Part IVa, The Lord vs. Satan: SupCtHeaven;

Both before and after the Cross, God 'mirrors' time back to us for the same reason He mirrors Himself: to teach. See, we need to have someone show us where we are wrong or right, and God's method is to measure back what's wrong or right, so we can see objectively: principle is most succinctly stated in Matt7:1-2. So if you have a spiritual problem, you'll have a mirroring physical circumstance. So if the world has a time problem, it has a mirroring time segment to go with it. Loss, or gain. And any gain or loss is balanced either prior or later, with a matching time segment of like kind.

More fundamentally, God 'mirrors' time like an accounting transaction, so that everything balances ("for every thing, there is a season" and similar verses). He does this in 490-year segments, starting with Adam. Mirroring.htm shows the tracking of these segments through 70AD, and needs some refining; however, you will see enough proof from the methodology and dates you can check, to see this is a Real Accounting In Real Time, so only Real God can be doing it. There's nothing like this on the internet, so keep your skeptic's hat on, and breathe 1Jn1:9 as needed.

The basis for all this mirroring, moreover, is solely, the believer. We are used to buy time for the world. It's not a figure of speech, but literal, and has been God's Justice Criterion since Adam. So, in Mirroring.htm, you can prove that God grants the Earth 490 more years based on the DDNA of an individual, starting with Adam. Further, these grants of time STACK, if more than one individual alive at the same time, receives it, which greatly improves the prosperity of the Time the Earth gets. However, Mirroring.htm only traced the proof of those grants, to 70AD. Due to the Cross, it seemed as though the 490's terminated or changed. Well, now I realize the 490's are still God's policy, and are still granted. Still as result of DDNA God built in the believer; still means God grants time to at least one believer sufficient to justify continuing Earth's existence for another 490 years. Because, you can prove it still happening on a corporate level, though you can't prove identity of the individual(s).

So a historical 490's successful end seems to have at least ALL of the following characteristics:

1. Scripture Rollout Peak (including ease of use and especially, superior teaching) during the last 100+ years of a 490.
2. Back-to-the-Bible movements peak during last 40-80 years of a 490, including strident opposition which seeks to discredit the teachers.
3. Mass Evangelism peaks during this same time (last 100+ years), so international travel peaks, too.
4. SUBSTITUTE religion is forcefully or seductively pandered to oppose #2 & #3, beginning about 100+ years prior, claiming to be 'the original' version, with loud appeals to the past and 'tradition', as if an old lie were somehow less a lie. So its lie is patent, even slapstick. But it has power, so it wins adherents who want to share in that power. Truth matters not. Thus a separation of wheat and chaff, occurs.
5. Frenetic physical, technological, economic, and/or political movement: again, during the last 100+ years.
6. A client nation dies and at least one other arises, usually on the ashes of the one dying. Timing is fluid, since if the 490 condition is met, the otherwise-dying nation, is instead preserved.
7. Geographical range of each 490's ending characteristics spans far more terrority than the range of the preceding 490.

   As mentioned earlier, this webpage employs non-intercalated benchmarks. The intercalated-for-voting time runs 490+70+490=1050=1000+50. So the "100+" years toward the end of a 490 works out more often to be something like 120-160 years. It's still a 4-generation measure, fitted to the actual historical 490 playing with the intercalation, factored in. To see the difference, load GeneYrs.xls and track the gold rows versus the historical events between them. I've not yet posted enough events, but you can see the ideas.

Now let's test the foregoing with a sketch of what 490's we have. The purpose of the sketch is to show methodology, and test the above-listed characteristics. I'm typing from memory, so some of the data and their dates might be a little 'off'. Data and their interpretation can always be disputed; but even the right data can't prove a thing if the methodology is wrong; if the characteristics aren't the right ones. Note in the dates below, that the ending year is the same as the beginning year of the next 490. Scripture dates have this piggybacking quality about them (i.e., the next day is measured from the night of the previous day, in the Law); so there often seems to be "1" too many or too few, when you work with the dates. For, in real life there is no zero: the beginning and ending are always the same moment. Unity, hupostasis. Also, since this is a living history, the characteristics won't neatly stop, but spill over into the beginning of the next period. Still, you should be able to observe these Seven Characteristics within the last four generations or so of a 490, and the scope/degree will be higher, unusual.

So we've seven 490's since 1440BC (the Exodus), and four 490's since 30AD (the Crucifixion), both resulting in 1990. So just we've just begun a new qualifying 490 rather spectacularly: let's call the ended ones, "A-D" and provide a too-brief sketch of them, so you can see the idea (whether I'm right in what variables picked, doesn't matter right now):

This was the period of the NT's formation and distribution. Technically, it overlaps the ending of the old Adamic historical 490 and resets with Christ's, so its beginning is an ending, such that the 4-generation window plays twice. Here we see God's corporate goals for a 490, playing the same as He demonstrated pre-Cross. The goals are always to Get the Word out. Prior to Christ Himself, the goal was provide for His Coming, so that when He came the world would accept Him. That meant Getting the Word out via developing a bloodline and then a nation to 'house' it, so that the world would have a place to vote with its feet, to Get the Word. Again, infrastructure is needed to support positive volition to God, so one can learn in peace (and war, when ready for it). Here we see the preparation for dissemination of the NT, and its infrastructure goals.

The 4th 1050 would end 4200 years-from-Adam's-Fall, our 94AD; however, the voting period of our 44-94AD required Christ to be completed before it even begin. Problem was, David's underlying time grant of 1000 years based on his death -- which justified the world continue -- ended in Year 4143 (which is why 7 years is walled off in Daniel 9:27). Due to Israel's rejection of Christ, that Davidic deadline couldn't be used, since it was a voting for David to BE king via the Last David, who presented Himself. Hence Christ had to die another 7 years PRIOR, which was the 1000th anniversary of David's Abdication of Kingship. That anniversary was based on DAVID's own election, so it was unimpeachable (Israel's negative voting, couldn't nullify it). Hence Christ died in 4136 (our 30AD).

Israel knew this accounting system; wasn't too hard to count from David. So during what we call 44AD-94AD, everyone expected the Rapture, Trib, and Mill to all begin, because that period technically was a voting window. But it was also a brand new 1000, since Christ had successfully paid for sins. Hence the goal for that period was to Get The Word Out, even as it had been for the "seven weeks" piece in Daniel 9:24-27. OT Canon's distribution finished then (446-397BC): notice how it's a 50-year window.

So just as the 490 granted in Daniel 9 had the agenda of disclosing Messiah and getting the Word out with very specific subgoals and components, like the rebuilding of the Temple and Jerusalem -- here post-Cross, the same overall agenda plays. It's got different subcomponents, but the same Disclose-Messiah-and-Build-the-Temple-of-His-Body-the-Church, remains. That requires a lot of secular building, training, etc. Hence you see all seven trends.

So, by the time of this 490's ending in 520AD: #1 is the distribution and translation of the original-language texts. By this ending, many of the texts were in hiding, unavailable to the common man. Knowledge of Bible was almost zero; it was so bad, people who HAD Scripture couldn't even read it: you don't need to convene a Council to determine whether Christ is God or whether a Book is Bible, if you can read the Bible. Bible is plain. But negative volition can't read it. So the elites had taken over, imposing their views, full of their self-importance; and the common guy had nothing for comparison. So Constantine convened Councils -- he himself couldn't read Bible, either. But wanted to. As you read the Church Fathers' writings, you'll see how wacko they all were. Some great moments and understandings punctuate their stuff, but oh -- how much nonsense, how many lies were pandered. It's embarrassing. Take Pepto-Bismol as you read the Church Fathers. And be glad if we never have to go back there, again.

