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When the Creator wants to send a message, He has no shortage of messengers at His service. He sends one suited and prepared for the task at hand. Among His servants are not just the constellations and planets, but asteroids,^[1] interstellar radio signals, meteor showers and of course, comets. And when midnight strikes on God’s clock, the interaction among these heavenly messengers rings loud to the glory of God.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. (Psalms 19:1)

In this article, we will explore the masterpiece of all His clocks, which is sure to stir your heart as you begin to see how God has organized His heavenly messengers to do His bidding in perfect time and with impeccable coordination to announce the time of deliverance of His children from this world and give a message of hope in the midst of the troublous times before us.

The comet C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS) was used by God to tell a detailed story of the faith and the coming deliverance of His people, beginning with the eruption from Hunga Tonga. However, our Lord portrays the story of deliverance from more than one perspective. The Bible teaches of a great war between Christ and His people, and Satan and his henchmen. It is about the greatest battle, whose name is familiar in households religious and secular alike. It is Armageddon, also known by us as Coronageddon. Although the Bible focuses most on the preparation necessary for God’s people, it also gives warning about the devil’s plans and his course of action.

In the heavens, so far, we have been studying primarily one side of the battle, but now that the ark of the testament is fully revealed and is being carried by the church of Philadelphia in their hearts, it is time to explore another player that sheds light behind enemy lines.

The Hawaiian telescope, called the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PanSTARRS) is good at detecting comets as it continually scans the heavens, just like a Christian should do, looking up with keen interest to hear a word of God’s guidance during these last rapid movements of earth’s history. In May of 2017, it detected a distant, but large comet known as C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)—the farthest and largest active comet ever before seen!^[2] Notably, it later surrendered these superlatives to an even larger and more distant object, when, to the surprise of many, it was reported to be an active comet on June 22, 2021—the “megacomet” Bernardinelli-Bernstein (2014 UN 271), the clock hand of the heavenly Horologium (pendulum clock).

Of the thousands of asteroids and comets that course through the heavens at any given time, our attention is attracted to these particular objects because of the timing, location, and press-worthy superlatives associated with them. When a part of God’s creation appears to be extraordinary in some way, it is often a signal that His voice may be heard through it. It especially should get our attention when we see an object in the heavens telling a story that follows a biblical pattern like the intensely studied “millstone” comet, C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS), which I will refer to hereinafter simply as “O3” to distinguish it from the other PanSTARRS comet of interest, which we can abbreviate to “K2”.

When we even find multiple key dates from our studies associated with an object in space, it strongly suggests that God is using that object to teach us about His heavenly word. This was the case with the comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, which was discovered on the Hebrew date of Jesus’ birthday in 2014, and makes perihelion in 2031—exactly 2000 years after Jesus’ crucifixion.^[3] For us, these are already too many co-incidences to be coincidental, especially when this comet made headlines as it entered the pendulum clock, where it still abides!

Comet K2, on the other hand, was discovered in May of 2017—the year when a large part of the Christian world with growing interest was looking to the heavens on account of the great sign of the woman of Revelation 12. That was a sign so clearly fulfilled that few could ignore it—at least not until it passed without the expected rapture, which was assigned to it without a solid biblical basis. It was this sign that led us to broaden our gaze from our seven-year focus on the constellation of Orion as one of God’s clocks, to the whole Mazzaroth, also in May of 2017. God promptly showed us the shaking heavens with confirming heavenly signs for the trumpets that were being blown exactly at the times marked on the Orion trumpet clock.

Babylon Remembered

At that time, K2 had yet to leave its origin constellation of Draco, the dragon, because it would still be almost three years until the coronavirus revolution, when the devil would execute the final stages of his sinister plot against the world. As Covid-19 spread, K2 was in Hercules, which we learned in the last article, represents those who would constitute the last generation of righteous who are to stand in purity before the Lord by faith in the midst of a completely degenerated world. This comet shows how the dragon’s empire has the Lord’s faithful in its sights, as it remained in the constellation of Hercules throughout the pandemic and the greater part of the vaccination efforts because the devil was waging a fierce war against God’s people.

Then it happened.

It was Sabbath morning, January 15, 2022. We had just finished the preliminaries of our worship service and sat down at our study table when someone among our group mentioned that a volcano had erupted in the South Pacific. For us, it would be a few days before the revelation came as to the significance of this event, but all heaven immediately understood this thunderous proclamation of Almighty God that literally rolled through the earth with powerful shockwaves. The ash cloud that pierced through the upper layers of the atmosphere to reach even space, vividly portrayed what God will do. Babylon’s sin now reached unto heaven, and it would soon be burned to ashes for its arrogant defiance and stubborn unrepentance.

