A blog of 2012 thoughts by a Catholic

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A blog of 2012 thoughts by a Catholic

July 7, 2009

I have been wrong in predicting the dates of the Warning and Miracle. Here is my final and best guess, as I don't feel it will happen in 2011, and 2012 will be taken up by other events. I believe the Warning will be April 2-3, 2010 and the Miracle will be May 13, 2010. Here is why.
1. April 3 will be Holy Saturday in both the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox calendars. It is logical that the Warning will happen when it would not interupt consecration. The two calendars only align rarely so that there is a day on earth where no communion is going on.
2. April 3 is exactly 6 months from October 3, which is my predicted date in 2012 for the Chastisement. It will be 2 and 1/2 years later, after the Warning.
3. The day before, Good Friday will be Apirl 2, which is the fifth anniversary of John Paul II's death. Five years needs to ordinarily transpire before one is beatified.
4. 40 days after that is May 13, 2010. This will fufill the Miracle date in numerous ways.
5. It will be the 93rd anniversary of Fatima.
6. It will be the 29th anniversary of the assasaination attempt on John Paul II.
7. It will be 5th anniversary since Benedict XVI sped up the canonization process for John Paul II.
8. It will be Blessed Imelda day, a young saint martyred for the Eucharist, thus fufilling the Garabandal clue of a feast day of such at Miracle time. Nothing short of amazingly, Imelda died not only on May 13, but it was also an Ascension Thursday at that time also.
9. It is thus logical that John Paul II will be beatified May 13, 2010, thus fufilling the Garabandal clue of a rare church celebration (a Pope beatification) coincident with the Miracle occurring. (It was just announced that Benedict XVI will visit Fatima on May 13, 2010, the perfect time and place to beatify JPII. It will be ten years to the day that JPII was there beatifing the first two of the three Fatima visionaries. In the ensuing ten years both JPII and the third visionary have passed on. Lucia may thus be beatified also, since it will be exactly meeting the five year requirement for waiting on beatification. Also the clue of the Pope seeing the miracle will be fufilled as he will be just a short distance from Garabandal and it should be very bright.) Lastly, the Garabandal visionary Conchita told a cardinal in Rome when the Miracle date was to be. So, there is little doubt that Benedict XVI is aware. Remember that the last Pope who was named Benedict was the one at the time of the Fatima apparitions.
10. Also Medjugorje clues are met with this scenario since the called for Consolation day three days after the Warning works out to Easter. Additionally, the 2nd and 25th of the month, which are Medjugorje vision days work in nicely as Apirl 2-3 for the Warning. The announcement to the priest who will announce to the world would be told on March 25, which just happens to be the feast of the Annunciation. The Medjugorje visionaries have stated that the calendar dates of their visions will be recognized as significant when the prophesied events come to fruition.

May God bless you during these trying times.
Joel
September 22, 2008

ZEKE’N OUT

This blog concerns 2008 as a marker for 2012. First of all, 2008 saw the earliest Easter season since 1914. We retuned to Ordinary time from Easter season on May 14, 2008. It was the day after the Fatima anniversary. Fatima happened three years later in 1917. Similarly 2012 will happen 4 years after 2008. I have since found out that August 2008 had no sunspots, which hasn’t happened since 1913. Once again just four years before Fatima. As a reminder, the Pope at the time of Fatima was also named Benedict. This sets up 2008 as precursor to 2012 very well for the fulfillment of the Chastisement of Fatima. But there is even more when we consult the Book of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel is all about God’s unhappiness with the way the Jews are behaving. We will not go into details, but suffice to say one sees extreme similarity to our behavior today. In chapter ten God’s glory is removed from the Temple by a mechanism described in an earlier chapter. The same four creatures around the throne device are also in Revelation. Please read B2i0b1l2e, Coded Cataclysm for details on the symbolism of this mechanism to the alignment of 2012.
At any rate, the glory is taken away so that the Exhile could take place about four years later. We are about to go into Exhile four years from now in 2012.
The date on the Hebrew calendar of Ezekiel’s event was Elul 5 in our year of 592 BC. Here are some interesting facts.
1. Elul 5 in 2008 aligns with September 5
2. It is exactly 2600 years elapsed time. This is interesting because
a. 2600 is one half the Mayan calendar current age and one tenth of the five ages that make up the grand cycle of the alignment described by the four creatures around the throne in the Bible.
b. It also closely matches the number of years from the flood to Christ.
3. Elul 5 and September 5, 2008 are both exactly 40 days before Tishri 17 (See others blogs for the extremely long list of significance of that date in 2012).
4. Tishri 17 in 2008 is October 16, which will be the 30th anniversary of John Paul II becoming Pope. I believe that he will be beatified that day.

When the Warning will be I am not sure. It could be soon, or next April. But if you have been watching the financial markets one can see how the clue of things being very bad at the time of the Warning could work out. BTW, both the stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987 happened in October.

