges (Hosea 9:10 and Jeremiah 24).

National Israel is a sign intended for our use. And as many others have identified, the budding of the fig tree symbolizes the rebirth of Israel after a long winter. The Apocalypse of Peter contains a scene with Yeshua helping the disciples to make this very connection, proving that the link has been well known since the birth of Christianity. Yet many seem to have forgotten.

However, when Christ said that this generation would not pass, was he providing a timing detail to be used along with this regathering of Israel?

I believe the answer can be found in the only piece of Scripture attributed to Moses outside of the Torah.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

— Psalm 90:10

It appears that 80 years is the outside length of time for a human lifespan; or, in other words, for a generation. As usual, God always gives mankind as much time as possible for repentance, within the structure of his plan. Therefore, I believe we should logically expect either the 79 or the 80 year mark from Israel’s rebirth to be quite significant.

Because of how the Ezekiel 4 prophecy was fulfilled in the 40th year itself, I believe we should expect the Fig Tree Generation to be fulfilled in the 80th year, but just shy of the 81st.

Given that historically the nation state of Israel was restored on May 14, 1948, the 80th year will begin in May of 2028. But logically, the 81st year (May 2029) must never arrive. Christ will arrive first.

2 - The Time of Jacob’s Trouble

Lastly, there is Jeremiah’s prophecy regarding the time of Jacob’s trouble.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

— Jeremiah 30:7

This passage has always bothered me because I know, based on the book of Genesis, that Jacob’s trouble was either 20 years (as stated by Jacob himself, Genesis 31:38 & 41) or 21 years (as stated by God through Moses, Genesis 29:20-30). Yet most modern Christians have decided that the time of Jacob’s trouble must necessarily be equivalent to Daniel’s seventieth week. This is troubling, no pun intended, as no one seems able to provide any scriptural basis whatsoever for making this assumption.

I would be far more comfortable with either a 20 or 21-year time of Jacob’s trouble.

Interestingly, the eclipse timeline, which creates the structure for what I call “God’s Final Week,” does allow for this. With a start point of 9/11/2007, the 21st year will begin on 9/11/2028. If we assume that 21 years is correct (God’s declaration), then this means the 21st year provides a third one-year window, running from 9/11/28 to 9/11/29.

1 - The Days of Noah

When Christ’s disciples asked him on the Mount of Olives, just a few days before his death, what the sign of his coming and of the end of the age would be, he gave them a detailed answer. But at the heart of that answer was a mysterious event called the abomination of desolation. That event, it is reasonable to conclude, is the ultimate sign of his coming and of the end of the age.

The abomination of desolation (final fulfillment of Matthew 24:15) already began in 2020, as covered in Section 4 above. The man of sin has already sat down in the temple of God (the human body). The surprising twist is that the abomination was also a profound and symbolically perfect return to the days of Noah. Again, Christ’s words are prophetic in ways which most have missed.

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

— Matthew 24:37 (NIV)

Now, there are many different features of the days of Noah which could potentially return at the end of the age. But I believe the most significant one was the widespread genetic corruption caused by the rebellious angels of Genesis 6. The creation of unsanctioned hybrids all over the face of the earth was an abomination in the sight of God, no doubt. And it ultimately led to the destruction of the earth by the flood.

This time around, the genetic corruption may be via a different means, but it is no less real. And it will ultimately lead to the destruction of this entire realm by fire at the last day.

How long will the unsanctioned hybrids roam these lands? Scripture provides us the typology, as always.

this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king, that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.

— Daniel 4:24-25

How long was Nebuchadnezzar part man and part beast? Seven years. This aligns with another well-known end times prophecy.

Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years …

— Ezekiel 39:1-9

Notice particularly how before “the day whereof I have spoken” arrives (the day of the Lord) there are seven years of burning weapons. Based on the preceding verses, these final years appear to be characterized by the judgment of those who have placed their trust outside of God. The wicked doers will fall upon the open field, dying suddenly as part of God’s judgment on evil and his final warning for humanity.

Interestingly, even in the flood story, there is an appear of this same seven.

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

— Genesis 7:6-10

I believe that these seven days mentioned here also point to the final seven years. Just as Noah and his family were protected in the ark for those final seven days prior to the flood judgment, so too God’s people are protected from the genetic corruption taking place just prior to the judgment of fire at Christ’s return.

With a starting point of December 2020, we know that the seventh year will run from December 2027 to December 2028. Logically, the eighth year must never arrive. So, this marker, too, points to Feast of Trumpets 2028.

Closing Thoughts

For me, it is not any one marker on its own which can provide total confidence in the year of Christ’s return. Instead, it is the shocking convergence of all eight of these scriptural markers on a single year which provides a high degree of certainty. But still, it does take faith to see the historical fulfillments of these things and trust that God will keep his promises.

The numeric biblical prophecies were provided to us for a reason. Was it not so that we might discern the general season of Christ’s return?

Intro music by Patrick Lenk.

Dies Irae

0:00 Intro

5:03 Rapture Views

12:16 Galilean Wedding Ceremony

17:07 Relative Timing

21:36 Prewrath View

31:01 Closing Thoughts

Most of my end times aha moments occurred during the years 2020 to 2024, as I discovered some of the key pieces of the end times puzzle and laid them out more or less in order. However, this is the most significant new discovery I have made in the year 2025 (so far).

In short, I have come to understand that the seven years prior to the destruction of the Second Temple (in AD 70) beautifully and precisely foreshadow the Great Tribulation (final seven years), which I believe runs from December 2020 to sometime in late summer to fall of 2028.

Let me explain.

In God’s Final Week, I made it quite plain that the forty years between the cross and the destruction of the Second Temple foreshadowed the entire 2,000-year Church Age.

After the cross, God gave Israel 40 full years to repent before bringing them swift destruction. So likewise, I believe that God has planned a set period of time, given after the cross, for all of mankind to repent and believe. And afterward, he will again bring swift and total destruction upon unbelieving humanity.

Would you believe me if I told you that the amount of time given to humanity was mathematically related to the amount of time given to the Jews?

Once again, God is using the nation of Israel to quietly prophesy to all of mankind.

And here we have once again the precise link to the sign of Jonah, spoken of so often by our Savior.

Israel was given 40 full years for repentance. I believe that mankind will be given 40 full Jubilee cycles.

– God’s Final Week

And yet there was more to the story. There was another level to the foreshadowing which I had not yet grasped.

This new level opened up for me when, as I was reading James B. Jordan’s recently published three-volume work Revelation Explained (highly recommend), I learned that the Second Temple was completed in AD 63. The date Jordan quoted may have been AD 64, but it was close enough to get me curious and I discovered that our histories give either 63 or 64 as the finish date. There is a bit of uncertainty, but to me it seems likely that 63 is the correct year, for reasons which will soon become more clear.

If you will remember, Herod the Great had begun a restoration and reconstruction effort at the Second Temple in around 20 BC. This effort continued up until AD 63 when it was at last completed, lasting for a total of 82 years.

Now, think with me here. By the time AD 63 came around, everything had changed. The gospel of Jesus Christ had turned the world upside down and while a faithful remnant of Jews had believed and birthed the early Church, the Jewish nation as a whole had largely rejected their Messiah. Even the Talmud itself testifies that during the 40 years leading up to the destruction of the Second Temple there were clear signs that God had departed from his people.

Interestingly, the Jewish rabbis took note of certain curious happenings during these 40 years immediately preceding AD 70. These occurrences all had to do with the Temple. It was noticed, for example, that the western candle of the menorah would no longer stay lit overnight. Additionally, on the Day of Atonement, the lot for the Lord would never come up in the right hand for these 40 years. This is the equivalent of tossing a coin on heads 40 times in a row, the odds of which are vanishingly small. Nor would the crimson-colored strap become white, as it had done before. These anomalies, pointing to God’s clear departure from Israel, are recorded in the Talmud (Yoma 39a and 39b).

– God’s Final Week

It is clear from these testimonies that God had departed from the same Jewish ceremonies which he’d once blessed. The reason is obvious. The Jews who refused to honor and worship his Son were no longer even worshiping the Father. Instead, they were worshiping their true father, as Christ told them; the devil. But notice also that believing Jews (and there were many of them) had already abandoned the scribes and Pharisees and were worshiping the true God through his newly formed Church. These were the remnant of the Jews.

This has got to be one of the obvious flaws with dispensationalism, if I have seen one. If you were ever to have met a dispensationalist in AD 69, they would have sworn to you up and down that God would never destroy the Temple of his chosen people. They would have protested loudly that the promises speaking of Israel inheriting the land forever must be fulfilled. And if you had pressed them, saying that presumably the years from AD 70 to AD 1948 should be included in “forever,” in the year AD 69 they would have ardently agreed with you. Yet, as we all know, they would have been horribly wrong when the Romans leveled the Temple Mount and destroyed Jerusalem the following year.

