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Biblical Astronomy of the Mercury Transit on May 9th, 2016

Biblical Astronomy of the Mercury Transit on May 9th, 2016.

The following excerpt from our March Blog post on the Purim Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd, 2016; provides an important basis upon which to begin this post.

“The key heavenly signs in March of 2016 began with a Total Solar Eclipse on March 9th. This March 9th New Moon/Total Solar Eclipse, actually aligned March 9th-with Nisan 1, followed only 2 weeks later by a Nisan 14 Passover Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd!”1 These celestial alignments were based on the Barley harvest in Israel that was not only verified as ripe, but also in plentiful enough supply from multiple accredited sources not to add the extra 13th month of Adar 2 to the Hebrew Calendar in 2016/5776. This gives us a Lunar Eclipse Sextet from 2014-2016, falling on key Hebrew Feast days of Nisan 1, Passover, Rosh Hashana and the Feast of Tabernacles over a 3 year period. In this special year 5776 on the Hebrew Calendar, the 50-year Jubilee is being celebrated. With this in mind we should pay close attention to the 50 days that Israel counts between Passover and Pentecost. It is during this period just prior to Pentecost that the Transit of Mercury, takes place on May 9th 2016.

This Mercury Transit will be seen in the Solar sight line between Aries and the Pleiades of Taurus. The planet Mercury has the fastest orbit around the Sun of all planets in our Solar System-only 88 days. This translates into a Mercury alignment between the Earth and Sun on at least 3 occasions annually. However, Mercury’s orbit rarely leads to a direct alignment, taking place an average of twice every 10 years, and only during the months of November or May. Norton’s Star Atlas tells us concerning Mercury Transits; “the November variety is more common, repeating at intervals of 7, 13 and 46 years. May transits recur at intervals of 13 and 46 years. In the 21st century a Mercury Transit took place on May 7, 2003, followed by another Mercury Transit on Wednesday, Nov 8th, 2006.”2 Below is a NASA video of Mercury transiting across the face of the Sun. “This transit began at 2:12 pm EST (11:12 am PST) lasting for almost five hours. Good views of this transit were available all along the Pacific Rim:”3

What did it look like? A picture is worth a thousand words:

Image credit: Larry Koehn. Click to view the Sun’s full disk.

During the transit, Mercury’s tiny disk—jet black and perfectly round—glided slowly across the face of the Sun. Only a speck of the Sun’s surface is actually covered, so as with all Mercury Transits the Sun remains as dangerous as ever to look at. But with a proper filter and a little imagination, Transits of Mercury can be a marvelous experience. The next one after the upcoming May 9, 2016 transit; will be on November 11, 2019.”4 The length of the line traversed by the planet in its passage across the Sun’s disk determines the duration of a transit, which can last for up to 9 hours, as seen in the graphic below pertaining to this 2006 event 10 years ago.

If its orbit were exactly in the plane of the ecliptic, Mercury would transit the Sun once in each Synodic revolution. But since its orbit is inclined 7 degrees to the ecliptic, the planet usually passes above or below the Sun as seen from the Earth. A transit occurs only when Mercury is near one of its nodes at inferior conjunction. The ascending node relates to the position of the Earth on November 10, the descending node to the position on May 8. If inferior conjunction falls near one of these dates, Mercury will be seen as a tiny black spot, 10 – 12 arc–seconds wide, moving slowly across the face of the Sun.”5

There is an interesting correlation between the March 23rd/Nisan 14 Passover Penumbral Lunar Eclipse and the May 9th Mercury Transit between Aries and the Pleiades of Taurus, because in Biblical Astronomy, Aries
reflects the ultimate and perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Passover, one of the Christ’s 7 Ministry Titles that we noted in our previous April blog post. Aries’ Alpha star [Al Nath] the brightest of its 66 main stars, means the wounded or slain one. Although the 5th consecutive Lunar eclipse on a Hebrew Holy day from 2014-2016, on Nisan 14 is not a Blood Moon, it links to the day the priests of Israel selected the Passover Lamb. Thus we find another element of the OT Law fulfilled by Christ in this pivotal 1-time sacrifice for all mankind. As the Feast of Unleavened Bread follows Passover we can see Jesus Christ-as the Firstborn in heaven not only resulting from his resurrection, but also in his Gathering of the spiritual body of his Church of resurrected believers out of the Age of Grace, [Ps. 2:6-8, I Cor. 15:20-23].6 We also find this reference to this Pleiades symbolism below.

The renowned cluster of stars called the Pleiades. according to Bullinger means the congregation of the judge or ruler. In the Septuagint the translation of the Hebrew כִּימָה, Chima, meaning the heap or accumulation, as in [Job 9:9; 38:31, 32,] and Amos 5:8. It consists of a cluster of stars (in the neck of Taurus) appearing near together. The brightest of them, marked η in all the maps,59 has come down to us with an Arabic name—Al Cyone, which means the centre. The Syriac name for the Pleiades is Succoth, meaning booths.”7 This provides a very interesting relation to the Feast of Tabernacles that includes the Day of Atonement, where Christ the High Priest is Tabernacled as the ruler among the gathering of his congregation, as the only true mediator between God and man. During this time of the Blood Moon Tetrad we can see other related Mercury sky signs, for example in April 2015 which saw the Passover Blood Moon and Nova Sagittarii, we noted a conjunction of Mercury and Mars in Aries on the 22nd. In addition to this there was an alignment of Mercury with the Pleiades on June 20th in 2015. These 2015 Mercury signs provide an interesting context to the Mercury Transit of 2016, as the Arch-Angel Gabriel, heralds the sky signs leading to Christ’s return.

