“Who shall be able to stand?”

OCTOBER 3, 2016 – DAY OF TRUMPETS

Dear friends in the forum,

Angelica’s^[2] dream was requested by some of us in prayer after the disappointment that night,^[3] and God gave a clear answer to many questions that I myself had been asking for some time. It might have come at the last moment, but perhaps too late. Soon we will know for sure. It is the most terrible and saddest dream I’ve ever read, yet it completely confirms the truth of our studies and the light that God has given.

The dream has a divine format and begins as follows:

It’s dark and I watch the stars. It is a true spectacle. The sky seems to move and everywhere the stars dance. Meanwhile, the figures can also be seen like they are depicted in books. I watch Orion. After I have looked for some time, I look at the Pleiades; the name stands under the shining stars. But there are still more stars around the group and they move and deliver a wonderful show. They are small and colorful and shine exceptionally beautifully.

About the “spectacle” that we—the ones who are right now fighting the spiritual battle of Armageddon—present, it has already been written about by our brethren in the faith yesterday here in the forum and since about 2000 years by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Corinthians. I do not think the stars dance—as Sister Angelica describes what she sees—but they are in an uproar, and there is a fray underway.

The whole firmament tells the biblical story in pictures, and the Bible is about the 6000 years of the Great Controversy here on earth, which has now entered its very last phase, or is just ending. Who will win this great battle?

Today, on the day of the dream, a winner will be named: Orion represents our Lord Alnitak. The Pleiades are also seven stars, but the Pleiades do not stand for our Lord. We have shown that anywhere in the Bible where it reads Pleiades, the translators mistakenly translated the Hebrew term “seven stars” as “Pleiades.” There are only two correct translations: “constellation of the seven stars” or “Orion” directly. But the Pleiades were never meant, which equates to a replacement of Orion, or corresponds to an anti-Orion. That, of course, means none other than Satan. The fact that his “new” name (Pleiades) appears among the constellations in Angelica’s dream means that he strikes and is about to win the battle of Armageddon. He has the upper hand now! He will be the winner! He and his fallen angels are actually dancing now, with a “colorful” dance of joy.

If you already think that is the bad news, then just wait till you read the interpretation of the end of the dream.

The dream now changes its focus from the heavenly spectacle to the earthly:

Other people seem to be watching the show too. It is dark, and they are standing on the street and looking into the sky. [Naturally it is our stargazing to see the sign of the Son of Man.] I am at our house and also perceive my son. Nevertheless, everything is a bit different, like how things are distorted in a dream.

The weather is bad and I go to a town/village. [The weather was really bad almost everywhere.] I use a very small footpath (almost a beaten path), as I know it from the countryside in Rhineland Palatinate with my grandparents. The paths pass between the gardens, in a curve I see a dog in a fenced garden. I choose the other direction. I find it astonishing that these small paths are always kept open and you can use them.

Angelica goes into a village, which is our forum village of course, which we have written about so often lately. Yesterday, when we here on the farm in Paraguay went to the place where we wanted to watch the sign from, we did not go the direct route but instead used a trail along a fence, and I wanted to ask why the others that went ahead used this path. It seemed kind of funny, because the most direct route through the eroded field seemed more logical to me. But now precisely this scene is mentioned in the dream and identifies our group in Paraguay even more. But it is in fact a village scene and not only about our farm in Paraguay, which is apparent from the other descriptions of the nice landscaped paths. It’s about the whole village, the whole community of High Sabbath Adventists!

We maintain our “front yards” so that our homes (our appearances) look good; some have a “watchdog,” which should guard them from the attacks of Satan, and of course we are also trying to keep our pathways “open” or walkable, to walk in the “right” path.

I come to a group [High Sabbath Adventists] and in the darkness of the night [seventh plague] we walk through the streets.

Now Jesus explains to us the reason why the dream will end in a terrible way:

I come across several houses with antiques, handcrafts and pictures. There are very nice things and the houses are very bright and friendly furnished. [Everything is beautiful in outward appearance.] In one of the houses, an older couple seems to sell handcrafts. The things are also in front of the house, some are attached to oblique bars. I see small shop windows and something like a shrine of a saint. I do not want to look at this and go faster. I wonder where the couple lives, because I only see shop windows, but then there is also a house, which is probably their home. I walk through a corridor. There is a bench and several chairs. Everything makes a friendly impression.

We know by name the elderly couple described there.^[4] They were sealed by one of our leaders here in Paraguay. But thereafter, they showed little interest to actively participate in the message and even said that the forum was too difficult for them to operate, which is why I personally closed down their account. But our leader made a grave error. They still counted as full sealed members of our movement but were never checked again. First, I categorized his (the leader’s) negligence as a sin against love. The poor spiritual condition of the couple had already become known to me on the eve of the Day of Trumpets and the day of this dream. The couple came up as a sealed couple in answer to my question, “How many are we, really?” which I asked here internally in Paraguay, and I noticed immediately that they had never been informed about the progress of the studies in the forum. They had been virtually abandoned. Something that a “good pastor” does not do. I had to admonish one, and also others of the seven leaders in charge, to the utmost. That was a terrible process, which almost caused a break in the top ranks of our movement. We cannot allow ourselves to act carelessly or negligently toward our neighbor. BEFORE THE END OF GRACE^[5] at the seventh plague, we had to do everything possible to bring the potential candidate to a good level in regards to their behavior and knowledge. If we neglect that, we do not reflect the character of God and are spiritually dead. We went at night to the field to see the sign without any unity in our community, and it was impossible for Jesus to give a sign to a fragmented and half-fractious group. We did not meet what Ellen G. White foresaw for this moment:

The 144,000 were all sealed and perfectly united. {EW 15.1}

On the other hand, the leaders of the body of Christ have to ensure that the body remains pure. Members who do not meet the standards that Jesus has established must be excluded. That is the reason why the Adventist Church has failed across the board: creeping compromise. Examine yourselves now INTIMATELY, when you read how the couple transgressed.

We spoke with the couple today, and after some rather unsatisfactory answers from them, we examined their Facebook profiles. I speak frankly with you so that you can learn from it. You will also yet see that is about everything. Within about half an hour, it was clear that the couple sold “antique” jewelry, gold, silver for speculation, pyramid and get-rich-quick schemes, and they even advertise (by involvement, of course) for people to participate in casinos and gambling on the Internet.^[6]

The woman of the house was wearing pants on her profile image, and on a picture where she was younger, one might “admire” her bare legs protruding from a miniskirt. Both affirmed to us that they keep the health message, but they together weigh more than an elephant. (Someone could be obese because of an illness, but that is another matter.)

Although the couple claimed to wait with great joy for the coming of Christ, we were able to find few to no Christian posts between their dog and friendship posts. Neither were there posts of our articles. This shows their true lack of interest in the message.

And then there’s the issue of tithing. How many times we have explained (through links to complete courses and preparation of study documents) that the tithe is not ours, but God’s? Recently, I had to admonish again, and Sister Yormary just admonished the newly readmitted Brother Atilio^[7] about this topic. People who do not willingly return tithe to God are treated in the Bible as thieves, even thieves who steal from God Himself.^[8] And now they are condemned in the middle of the Battle of Armageddon, no longer as in peacetime in a long proceeding, but court-martialed and “shot” (that is immediately excluded) when they are caught. The couple paid tithe once in the many months of their being sealed, and also only $75. That is for both of them not more than one visit to McDonald’s, to judge by their weight. They had defensively described themselves towards us as having been homeless for a few months, so they did not have the time to study the message so deeply. But when you see their photos, then they live in a luxurious villa with its own central staircase in the lobby, all decorated with wood paneling, elaborately carved.

Those who do not return the real tenth of all income behave like Ananias and Sapphira, and the verdict from God is:

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part [the supposed tithe], and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. (Acts 5:1-10)

That was during a time of grace! Now, the excluded ones have to spend seven years in agony. Yes, you heard correctly: we examine with logic to verify that the tithe corresponds to what you give us. We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, and we are guardians of your souls, because we do not want everything to end the way that the end of the dream threatens.