The fact is, the Second Temple, by the time it was finished in AD 63 was no longer even Yahweh’s Temple. Paul and the other New Testament writers make it plain that the new Temple of God is the Church, or the body of believers down through the ages (see 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 and 6:19, Ephesians 2:19-22, and 1 Peter 2:4-5). Interestingly, some of these passages even indicate that the true Temple of God is the human body itself.

What is clear, is that by AD 63 the Second Temple of Rabbinical Judaism was no longer used to worship God. Satan had subverted the worship of these Christ-denying pagans and so they were in fact enthralled to the dark lord himself. This was Satan’s temple. And it was completed in AD 63.

God allowed it to stand for seven short years. And then he razed it to the ground.

So, too, in these last days Satan’s final temple (erected through the abomination of desolation) will be allowed to stand for the seven years prophesied for it. But no longer.

Seek ye where the broken twig lies and the dead stick molds away, where the clouds float together and the stones rest by the hillside, for all these mark the grave of Hiram who has carried my Will with him to the tomb. This eternal quest is yours until ye have found your Builder, until the cup giveth up its secret, until the grave giveth up its ghosts. No more shall I speak until ye have found and raised my beloved Son, and have listened to the words of my Messenger and with Him as your guide have finished the temple which I shall then inhabit. Amen.

– Manly P. Hall (The Lost Keys of Freemasonry)

In the final chapter of my first book, God’s Final Week, I explained how some of the key end times prophecies with modern fulfillments could be used to triangulate the season of the rapture window as precisely as humanly possible. Please understand, there are many who seek for knowledge of the day and hour. But this has never been my desire. For I realize that it is, and always will be, beyond my grasp.

However, I was surprised to learn that when the information in Scripture was carefully examined and linked to the proper fulfillments, a short season of approximately seven months could be arrived at. Those months, as I wrote in Chapter 10, run from the middle of May 2028, to the middle of December 2028.

If we are willing to make one additional assumption, then we can narrow that seven-month window down to just over three months. As far as I can see, this roughly three-month season is the best that can be done from a human perspective. Only God knows the day and hour.

Here is the window shown visually (look for the yellow moed, meaning appointed time). As you can see, I believe the rapture window runs from September of 2028 to December of 2028. I will explain the logic behind this season below.

Great Tribulation

The first marker comes from the last seven years, or Daniel’s seventieth week. If you’re not familiar with my views on the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation, I prefer to use the Second Temple Jewish conception of these terms. For them, the Tribulation was an extended period of time, so I think it corresponds to the 2,000-year Church Age (inclusive of the last seven years). And then the last seven years themselves are the “Great Tribulation.”

As I showed in Nugget #1, the final fulfillment of Daniel’s seventieth week began on December 14, 2020 (this beginning point is symbolized by the Dome of the Rock in the timeline above because this was also the day when the final abomination of desolation began, in fulfillment of Matthew 24:15). This means the 490th year, which is equivalent to the seventh year of the final or seventieth week, begins on December 14, 2027, as shown on the timeline above. This final year runs until December 14, 2028. And since the prophecies (Daniel 9:24-27, Ezekiel 39:1-10, and others) must be fulfilled, the seventh year of the Great Tribulation cannot come to an end. In other words, Christ must return during the seventh year.

Fig Tree Generation

Jesus Christ is not just a Priest, and he is not just a King. He is also a Prophet.

From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

— Matthew 24:32-34

The parable of the fig tree is often contemplated for its eschatological meaning, yet seldom is it properly understood.

In Scripture, there are three trees used to symbolize Israel. The vine and the olive tree are often used as symbols of Israel’s spiritual and religious privileges. And the fig tree is often used as a symbol of Israel’s national privileges (Hosea 9:10 and Jeremiah 24).

National Israel is a sign intended for our use. And as many others have identified, the budding of the fig tree symbolizes the rebirth of Israel after a long winter. The Apocalypse of Peter contains a scene with Yeshua helping the disciples to make this very connection, proving that the link has been well known since the birth of Christianity. Yet many seem to have forgotten.

However, when Christ said that this generation would not pass, was he providing a timing detail to be used along with this regathering of Israel?

I believe the answer can be found in the only piece of Scripture attributed to Moses outside of the Torah.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

— Psalm 90:10

It appears that 80 years is the outside length of time for a human lifespan; or, in other words, for a generation. As usual, God always gives mankind as much time as possible for repentance, within the structure of his plan. Therefore, I believe we should logically expect either the 79 or the 80 year mark from Israel’s rebirth to be quite significant.

Because of how the Ezekiel 4 prophecy was fulfilled in the 40th year itself, I believe we should expect the Fig Tree Generation to be fulfilled in the 80th year, but just shy of the 81st.

As show on the timeline, this provides us with yet another one-year window, running from May 2028 to May 2029.

Jacob’s Trouble

Lastly, there is Jeremiah’s prophecy regarding the time of Jacob’s trouble.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

— Jeremiah 30:7

This passage has always bothered me because I know, based on the book of Genesis, that Jacob’s trouble was either 20 years (as stated by Jacob himself, Genesis 31:38 & 41) or 21 years (as stated by God through Moses, Genesis 29:20-30). Yet most modern Christians have decided that the time of Jacob’s trouble must necessarily be equivalent to Daniel’s seventieth week. This is troubling, no pun intended, as no one seems able to provide any scriptural basis whatsoever for making this assumption.

I would be far more comfortable with either a 20 or 21-year time of Jacob’s trouble.

Interestingly, the eclipse timeline, which creates the structure for what I call “God’s Final Week,” does allow for this. With a start point of 9/11/2007, the 21st year will begin on 9/11/2028. If we assume that 21 years is correct (God’s declaration), then this means the 21st year provides a third one-year window, running from 9/11/28 to 9/11/29.

Putting It All Together

When we look at the three windows provided by the biblical prophecies outlined above, we see that they all overlap for a period of just over 3 months in late 2028. God’s fulfillment of his prophecies will necessarily be precise. And so, if our data points are accurate, then it would appear that all of these windows must be honored. Therefore, the period of overlap between all three provides the time window for fulfillment.

It appears that Christ will return in power and glory sometime between early September and mid-December of 2028.

Maranatha.

Dies Irae

0:00 Intro

0:57 Discerning the Season

5:01 Closing Thoughts

This is my first “Nugget” post. Accordingly, I’d like to take a minute to explain how I am laying out and ordering information within this Substack publication.

I’ve posted the full content of both my books here (God’s Final Week and God’s Final Battle), with each chapter being broken out into its own post. These two books represent the core of my body of work. They should be read first.

I’m also working through the “Checkmate 2028” video series, which essentially takes the information from the books and makes it even more accessible by presenting it in video format. Being able to display timelines and other visual elements is a big advantage of the video series.

Occasionally, there are topics which I did not cover in my books (for various reasons), but which are still critical to the big end times picture. I will place all of these important topics into the “Nuggets” category and tag them accordingly. Once you’ve read the books, the Nuggets are a good place to find a handful of other valuable puzzle pieces.

Anything outside of these primary tags, whether it’s a short video or another type of post, is a miscellaneous topic. Generally, these miscellaneous items are things I’ve covered already in the books but which I want to crystallize in a pithy form for folks with limited time to invest.

I hope this helps to direct your focus as you peruse my content.

The prophecy contained in Daniel 9:24-27 is probably the single most consequential end times prophecy in the Holy Scriptures.

In the seventh chapter of my book God’s Final Week, I unpacked the first two fulfillments of this 2,500-year-old prophecy. At the time, I did not allow for a third fulfillment in modern times. In fact, I criticized the idea of verse 27 possibly applying to an Antichrist figure.

I can now admit that I was wrong.

That said, the two fulfillments which I did reveal I do still believe to be quite correct and accurate. However, there is more to the story.

Ancient Jews anticipated three fulfillments for key prophecies. And Daniel 9 is the granddaddy of all end times prophecies. So, I probably should have expected to find three fulfillments.

In June of 2024, around seven months after I had published my first book, I was in the Denver airport at 5 am, getting ready for an early flight back to South Carolina. I was on my phone when I came across Dr. Christian Widener’s website, endtimesberean.com

Specifically, what had caught my interest was his discovery of a second decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem which was apparently issued in the 1500’s. I knew I had stumbled across something incredibly important, and so before my flight had even taken off I had purchased Dr. Widener’s latest book, Witnessing the End.

The information I found in this book on the second decree to rebuild Jerusalem was so compelling, and fit so perfectly with the overall timeline I had already triangulated and pieced together from multiple other prophecies, that I quickly revised my perspective on Daniel 9 to account for this new data.

Before we continue, here are the key verses from Daniel chapter 9.