As these sky signs of 2016 including the Lunar Eclipse Sextet of 2014-2016 and the May 9th, Mercury Transit set the stage for a replay of the birth signs of Jesus Christ from Rev.12 in September of 2017, we can see other activities of Mercury during this period. We should keep in mind that the replay of these birth signs of Christ in 2017 including Jupiter the King Planet and Royal Sceptre being birthed in Virgo on 9/9/17, after spending a “gestation period” in retrograde motion in Virgo’s mid-section. This is interesting when we consider the retrograde motion of Mercury leading to this, because in Sept. 2015 during the culmination of the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015, we saw the [Sun clothing Virgo with the Moon at her feet] on Sept. 17th 2015, along with the Sept. 17th [Mercury-Spica union in Virgo]. This occurs 2 years prior to the Sept. 2017 replay of the birth signs of Christ which will be followed by the Sept. 30th, 2017, lowest point retrograde motion of Mercury in Virgo. On 10/29/15 Mercury was also birthed in Virgo after a gestation period of nearly six weeks. This shows many ways in which the Archangel Mercury-Gabriel is announcing the the victorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ as seen in Rev. 19 below.

Rev. 19:1-21

19 After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God: ²for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his ^[a]servants at her hand.

³And a second time they ^[b]say, Hallelujah. And her smoke goes up^[c]for ever and ever. ⁴And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God that sits on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah. ⁵And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all ye his ^[d]servants, ye that fear him, the small and the great.

This awesome audible Voice from Heaven announces the Lord Jesus Christ returning WITH his Saints to destroy the beast, false prophet and those who will follow them at the battle of Armageddon. This opens the Age of Christ with the destruction of the Anti-Christ and his kingdom.

¹¹And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon ^[g]called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. ¹²And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself. ¹³And he is arrayed in a garment ^[h]sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God. ¹⁴And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure. ¹⁵And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the ^[i]winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. ¹⁶And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

¹⁷And I saw ^[j]an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come and be gathered together unto the great supper of God; ¹⁸that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of ^[k]captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.

This Mercury Transit has been likened to verse 17 since the planet Mercury symbolizes the Messenger Archangel Gabriel. The transit of Mercury crossing the face of the Sun is seen as this angel Gabriel “standing in the Sun” heralding the victorious return of the Light of the World and King of Kings, even as he announced the coming Promised Seed of Mary leading to his birth, [Lk. 1:26-38, Matt. 1:20-25]. This alignment of sky signs including the Lunar Eclipse Sextet from 2014-2016 in the Jubilee Year of 5776 may signal a window for the Savior to return FOR his Saints that bookends the first appearance and return of the King of Kings at the right hand of God.

¹⁹And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse, and against his army. ²⁰And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that ^[l]worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone: ²¹and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, even the sword which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

As we keep a watch on the activities of Mercury-Gabriel this year, we will have plenty of celestial pointers to keep us aware of the Victorious Return of Christ.

Footnotes

1. Purim Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd, 2016 [Blog.try-god.org] March 2016 archive
2. Norton’s Star Atlas, Arthur P. Norton
3. science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/20oct_transitofmercury/
4. IBID
5. Norton’s Star Atlas, Arthur P. Norton
6. Seminar on the Lord Jesus Christ, Jon Nessle
7. Witness of the Stars, E.W. Bullinger
8. Passover Blood Moon and Nova Sagittarii [Blog.try-god.org] April 2015 archive
9. Revelation 19, KJV

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Christ’s 7 Ministry Titles and the Third Temple Prophecies

Christ’s 7 Ministry Titles and the Third Temple Prophecies

In our last blog post of March 2016, we noted the confusion in Israel concerning their calendar. Adherents to the traditional Rabbinical Calendar have added the 13th month of Adar 2, which celebrates Passover in April this month, while Biblical adherents of the Abib Barley found in Israel celebrated Passover last month on 3/23/16 coinciding with the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. We also noted the significance of this Lunar Eclipse following in line with the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015, and how adherence to the Biblical Calendar dictates related to Abib Barley, provide four more Solar and Lunar Eclipses on Hebrew Feast and Holy days in 2016 added to the already eye-popping Blood Moon Tetrad documented over the last 2 years in this Blog. The structure of the O.T. Hebrew Calendar contains 3 sacred feasts, all of which commemorate the celebration of a note-worthy harvest. The first harvest was celebrated in Nisan during the Feast of Unleavened Bread when the Hebrews brought a sheaf of barley for the wave offering of the first-fruits of the barley harvest. This was the first day that Israel began counting toward Pentecost. The second harvest celebration was the wheat harvest at the Feast of Harvest, Pentecost fifty days hence.

The third harvest celebration was designated as the Feast of Tabernacles in the middle of the seventh month. This final harvest, including the harvest of grapes, was at the end of the agricultural year, before winter. Not only did these three major feasts celebrate the three times of harvest, they also celebrated three great events in the history of Israel. The first, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, celebrated the Exodus of Israel from the bondage of Egypt. The second, Pentecost was traditionally believed by Hebrews to mark the time when God first revealed the Law to Israel at Mount Sinai. The third feast, the Feast of Tabernacles was a seven-day feast commemorating God’s watchful care over Israel as they wandered in the wilderness forty years.¹ [Levi. 23]

This period of Israel’s wandering in the wilderness showed not only God’s care for His chosen people during that time, but also God’s righteous judgment on Israel for their stiff-necked defiance. Each of these feasts also depicts a future event in Bible prophecy related to how these feasts are fulfilled in the ministry of Christ as Prophet, Priest and King. The feast of Unleavened Bread shows the resurrection of Christ as the first-fruits from the dead [I Cor. 15:20-23]. The wheat harvest of the Feast of Pentecost illustrates the giving of the gift of holy spirit on the Day of Pentecost, when the apostles first spoke in tongues. The Feast of Tabernacles shows the resurrection of the just and unjust, as the harvest at the end of he world.²

We also noted in our March 2016 Blog posts, how the Rabbinical Calendar still keyed the Purim Feast with the March 23rd Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, even though the other feast days of the Jubilee year of 5776/2016 do not align with these eclipses. Our summary on the comparison of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 2016 with those Solar and Lunar signs marking the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by the Romans in 70 AD, opened our eyes to the expectations of the coming Third Temple in Jerusalem prophesied by Daniel [9:27] and by the Apostle Paul [2 Thess. 2:3-4]. With the 2 previous Blood Moon Tetrads marking the reformation of the state of Israel in 1949-50 and the reclamation of Jerusalem by Israel in 1967-68, we can see God’s prophesied restoration of Israel which will yield the Third Temple in Jerusalem as the next logical step in this process. I have always been curious as to the means whereby Paul tells us the “man of lawlessness” will desecrate this Third Temple by declaring himself God. It helps to understand how this deception could occur if we view the import of the feasts of the Hebrew Calendar in light of the ministries of Jesus Christ, since the Anti-Christ will present a counterfeit of Christ who halts the Third Temple Sacrifices in the middle of the Tribulation period. [Dan. 9:27]

