THE FORBIDDEN SECRET
HOW TO SURVIVE WHAT THE
ELITE HAVE PLANNED FOR YOU
Jonathan Gray
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Prophecy’s verdict:
AMAZING PROPHECIES
On April 23, 1989, Harold Costar was murdered on his way to
consult an astrologer about his future! No matter, his horoscope
predicted a good day.
Astrology is big business – but I’ll show you something with a
better track record.
QUESTION: What is the best
evidence that the Bible is a
reliable source of information?
ANSWER: Its fulfilled prophecies. An absolutely stunning
performance! Prophecy can be tested. It is as rigidly
demonstrable as geometry. Other evidence can be falsified,
changed, or lost. Memory may fail, conflicting statements may
cloud the issue. Passion, self-interest, or dishonesty may impair
proofs. But prophecy relates to history, and history is recorded
fact. Did you know that the Bible stakes everything on its ability
to foretell the future? It claims God gave the information – and
that only He can foretell world history.
Who, as I… shall declare… the things that are coming, and
that shall come to pass, let them declare. (Isaiah 44:7)
Has any skeptic a case to present? Hear the challenge:
Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong
reasons… Declare to us what shall happen: declare you…
things to come. (Isaiah 41:21-23)
Let’s be honest about this. Usually we can’t even foretell the
outcome of a horse race a minute before it ends. We can guess
and hope. But we cannot know.
But if world history has been declared accurately and clearly for
thousands of years in advance… what then? Notice this claim:
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. (Isaiah 46:9-10)
The challenge:
proof of a Supreme Being?
Does not this make the Bible unique? No other book on Planet
Earth has the audacity to place its veracity on its record of
fulfilled prophecies. Not the Koran of Islam, the Veda or the Bhagavad Gita of the Hindus, nor the Book of Mormon, claim such.
The Bible claims that the Eternal One selected men of integrity
and revealed messages to them – and that, as they wrote, they
were under His direction. Did you know that expressions such
as “God said”, “the Lord commanded”, and “the word of the
Lord” occur in the Bible more than 3,800 times?
Are its predictions vague? Not on your life! They are specific.
And in some cases they pinpoint precise dates far into the future
– even to naming names.
We’re not talking about an odd prophecy or two, but ONE
THOUSAND or more of them! One analyst has catalogued
155
8,362 predictive verses, which include 1,817 specific predictions
on 737 separate matters. (J. Barton Payne, Encyclopedia of Biblical
Prophecy) The accuracy of their fulfilment is enough to give you
goose pimples. Let’s look at a few examples:
TYRE
For 2,000 years the Phoenician city of Tyre grew in importance
until she was mistress of the sea, the commercial center of the
world, the New York of Asia. Carthage, the rival of Rome, was
only a colony of Tyre. Ships from all nations anchored in her
harbor and their passengers bartered in her streets.
Ancient Tyre on the eastern
coast of the Mediterranean Sea
An unlikely prophecy
About 590 BC, while Tyre was at the height of her glory and
power, when it seemed she must stand for ever, along came the
prophet Ezekiel, and said:
They shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her
towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her
like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading
of nets in the midst of the sea: …thou shalt be built no
more. (Ezekiel 26:4-14)
Tyre’s location on the
mainland Phoenician coast
Soon after that prophecy was made, Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylon attacked Tyre. After a 13 year siege, he left it in ruins.
Stones, timber and dust to be laid
in the water, leaving the bare rock
Yes, Nebuchadnezzar left the old city in ruins. But the prophecy
declared that the timbers and rocks and even the very dust were
to be cast into the sea, leaving a bare rock.
The only known portrait
of Nebuchadnezzar
It seemed improbable that this would ever happen, because if
Nebuchadnezzar, in his anger, had taken full vengeance, and had
not thought of this, who was likely to care enough about the
ruins of a deserted city to be so violently destructive? It would
be needless and crazy.
Two and a half centuries passed, and still the ruins stood, a
challenge to the accuracy of prophecy. Then in 332 BC
Alexander the Great marched down the coast toward old Tyre.
He saw its ruins. But the people had moved onto an island. Half
a mile of water surged between him and the island.
Having no ships, Alexander planned a different strategy. He
took the walls, towers, timbers, and ruined houses and palaces
of the ancient Tyre, and dumped them in the sea to form a solid
causeway to the island. So great was the demand for material
that the very dust was scraped from the site, and laid in the sea.
And so the site of Tyre became like the top of a rock – just as
the prophecy foretold. [That one photo above of the rocks in the sea with the shore in the background is an interesting find off of a random search on Tyre d.c]
I have been there. With my own eyes I have seen the fulfillment
of this prophecy. From out of the sea, beside Alexander’s
causeway, I have picked up pieces of beautiful colored
glassware, porcelain, and tile that once adorned mainland
Original Tyre will never be re-built
This old mainland city of Tyre continues a daily defiance to
every unbeliever. “Thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord
have spoken it,” says the prophecy. (Ezekiel 26:14)
Yet it’s a habitable site: ten million gallons of water daily gush
from the springs, and fertile fields stretch clear to the distant
mountains. Since there are millions of determined doubters who
write numberless books to disprove the Bible, how did any
prophet have the breath-taking daring to utter such a defiant
prophecy? For 2,000 years no skeptic has dared say the
prediction is untrue.
Today the area around the causeway has silted
in
and the island is now a peninsula.
A place to spread nets
in the midst of the sea
The prophecy says “it shall be a place for the spreading of nets
in the midst of the sea.”
Volney, the French skeptic, tells of visiting this spot and
observing fishermen drying their nets on the rocks, just as the
prophet said they would. (Volney, Travels, Vol. 2, p. 212)
Site of the old city of Tyre today
Every year, every day, every minute that mainland Tyre has
continued in utter ruin it has disproved the assertion of skeptics
that Bible predictions are vague.
You can check on this, if you like. No person outside of the
Bible ever made a solitary correct forecast covering hundreds of years concerning any city on earth. Now tell me, how is it that
only Bible writers are able to ‘guess’ with perfect accuracy
2,000 years into the future?
OBJECTION: Well, it would be
natural for a writer, looking upon
a ruined city, to assume, hence to
predict, that it would never again
be inhabited.
IN REALITY: Such an assumption, however natural, would
have plunged the Bible prophet immediately into serious
difficulty.
Sidon: Blood in her streets,
the sword on every side
And here’s why. Ezekiel turned his attention to Tyre's still more
ancient sister city only 30 miles distant. While Tyre was still
glorying in the splendour of its heyday, Sidon had for centuries
been declining in power.
Now, according to skeptical critics, Ezekiel was written as late
as 330 BC, at least after Alexander's time. But accepting their
dating for Ezekiel’s writing adds strength to my contention, for
while Sidon was still in a state of decay it was taken by
Artaxerxes Ochus, king of Persia, in 351 BC, and destroyed!