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

— Daniel 9:24-27 (KJV)

The first fulfillment, flows from Artaxerxes’ first decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, which was issued in 457 BC. As you can see below, the 69 weeks lead us directly to AD 27 and the beginning of Christ’s ministry. Two years later, in AD 29, he was on the cross, though this was not the exact midpoint of the final week. (Ezekiel 4 and the siege of Jerusalem 3 days before Passover in AD 70 allow us to triangulate the year of the cross with a high degree of certainty. See Checkmate 2028 - Episode 3 for the details.) And another five years after that, in AD 34, the 70th week came to a close with the stoning of Stephen.

It is worth noting here that the Messiah being cut off and the Antichrist confirming his covenant must both happen within the two distinct 70th weeks. However, the idea of these events needing to fall at the exact mid point, 3.5 years in, I don’t believe to be supported by the text. The cross did not occur at the exact midpoint for the first fulfillment, as we’ve seen. In the Hebrew it says “in the half week”. The Greek (Septuagint) says the same. This doesn’t translate into English very well. But ancient Hebrew and Koine Greek were languages with lots of nuance. I believe this is why early English translators of Daniel 9:27 translated it “in the midst of the week.” (See the KJV and Brenton’s Septuagint for this reading.) So the Antichrist’s covenant - also known as the abomination which causes desolation - need only begin after the start of the week but before the end. Anytime during the week. However, if the seven years of burning weapons is to be fulfilled by this same event (and I believe it is), then it must occur during the first 365 days so that both the 7 and the 490 can be fulfilled during the same year. Do you see?

What I find interesting about this historical first fulfillment, is that it should provide us with a high degree of confidence in the additional second and third fulfillments. In other words, if God kept his Word regarding the first coming of his Son, shouldn’t we trust what he has declared regarding his Second Coming? Obviously, we must interpret Scripture correctly and we must use multiple prophecies to provide confirmation. But when we have done that, and when we have glimpsed the symmetry and beauty of God’s master timeline, we can be confident in the insights he has allowed us to glean from his Word. All that is required of us is simple faith in the promises of God.

The second fulfillment, flows from this same first decree of Artaxerxes in 457 BC, but it relies on the seven weeks distinguished from the other 62 and specifically linked to “Messiah the Prince,” which point from the decree all the way to Christ’s Second Coming. This means the decree must have occurred between the 70th and the 71st Jubilees from the creation. And what it creates, then, is a beautiful magnification of the Jubilee cycle. A magnification in which there are 49 regular Jubilee years, followed by a super 50th Jubilee which is also the 120th Jubilee and the ultimate entry into the eternal promised land.

I unpack both of these fulfillments in much more detail in Chapter 7 of God’s Final Week, available here.

So far so good. But what of this new third fulfillment?

We will get into all the details undergirding the view below, but I want to show you the timeline up front. What this third fulfillment entails is a second decree followed by a second 490 years. And those 490 years just so happen to perfectly lead up to the year 2028.

Now, from the outset, I want to be clear. All credit for discovering this critical second decree goes to Dr. Christian Widener. I did not discover the decree. I only discovered Widener.

This was truly a monumental discovery, and one which rightfully belongs to Dr. Widener’s name.

Now, when I discovered Widener’s work, you must remember that I had already written and published my first book about seven months beforehand. Which means that I had already found multiple other key pieces of evidence pointing to 2028 before I stumbled across this second decree. I had also directly named the date of December 14, 2020 in my book as being highly significant to the end times. What this means is that I was able to take this final data point and integrate it into an already robust and fleshed-out paradigm. I was not starting from scratch. I saw how the final 490 years must fit within the bigger picture.

However, Dr. Widener does not appear to have yet discovered some of the other data points confirming 2028. Therefore, he takes the Islamic year conversion to Gregorian at face value and finds that 2027 must be the ending point. He could be right. In fact, in my book written back in 2023 I wrote that 2027 was by far my second favorite year, after 2028. It must be one of these two year. However, on the probabilities, I don’t like 2027 nearly as much, given the other markers we have which seem to invalidate it. Now, this is a minor difference between Widener and myself and certainly I am not interested in quibbling over it. He is a humble and kind man who is laboring diligently for Christ’s kingdom in these last days, and I respect his opinion. At the same time, I am an ardent lover and seeker of the truth. Which means that even minor errors, in my view, must be graciously identified and their shortcomings must be explained. I will seek to do this.

This second decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem was issued by Sultan Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire. You will find no reference to this decree in our history books (by design, no doubt), though Suleiman himself is well documented. However, God saw fit to preserve the record of this crucial decree literally in stone for us in Jerusalem. And it was Dr. Widener who in these last days discovered the stones which bear witness to this old decree.

In his book, Widener explains that plaza and moat look like the best words to translate rechob and charuwts in Daniel 9:25. He then provides the evidence for Suleiman’s decree, linking it firmly both to a moat and to the Temple Plaza.

There is an actual moat within the Old City of Jerusalem, and it has a plaque proclaiming its restoration by Suleiman; however, there is no date on this specific plaque. Perhaps it was left off, or as the “ … ” suggests at the end of the inscription, the final portion was damaged and became illegible. Fortunately, that is not the only plaque I want to show you. Suleiman also extensively repaired the plaza of the temple, and he placed a fountain (sabil) and another plaque with an inscription to document its restoration. It not only confirms that the Temple Mount was an area restored by Suleiman, but it also gives us a date for his decree. It is called Sabil Bab el Atm, meaning fountain at the Gate of Darkness (see photo, top of next page[174]).

The translation of the plaque (photo above)[175] is: “He has ordered the construction of this blessed Sabil, our Master, the Sultan, the greatest Sultan and the honourable Hakan, who rules the necks of the nations, the Sultan of the lands of Rum, the Arabs and Persians (ajams), the Sultan Suleyman, son of Sultan Selim Khan, may Allah perpetuate his reign and sultanate, On the date of Hijra of the Prophet at the beginning of Shaban the blessed in the year 943. And blessings be upon Muhammad and upon his followers.”[176]

— Dr. Christian Widener (Witnessing the End: Daniel’s Seventy Sevens and the Final Decree Everyone Missed)

In footnote 176, Widener states the source of the plaque translation and then continues.

Tutuncu. Turkish Jerusalem, 74; In total, Suleiman had nearly three dozen inscriptions documenting his work in Jerusalem between 1536-1541. Within the walls of the city, the oldest is at the Sabil el Wad, which is near the Bab el Kattanin (Cotton Merchants Gate) of the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount). It is dated December 14th, 1536. The next oldest one is at another fountain (sabil) in the city called, Sabil Bab el Silsile, dated January 4, 1537. These dates are all very close.

It is worth noting here that Widener discards the older date from December 1536, which logically should have been the date the decree was first issued (or at least within a few weeks of it), and instead accepts the second date which occurred over a month later, precisely because it allows him to link that second date with the year 2020. He realizes the important of 2020. He just thinks it’s the COVID narrative from early 2020 which is at play. He doesn’t grasp what actually occurred in December 2020. This illogical choice of the second date is a weakness in Widener’s view. We must find a way to make the oldest inscription fit within our paradigm.

Now, before I had even gotten the book in hand and read through all the details, I had seen the year of the decree from Widener’s website. And on my plane flight that morning, I was furiously writing down dates on an index card, trying to see how this might fit with everything else. I saw at once that it was almost perfect. The problem was, this decree was off by one year.

Once I got the book and found the December 14, 1536 date, I realized that it was off by exactly one year. To the very day. What are the odds? There was no way this could be a coincidence.

I did more research.

Sabil el Wad in Jerusalem. Photo by Juandev. (Creative Commons License)

The inscriptions, as you may have noticed above do not reference Gregorian years. Instead, they refer to Islamic years, or Hijri years, which are based on the Islamic lunar calendar. The counting for this system began in AD 622 when Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina. Because the system is lunar based, the starting time of the year is not tethered to the seasons, as our Gregorian calendar is. In other words, it rotates over time, since the year is only 354 days in length. In Hijri year 943, for example, the year would have begun in July.

Now, there are few possible sources of error when our mainstream history went about correlating Hijri years to Gregorian years. But I think the one most likely to have been responsible for this one-year delta is the starting year. They may have gotten the starting year wrong. What if in all actuality it was AD 623? Then everything would be off by one year.

This is what I believe most likely happened. After all, AD 623 was over 1,400 years ago. We do not necessarily have 100% precision on dates that old. Frankly, being one year off is well within reasonable expectations for the starting point of the Islamic calendar.

However, it is also possible that AD 622 was indeed the correct starting year, but that the number and frequency of leap years practiced during the first 943 years of the calendar’s usage (in which there would have been 355 days instead of 354) were significantly miscalculated by modern historians. This could also result in being roughly one full year off.

Now, the reason I know it cannot be December 14, 1536 is that I know something else of historical importance which just so happens to have occurred on December 14, 2020. The return of the days of Noah. And that event cannot feasibly be 484 years and 1 day from the decree. It must necessarily be 483 years and 1 day away in order for the other prophecies to fit. In other words, it must be 1 day into the seventieth week.