If we look at the period of Christ’s Ministry on Earth during his first Advent, we must first realize that the length of his ministry could not be three years because he had to fulfill every jot and tittle of the OT Law or else he could not have redeemed mankind, and we would still be un-saved. According to [Ex. 12:5] Jesus as the embodiment of the Passover Lamb [Jn. 1:29, 36] had to be “a lamb of the first year without spot or blemish,” so his ministry could not exceed 2 years at the maximum. The following chart from Jon Nessle’s Seminar on The Lord Jesus Christ, discloses the seven phases of Christ’s Ministry and their relation to the length of his ministry-just over a year. We have also added the correspondence of these seven phases of Christ’s ministry on earth to the Lord’s Feasts on the Hebrew Calendar.

The Seven Phases of Christ’s Ministry

Christ Titles Length Ministry Events-Dates
Jesus Christ-Righteous 40 days Baptism-Temptation

Jesus Christ-Evangelist 3 months Ministry Inception

Jesus Christ-Apostle 3 months Pentecost-Tishri 10

Jesus Christ-High Priest 6 months Tishri 10-Nisan 10

Jesus Christ our Passover 7 days Nisan 10-Resurrection

Jesus Christ-Firstborn 40 days Resurrection-Ascension

Jesus Christ-Ascended One 10 days Ascension-Pentecost

The events above illustrate the opening of the Christ Administration and capping off the OT Law with the Ministry of John the Baptist. In [Matt. 3:17] The Voice of God in an audible “mandate from heaven” identified Jesus as “His Beloved Son in whom He is well pleased.” This opened the ministry phase of Christ the Righteous at his baptism marking the next 40 days of his temptation. During the second phase of Christ’s ministry as the Evangelist, he calls the 12 Apostles and cleanses the Temple at Passover. John 4:1 tells us the “Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John” also applies to this second phase of his ministry.3 Christ the Apostle is seen in the Sivan 13th Sabbath when he proclaimed the “acceptable year of the Lord” [Isa. 61:1-2, Lk. 4:17-21]. Notice that this year is in the singular, meaning the entire length of his ministry not exceeding 2 years, is verified by Christ and Isaiah. Jesus Christ the High Priest is seen starting with Tishri 1 where he turns 30 years of age, becoming eligible for the Priesthood for the first time, prior to the Feast of Tabernacles. In this phase of his ministry Jesus began teaching his disciples about his coming sufferings and death, laying down his life as both the High Priest and the perfect Sacrifice. This phase was also marked by an audible mandate from heaven at the Mount of Transfiguration [Matt. 17:1-8]. Jesus Christ our Passover is seen in his 2 entries into Jerusalem, the 2nd of which marked the day that the Passover Lamb was selected by the priests of Israel, [Lk. 19:29-48]. The Apostle Paul also refers to these aspects of Christ’s ministry phases as the Passover [I Cor. 5:7], and as the first-born from the dead once Christ is Resurrected, [Col. 1:18]. With the Ascension of Christ leading to the Day of Pentecost, we witness the birthday of the Church of the body of Christ. This opens the Age of Grace in the book of Acts, with sounds from Heaven; [Acts 2:4] and the Apostle Peter’s sermon,
saving over 3000 new believers in their spiritual rebirth. Herein we still reside today, as we can see the end of the Age of Grace that will climax with the Return of Christ FOR his Saints [I Thess. 4:13-18].⁴

We can see how the Lord’s Feasts are all highlighted with major events and transitions in the 7 phases of Christ’s ministries, and we expect to see this pattern established as the Age of Grace is concluded with more Heavenly Voices and Sounds when Christ returns FOR his Saints, [I Thess. 4:16], opening the way for a Third Temple. These are the same Feasts of the Lord that have been highlighted by the Blood Moon Tetrads since Christ’s Ascension, culminating in the 2014-15 Blood Moon Tetrad. As we re-visit the context of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses of 2016, following on the heels of the Super Blood Moon of 9/28/15, on the Feast of Tabernacles, we note these very unique elements demanding our full attention on this Blood Moon with its following 8 aspects:

A. A Full Moon
B. A Super Moon
C. A Total Lunar Eclipse
D. Visible over Israel
E. At Feast of Tabernacles
F. At the end of Shemita Cycle
G. The last of the 2014-2015 Blood Moon Tetrad
H. 7 days after the opening of the Jubilee Year

This Feast of Sukkot fell on the 15th day of the most sacred 7th month-Tishri, following Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, as the last of 3 required assemblies of men before the LORD; Passover, Pentecost, & Sukkot. Each Feast has required offerings; with Palms waived at Passover, Bread at Pentecost, and Lulavs or palm branches at Sukkot. It follows that, as Passover precedes Pentecost by fifty days (7×7+1), so the Jubilee followed this pattern in fifty years. [Levi. 25:8] relates the “seven Sabbaths of years” and the 50th year of the Jubilee, which fell on the Day of Atonement, or the tenth day of the holiest seventh month of Tishri. In the same way that liberty was proclaimed in the Jubilee, throughout all the land to all its inhabitants [Levi. 25:10], so Jesus set at liberty them that were bruised, while proclaiming the acceptable year of the Lord at the opening of his ministry as an Apostle. This is interesting when we observe that there are 30 Jubilees that bring us from the Exodus to the opening of Christ’s ministry, when opening the scroll to Isa. 61:2, he certified the “acceptable year of the Lord” in a 7-fold prophecy, (Lk. 4:17-21).⁵ This fits neatly with the truth that in fulfilling the O.T. Law as the embodiment of the Passover lamb of the 1st year [Exod. 12:5), Jesus was in the first year of his manhood according to Hebrew reckoning, starting at thirty years old, on his birthday on Tishri 1 making him eligible for the priesthood. During this specific period of 70 weeks; [Dan. 9:24] decreed by God as the time to fulfill this Messianic redemption in his ministry to Israel, he was crucified, resurrected, and ascended, exploding the myth that his ministry lasted till he was thirty-three. This removes any supposed relation to the 32-33 AD Blood Moon Tetrad, put forward by some. Since Jesus was crucified 4 years earlier in the year 28 AD, there is no direct link between these aspects of Christ’s ministry and this 1st Blood Moon Tetrad following his sacrifice.

