Two things I have learned since arriving at the retirement age. One, the reason one must retire at that age of retirement, normally thought of as age 65, is so he or she  has time to make all those doctor appointments. Second, in order to do that, we must also write down the appointments! For example, recently my wife had seven in one week, and I had a couple thrown in the mix, too.

The point is, things to be remembered are written down. It’s standard procedure.  Civic leaders put a time capsule in the cornerstone of a new city building containing things to be remembered.  Perhaps the whole idea of a diary is for that purpose.

God gave Moses the Ten Commandments—written on tablets of stone, of course! And when they were broken, He had Moses bring replacement stone and once again, wrote them down. And, of course, the preservation of the written Scriptures is a testimony of the providence of God. In that Word, too, are recorded in numerous places that first thing to be remembered is what God, Himself, tells us in Isaiah 46:8-10:

“Remember this, and show yourselves men; recall to mind, O you transgressors. Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure….”

It may be appropriate at this point to mention, that when a nation forgets its fear of God, the impending shadows of coming darkness are closing in. The looming “New World Order,” acclaimed by some with flamboyant grandeur and glorious anticipation, carefully hides the awful price that must be paid by the majority of the world’s population in order to provide that utopia for the global elite. Those folks have long ago forgotten that God even exists, apparently. The cup of God’s wrath has filled almost to the brim, and His appointed time is much closer than the utopia of their dreams.

Another Thing Never to Be Forgotten

If indeed the Lord looks at the whole world through the eyeglass of the gospel, that is, as John 3:16  portrays it, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believes on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life,” then there is no other remembrance that could exceed that one.

From the time that God shed the blood of animals to obtain skins for coverings that He made for Adam and Eve, He has directed people—first and primarily the Jews—to an offering for sin that would qualify for the standard required by the eternal justice of God. He had said, and it was recorded in Leviticus 17:11, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for itis the blood that makes atonement for the soul.”

The elaborate workings of sacrificial offerings that was carried out by the Hebrew people exhibits the careful details that God instructed them to follow to show the perfection of that future offering that was being portrayed. A lamb without blemish and without spot, or other animals that were without faults were required. And imagine the importance implied to the people when Solomon was led to such a gigantic offering when he dedicated the new temple to God and brought the ark of the covenant into it. According to 1 Kings 8:63, the offering consisted of 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep. That was not anywhere near like a summer backyard barbeque, in comparison. And yet, that did not, with all of its volume, reach the quality of that future sacrifice that God had planned. In Hebrews 10:1-4 the writer tells about it:

“For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.”

Then the writer speaks of Jesus coming to do the will of God by becoming a perfect sacrifice for the sins of man. He writes, “By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10). The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ—the essential gospel—is pictured in a church ordinance that is repeated often, just as Jesus had urged the disciples at the time of the “Last Supper” (Luke 22:17-20), and made firmly a matter for remembrance by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:26:

“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.”

Thus God establishes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus as an event never to be forgotten. For certain, it is the focal point of all Scripture. Without that event, all else is totally meaningless. Yet, there are many who partake of this communion regularly, according to dictates of their church, and believe it gives them salvation. Frankly, it does not, but it points to the One whom we must go to, by faith, and receive Him as our own personal sacrifice (John 1:12).

Another Critical Thing to Be Remembered

If you want something remembered for the future, you put it on your calendar. If you want it to be remembered repeatedly every year, a proclamation is made for that particular time. Examples in America are Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Flag Day, Independence Day—the list goes on and on, and every year those days are marked off and remembered. Back in the days of Moses, when God was laying out the details of the laws to him, there were seven annual festivals placed on the annual Hebrew calendar by the Lord, and they have been on the Hebrew calendar every single year since they appeared in Leviticus 23. Every year there are seven times when God wanted the people to remember those feasts or festivals for what they meant to Him and what they would mean to Israel.

There are seven feast days that were to be remembered and celebrated every year—the Feast of Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of First Fruits, the Feast of Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Feast of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. Apparently these feasts represented future events that would occur to fulfill their respective portrayals. The first four evidently have already been fulfilled. Jesus was the Passover lamb; He was the unleavened bread that had no life; He was the first fruit of the resurrection as He rose from the tomb, and the indwelling of the believers by the Holy Spirit was the promise fulfilled at Pentecost.

Those first four feasts show up on the calendar around mid-March to early June, on our secular calendar. A long period of time then spreads across the summer months to about mid-September when the next feast, the Feast of Trumpets appears. Ten days later is the Feast of Atonement, then followed not long afterward by the Feast of Tabernacles. In all these centuries since Pentecost, no fulfillments have occurred. Why not? That next one, the Feast of Trumpets, appears to portray the final harvest of the year and is scheduled roughly at that time. If you were to lay the annual Hebrew calendar down beside a concentrated picture of human history since the time of Christ, those A.D. years, you would see a parallel pattern with nothing happening in Christendom except the spread of the gospel across the nations of the world.