So if the prophet were judging by appearances in 330 BC, as
our skeptic claims he did judge, he would have pronounced
complete oblivion as the inevitable fate of Sidon, for nothing
seemed more certain than its utter eradication. But Sidon still
remains, even now possessing thousands of people.
Would you notice the prophet Ezekiel’s words:
The word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, Son of man, set
thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, and say,
Thus saith the Lord Yahweh: Behold, 1 am against thee, 0
Sidon.... For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into
her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her,
with the sword upon her on every side. (Ezekiel 28:20-23)
Observe that the predicted future of Sidon was not utter
extinction like that of mainland Tyre, but only blood in her
streets, wounded in her midst, the sword on every side.
And do you know that no other city on earth, with the possible
exception of Jerusalem, has had so much suffering and been so
often destroyed and rebuilt. Yet Sidon has survived
continuously right to this day.
Now, suppose Ezekiel had said that both Tyre and Sidon were to
be destroyed and would be built no more, then every one of the
thousands of inhabitants of Sidon would be a living proof of the
falsity of the prophecy.
Or suppose that the prophet had said mainland Tyre was to
survive, but undergo great suffering, while Sidon would be
utterly destroyed and never be rebuilt? What then? Wouldn’t the
skeptic have a ball? And with good reason!
How did it happen that the prophet was exactly right in both
cases? How is it that the city that never has been rebuilt is the
city of which this fact was foretold, and that the city which has
continued to exist with age-long suffering is the one which the
prophet foresaw would continue to exist even to our day?
When the skeptic has explained this satisfactorily, he has a still
harder question to answer.
Sidon, like many other ancient cities, might have sunk into
insignificance, so that in its utter defencelessness it could have offered no resistance to even a feeble enemy, and would have
tempted no invaders.
How did Ezekiel know that, in spite of many terrible
experiences, it would continue as a place of strength which, age
after age, would be fought for, and passed on, wet with blood,
from one conqueror to another?
It has been bitterly fought over by:
Syrians… Egyptians…Persians… Romans… Crusaders…
Muslims… Mongols… Turks… English… French… New
Zealanders and Australians… Israelis.
In 1982, Sidon was the southern Lebanese headquarters for the
PLO – a prime Israel target. Time magazine reported that it was
the most completely destroyed town of the war. Not one
unscathed building remained. And it remains in the firing line.
The future of Sidon, according to Bible prophecy is: “blood into
her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with
the sword upon her on every side”. (Ezekiel 28:20-23)
EGYPT
When the biblical writers Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel lived,
Egypt was then so ancient that she boasted a longer unbroken
line of kings than did any other nation.
In their day, 600 BC, Egypt was eminent in science, in the arts,
in luxury and magnificence. Egypt was a leader of civilization.
For many centuries those artificial mountains, the famed
pyramids, had stood as proud sentinels of a mighty super power.
Like its monuments, Egypt seemed to defy the tooth of time.
She had the unity, repose, and calm majesty of conscious power,
the grandeur of great age. There was not the faintest cloud on
the horizon to threaten the peace and power of Egypt.
It would have been natural to predict for her, unending
prosperity.
Then came the Bible prophets, foretelling many amazing things
concerning Egypt, which would reach more than 2,000 years
beyond their death! I shall share with you a handful of the more
outstanding predictions:
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt
itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them,
that they shall no more rule over the nations.’ ‘I will . . . sell
the land into the hand… of strangers: I the Lord have
spoken it. . . . And there shall be no more a prince of the
land of Egypt. (Ezekiel 29:4,15; 30:6,7; 32:15; 30:12,13)
Egypt: “Not to be destroyed”
While prophecy, in speaking of other kingdoms of the Middle
East, predicted their destruction and obliteration, of Egypt is
predicted that she will remain, but decline.
The prophecy said it will become a (base) lowly nation.
Egypt was to continue a nation, but it was no longer to rule
others. On the contrary, it was to be ruled by cruel strangers.
This prophecy could not have been the result of mere human
foresight. Even 600 years later, in the time of Jesus, Egypt was
still very powerful.
Egypt to be ruled by strangers
I will make the land waste…by the hand of strangers. (Ezekiel 30:12)
Long after that prophecy was given – for the past 2,500 years -
Egypt has been ruled by strangers - Persians, Greeks, Romans,
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Byzantine Greeks, Saracens, Turks, French, British and Arabs -
strangers, just as the prophecy predicted.
Will “diminish the Egyptians”
I will diminish them. (Ezekiel 29:1)
Biblical prophecy is turning out to be full of surprises. The
fulfillments are stunning! Did you know that today Egypt,
although the most heavily-populated nation in the Middle East,
is populated mainly by Arabs, not Egyptians?
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Copts in Egypt, not
the Arabs, are the racial representatives of the ancient
Egyptians.
The Copts have undoubtedly preserved the race of the
Egyptians as it existed at the time of the Arab conquest in
remarkable purity. (art.: “Copts”) The Copts are direct
descendants from the ancient Egyptians. (E.A. Wallis Budge,
The Nile, p.331)
In their own country the descendants of the ancient Egyptians
are outnumbered an estimated 12 to 1 by Arab foreigners who
have come in and taken over the country. The prophecy said
God would ‘diminish’ the Egyptians. How true!
“No more a native prince”
The prophecies become even more amazing:
There shall no more be a prince of the land of Egypt.
(Ezekiel.30:13)
When recorded, this prophecy would seem absurd. Mighty
Egypt had a line of kings such as no other nation under heaven
had possessed, and it seemed as though this would last forever.
Even today, Egypt has had a longer line of kings than any other
country. Yet, since 400 BC - that’s for 2,400 years! - none of
Egypt’s kings have been Egyptians!
The land of the Pharaohs has been ruled by foreign overlords,
Persians, then Greeks, Romans, Saracens, Turks, French, British
and Arabs. King Farouk, Egypt’s last king, who ruled until just
after World War II, was not an Egyptian, but an Albanian! And
Naguib, the man who led the revolt to depose Farouk, was not
Egyptian, but Sudanese! Likewise, Presidents Nasser, Sadat,
Mubarak, and so on, none of them has been Egyptian, but of
Arab descent.
How astonishingly accurate is this prophecy! In all world
history, never has any nation been subject to foreign
governments and foreign rule so long as Egypt has been.
THE JEWS
Will be scattered across the world
I will scatter you among the heathen; thou shalt be removed
into all the kingdoms of the earth. (Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy
28:25)
Today, wherever mankind is found, whether it be barbaric or
highly civilized, there you will find the Jew. He is in every land
and every race.
Will be oppressed and slaughtered
Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt fear day
and night; and ye shall have no power to stand before your
enemies. And they that are left of you shall pine away in your
enemies’ lands.(Leviticus 26:33,36,37,39; Deuteronomy 32:24; 28:66,67)
Wherever the Jews have set foot, they have felt the cruel stroke
of persecution. On several occasions, atrocious massacres have
almost secured their complete extermination. Their history has
been one long, bloody commentary on the uncanny accuracy of
this prophecy. The Nazi holocaust still makes one’s flesh creep.
