UPDATED 9/11/15
RELATED ARTICLE: The Stock Market Shemitah Cycle
One might consider taking an extended vacation somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere as we approach the 'Fall of 2015'. I'm not kidding.
Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "'Come out of her, my people,' so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities"... [Revelation 18:4-5]
It seems like all the prognosticating I've been doing for the past couple decades is coming to a head. I fear that soon the nukes will fly and my glorious return will be at hand. Hallelujah? I hardly think so, but I am that I am, and it is what it is. How our Creator is going to make HIS-story work out remains to be seen, but I do have faith everything will make sense in the End. Hopefully by posting this blog with "dates", any chance of an Apocalypse in the near future will be nullified since: ""But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." [Matthew 24:36]
I've been meaning to blog this final warning for some time, but I just can't come up with the right thoughts and words. Honestly, I'm utterly sick of thinking about the 'Apocalypse' and how I'm 'Jesus Christ returned'. I've done my best to delude myself from this reality with booze and the like, but that has only made my life an ever deeper rat hole.
*** THE MYSTERY OF THE SHEMITAH ***
Back in April 2012 I wrote an important blog dubbed "Jonathan Cahn: The Harbinger" in which I pointed out an intriguing relationship between Jewish "Shemitahs" ("Sabbatical" years), which repeat every 7 years, and cycles in the economy and history in general.
I especially noted how the market crashed by 7% on Elul 29, the last day of the year on the Hebrew calendar, in the last two Shemitah years that ended September 17, 2001 and September 29, 2008, respectively - an extraordinarily improbable "coincidence". Impressively, on 9/29/08 the DJIA closed down 777.7 points, the largest point drop in history to-date and a seeming exclamation point on the relevance of the Shemitah and God's number seven:
Elul 29 in Shemitah years is relevant because this is the day on which debts are to be forgiven according to biblical scriptures.
Personal debts are considered forgiven at sunset on 29 Elul. Since this aspect of shmita is not dependent on the land, it applies to Jews both in Israel and elsewhere. [Wiki]Apparently Jewish Pastor Jonathan Cahn came across my April 2012 blog and was sufficiently inspired by the phenomenon that he wrote a book about it: The Mystery of the Shemitah: The 3,000-Year-Old Mystery That Holds the Secret of America's Future, the World's Future, and Your Future!. [That Cahn failed to credit me is of little surprise since I claim to be Jesus Christ reincarnated, and I seriously doubt Jonathan will recognize and accept who he himself may be, i.e., John the Baptist reincarnated.]
*** ELUL 29 = SEPTEMBER 13TH ***
So what about the current historical juncture?
We are now in the midst of another Shemitah year on the Hebrew calendar and it set to end on September 13th, i.e., 9/13/15 is the next Elul 29 marking the end of the current Jewish Sabbatical year.
Does this mean the stock market is going to drop 7% again?
Maybe, but I think there might be a little more to the Shemitah this time around. After all, what point is the Author of our story seeking to make by highlighting the Shemitah and number seven in recent history?
*** THE ADVENT OF THE MESSIANIC AGE? ***
As I read the current situation, there truly is God the Creator and, for whatever reason, the traditional 'seven-day' work week schedule is important to Him.
The Ten Commandments state (Exodus 20:8):
Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it. Six days shall you work and perform all of your labors. And on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath day unto the Lord your God, you shall do no work... For in six days God made the heavens and the earth, the oceans and all therein, and He rested on the seventh day. Therefore God hath blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it. [Wiki]Now bear in mind the following from 2 Peter 3:8, "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."
More from Wikipedia:
According to classical Jewish sources, the Hebrew year 6000 (Gregorian year 2239) marks the latest time for the initiation of the Messianic Age. The Talmud, the Midrash, and the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, state that the 'deadline' by which the Messiah must appear is 6,000 years from creation. According to tradition, the Hebrew calendar started at the time of Creation, placed at 3761 BC. The current (2014/2015) Hebrew year is 5775.
The belief that the seventh millennium will correspond to the Messianic Age is founded upon a universalized application of the concept of Shabbat—the 7th day of the week—the sanctified 'day of rest'.
This tradition maintains that each day of the week corresponds to one thousand years of creation. Just as the six days of the workweek culminate in the sanctified seventh day of Shabbat, so too will the six millennia of creation culminate in the sanctified seventh millennium (Hebrew years 6000–7000)—the Messianic Age.
Just as Shabbat is the sanctified 'day of rest' and peace, a time representing joyful satisfaction with the labors completed within the previous 6 days, so too the seventh millennium will correspond to a universal 'day of rest' and peace, a time of 'completeness' of the 'work' performed in the previous six millennia.
