Sounding the Alarm by Steinman

Chapter One - 1st Rapture &

God’s Prophetic Time Piece

                                     The Great             

       Heavenly Menorah,      

   God’s Enigma Machine   

    The Lamb of God    

The photo above is a machine called “The Lamb of God”, which was used in WWII to break the secret codes of the Germans, who believed them to be indecipherable.  This machine saved the life of many a brave man, and thousands of suffering Jews.

“The Great Heavenly Menorah”, God’s “Enigma Machine” and its relationship with God’s other prophetic timelines is astounding.  In my recent deeper examination into this phenomenon I discovered many numeric links, many things I had not seen before. 

Words and numbers can often times have interrelated meanings.  We see this reality when looking up words in Strong’s Concordance. Like chapter and verse numbers, God has directed the efforts of men, and guided their work, such that prophecy can be preserved and amplified as even the numbers seem to speak prophetically to the reader.  The “Great Heavenly Menorah” can also be added to this list of prophetic resources.  This menorah as 20 timelines, each with a numeric value which relates to the prophetic understanding, which in turn relates to the specific message God is pointing to using the eclipses.

December 21st, 2010 = 14th of Tevet, 5771

The following are some of the facts of this case I desire to make.  On the day of the winter solstice, December 21st, 2010 / 14th of Tevet, 5771, God began to place the most comprehensive sign of all time in the second heaven, in the form of a forty lamp menorah.  These forty lamps were made up of solar and lunar eclipses, centered on January 5th, 2015 / 14th of Tevet, 5775.

January 5th, 2015 = 14th of Tevet, 5775

The reasoning behind this date being selected is foundational to knowing the hour, the day, the week, the month, the times and seasons of all the coming events, based upon when they first took place in the year AD 30.  The year 2015 is the year in which the Hebrew and Gregorian overlay perfectly to the hour, the day, the week, the month, the times, and the seasons with AD 30.

To correctly understand dates and times, one must understand that the Hebrew day begins at sunset and ends at sunset.  Therefore, during an equinox, the Gregorian day overlaps with the Hebrew day from 6 p.m. to midnight and likewise at the close of the day.  Thus, any given Hebrew day overlaps with three Gregorian days.  One must keep this in mind as one interfaces between the two calendars.

The other fact one must understand regarding the Hebrew calendar is that it is not just one calendar, it is two calendars, overlapping 6 months / 177 days.  The Hebrews have a civil calendar as well as a religious calendar.  Because the Hebrew calendar is primarily based upon a lunar month of 29.5 days, periodic adjustments must be made, so to synchronize with the solar calendar of 365.25 days in a solar year.  Therefore, the Hebrew calendar year can have 12 or 13 months, 354 or 384 days.  Further adjustments can be made in the months of Cheshvan and Kislev, which can have either 29 or 30 days, depending upon the mathematical formula the Jews are presently using.  The mathematical formula is based upon a 19 year cycle, in which there are 7 leap years in which an additional month / 30 days is added creating leap years.  The often mentioned prophetic timeline of 3.5 years seen by many as having 42 months, which can never have that number of months.  Only the prophetic calendar use to project dates well into the future can represent 42 months as equalling 3.5 years.  Any given 3.5 years has either 43 or 44 months.   

Calendar keeping was part of the law given to the people through the teachings of Moses, shortly after leaving Egypt.  Once the Israelites entered the land, annual adjustments to the calendar year were to be based upon the ripeness the barley fields becoming aviv.  All the fields had to be evaluated.  After the Israelites were scattered, and they were no longer in their tribal lands, this system ended, and the mathematical system came to be some years later.  God however, continued to keep time using His own methods, thus “God’s Perfect Calendar” / (GPC) and “Man’s Hebrew Calendar” / (MHC) are often times at a variance, plus or minus 30 days.  It was because of these reasons, the prophets used a prophetic month comprised of 12 x 30 day months in a 360 day year.  All these factors continue to contribute to the difficulty of knowing the when future events are to take place.  Even so, God has said in Daniel 9:25, we are to know and understand the timelines he has provided us.   