When the disciples wanted to know if Jesus was going to restore the kingdom to Israel (provide independence from Rome), He told them that it was not the time and then pointed them back to Jerusalem and gave them that final Great Commission directive in Acts 1:8. The Apostle Paul tells us how long that period of time was to take, in Romans 11:25:

“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”

According to God’s plan, Jews were scattered far and wide among the nations, but in the latter days they would be restored to their native land, just as He also had promised. The prophets, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and others, wrote often of this, and now we have seen that the restoration has taken place, and continues to be held in place. And, along with this, we see that the “times of the Gentiles” is coming to its fulfillment. That gap on the calendar has been filled with planting and harvesting, for Jesus had said:

“The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Matthew 9:37-38).

Thus, the Feast of Trumpets at the end of the harvest season, depicting the gathering in of the fruit of the times of the Gentiles, when the dead in Christ and those believers who are alive will be changed in the twinkling of an eye and transported into the presence of Christ. The Feast of Trumpets must have its own fulfillment, just as the first four did, and there can be no other event than the Rapture of the saints that would fulfill its portrayal.

Of the seven feasts, this one is the only one whose start is uncertain as to the day or the hour. It begins on the first day of the Jewish new year, the month of Tishri, but its beginning has to start with the physical sighting of the new moon as it shows up in the fading daylight on the edge of the horizon in Israel, then reported to the leadership. If it is a cloudy sky, the beginning is delayed one day. (Finer details are involved, no doubt, but that is the essence.) Just as Jesus said, “No man will know the day or the hour,” in reference to His coming “as a thief in the night,” so is this parallel event to occur.

The final two are the Feasts of Atonement and of Tabernacles, depicting the recognition of Jesus Christ as their true atoning Messiah by the Jews (Zechariah 12:10), and the return of the Lord in His physical appearance in Jerusalem to tabernacle with His people (Zechariah 14:5).

Much discussion and speculation has been offered in regard to the meaning of the four blood moons in 2014 and 2015. The uniqueness of them being on the dates of the first and last feasts each year leads me to believe that God was calling attention in a special way to the centuries-old plan He has portrayed in those annual feasts, that the plan is drawing to a close. But not so soon will it draw to a close! That final feast, the Feast of tabernacles, is scheduled to be on the annual calendar every year for a thousand years while Jesus is reigning over the earth as King form the throne of David in Jerusalem:

“And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles” (Zechariah 14:16).

Of the things to be remembered, God’s plan for the ages is of paramount importance, so noted by that annual calendar reminder, an “in your face” reality to come. God does have an appointed time when He will wrap up human history and fold it into a completed package where He will reign supremely.

The impending crisis that the swirling vortex of signs and events is pressing upon this world brings to mind that song of Johnny Cash titled, “Five Feet and Rising,” where he progresses through the song’s narrative of flood waters overwhelming his family’s farm. [1]

Not only does it identify with all the turbulent storms and flooding in recent months, but it resonates with the flooding of crime, murders, rioting, sexual assaults and social immorality. Not a pretty sight, for sure! One of the prophecies proves my point, however, according to 2 Timothy 3:1-5:

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.”

Earlier, in his first letter, 1 Timothy 3:1-2, he identified, perhaps, the root cause of today’s social and immoral degradation:

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron….”

It seems harder than ever to find enough adjectives to describe the atrocities that abound in our world today, and that testifies to the reality of the “times and seasons” that marks the closing of this page of God’s plan for the ages.

There are at least ten, perhaps more, signs and events that are coming together in these days with remarkable rapidity. We can look at each of them in detail, next.

1.      The determined destruction of America.

Barack Obama’s campaign declaration for the 2008 election was “America is the greatest nation the world has ever seen!”  Then, later, he exclaimed, “Join me in fundamentally changing America forever!” We now understand that if America was so great, the only way it was to be changed was to destroy it. (The above statements have been well publicized with videos of the speeches, but now appear to have been  taken out of circulation.)

The lies, deceptive tactics and outright flaunting of the Constitution, while denied and     overlooked by the liberal left and political correctness demands of the media, are fully supported by factual evidence.  For example, the Gross National Product (GNP) of the United States historically runs at around four per cent annually. It has continually dropped since Obama took office, and the rate of economic growth which this statistic measures dropped below zero in the first quarter of 2015!

