When the redeemed stand in the presence of God, they will see how shortsighted were their conclusions as to what heaven records as success. As they review their efforts to achieve success they will see how foolish were their plans, how petty their supposed trials, how unreasonable their doubts. They will see how often they brought failure to their work by not taking God at His word. And one truth will stand out in clear lines: that position does not prepare a man for entrance into the heavenly courts. They will see, too, that the honor given to man is due to God alone, that to Him belongs all the glory. From the lips of the angelic choir and the redeemed host will peal forth the chorus: “Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints. Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? for Thou only art holy.” Revelation 15:3, 4. {7T 28.1}

The Great Earthquake and the End of the Second Woe

Robert Dickinson’s Forum Post as of April 24, 2019

Friends, April 21 and especially April 22 (the day of the reflection of the GRB) have been exciting days full of new insights and prophecy fulfillments. I would like to share with you some aspects of Revelation 11 that have fulfilled in expected and also unexpected ways, especially with regard to the last two verses that still belong to the prophecy about the two witnesses:

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. (Revelation 11:13-14)

When I was writing the article about the two witnesses, I almost stopped before explaining these verses because we expected them to fulfill in the future, but when the “earthquake” in Turkey happened, we could not leave it uninterpreted for the article. But now, we see that our original expectation—which was for the earthquake on April 22, as set forth in the Epilogue to the Mystery of the Holy City—has now fulfilled these verses in a remarkable way.

What we are dealing with is the suicide bombings in Sri Lanka that have killed hundreds of people. The attacks that affected especially Christian churches have now been attributed to Muslim terrorists. That is significant in itself in relation to the “fire ant” analogy given in the Day of the Demon article. However, more to the point of Revelation 11, the news outlets are describing this in earthquake-like terms. For example, the Spanish headline in RT said:

“Easter Horror shakes the world!”

One of the English headlines said:

“‘I was shaking’: Missouri man from Sri Lanka waits by phone to hear family is safe.”

Another report spoke of:

At least 207 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in eight bomb blasts that rocked churches and luxury hotels in or near Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sunday...

These are all descriptions of an earthquake. Could it be that this event has something to do with Revelation 11? Remember, we originally understood the earthquake “the same hour” as being no more than 15 days (1 prophetic hour) after the “ascension” of the two witnesses. Here is the chart of the last four prophetic hours for reference:

We originally expected the ascension of the two witnesses to happen on April 6, and then the earthquake would be what opens the tombs of the saints of the special resurrection in “an hour” of 15 days. It could be as late as the end of the “11th hour” and still be “the same hour” as the closing events of the “hour of the two witnesses”.

Since the Two Witnesses article was published, some interesting details happened that are important now: the last book to finally “ascend” to Amazon was The Mystery of the Holy City in English. It finally appeared—after days of inexplicable delays caused by Amazon—on the evening of April 6 to 7, EXACTLY at the end of the “hour of the two witnesses”. In that sense, that was when the two witnesses had finally ascended, fully. Now, this “shaking” event that “rocked” Sri Lanka happened exactly on April 21, the very last day of the “hour” that passed from April 6/7 when our last witness went live. It seems the original idea was right all along!

Now, it’s important to recognize that this bombing happened at a special time (like the Notre Dame fire). In fact, it happened on a specific special day: Easter Sunday, which was April 21.

According to our HSA calendar, Passover was on Sabbath, which means “true Easter”—or better Resurrection Day (symbolized by the wave sheaf offering)—was properly Monday, April 22. This corresponds to our original labeling in the chart above, where we expected the special resurrection on that day. Was the bombing too early according to God’s plan? Or could it be that the bombings actually HAD to be earlier than Resurrection Day?

If we follow the example of Jesus’ death and resurrection in AD 31, then the earthquake that opens the graves should be at the time of the crucifixion, and not at the time of the resurrection, because the Bible says that the earthquake was at the time of Jesus’ death, and the saints simply didn’t come out until after His resurrection:

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (Matthew 27:50-53)

Now it becomes interesting why this attack was carried out in Sri Lanka, of all places. All the reports emphasize that it happened on “Easter Sunday,” which, according to the Gregorian calendar of the churches that were attacked, began at midnight. That is when the Catholics hold their Great Vigil of Easter. Later, they have mass during the day, but at midnight is the Easter Vigil!

That was 2:30 p.m. the day before (April 20) in Paraguay, since their time zone is 9.5 hours ahead. Now remember, 2:30-3:30 p.m. (the ninth hour in Jewish terms) was the normal time of the evening sacrifice, and the time when Jesus died. April 20 (Sabbath) was Passover day, when Jesus died at that time, and there was the earthquake. In other words, as soon as Easter Sunday began in Sri Lanka, it was time for the evening sacrifice here in Paraguay, and thus the exact time for the earthquake!

That is a huge piece of evidence to say that this event was indeed the earthquake of the special resurrection, which is the same earthquake mentioned in Revelation 11. (The only other earthquake is the earthquake of the seventh plague.)

However, as in the example of AD 31, the resurrected saints did not come out of their tombs until two days later when Jesus was resurrected, which corresponds to April 22 this year. In this way, the earthquake could be no later than the last day of the “11th hour,” because it had to be that long BEFORE the true day of the wave sheaf offering, when Jesus was resurrected.

This is a very amazing and intricate fulfillment!

However, if this Easter bombing is the earthquake of Revelation 11:13, then we have to be able to explain the rest of the verse, too. For example, how did a tenth part of the city fall?

The city is Babylon, generally, which corresponds to the Catholic Church. However, it also includes the “Protestant” churches, which for the most part never broke away from Sunday worship. They all still keep the Catholic day of worship on the basis that Jesus was resurrected on that day! Their main argument in defense of Sunday worship is RESURRECTION SUNDAY! That is how they justify “changing times and laws.”^[1] That is their official foundation for Sunday worship.

Of course, that represents the destruction of ONE of the TEN commandments: the Sabbath commandment. So, when the verse speaks of a tenth part of the city falling, it signals that the earthquake is connected to the DAY that represents the destruction of a tenth of the law, through which they fell, and that day is Easter Sunday.

The Bible speaks of 7 × 1000 men dying on that day. Seven stands for Christ, and 1000 stands for many, so this is “many Christians” that would die on that day. However, the verse is even more specific. In the original language, it actually says “names of men” and not just “men”. This specifies that it is not the people of God’s spotless church of Philadelphia who die—comprised of those who strive to know God’s ways and follow His whole law through the power of Christ, but Christians who are Christian only in name: i.e. nominal Christians who we can only hope were at least living up to the light they had! Furthermore, in that expression (7 × 1000) you also have the “cross” (×) standing for Passover.

Now we come to the “remnant.” Who are these remnant? Are they the remnant who survive the earthquake, or another remnant? The nominal Christians who survived the bombings are not giving God glory any more now than they were before, so it must be speaking about a different remnant, not the survivors of the earthquake. Who else could it be referring to, except to the two witnesses that were the main subject prior to this verse?

Now it gets even more interesting, and in a way that touches us personally.

If you change gears and think back on the Notre Dame fire for a moment, there were some interesting things surrounding it. First of all, remember that the statues of the four evangelists and twelve apostles were removed before the fire? If you look at the pictures of how they did this, you can see that they were beheaded, just as Revelation 20:4 indicates for the fate of the righteous, who did not take the mark of the beast:

Besides the head in the hands of their “executioner,” notice also the heads on the wooden pallets, sitting at the feet of their decapitated bodies! This shows a possible fate that we anticipated for ourselves when we wrote the Legacy of Smyrna series (our Testament). We anticipated that on a Lord’s Supper night (a Passover) or during a Sabbath worship service, the authorities would come in and take us into custody to be possibly tortured or killed.

Instead, what we are seeing now is that God has turned the tables and what Satan wanted to do to us is now happening to him. It was his church of Notre Dame that was burned, and now it is people in his churches in Sri Lanka that were bombed, and we are still safe! This is the story of Esther and the feast of Purim: God turned the situation to allow the Jews to defend themselves and defeat their enemies who wanted to do them harm!

In one of Ernie Knoll’s dreams, the martyrs who were beheaded by guillotines were dropped into trucks and hauled away. Many stubbornly wait for this to happen. But in reality it happened by what they were doing to the statues of Notre Dame. Their decapitated bodies were put into trucks and hauled away:

Furthermore, the planned hanging of Mordecai on the gallows in the story of Esther was turned around, and Haman was hung instead. This symbolic hanging is also shown in the Notre Dame pictures of the removal of the symbolic apostles and evangelists:

All of the horrible things that were planned against God’s people were turned against their enemies, and instead of our HSA leaders, the figures of Notre Dame “died”! This makes us feel very grateful for God’s loving protection and defense, and shows us that despite ourselves, God is really fighting our battles now.