For by this ending, the Bible itself had been kidnapped by the elites. So Jerome, who disputed with the Catholic Church and everyone else quite a lot, had sequestered himself so he could translate from the manuscripts he was lucky to find; but the RCC didn't like Jerome's contemporary Latin; so his translation was sequestered for another 400 years, finally being adopted as the (newer) Vulgate sometime in the 800's AD, nicely anachronistic. #2-#4 is evidenced by all that missionary activity by St. Patrick and the Columbans, who weren't exactly on good terms with the Catholic Church either (the winner of a conflict gets to rewrite history, so you have to dig deeper than normal, to see these were back-to-Bible movements). Of course, #5 is kinda obvious, what with the Visigoths and all. #6 "old" is the death of Rome, obvious. #6 "new" was the Franks under Clovis, at least. Looks like more than one client nation got born/established at this time. #7 is obvious: the geographical 'virus' of Bible hunger spread from Palestine, outward and everywhere, but it took deepest long-term positive root in what we now call Europe. Not to worry. So long as there is a base for expansion -- which here widened considerably -- people can vote with their feet. Thus you see the Rise of Europe: not because of Christianity, and certainly not because of Europeans, who were largely abusing Bible -- but because of God.

This is a complex period. God's goal, as always, was to rescue Bible from the clutches of politically-entrenched religion, so the common man could get it. Hence there is a lot of warring and development of new infrastructures, as old institutions break apart and give way to new ones. It's almost easier to demonstrate the 490's ending by all the schism and dissent which characterized the new 490 which began the same year. #2, Beginning about 100+ years prior to the end, you had the quiet revolters, the bizillion monasteries (Cluny and Cistercian monk BTTB movements, since that was the only reliable way to GET time in Bible); the louder revolters, like the Cathars, etc., began at the end; of course the Great Schism occurred in 1054. All these were ways of (however heretical in belief) insisting that Rev17 was wrong, and study of Bible was right. Since the Bible was under lock-and-key, if you were interested in it you pretty much had to become a monk or a heretic armed with a Bible. If a monk, you could secretly study by becoming a copyist or servant of one. If a heretic, you must have gotten a Bible somewhere. Which is why the confiscation of Scripture, which began in the 90's AD, peaked during this 490. God being God, well -- sorry, people who wanted Bible got it anyway. Notice how Islam 'rises' so timely, to give the final blow to Byzantium, and to give the new #6 folk some spiritual exercise, at the beginning of a 490 (the completion of which Satan is always out to prevent).

#1, Codex Amiatinus (inter alia) was pretty important, for the RCC had ordered it collected, burnt, and forbid translations, circa 900+AD (if I remember properly) -- so you had widespread translations going on, and dissemination of that text, which would explain why there could be so much dissent (can't dissent over Bible, if you don't have one). #3-4 are pretty obvious. #5 is obvious. #6, the client nation dying is the Holy Roman Empire, but #6, post-Charlesmagne the same territory became a clump of client nations on the ashes. Charlesmagne was big on getting the Word out, and well.. it kinda undid his sons' reigns when they tried to reign in the people; so the "Holy Roman Empire" was one in name only; even the kings had to be elected. Frankly, the kings themselves wanted their own independence from the Pope, as well. That's why so many folks were receptive to Islam's resurgence in the 900's: no Pope behind the king.

The Pope himself wasn't doing too well, either, and for the same reason; so the Great Schism of 1054 was to be expected. Splintering, all triggered by the kidnapping of Scripture people came to want for themselves. Everywhere everything had broken up by 1050, and the foundation for our modern nation-states, began. All due to people wanting Bible not religion, whaddya know. Notice how the #7 trend of geographic 'virus' spread to encompass the Russian landmass, and good portions of Africa, in part owing to the up-again, down-again 'play' of Islam. So just after this 490 ends and the Great Schism begins, Islam will resurge again, take over Byzantium, and thus encourage the evil of the Crusades. That served to widen exposure to Bible even more, however much it was still sequestered by the elites. People talk as they walk or eat, as they rape and pillage.

It's fashionable in Protestantism to say how vile the Catholic Church was -- but honey, it could have been any denomination, and the same bid for power would have resulted. Today there are many popes. So we should see how we've aped those Dark ages, covering up Bible just as much as any prelate ever did, even still repeating the bad translations and interpretations of that particular harlot, but pretending here in 2006, that the translations are 'fresh' and 'scholarly'. Balderdash. So who's the harlot now?

Man has this goofy idea that his agreement is worth something to the other person with whom he agrees. That this other person, is somehow done a 'favor' when he receives agreement. So, man projects that idea on God, too. Hence history is a constant choosing between whether agreement with mere people matters more to you, than agreement with God. Sooner or later a burgeoning interest in God will require one break off with people. This breaking doesn't have to be obvious; it can take the form of isolating oneself. That's what happened to every Bible hero: each one "saw Him Who is Invisible" (said of Moses in Heb11, as a paradigm). Then, they made those choices. You can be isolated as a shepherd or a king, like David was. Leadership isolates. Then, there's the more-obvious isolation of going somewhere alone, like Abram's peregrinations, Moses in the wilderness, David as shepherd, the Lord in the mountains, Paul in Arabia. For at some point, one must choose it.

That's partly why so many monasteries flourish during this 490 period. We owe them much.

This is the most obvious 490, which of course neatly ends with the 'official' Reformation itself, which caused the map of Europe to be redrawn (particularly with respect to Germany and France). It's no accident that Elizabeth I is born toward the end of this period -- and trained in reading Scripture's Greek, a Protestant by upbringing. England will become the true spearhead of back-to-Bible movements from this time forward, as the Reformation fizzles into state religion.

So it's no surprise that #1 began its peaking with the technology of making what became known as the "Gutenberg Bible", about 100 years prior (movable type -- poor Gutenberg went bankrupt circa 1455). Notice how God provided a way for the Bible to become more available than ever by the time people would want and need it: you'd not have had an 'official' Reformation, without it. So there were a number of back-to-the-Bible movements during this 490, abounding in translations, etc. Many client nations reformed on the ashes of their predecessors, and usually in the name of religious war. You should be able to see #2-#6 pretty easily. There are many of them, all overlapping, from 1450 or so.

Satan knows all about the 490's, so he kindly managed to prepare in advance our friend Osman and his dynasty to take over Constantinople in 1453, so Islam could compete for attention with that new-fangled invention of Gutenberg: you know, choose between Bible into the common-man's hands, or attacking the infidel. So by 1540, naturlich, the Ottoman Empire was at a peak. Gotta have some kind of reply to God's freeing up Scripture in Europe.. just like 560, and 1050, Satan counterplays to match God. You can set your watch: he does this in the last 100+ years of a 490 ending, to counter the Scripture-availability peaking; well, he missed that timing goal somewhat when he started up Islam, but managed to get it going in the first 100 years of the new 490 that began in 560; so he used the Persian (Khosrau/Chosroes) Parwiz instead, during the prior 100 (460AD+), and kept him going until Mohammed could take his place (6 year overlap between 622 and 628).

Circa 950AD, he had rolled out Islam again, and when that didn't work by 1050 he rolled out Islam again, getting the Seljuk Turks to capture Byzantium in 1071. Which started, the Crusades. Since history was supposed to end 1070AD-1144AD (range of dates given Israel's rejection versus her acceptance), it looks like Satan was really trying to get it to end, for this period approached a war-everywhere period -- chiefly, with Islam as the counteragent. Seljuks took over 1071 (cute play on the 1070 expectation); Crusades began 1096 (cute play on the original design to end Millennium in 1094, cuter on John's Revelation which came out 96AD). As always, the aim was to move the focus back to the Middle East. When it didn't work yet again, he use Islam to re-take Byzantium in 1453. Note the usage of Islam (again, except the first time, because Satan was using Byzantium and Rome to kill each other, and then Persia to deliver the final blow -- which didn't work out).