When President George W. Bush finished his second term amid financial turmoil like never before, he had endured a rise in the national debt to around $9 Trillion dollars. Obama lashed out at him during the campaign with unrelenting fury. It was unpatriotic and treasonous, he claimed.

Then Obama added to that level of debt an additional  $9 trillion dollars, which is continuing to compile, in just over six years. That’s an increase in national debt equal to the accumulation since the beginning of the nation. One problem, then, is that it is not likely that anyone could tell us where that $9 Trillion dollars was spent.

The destructive tactics go on and on, for only if the sovereignty of the United States of America can be brought down can a “New World Order” be established.  Henry Kissinger, one of the global elitists, exclaimed rather gleefully upon Obama’s election success, “He has been primed to lead us into a New World Order!” (Strangely, this video has disappeared from the Internet, also.)

And likewise, in his closing speech at the end of his term as president, George H. W. Bush glowingly pictured the coming New World Order as a utopia beyond all imagination. He says, “…and it will happen.” [2]

2.      The impending economic and financial collapse worldwide.

The expectation of an economic and financial collapse that is worldwide is increasingly imminent and especially so this July, 2015, when Greece is about to fold up in bankruptcy, China’s financial situation is in chaos, and yes, the USA, with its more than $18 Trillion dollars of debt. A spokesman for the Rothschild dynasty declared in the early 1800’s, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I will not care what its laws are.”

As far as America is concerned, at least, that has been accomplished by the development of the Federal Reserve System, and they are apparently ready to kill in order to preserve that control. Yet, that fiat system of debt financing has backed them into a corner where it begins to look like a worldwide collapse is on the immediate horizon, just as the economic experts fearfully anticipate.  Jonathan Cahn historically documents this quite interestingly. [3]

3.      The strange military exercise, Jade Helm 15.

Not mentioned in the daily news bites, even on Fox News, is the seemingly gigantic military training operation titled, “Jade Helm 15,” which is to begin, officially, on July 15, 2015, and end on September 15, 2015. Mainline media wants to push it away with a laugh and maybe a sneering retort that it is not of any significance to the nation’s welfare.

On its official shield is shown a downward pointing sword crossed by two arrows. Their motto is lettered across the bottom circle, “Master the Human Domain.” [4]   That sounds an awful lot like the goal of the global elite and their New World Order which is, as I have heard and read of, a reduction of the world’s population of 7.210 billion down to a more manageable one billion or even 500 million. [5]

Of course, that means people like you and me, who do not rise to their level of equal. Perhaps that is the real driving force behind the abortion issue in which more than 55 million have been eliminated from the population since the advent of Roe vs. Wade.

One thing seems clear.  The exercise is to end on September 15, the approximate time that many of these other signs and events are pointing toward. If the economy falls apart, as it is in Greece, there is nothing more appropriate for controlling rioting citizens than a prepared military to institute martial law instantly.

Jade Helm 15 is surrounded with seemingly deceptive press conferences, outright denials, huge movements of military equipment as well as strange closings of Walmart stores in the areas of planned operation. At least five such stores have been closed on a three-day advance notice with the pretense of “plumbing problems,” but in the months afterward, no plumbing repairs have been taking place—and the buildings are empty! The plan started out with seven states in the area of operation, but now has been increased to at least nine states. All of them are across our southern border, from Florida to California.

4.      The on-again, off-again peace talks.

Since about September of 2009 there have been peace talks going on in the Middle East, first regarding Israel and the Palestinians, and now regarding Iran and its nuclear capability. At first, they were to have an agreement put together by the next September, and it still seems to point to that time of the year for a satisfactory conclusion. At this writing it appears a deal has been reached and is now waiting for Congressional approval. It shapes up like this, in reality.

If Iran is allowed to build a nuclear weapon, Israel is sure to be blown to bits, and the promise is that the “Great Satan” (USA) will be their next target. Psalm 2 and Psalm 83 speak of the hatred of the Islamic faction for Israel, and it has not ceased over the centuries. The leadership in the United States apparently feels it can talk its way out of any danger, but Israel has said it will not allow that to happen. It is now an open sore, but I would place my tokens on Israel’s unilateral response before this summer is over. Whatever happens, it will l likely lead to the confirmation of a covenant with many [nations at the United Nations], as Daniel 9:27 predicts.

5.      The sign of the last Pope.

The centuries-old prediction of an Irish Catholic Cardinal that the 116thPope from that date would be the last pope of the Roman Catholic Church brings us to this current Pope Francis. The timing included strange circumstances in which the prior Pope suddenly announced his resignation, a rarest of events in itself.