In short, I believe the correct starting point for the decree, based on the evidence we have, is December 14, 1537. Now, could the decree actually have been given two or three weeks before that day, and the oldest inscription was simply crafted a bit later, after the workers had had enough time to construct the fountain? That is entirely plausible and I would say even likely. But it doesn’t really change anything. If the decree was given November 26th (a random date), everything else would still fit perfectly. Either way, the abomination takes place early in the seventieth week, leaving seven full years for burning weapons (Ezekiel 39:8-9).

One of the things I love about Widener is that he recognizes the central importance of the abomination of desolation. This is the well-known Old Testament prophecy of Daniel (Daniel 9:27) which Christ repeats and reframes in his Olivet discourse. Today, most people interested in the end times take a dispensational view of things. And, almost invariably, these people - like obedient children - focus only on what they are told by their paradigm to focus on. And that is decidedly the mark of the beast. But Widener knows this is all just a ruse. A ploy by the Devil to distract believers from the real deep truths by proffering a counterfeit which claims to be from the Word itself. And yet what most think of as the physical mark of the beast is nothing like the spiritual and symbolic reality described in the book of Revelation.

This is an end times litmus test, if ever I have found one. It is invaluable to ascertain whether the person you are learning from is focused on the mark or on the abomination. If it’s the mark, they may have some valuable truths still to share, but they are not a deep thinker. If it’s the abomination, then they are at least thinking clearly and are familiar with the Word. They may not have everything sorted yet, but they are at least on the right track.

The mark of the beast is a psyop. You should be focusing on the final fulfillment of Matthew 24:15 (the abomination).

Now, because the abomination took place almost immediately at the start of the seventieth week, there are seven years between the abomination and the start of the 490th year. The 490th year must begin in order for the prophecy to be fulfilled. But it also must not end prior to the return of Christ. Do you see? The 490th year must begin. But the 491st must not.

This simple logic, then, gives us a one-year time window for the return of Christ. He must return after 12/14/2027, yet before 12/14/2028.

If, however, I am wrong about moving year 943 to December of 1537, then the 490th year could begin in December of 2026 and run through December 2027. This would fit with Widener’s view. However, I don’t think that this structure fits as well with the year of the cross and the other data points we have, but I must acknowledge that it is a possibility.

Either way, we are looking at 2027 or 2028 for the return of Christ based on this second decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.

Incidentally, I believe this third fulfillment from 1537 to 2028 (or possibly 1536 to 2027) is why verse 27 of Daniel 9 was written purposely vague. It was written in such a way as to allow for multiple fulfillments. In other word, the pronoun “he” is purposely not applied to a specific character from verse 26. It can therefore apply to both Messiah (in the first 490-year fulfillment) and to the Prince that is to come/Antichrist (in the final 490-year fulfillment). When looked at in this light, has our God not beautifully crafted this complex prophecy?

Will we trust him and believe what he has revealed regarding the soon return of his Son? Will we trust him to perfectly complete this third and final fulfillment of Daniel 9 by sending Christ back to earth at the appointed time? Whether we choose to believe or not, the King is coming.

Maranatha.

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Intro music by Patrick Lenk.

Dies Irae

Dr. Michael Heiser source:

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0:00 Intro

3:20 The Birth of Christ

6:58 The Ministry of Christ

12:50 The Year of the Cross

23:28 Prophetic Time Windows

27:44 Closing Thoughts

NOTES

1. Isaac Newton, Untitled Treatise on Revelation, https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00135

2. Timothy Alberino, Birthright: The Coming Posthuman Apocalypse and the Usurpation of Adam’s Dominion on Planet Earth, (2020), 177-178.

3. Taylor R. Marshall, Antichrist and Apocalypse: The 21 Prophecies of Revelation Unveiled and Described, (2022), 20-21.

4. 4Q386, as quoted in: Michael S. Heiser, Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers & the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ, (2017), 154.

5. Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible, (2015), 97-98.

6. The Book of Enoch, translated by R.H. Charles, (1896).

7. Heiser, opening citation, 102.

8. Alberino, opening citation, 125-126.

9. Derek P. Gilbert, The Second Coming of Saturn: The Great Conjunction, America’s Temple, and the Return of the Watchers, (2021), 18-19.

10. Justin Martyr, The Second Apology, Chapter V, https://catholiclibrary.org/library/view?docId=Synchronized-EN/anf.000029.JustinMartyr.TheSecondApology.html;chunk.id=00000013

11. Alberino, opening citation, 126.

12. Alberino, opening citation, 188.

13. Ryan Pitterson, Judgment of the Nephilim, (2017), 245-249.

14. Michael S. Heiser, Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers & the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ, (2017), 95.

15. Michael S. Heiser, Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers & the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ, (2017), 99.

16. Gilbert, opening citation, 197.

17. Timothy Worrell II, God’s Final Week, (2023), 3-4.

18. Michael S. Heiser, Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers & the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ, (2017), 144.

19. Brandon Petersen, Sealed By the King: Intricate Patterns and Details Pointing to God’s Inspiration over the 1611 Holy Bible in English, (2022), 353-464.

20. The Apology of Tertullian, Translated and Annotated by WM. Reeve, (https:www.tertullian.org/articles/reeve_apology.htm), Chapter 50.

21. Helena P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, (1877), Chapter 9.

22. Michael D. Fortner, The Sibylline Oracles: Revised and Updated (originally authored by Sir John Floyer), (2011).

23. Thomas Horn, Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in the Year 2012 that will Reach its Apex in 2016?, (2013), 144.

24. Dave Hunt, A Woman Rides the Beast: The Roman Catholic Church and the Last Days, (1994), 84-85.

25. H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophy or Jesuitism? Lucifer Journal, Vol. II. (June 1888), 266-267.

26. Pierre Amboise, Discourse on the Life of M. Francis Bacon, Chancellor of England; Histoire Naturelle de Mre. Francois Bacon, (1631).

27. Peter Dawkins, Francis Bacon “born in the purple”, (2021).

28. Peter Dawkins, The Great Vision, The Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, Series 1, Volume 4, (1985), 188-189.

29. https://www.fbrt.org.uk/

30. Manly P. Hall, Was Francis Bacon William Shakespeare? New Light on an Old Controversy, The All-Seeing Eye, Volume 3, No. 2, (1926).

31. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, (1928).

32. Aleck Loker, Ancient Explorers of America: From the Ice Age to Columbus, (2009).

33. Barry Fell, America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World, Revised Edition (1989).

34. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Destiny of America, (1944), 33.

35. Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, (1923).

36. David Ovason, The Secret Architecture of Our Nation’s Capital, (1999).

37. Ovason, opening citation, 348.

38. Gilbert, opening citation, 271.

39. Gilbert, opening citation, 281.

40. Alberino, opening citation, 189-190.

41. Virgil, The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles, (2006).

42. Virgil, Eclogue IV. The Internet Classics Archive, http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/eclogue.4.iv.html

43. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, (1871).

44. Alberino, opening citation, 182.

45. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, (1928), 179.

46. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, (1928), 518.

47. Horn, opening citation, 340.

48. Horn, opening citation, 331.

49. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, (1928), 476.

50. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Destiny of America, (1944), 127.

51. Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, translated by A. Hatto, (1980), 238.

52. Dante Alighieri, The Inferno, translated by John Ciardi, (2001), 259.

53. Horn, opening citation, 341.

54. Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, (1923), Prologue.

55. Worrell, opening citation, 95.

56. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, edited by James B. Pritchard, (1950).

57. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, (1908), 64-65.

58. Chuck Missler, The Scepter of Judah, https://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/187 (1999).

59. Brent Miller Jr., Before the Wrath, https://beforethewrath.com/ (2020).

CHAPTER 10

THE RETURN OF THE KING

When the wicked are confounded, Doomed to flames of woe unbounded, Call me with Thy saints surrounded.

— Dies Irae

The dragon has been deceiving mankind for nearly 6,000 years now. All along he has been promising much and offering wretchedly little in return. His final kingdom will be dazzling and glorious, no doubt. And then, as suddenly as it came, it will be gone.

For it must make way for the kingdom without end.

The sky will tremble as the King approaches. The last trump will sound. And all of human history, all our many golden achievements which once seemed to matter so very much, will be rolled up as a scroll, forever finished.

Where will you be found on that day, my friend? Among the many left weeping on the quaking ground? Or rising up with the few?

The mystery of lawlessness is already at work. And our own generation of vipers will melt like wax in the coming fires. But those who have spurned the world and its empty promises will shine like the stars forever.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

— II Thessalonians 2:3-4 (ESV)

We now know that when Apollo sits in the Temple of God, he also happens to create the Temple of Lucifer at one and the same time. This is the Temple long planned for and carefully erected by the mystic dragon priests. Nonetheless, the Devil will only inhabit his final earthly Temple for a few short years.