According to Revelation 11, the remnant (of the two witnesses) should have died in the earthquake, but God has turned the tables, and instead it was the nominal Christians who didn’t leave Babylon who perished, while the remnant (we) survived.

The verse goes on to say what the remnant do: they give glory to the God of heaven.

This speaks of the testimony videos especially about POWEHI—the sign of the Son of man in heaven—that you have been making of late. In a figure, you have seen the glory of God moving in the heavens, relocating from M87 to our Milky Way galaxy, and you have been testifying of, or “giving glory,” to the God of heaven.

Now if all these verses have just now fulfilled, then that means the second woe has only now just ended!

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. (Revelation 11:14)

This verse speaks of the coming of the third woe “quickly.” How quickly? Is it just that one more hour (15 days) is quick, or does the Bible give even more detail about how the third woe comes?

The Strong’s concordance gives a little more insight into what “quickly” really means here:

G5035 ta ´ tachu takh-oo’

Neuter singular of G5036 (as adverb); shortly, that is, without delay, soon, or (by surprise) suddenly, or (by implication of ease) readily: - lightly, quickly.

In other words, the third woe comes “suddenly”—as in “sudden destruction!” We have reached the end, brothers and sisters!

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety [already done as Brother Ray explained in his last article about the three frogs]; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:2-3)

To conclude, we can reflect a little on what we have learned in this post, and some things come to our attention. First of all, do you see how the literal special resurrection was postponed, yet the destruction was NOT postponed? This shows us something very significant: our prayers for God to “stay His hand of destruction” after the fire of Notre Dame were not answered, because the destruction still happened in Sri Lanka!

We are also aware that the Philippine Islands are suffering from more than one large (6.x) devastating earthquake, and our newest member, Sister Flordaliza, is therefore especially in our prayers.

But in a sense, we (and you) have actually been resurrected. Your posts went from “I see my old, sinful self in the mirror” (i.e. DEATH) to “I see Jesus in the mirror” (LIFE). And with all this new light that came on April 22, 2019, on the day of the first reflection of the gamma-ray burst, it has indeed been a resurrection experience, albeit not literal. Before the second army, those who died in Christ in the third angel’s message, can rise, WE—the first army—had to rise and shine!^[2]

As Brother John showed us, we were testifying for the devil and not for Jesus Christ in the “eleventh hour” before we understood our error. Are we the lieutenants of the devil, as Ernie Knoll names a special group of people that Ellen G. White saw even nearer to the throne than the 144,000? And who are then the 144,000? The answers to these questions will come in the next post from Brother Ray.

The last prophecies are fulfilling, dear friends, and POWEHI—not His new name, but His name as Crowned King which nobody knew—is with us!

The End of the Sealing of the 144,000

Ray Dickinson’s Forum Post as of April 24, 2019

Dear brethren,

Brother Robert wrote to you about the fulfillment of the earthquake at the end of the “11^th hour”, but there is another amazing revelation about that hour that it is my honor to bring to you now!

We have entered the third of the last four hours that we wrote about in the additional chapter to Part IV of the Mystery of the Holy City. Only the “Hour of Philadelphia” is still completely in the future, and that will come after Jesus returns, as you know.

We should, therefore, reevaluate our understanding in the light of the events that have happened. What did we anticipate would happen in “The Eleventh Hour”? This was the first half of the 30 days during which we understood that the 360 portions would be divided twelvefold among the 12 apostles, who—no longer “in waiting”—would go out and find the last members of the 144,000 before the special resurrection would fill in the missing count. Thus, this hour was especially about finding and sealing the last of the living 144,000. This is what our Brother John wrote in that additional chapter.

In our little forum of the 144,000, there was not a lot of activity as far as new members are concerned. Yet, this was one of the most important “hours”—if not the most important “hour”—of the harvest! We expected to at least make up the 50 people we lacked to get the 70 who would be sent to find the rest of the 144,000. But that hope was dashed.

Nevertheless, the “hour of the 144,000” that has ended (the 11^th hour in the chart above) was a special sifting time for the living 144,000. As you can see, their “hour” has now passed as of April 21, 2019, end-of-day.

Now, please notice when our last member officially joined the forum! If you go to the forum and click on “Index” and scroll down to the bottom and click on “Members”, you will see a list of all the current members of the forum. The last entry is:

Notice the “Join date”! This was the last day of “the hour for the 144,000” (the “11^th hour”)! And what’s more, it was not only the very last day of the “11^th hour”, but even near the end of the literal eleventh hour of the day (11:50, both in our time zone and in hers, since the Philippines is exactly 12 hours ahead of Paraguay)!

This situation is strongly reminiscent of what happened shortly before May 6, 2012, when a sister came to us at the very last moment and also completed—as we believed—the number at that time, that was far less than today. She had a very significant dream that we understood as a confirmation of those circumstances, and that dream from seven years ago now takes on new meaning. We will come to that later, but I mention it here to emphasize how significant it is that Sister Flordaliza has just now finally come in—after a long time of studying with us—at this exact HOUR to fulfill the prophecies! You will soon see how profound this is, but at this point you can already see that this is a confirmation that we have indeed brought in the last of the 144,000 who is alive today!

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. (Revelation 14:4)

The 144,000 are the firstfruits, and now the firstfruits have all been harvested! How many are there? You can read the number from the first column of the table above… Sister Flordaliza is the 44^th member of the forum of the 144,000 firstfruits.

Is there anything special about that number!? Just at a glance, the resemblance in the digits themselves suggests that there is a meaning. “44” is like “144” without the “100”. Could it be that God has hidden a special meaning in this number?

To better understand the firstfruits and how the 144,000 differ from other groups of the redeemed, we need to remember that a person is judged by his fruits. We are even speaking of firstfruits, which hints to the fact that we need to understand something about how to categorize different classes of fruits. However, we need a biblical measurement that we can apply, to measure the fruits and thus understand how the firstfruits measure up. Does Jesus give us an example of how the quality of one’s heart may be classified? Yes: He said that you know the quality of a person’s heart by their fruits… and He also gave an object lesson to show how it is revealed:

And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. (Mark 4:20)

In the parable of the sower, Jesus reveals that there are different “grades” or classes of good-hearted people. This verse is all relating to the seed that fell on good soil. He shows that the good seed can be classified by the amount of fruit that it yields.

Now look at the numbers that Jesus used: 30, 60, and 100. Do these numbers suggest a kind of scale? Could it be that Jesus chose 100 as the highest value to represent 100% yield, or a completeness in fruit-bearing? The 144,000 are distinguished as those who “follow the Lamb withersoever he goeth”. They are closest to Christ, and have grown up to His full stature, which we understand to be a complete following of the example of His sacrifice… offering even our eternal lives for the sake of others. They give 100% and are therefore symbolized by the good seed that multiplies itself 100 times.

What about the other classes? God has children who are not among the 144,000. They did not recognize anything about offering their eternal lives, but many have given all they have of this life. Think about John Allen Chau, whom we wrote about. He gave his physical life for Christ as a martyr. He is among those who made that great sacrifice, but he did not ever come to the fullness of the stature of Christ to offer even his eternal life for others. Those in his class (martyrs) would logically fall into the sixtyfold group.

Then there is the great multitude who have accepted Christ’s sacrifice by faith and have sacrificed earthly things and relationships for His sake, but have neither given their physical life nor their eternal life. They would be in the thirtyfold group.

Every class of believer brings forth fruit—good fruit—but there are three different qualities—three classes of God’s children, according to the sacrifice that they made and how closely they resemble the fullness of Christ’s own sacrifice, with the key number being 100%—a perfect reflection of Christ. The Bible and Ellen G. White both speak of those classes. The latter adds even yet another class that Jesus did not specifically mention:

Nearest the throne are those who were once zealous in the cause of Satan, but who, plucked as brands from the burning, have followed their Saviour with deep, intense devotion. Next are those who perfected Christian characters [the 144,000] in the midst of falsehood and infidelity, those who honored the law of God when the Christian world declared it void, and the millions, of all ages, who were martyred for their faith. And beyond is the “great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, ... {GC 665.2}

The forum of the 144,000 must be something like a defining framework that represents all of the 144,000 (including those who had the heart for our message, but who died in former generations—like Ellen G. White, who are to be supplied by the special resurrection). In the dream, In the Heart of Jesus, Ernie Knoll^[3] described an image of Jesus that is formed by precious stones placed in a mosaic within a frame, and Jesus describes His people as jewels^[4] that come together as “living stones” to form His temple.^[5] Soon you will understand better what these things mean!