The comet K2 had just entered the constellation of Ophiuchus days before, bringing to focus the serpent-bearer—he who yielded himself, soul and body, for the incarnation of the cunning serpent—Pope Francis by name. Now the days were numbered for this king of Babylon because God had spoken! All heaven glanced at the clock. The Advent comet of time, Bernardinelli-Bernstein, in its role as a clock hand, reported in the pendulum timepiece that the eruption had happened at the midnight hour according to that clock of God.

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. (Revelation 18:21)

“Thus” shall Babylon be thrown down. For seven years since its last major eruption in January of 2015, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai islands had been connected by a shallow land mass, resembling an open scroll. But already on January 14, 2022, a relatively small eruption caused the caldera to fall below the ocean surface and the seawater flooded the volcano’s magma chamber. The seawater boiled in the magma chamber “pot”, creating a pressure-cooker scenario and until the following afternoon it erupted in a tremendous blast that was so violent that little remained of the original islands.

Same volcano, one day’s difference: On Friday the vent was above the water, and by Saturday it was below. “That made all of the difference in the world,” Scruggs [a geologist] said.^[4]

The millstone in heaven, comet O3, had been cast into the sea as an example of how Babylon would fall. That example manifested on earth in the form of this violent eruption in Hunga Tonga. And its details are of interest as well, for they are prophetically significant! The prophecy that gave us to understand the true significance of this eruption was one from Ellen White^[5] that matches the mechanism of this eruption:

…The mountains shook like a reed in the wind, and cast out ragged rocks all around. The sea boiled like a pot and cast out stones upon the land. And as God spoke the day and the hour of Jesus’ coming and delivered the everlasting covenant to His people, He spoke one sentence, and then paused, while the words were rolling through the earth. … {EW 34.1}

That the mountains of these islands were shaking and casting out volcanic rocks is actually nothing special for a volcano. But that the sea “boiled like a pot” is a curious expression that does not fit every scenario. It is not uncommon for volcanic lava to boil seawater as it flows from a volcano into the sea, but the mention of a “pot” suggests clearly the scenario described above, where the water is contained in a heated pot, rather than lava being poured freely into the open water!

Yet the prophecy describes both a land volcano, since the “mountains” cast out rocks, and a submarine volcano, where “the sea” cast out stones upon the land. How much more precise can a prophecy be, specifying even the two-stage process of this volcanic eruption, which was first that of a land volcano on January 14, and then that of a sea volcano on January 15!

The next line of the prophecy is no less remarkable in hindsight. God both (1) spoke the day and hour of Jesus’ second coming, and He also (2) delivered the everlasting covenant! At the time we first understood that this prophecy was being fulfilled, we did not foresee that on that day, God also began the process to deliver the everlasting covenant through the ark of the testament in heaven!

Both points of the prophecy must be fulfilled! We have experienced how God delivered the everlasting covenant into the hearts of His last generation of witnesses as the comet O3 traced the ark beginning with the eruption of Hunga Tonga—but how has He spoken the day and hour through the same eruption?

The key lies in giving the seemingly poetic biblical description sufficient importance:

For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. (Revelation 18:5)

God underscored this special point in time with His loudest peal of thunder! The volcano spewed ash and stinky sulfurous fumes to high heaven, like the sins that have plagued Babylon, whose stench came before God. The offense of Babylon’s sin was illustrated in this extreme eruption. To understand what that means to our Father, you need simply to consider that Jesus was crucified for those sins. It was like thrusting a spear into God’s own heart.

If unspiritual men make a pause of solemnity on the anniversary of a terrible disaster like the fall of the twin towers to remember the pain, is it any wonder that God would likewise remember the iniquity of Babylon at a marked time on His clock? It is not that He has forgotten Babylon; on the contrary, it is that her sin has been memorialized! On January 15, 2022, the midnight hour was attended by a violent, heart-stopping eruption that reached up to space and left its time mark on the heavenly clock.

Heavenly Teamwork

This begs the question: When is the first memorial day of Babylon’s sins reaching unto heaven, on which God should remember Babylon’s iniquities? The answer is apparently simple: when the clock returns to the same position again! There’s just one problem in our case. The comet of the clock—Bernardinelli-Bernstein—never returns to the midnight hour!

Here we must consider that it is neither Hunga Tonga nor the millstone comet (O3) that God should remember. These are simply illustrations—one earthly, one heavenly—for how Babylon will fall, but they do not represent Babylon directly. The Polynesian blast made the mark on heaven’s clock, but something else would be needed to directly connect it to Babylon’s sins.

