Sure, carbon dating suggests the world is billions of yrs old.
But many people take Bible sections to literally. 7 days is a metaphor. It says "a day is like a thousand yrs". People back then couldn't fathom millions or billions. A day could certainly represent a millineum.
Much time would have been needed to mature and ripen the Earth environment, for life forms.
To think a lightening bolt in a pool of gungy water would create very complicated dna, is like believing a tornado can go through a wrecking yard and throw together a working vehicle.
"Ezekiel" explains seeing the Lord coming down over him in the temple. He explains loud noise, bright light of two oppositely spinning large circular lights or wheels. Known as "Ezekiel's wheels".
Old pyramids have crude pictures of what could indicate space ship visitors in weird suits.
Other visitors from the Galaxy ? Or a visualization, to be understandable to people of the time ? So as not to scare them too much ? Spirit angel appearances were rare, for true believers that would not over react and maybe have heart attack, lol, maybe.
There is much more instruction and revelation in the Bible that deserves consideration.
The original scriptures used his name he told them. Jehovah. Which is are closest English pronouciation of the Jewish writing of the time. It was decided later his name was too holy to use, so they reworded every instance of his name in scripture, to God. Were these people influenced by Satan who disagreed with Jehovah's plan for us ?
I got curious about the Millineum fever of 1999 caused by misunderstanding of Nostradamus quatrains and other influences.
The best clues to understanding his possible gift of forsight, is in his private letter to his Son, in some books of him. Here he tells his son he changed his original Jewish devotion to Catholic, to protect his life at the time. He further explains that he had to word his quatrains obscurely, because to know exactly future events, he claims to have been told from his visions to not do. That it was only acceptable to understand after predicted events that that was them. He explains that where he writes an actual yr number, he means that by our current calendar. But where he uses words to quote times, he uses either old French or Jewish understanding.
So ... when you use old french dictionary, you see his prediction for 1999 only says terror from skies, shapes of crosses, (smart bombs), "Sept" month = Jewish 7th mth, which happened to be our spring when we had to attack Yugoslavia to stop the genecide being done there. He further says in this quatrain that "before and after, war reins happily". Meaning no change for the world.
Some people combined his other quatrain with the above. It said at the turn of the millenium, major world change will occur, with much population loss and war, but long peace afterwards. The Jewish calendar renews it's millenium in our 2242 AD.
Following are Edgar Leoni book "The Prophecies of Nostradamus" interpretations of Nostradamus possibly relating to the subject at indefinite dates. This book is amazing as it is the only one I've found with alphabetical lists of most words used in the quatrains, as well as area and time lists, making searches easy. The best interpretations I've seen are possibly in David Ovason's "The Secrets of Nostradamus". It decodes Nostradamus ' 1999 puzzle to show all other interpretations are likely wrong . For a free 10-use demo Nostradamus computer program with all quatrains and search engine, go to http://home.att.net/~estepapp :
Some excerpts from Nostradamus letter to his son Caesar , also the epistle to King :
Thy late coming, Caesar Nostradamus, my son, hath caused me to bestow much time in continual and nocturnal watchings, that I might leave a memorial of me after death, to the common benefit of mankind, concerning the things which the Divine Essence hath revealed to me by astronomical revolutions.
Although I have often foretold long before what hath afterwards come to pass, and in particular regions, acknowledging all to have been done by divine virtue and inspiration, I Was willing to hold me peace by reason of the injury-not only of the present time, but also of the future-because to put them in writing, the Kingdoms, Sects, and Regions shall be so diametrically opposed, that if I should relate what will happen hereafter, those of the present Reign, Sect, Religion and Faith, would find it so disagreeing with their fancies, that they would condemn that which future ages shall find and know to be true.
For this reason I have witheld my tongue from the vulgar, and my pen from paper.But,afterwards, I was willing for the common good to enlarge myself in dark and abstruse sentences, declaring the future events, chiefly the most urgent and those which I foresaw (whatever human mutation happened) would not offend the hearers, all under dark figures more than prophetical.
I have made books of Prophesies, each one containing 100 Astronomical Stanzas, which I have joined OBSCURELY, and are perpetual prophesies from this year (March, 1555) to the year 3797, at which some perhaps will frown, seeing so large an extension of time, and that I treat of everything under the Moon.
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But I must not wander too far, my son, from the capacity of thy sense. I find that learning shall be at a great loss, and that before the universal conflagration shall happen so many great inundations, that there shall scarce be any land that shall not be covered by water, and this shall last so long, that except for Ethnographies and Topographies(Ethnics = races, countries, religions. Topography = land elevation. So various people in threatened areas in high enough land, as well as areas not badly in danger. ) all shall perish. Before and after these inundations in many countries (he uses this "before and after inundations" phrase elsewhere in epistle, describing reversals of kingdoms{war?}{before?} and great earthquakes{after?} there shall be such scarcity of rain and such a great deal of fire, and burning STONES shall fall from Heaven, that nothing unconsumed shall be left. All this shall happen a little while before the great conflagration. Considering the supposed new, 7th millennium is to be a 1000 yrs of peace until the supposed "exodus" of all souls, living and not, to "go up" or stay "down, regarding heaven or space somewhere, an that this time of judgement may take some time, seems 2242 AD plus 1000 = 3242. leaves 555 yrs for judgement. Regardless of what to think of it all, seems to point to 23rd century for worst of things to get under way. Such as extreme heat and fires everywhere. Perhaps from decreased ozone and increased solar radiation hitting ground. Mention there of a lot of things falling from skies. Could be asteroids, comets, meteorites, missiles. Obviously great famine would occur wit increasing world population, decreasing ozone protection from sun. This would put great stress on countries that "have" from countries that "have not". If due to severe shortages of rich countries, aid is not possible, element for criminal warlike attitudes is set. Especially from hottest areas of world.
Although the planet Mars makes an end of his course, and is come to the end of his last period, nevertheless he shall begin it again. Some shall be gathered in Aquarius for many years, others in Cancer also for many years. Now (1555) we are governed by the Moon, under the power of Almighty God; which Moon before she has finished her circuit, the Sun shall come, and then Saturn. According to the celestial signs, the reign of Saturn shall come again, so that all being calculated, the world draws near to its anaragonic revolution (death-dealing ?).
Making an end here, my son, accept this gift of thy father, Michael Nostradamus, hoping to expound to thee every prophecy of these quatrains, praying to the Immortal God that he will grant thee a long life in felicity.
From Salon, this 1st of March, 1555.
Following is Nostradamus's June 27, 1558 Epistle (letter) to King Henry 2 of France , it was an introduction and request for blessing of Centuries (chapters) 7- 10 of his verses :
"To the most invincible, most high, and most Christian King of France, Henry the Second : Michael Nostradamus, his most obedient servant and subject, wishes victory and happiness.
By reason of that singular observation, O most Christian and victorious King, my face, which had been cloudy a great while, did present itself before your immeasurable Majesty. I have been ever since perpetually dazzled, continually honouring and worshipping that day, in which I presented myself before it, as before a singular and humane Majesty. Now seeking after some occasion whereby I might make appear the goodness and sincerity of my heart and extend my acquaintance toward your most excellent Majesty, and seeing that it was impossible for me to declare it by effects, as well as because of the darkness and obscurity of my mind, even for the enlightening it did receive from the face of the greatest Monarch in the world. It was a great while before I could resolve to whom I should dedicate these three last Centuries of my Prophesies, which make the complete thousand. After I had a long time considered, I have with a great temerity made my address to your Majesty, being no way daunted by it, as the great author Plutarch related in the Life of Lycurgus, that, seeing the offerings and gifts that were sacrificed in the temples of their heathen gods, many came no more, lest the people should wonder at the expense.
Notwithstanding, seeing your royal splendour joined with an incomparable humanity, I have made my address to it, not as to the Kings of Persia, of whom to come near it was forbidden, but as to a most prudent and wise prince. I have dedicated my nocturnal and prophetical calculations, written rather by a natural instinct and poetical furor than by any rules of poetry; and the most part of it written and agreeing with the years, months and weeks, of the regions, countries and most of the towns and cities in Europe; touching also something of Africa, and of a part of Asia, by the change of regions that come near to those climates, and compounded in a natural fashion. But some may answer (who hath need to blow his nose) that the rhyme is as easy to be understood, as the sense is hard to get at. Therefore, O most humane King, most of the prophetical stanzas are so difficult, that there is no way to be found for the interpretation of them. Nevertheless, being in hope of setting down the towns, cities, and regions, wherein most of those shall happen, especially in the year 1585, and in the year 1606, beginning from this present time, which is the 14th of March, 1557.
Going further to the fulfilling of those things, which shall be in the beginning of the seventh millenary, according to my astronomical calculations and other learning which I could reach (at which time the adversaries of Christ and of His Church shall begin to multiply), all has been composed and calculated in days and hours of election, and well disposed, and all as accurately as was possible for me to do. And the whole "Minerva libera et non invita,"(when Minerva was free and favourable)calculating almost as much of the time that come, as of that which is past, comprehending it in the present time, and what by the course of the said time shall be known to happen in all regions punctually as it is here written, adding nothing superfluous, although it be said "Quod de futuris non est determinata omnino veritas" (There can be no truth entirely determined for certain which concerns the future) . It is very true , Sir, that by my natural instinct given me by my progenitors, I did think I could foretell anything; but having made an agreement between this said instinct of mine, and a long calculation of art, and by a great tranquillity and repose of mind, by emptying my soul of all care, I have foretold most part of these ex tripode ceneo (by the brass tripod) , though there be many who attribute to me some things that are no more mine than that which is nothing at all. Only the eternal God, who is the searcher of men's hearts, being pious, just, and merciful, is the true Judge of it;Him I beseech to defend me from the calumny of wicked men, who would as willingly question how all your ancient progenitors, the Kings of France, have healed the disease called the Kings-evil; how some other nations have cured the biting of venomous beasts; others have had a certain instinct to foretell things that are to come, and of others too tedious to be here inserted. Notwithstanding those in whom the malignancy of the wicked spirit shall be suppressed by length of time, I hope that after my decease my work shall be in more esteem than when I was alive.
However, if I should fail in the calculation of times, or should not please some, may it please your most imperial Majesty to forgive me, protesting before God and His Saints, that I do not intend to insert anything in writing in this present Epistle that may be contrary to the true Catholic faith, while consulting the astronomical calculations, according to my learning. For the space of times of our fathers that have been before us are such, submitting myself to the correction of the most learned, that the first man Adam was before Noah, about 1,242 years, not computing the time according to the Gentile records(our bc/ad calender), as Varro did, but only according to the Sacred Scriptures(Hebrew-Israeli calendar or Trimethius astrological calendar ?), taking them as a guide to my astronomical calculations, and to the best of my understanding. After Noah and the universal flood, about a thousand and four score [{score=20} x 4 = 80]= 1,080 years, came ABRAHAM, who was a supreme astrologer, according to most men's opinion, and did first invent the Chaldean letters; after that came Moses, some 515 or 516 years after. And between the time of David and Moses there passed about 570 years. After which, between the time of David and that of our Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, there passed (according to some chronographers) 1,350 years.
Adam + 1,242 yrs = Noah
Noah + 1,080 yrs = Abraham = 2,322 yrs total
Ab + 516 yrs = Moses = 2,838 yrs
Moses + 570 yrs = David = 3,408 yrs
David + 1,350 yrs = Jesus = 4,758 yrs
Jesus + 1999 yrs = now = 6,757
The above calculations of Nostradamus suggest we have 243 years to go to end the 7th millenary, millennium, 1,000 year period. Whether it is significant is uncertain. But he does say in his epistle (personal letter) to King Henry, that "the great universal conflagration will be about the start of the 7th millennium. I have calculated time periods according to the sacred calendar." If correct, it would be approximately our 2242 AD.
Also interesting is that the years he wrote prophecy for, 3797 AD. - 1555 AD., total 2242 years !!
The current Jewish (Hebrew, Israeli) calendar determines the current year to be 5,759. Becoming 5,760 as of September, 1999. 6000 as of September, 2239 AD.. (hmmm, looks like a possible 3 or 3 ½ year difference here between 2242 and 2239. The last half of "Daniel's 70 th week" ?).
Author Edgar Leoni commentary on epistle to King :
Paragraph 38 :
Again we have two northern kings and further references to their complete triumph over Islam.
39: The prophetic narrative is interrupted here. As we may judge by the few examples, it is just as well that Nostradamus did not date everything. He plainly tells us that the following chronology (2nd of 2 in epistle about our history) does not check with those of St. John in the Revelation (suggesting the 1st one is more in line with the Bible and the better to use). His remark that dating the prophesies would be agreeable "least os all to those interpreting them" has much point to it.
40: Hugh Allen (1943) is amazed that Nostradamus, a learned Jew, did not know that all Jewish calculations involved lunar months. McCann (1942) thinks this enough to prove he was not really of Jewish origin. Not only does the chronology not check with that of paragraph 10, but Nostradamus' addition is a bit off, unless Jacob was 212 years old when he went into Egypt. (Jacob's age at this point is the biggest obstacle in adding up the second group of figures.) However, allowing this age in order for it all to add up to Nostradamus' 4,174 years, we would have the following comparison between the two chronologies (to which wee have added a third column for some historical estimates) :
Para. 10 total Para 40 total Historians'
Adam created............4,758 B.C......................4,174 B.C.................... Noah born 2,668 B.C. 1,506 1 year flood over.......3,516 B.C....1,242.........2,067 B.C.......601 Abraham born 2,436 B.C. 1,080 1,772 B.C. 295 Isaac born.......................................................1,672 B.C........100 Jacob born 1,612 B.C. 60 Jacob into Egypt..............................................1,400 B.C........212 "Time of Moses" 1,920 B.C. 516 Exodus......................same ?...............................970 B.C........430........1,225 B.C. David born 1,350 B.C. 570 1,040 B.C. Solomon king 494 B.C. 276 970 B.C. Temple built 490 B.C. 4 7th Millenary begins 1,242 A.D. 2,592 1,826 A.D. 2,316 _______ ______ 6,000 5,800
The start of the 7th Millenary in 1826 would fit fairly well with mention of 1792 (paragraph 48) as being shortly before the beginning of the new millenary. It would, however, be in contradiction to the statement in the Preface (paragraph 27) that "we are now in the 7th millenary," although this statement would be supported by the 1st chronology (paragraph 10) by which the 7th Millenary had begun 3 centuries earlier (in 1242 AD.). One of many discrepancies in Nostradamus' outpourings, relatively minor in comparison to the totally different dynastic prophecies as between the Epistle and the quatrains or, one might add, between different groups of quatrains.
Cam : The first calculation matches the current Jewish calendar, which will become 6000 in our 2242 AD. Notice the 1242 AD. above as being 6000. Or is someone's math out, with 2242 being start of 7th millennium ?
But the Sacred Scripture monthly sequence started in our March or April. Thus it seems likely to end at that time =EASTER !! Every 3rd yr they added a 13th month to line their lunar calendar up with the solar calendar. They were as follows :
#...Hebrew name....ours..........Biblical references.........Agriculture...................Feasts
1...Abib;Nisan...March-April...Ex 12:2;13:4;23:15;...Spring(later rains);......Passover;
34:18;Dt 16:1;Ne 2:1...barley & flax harvest...Unleavened
Est 3:7.........................begins....................bread;1st fruits
2...Ziv(lyyar)...April-May...1 Ki 6:1,37................Barley harvest; ...............
dry season begins............
3...Sivan...May-June.........Est 8:9...................wheat harvest (1st fruit).......Pentecost(weeks)
50 days after
Passover
4...(Tammuz)...June-July... tending vines...
5...Av(Ab)...July-August... ripening grapes,figs,olives....9th of Av mourning
of losses
6...Elul...August-September...Ne 6:15......process grapes,figs,olives
7...Ethanim(Tishri)...Sept.-Oct......1 Ki 8:2...Autumn(early rains),plowing...Trumpets;
Atonement;
Tabernacles(Booths)
8...Bul(Marcheshvan)...Oct-Nov...1 Ki 6:38...sow wheat & barley...
9...Kislev...Nov-Dec...Ne 1:1;Zec 7:1...winter rains, some areas snow...Hanukkah
(dedication)
10...Tebeth...Dec-Jan...Est 2:16...
11...Shebat...Jan-Feb...Zec 1:7...
12...Adar...Feb-Mar...Ezr 6:15;Est 3:7,13;.......almond trees bloom........Purim
Est 8:12;9:1,15,17,19,21....citrus fruit harvest
Notice that the "7th month" ("sept month") which Nostradamus may refer to in his famous 1999 prophecy, is September. He could have meant this because of disguising the truth as he did and the fact that he was born a Jew, later taking the Catholic faith.
Some may object, that this calculation is not true;because it differs from that of Eusebius. And from the time of human redemption, to that of the execrable seduction of the Saracens, have passed 624 yrs or thereabouts. From that time hitherto, it is easy to gather what times are past. If my computations be not good among all nations, however, all has been calculated by the course of the celestial bodies joined with emotion infused in me at certain loose hours, the emotion which has been handed down to me by my ancient progenitors. But the danger at this time (most excellent King) requires that such secret events should not be manifested except by an enigmatical sentence, having but one sense and only one intelligence, without having mixed with it any ambiguous or amphibological calculation. But rather under a cloudy obscurity, through am natural infusion, coming near to the sentence of one of the 1,002 prophets, that have been since the Creation of the world, according to the calculation and Punic Chronicle of Joel:"Effundum spiritum meum super omnem carnem, et prophetabunt filii vestri, et filae vestrae."(see Joel 2:28). But such a prophecy did proceed FROM THE MOUTH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, who was the supreme and eternal power, which being come with that of the celestial bodies, has caused some of them to predict great and wonderful things.
For my part I challenge no such thing in this place, God forbid. I confess truly, that all comes from God, for which I give Him thanks, honour and praise, without having mixed anything of that divination which proceeds "a fato, but Deo, a natura" (which proceeds from fate, but from God, and nature). And most of it is h\joined with the motion and course of the celestial bodies, much as if seeing in a lens, and through a cloudy vision, the great and sad events, the prodigious and calamitous accidents that shall befall the worshippers. First upon the temples of God, and secondly upon those who draw their support from earth, this draws near, with a thousand other calamitous accidents, which shall be known in the course of time.
For God shall take notice of the long barrenness of the great Dame, who afterwards shall conceive 2 principal children. But, being in danger, she will give birth with risk at her age of death in the 18th year, and not able to go beyond 36, shall leave behind her 3 males and 1 female, and he will have 2 who never had any`of the same father. The differences between the 3 brothers shall be such, though united and agreed, that the 3 of 4 parts of Europe will tremble. By the lesser in years shall the Christian monarchy be upheld and augmented; sects shall rise and presently be put down again; the Arabians shall be put back; kingdoms shall be united and new laws made. Concerning the other children, the 1st shall possess the furious crowned Lions, holding their paws upon the escutcheons. The 2nd, well attended by the Latins, will go so deep among the Lions, that a 2nd trembling and furious descent will be made, to get upon the Pyrenees Mountains. The ancient monarchy shall not be transferred, and the 3rd inundation of human blood shall happen; also for a good while Mars shall not be in Lent.
The daughter shall be given for the preservation of the Church, the dominator of it falling into the pagan sect of the new unbelievers, and she will have 2 children, one from faithfulness, and the other from unfaithfulness, by the confirmation of the Catholic Church. The other, who to his confession and late repentance, shall go about to ruin her, shall have 3 regions over a wide extent of leagues, that is to say, the Roman, the German, and the Spanish, and it will take a military hand to adequately take care of the area stretching from the 50th to the 52nd degree of latitude.(Germany seems only country on my globe that fits those lines). And all those remote regions above the 48th degree, who by vain fright shall quake, and then those of the west, south and east shall tremble because of their power, and the power of that what shall be done cannot be undone by warlike power. They shall be equal in nature, but much different in faith.
After this the barren Dame, of a greater power than the 2nd, shall be admitted by 2 people, by the 1st made obstinate by him that had power over the others; by the 2nd, and by the 3rd that shall extend his circuit to the east of Europe; there his forces will stop and be overcome, but by sea he will make his excursions into Trinacria and the Adriatic with his myrmidons. Germany shall fall, and the Barbarian Sect shall be wholly driven from amomg the Latins. Then the great Empire of the Antichrist shall begin in the Attila, and Xerxes come down with an innumerable multitude of people,
Then from that stock that has been so long time barren, proceeding from the 50th degree (longitudinal = Yemen, Kuwait )(latitude = France, Germany, Mongolia) , one will issue who will renovate all the Christian Church. Then shall be great peace, union and concord, between some of the children of races long wandering and separated by diverse kingdoms; and such peace shall be made that the instigator and promoter of military function by diversity of religions, shall be tied to the bottom of the deep, and united to the kingdom of the furious who shall counterfeit the wise. The countries, towns, cities and provinces that had deserted their first ways to free themselves, captivating themselves more deeply, shall be secretly angry at their liberty and religion lost, and shall begin to strike from the left, to return once more to the right.
Then restoring the holiness, so long beaten down with their former writings, afterwards will come the great dog, the irresistible mastiff (war) who shall destroy all that was done before. Churches shall be built up again as before, the clergy shall be restored to its former state, until it falls back again into whoredom and luxury, and commits a thousand (years?) crimes. And being near to another desolation, when she shall be in her higher and more sublime dignity, there shall rise powers and military hands, who shall take away from her the 2 swords, and leave only the resemblance, after which, tired of the crookedness that is about them, the people will cause these things to straighten. Not willing to submit unto them by the end opposite to the sharp hand that touches the ground they shall provoke. To the branch long barren, will proceed one who shall deliver the people of the world from that meek and voluntary slavery; putting themselves under the protection of Mars, depriving Jupiter of all his honours and dignities, for the free city established and seated in another Mesopotamia. And the chief governor shall be thrust out of the middle, and set in the high place of the air,, being ignorant of the conspiracy of the conspirators, with the 2nd Thrasibulus, who long before did prepare for this thing. Then shall the impurities and abominations be objected with great shame, and made manifest to the darkness of the veiled light, and shall cease toward the end of the change of his kingdom, and the chief men of the Church shall be put back from the love of God and many of them shall apostatize from the true faith.
Of the three sects, Lutheran, Catholic, and Mahometan, that which is middle-most, by the actions of its worshippers, shall be thrown into ruins(Catholics denounce their faith ?). The first, wholly in Europe, and the most part of Africa undone by the third, by means of the poor in spirit, who by madness elevated shall, through libidinous luxury, commit adultery(Muslims convert Christians of Europe and Africa, or ethnic cleansing similar to Ruwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo ? The last 4 by Slobodan Melosevic. Or a future ethnic cleansing ?). The people will rise and maintain it, and shall drive away those that did adhere to the legislators, and it shall seem, from the kingdoms spoiled by the Eastern men, that God the Creator has loosed Satan from his infernal prison, to cause to be born the great Dog and Dohan (Gog and Magog), who shall make so great and abominable a breach in the Churches, that neither the reds (Spain) nor the whites (French), who are without eyes and without arms, shall not judge of it, and their power shall be taken away from them. Then shall there be a greater persecution against the Church than ever was, and in the meantime shall be so great a plaque, that two parts in three in the world shall fail, so much so that no one shall be able to know the true owners of the fields and houses, and there shall happen a total desolation to the clergy, and martial men shall usurp what shall come from the City of the Sun, and from Malta, and from the Islands of Hieres, and the great chain of the port shall be open which takes its name from a sea ox (Bosphorous).
A new incursion shall be made from the sea coasts, willing to deliver the Castulan Leap from the 1st Mahometan taking, and the assaulting shall not altogether be in vain, and that place where the habitation of Abraham was, shall be assaulted by those who shall have reverence for the Jovials. The great eastern city of Achem shall be encompassed and assaulted on all sides by a great power of armed men. Their sea forces shall be weakened by the western men, and to that kingdom shall happen great desolation, and the great cities shall be depopulated, and those that shall come in shall be comprehended within the vengeance of the wrath of God. The Holy Sepulchre, held in great veneration for so long a time, shall remain a great while open to the universal aspect of the heavens, sun and moon. The sacred place shall be converted into a stable for cattle small and large, and put to profane uses. O what a calamitous time shall be then for women with child ! For then the principal Eastern Ruler, being for the most part moved by the Northern and Western men, shall be vanquished and put to death, beaten, and all the rest put to flight, and the children he had by many women put in prison. Then shall be fulfilled the prophecy of the Royal Prophet.
What great oppression shall be made then upon the princes and governors of kingdoms, and especially on those that shall live eastward and near the sea, their languages intermixed with all nations. The language of the Latin nations mixed with Arabic and North African communication. All the Eastern kings shall be driven away, beaten and brought to nothing, not altogether by means of the strength of the kings of the North, and the drawing near of our age, but by means of three secretly united, seeking for death by ambushes one against the other. The renewing of the TRIUMVIRATE ( a group of 3 leaders sharing office or supreme power) shall last SEVEN YEARS (70th week of Daniel which is Revelation), while the fame of such a sect shall be spread all the world over, and the sacrifice of the holy and immaculate host shall be upheld. And then shall the lords be 2 in number, victorious in the north against the Eastern ones, and there shall be great such a great noise and warlike tumult that all the East shall quake for fear of those 2 brothers of the North who are yet not brothers. And because , Sir, by this discourse, I put all things confusedly in these predictions as to the time concerning the event of them; for the account of the time which follows, very little is conformable, if at all, to that I have done before, being by astronomic rule and according to the SACRED SCRIPTURES, in which I cannot err.