Else, the identities of #1-#6 are quite obvious. The Reformation itself was a Back-to-the-Bible movement, and had many facets, not merely the Calvin and Lutheran ones. It's interesting that both Luther and Calvin got caught up with the movement, weren't really interested in politics, at first. Satan neatly managed to arrest both of their adherent groups into state religions: little popedoms. And they've not advanced in their theologies, ever since. Pity.

Even so, the raging in Europe was coupled with unprecedented exploration and migration -- the many pogroms of the Jews, in particular -- and here you see the globalization begin in earnest. So #7 widens, usually with a tyrannical or seductive banner, hitting on far-flung coasts of the Americas, Africa, and China. The 'virus' is no longer contained. When you look at the many European voyages then going around the world, it's almost as if they were in a hurry to get their missions done in time for the Reformation, which technically hadn't yet begun! Spain and Portugal were racing with each other, ostensibly. But God had other goals. So the race begins the end of the 1400's, just in time to deliver the new printing-press Bibles, to their destinations (i.e., the Portuguese reach even Macau by 1514). Over and over, wave upon wave from the West. So by the end of this 490, the base of operations was worldwide. Just in Time.

This period is usually classified "modern history" in high schools. Its seven trends are obvious, too; its #1-#6 components should be readily identifiable. God's main purpose for the Reformation was to completely free Scripture. It didn't happen right away, but the idea it should, did happen. So the desire to know Bible qua Bible just couldn't be checked anymore, and you have a proliferation of back-to-the-Bible movements, competitions, resurgences of institutionalized religions, everyone calling everyone else a heretic, and oh -- two world wars, preceded and followed, by many civil ones. When interest in Bible breaks free, polities free up, as well. Spiritual maturation produces a kind of secular maturation, so man can handle freedom better. So it's never a political problem when a polity is not free. It's a spiritual problem. So you learn God, instead of crusading for political change. And if it's God you want, you won't even think about trying to get political change: you'll be too busy, learning HIM.

Notice how the baton keeps switching back and forth among France, Germany, and England: when one of them loses interest in Bible (i.e., France under Louis XIV, who revoked the Edict of Nantes), others rise (i.e., Fredrick William took in the Huguenots evicted by Louis). Finally, the US (an offshoot of England) was founded in order to have freedom from state religion, specifically. If you read John Hyde Preston's A Short History of the American Revolution, and specifically its report on the sorry state of the Revolutionary troops at Valley Forge due to the abuse by Congress and other Americans, you realize that only God made America the victor in that Revolution. And solely due to, the faith of a few, in Him. Him, not religion. (Let us never be so arrogant to think we Americans accomplish a thing. God And God Alone is the source of our prosperity. God, not religion. God, never mankind! Read how Moses keeps reminding Israel of that fact, beginning around Deuteronomy 4, repeating the fact every 10 verses or so.)

#1 is extremely interesting, during this 490's span; you have many manuscript finds during this period -- in fact, most of the MSS we know of today, were found since 1540, with the most important one, Codex Vaticanus, being force-published in 1889: because Tregelles had a really good memory when he was allowed to look at the original Codex but not touch it -- so memorized and published what he'd seen. Note the direct correlation between, say, the intense gathering and miraculous discoveries of Bible original-language texts by the likes of Samuel Tregelles (1844+, if I remember -- see www.bautz.de) and Count von Tischendorf, the guys who got Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus out from centuries-long sequestration, to mankind; compared to counter-trends at the same time of fake religious texts like the Book of Mormon (1844?), Marxism (yes, a religion, billed as if rational and political), Darwinism (yet another religion in disguise, animism), etc. Then there were the many philosophers (yet another disguise, man worshipping himself). Of course, Islam enjoyed a nice resurgence beginning about the same time.

Of course in 1950, when back-to-the-Bible was mainstream in the US, God rolled out some Greek grammar texts (from Qumran or somewhere), so everyone had to start over rethinking what they thought the MSS words meant. Then, everyone in the US promptly lost interest in Bible (a counter trend beginning intermittently during the 1930's). By the late 1970's, everyone decided God was dead, and the religious crowd were falling all over themselves with various apologetics and wimpy Madison-Avenue games. Rather than MSS'ing, they were missing their brains; so viral-RNA morphing. The Social and Political Gospel has replaced the Real One; who needs God, when one can call Caesar, 'God' and get away with it? Just turn on any 'Christian' TV station at any hour, see for yourself. In six months of watching 'Christian' TV almost continuously in 2004, I didn't even hear one (including the famous speakers) correct Gospel message. Not even one. Was listening for it. Not even one. So whoever gets saved by watching that stuff?

By stark contrast, do you see the proliferation of back-to-Bible all over the world, now? It's commonplace: www.bf.org begs for even torn portions of Bibles, so they can get them out to folks who don't have them -- yeah, and who in the US is that hungry for the Word, anymore? Do you see the RCC trying to 'unify' other Christian denominations to itself? It's commonplace. Do you see how we are doing what every other people at the end of a 490 are doing? We learn from history that we learn nothing from history, and we learn from history that God keeps on being faithful.

He is faithful to get the Word out to anyone who wants it. Satan is 'faithful' to reverse-substitute, obfuscate and imbalance God's 'effort'. If you love your home country, Get In And Stay In God's System. You honor the Lord, you honor your country, and you fight for its freedom that way. Stay out of politics and all other manner of satanic, crusading substitutes for God's DDNA System. And at the Bema, you will be a hero, and heartily grateful for all the DDNA the Holy Spirit Alone can make from you. And so will everyone else be grateful -- especially those believers who were hostile/indifferent to God, down here.

So #3 is at an all-time high, during this 490. Hence #4 takes on the new form of "scientific" and "philosophical" thought as counter-religions, especially in the 19th century; God wasn't dead exactly, but He sure was to be questionned. This was an iconoclasm movement. After all, institutionalized religion took a beating during this 490, so something else was needed.

Of course, another #4, Islam, has been up and happening (but only as needed) all over again; timed nicely with the breakout of Bible in the mid-/late 1800's: that was when the Ottoman empire underwent substantial 'reform'. Then again, Islam countered when Bible teaching from the original languages started becoming commonplace in the US circa 1950+, with Arab independence movement and the establishment of Israel: a Satan-sponsored thing, just as the Crusades were. Gotta get our eyes on something in the Middle East in the name of God, so we can take our eyes off new/better Bible availability! [Israel should be protected, but God didn't want her going back to the Land. Christ warned about it in Matt24, as did Daniel, back in Dan9:25-26. LvS4a.htm explains this problem in great detail. We should never abandon Israel, never be anti-semitic, unless we want to end up in the dustbin of history, like Hitler did. But the Jews were not supposed to 'shub' (return) -- Dome Of The Rock is the living Matt24 warning to STAY AWAY. Who listens? No one.. as usual. So we should be in Iraq for Israel's sake, even if it weren't simple good sense. Sheesh: here we rescue a people from a Hitler-like tyrant, which we should have done in 1990. And we are excoriated for it by the world. Bush got it right on 'invading' Iraq. No one can get the execution of policy right, but God will bless it, you wait and see.]

I thought it a particularly nice touch that Satan's demon who herded the Porte, had it sell so much of Israel's swampland to Jews anxious to re-establish their homeland in the late 1800's early 1900's. Most folks don't know that most Israel was first purchased from a Muslim Sultan BY Jews; so the "Palestinians" have no proper land quarrel -- they weren't even living there. Read Joan Peter's From Time Immemorial for a fact-filled, empirically-provable history of how Israel really came to be -- but its import is pretty shocking, however erudite the research. Again, God doesn't want Israel to be there, it's a satanic trap to be there now -- only God is supposed to "shub" them, at the 2nd Advent: LvS4a.htm provides the (fairly conclusive) Scriptural backup to that statement. (Site is necessarily long, as it covers a lot of related topics.)