The final rebellion – the Greek word is apostasia – Paul refers to here is an oft-debated topic. I believe the confusion is largely understandable because this sort of general statement does not lend itself to precise identification of the eventual fulfillment. Still, this fact does not mean that we cannot see correlations in our own recent times which are likely to all be a part of this broader rebellion.

From the late nineteenth century onward, mysticism and occultism have become much more mainstream and popular than they were in prior ages. This is a form of rebellion. The New Age movement of the early twentieth century was an outgrowth of this larger current. Oftentimes, these movements have used clever wording to disguise the fact that they are all at bottom part of the same pagan religion. Spirituality and theosophy and enlightenment are all just more palatable ways to present the worship of the god of this world and of the self.

The dragon is most cunning. He does not feed his adherents on out and out lies. Instead, he offers them a counterfeit kingdom with elements of truth, which taps into their inner yearning for meaning and understanding and for a future beyond the limits of this world. The problem is that the Devil, just like sin itself, always promises more than he can deliver.

In more recent times, the hippie movement of the 1960s is another obvious example of rebellion. But the true impact goes far beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Indeed, the modern Church owes much of its disfunction to the broad-reaching social changes spawned by the era of free love. Not surprisingly, this age of apostacy is when abortion became popular once again, as age-old child sacrifice rituals were brought back one last time in preparation for the return of old Saturn’s reign.

Traditional Christian values, which had served as the bedrock of the working class for generations, were suddenly abandoned in favor of more open-minded views. And the moral decay has only continued in the decades since.

The Emergent Church, Faith Healers, the Purpose Driven movement, the Word of Faith movement, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), and the prosperity gospel are all just different manifestations of the same underlying sickness. They are forms of godliness which deny the very power thereof. They are warmed-over paganism, repackaged for modern American consumers and exported to the world. And the dragon is using them all as part of his larger strategy to ensnare the last generation of souls in his counterfeit kingdom.

I find it exceptionally curious that a number of prominent Emergent Church leaders, including Steven Furtick and Carl Lentz, posed at a “revival” in or right around the year 2016 with their arms crossed out in front of them. From antiquity, this has been known as the Osiris risen pose, and it may be observed in Egyptian sculptures created several millennia ago. What auspicious and precise timing, that this should have been done at that particular moment in time. But, in my view, these are exactly the sort of possessed men (I do not use the term kindly) I would expect to see doing such a thing.

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

— II Corinthians 11:14-15 (ESV)

Now, these movements within the modern Church all have varying beliefs and sometimes there are different viewpoints within a movement itself. But, generally speaking, they all demean Christ and present a false gospel. They are more of the antichrist spirit than of the Spirit of Christ (I John 4:1-3). They have embraced New Age ideals and sought to graft them into their theology. Is it any wonder, then, that we are called the lukewarm Church?

The good news of the gospel is not about health, wealth, and happiness here on earth. Far from it, we were told we would have tribulation here. The good news of the gospel is that Jesus Christ paid our debt and took the nails for us so that we might go free and that we might become citizens in his eternal kingdom which has no end. The good news is that this world is just the title page. The real story is all ahead of us.

You see, all the false religions, the cults, and the false versions of Christianity are at heart the same. Sensing that we were made for more, they all seek to raise man up by his own strength. They offer the same old lie from the Garden; ye shall be gods. Apotheosis by self-determined effort.

Another of the Devil’s principal lies for the masses today is that Christianity is just like all the rest of the world’s religions. It is simply one more. This deception can be sussed out with simple curiosity and a bit of intellectual integrity. The cold hard facts reveal that at its core true biblical Christianity is the exact opposite of all the rest. Where they inevitably zig, Yeshua zags. Only Christianity places man down low enough, to the depths of his rightful place as a sinner before a holy God. And yet only the gospel does not leave him where he has fallen but offers to lift him up to the loftiest heights of his immortal future by something other than his own doing. Only the gospel avoids the ubiquitous performance trap, where mankind must earn his own salvation through moral effort.

Remember, there are many ways to Satan, but only one way to God. Catholicism, Mormonism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and countless other world religions all encourage their adherents to rely upon their own good works and merit. These teachings are antichrist. Do you see how they are all part of the dragon’s grand unified deception of mankind? Ye shall be gods.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

— II Timothy 3:1-5

For all its many distortions over the last two millennia by the agents of evil, the gospel is ultimately a very simple message, as I declared in my first book.

God created man as his image bearers and gave us dominion over the realm of this earth. We were created to be friends and intimate allies of the living God, part of the divine council. However, being deceived by another being made in the image of the one true God – a fallen angel known as Satan, the dragon, the deceiver – our original forebears rebelled against God, bringing a curse upon themselves and upon earth’s whole created order.

Knowing the risk, God had created man with many gifts reflecting his own divine nature, including the gift of free will. This meant mankind had the choice to obey him or not, to love him or to rebel. Indeed, all our lives we have had this fundamental choice before us.

Nevertheless, God had not failed to foresee mankind’s fall. Instead, he had purposed from before the beginning to bring about redemption in his own good time and according to his own plan. He wanted us to be a part of his family for all time. And he was willing to pay the price.

The Father and the Son traveled the path of sacrifice together, just as Abraham and Isaac once had. They kept their own confidence, leaving the forces of darkness off balance, until the victory had been won.

In his first coming, Jesus Christ fulfilled hundreds of prophecies written down many hundreds of years before his arrival. He did this not only through the manner of his life and death, but also through the precise timing of these events, proving that he is the Son of God.

Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, is the life-giving center of all human history. God loved us so much that he sent Jesus, his only begotten Son, into the world as a human man. However, when the forces of darkness saw God incarnate in the flesh, they said to themselves, “This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance” (Matthew 21:38). Yet this, too, was all part of the divine plan. For no redemption could be bought for us without the shedding of blood.

Yeshua sacrificed himself for us on the tree, that whosoever would believe on him might have eternal life.

He was raised to life the third day, yet this was only a partial vindication. Our blessed hope is his promised return at the end of the age to reign as King and to restore all things. Heaven will come down to earth and God will dwell with us, his chosen people who have chosen to love him. We will become the sons and daughters of God, like the angels yet still distinctly human, living forever in his presence in a new worldwide Eden.

All this because of God’s great love for us. And all you must do to receive the gift of life is to believe from the heart in Yeshua.

In the end, the Bible is a love story, written in blood on a rugged wooden cross almost two thousand years ago.

— God’s Final Week

The gospel is simplicity at its most profound. And yet, so many manage to narrowly miss the beautiful truth in the end. So many Christians today are weak as water because they have traded the power of the gospel for the allure of an attractive counterfeit. They have bought the lie that they can keep their heart in the world and still attain treasure in heaven. They’ve bought the lie that everything they need is within them.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

— II Corinthians 11:3

In these last days, the spiritual warfare grows hot. The very air is rife with deception and false hope. Men are growing desperate and soon they will gladly bow before Antichrist, if only to taste of the brief splendor of his kingdom. But the counterfeit will never satisfy, it will only rot in their mouth.

The true capstone is not Apollo. It is Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is the cornerstone.

If we are to avoid being lost in this last age of apostacy we must cling to the Word and to the narrow way of Yeshua.

It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s own. … To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have been obvious and tame. But to have avoided them all has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reeling but erect.

— G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy)[57]

The narrow way to the celestial city is never crowded, least of all in these final hours of history. It is far easier to follow the masses on one of the many different gilded paths leading to the pit.

Fortunately, Yahweh has been merciful upon our children in this venomous (Deuteronomy 32:24, ESV) age. In God’s Final Week, I explored the typology surrounding the wilderness wandering and the people of Israel’s entry into the Promised Land under the leadership of Joshua and, importantly, after Moses’ 120th year. But I believe there is yet more typology to be glimpsed in this story.

But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

— Deuteronomy 1:38 & 39

Here God is specifically contrasting the rebellious Israelites who did not inherit the land with their children who did. Yahweh refers to the children – those who inherited the land – as being without knowledge of good and evil. There are many Christians who take passages such as these to be indicators of an age of accountability, beneath which young children are held as innocent before God. I myself am partial to this view.

It certainly appears that King David shared this view, or a similar one, based on his words after the passing of his infant son (2 Samuel 12:18-23).

I realize that this perspective is at odds with certain systems of thought pertaining to the doctrine of salvation (soteriology). Yet, any soteriological view which requires for its own internal coherence that our God damn dying infants to hell I find to be truly abominable. Such doctrines are built at best upon shaky biblical footings, reliant upon the twisting of some Scriptures and the marginalization of others rather than a careful harmonization of the whole.

For my part, I am thankful that such matters will soon be put to rest when the last day arrives, and our God displays the full riches of his love and his goodness to all men. The only human beings sent to hell when the end comes will go there because of their own free choices. They will go there because they chose not to love God, not because God chose not to love them.

