I cannot think of any more treasured thing that I could ever write than what God will share with you here. What I am about to put “on paper” is too great of an honor for me, especially after seeing how my last article in The Closed Door solicited a number of wrong responses. People elevated the instrument and did not understand the real message of the Via Dolorosa—the way of suffering—and what it means to yield one’s eternal life to the Father and dedicate oneself to service without promise of reward.

The message God has for His people in this article began on Friday, November 9, 2018 when Brother John began to share the things with us at our lunch table. At that hour, the sun had already set in Jerusalem and the first sighted crescent moon confirmed the beginning of a new month—the seventh month based on the second possibility of the barley harvest in the month of Abib, according to the divine calendar discovered in Gethsemane.

This sighting was later than expected, however. The new moon could have been visible a day earlier on Thursday night at the Temple Mount, and like us, the team that reports the sightings of the moon in Jerusalem was expecting it to be seen on Thursday night.^[1] The newsletter from Devora’s Date Tree on Thursday night communicates this:

As we mentioned when we sent out the information on When and Where to Look for the New Moon, the stats tonight made it very difficult to see the moon with the naked eye. At the time of this writing, we are not aware of any positive new moon sightings from Israel.

This one-day difference in the new moon sighting has deep implications. God has the last word regarding the calendar, and by causing the moon to be visible one day later than expected, God Himself has spoken. He is the One who has the motions of the planets in His hand, and through them He speaks from the heavens. This change of one day for the beginning of the month has resulted in a change to the High Sabbaths for this year, because now the new moon day—and thus the second possibility for the feast of trumpets and the first and last days of the feast of tabernacles—all fall on the weekly Sabbath. There were three unanticipated High Sabbaths this year, spoken by the voice of God.

Are you beginning to understand why I say the message I am about to deliver is too great an honor for me? We are dealing with sacred knowledge; the appointed times are appointed by God, not man, and that is why it was the sacred responsibility of the priests to discern God’s voice, even concerning the calendar, and communicate it to the people. Yet, the message of this article is about much more than feast days. It’s about God speaking the hour of His Son’s return! I cannot count myself worthy in any way to communicate to you the actual voice of God the Father, but Brother John asked me to write this important message, so please understand that this comes to you through him, and I am just the delivery boy.

The Voice of the Father

The voice of God came to us just before the third plague.^[2] It was announced to our study group on a judgment day (the Day of Atonement of the second possibility, November 19, 2018) which was followed by a feast of tabernacles during which came the throne lines beginning the third plague, and this was a feast season delineated by High Sabbaths, as we discovered. These factors point to the judgment or intervention of the Father in the third plague, which is exactly what the text indicates through the voices that respond (especially the one addressed to God Almighty):

And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. (Revelation 16:4-7)

Thus, it is exceptionally comforting that this message from the Father is given to His people in connection with the timeframe of the third plague, at the same time His destructive judgments are falling upon the wicked.

In the heavens, the third plague has several important signs. One of them is the moon in the sickle-hand of the Pollux twin, which represents Jesus^[3] with the harvest sickle. The moon (whose symbol is itself a sickle) is exactly at that position on November 26, 2018, the first day of the third plague.

Holding the sickle in Gemini, this twin represents Jesus no longer as the High Priest, but as the King. This signifies the Father’s role in the third plague, because it is the Father (represented by Leo) who gives all power and judgment to the Son (represented by Pollux as having royal authority).

The Father’s role is even more clearly shown on the other side of the sky, where the sun, Jupiter, and Mercury form a triple conjunction by the base of Libra.

These three signify the Father, the Son, and the messenger, and indicate that the Father gives power (judgment, signified by Libra) at that time. The conjunction happens after the sun exits Libra and enters Scorpius, which also means judgment falls onto the beast (Scorpius) and his rider (Ophiuchus),^[4] which represent the New World Order beast of Revelation 17 and Pope Francis (the serpent/dragon) who rides it.^[5] (But that is not the topic of this article.)

The conjunction indicates a sitting for judgment, which is also represented by the fact that the third plague starts with the throne lines, and particularly that of the Father. As the plague clock is ticking in reverse,^[6] it is the line defined by Alnilam (standing for the Father) that marks the beginning of the third plague.

Thus, in several sources we have a vivid depiction of God the Father’s role in delivering this message: through the throne lines of the Orion clock, from the text of the third plague in Revelation 16:4-7, from the heavenly signs themselves on November 26, 2018, and through the divinely appointed times of the autumn feasts.

Cutting off from the 1335 Days

We’ve previously written about the time of trouble and its different phases, and it should be very clear by now that we are living in troublous times, at least to anyone who is half aware of the changes that are taking place in the world. This is the context of the present message from the Father.

Jesus prophesied partially of this message when He said:^[7]

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. (Matthew 24:22)

This is speaking about the great time of trouble “such as never was” that, as previously explained, will begin April 6, 2019. It must be the time of trouble such as never was nor ever will be, because “no flesh can survive it.”

Until the Father’s message came to us, we did not yet have a complete explanation for how the time until the second coming would be shortened in the Second Time Proclamation, like we had in the First Time Proclamation.^[8] In the first time proclamation, we saw how the time was shortened by 15 years from the year 2031 to 2016 (see In the Shadow of Time). How is the shortening of the time of trouble for the saints to be understood in the second time proclamation?