And what could be more suited to that, than comet K2, originating from Draco and abiding in Ophiuchus, the constellation standing for the leader of Babylon, when Hunga Tonga erupted? Would it surprise you to learn that this K2 comet will also pass directly through the Horologium constellation?

Wow! What are the chances that this comet, having the whole sphere of the sky with its 88 constellations available for its orbit, would fly precisely across the short hour hand of the midnight hour, where Hunga Tonga memorialized the offense of sin on the pendulum clock!? God’s ways are truly higher than man’s!

Now we can see that K2 is clearly the comet highlighting Babylon, and what began with the Tongan ash cloud is brought to its conclusion as God remembers her iniquities as this comet works in tandem with that of the Horologium. This crossing point, of course, marks a particular date: March 4/5, 2023.

But the fast-paced choreography is not yet over. In fact, the true beauty of this clock of God can only be seen when the meaning of the Horologium is appreciated. This clock, whose stars mark the three o’clock sacrificial hour of our Savior’s death, directly relates to His literal cross. It shows the price that Jesus paid to deliver man from sin and from our captivity to Satan. It’s moving pointer, comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, born to man’s knowledge on Jesus’ birthday, is estimated to come closest to earth “around April 5, 2031”,^[6] which is “around” Passover (April 7, 2031), when Jesus hung on the cross for man.

Through an often-memorized promise in Isaiah, it is prophesied that we need not fear our enemies, because our Lord will help us in our time of need.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10)

The right hand of His righteousness is a reference to His powerful work as most clearly demonstrated on the cross. The cross of Christ is man’s strength and help, as it is the symbol of our Redeemer’s gift of love, which we receive when we believe that He died on that cross for our own sin. He took our sin in His own right hand, and the Father’s heart was pierced as He, with His Son sacrificed for their love and compassion on fallen man. Said Jesus:

…the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs [i.e., signs], but I shall shew you plainly of the Father [who is time]. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. (John 16:25-27)

When we look at the cross in the Horologium, we see that K2 reaches the crossbeam of His right hand (on our left, since He faces us) on March 8, 2023.

If that doesn’t send chills up your spine, perhaps you need a reminder that it was exactly on March 8, 2022, when the O3 comet crossed the beam of a different cross—a cross that was just discovered on that very day!

This cross on the Father’s clock, the Mazzaroth, from the moment of its discovery on March 8, 2022, carried the meaning of the promise of the rapture for us High Sabbath Adventists. Therefore, we called it our “ticket to heaven”. Now in its very heart, the crossing point of O3 with the ecliptic traced by the Bridegroom, indeed hinted to the rapture date one solar cycle later.

And do you remember when the highest resolution image of the sun ever taken was captured? It was March 7, 2022—exactly one solar revolution before He will be most clearly visible to all the inhabitants of the earth, just before the rapture! Then the wicked will feel the heat of the wrath of the Sun of Righteousness!^[7]

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. (Revelation 18:8)

Now we can see the deeper significance in how the change in the geography of the volcano during the one day from Friday to Sabbath (January 14 to 15, 2022) “made all the difference in the world” in the harsh effect on Hunga Tonga. Likewise, the one year from March 8, 2022, until March 8, 2023, will literally make all the difference for the world as its sentence of severe judgment is carried out!

These two comets, first seen by the PanSTARRS telescope—are the “bread of the stars” (in Spanish, pan means “bread”)—pointing to Jesus, the true Bread from heaven, and His sacrifice. Comet O3 told the story (a “parable” or “proverb” or “sign”), while K2 gives the Father’s time (“I shall shew you plainly of the Father”).

And he said unto them, It is not for you [in AD 31] to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part [i.e., the end (in time)] of the earth. (Acts 1:7-8)

And when we look closely at God’s pendulum clock, we find that K2 needs exactly three days and twelve hours to come from its crossing of the Hunga Tonga midnight hour hand to Jesus’ right-hand beam of the cross.

This reminds us of the timeframe of the two witnesses. When we told the true story of the two witnesses, we saw how O3 mapped out the final scenes as described in Revelation 11. And in the process, we learned an important, if somewhat anticlimactic lesson regarding the ascension of the two witnesses and the seventh trumpet (emphasis added):

If the seventh trumpet is the last trumpet—or even if it is not the last trumpet, either way—the dead in Christ shall not rise before it sounds. This means the resurrection and ascension of the two witnesses cannot be equated directly in time with the rapture, since it happens before the second woe is past, and thus before the seventh trumpet sounds.

This means the prophecy of the two witnesses must be understood in a different way, in order to avoid a contradiction in the Bible itself. The prophecy of the two witnesses must be telling the story of the development of the heavenly sign of the ark of the testament, and there especially the “ascension” of the two fish in Pisces following the path of PanSTARRS, while the sign in turn—through which the rapture date could be determined—gives, in a hidden form, the date of the rapture itself. This resolves the apparent contradiction.