Because of this “example” couple with conduct that is full of worldly idols, every one of you should now consider your own self. Yes, I repeat myself! Any leader, i.e. ANYONE who has ever sealed a person,^[9] and that person is still part of this movement, has to verify how that person behaves in everyday life. If there is only a hint of sin, we lose the war and Jesus will suffer what the last part of the dream says.

That must finally get through your heads! Jesus chose a “hard” director: me, the “bad” John Scotram. When I got softer and began readmitting pleading members such as Atilio or Cathy^[10] without being really sure that they can behave in a godly way, we received such a terrible dream of admonition within 24 hours. Everyone, not just Atilio and Cathy (who do not represent the couple that has been excluded) must question whether they are clean. Those who are not completely clean before the coming of the Day of Atonement on October 11/12 will then be sentenced to seven years^[11] + three and a half years dying in agony^[12] and then eternal death, or Jesus loses the war and that person sentenced us all, including God, to eternal death.^[13]

We are told again clearly in the dream who these people include, who do not give the glory to God:

Then I stand in a room where books are sold. I take a picture calendar in my hand. The first half of the year is missing, but the second half of the year is still complete. Since the first half of the year has passed, it can still be used. The calendar costs 30 Euros. It could be “repaired” or completed. The woman tells me that the “repair” is so expensive. It has something to do with a program. Then I see the same calendar again. It is complete for the current year and costs 15 euros. I wonder.

The incomplete picture calendar in need of repair stands for the UN program: The sustainable development goals to be realized by 2030. The first half of the period since the climate scare of the Millennium Group (2000 – 2030) has already ended (2016 not yet). By contrast, the other calendar, which costs only 15 euros, speaks in its symbolism of 2016, “the current year”, which is the year that Jesus wanted to come in, and that was a result of shortening by 15 years.^[14] Our studies are complete and there is no more “repair” necessary, everything is correct.

And yet, now in the remaining days, each must take care of himself with the little power of the daily portion of the Holy Spirit!^[15] Are you even the slightest bit aware of the consequences that even a single worldly thought can cause?

I go on and have to take care of my behavior.

I come to a dusty street, it is not (properly) asphalted. It is bright and hot. Everything is immersed in a Sahara-tone and seems to be Mediterranean. [We are in Babylon!] I sit down at the roadside. I wear a white skirt, but it is so short that I can barely cover myself. After all, it gets better, the skirt seems to be longer and I no longer feel quite so naked. On the other side of the street I see a woman walking along. [Women are notoriously tested especially by the dress code!]

She is wearing a white floor-length dress. The woman has pronounced curves and her figure is distinguished by her dress. It looks like the clothes worn by the women at the opening of the Greek Olympics. I look a little envious and at the same time questioning at the woman. Should I dress like that?^[16] Her hair is quite dark, probably black. Behind her is a large multi-story (tall) building. [The Tower of Babel.] It is older, not modern. She walks along the long side of the house, in front of her I can recognize a railing made of stone, as is known from Italy [Vatican] or the South. She runs from right to left and when she is at the end of the building, she seems to speak to the people there on the street. I do not see any human crowd, but there are people on the sidewalks. The street itself is empty.

Here Pope Francis, the spokesman of the Babylonian one-world religion, is presented as a seductive woman. Currently, however, his power is broken.^[17] That is why Angelica sees no crowds, but only a few people on the sidewalks (see our recent Facebook posts). But that can change quickly!

Dear women among us: if you read the end of the dream and really love your dear Lord Jesus, then do just what He asks of you. He does not like bare legs, clear yourself finally and buy something else on Tuesday to cover and hide your curves. In less than three weeks, you will wear a robe of light which leaves only your head exposed. Get used to it now, or immediately leave this movement. I have now said it for the last time. And stop defending those women who love the world, too. You make yourselves accomplices of the enemies of God!

The following is written for women who with their clothes inspire adultery or unwanted sexual thoughts:

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. (James 4:4)

If you cherish the thought of the woman who is depicted in Angelica’s dream, then beware, because you follow Pope Francis and the all-tolerant New World Order in secret.

What are the consequences of even one transgression, and the toleration of such, in our ranks? The terrible end of the dream should urge tears to your eyes (as it has now done with us).

A truck comes and stops in front of me. The tarpaulin is suddenly gone and I see besides some vegetable crates [health message] along and parallel to the walkway a lying body [Jesus, as we learn later]. He is wrapped in sackcloth.

Here Jesus is presented to us as the faithful witness, who is certainly dead. The fact that He does not have His royal robe, is still wearing sackcloth, and it is later mentioned that he resembles a Frenchman to Angelica, all point to Revelation 11. Jesus is dead, but rises again after the three and a half years (1290 or 1260 days) of the reign of Pope Francis (i.e. now).

His head is uncovered; I look at the lifeless face. It is a man, he has medium-blond hair, a round facial shape, sunburned skin. Spontaneously I think of a Frenchman. Suddenly, the man comes alive...

Hurray, the faithful witness is back, and we, the second witness, stand up with him, and we now expect the following end:

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them [the two witnesses, Jesus and us], and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. (Revelation 11:11-12)

That is the description of the second coming. At night we expected the sign that it was going to happen soon, and I know you were all full of joy. We here, however, almost broke under the burden of sin, and were full of concern which still prevails among us. I knew exactly what’s coming, and I fiercely exhorted the leaders here in Paraguay yesterday with almost the same words that are in Angelica’s dream. Instead of a sign, we received only clouds and instead of the rapture, the following will happen:

...and [Jesus] pulls out a gun under the linen cloth. It does not look new. I get scared and hide [like Adam and Eve] behind a shed that is left behind me. I lay down on the ground in a dug-out trough, and can now see the man’s face through a gap between the floor and the planks of the shed. I feel quite safe there. Then he says something to people who must be in the direction of the driver’s cab [the four men here in Paraguay], but I cannot see them: “I have three bullets, the first one for ... (you? I cannot understand the following sentences) ... I’ll reserve the last bullet for myself.”

Have you understood the message that we, the four male leaders in Paraguay, sitting in the cab of the truck of the Fourth Angel’s message, must give you hereby? We four leaders have done so much wrong that Jesus as Supreme Judge, to whom has been transferred all judgment from the Father, on the upcoming Day of Atonement must sentence His own Father and His own Representative, the Holy Spirit, quasi to be shot as it were or be condemned to death by His verdict because the very last people refused to follow His commandments. We four leaders, especially me, were almost always portrayed as too harsh by you in the forum. The last red-alert warning to Silencio^[18] was actually completely ignored. Do you know what you are doing when you provoke us, and how Adam^[19] and Eve (our “second Eve” who should have actually overcome) come and present us with the fait accompli (after-the-fact notice), that a non-married couple has decided for the last few days of human history to room in the same house? How could you other leaders fail to immediately admonish and advise the two that this is at least a violation of the third commandment, namely to give a very bad image to God and to use His name in vain? Gerhard could make them immediately reverse it. That’s good. But sin remains, and it happened in a time when there is no more grace.^[20] How will God judge?

You force Jesus, your beloved Lord, to send you a dream in which He will have to show you that you still leave Him only one option... namely divine SUICIDE! On Yom Kippur, He will pass judgment and Divinity will cease to exist, because your and my sin left Him no other choice! Can we carry such debt? We probably have to, because there is simply no forgiving blood anymore available. We will suffer to death in a world where we cannot pray to anyone anymore, because He is no longer there. We would be looking in our despair at the Bible, to see if there is not a way out. But none will be found, because He who wrote the word will be silenced forever, and a deceased Holy Spirit can no longer lead anyone to the lost truth.^[21]

I think that must be Jesus, I think on you, I think of the guns in John’s dream and that I must tell you about the dream. I am scared and wake up.

Please get scared now and WAKE UP!

It’s about eight o’clock.

Yes, we are close to eight o’clock on the plague clock! That would have been our going home and the start of the judgment in heaven. Instead, we will die seven years together with our enemies or even longer, because Satan has won the Great Controversy. And ultimately the whole universe will be contaminated by sin, because there is no longer a God who could put a stop to it.