The seventh plague, which comes during the great time of trouble, describes total destruction world-wide—such severe devastation that Jesus said “no flesh would be saved.” Of course, some will survive the initial event, but death of the survivors would begin to follow immediately until eventually everyone on the planet has died in the seven lean years—whether due to famine, cold, or any number of other causes that will follow from the “great hail” of the seventh plague.

Jesus said that the days would be shortened because His people would not survive the enduring global impact of this event. They would start to die from the effects, which means that He would need to come early enough to take His people before they start to die.

The seventh plague on May 6, 2019 is exactly 15 days before the end of the 1335 days on May 21, which we have understood as the time of His coming since Appendix A to the Legacy of Smyrna. In prophetic terms, 15 days is exactly one prophetic hour, based on the day-year principle where a day in prophecy stands for a 360-day year in real life:

1 hour = 1/24^th of a day

15 days = 1/24^th of a year, because 360 ÷ 24 = 15

These 15 days would be the prophetic “hour” that Philadelphia is spared from, and at the same moment part of the total shortened time that will be explained in another article:

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10)

The context of Jesus’ statement about the shortening of time is in fact the desolation of Daniel 12. Jesus said:

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. (Matthew 24:15-22)

The entire context of the passage is the abomination of desolation from the book of Daniel, so when He says “those days” shall be shortened, He is talking about the desolation of the earth—the time when all of humanity will perish—and in this context, even the timelines of Daniel that are connected to the abomination of desolation:

And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. (Daniel 12:11-12)

How can we know whether Jesus was speaking of the 1335 days, and not the 1290 days? Just logically, if the blessing (for the righteous, of course) is promised to come at the end of the 1335 days, then it would make sense for Jesus to say for the sake of the “elect” (or chosen) that the 1335 days would be cut short by one prophetic hour.

Exactly one month after Brother John had received this light from the Lord that the hour of Philadelphia will be cut off from the 1335 days so that Jesus will return at the beginning of the seventh plague on May 6, 2019, Brother Dan of the Godshealer7 YouTube channel received a prophecy published December 9, 2018, about that specific topic. It was titled “I shall kindle the spirits of the chosen so they can be ready!” Not only does it refer to the “elect” (chosen) of Matthew 24:22, but the scripture they chose to associate with it was even Revelation 3:10, which speaks about the very same hour Philadelphia is kept from:

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10)

This came on the same day that Sister Barbara received the answer to when the rapture would be: “when the fire comes down.” God’s undiluted wrath is ultimately poured out in the seventh plague:

And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. (Revelation 16:17-19)

But the text of the seventh plague goes on—and includes the sign of the expected rapture that Jesus announced to Sister Barbara:

And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. (Revelation 16:20-21)

This is speaking, of course, about a fiery and destructive hail, not your ordinary hail of ice pellets. If stones of a talent in weight literally fall from heaven (e.g. meteorites), they would be of a class that would cause extensive fires and destruction on impact. However, the language of Revelation is symbolic, which means it is more likely to be talking about nuclear warheads that will rain down from space via intercontinental ballistic missiles and cause a fiery holocaust that divides the world and brings down the cities of the nations, as the text says.

Whatever the form, “when this fire comes down, the saints go up,” according to Jesus’ message to Sister Barbara that confirms Brother John’s light.

So, all the martyrs will have already died, many others will have been laid to rest, and the righteous who are raised at the special resurrection^[9][10] in April, 2019 would stand together with those who never died until the seventh plague, when they will all be caught up together to heaven with the righteous of the general resurrection at the coming of Jesus on May 6, 2019 as the Bible describes—but 15 days earlier than we previously expected,^[11] to spare Philadelphia from that hour.

We came in the first place to the date of May 21, 2019, which is the divinely appointed time of the feast of unleavened bread, when we recognized that the 1335 days reached until then. We initially needed the 7 days of the feast itself to extend to May 27 to harmonize with the resurrection anniversary as we understood it at that time, but later those seven days were understood to be the travel days, making the blessing of the 1335 days coincide exactly with the second coming, as we believed till now.

That was all significant, because the seventh day of the feast of unleavened bread has not yet been fulfilled. One might wonder why God didn’t just give Daniel 1320 days instead of 1335 days, but the reason is that it was important for the 1335 days to point to the feast. Those days pointed to the feast where the seventh day of the feast of unleavened bread should finally be fulfilled with us reaching the portals of Heaven. This fact that the 1335 is tied to the feasts is why this is the time frame that had to be cut short by one prophetic hour.

William Miller’s 1335 Days

One of the many time periods that were on the 1843 Millerite chart pointing to the coming of Christ in that year was the 1335 days of Daniel. They were calculated beginning in the year A.D. 508, and did not cross over the non-existent zero year like the 2300 days or the 2520 days. For this reason, when the calculations were corrected to account for the zero year and arrive at 1844 instead of 1843, the 1335 days did not fit.

In retrospect, considering that 1844 was the beginning of the judgment and not the year of the second coming, it was found that the 1335 days/years were simply misapplied. Ellen G. White didn’t say much about the 1335 days (for that reason), but she mentioned them in the following quote:

One week ago, last Sabbath, we had a very interesting meeting. Brother Hewit from Dead River was there. He came with a message to the effect that the destruction of the wicked and the sleep of the dead was an abomination within a shut door that a woman Jezebel, a prophetess had brought in and he believed that I was that woman, Jezebel. We told him of some of his errors in the past, that the 1335 days were ended and numerous errors of his. It had but little effect. His darkness was felt upon the meeting and it dragged. {16MR 208.3}

In light of Millerite history and the 1843 chart, she was referring to the error of the 1335 days that was on the chart. That was one of the errors they corrected Brother Hewitt on, as well as numerous errors of his own making.