February 7, 2008

The Year of the Warning of Garabandal (and Medjagorje) fits theologically perfect.
The Warning of 2008 on May 14 works out very nicely on the liturgical calendar.
1. May 14 in 2008 is the very day Easter season ends and ordinary time starts back up. This is a rare event that can only happen about every 100 years or so. We are experiencing the earliest Easter season since 1913.
2. 1913 was the last full year that saw Pope Pius X reigning. He was the last Pope to be sainted. It is my firm belief that John Paul II will be sainted in 2009, thus fulfilling the Garabandal clue of a rare church event happening at the time of the Miracle in 2009. This thus connects the rare Easter season shift of 1913 and 2008. But there is more.
3. Pope Pius X had a vision of a future Pope stepping over bodies of clergy to escape Rome. It is my firm belief that this will be the next Pope after Benedict XVI
4. The succeeding Pope in 1914 and thus during Fatima in 1917 was none other than Benedict XV, Benedict XVI’s namesake.

So, the extreme Easter season calendar shift not only happens four years before Fatima in 1917, but it doesn’t happen again until 2008, the year of the Warning, which just happens to be four years before Fatima Chastisement fulfillment of 2012.
BTW, Easter season can only be one day earlier then it is this year. One would have to go back to 1856, where Easter was on March 22. This is interesting also because 1856 is wedged between two important events. Both Benedict XV was born and the Immaculate Conception dogma was announced in 1854. Then we have the Lourdes apparition, which happened in 1858
Additionally, 2008 has been declared a Pauline year by Benedict XVI. Paul being knocked off his horse by a blinding white flash is incredibly similar to the Warning motif (See picture). It will be the 2000th birthday of Paul. The feast day of Paul is June 29. If one backs up to the 1900th birthday year of Paul we have a very interestingly coincidental event one day later. On June 30, 1908 an asteroid struck Tungaska, Siberia with such a large air burst, that 100 square miles of trees were flattened. The flash of light from it was seen across Europe, hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles away.
Now as for the Miracle of the same day (May 14) in 2009, the Easter season shifts forward about 3 weeks, thus enabling May 14 to be as it normally is, within the Easter season. Thus the more favorable Miracle happens the Thursday before Ascension Thursday, near the end of Easter season. Over and above this we have another rare alignment that year. Good Friday and Passover are on the same day. This doesn’t happen very often.
Now you can chalk all of this up to coincidence or you can say they are signs. We will see who is correct in the next few months.
BTW, those who don’t like the Catholic Church’s ‘man made’ traditions need to realize who it is who decided when we celebrate Easter (and Christmas for that matter). Why does most everyone follow the Catholic Church in this ‘tradition’? Based on the foregoing, it looks to me that ‘tradition’ has ‘bound and loosed’ events in Heaven and on earth.



November 1, 2007 Halloween and the Comet

I wanted to clear up where Halloween really comes from. Yes, once again, its all about the comet. About three or four millenia ago there was a comet terrorizing the earth. (There is astronomical evidence for this by Clube and Napier.) It was seen across cultures in Europe, Asia and America as a dragon. They had no contact with each other, so all of them having the same myth is impossible unless the nonexistant 'creature' was in the sky.
It would leave trails of debris behind it for the earth to travel through at a later time. We still go through these now milder trails every year. The most potent one is in mid November. All of the above cultures also share in addition to the dragon myth, a yearly ceremony to relight the fires. It was called the fire ceremony. It was invariably at the same time of the year even though the cultures had no contact with each other. That is because the ceremony developed from the 'fiery' meteorites falling from the sky on that particular night. Due to precession of the earth on its axis we have the two week difference from late October to mid November.
Christianity picked up on this event by having the comet become the Archangel Michael's flaming sword. (There are ancient drawings of comets as swords.) Micheal's sword in the sky was fighting the 'demons' that were actually meteorites falling to earth. Later on, to get rid of the negative and Paganesque basis of the yearly event, All Saints Day was inititated to commemorate martyrs and holy ones, instead of remembering 'demons' from the evening before (All Hallows Eve).
Don't let Paganism win out over those who died for Christ. Take it back again by celebrating saints and not demons.


August 1, 2007
ONE TRUE CHURCH

The Pope recently reiterated the Catholic Church’s position of there being one true church and that the Catholic Church is it. Many took offense, but that doesn’t change the facts. It was the church started by Jesus Christ. That does not mean that all others are necessarily ‘going to hell’ as it were. There are plenty of people from all religions including Catholicism that will be doing that. The point is that the Catholic Church has the ‘fullness’ of the truth. It means there is a handicap of a closer starting place to heaven. That neither guarantees entry nor does it mean that all others won’t make it. It simply means a Catholic has a head start. If you have trouble accepting that, it wouldn’t be the first Christ centered teaching that would be ‘hard’. For those of you still reading, here are the justifications that I am personally aware of so far.
1. Peter was the first Bishop of Rome. That makes him the first Pope.
2. Christ gave him the keys to the Kingdom. How much plainer can that be?
3. Christ gave Peter (and the other apostles) the ability to ‘bind and loose’ and to ‘forgive and retain’ sins. Since we are now 2,000 years later, there had to be a succession method. This has in fact been done uninterrupted.
4. Christ changed Peter’s name from Simon to Peter (means rock). Peter was the rock upon which Christ built His church. They were at Caesarea Philippi at the time. It was the Roman government’s headquarters. It was on a rock hill. Do you see the portent?
5. It is very rare for someone to get his or her name changed in the Bible. When they do you need to pay attention. God changed Abram to Abraham to lead his people. Jacob was changed to Israel to form the nation. Then Jesus changes Simon to Peter to start His church. Do you see the flow?
6. Following a metaphor, Jacob’s blind father asked him three times if it was he. Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved him.
7. Just before ascension, Christ tells Peter to feed His sheep. By that metaphor Peter is the Shepard of the Church.
8. Peter takes charge at Pentecost. He explains to Jerusalem the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles.
9. When the first organizational problem arises (concerning circumcision) Peter takes charge and calls a meeting, BUT he pretty much then announces what the decision will be.
10. Jesus comes to Paul in a vision and tells them to go to Rome. It is perfectly logical that Christianity should settle in the capital of the largest empire in the known world in order to expand out from its Jewish roots to ‘all nations’.