Of course, it's to be expected that both Roman Catholicism and Islam revved up as 1990 approached, and are continuing to do so, still. Hence all the press attention, and the slavering over both. They aren't by accident the two fastest-growing religions in the world right now. The latter are "the kings of the south" in Revelation, and the former is exactly described in Rev17. Right down to the colors of the clothing and the barnacling on of false doctrine from other faiths, to sell itself as 'the' voice of Christendom. What amazes me is that all these centuries have passed, and Rev17 must be going unread. You can't mistake what church is depicted; you can't mistake how evil Christian activism is. For we have so many Rev17 harlots, now. The RCC is by no means, alone.

True believers can be in any denomination, so you don't go bashing them. But when both RCC and now most Protestant denominations commonly teach false gospels, well: who among them, is really saved? The "Lord, Lord" verse in Matt 7:21-2, a chapter on false teachers, comes to mind (see also Luke 6:46, Mat25:11, Luke 13:25 -- these are different occasions). [You are NOT saved until and unless you Believe In Christ Alone, John 3:16. Even common sense should tell you that His Death would be in vain, else. Even common sense should tell you that getting wet won't save you from soul sins. Can't clean a body from a soul problem -- hence the need for Him to pay for ALL sins, past present future -- on the Cross. ALL sins. Else God is being shorted. Which we know would never happen, so it's impossible to lose salvation.]

But here's the complication, and I can't find its like in any other 490 except Egypt under Joseph, and Daniel 9: the US appears to have gotten a second 40-year warning. Hence the initial explanation regarding a nexus of 7 years, in #2 above. Hence those of us learning Bible must take responsibility for 9/11, since if enough of us grew up to Pleroma (Eph3:19) stage, there wouldn't have been another deployment of Islamic terrorists. It's not the 'infidel' who causes the downfall of a nation: read Lev26 and Deut28 and 2Chron7:14. That gives US until about 2030 to wake up and smell God's coffee. But only a few of us need to make it.

Meanwhile, other nations who have not been interested in Bible, might be carrying our baton, as #6 new client nations: China, India, Brazil, Korea and maybe some country in Africa (Cameroon?) will take over. God knows. Would that they all became client nations, and that the US would wake up as well. You can set your watch: a rise of interest in Bible for itself results very quickly in a rise of prosperity in the region/country wherein that interest resides. There might be a one-generation lag, and if the interest doesn't sustain over three generations you might not have enough time to recognize a blip of prosperity increase; but generally, the rise of properity is swift. American belief in Bible surged in the aftermath of the Civil War; and by 1900 we were the most significant of the Industrial Revolution countries. So it happened IN that generation. Same thing seems to be happening in China and India, now; a rise of Bible interest seemed to happen to Brazil, soon after Goulart ('guessing). Korea's interest is so strong in America, you can't hardly go a mile anywhere in a metropolitan area, without seeing a Korean Bible church. Many of them have tape ministries, too. God bless 'em all!

Looks like God's goal back when the Spanish and Portuguese were racing, got realized for the distant races, huh. Just when they'd need the information and were ready for it en masse, God sent out explorers, to set up bases for distribution. Sure, it has always been true that if you wanted Bible, no matter how isolated you were, God would bring it to you or you to it. Trade routes have always been all over the place, and of course Israel is in the middle of three continents. But what all the exploration and travel en masse tells us, is that there were distinct periods in history when a whole mass of people in a geographical area, wanted the Word At The Same Time. So, God provided it.

The travellers themselves were few in number; those they met, were few in number. So the converts were few in number, but they dispersed. Technically, God would deliver an entire nation for the sake of one person (Israel, due to Moses or David). The whole world is delivered for the sake of Christ. At the same time, people are all connected, so one person's information can disperse across a very wide area. What people do with that information, is up to them. But the word-of-mouth system is very effective. People like to repeat information.

Now think: don't you see how He's doing the same thing for the Middle East, via the Americans in Iraq? What, do you think we're there for our reasons? Guess again! God runs history. Not, puny man.

Regarding #7, notice how the geographical span at the end of each period, is so much wider than pertained prior to the ending of the previous 490. In "D" we have worldwide span, compared to "C" which was worldwide exploration (setting up for "D", if you check the dates of Columbus, De Gama, etc). So today's client nations are potentially many, not few, owing to the spreading geographical span of interest in Bible. Hmmm. God DID promise to get the Word out. Looks like His record is rather good, doncha think?

While I don't agree that the US is directly referenced in the "eagle" prophecy -- which is instead, SPQR -- the US is yet another legatee of Rome's demise at the end of the first post-Cross 490. What distinguished SPQR from all other polities was the eclectic nature of its state religion. It was a state religion that you honor the "gods", but what gods you honored, was a matter of personal choice. Rome only prohibited claims that 'your god' was the only one; so Rome serially persecuted both Jews and Christians. Eventually the persecuted became the rulers, as happens so often in history; that was Satan's goal, not God's. But then God used that outcome to return back to God's version of the SPQR freedom-of-religion policy. Since, that is the First Commandment (can't pursue the First Commandment if freedom-of-faith is curtailed). So you see the breakup of Rome, and Europe formed out from its ashes.

So the US, is a 'descendant'. And, we have a very similar political structure to SPQR. Hallmark characteristic of the US is separation-of-Church-and-state, which separation principle was indissoluble from the very founding of the US (however much the Christian right, ever unable to read anything, ignorantly contend otherwise). The idea of this separation is that Personal Freedom Of Faith should never be a thing government 'touches'. Our current government is misguided (or even traitorous, due to the prolife idiots) to our founding purpose, but there's no need to take revenge or crusade, since God founded the US, so God will handle the necessary correction.

And you know God is the author of the US, because literally every country in the world feels constrained to adopt at least some of the US 'model' of government. That doesn't mean 'democracy' is universally right: in fact, the US is not a democracy (would anyone bother to read the Constitution), but a "republic". Meaning, elected representatives are the rulers, not the 'people'. Same model, as SPQR. Deliberately (if anyone would bother to read the Federalist Papers and like material).

So, what are other nations doing? Well, everywhere you see an increasing attention reluctantly paid to freedom of opinion/faith. Even Saudi Arabia is holding elections; even Egypt is paying more attention. While those movements are secular, not about faith, the underlying idea is freedom-of-opinion being necessary. So if freedom of secular opinion is necessary for good government, then soon freedom-of-faith can flourish better. That is the significance of our being in Iraq. Not to 'bring democracy' there, since not even the US is a democracy (fifth-century BC Athens was a democracy, and it didn't work out too well). But rather, to bring about some kind of freedom-of-opinion as a valid institution in a polity. Which type of institution, nations are deciding. But not a country on this planet, is unaffected by the American idea of freedom-of-faith (hence freedom-of-opinion, its root). So clearly God is freeing the world: currently, via America.

GOD is doing it, not US. We are contributing the problem, as usual. Man contributes the problem, God makes the doo-doo into Diamonds, and Satan tries to make the Diamonds defeat Deus. That's the plotline of history; so here in #7, you see that plot widen geographic distribution to its widest extent, in the latest (and maybe last, who knows) 490.. the one we are in, potentially ending 2480AD if the Rapture doesn't occur first.

As explained in LvS4b.htm and even more in LvS4c.htm, the Rapture being based on believer growth or retrogression, cannot be predicted. Further, retrogression will be the ostensible trigger for the Rapture to occur; God having finished His Trial Rebuttal will let time run its natural course, as usual. Which means, as usual, believers will not grow beyond spiritual age 8; so, will retard. So will be called home in shame, with Satan exulting at finally being able to get rid of us. For he won't buy that God's Trial Arguments were right. Instead, he'll think he has finally manipulated time himself, to his advantage.