Since Brother John came as the second “Miller,” we’ve seen how the treasures of the first Miller have been cleaned up and made to shine ten times brighter, and we’ve also seen how the first Miller’s mistakes were repeated in the experience of this movement—most notably the problem of being one year too early, as explained in the article Miller’s Mistake.

Likewise, here we have a historical precedent again with the 1335 days, to recognize that there was an error in the application of the 1335 days in the time of Miller, and this is reflected in our movement. Miller’s error was to use the 1335 days to determine the date of Jesus’ coming, because it was too early for Him to come; it was only the beginning of the judgment. This time, we are correct in applying the 1335 days because Jesus really is coming, but the error is again to use it to determine the date directly. The days simply count till the feast of unleavened bread. The days point to the feast that the second coming should fulfill, but not to the second coming itself. It would have been a blessing to celebrate the feast of unleavened bread at the end of the 1335 days, but Philadelphia must be kept from those last 15 days of beginning desolation because they would not survive it. (We will come back to how the feast is fulfilled a little later.)

Miller expected the coming of Jesus too early, but in our case, Jesus makes it clear that the mistake in the 1335 days for us is not that the 1335 days point to a second coming that is too early, but that even those days must be cut short by an “hour” to reach the correct second coming date. Furthermore, in retrospect, the 1335 days have nothing to do with William Miller’s time at all, because his time turned out to be only about the beginning of the judgment, not the second coming.

Daniel’s timelines from the abomination of desolation are literal-day prophecies for the end of time, confirmed by studies and heavenly signs and even independent prophets like Sister Barbara with her prophecy timeframe of 1290 days, and we’ve validated the 1335 with the feast days. That is established, and it is a fixed appointed time on God’s calendar. It’s all correct, including the sign of the rapture point with the moon on the galactic equator explained in The Oil in the Lamps of the Wise, but from the last 15 days of these 1335 days the saints must be kept—otherwise they really would begin to die—like Jesus did when the moon was at that point in A.D. 31. But we are told that Jesus will not allow Satan the satisfaction of killing the saints.

In some places, before the time for the decree to be executed, the wicked rushed upon the saints to slay them; but angels in the form of men of war fought for them. Satan wished to have the privilege of destroying the saints of the Most High, but Jesus bade His angels watch over them. God would be honored by making a covenant with those who had kept His law, in the sight of the heathen round about them; and Jesus would be honored by translating, without their seeing death, the faithful, waiting ones who had so long expected Him. {SR 406.2}

The 70th Jubilee

There are two feasts that we will take to heaven: the weekly Sabbath and the new moon feast.

And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. (Isaiah 66:23)

In ancient Israel, all flesh came before the Lord three times in the year: Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles.^[12] But in heaven, all flesh will come before the Lord on the new moon day and the Sabbath day. The ceremonial sabbaths of ancient Israel were given to point to Jesus’ first and second coming, but in heaven it will not be so. His first coming fulfilled the types of all but one (!) of the spring feasts, and the judgment fulfilled the types of the autumn feasts. Later in this article, you will see how His second coming will fulfill the last remaining spring feast. By the time we reach heaven, the events to which the old feast days were pointing will have all come and gone, and thus the appointed times will no longer be for the gathering of all the people. Instead, all flesh will gather to worship at two special times: on the Sabbath, and on the new moon.

The seventh plague on May 6, 2019 is also the eve of a new moon day. According to the calculations, the new moon would be sighted at sunset on May 6. That means if Jesus comes on the day of the seventh plague, the very next day would begin the new month in heaven. In that way, the second coming of Jesus will not only fulfill the old feast days, but it will also be on (or a day before) a new moon, which is why the new moon will be kept for all eternity with the Sabbath.

The new moon of Jesus’ coming is also when the wrath of God is full, since it is the seventh plague. Therefore, this is also the new moon (or month) prophesied by Hosea:

They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month [moon] devour them with their portions. (Hosea 5:7)

Which month begins on May 6/7, 2019, on God’s calendar? Based on the proper understanding of the calendar explained in the Gethsemane articles, we have already found that it is the second possibility for Nissan, the first month of the year. We have a good hint to infer that the second possibility will be the true year beginning, because the plagues will not have reached their fulness until that time.

Therefore, the second possibility for the beginning of the year could be the true year beginning. And if so, our observation would once again be confirmed that the second possibility of the calendar pertains especially to Jesus: it was the second possibility when He died on the cross in A.D. 31, and it was again in 1844 when He entered the Most Holy Place. Now it is likely to be the second possibility again on May 6, 2019 when He returns on the eve of the true first month of the new year.

The end of Sister Barbara’s prophecy timeframe on April 6, 2019 would be the beginning of the month of Adar II, and the coming of Jesus would be at the beginning of a new year—the great 70^th Jubilee of 1890^[13] that we will have returned to in the figurative sense. The Jubilee, of course, must come on a year boundary. This would fulfill what Ellen G. White said in the context of the Second Coming:

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

The way in which her prophecy will fulfill, however, no longer matches her literal description, because we are in a different time. We always have to keep in mind that her prophetic ministry was aiming for Jesus’ return in 1890, and now her prophecies are coming to fulfillment in different ways. Nevertheless, all of the elements of the prophecies must still be fulfilled, and the jubilee will indeed commence in connection to the second coming, as we can now see.