IN-FALLIBLE, THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE
Peter was very weak with many examples in the Bible, BUT he was the one and the only disciple to get the answer to Jesus’ big questions right. What that means is that the Pope will make mistakes being human, BUT when it comes to teaching on faith and morals he will always get it right because he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

THREE BAD POPES, SEE HOW THE RUN
There were three bad Popes circa 1500 who were responsible for most of the criticisms leveled against the Catholic Church. It was one of those ‘do as I say, not as I do’ situations. The Catholic Church is the longest running institution in human history. The only explanation for which is divine intervention. The “Netherworld shall not prevail against it.” That does not mean the Netherworld isn’t going to try. In fact it is guaranteed. Hence we have scandals.

HOW DO YOU READ IT?
The term Catholic Church is first written in 110 AD. In the context of the document it is apparent that the term was in general use long before that. So, as soon as the first Christian churches got going, guess what they called themselves? And guess who was in charge of them.
The Pope has ultimate authority over things like scripture. Someone has to. Who is in charge at your church? How do you know that they are right? You see, all 40,000 Protestant religions can’t be correct. The logical conclusion to Protestantism, since more form each day is that eventually there will be 6 billion churches of one member each who is absolutely in tune with God. That doesn’t make any sense now does it?
This concept really comes across concerning the Bible. Many claim the Catholic Church isn’t scriptural. That is very humorous since the Catholic Church compiled the Bible in the third century under guidance of the Holy Spirit. If you think the Catholic Church gets things wrong you had better go back to the literally hundreds of apocryphal works that didn’t make the cut and find out what they missed. Guess who has the originals of most of them?

May 31, 2007
THE DIVINE WARMTH

This entry concerns the story of the unknowing and undeserved infusion of Grace that I received on July 13, 2005. It is being written with the advantage of hindsight from much reflection and as such you will see a slow unfolding of the implications and interconnections with both previously known and unknown concepts.
As background, I became Catholic in April 2003. I attended a Cursillio weekend in April 2005. As a result of that weekend and my wife’s urging, I started attending daily mass whenever possible in May 2005. Surprisingly, I was able to attend a lot more than I had anticipated. As I work in surgery, one would think that I would be occupied most of the time first thing in the morning. I can now see that my career, unexpectedly so, manages to interface in many ways with my faith and prophecy.

CATHOLICS DON’T FOLLOW SIGNS, SIGNS FOLLOW CATHOLICS

On Tuesday July 12, 2005, my wife requested that I take something to the parish office after mass. It would be about 20 minutes after mass that the office would open. I got the brilliant idea to stay in the chapel in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament during that time. Now I had only done adoration once and that was on my Cursillio weekend. It was together with several others and mostly out loud. I had never done it alone in private. Surprisingly, I was a little excited at the prospect of adoring worship of our Lord.
Afterwards I went to the office only to discover that it opened not at 8 AM, but 8:30. I excitedly headed back to observe yet another half hour! Now you need to know that I am not an excitable person. If I won the lottery, I would probably say, “Wow, that was lucky! Now what?” I must confess though, I was not conscious of my exuberance at the time, even if it was a bit odd for me.
I do not specifically recall what I prayed about during those fifty odd minutes, other than I am confident a lot of it centered around the prophetic information I have been shown in the past few years and what God wants me to do with it.

APPARENTLY I CAN’T WALK AND CHEW WAFER AT THE SAME TIME

On the next day, Wednesday morning July 13, 2005 I was scheduled to perform my duties as a perfusionist at 7 AM precluding my being able to go to morning mass. When I arrived at the hospital at 6 AM I discovered that my case was delayed till late morning. It was with unquestioned glee that without hesitation I decided to drive 30 miles round trip through morning traffic to attended church for twenty minutes. In hindsight, notwithstanding what would happen, I should have coldly looked at that idea and said, “What was I thinking?”
I don’t have any recollection of the readings. I do recall the consecration. My mind was preoccupied with how often my mind is distracted during the consecration (So, once again, distracted). This resulted in a solid thought about not only how unworthy I was to receive the body of Christ in the Eucharist, but that I wasn’t even focused enough to be reverent during the process.
I proceeded in line up to the priest. At the second I received the wafer on my hand I realized that it was the wrong hand from the way I had been taught. I had the wafer in my right hand instead of my left. (I think that I actually knew deep down that this was no big deal.) Anyway, I went ahead and placed the wafer on my tongue. Now normally I would immediately move the wafer to the right side of my mouth and start chewing in order to be done by the time I got to the wine. This particular priest did not make available wine for the parishioners. Before I could take more than one step, I was interrupted by someone from the other line for communion and had to wait a second for them to proceed first. I then fell in line behind them going back to the pews. It was then that the wafer, which was still on my tongue got warm, very warm. Not slightly warm from the infusion of my body temperature saliva, but cooked food warm and it seemed to be getting warmer. It was Jesus! I couldn’t take it back out! My only option was to chew fast before it got to where it might scald.