So I stood there, when I got the dream I myself had asked for after a long struggle with some leaders and an escalation yesterday. I stood there, without hope and with the judgment in hand. I would even have to deal harder with some, instead of being always ready to forgive, I should have Jesus always in mind and would have to recognize who is His friend and who is His enemy, although I had repeatedly heard false protestations or flimsy excuses. I—as the supreme leader of this movement—have failed; I have failed, just as the “sub-leaders”, the “Magnificent Seven” and the villagers.^[22] We have ALL failed miserably and never before has it been confirmed what I said in the article Our High Calling, that Jesus and God the Father and the Holy Spirit must die. And it’s our fault...

After some time, my despair began to subside so that I could pray, and then the Lord spoke clearly to me:

“Realize that I address these words to you on the Feast of Trumpets. It is the day of warning! It is the day on which the people were called together to prepare for the Day of Atonement. It is the day, Yom Teruah on which you all should SHOUT: Who shall be able to stand? And every one of you should ask this question yourself. Only a non-perverse and pure people will receive a sign! And I cannot tolerate sin, and my people cannot tolerate sin among themselves. If you are not pure on Yom Kippur, I will die a second time and this time forever. I do not want my words, that I will be with you till the end, to have to be interpreted in the way that this is the end, and here and now it all ends. I want to be with you forever and have you with me forever! I love my people, no matter how few they may be. But do you love me as dearly as I love you? Faith is love, and I asked, will I find faith when I return? Do you understand that I seek your love, and that it can only be expressed in obedience to me? It’s all in your hands, because I have given my own life into your hands.”^[23]

We are in the “moment of truth” for each one of us. I call on you to shout with me a battle cry of cleansing with the words: “Who shall be able to stand?”

The Everlasting Covenant

THE SECOND TIME PROCLAMATION BY GOD ON SABBATH, OCTOBER 8, 2016, DELIVERED WITH THE HUMAN WORDS OF JOHN SCOTRAM ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT OF OCTOBER 12, 2016

Good News and Bad News

Often the bearer of a rather disappointing message begins with the question: “Do you want to hear the good news first, or the bad news first?” What appears to be a rhetorical introduction is actually a trick with which the questioner tells the questioned, or the messenger tells the recipient, who is responsible for his/her malaise after receiving the bad news. So I do not want to start this post—my last message to the forum and its members—with that question, and therefore I will not even give you the choice. Instead, I will immediately deliver the bad news, which means the buck stops with me. But it will be up to you after you read the post, whether you understand and accept the good news, or you continue to feel disappointed.

The bad news is: Jesus will not return on October 24, 2016.

The rest of this message is dedicated to the good news.

The Hour of Truth

On the plague clock, we are in the hour which I called the Hour of Truth in my last public article. Every reader of this message knows that there is only one truth, because the readers are a chosen group of people who do not hold the universal creed of the world, which says that there is a plurality of individual truths. They accept only one truth, which must come from a reliable source: the voice of God from Orion, like the sound of many waters.

The study forum was set up for us to study together, to correct mistakes, to study what the leaders in Paraguay had learned from God, to determine the veracity of it. Yet, minor or major mistakes of interpretation were often made because participation was often lacking, because basic knowledge was often lacking, or because individual views obscured one’s view of the God-given light.

However, the mistake in the time calculation that we will address on this Day of Atonement did not arise, in my opinion, from the aforementioned weaknesses of our study group; God Himself once again put His divine finger over a mistake until the time had come to uncover it, and to announce it to only this small illustrious group of His personal and successful witnesses after the finished battle of Armageddon.^[24] This time, we are talking about a mistake that happened by the will of God, which doesn’t warrant the name “Miller’s mistake” this time, but rather “Snow’s mistake.”

In order to put you out of your misery, and to allow you to be relaxed as you read what is perhaps the most important message in God’s schedule, I will tell you in advance what I mean with the difference between the mistakes of Miller and Snow: Miller was off by more than a whole year, because he determined the coming of Jesus to be the spring of 1843. Snow corrected it to the Day of Atonement in 1844, but he was also off—but only by one day. Actually, it was even less than a day, and that is also the period of time we need to talk about.

In the article Full Moon at Gethsemane - Part I, I had—as you hopefully still remember—recalculated how exact the calculations of the pioneers were indeed, with regard to the supposed return date in 1844. It occurred to me that October 22, 1844, even confirmed by Ellen G. White, was correct, but the pioneers did not wait long enough on that day. At that time, they did not know anything about the Jewish day beginning at sunset, and only calculated the beginning of the Day of Atonement. Yes, it began on October 22, 1844, but not at mid-night, and it did not end at midnight 24 hours later either. Just as disappointed, we left our observation site shortly after midnight on the Day of Trumpets, 2016, like the pioneers hung their heads at midnight at the beginning of October 23 and went back to their homes in silence because of the sorrow.^[25] Nowadays we know that they should have had hope until sunset on October 23. On the morning of October 23, Hiram Edson saw the heavens open and brought to the disappointed the joyous message of the beginning of the judgment. Snow had calculated the starting date correctly, but with our present knowledge we would be even more correct to say October 22/23 to avoid any confusion. To be short, however, we would say October 23, because the main part of the Day of Atonement fell on that day. If Adventists celebrate the anniversary of their faith on October 22, it is technically wrong, unless they meet for an evening meal. October 23 is the true anniversary of the Adventist faith. We’ll come back to that.

So Snow was in error almost a whole day (from midnight at the beginning of October 22, till sunset on October 22). Since we are the movement of the Fourth Angel, representing the joining of the third angel with the Fourth,^[26] we owe it to history to repeat the mistakes of the joining of the first angel (Miller – 1 year)^[27] with the second angel (Snow – 1 day). It must be understood that the Fourth Angel represents the repetition of the second angel’s message with the addition of the transgressions of the Adventist church since 1844.

Thus, on the fifth Omer Sabbath^[28] leading up to the coming of the Lord, it pleased God to correct this mistake and communicate this knowledge to us. What does it mean, though, that at the last moment—just two weeks before Jesus’ return—God gives us a new date for the event that we are so eagerly awaiting? It can mean only one thing...

The Second Time Proclamation

Again and again we return to the well-known words of Ellen G. White, which give us a description of the last-day events, or better, the very last days of world history prior to the millennium. While reading, remember that Ellen G. White had this vision in relation to Jesus’ coming to an Adventist church that should have suffered persecution because of its loyalty. As explained in previous posts, not everything could be fulfilled as planned because the Adventist church was not faithful.^[29] Therefore, the persecution described here did not occur in a literal manner, and also God’s action against the attackers^[30] in the stated form was not necessary.

In the time of trouble we all fled from the cities and villages, but were pursued by the wicked, who entered the houses of the saints with a sword. [This didn’t happen at all or only symbolically.^[31]] They raised the sword to kill us, but it broke, and fell as powerless as a straw. [Fulfilled by our steadfastness in faith when we were attacked by the unbelievers’ pact at Assisi.^[32]] Then we all cried day and night for deliverance, and the cry came up before God. [This is the spiritual battle of Armageddon, which we are fighting right now.] The sun came up, and the moon stood still. The streams ceased to flow. [We’ll see how and when this is accomplished.] Dark, heavy clouds came up and clashed against each other. [Here is the story of the growing storm; the threat of the Third World War, which is now becoming more and more evident.^[33]] But there was one clear place of settled glory [the temple in Paraguay^[34]], whence came the voice of God like many waters, which shook the heavens and the earth. [Notice that it is the voice of God from Paraguay that causes the earthquakes!] The sky opened and shut and was in commotion. [The great controversy in heaven; the court facing the decision; “It is done”; Satan’s “Objection”; Trumpet feast; the beginning of Angelica’s dream.] The mountains [the nations] shook like a reed in the wind [the wind of war], and cast out ragged rocks all around [war threats with intercontinental missiles^[35]]. The sea [Europe] boiled like a pot [the refugee crisis, the Brexit, etc.] and cast out stones [threatening gestures with short-range missiles^[36]] upon the land [towards Europe]. [And now comes the second time proclamation:] And as God spoke the day and the hour of Jesus’ coming and delivered the everlasting covenant to His people, He spoke one sentence, and then paused, while the words were rolling through the earth. The Israel of God stood with their eyes fixed upward, listening to the words as they came from the mouth of Jehovah, and rolled through the earth like peals of loudest thunder. It was awfully solemn. And at the end of every sentence the saints shouted, “Glory! Alleluia!” Their countenances were lighted up with the glory of God; and they shone with the glory, as did the face of Moses when he came down from Sinai. The wicked could not look on them for the glory. And when the never-ending blessing was pronounced on those who had honored God in keeping His Sabbath holy, there was a mighty shout of victory over the beast and over his image. {EW 34.1}

Did you read my annotations carefully? Did you notice that I interpreted things a lot differently now compared to previous posts, but also differently than what is commonly understood by Adventists? Did you, like me, take the boiling sea to be literal and think that it could be the gamma-ray burst that boils the ocean?^[37] Remember: the fulfillment would have been literal only if the Adventist church had fulfilled its mission! That also escaped us in Paraguay for a long time. But we have already explained that fulfillments must be symbolic now.

