THE END IS NEAR
Apr
04, 2018
By Dr.
Stephan Jones (edited by LM Cross)
Just as the recent conference was ending, snow began to fall
in Peru, Indiana. Snow is quite unusual for April at that location, because it
is quite farther south than Minnesota. But it was not too surprising, since we
discerned that we were seeing the pattern of Scripture being fulfilled at this
Passover season.
We took note that Israel crossed the Jordan on the 10th
day of the month, and after keeping Passover, they fought the battle of
Jericho. From a prophetic standpoint, this 7-day battle took place during the 7
days of Unleavened Bread. This may not have actually been the timing of the
battle, of course, but since Scripture is intentionally vague on the precise
timing of the battle, I believe that we were meant to see it on a prophetic
level and overlay it with the 7 days of Unleavened Bread, beginning the 15th
day of the month (March 31).
So it occurred to me when the snow came that this was the
first day of battle, because Job 38:22, 23 says,
22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, 23 which I have
reserved for the time of distress, for the day of war and battle?
It appears, then, that we should watch April 6, as this
would be the 7th day of the battle of Jericho, when the walls fell
and the city was taken. Perhaps we will see a newsworthy event take place at
that time. Keep in mind that the city of Jericho was an Old Testament prophetic
type, representing Babylon in the book of Revelation.
Meanwhile, there is much battlefront news being reported.
Chinese Space
Station Plummets
Tiangong-1 - or 'Heavenly
Palace' - was placed in orbit in September 2011 and had been slated
for a controlled re-entry, but it ceased functioning in March 2016 and space
enthusiasts have been bracing for its fiery return since.
The station played
host to two crewed missions and served as a test platform for perfecting
docking procedures and other operations. Its last crew departed in 2013 and
contact with it was cut in 2016.
The space station crashed in the morning of April 2 (Beijing
time), which was the evening of April 1st, here in the USA, about
8:30 pm in New York. It crashed near Tahiti just as the snow began to fall in
Peru, Indiana. Perhaps this is a coincidence, but perhaps not. Look at the
dates given in the Daily Mail article in the link above. It was launched in
September 2011, coinciding with the Jericho march here in Minneapolis
(September 11-17, 2011), which in turn was the tenth anniversary of the Twin
Towers demolition. That prayer campaign in 2011 turned the clock back ten years
(Hezekiah Factor) to 2001, but it also established a 15-year extension of time
to 2016.
Recall that Hillary Clinton fell on September 11, 2016,
ending her chances to be elected president of the USA.
In most prophetic signs, there is a positive and a negative
side. Tiangong, “heavenly palace,” can be viewed negatively as a sign of
the Queen of Heaven being cast down, but it can also be seen positively as a
sign of the descent of the Kingdom of God to the earth. By combining the two
and seeing it in the light of Hillary’s fall in 2016, we might interpret this
as replacing the beast system with the Kingdom of Heaven.
The War in Syria
has Failed
Recall that the US plan to destabilize the Mideast (as
General Wesley Clark put it) and to overthrow seven nations came to a grinding
halt when Russia stepped in and prevented the US takeover of Syria. Under
presidents Bush and Obama, this war plan was put into operation, and they
nearly succeeded in destroying all potential enemies of the Israeli state.
Only Iran is left intact, and now there are forces trying to
destroy Iran, too. It seems that Iran was not on the original war plan.
Certainly, Wesley Clark said nothing about Iran in his speeches. At any rate,
Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been the main financial tools being used to fund
the war in Syria. In other words, the USA supplies weapons to them, and they
ship them to the “rebels” in Syria.
But that is now changing. Saudi crown prince Salman has now
reversed course. He visited President Trump in the White House last week, and
afterward he admitted in public that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could not
be overthrown.
Saudi leader dropped
a bombshell on the weekend, saying that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is
not going to be ousted from power; it was a stunning reversal of their 'regime
change' plan for Damascus….
The Crown Prince of
Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman dropped a bombshell in the course of a weekend
interview with Time magazine that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is not
going to be ousted from power. He said, “Bashar is staying. But I
believe Bashar’s interest is not to let the Iranians do whatever they want to
do.”