I could have set down in every verse the exact time in which they shall happen, but it would not please everybody, and much less the interpretation of them, till, Sir, your Majesty has granted me full power so to do, that my calumniators may have nothing to say against me. Nevertheless, reckoning the years from the creation of the world to the birth of Noah there passes 1506 years, and from the birth of Noah to the building of the ark at the time of the universal flood, 600 years passed (whether solar years, or lunar, or mixed), for my part according to the Scriptures, I hold that they were solar. And at the end of those 600 years Noah entered into the ark to save himself from the flood, which flood was universal upon the earth and lasted 1 year and 2 months; and from the end pf the flood to the birth of Abraham did pass 295 years; and from the birth of Abraham to that of Issac did pass 100 years; from Issac to Jacob, 60 yrs; and from the time he went into Egypt until he came out of it, did pass 130 yrs; and from the time that Jacob went into Egypt until his posterity came out of it did pass 430 yrs; from the coming out of Egypt to the building of Solomon's Temple in the 40th yr of his reign did pass 480 yrs; and from the building of the Temple to Jesus Christ, according to the computations of the chronographers, did pass 490 yrs. And thus by this calculation, which I have gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, the whole comes to about 4173 years and 8 months more or less. But since the time of Jesus Christ hitherto, I leave it because of the diversity of opinion.
Earth creation (or recreation) to Noah birth = 1,506 yrs
Noah birth to ark & flood = 600 yrs + 1,506 = 2,106 yrs
start to end of flood = 1.16 yrs + 2,106 = 2,107.16
flood end to Abraham birth = 295 yrs + 2,107.16 = 2,402.16
Abraham birth to Issac birth = 100 yrs + 2,402.16 = 2,502.16
Issac to Jacob = 60 yrs + 2,502.16 = 2,562.16
Jacob into Egypt to out of = 130 = 2,692.16
Jacob into Egypt to his posterity came out of it = 430 yrs = 3,122.16
coming out of Egypt to building of Solomon's Temple = 480 yrs = 3,602.16
building Solomon's Temple to Jesus Christ = 490 yrs = 4,092.16
Jesus Christ to now = 1999 yrs = 6,091.16
I have no theory at this time as to the discrepancies of Nostradamus 's yearly totals. He quotes the above total to be 4,173. A difference of 80.16 to my arithmetic.
Having calculated these present prophesies in accordance to the order of the chain which contains the revolution, and all by astronomical rule, and according to my natural instinct; after some time, and including in it the time Saturn takes to turn to come in on the 7th of the month of April until the 25th of August; Jupiter from the 14th of June to the 7th of October; Mars from the 27th of April till the 22nd of June; Venus from the 9th of April to the 22nd of May; Mercury from the 3rd of February to the 24th of the same; afterwards from the 1st of June to the 24th of the same; and from the 25th of September to the 16th of October, Saturn in Capricorn, Jupiter in Aquarius, Mars in Scorpio, Venus in Pisces, Mercury within a month in Capricorn, Aquarius in Pisces, the moon in Aquarius, the Dragon's head in Libra,the tail opposite to her sign. Following a conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury, with a quadrin aspect of Mars to Mercury, and the head of the Dragon shall be with a conjunction of Sol and Jupiter; the year shall be peaceful without eclipse.
Then the beginning of that year shall see a greater persecution against the Christian Church than ever was in Africa, and it shall be in the year 1792 (date of French Revolution) , at which time everyone will think it a renovation of the age. After that the Roman people shall begin to stand upright again, and to put away the obscure darkness, receiving some of its former light, but now without great divisions and continual changes. Venice, after that, with great strength and power will lift up her wings so high that she will not be much inferior to the strength of ancient Rome. And at that time great Byzantine sails, joined with the Italians by the help and power of the North, shall hinder them so that those of Crete shall not keep their faith. The ships built by the ancient martial men will keep company with them under the waves of Neptune. In the Adriatic there shall be a great discord, what was united shall be put asunder, and what was before a great city shall become a house, including the Pampotan and Mesopatamia of Europe, in (19) 45, and others to 41, 42, and 47. And in that time and those countries the infernal power shall rise against the Church of Jesus Christ. This shall be the 2nd ANTICHRIST, which shall persecute the said church and its true vicar by the means of the power of temporal kings, who through their ignorance shall be seduced by tongues more sharp than any sword in the hands of a madman.
The said reign of Antichrist shall not last but til the ending of him who was born of Age, and of the other in the city of Plancus (Lyon, France ), accompanied by the elect of Modena, Fulcy by Ferrara, maintained by the Adriatic, Liguriens, and the proximity of the great Trinacria (Sicily). Afterwards the Gallic Ogmion shall pass the Mount Jovis (Barcelona), followed with such a number that even from afar off the Empire shall be presented with its grand law, and then and for some time after, shall be profusely spilled the blood of the innocents by the guilty raised on high. Then by great floods the memory of those things contained in such instruments, shall receive incalculable loss, even to the letters themselves. This will happen to the Northerns. BY THE DIVINE WILL SATAN WILL BE BOUND ONCE MORE, and universal peace shall be among men, and the Church of Jesus Christ shall be free from all tribulation, although the Azostains (debauchees) would desire to mix with the honey their pestilent seduction. This shall happen about the 7th millenary, when the Sanctuary of Jesus Christ shall no more be trodden down by the unbelievers that shall come from the North (Russia). The world will then be near its great conflagration , although by the calculations of my prophesies, the course of time goes much further.
In the epistle that some years ago I dedicated to my son Caesar Nostradamus , I have openly enough declared some things without prognosticating. But here, Sir, are comprehended many great and wonderful events, which those that come after us shall see. And during the said astrological computations, in harmony with the Sacred Scriptures, the persecution of the clergy shall have it's beginning in the power of the Northern Kings joined by the Eastern ones. (Soviet control of China ? ). That persecution shall last 11 years, or less, at which time the chief Northern king shall fail, (breakup of RUSSIA ? ), which years being ended, shall come in his stead a united Southern one, who shall yet more violently persecute the clergy of the Church for the space of 3 years ( Moslem Mahdi and Messiah believed by them to appear following great fire and water (understood as gog & magog by them) punishment on false religion areas so that the Moslems may unite and "Islamisize" the world ? ) by the apostolic (religious doctrine) seduction of one that shall have absolute power over the Church of God. ( Cam-note : Last Pope & false Christ or false prophet ? Or the blue turban Mahdi and white turban Muslim Messiah expected by many Muslims after they see great sign in sky and fire and water which to them is gog and magog. They then are supposed to all unite and purify the world of its other false religions like Christianity). (Regardless of exactly when Revelations occur, weigh the possibilities, from which area and religion can you most easily imagine a great slaughtering of Christains and Jews ? Europe would not allow another Nazi Germany. Germany has a small military, unless they unite with a united Islam. Had we known about Auschwitz before the end of that war, we likely would have nuked those soul-less brainless heartless people. Beheadings and brutal slayings and torture are occurring in Moslem Arab and African areas, now, to Christians)The holy people of God and keepers of His law, and all order of religion, will be grievously persecuted and afflicted, so much that the blood of the true ecclesiastical men shall flow all over. One of these horrid kings shall commit incredible crimes against the Church; he shall be praised by his followers for having spilt more human blood of the innocent clergymen than anybody has done to wine. Human blood shall run through public streets and Churches as water coming from an impetuous rain. Next, rivers shall be red with blood. (Only years ago, African Christians , men, women and children, were hacked up with machetes and thrown in the river. It was shown on local TV here from a person who snuck out the private video.) (Apparently, governments don't want to add to world tensions and unrest, so try not to report atrocities as religious oriented, just territorial.). In a sea fight the sea shall be red, so that one king will say to another, "the sea is blushed red with the blood of naval fights". After that in the same year, and those following, shall happen the most horrible pestilence, caused by the famine preceding, and so great tribulations as ever did happen since the first foundation of the Christian Church throughout all the Latin regions, some marks remaining in some countries under Spain (South Africa or North America which is almost the other side of globe ?). Then the 3rd Northern king (Russia or China/Mongolia ? )hearing the complaint of the people of his principal title, shall rise up so great an army, shall go through the limits of his last ancestors and progenitors, that they will all be set up again in their first state. The great Vicor(no possible definition found...perhaps = victor ? ) of the Cope (red robe of bishop, saint, king, Pope, etc.) shall be restored in his former estate, but desolate and altogether forsaken, shall then go back to the sanctuary that was destroyed by Paganism, when the Old and New Testament will be thrust out and burnt. After that shall the Antichrist be the infernal prince. And in this last era, all the kingdoms(ethnic groups)of Christianity and also of the unbelievers shall quake for the space of years, and there shall be more grievous wars and battles; towns, cities, castles and other buildings shall be burnt, desolated and destroyed with a great effusion of vestal blood, married women and widows ravished ( raped ), sucking children dashed against the walls of towns, (Maybe in Israel and maybe other Christian countries when Muslims &/or Chinese invade. Vatican city ?) and so many evils shall be committed by the means of the infernal prince, Satan, that almost the entire world shall be undone and desolate. [[Perhaps the takeover of the Temple by false messiah and Israeli cities by Arabs who all still swear an oath of their religion to kill all Jews. How can they believe they honour God by breaking a commandment ?]] Also, who refers to their leaders as Prince or King ? Arabs ?
Before these events many unusual birds shall cry through the air, crying, "Huy, huy." ("now, now" ). (Ravens or Gulls ?). A little while after they shall vanish. After this shall have lasted a good while, there shall be renewed a reign of Saturn and a golden age. God the Creator shall say, hearing the affliction of His people, Satan shall be put and tied in the bottom of the deep, and there shall begin an age of universal peace between God and man. The ecclestial power shall return in force and Satan shall be bound for the space of 1000 years, and then shall be loosed again.
All these figures are justly fitted by the Sacred Scriptures to the celestial things, that is to say, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, and others joined with them, as maybe seen more at large in some of my quatrains. I would have calculated it more deeply, and coordinated one with the other, but seeing, O most excellent King, that some stand ready to censure me, I shall now withdraw my pen to it's nocturnal repose.""
So many things, O most potent King of all, of the most remarkable kind are to happen soon, that I neither would nor could incorporate them all into this epistle; but in order to intelligently comprehend certain facts, a few horrible fated events must be set down in extract, although your amplitude and humanity toward mankind is so great, as is your piety to God, that you alone seem worthy of the great title of the most Christian King, and to whom the highest authority in all religion should be deferred. But I shall only beseech you, O most merciful King, by your singular and prudent goodness, to understand rather the desire of my heart, and the earnest desire I have to obey your most excellent Majesty, ever since my eyes were so near to your royal splendour, than the greatness of my word can attain to or deserve.
From Salon this 27th June, 1558...................Michael Nostradame
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Following are my conclusions and opinions of interpretations of what is meant by people who have written of the future. Whether it is possible is undecided by me.
Maybe some, maybe none, but not all Revelations will be in 1999 & later for long time. The infamous Nostradamus 1999 prophecy was likely the March NATO bombing of Yugoslavia because he says in preface and epistle that he uses the old sacred calendar. If it's the Jewish calendar, as is the Bible, their 7th month is March, according to Beth Torah Congregation calendar form http://www.shamash.org . Nostradamus said in quatrain 10-72 that war reigns before and after the foretold terror from skies that will be known as a battle between good and evil Kings (see my quotes of or get David Ovason's "The Secrets of Nostradamus for proper decoding of "King of Ang-oul-mois"), so we'd know nothing is yet to change much after the event. In quatrain 10-74 he says the great universal conflagration is around the millennial change to the great number 7. I think he meant our 2242, which is the Jewish year 6000, starting the 7th millennium. ...the truth is out there... and maybe here, Mulder ;-)
Following are Edgar Leoni book "The Prophecies of Nostradamus"as well as other author interpretations of Nostradamus possibly relating to the subject at indefinite dates. This book is amazing as it is the only one I've found with alphabetical lists of most words used in the quatrains, as well as area and time lists, making searches easy. The best interpretations I've seen are possibly in David Ovason's "The Secrets of Nostradamus". It decodes Nostradmaus' 1999 puzzle to show all other interpretations are likely wrong . For a free 10-use demo Nostradamus computer program with all quatrains and search engine, go to http://home.att.net/~estepapp :
The "7 year" "Great Tribulation" Bible Revelations (which I no longer believe is necessarily all at same time or consecutive years) + Nostradamus & other Prophets + Published and Newly discovered "Unsealed" hidden "Bible Code" Prophecy Words + "Alien" Encounters ? + Creation /Evolution + comparisons, cross-referencing & matching for possible events and dates forthcoming : Updated often so y'all come back now, y'hear ?
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Evolution loosing ground ...proof it isn't without it's own contradictions...
Grant Jeffrey Handwriting of God...more proof of Bible's authenticity...
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Richard & Frank Speight Bible interpretation...Nero Caesar = 666
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Nostradamus letter to King Henry 2...
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Seals 1- 6 <1900...1999> ?
Secrets of Nostradamus encryption by David Ovason
Seal 7
Trumpet 1- 6 <1999-2003> ?
Stefan Paulus' Nostradamus 1999
1999...Av 9th terrorism ?...August 11 Sun eclipse & comet "clothed in sun..."Sept meteor ?...Dec.'99 W.W.3 ?...
year 2000 computer bug
7 bowls/vials of wrath 2003-2007 ?
#(2003 ---?---): Nostradamus :8:62
Easter, 2007 2nd coming & Rapture ?
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I have read numerous books that show possibly correct Nostradamus prophecy puzzles interpretation. There are some opinions that are more reasonable than others . Rather then replace older opinions already here, I've continually added them. So you'll see more than one interpretation about some possible events and their possible time frames. One very good book is written by Stefan Paulus and called "Nostradamus 1999, Who Will Survive?" The last book I read about attempting interpretation of Nostradamus is the one I should have noticed first !! ;-) I say that because it points out the "green language", also known as "the occult blind" writing encryption that was used by alchemists and the like in those centuries when they had to disguise the messages they sent to fellow researchers, or they would be killed by the paranoid murderous religious powers of those times (the Inquisition). This book is called " The Secrets of Nostradamus", by David Ovason. If Mr. Ovason is indeed correct, it points out what no other author has, which greatly " waters down" the "blown up" interpretations of other authors. And even shows how some of them seem to add or make up meanings that aren't even in the French writing, let alone the encryption !! I have since picked up my own French/English 2-way translator dictionary and see this to be true. It still shows something very big of perhaps global proportions, happening in 1999. But not necessarily in July or September. March is another possibility as the "sept mois" seventh month of the old Sacred calendar which Nostradamus clearly says in his private letter to his King, the epistle, in which he gives less-obscured future predictions. The modern Jewish sacred calendar renews in oul September 11, 7 months later would be around March or April(NATO bombing of Yugoslavia ? ). Or, older Jewish calendar presented in Old Testament, renewing around March, would hit 7th month (7 x 30 days) around end of September to early October.EVERYONE INTERESTED IN NOSTRADAMUS SHOULD START WITH OR BE SURE TO READ THIS BOOK "The Secrets of Nostradamus"by David Ovason. Stefan Paulus also has some very interesting opinions on some things. The most conceivable happenings that would fit with Revelation descriptions. Though I felt uncertain about his time line opinions I am not certain of any specific time line opinion. Just personally calculating the odds of various ones.As to 1999-2000 being the fulfilling of some or all of Revelations, depends on the "batting average" of Nostradamus predictions that include dates in them. Of all those, it seems only about 30 % have been at least close to the right time and event description.
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It should be noted here that Nostradamus rarely wrote in his quatrains exactly what the prophecy was. The exception to this, as he states, is in his letters (epistles) to his son Caesar and to the then King of France. In this letter, he writes his calculations of the years expired since God first intervened upon this planet. He also writes that the world's GREAT CONFLAGRATION(final Revelations and Christ's return to reap harvest of souls).will occur very near or shortly after the change of millennium. His calculations show our 1999 AD to be Jewish 5759. Until September 11, 1999, when the Jewish calendar year changes from 5759 to 5760.He says in his epistle that we're in the 7th millenary.For that to be true at his time of writing (1555), he must prefer the 1st of 2 differing time lines visible in the revnostletters.htm file. That time line calculation of his puts 1242 A.D. as 6000. Regardless of the 1000 year difference between the Jewish and Nostradamus chronology, they both change in our 2242 A.D. So there may be 240 yrs to go for the world's GREAT CONFLAGRATION, at least. He says he uses the Sacred Scriptures calendar. This is the Jewish calendar. It is renewed every Spring (new year). Yet the modern Jewish calendar now in use changes year in our Septembers.So it would seem, even if significant events occur in the coming years, that may well be parts of Revelations,"the end is not yet", as Jesus said. Nostradamus says our life continues on Earth until 3797. Since there is to be 1000 years of peace (the millennial kingdom starting with Christ's return), followed by a brief time of evil let loose again, Christ might not return until as late as 2242 AD approximately, give or take perhaps hundreds of years. Henry Roberts appears to translate the French all wrong in saying Nostradamus says in qautrain C10 Q74 : 7 years after the start of the new millennium (2007 or the Jewish 6007=our 2249), "the sport of the ghostly sacrifice will be renewed". What could he mean by this ? Some interpreters suspect he means the raising of souls. But I don't know if the harvesting of the ripe wheat (believer's souls) would be considered a "sport". Also notice it is to be renewed, so it has been done before. Perhaps the sacrificial offerings the Jews did long ago, will be restarted when they finally rebuild their Temple to God.
Author Edgar Leoni has a book using the oldest transcripts of Nostradamus available. It also has multiple word search indexes for finding all quatrains with almost any word used. He has footnotes, map, and much much more. He notes that Roberts appears to have changed the french spelling of the older more reliable text to suit his perception of what should be translated. Leoni more properly translates the mentioned quatrain as follows :
C10 Q 74 :
Au revolu du grand nombre septieme, The year of the great seventh number accomplished, Apparaitra au temps jeux d'Hecatombe: It will appear at the time of the games of slaughter: Non eloigne du grand age millieme, Not far from the great millennial age, Que les entre sortiront de leur tombe. When the buried will go out from their tombs.
This one is clearly apocalyptic. Could some of Nostradamus' quatrains still be arranged according to the order of their intended fulfilment, it would come last or very close to the end. The seventh number is probably the seventh millennium, the source of much confusion in the Preface and the Epistle. Nostradamus ' alleged clairvoyance is to extend to the resurrection on Judgement Day.
In his epistle to King Henry, he says the great universal conflagration will be around the change of millennium. He also says his time calculations were based on the Old Holy Sacred calendar. This means we reach the Jewish 7000 in our 2242 A.D. This is most interesting because the total of the years he prophesied for, 3797 A.D. - 1555 A.D. = 2242 yrs !!Perhaps he gave us this hidden clue to the time everyone (and spirit) would like to know of.
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Stefan Paulus's theory of how Revelations or similar events could occur, is the most conceivable so far !! He has done a masterful job of research, reasoning and interpretation, matching quatrains with the different revelations of the Islamic and our Christian Bible. I have attempted this below but must admit much of mine seems a lot less likely since reading S.P.'s book. I'll leave my theories at the bottom anyway. I am unsure of his later time line opinions because he suggests Israel will lose their land again , getting it back again , meaning another generation from that time to see Earth's reformation . However, there may be 2300 days (= years?) span from the Bible\Daniel\8:14 ... Alexander the Great (300 BC) that points to now. Gabriel explains to Daniel here that it represents when the end times will be. (Daniel's 70 th week = 7 years [of Revelations] ). Or... it could mean 2300 real days("evenings and mornings")(Genesis:1:5"evening and morning , one day") from when the sacrifices are "abolished"to when it will be repurified at the end of Armageddon (restarting offerings in future after rebuilding the Temple?)(or perhaps it is decided upon rebuilding the Temple, not to make sacrifices of animals anymore ?) . 2300 days = 6 yrs (of 360 days) , 4 months, 20 days. But this would seem to require the Temple built by August 18, 2000, to fit the following possible time line.(((If... 1335 days + 1290 days [7yrs3mths15days] mentioned in Bible:Daniel:9:27, 11:30-32, 12:7-13...are of the 7 year "agreement" made [to allow Israel to build and use Temple?]...in the middle of which the 1290 days start...))) Perhaps the intended blessing of the 1335 days is the Temple use ? Or the 1335 days may follow the 1290 days which start in the middle of a 7 year agreement of some kind, but this would suggest Daniel's 70th week of years is not the same time period as the "7 year agreement", which likely is with God's people the Jews.Unless the 1st and last 3 ½ yrs of the 7 year Revelation are split by a number of years. Pointed out to me by Richard and Frank Speight is another possibility. They suggest the "firm and strong agreement made with the many for one week [7 years]"[Daniel 9:26-27] was the ministering of Jesus from Baptism (30 yrs/old) to crucifiction (33 ½ yrs/old)."And in the midst of the week he [the Annointed One in verse 26?]shall cause the sacrifice and offering to cease", could be that Jesus made the sacrifices and offerings for sin no longer necessary when he died to atone every believer of their sins. Notice the verse continues with "and upon the wing or pinnacle (Dome of the Rock only covers area of original outer courtyard)of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate [Moslem Dome of the Rock?],until the full determined end is poured out on the desolator."The time of Jesus' ministering could be the 1335 days (3yrs 8mths 15days) [12:12] in which people are to be considered "blessed, happy, fortunate, spiritually prosperous, to be envied and comes to the 1335 days !" . The Amplified Bible shows all meanings of original Hebrew and Greek words (instead of attempting single english word equivalents), as well as square bracketed assumed appropriate words which aren't necessarily correct. Many Bibles contain additional interpretation here, shown in brackets in Amp., suggesting the 1335 days are of the Revelation Tribulation, perhaps incorrectly. If true, that leaves the 1290 days. It could well be a time-split prophecy, of which there are others in the Bible, we are in the"midst"(split) until the final 1290 days gets underway, maybe. The "time, times and a half ", (12:7 )generally interpreted to be 3 ½ yrs = 1260 days, may be a generalization for the 1290 days. After all, the way it was said, was hardly scientific ,"oh, a time, times and a half "of which clarification was requested. Kind of humorous in a sense, as another angel basically asked that angel to tell it more clearly. There may be more than one 7 year period. That is, the 7 year agreement may not be Daniel's 70th week and completion of Revelations. Perhaps, as shown far below here, an invasion encompassing the Mediterranean will retreat to Israel and hide their for safety, polluting the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish Holy ground. Daniel's "2300 evenings and mornings" (8:14) , instead of "days"which are used to represent years (or sometimes "a day is as a 1000 yrs"[Peter 2:3:8] ), has me rethinking it may mean just what it says. And thus hasn't started counting. Which seems to strengthen Paulus's theory that Daniel's 70 th week will be spread out (split) over much more than 7 yrs. However, Daniel is told the vision of the ram and goat is from Alexander the Great to the end time (Revelation) when he says the Temple will be reconsecrated. I must interject to S.P. basing this on Jesus saying he would be here after the "birth pains"meaning not immediately after the earthly sorrows, but much later (S.P. thinks perhaps 100's of years later). Labour pains rarely start more than a few days before birth. Usually no more than 3, in rare cases maybe 7 at most. The real labour pains that is. Unless you count the "Braxton Hicks". So it seems he'll arrive no more than 7 years from the sign "clothed in the sun, with the moon at her feet and 12 stars in her hand" . The dragon's tail throws a third of them down (tail meteors or earth satellites). The sun becomes dark as sackcloth, the moon red. (meteor impact stratosphere dust darkens sun during full moon when both sun and moon are on horizon , shortly after impact the dust hasn't travelled far enough yet to block out the moon which is naturally red near horizon). In Old Testament which Jesus often quoted, days = years. Thus I think he was most likely inferring his return within a few years (7 at most) of serious (global)sorrows. If there is a meteor-impact\earthly chaos\famine\disease\pestilence\war, it could be final "birth pains", the starting of the seals &/or trumpets. Jesus said when you see the Lord's people get their land (Israel) and holy city (Jerusalem) back, that generation will SURELY see his return. In other words , less than a full generation length from 1967 when the 6 day war gave Jerusalem back to the Jews. He also said there would be an increasing number of quakes, also in unusual places. As well as more storms . And cold weather in normally warm areas. Warm weather in usually cold areas. Then special signs from heaven , occur about the same time, know the end times have begun. In other words, Revelations completion. There's mention these will be very rare signs from the heavens (space), skies, earth and water, unlike anything before, and everywhere, including "diverse places."So..."time will tell". And then there's astrology, which I suspect a number of modern day prophets have used. I don't think it falls under the Bible classification of occult because God put the stars and planets there. Only he has control over them. Satan only has power on earth and it's atmosphere. He put them there to give us something to look at. Why ? He even gave instructions to "number them". Weather it was for predicting or not , the planets have been noticed by researchers to have an effect on Earth as does the moon to our Ocean tide levels, and yes, us. We are 70 % water. Is it just coincidence that the moon's cycle and ladies are 28 days ? The worst Earthquakes apparently all had certain identical alignments of planets and were usually in spring or fall when our axis tilt is sideways to the sun, and the moon adding pull, and more so when one of the planets is near us as well. More on that later.
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Matthew 24:36 : "But of that [exact] day and hour no man knows, not even the angels of Heaven, nor the son, but only my Father." Does this refer only to the time of Jesus, as he was talking to people there ? Revelation 9:15, (John writing in 90 AD)(Amplified Bible) reads "So the four angels who had been in readiness for that hour in the appointed day, month, and year were liberated to destroy a third of mankind. The number of their troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (200,000,000) ; I heard what their number was." This writing says thedemons(fallen angels that made Nephelium with women) have always known exactly when their time is up.