We need to understand that God has several plans. He is always one step ahead of Satan’s plans. It is not good if we understand everything too early, because then Satan knows it from overhearing our conversations. God also allows us to get it wrong—not to create confusion, but to test our faith. When the Supernova did not appear on the Day of Trumpets, it was clear to me that we might have followed a wrong path. The gamma-ray burst will come, but we do not know exactly when Alnitak exploded. There are many historical events that could fit, and distance measurements are still not accurate “to the day”, despite the Gaia dataset.

Therefore, I pointed out a scenario above, which is most likely, and which we have observed since the beginning of the seventh plague: the brewing of the Third World War with its devastating nuclear bombs. We could see this developing for a long time in the trumpets and the other six plagues. Please remember the annexation of Crimea in the first trumpet and Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine in the second trumpet! At the beginning of the seventh plague, on September 25, the UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting on a Sunday because of Russia’s bombing of Aleppo.^[38] On the Day of Trumpets itself, the US ended all talks with Russia.^[39] The threatening gestures of Russia and the US were then becoming increasingly violent. The latest, as of the writing of this post, is the stationing of nuclear missiles in Kaliningrad, right at the border to Europe. Take a look at the map above! Huge rocks and stones remind us of something that weighs heavily, but does not explode when thrown. That could be the threatening gestures of the nations, which are now angry (see Revelation 11:18^[40]).

But when can we start to shout for joy? As soon as the time is proclaimed to us once more! We wondered for a long time why Ellen G. White saw the time being announced again. Through the latest God-given studies, the one-day error finally appeared and could be solved, and thus the prophecy above was fulfilled. And now look at exactly when this was to be expected. Read the next sentence of the following paragraph:

Then commenced the jubilee, when the land should rest. {EW 35.1}

According to the Bible, the jubilee begins on the Day of Atonement:

Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. (Leviticus 25:9-10)

So according to Ellen G. White’s vision, the second time proclamation must be given before or on the Day of Atonement itself. The text of the vision, however, suggests that the time is divided into sentences separated by pauses: “He spoke one sentence, and then paused, while the words were rolling through the earth...” The first pause ends with this message to you. We in Paraguay received the second time proclamation on Sabbath, October 8. Now I write it down to pass it on to you. It must then be translated into two other languages, and we plan to give you this good news on the Day of Atonement, so that you can know that the war has been won and that you can shout “Glory! Alleluia!” according to the vision, as we did a few days earlier. Then comes the second pause. When the people who died under the third angel’s message are raised on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, they will also know from God the true date of His Son’s coming. Together we can raise a mighty shout of victory because we got the victory over the beast and his image. Isn’t that wonderful news?^[41]

Now it is also clear who the “pious slave” is, who will be released at the beginning of the jubilee (Day of Atonement):

Then commenced the jubilee, when the land should rest. I saw the pious slave [the second faithful witness: us^[42]] rise in triumph and victory and shake off the chains that bound him, while his wicked master [Satan, who for a long time has claimed us because of our sins] was in confusion and knew not what to do; for the wicked could not understand the words of the voice of God. [Only after the Day of Atonement, when we are reconciled to God, will the cloud, the sign of the Son of Man, appear. Exactly when, we are about to investigate.] Soon appeared the great white cloud. It looked more lovely than ever before. On it sat the Son of man. At first we did not see Jesus on the cloud, but as it drew near the earth we could behold His lovely person. This cloud, when it first appeared, was the sign of the Son of man in heaven. The voice of the Son of God called forth the sleeping saints, clothed with glorious immortality. The living saints were changed in a moment and were caught up with them into the cloudy chariot. [The special resurrection is not mentioned here; this is the first resurrection. You see that many visions complement each other and contain different details. That often makes it difficult to determine the exact order of the events.] It looked all over glorious as it rolled upward. On either side of the chariot were wings, and beneath it wheels. And as the chariot rolled upward, the wheels cried, “Holy,” and the wings, as they moved, cried, “Holy,” and the retinue of holy angels around the cloud cried, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!” And the saints in the cloud cried, “Glory! Alleluia!” And the chariot rolled upward to the Holy City. [When we are in the great spaceship, the following happens:] Jesus threw open the gates of the golden city [the inner City] and led us in. Here we were made welcome, for we had kept the “commandments of God,” and had a “right to the tree of life.”^[43] [Remember this for later: this is the beginning of the millennium.] {EW 35.1}

Did you notice: the beginning of the jubilee year is “today” on the Day of Atonement when you read this post! But the beginning of the millennium has not yet come. You will see that I had to rethink some of what is in the Hour of Truth, but it is about refinements of days and not about weeks, months or years!^[44]

Nevertheless, if you understand that this post represents the second time proclamation, then you should already be jumping for joy because this is a major milestone in the final rapid movements. It is the voice of God saying that you, who remain in the forum at this time, have successfully won the battle of Armageddon. A great victory has been gained.^[45]

Calculation Precision

There have been some indications that we were around one day off with the coming of Jesus, and two of them have been there for a very long time. Look at the calculation of the 1335-day timeline of Daniel. In the article Miller’s Mistake, we finally understood the year of plagues and then quickly realized that the 1335 days would end in the autumn of 2016. We noticed that it coincided with the Last Great Day on October 24. Therefore, we could expect an event to occur 1335 days earlier, which would visibly indicate the beginning of the timeline. We reckoned: October 24, 2016 - 1335 days in Jewish inclusive counting = February 28, 2013.

However, as you can see in our longstanding timeline, we were “attracted” to February 27 because we had received prophetic confirmation for that date.

In the year 2013, we observed that the timeline of the 1335 days had clearly begun with the resignation actions of Pope Benedict XVI. The official resignation was on February 28, but the big farewell ceremony took place on February 27 at St. Peter’s Square with great press coverage and a large crowd. Which event should we take? February 27 was the anniversary of God the Father’s departure from the Most Holy Place, which for us was the type of Benedict’s withdrawal from the Vatican. February 27 is interwoven in our heads and—as you will see—it is good that way.

If, however, we add the 1335 days to February 27 with inclusive counting, we are lacking one day to come to October 24, 2016. We explained it to ourselves by saying that the “blessing,” which was to be expected at the end of the 1335 days, would come one day later because the 1335 days are days of “waiting.” However, we did not like that very well, and there was always that slight inaccuracy and a little doubt. Nevertheless, the fact that the “Last Great Day” signaled the return was so attractive that we no longer paid any attention to the precision of the calculation.

The same thing happened to us with the calculation of the 372 portions.^[46] The first portion was needed on October 18, 2015, and according to the count, the supply of the portions only went up to October 23, 2016. We were again missing one portion for October 24. We also explained that away.

An Hour of 28 Days

Now that we have come so close to the hour of Jesus’ second coming that it has become almost palpable, the events around us and the progressive revelation of God^[47] have taught us more and more details about the schedule of the last few days.

Now we know that the destruction of the earth will not last a whole year, or 372 days according to the portions of the Holy Spirit; it will take place in a much shorter timeframe. The plagues were amplified trumpets and brought the nations ever closer to the point of no return. One sentence rang several times and grew louder and louder in my spiritual ear: “God created the earth in six days, and He can destroy it in six days.”^[48]

We know from looking at the hour of the beast and through the simple twelve-hour division of the plague clock that an hour on the clock lasts exactly 28 days. So let us calculate it again, exactly:

The beginning of Seventh Plague, September 25 + 28 days (21 days + 7 days of Noah) = October 22, 2016. Jesus was supposed to come on the eighth day... and—oh no—it would be the 23^rd of October and not the 24^th! The seven days of Noah are also one day shifted with respect to the Tabernacle feast days. Another one-day inaccuracy! How do we bring it into harmony?