Will be wanderers
They shall be wanderers among the nations. (Hosea 9:17)
This prophecy hardly needs comment. We know the expression
“wandering Jew”. There is even a vine with that name!
Will be a proverb and a byword
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a
byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee;
a reproach and.. a taunt. (Deuteronomy 28:37; Jeremiah 24:9)
Wherever he has wandered, the Jew has been taunted and
reproached. Through history, when one wished to express
contempt for a person, he would call him a Jew. Who has not
heard such derogatory expressions like “as mean as a Jew”, and
so on. All too frequently, I’m afraid – and often undeserved.
But the inspired biblical prophets foresaw it. And their enemies
fulfill the prophecy even as you read this.
Not be totally destroyed
I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven
thee, but I will not make a full end of thee. (Leviticus 26:44;
Jeremiah 46:28) [we might want to heed that underlined part it seems to me here in 2022, just saying dc]
The Jewish nation has survived more dispersions, persecutions,
and martyrdoms, than any other people on the face of the earth.
The amazing preservation and longevity of the Hebrew race is a
standing enigma, a curious paradox, to the world. It is
significant to notice that every nation that has persecuted the
Jews has, in time, crumbled and vanished. Two nations around
Judea that remain today, Persia and Greece, were those who
befriended the Jews.
Jerusalem, though repeatedly
taken by foreigners, will remain
Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times
of the nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
Present-day Jerusalem is the 17th edition of the original city!
There is no spot on earth so blood-soaked as Palestine,
Jerusalem City has suffered 40 major sieges, been partly
destroyed 35 times and totally destroyed 4 times. But while
great cities such as Babylon, mainland Tyre, and other named
cities, were prophesied to disappear, Jerusalem would remain.
Is it evidence you want? Then now you have it. Evidence,
evidence, and evidence. Evidence of prophecy which is so
accurate, it is uncanny. Thorough research will confirm there is
nothing like this on earth. Not anywhere. The often touted
prophecies of Nostradamus and others pale by comparison.
So, why don’t we now investigate a prophecy which outlines the
history of a whole succession of nations, beginning 2,500 years
ago and reaching to the present moment?
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Prophecies
PROPHECIES REACH
TO OUR DAY
Were you aware that the story of the decline and fall of the
Roman Empire was first written, not by Edward Gibbon in the
18th century of our era, but by the Bible prophet Daniel in the
6th century BC?
And Gibbon the skeptic used six large volumes in telling us in
detail how accurate were the predictions of Daniel the prophet.
Date of the prophecy
IT IS CLAIMED: The book of
Daniel speaks of the Roman Empire,
which did not arise until 168 BC.
Such future knowledge is impossible,
so the book must have been written
after Rome arose – not by Daniel at
all, but by some unknown author
after 168 BC.
IN REALITY: Yes, the book of Daniel does describe the
Roman Empire. But the evidence is conclusive that Daniel was
indeed written as early as the 6th century BC. It is not within the
scope of this present work to lay out the evidence for this. But
you will find this evidence in my book Stolen Identity, chapter
21. Sufficient to state here that the skeptic’s charge that Daniel
was written after 168 BC is falsified by the fact that the book of
Daniel was included in the Septuagint (LXX), a translation of
the Hebrew Bible into Greek, the date of which, 283 to 180 BC,
is not disputed.
The heavy artillery of the critics has been directed against the
book of Daniel simply because the accuracy of Daniel’s
descriptions cannot be denied.
It is a fact that Daniel chapters 2 and 7 contain such clear
predictions of world history, beginning with Babylon and
reaching to the present moment, that the most skeptical have
been hard placed to account for them… unless they admit
supernatural knowledge on the part of the prophet.
And understandably, critics have tried hard not to face such an
admission. They seem to think that if they can only show that
Daniel never wrote a word of the book, but that it was composed
much later, its prophecies will be invalidated.
However, for our purpose we shall accept the skeptic’s date, and
will care not who wrote it.
To go into the amazing details of all Daniel’s prophecies could
take a complete book on its own. But we shall examine just a
few.
All who have read Daniel – skeptics or not – admit that the book
teaches this: that beginning with Babylon there shall be just
four great world powers in succession - four and no more –
and then the sequence will be broken. (Daniel 7:23-27; 2:39-45)
World power 1 - Babylon
The writer of Daniel claims he was informed by his divine
messenger that the empire of Babylon (ruling in his day) would
be overthrown. Other details of this coming event were prerecorded by the Bible prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. Something
like 60 prophecies were made concerning Babylon. We shall
look briefly at five of them.
Ancient Babylon in its glory
1. Babylon’s river will be dried up
I will dry up thy rivers… I will dry up her sea. (Isaiah 44:27;
Jeremiah 51:11,36)
The city of Babylon was extremely well fortified. From their
lofty walls, the inhabitants mocked the invading Medes and
Persians. Not only was the city impregnable, but it contained
enough provisions to last for 20 years.
There was no entrance into Babylon except where the River
Euphrates entered and emerged, as it passed under the walls.
Aware that he could not take the city by force, the Persian king
Cyrus decided on a clever plan. He would turn away the water
from its channel through the city. So at a given time, he diverted
the river upstream into a lake.
The river below soon became shallow enough to ford and his
soldiers followed the river bed under the gate, into the heart of
the city of Babylon. (Herodotus, i.190,191; Xenophon, Cyropaedia, vii.5.1-36)
The prophecy was amazingly fulfilled.
2. The gates will be left open.
Thus saith the Lord to…Cyrus…I will... open before him the
two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut. (Isaiah 45:
1,2)
On each side of the river through the city were interior walls of
great height. In these walls were enormous gates of brass,
which, when closed and guarded, debarred all entrance from the
river bed to any of the streets that crossed the river.
Had the gates been closed at this time, the invaders might have
marched in vain along the riverbed between the walls and out
again. But, feeling secure, the Babylonians had that very night
put on a great feast. In their abandoned carelessness, these
internal river gates were left open so that the citizens could cross
the river at will. Another fulfillment of prophecy.
3. The city will be captured during a festival.
I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, and her
captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men, and they shall
sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose
name is the Lord of hosts. (Jeremiah 51:39,57)
Even the attempt to capture Babylon by means of the river bed
would have been in vain, had not the whole city given itself over
on that fateful night to drunken revelry. Prophecy fulfilled!
4. It will be taken without a fight.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became
as women…. One post shall run to meet another, and one
messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that
his city is taken at one end. (Jeremiah 51:30)
No one noticed the sudden subsidence of the river. No one saw
the entrance of the Persian soldiers. No one took care to close
and guard the river gates. No one cared for anything that night
except to plunge into the wild celebrations. That night cost the
Babylonians their kingdom and their freedom. They went into it subjects of mighty Babylon. They awoke from it slaves to the
king of Persia.