Since we are still in a 40-year grace period, the US will probably limp along: Americans don't own much of their country's economic assets, anymore, so we're almost "America" in name only, here in 2005 -- perfect description of the last two 'cycles' of Divine National Discipline in Lev26. (There's more than one way to be under seige.) The world will probably limp along, too. So if interest in Bible within the US doesn't experience a resurgence whereas the other nations' interest in Him increases, you'll see a shift in the balance of power to the nation with the most interest. Many would argue it already began about 20 years ago. How long it will take for the new balance of power to result in war, I'm not sure. Newly-strong nations will be challenged, and they want to stretch their muscles: expect alliances to change in surprising ways. But the desire to fight economically rather than militarily, is the norm. Only the Middle East could trigger a real military conflict, if nations take sides. And they are, so the danger is real enough. Satan's always angling for Armaggedon, especially when interest in Bible is high, and he'll 'match' religion to religion, to get our eyes off Bible in the name of God. Of course, we can see that trend every day, since we live in the wake of 9/11. It's real significant that both the Roman Catholic Church and Islam are being promoted. Not sure yet how they will be used.

The US will die very quickly if our anti-semitism keeps on rising. Here in 2006, after Israel entered Lebanon due to the unprovoked attack by Hezbollah, the incredibly-negative-to-Israel reaction by Christians and unbelievers presage a dark turn in our policy with respect to Israel. Most of their negativity is a way to be negative to President Bush; so they react against Israel, to 'get back' at him. How bizarre. Imagine turning against another innocent country because you don't like your own nation's president, who favors that country. How satanic. So it's frightening how no one bothers to look at the facts of Hezbollah's evil, which for a change the media were correctly reporting (though slanted pro-Arab, as usual). So if we turn anti-Israel en masse, that's the end of US. Hitler's regime didn't last but what -- 12 years?

When Nebuchadnezzar invaded Israel, he took back with him the best individuals, put a puppet king on the throne, and left. Two more times he'd return, and the final time in 586BC, he razed the Temple and melted down the Ark. You can read this in 2Kings and 2Chronicles, toward the end of each book. God then picks up the story with Jeremiah, using the latter to explain how God pulled out the yet-good figs (believers) into Diaspora, leaving the rotten figs (again, believers) behind to suffer. Of course, He had done the same thing prior with Noah, delivering him and his family who'd also voted for God. He'd done the same thing in 70AD. In short, when God removes His Protection due to a nation's apostacy, the believers are delivered. But those left behind, get the punishment due, so they too can wake up and smell God's coffee. You'll see that pattern in Bible again and again. Well: it plays in history, too. Looks like by 2030 or sooner, it will play yet again.

1990 was undeniably a watershed year. Technically, it was the end of a qualifying 490, an off-calendar, running contiguous deadline by which some believer on earth must RECEIVE the grant. The historical 490 ends in 2130. But unless someone GOT the 490 award during the qualifying 490 which ended in 1990, time would end in 2130. You'll see these qualifying 490s in GeneYrs.xls, mapped in a lighter, cross-hatched gold (versus the solid gold of the historical 490s). Someone got the award, so as usual God readies mankind for a massive housecleaning and Bible rollout, to terminate the last 120 years of the historical 490. Additionally, 1997 was the close of the 2000th anniversary of His Birth, which usually God tracks as a kind of warning. But it's not a qualifying 1000 (which runs 30, 1030, 2030, etc). An unusually-successful ending of the 490 means an unusually-polarized new 490 is in the making (as a counter, trying to undo the success and force the Rapture). Seems like Thomas Friedman just has written about 1990 being a watershed year (according to his early May interview on Charlie Rose, April 2005) -- not attributing the nexus to Bible interest, of course.

So examine what else happened in 1990. That was the year the official 'downfall' of the Soviet Union began. The significance of the downfall of Soviet Union is that Freedom Of Opinion (and economy) can flourish there. It's been a tumultuous place to live, with fantastic highs and lows, ever since.

1990 was also the year China began its breakup as well, though to the world it looked like a resurgence: economic breakup leads eventually to freedom, and in China the Great Communist Experiment also failed. (But then, it never really was about communism in China, but about modernization against foreigners, a centuries-old goal.) In that year, China became the biggest economy (in terms of people), with everyone outside China, slavering to serve it. Of course, Deng Shiao-Ping (Xiaoping, new spelling) began that reform to economic (and hence related) freedom, about seven years earlier; once ostracised because he was practical, Deng got the last laugh over his former arch-rival, Mao; the latter having died in 1976(?), Deng quietly began to consolidate power enough to cause the reform simply by announcing it, beginning about 1983. Encarta notes that due to Deng's announcement in 1990, it "touched off" rapid economic growth, though Deng was officially (but not really, k?) out of power, by then.

Next, the breakup of the Middle East began in earnest in 1990, though it's not as obvious. Terrorism in the Middle East has two basic roots: a) anti-semitism, which is a 4000 year inheritance quarrel (Isaac got the inheritance, not Ishmael). Then b), Islam is a terrorizing religion (unfies church and state) which thus keeps its people backward economically -- and the rest of the world has passed it by, so lots of Arabs are becoming disaffected with Islam. The backlash of terrorism neatly gives Arabs an excuse to think they are still superior. Hence, in that same year 1983, our friends the Muslims managed to decimate Lebanon and turn the conflict there into a full-scale terrorism campaign against the US. The world began to be under seige, then. By 1990 Lebanon ended its civil war, so Saddam Hussain started a new one. All the while, Israel was increasingly involved, so terrorism stepped up, and given Saddam being such a problem, what with invading Kuwait and all, Israel and the US caved into negotiations with the Palestinians who sponsored the terrorists -- negotiations which went nowhere, except to get Rabin killed.

While Soviet Union, China, and the Middle East began breaking up due to their failed economic and political policies, Germany, Europe and other groups were unifying during 1990. Germany was split post-WWII to prevent it from ever being able to wage war again, and now its erstwhile conqueror, is the one conquered. Of course the end-timers went even more wacko when the European Union was started, but that was also a natural outgrowth (starting some years earlier) in order for Europe to compete with its larger geographical competitors. That's actually more why places like Angola and Serbia were troubled, due to losing the Soviet Union's patronage; Eastern Europe itself had nothing to hold it together now. Of course, the conflict in Afghanistan began in 1990 for the same reason (civil war fallout from the Afghan-Soviet war). Of course, 1990 was the first year Al-Qaeda was on its own.

Beneath these political developments of the 80's and 90's, is a deeper spiritual ennui, and it has two sides, as well: emotional, and genuine. For, man now has an increasing awareness that there should be something 'more' to life. You can easily find commentaries on the rise of religion, which characterizes the period: people SEARCHING. God isn't dead, anymore. But its emotional side quickly devolves into goofy conclusions (the intifada and Bin-Laden versions, being obviously destructive, but the tongues movement is just as destructive, even worse than drugs). Hence the now-worldwide popularity of the tongues crowd and all manner of emotionalism in Christianity, which -- also begun about 1983 -- had fully embraced Revelation 17 as if it were spiritual. Now no one bothered to read the Bible, so could ignorantly claim whatever, and the stupid 'prolife' movement passed for God's Will -- we even elected a President (Reagan) who espoused it (otherwise a great President). So it's all downhill beginning in 1990, and by 1997, well.. ministers crusade on political topics in their pulpits; one even ran for President. What happened to teaching Bible? Some talk techie using buzzwords from the original-language texts.. but tell you to pray to Jesus or the Holy Ghost; they tell you to invite Christ into your heart to be saved (which is nowhere in BIBLE, and doesn't save you); they preach emotion and thumping the Bible, and cruises and retreats; and they teach God is emotional, for crying out loud. Guess all those techie words they use, they just use for show. Even John 3:16 in translation, isn't taught or remembered anymore (whereas in 1949+, practically every non-Catholic schoolchild and parent in the US, knew it by heart). Sheesh.