First, let’s make a time table. We can recognize more with it than we could by mere words or dates:

As you can see, I have marked all seventh-day Sabbaths and ceremonial sabbaths in red, and I begin the 21-day^[49] count with the date of the seventh plague as read from the plague clock. Keep in mind that this date is even confirmed by events.

Now you can nicely see how the “full weeks” of Daniel 10 perfectly align to Sunday (Day 1) and Sabbath (Day 7). Even the days of Noah align (seven days in the ark and rain on the eighth day). However, they are obviously exactly one day shifted with respect to the Feast of Tabernacles and the Last Great Day.

We have to count precisely in order to fully understand prophecy. God is not inaccurate, and if we have His character, then we cannot be either.

Let us fill the schedule with our knowledge of the progress of recent events. We have learned that Satan (Pope Francis) withstood Gabriel for 21 days until Michael stood up on the 21^st day and remained with “Satan” and fought him, so that Gabriel could travel to Daniel. So on the 22^nd day, Michael (Jesus) took over the battle.^[50] What does that mean for us?

For 21 days, or three full weeks, we had to stand without sin until Jesus was given the right to really intervene in the struggle. That is the moment when the power of God will manifest itself on the earth. That is the day of destruction. Read it from the table above: it is October 16, 2016—a Sunday! It is one day before the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, the very day when we expect the sign of the Son of Man to be finally confirmed visibly. We also believe that the special resurrection will take place on that first day of the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Feast of Tabernacles is a victory feast, so the great devastation and destruction of the enemy’s armies must take place beforehand. October 16 is just right for a perfect solution.

In graphic language, nuclear weapons will speak on October 16 and bring great suffering and death over the earth. Remember what I “heard” again and again: “God created the earth in six days, and He can destroy it in six days.”

Let’s sum it up... first day of destruction, October 16, 2016, a Sunday, just like the first day of creation. Perhaps atomic bombs will fall for several days, and then the radioactive fallout (as compared with our statements in previous articles regarding acid rain due to the GRB: the lake of fire burning with brimstone). The sixth and final day of the destruction would then be Friday (the sixth day of creation), October 21, 2016. Then God will rest from His work of undoing the creation of the earth, on a Sabbath, October 22, 2016. It is the day on which the feast of the fowls begins. And then comes the eighth day of Noah, where the long-awaited rain came. In our case, this is the day of the coming of Jesus, the 23^rd (and not the 24^th) of October, 2016.

50 Days of Omer Counting

For the last Sabbaths, we’ve often wished each other: “Blessed Omer Sabbath!” That was perfectly true, but we were still a little bit inexact. We were surprised to see that the Sabbath of September 3 was a special Sabbath in three respects. On the one hand, it was the last High Sabbath^[51] on Earth, because it was the new moon day for the beginning of the sixth month. On the other hand, it was the day when we finished our work on the websites with the release of the last version of the DVD. Then we realized that there were 50 days left until the coming of Jesus, and that what we had done with the completion of our public work on that day corresponded to what Jesus did when He rested in the tomb after completing His work of public preaching. On Resurrection Sunday, the counting to the 50^th day began for the descent of the Holy Spirit.

Let’s calculate it again, exactly: Sunday, September 4, 2016 + 50 days (inclusive) = October 23, 2016 until the coming of Jesus. It is October 23 and not October 24, which we so earnestly long for.

The Great Jubilee

October 23, 2016, is the great anniversary of the Adventist faith since 1844. 172 years have passed since Hiram Edson saw the heavens open and Jesus entered into the Most Holy Place. Those are 168 years for the judgment of the dead + 3.5 years for the judgment of the living (with an overlap of half a year) + 1 year of plagues.

The Seventh-day Adventist World Church will be celebrating the 172^nd anniversary of the Great Disappointment (if it will still be possible) on October 22 (one day too early). They celebrate it as “Creation Sabbath,” which they have laid precisely on the Sabbath^[52] when God will rest from the total destruction of His creation. What a macabre occasion and contrast, and what a shuddering reminder of The End of the Seventh-day Adventist Church! How close they were to the goal! Only “one (symbolic) day” separated them from truth and salvation! It was the day that we found in the core study of the Cross, in Full Moon at Gethsemane!

We, on the other hand, will rejoice on the following day, the day when we actually walk through the open heavenly gates into the Holy City, which Hiram Edson saw. What a day, this true jubilee of the Adventist faith! With His own return, Jesus will once again confirm the day when the sanctuary doctrine began. “Glory, hallelujah!”^[53]

The Last Great Day

What are we going to do with the Last Great Day after the Feast of Tabernacles? For so long, this day was a symbol of the coming of Jesus for us, by its very name. But we did not really read carefully. The whole Christian world sees the Feast of Tabernacles as a symbol for the events before the Millennium and the Last Great Day as a symbol for the events after the Millennium. Thus, they were more correct than we were for a long time.

I offer you another more meaningful interpretation of the name of the day. World history, from its creation to its destruction, lasted 6000 years, which is even confirmed by Ellen G. White. We even counted that period as a clock of God for one of the crowns of Jesus as part of the sevenfold crown of time.^[54] You know that this is the Great Week of Creation where “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years.”^[55] So, the Millennium is the period of the seventh day, when God lets us all rest from sin. The Millennium is, in truth, the “Last Great Day” of the Great Week of Creation. After the end of the Last Great Sabbath Day, sin will finally be eradicated.

When, though, does this “Last Great Day” begin? When does the Millennium begin?

Let’s read from the Bible:

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (Revelation 20:2)

Ellen G. White tells us {SR 415, 416} that Satan will be confined to the earth for a thousand years, and that is the Millennium. When will the first day of his abandonment be? October 24, 2016, the beginning of the Last Great Creation Sabbath.

And what is the Millennium for us?

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Revelation 20:4)

In my interpretation in the article The Hour of Truth, I let the plague clock run beyond Saiph and also overlooked the one-day mistake. It was tempting to see that the journey had to pause on a Sabbath, and we came very close to the throne line, which would indicate the beginning of the thousand-year judgment. The biblical text above says a lot about that judgment, but the thousand years do not start with the beginning of the judgment; they start with the “transfer of the judgment,” and the text also says that they “lived with the Christ” (and not only reigned).^[56] That’s why this millennium actually begins for us on the day when we spend our first full day with Jesus in the Holy City, and that is October 24, 2016, the beginning of the Last Great Sabbath of one thousand years.

This Last Great Sabbath gives our name as High (as in Great) Sabbath Adventists an even more brilliant meaning.

Now it will really come to pass as it would have in 1890. Our journey to the Orion Nebula will begin on a Sunday, the first day of the week, and Ellen G. White is now quite right when she says:

We all entered the cloud together, and were seven days ascending to the sea of glass [the Orion Nebula], when Jesus brought the crowns, and with His own right hand placed them on our heads. He gave us harps of gold and palms of victory. Here on the sea of glass the 144,000 stood in a perfect square. Some of them had very bright crowns, others not so bright. Some crowns appeared heavy with stars, while others had but few. All were perfectly satisfied with their crowns. And they were all clothed with a glorious white mantle from their shoulders to their feet. Angels were all about us as we marched over the sea of glass to the gate of the city. Jesus raised His mighty, glorious arm, laid hold of the pearly gate, swung it back on its glittering hinges, and said to us, “You have washed your robes in My blood, stood stiffly for My truth, enter in.” We all marched in and felt that we had a perfect right in the city. Here we saw the tree of life and the throne of God. Out of the throne came a pure river of water, and on either side of the river was the tree of life. On one side of the river was a trunk of a tree, and a trunk on the other side of the river, both of pure, transparent gold. {EW 16.2}

The marriage supper of the Lamb will therefore take place on Sabbath, October 29, and in the special meeting with God we will learn what the verdict will be for the 144,000: whether they will be allowed to live, or will have to give their lives as they had previously offered.^[57]

Reward Her Double

Before we can enjoy the wonders of eternity, we first have to face the undoing of creation: a destruction that has never before been and will never again be.^[58]

There are still two puzzles to solve, which have always struck me as I studied.^[59] There is Ellen G. White’s statement: “The sun came up, and the moon stood still. The streams ceased to flow.” {EW 34.1} And in the Bible, there is the description of the “double” destruction of the whore, Babylon:

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. (Revelation 18:4-6)

How should we accomplish that, to give the great whore, Babylon (all the nations of the earth, together with the Papacy) a “double” pouring of the cup of destruction? It is not we, of course, but Jesus, who executes this “revenge.” Together with Jesus, we are the “two witnesses” of Revelation 11:

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. (Revelation 11:6)

Is that the meaning of double “vengeance”? Yes, but how exactly will this doubling be accomplished?