Every detail of those four prophecies was fulfilled precisely.
5. Arabs will not pitch
their tents in Babylon
Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there. (Isaiah 13:19)
Some years ago, a Dr Cyrus Hamlin was in Istanbul (then
known as Constantinople) visiting with a colonel of the Turkish
army.
Dr Hamlin asked the colonel if he had ever been to Babylon.
“Yes,” replied the colonel, “The ruins of Babylon abound in
game, I engaged a sheik and his group, and went to those ruins
for a week’s shooting.”
He described to his guest some of the thrills of his recent lion hunting expedition to the ruins. “And I will tell you a curious
incident,” he said. “Each morning and evening, I had to do a
long walk over the desert, all because of my Arab guide’s
refusal to camp overnight in the ruins.
“At sundown the Arabs, to my amazement, began to strike their
tents, getting ready to leave. I went to the sheik and protested.
But nothing I could say had any effect. ‘It is not safe,’ said the
sheik. ‘Nor mortal flesh dare stay here after sunset. Ghosts and
ghouls come out of the holes and caverns after dark, and
whomsoever they capture becomes one of themselves. No Arab
ever has seen the sun go down on Babylon.’”
Dr Hamlin showed interest and excitement. Taking out his copy
of the Bible, he read from it:
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew
Sodom and Gomorrah… neither shall the Arabian pitch
tent there. (Isaiah 13:19-20)
“That is history you are reading,” said the colonel.
“No,” answered Dr Hamlin, “it is prophecy. Those words were
written when Babylon was in all her glory.”
The colonel was silent, and they never met again.
Now, I ask you, how did the Bible prophet know the Arabian
would continue to exist after Babylon had become dust?
Although a few humble Arabs lived in tents about Babylon
2,500 years ago, the Babylonians were the haughty rulers of
many nations. Yet the utter extinction of that ruling race was
foretold. Have you ever met a solitary living Babylonian? In
effect, the prophet said this: “While the most powerful race on
earth will become extinct, together with their world-ruling city,
this small, insignificant, nomadic race of Arabs will continue on
and on for thousands of years, long after this proud city has
crumbled to ruins and its very site is almost forgotten.”
For that matter, how did Isaiah know that the Arabs would
continue to live near Babylon? Yet the prophecy clearly implies
this. Since they were a wandering race, it would be logical to
suppose that in time they would either leave the vicinity of such
a desolate place as it is now, or would themselves become
extinct. But how did Isaiah know they would remain about
Babylon's ruins? That they would be there today? Imagine the
jeering sarcasm of skeptics if there were not an Arab within a
thousand miles of Babylon! And what a field day skeptics would
have if all Arabs had become as extinct as the dodo, before
Babylon sank into oblivion!
Oh, and something else. How did Isaiah know that Arabs would
continue to live in tents? And how did he know that the Arabs
would not make use of the ruins of Babylon for shelter?
Many other explorers and excavators have reported the same
fact – that it is impossible to get Arabs to remain on the site of
this ancient city overnight. One explorer, Captain Mignan, says
that he was accompanied by six Arabs completely armed, but he
“could not induce them to remain toward night, from
apprehension of evil spirits. It is impossible to eradicate this
idea from the minds of these people.” (Mignan, Travels, page 235) And
all this, despite the fact that Arabs are fearless fighters,
dangerous warriors.
Again, when Saddam Hussein was attempting to rebuild
Babylon, using bricks with his name inscribed on them, his
workmen would not stay the night in that place.
It is a fact that this prophecy about the Arabs is amazingly
unique in every particular - and each passing day serves only to
strengthen its force.
World power 2 – Medo-Persia
The prophecy of Daniel stated that Babylon would be
overthrown by a kingdom inferior to it. (Daniel 2:38-39) The Medo-Persians, who took Great Babylon in 538 BC, were indeed a less
powerful force.
The Bible prophet Isaiah actually stated the name of the coming
conqueror of Babylon. He would be a man named Cyrus. (Isaiah
45:1)
More amazing still, this prophecy concerning Cyrus was made
in the late 700s BC, long before Cyrus was even born! (The
dating of Isaiah in history is well established.) Cyrus did not
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conquer Babylon until 539 BC, which was more than 150 years
after the prophet Isaiah mentioned him by name!
World power 3 – Grecia
Daniel’s prophecies stated that the next great empire – the one
that would overthrow the Medo-Persian Empire – would be
Greece (then relatively weak). (Daniel 8:3-7,20-21) This was
accurately fulfilled by Alexander the Great in BC 331.
Both Medo-Persia and Grecia were identified by name – and, in
the struggle, the winner and the loser were respectively named.
The prophecy also stated that Greece’s conquests would be
rapid.
Here is what eventually happened. In BC 332, Alexander the
Great swept through the Tyre and Gaza region in his march
toward Egypt.
During his campaign he turned toward Jerusalem. Alexander
had already demanded men and supplies from the Jews, who
were under the rule of Alexander’s enemy, the Persian king
Darius. The high priest hesitated, saying that while Darius lived
they would remain loyal to him. Alexander was angry and began
to move upon Jerusalem.
Well aware of the danger, the high priest Jaddua and the other
priests went out of the city to a carefully chosen place to meet
the king. Alexander approached the high priest and members of
the procession and greeted them.
The priest invited Alexander into Jerusalem and the temple,
where, as the noted first-century historian Josephus records, he
was shown Daniel’s prophecy, written several centuries earlier,
which foretold the rise and conquests of Alexander.
And when the book of Daniel was shewed him, wherein
Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the
empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the
person intended; and as he was then glad, he dismissed the
multitude for the present…. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the
Jews, Book 11, chap. 8, sec. 5, William Whiston translation, 1981)
Many scholars regard Josephus as a reputable historian on the
same footing as other ancient authorities such as Tacitus.
I ask you, how did Daniel know, 200 years earlier, that one of
the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians? (Daniel 8:4-
7,20-21) Who imparted these “impressions”?
Daniel was also told to write that this “first king” of the Grecian
empire (Alexander) would have a sudden end, dying while in his
prime. (Daniel 8:8,21) And Alexander did die suddenly at age 33.
Daniel also wrote that after Alexander’s death, the Grecian
Empire would break up into four divisions. (Daniel 8:22) It did. I
ask you, how did Daniel know all these details?
World power 4 – Rome
The prophecy continued, stating that a fourth empire would
replace the Grecian. Its numerous characteristics were
described. The Roman Empire fulfilled the role exactly as
predicted. (Daniel chapter 7)
If Daniel lived in 600 BC, then he foretold the rise and fall of
the three empires beyond his day who were to follow Babylon.
That’s a marvellous series of predictions.