Four times the author identifies himself as John. Most scholars agree it was written about 95 AD Carbon dating has been used on Dead Sea Scrolls to confirm. Other amazing Archaeological finds, some a few years ago, found in the Holy tunnel , before Moslems threatened war if not resealed immediately, before reaching section under original Lord's Temple.Like caskets and personalized writings and belongings OF THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE CLOSE TO JESUS, also authenticate the Bible. In Genesis 17:12 we're told to circumcise all male babies on the 8th day. The idea of germs wasn't until this century. Not known until recently is at birth, blood clotting vitamin K and prothrombin are very low. But on the 7th-8th day they reach well over normal levels. Shortly after this they drop to normal levels. Therefore, of all the days of a baby's life, the 8th is the optimum day for the surgery that will help prevent bacteria related health problems and transmission. Moses could not possibly have known this unless God inspired him to write it . Leviticus 6:28 warns not to reuse clay meat cooking pots, but to scour and rinse bronze ones. Possibility of bacteria in pours of clay. Leviticus 7:22-27 says don't eat fat or blood. We now know the dangers of this. Leviticus chapters 11-15 go to great detail of how to keep yourself and your community safe from bad bacteria, saying good and bad food sources, rules for quarantine and washing. Instructions to use running water and hyssop brush to purify. Hyssop has antibacterial elements. They didn't understand this except that it was for their own good. See also Numbers 19:19 and Leviticus 17,18 and 19 for more guidelines for bacterial and genetic security, and morals = peace for all of course . When people lived not knowing these guidelines, they were in more danger of ill health. Thus the Christians who adhered to the Lord's guidelines lived longer then those that didn't. The black plaquewould have continued killing many more a 100 yrs ago. All attempts to control or vanquish it failed until, as recorded in record books, they listened to the WORDS OF FAITH in the HOLY BIBLE. Nostradamus understood but was ignored by even Catholic Clergy and Government. He did it his way and the opposition eventually had to concede his much greater success.READ "THE SIGNATURE OF GOD" by Grant Jeffrey for more PROOF OF GOD. As well as many other points of Bible text and hidden ELS (equidistant letter spacing) words which no man could have done unless inspired by God.Like the words : Hitler ; the holocaust ; antichrist ; Auschwitz ; Germany ;crematorium for my sons ; Jews ; murder, plaques ;Eichmann ; Mien Kampf ; In Poland ; King of the Nazis ;Genocide ; The Fuhrer. Also found encoded in ELS is "the lattice work of the equidistant-letter sequence." And there is the grouping of ELS words about The Gulf War : Saddam;and also in Iraq ;America ; George Bush ; Schwarzkopf ; the missile will terrify; they shut the door ;Russian ; Scud-B ; the 3rd of Shevat ( January 18, 1991)=day off Iraq's first missile attack. There are many.Also is the ELS grouping about the Oklahoma bombing: Oklahoma ; terror ;Murray Building desolated ; slaughtered ; death ; His name is Timothy ; McVeigh ; day 19 ; on the 9th hour; in the morning ( the hour, day , location, bomber's name IN THE BIBLE !!).There are many more facts like this in a number of amazing books and videos. Some of which I have are : "Bible Code"by Michael Drosnin (confirmed and in use by Israeli scientists, mathematicians and Scholars ), "Signature of God" & "Handwriting of God" by Grant Jeffrey.Eye-opening ? It is intended to be. God knew we would be learning about these in this day and age of computers that have made it possible.Daniel 12:4 = "But you, Daniel, close up and seal the words of the scroll UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END." In other words, the time of his return is very near. We're"unsealing"hidden words of prophecy now(Bible Codes).Jesus said "the generation (40 years) that sees Jerusalem reunited with Israel as a nation again, will SURELY see my return." The 6 day war did this in 1967. (1967 + 40 = 2007 ). He wants to have as many believers waiting for him as possible. Satan wants the opposite. Both are foretold in the Bible to greatly increase their influence on the world near and into the 7 year Great Tribulation. Like the last lap of a Marathon race, it's a fight for people's belief and souls. Following are my interpretations of how these times MAY unfold and when. I have matched or related Bible & Nostradamus verses for this. The video "Armageddon" and the book "Predictions" by Joe Fisher & Peter Commins illustrate many great prophets and psychics that predict the same or similar things around the same time. Through his letters to the King and his son, Caesar Nostradamus, confirms his strong belief in God, I have considered the possibility of his vision unknowingly coming from "the dark side". I think itunlikely because the seemingly accurate verses have shown strong possibility of a spiritual world having been the source for his prophecies. Thus, if it supports spiritual, it supports God, Jesus and Heaven and Hell. I don't think Satan would want any actions done that could support the idea.However, perhaps by showing some credibility and indicating the possibility of the Tribulation to those that hath understanding, he might think to disappoint those expecting it around 2000 and thus disprove the Bible to some when nothing happens. But the circumcision and germ/virus quarantine laws in the Old Testament to name but a few, are undeniable proof of the knowledge of God through the writers who could not possibly have known such fact. The words "germs, viruses, bacteria" were not known then, let alone knowledge of the idea. The "signs of the times" are indicating Jesus 's return is near, and we are about the same distance in years from his resurrection at Passover, (Scripture indicates Adam to exodus = 2000 yrs ,the time from exodus (freedom from Egypt which Passover celebrates) to crucifixion = 2000 yrs, crucifixion/resurrection to now = 2000 yrs. See Hosea 6:2 . How interesting it is that Passover (Exodus from Egypt) and Easter are at the same day almost. Perhaps he comes back at this time too. Acts 1:7 "times or dates the Father has SET by his own authority." Acts 1:11"Yeshua will return as he left." Could the former quote mean at Passover/Easter ? Jesus spoke Hebrew, not English. As the 1st Bibles were in Hebrew and then Greek. Will he understand our prayers to Jesus are to him ? I suppose since he has all gifts and understanding of all tongues. We are about to start the 7th, or Sabbath century, the millennial kingdom (ethnic group) perhaps. What happens on the 7th ? Rest of course !! Bible verses and Nostradamus' dated prophecies are used to get a possible chronological picture. To know when it starts is the key to know the year and month perhaps, (no MAN knows the day or hour or is it no man at the time he spoke , knew ?),of when the 7 seals, 7 trumpets and 7 bowls of tribulation wrath occur, POSSIBLY. It is interesting that the Hebrew Calendar of yearly events has similarities to the Tribulation wraths. Such as the 9th of Av, the fast of mourning, occurs around our late July to early August. It is the Tish'B av. It is precisely the dates in history when they lost the last 2 Temples, suffered other defeats or tribulations, when Aushwitz started murdering them, and on and on. Many Israelis believe it is the date they will see the Lord. A TV special on this said there is Jewish scripture that says after the 7 year Tribulation, this holiday will be the most happy one to celebrate thereafter, as will other "fast" holidays. No quote or discovery of that verse though at this point, by me. So it seems possible, Jesus' comment "when you know summer is near, know that I am near",may infer the end (when he returns) date of the 7 years. Also, like the sickle used by the Angel to harvest the wheat (saints, elect ?), Pentecost is not only the time the Apostles received the Holy Ghost (7 weeks after Passover),but is also the feast of wheat harvest (see Est 8:9 and Rev 14:14-20). The next sickle is to harvest the grapes. The Elul feast (August-September) is for processing grapes, figs and olives(see Ne 6:15). Next is the Ethanim feast (Sept.-Oct.) for plowing, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles (Booths). It seems clear from Scripture that the (soon to be rebuilt Temple?),requiring original foundation purification with the ashes of a 3 yr. old "unblemished" red heifer, and perhaps discovery or unveiling of the real Ark of the Covenant, is likely the key to certainty of Earth's rebirth Tribulation starting to do Daniel's 70th week which will be the 7 year Great Tribulation. The video "In Search of Temple Treasures" researches and interviews High Rabbis to illustrate that Ethiopia has the copy of the original Ark given to it's Queen. The tunnel discovered a few years back, that leads under the Muslim Temple and then the foundation of The Lord's Temple, was found to contain original caskets, skeletons, writings and belongings of those people close to Jesus. The Ark(of the Covenant, not Noah's ;->)is believed to be further in the tunnel under the Holy Temple. But the Muslims threatened all out war if the clearing of the tunnel blockages were not stopped. It is sealed now andunfinished Lord's business so far.The "70 weeks" countdown (time of the gentiles)to Armageddon stopped when the last Temple was destroyed and polluted. (see Haggai 2:18-19). Daniel 8:1-27 says the sanctuary (Temple foundation at least) will be reconsecrated (dedicated to God) 2300 days (years) from the time of Alexander The Great (Daniel's Ram/Goat)(300 B.C.). That puts it around 2000 AD Scripture says " it will be built in times of trouble". Revelation 9:15 states a set date. If not started soon enough by freewill, God will remove obstacles to it. Could it be what causes the trouble ?Israel has had virgin men [144,000 elect ?] of the original tribes working for some time now and have just about everything ready to go in and on the Temple. They believe they can rebuild the building in 10 months.The "trouble" could be the warlike conditions that may result from the feelings of Muslims whose own Holy Temple sits 333 feet to the side of God's original Temple foundation. The outer courtyard is under the Moslem Temple property, butscripture says "not to rebuild the court as it is to be left to the gentiles". This is clearly inspired prophetic writing of the current situation. The antichrist false Messiah (leader of EU or United Nations or Mahdi leader and Moslem Messiah expected by Moslems after great "gog" (fire) and "magog" (water) signs of punishment on "false religions" for them to convert or sacrifice?) with help of his false prophet (next Pope or Moslem Messiah expected to follow great catastrophe ?) will "beguile, smooth talk, work miraculous things" that impress everyone that is able to believe in him and maintain atleast some peace/protection for Israel. Even recover unexpectedly from a head wound ! Perhaps to get the Temple built. The book "Alien Encounters" by Chuck Missler, amazingly points out from scripture, how and why UFOs may be setting the world up for the"great deception that will fool even the very elect for a short time",convincing all the world's religions and atheists to unite in one religion/union worshipping the messiah impostor (antichrist) & false prophet ?. It seems the only conceivable occurrence to cause such a global brainwashing would be a "real" "Close Encounter of the Third Kind". I fear also thatbelieving in a pretrib rapture also sets people up for the deception because they won't believe the great tribulation(Revelation completion) is under way. It appears to me that Jesus raises the sleeping saints then the living believers when he comes down, which is between the 6th and 7th vials [bowls]. When he says, "behold I come as a thief "(Rev.16:15) . At the 3 ½ year mark of the 7 years the representative of 10 countries, with 7 rings on his head [crown with 7 rings on it like Popes' or Moslem leader ?] will take over the Lord's newly built Temple and cause "the abomination that causes desolation".Nostradamus has numerous verses that suggest natural ,military or terrorist devastation to Rome and/or the Vatican. Where else might the Vatican move, France? "Do not return from your field to your house. Flee to the hills. One will be seized and one let go(Darby Bible)." It seems half the Israelites will be taken prisoner. "This will be a time of great distress".This is defined clearly as the 3 ½ year mark, when the antichrist moves into the Lord's Temple. The 7 year trib is the 70th week of "Daniel's 70 weeks" in "Daniel".Rev.13:18 " Here is WISDOM. Let him that hath UNDERSTANDING ,COUNT, the NUMBER of the Beast: for it is the number of a man. The mark of the beast is 666." I believe this statement is very significant because : wisdom and understanding likely means a parable of the relationship of "count" & "number" & "666" & "mark" & "beast" mentioned about this in other verses. The EU will use a remodelled German "mark" for common Eurodollar startup valuation. Starting Jan 1, 1999 means the currency will be stamped 1999 ("666"). Already, there are tiny 3 millimetre computer chips to be put in bank/credit/id cards that contain your total history and personal/financial info. Experimentation is underway with under-skin placement for baby security and id in hospitals as well as police guns only working when matched to an in-hand chip. Soon we'll be offered it. Before long we'll be told "no man may buy, sell or work, save he that hath the MARK", Rev.13:17 !! Or it could be the name of Saddam Hussein, whose name in Hebrew letters has 3 sixes in it because of Hebrew letters also being numbers. The book of Daniel has much detail from "the seventy weeks" and on. With a week representing 7 years. The 69th week ended when the last temple was destroyed. Knowing timing may be the temple, or at least the purification of the site with the ashes from a blemish- free 3 yr.-old heifer. Could they have already hidden blemish-free heifers and or ashes of them ? It seems to risky for Israel to tell the media they have unblemished heifers and ashes of them here and there. As there are those that would stop at nothing to destroy any such ashes and heifers. Also, Ethiopia has the ARK clone given to it's queen. The original Ark is believed by many Rabbis to be in the newly discovered tunnel that heads directly under their Temple foundation. The Muslims claim war if the tunnel is reopened because it first will lead under their "Holy Dome of the Rock", then to the Lord's original Temples location. The Muslims say if any none Muslims walk under, let alone onto their holy ground, it would be desecrated, which they will not allow. So the Ark is not confirmed there as yet. A Rabbi interviewed on the "Search for Temple Treasures" video claims the second Temple destroyed in 72 AD did not contain the Ark, to the Roman's disappointment. But normal practices that were being done there just before it's Roman occupation would have definitely required the Ark be in the line of the Temple and Heaven.Underneath !! I recall Revelation scripture saying the Ark is seen in the Temple during the Great Tribulation. Perhaps the Ark's confirmation is required or perhaps everything needed to happen will miraculously happen to keep schedules. Therefore, when the Temple is completed, the "70 th 7" or Great Tribulation either begins or is up to half way done. The foundation has been proven to not be under, but beside the Muslim Temple. Except for the outer court, which Scriptures say not to rebuild as it is to be left for the gentiles. Israel has been busy getting everything ready to put into it now. They have said it could be built in less then a year. If my interpretations are correct, construction could begin as late as July, 2002, if Nostradamus' 2007 " dead rise up out of graves" is the Tribulation-end & resurrections of sleeping dead believers and then "living" believers.There is mention ofmartyrs(believers killed during trib or millions of murdered Jews of W.W.2 ? ) being in heaven already. I think they immediately go up. But because Jesus says he comes down and raises first the dead (sleeping) believers,"the living believers will not rise up until the sleeping dead believers do"(Daniel 12:11-13), (Believers since Christ ? ), it seems none of our souls normally go anywhere until the rapture. When is ...("fig leaves sprouting""summer near")("pray abomination at 3 ½ yr. mark not on Sabbath or in WINTER").Might winter be mentioned because it is colder than it used to be ? Maybe end date resurrection, (coming of the Lord) is Easter, 2007. (He'll return the same as he left, same time of year ?)(Or maybe a large cemetery will simply be moved :-) (Or cadavers will be used for something like research or disease manufacture or antidote manufacture ?)(Referring here to Nostradamus quatrain 74 of Century 10 (chapter). The final 7 yrs, 3 mths and 15 days (1290 days + 1335 days of 30 day Hebrew mths in Daniel 12:11) appears to possibly start in Fall-time, 1999, 1290+1335 days=2625/360=7.29yrs. This would put the trib-"middle" (1290 days/30 =43 mths = 3 yrs 7 mths) at about Spring-time, 2003. (see Daniel 12:11-12 which explains the abomination (of temple) and desolation (of Jerusalem and it's people) as occurring 1290 days from start of the Great Tribulation. Which is exactly 43 Hebrew months or 3 yrs 7 months of Hebrew calendar. The following verse says "blessed (happy, fortunate, spiritually prosperous, and to be envied) are they who wait (expectantly and earnestly, enduring without wavering beyond the period of tribulations) and reaches the end of the 1335 days !![Based on Amplified Bible which points out additional meanings in original Hebrew and Greek words]. So it seems clear that the 7 year period is made of 1290 days, then 1335 days. Whether these two periods are together or separated by an unknown length of time remains to be realized. (Jump back from this Daniel 12:12 to Daniel 11:35 Amplified King James: "And some of those who are wise, prudent, and understanding shall be weakened and fall, [thus, then, the insincere among the people will lose courage and become deserters. It will be a test] to refine, to purify, and to make those among [God's people] white, EVEN TO THE TIME OF THE END, because it is yet for the time [God ] appointed." I take this to have to represent the last 1335 days of the abomination. Maybe that "marks" the beginning of "the MARK" ? The world's eyes are on Jerusalem, Israel. Including some very powerful and evil ones, that may or may not want the temple built for perhaps various reasons? Scriptures tell us of various signs (happenings) in the heavens (space, sun, moon, asteroids, meteorites, falling stars...), sky (clouds ,weather...), earth (earthquakes, volcanoes, famine, drought, disease, polar shift ?...), and water (flooding, water level changes, tidal waves ?). That when many happen within a short time span (few years ?), the Tribulation and Christ's return are near. Also mentioned are attitudes of people and Nations. Particularly within families and Church attendance. For much information showing how this seems that time, check out books/videos by Hal Lindsey, such as my favourite "Planet Earth 2000 AD", or "Final Battle" or "Apocalyptic Code".Scriptures alone point to around now. If the prophesies of the famous French Catholic Doctor Prophet, Nostradamus, continue to prove correct, and Pope Malachi, with similarities or matches to Bible prophecy, then 2000 to 2007 is possibly the 7 year Great Tribulation. Some Nostradamus prophesies which may relate are : Sept.'99 Comet tail meteor impact; end of 1999 World War 3 underway ; 2007 the dead rise up (John 5:28-29). I was once considering Jesus's statement " I will come down for you at the last trumpet, to mean the 7th trumpet in the middle of the great tribulations. But it also seems possible that the trumpets and corresponding bowls are at the same times. Revelations are not necessarily in chronological order, as a number of other bible books are like that.(Rev.11:15). But the actual last trumpet is when Jesus "comes like a thief. Blessed are they who stay awake and keep their clothes on (keep their belief and commandments)"Rev.16:15. Also, 1st Cor.15:52 : "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and we shall be changed (transformed). And...Mat.24:31 "And he shall send out his angels with a loud trumpet call..."... 1 Thess.4:16... "like a thief" is interpreted by most to imply coming unexpectedly. Thus, before the Revelations begin."Like in the times of Noah" can also mean simply unexpected, since the majority of pretrib-rapture believers won't believe Revelations are underway. Or maybe there is a separation of many years of the 2 parts of Revelation (1290 + 1335) . Or, maybe the majority of Revelation wraths happen quickly, with years of war than a year or two from the last pushing back of conquerors, when all seems over, the final trumpet and bowl of wrath is poured out. However, when do thieves usually enter our homes ? VERY LATE AT NIGHT WHEN WE ARE SURELY ASLEEP !! So, he could very well mean late in the Revelations, when we are told to stand firm and keep our "armour" on, stay awake, don't be part of "the falling away" which is written WILL happen. Likely as a result of many unbelievers unknowledgeable of the Bible, wrongly thinking Revelations are the end of the world. But this is only true for non-believers who die. Only about 1/3 of world's 6 billion die. Those who are believers will be transformed with ability like angels to materialize anywhere and appear as mortals. So many people will be caught "unawares", like the Jews that didn't recognize Jesus as the Messiah, because they expected a warring conquering liberator. They too may not think Revelations are underway, making them vulnerable for the greatdeception that the Lord says will happen. I think the greatest deception will be the Islamics being convinced after the great sign in the sky, and catastrophe for US, Canada, Britain and Europe, that as their religion states, this is to be followed by their great leader, the"Mahdi" and the Muslim Messiahat his side, to purify the world's "false religions"to theirs or be immediately sent to God's purgatory.
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Before reading on, I suggest reading the following Bible verses :
Rev.all ; 2 Peter 3:8-10 ; 1 Thess. 4:13-18 ; 1 Cor.15:51-52 ; John 5:25-30 ; **Luke 21:20-36 ; Luke 17:24-37 ;Mat.24:4-51 ; Zechariah 14:1-21 ; Haggai ; Daniel ; Ezekiel 6:12 ; Isaiah 66 too name a few ;-)
Holy Bible Revelation :
5:1---The SCROLL and the Lamb UNSEALED TO REVEAL END TIMES NEAR. (Biblecodes ?).
6:1---1st seal---white horse---bow.(missiles, planes, comet, meteor ?) or (early British world Dominion afar?).
6:3---2nd seal---fiery red horse---large sword. (large army ?) (World War 1 ?).
6:5---3rd seal---black horse---weigh scales---day's wages for daily bread. (grain shortage)(Great Depression ?).
6:7---4th seal---pale horse---ability to rule 1/4 of Earth by sword. Also famine& plaque. (World War 2 ? ).
6:9---5th seal---martyred souls under the altar given white robes to wait for all martyrs.(W.W.2 Holocost Jews?).
6:12---6th seal---great earthquake---black sun---red moon---falling stars, sky scrolling. (atomic?)(meteor?).
7:1---144,000 sealed---12,000 from each of 12 tribes of Israel. (already ones preparing Temple ?).
7:9---great multitude in white robes---uncountable martyrs of all nations at Lord's throne. (Holocaust Jews? ).
8:1---7th seal & golden censor---"saints' prayers"---earthquake, thunder peals, lightning flashes. (effects after meteor impact ? ).
8:7---1st trumpet---hail, fire mixed with blood, 1/3 of earth burned & all green grass. (from meteorites impact ?).
8:8---2nd trumpet---something like huge mountain all ablaze thrown to sea---1/3 of sea turned to blood, 1/3 of sea life killed, 1/3 of ships destroyed. (a big meteor or an after effect like major earthquake or volcanic activity ?).
8:10---3rd trumpet---great star blazing like torch falls---1/3 of rivers & lakes turned bitter, killing many---star's name is Wormwood. (wormwood definition is : something bitter, grievous, extremely unpleasant ; bitterness.)(after impact caused stratosphere SALTwater & ocean iron rust dust rain precipitates from global cloud cover down to fresh water lakes ?).
8:12---4th trumpet---1/3 of sun, moon, stars turned dark---1/3 less daylight and night. (stratosphere dust ?).
9:1---5th trumpet---where "star"(big missile?) had fallen to earth earlier, massive volcanic eruption, darkens skies with ash & smoke, "locusts" come to not harm grass or trees but just people, who will suffer for 5 months from the sting of the locust tails---all but the 144,000 (not in Israel in other words?)---(helicopters firing missiles or spraying nerve gas form their tails?)--- "looked like horses prepared for battle, crowns of gold (helmets), faces like human faces(under helmet behind windshield & visors), hair like woman's hair and wings like thundering horses(rotors)---tails stung and tormented people for 5 months(tail sprayed gases ?---king of choppers is antichrist(head of EU by this time)(or plague carrying locusts from false Messiah's domain ? Imagine how they appear with magnifying glass. They regenerate faster then their predators.Reduced vegetation causes swarm movements).
9:13---6th trumpet---4 evil angels at Euphrates River released, having been ready and knowing this exact hour, day, month & year of their release to kill 1/3 of all men---200 million cross the Euphrates river (impossible til now with the world's largest dam now completed that can dry it up at a moments notice), (heading for the Middle East)---colours of breastplates (on vehicles) are fiery red, dark blue and yellow as sulfur. ( War after big quake or meteor impact ?).
10:1---the Angel and the little scroll---voices of the 7 thunders speak (7 spirits at the Lord's throne) spoke in distinct words--- author John was about to write these down here but was told to "seal up these words"--in the days (years ? )when the 7th trumpet is about to sound, the mystery of God will be revealed, as he told his prophets."There will be no more delay !". (God revealed at Easter when Jesus comes down ,"returns as he left"? ).
11:1---The Two Witnesses---count worshippers in Jerusalem's Hebrew Temple---exclude the outer court as it has been given to the Gentiles (Moslem Temple of the Rock)---They will trample on the Holy city ( Jerusalem) for 42 months(42 Hebrew months of 30 each = 1,260 days)(30 days into 7th week ?)---God gives two witnesses some of his powers---they will prophesy for 1,260 days clothed in sackcloth[[Daniel 12:11 says Antichrist gentile takes over Temple at 1,290 day point (43 months)(3yrs 7mths) of Great 7 year Tribulation."And blessed are they that keep their faith and life for 1,335 days"( the end of this 7 year Great Tribulation)(suggesting that 1335/30 days = 44.5 mths = 3 yrs 8 ½ mths in addition to previous 1290 days , is time to Trib end, when greatly increased persecution of believers at least in Israel, is underway.)---people of the Antichrist will kill them---all nations see them lying dead in street for 3 ½ days---then they stand up resurrected---they are seen standing and going up to heaven---then great earthquake at that hour, collapses 1/10 of city and 7,000 die.
11:15---7th trumpet---"time for judging the dead" (?)---rewarding servants, prophets, saints, small and great---destruction of those that have been destroying the Earth---God's Temple in Heaven opened---light flashes, rumblings, peals of thunder, earthquake, great hail storm (seems like more atomic detonations)[[extensive cross-referencing leaves me undecided on whether this is the time of resurrection of pre-trib dead saints, then living saints, {trib saint martyrs already up according to former verses}, as this verse certainly seems to imply, (others to not), or not until the end-day of 7 years]].
12:1---The Woman and the Dragon---great wondrous "sign" appears in sky or stars---a woman clothed with the sun, moon under feet, crown of 12 stars in hand, cries in pain about to give birth(woman is Zion[hill of Temple],Jerusalem & it's people. Birth may mean resanctifying place of the Lord's Temple on Mount Zion beside Moslem Temple. This would make Israelites reborn in God's blessing and Satan's doom count down begun. Or perhaps she is a comet with 12 meteors in tow)---see Isaiah 66:1-24 & Rev.17:1-18)---another sign = big red dragon with 7 heads, 10 horns, causes 1/3 of stars in sky (not heavens) to fall to the Earth ( maybe 1/3 of all satellites thrown out of orbit by explosion. Perhaps from a solar explosion wind)---Woman's child born and taken by God before dragon gets it--- woman flees to desert to waiting sanctuary for 1,260 days---war in Heaven---Michael and Angels fight Satan dragon and it's angels back down to Earth---he wars against her offspring (Jews & other believers). ( Solar eclipse+comet sighting on top... full moon, comet tail meteor hits us ?)
13:1---The Beast out of the Sea---10 horns, 7 heads, 10 crowns on the horns---dragon gives beast power, throne and authority---one of the heads (his) had an apparent fatal wound that actually had healed---the world was astonished and started worshipping the Beast---men worshipped dragon (meteor of comet tail ? ) because it had given authority to the beast (maybe Pope-Dragon recommending the "resurrected" "Beast" country head [4th Reich ruler of EU ? ]or the Moslem Mahdi and Messiah)---in power for 42 mths = 1,260 days ---given power to make war against the saints and conquer them---given authority over every tribe, people, language, nation---all people of Earth worship him (except saints)---this calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.