A World War II “Enigma Machine”

The German “Enigma Machine” was about 24 inches square and 18 inches high, and was enclosed in a wooden box. It was connected to two electric typewriters, likewise, the Menorah has 20 left-side keys / eclipses, and 20 right-side keys / eclipses, thus to transform a plain-language signal into a cipher text, all the operator had to do was consult the book of keys, much like we use the Bible. It was Augustine who wrote: “The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed, the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.”  The operator then selected the key for the time of the day, the day of the month, and the month of the quarter, plug in accordingly, and type the signal out on the left-hand typewriter.  So too, we are to read the signs presented in God’s “Great Heavenly Menorah”.  To decipher God’s Menorah today, we simply go to the dates in which the eclipses have pointed to and read the related Bible stories.  Next, we need only to compare the events to the binary dates, to find what events mirrored the previous events.   

Electrical impulses entered the complex wiring of each of the rotors of the machine (corresponding to the three prophetic “Theme” dates of October 16, 2012, when the Revelation 12 sign, April 11th, 2013, the binary date, and September 23, 2017, the appearance of the great red dragon), the message was enciphered and then transmitted to the right-hand typewriter.  When the enciphered text reached its destination, an operator set the keys of a similar apparatus according to an advisory contained in the message, typed the enciphered signal out on the left-hand machine, and the right hand machine duly delivered the matching corresponding plain text.  So also we decipher God’s “Great Heavenly Menorah”.  It was not until the arrival of the deciphering machines, enciphering was done slowly and carefully by human hand,

 just as God’s Old Testament prophets hand wrote out the prophetic Word.

God’s “Great Heavenly Menorah” operates much the same way as the German “Enigma Machine”.  God points to past prophetic events on the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars, by encoding the information into the binary keys, which are comprised of pairs of both lunar or solar eclipses.  The historic dates are evaluated using the Hebrew calendar dates.  The historic biblical record is consulted.  This information then reappears on the right-side with a list of past events.  These events are then compared to the first list of events, and reconciled with each other.  This is done by processing the events through the related passages of scripture, the Word of God made flesh, the “Lamb of God”.  Thus the 40 eclipses point to the 40 puzzle pieces in “God’s Great Plan” to defeat Satan. 

There has been nothing like this great sign in all history. Highly significant events have already taken place on the exact dates God has pointed to.  Others have appeared as signs of future events, things yet to come.

The center date of this great heavenly menorah is January 5th, 2015, “Old Christmas Eve”.  I see the central date to be directly related to Messiah Jesus, either his “Ascension Day” or the “First Pentecost”.  On one of these two, Hebrews 9:28 will be fulfilled in a secret rapture of the “man child”, aka the “Bride of Christ”.  The center of the “Great Heavenly Menorah” divides the eclipses, with the 7 year / 2600 days, divided by two, equals 44 months / 1,300 days (44/44 = 88 total months), January 4th / 5th / 6th, 2015, as a mirror image.  This year, on May 14th, 2018 will have been 1988 years since Jesus departed.  Reminds me of the book, written 30 years ago, called 88 Reasons why the Rapture will be in 1988.

The Jews rehearse the Seven Feast Days of the Lord every year.  They also celebrate the Festival of Hanukkah (Festival of Lights) and Tu B'Av. Tu B'Av (Hebrew: ט"ו באב, the fifteenth of the month Av) is the second most joyous Jewish holiday of all, superseded only by Yom Kippur. In modern-day Israel, it is celebrated as a holiday of love (Hebrew: חג האהבה‎, Hag HaAhava), similar to Valentine's Day. It has been said to be a "great day for weddings" (July 27th, 2018).