In order to deny that these are prophecies written before the
events, skeptic writers have contended that the Book of Daniel
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must have been written in 168 BC - after Rome had acquired
rulership.
Prophecy: “previous pattern
of history will be broken”
Let’s grant the skeptic his date for Daniel as168 BC.
IF WRITTEN 168 BC: But does this help his case? Sorry, if
Daniel was written in Roman times (168 BC), so that it comes
after the events predicted, then the skeptic faces Problem No. 1.
It means that the writer of Daniel had knowledge of the fact that
in just four centuries (538 BC to 168 BC) four empires
(Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome) had ruled in
succession.
But now we see him predicting that, contrary to the analogy of
all previous history, there will not be a fifth world power to
succeed the fourth!
Here are the details of Daniel’s prophecy:
(a) the fourth empire (Rome) will not be conquered by a
fifth power, but will
(b) fall apart into a motley group of nations, some strong
and some weak. (Daniel 7:24; 2:41-42)
(c) There will be attempts to weld it together again.
(d) But the territory of the old Roman Empire will remain
divided until the end of time.
What daring to suggest that right at this point after the fourth
empire, the past pattern of history would end! This is what no
philosopher, using past history to judge the future, would ever
dream of doing.
It would be natural to guess that the coming centuries would
repeat the pattern of the past centuries; because then, as now, it
was believed that history repeats itself. Since the Babylonian
Empire was conquered by the Persian, the Persian by the
Grecian, and the Grecian by the Roman, would it not be natural
to expect the Roman Empire to be conquered also by some other
world power?
No, said Daniel. Precisely after the fourth empire, the pattern
will change. The fourth world empire will not be conquered by
a fifth.
The kingdom shall be divided. (Daniel 2:41)
I ask you, did the writer of Daniel have some other source of
information not accessible to anyone else?
IF WRITTEN c. 600 BC This is the other option for the date
the prophecy was written. If Daniel was written about 600 BC,
one must concede that the descriptions of events are too
amazing to be explained away easily. A skeptic is faced with
Problem 2: accurate foreknowledge.
The critic loses, either way.
So whether the Book of Daniel was written about 600 BC or 168
BC, the problem of prediction remains unsolved.
The prophecy continues
But this is not all. We have already noted that there would be
only four world powers in direct succession, one conquering the
other. FOUR AND NO MORE.
And then that fourth power (the Roman Empire) would be split
up into ten nations or groups of nations, and these would
remain divided until the end of time. (Daniel 7:23,24; 2:42-44)
And as every schoolboy knows, in a consecutive series of four,
Rome was the fourth great empire.
You can read any history written by anyone. But, in particular,
read from one of the greatest unbelievers - Gibbon's Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire - and you will see that this ‘immortal’
work is an unwitting commentary on Daniel’s accuracy.
Indeed, the fourth empire, the Roman, was not succeeded by
another empire, but, under the onslaught of fierce northern
tribes, Rome simply broke up into a mass of smaller kingdoms.
The historian Machiavelli names these ten kingdoms as the
Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, Vandals, Suevi, Huns, Anglo Saxons, Heruli, Lombards, and Burgundians. Seven of these are
represented by present-day nations. The prophet said these
smaller nations would continue to exist (with three exceptions
noted by the prophet himself – Daniel 7:8,24), to the end of time.
Prophecies in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 and 17 complement
this prophecy of Daniel 2, and plainly reveal that the Roman
Empire, although officially dead, would enjoy seven temporary
resurrections. These have been fulfilled in the several
successive attempts to reunite Europe.
Prophecy of intermarriage
The prophecy went further. It suggested that, in order to weld
the divided nations of the old Roman Empire together, alliances
would be attempted – even by intermarriage.
They shall mingle themselves with the seed of men. (Daniel
2:43)
Well known is Napoleon’s arrangement of marriages between
the various royal families of Europe, with the result that their
seed is now virtually all intermingled. A remarkable fulfillment
of prophecy.
But would bonds of unity among the nations by intermarriage
prove successful? The prophecy says no:
…
but they shall not cleave one to another,
even as iron is not mixed with miry clay (Ibid.)
When the call to war was sounded, cousin fought cousin. The
bonds of international marriage, forged in the attempt to
consolidate Europe, snapped apart in the face of war.
7 powerful words
that stopped dictators
A recurring theme of the past 1,500 years has been the repeated
attempts to unify Europe.
Successive attempts to break the prophecy of Daniel were made
by the mighty Charlemagne, the swift Charles XII of Sweden,
the ambitious Charles V, the proud Louis XIV, and the
resistless, eagle-eyed Napoleon.
However, these seven fateful words in Daniel’s prophecy
stopped each of them:
… but they shall not cleave one to another. (Ibid.)
Now, what if some conqueror had re-cemented all the nations of
the old Roman territory into one successful mighty empire
subject to his sovereign will - what could one say? But can
anyone produce any such failure of Daniel’s prophecy?
Napoleon’s attempt
As Napoleon’s conquering forces invaded Russia, they were
suddenly devastated by the coldest winter in all Russian
history. This was a turning point in Napoleon’s campaign.
Then, at Waterloo in 1815, a mighty downpour of rain bogged
down Napoleon’s big guns and gave time for reinforcements to
bolster Wellington’s troops and save Britain from defeat.
If he had read Daniel first
Believe it! The prophecy of Daniel was stronger than all the
might of Napoleon.
When an exile on the drab and drear island of St. Helena,
Napoleon read the book of Daniel, and for the first time
understood why he had so miserably failed to weld the broken
bits of the old Roman Empire into his cherished empire. The
priceless lives of thousands, the wasted mints of money, the
misery and tragedy that resulted, might have been spared if
Napoleon had consulted Daniel first.
World War I attempt
Just before World War I, in 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany
was shown this same prophecy in the Bible. He responded, “It
does not fit into my plans.”
Subsequently, the German army swept all before it into the heart
of Belgium and France, and on toward the English Channel,
prompting Kaiser William to declare, “I will have Christmas
dinner in Buckingham Palace.”
The British people realised that only divine help could save
them, and the nation humbly knelt in prayer.
In the sky appeared what are today known as the “Angels of
Mons”. More than once they appeared, causing the Germans to
halt and retreat in disorder, and their horses to panic. The
“Angels of Mons” incident was observed by many British
troops. Admittedly, the phenomenon has been debunked by
some.
However, as I write this, my colleague John Paige, a man of
proven integrity, has reported to me, “My father Phillip was
there and confirmed the angels’ appearance.” Confirmation also
came from Captain Haywood of the British Intelligence Service.
On April 22, 1915, Germany launched her first gas attack. The
wind direction was supposed to be settled for the next 36 hours,
but it suddenly reversed and the gas was blown back to the
German lines with disastrous results. (The Bible speaks of
God’s dealing with the wind, 116 times.)