The Talmud also draws parallels between the Shmita (Sabbatical) year and the seventh millennium: For six 'years', or millennia, the earth will be worked, whilst during the seventh 'year', or millennium, the world will remain 'fallow', in a state of 'rest' and universal peace.Do you understand what I'm getting at with this line of reasoning?
The divine will of our Creator in human history is in accord with the seven-day work week pattern, i.e., there has been six millenniums of work and now a millennial Sabbath 'day of rest' is due....the prophetic "Messianic Age". One can surmise that the Messianic Age is near at-hand given that, if you believe me, the Messiah is already here.
For the past ~6000 years man has effectively been doing God's work in the world in terms of discovering and developing the know-how and infrastructure to establish a harmonious Kingdom of God on earth. The rise of Western Civilization and modern "Capitalist" period has involved exponentially accelerated learning and adoption of technologies so that people can efficiently take care of one another. (In market competition, individuals and firms are competing to better serve and/or produce for each other, i.e., people are systematically learning how to better care for one another.)
"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 12:4In other words, wittingly or not, over the last six millenniums mankind has been gathering the information, ingredients and parts for a global "Kingdom of God".
Of course, this begs the question: How will the "parts" of the Kingdom be put together?
Obviously this is something I've been trying to warn about in my blog for the past five years.
As the Kremlin sees it, the coming global kingdom will be Russia's (under)handiwork and will be established through brute thermonuclear force.
This, I'm afraid, is why the apocalyptic world war depicted in the Bible's Book of Revelation will occur. After all, how could the current powers-that-be ever release control over the world's resources to allow the establishment of a global society? How could all the world's debts be released in accordance with the Shemitah to open the way for God's Kingdom on earth?
Even if modern Moscow is some sort of Third Rome (read: Third Reich), the problem is that, as I see it, the divinely planned "Kingdom" of God IS NOT MEANT TO BE A TYRANNICAL MONARCHY TO SERVE SOME KREMLIN CZAR!
My "meaning", following my incarnation as Jesus of Nazareth 2000 years ago, was misconstrued by Constantine and the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century in order to suit the purpose of popular control. However, tyranny is contrary to my spirit.
I believe it's telltale that Washington D.C. lies at the nexus of VIRGINia and MARYland.
This is because the form of government CONCEIVED by God for HIS/MY KINGdom is a constitutional democratic republic as envisioned by America's Founding Fathers. After all, this is why Jay Christ originates from the Constitution State in the United States of America and carries the surname "Adams".
Thus, the form God's Kingdom will ultimately take is dependent upon the people of this world rising up and overthrowing the tyrannical global dystopia planned by Russia, China and the Islamic nations who will subjugate this world in the name of religion, esp. Christianity and Islam. This is a TOTAL LIE I refer to as THEOFASCISM. What I'm attempting to do here is plant the seeds for a global democratic revolution before the despotic worldwide 'Evil Empire' is even established.
And God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years." [Genesis 1:14]
“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” [Luke 21:25-28]
A Once in Two Millennial Event!
How often does a Tetrad of Bloods which all fall on Jewish feast days and in a Shemitah Year occur? In the top left column you will find two list of years. The first list of years show the years that a Tetrad of four Blood Moons all occur on Jewish feast days. This list is from Mark Biltz's book on the Blood Moons. This has happen just nine times since the time of Christ. The second list of years show the years in which a Tetrad of Blood Moon occur in Shemitah Years. This has happened only 10 times in 2000 years. Only the years 2014-2015 are in both list. So this is the first time in 2000 years that a Tetrad of four Blood Moons has occurred all on Jewish feast days and in a Shemitah Year! An unprecedented event. [SOURCE]
*** TISHREI 15-30 = SEPT 28 TO OCT 13 ***
As explained in my Master's Thesis on "Manic-Depressive Man" and repeatedly highlighted in this blog, there is a seasonal tendency for "panics" to occur in mass mood during late-Tishrei on the Hebrew calendar which is usually October on the Gregorian calendar. Typically these waves of collective fear show up on Wall Street in the form of financial panics.