Those who form this defining framework make up the innermost group around Jesus. They are distinguished by having once been zealous in Satan’s cause. You saw very recently how you unwittingly testified for Satan here in this forum like those of any nominal church do, with confessions of how untransformed you are instead of testifying for the power of Christ in you—until you were awakened to that fact! That is the norm in Christian denominations—taking Christ’s name, but denying His power to change the life, since “Jesus did it all at the cross” as though conformity to the law for which He died weren’t necessary. But you know better than that! You know the Lord expects us to change, and that by faith He does that work, even if we may not notice the gradual changes He makes in us day by day. Let us not imitate the example of unrepentant, nominal Christianity in serving the devil’s purposes by implying that Jesus has been unable to overcome Satan’s work in us.

Indeed, we all have recently given a testimony against Christ and for Satan in one form or another. We have been a difficult group for the Lord, but He has plucked us as brands from the burning! And we also repent and show our deep devotion to Him in gratitude for His graciousness toward us, which can be seen in the positive video testimonies of how He has led us and transformed us through His truth. It is now high time to be awake for “one hour” with our Lord and continue to give Him glory!

As a framework, this forum in its completed form must directly relate to the 144,000—not just in the message, but in the number, and this brings us back to the 44 out of 144,000. What is the relationship?

Perhaps the best way to understand is to consider one of the prophetic aspects of this group. You know it well from Ellen G. White:

We all entered the cloud together, and were seven days ascending to the sea of glass, when Jesus brought the crowns, and with His own right hand placed them on our heads. He gave us harps of gold and palms of victory. Here on the sea of glass the 144,000 stood in a perfect square. … {EW 16.2}

The forum is the body of the living 144,000 upon whom the prophecies are directly fulfilled. This is evidenced by the numerous prophetic indicators that the forum itself fulfills, as we have written about before, including the timing of various studies and events within the forum, for example. We see, live, and experience the prophecies coming to pass.

By contrast, even though those righteous in the special resurrection supply the great proportion of the number, they do not themselves fulfill the prophecies relating to the 144,000 to the extent that the forum does as a community with its 44 members (e.g. in the sense of never tasting death).

So, when the prophecy speaks of standing in a perfect square, it is primarily speaking about the forum as the living 144,000, since this should be its most complete application. So, how can 44 people stand in a perfect square? The simplest approach is to divide the number by four and put the resulting number of persons along the four edges of a square. First, let’s see how many people would stand on each side of a hollow square:

44 ÷ 4 = 11

We get a square with 11 people on a side—but is that really true? Let’s draw it to be sure. When you draw it and you get to the end of the first edge, you come to a corner, and either way you make the corner, one edge or the other becomes 12 units long:

Thus, completing the perfect square with 44 people, we find that there are exactly 12 people on each side! Both methods are shown in completed form as follows:

Isn’t that beautiful!? A perfect square that has 12 people on each side can only be formed by 44 people—not more, not less, but exactly 44. Thus, the total area formed by these 44 people arranged in a square is 12 × 12 = 144! Considering that each one stands for “many” (1000), we see the 144,000 clearly represented here by our 44-member forum, which serves as a “frame” like Ernie Knoll described with the mosaic of 144,000 stones that the Holy Spirit carefully assembled in a frame.

Do you see the answer to the old riddle of whether Ellen G. White and others, who were said to be “with” the 144,000, are part of the number or not? Yes, we see clearly that they must be counted with the 144,000—represented by the 12 × 12 = 144 square, but they are not part of the forum “frame” itself, where the 44 are.

Note that this way of looking at the 144,000 as being “inside” the frame has a special reason. There are two illustrations that God uses. There is the frame that contains the 144,000 jewels who together form a picture of Jesus in Gethsemane. This shows the special relationship of all the 144,000 to Jesus, which we will discuss further momentarily. A second illustration presents four groups around Jesus and distinguishes the innermost as (44) former servants of Satan who are closest to Jesus in a way that the rest of the 144,000 are not, and are thus depicted outside the square of 44 and not within it. This brings us back to the classifications of the fruits.

We talked about the 100% likeness to Christ’s sacrifice that all the 144,000 demonstrate, as illustrated by the hundredfold yield in the parable. This, too, is in the simple diagram above! Inside the square frame are exactly 10 spaces on a side, or 10 × 10 = 100 spaces in total, surrounded by the frame of 44 people! This shows how the 44 (and the rest of the 144,000), by upholding God’s law (10) through faith in Jesus’ perfect obedience (×) to that same law (10), reflect the fullness (10 × 10 = 100%) of Christ’s sacrificial character! It is Christ (perfect 100% sacrificial love) who is represented by that perfect 10 × 10 in the center, around whom we all stand. He stands in the center!

In Ernie Knoll’s dream, it was the picture of Christ in Gethsemane that was formed by the 144,000 glassy stones. He was praying on the rock, sweating blood. That is the picture formed by the mosaic of jewels that was set up in a frame. Now we see how the jewels are framed in a 12 × 12 square and form the image of Jesus through their own sacrifice that is like His. The picture shows Christ’s attitude of prayer and watchfulness in the hour of greatest temptation, and that is a powerful reminder for us to stay awake in this last hour before Jesus’ second coming, unlike the disciples of AD 31, who slept.

We present-day forum members who form the frame serve to bind the whole picture together. We 44 framing jewels serve a most important role: the whole 144,000 stand or fall depending on us 44—you and me! This is a very solemn thought. You know how easy it is to fall, but now is the time when the frame must hold firm. If one part of the frame breaks, the whole picture falls apart! That should make us tremble and fall on our knees before Jesus, pleading for His strength every moment! In other words, while the harvest in the eleventh hour was successful and Jesus found the 144,000 (44 living beings in a perfect square), now is the time to be alert and not fall asleep anymore but watch in prayer like Jesus!

Remember, we are the living stones of God’s temple! Ellen G. White also wrote something about that temple in a description of what she saw in a vision of heaven, which highlights differences between the groups of the redeemed around Jesus:

As we were traveling along, we met a company who also were gazing at the glories of the place. I noticed red as a border on their garments; their crowns were brilliant; their robes were pure white. As we greeted them, I asked Jesus who they were. He said they were martyrs that had been slain for Him. With them was an innumerable company of little ones; they also had a hem of red on their garments. Mount Zion was just before us, and on the mount was a glorious temple, and about it were seven other mountains, on which grew roses and lilies. And I saw the little ones climb, or, if they chose, use their little wings and fly, to the top of the mountains and pluck the never-fading flowers. There were all kinds of trees around the temple to beautify the place: the box, the pine, the fir, the oil, the myrtle, the pomegranate, and the fig tree bowed down with the weight of its timely figs—these made the place all over glorious. And as we were about to enter the holy temple, Jesus raised His lovely voice and said, “Only the 144,000 enter this place,” and we shouted, “Alleluia.” {EW 18.2}

When Jesus says that only the 144,000 enter the temple, He shows the difference between those who themselves form the temple, and the 144,000 who enter and leave it. When they enter the temple, the 144,000 are “within the square” and when they leave it, they are “outside the square”. Thus, we see how the symbolism of the 44-person frame, or “wall” around the temple illustrates a functional difference between the 44 of the forum and the rest of the 144,000, namely that the former never leave the temple, while the latter do.

In the natural world, we also see an illustration of this. In the immediate vicinity of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, where the Father is represented, there are a class of young stars that scientists struggle to understand how they came to be so near the black hole, where such stars normally cannot form.^[6] These S-stars, as they’re called, represent the 44 members of the forum, and reveal a “temple area” around the black hole, where travel is made possible. When one comes within this temple, they are at the heart of the Father, and may travel.

Let us now come back to our original conception of the 70 who needed to be found in the 11^th hour, to see how it fits with this new level of understanding. Remember, we needed 50 people from “the schools of the prophets” to join our existing 20 (which we had counted separately from the 12 and the 7 in Paraguay) to make up the 70 that would be sent. A few of those 50 have already joined us, but we see now that even including the 12 and the 7, there are still 70 – 44 = 26 of them who are not in the forum. We can infer that these remaining ones must also follow and believe the fourth angel’s message, but are not in the forum, and so would be among the “1000” of the 144,000. Some of them even support us financially and are close observers, but the last step is missing. Let’s not forget to pray for them!