The Kaiser missed his dinner in Buckingham Palace. In fact, he
died in exile, chopping wood. Those seven prophetic words
beat him.
World War II attempt
Next came Hitler’s hordes sweeping across Europe. The Nazi
dictator boasted, “Where Napoleon failed, I will succeed.”
Hitler brought up a host of secretly built weapons to destroy
Britain. These included the mighty Luftwaffe (the biggest air
force in the world); the world’s largest battleships; powerful
rockets; and the pilotless “doodlebug”.
The Nazi forces over-ran nation after nation. France, Holland
and Belgium fell and Britain was next for defeat!
As the planet trembled at the march of the Nazis, scholars who
knew Daniel’s prophecy were opening it up and reassuring
audiences around the world that “Hitler will not win.”
In May, 1940, Nazi Panzer tank divisions in France were closing
in on the British troops. All 350,000 of them, hemmed in on the
beach at Dunkirk, were trapped.
Suddenly Hitler ordered the Panzer divisions to halt and draw
back. His generals were speechless. Now the Luftwaffe (the
Nazi air force) was to take over. It looked as though the trapped
Allied forces would be destroyed by the Luftwaffe.
A day of National Prayer was proclaimed for May 26, 1940, led
by King George VI, prime minister Winston Churchill and
members of the British Cabinet, in Westminster Abbey. Also,
throughout the Commonwealth, millions committed the cause in
this dark hour to the Almighty One.
Within 48 hours, a great storm broke over Flanders, giving
cover to the British forces and hampering the enemy. General
Halder, Chief of the German General Staff, complained in his
diary for May 30, 1940: “Bad weather has grounded the
Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless
thousands of the enemy getting away to England right under our
noses.”
At the same time, the English Channel, which is notoriously
rough, became miraculously calm, enabling hundreds of small
craft from Britain to come over to France and assist in
evacuating the troops from Dunkirk.
Why such a simultaneous miracle of opposites – a storm to
ground the Luftwaffe, and a calm channel for the rescue of
doomed men? Because “The scripture cannot be broken.” (John
10:35) It stated emphatically, “They shall not cleave one to
another.”
Hitler now attacked England from the air. After two months of
this, both the Luftwaffe and the RAF (England’s Royal Air
Force) were at the point of exhaustion. However, unbeknown to
Hitler, the Luftwaffe – with their superior numbers – was close
to overcoming the RAF. Then suddenly, Hitler ordered them to
stop attacking the RAF!
After bombing England for a while, he turned and started to
attack the Soviet Union. The fleeing Russians burned their crops
so as to leave no food for the advancing Nazi forces. Then it
suddenly started to rain. The whole invading army got bogged
down in the mud. Then it turned cold and the tanks could move
again. Then it got unbelievably cold - 67 degrees below zero.
Now the most devastating winter freeze since the year of
Napoleon’s invasion fell upon the German troops. And they
were still in their summer uniforms. Just 20 miles from
Moscow, the German general sent out the word, “We can go no
further. This is the end.”
Hitler was beaten by “little things” – drops of water. Why?
Because “the scripture cannot be broken.”
Back in England, the troops who had escaped from Dunkirk regrouped, were re-armed and helped to overthrow Hitler and
bring deliverance to Europe.
Communism’s attempt
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin
Wall, I personally addressed audiences on “Why Russia Cannot
Win”. Again, Daniel’s seven words “they shall not cleave one
to another”, stopped Communism’s nefarious ambitions cold.
Here was prophecy in action – actionable proof in real life.
European Union attempt
In the past, uniting Europe was temporary and always
accomplished by force. Today the nations of Europe are coming
together voluntarily, forming an ever-closer union as they
integrate economically, politically and militarily.
But Daniel’s prophecy says it will be like a mixture of “iron”
and “clay”, making it “partly strong” and “partly broken”.
Mull over that for a moment. Is there a more apt description of
Europe today?
Politically and economically, Europe is a continent of iron and
clay – some nations strong and robust, others weak and fragile.
The European Union is a mixture of iron and clay, making it
“partly strong” and “partly broken”.
The prophecy says they will be integrated – but only for a brief
moment. Based on this, you can count on the emergence of a
short-lived and crumbly union – yet powerful, possessing the
strength of iron. While Europe will unite, its bonds will be weak
and short-lived, like clay and iron, which cannot mix. [ we are already seeing that with brexit dc]
If you think on it for a while, this truly is mind-staggering. This
prophecy was written more than 2,500 years ago, yet it describes
today’s Europe perfectly.
And of this you can be sure. Upon those same seven fateful
words that defeated previous attempts, the European Union will
collapse also. During its brief life – involving a resurrection of
the “holy Roman Empire” led by a major religious power – an
enormous crisis will develop, involving the suffering of a large
number of people. Then it will be terminated suddenly. And the
emerging New World Order will be short lived. Just wait and
see. Bible prophecy has spoken.
The prophecy then moves on to its final stage – forecasting a
sudden end to human history. “In the days of these kings shall
the God of heaven set up a kingdom that shall never be
destroyed… it shall break in pieces and consume all these
kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.”
The One directing the Bible writers actually claimed to be the
Creator of heaven and earth. And He instructed them to write
down this challenge to the unbeliever, either to
(d)make similar prophecies of world history or to
(e) break one of His.
No man or woman on the planet has been able to do either.
I submit to you that each fulfillment of prophecy on its own is a
strong point in favor of divine wisdom, but each additional
fulfillment increases the strength of the evidence, not by
addition, but by multiplication.
It seems evident that someone with Intelligence is behind all
this. History is His story.
And, as in the case of Ken Laub and Millie (see Chapter 8), He
knows each of us personally, and works through his influence in
our daily activities. Here is a providence that we often don’t
recognise. But it is operating all the time.
If you only knew, “impossible” events which suggest Intelligent
Intervention are occurring every day, all over the planet. Believe
me, it’s so. I have experienced them myself.
And honestly, I would rather live my life as if there is such a
God, and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there
isn’t, and die to find out there is.[ A big Amen to that brother dc]
Prophecies fulfilling now
Of numerous other Bible prophecies, just look at these few:
• The “time of the end” will see fast travel and an
increase in knowledge. (Daniel 12:4)
• Wheeled vehicles “shall rage in the streets; they
shall jostle one against another in the broad ways;
they shall seem like torches, they shall run like
the lightnings.” (Nahum 2:4)
• A young, peaceful power will arise in the New
World, attain global dominance, then undergo
a change of character to enact oppressive laws.