In comparison to the feast of unleavened bread, Jesus’ return on the New Year’s moon of the 70^th Jubilee is incredibly great. On every single new moon in heaven, we will commemorate the day when Jesus took us from this world and gave us eternal life. On every new moon in heaven, we will eat of the Tree of Life, because it was on a new moon—May 6/7, 2019—that we received eternal life.

Can you imagine? This day will be our entry into the heavenly realms. Like it was for the children of Israel, we will cross our “Jordan” of outer space and the “manna” (food from heaven) will stop on the Sabbath of our journey to the sea of glass^[14] when we will eat of the actual fruits of that land, of the heavenly Canaan. As we cross “Jordan” on this great jubilee, it will be the closure to the jubilee count that the children of Israel began so long ago when they entered their typical promised land.

The Fig Tree

On Friday, Nov. 9, 2018—the same day when Brother John began to teach us of the hour of Philadelphia after the voice of God uttered the feast-day codes—Sister Barbara related a prophecy from Brother Dan as follows:

I am the beacon of truth. I am the light of the world. Many have chosen to seek the darkness instead of my light. My children have grown weary and the thirst of nations covers the land. Speak now son of man. Speak what I have shown you. Speak of the season. I see a fig tree but many of its leaves have fallen to the ground and those leaves that remain are curled and brown. You see well son of man. Just as the fig tree becomes dormant and waits for the change of the season, so too my children await my return. Evil’s time is short for twilight approaches for the unforgiven.

This also calls to remembrance the fig tree that Jesus cursed before His crucifixion. In that case, however, the tree had leaves but no fruit. Fig trees normally begin to grow unripe fruit at the same time they get new leaves,^[15] so Jesus was absolutely right to seek fruit on that tree—fruit which would not have been harvested yet because it was not ripe (it was not time for harvesting figs), yet still edible (as unripe figs are). Brother John wrote all about that in Full Moon at Gethsemane – Part II.

The tree in Brother Dan’s prophecy has no leaves, however. It is still waiting for leaves, therefore some of their followers now think they have to wait till summer for Jesus to come. We know from the Gethsemane study, however, that the fig tree should get its leaves in spring, and it cannot be any time before April 6, 2019 because their prophecy timeframe will not have ended yet. The symbolism must point to a time in spring after April 6. We know that the fig tree points to the second possibility on God’s calendar, corresponding to the month of May, as it was in the crucifixion year. And of course, in 2019 it is the new lunar month beginning on May 6/7, 2019.

Thus, in Brother Dan’s prophecy we have a confirmation of this hour that the chosen are kept from, given on the very same day. When they received this prophecy of the season, we received the knowledge of the day and hour—the day being May 6/7, 2019, and the hour being the 15-day prophetic hour that Philadelphia is spared from.

The Gamma-ray Burst

It still remains to be seen how we can understand that the seventh day of the feast of unleavened bread will be fulfilled if Jesus comes earlier. We thought Jesus would fulfill the feast by His coming and the seven days of travel, but now there must be another explanation.

The record-setting gamma-ray burst of April 27, 2013,^[16] which is the subject of The Sign of Jonah, came on the first possibility of the day of firstfruits that year, which was also a Sabbath. On the descent from Mt. Chiasmus, this sign—and its special date of April 27 that is among those emblazoned into our minds—is what caught Brother John’s attention as he was searching for any hint about when the clocks of the second time proclamation would end. The fact that April 27 fell on a Sabbath in 2019 and was also the seventh day of the feast of unleavened bread (first possibility again) caught his attention.

This High Sabbath of April 27, 2019 is the last High Sabbath of history that will ever be celebrated on this earth by the people of God. This is the last feast day before the second coming of Jesus. The gamma-ray burst of 2013 points to this day as the great and last warning of His return, about ten days beforehand. Thus, the seventh day of the feast of unleavened bread will be fulfilled after all—not in the second possibility, but in the first possibility—as the last High Sabbath on earth, and the Highest Sabbath of all. That is the last trumpet sound or sign before Jesus comes on May 6, 2019, after which the great 70^th jubilee begins on May 7. Then we will eat of the Tree of Life together for the first time on the first Sabbath of our seven-day journey to Orion.

The Heavenly Sign of His Coming

It was mentioned that the first crescent in May of 2019 would be visible on May 6 at sunset, which makes the new moon day May 6/7, 2019—one day after the seventh plague date of May 5/6, 2019. Could this mean that Jesus will come on May 7 (the new moon day) and not May 6? We should also consider the fact that from Paraguay, the new moon would possibly be visible one night earlier than in Jerusalem, which would then correspond to May 6 again, the day of the seventh plague. The true “third temple” is located here in Paraguay, where the light of Jesus’ second coming is streaming from.

Regardless, one thing must be clarified. We must have a heavenly sign that supports the second coming on the new date—a sign which is as good or even better than the sign presented in When Eagles Gather as the solution to Jesus’ riddle in Matthew 24.

Let’s see what we can find. The heavenly situation on May 6, 2019 is as follows:

We have already had previous interpretations of this sign, but is it possible that this is in fact a sign of the true date of Jesus’ coming? Can this sign fulfill all the criteria we need?