EUCHARISTIC CONISEUR

As you can imagine, I sat back down in a state of shock as to what had just happened to me. Now I will admit that in the past I had wafers that seemed a little warmer then body temperature as I chewed them but I chalked it up to saliva plus chewing friction. I will also tell you that I have always been very cognizant of the wafer in my mouth in regards to being reverent in the chewing process. I guess in a way my lack of pre-communion reverence was compensated for by extreme post communion reverence. I always paid close attention to the experience of digesting Jesus. I can tell you that I have experienced a large variety of textures and tastes such as:
1. Some wafers are dry and some are moister.
2. Some wafers are thicker and some are thinner.
3. Some break into pieces and some roll up in a wad while chewing.
4. Some taste slightly nutty.
5. Some taste slightly toasted.
6. Some taste like they have a lot of gluten.
7. Some taste yeasty.

I know that given communion bread is required to made with flour and water only, the above tasting experience would not seem possible. I know you are thinking at this point that I have an over active imagination and I caused this hot wafer to happen for me. I gave some thought to that myself. But let’s move on to the rest of the story concerning the days and months after my experience.
I didn’t have much time to think about what had happened that morning. I needed to get to work and help my patient. During my case we found out that we had an emergency case to do right after we were done with this one. Now you need to know here that I am a ‘nervous Nellie type’ and the prospect of an emergency on top of already doing a case was normally enough to set me on edge. But not today. I was strangely calm. The second case proceeded without a hitch.
Back home that evening, I asked my wife in all seriousness if what had happened to me that morning had ever happened to her. She said that it hadn’t. I searched the Internet to no avail. There are of course tons of Eucharistic related miracles such as the host turning to blood, but nothing as simple as it getting warmer.
I marveled for weeks over what had happened to me. It of course led to the inevitable question, why me and why that day? I wound up chalking it up to my adoration the day before and thought that I could take it as a sign that God would guide me in what I had prophetically be given. I resisted the idea of tempting God by running back to adoration in hopes of a repeat performance. One must be satisfied with what God does for them and not be greedy. God would work on His own time schedule and by His own methods. That seemed to solve the ‘why me’. What about the ‘why that day’?

ANY PORTUGAL IN A STORM

A few weeks went by and I realized that July 13 was a Fatima apparition anniversary, which figured prominently into my prophetic vision of our near future. (The Virgin Mary sightings happened each 13th of the month from May to October 1917). I thought that I should check into it and see what happened at that particular apparition. My guess was that it was the day the authorities kept the children from their rendezvous with Mary. Strangely several more weeks would pass before I recalled the idea again and actually looked it up.
I was wrong about which appearance it was. Amazingly it was the day that the children were shown the Chastisement, which matches what will happen on my predicted day in 2012. It is at the center of the controversy of what has come to be known as the third secret of Fatima. I was astounded that my warm wafer happened on the 88th anniversary of that important revelation. I was even more shocked to find that Mary appeared at noon. She showed the children the vision of the Chastisement at the end of the session, which was about 12:30. What is incredible is that there is a five-hour time difference between Fatima and where I live in Florida. Thus I received the warm wafer at about 7:30 AM; making it very close to 88 years to the minute after the Fatima children were shown the Chastisement.
This tends to discount my warm wafer being from an over active imagination. I would need to have the Einstein of subconscious imaginations to plan the warm wafer for the 88th anniversary to the minute, especially when I, to all appearances didn’t know when the revelation had been given to the children. But if you still believe that, there is a bunch more for you to explain away.

EVERYBODY DESERVES A HOLIDAY

A few more months went by. I was researching the meaning of the hurricane names of Katrina and Rita on the web. What their names mean is VERY interesting, but in the process I discovered a site that had not only the meaning of first names, but also a concept I had never heard of called ‘name dates’. In numerous mostly European countries, first names are assigned calendar dates, much in the fashion of saint days. How it is decided who gets what day is anybody’s guess? In some countries, the person with the given name will celebrate his name date instead of his actual birth date. I already knew what my name of Joel meant, but just for grins I decided to see what my name date was. My jaw dropped of course to discover that it is July 13. As you probably know by now, the book of my namesake the prophet Joel has an apocalyptic description perfectly matching the Chastisement. How convenient this all is. As they say in the infomercials, “But wait, there’s more!”

ADVANCE TO THE READING RAILROAD

If you will notice upon reflection as I did, there is a certain childlike quality to my countenance during the time surrounding the warm wafer experience.
1. My child like humility that day during the consecration.
2. My naive handling of the reception of communion in both hand technique and in chewing (or lack thereof).
3. My childlike excitement the day before and the day of the warm host.