Incredibly, as discovered by Chris Carolan, author of the award-winning 1998 article written, Autumn Panics: A Calendar Phenomenon, the 1929 and 1987 stock market crashes climaxed into the same day on the Hebrew calendar, i.e., the 28th day of the 7th lunar month (Tishrei on the Hebrew calendar):
I took Carolan's discovery a step further utilizing an online Hebrew date converter. What I found is that the tendency is for mass panics to develop between the full moon and new moon in the second half of the 7th month on the lunar calendar which is generally equivalent to the period between Tishrei 15 and Tishrei 30 on the Jewish calendar (usually late-October on the Gregorian calendar). During this annual time window, the following major "panics" took place:
13 October 1857 = Panic of 1857 = 25th of Tishrei, 5618
24 September 1869 = Black Friday in 1869 = 19th of Tishrei, 5630
29 October 1929 = 1929 Stock Market Crash = 25th of Tishrei, 5690
26 October 1962 = Cuban Missile Crisis = 28th of Tishrei, 5723
24 October 1973 = Yom Kippur Arab/Israeli War = 28th of Tishrei, 5734
19 October 1987 = 1987 Black Monday Crash = 26th of Tishrei, 5748
13 October 1989 = 1989 Friday the 13th Crash = 14th of Tishrei, 5750
27 October 1997 = 1997 Asian Financial Crisis = 26th of Tishrei, 5758
24 October 2008 = 2008 Financial Crisis = 25th of Tishrei, 5769
Note that I've included in the list above the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and October 1973 Arab/Israeli Yom Kippur War since, while not reflected in major stock market crashes, these historical crises were still effectively mass panics. This was signified on both occasions by the fact that the highest DEFCON nuclear alerts ever were reached during these crises, actually peaking right into the same time frame of the 7th lunar month as when the stock market crashes in 1929 and 1987 climaxed.
In 2015, Tishrei 15-30 on the Hebrew calendar will fall between September 28th and October 13th on the Gregorian calendar. Thus, with the tetrad "blood moon" lunar eclipse on September 28th this year, we will enter the period when panics tend to kick-off according to mass mood seasonality. If a mass panic develops, it might climax into early-to-mid-October as the historical pattern suggests.
That a lunar eclipse could seemingly "trigger" a coming panic should come as no surprise to anyone who frequents this blog.
With the September 28th lunar eclipse, the world will be in the midst of a "Puetz eclipse crash window".
"Puetz attempted to discover if eclipses and market crashes were somehow connected. Without discussing our own opinion on the potential connection between astronomical configurations and market timing, let's simply relate to you the basic findings discussed by Puetz. He emphasized that he is not contending that full moons close to solar eclipses cause market crashes. But he does conclude that a full moon in general and a lunar (eclipse) full moon close to solar eclipses, in particular, seem to be the triggering device that allows for the rapid transformation of investor psychology from manic greed to paranoia. He asks what the odds are that eight of the greatest market crashes in history would accidentally fall within a time period of six days before to three days after a full moon that occurred within six weeks of a solar eclipse? His answer is that for all eight crashes to accidentally fall within the required intervals would be .23 raised to the eighth power less than one chance in 127,000."
". . .Puetz) used eight previous crashes in various markets from the Holland Tulip Mania in 1637 through the Tokyo crash in 1990. He noted that market crashes tend to be lumped near the full moons that are also lunar eclipses. In fact, he states, the greatest number of crashes start after the first full moon after a solar eclipse when that full moon is also a lunar eclipse . . Once the panic starts, Puetz notes, it generally lasts from two to four weeks. The tendency has been for the markets to peak a few days ahead of the full moon, move flat to slightly lower --waiting for the full moon to pass. Then on the day of the full moon or slightly after, the brunt of the crash hits the marketplace."
Notably, The 1929 stock market crash occurred with a Puetz crash window around a solar eclipse on November 1st of that year and the 1987 panic occurred in connection with a solar eclipse on September 23rd and lunar eclipse on October 7th in that year.
All in all, based upon seasonal patterns in mass mood swings, there is a danger the world will experience a mass panic (upset of collective beliefs and expectations) starting around the time of the lunar eclipse September 28th and climaxing into mid-October.
What form might any approaching panic take?
This panic could take the form of a global financial meltdown and/or even a nuclear third world war.
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One of Cahn's most revealing points is that the "foundation" of the American Republic symbolically cracked on 9/11:
"....the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." - George Washington, First Inaugural Address, New York City, April 30, 1789
Washington's inaugural address was made at Federal Hall after which America's governing representatives worshiped at nearby St. Paul's Chapel. These buildings are near ground zero in lower Manhattan, and on 9/11 the foundation of Federal Hall, where the American republic was 'founded', literally cracked.
There's some other points that the author seems to have overlooked.
Note how former Senator John Edwards is credited with making the "utterance" that seals America's judgment.
Cahn fails to note that Edwards shares the name of Jonathan Edwards, arguably the founding father of American Christianity:
Wiki: Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a Christian preacher and theologian. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest theologians.
Jonathan Edwards: "The Final Judgment"
"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” -William Penn
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Here's something really interesting.