The people in this class cannot be followers of Godshealer7 or even Rhonda Empson or others who recognized the sign of the Son of Man, as we once thought, because they didn’t receive the time message that would allow them to go through without tasting death, and they don’t fall into the hundredfold classification of the good seed (offering their eternal lives). Rhonda Empson even says that she saw herself dead, but she interpreted this to represent the rapture. In fact, it points to her death at the great earthquake^[7] of the special resurrection on May 4 (?), just before being raised in the general resurrection on May 6!

At this point, let me bring your attention to an old dream that has taken on new meaning in the present context. It was dreamed by a sister in autumn of 2011:

I was in a big, dark, wooden barn with sleeping bunks for many, many people and sat on top of one of the bunks. Although I didn’t pay attention to them, I knew that there were a few other people. They were standing inside the big barn door chatting. But most of them were outside and obviously pretty busy. From the beginning, I was a little suspicious of everyone else: some because they were only chatting, others because they worked so hard as if they wanted to earn something. I probably felt envious because I knew they were sincere. I felt like I didn’t fit into this group, but I belonged there; that’s how I felt throughout until the end. I felt like I was in a camp. It looked like a Pathfinder camp that I visited as a child.

The barn was not built for the winter; it was a simple building and both the front and the back wall had an opening under the roof, i.e., these walls were not “completed” to the very top. Only through those holes and the door, daylight entered the barn. Apparently, I was waiting for something, but I did not know what for, so I looked up to one of those holes. Suddenly a very bright light came from the opening. I knew this is the second coming. Jesus is coming back—right now! I was glad and I did not care about what the others in the barn were doing. (They should know on their own what they have to do.) And I floated through the opening out into the open. On the lawn in front of me I saw two or three angels or men from the “party of heaven” where you could sign up simply by calling your name. They decided then whether you formed “part” of it or not. After they had explained that to me, I could see that somebody signed up and went to a group of people that had registered before. They were all waiting further in the background. (I have no idea who that was!)

To my confusion, I noticed that the Son (JHWH) was not present, but His Father. Moreover, the whole event was just limited to our (faithful) campground and the (unbelieving) village nearby. We were isolated from the rest of the world. But isn’t the Second Coming a world-wide event!?

I also wondered where my parents and the others from the church were and who these people were around me. An inner voice told me that I should not care about my parents and the others, God would care for them. For me it was perfectly clear: I will sign up and I will be received. But I didn’t want to do this immediately. I thought: is there no way to save a few more souls? Perhaps they would be received, too. So I ran to the houses next to our camp. First, I ran through a hotel where there were a lot of youth—especially girls. I seemed to know some of them from Advent Youth. Apparently, they had a leisure event there. But there were also other guests. In the hotel, I did not find anyone who seemed ready for the last-minute message.

So I went out again, back to the edge of the meadow. There was a row of one-family houses. In the garden of the first house, I found a woman whom I immediately approached. I told her enthusiastically that she should go to the meadow and sign up there. Perhaps there was hope for her there. She went away gratefully. I continued to run in some dark alleys. I found a group of male youth there (perhaps from the leisure event), whom I asked to follow me. Hesitantly, unconcerned, and dilly-dallying, they came with me. I realized that I could not bring them to the goal, so I went with quick steps toward the meadow. The woman whom I had sent out to the meadow came back from there sadly and we met. She explained, “They don’t take me anymore.”. Meanwhile, the Father went behind me with some others (no idea who or what). I did not pay much attention to them—not because I wouldn’t care but because I wanted to sign up now as fast as possible. When I came nearer to those on the meadow, I realized that I had “wasted” a lot of time. Was it already too late? I ran and called my name. Immediately the Father called out behind me, “The grace period is over!”. Those on the meadow just checked whether my name was inscribed, gave me the OK, and sent me to the waiting people. Now two things became clear to me: the Father had only been waiting for me, and I was taken. And all this was not the second coming, but the end of the grace period. This confused me somewhat but also clarified the previous confusion. I joined the others gratefully and we (10 to 20 people) waited, uncertain as to what instruction the Father would give us next.

The dream can be summarized as follows:

There are two main scenes in the dream. First, there is the “barn scene” where she is in a simply-constructed barn, whose wall did not extend to the peak of the roof on the ends, leaving a space, or hole, at both ends of the barn where light came through. This barn was originally interpreted, in contrast to Hiram Edson’s barn,^[8] as a representation of a place to learn about God (where the light should come in from the openings), but it was dark and had sleeping bunks—symbolism that contrasts to God’s watchful and lightened people.

As all things are fulfilling now, this symbolism can be seen to mark a point in time: it represents the time of the Notre Dame fire. A cathedral is also supposed to be a place for people to go and learn about God, but cathedrals are also dark and full of error and put people to sleep, spiritually, like the symbolism of the barn in the dream. After the fire, however, the two untouched towers of Notre Dame stand as witnesses like the two holes in the dream, and a person who stands in that great cathedral today can see in those two towers the witnesses of God’s destruction upon that church. Brother John also pointed out to us recently how the burned-out roof left a cross-shaped hole (because the cathedral was built in the shape of a cross), through which one can now look up from within and see the light that was previously obstructed. This is represented in the dream by the sudden and bright light that came in, which the sister at first understood to be the second coming (but in fact it was something different).

The second scene is a type of “heavenly registration” scene, where the sister wants to sign up, but she wanted to try to save more souls first. After attempting this for a while in vain, she returns in the last minute, fearing she was already too late and “signs up” by simply calling her own name. She describes some important details at that point that are worth repeating:

Was it already too late? I ran and called my name. Immediately the Father called out behind me, “The grace period is over!”. Those on the meadow just checked whether my name was inscribed, gave me the OK, and sent me to the waiting people. Now two things became clear to me: the Father had only been waiting for me, and I was taken. And all this was not the second coming, but the end of the grace period.

It is important to understand that in reality, when the sister joined the forum, it was a key time in 2012, when the first witnesses were being called to the witness stand for the Father (as described in the Final Warning series on LastCountdown.org), and she was the last one to come, joining just in the last moment before it was too late. Thus, her situation was a direct parallel with the present situation with Flordaliza… and so this gives us another marker in time. Sister Flordaliza joined the forum in the last possible moments before God closed the door, calling out “the grace period is over”! Before she joined the forum, she had studied with Brothers Robert and Jorge, and then Brother Gerhard helped her get properly registered—two or three people just like Eleonora dreamed were at the “registration table”, which serves as another confirmation that the dream indeed points to the present time.

In other words, this is it! The forum door is now closed, and the perfect square is set up. No one will be granted access anymore, because the number is complete and there is no more time to become part of this group. Probation has closed for this group of the living 144,000! To fall now would be catastrophic! This is the hour we must stand without an Intercessor, because our probation has closed! The work is finished. The number is complete. This time, the Father was waiting for Sister Flordaliza, and then promptly closed the door once she entered. This is what we see in the timing of it all, and this is what the dream confirms.

If any critics that we now pray for in these last days before the special resurrection should repent, they would be among the great multitude who die on May 4, but the door to the 144,000 is already closed—the number is complete! The opportunity was open for a long time. Critics may still repent until May 4, but their repentance will not bring them into the number of the 144,000.

After that time, repentance will not even be possible, because probation will then close for all of humanity. Then—most probably—the three days of darkness will come until the return of Christ. Brother Gerhard will share more about that.

If victorious, there on the sea of glass, Jesus will crown these 44 people with His own right hand. Without any difficulty, He could complete that within a few hours—which would be perfectly normal for such a ceremony—being able to spend a short, but reasonable amount of time with each one individually! Glory hallelujah!

This is all in addition to our previous understanding of the golden number 144 (12^th in the spiral series, 144 = 12 × 12) as we described in Part III of the Holy City series! Nothing has changed with that… we just see how the forum now fulfills an especially important role in the prophecies for the 144,000! And most of all, we see that we have reached the complete number for the forum, and God accomplished that at just the right time! Only He, who is Time, could accomplish something like that!

This is very deep! The number is complete… that means that the work of finding the 144,000 is finished! Now, the 44 must stand. There can be no changes. If anyone falls in this last hour, the whole plan would fail and Satan would take the victory. But God has given so much evidence of the abundant fulfillment of last-day prophecies that no one should fall!

We are now in the third hour. In the first hour, we abandoned the fourth angel. In the second hour, we gave testimony for Satan’s power instead of Christ’s. Now is the third and final hour before His coming, and we must watch and pray with Jesus! We cannot be like the sleeping disciples who did not understand the situation and could not stay awake. No, brethren, but we have been plucked as brands from the fire, so let us watch and pray with our Lord, lest we enter into temptation!