So naturally you'll find all kinds of obsessive interest in the supernatural. Feeds emotion. So you got the channelers, the psychics, the witches, the New-Agers; and so many programs on TV about the supernatural, you almost can't find a secular program. Every one of these programs is incredibly goofy (blasphemous, if alleging to be about Bible). No one seems to care. Everyone wants to emote or point the finger. When a salt stain on a Chicago freeway underpass claimed as an 'appearance of Mary' makes news(!) on both the national US television network and "Dateline", you have ample reason to worry about the mental health of not only the US, but everyone else.

An offshoot of that are all the 'survivor' type programs and this really-weird love of crime programs. You almost can't find a program in prime-time which isn't on the topic of murder. That depicts a judgemental mindset, a fearful mindset, one which just itches for a crusade. Man is fed up with trying to be good, and fed up with seeing 'bad', win. Where's the pea under the walnut shell? Nowhere. Morality without first knowing God, is like that.. empty.

So expect demagogues to arise in the next 10 years. There's a strong market for a repeat of last century's Mussolinis, Francos, Perons, Hitlers. Satan&Co. can empower someone to become a demagogue in less time than it takes me to finish typing this sentence. You saw the slavering at the Pope's funeral and at Princess Diana's funeral.

Look anywhere you like, use any mental-attitude index you think elucidating, and you arrive at the same conclusion: we're a world of emotional wrecks! Do you realize, that as of 6/05, Argentina had to pass a law regulating that shops carry larger sizes of women's clothing, to combat teenage bulimia? That was on BBC News, 6/04/05. BBC! not local podunk tell-any-news-to-fill-the-time! So what must be the problem, in other countries? Which is worse: the tyranny that the kids cannot buy the fashion they want because they aren't thin enough, or the tyranny that a law must be passed to force sales? Wouldn't a normal business want to sell to its market, so make clothes to the bodies in that market? So wouldn't need a law to force it to do what makes a profit? But what normal teenagers should starve to fit clothes which make them look like Auschwitz victims? Of course, why would it be fashionable to look starved and ugly? Is this a sane fashion standard? See how wacko we all are?

The 6/05 rejection by French voters of the new European Constitution is your harbinger of mindset, too: fear of elites causing a loss of jobs, if countries in Eastern Europe are added to the list of EU members. Never mind, that addition increases the whole economy of Europe, so everyone will eventually work more. But then, France is the home of the 35-hour workweek (what insanity), another stupid law. See how wacko we all are? Watch: demagogues will arise to tap all this emotionalism, all this resentment. We're just begging to be herded.

Read the first 10 verses of Isa28, and Lev26 for the mindset of escapism and mental illness. Then compare what was said to what you see 'out there' in the world. Abnormal minds go to demagogues.. and then, to war. You can set your watch.

Consequently, war since 1990 is now mainly fought with lying words.. and economically. So much more effective, than the old-fashioned methods of hack-and-destroy. Sun Tzu was right: you aim to defeat the enemy's mind, in part because then he makes better booty, and you can capture more of his infrastructure. Hence guerrila-type tactics in economics are far more important. Like, how much of the US is actually owned by Americans, anymore? Has anyone noticed China's quiet policy of economic hegemony, which -- surprise, surprise -- also began in earnest about 1983? Who recognized the weirdness of the Fed having to keep down interest rates, so the US doesn't go into a depression, beginning about 1990?

And of course, everyone is aware of the resurgence of religious polarization which terrorism nicely advertises, with the result that from about 1990 onward, that becomes the primary military concern of the world, a tail wagging the dog; and those trying to catch terrorist dogs afflicting Iraq, are instead excoriated BY the world? Why does the world hate the US for freeing Iraq from a tyrant? But then how could anyone believe the claim OF that tyrant who invaded another Arab country -- that he was doing it for the poor freedom-loving Palestinians no Arab country would succor? For that's what Saddam Hussein did, rocketing Israel after he invaded Kuwait. What did Israel have to do with his invasion of Kuwait? Do you know, back in 1990 people actually blamed Israel? Same insanity plays now. What hypocrisy: Arabs not helping other Arabs, Muslims not helping other Muslims, violating the Five Pillars, but it's the fault of the infidels? What a slur on Allah: if their faith is so true, why didn't they take the Palestinians IN to the other Arab countries as brothers? Why instead, did they set up quotas and refugee camps for their fellow Arabs, disallowing them citizenship? It's just another trick to use one's fellow Arab, a tactic from time immemorial. Sorry: Koran means nothing, it's just the way they express their anti-semitism.
And we buy all this blatant hypocrisy, even in the US: Americans condemning the US presence in Iraq? Kinda like every other nation which was ending at the end of a 490, is the US, today: the barbarians 'invade' by buying us, now. The barbarians wag the dog, and the dog is both stupid, and grateful. The US will not survive the 21st century, if Christians don't grow up in God's System. It only takes a few in the (last) Pleroma stage of maturity, to preserve the nation (25-50 people, my pastor estimates). And if enough more are trying to grow, that also can stave off disaster. So if you care about the soldiers and people suffering in Iraq.. grow up spiritually. Meanwhile, pray (2Chron7:14) using God's System protocols. Doesn't matter if you are a spiritual idiot, if you follow the protocol, your prayer will be answered.

See, we really are Royal. So our attitude determines the quality of life down here for the whole world. We have a lot to answer for, at the Bema. Meanwhile, those invading us economically are preserving US; just as happened back during the slow demise of SPQR, it was the barbarians who kept it going; and they ended up being converts. That's a trend of history you can trace, even if you didn't believe in Bible.

One could go on and on with other developments which 'just happen' (yeah right) to reach watershed points in 1990, like the globalization of the world economy and culture. Everywhere you look we are becoming alike. We dress in t-shirts and jeans, we've got cellphones, we get on the internet: even in the poorest sections of Niger you see skinny Africans with "Pokemon" t-shirts. Of course, this is the real reason for human interest in warring: the old ways are dying. It's hard to keep up with the dizzying pace of technological change. Satan knows how destabilizing change is. So he takes what God does for freedom, to turn it faster -- into chaos.

The most important of all these watersheds was Iraq. See, the one group which has remained the most tyrannized of all the peoples of the world, is the Arab. Both Arabs and Jews are cousins. They are very alike. Their cultures are different, but they are so 'big' on 'family', it's suffocating. So in their communities, the herding is worse than normal: religion is so much a part of the race that it's much harder than normal, to have free opinion. Israel has had long practice in dissension owing to the Diaspora, but the Arabs haven't been similarly dispersed. So the mindset remains parochial, and free opinion is given lots of lipservice, but.. that's all. So for Iraq to break open like this provides the entire Middle East with a potential to find God it's not had in centuries. So there must be a lot of hidden positive volition in the Middle East. The Arabs are the worse off, and this gives them space to consider rising above clannishness. It won't play pretty. Modernization never does.

