Prophetic Vortex of 2015

What is in store prophetically this year can be characterized in no other way than "prophetic vortex." Let me show you what I mean.

There are of course the remaining two blood moons falling on the first days of the Jewish feasts of Passover( April 4) and Tabernacles (September 28), which I am more and more convinced relate to some difficult times for Israel coming soon (possibly another war or peace with Palestinians) that will result in the return of the access to temple mount back to the Jewish people, but there are also other prophetic signs at hand.

Next month, there will be parliamentary elections held in Israel that will decide who will lead Israel in those crucial times. Three days later there will be another celestial sign in the form of a total solar eclipse, which also falls on a Jewish holiday. This time it will be Nisan 1 ( March, 20) which coincides with the beginning of the Jewish religious year as well as the Persian New Year. It was on this day that the tabernacle was consecrated in the Sinai desert and the Aaronic priesthood was established.
Then in September besides the final blood moon, which will be also a super moon and visible from Israel, there will be the end of the Shemitah year on Elul 29, which is September 13 on our Western calendar.

It is on this day (Elul 29 which fell on different days of the Western calendar) that the two previous Stock Market crashes of 2001 and 2008 happened. Will there be another one? It is quite possible. But there is something else prophetically special that will happen on September 13 of this year and this is the beginning of Roshashana a.k.a. The Feast of Trumpets. It is on this very day that Messianic Christians expect the event that is popularly called " Rapture of the Saints," an event spoken of by Jesus Christ Himself and explained in more detail by Paul the Apostle in the New Testament and as he said himself we are not in the dark that this day should overtake us as a thief. We know the day, we only do not know the hour or the year and that is why we should watch, pray and be always ready. I am not saying that it will happen this very year, but it could.

It would for sure be the best Shemitah (release from debts) ever! But even if it does not happen this year, I believe that these signs show us that this time is getting closer because the Shemitah also finishes one biblical jubilee cycle ( 50 years) and begins another, of which many both Jewish and Christian Bible scholars believe it will be the last. They believe this last Jubilee will be the one during which the Messiah returns, so we have then really anywhere between 8 months to 50 years if they are correct, which is still not a very long time left anyway. Exciting days to live in for sure. I have no doubt that all the millions of persecuted Christians right now would not mind at all stepping into eternity and having themselves vindicated before their enemies by The Lord's return and neither would I. Come quickly Lord Jesus!

The Second Blood Moon About To Appear As World Tensions Continue To Rise

The world has changed a lot since the first blood moon took place on the first day of Jewish Passover earlier this year. In my earlier post about this event I theorized what this rare astronomical event might mean for Israel and the rest of the world from Biblical point of view.


My biblically educated guess was that it would signal increased tensions that could possibly lead to the end time war ( or wars) predicted by Hebrew prophets thousands of years ago and it appears to be the case.

Since the first blood moon a radical militant group called ISIS or ISIL emerged as the most powerful as well as the most rich terror organization in the world, which already seized by brutal force large areas of land previously belonging to the countries of Syria and Iraq.
Even as I write this, they continue to seize new villages where they execute or displace hundreds of thousands of people who do not agree with their ideology. The terrorists then seize their property and all valuables thus effectively openly robbing them.



ISIS militants act like people who are totally demon possessed and/or without any conscience whatsoever by beheading or crushing children right in front of their parents. They also seized advanced weapons from fleeing Iraqi soldiers as well as oil fields, which bring them millions of dollars of profit a day.


All the while America and other Western powers do not even have a plan of how to combat them. This all began to happen on the hills of another Israel-Gaza war  which lasted 50 days and as usual wasn't really resolved. Hamas once again began hostilities by firing thousands of rockets at Israeli cities and villages, of which 10% penetrated the Israel defense system called Iron Dome, but miraculously did not explode or were blown away into uninhabited areas.


In addition to all this trouble in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin, not only illegally annexed Crimea, but is waging a war on Ukraine trying to take away from it its Eastern territories  without any serious objections from the West beyond heavy rhetoric and some economical sanctions.


NATO explains that it does not have to defend Ukraine because it has no obligation to do so since Ukraine is not a NATO member ignoring the fact that they were attacked because they wanted to join NATO and European Union.


So what will happen next? Putin will begin in earnest blackmailing Poland and other Baltic states because he feels that he has the freedom to do so and ISIS militants will continue to wreck havoc in Middle East for the same reason, eventually destabilizing countries such as Jordan or even Saudi Arabia. They declare their plans openly. Those are certainly historic times we are living in.

Why Israel Will Not Find A True Friend In Pope Francis

Israel does not have too many friends in the world due to the unceasing anti Jewish propaganda being continuously spread in all kinds of media by Islamic groups, according to which Israel is the aggressor and the Palestinians are the oppressed.