The picture that the 44 forum members frame is that of Jesus in prayer and agony. How can we depict that picture if we do not ourselves take part in that agonizing prayer? You know how easy it is to fall. It is by His grace that we have been rescued from the fire, to be brought nearest to the heart of Jesus! Give your video testimonies for this ministry and His transforming power in your lives before all kings of the earth (Matthew 10:18), to strengthen yourselves and each other! The Holy Spirit will show you what you should speak (verse 19)! In this hour, let the glory of God shine brightly while Brother John gives glory to God as he writes his article about that very theme: the glory of God being moved to the temple in Paraguay!

Our safety is only in obedience through faith in Christ, who is the perfect embodiment of the law and our Example in sacrifice. Jesus asks, “Will I find faith?” The ark of the covenant (law and glory!) must be symbolically brought out from hiding, and those carrying the ark are to give testimony for Jesus!

There is yet a little more to share regarding the completed number.

Those of you who were with us in 2016 may remember how our last sealed member was named Eva—representing the completion of the total number of people who make up the “second Eve”: the Lamb’s bride, the church. Sadly, she fell away in the terrible rebellion that followed, but in a similar way, God has again put a confirmation in the name of our last sealed member!

The name of our new sister, Flordaliza, also has a special meaning. “Flordaliza” is a Filipino name, which is a Latin/Spanish equivalent to the French “Fleur de lys”. This is noted in the Behind the Name entry for this name (using the alternate spelling, Flordeliza). Looking at the French, we find that it is a symbol of a flower (a lily, a symbol of purity) that represented the king. This brings to mind how the 144,000 represent Jesus, our King, through the 100% likeness to His sacrifice. The priestly aspect of sacrifice is captured by the fact that throughout the church age, the fleur de lys was associated with the depiction of many martyrs.

Being a lily, it also brings to mind the words of Christ to the labor-worn:

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Luke 12:27)

In all of Solomon’s kingly glory, his rich clothing was no match to the beautiful clothing of the lily, representing that pure righteousness of Christ for which we cannot work, but simply receive by faith, our works following as a result.

Thus, through the name of our last member, sister Flordaliza, signifying the completed number, God shows us how He sees us: as kings clothed like the lilies of the field, and as priests through their pure (100%) Christlike willingness to sacrifice all.

In Ernie Knoll’s dream, when he views the completed mosaic, Gabriel tells him, “Remember, I told you there is a wonderful study of Jesus and the Garden of Gethsemane.” This was referring to the Full Moon at Gethsemane series, where God’s calendar was deciphered based on the circumstances of Jesus’ crucifixion. Today, we see how that same study has guided us, and it again brings us to recognize the significance of that special day, April 22, 2019. When we speak of feast days on God’s calendar, we refer to that study of Jesus in Gethsemane. And never is that more the case than when we speak of the very feast days upon which Christ suffered and died.

The first edge of the gamma-ray burst shines on that day, April 22, 2019, because it is the Hebrew anniversary of Jesus’ glorious resurrection, the day of firstfruits and the wave sheaf offering, upon which the original GRB was detected on April 27, 2013. Do you see how much has come to fulfillment on that day!? And how the beacon of Jesus’ own victory in His resurrection begins to lighten the world on that day, continuing until the earth is purged of sin at the other edge of the beam from that beacon!? Is it not the right day for the first of the two armies (you—the living 144,000) to have been resurrected from your recent death as Brother Robert described!? This first reflection of the GRB really struck on that day with the great light of all this understanding that you are presented with here!

Our POWEHI is the resurrection and the life, and that begins to shine now in you—the completed 44 who form the frame of the 144,000! Now that Brother John’s work of finding the “144,000” is done and we are complete, the Lord shines the great and living light of His gamma-ray burst on us—the glory of His coming! Our countdown to that special day, April 22, 2019 has been perfectly fulfilled!

This also reminds us about the task that the Lord once gave to Brother John to find the 12, and the 12 to finally find the 144,000. In the light of this post, we see that this task was also fulfilled and we are tremendously thankful to both anointed ones to have brought us through to this point. Now let’s be awake and stand on our feet—the true feet of knowledge!

And near the end of this new “hour of the Two Armies”, the second army will be raised up to join us! It is all coming together in the most beautiful harmony and reiterates one resounding message: Jesus is coming at the appointed time—the center of the beam! Glory Hallelujah! Let us not fail to watch and pray in this last hour!

The Wounds of Jesus and the Statue of Daniel

Closing thoughts of Gerhard Traweger, April 28, 2019

What does a person write when God asks one to address some final thoughts to a world that pretty much rejected everything that came out of the “publishing house” of LastCountdown and WhiteCloudFarm and trampled it under foot? No, I have no hatred or anger, but I am surrounded by a heartache similar to what Jesus must have felt when He wanted to gather His own, and they did not allow it.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; [These were the last Elijah and the four end-time evangelists and end-times twelve apostles.] how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings [since the last Elijah began his work 15 years ago], and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate [again, in the next 8 years of perceived time and the millennium, when the bones of the dead are lying around unburied]: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh [on May 6, 2019] in the name of the Lord [POWEHI]. (Luke 13:34-35)

We have testified of what the Spirit of God revealed in the “eleventh hour” and in the “hour of the two armies” through the last four articles of the the Loud Cry series. In addition, my brothers and coauthors, John, Robert, and Ray, each wrote a part in this final article about the light from the first reflection of the GRB on April 22 this year that illuminated us so abundantly and brought us all back to life on Resurrection Day!

Above all this, the Spirit of God revealed to us further details that are especially related to my last article, The World in Shambles. Therefore, it is my honor to inform you of these things.

On April 23, Brother John received a second e-mail again about the fundraising activities for the Adventist project of the statue of Daniel 2. The email stated that $50,000 in donations and contributions had already been received, but a further $100,000 would be needed by May 9 this year.

As already explained in my article and taken up again in The Sign of the Son of Man, this carved statue will accomplish all sorts of things except the winning of people to God through the help of this idol. One could compare it to the “one-armed bandits” in the casinos of Las Vegas, which serve only as revenue generators and give the blind people the feeling of having fortune itself in their hands and that perhaps they will hit the jackpot after all. In reality, however, the gambler is cheated and the money is siphoned out of his pocket. The red light in the picture, which is supposed to show all the casino’s visitors that someone had a “lucky in cards” rarely lights up, because most people are “unlucky in (brotherly Philadelphia) love.” They did not seek the answer to the question from God about the meaning of life, but thought they could find it in a life of happy-go-lucky playing. At the end of such a game night, the wallet is just as empty as that of the prodigal son. The lights in the hall go out at curfew, and the bitterly cold and pitch-black night of disillusionment looms.

Like the light on top of the slot machine, whose brightness is measured in watts and only lights up when enough coins feed the apparatus, a seemingly resourceful SDA church, who has nevertheless fallen victim to her idolatry, hopes for abundant revenue according to the motto: the more income, the more light the statue will radiate into the world, because then the tour to “heal the land” can continue.

The impression of this project is that it is not about evangelistic luminosity in “Watts,” but about generating as much income as possible in “Washingtons”—George Washingtons, that is, whose portrait adorns the dollar bill. The location for the first presentation of this carved idol, the casino city of Las Vegas, could not have been chosen more appropriately in this context.

But God will now not allow this carved idol to be erected there before Jesus-Alnitak-POWEHI Himself announces the “curfew”^[9] of His return, and then the "gnashing of teeth" will begin. All of a sudden, the "lights" will go out, and a terrible darkness will engulf the world.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen. (Matthew 22:11-14)

When will this darkness haunt the world? One of these lights is the moon, which is completely darkened in its monthly cycle over a period of one to three days. This phase is called, as probably everyone knows, the astronomical new moon. It is commonly known that the King of kings and Lord of lords, POWEHI, will come at the darkest hour when the third pang of woe “suddenly” finishes the birth of the eternal Kingdom of God. Can we expect the “three days of darkness,” generally known in Christian circles, to begin on May 4?