This Super Blood Moon fell on the Tabernacles Feast also activating a Week of Rejoicing, a 7-Day feast with the 8th Day as a corporate Assembly with Torah readings, known as the Hakhel; meaning “to assemble.” This festival at the start of the 8th year (the first of the new seven-year Shemittah cycle), on the second day of the Sukkot Feast, the 16th day of the New Year-marked a holy day where all the people were to gather both now and in the coming Third Temple for an inspirational message. The 8th day of this Solemn Assembly is also called Shemini Atzeret [Num. 29: 35] a Sabbath day distinctly set aside from the annual Sabbath of the Feast of Tabernacles. It is recognized as an “appointed time,” the day following Sukkot when Israel assembles. Attendance was required by all, similar to the gathering of Israel at Mt. Sinai when the Heavenly Father first gave His Holy Scripture-the 10 Commandments to the Man of God Moses to teach the people. [Levi. 23:32]

Historically, the Hakhel assembly was important in bringing Jews & Gentiles together, to assemble before the King of Israel, [Levi. 23:36]. Today there is no earthly King or practicing High Priest in Israel, but when the expected prophetic Third Temple is restored in Jerusalem the opening for someone to fill this void will exist, embodying the High Priest to lead these proceedings on a coming Feast of Tabernacles. This Super Blood Moon foreshadows the return of the actual High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ who will gather the spiritual bodyof his Churchtaking them to heaven. It can also mark the “man of sin” who will reveal himself, resulting from the removal of the obstaclethat prevents him from doing so now, the spiritual lightembodied in the membersof the Church of the Body of Christ currently on Earth, [2 Thess. 2:1-12]. It is key to realize that the Man of sin will counterfeit the officeof the High Priest in a Third Temple based on OT standards of the Law, that relates to the lack of the Jews recognition of Jesus as their Messiah, the Mystery that has blinded Israel for centuries. [Rom. 9:29-33, 11:7-10, 25-33]

The Hakhel festival during Tishri, and the Super Blood Moon of Sept. 2015 that also opened the 50-year Hebrew Jubilee on their calendar provides a very unique celestial configuration, the climax of the 2014-15 Blood Moon Tetrad, foreshadowing Jesus the King as he prepares to lead the corporate Church to the Heavenly assembly on Mount Zion to, and to reward the believers for their faithful works on earth at the Bema Seatof Christ. As judgment begins in the House of God, so the spiritual down-payment [Eph. 1:10-14, 4:30] that the believers shared in the New Birth, will be paid in full at the Bema, after the Gathering Together of the Body of Christ. To this august Assembly will he proclaim the Heavenly Shemittah; as a blessing of release to the Body from the slavery of the world, into the eternal freedom and abundance with the Almighty, followed by the release of the curse of the Seal Judgments upon Satan and the world under his thumb at that time. The breaking of the 7 Seals of Judgment by Christ the King, [Rev. 5:1-9] upon the earth’s evil inhabitants-and the Seed of the Serpent, will incur the Shemittah judgments as they befall the Nations under Lucifer and his minions. Once these judgments are complete, Jesus will return WITH his Saints to vanquish evil from the earth, and set up his Millennial Kingdom Reign. This will also be marked with another audible mandate from Heaven, and mighty Hallelujahs as the heavenly order is restored in Christ the Lord, [Rev. 19:1-2].

Christ Titles Hebrew Feast/Holy Days

Jesus Christ-Righteous Nisan 1/Feb. 16 -March 28th, 27 AD [John 1:29-33]

Jesus Christ-Evangelist Calls 12, Nisan/14-21/27 [Jn. 1:35-51]

Jesus Christ-Apostle Sivan 7-6/1/27-Pentecost, Sivan 13/Jesus-Apostle [Lk. 4:17-21]

Jesus Christ-High Priest Tishri 1-9/20/ 27 Tabernacle Feast, [Mk. 9:2-10]

Jesus Christ-Passover Nisan 8-4/22/28, [Mk. 11:1-11] [Jn. 12:28-30].

Jesus Christ-Firstborn Nisan 17-5/1/28 to 6/10/28 [Ps. 2:6-8, I Cor. 15:20-23]

Jesus Christ-Ascended Sivan 8-6/11 to 6/20/28. [Mk. 16:15-19].

The “BEMA” Seat of Rewards in Christ

In two of our recent March Blog posts, we referenced how Christ as the Prince of Peace, unifies the Jews and Gentiles removing the obstacle of the the OT Law between them, as he fulfilled it in the combined seven phases of his ministries above, [Eph. 2:3-6]. The Church birthed in Christ consists of this one ‘New Man,’ both Jew and Gentile. The foreshadowing of the Blood Super Moon is seen during the Feast of Tabernacles 2015, opening the 50-year Jubilee as potential for Christians and Jews to unify in the Messiah. Jesus in the office of the High Priest exceeds the Aaronic High Priest in every sense. More than ever Jesus is our sinless High Priest [Heb. 7:26] for both Jews and Gentiles, in an Everlasting Priesthood [Heb.7:24], in a Heavenly not earthly Temple, not made with hands, [Heb.8:1-5, 9:23-24, 10:9-14]. His Priesthood is of a better Covenant [Heb. 8:6, 10-11, 9:9-14, 10:15-18], and with Better Promises [Heb. 9:15, 26-28, 10:19-23].⁸ As the Messiah fulfilled the requirements of the Law, he ushered in this New and better Covenant with all of its eternal benefits for everyone who comes unto him. He is truly the universal Savior for All Mankind. Those realizing these Messianic realities in Christ, will partake in Christ’s Gathering, and not be deceived by the Anti-Christ, declaring himself God in the coming Third Temple of Jerusalem.