The precise apex might be a little to the right or the left of 1990, too: but then, this measure of the 490s is being done based on calendar years. So you have to allow a variance of a up to a year, on one side or the other. If you do, and you take a gander at whatever signficant variable you want to name in the world's development, I'm confident you'll find 1990 was a watershed marker year. It certainly was, in terms of Bible teaching. As goes Bible teaching, so goes the world's history; as goes response to Bible teaching, so goes the blessing to the world. Which results, in technological developments, in breakups of tyrannies, etc. Because, God is the God of Freedom, not tyranny, and the Word frees you from tyranny, John 8:32, Gal5:1 (etc.): no matter where in the world you are, no matter what type of government/personal burden you are under, God will free you from the inside. So you don't need to ever crusade. "Stand still, and watch the deliverance of the Lord," Moses told the Israelites when they had their backs to the Red Sea, and saw Pharaoh's whole army, rushing toward them. "Be Still, and know that I am God," God told David. Still true.

So when God Rolls Out Scripture Or Ease In Learning Scripture, there is a genuine, invisible, market for it of an unusually-high quantity. In short, it would have been easy to get Scripture as it was being written, the slow technology notwithstanding; Israel was easy to get to, all the main trade routes went through it. Today, it's easy technologically, so you can stay in the same spot all your life, yet 'visit' any country in the world. God knows how to get the Word out, and when He does, that is the litmus of true interest. A more important historical bellweather cannot be listed.

The other variables likewise can be identified in a broad brush manner, and reliably. It cannot be disputed, for example, that the world is in quite a lot of moving turmoil at all levels from religious to political to even sheer movements of people (movement economically, and/or movement physically) at the end of each 490.

It also cannot be disputed that religious warring characterizes the end of each 490; that's in fact another litmus, a reaction to the unseen true interest in #2-#3; for Satan must make a #4 to counter any progress in #2-#3, as those latter two potentially hasten the Rapture's occurrence.

Today #5 and #6 play differently. We are more sophisticated in our warring, so are tempted to think we are at peace; but in fact today we war constantly in word, at bar (courts), ballot box, and especially in checkbook. Greed and cultural insecurity predominate, but we are all too weak to just don our armor, rush onto some plain, and hack each other with abandon. Oh no: we have words, now. Yesteryear, conflicts were setpieces; they were short and composed of far fewer bodies, usually two blocks of men who rushed at each other not unlike Pickett's charge, at Gettysburg; then, the kings of the warring nations/city-states gave enormous import to the outcome of those encounters, largely due to how outsmarted they/the enemy, was in the event. The Battle of Waterloo had what, 1% of the troops involved, compared to Verdun? So our mode of warring has changed, but the warring has actually increased, not decreased. And become guerilla-like, subtle.

Same too, with the ending of a client nation: it may be a subtle demise. SPQR continued in name, but died essentially with Diocletian or Constantine. The Holy Roman Empire really ceased with Charlesmagne's death. Yet on their ashes other nations grew, trying to be phoenixes, carrying the baton. So the US today may well cease as a nation in 2030 (seems to me it died structurally in the late 1960's or 1970's, when Americans stopped owning their own country); but it will still likely be called the US. When a client nation dies, it typically dies this way, or splits in two. You see that phenomenon clearly with respect to Israel after Solomon, SPQR, and Germany. They had all at one time enjoyed a large-enough body of believers to constitute a 'client' God sponsored (i.e., evangelism, laws largely compatible with the Ten Commandments -- which is a code of freedom, not religion, which any nation however heathen can adopt for its benefit). So again, today's version of national demise will largely mean some other nation, maybe rising on the same soil, will gain ascendance. Outwardly, it might not even seem to have changed.

Certain tell-tale characteristics always precede the national demise of a client nation to God, and these characteristics linger over decades (usually 40 years, sometimes much longer). So a nation in the throes of demise dies slowly, giving its people maximum opportunity to wake up and smell the coffee, 2Chron7:14. So such a nation, languishes. Its believers, not any foreigners or unbelievers, are the sole cause ("figs" in Jeremiah, "my people" in Hosea, and the audience of Lev26 are all believers). The nation has gone from self-reliance to regulation, so laws proliferate, as do welfare programs; taxes, accordingly, become oppressive. The economy, of course, gets in deep doo-doo. National discourse becomes shallower and more shrill; once-hallowed freedoms are significantly curtailed, as a result. 'Barbarians' invade and control ever-greater portions of the landmass and national assets, so the client nation is progressively under seige. The population becomes more diverse, therefore, so the people lose a sense of national identity (not always); factions thus rise, and the populus becomes more polarized. Crime greatly increases. Leviticus 26 outlines the basic pathology and resultant Divine Discipline stages. Deuteronomy 28 is a parallel chapter. Chapters on the bad mental attitude of the believers are Isa28 (well, practically every other chapter in Isa), Zech 7, Malachi 3, Hosea 4 (which diagnoses the problem most clearly in translated Bibles). In short, you can document and observe the phenomenon both in Bible, and in history. It's not hidden.

1990 was the contiguous end of the seventh 490 from the Exodus, when Moses began putting Scripture in writing for the first time. 1990 was also the contiguous end of the fourth 490 from the Crucifixion, the 'exodus' of our sins from being under condemnation, Gal5:1. Since all time vests in Christ and He is Risen, that is the operative timeline for the world; but, as usual, there must be at least one individual 'completed' to a spiritual maturity level high enough by the end of it, to warrant granting another new 490; and then, the new 490 can always be truncated, as it was for Israel.

That's why Rapture can't be predicted: it occurs based on a balance between Christian apostacy warranting Divine Recall -- and on the high end, Christians who reach Christ's Own "Pleroma" level of Spiritual Maturity, Eph4:13. Your average joe believer or pastor would say that's impossible, how arrogant, no one can be mature as Christ is. Well, look at Eph4:13, and guess again. Nothing is impossible for God. God is omnipotent: He could just BING you with Christ's Thinking if He wanted to. But that would coerce your volition. So how God Sovereignly wants to use His Omnipotence, is within the corridor of your volition. So His Power, your choice. And when enough believers choose to be grown up to Christ's level, the opposite apostacy will be at its nadir (there's an inverse correlation, historically). At that point -- which no one can predict, since no one can predict volition -- the Rapture will occur.

So this is no normal period in history. If God orchestrates time and convergence, and we know He does, then when HE does a convergence, it's a time of special importance. And we know it is, because never before in history has Scripture been so available to so many for free, with qualified teachers all over the world to teach it. The first century was higher in quality, but far more restricted in scope. Now, all limitations are 'off'. They might resume again, but we are in an open window. How long it lasts, well.. no one knows.

2030 is the contiguous end of the 2nd 1000 since 30AD. That's a qualifying 1000: someone must be awarded a 1000 by its ending, or the next 1000 can't play, and time ENDS.

Satan of course rolled out Islam right on time, yet again. We can now see his games live on television, ever reminding us of Daniel 9:26c, the historical bubble in which Church sits. You can even go to Aish.com and see the Wailing Wall live, to remind you of Dan9:26c's import. So we've a convergence here with the Temple 490, but we're really in that second 40-year period, with 1990-1997 being the 'lean years' in (American, European) Bible DISinterest. How the next 33 will end, is anyone's guess.

If you load GeneYrs.xls and scroll down to the year 6112 since Adam's Fall per Bible (=2006AD), you'll notice several gold and green rows which benchmark the actual historical windows nearest this year. Unlike this webpage which doesn't track the intercalations, GeneYrs.xls does. The non-intercalated 490 ended 1990; but the 2nd contiguous 1000 ends in 2030, as well. Temple 490 ends in 2030, too. And then there's the second half of the nested sevens (each containing a 40) which began in 1950 and also ends 2030. This isn't mystical number-crunching. These are deadlines. Certain spiritual-development goals must be met to justify continuing time. Maybe they were met already, I don't know. But if not, then this will be a very tumultuous period until 2030.