With shouts of triumph, jeering, and imprecation, throngs of evil men are about to rush upon their prey, when, lo, a dense blackness, deeper than the darkness of the night, falls upon the earth. Then a rainbow, shining with the glory from the throne of God, spans the heavens and seems to encircle each praying company. The angry multitudes are suddenly arrested. Their mocking cries die away. The objects of their murderous rage are forgotten. With fearful forebodings they gaze upon the symbol of God’s covenant and long to be shielded from its overpowering brightness. {GC 635.3}

The last time such a relatively rare three days of darkness took place in the time of the April new moon when the pitch-black moon stood exactly three days long in the constellation of Pisces (the fish) and Cetus (the whale, see Jonah!) until after three days the harvest sickle for the “eleventh working hour” was spotted over the area of the “third” temple in Paraguay on April 6. Of course, we were not expecting the return of Jesus during those days, but we knew that the end of the 1260 days had come, which the two witnesses had prophesied of.

It is therefore reasonable to examine the astronomical new moon in May to see whether it could fulfill the three days of darkness! It turns out that the moon is in its darkest and blackest phase exactly on the evening of the day of the biblical special resurrection, May 4, 2019, at about 8 p.m. PYT.

If we now add three days to this date of May 4/5, we come to May 7/8, 2019, when all those who still look to Jerusalem will see the new moon crescent AFTER the coming of POWEHI and the double day of the destruction of Babylon. These are most likely the true three days of darkness in which the majority of Christianity will pass away in fear. They will put candles in their windows to drive the demons away, but that will not help them through these days and nights.

What do you think, stubborn critic or still-doubting skeptic? After all the heavenly light that was offered to the world in the last four articles and in this final word from the feathers of God’s four end-time authors, can you really still sleep peacefully at night and pretend nothing is wrong? Repentance is still a possibility for you, because the “hour of the two armies” has not yet completely expired. However, when the three dark days of May 4, 2019 should come upon mankind, it will be finally too late.

After these sobering prospects, I would like to try to reach your heart in a different way. Considering the implications of the knowledge of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar, I would like to bring to your attention a thought that was already maturing during the writing of my article, but which God did not want to become part of my main article; instead, to the special glory of God, it should reach you in the “hour of the two armies.”

We know that all praise and honor is due to Jesus alone, so it is only right to remind us of His immeasurable sacrifice and the sufferings associated with it, which should be contemplated daily anyway.^[10] It is about the following familiar verse:

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. (Psalm 22:16)

Here, the psalmist prophesies that Jesus would one day be crucified with nails. Since we are now in the time of the feet of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar, and I intend to make an analogy between the wounds of Jesus and the body parts of the statue, I was at first particularly interested in what is known about the marks of crucifixion on the feet.

If one tries to find out from the Internet where exactly the Romans drove the nails into the feet of the “evildoers,” one finds after lengthy searching only one article that reports of a discovery from excavations in Jerusalem of a bone with a nail piercing the feet, thus proving at least one of the two possible kinds of crucifixion. I quote from the article:

When nails were involved, they were long and square (about 15cm long and 1cm thick) and were driven into the victim’s wrists or forearms to fix him to the crossbar. Once the crossbar was in place, the feet may be nailed to either side of the upright or crossed. In the first case, nails would have been driven through the heel bones, and in the second case, one nail would have been hammered through the metatarsals [the five bones] in the middle of the foot.

The biblical account gives us to understand that none of Jesus’ bones were broken,^[11] which excludes the first variant described in the article, but it is very likely that Jesus was struck with a long nail through the middle of the crossed feet and into the beam, as is commonly depicted. This must therefore be the place on his feet where our Savior was pierced.

From this we can draw a deep spiritual doctrine and conclude that Jesus will strike the last of Satan’s world empires exactly on the feet—as we have already proven beyond the shadow of a doubt in the article The World in Shambles—the same point where Satan, through the Romans, had previously inflicted the most terrible pain upon Him. This knowledge is another and very valid proof that the coming of Jesus and His vengeance will take place before the disintegration of Europe through the Brexit.

But this thought is not yet completely finished, because the whole statue of Nebuchadnezzar will be broken to pieces. I will now examine whether the other wounds of Jesus could also be associated with the body parts of the statue and cite the parallel biblical passages as support for my thesis.

The head: On Jesus’ head was pressed a terrible crown of thorns and He was hit in the face with a reed.^[12] In addition to the physical pain and the wounds to the head that colored His sinless body blood red, our Savior was also spat upon, which was a most humiliating act that would seriously injure His sinless soul. Therefore, the statue’s head of GOLD will be broken to pieces.

The chest and arms: With one nail each, the two hands^[13] of our Savior, which had always done nothing but good during His earthly life, were nailed to the crossbeam of the instrument of torture. These wounds will remain visible for all eternity in remembrance of His sacrifice, especially when our loving Savior will gird Himself again and break bread in the Kingdom of Heaven with those same blessing hands. This SILVER part of the statue must certainly be broken to pieces.

The belly and thighs: With the spear of the Roman soldier^[14] that will soon be resurrected to witness with terror the return of the victorious King of kings,^[15] the side of Jesus Christ was pierced, from below the rib cage up to the heart. The BRONZE part of the statue will certainly not survive the Rock and will be shattered by Him.

The legs: The legs are an exception, because Jesus’ legs were not broken—although it was then customary—because He had already died by that time.^[16] But does that mean this part of the statue, which symbolizes the Roman Empire, will escape? Certainly not! Daniel 2:45 explains that the iron of the legs will also be destroyed.

However, we have found a corresponding Bible verse which mentions this part of the body, and it gives the reason for the absence of a leg wound, and we also know that our Savior lived during the time of the Roman Empire and that this empire, along with the Jews, is responsible for His death. The special punishment for this deed will soon be inflicted on all those responsible for the crucifixion and death of Jesus in the Roman Empire.^[17] They too will be part of the special resurrection, and during the seven^[18] or eight^[19] lean years after the second coming of Jesus, they will have time again to reflect on their deeds until they descend into the realm of the dead again, where they must await the resurrection of the wicked after the millennium.

But why were Jesus’ legs spared? How can this be explained in connection with the statue of Daniel? The “Roman Empire” is quite different from the previous world empires, and there is therefore a perfect explanation for the absence of a leg wound on the body of Jesus. Have you noticed that in the description of the other parts of the body I especially emphasized the material, as Daniel 2:45 does? The IRON of the legs continues into the feet and toes, and as I explained in my last article, this empire has gone through different stages over time and still continues to this day.

Therefore, the wounds to Jesus’ feet stand not only for the feet of the statue but also for the legs, because both parts of the body contain the same material: IRON! As divine recompense for what was done to Jesus by the emperors of Rome and their successors, the bishops of Rome—who later called themselves popes—and also to His people, then and now, the stone will hit the iron of the statue at exactly the place where the Son of God received His nail marks, which He also will carry for all eternity in memory of His sacrifice.

In short, the whole statue will be broken to pieces and fall to dust and ashes, which means that NO earthly kingdom of this world will remain. May this deep spiritual teaching be another jewel for the church of Philadelphia and complete the mystery surrounding the feet of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar; may it convey confidence and security in these last days on the old earth and ascribe glory to the God of heaven, because there is only one name worthy of being uttered and worshipped: it is Jesus-Alnitak-POWEHI, the unfathomable and manifold crowned Creator of all things, who sacrificed Himself out of love for His fallen creatures!

So the only question remaining is whether you, dear reader, will let this very last article from the hands of the four authors move you to repentance before the door of grace for the world slams shut, causing such a terrible “earthquake” that God’s second army comes back to life and POWEHI’s appearance shuts off the lights of Babylon?

Will we meet on the White Cloud?

May His will be done, both now and forever!

AMEN.

In the Clouds of Heaven

Last Words of John Scotram from the entrance of the Ark on April 30, 2019

In all the years since I received the honorable and at the same time arduous office from God to deliver the Orion message with all its facets and manifold spiritual teachings to a humanity that had closed its eyes and ears, the Lord gave overwhelming light—streams of clear water straight from His throne that is in the heavens. But never has there been such a flood of light at once as in this time of the last two prophetic hours before Jesus’ return, which include the time of the latter rain, shortened to 30 days. This flood was so great that we were overwhelmed in the “bakery” of the White Cloud Farm—we who mix the dough of God’s bread with this water of life—and it is only thanks to God’s healing power and grace that none of us became seriously ill due to lack of sleep or overwork, or even died of overwork like the approximately 270 election workers in Indonesia.

The situation was so serious that my co-apostle from the same tribe of Joseph as I, Brother Franco, had a dream on April 24, 2019 that summarized the situation from God’s perspective:

I was in a bakery where there was a bread baking machine which finished the process of the bread already baked. The machine was only stopped by us to receive the bread and find where to put it or store it.

