811
August 11, 1999
Salt Lake City Tornado:
Upon My House Shall it Begin

"And as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth, saith the Lord. And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord; first among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house." (D&C 112:24-26)

  Introduction

These Alphabetics Bible Code revelations confirm the prophetic significance of the Tornado that took place on August 11, 1999.

For commentary on the symbolic significance of the downtown surgical path the Tornado took, along with the feedback e-mail which that post generated, got to: "Tornado in SLC: Repent Ye Mormons."

  Synchronous Circumstances of This Discovery

I posted the new discovery about Nine consecutive parallel pages between Blood Trail and Thayer's NT lexicon on August 11, sending out a post that day to the Greater Things newsletter: SUBJECT: President Clinton with HIV: Further Corroborations.

That post included a mention of the discovery regarding the last four digits of my Social Security Number (2569) being on page 290 of Gesenius' OT lexicon, while the corollary word "BEAST" is on page 290 of Thayer's NT lexicon.

This was the day of the eclipse, the day the Tornado hit Downtown Salt Lake City.   I wrote a commentary on the symbolism of the path the tornado took and sent it to the Greater Things mailing list prior to mailing the post on the 9-consecutive-parallel page discovery.

That evening, before retiring to bed, for the heck of it I pulled out Zodhiates' NT lexicon to see what might be on page 811, i.e. 8/11 for August ll.

It turns out that page 811 is where word 2564 is found, just six words prior to word 2569.  It was that word on that very page where I began my list of several words that surround word 2569.  Click here to see that portion of that write up to which I am referring.

It turns out that several words on that page (811) are directly relevant to what happened in Salt Lake City on August 11.  These are listed in the Introduction above.

Seeing such astonishing correlations there, I then started looking up other occurrences of 811.

 

  Page 811 of James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

  Page 811 in the LDS Topical Guide, Bible Dictionary, JST appendix

Page 811 of the LDS Topical Guide, Bible Dictionary, JST Appendix is the third-to-last page before the maps, which are at the very end.  The page has selections from 1 Tim. 6:15-16 through 2 Peter 3:3-13.

Conveying again the idea of (1) church and (2) state, (1) gospel and (2) government, (1) temple and (2) capital, the first full verse on the page speaks of "the (2) King of kings, and (1) Lord of lords." (1 Tim. 6:15.)

Furthermore, like Strong's Concordance mentioned above, the word "priest" is featured prominently.  Three of the four Hebrews selections have priests and priesthood as their topic.

The word "priest(s)" is found in five of the 27 verses on the page, which is 8.3 times more frequent than the average page of scripture (966 verses with "priest(s)" in 43636 verses of the standard works).  And not only is the word "priest" mentioned on this page, but the references are key references.

"This Melchizedeck was ordained a priest after the order of the Son of God.   ...And all those who are ordained unto this priesthood are made like unto the Son of God, abiding a priest continually." (JST-Heb. 7:3.)

"Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedeck" (Heb. 7:21)

Of note as well is that the Hebrews 6:3-10 selection on the page talks about Sons of Perdition being those who were once enlightened having "tasted of the Heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost," but who intentionally turn away from that.

This tornado, then, might be viewed as a merciful reminder that our moral responsibilities toward properly building up the (1) church and (2) kingdom of God must not be slighted.

  Page 811 in Webster's III '61.

Page 811 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 3rd Ed., Unabridged  carries a relevant message well, which becomes more clear when paired with the above-mentioned page 811 of the LDS TG, BD, JST-Appendix.  These combined present commentary on WHY the tornado brushed the most sacred edifice of the Mormon Church:  the world famous Salt Lake Temple.

One of the primary purposes of the temple, if not the most important purpose, is to prepare a person to come into the very presence of God -- ultimately to behold Him face to face, and enjoy that most sacred communion possible for man.  However, what happens in practice all too much is that instead of encouraging fellow Saints in this direction, the Mormon culture considers this an impossibility for the average saint -- something that only the prophets such as Joseph Smith can do because of their special calling.  They forget that God wants all to be prophets.

Page 811 of the LDS TG, BD and JST says that

"He who hath the light and the hope of immortality dwelling in him . . . can see . . . the King of kings, and Lord of lords." (1 Tim. 6:16.)

The refusal of the people of God to seek his face was what kindled the Lord's anger in the first provocation when the children of Israel essentially said, "No, Moses, we don't want to see God.  You go talk to him and tell us what he says."

Rather than learn from this pivotal era of history, which is clearly commented upon in LDS scripture (e.g. Jacob 1:7; D&C 84:22-24), the Mormons are repeating this mistake in this, the second provocation.

Page 811 of Webster's III'61 dictionary begins the "F" section, which in part stands for "work...so inferior as to be failing," and ends with the word "face."  Hence the heading on page 811 is "face."

Ironically, the word just prior to "face" is "facade."

facade 1. The front of a building; 2. A false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect.

And before that:

fabulously VERY, EXTREMELY, EXCESSIVELY

Without implementing the essential doctrines in their fullness, the church becomes but an exaggerated empty show.

No wonder the tornado plowed straight into the huge, nascent LDS assembly building, toppling the construction crane and marring its granite face.

 

  Page 811 in Gesenius' OT Lexicon

Page 811 in Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament ties in both to the "entering into the Lord's rest" theme as well as the tornado theme.

The next verse on page 811 of the LDS TG, BD, JST is JST-Heb. 4:3 "If they harden their hearts they shall not enter into my rest; ...if they will not harden their hearts, they shall enter into my rest."

The first word on page 811 of Gesenius means "quiet, rest" (Shuwnem 7766, same as 7764).  Ironically, this also ties in to the idea of Tornado, which is quite the opposite of "quiet" and "rest."

Words 7768 through 7774 on page 811 of Gesenius are closely similar to one another.  They have the meaning of "rich, wealthy, opulent" as well as the meaning "to ask for aid, cry for help; hallooing, crying."

That is what we saw with the Salt Lake Tornado: a wealthy swath of town immediately crying out for Federal disaster assistance.

Word 7776 means "a fox," which code-wise ties into a write-up I did on an experience some two years ago in which a group of about twenty people were being given a tour of an ancient temple site behind the Manti temple, and we saw four different animals at the four different cardinal directions of the compass:  an eagle to the West flying circles over the Manti temple, a fox to the North, a bear to the East, and several dear and elk to the South -- all at the same time.  The irony of this match-up is that the ancient site represented simplistic worship of the heart versus the gaudy vestiges we place around religion today.

Word 7778 means "a door-keeper," which could mean several things in this context.

Word 7779, also on page 811 is one of the most relevant to the tornado in particular.   Gesenius includes the following phrases in its definition and exposition.

7779 shoof (1) To gape upon; to lie in wait for; (2) to attack, to fall upon; "who falls upon me in a tempest;" "darkness shall fall upon me," shall overwhelm me.

That's quite an onomatopoetic Hebrew word:  "SHOOF."

Next word, 7780, derives from 8210: "poured; to spill forth, gush out" (Strong's Concordance), which conveys the image of suddenness and pounding rain which is typical of tornadoes.

The last two words on page 811 also have application to tornadoes.   Word 7782 means, "a trumpet; to blow a trumpet," calling to mind the civil alert sirens. Word 7783 means "to run; to run over, to overflow," bring to mind those who ran for cover as well as the idea of the sudden appearance of the tornado.

 

  Page 811 in Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary

by Sterling D. Allan; Manti, Utah; August 15, 1999

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