God’s people are no longer dependent upon the sacrifices of bulls and goats by a High Priest that could only enter the presence of God once a year, but would have continual access to the Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ, the High Priest after the order of Melchisedek. As we have pointed out in other blog posts, the planet Jupiter, the planet leading the Magi to Jesus was known by the Hebrew name Sedeq, showing the link with the planet Jupiter and Melchisedek. The Jews looked upon the Messiah as the royal offspring of David,” the Sedeq Branch” [Jer. 23:5 Jehovah-Tsidkenu]. Also the word Sedeq is associated with the word Melek (King) that was combined forming Melchisedek, the Righteous King.⁶

Hebrews 7:11

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Heb 10:19 -20

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

As the redeemer and High Priest for all mankind, the ministry of Jesus Christ would include not only the restoration of man to the principles that governed the Paradise Administration before the serpent’s temptation of Eve, but much more. Christ’s redeeming work encompasses not only the sins of Adam and Eve, but also the many offenses of man since the fall of Adam. Thus we regain in Christ much more than we lost in Adam’s fall, resulting from his one sin. The death of the first Adam, the death of a sinless man, initiated the ruin of Paradise and the transfer of Adam’s dominion over the earth, to the serpent. Only a similar sacrifice would pay the legal debt of our salvation!

To redeem humanity, Jesus had to come to us, [I John 4:1-3] totally within the category of flesh to redeem those born into the same category, [Heb. 2:16-17, 4:15]. A “God-man” would not be tempted by the world of fleshly things as all humanity [Js. 1:13-15]. If Jesus was not a man of flesh as he called himself in his resurrected body, [Jn. 20:27] then he could not have been the perfect sacrifice required-the death of a sinless man, to redeem all men and we would remain unsaved! This is consummated in the final Paradise Administration/2nd Universe referred to in Revelation 21-22. We find this in the reference to Jesus Christ as the “no more curse” in Rev. 22:3, who healed the curse that was put upon man as a result Adam’s fall in Genesis 3:17.

Rev 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

Praise God for His Abundant Grace and Mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ!

Footnotes

1. Jesus Christ our Passover, VP Wierwille, ppg. 407-408.
2. IBID. chart on p. 409
3. “Sound Out 84-A Harmony of the Gospels” American Christian Press 1984.
4. Seminar on The Lord Jesus Christ, Rev. Jon Nessle
5. IBID, Rev. Jon Nessle
6. Number in Scripture, E.W. Bullinger, p. 4.
7. The Star that Astonished the World, Earnest Martin p. 58
8. Seminar on The Lord Jesus Christ, Rev. Jon Nessle

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Biblical Astronomy of the 2016 Solar and Lunar Signs

Biblical Astronomy of the 2016 Solar and Lunar Ecipleses on Hebrew Holy Days

Has anyone noticed that there is much controversy and confusion these days in Israel concerning the calendars of Judaism? If the Jews themselves can’t agree on which calendar applies this year, how do they expect the rest of us to know? Due to all the current controversy and confusion between these 2 calendars in Judaism, we must consider the following points, to find our way through the Hebrew Calendar Chaos of 2016.

The Biblical standard that determines the start of Hebrew Calendar months and the addition of the extra 13th month of Adar 2 should carry the most weight, not the traditions of men.(Exodus 12) tells us that the month of Spring, Abib (or Nisan), the month of the Exodus, is the “first month of the year,” and that Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are to be “at the time appointed in the month Abib, ” (Exod. 23:15). So the month of Abib sets the tone for the entire calendar year. This commandment to keep the feast “at the time appointed in the month Abib” (Exod. 23:15), means the calendar should keep Abib as close as possible to Spring (or Vernal Equinox), which allows the Moed of Passover to happen. Thus, the month of Abib is the month Passover falls in, after the Vernal Equinox. (For this reason the extra month of Adar 2 is not needed in 2016. Without the added 13th month, Passover now falls 2 days after the Vernal Equinox with a Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd, 2016!

Deut. 16:1 Observe the month of Abib and offer a Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, for it was in the month of Abib, at night, that the Lord your God freed you from Egypt.

This is tells us Spring must come first, before Passover. Logically, if the “month of Spring” is the month where Passover falls after Spring has begun, we can see where the reasoning for this thinking originated. The “month of Spring” must be the New Moon that places Passover in the month of Spring, keeping the calendar aligned with Exodus 12 and 23:15. What has contributed to the current Calendar confusion in Israel is that the Sanhedrin as the ruling authority linked with timekeeping matters related to Hebrew Feasts and Holy days, was disbanded. In ancient Israel the sighting of the Crescent Moon was the method recognized by the Sanhedrin in determining the start of the month.

This was verified by two witnesses who reported to the Sanhedrin to make the final ruling on the start of each month and Adar 2. As a result of the Dispersion of the Jews among the Gentile nations, the Sanhedrin was disbanded. Hillel wanted to find a way for Israel, to observe the Hebrew Feasts and Holy Days in unity. But with the Sanhedrin disbanded they could no longer verify the sighting of the Aviv Barley/New Moon Crescent in Israel. Since predicting the New Moon Crescent was not possible, Hillel lead a group, acting on their own authority, that decided to determine their New Moon dates based on mathematical calculation, rather than on the physical sighting of the Crescent Moon, that cannot be mathematically calculated. Hillel knew this idea was against God’s Word, but he saw no alternative for Israel to keep any vestige of their calendar intact with out these provisions. In spite of this, it still took hundreds of years for Jews around the globe to accept this as an alternative calendar, and it has become their traditional Rabbinical Calendar since then.

In modern times the dates of this Rabbinical Calendar have always varied by 1-2 days with the Aviv Barley or the sighted Crescent Moon dates; but this year of Jubilee is the first time I can recall the dates of these two calendars aligning in harmony in 2016. Even more amazing is that the alignment of these two calendars in Judaism in this special 50-year Jubilee, holy days from Purim to Hanukkah are also lining up, with the Christian Calendar from Christ’s Resurrection to Christmas. The odds of all three of these calendars lining up like this in the same year are astronomical. The other criteria related to Adar 2 and the Passover is the status of the Barley Harvest in Israel.