As more reflection occurred, I would get the brilliant idea after a few more months went by to revisit the readings from the Bible for July 13, 2005. The first reading (Exodus 3, 1-6 and 9-12) was where Moses meets God in the burning bush. I would say that in addition to being a pretty significant event in Bible history, one could see the metaphor of a burning bush and my warm wafer.
The Gospel reading that day is even more telling. It is Matthew 11, 25-27.
“At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the child-like. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
It is not difficult to see the child like reference and the Son revealing concept, which connect with my day of the warm wafer.

ARE YOUR EARS BURNING?

As I prepared this article I was thinking about how to wrap it all up and I was wondering more about the metaphor of a warm Eucharist. Then I was presented with Isaiah chapter six. I made the connection. I then wondered why I hadn’t made the connection a month or two earlier when I was the lecture for that exact passage for Sunday mass (“Duh” moments like that have happened to me all too often!).
1. Isaiah is concerned about his state of spirit before receiving the warmth.
2. Isaiah is touched on the mouth with a hot ember.
3. Isaiah is sent to profess.

As you try to explain this all away by use of my apparently EXTREMELY clever subconscious imagination, I leave you with Isaiah speaking (Is 6, 5-8)
Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with it. “See, he said, “now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin is purged.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “
Whom shall I send?
Who will go for us?
“Here I am,” I said; “send me!”

For those of you who aren’t Catholic I present the next section to explain the concept of Jesus taking the form of bread and wine in the Holy Eucharist.

EUCHARIST

This section provides my personal research on justification of the Catholic concept of Holy Communion where the bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus.


In Genesis 3 after God speaks with Eve about the serpent, He then speaks with Adam and tells him that he will have to provide himself bread by the sweat of his brow. The implication is that God had been providing bread to Adam and Eve without them having to do any of the work of growing the grain and processing wheat into bread. They would have to learn the whole process and do it themselves as a result of original sin. The point here is that God originally provided not only raw foods, but processed as well. Thus bread from Heaven forms the basis of God feeding man from the very beginning, not just physically, but spiritually as well.

1. Melchizedek, bringing bread and wine to Abraham after victory, would prefigure the concept of Manna in the desert and the Last Supper’s Breaking of the Bread with Jesus. Nothing is known of Melchizedek, thus he is indicative of a Divine intervention, which always has a purpose. In this case it is to metaphor the future events. Hebrews chapter 7 compares Melchizedek and Jesus at length.

2. In Exodus 16 the Jews are fed in a “new beginning” by God in the desert with Manna from Heaven.
a. God gives them ‘daily’ bread. Jesus in the Lord’s Prayer continues this idea. Where is it to come from, if not Jesus? You have to ask yourself why is bread so prominent in the Lord’s Prayer?
b. The Jews didn’t know what the hoarfrost was and needed to be shown that it was to be used to make bread. The Holy Spirit did this for the Apostles concerning Eucharist after the Last Supper.
c. The Jews later would offer shewbread around the Ark of the Covenant at God's direction.
3. The building of the Tabernacle has more words given to it by the Bible then are spent on creation itself. Besides the Arc of the Covenant, there are two other pieces of furniture contained therein. One is the Menorah and the other the Table of Presence. The Table of Presence’ holiness is only exceeded by the Arc containing God. It was the place for the Shewbread. Notice that the bread is located on the Table of the Presence (Presence of God). So when God leaves the Arc, the next step is to the table. Jesus then perfectly metaphors as bread. The Menorah I think relates to the end of time as light and a reclaiming of the Temple.

4. We need to gain some insight into the practice of sacrifice. The offering was either burnt up and thus ‘sacrificed’ by virtue of there being a total loss of the object sacrificed or, instead quite often it was standard practice to eat what was sacrificed in order to make a meal of it and thus ‘commune’ (share) with God.

5. Christ was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem translates as ‘house of bread’. Additionally, Jesus was born in a manger, which is where the grain (metaphor for bread) is kept for the lower animals (metaphor for humans)

6. The sacrificed Passover lamb was eaten. Jesus is the new Passover lamb. “Behold the lamb who takes away the sins of the world”. At Jesus’ direction during the Last Supper, His bodily sacrifice is transferred over to the bread and wine.

7. This concept is reinforced by the fact that the Feast of the Unleavened Bread runs concurrent with Passover.

8. The Manna from heaven had stopped the day after a Passover in the dessert, just as the Jews arrived in the Promised Land. Thus Jesus restarts this concept of eating the Heavenly Bread of His body at the 33 AD Passover to ‘feed’ His people until Christ returns, thereby repeating the motif of being feed by God until the return to the ‘new’ and final Promised Land.

9. Jewish belief is that Passover is RELIVED each year, not just remembered, thus also reinforcing the Last Supper concept of Christ becoming bread. Time and space are interrupted. Thus the concept of God being ‘every when’ in addition to being ‘every where’. You are there or He is here, however you wish to look at it. “Do this in REMEMBRANCE of me”. The Greek word used for remembrance in the passage is not a simple calling to mind a past event. Time and space are interrupted and you are there. Ask any Rabbi.

10. The Bread of Life theological discourse in John chapter 6 goes on and on. You have to ask yourself why? Please review it.

11. The Last supper is chronicled literally in all of the other gospels. One of the few events that are in all four. That indicates that it is very important. It is not just a last meal.