Here we have four main players: the moon, the sun, Mercury, and Venus. Jesus said that the angels are the reapers who will gather the redeemed from the “four winds” of heaven:

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matthew 24:31)

Here in the picture above, we see exactly those same four classical planets that represent the four winds, as identified in The Books Are Closed. All four of them are standing in a row, each in its own constellation or animal. From right to left, we have Venus in the reclining fish of Pisces, Mercury in the upright fish, the sun in Aries the ram, and the moon on the table of the altar. (Incidentally, the moon will wander away from the center of the altar on May 7, which could be a further confirmation that Jesus will come on May 6, and May 7 will represent the first day in heaven.)

First of all, we must have a solution to the riddle of where the eagles gather:

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. (Matthew 24:28)

Who are the eagles in this picture? Where is the carcass? Originally, we had the sun and Mercury in Taurus, and those were the eagles (angels) who gathered at the altar where presumably the carcass was. However, we have a different picture now. This time, we have four individual objects highlighted. It is no longer necessary that Taurus, the altar, represents also the carcass; instead we have Aries in the picture as the sacrificial animal. Aries must be the carcass “on” Taurus as the altar itself. In fact, the sun is activating Aries, which makes Aries the main subject: the carcass in this riddle.

The eagles, or angels, are then Mercury and Venus. They are “gathering” by the carcass, i.e. in a row next to it, in one constellation. You already know who these two eagles represent: Mercury, represents the messenger, and Venus (the morning star) represents Jesus. These are the two anointed ones, and the two cherubim that stand on either side of the Ark of the Covenant. In this heavenly sign, they gather where the carcass is.

The symbolism would not work out at other times. For example, a month earlier at the end of Sister Barbara’s prophecy timeframe, we would only have the sun and moon in the two fish of Pisces, but the carcass would not be activated. Indeed, the sun as the Spirit of life enters the two fish on April 6, 2019, exactly one month before Jesus’ coming, and then we have the gathering of the eagles and their catches on May 6, 2019.

Even the order is shown, as the planets move right to left in the Hebrew way of reading: the right fish is laying down, representing the dead in Christ who will be raised at His coming. Then the left fish represents those who are alive and remaining, who are caught up together with them in the cloud (symbolized by the Andromeda “nebula,” anciently known as the “Little Cloud,” which the fish points to). Thus, Jesus’ catch is pointed to by Venus (the dead in Christ, like Moses as a type for Christ) and the messenger’s catch is pointed to by Mercury (the living saints, with the antitypical Elijah).

So here on May 6, 2019, we have many important harmonies coming together in the heavenly sign: the riddle of the gathering eagles, the angels of the four winds, and more.

However, Jesus’ coming at the seventh plague also fulfills another important specification of His return:

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.… And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:11,14)

The seventh plague is marked by Saiph on the Orion clock, which is the white horse star. Jesus and His armies are all associated with white horses, which points to the seventh plague. Just as Jesus was born at the time indicated by the white horse star on the great cycle of the Orion clock, so He returns at the time indicated by the white horse star.

“Spring Forward”

A comical confirmation of the hour from which Philadelphia is spared is found in the following “comic calendar” that surfaced in the news last spring. At the time, we made the following observations regarding an unofficial holiday for taking naps after the time change:

(Caption: I consider National Napping Day a religious holiday.)

This “unofficial holiday” falls on the first workday after an hour is lost due to the shortened time in the Spring, related to the “gift” of an hour of evening daylight more. It fits the defined context perfectly! Like the working class after the time change, many don’t want to realize that the time is short. The time changed to the last rapid movements, and their response is to nap. The emphasis on sleep (not wanting to admit that we are in a time of rapid movements) is reiterated the same week with World Sleep Day.

Indeed, the shortened hour of 15 days is a gift to us from God, who has shortened the time on His great clock by removing one hour in the spring for us!

The Solar System Model

When we consider that Venus and Mercury have the role of the two messengers of the covenant in the heavenly sign of May 6, 2019—representing Jesus and the messenger—then we can understand a little bit more about the scheme of the inner solar system. Those two planets have orbits smaller than that of the earth, meaning they are nearest to the sun. In this sense, the sun represents the shekinah glory of the Father, which is too bright to look into. Of course, we are only talking about a figurative illustration here, and would never worship the sun like the heathen do, but the brightness of the sun indeed makes a good illustration. The sun has many different roles: sometimes it represents the Sun of Righteousness, sometimes the Spirit of life, and in this way also the “light which no man can approach unto.”^[17]

One might ask, “Why is Mercury closer to the sun than Venus, if Venus represents the only begotten Son of God. This illustrates several things. First of all, it shows that there is no jealousy in the Godhead and that the Father and Son both envelop the created beings (represented by Mercury) in love, each on one side. In the context of the plan of redemption, it shows the efficacy of Christ’s sacrifice. When God sees the redeemed, He sees His Son. This is illustrated in that redeemed humanity (represented by Mercury) is now whole and can stand in the direct presence of God without a mediator any longer (represented by Mercury’s position next to the sun). This is contrasted to the fallen condition of man (represented by the position of the earth) which needs a mediator between God and man (represented by Venus in position between the sun and the earth).

With the sun, Mercury, and Venus accounting for the Ark of the Covenant in the Most Holy Place, the remaining planets would constitute the Holy Place. Earth would represent the veil where the blood was sprinkled, figurative of the sins of the people.

The Third Woe

Sparing Philadelphia from the hour of temptation through the second coming at the seventh plague means that the third woe is the second coming itself. This makes sense when Jesus’ coming is compared to giving birth, because the third woe is the last contraction that pushes the baby out, and the birth is over. Does this scenario match the text of the third woe?