 

Constant attacks on Jewish civilian population are notoriously underreported by the Western media
and most Western leaders espouse the politics of appeasement towards the Islamists. Pope Francis is one of those leaders. He turns the blind eye to the persecution Christians all over the world are suffering from the hands of the Islamists, condemning only the attacks that happened to receive much publicity.

 

It wasn’t an accident that the Pope chose to visit Jordan and the Palestinian Authority area before going to Israel. It sent a clear message to them that he is really on their side in this conflict. Pope Francis of course is appearing friendly and respectful to the Jewish people when visiting Israel, but he will not be their true friend.

 

Unlike many evangelicals who see Israel’s rebirth as the first step towards fulfillment of God’s promises to Israel, Roman Catholic Church believes the replacement theology, which teaches that God replaced Israel with the Church after they rejected Jesus as their Messiah and therefore they do not have any right to the Holy Land or God’s promises.

 

In addition to that we must remember that Pope Francis was raised in Argentina, a long time haven for the former Nazis fleeing Germany and the responsibility for their crimes committed during Second World War, along with whom came strong anti Jewish sentiments and worldview, by which the current Pope might have been influenced.

 

We do not really know what his personal position on Israel’s right to the existence in the Holy Land is, but he does not send very good early signals, as the events progress however they will eventually become more apparent, but Israeli leaders would be wise not to count too much on Vatican’s support.

Author's Note: Photo Used Courtesy of http://www.freeisraelphotos.com/

The Wave Dream

Back in early 2003, I had a series of three related prophetic dreams regarding the future of the church. The first of them was about the wave.

In it, I was in one of the buildings of a beautiful city. There were many different gorgeous buildings of various sizes and many high rise buildings too. The streets were immaculately clean and all its inhabitants were very proud of that city which I felt they had built. I was one of them and I felt the sense of pride when looking at it through the window of one of the high rise buildings that I was staying in.

It was a beautiful sunny day and the sky was clear when suddenly at the far distance a small grey rain cloud appeared. In a few minutes it drew close and it began to rain, very lightly at first, but then the rain intensified and it rained harder. I saw clear water running through the streets, which were turning into streams of rushing water, when I noticed a huge wave of crystal clear water quickly approaching the city. The wave was forceful and it was higher than the highest buildings of the city.

I thought, this city will surely be destroyed and I wondered what to do and what will become of all the inhabitants of the city, then the dream ended.

I knew that this dream was from God and after thinking about the symbols that were  in it, I came to the following interpretation.

The city and its buildings symbolized the work of men and that is why all the people in it , including myself, were having a sense of pride in it. this were the various Christian ministries built by human effort, in our human strength.

Clear water, on the other hand represents the work of the Holy Spirit and His power. This city was beautiful, but it lacked the power of the Holy Spirit and did not give much room for what He wanted to accomplish. I believe that this dream showed that in the coming years the Holy Spirit was going to begin a very special work that would eventually take over and destroy that which was not built according to God's will and purpose in His Church.

It will begin small like that rain, but soon it will become streams and rivers  in the city and eventually the tidal wave of the Holy Spirit will completely take over and we will witness His power in the Church once again, but we will have to leave behind our own ideas, ways, self will, and our pride.

I can see it already happening. More and more dedicated believers are not satisfied by just "doing church" anymore and they begin to follow the lead of the Holy Spirit to go beyond that, learning how to be the Church instead. They are beginning to build solid relationships with other believers instead of "building ministries," these relationships help them to build each other up spiritually, so they are not confined to just their local churches or denominations, we are all beginning to see that we are part of something bigger.

Interestingly enough a house church movement that began about a decade ago is called a "tidal wave" and it is growing on all continents of the world.

It has been happening for quite some time in countries were the Church is being  severely persecuted such as in China or Iran, but now it is beginning to also grow in Europe and North America. Some church leaders see it as a threat to their leadership, but I think that it is of God. The Church has been divided around individual ministries and/or denominations for far too long and most believers were cut off from the rest of the body and God's life. It resulted in immaturity and unhealthy reliance on a one or few charismatic leaders, which then often turned into a personality cult.

I believe that The Lord is now changing this situation, so we can be a greater witness to the fallen world and be prepared for His return. He is not going to come back for the bride with spots and wrinkles, battered and bruised by sin. He is coming for His beautiful bride washed in His blood, strong, pure, and triumphant. I don't know how about you, but I want to be a part of that.

Author's note: Image the courtesy of secretsofsurvival.com

Biblical Dream Interpretation

All through the Bible, in both Old and New Testaments, we can see examples of God speaking to people in dreams. Some of them were patriarchs, prophets, others were regular people called by God to achieve great things for Him. He even gave dreams to those who were not His people, who did not know Him at all such as Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.

In each instance God gave the interpretation of the dream as well, either to the dreamer himself or to another person who could interpret it. The great thing is that He did not cease to speak to us through our dreams, but we need to be familiar with the symbols He uses in order to interpret them correctly, and the Bible is the very source of these symbols.