12. When Jesus insists that one must ‘eat His body and drink His blood’, the Jews murmur and Jesus says to stop murmuring as does God, exactly repeating what happens in the dessert concerning the manna from Heaven.

13. The Jews then pose the question of cannibalism (‘who can accept this’) because everyone present took Him literally. Why don’t we also have to take Him literally? Sola Scriptoria adherents insist the Bible must be taken literally. Except this one passage.

14. The only time people leave Jesus in numbers with no second parable or explanation of any sort is when He says to eat His flesh. In fact He repeats Himself in exactly the same way three times. When the Bible repeats something three times, it is meant to be taken very seriously. Thus He must have been speaking literally. People leaving in numbers as a result of this happening occur in John 6:66.
15. In Mark chapter 2 is the story of the Apostles making a path through a field and eating the grain tops. This is a metaphor for the Mass after Jesus is gone with priests feeding the faithful with the Eucharistic bread. When questioned, Jesus answers the Pharisees that He is the Lord of the Sabbath, thus reinforcing that the Eucharist is to be performed on Sunday. Additionally, He rose on a Sunday, reappeared on a Sunday and the breathing of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles by Jesus occurred on a Sunday. The 8th day. A new creation. It is safe to say that is what He wanted. Not to mention that His church has the authority to make the change.

16. Then there is the instance of post resurrection meal where the two apostles only recognize Christ after He breaks the bread and gives it to them. The road to Emmaus that the two disciples were on from Jerusalem is an 8-hour walk. They listened to Jesus HIMSELF preach all day and don’t recognize Him until He breaks the bread. Food for thought.

17. When the two report back what happened, right as they tell of the bread, Jesus appears to all the apostles. These are more than subtle hints.

18. The third time Jesus appears post resurrection to a group of disciples, He again offers them bread.

19. The feeding of the 5 thousand with an apparently insufficient amount of bread prefigures the Eucharist with Christ doing the feeding of Himself to the people at what prefigures the Mass. In fact Jesus Takes, Blesses, Breaks and Gives. The exact same four Greek verbs are used during the Last Supper accounts. They have incarnational meaning. Jesus Takes human form, Blesses it to be divine, gets Broken on the cross and Gives Himself to us in sacrifice.

20. The ‘Word made flesh / Eat my flesh’ idea that Christ is symbolically talking about reading the word and not eating His body doesn’t hold water because:
a. Doesn’t account for the wine/blood in the equation.
b. John’s chapter 6 discourses would have spelled out the word/flesh/bread connection if there was one, since he was also the one who said that Jesus was the word made flesh back in John chapter 1. Imagine how much shorter chapter 6 could have been if it were that simple a concept. A lot of confusion could have been avoided for all the followers who left (‘who can accept this’) at that time too.
c. Peter (The rock upon which the Jesus’ Church was built) is the only one who understood bread (and Son of God). Peter had his shortcomings, but you’ll notice that he is always the one who answers Christ’s question correctly. He is the one who takes charge Pentecost and following.
d. There was no Bible (the Word) to read for centuries later. What were they supposed to eat in the mean time? Scant and infrequent oral Word only?

21. Jeremiah hid some manna that would be rediscovered at the Messiah’s coming. See 2Mac 2 and Heb 9,4. Well, the Messiah came and He brought the bread.

22. Some of the Manna from heaven, which in every other instance became rotten if not eaten in one day, was placed along with the 10 Commandment tablets and Aaron’s staff in the Ark of the Covenant. Mary is the new Ark. This can be justified easily at length. For instance, it is only the Ark and Mary that the Bible terms ‘full of grace’. The point here is that both she and the Ark contained the Holy bread. One the Manna, the other Jesus. If you are not convinced, compare the Annunciation to Mary in Luke chapter 2 with the Second Samuel chapter 6 account of the Arc’s presentation to King David.

23. Rev 2, 17 speaks of hidden manna and white amulet (metaphor for communion wafer) with a ‘new’ and powerful name (Jesus).

24. The Ark of the Covenant (which again can be easily be metaphoric of the Virgin Mary, who ‘contained’ Jesus) contained the Holy of Holies. The three Holies were Aaron’s staff, the Ten Commandments and some of the Manna. Jesus metaphors as each by:
a. Manna equals ‘bread of life’ equals Eucharist equals ‘priest’ performing sacrifice.
b. Staff equals ‘the way’ equals ‘king’
c. Tablets equal ‘truth’ equals ‘prophet’.
d. Thus Jesus is the way, the life and the truth and also priest, prophet and king.

25. When the Church is officially started as some believe at Pentecost, the new converts do three things in the Book of Acts. They learn from the Apostles. They pray. They break the bread. This sounds just like church service doesn't it? Except for that bread breaking part. So apparently the breaking of the bread is important and not done just once a year for the Lord's Supper anniversary.

26. Apostles continued to go to Temple on the Hebrew Sabbath after the ascension, then would go home and break bread-starting Eucharist.

27. When they were thrown out of the Jewish society, they started their own worship perfectly resembling the Hebrew worship ceremony with the addition of the Holy Communion and the Eucharist at the end. It is still done that way today at Mass.

28. Paul warns in Corinthians of eating the Holy Bread without discernment. This reinforces the sacredness of the consecrated bread.