In the segments about "The Mystery Of The Shemitah", Cahn points out how the two largest stock market crashes (in terms of Dow points) in 2001 and 2008 occurred on the same day on the Hebrew calendar: Elul 29, which marked the end of the last two "Sabbatical Years" (which occur every seven years). Given my own research findings regarding autumn panics based upon the Hebrew calendar, this really struck a chord.
Indeed, let's start with a simple probability analysis.
The nearly 700 point drop in the DJIA (just over 7%) on 9/17/2001 and 777.7 point drop in the DJIA on 9/29/2008 (just below 7%) were two of the three largest Dow point drops in U.S. history:
These drops occurred on the last day of the Sabbatical Years that occurred between 2000 and 2001 and between 2007 and 2008. This last day of the Sabbatical Year is when debts are to be forgiven per Jewish tradition:
The sabbath year, in Hebrew shmita (Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the Sabbatical Year, is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of Israel, and still observed in contemporary Judaism.
During Shmita, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity (including plowing, planting, pruning and harvesting) is forbidden by Torah law. Other cultivation techniques (such as watering, fertilizing, weeding, spraying, trimming and mowing) may be performed as a preventative measure only, not to improve the growth of trees or plants. Additionally, any fruits which grow of their own accord are deemed hefker (ownerless) and may be picked by anyone. A variety of laws also apply to the sale, consumption and disposal of Shmita produce. A second aspect of Shmita concerns debts and loans. When the Shmita year ends, personal debts which are due during that year are considered nullified and forgiven. The Book of Leviticus promises bountiful harvests to those who observe the shmita and makes observance a test of religious faith.
Thus, in the last 15 years, there's only been two days when the Sabbatical Year ended, i.e., 9/17/2001 and 9/29/2008, and on these days two of the three largest point declines in the DJIA in U.S. history occurred. What are the odds of that?
Given 250 trading days per year, seven years entails 3500 possible days in 14 years. As for the last day of the Sabbatical Year, this occurs once every seven years. Since there were two of three days of significance, the odds of Elul 29, 5761 coinciding with one of the three worst point loss days is 1 in 1166. This would be the odds for the second hit as well, i.e., Elul 29, 5769, occurring on one of the three possible days. Thus, the odds for a coincidence of the last day in the Sabbatical Year in 2001 and 2008 both occurring on one of the three largest point declines in stock market history is the multiple of the two probabilities, i.e., one chance in 1361889. (It's actually more significant than this combinatorially since the three largest point declines could be measured against all U.S. stock trading days, but this analysis gives one a good idea of how unlikely such a "coincidence" is.)
So what does this "mean"?
The Sabbatical Year ends on Elul 29, the last day on the Hebrew calendar before the Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish new year. Over the last three decades, Sabbatical Years ended on the following days:
September 23rd, 1987 = Elul 29, 5747
September 5th, 1994 = Elul 29, 5754
September 17, 2001 = Elul 29, 5761
September 29, 2008 = Elul 29, 5769
All years were marked by major reversals in the stock market with acute declines in the autumn period:
1987:
1994:
2001:
2008:
On a long-term historical chart, a 7-year "Sabbatical Cycle" appears:
[One might also note the 1973 Yom Kippur Arab surprise attack on Israel soon after the Sabbatical Cycle Year ended that time around.]
What is the nature of this cycle?
While my thesis highlights the manic-depressive character of these historical cycles, what Jonathan Cahn is helping to reveal is the cycles are also about sin and redemption, which is a key feature of the Judeo-Christian saga spelled out in the Bible.
The bottom line is this IMO. 'Forgiveness of debts' can be achieved one way or another. If those who claim to be doing "god's work" are serving Mammon contrary to God's will for mankind, then this will ultimately be corrected.
History as His Story
Covenant theology presents the Bible’s own framework for salvation, because like the Bible it unfolds the person and work of Jesus Christ. When Paul wrote, “For all the promises of God find their Yes in him” (2 Cor. 1:20), he was pointing to God’s covenant promises. What has God promised as His gift of grace? The answer is found in His covenants, which offer life, preservation, a land of promise, a glorious people, a ministering priest, a righteous king, and an atoning lamb. These promises are all Yes and Amen only as we trust in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ of the covenants. The Bible history taught by covenant theology is truly His story, so that we might find the fullness of God’s grace in Jesus Christ alone.
- Redemptive History by Richard Phillips
Is it any wonder that the instruments of the coming chastisement of God's people are operating in the name of Islam (submission to God's will) and Communism (to share one's wealth)? [Not that that makes these forces sincere and righteous....au contraire...]