(Revelation chapter 13. See the detailed fulfillment of this
prophecy documented in Welcome, Then Betrayal.) [gee that place sounds familiar , we are over the target d.c]
• A Middle Eastern group of nations “will be
against every man, and every man’s hand
against” them. (Genesis 16:12. See the fulfillment of this
prophecy documented in The Weapon the Globalists Fear,
chapter 22.) [our idiots in WaSHINGTON have seen to this over the last 40 years d.c]
• A religious power in the city of the seven hills,
will direct the emerging World Order. (Daniel 7:
23-25; Revelation 17:3,9,18; chapter 13. See the fulfillment of
this prophecy documented in Welcome, Then Betrayal)
• This European power will establish a base in
Jerusalem. (Daniel 11:45. See steps that are being taking to
fulfill this prophecy in Ark of the Covenant, chapter 47.)
• Finance - buying and selling - will become
globally controlled. (Revelation 13:14-17. See steps in
the fulfillment of this prophecy in Welcome, Then Betrayal.)
• This end times will be characterised by a
proliferation of wars, famines, plagues, earthquakes, raging seas and fearful sights in
the sky. (Luke 21:10,11,25)
• Mankind will actually acquire the capability
to destroy the earth (Revelation 11:18), opening
up the danger that none might survive.
(Matt.24:21-22)
• Fear will grip the nations, with no apparent
way out. (Luke 21:25-26)
• The world will be plunged into a time of trouble
such as never was. (Daniel 12:1; Matthew 24:21,22)
• Man will not be permitted to wipe out all life. For
the sake of those who live in harmony with him,
the Creator will intervene. The earth’s cities will
fall. Man’s dominion will end. (Daniel 12:1; Matthew
24:21,22)
• Out of the ashes of the old, the Creator will bring
forth a new earth which shall last forever… a
world in which eternal youth, loving concern and
security are the norm; where transformed
individuals are able to live in harmony and love.
(Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 24:1-6,19-22; 26:20-21; Jeremiah 4:23-28;
Isaiah 11:4-9; 35:1,5-7,10; 65:17-25; 66:22-23; Malachi 4:1-2)
Bible prophecy has a 3,500 year track record of never being
wrong – with cold, hard, incontrovertible PROOF! There is no
easier way to know what’s coming.
A climax is approaching. Every remaining major Bible
prophecy is presently taking shape before our eyes.
An integrated message system
A careful investigation will confirm beyond reasonable doubt
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that the biblical prophecies are inter-connected. There is an
amazing unity between them – evidence that what we have here
is one book, an integrated message system.
More than that, its coverage of world history, given in advance,
compels us to consider that the Bible has been supervised by
One who knows the end from the beginning - outside our time
domain.
At the very least, you can safely accept the Bible as an
authoritative source, an Intelligence Report par excellence.
Are you ready for this? Here comes a little-known discovery
that will set your head into a spin. I believe it seals the
authorship of the Bible beyond question…
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The author’s signature
YOU CAN’T WRITE
THIS BOOK!
“Yeah, that’s right,” said Dean. “The Bible is just a compilation
of men’s allegories or myths.”
Um, okay.
I love people like Dean – not just for their probable sincerity,
but because I love watching the wonder in their eyes when they
suddenly catch onto what you’re about to see.
Believe me, this is going to be an adventure. You’re about to
discover that no one person nor group of persons in the world
could have created the Bible, even had they wanted to.
May I impress the need for very careful concentration. We shall
be exploring a unique phenomenon. And it lies deep below the
surface of the Intelligence Report.
No, we are not talking about Michael Drosnin Bible code. But
it is a discovery that has staggered the cleverest brains in the
world. Are you ready?
Number design in nature
For starters, you may be aware of a numeric scheme that
runs through nature, right?
“Of course,” you reply, “everything operates according to
mathematical laws.”
Good. Then were you also aware that the human body seems to
be stamped with the number SEVEN?
Just think about it. Your body consists of 7 main parts – head,
neck, trunk and four limbs – 7 in all. Did you know that the
development of the human embryo is in exact periods of 7s,
such as 28 days (4 x 7)? Ask your doctor to explain. You’ll be
amazed at the accuracy of this law. Is this arrangement of 7s
merely accidental?
Are you familiar with the fact that this same number or its
multiples marks the period of gestation and incubation of many
birds and animals?
The common hen sits on its eggs 21 days (3 x 7); the pigeon,
having laid its eggs, sits on them for 14 days (2 x 7). The duck
takes 28 days to hatch its eggs (4 x 7); the goose 35 days (5 x 7);
the swan 42 days (6 x 7); hundreds of varieties of small birds
have been checked at 14 days (2 x 7); larger birds, such as the
emperor penguin, ostrich or emu 49, 56 or 63 days (7 x 7…8 x 7
…or 9 x 7). If the hen leaves her eggs on the 20th day, there’ll be
no chicks.
The seal calves on the rocks and suckles its young for 14 days (2
x 7). The ova of salmon are hatched in 140 days (20 x 7). The
gestation period of the mouse is 21 days (3 x 7); the rabbit 28
days (4 x 7); the cat 56 days (8 x 7); the dog 63 days (9 x 7); the
lion 14 x 7; the sheep 21 x 7; the cow 40 x 7; the elephant 90 x
7. And so on. The ova of the glow worm occupy 42 days (6 x 7),
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and of the mole cricket 28 days in hatching (4 x 7). The period
of the bee in the larva is 7 days. In moths it is 42 days (6 x 7).
Come to think of it, in chemistry, music and art, we find the
same number 7 playing a key role. Both sound and light are
subject to the law of 7. How has it come about, for example, that
the human ear responds to 7 distinct intervals in a scale of one
octave? In the rainbow are 7 colors –red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo, violet.
Might some call such persistence of sevens intentional design?
The “watermark”
But, more to the point, did you know that this very same 7s
design has been found embedded both on and beneath the
surface of the Bible?
I wouldn’t blame you for being a little skeptical. After all, we’re
breaking new ground here. But you’re about to discover this for
yourself. It seems that both the Bible and nature bear similar
identification marks – just as surely as various papers from the
same mill bear beneath their surface the watermark of that mill
alone.
The truth is that quite independently of the biblical text is a
“watermark” design woven through the surface message –a
pattern of ‘seven’, if you please!
If you didn’t know, the Tanakh (also known as the Old
Testament of the Bible) was composed in Hebrew, a language in
which every letter of the alphabet also doubles as a number.
Thus every letter, word and sentence has a numeric value, the
sum total of each letter value.
“Like Latin?” someone asks, “where V equals 5; X is also 10; C
is 100, and so on?” That’s right. Except that in Latin only some
letters are numbers. In Hebrew (and also in Greek) it is every
letter. So when you read a word or sentence, you are
simultaneously looking at a string of numbers. And that brings
us to a discovery made by a Russian scientist, Ivan Panin.
Dr Ivan Panin was one of the ten top mathematicians of his day
in the United States. He taught in universities and knew up to 14
languages. He loved playing with numbers.
The “sevens” sub-surface pattern
Anyway, one day in 1882, that mathematical genius found
himself experimenting. Knowing Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek,
he began reading the Bible in its original languages. He
experimented by replacing the letters in the Bible with their
corresponding numbers.