13:11---The Beast of the Earth---another beast---2 horns like a lamb---spoke like a dragon---exorcized authority of first beast on his behalf---made Earth's people worship 1st beast whose fatal wound had been healed---performed great miraculous signs, causing fire to fall from Heaven in full view of men---because of the signs, he's given authorized power by 1st beast--- image ordered setup of 1st beast who was fatally wounded but lived---the image seems fully alive and causes all who refuse to worship it to be killed---2nd beast also forces everyone, small & great, rich & poor, free & slave, to receive a "mark" on his right hand or forehead, so that no one may buy or sell without it, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is [room for] discernment [a call for the wisdom of interpretation]. Let anyone who has intelligence (penetration and insight enough) calculate the number of the beast, for it is a human number [the number of a certain man]; his number is 666. (Saddam Hussein in Hebrew letters has 3 sixes)(E.E.U. eurodollar is restyled German "mark", startup first issue is Jan.1, 1999. I suspect this microchip "tattoo" is to replace bank card, visa, social security, etc.)(Sept.23...?).( or accepting the mark may simply mean accepting the Mahdi and Messiah faith with a mark to show other soldiers not to bother with you ? ).
14:1---The Lamb and the 144,000---Jesus stands on mount Zion with 144,000 forehead-sealed elect of Israel tribes. The first- fruits to God & the Lamb.
14:6---The three Angels---1st angel says,"fear God & give glory because hour of judgment soon." 2nd angel says, "Babylon the great is fallen !" 3rd angel says "do not accept the "mark" of the beast." This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus. Voice from Heaven says, "blessed are they who die in the Lord from now on. They will rest from their labour, for their deeds will follow them".
14:14---The Harvest of the Earth---One like a son of man reaps (harvests grain [saints? This fits a likely time for the rapture of pre-trib dead believers and living believers, verses say great patience required of saints]) the ripened harvest of the Earth."The hour has arrived"."Let there be no more delay". Another gathers the ripened grapes (unbelievers?). They are thrown and trampled in "the wine-press" of God's indignation and wrath outside the city. Blood reached horse's bridles for a distance of 200 miles.
15:1---Seven Angels with 7 plagues---Another wonder (sign, token, symbol) in heaven, great and marvellous [warning of events of ominous significance]. Then I saw what appeared to a glassy sea blended with fire, and those who had come off victorious from the beast and from his statue and from the number corresponding to his name were standing beside the glassy sea, with harps of God in their hands. (Tribulation saints). ( before 7th bowl ? ).
16:1---The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath---
1st bowl = foul painful ulcers (sores) came on those with the beast's mark. (Inhabitants of "Beasts'"area ?). 2nd " = sea turned ill-smelling, thick, corrupt, blood, all life dies. (Mediterranean after impact &/or war ?) 3rd " = rivers & springs (lakes) (fresh water above and below poisoned). (salt &/or ash rain of meteor & volcano?) 4th " = sun scorches & sears people as fire.(ozone damage from salt & ash thrown up from impact + volcanos ?) 5th " = beast's throne and kingdom put in darkness. (ash filled stratosphere around world thicker near Beast ?) 6th " = Euphrates River dried up to let eastern kings through. 200 million (Chinese?). World's Kings gather to battle at Armageddon (Hebrew name for Mageddo plain , Israel). Jesus : "Behold, I am going to come like a thief ! Blessed (happy, to be envied) is he who stays awake (maintains belief if Jesus and commandments) and who guards his clothes, so that he may not be naked and [have the shame of being] seen exposed !" (keep your faith through tribulations & witness Bible to non-believers ?).(Time to work for him more than ever before, with written prophesies to show as proof ?)
7th " = flashes of "lightening", loud rumblings, peals of thunder, tremendous earthquake, like never before. The mighty city (Babylon?) was broken into 3 parts. And the cities of all nations collapse. Lord says " It is done !"( See Isaiah 66:6). Every island and mountain also collapses. Great (excessively oppressive) hailstones, heavy as a talent [50-60 pounds], of immense size, fell from the sky on the people.(Atomic explosions cause this to happen. Also, perhaps he causes meteorites of frozen flammable gas ).
17:9---The Woman on the Beast---this calls for a mind [to consider that is packed] with wisdom and intelligence [it is something for a particular mode of thinking and judging of thoughts, feelings, and purposes]. The 7 heads are 7 kings, 5 have fallen, 1 still exists [and 1 is reigning]; the other [the 7th] has not yet appeared, and when he does arrive he must stay[but]a brief time. And as for the beast that [once] was, but now is no more, he [himself] is an 8th ruler (king, head), but he is of the 7 and belongs to them, and he goes to perdition(destruction). The 10 horns are 10 rulers (kings)who have as yet received no royal dominion, but together they are to receive power and authority as rulers for a single hour, along with the beast.(Dan.7:20-24). These have one common policy(opinion, purpose), and they deliver their power authority to the beast. They will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them.
18:1---The Fall of Babylon---"Come out from her my people. In a single day, pestilence, anguish, sorrow, famine and consumed by fire. In one single hour your judgment is completed. The dealers, ship captains and pilots who grew wealthy through her, will mourn. You merchants were the world's great men. By your magic spell, all the nations were led astray. In her was the blood of prophets, saints and many more." (Suez ?)
19:11---The Rider on the White Horse---I saw Heaven opened, and a white horse appeared ! The One Who is riding it is called Faithful (trustworthy, loyal, incorruptible, steady) and True, and he passes judgment and wages war in righteousness (holiness, justice and uprightness). [Ezek.1:1].His eyes blaze like fire, his head has many kingly crowns. His inscribed title (name) is understood only by him. [Dan.10:6].He wears a robe dyed with blood, with the title "The Word of God". Troops from heaven in fine dazzling clean linen, follow him on white horses. From his mouth goes forth a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron sceptre. He treads the winepress of God' wrath and fury. On his robe and thigh is written "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS".The Kings of the Earth gathered their armies with the beast to make war against the rider and his followers. But the beast was captured, along with the false prophet who had performed miraculous signs for the Beast. They are thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest are killed with the "sword".
20:1---1000 years of peace---I saw the souls of those who'd been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received his mark in their hands or forehead. They came to life and reigned with Christ 1000 years. Blessed (happy, to be envied) and holy (spiritually whole)are these that partake in the first resurrection ! Over them the 2nd death does not apply. The rest of the dead stayed asleep til after the 1000 years ended. (2242-3242??)
20:7---Satan's Doom---Then Satan is released. He once more deceives some into attacking the camp of God's people. Satan and all his followers are finally put to torment in burning brimstone forever. (3242...3??? )
20:11---The Dead are Judged---Then I saw a great white throne and the One Who was seated on it, from Whose presence and from the sight of Whose face earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. I also saw the dead, great and small; they stood before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is[the Book] of Life. And the dead were judged (sentenced) by what they had done[their whole way of feeling and acting, their aims and endeavours] in accordance with what was recorded in the books. Anyone not found in the book of Life ( more negative then positive ?), is hurled into the eternal lake of fire with Satan, false prophet, their followers as well as death and hell which will be no more.
21:1---The New Jerusalem---The Lord sets up a new Heaven and new Earth. Renewing it all....but without death, illness, sorrow or pain...
Also of interest is the possibility that the Bible's Psalms are vague prophetic statements of the corresponding years (99=1999)..."let the peoples tremble. The Lord sits above the cherubim, let the earth quake !"...Psalm 100..."make thanksgiving offerings in his court with praise."...
Just weighing possible interpretations. Heavy stuff. Gotta stop before my back brakes ;-) Truth is, there is no way to be sure of any of it no matter how intensely it is perused. The Bible made for a very interesting research project. It has some very unexplainable facts now known to be true but not possibly understood when it was written, in my opinion. So the knowledge came from where ??? ;-) More specifically, see what is written in Leviticus about pots, pans, sick people and animals. Unfortunately, our scientific and medical establishments didn't acknowledge such info until the last century or two (100-200 yrs) in regards to germs and bacteria airborne and not.
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Michael J. Coppi : God foretold 430 years of punishment in Ezekiel 4 (commentaries admit they cannot explain this passage, apparently a mystery until "unsealed" by the Holy Spirit in these last days). It started, Grant Jeffrey says, at the beginning of the Babylonian captivity in 606 B.C. The 70-year exile prophesied by Jeremiah ended in 536 B.C., leaving 360 years of punishment remaining. Applying the "seven times more" (7 X 360) of a parallel passage in Leviticus (26:18,21,24,28) = 2,520 more years.
Converting 2,520 solar years to 360-day prophetic years (2483.8) from 536 B.C., compensating for the no-zero year between 1 B.C. and AD 1 takes you to -- yes, exactly 1948, the year of Israel's birth (to the day some claim)!
Thus, we amazingly have 1948. However, I have been aware of another way to figure this that gives an equally astounding result. Ezekiel 4 actually seems to say to begin counting the 430 years at the "siege" of Jerusalem, not at the exile.
This siege is believed by some to have been in 587 B.C., which - 70 = 517 B.C., from which 2,520 prophetic years takes you to 1967, the year Jerusalem was recaptured by the Jews(to the day some claim)! From "siege" in 587 B.C. to "recapture" in AD 1967 -- prophesied in God's Word!
There is even a third way of counting. The "times of the Gentiles" may have begun in 606 B.C. and might extend for 2,520 years, based on God's promise to punish Israel seven times, with "times" meaning 360 years (7 X 360 = 2,520), and/or based on Nebuchadnezzar's madness for 2,520 days (symbolizing the "madness" of Gentile history). If true, 606 B.C. + 2,520 biblical years = 1878.
Actually, in an earlier book, Grant R. Jeffrey had written that 1878 did, indeed, signal the beginning of the end of the Gentile Age and the beginning of a 120-year countdown.
Why might 1878 be significant? Most probably know the story. That was the year the sick, unconscious, 48-year-old Amish minister named "Noah" Troyer repeatedly stood and prophesied that as God had given the biblical Noah a 120-year warning of impending destruction, God was saying to him, also "Noah," that He was giving America only 120 years to repent before it would be destroyed.
This was carefully documented. Oddly, as someone previously pointed out, this "Noah" had begun his 48th year when he got his 120-year warning, and the biblical Noah was age 480 when he got his, as we learn from Genesis 6 and 7. (If a true prophecy, it could be fulfilled either in 1998 or just afterward.)
After I heard the astonishing story about this Noah, I puzzled, and asked myself, "Could we really now be in such a 120-year countdown? If so, when did the countdown really begin?" Then I remembered that Israel is "God's time clock." Israel is the key to biblical prophecy. I wondered, "Could there have been some significant historical event about Israel in 1878 that might confirm such a countdown beginning in that specific year?" Then I remembered a certain book on my shelf that lists all significant historical/biblical events, by exact year, since recorded history began. I almost ran, grabbed the book and anxiously flipped to 1878, curious if there would be any entry at all.
To my shock, it read: "1878 -- Establishment of Petah Tikvah in Judea and Rosh Pinnah in Galilee. These were the first Jewish villages in Palestine in our times."
This was the planting of modern Israel -- the "fig tree" of Luke 21:29 -- God's time clock, in 1878! (And 1878 + 70 = 1948!)
I am not sure which of the above three ways is the proper one God intended. I suspect He has arranged it all as significant, since all three calculations take us to prophetically significant dates. Also, ancient dating is often accurate to plus or minus one year, and counting may vary with month/day started and ended.
Nevertheless, arriving at 1878, 1948 and 1967 seems mind-boggling. And that God would allow our puny minds to see it is even more mind- boggling!
There seems no doubt that Israel is the "fig tree." However, the fig tree did not start to sprout, or "put forth its leaves"into Gaza, the Golan Heights, etc., until 1967, and "this generation" (the one that sees the fig tree sprout) will not pass away until all be fulfilled (Luke 21:32). IF a generation of 40 years is meant, we must remember that Jesus did NOT say a full generation will transpire as we tend to think. He only said that the fulfilment will be BEFORE the generation transpires. That could be sometime before 1967 + 40, or 2007. Even though we can easily reach the age of 60, many do not. What age do you think would "SURELY SEE Christ's return" ? 30, 40, 50 ? Health problems take an increasing number as of about 40. So I pick 40 or so.
It may be only one day before, or longer. Whichever, we are extremely close. Surely, He is at the door, and the "blessed hope," the appearing of our great God and Saviour, is extremely near!
666 = Saddam ... Hebrew letters also have numerical values, their letters are used as numbers. The Hebrew spelling of "Saddam" has 3 ... 6's in it. 2 x 60's , a 1+4+1= 6. Perhaps according to the Paulus' theory he will unite the Islamic countries as the blue turban Mahdi after the great sign from heaven and apparent punishment of the "western" worlds by the meteor impact.
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FOLLOWING ARE MINE AND OTHER PEOPLE'S DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF POSSIBLE EVENTS AND TIMING FROM NOW TO 2007 .......
It is just a theory test that I don't necessarily strongly support. Author, Stefan Paulus ,makes a rather convincing argument thatRevelations may not be written in chronological order. As a good number of other prophesies in the Bible are not. It is also possible that the descriptions of "7 seals" and "7 trumpets" and "7 bowls" are about the same event and results of it. Perhaps the "seals" have already occurred. Picture this possibility : The scroll with 7 seals has 7 papers rolled on the scroll , each with a progressively longer page, so that the 7 seals are visible over the edge of each page bottom. The 1st seal is opened, the 1st trumpet blown, its read and the 1st bowl of wrath is poured. Then the 2nd seal, trumpet & bowl and so on.And then there is the similarity of the 6th trumpet (Rev.9:13-20) releasing of fallen-angels (demons)atEuphrates river, who knew and were waiting for that day, month and year to be released to kill 1/3 of earth population with army of 200 million , and Bowl 6 (Rev.16:12-14) is about drying up the Euphrates river for army to cross it.Thus, if this is the order, 1+1+1,2+2+2...notice Rev.16:15, after the 6th bowl, in red letters Jesus says "behold I come like a thief"(at the last trumpet) is near the end of the 7 years, just before the final battle called "Armageddon",fits with both 7th trumpet rapture theory and just before 7th bowl Armageddon theory. Or the 5 Seals have already been opened and done, with the 6th on Sept. 23, 1999. Perhaps the 4th pale horseman that is given ability over 1/4 of the Earth's' surface to conquer militarily, may well be a result of the "hook in Magog's jaw" which is the confirmed agreement by Russia to come to aid and retaliatory defence of Moslem countries that are unjustly hit with an act of war. Or it could easily flare up from a bigger than usual attack of Israel against a Moslem area. Or perhaps a catastrophic death made to look like it was them. But most likely "given authority" represents the removal of the balance of power from Britain, Canada and U.S. because of meteor/tsunami/earthquake damage to them which keeps them busy rebuilding for years before they can assist across the Ocean.
(early 1900 ? )---Rev.6:1---1st seal---white horse rider---bow---conquest---(from west ?)(Zechariah 6:1-8) or (early 1900s British World domination far from Britain?)
(1914-1918 ? )---Rev.6:3-4---2nd Seal---red horse rider---large sword---takes away EARTH'S peace---(W.W.1)?
(1918-1929)--Unleavened bread---Rev.6:5---3rd seal---black horse---weigh scales---(from north?)day's wages for daily bread (The Great Depression)?
(1938-1945?)--Rev.6:7--4th seal---pale horse---(from south?)---(Zechariah 6)---1/4 earth surface controlled by sword, also much famine, plaque & wild beasts starving.(W.W.2)?
(1938-1945)--Rev.6:9---5th seal---martyred(killed because of belief)Tribulation souls under the altar given white robes to wait for all martyrs. (the 5 million Jew genocide by Hitler in W.W.2)?
SEPT'98 = Edgar Cayce claims the Messiah will be here. (Maybe so, but I don't believe he appears until he comes down on a cloud just before the last wrath, to raise the sleeping (dead) believers and living believers. He then says "behold, I come as a thief ! " (Rev.16:15).(I wonder if UFO sightings will increase. And if we'll be told about it, Mulder ? ;-)
Nov.17, 1998 (& '99 & 2000) = 1st of 3 yrs when we intersect a massive meteorite field in 1998, '99 & 2000. It's peak time is estimated for November 17, 1998, 1999 and 2000. This is not what Nostradamus seems to say we'll spot August 11, 1999, being hit by the 7th of 12 large meteors in the tail ("crown") (coma)("in hand") of that new comet. Hmmm, 3 times suggests middle one may be worst.
Understanding the Leonid Meteor Storms
Welcome to the Web site on the Leonid meteoroid storms due in November 1998 and 1999. The purpose of this site is to provide information on the storms which are associated with the appearance of the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The meteor activities the comet precipitates are called Leonids because the meteors appear to be coming from the direction of the constellation Leo. Understanding the 1998 and 1999 events is important because of the effect they will have on the estimated 500 satellites in orbit. The Aerospace Corporation collected information on spacecraft anomalies experienced during the 1997 Leonid shower and will be gathering similar information on the more intense 1998 and 1999 storms.
Perhaps the most anticipated event in astronomy this year is the upcoming Leonid meteor storm. Sometime during the early morning hours of November 17th, observers could be treated to a spectacular display of shooting stars as Earth passes through the debris trail of periodic Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. Experts are cautiously predicting a repeat of the great meteor storm that broke over the Earth in November 1966 when more than 10,000 meteors per hour were observed in some locations.
click here for more on Leonid Comet debris field
1999-January-1 = 1st day of European Economic Union .(the beast with 10 horns. An 11th horn appeared. It subdued 3). All gold of EU countries is to be given to the German Bank. Germany has the World's biggest computer covering 10 blocks by 10 blocks. THEY CALL IT THE BEAST.(Though I don't think it is the beast). The Eurodollar is a restyled German "MARK" (see Rev.13:16-17) stamped with start year of 1999. Germany was to have 1st 6 month control but that has been revoted to Holland for now, for "integrity reasons". Germany protested furiously of course. (Delayed ? As Michael Drosnin's exposed Bible code words suggest possible ?).(Rev.10:6 The angel said "there will be no more delay !"). God's plan is never delayed. Man delays or avoids close encounters to some trouble of his own making. It's possible for financial powers to have been setting up dropping of currencies in support of a strong start-day Euro-dollar.. Could economic chaos come from destabilizing world currencies ? Will they be devalued for or by the Euro ? Canada is down to 0.63 US as of late Aug'98. Could rising interest rates be used to strengthen the dollar as they always have before ? Would this cause stock markets dropping as it always has ? If they drop interest rates to keep stock & bond markets alive, will world currency traders sell ? Thus causing U.S. dollar drop ? Will people leave their money in possible harms way knowing what might happen and that everyone else is likely to fear the same ? Why has the US just added another 50 billion to paper currency stockpiled ? In anticipation of massive cash collecting by people ? I expect it by Aug. 11 '99 , if not fall ' 98.
See Zechariah 8:23 = 10 men from all languages/nations...
5:1---"The scroll and the Lamb unsealed to reveal revelation times" = (Computer Bible code programs ? ).
1999---Spring---(Easter ?)...........Nostradamus letter to King :
"...There shall be in the month of October , "(1999)"a great revolution made, such that everybody will think the Earth has lost its' natural motion and has gone down into perpetual darkness. IN THE SPRING BEFORE AND AFTER THIS, (Spring 1999 & Spring 2000), shall happen extraordinary changes, reversals of Kingdoms(before?) ; great earthquakes(after?); all this accompanied with the procreation of the new Babylon, a miserable prostitute large with the abomination of the first holocaust. THE REVIEWING OF THE TRIUMVIRATE SHALL LAST SEVEN YEARS, while the fame of such a sect shall be spread all over the world, and the sacrifice of the Holy and Immaculate Host shall be upheld."
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1999-March- As of April 7, 1999, since mid-March, NATO has been bombing Serbian Yogoslavia to try to force it's retreat from it's 90 % Albanian province, Kosovo, hopefully stopping the genocide being done to the Albanians and their homes. 1.5 million Albanians were living in Kosovo. Close to 1 million have been forced out, the men were detained for who knows what, the rest of the family was told to leave immediately or die too. Kosovo had developed demands for separation and independent country status years ago, as did former provinces of Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Slobodan Milosevic sent Yogoslavia's military in killing not just armed resistance but leaving behind shot bodies of women and children (execution style head shots) and elderly in Croatia, then Bosnia, now Kosovo. NATO was late in coming to the rescue of those obvious genocide victims in Croatia and Bosnia. NATO did not want that to happen again in Kosovo. Russia and China are mad as hell at NATO. Albanians are Moslem, Islamic, like Iran, Iraq, Lybia and area. Serbian Yugoslavs are Christian. The entire world must stand for the humane rights of all as much as possible. NATO is struggling to help Kosovo's neighbouring countries of Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia care for the swarms of refugees. They were lined up for up to 20 miles waiting to check through the border entry points of those countries until yesterday when Serb military came and visibly forced them to turn around at the border and return to unknown areas in Kosovo. The homes were seen by aerial photography to mostly all be looted and burned. NATO never admitted to be considering ground troop use. Now that "ide" is changing fast. Mostly big bombers and jets to now. Soon a couple dozen or more attack helicopters that come with about 10 units of troop and heavy artillery ground support.
Now, consider the famous Nostradamus quatrain C10 Q 52 :
Remember he wrote in his unobscured prophetic private letter to the King, that his calculations of time are base in the OLD SACRED CALENDAR which is the Jewish which renews the years around March. The current Jewish calendar renews around September. If you count 7 months from September (with it as 1), you get March. If you start counting with March, you getSeptember.
C 10 Q 52 reads :
The year 1999, sept (7th of new or old Jewish or our calendar?) month (March ?) From the sky will come a great King of alarm (Nato cruise missiles look like crosses) To bring back to life the great King of the Angoulmois. (see David Ovason explanation) (Ang = Angel, Ol = Michael, mois=month)("un" in 2nd line, "le" in 3rd line means 2 different Kings)(Michael's opposition implied too) Before after, Mars to reign by good fortune. ( Wars continue...luckily for the warmakers...perhaps military peacekeepers are somehow not involved as before...Not the "end time" yet.)
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1999-May = Israel election for new leader...Netanyahu or ? Mr. Netanyahu may be in danger of assassination or fake accident, if he is to be next leader again.
1999-May = 1994 PLO/Israel Peace Accord agreement expires. Will the next one be the 7 year agreement which is broken nearly half way ?(((Or will a 7 year agreement be made by coming Moslem Mahdi leader (blue turban) and Moslem Messiah from east (white turban) in 1999 or 2000, to go around Israel if they give up more land ? Israel's people likely would see no choice with little help immediately available. They may bargain to rebuild their Temple))). It has been 20 years since the Islamic Revolution was declared during Iran revolt against America and Christians, declaring Jihad then. Nostradamus mentions a war near the new millennium, that will not always have been known as a war, whose total length will be 20 and 7years. Notice he didn't say 27, but wrote it as 20 and 7. He is hinting at something here, but what ?
1999-July-(22 = 9th of Av)- (Possibly the first seal, = white horse with bow [missiles fired, or ability to impact almost anywhere] is Israel retaliating to an act of terrorism, war, or assassination ? Next to Russia, USA & China, Israel has a huge number of missiles and Air Force. White dove/ white horse = justice ].See Zechariah 6:1-8 which describes white horse as from west [ Israel or west of Israel ? ], black horse from the north [ Syria, Russia ? ], pale dapper horse from south [ Iraq, Iran...] , red horse from east [ China ? ] . The 9th of Av in the Jewish calendar is their day of mourning many losses and defeats like the last 2 temples on this exact day. It is believed by some Jewish Rabbis to be a day to celebrate after the great tribulation , along with other yearly holidays. I think less of this theory and much more of the lower ones here from Stefan Paulus.It is the exact date many times in history, when they have suffered bbig losses of one kind or another. Temples, cities, country, and yes, when Hitler decided to start their slaughter. Could it be coincidence or just enemies intentionally insulting them more by using this date ? Might it be used again ?
Nostradamus-Chapter 10 verse 72 . (Henry C. Roberts interpretations & Robert Lawrence) : ("Complete Prophesies of Nostradamus")
L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois, In the year 1999 and seven months, Du ciel viendra un grand Roy d'ef frayeur, From the skies shall come an alarmingly powerful king, Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angoul mois, To raise again the great King of the Jacquerie, Avant apres, Mars regner par bon heur. Before and after, Mars shall reign at will.
""A tremendous world revolution is foretold to take place in the year 1999, with a complete upheaval of existing social orders, preceded by worldwide wars. Nostradamus shows his mystic knowledge of the great secret of the book of revelations and solves for us the identity of the "Beast of the Apocalypse" and the time of his arrival which John of Patmos (Rev.13:18) records "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding, count the number of the Beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666. Thou will need the mark of the beast to buy or sell " By a simple reversal of the numbers and turning 999 upside down we obtain666. (Note that the hidden equidistant letter spaced names and words being found in the Bible with "Bible Code" computer programs, are found spelled in both directions.) Also in agreement with the prophetic vision of H.G. Wells and other gifted History and Science-Fiction writers, Nostradamus actually ties in the date 1999 when "from the skies shall come an invasion... and Mars shall reign at will." Time alone will tell whether this "War of the Worlds" is to be accepted literally or metaphorically. "Roy d'Angolmois" is an anagram for "Roi de Mongulois" (king of the Mongolians). The threat of war will come from the east. Eastern Russia ? Tibet ? China ? Mongolia ?""..............
******* Cam does not see any basis for interpreting the word Jacquerie, as the author claims above. The French appears to me to say something like : grand = great , Roy = King , de = of, Angoul = ????? (This word may be the "key" to this puzzle . Forget Angola since Portugese reached it 1st in 1583, 17 years after Nostradamus died. So it's likely an anagram , but for what , angel ? ) , mois = month. Also, I am in agreement with David Ovason that Nostradamus rarely wrote exactly what he meant in his quatrains. With the exception of his private letters (epistles) to his son and also the King of France. So where he seems to state a specific year and month and even day, he is probably using it as a key to the real hidden meaning. He believed in writing similar to Bible prophecy, which is intended to be recognized upon occurrence but not before the prophesied occurrence. I must point out that upon checking the french translations on my own, some interpreters seem to be in error.
