03/07/2024
Let me tell the story about the first Bible I owned.
It was a gift from the local Ministerial Association presented at my high school graduation. I attended a public school my senior year where the whole class was asked which translations we wanted. I think there were three choices. I picked the Catholic translation, the New American Bible.
That summer was the first time I read the bible for myself instead of a part of a lesson. While reading the Book of John, I latched on to and claimed verse 13 of chapter 16, which tells me, “When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will teach you all truth.” I took this at face value as the Holy Ghost was imparted to me by the laying on of hands by Bishop Persley when I received the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Since that summer, I had many who Grandfather put me in touch with to learn from and I checked what they taught by looking at the whole thought from the beginning of the section of Scripture surrounding the verse or two they taught from. Furthermore, I used Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to tear apart verses and put them back together to better understand the Holy Scriptures.
Later that summer, I took God at his word to teach me and asked him to show me when the Apocalypse is to take place. After reading through Revelations two and a half times He gave me a number that it has taken me 40 some years of learning to understand what he showed me when he gave me the number 2000.
At first, I thought it was the year 2000 give or take 7 years because I know the Gregorian Calendar is off and does not accurately reflect the year Christ was born. I have since come to understand that the Gregorian Calendar begins two years after Christ was born. This tells me that when Christ began his ministry at 30 years of age it was the year 28AD. Three and one half years later He is crucified, died, buried, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven. This would have been in the year 31AD.
I received a teaching and understand the time Christ was upon the earth was the first three and a half days of the seventieth week of Daniel or the first three and a half years of a false peace of the seven year Great Tribulation period found in the Book of Revelations of Saint John the Apostle. The last three and a half years will be of the Antichrist and suffering, and may soon be upon us.
We are fast approaching the time in recorded history where Big Brother will be able to track everyone everywhere at the same time. The United States and China are in a race to develop the quantum computer, which will enable Big Brother to track everything. Artificial Intelligence has been created and used in minor everyday applications. However, there is an advertisement on television that uses an AI composite representing all the missing or abused or runaway children telling a story to garner attention to the cause. Should AI be introduced to the Quantum Computer then the Image of the Beast will be given life. See the Book of Revelations.
Remember the number 2000 Grandfather gave me during the summer of my graduation, which was 1977. What the number 2000 means is the time between Christ’s ascension in to Heaven and his return or the time of the Great Tribulation. However, because God is God I doubt it will be exactly 2000 years but a bit more than that because no man knows the day or hour Christ will return but I would guess it will be on one of the original annual permanent proscribed feasts or holy days Grandfather instituted. Maybe the Day of Atonement.
We may prepare as best we can by raising animals or trapping for meat. Chickens double up by producing eggs. The same for milking goats and cows. Raising and preserving fruits and vegetables. Yet no matter how much one makes material preparations, without a deep trust in The Creator we may not make it through to see Christ’s return. We may join the Martyrs.