Christians, since the day of Emperor Constantine, celebrate the Feast of Weeks / Shavuot aka Pentecost as the day the church was birthed.  The celebrate Passover as though they were pagans, celebrating Ishtar, aka Easter.  Therefore, this is the only Feast Day of the Lord observed by Christians.  This feast day is represented by the center candlestick of the traditional menorah, which took in the First and Second Temples of God.

Jesus was crucified on the 14th of Nisan, and ten hurriedly placed in the tomb, moments before sunset, risen on the third day, and ascended into the clouds on  the 40th day, the 25th of Iyyar, 3790 / May 14th, AD 30. 

Might it be that the rapture will take place on this day, 1988 years later?  If so why?  

1 Corinthians 13:12 Wycliffe Bible (Amplified by S.P. Steinmann)

12 And we see now by a mirror in darkness (into the future, in which the light of day has not yet shown forth), but then face to face; now I know of part, but then I shall know, as [and] I am known.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version (KJV)

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Amos 3:7 King James Version (KJV)

7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

The possibility of “Ascension Day” being the first of three raptures has prophetic Scriptural support, though the year is 12 years shy of 2,000 years / two millennial days.

Joel 2:23 King James Version (KJV)

23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former (autumn / Tishri) rain, and the latter (spring / Nisan) rain in the first month.

The prophet Hosea, speaking to the Jews, includes a “key” word, as does Jesus, speaking of this time in Matthew 24:29.  In both passages a “key” word is included.  That “key” word is “after”.  After what exactly?  After two days / two millennial days / 2,000 years. 

Hosea 6:1-3 King James Version (KJV)

1 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Matthew 24:29 King James Version (KJV)

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened (yet before, the great and terrible day of the Lord arrives), and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

The two days require a starting point to establish the end date.  I see more than one start day, directly related to each future event anticipated.  Jesus was conceived in the Hebrew year of 3760, to which we need add the 240 years abridged by the Jews, in hopes of concealing the fact that Jesus was indeed the Messiah ben Joseph, the suffering Messiah.  Therefore Jesus came mirroring the fourth day of creation, when the sun, moon and stars were created.  The fourth day after creation on the Hebrew calendar was the year 5760 + 240 = 4,000.  To this year we add 2,000 years, two millennial days, which brings, us to sunset, the 29th of Elul, 5759 (December 31, 1999). 

Jesus was conceived during the celebration of the Festival of Lights, in 3760 on the present day Hebrew calendar (MHC).  He was born at sunset, the start of the Feast of Tabernacles, the 14th/15th of Tishri, 3761 / September 29th/30th, AD -0001.

A Jewish child was said to be one year of age at birth, moving the date to the end of the month and the start of the new year, AD 1.  The scholars responsible for the creation of the Gregorian calendar were far closer to the event then present day men, and had documentation no longer available.

Jesus was therefore placed in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit of God at sunset, on the 1st/2nd day of Hanukkah, for this was the day God provided the oil to keep the menorah lamps burning.

John 8:12 King James Version (KJV)

12 ... I am the light of the world: ...  

John 1:8-14 King James Version (KJV)

8 ...(John the Baptist) bear witness of that Light.

9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The date of Jesus’ birth fulfilled his coming as the former rains, which arrives each year during the first month of the civil calendar, the month of Tishri.  When Jesus was 12, he came with his parents to Jerusalem for the Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread, fulfilling the prophecy that he would come to them as the “latter rains”, which arrive each year during the month of Nisan, the first month on the religious calendar.  This was when he began to do the will of his Father.

Therefore, it is right that I as a watchman must sound the alarm, by speculating that the birth of the Revelation 12:5 “man child” into Heaven, precedes the coming for the Revelation 12:6, “woman” by 12 years.

I believe therefore that the “Bride of Christ” might well be raptured on “Ascension Day” (May 14th, 2018).  It was on this day, two men dressed in white, said he would return in like manner as his followers saw him go.  Likewise, it will be to those awakened to his coming, watching and waiting, longing for Jesus to return for them, will he appear the second time.