For example, Mr. Roberts and Mr. Lawerance quote C3 Q77as referring to Oct. 27, 2025. The French actuallytranslates from my translator to Oct7, 1720.
Their C3 Q94 seems correct quoting the year 2055, if indeed Nostradamus meant himself, being finally recognized as fully correct,after 500 years. 500 years is all that's given. It is assumed to be 500 years after his time of publishing in1555.
A most peculiar quote of the above "The Complete Prophesies of Nostradamus " by Roberts and Lawerance, is the C6 Q2explanation of theirs. Despite what I found to be what seems like incorrect interpretations of a number of key quatrains, it is a good book as it has the entire letters sent to Caesar Nostradamus and King Henry 2 of France which make very interesting nonencrypted reading of the future to come. He says the "The Great Conflagration occurs as of the 7th millenary." By his calculations of years since creation which he shows in the King's letter, we won't reach that until our 2,242 A.D. = 7000 YEARS.
Now to show you the unusual C6 Q2 quatrain description from above book :
En l'an cinq cens octante plus & moins, In the year 580 more or less, On attend le siecle bien estrange; There shall be a strange age; En l'an sept cens & trois (cieus en tesmoins) In the year 703 (witness Heaven) Que plusieurs regnes un a cinq feront change. Many kingdoms one to five shall be changed.
Nostradamus commences his count of time from 325 A.D., the date of the Council of Nicaea. In the above stanza, by using the figure 325 as a key, we find (1)589 added to it, gives us the date 1914, one of the most important dates in history of the world. Similarly, (1)703 added to 325 gives us 2028, in which year, Nostrodamus tells us, there will be a complete change in the lineup of nations.
Cam : If the above be correct, then whatever is supposed to happen in (1999?) and soon after, it would seem there are a couple hundred years to go to "the great conflagration" (final Revelations completion). It may well be that the change of the millennium Nostradamus refers to in quatrains and the King's letter, is not the one we are about to have, but the one using the Sacred scriptures calendar, which in his letter he tells the King he uses.So relax but keep an eye/ear on the International news reports ;-)
For possible key see book on "The secrets of Nostradamus" by David Ovason. He explains many instances of using the"green language"by many other writers of coded text. He suggests it may be made of ANG + OUL + MOIS. Ang is apocope for Ange = French for "Angel". Oul is an arcane term which divides Angoulmois into a meaningful structure. Ol , written in several different orthographic versions , is the name of one of the Archangels of the Zodiac. (More on this later). These names and sigils appear in medieval astrology and the 15th-century magical calendars. It would have been familiar to Nostradamus, under its version as Verchiel. Finally, mois is French for month. So, in its triple constituents, the word consists of three distinct words, two French and one Latin. The phrase "Ange Ol Mois" may be translated into English as : the Angel Ol Month. Now, in medieval times, the Archangel Ol was the zodiacal ruler of the sign LEO. He had two variant names, Verchiel and Voel . In Nostradamus' time , the calendrical reforms had not yet disturbed the relationship between the months and the zodiacal signs : the Gregorian Calendar did not come into general use in France until 1582, after his death in 1566. This is why it was possible for him to equate an angelic ruler of a zodiacal sign with a single month. In any case, such an equation was preserved in the magical calendars, as we shall see. Such an equation is no longer valid. However, since in his day it was possible to consider July as the Leo month, , the arcane phrase Angol-mois, would mean July. First , we must ask , who is the king of the month of July , the zodiacal ruler of Leo ? In the astrological tradition, Leo is ruled by the Sun. In esoterism, the Sun is ruled by the archangel Michael. In the esoteric tradition of Secundadeis with which Nostradamus was familiar, and which he mentions in his Epistle to Henry 2 of France in "The Propheties", Michael is the chief of the 7 planetary archangels : therefore , he may be called the Roy of King of the 7. It is also worth recalling that Sol is the Latin name for the Sun, and that this is obviously the source of the ancient arcane name, Ol, while the version Oel is an anagram for Leo. The importance of this rulership of Michael over the 7 planetary beings is emphasized in a hidden numerology, the meaning of which rests upon the fact that Michael is ruler of 7 archangels. This numerology may be traced in the structure of the wordAngoulmois, which gives Oul, balanced by words with 3 and 4 letters, giving a total of 7 : Ang (3) ; Oul; Mois(4). It is possible that Nostradamus is disguising the name of the planetary archangel Michael in the pseudo-epigraphic Roy d'Angoulmois. This also has relevance in the fact that in the Hebraic imagery attached to the Secundadeians, Michael is visualized as being the centre of the 7 planets. There is a far more subtle numero logical arcanity in this quatrain , however, and that is contained in the quatrain number 72. In many respects, the number 72 is the most arcane of all numbers. Cosmologically, it is linked with the movement of the Sun, for in 72 years, the Sun precesses against the backdrop of stars precisely 1 degree. This is one reason why, in arcane literature, the length of human life is symbolically expressed as being 72 years, for the human being is conceived as being born with a degree, and dying when that degree has moved : this is one of the contributing factors which explain why 72 is the most sacred of numbers in esotericism. Notice also that the second line "un grand Roy" differs from the 3rd line "le grand Roy". There is deep arcane literature significance in this contrast, for it indicates that the King of the 2nd line is not the same as the King of the 3rd line. So we have possibly identified a great King of terror and a "green language" (word coding used by other people of his time and likely Nostradamus) code wording for archangel Michael , who it seems , brings back to life the former. Now for the last line : "Before after, Mars to reign by good fortune". Mars reigning by good fortune ? (bon heur).Mars, whose ruler is Samuel in the Secundadeian literature, is not due to begin his earthly rule until well beyond the period covered by Nostradamus' prophesies. This suggests that another interpretation must be placed upon the word Mars in this present context. In French, par bonheur means luckily. Usually, the reference to Mars as a ruler denotes war, but one has to query how a war can beconducted, started..."by good fortune" or from "luck". Could we take this last line to mean that before and after, Mars finds his own delight ? Certainly, "Faire le bonheur de quelqu'un" means "to delight someone". This is to interpret the line as meaning that Mars in his own delight - i.e. wading through blood and strife. Suppose, however, we go back to the Nostradamus text, and treat the two words bon and heur separately - which is how they were printed in the early editions. Good (bon) may be used of the archangel, Michael. Heur (taken as an obvious Green language apocope for heure, the French word for time) may well be taken as an epithet for the being who opposes Michael, for, in esoteric circles, he is known as Ahriman- the one who rules Time. Wars will be fought between the followers of these 2 great beings.(Look at Daniel:10:12-14, 11:40-45, 12:1-4 for possible confirmation of this). To summarize, possibly in 1999, some great entity, thing or occurrence - possibly harmful to humanity, terrifying - will descend to, happen or rise up, causing and/or using luck that has empowered him more than before. The effect of this evil will be to polarize our civilization : while many will be persuaded to follow this "wolf in sheep clothing", others will find themselves charged with a renewed spirituality - with a feeling for the work of Michael, the archangelic governor of our times. As a result of this, there will be warfare and great social upheavals. As we have seen, however, there is sufficient ambiguity in the verse to suggest that this great King may not be terrible at all. Were we to take into account the fact that Nostradamus was working within the esoteric tradition, then we might see his prediction as a long-term confirmation of the event which has been widely anticipated in modern esoteric literature - the entry of the Christ into the spiritual realm contiguous to the physical plane ;-)
.....OR...... interpretation by ........ Stefan Paulus further below....... \/ !!!!!!!
( 1999 ?) August ? : Zechariah 14:2 = all nations against Jerusalem... ( Possibly world disapproval of Israel use of nuclear defence/retaliation, being left with no choice because of giving up land needed for conventional military defences.)
1999...August 11...Total Solar Eclipse from India...Middle East...France...South of England...East of New York
Nostradamus wrote that we'll get first sighting of new unexpected comet just above the sun. "Clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet and 12 stars in her hand". After eclipse it will reappear for 7days as of Sept.16. On Thursday, September 23, 1999, the 7th of 12 large meteors in tow by it, will strike the Atlantic near the Azores Islands.
(1999 Sept.23 Thrs. full moon)--Rev.6:12---6th seal---great earthquake---black sun---red moon---falling stars, sky scrolling. (meteor impact and effects)
Stefan Paulus :(Author of "Nostradamus 1999...Who Will Survive ? ) : has what I just read, and must add here as it seems to make more sense than opinions already posted here. He points out another way of interpreting the above quatrain...YOU MUST GET HIS BOOK because I can only quote a blessed few of his many astounding and quite reasonable interpretations. However, he opens his book with "here is the last of the dated quatrains". Cam thinks he may be incorrect. C:10,Q:74 could be saying in 2007 the dead rise up out of their graves. And there are more that definitely seem to specify further dates in the future. Also, Century 3 quatrain 94 says that 500 years after his death (Nostradamus), all his verses will be known correct. 1566+500=2066. I am trying to point out various ones to help you make better theories of your own. I repeat , I lean to Stefan Paulus' theory of first 2 or 3 years. I don't agree with his reasoning of the last few years of Tribulation being some 10-50 years later. I repeat Jesus saying his return is at the end of "labour pains" which in days = years wouldn't be very many. Though I fear a sizable majority these days, are unaware of most of what the Bible says.(Or anyone else). So a widespread moral chaos is possible.
Stefan Paulus "Nostradamus 1999, who will survive ?" : Below is but a fraction of his great book :
(1) C 10 q 72 :
L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois, The year 1999, the seventh month, Du ciel viendra un grand Roy d'effrayeur: From the sky will come a great King of Terror: Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois, Resuscitating the great King of the Mongols, Avant apres, Mars regner par bonheur. Before and after Mars to reign happily.
SP believes this to be the latest specifically dated prophecy of Nostradamus. Some of the prophecies that mention specific dates were successes, while others don't seem to be. However, if there is any possibility that he could see the future, if there is any possibility that a significant event will occur in the year 1999, then an effort must be made to find out what Nostradamus foresaw when he wrote this quatrain. Is there any possibility that Nostradamus might be correct, that he actually saw something significant occurring in 1999 ?Has he had any other successes ? An answer may be found in the following quatrain, the latest of this 16th century mystic to be fulfilled.
(2) C 3 q 95 :
The law of More people will be seen to fall: La loi Moricque on vera defaillir: After a different one a good deal more seductive: Apres une autre beaucoup plus seductive: Dnieper first will fall: Boristhenes premier viendra failler: Through gifts and language to another more Par dons et langue une plus attractive. attractive.
Sir Thomas More published a book during Nostradamus' college days by the name of "Utopia", and Nostradamus was doubtless familiar wit hit. As another name for utopia is paradise, and since communism's claim throughout its history has been that it was a "worker's paradise," the connection of the first line with the Soviet Union is clear. Note also that Nostradamus predicted that the Soviet Union would "be seen to fall," a fact not lost on the many Nostradamian commentators who for many years have predicted the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of communism there. Not only did Nostradamus predict the fall of Communism, but in the second line here he also predicted that the new republics would embrace another form of government ("a different one"). This form of government is democracy, which is a "good deal more" attractive ("seductive") than communism on the surface. (Never mind that there has never been a democracy that lasted more than a few hundred years at most-internal decay, especially irresponsible fiscal policies, eventually dooms democratic governments ! ) Besides accurately predicting the fall of communism and the turning to democracy in the former USSR, Nostradamus also predicted in this quatrain that the country bordering the Dnieper River ("Dnieper first will fall") would be responsible for it. This river runs through the heart of the Ukraine, and its capitol, Kiev, is located on its banks. Why Nostradamus should have picked the area that is the Ukraine today for anything important must indicate some prophetic power, since in his day this area was part of the furthest reaches of the Polish-Lithuanian empire, a poor, sparsely populated region with no potential for influencing the affairs of any government. But in fact it was the Ukraine, as the second largest republic (after Russia) in the USSR that played a large part in the breakup of the country. The Ukrainians also ruined the creation of a strong Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), allowing for further dissolution of the Soviet empire. The last line of this quatrain indicates that this transition from communism to democracy was to be made peacefully, by diplomacy with foreign countries ("languages") and Western pledges of "gifts". Amazingly, this is exactly how Ukraine achieved its independence.
Having established that Nostradamus has had a very recent successful prediction to go along with his others throughout the centuries, attention can again be returned to quatrain (1). How should this quatrain be interpreted ? The 7th month of the year 1999 ? But is this month necessarily July ? Look at the prophecy in the original French. While the word "sept" in French means "7", possibly indicating the month of July, "sept" could also be interpreted as an abbreviation for the month of September. Besides, September was originally the "7th month ". It became the 9th month only after Julius Caesar and his successor, Augustus, created and named the months of July and August after themselves, displacing the last 4 months of the year by 2 months each. Thus the intended month could be either July or September. More about this later. The 2nd line indicates something "great" coming from the sky, causing terror on a large, perhaps worldwide, scale. But what can this be ? It appears to be something visible to the whole world. Visible for a long enough period of time to create terror. Fear can be created quickly, but terror takes time to develop. The length of visibility and degree of terror precludes any man-made event ; the only possible one is nuclear war, and that would involve many "kings of terror", not just one. Besides , as terror requires time to build to a peak , the 15 minutes or less warning of incoming nuclear warheads does not suffice. Among all of the natural events, the only possible one is a great comet, and the cause of the terror in mankind will be the knowledge that it will make a near approach to the Earth. The 3rd line of this quatrain implies that the comet will be associated with significant changes in the political structure of the nations of the world ; specifically , it will cause a resurgence in power of the Asian states, particularly Mongolia. The "Great King of the Mongols" was Genghis Khan, the first, and greatest, ruler of the Mongol Empire. He was born in obscurity in 1162, in what is today far-northwestern China, and he died in the year 1227. The years between those dates marked the life of the ruler of one of the greatest empire the world has ever known. 25 yrs after becoming a simple tribal chief, Genghis was master of most of the then-known world. Shortly after his death the Mongolian Empire extended from Korea to Germany and Italy, from northern Russia to India and Iraq. Within 30 yrs of standing on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, Mongol armies were in Japan and Java. But they were more than just conquerors. As perpetrators of genocide, they were more efficient mass-murderers than Hitler and Stalin. Genghis Kahn waged his wars of conquest in terms of an order received from Tengri (Eternal Heaven-yet another historical instance of an individual committing atrocities in the name of God). Genghis saw the Mongol Empire as not merely a state among states but a world empire in the making. The building of that empire was the will of Tengri, who gave to Genghis, and to his descendants, the right to rule over the entire world. At its peak the Mongol Empire reached westward into present-day Germany and the Italian border with Croatia. Had the Mongols actually undertaken an invasion of Germany and Italy, it is difficult to imagine them being repelled by the forces of a divided and disorganized Europe, especially since the Mongol troops in Europe alone outnumbered the combined forces of all the Kings of Western Europe put together. Additionally, the Mongols were better trained, used superior tactics, and had never been defeated. This Mongrel invasion of Western Europe, however, was not to be. In March, 1242, news reached the Mongol army that Ogodei, Genghis Khan's son and successor, had died a few months before. This stopped the Mongol army from operating further west and caused them to return to Mongolia in anticipation of a successor dispute. After that the Mongol empire was more concerned with internal problems than with conquest and they never ventured farther into Europe than Russia. The last line of the quatrain mentions "Mars", the Roman god of war. Nostradamus implies that war will both precede and follow ("before and after") the events of 1999. While he does not mention precisely which countries will be involved, he implies protracted war, similar in nature to the Mongol conquests. The man responsible for this war will come from either present-day Mongolia or northwestern China, the same area from which Genghis Khan came. If some other comparisons with the Mongols hold, then several other conclusions may also be reached. 1st, this is to be a religious war, the invaders claiming the authority of God as permission for starting the war. 2nd, their empire will come together quickly, possibly months after they interpret their "sign from the Heavens" to carry out the instructions in their Holy Revelation (Arab Koran book from Allah?) to purify the world of false religions. 3rd, genocide, the murder of entire cultures, will be a frequent occurrence in this war. One might even call it World War 3. 4th, this campaign will reach out from the depths of Asia into the heart of a disorganized Europe. Finally, the attacking armies from the East will greatly outnumber the defenders of Western Europe. As interesting as this quatrain is, it is still just one quatrain, and some of the language is subject to various interpretations. for instance, the matter of which month is still not determined. Are there any other quatrains which correlate with this one ? Consider the following...
(3) Century 5 quatrain 32 :
Where all good is, Ou tout bon est, everything right with the sun and the moon is abundant, tout bien Soleil et Lune est abondant, its ruin approaches : sa ruine s'approche: from the sky it advances to vary your fortune, du ciel s'avance varier ta fortune,
in the same state as the seventh rock. en meme etat que la septieme roche.
Examine the last line since it is the key to understanding this quatrain. What is the "seventh rock"? A comet is not actually a rock, it is essentially a snowy dirt-ball which roams through the solar system in orbit around our sun. Unlike the planets however, cometary orbits frequently cross the orbits of the planets in long elliptical or near-parabolic orbits. Quatrain (1) predicted a comet in the "seventh month." Thus, the last line here is best understood as another object, appearing together ("in the same state") with the comet, during the seventh month, which could be either July or September 1999. These two quatrains also share a common thought besides the "seven" theme; both also contain the words "from the sky". In the 3rd line note that both of these objects (the comet and the "seventh rock") appear "from the sky" rather than "in the sky". The implication is that these two "objects" will actually approach the earth from out of deep space rather than from the atmosphere. This will occur during a time of, to paraphrase the first 2 lines, "All good and abundant on the earth." While many might not consider themselves to have an abundance of goods, if Nostradamus could actually see the late 20th century, what else could he have concluded from his 16th-century perspective ? Anyone whose residence hasclean running water and indoor plumbing, electrical lighting, central heating and air conditioning, a refrigerator, television, has a higher standard of living than even the wealthiest people in the world had a mere century ago. And besides those creature comforts, western civilization also has an abundance of food, clothing, and health care that is unequalled in all history. Also, note that the comet is not the direct cause of the destruction ; the mysterious second object, "the seventh rock" is responsible. Just what this mysterious object is will be explained in a later quatrain. The following quatrain helps to confirm the date :
(4) C 2 q 46 :
After great trouble for mankind, Apres grand trouble humain, a greater one prepared plus grand s'apprete The grand mover the centuries renews: Le grand moteur las siecles renouvele: Rain, blood, milk, famine, iron and pestilence, Pluie, sang, lait, famine, fer et peste, In the sky fire seen, a long spark running. Au ciel vu feu, corant longue etincelle.
The last line is fairly clear, "a long spark running" in the sky can only be a comet. This was a fairly common expression in Nostradamus' time. The first part of the first line refers to World War 2, certainly the greatest "trouble" for mankind in this century, a war that claimed 50 million lives and destroyed much of Europe and Asia. The last part of the first line indicates that World War 3 is coming , and that it will be "a greater one" than WW2. The entire second line is a colloquialism indicating that this "greater trouble" will occur near the changing of a millennium, i.e. near the year 2000. In line three, iron is symbolic of weapons, in short, war. Pestilence, blood and famine are self explanatory. The significance of rain and milk is, as of yet, unclear ; a possible explanation for their significance will be given further in this text. The appearance of a comet in 1999 has now been linked with a "ruin" that comes from the sky, war, famine, and disease. But in exactly which month will this occur : July or September ? The answer is found in the following quatrain :
(5) Century 3 quatrain 34 :
When the eclipse of the sun will then be, Quand le defant du Soleil lors sera, In broad daylight the monster will be seen: Sur le plein jour le monstre sera vu: Everyone will differ on the interpretation, Tout autrement on l'interpretera, High price unguarded : none will have prepared. Cherte n'a garde: nul n'y aura pourvu.
or ... according to "Complete Prophesies of Nostradamus" by Henry c. Roberts & Robert Lawerence ......
When the eclipse of the sun shall then be, At noon day, the monster shall be seen , It shall be interpreted other ways , Then for a dearth, because nobody hath provided for it. (To death for many because of their "blindness" ? ).
Camelot :
Note the significance if "noon day sun eclipsed" when you consider Bible\Amos\8:9 "And in that day, says the Lord God, I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the Earth in the broad daylight." and Ezekiel\32:7-10"7 And when I have extinguished you, I will cover the heavens [of Egypt][Amplified Bible] and make their stars dark ; I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord. 9 I will also trouble and vex the hearts of many peoples when I bring your breaking and trembling and destruction and carry you captive among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. 10 I will make many peoples amazed and appalled at you [Egypt], and their kings shall shudder and be horribly afraid because of you when I brandish My sword before them ; they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your downfall. 11 For thus says the Lord God : The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you."
S.P. ...
Solar eclipses are a frequent phenomena, occurring somewhere on earth every 6 months or so. However, only 28 % of all eclipses are total eclipses, and the average length of time between total solar eclipses in any given location is roughly 410 years. In the years since Nostradamus' death there have been only a handful of total eclipses occurring anywhere in France, so the possible occasions for the fulfilment of this quatrain have been very limited thus far. Interestingly, the next total solar eclipse of this century will be on August 11, 1999, and it will pass right through the heart of France. Most reputable commentators believe Nostradamus, as a Frenchman, wrote about France unless a country was otherwise specified. Since no country is named, this would appear to refer to a total eclipse in France. During this eclipse Nostradamus predicts that a "monster"will be visible. But is this monster a comet ? Johannes Hevelius' book "Cometographia", published in the free city of Danzig, (now Gdansk, Poland) in the year 1668, includes drawings of several different types of cometary forms seen between 1577 and 1652, which is the period slightly after Nostradamus' death. Several of the comets are labelled "monstriferous"comets. In particular, figure K in his book shows 3 comets labelled as "monstriferous". So it is clear that Nostradamus intended a comet when he wrote "monster". This"monster" will be seen during the eclipse, but apparently is invisible both before and after. If the "monster" is a comet, then it will approach earth from behind the sun, becoming visible only when the sun is eclipsed by the moon. This occurrence is not at all unusual. Comet 1948 XI was discovered on November 1, 1948 (the year the nation of Israel was started) during a total eclipse of the sun in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It was reported to have been as bright as Venus and to have had a long tail behind it. After the eclipse ended, the comet was again concealed by the glare of the sun and did not become visible again until 5 days later, after it moved away from the sun. The 3rd line of quatrain (5) indicates a multitude of opinions about the significance of the comet. What claims will be made ? Some will see it as just another natural event of the solar system, others as a sign from God.((Both the Pope and Islam's Quran, are to acknowledge a sign as this that rains stars on the earth causing damage, as their sign from God or Allah to purify the world's "false" religions. Unfortunately, they consider each other "false")). Many will simply associate it as a sign of the approaching "end of the world", since it will occur near the end of the second millennium and they may have heard about this theory. Without knowing or believing in Jesus and the Bible, (believers know there are better times ahead for all living survivors and non-living believers in Jesus), many will be in a state of panic. The last line of the quatrain shows that many will be unprepared for the calamity to come. The sight during the eclipse will be awesome enough to cause panic buying of supplies. Money itself, and the earning of it, will be secondary to acquiring stockpiles of food, water, clothes, weapons, etc. This quatrain also answers the question, in which month the "ruin" will occur. Since the comet will not be seen from earth until August, the "ruin" must occur in September, not July. Just what that "ruin"will consist of will be explained soon. But, before going further with Nostradamus, some background information on comets is necessary.
Most comets are not discovered until they cross the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Why ? It is at this distance that water begins to vaporize and the comet forms a coma, its fuzzy appearing head. At this distance a bright comet appears to the naked eye as a forth or fifth magnitude star (the lower the number the brighter the star). On a clear night the unaided human eye can see a star of 6th magnitude. This "star" is surrounded by a haze due to formation of the coma. Comets are rarely discovered before they form their coma, and if the comet is hidden in the glare of the sun as it approaches the Asteroid belt to form its coma, it may go unobserved. There are, in fact , many instances of comets being discovered during total eclipses of the sun, comets that were previously invisible due to the sun's glare. In this respect the previously mentioned Comet 1948 XI was by no means unusual. But still, is it not unusual for a comet to be discovered this close to the sun ? No, in fact most comets are discovered after they have reached perihelion (their point of closest approach to the sun) and are racing back out of the solar system. Will space-age satellites and deep space probes discover the comet before it appears during the total eclipse ? Perhaps the government will find it, but that doesn't mean they will inform the general public. Also, consider what happened in 1979. In August of that year the US Naval Research Laboratory, through the use of an Air Force satellite, photographed the previously unknown comet 1979 XI as it crashed into the sun, but the comet remained unreported for 2 ½ years, until the researchers actually had a chance to look at the film ! Nostradamus wrote another quatrain that also indicates that the comet will approach the earth from behind the sun :
(6) C 6 q 6 :
There will appear towards the north Apparaitra vers le Septentrion Not far from Cancer the bearded star : Non loin de Cancer l'etoile chevelue : Susa, Siena, Boeotria, Eretria, Suze, Sienne, Boece, Eretrion, The great one of Rome will die, the night over. Mourra de Rome grand, la nuit disparue.