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord [referring to Jesus reigning over the earth at the second coming on May 6, 2019, not yet over the whole universe at the third coming when Satan and the evil angels are eradicated], and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God [the carillon at the star Saiph on May 6, 2019], Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were [already] angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged [referring to the millennium in heaven, starting at the jubilee on May 6, 2019], and that thou shouldest give reward [i.e. eternal life at the second coming on May 6, 2019] unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth [through destruction of the environment or perhaps nuclear world war on May 6, 2019]. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament [Ellen G. White connects this with the second coming]: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail [possibly unrestrained nuclear war worldwide on May 6, 2019]. (Revelation 11:15-19)

As you can see, the seventh trumpet text (third woe) is compatible with the second coming at that time, and fulfills the events described in the present-tense. The nations being already angry (past tense) refers to what we can already see happening. There is also a reference to the future judgment and final destruction of the wicked who survive the second coming and the initial effects of the seventh plague, who die in the seven lean years. The wicked men like Pilate and the high priest who sentenced Jesus to death will not only see Him coming in the clouds, but will probably also live after the second coming until they die in the seven lean years.

In one dream, the fallen prophet Ernie Knoll saw himself as one of the wicked who was on the earth watching the Holy City depart with the saints. This description is also an indication that the wicked people will continue to live on the earth after the second coming until they die in the fallout from the radioactive clouds in the nuclear winter of the seven lean years. Even science now confirms the coming cold spell of that time.

The Two Witnesses

We must check the sequence of events related to the two witnesses earlier in Revelation 11, to make sure it still fits. The three woes go with the fifth, sixth, and seventh trumpets, but according to the Jericho model, the trumpets sound on every march, and thus the trumpets (and hence the woes) also sound during the plagues.

We have the 70 weeks spanning from the fifth trumpet (first woe) until the sixth plague. The vision and the prophecy will have been sealed up at the sixth plague on April 6, 2019. This is when the two witnesses stand on their feet, but the rapture is not quite yet. We have to understand who the two witnesses are in this context. The two witnesses are the two testimonies—the two websites that put the voice of God into print.

We can be sure that the people of the spiritual church of Philadelphia are still on the earth at the time the two witnesses ascend, because after their ascension the remnant are affrighted and gave glory to the God of heaven. Therefore, the good people (Philadelphia) must still be on the earth at that time.

We know the two witnesses can symbolize many things, but the written word is their primary meaning, as it was for Ellen G. White. In our case, however, the symbolism of their ascending into a cloud is especially fitting. The two witnesses “disappear” in a cloud. Our websites are hosted on cloud servers, so this could be a very fitting prophecy of how our websites will be taken away from the world. They would simply be taken down and thus disappear from the cloud servers.

The text says that they are called up:

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 11:12)

This fits the symbolism of the heavenly signs. On April 6, at the time the websites are symbolically raptured and disappear in the cloud, we have the two fish (as the two witnesses) activated:

Here the Spirit of life (represented by the sun) enters into the two witnesses and they stand on their feet, indicated by the moon. The ascension fish is pointing to the Andromeda galaxy as we’ve noted before. Hence, this sign shows the whole picture of the great voice calling the two witnesses to ascend into heaven, as a symbolic ascension of the two websites as two testimonies on April 6, 2019. That is when our website preaching would be over, but we would still be here in person until the second coming on May 6, as we already saw. Thus, our “prophecy timeframe” also ends on April 6, 2019 along with Sister Barbara’s.

Shortly before publication of this article, we received great new light about this period of time, which includes a much deeper insight into the prophecy timeframes of both Sister Barbara and Brother Dan. We will reserve that for a separate article, but from what has already been understood thus far, we can already see that the second coming on May 6, 2019 to spare Philadelphia from the hour of temptation still fits with the timeline of the two witnesses.

Six Months

Isn’t it remarkable that it was a new moon sighting that triggered this new understanding of the “hour” of the second coming on a new moon day? God spoke the hour exactly 6 (lunar) months in advance. This follows the trend expressed by Ellen G. White:

And as God spoke the day and the hour of Jesus’ coming and delivered the everlasting covenant [as seen in the heavenly sign with the messengers of the 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!” {EW 34.1}

It was also at the feast of tabernacles in 2016 when God spoke the “hour” of seven years,^[18] which Philadelphia was to be spared from. And that, after announcing the “day” on the Day of Atonement.^[19] Now, in the autumn feast season of 2018 (the last autumn feast season) God has spoken the “hour” of 15 days that they are to be spared from at the beginning of the lean years, which we delivered internally on the Day of Atonement again.

The second proclamation, however, truly began with the study for The Seven Lean Years and subsequent publication in January of 2017, which revealed the day of May 27, 2019 for the coming. Then the date was refined to May 21, 2019 in When Eagles Gather, during the period of November 14-22, 2017. Now, in autumn of 2018, we receive the knowledge of the hour. Almost year by year, feast to feast, God has been speaking from the heavens, pausing, and allowing His words to roll through the earth. This is progressive revelation from God.

In Gethsemane, Jesus went three times to pray. Each time, he came to His disciples and urged them to pray too, because the crisis was at hand. It was nearer each successive time He came to them. In a similar way, we have had three proclamations of the time, and each time His coming is nearer: May 27, 2019, then May 21, and now May 6.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. (Romans 13:11)

And like before, the prophecy proves true that the people of the world only hear “thunder.”^[20] They know something is going on, and they see signs, but they cannot understand or make sense of it.