In Biblical numerology (rendered simply),
• 1=Unique/Unity/United (henotes, Hupostasis, God-man);
• 2=marriage (well, Hupostasis, stressing unity of two opposites);
• 3=Trinity/Family;
• 4=Completion of something.
• 5=Profit/Restitution/ Return/Redemption;
• 6=Man (THE Man, the Christ),
• 7=Promise fulfilled (Book of Hebrews plays on that Hebrew meaning), so REST.

Biblical numerology is not at all mystical. Neither is math. Numbers have properties. So if you know the properties, you know how to do the math. If you know the properties of how God designs, then you know how to read life. So, God tells you, and some of what He tells you, is in numerical format. So: in God's design, each of the above numbers has the property indicated. So you can 'count' or 'account' based on those properties.

So here we are, in the fifth qualifying 490, which tells you.. what? God Intends Profit. He built a structure of Bible rollout to completion in the 490 just passed, 1990: that was the 4th 490, so something got completed. It's profit time. That could mean Rapture, just as it always could. But more prosaically, it means the rollout just finished, will now earn its 'dividends'. You. Me. Hopefully a bizillion growing believers. For if all we had to live for was this mundane life on this dirtball, please kill me now...

So could you call it 'coincidence' that here in the fifth 490, we have structurally Returned to the Profit of the original-language Scripture.. just like that first century AD? I couldn't. So the Profit is to Profit from the Prophet, Christ, Rev19:10. His Thinking going into our thinking, DDNA-changing our thinking to be His Thinking. God can do this. We know how. Do we do now, what we know how? Up to us.

Satan's has two strategies he can use, and to him both are win-win: 1) use the regathered Jewish populus now as targets of world opprobrium, so that even Israel's friends (US, Britain, South Africa) are constrained to abandon Israel. Thus he can justify pogromizing the Jews and punishing all the nations who attack Israel. 2) Satan can foster an even bigger regathering, if he temporarily abandons his sponsorship of Islam; then once the Temple is Rebuilt, the anger can be used to motivate more serious resistance against Israel so she can be attacked. Historically, he's had a problem getting even the Arabs to be motivated enough to attack Israel, let alone other nations, no matter how anti-semitic the individuals. With Plan 1), he can always repopulate Israel after depopulating it, with the same tactics he used to motivate everyone post-WWII to establish that State. So we will learn from history yet again, that we learn nothing from history. With Plan 2), he is more sure of executing larger numbers -- then the inevitable pitch for reconstruction and repopulation, will be even more appealing.

In short, Satan sure considers the Rapture more likely to happen now than at any time prior. It's really possible in any generation, for the number of Pleroma people needed to rule in eternity can be potentially developed from any generation among a world population. Obviously. There are six billion of us, roughly 2 billion per generation. Centuries ago, there was still a huge 'pool' of potential, to draw from. Any generation can be the Rapture generation. But Satan seems to be rolling his dice.

Temple Reconstruction does NOT presage the Rapture. Yes, a Temple is rebuilt against God's orders by then. See the sarcasm in Rev11. But that can happen any time; the rebuilt Temple can last for centuries, yet no Rapture will occur. Because the Rapture doesn't depend on the Rebuilt Temple, the Rebuilt Temple Depends On The Rapture. And the Rapture, depends on believer volition. Thus we know Satan thinks many believers will grow up during this 490, and he's hedging his bets, creating a distraction we'll drool over, so we'll forget about learning Bible. That's always his ploy with respect to the Temple. We humans drool over buildings. We call a time period great or bad, due to the buildings which we find. Can we be dumber? Hitler thought that way, just ask Albert Speer when you get to heaven. So do we.

Hence Satan wants a rebuilt 'something' (Dome, for now) to remind everyone of the original meaning of that Holy Ground, so people will look at that Holy Ground, instead of looking into, their Holy Bible. So he must think he can make a lot of distractive hay from that Ground, since 1950. Looks like he's been real successful, huh...

A 490 is no guarantee, remember. It plays conditionally. It can only get granted because at least ONE person by the end of the previous 490, fulfilled the spiritual growth conditions (and we can't say precisely who each one was, post 70AD). Once it's granted, it can run to completion, but depends on someone growing enough spiritually. So if too many are apostate, the 490 can be truncated -- just as it was, in 586BC. Because Israel had some credit remaining on the spiritual growth ledger, the whole world didn't end. But the logical corollary of that fact is.. if no credit remains on the ledger, the Trib begins. So it's a game as to when the Trib begins, and Satan's trying to manipulate the timing. On the one hand, he wants to delay it, but on the other he wants to have it. So he's really trying to have his cake and eat it too.

So instead of being alarmed like the goofy end-timers, get armed in God's System and learn His Script. That will do more to protect the Jews (well, pray also!) than anything else you could do. God blesses them, but we are the judicial connection. So grow up, pray often, and you'll be a bigger help than you can imagine, now. Your job is to turn over what you learn under your pastor 24/7 and live on it, using 1Jn1:9 as needed.

In other words, "the end-times, brother!" comment you so frequently hear isn't necessarily at all the Rapture, but the Ending of a 490. In this case, the ending of a 490 which freed Scripture for the common man. Satan will have to respond to that by an all-out-war, so he can destroy the technological advances he initially fostered to get man's eyes off God. For, those very advances which advanced his goal of homogenizing mankind, now serve to distribute knowledge of Bible as never before.. never, since the first century AD, the last time the world had a relatively-common language (Greek and Latin). [Large powers' languages are learned by others in order to do business with those powers, so Greek and Latin were widely known throughout the world. Trading was relatively easy, though time-consuming, and you had time to learn the language as you travelled there. Even your average peasant along a trade route would pick up many words in a foreign tongue. Look at how many outside English-speaking countries, speak English today? Even remote people in Niger who were slaves spoke some broken English to a reporter from "Wide Angle" (a PBS show), when queried about the slavery there. So it's not unrealistic or arrogant to say that Greek and Latin were widely known throughout the world, in the first century AD. Even as, English is now.]

So now, we're in a second 40-year period following a nexus -- and the 40th year will not end well, if we keep on the same disinterested course. It's a mirror testing period analogous to Egypt's 2nd 40-year period under Joseph: the one containing the lean years. Like back then, here in 2005 the world's people got too fat and happy during the first 40 year period, 1950-1990; plus, many groups suddenly had a freedom they didn't have for decades. So now, both old and new nations, need a wilderness of spankings (remember how Israel started as a new nation).

Learn to be a king, then: under your Mentor, the Holy Spirit. Believers are supposed to interpret their 'slot' in history, it's part of our Training, Matt16:2-3 (and elsewhere). Training, not drooling about the end-times, oh brother! So instead of drooling, dig deeper in Scripture and grow up to Pleroma, secure in the knowledge that God does guarantee building DDNA all the way to Pleroma completion (Eph3:19-21), if you stay in His System. It's a real, intense, personal, continuing decision, to stay.

As my pastor liked to put it when he was yet teaching, motive and knowledge are "mutual flanks" which have to run in tandem. You'll never get more understanding of Scripture absent the motive to know God better. And your motive cannot be sustained, if you're not learning Bible in God's System. So if you learned but as an ego boost, then you learned nothing. If you didn't learn but emoted and thumped, then you learned nothing. Motive fuels knowledge, and knowledge fuels motive. And when one of them lags, so does your spiritual life tank. So ask yourself which is lagging: that's where your salient is, your danger zone, where you can be derailed, sidelined. 99% of Christians lack motive to know God. They want to know what makes them look better to people, for crying out loud. That's why the US is in so much trouble, today. Decide where you want to be. Every moment is a fight on the inside, where no one but God and you, can see.

So now you have an extra reason to be more motivated: being a hidden soldier for your own country's freedom, whatever country you call 'home'. No fanfare, no groups, no one to cheer you on. It's like you're in a foxhole, and only God will see you. Now: isn't that the best way to fight?