"Bearded star" was another common expression in Nostradamus' time for a comet, the "beard"being the comet's tail, and"star" its bright coma. At the time of the August 1999 total solar eclipse, the sun will be nearly out of Cancer and moving into Leo. If, as this quatrain states, the comet will appear "not far from Cancer", then it must approach the earth from behind the sun. Within a few weeks the earth's orbit around the sun will swing it into a nearly head-on path with the comet, so the near-encounter will occur at a great speed. A rough estimate of that speed will be calculated later. It is also notable that the comet, being near Cancer, will approach the sun in the ecliptic plane, the same plane in which the planets lie. A comet with an orbit 90 degrees from the earth (approaching from the pole) will cross earth's orbit in only 1 or 2 places at most, and even then only if it is exactly 93 million miles from the sun. However, a comet orbiting in the plane of the planets may spend a great deal of time crossing the earth's orbit. The 1st line also indicates that the comet will be more visible from the northern hemisphere ("there will appear towards the north"), a sensible observation since during summer in the northern hemisphere the sun is high in the sky, almost overhead, and the comet will be easily visible when it reappears a few weeks after the eclipse. Those people living in the middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere, with the sun low in the northern sky, will have a poorer view of the comet since it will be near the horizon. The 3rd line is difficult to interpret as it lists only the names of places without any apparent activity occurring. Nostradamus' explanation of their importance was constrained to some extent by rhyme and by verse length, so the significance of these places is open to interpretation. Erika Cheetham, in her book The Final Prophesies of Nostradamus, adds without explanation, "will tremble," to her interpretation at the end of the line. This seems reasonable, and that interpretation will be used here, too. Why is it reasonable ? Consider the locations mentioned. Susa is in northwest Italy, Sienna in central Italy, Boeotia was a province in southeastern Greece and Eretria is on the island of Euboea, just east of Boeotia and northeast of Athens. These areas are all very seismically active and are close to the border of the African and European tectonic plates. The exact African-European tectonic plate boundary is difficult to determine due to thrusting of the overlying crust, unlike southern California where the San Andres fault marks the conjunction of the 2 colliding plates clearly. At a speed of about 4 inches a year, the African plate is sliding northward into, and under, the European plate. This collision has produced the Alps and Pyrenees mountains, the volcanoes Vesuvius and Mt.Etna, and an earthquake region similar to ones on the west coast of the entire north and south American continents. Thus the logical reason to link diverse areas such as Susa, Siena, Boeotia, and Eretria together is that an earthquake of massive proportions will cause large sections of the African plate to slip under the European plate. During this earthquake the Pope will die ("the great one of Rome will die") obviously along with many other people. Incidentally, the theory of plate tectonics has been accepted by the scientific community only within the past 25 years, and yet Nostradamus here places the length and location of a fault with uncanny accuracy. How could he have done this without some knowledge of the future ? There are still more quatrains relating to events surrounding the time of the comet's appearance :
(7) C 2 q 41 :
The great star for seven days shall burn, La grande etoile par sept jours brulera, The cloud will cause two suns to appear : Nuee fera deux soleils apparoir : The big mastiff all night will howl, Le gros matin toute nuit hurlera, When the great pontiff changes countries. Quand grand pontife changera de terroir.
"The great star" refers to the comet, and the"cloud" will be its fuzzy-appearing coma. For "seven days" it will "burn"bright enough in the sky to give the illusion of a 2nd sun ((( examine the French ! . An alternate interpretation is "The great star for September days shall burn", possibly indicating that the comet's closest approach to the earth will occur during the month of September.))) Or with Jewish new year in September, "star" may be Jehovah to them. Again, note that this is to be a daylight comet, approaching from the same sector of the sky as the sun. If it approached from the other direction, it would be visible during the night, not the day. The brightness and the apparent size of the comet also indicate a close approach to the earth. The proximity of the comet to the earth at this time shows that this quatrain should be dated after the August 1999 eclipse, but before the "ruin" of quatrain(3)occurs. Why it must occur before the"ruin"will be explained later. The "big mastiff" is generally interpreted by Nostradamian scholars as a symbol for Great Britain, the"howling" indicating a time of severe national distress in that country. The earthquake in southern Europe mentioned in the quatrain(6) will not only kill the Pope, but it is somehow connected with the Papacy itself moving out of Italy and into another country. As detailed and fascinating as this quatrain is, is it really possible ? Could a comet really make the sky appear to have 2"sons" ? After all, even a large comet is only a few miles across. And what could this possibly have to do with a national emergency in Great Britain, the Papacy leaving Italy for another country, and a massive earthquake throughout southern Europe ? Before answering those questions, some more background information on comets is needed.
The last truly brilliant comet was the Great Daylight comet of 1910, sometimes confused with Halley's Comet, which appeared later that year. It was clearly visible during the day (hence its name) and outshone all heavenly bodies except for the sun and moon. Its tail actually stretched half way across the sky. Another remarkable comet was the Great Comet of the Year 1402, generally regarded as the finest comet ever seen. Records indicate it was visible in daylight for 8 days, and was so bright that it may have even cast a shadow ! The comet of 1577 was as bright as the moon, and like the moon, could even be seen through thin clouds at night. In 1811, a comet appeared that had a coma that was actually larger (not just apparently larger) than the sun itself, and many, many times the diameter of the earth. The Great comet of 1843 had a tail over 200 million miles long , far enough to reach from the sun to more than 58 million miles past the orbit of Mars ! Tebbutt's Comet (1861 II) was as bright as Saturn and its tail stretched 120 degrees across the sky, 2/3's of the way from horizon to horizon. It was so large and bright that the head of the comet was mistaken by many for the rising moon ! Other brilliant, large comets appeared in 1861 and 1882 as well. This generation living now has seen nothing , yet ;-) The lack of truly brilliant comets since 1910 is very unusual over the past millennium. Even the long awaited appearance of Halley's Comet in 1986 turned out to be a disappointment, as it provided its least spectacular sky show in over 2,200 years of recorded sightings. In the distant past the Roman historian Pliny even noted the appearance of a comet that was too bright to look at directly. In answer to the question posed a few paragraphs ago, yes, it is quite possible for a comet to give the sky the appearance of having a 2nd sun ("son").However, the comet must be at least slightly dimmer than our sun, since it generates no light of its own, reflecting only the light of the sun itself. Interestingly enough, the coma of a comet reaches maximum size at roughly 1 AU (astronomical unit), which by definition is the same distance at which the earth orbits the sun. At the point that a comet crosses the earth's orbit, a coma the size of the earth itself is fairly common, and as previously noted, a coma the size of the sun itself is quite possible. Lexell's Comet (1770 I), at the time of its closest approach to the earth, had a coma that appeared to be nearly 5 times the size of the moon ! A daylight comet with a coma the size of the earth would be a spectacular sight, indeed. And since the majority of known comets have near-parabolic orbits with their perihelion (their point of closest approach to the sun) at roughly 1 AU, the Great Daylight Comet of 1999 could well be swinging by the earth when it is just about as far from the sun as the earth itself, with its coma at its maximum size, probably measuring at least as big as the earth, and possibly much bigger. As unusual as a great daylight comet with a near-earth approach would be to those living today, this event would not be at all unusual. A comet will come as close to the earth as the moon (roughly 240,000 miles) about once every few hundred years. Compare that with Comet Hyakutake, which at its closest approach to earth was still 9 million miles away. In 1992, NASA reported calculating on what they could see in space and history records, the odds of a comet or tail meteorite impact are 1 in 1,000. Compare that with lightning = 1/900, being murdered 1/1200, car death 1/400,000, plane crash 1/460,000. Imagine ! It is 500 times more likely to have a comet or meteor impact than die in a car or plane crash ! Yet, many people take the possibility of dying in a car or plane crash very seriously. The reason catastrophe from comets and meteors is not taken seriously is because it occurs so infrequently. Yet, this rarity is more than compensated for by the immensity of the destruction that cometary impacts bring. Eleanor Helin , a planetary scientist at NASA, estimates there is a significant chance that an asteroid the size of a football field could hit earth anytime, with little advance notice if it approaches fast enough and from behind or in front of a bright space object. Should it hit near an urban area, city and suburbs would both be obliterated. Close encounters with space objects are not all that rare ; there are at least 56 meteoric craters classified as "large to very large" in just the continental United States and Canada alone, and that does not even account for those that exploded high in the atmosphere, devastating the land surface but leaving no crater ! The last line of quatrain (7) predicts the Papacy moving to another country. The only suitable reason is the degree of destruction that will occur in Italy, being close to plate boundaries. There is also a historical precedent for the Papal Seat being elsewhere besides Rome. In 1309 Pope Clement 5, who reigned during the years 1305-14, took up residence in Avignon, France, due to wars in Italy and political instability. Consider how tempting it would be to Gadaffi of Lybia, Hussein of Iraq, Iran and PLO, who will be much less effected, to capitalize while Europe is badly crippled and Britain, US, Canada are unable to help. Nostradamus makes numerous references to just this movement of mass troops by land, sea and air. He also refers to the moving of the Papacy again, apparently for the same reasons that Clement 5 moved from Italy. Those quatrains are covered in another chapter. There are still more quatrains related to the appearance of the comet :
(8) C 2 q 62 :
Mabus then will soon die, Mabus puis tot alors mourra, a horrible defeat : horrible defaite : After that everyone struck the vengence seen, Puis tout a coup la vengeance on verra,Hundred, hand, thirst, hunger when will run the comet. Cent, main, soif, faim quand courra la comete.
Here is another quatrain that links the appearance of a comet with destruction and war. There are very few diseases that are capable of killing both humans and animals in very large numbers, so the destruction ("a horrible defeat") will most likely result from either war or extreme changes in the environment. "Mabus" is unidentified at this time and is generally regarded to be an anagram for a person of future importance, but a location is also possible. If so, Mabou Harbor, in Nova Scotia, Canada, may be specially marked for destruction (the anagram rules that Nostradamus used allowed not only for the scrambling of letters, but for the substitution of a letter as well ). This possibility is intriguing since Nova Scotia was an early French colony, settled within 50 years after Nostradamus' death. Other potential geographic locations include Tabus, Turkey ; Babus, Afghanistan ; and Mabui, a small mountain on the Philippine island of Biliram. If Nostradamus intends a group of people, the Mabas are the most likely candidate. They are a mixed Negroid, Sudanic people of Muslim culture today living in eastern Chad, in central Africa. Chad is a former French colony, and the Mabas have already fought a"jihad" (religious holy war) with the French in this century. While the possibilities are almost endless, there is no certainty at this time what Nostradamus intended with the term "Mabus". It will certainly become clearer when, as the last line states, the comet appears. The 3rd line includes "everyone struck the vengence seen". What the earth will be stuck by will be made clear in the next few quatrains. Here Nostradamus indicates, to paraphrase the quatrain, that the "strike"will come "with a vengence". Exactly how close will the comet come to earth ? Nostradamus answers that question in the following :
(9) C 2 q 47 :
The enemy great old mourning dies of poison, L'ennemi grand vieil deuil meurt de poison, The sovereigns through infinities subjugated : Les souverains par infinis subjugues : Stones raining, hidden underneath the fleece, Pierres pleuvoir, caches sous la toison, Through death articles in vain are cited. Par mort articles en vain sont allegues.
Who the "great old...enemy" might be cannot be predicted at this time. The second line predicts the defeat("subjugated") of at least 2 countries ("sovereigns")through large numbers of invading troops ("infinites"),rather than through superior technology, conjuring up an image of Genghis Kahn and his Asian hordes. The "articles"of the last line are probably the articles of the Geneva Convention regarding army conduct during war. Nostradamus predicts that they will be ignored ("in vain are cited") , and atrocities will be common. All of this , however, is rather vague and could be applied to any period of time or any war, except for the 3rd line."Fleece"was a common expression for the tail of a comet, and the only way it can "rain stones" is if the earth actually passes through the tail. The question is which tail ? Many comets have 2 types of tails, comprising a double tail. One is elongated and straight and consists of ionized gases. It is known as the gas or the ion (plasma) tail. The other is known as the dust tail, which is more strongly curvedin shape and hazier in appearance. Thus if going through the same tail again a year later, it's movement and curve mean likely going through it sooner or later than the previous year. Also, a comet may have more than one dust tail. While the visible ion tail of most comets is still a better vacuum than can be produced in scientific laboratories, the visible dust tail can contain significant amounts of dust and small stones ejected from the nucleus due to solar radiation pressure and the solar wind (a stream of charged particles emanating from the sun). Hence, the 3rd line of this quatrain appears to describe a huge meteor shower or storm as the earth passes through the dust tail of the comet. The earth has passed through the tail of comets before, most notably in 1861. It also encountered the edge of Halley's tail in 1910, and that of Comet Suzuki-Saigusa-Mora in 1975. It is interesting that Nostradamus understood that the tail of a comet contained dust and stones. This was not understood by even the scientific community until this century. If not as a prophet, then he should be honoured as a genius for his understanding of planetary geology and astronomy, in addition to being renowned in his own time as a medical doctor who was the first and only one able to defeat plaque. Perhaps this value is what kept the witch killers and super religious people from harming him. Coincidence ? I don't think so. There is yet another quatrain about the comet :
(10) C 2, q 43 :
During the bearded star's appearance, Durant l'etoile chevelue apparentz, The three great princes will be made enemies : Les trois grands princes seront faits ennemis : Hit from the sky, peace earth trembling, Frappes du ciel, paix terre tremulente, Pau, Tiber overflowing, serpent on the brink placed. Pau, Tymbre undans, serpent sur le bord mis.
The "bearded star" is, of course, the comet. Who "the three great princes" of the 2nd line are cannot currently be guessed at, but apparently they will be leaders of 3 countries. During the appearance of the comet something of significance will fall from the sky and impact onto the earth ("hit from the sky"). This is the mysterious object previously described in quatrain (3) as"the 7th rock". It is associated with an earthquake in Pau in southwest France and such a severe earthquake in Italy that the Tiber River overflows its banks. What the serpent of the last line might be is unclear. The key to understanding this quatrain is "hit from the sky". Hit by what ? The answer is found in the next quatrain :
(11) C1 q 69
The great mountain round of seven stadia, La grande montagne ronde de sept stades, Afterwards peace, war, famine, flood, Apres paix, guerre, faim, inondation, It will roll far away sinking great countries, Roulera loin abimant grands contrades, Even antiquities, and great foundation. Memes antiques, et grande foundation.
What could this "great round mountain be" be ? The fact that it is round suggests that it might be spherical in shape. This rules out any object, such as a mountain, that is attached to the earth, as a mountain would be more appropriately described as having a conical shape. The most likely candidate is a rock, one of fairly sizable proportions. The only place to find objects of this size that could relate to the rest of the quatrain is in outer space, in which case the object described here is a meteor. The earth, then, is to be hit by a meteor, and as quatrain (10) related the 'hit" to the comet, and quatrain (9) spoke of "stones" in the tail of the comet , the"round mountain" of quatrain (11) must be contained within the tail of the comet. Here Nostradamus gives the circumference of the meteor : 7 stadia measures nearly 4,250 feet.
After the impact there will be a brief period of "peace", followed by "war" and "famine". But what does Nostradamus have in mind by "flood" ? An oceanic impact is implied, which is not surprising, since almost 3/4 of earth surface is water. A meteor strike of this size into the ocean would create a huge tsunami, which is described here in the 3rd line. The tsunami "will roll far away," probably around the entire globe, and flood "great countries",including some countries that have histories going back many centuries (Even antiquities"), as well as the greatest powers in the world ("great foundation"). With the knowledge that the meteor is coming, would it not be a simple matter to just blow it up before it reaches the earth ? Why not simply destroy it, or at least deflect it, while it is still a long way away ? The answer is that, sadly enough, neither the Russians nor the Americans possess the tools to do it. To deflect a comet, meteor, or asteroid sufficiently so that it does not strike the earth requires the use of nuclear weapons millions of miles away from us. And with a similar amount of energy that it will have when it hits which will be approximately 130,000 Hiroshima bombs ! No its not enough to crack earth open, just shake its entirety severely. At this time neither superpower has the launch vehicles to deliver the warhead to that distance. Also, there is the matter of timing the explosion. Intercepting scud missiles during the Gulf War with Patriot missiles was difficult enough ; space objects are far larger, far heavier, and far faster than scud missiles. Even if the missiles could be brought to that distance it is likely that the explosion could not be timed precisely enough to do any good. Besides, the comet will not even be seen until August, and the meteor will impact in the following month. There will simply not be enough advance warning to prepare a warhead and launch vehicle even if the government had one. Will 1 month be enough time for all people to get out of harms way ? 5 miles from Ocean coasts, perhaps much more where there is a lot of low flat land, like Britain. 1 mile from all large lakes and rivers ? Well away from unsafe buildings. Clear of "soft" ground that when shaken will be quick sand. Even regular soil close to water or with high water table. Away from mountains too. Not on unstable fractured rock either which would granulize and settle or move as in avalanches. The initial shockwave moving west if west of Atlantic, or east if east of it, may mean the closest side of bodies of water will be safest for boats to too close to shore. But I'd prefer taking chances on a very large relatively flat unfractured granite. The ground shock wave could be like a 1-10 foot wave. Buildings will have to ride up on a tilt and down the other tilt. I don't think any would hold together.
Since even a fair sized comet has a nucleus only a few miles across, is it realistic for a "rock" in the tail of the comet to be a 1/4 mile in diameter ? Yes, there are many historic instances of large bodies in the dust tails of comets. While some may be meteors captured by the comet's small gravitational field and rear vacuum over the millennia, most seem to be chunks of the comet itself. For instance, in 1908, Comet Morehouse had sizable fragments leave the nucleus and become part of it's tail. These fragments began emitting tails of their own, which lasted for a few days. If not for the presence of these tails these fragments might have gone unnoticed. How many other comets emit chunks of material that go unnoticed ? Many astronomers believe that probably most comets, if not all of them, routinely shed large pieces of debris during their orbit around the sun. In the commentary on quatrain (5), reference was made to the comets that Johannes Hevelius described as"monstriferous", apparently the type of comet Nostradamus predicted as the one to come. Two of the comets labelled as "monstriferous" in his drawings show disconnected gaps in their tails that appear to indicate fragmentary cometary pieces, each sporting their own tail. By referring to Hevelius' "monstriferous" comets as the type of comet to come, Nostradamus warns that large bodies will be present in the tail of the Great Daylight Comet of 1999 as well. Assuming an oceanic impact of Nostradamus' meteor, how disastrous will the collision be ? To answer this question, the amount of energy involved must be calculated. This can be roughly calculated, provided that the speed and the mass of the meteor are known. A comparison can then be made with past collisions of interplanetary matter with the earth, and with the energy involved in some naturally occurring events. Dividing the circumference of the meteor (4,250 feet) by the constant Pi (3.14) gives a diameter of slightly over 1,350 feet, a little more than 1/4 mile, or just over 4/10 kilometre. Assuming the meteor is a perfect sphere (several assumptions must be made in the following calculations) gives a volume of 3.67 x 100,000,000,000,000 cubic centimetres (that's 1,300,000,000 cubic feet !). Since the meteor appears to be a fragment of the comet, it may have a density equal to the nucleus of the comet itself. However there is still considerable uncertainty as to the nucleus density. During Comet Halley's 1910 visit, the density of its nucleus was calculated as being twice that of water, or 2 grams/cubic centimetre (by definition water has a mass of 1 gram/cubic centimetre).A density of less than 1 would allow it to float if placed in water gently. However, Nostradamus' description of the meteor as a"round mountain" and "7th rock" , rather than a fluffy snowball, appears to indicate a denser, more stony, composition. Less dense objects tend to explode in the atmosphere. A density of 2 will be used in these calculations. Multiplying the volume by the density gives a mass of 73,400,000,000,000 grams. The calculation of the speed of the comet and the trailing meteor also involves some estimation. The speed of theearth's orbit balance is 30 km/sec (19 miles /sec = 65,000 mph !!). The speed of comets at 1 AU (the earth's distance from the sun) is 42km/sec (26 mps=9,360 mph). The impact could occur at any speed from 12kps (7.4 mps) in the event the meteor overtakes earth in a rear-end collision, to 73 kps (45 mps) in a head-on collision. While a glancing blow to 1 degree or another is likely, since the earth's orbit will carry it forward towards the approaching comet a collision at speeds above the median speed of 42 kps is likely, and a speed close to the maximum of 72 kps is possible. An impact speed of 60 kps will be used to calculate the energy involved in this impact. At this speed the meteor will travel completely through the atmosphere and the ocean in less than 1 second, exploding into or through the ocean floor. The energy released in the impact is determined by multiplying ½ mass by the square of speed. The impact by a mostly stony meteor measuring 2 city blocks long at a speed of 60 kps would create an explosion the equivalent of setting off 130,000 Hiroshima bombs, or 2,000,000,000 tons of TNT. This explosion would take place on the ocean floor. For comparison, at sunrise on June 30, 1908, either a very small comet or meteor entered the atmosphere and exploded at a height of about 4 miles over the Tungska River in a remote are of Siberia. All tress directly underneath were left standing, but were driven into the ground 20 feet and stripped of all branches. Around the site trees were blown down like toothpicks up to 15 miles away. 50 miles away survivors suffered burns from the heat flash of the explosion. 400 miles away, horses grazing were knocked down, some injured. The shaking of the ground and the shockwave were recorded on seismographs around the world. The glow in the sky was so brilliant that many Europeans, even as far as London, could read their evening papers outdoors well after sunset without the use of streetlights ! Recently, researchers in Antarctica reported finding a thin layer of dust in Antarctic ice that was deposited in 1908. The dust is rich in pure Iridium, indicating extraterrestrial origins since on earth Iridium is only found in alloy form with Osmium and Platinum, and implying a link with the Tunguska event.All this from an object only 160 feet wide travelling only 31 kps. The impact of the meteor in Nostradamus' prediction will release over 600 times the energy of Tunuska ! Large meteoric collisions with the earth are not that rare ; what is rare is that they do not occur more often. Two University of Arizona astronomers have even estimated that 50 house-sized asteroids pass between the earth and the orbit of the moon each day. In 1755, a large shift at the junction of the African /European plates in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal resulted in the so-called Lisbon earthquake , which killed 60,000 people in Lisbon alone. The quake produced a 30 foot uplift in the sea floor, which in turn produced several tsunamis. The first , and largest, was over 50 feet high and was responsible for much of the damage and death toll in Lisbon. But that was not all. The tremors were felt throughout most of Europe and North Africa. The quake also caused the death of 10,000 in Morocco ; again many from a tsunami. The city of Algiers was almost completely obliterated. In Luxembourg, 500 soldiers died when their barracks collapsed. Even in England great cracks developed in the ground. In Scandinavia and Scotland, water in large lakes sloshed back and forth, overflowing their shores even though the tremor could not otherwise be felt. This response in large bodies of water is known as a seiche and it occurs when very long period earthquake waves cause large bodies of water to resonate. A very large earthquake can even make the entire planet resonate like a struck bell. On August 15, 1950, an 8.4 magnitude earthquake in Assam, India, killed 30,000 people and caused reservoir levels in England, halfway around the world, to fluctuate sharply. Likewise, a large meteor impact will probably result in seiches worldwide. Even the Great Lakes of the central North American continent, far removed from an oceanic impact site, might see serious damage from seiches days, even weeks, later as the vibrational energy resounding through the earth is slowly dissipated. Since earthquake waves travel through the dense rock of the ocean floor at speeds nearing 1,000 mph while the tsunami waves roll along at less than 500 mph, the tsunami always arrives after the earthquake. In this case the burning petroleum and oil from ruptured lines and tanks has time to spread out onto harbors, setting the water on fire as well as the land. The tsunami that follows lifts the burning fuel and carries it deep inland, burning everything below the high water mark of the tsunami. Entire industrial districts are destroyed, including railroad yards, roads, hydro, water (no water pressure to put out fires). Imagine what a huge meteor-induced earthquake from an oceanic impact could do to coastal port facilities all around the rim of the ocean in which it occurs. Picture what the following tsunami could do spread the fires that are certain to occur afterwards. Uncontrolled fire is the greatest risk of a large earthquake. It is what turns an otherwise moderate disaster into one of historical proportions. The San Francisco earthquake destroyed only 20% of the city-it was the fire that followed that consumed the city and caused most of the casualties. The fire grew to such a size that it became a"firestorm" as the rising heat generated hurricane-force winds that sucked all loose objects (including people) into the inferno. Without that fire , the San Francisco quake would barely rate a footnote in today's history books. Large quakes break hydro, water, telephone, sewer, natural gas lines, roads. There would be no way to know what was happening everywhere and what to do because without hydro there is no radio, tv or phone. "PEOPLE WILLLITERALLY BE RUNNING TO AND FRO FOR INFORMATION" as the Bible's Revelations say. How large would the tsunami be ? A one-size-fits-all approach cannot be adopted since many of the factors affecting size are determined by water depth and shape as the tsunami approaches land, but some estimates can be made. The comet /meteor impact believed by some to have caused the Cretaceous event long ago, left evidence behind that leads geologists to believe that tsunami was 3 miles high ! Nevertheless, that was estimated to be much bigger an impact. If a 1/4 mile in diameter meteor hits mid-Atlantic, the world encircling rock ripple of 1-10 feet at 1,000 mph at land surface even, will have behind it 100-200 foot tsunamis (after shocks from circling globe). Perhaps more in especially unfortunate places where the water will be funnelled into a Bay or river mouth. At this time there is no way to no more or less for sure. But imagine the massive oil-refining and petrochemical complexes with tanks of very lethal stuff, like the Mississippi river and Gulf of Mexico. One of the critical industrial areas of the US, being struck by "only" 1 foot ripples and only 100 foot tsunamis moving at 70 mph. The water in even a moderate tsunami of 100 feet totals nearly 2,000 tons/foot of shoreline. Ruptured pipelines would spread flammable material over many square miles. A single spark from any source could be disastrous. Just as important as the height of the tsunami, however, is how far inland it is allowed to easily penetrate. The Japanese have built tsunami barriers that may or may not have this large a magnitude in mind. But better than nothing to take a big bite out of it. Some tsunamis have carried ocean-going ships as far as 3 miles inland. Anything and everything within 1to perhaps 3 or 4 miles of the ocean coasts (even Pacific) will be completely destroyed. In the lower Mississippi the destruction may extend upriver for many miles from the Gulf. The same goes for the St. Lawrence seaway between Canada/US. Perhaps as much as miles on either side of even the smaller river ways from them. Single fires may turn into deadly firestorms with no working fire hydrants. These firestorms would rage for weeks, possibly months, until every possible source of fuel in the region has been exhausted. Since a large portion of the petrochemical industry of the entire US is located on the Mississippi delta, the loss of those facilities would result in the crippling of the entire US economy. The destructive power of a meteor this size, speed and direction would be like the energy released from a "14 Richter scale quake". But that is slowly released , not all at once. A comet strike is in one tiny spot. So the actual ripple or shockwaves are likely much stronger. Comparisons between comet impacts and earthquakes are ... limited so far. Since almost all earthquakes occur in the cold, brittle rocks of the crust, they are usually not more than 12.5 miles deep ; below that the rock is fluid and almost like a trampoline to the non-fluid rock on it. However, the shallowest earthquakes are still at least 3 miles deep, because above that depth enough stress (weight) does not build up in the rocks to cause an earthquake. Thus, in any earthquake there is at least 3 miles of insulating rock between the level of the energy release and the surface of the earth, which is quite different from a meteor strike, where the energy release occurs on the face of the planet. Moving at a speed of nearly 40 mps, the meteor will travel completely through the atmosphere and the ocean in less than a second, exploding on the crust at the bottom of the ocean. It will penetrate a few miles into the crust. Perhaps even through it. Tsunamis that occur from earthquakes are due to changes in sea floor height that accompany the quake. As noted during the Lisbon quake a change in sea floor height of 30 feet caused a tsunami over 30 feet high. Changes in sea floor height after a meteor strike of this magnitude might be measured in Thousands of feet !! Another factor limiting energy comparisons of quakes and meteor hits is the way the energy is dissipated. Earthquakes tend to disperse their energy along the length of the fault, while meteor-strikes concentrate their energy with pinpoint precision. How bad will the ecological destruction be ? It could put more dust , not to mention water vapour and sea salts (which would fall as white milky rain and make fresh water salty and undrinkable) into the stratosphere than the eruptions of the last 10 biggest eruptions on earth. The ecological destruction on land, even thousands of miles away, is simply incomprehensible. The soot will block sunlight and cool the planet. The firestorms could conceivably burn 1/3 of global vegetation. Block 1/3 of sunlight. Prevent sunlight getting through low on the horizons. So 1/3 shorter days. You'll also see 1/3 less night sky. Following is a quatrain that reaffirms where to expect this meteor impact :
(12) C 9 q 31 :
The trembling of land at Mortara, Le tremblement de terre a Mortara, Tin St. George half sunk, Cassich saint George a demi perfondrez, Peace drowsy the war will awaken, Paix assoupie la guerre eveillera, In the temple at Easter abysses open. Dans temple a Paques abimes enfondrez.
