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{888} The Lord Delayeth His Coming
Message #63
Date: Oct 26 1999 14:47:11 EDT
From: "Sterling D. Allan" <sterlingda@greaterthings.com>
Subject: {888} The Lord Delayeth His Coming
SUBJECT: They Shall Say, "The Lord Delayeth His Coming"
New alphabetics study posted to
www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/Lord_delayeth.htm
Mark,
Yes, the appearance of Jesus Christ in the clouds in glory may yet be many
years off, for so much has yet to happen before that time. That event is
like the cherry at the top of end-time events and tribulations. It
coincides with that time after the righteous are lifted up while the earth
below them is burned by fire and transformed into a paradisiacal state, so
that when we are set back down on the soil it will no longer be a telestial
sphere but a terrestrial one. (IMHO.)
My guess for the date on that one is in the vicinity of 2015. Word 2015 in
the NT lexicon (Zodhiates, see Biblio below) means "An appearing,
appearance; spoken of the first advent of the Lord Jesus; used only by Paul
for the second and future appearance of the Lord;" with the single antonym
word number 666, "absence."
The whole sequence of word-numbers in the lexicon, beginning with at least
1963 charts a parallel chronology for last-days events year-by-year. For
whatever reason, including the injunction to liken all things to us, I found
an astonishing correlation (nearly 100%) between the definitions for words
1963-1998 and the events in my own life during the years by that number.
Furthermore, the word-numbers beyond that seem to have strong application to
important prophecies about pending events.
www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/1963-1999Years.htm
Because the past events were so correlated, I can't help but think that the
future ones will be as well. Take, for example, word 2000. It means,
"Literally, near to falling, ready to fall, not firm, insecure, dangerous"
from a root that means, "to supplant, throw down." With Y2K in the wings,
that definitions is an ominous correlation.
Nevertheless, our agency reigns supreme, and these things should be
considered as probable futures, to warn and inspire us, not to lock us into
a predestined course in which responsibility for our actions is abrogated.
See
www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/2000-2020Years.htm
For another piece of astonishing trivia, when you take the CAPITAL letters
of the alphabet in chronological sequence, A,B,C,D,E,F,G,..., X,Y,Z and take
the numerical equivalent for them according to the ASCII code, in which
A=65,
B=66, Z=90; and add them all together, you get the SUM of 2015.
www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/ASCII_code.htm
I find this particularly validating of my paradigm inasmuch as I have been
stating that "Alphabetics" is another name for "Father," which is spelled
"aleph" "bet" in Hebrew. That the numerical value of the alphabet letters
themselves would point to the second coming is awesome.
So now I come to the point for which I began this post. You propose that
Y2K could end up being a non-event, which would have the effect of putting
people even more to sleep than they are now, saying that "The Lord delayeth
his coming," hence fulfilling prophecy; so that years down the road when
things do topple, they will be comatose asleep.
I disagree with this scenario. While I agree that there is indeed a great
deal of millenium-end frenzy going on, with many people anticipating things
to happen, the verifiable fact is that the majority mainstream are in
reverse proportion equally lethargic and expect things to go on pretty much
as usual. They think of these millennium frenzy people as kooky. Many may
entertain some kind of cataclysmic scenarios in their mind, but they do not
take these possibilities serious enough to do anything about them. Life
goes on.
If you look at the millennium-end frenzy over the past several decades, you
will recall that the current frenzy is not much different than what is
kicked around at any given time, though its intensity has increased as the
millennium end has drawn near.
Whether it was the threat of nuclear war, biological catastrophe, terrorist
tampering, alien invasions, natural disasters, or environmental havoc,
people have been able to drum up a large number of scenarios for
tribulations that they thought could happen as part of the wrapping up
scenes.
As the prognosticated dates have come and gone -- unfulfilled prophecies for
the most part -- people have become burned out on the whole mess of trying
to predict the future and prepare for it.
As we now sit poised on the brink of the year 2000, and world economy still
seems to be humming along at a brisk and healthy pace, the possibility of
this prosperity suddenly being yanked away seems even less plausible.
"If something was going to happen in connection with the millenium end, it
would have been well under way by now" is the thinking. "And because it
hasn't, it probably will not for yet many more years."
One of the measures that I can personally relate to on this is the fact that
in the six months or so that my www.JosephPrep.com "Emergency Preparedness
Supplies in the Spirit of Joseph of Egypt" web site has been up I've not had
one sale through that means. Not one.
My main food storage supplier, Jerry Mower (many of you know him), has had
to close shop and get another job.
People have simply stopped getting things in preparation for what is coming.
If they were inclined to do anything, they have already done it. And with
things seeming like they are not going to be as bad as expected, why sweat
it now? No one else is.
In other words, we are already in the day when people are saying "The Lord
delayeth his coming."
When in truth, it sure looks very much like the lull before the storm.
If there has ever been a time to be on our toes it is now -- and for a
multitude of reasons, ranging from current Soviet Military build-up,
Chinese-Taiwan tension, Y2K, Indonesia-India tension, etc. Yet the
alertness level is probably at a many-decades low. The enemy could not pick
a better time to slam on us.
Even the small remnant who are taking things seriously and preparing for the
chaos that will accompany the unraveling of Babylon, preceded first by her
unprecedented prominence, are so strapped financially from months and years
of preparation that they are mainly just gearing up spiritually, emotionally
and intellectually. Zion is poorer temporally than she has ever been, while
Babylon is now coming into her full strength. (Gratefully the temporal
poorness of the builders of Zion lends to spiritual strength, and that is
what will give us the victory.)
No, I don't think things are far away. I think they are closer than ever.
Things are going to get real exciting very soon in my humble opinion.
Sterling D. Allan
http://www.GreaterThings.com
new scripture word code studies
http://www.JosephPrep.com
preparedness in the spirit of Joseph of Egypt
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Spiros Zodhiates "Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament," AMG
Publishers, 1992
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/089957663x/greaterthingsboo
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From: ZionicThomase@cs.com <ZionicThomase@cs.com>
To: davids_outcasts@listbot.com <davids_outcasts@listbot.com>
Date: Monday, October 25, 1999 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: American Red Cross Tips
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In a message dated 10/25/99 6:58:16 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
rwbh@telusplanet.net
writes:
<< what IF the y2K thing passes
without too much significant problems (and I am NOT saying this will be the
case)...but if it does...won't that pretty well shut the ears of most
people to
any further dire warnings of imminent calamities. Satan is clever enough to
work
a deception like that. But time will tell. >>
This is exactly the scenario I see ahead for us! Y2K will bring a few
relatively minor disruptions, and the world will settle back down for
business as usual. Christians will be discredited, seen as Cassandras (but
Cassandra was ultimately right, wasn't she?)
Even the large majority of Christians will be lulled to sleep in the first
few years or even decades of the 21st Century. Didn't Jesus say he was
coming at a time when no one would be looking for him? Seems there are a
whole lot of people looking for him now, even unbelievers.
Our job is to ride out Y2K, not to lose the faith (Endure to the end!) and
KEEP LOOKING! If I had to pick a date for the 2nd Coming, and I emphasize
that this is just a halfway-miseducated guess on my part, I'd pick:
April 6, 2030. Think about it.
Mark
