Mystery of Tammuz 17
Ancient Hebrew Keys to Dating the Apocalypse
Mystery of Tammuz 17
Ancient Hebrew Keys to
Dating the Apocalypse
By Herbert R. Stollorz
with Christopher J. Patton
CHAPTER 4
The Great Day of the Lord
Part 1: the 6th Seal
(22 May 2015 – 21 December 2015)
How do Revelation’s trumpets and bowls differ in meaning?
Why is God so angry that He begins the Apocalypse by burning off a third the world’s plant life?
Is the earth soon due for collision with a swarm of asteroids?
Thirteen days of the Greatest Earthquake Ever!?
The Sixth Seal, The Road to Armageddon / 2
The Last Army of 200,000,000 / 4
God’s Wrath Poured Out / 9
The 6th Seal Announcement: The 7 Bowls & 7 Trumpets of God's Wrath / 12
The First Trumpet, the First Bowl / 15
The Second Trumpet, the Second Bowl / 18
The Third Trumpet, the Third Bowl / 21
The Fourth Trumpet, the Fourth Bowl / 22
The Fifth Trumpet, the Fifth Bowl / 23
Earthquake Prediction / 23
Earthquake Intervention, 4 September 2015 / 25
Do Birds of Prey Pinpoint a Date? / 31
How Can Birds Tell Time? / 33
The Sixth Seal
The Road to Armageddon
The 7-Year Table of the Apocalypse designates the last seven months as the 12th Period as spanning from 22 May to 21 December 2015, which is the end of the Great Apocalypse.
The date of 22 May 2015 closely coincides with the second major Jewish feast day, the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) or Pentecost. We count 64 days from then to arrive at 25 July 2015, which is the 9th of Av. This date commemorates the destruction of both previous Jewish temples. When we see a number 64, we should immediately recognize it as a gear in the World Cuckoo Clock. This numeric relationship gives us confidence that we picked the right date and confirms the dating of the Apocalypse. (Later chapters will explain more.)
40 Days Later
When we add 40 days to July 25th, we reach 4 September 2015, which is the end of the Second Woe. I predict that the greatest earthquake ever to occur in the history of mankind will take place on this day. I checked the tabulation of this date against the normal seasonal starting and ending dates for migrating flocks of birds, which the Bible mentions in prophecy. Later in this chapter I will explain how I did this in detail.
The computation of 4 September 2015 also overlays with the Hebrew number system. The number 40 (Mem) is interpreted to mean “trial, pain and/or in the time dimension of this age” (Daleth). During these 40 days, the world will see thousands of Jews slaughtered in a final orgy of “ethnic cleansing” that will exceed even the Nazis’ demented fanaticism, but this last attempt to destroy all of the Jewish people will also fail in the end due to God’s divine intervention.
In this Chapter we will describe the seven trumpets and seven bowls of God's wrath that climax with a gigantic earthquake. This earthquake will be on the same magnitude as when the “depths of the earth” broke open to flood the planet in Noah’s day. The table overlay indicates that the entire world system will come to an end on 17 September 2015, which ends the Mini-Apocalypse. Satan will be stripped of his influence and dominion over human society to be bound powerless in the dark depths of the underworld. All of the other fallen angels will also be removed from activity in the earthly dimension. They will lose their sway over humanity and be cast separately into the Lake of Fire to painfully and permanently terminate their final existence in the doom of solitary oblivion.
Although the Great Apocalypse officially ends on the 21 December 2015 solstice date, Scripture reveals that the time of sufferings would be cut short in order to save extra people from dying. That is why the directly inflicted horrors of the Mini-Apocalypse cease on 17 September and not on 21 December 2015.
Six years prior to that day EU/UN made a seven-year agreement with representatives of both the Israelis and the surrounding Arab nations to conclude a “permanent peace” in the region. NATO’s military superiority had left most of the Islamic countries with no choice but to sign the peace agreement, but they did not really agree with the permission to build the Temple next to their holy place, the Dome of the Rock. They had been forced to accept it as part of the Antichrist’s peace program. Back in 2009 (from the perspective of 2015) the Palestinian Arabs were forced to accept the new Temple against their will.