Remember, though, true love always set boundaries. This is precisely the sort of love which will be on full display on the last day, as God showers his love upon his people and destroys their enemies from around them. Scripture makes these truths abundantly plain, yet the traditions of men hold feeble minds fast.

Now, if children who die beneath the age of accountability are necessarily saved, then what of the last generation of children? Will they not share in this bounty of mercy? I believe they will.

You might think we have no clue when this age is attained. And yes, I grant that it may vary somewhat by child and for some (such as the mentally handicapped) it may never arrive even in old age. But for the average child, is it 7 years old? Or is it 18? There could be arguments made either way.

Fortunately, Scripture does not leave us without additional information.

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

— Isaiah 7:14-16

Did you catch that? This is a prophecy speaking of timing related to Yeshua’s life. We are told that before he comes of age to know good from evil (similar language to Deuteronomy Chapter 1) both Israel and Judah will lose their kingships.

Now, Israel lost its final king many years before the Messiah came to earth (somewhere around 700 BC) when Hoshea was captured by the Assyrians. However, Judah’s case is quite a bit different because they retained their right to enforce the Mosaic Law through the Babylonian captivity. So, even though Jeconiah – who was taken in the Babylonian captivity – was the last king to sit on David’s throne, there is a good argument to be made that the scepter or ruling authority did not depart until a much later date. This is important because this, too, was prophesied.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.

— Genesis 49:10 (NIV)

Do you see how the combination of these two prophecies places the coming of the Messiah into a quite narrow window? He will be born before the scepter departs, yet before he comes of age Judah will lose the scepter.

The term “scepter” refers to their tribal identity and the right to apply and enforce Mosaic Laws and adjudicate capital offenses: jus gladii. It is significant that even during their 70-year Babylonian captivity (606-537 B.C.) the tribes retained their tribal identity. They retained their own logistics, judges, etc.

— Chuck Missler (The Scepter of Judah)[58]

This understanding allows us to make sense of the Genesis 49 prophecy. When King Herod – the man who killed the babies in the vicinity of Bethlehem in a failed attempt to stamp out the Messiah – died, his second son, Herod Archelaus, succeeded him. We know from Josephus that Archelaus was removed from power in his tenth year of reign, and Judaea then became a Roman province with a Roman procurator. As part of this change in power, the Sanhedrin lost their authority to adjudicate capital cases. This was the departing of the scepter.

Now most historians place this deposing of Archelaus at AD 6-7, or so. However, this is based upon a 4 BC death for Herod the Great. As I explained in my first book, a 1 BC death for Herod is far more likely. Additionally, we have strong evidence for placing the birth of Christ some 18 months earlier, in the fall of 3 BC. This means that Herod Archelaus was likely deposed in or around the year AD 10. And Yeshua would have been either 11 or 12 at the time.

Going back to Isaiah 7:16, we see that this implies that Yeshua had not yet come of age to discern good and evil in AD 10. Conservatively then, this may potentially mean that children born in the fall of 2017 or later will not reach the age of accountability prior to the Messiah’s return.

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

— Matthew 19:14

In our day, these words can be seen to take on a whole new prophetic meaning. This brings to mind again the prophetic words of Yeshua on the ending of Satan’s kingdom.

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.

— Mark 3:24-26

We now know and understand that Satan has risen up against himself throughout history. We are only here to see the final iteration of the pattern. The dragon abandoned paganism a few centuries after Christ, shifting to corrupt the Roman Catholic Church and her pontiff. Next, he hung this same pontiff out to dry over a millennium later in the aftermath of the American and French Revolutions.

The Great Awakening we are living through is just the latest and the last example of these staged shifts. It is a massive worldwide initiation ritual. We are all being initiated into Apollo’s kingdom, and he will reign over a new breed of men.

After the financial collapse and restructuring will come the New Golden Age. Peace and safety. For a time.

Seeing through the appearances of these things as we do, what is our duty to those around us? Must we force the hard truth upon them? Or do we leave them to their fleeting pleasures?

The biblical answer is straightforward.

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.

— Ezekiel 33:1-6 (ESV)

I believe that God has placed us here at the end as watchmen, and it is our duty to blow the trumpet in warning of the coming judgment. We should be ready and willing to declare our belief in the soon return of Jesus Christ, and to provide the scriptural evidence supporting our expectation. Most unbelievers will not heed our warning, but at least we will not bear responsibility for them when the Master comes to take account.

Amongst our fellow believers the stakes are perhaps not so high. We still expect to dwell together in the kingdom regardless of their final level of watchfulness. Nevertheless, we naturally want the best for them, and having experienced the blessing of knowing the season we will tend to want to freely share it with those few willing to receive it.

However, I do not believe this means we need declare the deep end times truths carelessly to others. Speaking of Christ’s soon return is one thing, but some of the signs of our own times are quite another. While we ourselves may have put in the mental effort and the hours of research necessary to decipher the final abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15) and to perceive the final Antichrist, most are not in a position to grasp these hard truths. They will be a stumbling block for most, and this means we must tread carefully.

Still, by helping our brothers and sisters in Christ to comprehend the lateness of the hour, we will encourage them to be even stronger witnesses to our generation. When they discover that Yeshua is coming back in short order, true believers will naturally burn their light even brighter for whatever time is left to them. And so, we must find the courage to speak the truths which many find uncomfortable.

In the end, do the opinions of others really matter all that much to our eternal destiny. Would it not be better to risk the ridicule of the foolish plebeians and to seize our own future place in the kingdom? After all, on Judgment Day it is only God’s vote that counts.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. ‘He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,’ is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

— G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy)

Spiritual warfare requires this same sort of courage. It is all too easy to succumb to one of the many excuses urging us towards silence and inaction. Yet, we cannot by clinging manage to hold onto anything in this life. And so, odd as it is, we upon whom the ends of the world have come must seek our lives in a spirit of furious indifference to them.

We must spurn the many different versions of the dragon’s counterfeit salvation constantly proffered to us. They are all false light, only taking advantage of the truth in order to deceive. We know deep down that we are meant for more than this. Yet there is only one true way back to Eden. It is as simple as mustering the courage to lose our own life, that we might gain it once and for all.

Yeshua HaMashiach came once to save the world. He will return to judge it.

In his time on earth, Jesus frequently used the cultural practices and background of the Jews he witnessed to as a means of communicating deep and profound truths about God. His first recorded miracle, interestingly, was the turning of water to wine at a wedding in Cana of Galilea. This small region of Israel was not only where Jesus grew up and began his ministry, it is where he recruited his first disciples. In fact, all of the twelve apostles were Galileans, with the lone exception of Judas Iscariot.

It is fascinating, then, to note that the Galileans had a special wedding tradition which was unique from the customs of all the other Jews around them. And as others have noted, it happens to be a perfect picture of our soon-coming reunion with Christ.[59]

Some of the details are already familiar to us because they are found in places of prominence within the Gospels. Though they are not explicitly linked to the Galilean wedding customs as such in the text, to his disciples the cultural idioms would have been all too clear. They knew that a wedding was being used to symbolize a deeper union.

The ancient Galilean wedding began about a year before the actual event with a betrothal ceremony. The couple and their families would meet at the city gate and a written marriage covenant would be read aloud in the presence of witnesses. Afterward, gifts would be exchanged. Next, the groom would offer a cup of wine – known as the Cup of Joy – to his would-be bride. In contrast to other Middle Eastern wedding customs of the time, in the Galilean wedding the woman had the ultimate say. She was given the choice to either accept or reject her groom. If she accepted him, then she would drink of the wine to signify her choice.

After she had drunk, the groom would seal the betrothal with these words: “You are now consecrated to me by the laws of Moses, and I will not drink from this cup again until I drink it with you in my father’s house.” This sounds almost exactly like Yeshua’s words from Matthew 26:29 because at the Last Supper he was using a wedding union, and the traditional Cup of Joy, as an allegory for the New Covenant in his own blood.

But the betrothal ceremony was just the beginning. Having sealed the betrothal, the groom would leave his bride and go to his father’s house. Over the coming months, he would add a wedding chamber onto the father’s house, preparing a special place for the woman he loved.

Jesus, too, as the perfect groom, has been preparing a place for us (John 14:1-3).

After around a year, on average, the wedding chamber would be ready. Yet the Galilean wedding was unique from other Middle Eastern weddings in that the date was not set in advance. It was a surprise wedding. As the promised day approached, there would be signs of the general timeframe. The father of the groom would need to make ready for a feast, and so these preparations could hardly go unnoticed in the town. Those with a watchful eye would understand that the wedding was soon approaching. However, no one would know the precise day or hour when it would begin.

Traditionally, the groom would come for his bride with the blast of a shofar (trumpet) and in the middle of the night. The bride was to be always ready for the sudden appearance of her beloved.