Suddenly his excitement began to well up. His trained mind was
seeing a mathematical pattern! He kept experimenting. And
after a few hours he was totally amazed. The passages he had
studied revealed unmistakable evidence of an elaborate
numerical pattern. This was far beyond random chance, nor
human ability to construct.
On the surface runs the message in everyday words, as in any
other book. But the substructure of individual letters spells out a
complex mathematical code – an interlocking pattern of sevens.
A juggling game that defies
the world’s cleverest men
Take, as an example, the very first sentence in the Bible: “In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Actually, there are dimensions to this creation account which go
well beyond the surface story. A whole mass of vital scientific
statements is sealed by the numeric design exactly fitted within
the statement itself. But to cover this aspect is not within the
scope of the present work. (See my book, The Weapon the Globalists Fear,
chapter 21, section: “21st century science in Genesis.)
What I would like you to notice is this amazing sevens design:
• This sentence contains exactly seven Hebrew words.
• These comprise 28 letters (4 x 7).
• The three nouns (God, heaven, earth) have a total numeric
value of exactly 777.
• The first three Hebrew words (containing the subject) have
exactly 14 (2 x 7) letters.
• The fourth and fifth words have exactly 7 letters.
• The fifth and sixth words have 7 letters.
• The Hebrew words for the two objects “the heavens and
the earth” each have exactly 7 letters.
• The numeric value of the first, middle, and last letters is
133 (19 x 7).
• The numeric value of the first and last letters of all 7
words is 1,393 (199 x 7).
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• The value of the first and last letters of the sentence is 497
(71 x 7).
• So the value of the first and last letters between is 896
(128 x 7).
• The last letters of the first and last words have a numeric
value of 490 (70 x 7).
In fact, there are over 30 different numeric features of seven in
the first simple sentence of the Bible. These seven Hebrew
words were so chosen and arranged that the number seven is
literally woven into them in every conceivable way.
These 7s are so deeply concealed that special searching,
investigating and counting is necessary to find them. They are
not seen by ordinary reading.
Another type of ‘sevens’ feature
So much for the first sentence in the Bible. What about the first
book as a whole? Yes, the entire book of Genesis is signatured
in every conceivable way with the number 7.
So it should not surprise us to discover that it also comprises
exactly 78,064 Hebrew letters. Just look what makes up this
number:
* 77700 = 100 x 777
* + 343 = 7 x 7 x 7
* + 21 = 7 + 7 + 7
Total: 78064
Would you just look at that once more… carefully. Can you
imagine a sevens design more perfect?
But just get this, will you? Every paragraph, passage and book
in the Bible is constructed in the same astonishing way.
Amazingly, there is not a single paragraph out of the thousands
in the Bible that is not constructed on exactly the same plan. The
Old Testament, in Hebrew, is like a single skilfully designed
artefact… nothing less than the product of a supremely
intelligent and purposeful mind. So: Whose Mind?
As we shall discover in later chapters, this is a deliberate
structuring that is far beyond human possibility to invent. You
see the problem now, don’t you? We’re no longer talking about
an ordinary piece of literature.
Impossible to replicate
Scholars who have set out to accomplish a similar thing admit
that after struggling for days their efforts were in vain without
reducing the passage to a meaningless jumble.
Here you have something that is scientifically testable. You can
try it yourself. But I assure you that repeated scientific, mathematica demonstrations prove that humans cannot replicate
it. If you want actionable proof in real life, here it is.
In no other books on earth
This interlocking numeric phenomena is found in no other
literature. Mind you, there have been sincere efforts to find such
numerics in the Greek classics (Homer’s Iliad and others), the
Septuagint, the Apocrypha, the Koran and other works, but they
have proven unsuccessful. So what kind of book have we here?
Is this from God Himself, as it claims?
The most reasonable conclusion from the evidence is that its
claims are true. That is, you can accept Bible testimony to be as
reliable as any evidence outside the Bible. No… more so!
Accurately transmitted
There is good historical evidence that the original text of the
Tanakh (Old Testament) was carefully preserved until the time
of Jesus. (See my book The Weapon the Globalists Fear, chapters 19 and 20.) …...
1. Ancient literary aids, obsolete names and cuneiform
usages are still discernible in the books, which clearly reveal the
purity of the text and the care with which it has been handed
down to us, step by step, from the very first tablet.
2. Another check on the integrity of the Scripture is in the
Israelites’ extreme reverence for the sacred writings – an
obsessive reverence for every letter and word. For this reason,
scribes made copies of the Tanakh manuscripts in a way which
is quite unique. They preserved them as no other manuscript in
history has been preserved. Why? Because these documents
played an important role in Israelite culture and government.
You see, religion was their ruling passion. They believed that
the Bible was not of human origin, but was directly inspired by
God Himself. Therefore every letter and word had to be
regarded with the highest reverence. And this could allow no
changes. Modern critics are so blissfully ignorant of this ancient
Hebrew mindset – which is so different from their own.
Josephus testifies: “We have given practical proof of our
reverence for our own Scriptures. For, although such long ages
have now passed, no one has ventured either to add, or to
remove, or to alter a syllable. (Flavius Josephus, “Flavius Josephus Against
Apion” Josephus, Complete Works, pp.179,180)
From 100 to 500 AD, in transcribing the scrolls, the Talmudists
allowed no word or letter, not even a yod, to be written from
memory, without the scribe looking at the codex before him.
Between every consonant, new section, and book, a precisely-
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stipulated space must intervene. (Samuel Davidson, Hebrew Text of the
Old Testament. 2nd edition. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, p. 89)
They were followed by the Masoretes (AD 500-900), who
counted the number of times each letter of the alphabet occurs in
each book. They numbered the verses, words and letters of
every book. They calculated the middle word and middle letter
of each book. of the entire Hebrew Bible. (F.F. Bruce, The Books and
the Parchments. Rev. ed. Westwood: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1963, p. 117)
In 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls, including a complete Hebrew
manuscript copy of the biblical book of Isaiah, were discovered.
Dated around 125 BC, it was found to be in precise agreement
with the text of 1,000 years later. Yes, you CAN be certain that
the Hebrew Bible text has been transmitted accurately. (For more
detailed information on this topic, see The Weapon the Globalists Fear, Chapter 20.)
And that does raise this interesting question: Might it then just
hold the key to events shaping up right now on our planet?
Exposing the forbidden secret
Just suppose you discovered that persons mistaken for outer
space aliens were actually the brains behind the New World
Order – and that they had sinister plans for you and your family?
In the next few chapters, after identifying these gangsters
beyond reasonable doubt, we shall progressively reveal the
forbidden information that they don’t want you to know – and
you will see clearly why they want to keep it secret from you.
WARNING: This may be hazardous to your preconceived ideas.
Are you ready for this?
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PART FOUR
PLANET HIJACKED
From another dimension?- 203s
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