While studying the Hour of Truth, we looked very closely at our own travel itinerary to the Orion Nebula, which has now been greatly simplified because there is no longer a Sabbath layover that needs to be observed en route. Nevertheless, we learned a lot of principles that will help us now, because we have yet to look that closely at Jesus’ itinerary from the Orion Nebula to Earth.

Have you ever considered why there is a time difference of five days between the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles?

You understand now that the day of decision in the Battle of Armageddon is Yom Kippur, but Satan still does not know that our cases are already decided:

As Satan influenced Esau to march against Jacob, so he will stir up the wicked to destroy God’s people in the time of trouble. And as he accused Jacob, he will urge his accusations against the people of God. He numbers the world as his subjects; but the little company who keep the commandments of God are resisting his supremacy. If he could blot them from the earth, his triumph would be complete. He sees that holy angels are guarding them, and he infers that their sins have been pardoned; but he does not know that their cases have been decided in the sanctuary above. He has an accurate knowledge of the sins which he has tempted them to commit, and he presents these before God in the most exaggerated light, representing this people to be just as deserving as himself of exclusion from the favor of God. He declares that the Lord cannot in justice forgive their sins and yet destroy him and his angels. He claims them as his prey and demands that they be given into his hands to destroy. {GC 618.2}

The decision is made as of this Yom Kippur,^[60] and we already know that it is highly likely to have a positive outcome for us, otherwise we would not have received the second time proclamation on October 8, the fifth Omer Sabbath. “Glory, hallelujah!” But Satan does not know all this, and continues to accuse.

On Sunday, September 25, Jesus announced “It is done!” and could have been to the Earth in seven days. The day of His return would have been October 2. The Millennium would have begun with the Day of Trumpets on October 3. But Satan resisted him with the accusations against us. God knew all of this beforehand, of course, and therefore gave the prophecy of the 21 days in Daniel 10.

Before the first accusation was made, Jesus had already traveled a distance. On Sunday, He reached the star of His Father, Alnilam, and the next day Mintaka, the star of the Holy Spirit. Then He was “detained.” That was on Monday, September 26. We learned of the charge against us in heaven seven days later as always: on the Day of Trumpets, October 3, 2016. Now our emergency cleansing started, so Jesus could not continue.^[61]

Today, on Yom Kippur 2016, the decision is made and communicated to you with this post. There are still five travel stops remaining until the huge “New Jerusalem” spaceship arrives in our solar system, and thus also becomes visible as the sign of the Son of Man, since from that time on the light will no longer need to cross lightyears to become visible. Thus the Holy City becomes visible only as a dark cloud somewhere in the orbit of Jupiter or Pluto, and then becomes ever brighter and nearer until it reaches Earth’s orbit. We know from Ellen G. White’s prophecy that the sign of the Son of Man is visible on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, because that is when we are going to shout in victory. Amid all the destruction around us, which began one day earlier on Sunday, October 16, the sign of our salvation appears: the final confirmation that we really won the battle.

Let’s calculate:

The table would be very harmonious if we didn’t know that God would not travel on seventh-day Sabbaths, although He could travel on ceremonial Sabbaths (which Paul has already said were nailed to the cross)! And October 15 is such a Sabbath. God also follows His own rules, so He inserts a rest at Saiph. And do you see it? Again, it is the star of the Sabbath where the rest takes place.

Now, however, the sign of the Son of Man would not appear until the second day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which would be out of harmony. The first day of the Feast of Tabernacles is a ceremonial sabbath, and its symbolism clearly indicates the appearance of the glory of God in our solar system (see Robert’s last post).

To explain this, both Ellen G. White and the Bible give us help—as it should be, since Ellen G. White described herself as the lesser light that should lead to the greater light. Ellen G. White saw:

The sun came up, and the moon stood still. The streams ceased to flow. {EW 34.1}

This part of the vision reminds us of the events in Joshua’s battle with the Amorites, which was written for us as a type:

Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel. (Joshua 10:12-14)

Joshua has always been a key figure for our movement, because he received the blueprint for the understanding of the repetition of the seals: the marches around Jericho. And here is the blueprint for the day of vengeance... the sun and the moon will stand still until the vengeance is finished, in fact “a whole day” long. The day of vengeance, as we have already learned, is Sunday, October 16, and that day will not be 24 hours long, but 48 hours. A double day!^[62]

Now we understand Revelation 18:6-8 in a new light:

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. (Revelation 18:6-8)

On a double day, twenty-four hours for each of the two witnesses, Babylon will be put to an end. Victory is ours! “Glory, hallelujah!”

And now Jesus has gained one day “in heaven” where time goes on normally, because only the rotation of the earth is stopped, to arrive punctually in our solar system with the Holy City on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles:

Take a closer look! What star does Jesus first arrive to on the Day of Destruction? At Betelgeuse! This has always been a special star with regard to bad news:

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. (Revelation 6:3-4)

Dear brothers and sisters, if that doesn’t describe the outbreak of the Third World War, then I don’t know what does! And in the second half of the same 48-hour day, Jesus comes to Bellatrix:

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. (Revelation 6:5-6)

Will that not be the complete breakdown of the world economic system, when the bombs are falling?

And what does our yellow sun stand for in this sequence, where Jesus stays until our departure together?

And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale [many translations also say yellow] horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. (Revelation 6:7-8)

Perhaps it will really happen the way I wrote in the Hour of Truth:

We even saw the sign of Jonah, which confirmed that the explosion of Betelgeuse [now Alnitak] will come at the time of God’s wrath and bring the destruction of the earth with it. What we overlooked was that the destruction will only happen once Jesus will have already come and His church will have been saved from the burning of the earth caused by the gamma-ray burst. We had applied our knowledge to the first plague, but Jesus planned the catastrophe for the final annihilation of mankind, when we will already be in the Holy City. Sometimes we simply have to wait and see if things fulfill as we understand them, and sometimes a different kind of fulfillment is possible. If you will, this is the “pre”-rapture that so many talk about, but it will occur only after the seven plagues and the great tribulation!

One Last Warning

Before you jump the gun in celebrating the victory, I ask you once more to look at the journey of Jesus! Do you see where Jesus would have flown if we had not cleansed our sins and Satan had won the war?

Jesus arrived at Mintaka, the last star of the throne line except for Alnitak itself, prior to Yom Kippur. Here, at the star of the Holy Spirit, the verdict is found in the heavenly courtroom. God is declared guilty or innocent by the jury, and we were either witnesses for God or for Satan.

If we were witnesses for God, the Holy City continues with Jesus on board to Rigel, as we have already shown above. But if God is found guilty because we have failed as witnesses, then the Divine Navigator will set the course directly ahead into His own star, which has either long since burned up as a supernova and left behind a black hole, or the Holy City’s descent into it causes it to supernova and triggers the gamma-ray burst as it implodes into a black hole. It is the only way that God, who is Light, might commit suicide. He plunges into a black hole, a thing which science cannot completely comprehend. Some say that a black hole is a gateway into another universe, which would mean that God departs from this universe, leaving it to itself. But one thing is sure: no light can escape from a black hole. Hence its name. This universe would forever be a universe without light, without hope. There would be no God to whom we could pray and no protection from Satan. It would be pointless to open the Bible, since the Word of God would have perished in His own star.

And what about the seal with the date of October 24, which we and many others have fitted onto our profile pictures for Facebook and the forum? Haven’t you asked, like we did, how to handle the cases of people who have not even made it into this forum, because their sins were so open, or because their zeal for study and their love of the truth were too lacking for them to be sealed, while we fervently fought the battle against our sins and against Satan in the battle of Armageddon?