This was a celebratory moment when the two lovers were finally united again after so long apart. The bride was lifted into the air on a raised chair, borne aloft to the bridal chamber to consummate the marriage.

How amazing it is to discover that God ordered the details of this Galilean custom, prior to the arrival of his Son, so as to precisely correlate to the relationship between Christ and his Church.

Yeshua is waiting to drink wine again with us in his Father’s house. He is coming for us. The wedding feast is being prepared even now; we can discern the signs.

The term is nearly over. The holidays await. Where the expectations of all those who have ever sought after God with all their hearts will be richly fulfilled.

Mystery Babylon is passing away. Her end has been foretold, and it will arrive at the appointed time.

The liar messiah and his kingdom will melt away like the morning frost, but our Messiah will rule for all time. Everything that seems to have been long since lost to us will be restored one hundred-fold. All things will be made new. And of the increase of Yeshua’s peace there will be no end.

Our King is coming.

CHAPTER 9

THE NEW GOLDEN AGE

The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,

Her ashes new create another heir

As great in admiration as herself;

— William Shakespeare (Henry VIII)

When the angels of old mated with human women, birthing the Titans, they twisted God’s creation into their own design. Their genetic tinkering did not go unnoticed, nor unpunished. Ultimately, God sent the flood judgment to wash their many impurities from the face of the earth.

Today, these ancient abominations are mirrored once again in our own time. This should give us every confidence that we are indeed living in the days of Noah, as spoken of by Jesus. The days he promised would lead up to his Second Coming. The days of tribulation which will prove to be only the brief birth pains leading to the bringing forth of Messiah’s eternal kingdom.

As believers, we know and believe that the true Golden Age which will never end is nearly here. And yet, the deluded dragon priests fervently believe that their own sooner-arriving New Golden Age is meant to last forever. They will be sorely disappointed to learn the truth of the matter.

In a real sense, this New Golden Age has been underway for some time now. History is progressive. Things build little by little, they seldom come all in one instant. You could say the Golden Age began, in a sense, with the formation of the United States of America. Or perhaps you could argue that it began shortly after World War II, when we embarked upon an unprecedented era of worldwide peace enabled by the mutual deterrence doctrines of the nuclear age. There is truth to these claims because we are in a progressively building Golden Age of sorts. The modern technological marvels of our day hark back to the days of lost Atlantis, with wonders not seen since the breaking of the world. But were such things ever meant to last in this fallen land?

Nonetheless, despite the gradual nature of the Golden Age’s fulfillment, I do believe there is yet one final quantum leap forward in our near future, as we fully enter the New Age of Horus. All the signs of our times point to its soon arrival.

In the book of Isaiah, Yahweh declares that the pagan king Cyrus is his shepherd, chosen for a special purpose.

… who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”

— Isaiah 44:28

This seems a bit odd because Cyrus, as Isaiah 45:5 makes clear, was hardly a follower of the one true God. But nonetheless, he was an instrument used by God to accomplish his divine purposes. Through his leadership, the Second Temple was built, that grand edifice which many Jews even today long to rebuild one last time.

Yet, to the confusion of many, the biblical prophecies speaking of a final Temple are not destined to be physically fulfilled, but rather spiritually. The physical first, and then the spiritual. We as the Church are now the Temple of the living God (I Corinthians 3:9 & 16).

Like Cyrus his forerunner, the Antichrist has been influential in setting up a new Temple. He, too, is a ruler used by God for a specific purpose. But rather than being part of building a Temple for God’s use, he has stepped into God’s Temple and defiled it. What’s more, in the process, he has erected a whole new edifice intended for Lucifer, the god of this age, to inhabit.

In ancient Israel, the half-shekel piece was used for donations funding the building of the Temple.

Freemasons relate a familiar myth to their initiates of the third degree regarding Hiram Abiff of Tyre, whom they claim as the first Grand Master of their Order. Thomas Horn sums up the essence of the story in this way. Keep in mind that we have already concluded that the Great Architect of the Universe is code for Satan.

In Lost Keys, Hall narrates how the Great Architect gives Hiram (Osiris) the trestleboard for the construction of the great temple, and when he is killed by three ruffians, the Great Architect bathes him in “a glory celestial,” as in the glory surrounding the all-seeing eye of Osiris above the pyramid on the Great Seal. The Great Architect follows this by charging those who would finish the building with the task of finding the body of Hiram (Osiris) and raising him from the dead. When this has been accomplished, the great work will conclude and the god will inhabit the (third) temple …

— Thomas Horn (Zenith 2016)[53]

Do you see the meaning encoded in the tale? Osiris (Shemihazah) was busy building a great Temple for Satan’s use when he was hurled down to the Abyss by Yahweh (the Trinity, described from Satan’s perspective as the three ruffians). And the Devil, playing at his own counterfeit prophecy, declares that Horus will be the one to at last finish the Temple his father started long ago.

Cyrus was the Lord’s shepherd once. Yet in the book of Zechariah, Yahweh appears to refer to the future Temple builder (Horus) by a similar epithet.

Then the Lord said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs. “Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”

— Zechariah 11:15-17

Notice how the right eye of the worthless shepherd is the one struck and blinded. He retains only his left eye. In Egyptian hieroglyphics, Osiris was depicted by a throne and a left eye. And on the back of the dollar bill, the radiant eye above the pyramid is specifically a left eye, as is the eye of the phoenix bird across from it.

The worthless shepherd of Zechariah is the liar Messiah who deceives the flock. He is the Antichrist.

The readying of the New Atlantis and the bringing forth of the Antichrist, has always been the great unfinished work which Satan’s loyal adherents have been striving for down through the ages. It has all been for the final Temple, and we upon whom the ends of the world have come get to witness the chilling climax.

Seek ye where the broken twig lies and the dead stick molds away, where the clouds float together and the stones rest by the hillside, for all these mark the grave of Hiram who has carried my Will with him to the tomb. This eternal quest is yours until ye have found your Builder, until the cup giveth up its secret, until the grave giveth up its ghosts. No more shall I speak until ye have found and raised my beloved Son, and have listened to the words of my Messenger and with Him as your guide have finished the temple which I shall then inhabit. Amen.

— Manly P. Hall (The Lost Keys of Freemasonry)[54]

It should be obvious that Satan is obsessed with copying God. Perhaps part of the reason lies in the fact that telling humans partial truths – things that resonate with them on a deep level – is much more effective for deception than using outright lies. But whatever the case, the dragon has chosen to mimic God’s grand design, revealed in the New Testament, of dwelling within his people (the Church).

Satan has stewarded the necessary technologies back to mankind just in time for the raising of his abominable Temple. Having beat up the groom two thousand years ago, he must now settle for beating up the bride on the eve of her wedding.

In some hidden traditions the number 46 is associated with the idea “temple of …” for reasons which are difficult to fully trace. This is rather curious because in John 2:19-21, the number 46 is linked both to the Jews’ Second Temple, and to the physical body of Jesus Christ. Also, as I pointed out in God’s Final Week,[55] the scribal error number of 2,300 from Daniel 8 (a time period which begins with an abomination of desolation, or defilement of the Temple) also has a curious way of relating to the 46 years of John 2. You see, there are precisely 46 Jubilee years contained within 2,300 regular years.

It is interesting, then, to observe that the human body is equipped with 46 chromosomes. Our very genetics point to the fact that we have always been designed to be the temples of the living God. And perhaps this is what angers the Devil so, and in these final hours has driven him to the madness of tampering with human genetics in a doomed attempt to twist us into his own image.

I find it beyond fascinating to further discover that Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, once boasted of laying siege to 46 cities of Israel, when king Hezekiah of Judah did not submit to his yoke. Perhaps most famous of these cities was the city of Lachish, which may be why Sennacherib chose to have engravings carved inside his temple in Nineveh of the siegeworks used against that particular city. These events are spoken of in Isaiah 36:1-2, but the 46 cities are not delineated there. However, in an ancient cuneiform tablet unearthed in Nineveh, the number of 46 is expressly mentioned.[56]

This is curious because Sennacherib may well be envisioned as the prototypical “Assyrian.” In other words, he is a forerunner of the Antichrist. And just as Sennacherib assaulted 46 cities of God’s chosen people, so the Antichrist will attack their 46 chromosomes.

Remember, the entire occult fascination with numbers is all just borrowing from the glory and depth of God’s immaculate design. God has crafted all of the numbers in this entire realm – to include their various historical fulfillments – with the utmost care and attention, even the ones beneath our contempt.

And numbers, I suspect, will play an important role in the worldwide initiation ritual we are all about to experience, as Antichrist’s kingdom is fully brought forth in the next year or two. Specifically, I am speaking of the numbers associated with money.