This speaking with pauses is also a feature of the HSL,^[21] which consists of DNA-like information triplets encoded in time, separated by pauses of about 24 years, something like “voice data” separated by pauses. On closer inspection, however, all the data that makes up the HSL consists of High Sabbath codes for the spring and autumn feasts, separated by the six-month interval between the feasts. Furthermore, when we recognized the application of the gene of life to the second time proclamation in reverse time,^[22] it was compressed^[23] by applying the meaning of the triplets (which originally applied to about 24 years on average) to the six-month spans between actual feast seasons. Is it any surprise, then, that God speaks the hour in the feast season exactly six months before the coming of Jesus? This gives us reason to look into how the HSL applies to the present time, with a fresh understanding.

There are different ways to map the seven segments of the gene of life to the five six-month periods that we have from the top of Mt. Chiasmus in the autumn of 2016 to the second coming in the spring of 2019.

Highlighted in yellow in the picture above, you can see some of the points of special interest. The principal reason for aligning the HSL as we have it in the existing application is because we already knew that we were figuratively traveling back in time to the great 70^th jubilee of 1890, and therefore the five six-month segments after the Sacrifice of Philadelphia in the Autumn of 2016 mapped nicely to the last five segments of the HSL in reverse order.

However, we can also see some interesting harmonies if we recognize that the pope’s address to the United Nations in 2015 is related to the ecumenical one-world religion of the PHS triplet. Starting with this alignment of the HSL, the last two triplets suddenly harmonize in another way. First (or last) of all, we have the completion of the second angel’s message “Babylon is fallen, is fallen!” at the seventh plague. The total destruction of Babylon in the seventh plague when the wrath of God has reached its fulness is the final fulfillment of the cry, “Babylon is fallen!” This last six-month segment thus corresponds to the true midnight cry, “Behold, the bridegroom cometh.” This cry should get louder and louder as plague after plague is poured out, until the great tribulation is reached. The cry will be made, and in these six months (less than five remaining) the wise virgins will trim their lamps to go in to the great feast, but the foolish will not be ready.

The midnight cry is the light at the beginning of the Advent pathway that gave light all along the way.

They had a bright light set up behind them at the first end of the path, which an angel told me was the Midnight Cry. This light shone all along the path and gave light for their feet so they might not stumble. And if they kept their eyes fixed on Jesus, who was just before them, leading them to the City, they were safe. But soon some grew weary, and said the City was a great way off, and they expected to have entered it before. Then Jesus would encourage them by raising his glorious right arm, and from his arm came a glorious light which waved over the Advent band, and they shouted, Hallelujah! Others rashly denied the light behind them, and said that it was not God that had led them out so far. The light behind them went out which left their feet in perfect darkness, and they stumbled and got their eyes off the mark and lost sight of Jesus, and fell off the path down in the dark and wicked world below. It was just as impossible for them to get on the path again & go to the City, as all the wicked world which God had rejected. They fell all the way along the path one after another, until we heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus’ coming. {DS January 24, 1846, par. 1}

It was on that path where the voice of God announced the day and hour. Thus, it is especially fitting that as God speaks the hour of Jesus’ coming, the midnight cry at the beginning of the path is brought to our remembrance. We have but a little way to go now; let us keep our eyes on Jesus/Alnitak!

Furthermore, the SDA triplet seems to have fulfilled in the previous six months. We see very clear evidence that the Seventh-day Adventist church organization has reached its end for all practical purposes. (They took their eyes off Jesus.) It was especially in this past six-month period leading up to the Annual Council in the autumn of 2018 that the fiercest battles^[24] took place between the North American Division and the General Conference. In a nutshell, the NAD (which provides essential financial support for the rest of the world church) is defending women’s ordination at all costs and already negotiating the withdrawal of their financial support from the rest of the world church. Meanwhile, the GC is scrambling to implement disciplinary actions, which only insults and alienates the NAD further. The church is literally splitting from the top down, and there is nothing salvageable for the purposes of God on either side. It is total shipwreck.

Neither of the possible applications of the HSL shown in the diagram above is wrong; there is no question that we are in fact returning to the great 70^th jubilee of 1890, but there has still been more to gain from the HSL, as we have seen.^[25] The fact that God brought this to light at the precise time He did, reminds us that God has given us two clocks, and once again both are important. The HSL is especially concerned with the feast days and their calculations, and thus it is very fitting that it comes into play as the hour of Jesus’ coming is revealed on the High Sabbath of November 10 as a result of the timing of the autumn feasts of 2018, exactly six months before that hour.

The Dark Matter Hurricane

Two days before the proclamation of the hour by the voice of God, another prophetic sign fulfilled. Scientists analyzing the latest stellar data from the Gaia mission published a report explaining that clouds of “dark matter” are colliding and sweeping through our solar system like a cosmic hurricane at speeds of 310 miles per second (500 km/s). There are about 30 such clouds of dark matter that have been identified in our galaxy so far, which are the remnants of galaxies that have previously merged with the Milky Way:

The S1 stream was identified last year in an ongoing billion-star survey by the Gaia satellite. This is not the first stellar stream—in fact, astronomers have previously detected around 30 of these moving throngs in our Galaxy. The accepted understanding is that each of these streams is the debris of a small galaxy that crashed into the Milky Way.