Pope Francis, from Argentina, is the first pope to be of the Order of the Franciscans and is a Jesuit. Note what one of the points of that order’s oath of membership includes, in part:

“I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity is present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition….” [5] (It gets more graphic as the oath continues.)

This Pope has stated that it is his opinion that atheists will go to heaven based on their consciences. He has issued a proclamation of statehood for the Palestinians.  Also, he just recently picked up the mantle of the liberal Obama administration and its backers, the global elite, that climate change (formerly global warming) is the greatest threat the world faces today.

This seems like the kind of support a false prophet might give to a ruling world government, or New World Order. He will be the third pope to visit the United States and the first to address a joint session of Congress on September 24, 2015. Will he be drumming up support for the New World Order? [6]

6.      The increasing geophysical disturbances.

There is not enough space in this article to list all of the volcano eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms and their resulting flooding that are splashed across our television screens, or worse yet, overwhelming our neighborhoods. Jesus spoke of these as an increasing activity of nature in the last day’s events in the gospels. However, the globalists conveniently blame it on climate change and the faults of mankind, thus there is no reason for a confrontation with a God of creation in whom they have no interest.

7.      The signs in the heavens and blood moons.

The phenomenon of the four blood moons in 2014 and 2015 and their unique occurrence on the first and last of the seven feast days recorded in the law given to Moses in Leviticus 23 is certainly a sign not to be recklessly discarded as insignificant. They seem to be bracketing those seven points on the Hebrew calendar each year to draw attention to their message as the high points of the plan of God for this age and its approaching conclusion.

Another blood moon appeared in the sky over America on June 30, 2015, the day that the Supreme Court announced the legalization of gay marriage in the United States. Was it a meaningful sign from God for that reason, or just coincidentally connected to fiery smoke from forest fires in Canada? [7].

8.      The increasing worldwide hatred for the Jews.

The historical record of the Jews in the nations where they have been scattered over these past centuries is one of hatred and contempt. That has been a factor, no doubt, in keeping the Jewish heritage intact and the race ready for identification upon the call for their return to their land. Even the Nazi holocaust, while based on hatred, also created a willing desire to return to their homeland. At this time it would be hard to find any nation willing to stand up for Israel, and even the United States government, ruled by the Obama administration, talks of standing with Israel but in reality, seems to incline away from that commitment.

9.      The sign that an Israeli Rabi expects Messiah’s return on September 12.

The recent headline reads, “Leading Israeli Rabi Says the Arrival of the Messiah Is Imminent.” [8] The article describes Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky as a leading authority in mainstream Ultra-Orthodox Judaism who has been giving clear and unequivocal messages recently that the coming of the Messiah is imminent. He is urging Jews to return to Israel quickly because he expects the Messiah to arrive at the end of the Sabbatical year, which is September 12, 2015.

10.  The prophetic Feast of Trumpets portrayal of the Rapture.

The seven feasts of the Lord, on the Hebrew calendar since Moses took them from the command of the Lord have been brought to the attention of people of the world by the four blood moons in 2014 and 2015. Again, the moons were to appear on the first and last feast days each year and have been on target with one more remaining in 2015.  The first four of the seven feasts were fulfilled when Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected and when Christ’s church was born with the filling of believers by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Three fulfillments are yet to come.

The next feast in order, the Feast of Trumpets, is peculiar from all the others. Its day of beginning is uncertain, for it must begin with the physical sighting of the new moon and reported to the leaders. If the new moon cannot be seen because of cloudy conditions, the beginning is postponed until the next day. Thus, the statement Jesus made fits this feast, along with the time of the Rapture of the saints:

“No man knows the day or the hour of His coming.” Since this feast portrays the event of the Rapture and is on the calendar for September 13 or 14, 2015, along with several of these signs and events, it is a valid sign of the times.

The final statement in the Bible seems appropriate here: “Even so, Lord Jesus, come!”

Endnotes

[1] (Johnny Cash)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgiFh66swc

[2] (George H. W. Bush, NWO)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkNH1bVg3HA

[3] (Jonanthan Cahn)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObdipbzNfGI

[4]  (Jade Helm logo) https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Jade+Helm+logo

[5]  (population reduction)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lLoaHp-gDc&list=PL315D66FFBCF48CB7&index=8

[6]  (Jesuit order oath)   http://www.reformation.org/jesuit-oath.html

[7]  (Pope to Address Congress) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/02/05/pope-francis-to-visit-capitol-on-sept-24/

[8] (Blood moon over America) http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/07/06/after-gay-marriage-decision-surprise-blood-moon-displays-in-sky-only-over-america/

[9] (Messiah expected)  http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/44534/leading-israeli-rabbi-messiah-imminent-jewish-world/#P6FOOFyfVri7zaMr.97