Hopefully, you have noticed by now that our fiat monetary order is not long for this life. Paper money always returns at length to its intrinsic value. Which is zero. Nevertheless, the coming collapse – or financial reset, as some call it – has clearly been orchestrated by the true powers that be (though not necessarily their finger puppet front men). We could embark on a history lesson, beginning at least as far back as 2008 and the Great Recession, when the Eurodollar system was first put on life support. But ultimately the details of how the financial system has been rigged and then repeatedly propped up during our recent past do not matter all that much. What matters is that it is all about to come down. And right on schedule.

Mathematically speaking, the collapse of the old system has been inevitable for some time. But the timing will be controlled and therefore highly convenient. And the new monetary order will, I believe, go a long way towards producing the final age of prosperity which Satan intends to ensnare the hearts of many.

What you will be told to believe about the collapse and the restructuring which will follow, I cannot say for sure. We live in the era of massive narrative psyops. And most will not think too deeply about what logically lies behind it all.

No doubt, we will be told that the big bad forces behind the old monetary order have lost control. The new order will be like stepping into a whole new world of freedom and plenty. That is what it will seem like.

In case you haven’t already figured it out, all of the New World Order fearmongering and the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) posturing will fizzle out into nothing. Just as they were always intended to do. They were the telegraphed punch always meant to be dodged. We were destined for a final age of freedom and wealth and peace. This is the true New Order of the Ages towards which we have been steered. Courtesy of the Antichrist and the occultists.

This will be the false light of Lucifer on full display and it will deceive many. The Hegelian dialectic which began in earnest in the period after the French and American revolutions has reached its zenith in our own day. By pushing the masses of humanity back and forth from left to right, the powers that be have been able to seed their larger narratives and control the course of history.

The so-called Great Awakening of our own time is surely just this sort of narrative psyop being played from exactly the reverse side we would expect. We assume that the controlled Mockingbird Media begins and ends with CNN, CNBC, Fox News and their ilk. Yet, we can fail to realize just how easy it would be to control the alternative media complex. Grassroots movements are always the most powerful, and the Jesuits are well aware of this fact.

Make no mistake, the Great Awakening you hear being heralded by the legions of talking heads within the alternative media is meant to birth the New Golden Age. And this New Golden Age is the same exact destination which the New Age movement itself has been striving towards for over a century.

The disclosures of the Great Awakening are controlled. All the world’s a stage, my friend. And we are being played.

Remember, our perception of the Antichrist and his soon-coming kingdom is being carefully curated. We are being set up to embrace it with open arms and with a deep sigh of relief. Whew. We barely missed that righthand turn towards socialism and economic ruin.

Judas, the betrayer, and the only other person referred to as the Son of Perdition in the Scriptures, was in charge of the money. I suspect the second Son of Perdition will be much the same. And monetary upheaval will be the doorway through which the world will enter his final kingdom and the era of peace and safety.

The false light of Lucifer, which looks like a lamb and speaks like a dragon, will be dazzling. It will be aimed primarily at deceiving and putting quietly back to sleep the modern Church. The lukewarm Laodicean Church.

Remember, the whole point of the dialectic is that Satan is playing himself. He owns both sides of the chessboard. It is a two-headed snake. This means that the “good” guys in power are not truly taking the slings and arrows for us the common man, but rather they are simply another face of the many-faced god of this world. Remember, no one in power in these final days has gotten there without paying the toll. And the side we imagine is coming to our rescue is only in reality the final disguised manifestation of evil.

Accordingly, I believe the final Antichrist will be positioned in place of Christ rather than overtly opposed to Christ. It is a subtle distinction, but its success in evading the perceptions of modern-day Christians is a testament to the deceptive power of the false light of Lucifer.

I find it interesting that the United States dollar gets its name from the German taler, a name first given to silver coinage minted in the year 1519. The reverse of this coin had an image of a serpent hanging from a cross. The letters NU and the number 21 placed by the cross were a reference to the book of Numbers Chapter 21, in which Moses hung the brazen serpent upon a pole in the wilderness. Some historians believe that it is this same serpent-cross which is the inspiration for our dollar sign ($).

While the U.S. dollar seems destined for collapse, I do not expect its utter demise. Unlike the BRICS proponents (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), I do not foresee a complete eclipse of the dollar by a rival currency. Remember, this entire rug pull has been carefully planned. And I believe the United States has been positioned to come out on top once again in the restructured New World Order. We ruled Bretton Woods, and we will likewise rule Bretton Woods 2. Out of the chaos will come the order of a new system. Ordo ab chao. We will get a “good” Great Reset. Not the bad CBDC version they have trained us to fear.

The Jesuits have always been the masters of entertainment and of learning against learning. Through their quiet guidance of Hollywood and other mass media – not to mention the educational systems and history books – they have molded the modern American psyche in more ways than most will ever comprehend. And now their manipulation of the threads has reached its zenith, to the point where the guiding of world events has become just one big movie production to them. Grab your popcorn, folks. Enjoy the show.

It is worth noting that hollywood was a type of wood used in wizards’ and witches’ wands. Casting spells on people through entertainment has been a long-running tactic of the Jesuits, and the modern incarnation is not fundamentally different from the theatres in Europe and the Shakespearean dramas which they guided for hundreds of years. The goal has always been to ensnare and enslave people in the world.

In the year 1772, the famous Chinese military book The Art of War was translated into French by a Jesuit priest named Jean Joseph Marie Amiot. The timing is notable because it was in the years immediately following that the papacy would go underground, while the Jesuits and other secret societies would steward the newfound flame of freedom and enlightenment.

Parts of this classic work have been found in archaeological digs in China, so it was without question a real book. However, not all of the content for the volume we know today as The Art of War has been retrieved from these digs. In other words, the Jesuits likely added some material of their own, a clever tactic. Additionally, Amiot appears to have performed an exceptionally poor translation, allowing the very real potential for calculated twisting of meaning. Given the nature of the book and the historical timing of its “translation,” this makes a lot of good sense. The Jesuits likely used this book as a tool for spreading their doctrines of stealth warfare. All warfare is based on deception, after all.

Keep in mind also, that no Jesuit translates and publishes a book of any sort without the express consent of the Jesuit General, aka the Black Pope. Therefore, this effort was clearly sanctioned by the highest levels of the Order.

The book was attributed to Sun Tzu, meaning Master Sun. Yet I find it incredibly coincidental that this name could also easily be a reference to Apollo, not unlike the allusion to Athena found in the name Shakespeare.

Whatever the case may be, the divine manipulation of the threads is an art which the Jesuits have perfected over the years. They have orchestrated the final abomination and influenced the final Antichrist. Through these their covert warfare rages on more fiercely than ever today, though just beneath the perception of the masses.

You should be aware that there are multiple layers of exoteric meaning to most primary narratives being deployed today, each with varying levels of truth to them. The narrative spinners are fine with you exploring any of these layers, as long as you miss the esoteric significance slithering beneath the surface. There are vast endless piles of information out there to be explored, but the majority of it is focused only on one of the exoteric layers. When they attain a deeper level of exoteric understanding, following controlled disclosures, many “truthers” assume they have reached the bottom of the truth and stop asking questions and thinking critically. This prevents them from noticing that their newfound truth is but another layer of the cleverly spun lie. They are kept blind to the many anomalies which should encourage them to spurn the contrived “red pill” and to search further.

The Bible tells us over and over again to veer neither to the righthand nor to the left. We are to walk the narrow way. Yet the world is always tugging on us at every turn. Left and right, black and white, dark and light. Who wears a white hat? The Pope. And who wears a black hat? The Jesuit Superior General. White hats and black hats. They are but two sides of the same coin.

As Daniel told us long ago, the two kings sit at the same table (Daniel 11:27).

Curiously though, Pope Francis (Peter the Roman) happens to be the first Jesuit pope. The deeper unity of the two sides is visible for those with eyes to see.

The Antichrist does not come to us snarling as one clearly possessed by the Devil. Instead, he comes slithering his forked tongue into the enraptured ears of his adherents, telling them all about the splendor of his coming kingdom. The kingdom that promises much, and yet underwhelms in the end.

In connection with this final kingdom, I find it beyond intriguing to notice that Nebuchadnezzar spent seven years as part animal and part man. As ever, the scriptural typology has been provided to us all along.

And all the sons of men departed from the ways of the LORD in those days as they multiplied on the face of the earth with sons and daughters, and they taught one another their evil practices and they continued sinning against the LORD. And every man made a god for himself … and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order with [them] to provoke the LORD; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways on earth, all men and all animals.

— Jasher 4:16-18 (LSV)

While I estimate that the height of this final Golden Age lays before us (just in time for the 250th year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, perhaps), we are already without a doubt in the New Age of Aquarius long heralded by the movement bearing its name. It began on or around the Great Conjunction of December 21, 2020, when Saturn and Jupiter symbolically passed the baton in the heavens and old Saturn’s reign returned. And it will end with a flood of fire seven short years later, in the year 2028.