There are multiple groups that search out the status of the barley harvest in Israel, and I made the mistake of following the advice of one well known observer of the Crescent Mew Moons in Israel, and leader of one of these groups who reported the lack of ripeness of Barley in Israel around March 9th, 2016. This resulted in my post on March 14th, where I had agreed with adding the 2nd month of Adar, meaning the Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd would mark the Purim Feast instead of Passover. Since this single group did not find enough Aviv Barley in Israel, many are choosing to delay the Hebrew New Year by another month, while others in Israel have since omitted Adar 2 according to the Rabbinical Calendar. This confusion prompted me to make a premature call to publish the Purim Blood Moon of 2016 post on this blog. However, I view this as somewhat providential since we were able to state both cases whether the extra month of Adar 2 was added, or not. As we will see there are benefits to this occurrence.

A more prudent approach which I have now decided to follow to avoid this confusion, involves following the results of the multiple groups that search the status of the Barley harvest in Israel. As a result, I found at least 3 groups in Israel inspecting the barley status, and all have a respected history of doing this for many years. Two of 3 of these groups found barley, in sufficient enough quantities to qualify for a “wave sheaf” offering for people making sacrificial wave offerings during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, 2-3 weeks prior to being fully matured and ripe for the wave sheaf offering, [Levi. 23:9-14] and the subsequent start of the countdown to Pentecost/Feast of Weeks.

I have included links below for two of these groups that both found ripe Barley in Israel this year so you can avoid the calendar confusion yourselves:

[http://www.eliyah.com/newyear2016.html]

[http://news.yrm.org/index.php/2016/03/]

I also must apologize to my readers for referring to the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd as a “Blood Moon,” and using terms like “Blood Moon Sextet/Quintet“ implying the added lunar eclipses of 2016 were also Blood Moons like those of the Blood Moon Tetrad in 2014-2015. It was not my intention to mislead anyone and I’m posting these corrections to minimize any misunderstandings that may have occurred as a result. They key point I was making in the Blood Moon Bombshell post was that the recognition of ripe Barley in Israel added two more Lunar Eclipse events in 2016, to the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015. Although the two added Lunar Eclipses on Hebrew Feast and Holy Days with the four Blood Moons do make a highly unique event including 6 Lunar Eclipses from 2014-2016, the added 2016 events do not qualify as Blood Moons. That being said, it does not make these 2016 Lunar Eclipses any less significant, or less worthy of our undivided attention, because all 6 of these qualify as Lunar Eclipses in 3 consecutive years on Hebrew Feast days, just a little different and in a separate Biblical class from the Four Blood Moons! As we consider the import of these Penumbral Lunar Eclipses in 2016, we should point out the similarity to the Penumbral Lunar Eclipses that took place in 70 AD marking the Romans destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.

The following summary from our Biblical Blood Moon Calendar post, shows the 70 AD Roman
Temple Destruction as Jesus Prophesied.

Solar & Lunar Eclipses from 69-71 AD. 2016 Solar & Lunar Eclipses omitting Adar 2:

Partial Lunar Sukkot 10/18/69

Total Solar Nisan 1 3/30/70 Total Solar Eclipse 3/9/2016 on Nisan 1

Penum lunar Passover 4/14/70 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Passover 3/23/2016/ Nisan 14

Annular Solar Rosh Hash 9/23/70 Annular Solar Eclipse 9/3/2016/Trumpets Feast

Penum lunar Sukkot 10/08/70 Penum Lunar Eclipse 9/16/Sukkot/9-16 to 9/23/16

Partial Lunar Purim 3/4/71

Its interesting to note that if the ripe Barley determination had been made by the Total Solar Eclipse on March 9th, 2016 it would also have aligned with Nisan 1, even as above with the same sign on 3/30/70 AD! This comparison of Solar and Lunar signs between 70 AD and 2016 is truly remarkable! Also, as we mentioned in the Purim Blood Moon post, 71 AD was the last Lunar Eclipse on Purim that we can find in the intervening period up to today. The fascinating parallel here is that these Solar and Lunar signs marked the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 AD, while today we are looking for the return of a Third Jerusalem Temple as the next logical step to fulfill Biblical Prophecy following up to Israel’s reclamation of Jerusalem marked by the 1967-68′ Blood Moon Tetrad, in the 6-day War with Egypt. Thus we see the importance of these Solar and Penumbral Lunar Eclipses in 2016 as they align with the only other Sun and Moon signs on Hebrew Feasts that do not cluster as Blood Moon Tetrads over the last 2000 years!

As we mentioned above, Holy Days during this special 50-yr Jubilee from Purim to Hanukkah are also lining up, with Christian Calendars from the resurrection to Christmas. The odds of all 3 of these calendars aligning in the same year are astronomical. As stated in our blog post on The Purim Blood Moon: Jesus as the Prince of Peace provided peace to both the Jews and Gentles in His spiritual body of the Church. He has removed the obstacles of the Law and the Temple ordinances between Israel and Christian believers, unifying us in the Mystery of one new spiritual man, his spiritual body, nailing those obstacles in the Law, to the Cross. Another aspect of this Mystery is found in Romans 11.

Rom. 11:24-27
²⁴For if thou were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? ²⁵For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. ²⁶And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: ²⁷For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

The truth in the Mystery that Jesus as the Prince of Peace brought the Jews and Gentiles together in one Spiritual body, is based on the idea that the Gentile’s access to the Heavenly Father through Christ is based on the partial blindness that has come upon Israel, which opened the door to the Gentiles access to God’s Grace in Christ. For Messianic Jews perhaps this partial blindness is lifting, and none too soon as we approach the victorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ to harvest the believers of the Church of His Spiritual Body. As we we can see the signs of the approaching Third Temple in Jerusalem manifesting before us we should be vigilant to the reality of his Return.

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Footnotes

Purim Blood Moon

[http://www.eliyah.com/newyear2016.html]

[http://news.yrm.org/index.php/2016/03/]

The Blood Moon Bombshell of 2016?

