Thank you USALiberty; I am pinging Quix’s Level Two End Times list though I realize you folks thereon don’t see the “Rapture Ready” issue all the same way, this seems to be a good thread to put this on, and thanks,
Hat-tip to Charmaine Eggers at
http://runningfrombabylon.blogspot.com/
for the following excerpt of a riveting article written by
Joseph Herrin
“Then Comes the End...”
On July 11, 2010 (1st of Av - Hebrew calendar) the date of the 3rd total solar eclipse in three years, Bob Sheppard, the longtime public address announcer for the NY Yankees baseball team died. He was 99 years old. Two days later, on July 13, George Steinbrenner, the longtime owner of the same sports franchise, died of a heart attack. He was 80 years old.
There are reasons I believe this to be a prophetic sign. The word Yankee is used worldwide as a reference to the citizens of America. George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees, was born on the 4th of July, 1930. He serves as symbol of the American nation, being born on the day of the nation’s birth, and owning the ultimate symbol of America, her premiere baseball team. His worldly success is a symbol of the American dream. He bought a floundering sports franchise for $10 million dollars and built it into a behemoth valued at $1.6 billion dollars today.
George Steinbrenner had just experienced his 81st 4th of July. The number 81 is 9 times 9. In the Scriptures the number 9 denotes judgment. Furthermore, Steinbrenner died 9 days after he witnessed his 81st Independence Day.
Bob Sheppard was 99. This is a multiple of the numbers 9 and 11. The number 9 once more denotes judgment, and 11 denotes disintegration and disorder.
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http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/then-comes-end.html
Thanks for the ping!
Those are interesting numbers, to say the least.
The numbers that added up on that horrible day, 9/11/01, were also interesting.
Gematria(The Hebrew Study of Biblical Numerology), Bible Codes, and other calculations are all very intriguing, but I try not to let them take my eyes off of Jesus, Who is Our Blessed Hope.
BUT! Time is getting Short.
THAT is pretty plain!
Anyone who would like to come to Our Garden of Prayer to pray For The peace of Jerusalem, according to Psalm 122:6, is welcome. It is a Prayer Thread, so we don’t debate, we just pray.
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Thanks for your posting, sister... But it misses the point. The fact that the eclipse happened for three years running on the 1st of Av is the bit that holds portent:
"The Nine Days inaugurates an even greater level of communal and personal mourning in recognition of the many tragedies and calamities that befell the Jewish people at this time."
The Nine Days culminates with Tisha B'Av.
It is almost certainly a portent of great calamity.
We need to pay great attention to (as in "observe") the Holy Days that God ordained.