Mortara is in northern Italy, 35 miles southwest of Milan. "Tin St. George" is a reference to Great Britain and its patron saint, St. George. "Tin"refers to the Scilly Islands, off the coast of England, which are also known as the Tin Islands. In the first 2 lines of this quatrain Nostradamus makes another reference to an area located on the African/European plate border that will suffer an earthquake ("the trembling of land at Mortara"), and this time links the earthquake with a flood that covers ½ of England. While Scotland and Wales have mountainess regions, much of England is fairly flat and near sea level. In fact, most of the English people live at elevations less than 300 feet above sea level. Also, England is a fairly narrow island country and it is impossible to get more than 70 miles from the sea. In the event of an impact fairly close to Great Britain, the tsunami would literally drown half of the country. Nostradamus is hinting that the meteor will strike in the northern half of the Atlantic Ocean. Hitting near the undersea border of the European and African tectonic plates, the shock will serve to bounce those plates, allowing them to temporarily unlock and slip past another. The resulting secondary quakes will unlock the boundary of the 2 tectonic plates throughout their length, with the quake felt in southern France, northern Italy and Greece. The last 2 lines of quatrain (12) are difficult to understand. It might be understood better as "after drowsy peace, war will wake up and come upon mankind".The last line is even more difficult to understand. Since this is supposed to occur in September, how can Easter be involved ? It is possible Nostradamus is referring not to the feast of Easter but to a physical building (church?) that contains "Easter"as part of its name. Another possibility is that he is indicating an event that will occur some months later, perhaps a late, large, aftershock earthquake. Possibly related to the May 10, 2000 exact lineup of Jupiter, Saturn, moon, Earth and sun. Since in the 3rd line he indicates a war (see Dec'99 quatrain farther below), it is possible he's referring to an event the following Easter. His intention cannot be precisely determined at this time. Two previous quatrains, (7) and (10), also indicate an impact site in the Atlantic Ocean. In quatrain (7)England, "the big mastiff"...will howl" because the tsunami will have washed away half the country. "The great pontiff", the Pope, may well be killed and/or Vatican moved to France because of quakes of the fault line, along with tsunamis likely to be generated in the Mediterranean Sea by those quakes, which could destroy large parts of Italy, the Vatican in particular. However, other quatrains indicate the Vatican moving "change countries" as a result of the war that will follow the meteor impact. Hard to believe ? Consider the massive impact ripple of the world's crust, tsunamis, subsequent after shocks, further earthquakes at loosened fault lines, volcanoes brought back to life and new ones. Now, Britain, US, Canada, Italy, and who knows who else, will be unable for perhaps years, to provide any supplies or military assistance due to devastated coasts and ensuing major storms. Might countries like Lybia, Iraq, Iran and others on their side see an opportunity ? Our balance of power will be removed from the scales for years. We'll have our own problems of rebuilding and defence as well as fires, medical aid, food, shelter, etc. Europe will have to fend for itself for awhile. But we do enter the picture later on, after the Persians have pushed well up into Italy from the south, France from the west. Nostradamus has many quatrains describing it all in detail. Relating well to Revelations. I won't be describing those chapters from Stefan Paulus's book of books on Nostradamus "Nostradamus 1999, Who Will Survive". Describing some of this 1st chapter and a bit of the 2nd on Bible similarities is sufficient for any intellectual to see he is not "shooting in the dark".The good news is that he shows clearly, many quatrains showing step by step the progression of the war, the point at which we finally get over there to "turn the tide". This means that enough defences remain after the impact devastations, to protect ourselves sufficiently enough to rebuild ports and get over there to help again. It looks like we only manage to push them back down around Greece due to exhaustion and supplies. We know from Revelations who finishes the job in Israel ;-) In quatrain (10) again note the relationship of an earthquake in Pau, France, and a seiche in the Tiber River in Italy with the appearance of the comet. Is this likely with an impact into any ocean other than the Atlantic ? A site in the Mediterranean Sea could not generate a tsunami that would half-flood England, and other oceanic sites are probably too removed to inundate England that badly. Nostradamus definitely predicts that the meteor will strike in the Atlantic Ocean, either on or near the undersea meeting of the European and African tectonic plates, which is near the Azore Islands.
As discussed briefly already, one of the major effects of the dust thrown into the atmosphere will be a significant reduction in sunlight reaching earth. Just as the 1815 Tambora eruption created a miniature "nuclear" (severe cold) winter, the winters of 1999, 2000, 2001 and possibly 2002 will be severe. Matthew 24:20 "Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath." Nostradamus has a quatrain describing these winters :
13 C 10 q 71
The earth and air will freeze so much water, La terre l'air geleront si grand eau, When they will come for Thursday worship : Lorsqu'on viendra pour Jeudi venerer : That which will be will not ever be as fair as it was, Ce qui sera jamais ne fut si beau, From the four parts they will come to honour it. Des quatres parts le viendront honorer.
The 1st line describes the bitter winters to follow the impact. The 3rd line is difficult to interpret. It appears to mean that life after the meteor will never be as luxurious, as lavish, or as materially wealthy as it was before. The "four parts" of the last line refers to the "four corners" of the earth, meaning the entire planet, which will"honour" the memory of the "good old days" before the meteor impact. The most interesting part of quatrain (13) is the "Thursday worship" theme. No major religion conducts worship services on Thursday. For Christians, Sunday is the holy day, Saturday is the day of worship for Jews, and Friday is holy for Moslems. If Nostradamus intended actual religious services on Thursdays, then a new world religion is required. While this is possible, it is unlikely, since none of his other writings deal with this subject. It is possible that Nostradamus is making an obscure reference to the US, with its Thanksgiving Thursday holiday. The US may be asked, after the impact, to open its food storage bins and feed the world. In this case the other nations will be worshipping , in a sense, at the bread alter of the US. While possible, this seems unlikely since the US will be quite incapable of dealing with its own problems, let alone those of the rest of the world. Still another possibility is that Nostradamus intends an obscure reference to Jupiter. All of the days of the week are named after ancient gods. Thursday, Jeudi in French, is the day names after Jupiter, the Roman king of Gods. In English, Thursday is named after the Norse god Thor. Among their other duties, both Jupiter and Thor were responsible for wielding the thunderbolts from the heavens. Nostradamus may be describing the meteor strike as being like a thunderbolt thrown from the heavens, wielded by Jupiter ,(I wonder if this could have anything to do with the comet a few years back which broke into a dozen pieces just before it struck Jupiter), with disaster the result. It is possible he intends Thursday as the day of the meteor's impact, in which case a worldwide annual day of mourning on the anniversary of the impact is quite understandable. This would also nicely explain the "Thursday worship and "from the four parts they will come to honour it" themes. Nostradamus has another quatrain about a "nuclear" winter :
(14) Presage 124
The grains not to abound too much, Les bleds trop n'abonder, The summer, spring wet, winter long, snow, ice : L'ete, printemps humides, hiver long, neige, glace : In arms the East, France itself will reinforce, En armes l'Orient, la France se renforce, Death of cattle much honey, the seat to the beseiged. Mort de betail prou miel, aux assieges la place.
Since a "spring wet" and "summer"was also seen in western Europe in the year 1816 following the 1815 Tambora eruption, this quatrain probably belongs in the spring and summer of the year 2242. The "winter long" will be severe enough to cause the"death of cattle" and honey bees throughout France. In a severe winter this would be likely. For example, in April 1993, the worst blizzards in over 30 years resulted in the death of more than 1 million cattle in Mongolia ; a very severe "nuclear" type winter would prove disastrous to the domesticated animals of Europe. Grain harvests will also be poor, just as they were in 1816, and the "fruit" most in abundance will be "force" and violence, probably in a struggle for food and other vital resources. The latter part of the last line suggests that the "arms"race will end in war, which will include a siege of the Papal seat in Vatican City, Rome. An attack on the Vatican, as described here, also fits with quatrain (7), which described the movement of the Papacy to another country (France likely). It is in the cross-linkages of Nostradamus' quatrains, such as those described above, that Nostradamus leaves the clues to the proper interpretation of his predictions. The same theme found in two different quatrains allows them to be connected, just as the same picture on different jigsaw-puzzle pieces allows them to be connected and better understood. The quatrain with a specific date, the seventh month of 1999, then allows the whole body of work to be tied to a specific date.
For those of you having difficulty picturing the predicted events, the following summarizes the sequence in chronological order : (keep in mind that John did not always write things for the Bible in chronological order, suggesting possibly that the "6th Seal" and "1st, 2nd ,3rd, 4th,5th Trumpets" of "Revelation" are about the same meteor impact event. Or perhaps a repeat of it.The 6th Trumpet appears to be what has been described here to follow the impact. Notice also, thesimilarities of the bowls to what we know will follow the impact. Could it be that the order of Revelations is Seal 1+ Trumpet 1+Bowl 1, Seal 2+Trumpet 2+Bowl 2...and so on ? Perhaps. It is also possible that those with the mark of the beast are simply those anti-Christians and the lands they dominate. In other words, the pestilence and plague that is to only effect them is because they are the only ones in those particular areas effected. Think about Think about it. Open the first outer scroll Seal and read what is to be done. Sound the Trumpet and pour down the wrath. They need not be equidistant. There may be years between 6 & 7. The final war of Armageddon in the 7th wrath, near or on plains of Megeddo or valley of Jordan, may take years to complete (World War 4). So let the summary begin.......
During the total eclipse of the sun in France on August 11, 1999, a comet will be seen. It may or may not have been previously identified by satellites and possibly reported publicly (X-Files?), but Nostradamus predicts that this will be its 1st naked-eye view from Earth. After the eclipse it will disappear into the sun's glare once more, only to reappear a few days or weeks later. Its approach to earth will be close enough that the sky will actually appear to have a second sun, caused by the reflection of the suns' light off the comet's massive coma. The Earth will actually pass through the comet's dust tail. (There will be 12 large meteors seen in it's tail."She will be clothed in the sun, with the moon at her feet, having 12 stars in her hand"). The 7th rock, 1/4 mile wide, will travel through the atmosphere and Ocean "in the twinkling of an eye", less than a second, at 133,200 mph=37 mps. The impact site will be in the Atlantic Ocean, east of the Mid-Atlantic Rise, at or near the junction of the African and European tectonic plates, east of the Azore Islands. The fireball from the explosion will quickly rise to the very top of the atmosphere and then spread laterally. The fireball could easily be 50, perhaps 100 miles in diameter. The explosion of only a 1-megaton nuclear weapon generates temperatures of 100 million degrees at its centre, so this is a minimum that can be expected. Everything within many hundreds of miles will instantaneously ignite from the flash of the explosion, and any satellites overlooking the area will be destroyed. The shock wave in the atmosphere will crumple any aircraft within 1000s of miles that might happen to be in the air. The initial earthquake wave will race at speeds approaching 1000 mph. The vertical movement in the earth's crust close to the epicentre of the explosion will be 1000s of feet high ; by the time the crust shockwave reaches coastal areas it will likely still be several feet high. As this shock wave races under coastal cities, the buildings there will have to climb the shockwave and then ride it on the downhill slope again, much as little toy buildings lying on a sheet that is shaken. Many, if not most, of the man-made objects will collapse,and small fires will begin in many areas. The Atlantic coastal areas of all of Western Europe, Africa, and the east coast of North and South America will be severely damaged, possibly completely destroyed, by the strongest earthquake ever known. The pattern of damage will be similar in nature to other quakes : collapsed buildings, incapacitated roads, bridges, railroads, fractured natural gas pipelines, oil pipelines, ruptured million gallon tanks of petroleum, oil, petrochemicals, multiple fractured water lines, hydro lines, phone lines. And worst of all, fire. The tsunami will follow soon afterwards. Locations 1,000 miles from the epicentre of the impact will have a 1 hour gap between the quake and the tsunami ; places 4000 miles away will have a 4 hour gap. The extent of damage from the quake, especially the ruptures of water mains, will dash any hopes of extinguishing whatever fires may have started. Within an hour the fires will be well established, and a few will have burned themselves out within 4 hours, so the tsunami will serve to spread the fire everywhere it strikes. The force of the tsunami will further ravage the coastlines, but the damage will be different than the earthquake waves in one important respect. The topography of the undersea continental shelf just offshore greatly affects the concentration of the energy of a tsunami. Bays and river-mouths will serve as magnifiers of the tsunami. Unfortunately, these are the precise locations that ports, with their railroads, oil storage depots, refineries, power plants, and heavy industry of all types, are located. Thus the destruction of weather-protected port facilities is likely to be amplified by the tsunami, and the fires already present will be enlarged immensely by water spreading the burning debris and petroleum products. The fires are likely, in many locations, to turn into firestorms, similar to the ones that Allied bombers created in Dresden and Tokyo during World War 2 that destroyed both cities. Impossible to fight, the fires will die out only after exhausting every source of fuel in entire cities. Nostradamus notes that England, a country of coastline with little interior and essentially no high ground, will be especially devastated. While the initial tsunami will be the worst, many more over a period of days, or even weeks, will follow ("and Kings and slaves were perplexed by the roaring of the waves, and hid themselves from the Lord"). Even the ice cap at the North Pole presents no obstacles to the tsunami as a typical tsunami in mid-ocean is only a foot or two high, but many miles long. It is only as it reaches shore that it bunches up again into a huge wave. Therefore, the wave will pass under the North Pole and re-emerge in the northern Pacific undiminished, with enough punch to ravish the Pacific rim countries as well, perhaps as far as the north coast of Australia. It is also possible that the southern moving part of the tsunami will disrupt the Antarctic ice cap on that land mass. Should that disruption cause a large part of the Antarctic ice sheet to slide or crumble into the ocean, a permanent raising of sea level of at least 5-10 feet will occur.Scientists stationed on the Antarctic have reported the ice to be heating up, a possible rising lava level has caused a large area to melt and form a valley in the thick ice for water runoff to sea. A sizable crack has formed through the middle of the entire width of the ice cap, and is expanding perhaps an inch/month. There was a documentary on the Discovery channel this year about it (1998). Warmer weather and ocean currents have been contributing to this most unusual occurrence. As if the original earthquake won't be enough, very strong secondary quakes will occur throughout the border of the African and European plates as the shockwave of the impact frees the African plate to slip under the European. The European edge in the Mediterranean will then rise, possibly "resurrecting Atlantis", creating new islands and/or raising current ones. I remember vaguely, back in late winter '98, a TV multi-part documentary on one of the educational channels like TLC, Discovery, Space, or Vision TV : It was pointing out apparent prophetic passages in Psalms, vaguely written, proper interpretation was not guaranteed, but it appeared to their explanations that an approximate chronological order exists. And that there appeared to be a constant psalms/years ratio. If correct, the future psalms left would run out shortly after 2000, give or take a few years. Also, one of them, yet to happen, seems to suggest "Atlantis" "will be raised". Another TV show has shown video of above and below sea level in area of the Mediterranean in waters of Greece, or was it Turkey, I forget, sorry. They showed the remains of an island that had once had roads and walls a long time ago. Problem is, most of the island has been blown away and/or covered by a higher sea level now. Many spectacular sights were found under water, such as more roads, walls, exquisite pottery with designs and paint work indicative of what is known of Atlantis. However, the (Greek) government won't permit the research team to disclose the exact location or remove anything from it. Southern France, northern Italy, Greece, and northern Africa in particular will suffer massive destruction and geographic rearrangement from these tremors and subsequent tsunamis. Hurricanes, perhaps many, will further harass the impact survivors. Over the impact site the hot ocean water will create a massive hurricane.Recent research indicates that if an area of ocean 30 miles in diameter could be heated to 120 degrees Fahrenheit, which is exactly what could be expected with a large meteor-induced explosion, then the hurricanes spawned from that site would not be ordinary hurricanes, they would be hypercanes. The storm itself would be only 10 miles in diameter, and the eye of the hypercane only 100 yards in diameter, but winds would top out at 500 miles per hour !! Shortly after forming, this hypercane would begin to travel westward, off the super-heated ocean water, and would probably deteriorate to a very strong hurricane. Within a day or two another hypercane would form over the impact site. This process would continue until water cooled enough that only ordinary hurricanes could form, so it is likely that large storms would be generated off the impact site for at least several weeks. An additional problem posed by hypercanes is their height. It is estimated that they will reach as high as 35 miles into the atmosphere, well into the stratosphere, carrying water vapour and sea salts high into the atmosphere. These salts would further serve to block the sunlight reaching the planet, and it is also possible that the chlorine from the sea salts would destroy the ozone layer. Even if these hypercanes quickly deteriorate into just ordinary hurricanes, then there will be many storms as large as hurricanes Hugo and Andrew, forming on almost a daily basis as the planet attempts to dissipate the massive amount of thermal energy released into the Atlantic. Smaller heat waves and tropical storms will last for several months, perhaps even a year. Both the frequency and intensity of storms throughout the world will be without precedent. The"rain"discussed previously in quatrain(4)appears to refer to the time period after the impact in which storms, and acid rain, will be almost continual. The "milk" from that same quatrain might represent the whitish colouring of the salty precipitate as it settles out of the sky. Drinking salty water causes you to lose more, not gain more water. Even not very detectable levels of salt. Following this period of storms of massive strength and unprecedented frequency will be a period best described as a nuclear winter, as the dust lifted from the initial explosion into the upper reaches of the atmosphere spreads worldwide, significantly reducing the amount of sunlight and heat reaching the earth. This "winter" will be far harsher than the 1816"year without a summer", already noted. The harvests in 2000 and 2001 will be poor throughout temperate climates worldwide. The years following those will also see poor harvest due to a lack of petrochemical-based fertilizer and insecticides, along with a lack of seed from previous poor harvests. At the impact site the crust will rebound immediately afterwards, much as a raindrop that falls in a puddle causes an inward and upward surge in the water. A buried meteor crater, measuring 22 miles in diameter, is located in the cornfields of Iowa. It came from a meteor 1 mile in diameter.Ray Anderson, of the Department of Natural Resources, notes that the impact caused deeply buried granite to instantly rise 20,000 feet and form a permanent dome. Given an impact site near the mid-Atlantic rise, where the crust of the earth is thin and volcanism is already occurring, and given a possible penetration of the meteor several miles into the crust of the earth, a residual large, active volcanic island is possible. (The 5th trumpet : Rev. 9:1-2 "The 5th angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that HAD fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss"). Some scientists also believe that Iceland may have been formed in this manner. Should that volcano stay below sea level, then yet another heat source will be present that will contribute to the development of hypercanes. Should it rise above the water, then there will be yet another factor adding dust to the atmosphere and contributing to global cooling.