Biblical Blood Moon Calendar

Purim Blood Moon on March 23rd, 2016

Purim Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd, 2016

As a follow-up to our initial March blog post regarding “The Blood Moon Bombshell of 2016?“, we have noted that since the Barley Harvest in Israel was NOT found to be Aviv Barley, or ripe, that the extra 13th Month of Second Adar was added to the Hebrew Calendar. This puts the Passover on April 22nd of 2016, instead of aligning with the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd, but this eclipse now lines up with the Feast of Purim in 2016.

The key heavenly signs in March of 2016 began with a Total Solar Eclipse on March 9th. However, had the Barley harvest been ripe, the March 9th New Moon/Total Solar Eclipse, would have made March 9th-align with Nisan 1, followed only 2 weeks later by a Nisan 14 Passover Lunar Eclipse on March 23rd! Even though we won’t have a Blood Moon Sextet 2014-2016, we will still have a fifth Lunar Eclipse falling on the key Hebrew Feast Day of Purim. This is no small matter because it follows the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015, giving us the first ever Blood Moon Quintet of 2014-2016! Purim on the Hebrew calendar also occurs before the Transit of Mercury, May 9th 2016.

What is unique about this Jubilee Year of 2016 is that Purim is on March 23, the exact time a Lunar Eclipse occurs, although its a Penumbral eclipse, so not all the lunar surface will be eclipsed. It falls 120 days after the Super Blood Moon of September 28, 2015. Specifically, Purim begins on the Hebrew Calendar on Wednesday evening, March 23, 2016 continuing through Thursday night, March 24^th. It will also be the first full Moon after the Spring Equinox. There is some confusion about the numerics and operation of the Jubilee Cycle. Jubilee Years are based on the Shemitah Years occurring every 7th year. Seven Shemitahs (7×7=49 years is Shemitah of Shemitah’s). The year following the 7th Shemitah is a Jubilee. The Jubilee Year follows the 7th Shemitah becoming the 50th year. However, if the Shemitah cycle continues every 7 years, then the next Jubilee year becomes the first of the next Shemitah cycle, where the next Jubilee follows 49 years after the first. However, if you start the next Shemitah cycle after the Jubilee then you have Jubilee years occurring every 50 years, but, this breaks the 7 year cycle. Bible scholars remain in disagreement as to which version is right. There is a method based on a 49 year cycle that keeps the 7 year cycle intact, which makes the most sense.
It is this method that we are using to calculate the current Jubilee cycle which is being witnessed this year 5776 on the Hebrew Calendar.

As a result of the lack of Aviv Barley this month in Israel, the Nisan 14 Passover did not fall on March 23rd aligning with the Penumbral Lunar eclipse, [Levi. 23:5]. However, this potential correlation with Nisan 14, still holds in the Christian world linked with the commemoration of Easter celebrations this weekend!

The great majority of traditional Christendom celebrates Easter weekend from “Good Friday” to Easter Sunday morning, yet [Matt. 12:40] tells us:

⁴⁰For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

This refers to 3/24 hour periods which does not match the time period from Good Friday to Easter Sunday! Also, Sunday was not the Sabbath on the Hebrew Calendar, only on pagan calendars. Saturday was however the Sabbath in Israel and when we back-track 3 days from Nisan 17, the weekly Sabbath will link with Jesus’ resurrection. Nisan 14 ties to the Crucifixion of Jesus, on Passover “Good Wednesday” in 28 AD. This gives us the proper date and timing that lines up with the Biblical record of three days and nights in the heart of the earth. As a result, we have a dual correlation of both Hebrew/Christian Holy days of Purim and Christ’s Crucifixion marked on Nisan 14, with a fifth Lunar Eclipse event in 2014-2016! Can we find significance for this in God’s Word? The Epistle of Ephesians is enlightening on this subject;

Ephesians 2:10-17
¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. ¹¹Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; ¹²That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: ¹³But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; ¹⁵Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; ¹⁶And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: ¹⁷And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

Jesus as the Prince of Peace has provided peace to both the Jews and Gentles in His spiritual body of the Church. He has removed the obstacles of the Law and the Temple ordinances between Israel and Christian believers, unifying us in one new spiritual man, his spiritual body, nailing those obstacles in the Law, to the Cross.

Ephesians 3:3-6

³How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote before in few words, ⁴Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ). ⁵Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; ⁶That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

This revolutionary accomplishment of Jesus Christ resulting from his crucifixion and resurrection from the dead, taking the sins of mankind upon him and unifying the Jews and Gentiles in one spiritual Body in Christ, is called a “mystery” or a secret of the Heavenly Father which was not revealed until the writings of the Church epistles by the Apostle Paul. Clearly, Christ is the unifying force for all humanity at every level of life, Body, Soul, and Spirit. [I Thess. 5:23] This monumental work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is emphasized by the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse aligning with both Purim for Israel and the Crucifixion of Christ leading to Easter and Resurrection weekend in Christianity! Is the Heavenly Father working to get our attention, to prepare us for our soon coming reality where Christians and Jews will be united in one spiritual body in Christ, at the right Hand of God? This will certainly be the result of the victorious Return of the our Lord Jesus Christ.

Purim is a story of both deliverance and a sudden destruction. Purim is a Hebrew holiday and has been incorporated much like Hanukkah into the list of Feasts that have been added to the 7 major Feasts of Jehovah. Can we find elements of Christ’s work foreshadowed in the Feast of Purim?