Many took the seal of October 24 merely because they simply believed the date without any study. They did not begin the seal study with any of us. But now notice: the seal they now bear is turning out to be a pure time-setter’s date! Why? Because it is easy to read it from the Jewish feasts, which coincidentally fall on the same dates as the divine feasts this year. So whoever confuses—as we previously did—the meaning of the term “Last Great Day” with the true date of return, has the wrong seal. They want the seal without having to study, which is the typical behavior, or they want the short studies of the pure time-setters who have no spiritual message. They continue to bear the wrong seal. It never had a real value, and if it had any, it has now been invalidated and rendered null and void by the second time proclamation. Think about that when you read this post and look at yourself in the mirror!

We are not going to make new pictures now, because we do not want the world out there to have the right date, and also because we are looking forward to the start of the Millennium on October 24. But the true seal of the coming of Jesus has just now been given to us by God, and we have it in our hearts and minds. It is the seal which also includes the faith of those who, like Hiram Edson, have seen heaven open and have followed Jesus into the Most Holy Place. No Adventist these days who rejects the doctrine of the sanctuary could have ever obtained this seal. October 23, which is a very “normal” Sunday at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, would never have come to his forehead. Whoever has October 24 alone on his forehead, is only looking for the reward in heaven, without having trod the stony path of the Bible studies that we have walked with Jesus.^[63]

The Delivery of the Everlasting Covenant

The bad news was that Jesus is not coming on October 24. The good news is that He comes one day earlier and thus accomplished a final sifting in His church.

Do you understand that everyone who has the wrong seal on their foreheads, that is, in their mind or expectation, are eternally lost? Do you know what the seal of October 24 really means? They are sealed for the second resurrection of the unrighteous, since the seal marks the beginning of the millennium after which Jesus comes for them:

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished... (Revelation 20:5)

October 24, 2016 stands for the beginning of the judgment of those who will suffer the second and eternal death. In a dreadful way, we realize that God was accounting us to that fate until October 8. But it was only just!

Whoever bears the seal of October 23 on his forehead, however, has the date of the first resurrection in his heart and character! The blessing for those who would wait until the end of the 1335 days is repeated here:

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. (Revelation 20:6)

Whoever has this seal is sealed for what will happen on October 23:

Behold, I shew 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 trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. (1 Corinthians 15:51-56)

Do you really understand what was given to you with the second time proclamation?

And as God spoke the [true] day and the hour of Jesus’ coming and delivered the everlasting covenant to His people...

What is the everlasting covenant? The everlasting covenant is not only the promise of many descendants that Abraham received. The everlasting covenant is not only the promise of victory over sin. The everlasting covenant is not only the promise of living with Jesus in heaven. The everlasting covenant is, first and foremost, the promise of eternal life!

The fact that the Spirit of Prophecy tells us that we are given the everlasting covenant at the same time as the second time proclamation means that we have been sealed with eternal life. We have already been sealed “for immortality,” which we will receive from the hand of the Creator on October 23!

Thus, we were actually marked as “immortal” by the recognition of the true day of the Second Coming. This reminds us of a prophecy of Ellen G. White, which has long been presented to us as the critic’s counter-argument:

The opportune time for us to work is now, just now, while the day lasts. But there is no command for anyone to search the Scripture in order to ascertain, if possible, when probation will close. God has no such message for any mortal lips. He would have no mortal tongue declare that which He has hidden in His secret councils.—The Review and Herald, October 9, 1894. {1SM 191.2}

I have always argued that we are de facto immortals if we belong to the 144,000. Then came the death of Sister Gabriela, and we all had to swallow hard. But today we know she did not have the right date. That means she died under the third angel’s message, like many others, and will rise according to all our knowledge on the first day of Tabernacles. But she was never sealed as one of the 144,000 because she never went through the time without grace. She was laid to rest beforehand and stands in the last days as a type for all such.

We, however, have just been sealed with eternal life, now that we have finally been cleansed and have given our testimonies for God, and now we will go through “without seeing death.”

Ellen G. White spoke of the “close of probation” in the above quote, and not of the day of the coming of Jesus. We know now that His grace truly endures forever, for those who love Him and keep His commandments.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God [the everlasting covenant] is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:22-23)

Now do you understand how important the second time proclamation was, which makes us hope that we have really fought the battle successfully? Now shout with us in Paraguay: “Glory, hallelujah!” I have had the honor of bringing to you the everlasting covenant from God in words, and I think that was my last message from God to you. “Praise and glory be to God alone!”

Surely you still have many questions, such as whether the seven years of Ezekiel 39 will still take place. I don’t know. But be sure that you may soon ask the One who knows everything: our beloved Lord Alnitak, who was wounded for us and will wipe away all your tears.

John, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; In certainty of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; But hath in due times manifested His word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour. “Hallelujah, amen!”^[64]

Now we know that Shemini Atzeret (the eighth day of the feast) is not the day of the Second Coming. It is actually the first day of the Millennium as its name implies. The Second Coming is one day earlier on the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles. That begs the question: What can we learn about the Second Coming from the Jewish traditions that are practiced on the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles?

Every single day of the feast has different rules, different prayers, different “Torah” readings, and different traditions and rituals to be performed. These are traditions and teachings that have been handed down orally throughout the history of God’s people, and have survived through the Christian era even though the Jews rejected Christ, by and large. (At least, that is what they are purported to be. Some of the sources for the meaning of the feast days are considered “apocryphal,” so we must use some discernment, but you will see that most everything we look at today has a clear biblical basis.)

Are you looking forward to this holiday? Do you understand what it really means? I trust you will gain a great appreciation for what the Feast of Tabernacles is all about as we learn more about it.

The seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles is called Hoshana Rabbah. The first paragraph of Wikipedia’s entry should immediately pique your interest:

The seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, 21st day of Tishrei, is known as Hoshana Rabbah (Aramaic: הוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּא, “Great Hoshana/Supplication”). This day is marked by a special synagogue service, the Hoshana Rabbah, in which seven circuits are made by the worshippers with their lulav and etrog, while the congregation recites Hoshanot. It is customary for the scrolls of the Torah to be removed from the ark during this procession. In a few communities a shofar is sounded after each circuit.

Do you see what this is about!?

What is a lulav and what is an etrog?

Lulav ([lulav] or Yemenite pronunciation [lolav]; Hebrew: לולב‎‎) is a closed frond of the date palm tree. It is one of the Four Species used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The other Species are the hadass (myrtle), aravah (willow), and etrog (citron). When bound together, the lulav, hadass, and aravah are commonly referred to as “the lulav”.

This comes directly from the Levitical ordinance:

On the first day, you must take for yourself a fruit of the citron tree, an unopened palm frond (lulav), myrtle branches, and willows [that grow near] the brook. You shall rejoice before God for seven days. (Leviticus 23:40, Hebrew-English Bible, Mechon Mamre)

Just like the spring feasts had the waving of the sheaf of firstfruits, the autumn Feast of Tabernacles has the waving of the lulav, which has the palm as its main feature. The palm symbolizes “victory, triumph, peace and eternal life” (according to Wikipedia). Furthermore,

The Midrash[15] notes that the binding of the Four Species symbolizes the desire to unite the four “types” of Jews in service of God.

Ponder on that, and compare it to what Brother Ray shares about the miracle^[65] we saw here on the Day of Atonement.

The theme of Hoshana Rabbah is the final judgment:

Hoshana Rabbah is known as the last of the Days of Judgment which began on Rosh Hashana [Day of Trumpets].[1] The Zohar says that while the judgment for the new year is sealed on Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement], it is not “delivered” until the end of Sukkot (i.e., Hoshana Rabbah [seventh Day of the Feast of Tabernacles], the last day of Sukkot), during which time one can still alter their verdict and decree for the new year.[2] Consequently, an Aramaic blessing which Jews give each other on Hoshana Rabbah, פתקא טבא (pitka tava or piska tava), which in Yiddish is “A guten kvitel”, or “A good note”, is a wish that the verdict will be positive.[3]

Note very carefully what is said above! Note that the entire period from Trumpets to the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, but not including Shemini Atzeret, is referred to as the “Days of Judgment” (plural). That corresponds to our experience of being accused by Satan of sin on the Day of Trumpets, and to Jesus’ final work of judgment in heaven on our behalf.