29. The Eucharist has been practiced unchanged for millennia. Traditions without value won’t survive that long. Read any early church writings within the same time frame the Gospels were written. The Eucharist is in there. Some of them came close to making the cut to be in the Bible several centuries later. Guess which church decided which writings (and which version of that writing) would be in the Bible?

30. To complement the above, in Malachi 1,11 there is a prophecy of an 'all nation' (world wide) 'pure' offering. This fits the continual, every time zone Catholic sacrifice of the mass happening every hour. Malachi just happens to be the last book of the Old Testament.

31. There have been many miracles associated with the Holy Eucharist. There are a myriad of examples of the host changing to blood or tissue throughout the centuries. Read about Blessed Imelda, who was nine years old and too young to receive. After praying hard, a host appeared over her head. After much discussion, the priest decided to give her the host. She shortly thereafter died in ecstasy.

32. One should be able to see an ongoing theme of divine bread from Genesis to Revelation and from Eden to Armageddon. This is all way to coincidental to be ignored as symbolic only.





February 22, 2007

LIVING WATER AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

I wanted to expound upon connections of John Chapters 7 and 8 to my 2012 prophecy. First is chapter 7, which is titled The Feast of the Tabernacles (Shukot in Hebrew) where Christ ‘appears’ in the middle of the festival at the Temple. The Jewish authority is unable to seize Christ. That day, Tishri 17 in the Hebrew calendar is the day I predict for a world-changing event in 2012 (October 3). The next thing that Jesus does in John 7 is say that He is “the living water”. Now in my ‘novel’ I unknowingly had an earthquake in Jerusalem on October 3, 2012 causing a rupture of the reservoir called Gihon, which is located on the Mount of Olives. Now consider these facts that I have learned since.
1. The altar during Shukot is liberally washed with water.
2. Springing forth water is a recurrent motif in the Bible such as
a. A spring of water bubbling forth upon the land of Eden in Genesis.
b. Moses bringing forth the spring of water from the rock
c. Water springing forth from the Temple (of all places) in Ezekiel 47
d. Water springing forth from the side of Jesus when He was lanced.
3. In the Book of Wisdom, wisdom is said to issue forth from a list of bodies of water. The last on the list is Gihon.
4. In Jewish apocalyptic thought, the Mount of Olives will be split in two with the Messiah’s coming.
5. A split or cleaved mountain is an ancient recurring motif for many cultures including the Maya.
Thus my prophecy matches John chapter 7 with what one could call not the Return of the Lord, but the Day of the Lord in timing and in motif. It is Tishri 17 in midweek of Shukot, which happens on October 3, 2012. Also there happens to be a flow of ‘living’ water from Gihon. Additionally an object appears as a new cornerstone for the Temple on the Temple Mount right where Jesus (the rejected cornerstone) appeared. You need to ask yourself how I got so lucky to be so theologically correct when I knew nothing of these concepts when I wrote my book.

Next we have John chapter 8 where Jesus is faced with the adulterous woman to be stoned. Here are the facts as I have written about in previous articles.
1. It is just as Shukot has ended.
2. Jesus draws the galactic alignment in the sand using the astrology of the day (See The Passion of the Christ).
3. He does that because of the similarity by metaphor of the adulterous woman scene. It points to the fulfillment of Revelation 12, which happened October 3, 2005, seven years before the same date in 2012. It is thus the countdown if you will to the big event on October 3, 2012. You have to ask yourself what could be so important to the Lord that He would drop to the ground and draw in the sand when a woman was on the verge of losing her life.
4. Now exactly half way in-between October 3, 2005 and October 3, 2012, on May 14, 2009, the Garabandal miracle happens including an enduring sign said to be Jesus’ greatest miracle. It will be a luminescent orb over the pines on the hill at Garabandal.
My point here is that in John 8, the next thing that Jesus does is claim that He is “the light of the world”. Again, as with the previous section, how did I get so theologically lucky?

January 17, 2007
This blog entry concerns the implications and connections of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and 2012.
After the Fatima apparitions were approved by the Vatican in 1930, what is called the Fatima prayer was added to the century’s old Rosary recitation.
“Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of thy mercy.”
A lot of people hesitate to pray the above prayer during their Rosary because of its ominous sounding nature. It reads like some kind of mass exodus of souls might be in the offing from the Chastisement foretold at Fatima.
Within a few months of this backdrop, a cloistered, uneducated nun named Sister Faustina started having visits from our Lord. Finally, Faustina had a vision of an angel with a weapon of Chastisement moving towards the earth. Pray as she might, nothing could slow his advancing towards our world. At the last moment an interior voice told her what has become to be known as the Divine Mercy chaplet prayer. That prayer was the only thing that could slow the avenging angel’s progression.
It follows the same pattern, as does the Rosary with a repetition of a main prayer, a ten time repeated prayer in five sets and a closing prayer.
“Eternal Father, I offer you the body and blood, soul and Divinity of your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.”
“For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.”
“Holy God, Holy mighty One, Holy immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.”
Now, let’s look at the coincidences involved with Faustina, Pope John Paul II and what is called the Fatima Chastisement scheduled for 2012.
1. Faustina lived in Poland as JP II was growing up there
2. JP II made Faustina a saint speeding the normal process by decades.
3. Faustina had her Chastisement vision just after Fatima was approved.
4. JP II’s assassination attempt was on the 65th anniversary of Fatima on May 13, 1981.
5. JP II released the ‘secret’ Fatima letter in 2002.
6. JP II beatified the Fatima visionaries on another anniversary, May 13, 2000 at the site of Fatima.
7. Benedict XVI officially sped up the canonization process for JP II on May 13, 2005, yet another Fatima anniversary and a mere month after JP II’s death.
8. Faustina’s feast day (October 5) will be the 3rd and final day of darkness during the Chastisement in 2012.