The meaningof the Feast of Purim is disclosed only in the Bible’s book of Esther. The beginning of the Book of Esther starts off with a 6-month feast of the King. As Purim amazingly aligns with a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, when we consider the context of Hebrew Calendar and the Blood Moon Tetrad of 2014-2015 what is the message we can glean from a fifth lunar eclipse, 2 days following the Spring Equinox? The record of the history and origin of the Feast of Purim in the Book of Esther, is significant today for a number of reasons. Even as the evil Haman was bent on his genocidal plan against the Jews in the ancient Persian World Empire, so today there is a group of Islamic and other Nations conspiring to “wipe Israel off the map.” Purim is prophetic as it relates to the deliverance of God’s People from those enemies that seek to destroy the heritage of the Almighty, and Redeemer’s bl0od-line. The Biblical record of Esther not only shows the history and inception of the Feast of Purim, but also shares the elements of how the Heavenly Father saved His people, exhibiting His undying Love for Israel. God Saved His people not only so they could enjoy their lives, but also so He could bring them back to the Promised Land of Israel and the Holy city of Jerusalem. We can see this long-standing purpose of God because after nearly 2000 years of being dispersed among the Gentile Nations, in 1948-50 Israel was reformed as a nation-state, also marked by a Blood Moon Tetrad, and the Jews have been returning to their homeland ever since. But there is another over-riding purpose found in Esther, and that is the preservation of the Christ-line. Numerous times in history the enemy attempted to wipe the Hebrew Race from the face of the Earth because he knew it would bear man’s Redeemer. During the birth of Moses, the Egyptians killed the male Hebrew infants for this purpose. During the time of the Christ’s birth, Herod also had the male infants murdered around Bethlehem, for the same reason.

So we see the efforts of Haman to exterminate the nation of Israel along these lines. The setting for Esther was ancient Persia-modern-day Iran. Even as Daniel who also served under this 2^nd world Empire following Babylon from their capital city of Susa, Queen Esther, decided to stand up for the nation of Israel against Haman’s evil plot, she received favor from her King and Husband Xerxes I. Esther enjoyed the favor of the King’s Sceptre when she risked her life by entering the conference of the King. It is Interesting to note that; Biblically “a Sceptre can also be symbolic of a person!” In Numbers, we read;

(Numbers 24:17)”I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Seth.”

That Sceptre embodied the prophesied return of the Promised Seed, who came first over 1,900 years ago and by his sacrifice, provided redemption for all mankind. All who believe in Him, and follow Him, have a pathway back to God, who alone is able to deliver them from bloodthirsty hatred of the modern Haman’s. Our website study on the General Sign of the Celestial Prelude covers the significance of this Numbers 24 record regarding the Sceptre, in the context of the heavenly signs surrounding the birth of Christ. The heavenly birth signs for Christ are set to rewind in 2017, with a prominent role for Jupiter, the King Planet and Royal Sceptre of the King of Kings.

The following dates, show Jupiter-Venus conjunctions in Virgo in 2016-2017:

July 27th, 2016
Aug. 26-27th, 2016 [Jupiter enters Virgo]
Feb. 26th, 2017
Sept. 23rd, 2017 [Virgo clothed with the Sun/Moon @ feet]-Rev. 12:1-2
Nov. 13th, 2017

The two brightest planets – Venus and Jupiter – teamed up to provide the closest planetary conjunction of 2014, and it has been the closest Venus- Jupiter conjunction during the Blood Moon Quintet of 2014-2016, until August 27, 2016, when Jupiter enters Virgo to be “birthed” in 2017.

God is teaching us through His Hebrew Calendar providing focused attention on His final plan of redemption with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. God first instituted the Biblical Calendar of annual Festivals through Moses (Levi. 23), which included the yearly counting of days and weeks, so that His people might rehearse the 50 days between His Passover, death and resurrection, and Pentecost with the power of the Holy Spirit. Finally these end-time events leading up to the Jubilee and Day of the LORD. He also gave us the signs of the Sun, Moon and Stars in Biblical Astronomy, relating to His Feasts and Holy days so that we would be ready and forewarned of the times wherein we reside.

As Iran, at that time was the world superpower, so too does Iran now seek to recapture their previous position over Israel once again. Amalek was one preventing the Jews from passing through his land on their Exodus to the Promised Land under Moses. Haman’s bloodline came from Amalek’s, the traditional enemies of the Israel. This parallel bloodline has and continues to contest God’s people for the inheritance of the Promised Land-the city of Jerusalem and coming Temple on the Mount. The conspiracy in the time of Esther was that a descendant of Amalek-Haman plotted to trick the King, Xerxes I or Ahasuerus to murder all the Jews and rid the empire of them as Amalek desried.

This conspiracy is alive and well in modern Iran who is already a major partner with Russia comprising a confederacy of Muslim nations that will attack Israel during the first Gog-Magog invasion. This plot was revealed to Mordecai, a relative of Esther who raised her. At the Queen’s own peril, Esther interceded on behalf of God’s People. Because of their sacrificial and selfless acts, God worked in Esther and Mordecai to overt a genocide. The Christian genocide currently being waged by the modern Haman’s in the Muslim world primarily, will one day see a sudden destruction come upon them. Even as the effect of Haman’s plot was exercised upon his own head and all his family, the modern nations plotting against Israel, and the Church body of Christ will experience a similar more awesome destruction.

With this week’s Penumbral Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse on the Feast of Purim, taking place during a Hebrew Jubilee Year, it should get our attention for the following reasons.

One can not help, but be struck by the unique and very rare occurrence of the Tetrad of four Blood Moons during the Shemitah of Shemitah’s, and now the Jubilee comes with yet another Lunar eclipse on Purim, forming a Quintet of Blood Moons on Hebrew Holidays from 2014-2016. This is not the first Lunar Eclipse to fall on Purim. According to our Biblical Blood Moon Calendar, back on March 4th of 71 AD, soon after the Romans had destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem, prophesied by Jesus Christ, a Partial Lunar Eclipse took place. This marked the removal of God from His Temple in stages, and the dispersion of the Jews among the Gentile Nations. With this fifth Blood Moon on Purim, we may be witnessing an indicator of God’s gradual return in stages to a New Temple on the Mount, the natural outcome of forming of the State of Israel, and the Restoration of Jerusalem to Israel’s control, both marked by Blood Moon Tetrads in 1949-50 and 1967-68.

Let’s stay vigilant as we continue to watch the skies for the heavenly signs that align with Scripture to tell us what time it is…

Footnotes

1. “Blood Moon Bombshell of 2016?” [blog.try-god.org] March 2016
2. Ephesians 2:10-17 KJV
3. Ephesians 3:3-6 KJV
4. Numbers 24:17 KJV
5. “The General Sign of the Celestial Prelude” [www.try-god.com]
6. Biblical Blood Moon Calendar [blog.try-god.org] Aug. 2014