The prophets of the Bible predicted that in “the last days” or what is called now in popular culture “the end times,” God will pour out His Spirit and give many people dreams as well as visions, “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.”(Joel 2:28)

In following posts, I will discuss some of those symbols based on prophetic dreams and their interpretations that I have received from God over the years. In some of them God showed me the glimpse of what is coming in the future both for the world and for the church, so that me and other people could prepare for it. Other dreams were given to me in order to prove to me that the Bible is really God inspired book and not the document falsified over the centuries to fit certain Church doctrines as some people claim.

It has been amazing and very supernatural journey for me and I think that many of you would be interested as you might be also on a similar journey. Did you have vivid dreams that you could not shake off, but the meaning of which you could not or still cannot understand? If it is so, then please join me and you might just find out the answers you were looking for. Let us explore together the world of dreams and visions, and the interpretation patterns given to us in Scripture.

The Real Resurrection Sunday

Today, Christians around the world celebrated the Resurrection Sunday, the day Jesus of Nazareth   saving this time not only the nation of Israel, but all the nations from eternal death.

rose from the dead after He was crucified during the Jewish feast of Passover and thus fulfilled it by becoming the sacrificial lamb and

 

This Resurrection Sunday was very special because it fell not only during Passover, but the seven days of it fell also on the exact days of the week that the Passover during which Jesus died and rose again fell upon.

 

It began on Monday night with that spectacular first blood moon early in the morning of Tuesday. On that very evening Jesus held the last supper with His disciples and was taken to custody later that night according to the account of all four gospels in the New Testament scriptures.

 

He was condemned to death on the cross on the second day of Passover, which was Wednesday, executed the very same day and died at “the ninth hour.” His body was taken off the cross and laid in a tomb for exactly three days and three nights until He rose from the dead early Sunday morning when it was still dark.

 

May we be extra conscious of what he had done for us on this day nearly 2000 years ago and may we all have the eternal life He made available for all mankind.

 

“I am the resurrection and life, whoever believes in me even though may die will live and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” ( Jesus Christ)

 

Let us all believe and live. Be blessed.

The First Blood Moon And Why It Is Special

There has been a lot written lately about the astronomical event called the “Tetrad” by astronomers and “The Four Blood Moons” by the rest of us.  It is a series of total lunar eclipses happening over a period of two years that will make the moon appear blood red in colour, hence the nickname of blood moons. So, what is so special about it?

 

Well, lunar eclipses are very common, but tetrads are not happening that often. According to NASA there will be 8 tetrads in total this century, but only he tetrad of 2014-2015 will have those four eclipses occur on Jewish Feasts called “The Feasts of The Lord” in the Bible.

 

This kind of tetrads happened only 7 times in the past 1000 years and always accompanied important events in the history of Jewish people. This tetrad is the first and the last in this millennium.  There will not be another tetrad with eclipses falling on Jewish feasts until year 3000, NASA does not have any forecast beyond that year.

 

And that is what makes this tetrad, so special. It also has a biblically prophetic importance as Jesus predicted that before His return to earth “... there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations...”(Luke 21:25) he also mentioned that “the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light...” echoing similar prediction made by the Old Testament prophet Joel, “The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.”

 

I don’t think that The Lord Jesus and prophet Joel were talking about regular lunar or solar eclipses and we must remember that they were talking to the Jewish people who lived by the Biblical calendar. Lunar and solar eclipses falling on the feast days would catch their attention and as we can see they do and not only theirs, but also all of those who consider the Bible sacred text inspired by the Spirit of God.

 

In addition to this tetrad falling on the first days of Passover and Succoth in both 2014 and 2015, we will witness a total solar eclipse on Nisan 1(20/03/2015), which God taught the Israelites to observe as “the beginning of months” that in turn led many rabbis to conclude that it might have been an anniversary of the very creation of the world, the day that time itself began.

 

It therefore makes Biblical sense to expect some important events to unfold during this time period, which also leads to the significant year 2018 that marks the 70 th anniversary of Israel’s rebirth also itself prophetically significant number as well as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

 

Could those be the very last signs Jesus and the prophets predicted thousands of years ago? Could they signal the beginning of the Tribulation period or a significant war against Israel that would begin the end of the period of last days we are currently living in? It is very possible.

 

As the first blood moon appears in the sky this very night, there are many tensions around the world even talk of possible World War III starting over the Ukraine Crisis. Jesus warned us this would happen, nation rising against nation, wars, pestilences, and that no one would stay alive if God did not intervene to “shorten” these days, which is a good news. We are set to watch all these events and glory of God in the midst of it all.

 

And as Jesus charged us to do, so let us do, “ watch and pray so that you might be counted worthy to escape all the things that are coming upon the earth and to stand before the Son of Man.” ( Luke 21)