This remark by the de
facto ruler of Saudi Arabia is a stunning reversal of Riyadh’s policies in
Syria hinged on “regime change” in Damascus. One can call it an admission of
defeat.
This marks a major shift in world politics. It marks the
point where the US foreign policy since 2002 that was exposed by General Wesley
Clark has failed. The CIA’s lapdog known as ISIS has been routed fully and is
no longer a danger, other than perhaps blowing up a few car bombs as they
retreat. Realistically, the US-backed rebels cannot overthrow Assad as long as
Russia stands in their way. The Babylonians will have to try to figure out
another way to start World War 3, and most likely they will try to do it
through an attack on Iran. Iran is their last hope.
The Splintering of
the Roman Catholic Church
The fourth beast of Daniel 7, was the Roman Empire, and the
“little horn” extending Rome’s rule has been the Roman Church beginning with
Justinian.
We are now at the end of the allotted time for the rule of
the beasts. That time ended in October of 2017 with the transfer of authority
to the saints of the Most High (Daniel 7:22 KJV). The end of beast rule was
pictured in another way in Daniel 2, where the stone hits the feet of the
image, crushing not only the feet and toes, but also the entire image.
If our view is correct, we ought to see the Roman Church
begin to disintegrate, along with its support from the financial beast from the
earth (Revelation 13:11, 12). I have focused mostly on the financial beast
insofar as recent prophetic signs are concerned. But we should also look for
signs regarding the Roman Church itself.
Pope Francis appears to be the last pope, according to the
prophecies of Saint Malachy in the 12th century. When he came on the
scene, I wrote about this, wondering what he might do to bring down the church.
Or perhaps the church would fall apart in spite of his best efforts.
Francis has been known to make some startling Trump-like
statements. Call them “trump-ets” if you want. The latest was his statement in
an interview that debunks the traditional view of hell. He was reported to have
said “Hell does not exist.”
The pope’s advisors immediately downplayed his statement and
tried to pass it off as a translation error. But no one is buying that. The
fact is, he DID say that, and now he cannot unsay it.
Some Vatican officials even tried to impeach Pope Francis
for heresy!
I suppose that is a preferable way to deal with it. In the
past, they simply assassinated the popes and then honored them in death,
pretending that nothing was amiss.
Shortly after this statement, plaster began to rain down
from the ceiling at St. Peter’s Basilica, and most people are taking this as a
sign that Francis is destroying the Roman Church.
The Vatican has had
to seal off part of St. Peter's Basilica after chunks of plaster fell from the
ceiling just hours after Pope Francis is alleged to have proclaimed that
'Hell' does not exist.
Bits of the ceiling
rained down over worshipers near Michelangelo's famed Pieta statue to the
right of the main entrance, although no one was injured.
This interview was published on March 28, just before
Passover. Here is an article about it.
However, alarmed Vatican officials quickly denied the
quotation, reminding everyone of the church’s long-time teaching on hell.
The Vatican has
denied that Pope Francis told a well-known Italian journalist that "there
is no hell".
The quote came in an
article in Italy's La Repubblica daily. But the Vatican said "no
quotations" in the article "should be considered as a faithful
transcription" of the Pope's words.
The timing of this controversy tells me that it may actually
be the beginning of the end for the Roman Church. Time will tell. Will the
traditionalists be able to put the cat back into the bag? It is too early to
tell at this point. But it seems to me that Pope Francis knows church history
well enough to understand that for the first four centuries, the vast majority
of Christians believed in the Restoration of All Things. See my short booklet
on this topic here:
The truth is that there is indeed a “hell,” but the Roman
Church has misrepresented it as a place of torture, because they have not
understood the law of God or divine justice. I myself would not have stated
“there is no hell.” I would have said, “Hell must be redefined according to
Scripture and not according to church traditions that developed among the Latin
fathers in later centuries.”
Nonetheless, the Roman Church probably cannot survive such
truth, for it overthrows 1618 years of church traditions since the big
controversy arose in 400 A.D. That is a long time in which the original church
teachings were forgotten. Could it be, then, that this will be the issue that
will crack the Vatican? Will this bring down the plaster in the Basilica?