Just now, scientists understand that these clouds in the heavens are “clashing” and blowing through our solar system. Compare this with how Ellen G. White relates this sign immediately prior to the coming of the voice of God:

Dark, heavy clouds came up and clashed against each other. But there was one clear place of settled glory, whence came the voice of God like many waters, which shook the heavens and the earth. The sky opened and shut and was in commotion. The mountains shook like a reed in the wind, and cast out ragged rocks all around. The sea boiled like a pot and cast out stones upon the land. {EW 34.1}

Notice that she describes the clouds as “dark” and “heavy.” Normally, we would think of dark, heavy clouds as ones that bring rain, but in the context of the end of the world, we are not expecting the world to end by rain again (as in the flood) but by a rain of fire. When James White edited this vision into the book A Word to the Little Flock, he included references that are not well known. For this specific expression, he cited 2 Esdras 15:34,35. This is found only in the Apocrypha, a collection of questionable books of the Bible that did not make it into the canon of Scripture. However, Ellen G. White saw in vision that the Apocrypha needs to be studied,^[26] and apparently James White did just that. Since we discovered Ellen G. White’s vision about the Apocrypha some time ago, we have also studied the Apocrypha some.

To come to the point, however, the passage linked to the dark, heavy clouds is this:

Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm. They shall smite one upon another, and they shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth, even their own star; and blood shall be from the sword unto the belly, (2 Esdras 15:34-35)

Here you see the reference to “clashing” (smiting one upon another) and also a direct link to falling stars, which could be the “fire coming down” event (the hail of the seventh plague).

This passage in the Apocrypha clearly indicates that the clouds are a celestial phenomenon and not mere storm clouds, because earthly clouds produce rain and sometimes hail, but never a meteor shower or falling stars.

Granted that these are clouds of the heavens, then the expression Ellen G. White used becomes even more interesting. She called them “dark, heavy” clouds. That is a perfect description of dark matter, which is so called because it consists of matter which can only be detected because of its gravitational effects. It does not emit or reflect light (hence it is called “dark”), but its cumulative mass has an effect on the surrounding heavenly bodies, and therefore it is known to be a form of “matter” because it has mass. Another way to say that something has mass (or weight) is to say that it is “heavy.” So, Ellen G. White indicated the gravitational aspect of dark matter by describing these clouds as being heavy, as well as dark: simply put, dark matter clouds.

There is no telling what debris could be hidden in these cloud streams in fulfillment of the words of God to Job (out of the whirlwind, no less):

…or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? (Job 38:22-24)

The book of Job links the hail directly to the time of trouble, and it is connected to the east wind. If you notice in the quote from the book of 2 Esdras, three directions are mentioned: primarily east, but also north and south. This reflects the fact that the earth is travelling against the dark matter cloud stream in a particular direction, and would thus brush the cloud on three sides, so to speak.

Just the fact that our solar system is passing through such a cloud of dark matter means that the orbits of the planets will be ever so slightly affected. This corresponds to a clarification Ellen G. White made:

December 16, 1848, the Lord gave me a view of the shaking of the powers of the heavens. I saw that when the Lord said “heaven,” in giving the signs recorded by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, He meant heaven, and when He said “earth” he meant earth. The powers of the heavens are the sun, moon, and stars. They rule in the heavens. The powers of the earth are those that rule on the earth. The powers of heaven will be shaken at the voice of God. The sun, moon, and stars will be moved out of their places. They will not pass away, but be shaken by the voice of God. {1BIO 154.2}

God is showing great signs to His people. In fact, the mountains shaking and the sea boiling and throwing out rocks was also fulfilled through the many volcanoes of recent times, and especially the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii (which was its largest eruption in 200 years—since before the judgment began) that poured hot lava directly into the ocean. Note the following:

We are witnessing one of the most spectacular sights in nature - billowing white plumes of steam (technically water droplets) as hot lava boils seawater. Although these billowing steam clouds appear harmless, they are dangerous because they contain small glass shards (fragmented lava) and acid mist (from seawater). This acid mist known as “laze” (lava haze) can be hot and corrosive. If anyone goes too near it, they can experience breathing difficulties and irritation of their eyes and skin.

Apart from the laze, the entry of lava into the ocean is usually a gentle process, and when steam is free to expand and move away, there are no violent steam-driven explosions.

But a hidden danger lurks beneath the ocean. The lava entering the sea breaks up into blobs (known as pillows), angular blocks, and smaller fragments of glass that form a steep slope beneath the water. This is called a lava delta.

A newly formed lava delta is an unstable beast, and it can collapse without warning. This can trap water within the hot rock, leading to violent steam-driven explosions that can hurl metre-sized blocks up to 250 metres. Explosions occur because when the water turns to steam it suddenly expands to around 1,700 times its original volume. Waves of scalding water can also injure people who are too close. People have died and been seriously injured during lava delta collapses.

So, the ocean entry points where lava and seawater meet are doubly dangerous, and anyone in the area should pay careful attention to official advice on staying away from them.^[27]

Friends, the signs are fulfilling (or have fulfilled) and very soon we will be going home. Six months is not a long time, and one has already passed! Let us all thank God for His wonderful works and for helping us to get ready for Jesus’ coming by informing us of His plans through His own mighty voice that speaks from the heavens and shakes heaven and earth.

A lot of trouble still lies ahead, but how precious it is that the Father Himself tells us that He will spare us from the hour of temptation when His wrath will be at its hottest against this wicked world. We need not fear the Via Dolorosa because God will save His people. Many will be laid to rest in the meantime, but He will not allow Satan to have the honor of killing one of His faithful ones of Philadelphia.