This agreement will be broken in 2012. For awhile it will seem that “Allah” and the momentum of the war will be on the side of Islam. Probably under the leadership of a mehdi, the Islamic messiah, many Arab nations will unit to invade Israel and reclaim the Haram (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem as their own. Antichrist will intercede to honor Europe’s commitments to the Mideast Peace Treaty. Many nations will be conquered, but not all. (Daniel 11:40-43)
Three years later in 2015, the Muslims will be a vital part of a huge army assembled at Armageddon to fight against Jerusalem. At least their advance guard will overrun the Jewish defense perimeter around Jerusalem. With hatred at a boiling point these Arab forces will attempt to clean the holy “Haram” with its Al Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock, as well as Jerusalem, of all infidels and Jews once and for all. Jacob’s trouble is in full bloom. Forty days later we come to another junction as the battle rages on for the extermination of all Jews wherever they are found around the world.
The Last Army of 200,000,000
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near—a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness spread upon the mountains a great and powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after the in ages to come.
Fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the Garden of Eden, but after them a desolate wilderness and nothing escapes them.
They have the appearance of horses, and like war-horses they charge. As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle. (Joel 2:1-5 NRSV)
The Islamic countries, enraged over the destruction of their holy places, will unite with Russian, Chinese and other Asian armies to march toward Jerusalem for the final strike against European confederacy occupying Israel at that time. The whole world will send armies to meet for a gigantic showdown. The control of oil reserves, the centuries-old hatred against the Jews and the threat to the very existence of Islam will drive them blindly to exterminate the infidels:
The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up in order to prepare the way for the kings from the east. And I saw three foul spirits like frogs coming from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet.
These are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. (“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed, not going about naked and exposed to shame.”) And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. (Revelation 16:12-16 NRSV)
As the Daleth dimension part of the Second Woe, all of the armies of the world will gather north of Israel at Armageddon to destroy the western capitalistic system based on excessive greed that has controlled the world for centuries. The four death angels of the Heh dimension are part of this woe as described in Chapter 5. Powerful forces of animosity and deeply ingrained hatred will move people from all over the world toward this one place. The largest armored tank formation ever assembled on earth will be followed by two hundred million infantrymen with additional vehicles and military support supplies.
It will be an awesome, unimaginable spectacle that Joel described as a plague of locusts. There will be so many soldiers that they will be able to march straight ahead, shoulder-to-shoulder, not needing to turn to the right or to the left in order to find the last remaining Jews to kill. Even going through windows not miss anyone, and climbing walls to prevent a getaway. Nothing will escape their path of destruction:
For a nation has invaded my land, powerful and innumerable; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness. It has laid waste my vines, and splintered my fig trees; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches have turned white. (Joel 1:6-7 NRSV)
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes. Is not the food cut off before our eyes? (Joel 1:15-16 NRSV)
To you, O LORD, I cry. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness and flames have burned all the trees of the field. Even the wild animals cry to you because the watercourses are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. (Joel 1:19-20 NRSV)
Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces grow pale. Like warriors they charge, like soldiers they scale the wall.
Each keeps to its own course, they do not swerve from their paths. They do not jostle one another, each keeps to its own track; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.
They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.
The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. (Joel 2:6-10 NRSV)
The Bible is a terrible mirror reflecting so much detail. These descriptive words written thousands of years ago are today materialized in our modern weapons and machines of war:
And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. (Revelation 16:16 NRSV)
The number of the troops of cavalry was two hundred million; I heard their number. And this was how I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur; the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
By these three plagues a third of humankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they inflict harm.
The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their fornication or their thefts. (Revelation 9:16-21 NRSV)
There is no doubt in my mind that these verses describe high tech rocket propelled tanks and other powerful killing machines not yet revealed to the public.
When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those inside the city must leave it, and those out in the country must not enter it; for these are days of vengeance, as a fulfillment of all that is written.
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people; they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:20-24 NRSV)
This huge army advances toward Jerusalem leaving desolation behind them like a dessert void of all life with only one purpose, to swallow up all of Israel and make a final end to the descendants of Jacob. But God’s answer is:
I will remove the northern army far from you, and drive it into a parched and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its rear into the western sea; its stench and foul smell will rise up. Surely He has done great things! (Joel 2:20 NRSV)
You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, the LORD, am your God and there is no other. And my people shall never again be put to shame. (Joel 2:27 NRSV)
Judgment in the Valley of Jehoshaphat:
For then, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land, and cast lots for my people, and traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it down. (Joel 3:1-3 NRSV)
Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the warriors. Let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
Come quickly, all you nations all around, gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD. Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the neighboring nations.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision!
For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.