This enigmatic prophecy has always told a story related to this movement, from its roots all the way through the present. We had hoped that it would finally nail down the date of the ascension (rapture) of the church. But now we see that this parable must be limited to telling a story, while the time is revealed by… well, a second witness. At some point, there must be a last sign, after which there is no more pointing forward, but simply seeing the fulfillments in time.

The “hidden form” in which O3 pointed to the time of the rapture, was by marking the point on the Mazzaroth where the crossbeams of the reclining cross intersect. The comet K2, on the other hand, crosses the two beams in the Horologium individually—one after the other—and both dates are relevant. The first, for when we can see Jesus’ face, and the other for the rapture, separated by the three and a half days—a day for each of the three and a half years^[8]—that the two witnesses lay dead on the street, “where also our Lord was crucified”.^[9]

The Glory of the Cross

At the sixth (Hebrew) hour of the day in which Jesus was crucified, which we would mark as twelve o’clock, there was darkness over the land.

And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. (Luke 23:44)

All four “cardinal points” of the Horologium clock point to significant moments on that crucifixion day, marking when Jesus was lifted up, the darkness that came over the land, His death, and finally the sunset, in anticipation of which He was hastily laid in the grave. Avoiding the markers of His death and burial, K2 signals the time of darkness (12 o’clock) and lifting up on the cross (9 o’clock) in reverse order.

The scribes and pharisees, filled with demonic defiance as their divine Prey was in their grasp, mocked Him in His agony, but little did they recognize the prophetic significance of their words! The high priest had prophesied earlier in deciding for Jesus’ death:

And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. (John 11:49-52)

And in Jesus’ dying moments, their mocking jests were no less prophetic:

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, Save thyself, and come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him. (Mark 15:29-32)

The Savior of the world could not act for His own interest. Therefore, He could not save Himself, as the impious passersby suggested. The chief priests explained in their unwitting prophecy that He could only come down from the cross to save Himself, but not to save others! And as they wished His blood upon themselves and their children (those who through unbelief make themselves children of the devil^[10]), so they wished for Him to descend from the cross, so that they might believe—and when He does so at the appointed time, they will believe indeed, and tremble!

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. (James 2:19)

These are the synagogue of Satan, who will worship at the saints’ feet, because Jesus will then lift up His people for their salvation.

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Revelation 3:9)

When K2 signals the solemn moment of this remembrance, even the proud and mocking religious zealots will believe. Jesus promised that such would see Him when He comes back in the clouds:

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (Revelation 1:7)

In the months that follow until that hour to be lifted up to our Lord, the world will descend even deeper into chaos and confusion, and the pressure will mount against the faithful. But we may take comfort from our Lord’s experience, knowing that we may develop an even closer bond as we follow Him to the cross:

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (John 12:27-32)

Should we desire to be raptured before this hour of temptation? Is it not precisely this time, for which the 144,000 are needed to stand firm like shining stars in a dark world and lead many to righteousness?

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. (Daniel 12:3)

To Abraham the promise was given that his offspring (of faith) would be many—numberless as the stars—a process that began with one single child of faith. This promise was made to Abraham twice and bears a close relationship to the covenant we now see in heaven, bearing witness to the Father’s revealed time for the rapture on March 8, 2023. But that is a subject of the next article! And as many are led to righteousness, the Father’s name will be glorified.

What “name” or character of the Father shall be glorified? When Jesus was lifted up, He glorified not only the Father’s love, but His actions were done in precise synchrony with the Father’s character of time. He has glorified His name once this way, and He will glorify it again in our day. Will you allow Jesus to draw you to Himself? Remember the prophetic significance of His death:

And not for that nation only [did He die], but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. (John 11:52)

As God’s children begin to recognize the wolves over the flocks, they do well to flee, but they ought not to be as sheep without a shepherd! The Father desires the scattered flock to be gathered together in one, and He will accomplish this through the cross of His death. Now do you see His cross of love and time in the heavens? Will you be finally drawn out of Babylon to the fold of the Creator of the heavens and the earth? Will K2 brighten, as the world is anticipating, with God’s glory as it approaches the Bridegroom?

God’s comets are like cogwheels in His clock, each working together like angels with their specific role, but all reflecting the glory of God in the cross, showing His love and His time. And on the face of the pendulum clock, K2 gives the time when the Rock of Ages will come down from the cross and His people will be lifted up from the heavy burden of the serpent-bearer on earth to the light clouds of heaven.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:28-30)