Because of the big amount of bread, it began to fall off the machine to the ground. We only stopped the machine to be able to take advantage of the finished and baked bread. The pieces of bread were like “big cupcakes” of a large size with no frosting. But very well finished with a well-made color, like very tasty bread to our sight and fresh, ready to be eaten.

We were not many who were with this machine, which was the last area where we received it. We only stopped the machine to be able to accommodate the bread wherever we found a place so that it would not fall to the ground anymore. Not too much fell and we were taking care. Then we turned on the machine again.

I only know that there was a lot of bread, I mean a lot. And that is why we had to stop the machine to be able to keep up with the large amount and with the last process of this bread.

These last words of mine at the end of this ministry work, which God Himself had called into being in a very special way, should be short, since there is hardly any time left to translate and publish them before the Son of Man, whose sign we have already been able to recognize, will return. This last article from the hands of all four authors represents the picking-up of the fallen bread, since simply because of the fullness of the manna from heaven we were no longer able to keep up with the heavenly production facility.

Even though the mocking world still did not want to step into the storefront of the divine heavenly bakery, and thus came true the terrible vision^[20] of Ellen G. White that in the latter rain, only isolated people received the abundant blessing of God's wisdom, in the country that Christianity looks to according to its tradition, there was no lack of evidence that the latter rain really and truly took place at the time we were allowed to prophesy from the "third" temple.

The Sea of Galilee, which had already played an important role in our final series for the dress rehearsal of the Second Coming of Jesus in 2016 but at that time had so little water that the experts feared the worst, was filled so heavily in the latter rain in March and April 2019 that the press spoke of another “miracle” on the Sea of Galilee.

On April 4, 2019—just two days before the beginning of the “eleventh hour” of the harvest—Jesus announced from the land where He walked:

Ironically, during the month of World Water Day (March 22), Galilee has experienced yet another miracle with the fourth consecutive month of above average rainfall. The last time northern Israel experienced similar sustained rainfall was in 1992.

After an extremely prolonged period of extreme dryness, claimed by some to be 5 years or others even 10 years or longer, the long-awaited rain in the land of biblical Elijah fell in biblical proportions—and as you now know since the chapter on the square of 44, not only in Israel!

This lake, where Jesus liked to linger, and where the seven disciples had caught the 153 fish and brought them to the fire of the Risen One, has always stood for the important rain in the land, ensuring that the seeds were sown in spring and guaranteeing the harvest in autumn. When Jesus saw before Him His total of 160 firstfruit “fish” on the shore of this lake, it was the early rain that had filled the lake. So it would also be 60 people who could form a third symbolic square around Jesus (100), if we think further about what we learned before. The innermost wall is formed by 44 people, representing the 144 in the symbolic number 144,000. The second wall should then be the “1000” of the 144,000. Next come the martyrs of all ages, and now we understand that they also received a special symbolic number from Jesus: 153 + 7 = 160, meaning 60 “trophy fish” around Christ (100), who resemble Him by 60%.

But with all the blessings of knowledge, fishing at the time of the latter rain should have been a little richer than we as High Sabbath Adventists could see in the innermost square around Jesus, right?

The mystery of Jesus is great when it comes to the number of those who—without tasting death—may experience His return. If one reads the prophecy of the messenger of the Lord very carefully where she speaks of the various groups of the redeemed, and in the context of the Bible, then there is only one criterion to belong to the second square of the “1000” of the 144,000, namely...

Nearest the throne are those who were once zealous in the cause of Satan, but who, plucked as brands from the burning, have followed their Saviour with deep, intense devotion. Next are those who perfected Christian characters in the midst of falsehood and infidelity, those who honored the law of God when the Christian world declared it void, and the millions, of all ages, who were martyred for their faith. And beyond is the “great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues... {GC 665.2}

This therefore refers particularly to those who do not accept the mark of the beast, gay marriage, and its image, LGBT tolerance, like those on the broad way. We are about to meet some of these people!

But how should the 44 recognize the great majority of their church of the 144,000 (or the 1000 the 44)? And how would it finally be possible to distinguish the false prophets from those who proclaimed the truth? Isn’t one of the main jobs of the harvest to finally separate the wheat from the chaff?

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. (Luke 3:17)

Of course I’m talking about a sign that appeared in the heavens at the beginning of the last hour of harvesting and finally made it possible to distinguish the weeds from the wheat, which until then were very similar. The tares are lacking a certain trait that characterizes the good wheat that belongs to the people of God: the knowledge of the sign of the Son of Man!

Now it is easy to look for Christians who not only sigh and cry for the abominations committed in the churches, but who also (!) have recognized the sign of the Son of Man.

Good wheat therefore includes people like Rhonda Empson, whose husband dreamed of the “Event Horizon” years ago and was told that this would be the sign of the Son of Man when it appeared. Others, who immediately understand this truth, are now also laid up in the barn. And still others, even had visions of the appearance of the sign long before it was made visible to the whole world. The sign of the Son of Man has now changed everything; we now see who knows the voice of the Good Shepherd and follows Him!

But anyone who speaks of a second chance after the Second Coming is a false prophet! Just so there’s no doubt...

There will be no probation after the coming of the Lord. Those who say that there will be are deceived and misled. Before Christ comes just such a state of things will exist as existed before the Flood. And after the Saviour appears in the clouds of heaven no one will be given another chance to gain salvation. All will have made their decisions.—Letter 45, 1891. {LDE 237.1}

Yesterday evening, April 29, 2019, I prayed and asked the Lord what He wanted me to say in my final words. Hadn’t I said everything in the last 15 years or written enough in the last 9 years?

Then I heard the Spirit of God say: “You will have to say something about the white horseman in Sagittarius, because Sagittarius has a bow and a crown at his feet. But you will repeat what someone else has already said.”

With some hope in my heart, I went to bed just to follow another lead of inspiration this morning and look again for people who had recognized the sign of the Son of Man. I was frightened when I saw how few there were. I found only one video, from a man I had never heard of before.

The video Passover Black Hole & The Harp by Paul Anthony Dawson is a revelation in itself and then I found the “big muffins” I had dropped because of the rush and abundance. But as Brother Franco’s dream says, I would still have the opportunity to “take care” of this bread, which I will do now at the end.

Brother Paul Anthony has clearly recognized the sign of the Son of Man and thus belongs to the good wheat. He begins his video by saying that the pictures of Sgr A* in the constellation of Sagittarius, who has a bow and a crown (that was the identifying mark God had given me the night before) and POWEHI in M87 were taken simultaneously by EHT^[21] in April 2017. This was nothing new for me yet, however, but he added that the sequence of the recordings ended on April 10 and 11, 2017 and that that was the Jewish Passover in 2017. I checked, and indeed it was!

So, what we got to see 10 days before the 2019 Passover was a photo taken at the Jewish 2017 Passover! Is there a better connection to the sign of the Son of Man than the RABBINIC Passover, which is based on a false calendar of God?

But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. (Matthew 26:63-64)

And then he shows what I and the whole team at the White Cloud Farm had missed^[22] and what I—to be honest—had thought about, but didn't recognize the connecting line: M87 lies in a galaxy cluster in the constellation of Virgo, which of course reminds me of the church of God. I already explained that in countless videos.

I even took a Stellarium photo of the location of M87 (framed with blue corners) and published it under the sign of the Son of Man. Here it is again; what do you notice in it?

I had understood the position of M87 as lying on Virgo’s right shoulder and had tried to establish a connection to the following Bible verse:

And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. (Isaiah 22:22)

Yes, this is about our Lord and a shoulder, but the shoulder in the picture is the shoulder of the church. For this reason, the verse seemed a little too far-fetched to me, and I rejected the idea. However, Brother Paul Anthony shows another picture of Virgo from a different planetarium program and it becomes crystal clear: M87 is not on Virgo’s shoulder, but in the BRANCH she is holding!

The true biblical connection of this heavenly image with the location of M87 and the sign of the Son of Man is:

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: (Isaiah 11:1)

And…

And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord: (Zechariah 6:12)

And of course many other verses!

Just like me, Brother Paul Anthony obviously consults the website Constellationsofwords.com, which has a lot of information about the different meanings of the stars in the ancient writings and mystical tales of ancient peoples, often including valuable clues for those of us who lift up our heads. To the right “hand” star of Virgo, which is closest to M87 and bears the name Vindemiatrix, they know among other things...

Bullinger in Witness to the Stars, a Christian publication, wrote “The star epsilon, in the arm bearing the branch, is called Al Mureddin, which means who shall come down (as in Psa 72:8),^[23] or who shall have dominion.^[24] It is also known as Vindemiatrix, a Chaldee word which means “the son”, or “branch, who cometh”.