Although you have been sealed on Yom Kippur for the new “year” (eternal life in heaven), the judgment is not yet delivered, and thus the verdict can still change! In other words, God has decided (sealed you) for eternal life, but since He has not given you eternal life yet, He can still change His mind. We must guard ourselves to ensure that we remain pure until His actual coming at the end of the feast. That includes having the right attitude toward the Feast of Tabernacles itself, which is partly why we are studying these things. We want to know God’s intention in planning the feast, because you can see that this feast was planned especially with us in mind, knowing what we need and what we will experience in these last few days on earth!

It is customary to read the whole of Tehillim (Psalms) on Hoshana Rabbah eve. There is also a custom to read the book of Deuteronomy on the night of Hoshana Rabbah.[4]

The reading of Deuteronomy goes hand-in-hand with the removing of the Torah from the Ark of the Covenant, mentioned earlier. The Torah is the first five books of the Bible—the books of Moses—which are collectively referred to as “the law” in the Bible. The summary of the books of the law are the Law of God itself, the Ten Commandments.

Interestingly, the blessing that is recited over the lulav makes reference to this very Law:

“Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to take the lulav”

This reminds us of the patience of the saints:

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. (Revelation 14:12)

But the blessing is not speaking of “our works,” but rather of God’s work in sanctifying us:

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jeremiah 31:33)

And this work of sanctification through Christ, for which we bless our Lord Alnitak, “King of the universe,” is the Father’s answer to Jesus’ own prayer while He was here on earth:

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:16-17)

We do not belong to this world any more. Are you starting to see what the feast of tabernacles is all about? It is about leaving the world behind—leaving all those things that you cannot take to heaven. It is about letting go. For most of us, it also includes letting go of people whom we have loved dearly in this life, but who have not chosen the Pearl of Great Price over earthly things.

If you will, we are camping at the last bus stop on the route to heaven, waiting for our Lord to come and get us. We have nowhere else to go, but up. We are hanging on that rope from heaven that will carry us to the other side.

How do you feel about this camping trip? Are you looking back at what you might need from your house in case there is an earthquake? Are you looking back at the job that you hope will be waiting for you after you wake up from this too-good-to-be-true dream? Are you looking back at loved ones, wondering how you will mend relationships after this crazy adventure?

Remember Lot’s wife. (Luke 17:32)

Those are the words of our Lord.

In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop [typical Jewish observance of the Feast of Tabernacles], and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. (Luke 17:31)

Now do you understand why you must leave your unbelieving family behind, and keep this feast without them? Do you understand why we have to go away from our houses and things of this world? Do you have the right attitude for the feast? When the heavenly “rescue helicopter” arrives, will you grab hold of the rope, or will you cling to the things that are passing away until the angelic escort moves on?

It’s not about having the correct tent, or putting your prepper skills to work, but about leaving this world behind.

The seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles is called Hoshana Rabbah, meaning “great supplication.” That could even be a hint to indicate that we will still be anxious as we wait for Jesus’ coming,^[66] even in those last seven days. While the world will be going up in flames, we will be supplicating earnestly for physical salvation from this expiring planet.

Our conflict will not be ended until we enter the Holy City:

Before the ransomed throng is the holy city. Jesus opens wide the pearly gates, and the nations that have kept the truth enter in. There they behold the Paradise of God, the home of Adam in his innocency. Then that voice, richer than any music that ever fell on mortal ear, is heard, saying, “Your conflict is ended.” “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

Now is fulfilled the Saviour’s prayer for his disciples, “I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am.” ... {GC88 646.1-2}

That is the same prayer we quoted earlier in connection with the blessing of sanctification over the lulav. It is Jesus’ prayer for unity among His people, which is symbolized by the binding of the Four Species together.

What do they do with the lulav in the ceremonies? On each day of the Feast of Tabernacles, they make a circuit around the temple, symbolizing the marches around Jericho. On the seventh day, Hoshana Rabbah, they make seven circuits (or marches)! And after each march, the shofar (trumpet) is sounded!

Do you see the significance of this? The whole Feast of Tabernacles is our final real-life re-enactment of the conquest of Jericho, which was the entrance to the whole land of Canaan.

The modern day observance of the rituals of Hoshana Rabbah are reminiscent of the practices that existed in the times of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. During Sukkot, the four species are taken in a circuit around (inscribing the perimeter, not circumscribing the actual building) the synagogue once daily. On Hoshana Rabbah, there are seven circuits.

Making a circuit around the reading desk on Sukkot while each person holds the four species in his hands has its origin in the Temple service, as recorded in the Mishnah: “It was customary to make one procession around the altar on each day of Sukkot, and seven on the seventh day” (Sukkah 4:5). The priests carried the palm branches or willows in their hands. The entire ceremony is to demonstrate rejoicing and gratitude for a blessed and fruitful year. Moreover, it serves to tear down the iron wall that separates us from our Father in Heaven, as the wall of Jericho was encompassed “and the wall fell down flat” (Joshua 6:20). Furthermore, the seven circuits correspond to the seven words in the verse Erhatz benikayon kappay, va’asovevah et mizbahakha Hashem - “I wash my hands in purity and circle around Your altar, O Lord” (Psalms 26:6).

The conquest of Jericho represents our entrance into the heavenly Canaan. The separating wall symbolizes the barrier that our sin has put between us and God. After the seven marches on the seventh day, at the last blowing of the trumpet, the wall came down.

That gives us a potential clue as to what time of day Jesus will take us up: after the seventh “circuit” of the lulav on the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:52)

That is when the judgment (verdict) is finally delivered, and those who made Christ their sufficiency will also be delivered from sin, forevermore. Until then, your verdict can still change, which is why there is a tradition of wishing each other a positive outcome on that day for the new year.

There is a tradition of staying up the whole night of Hoshana Rabbah—which makes it no wonder how the entire book of Deuteronomy can be read. I suppose the sheer excitement of waiting for this momentous event will keep us all awake anyway.

Another interesting feature of the Feast of Tabernacles is the custom of the ushpizin, or sukkot guests:

Each “hoshana” is done in honor of a patriarch.

• Abraham

• Isaac

• Jacob^[67]

• Moses (the most important Hebrew prophet)

• Aaron (Moses’s brother, the first Kohen Gadol, or High Priest)

• Joseph (the three Patriarchs and Jacob’s most famous son)

• David (the most important king of Israel)

From the Sukkot entry:

A custom originating with Lurianic Kabbalah is to recite the ushpizin prayer to “invite” one of seven “exalted guests” into the sukkah.[6] These ushpizin (Aramaic אושפיזין ‘guests’), represent the seven shepherds of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David. According to tradition, each night a different guest enters the sukkah followed by the other six. Each of the ushpizin [sukkot guests] has a unique lesson which teaches the parallels of the spiritual focus of the day on which they visit.

Ok, I would not take that literally, but it is interesting in light of the fact that the Feast of Tabernacles is a “transfiguration” experience for us, like when Jesus was transfigured and Moses and Elijah came to speak with Him.^[68]

This day is all about the coming of Jesus:

The hoshanot are accompanied by a series of liturgical verses climaxing with, “Kol mevasser, mevasser ve-omer” (The voice of the Herald [Elijah] heralds and says)—expressing hope for the speedy coming of the Messiah.

The word “hoshana” is another way to spell Hosanna. The word means “salvation” and is often used as an exclamation in time of urgency, or as a word of praise to the Savior who has come. Earlier, we saw that the word was translated as “supplication,” but it is really about a specific kind of supplication for deliverance (i.e. salvation).

Every circuit or march during the Feast of Tabernacles is a supplication or exclamation of “Hosanna!”—hopefully in praise to the Savior who is visibly coming by that time. However, it could also be a desperate plea for salvation from a world growing dark under mushroom clouds—a world we could never go back to.^[69]

Time is quickly running out—look at the calendar! Finish your plans and make sure you are ready for the Feast of Tabernacles before the winds of war break loose and the six days of destruction^[70] begin!

Hosanna! (Salvation!)