It should be plain that the Divine Mercy chaplet will be helpful to us in the mitigation of the Chastisement coming in 2012. Please pray it often.

October 25, 2006

GETTING YOUR GOAT
I have written much about the Hebrew harvest festival known as Shukot and its connection to the events of 2012. I wanted to here discuss what are known as the ‘High Holy Days’ associated with Shukot.
The High Holy Days are Roshashana and Yom Kippur. Roshahana is the first day of Tishri in the Hebrew calendar. It is the religious New Year’s Day. It begins a month of reflection upon one’s life and exactly how spiritual and sin free or full it is. Yom Kippur is on Tishri 10 and is the Day of Atonement. Shukot is the capstone of the High Holy Days starting for a week on Tishri 14.
The importance of Yom Kippur can’t be overstated. After 10 days of reflection, one should be ready to repent of one’s realized sins. Jews visit the graves of ancestors to ask for their intercession in the process.
Yom Kippur is the day, the ONLY day that the High Priest would enter the Holiest of the Holies portion of the Temple to perform sacrifice for the entire Jewish people. (The metaphoric connections with Christ’s sacrifice are numerous). It was considered so dangerous for the High Priest that a rope would be tied around his ankle to pull his dead body out if he failed to perform adequately.
At the same time a goat would be led away and given to the Gentiles to sacrifice at the edge of town by pushing over a cliff. The goat would be taunted and tortured all along the way. A piece of his wool would be taken, soaked in his blood and hung at the Temple. If God forgave all, the wool would turn to white by the end of the ceremony. It was invariably successful every year, until after Christ was crucified. Every year after that right up until the Temple was destroyed, when the Day of Atonement’s sacrifice could no longer be performed, the wool failed to turn white. This fact is recorded in the ancient Hebrew historical records. One would think that that coincidence might cause them to reflect on why that was happening? It has been said by Jesus that the sheep are going to be separated from the goats at the end of time. More will be discussed on this topic’s relationship to the zodiac ages in a future article.



October 3, 2006.
It is now exactly 6 years till my predicted date in 2012. The readings at mass today should be extremely similar to the readings for the same date in 2012 since the liturgical schedule repeats every three years. It is very coincidental what the readings are:
1. The Book of Job where he prays for death because he is being tested so severely by God.
2. Psalm 88 where one is being pummeled by God and perhaps thrown into the abyss.
3. The Gospel of Luke where James and John suggest bringing fire from the sky down upon an inhospitable town.

It is not the ‘end’, but scenes of something very close to it where one will wish it were the ‘end’. This all just happens to precisely fit 2012.
October 3rd also sits between some very strong feast/memorials, such as The Archangels, The Guardian Angels, Sister Faustina and Francis of Assisi.


October 3, 2006.
I wanted to expound upon the Arc of the Covenant, Mary and the Holy of Holies mentioned in Calendar Continuum. First of all, it would seem logical that since the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament, that one might be able to take them each and see the pattern for what would be ‘step three’ in the sequence.
My prediction of the object on the Temple Mount in 2012 repeats the motif of the Arc of the Covenant. It is interesting to note that I had little idea what I was doing metaphorically at the time. It has since been reinforced theologically in a myriad of ways to me.
Anyway, as a foundation, I wanted here to show the evidence that Mary was the repeat in the New Testament of the Arc of the Covenant from the Old Testament.
1. Mary at the Annunciation is “full of Grace”. The term is used in the OT to describe the Arc and only the Arc. Full means for all time, including before also. ‘Every when’.
2. The Arc couldn’t be touched, which is reinforced by her perpetual virginity.
3. When the Arc was finished, David leapt for joy. John the Baptist leapt in Elizabeth’s womb.
4. David had the Arc moved up to the hill country for 3 months before putting it in the Temple. Mary went to see Elizabeth in the hill country for three months after becoming pregnant.
5. The Arc contained the Holy of Holies. They were
a. Manna bread left from the Exodus.
b. Aaron’s staff.
c. The stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
6. The Holy of Holies can be transferred over to Jesus by:
a. Life giving bread
b. Staff leading the Way
c. Truth as in the Word of God on the tablets
d. Thus He is the Life, the Way and the Truth.
7. The Holy of Holies can be transferred over to Jesus again by:
a. Priest sacrificing bread.
b. King leading the Way with the staff.
c. Prophet professing the Word from the tablets.
d. Thus He is the Priest, Prophet and King.
8. Pretty cool huh? Thus both Arcs contained God. Also the Eucharist is reinforced with physical bread to eat. So, bread and Word is not the same thing for those Protestants who think that John 6 is talking about the Word of God being eaten by reading one’s Bible.