In addition, the old cultures saw the “human child,” the “son of the virgin,” where the branch is drawn today. Need I say more about this?

Perhaps I should name a connection that had always been a headache for me, because I felt that we had not yet recognized the whole truth (and it also escaped Brother Paul Anthony):

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:3)

POWEHI comes from Virgo as a sign of the Son of Man and humanity will suffer great pain under this “birth.” Isn’t it significant that the first thing POWEHI destroyed was the iconic monument to the false worship of Our Lady, only five days after His appearance?—Notre Dame!

As the true Passover full moon stood in the sky and (“accidentally”) Christians worldwide began to celebrate their Easter Sunday, it was midnight in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and at the “third” temple in Paraguay it was Sabbath, April 20, 2019, 2:30 p.m. The most pronounced full moon was at this moment, when the day of POWEHI’s vengeance for the change of the eternally valid Sabbath commandment began, at the feet of Virgo, as in the “Great Sign of the Woman of Revelation 12” on September 23, 2017...

We await the Special Resurrection at the beginning of the three dark days corresponding to the three days of the astronomical new moon, which begins on May 4/5 and ends in the double day of God’s retribution. In this Special Resurrection, the two armies are finally brought together almost at the end of the “hour of the two armies”.

A resurrection involves a huge earthquake like the one at the hour when Jesus died on the cross for us. A last heavenly sign can be expected even after the sign of the Son of Man. We have long since recognized the biblical “four winds” as the “planets” Venus, Mercury, Sun and Moon, and they are the subject of the verse from Matthew 24 that comes after the verse with the sign of the Son of Man and speaks of the gathering of the people of God. And the first act of this gathering is the Special Resurrection, and only then - on the third of the three dark days - does the great first resurrection follow with the sound of the seventh trumpet and Jesus’ actual return.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matthew 24:31)

And again the stones speak and not the people who bear the name of Christ. As soon as for May 3, 2019, “conspiracy theorists” predict a mega earthquake. In a video on YouTube, one can see that the sun, moon, Venus and Mercury are moving into their special position, which we have long understood as the gathering of the “eagles” from Matthew 24:28 around the “ram”, the sacrificial animal or “carcass”, where all “four winds” are now present. We have even known the hour of this earthquake - for almost 12 years! But...

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: (Matthew 24:20)

The line formed by Venus, Mercury and the Sun exactly on May 5/6 points directly to the constellation of the lion in the Mazzaroth.

The line formed by the earth, moon and sun points to the constellation of Aries.

Now our eyes are opened and we understand the last heavenly sign of His Second Coming that Christ predicted 1988 years ago:

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet [seventh trumpet on 5/6 May 2019], and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds [sun, Mercury, Venus, moon], from one end [extreme] of heaven to the other [extreme]. (Matthew 24:31)

The one end of heaven is Aries, the sacrificial Lamb, when Jesus first came to earth. The other end of heaven is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the King of kings, when Jesus comes the second time.

Just as alpha is one extreme of the Greek alphabet and represents Jesus as the beginning of the plan of salvation, omega is the other extreme of the Greek alphabet and the completion of the plan of salvation. Therefore the heavenly sign of Matthew 24:31 belongs to Revelation 22:13:

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. (Revelation 22:13-14)

What does all this bread from heaven show us? I think that God wants us to understand that we will never suffer hunger, because there is something new and even greater to explore and discover in His Word and in HIS universe for all eternity. It is this urge to explore that distinguishes a true child of Jesus, who looks with big eyes at the wonders of God and asks for more wonders. Only those who truly seek God with all their heart can find Him and then get to know Him even better and deeper. I once said to my brothers and sisters: “I am a walking question mark.” Anyone who knows children of a certain age knows what that means, namely to ask questions all the time, even if they seem so stupid.

The 44 have done this and have become like children, and therefore they are permitted to form the innermost wall around the temple of God, closely followed by sister Rhonda Empson and brother Paul Anthony. 144 cubits high is the wall of the Holy City,^[25] where my studies began shortly after my baptism in 2003. I did not know then that I myself was the man and angel with the golden reed to prophesy again.

The 44 form the wall of the temple of God and stand in a perfect square. It may have escaped only a few that there are four special positions at the corners. They are reserved for four messengers, the human “reapers,” who bring in the harvest from all four ends of the earth.

One could assume that these positions are reserved for the three human evangelists and the second anointed one who came down from heaven,^[26] but the Lord of heaven did not intend for a heavenly being to be a cornerstone—like Him^[27]—finding a place among men whom he was only to guide as a teacher. The fourth angel had an advantage: a little strength^[28] that men did not have. That is why he was sent to the church of Philadelphia.

But the square of 44 is only allowed to be formed by humans who reflect Jesus 100%! So, who should take the position for which the fourth angel was only a placeholder—namely, the position that corresponds most to Jesus, the original Cornerstone?

I waited a long time for one thing in particular. I waited for a manifestation of the faith of Jesus through words that I had foreseen but that no one had spoken before. The authors wrote about it, the church spoke about it—but the words that had to come from the deepest heart and correspond to Jesus’ words that He would have uttered if He had been here with us now in the latter rain time would not come for a long, long time.

God had determined that the 44 should give their testimonies in the form of videos in the last two “hours” so that this manifestation of the love of Jesus would be made possible. And yet... I saw many wonderful videos, often of simple, loving people who, despite their simplicity, had accepted in their hearts the Word of God, which often seemed so complex. They made it clear that they believed and taught the message of the fourth angel as best they could. But even that was not all the faith Jesus was seeking!

He sought faith that would speak the words of the heart of Jesus Himself. When, after a few days in all the stress of baking bread, I finally took the time to watch the somewhat longer videos of about 20 minutes from two German sisters and was already at the second... almost at the end of it... I looked Jesus directly in the face and heard His words from the mouth of Sister Ane-Mari, who through tears—because she had just thought of the tears of Jesus (and of the angel Gabriel)—said full of love:

I plead with you, take Jesus’ hand! ...Please... take Jesus’ hand! ...I am ready... to give my eternal life for you, so that you can also see all the beautiful things I have experienced, that I was allowed to see. Please, let your heart be touched... and take Jesus’ hand. I ask this from the bottom of my heart; it is my deepest wish. I plead in the name of Jesus Christ Alnitak POWEHI. Amen.

The video ends with the following words, which stand before the mountains of what was once my earthly homeland: “For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.”

There He was again; my Friend and Master, whom I left 60 years ago—and 4 orbits of 15 years each of the nearest S-star around the galactic center—to carry out a difficult mission for Him. Now I knew that His and my tears had not been shed in vain.

I mean, all 44 have made great sacrifices. All of them are ready to offer their eternal lives, and do so at every Lord’s Supper! They offer their eternal lives to the Father so that He might be justified, they offer them so that others may still be saved. But what Sister Ane-Mari said goes a little beyond that. She offered her eternal life to a viewer she did not know and would probably never know. She addressed him personally and without much thought (like, for example, in an article by one of our authors). It came from her heart; she reflected the love of Jesus, and I can now finally say... God is not just time!

The position at the corner of the temple where the Cornerstone of Jesus was once laid will be occupied by Sister Ane-Mari, the greatest fruit of the work of all the other three authors under the direction of the fourth angel.

In His words, God often compared the angels with the stars...

…or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? (Job 38:6-7)

...and the redeemed will now replace the fallen angels. He who looked up could observe what stars do. He could take an example from them and read from the book of nature the willingness of God and of all His creatures to sacrifice.

Stars not only give light and warmth, but they also give their lives. No star lives forever! They all eventually die a death, which is at the same time the moment of a wonderful new beginning! “Behold, I make all things new,” says the Creator, POWEHI, when He speaks of the gamma-ray burst and a new creation through the death of His star (Alnitak). The immeasurably powerful explosions at the death of a star, the supernovae and hypernovae, leave behind the most beautiful formations of the universe, full of light and color, which are not only there to reflect the glory of God. They die to the glory of God and to send into the universe the material that the Creator uses as loam and clay for the creation of new life. Remember what Adam and you were made of!

It is these mighty clouds of matter, the nurseries of the stars that bear witness to sacrifice and life, and to an infinite cycle of love and willingness to give one’s own life for the benefit of others.

And on these clouds comes the Lord of lords and King of kings, whose name is the only name that will be mentioned for all eternity, and who has now found the faith that He was looking for through tears for 6000 years, to bring home those who love their neighbors, as He first loved us...