The toll of the impact on human civilization would be enormous, ending modern civilization and returning the world to a standard of living at least as far back as just before the industrial revolution, and possibly more appropriately to the middle ages. The great global economy touted by economists recently has a danger that is little recognized. Had this impact occurred 100 years ago its influence on civilization would have been far less. Why ? During the 1800s the population of the US was over 90% rural in nature. Most people provided for their own food, shelter, energy and clothes. Compare this to today, when less than 5% of the population is rural, and most of that 5% do not maintain gardens, orchards or even small animals. After the impact, the disruption of transportation systems, especially shipping and air transport, means that there will be no global economy. What effect will the global economy loss have ? Take the city of Chicago, for instance. Far removed from the impact site, it's tall buildings might survive depending on how reduced the massive shockwaves are when they arrive there. However, the city runs on oil pumped from the ground 1,000s of miles away, refined 1000's of miles away, in cars requiring parts from 1000's of miles away. Food is no better. With potatoes from Idaho, wheat from Nebraska, meat from Texas, citrus and vegetables from California and Florida, or even worse, Mexico and Chile. The loss of oil production and refining will lead to fuel shortages that will cripple transportation and make it very difficult for the city to feed itself after a few weeks. In todays' world, few of the basic needs are produced locally. Whether it be clothes from China or computers from the Philippines, steel from Brazil or machine tools from Germany, oil from Saudi Arabia or bananas from central America, the US economy is desperately dependent on a global economy. Any serious hindrance to transportation from any causewould cripple every industrialized society in the world, but particularly the US The currently interdependent world economy is unique in history, and has many benefits, but has an unrecognized weak spot, as well. The Achilles Heel of the world economy is the absolute dependence on inexpensive transportation of goods. Those happy to not be living in such a big city as Chicago and who feel safer in their distant suburbs would do well to consider how well they will be able to exist without gasoline. Will they be able to walk to work, if there still is a job other than fighting fire and restoring roads and services ? How about getting to stores for necessities ? And even if you do, how long do you think there'll be anything in the stores ? And what about getting to a doctor or hospital ? If it's still standing and not flooded. In all of history, suburbs as bedroom communities for the cities have existed only since World War 2, when cheap energy and cars made long distance commuting easy. Airplanes will not fly in dust-choked air, especially jet engines. Many commercial jetliners have had their engines stall when in air containing moderate amounts of volcanic dust. Along with the destruction of advanced transportation systems will come the destruction of the other great advances of the 2oth century...global communications. The impact will not only push immense dust clouds into the upper atmosphere, it will also ejectbillions of pieces of rock into earth orbit. These rocks will destroy, damage and reap havoc on communication, weather and military satellites in orbit. We may have no way of knowing what is going on across the oceans. The transatlantic cables will be ruined. The economic collapses will far exceed that of the 1920 & 30s. The Great Depression in the rise of totalitarian government in Spain, Germany, Italy and Japan among other countries. This'll be followed by a general political collapse in many countries, in turn followed with military martial law dictatorship, to force the required rebuilding labour forces, as well as stronger military in the name of defence and "aid" abroad. Nostradamus has many predictions describing in great chronological detail the advances of a new united pan-Muslim totalitarian government rising from Islamic religious fundamentalism in the aftermath of the destruction brought by the comet, (or at least perhaps comet tail containing a number of large asteroids). It's interesting that I heard confirmation on the radio news about theLeonid meteor storm we will encounter on November 17,18 &19, 1998. They reported it'll cause30 times more than the average meteor shower. They also said we'll encounter it next year and the year after that !!Think about that. To not get sucked in by the sun's gravity we orbit at something like 65,000 mph. The Leonid tail must also have approximately the same speed and path as us, almost. If not we wouldn't encounter it 3 years in a row. Thus, next year, when we come around to it again, it will have moved. Could it be August or September, 1999 ? And then even earlier in 2000 ? Nostradamus' many quatrains detailing the Islamic movements will have to be read in the book, "Nostradamus 1999, Who Will Survive ?" by Stefan Paulus. He also details more precisely what specific areas of the world can expect. All of North Africa is "converted" to Islam. Then Egypt ("I will strike Rahab") ; across Mediterranean to Spain & Italy. Apparently 2 fronts lead by 2 leaders. One a political military represented by a blue turban. (Antichrist to us ?). He's apparently represented in their revelations as the "Mahdi". Just as many Christians are fascinated with Revelation and the end time (of 2-3 billion then a new style of world life for remaining 2-3 billion), so will be the Moslems, who have their own endtime traditions, prophesies and beliefs. The religious significance of the comet or big rocks in old comet debris, will be explained by the fundamentalist Islamic ayatollahs as a judgment by God on a corrupt Western society, especially since North America and Europe will take the brunt of the destruction and the Moslem world will be spared the worst of the direct effects. Moslems throughout the Middle East will be listening closely to what these leaders will say. One of the major topics of conversation is sure to be "cam this be the end of the world?"What do Moslems believe will happen before the world is "purified". Their end time traditions are wrapped up in the appearance of a man, a man who will be the ruler of all Islam, a man known as the Mahdi. The term Mahdi translates literally as "the guided one", meaning guided by Allah (God) himself. He will be guided so directly that he will be divinely protected against all error and sin in everything he does. His every action will be believed to be God's will, he will be incapable of sinning, and it will be his duty to interpret Islam to all men. Whereas Catholic teaching is that the Pope is infallible in certain limited matters of Church doctrine, Muslims (especially the Shiite division, which is predominant in Iran) believe the Mahdi will speak with the voice of God in all matters, not just religious ones. And more, the Shiites believe he will be not only a religious leader, but a political leader of military conquest as well, uniting all of Islam under a single fundamentalist Islamic government and later subjugating the entire world. Traditions about the Mahdi, and about his appearance and attributes, are somewhat varied throughout Islam. The Quran has little to say about him. Most of the Mahdi traditions arose in the 8th century, when Islam was still less than 100 years old. Of the 2 major branches of Islam, the Shiites have a strong belief in the appearance of the Mahdi just before the end of the world, and he is the cornerstone of their end time eschatology. For them he will interpret and apply the Koran rightfully and restore God's rule over all the earth. His appearance is so important to them that the most repeated Shiite prayer is :"May God hasten release from suffering through his (the Mahdi's) rise." For the Sunnites, on the other hand, belief in a Mahdi is a side issue, and his future appearance is not essential. Also, if he does appear, for them he will not have doctrinal infallibility, since the Sunnite mullahs do not teach blind submission to any one teacher. In fact, the difference is one of the major distinctions between the 2 sects. However, while the Sunnite religious authorities may not acknowledge an all powerful Mahdi, he will certainly be able to count on the support of the Sunnite masses if he arises in a time of great trials and tribulations throughout the Islamic world, in a time commonly perceived to be the end-time. There are many traditions about what the Mahdi will look like and what he will do. Some of them are : 1---He will have the name Mohammed, and be a descendant of the original Mohammed, founder of Islam, through his daughter Fatima. 2---The name of his father and Mohammed's father will be the same. 3---He will resemble Mohammed in disposition, but not in appearance. 4---He will have a bald forehead, and a high, hooked nose. 5---He will have a v-shaped aperture between his front teeth, and a distinctive mole (the "mark of the prophet"), which some traditions place between his shoulder blades and others on his cheek. 6---He will appear just before the end of the world, during a time of dissension and difficulties, to once again restore a fallen and secularized world to the true Islamic faith. While there are several traditions regarding his place of origin, the earliest describe him as coming "from the east",from beyond the river Oxus, which is today known as the Amu Daryu. This river, which flows northward towards the Aral Sea, forms the border between Turkministan on the west and Uzbekistan on the east. Other Muslim-populated regions east of the Amu Daryu besides them, include Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as large areas of southern Russia, northwestern China, and interestingly, Mongolia (where the King of the Mongols came from long ago = Kenghis Kahn who conquered and killed all who refused his faith as far as the middle-east and Germany, then had to return all troops for homeland rebellions). The Islamic faith reached China and Mongolia only a few decades after Mohammed's death, and despite persecution in recent years from communism, it thrives in northwestern China, particularly in Xingjiang province, as well as in Mongolia. There is a strong possibility that the Mahdi of Islam will actually rise from the same region that Kenghis Kahn came from ! Was Nostradamus aware of this Islamic tradition when he wrote about a Mongolian (Moslem?) invasion of France ? The connection is too good to be just a coincidence. If he was not aware of this tradition, then is it possible that he could truly have seen the future ? Other Islamic traditions about the Mahdi include : 1---He will promote the "true faith" and make justice triumph. He will make law replace lawlessness and chaos. This is especially interesting, since lawlessness and chaos will be commonplace as central governments collapse in countries all over the world after the meteor impact. 2---He will find the world full of ungodliness and evil, and he will "beat" men until they return to Allah (any questions of his policies and faith will meet with a swift death). 3---Muslims will follow him and he will reign over a single, united Muslim kingdom. Since the number of Moslems in the world is near 1 billion, this would indeed be a very large and powerful country. 4---The "antichrist" with or shortly after him. The Islamic antichrist tradition is very similar to the Christian tradition. Near the "end" of the world, Muslims believe that a "great deceiver" will arise. He will seek to lead the faithful into a "false religion". For Muslim fundamentalists any religion other than Islam is, of course, a false one. While Buddhism and Hinduism ale likely to be included in a list of false religions, Christianity would likely be named the most offensive "false religion", and it is from here that the "antichrist" of Islam may be expected.(Talk about deception ! Each side will then consider the other side to have the real antichrist and false prophet. A deadlock with no conceivable way of coming to terms. Possibly THE GREAT DECEPTION written of in Revelation). Why will they single out Christians ? They probably will because of the historically close link between Christianity and Western culture, and the perceived oppression of Arab Muslim peoples by the West, not to mention the memory of the Christian-initiated Crusades during the Middle Ages. If only people could learn to mind their own affairs !
The Quran states that many will follow the antichrist "only because he gives them food". As has already been shown, a time is coming (with or without the meteor) when the Asian states will need increasingly more food and will be asking Western Europe for more grain. Thus, Western civilization in general, and one of its rulers (perhaps , as one of the most visible Christian leaders, a Pope? As successful Pope Malachi prophet wrote long ago that our current Pope would be followed by only 2 more. The next he gave the description "Gloria Olivae". And said he would be in a peacemaking attempt to feed many. The last Pope is to be "Peter the Roman", in a true to old Roman form roll. Attacking militarily back and conquering.) will in particular be considered the antichrist or perhaps the false prophet against Islam's "true messiah and prophet". Large scale famine will provoke enormous political distress throughout the world, and many will believe the end time to be either near, or actually upon them. The masses of the Muslim world will be like dry tinder awaiting the spark of a man claiming to be the Mahdi to unite them in a holy war (jihad), a new series of Crusades, against a food-rich Christian Europe. Interestingly, this is a viable scenario for the early 20th century even without the appearance of the comet. Along with the appearance of the Mahdi, Muslims believe that Jesus (Yeshua) (whom interestingly enough, the Muslims honour as a prophet of God, but not as God himself) will return in the end-time as a Muslim, either with or shortly after the Mahdi. The 2 of them together will destroy the antichrist, but this "Jesus" will be subservient to, even worship, the Mahdi ! Christians will doubtless be reminded of Jesus' words from the 24th chapter of Matthew, quoted once again here : "Watch out, and do not let anyone fool you. Many men, claiming to speak for me, will come and say, "I am the Messiah!" and they will fool many people..." For Christians, this "resurrected Jesus" of Islam will fit many of the criteria for being their own antichrist ! Also in the Islamic end time, along with the appearances of the Mahdi and Jesus, will be "Gog and Magog,"terms familiar to any student of the Book of Revelation, but used differently by scholars of Islam. Muslim commentators interpret Gogsymbolically as "flaming fire" and Magog as "surging water" rather than as countries. The fireball of the meteor and subsequent tsunami will perfectly fulfill the Islamic expectations of Gog and Magog, and will further cement in the mind of every Moslem the nearness of the end, as they anxiously await the Mahdi and the return of Jesus. There are still more predictions about the Mahdi : 1---An army will be sent against him from Syria, but it will be completely destroyed in the desert, possibly by a great earthquake. (Another of the aftershocks of the meteor-induced quake ?) When that is seen, the rulers of Iraq and Syria will come and swear their allegiance to him. 2---He will take Turkey by force and will pray at the Mosque in Istanbul, the capital of Turkey. 3---After uniting all of Islam the Mahdi will then conquer the entire world in the name of Islam. His troops are sure to quote Muhammad himself, who predicted the conquest, and later reconquest of Spain. 4---Under the Mahdi's rule there will be unheard of prosperity and riches for the faithful. He will give his followers more gold and silver than they can possibly carry away. 5---After accomplishing all these things the Mahdi will rule for 5, 7 or 9 years (depending on the tradition), and them will come the "end" of the world and final judgment by Allah.
Paulus' book has dozens of Nostradamus quatrains that clearly show the events and order and whereabouts of what Islam does, maybe. He also shows how many quatrains match prophesies in the Bible. To no more, check it out for only $15 US.
I still feel the time frame for the above is no more than 7 consecutive years. But Paulus does make a reasonable argument it is split by unknown number of years by detailing other Bible "split" prophesies and wording between Revelation tribulations. Below are my old quotes from other authors like Robert Lawrence. As well as my earlier attempts to place them and revelations together for a time window. There is not likely any equal spreading out as I had put them below. Some may indeed fall on important Jewish holidays. Whatever happens in the future, the important thing is that Jerusalem's' Jewish Temple will be in use at least just before the 3 ½ year mark from the start of the 70 th week (7 year Revelation). But, if we only get the 1st 3 ½ yrs of Revelations with an unknown time period before the last 3 ½ yr. period starts, the Temple might not actually be built for many years. One final note, regarding another theory that UFO sightings and abductions are a possible trick of demons to prepare us for some form of deception, or gene pool "pollution", either by visual support of antichrist, or to have the world's people ready to shoot at anything that appears in the sky. Keep an open mind to any possibilities of the future and don't be "caught with your pants down" "unawares", scrambling for necessities.
Shalom , Yeshua Maranatha Hamasheea !! ;-)
1999 (Thrsday,Sept 23 ?) = full moon ====after 7 visible days of "2 suns" from the new comet, the 7th of 12 large meteors in tow by it strike the Atlantic near the Azores Islands---("12 stars in her hand" may be 12 large meteors in the tail or coma, of which Nostradamus says the 7th rock will "be thrown down" in our Atlantic Ocean "like a mountain on fire". 130,000 Hiroshima bomb energy release creates surface shockwave of perhaps a few hundred feet close to impact sight west of Spain on Europe/Africa plate juncture, to a few feet thousands of miles away travelling 1,000 mph. Tsunami follows at 500 mph. Large lakes anywhere will create mini tsunamis called siches, from shockwaves. Many further earthquakes will be triggered as well as aftershocks and volcanoes."The sun will go dark as sackcloth and the moon blood red" because of the massive amounts of dust and seasalt thrown high into the stratosphere that will slowly"roll up the day and night sky like a scroll". Eventually circling world and blocking 1/3 of sunlight. More dust for light to go through near horizons means the sun will not show until it's higher from horizon. Likewise it's light will diminish sooner. So "1/3 less day and night".
(Sept.,1999?)---Nostradamus 2:3...
Pour la chaleur solataire sus la mer, By the heat of the sun on the sea, De Negrepont les poisons demi cuits, at Negrepont, the fish half cooked, Les habitans les viendront entamer, the inhabitants will eat them, Quand Rhod et Gannes leur faudra le biscuit. when Rhodes and Gannes will have the biscuit.
This bizarre quatrain refers either to an explosion of nuclear proportions or the burning of the sun because of weakened ozone which blocks most intense rays of sun. The nuclear explosion theory is the most popular."Negrepont" indicates the island of Ruboea. (According to Peter Lorie's "Nostradamus" book). The quatrain therefore tells us that Italy and Greece are suffering from a lack of food during the time that this great burning takes place in that region. The verse tells us that a major nuclear attack is made in the Mediterranean, though no date is implied , the shortage of food and searing heat would seem to fit with the possible scenario following the May 10, 2000 planetary alignments perhaps causing solar flares, further earth axis tilt and resulting hotter summers and colder winters.
The above could be related to Pope Malachi's "dream" of the next last 2 Popes. Next is "gloria olivae" peacemaker, then"petrus romanus" Peter of Rome who is described as follows by Malachi : "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit Peter of Rome, who shall feed the sheep among great tribulations. When these have passed , the City of the Seven Hills will be destroyed and the dreadful judge will judge the people." ... Seems to me he's assisting the feeding of a population at least in some areas with great food shortages.
BIG MAC ;-) of Earthquakes , asteroids , volcanoes , economic collapse ? Likely impact aftershock related.
OR ... (Close Encounter of the third kind ?Fallen angels that forced their seed on women in times of Noah may well return inlikeness of UFO "frog-like?"aliens. Genesis 6:4 says the fallen angels "Nephelium" were on the earth in those days, before and after the flood. It's interesting that in Revelations the spirits seen exiting the false Messiah and false Prophet look "froglike" (Rev.16:12-15). Depictions of Alien sightings have these Characteristics. If they claim to be responsible for seeding Earth with us, this could easily create the deception and forming of the one-world religion and government foretold in the Bible. These fallen angels can have any appearance, sound and feel they want. Also can perform miraculous things.) Keep in mind, as well discussed in "Alien Encounters" by Chuck Missler, UFOs have been increasing in sightings in Israel, Iran, Iraq, Russia and Mexico, oddly. Sometimes they appear on radar, disappear and quickly reappear. Often they turn or just reverse direction at speeds which would be impossible for any biological form to endure, especially in our gravity. They've been seen since "the beginning". Pyramid pictures of them dating to 3000 BC. Spiritual ? Fallen angels ? Nephelium ? "And before and after the great flood, exist the nephelium(Genesis chapter 6:4). Offspring of fallen angelsthat made wives of any they chose." It seems the flood didn't kill everyone or thing outside Noah's Ark. And what of"Ezekiel's "wheels"" in the Bible (Ezekiel chapter 10 ). He describes the Lord hovering just above the Temple in a cloud. It had changing colours. Underneath was like a wheel within a wheel.
( Sept.23,1999 ?)--8:1---7th seal & golden censor---saints' prayers---earthquake, thunder peals, lightning flashes(atomic)(weather chaos from meteor impact).
(Sept.23,1999?)--Rev.8:7---1st trumpet---hail, fire mixed with blood, 1/3 of earth burned & all green grass.
(Sept.23,1999?)--Rev.8:8---2nd trumpet---something like huge mountain all ablaze thrown to sea---1/3 of sea turned to blood, 1/3 of sea life killed, 1/3 of ships destroyed (huge comet strikes ocean ?)
(Sept.23,1999)--Rev.8:10---3rd trumpet---great star blazing like torch falls---1/3 of rivers & lakes turned bitter, killing many---star's name is Wormwood (def.=bitterness)(atmospheric sea salt iron oxide rain ?)
(Sept23, 1999?)--8:12---4th trumpet---1/3 of sun, moon, stars turned dark---1/3 less daylight and night. Maybe a faster spinning Earth with 16 hr days and 1/3 more gravity causing more increase in quakes and volcanoes !!. Or stratosphere dust of meteor impact and volcanic activity allowing only 2/3 light through.
(Sept.23,1999?)--9:1---5th trumpet---where "star"(meteor?) had fallen to earth earlier, massive volcanic eruption, darkens skies with ash & smoke, "locusts" (helicopters?)come to not harm grass or trees but just people, who will suffer for 5 months from the sting of the locust tails---all but the 144,000 (not in Israel in other words?)---(helicopters firing missiles or spraying nerve gas form their tails)---(Rev.9:7-11)"looked like horses prepared for battle, crowns of gold (helmets), faces like human faces(under helmet behind windshield & visors), hair like woman's hair and wings like thundering horses(rotors)---tails stung and tormented people for 5 months---king of helicopters or real locusts is antichrist (head of EU by this time).
(1999-2007?)--Rev.9:13---6th trumpet---4 evil angels at Euphrates River released, having been ready and knowing this exact hour, day, month & year of their release to kill 1/3 of all men---200 million cross the Euphrates river (impossible til now with the world's largest dam now completed that can dry it up at a moments notice), (heading for the Middle East)---colours of breastplates (on vehicles) are fiery red, dark blue and yellow as sulfur.
( 1999 or 2000 ? ) October 3 : Nostradamus 9:62 :
Au grand de Cheramonagora , To the great one of Cheramonagora, Seront croisez par rangs tous attachez , Shall be crossed by ranges, all tied up. Le Pertinax Oppi, & Mandragora , The Peertinax Oppi, and Mandragora, Raugon d'Octobre le tiers seront laschez. Raugon the third of October shall be set loose.
There is a warning implicit in the words of this quatrain, of a world shaking event that will take place on October 3 rd.
(1999---Dec... )? : Nostradamus : 9: 73 : ( included because might be follow up of former ) :
Dans Fois entrez Roy cerule Turban, In Foix shall come a King with a BLUE TURBAN, Et regnera moins evolu Saturne, And shall reign before Saturn is revolved, Roy turban blanc, Bizance coeurban, Then a King with a white turban shall make Turkey quake, Sol, Mars, Mercure, pres la hurne. Sol, Mars, Mercury being near the top of the mast.
Foix, a city in southern France, shall be the center of military disturbances, culminating in the selection of a ruler who will bring great prosperity. ( Sol = Sun at high noon as well as Mars and Mercury, which will give the year from astrological charting which I as yet have not been able to check out. I wonder if it's the May 10, 2000 lineups of planets. Just Saturn and Jupiter and moon will make straight line on our dark side. The others will all be heading to other side of Sun. Uranus half way.). Also, the Mahdi (blue turban) and Muslim Messiah (white turban) are likely to spring up shortly after impact, probably by Dec'99.
( 1999 ? ) : (Start of {7 year?} Great Tribulation ?):Bible : Isaiah 61:1-11 (those who mourn ).
The Holy Jewish Temple foundation, "sleeping" 333 feet north of the Moslem Temple "Dome of the Rock", must be purified with 3yr/old blemish-free heifer ashes. Bible: Haggai : 2 : 18,19 : Lord declares : "From this day on, from this 24th day of the ninth month(Ne 1:1, Zec 7:1=NOV-DEC 24 ?)GIVE CAREFUL THOUGHT: Is there yet any seed left in the barn ? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit.From this day on I will bless you." The 3 months(June 24 > Sept 24) (1 Kings chp 6 ) of foundation construction of former Holiest of Holy Lord's Temple appears to be all it took to get the Lord's blessing back. (Restart the Holy clock which will start Daniel's 70 th week (Great Tribulation week = 7 years)(Daniel 8 & 9). The 69th "week" (each week = 7 years ) ended around the last destruction and "polluting" with blood of the last Temple, whose foundation is still sound and covered only with dirt. It is possibly no coincidence that the Exodus of Moses freeing the people from Egypt was 4000 yrs ago. As well as Jesus ( Yeshua ) the Christ (Ha Masheea)freeing all us believers in him of judgment for sins, 2000 years ago. And now, the 3rd, ( Triune ), freeing of all believers in Lord Yeshua's resurrection for us, for the 7th Millennium ( Sabbath ). More then once in the past rebuildings of The Holy Temple, it was "in times of trouble". Perhaps this time the trouble is from the Muslims who object to it being beside their Temple. Yet the 4000 yr. old ELS encoded Old Testament says don't rebuild the outer court this time as it is to be left to the gentiles. The Muslim Temple only covers an area of the original outer court !! Israel officials claim they are ready to build it in under a year. But actual start up time is being kept a ... mystery. He comes soon (Maranatha).
(1944 or 1999-2007 ? )--______?--7:9---great multitude in white robes---uncountable martyrs of all nations at Lord's throne...(W.W.2 victims or those Christian refusers of Islam killed in Great Tribulation?).
(1999... 2006 ? ) : Nostradamus : 9 : 69 :
Sur le mont de Bailly & la Bresse, Upon the Mount of Bailly and the country at Bresse, Seront cachez de Grenoble les fiers, Shall be hidden the fierce ones of Grenoble, Outre Lyon, Vien, eulx si grand gresle, Beyond Lyons, Vienna, upon them shall fall such hail, Langoult en terre n'en restera un tiers. That languishing on the ground not even a third shall be left.
A fearful hail ( bombardment, METERORITES, or large hail result of atomic explosion or asteroid impact ? ) shall fall on parts of Italy and Austria, destroying 2/3's of the population.
(1999...2006 ? ) : Nostradamus : 9 : 70 : ( seems possibly a furtherance of 9:69 )
Harnois trenchans dans les flambeaux cachez- Sharp weapons shall be hidden in burning weapons, Dedans Lyon le jour de Sacrement, In Lyons the day of the Sacrement, Ceux de Vienne seront trestour hachez, Those of Vienna shall be cut to pieces, Par les Cantons Latins, Mascon eront. By the Latin Cantons, after the example of Mascon.
This foretells the advent of terrible incendiary weapons; and deplores the rise of a science that may lead mankind to ultimate destruction.
(1999 or 2000 ?) : Nostradamus 10: 66 : (10/66 = 10/ '99 ? ) or ( 01/99 = EU startup ? )
Le chef de Londres par regne l'Americh, The chief of London by rule of America, L'Isle d'Escosse t'empiera par gelee; The island of Scotland shall be tempered by frost, Roy Reb auront un si faux Ante-christ, Kings and Priests shall have one who is a false Christ, (antichrist) Que les mettra trestous dans la meslee. Who will put them altogether in discord.
British and American leaders, united in a political venture(U.N.?, NATO?, E.U.?) shall set up a dictator(Melosevic?), who(that?) shall in "the end" betray both leaders and common people. Interestingly , could this imply people will suspect the wrong "false-Messiah"? Who or where is he generally expected by us to be ? Europe ? Rome ? Iraq ? Iran ? China ? U.S. ? (Nostradamus says in epistle, after Russia breaks up politically, a short while later, a union of southern countries will rise up against Europe). Well, after the Moslems take Spain and Italy, their blue Turban "Mahdi" leader from across Mediterranean and white turban Moslem Messiah leader from the middle east, will be in Europe. Perhaps the Mahdi & Moslem Messiah make a 7 year promise to stay out of Israel or at least Jerusalem, allowing the rebuilding of the Temple, which is taken over 3 ½ years later when the Moslem armies are pushed back from Europe ?
(1999 December ? ) : Nostradamus : 8 : 4 :
Beaucoup de gens viendront parle-menter, Many peoples shall come to speak, Aux grands seigneurs qui leur feront la guerre, To great lords that shall make war against them, On ne voudra en rien les escouter, They shall not be admitted to a hearing, Helas ! si Dieu n'enuoye paix en terre. Alas ! If God does not send peace, terror upon earth.
The United Nations or NATO debates peace among warlike nations but fails to prevent or stop war.
1999: December : Nostradamus 1:16 :
Faux a l'Estang, joint vers la Sagittaire, When a fish pond that was a meadow shall be moved En son haut auge de l' exaltation Sagittarius being in the ascendent, Peste, Famine, Mort de main militaire, Plague, Famine, Death by the military hand, Le Siecle approcher de renovation. The Century approaches renewal.
In 2242 (Jewish new millenium in our September), as the old century is about to expire, between November 23 and December 21 (Sagittarius in ascendent), the climactic War of Wars shall be unleashed. Notice he writes the change of the century, not millennium. This suggests to me doesn't consider or elsewhere refer to, our 2000 as the new millennium. He refers to the time near the millennium change as being the time of universal conflagration (resurrection?). But I now think he refers to our 2242 A.D. = Jewish 6000.
(2000 ? ) : Nostradamus : 8:80
Des innocens le sang de vefue & vierge The blood of the innocent widow and virgin, Tant de maux faicts par moyen de grand Roge, Much evil committed by the means of that great rogue, Saints simulachre trempez en ar dant cierge, Holy images, dipped in burning wax candles, De frayeur crainte ne verra nul que boge. For fear, nobody shall be seen to stir.
A band of marauders shall roam the countryside, despoiling the innocent. Church property shall be unsafe and the populace shall be in great fear. Italy ? Vatican ?
Jan.1, 2000 : The computer millennium bug is feared by unknowing people that it'll be havoc worldwide to banking, communications, hydro, water, natural gas, transportation, military, satellite systems, etc. However, I feel strongly it will have little effect except perhaps bill calculations, on public utilities like water, heat, hydro and phone. Governments with money to spend will most likely have most crucial computer systems verified ready. Other countries may have problems. Russia has already received 500 million U.S. dollars last Fall'98 to help their crumbling ruble and economy. Now Russia is asking for 3 billion to be able to guarantee no problems with all their computer systems, including the auto-controls for many missile launchers. It would seem quite possible that someone might use the y2k bug as a "scapegoat" to blame for launching missiles at that time. They will feel immune to counter-attack if they immediately report y2k-bug launch accidental automatic firings. It would allow testing of weapons and defence systems with few repercussions.
(2000---May 10---) : Nostradamus : 9:83
Sol vingt de Taurus si fort terre trembler The sun being in the 20th of Taurus, the earth shall so quake, Le grand theatre remply ruinera, That it shall fill and ruin the great theatre, L'air, ciel & terre, obscurcir & troubler, The air, the heaven and the earth shall be so obscured and troubled, Lors l'infidele Dieu, & saincts voguera. That unbelievers shall call upon God, and his saints.
The 10 th of May is foretold as the exact day of a great Cataclysm.
(2000---May 10---? ) : Nostradamus 10:67
Le tremblement si fort au mois de May, The earthquake shall be so great in the month of May, Saturne, Caper, Jupiter, Mercure au Boeuf; Saturn, Caper, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus, Venus aussi, Cancer, Mars en Non nay, Venus also, Cancer, Mars in Zero, Tombera gresle lors plus grosse qu'un oeuf. Then shall hail fall bigger than an egg.
Confirmation of a previous prophecy, this again signifies May 10 th as a fateful day, when the earth shall tremble violently and be bombarded by hitherto unknown weapons.
( Cam wishes to point out that atomic explosions are recorded to have caused 100 pound ice balls to form high in the atmosphere, then obey Newton's Law, God's actually, like storm clouds make hail.) But major storms and hypercanes after meteor impact could cause the same. Particularly if rekindled by some effect of extremely rare planetary lineup with unknown effects to gravity and stability of Earth, or causing massive solar flare.
May 10, 2000
One possibility is that Earth's magnetic or even true poles of rotation may shift. The north pole moved 10 feet south between 1960 and 1968 - 8 times faster than the previous 60 years. Data on how much it has moved since then is not available !The north magnetic pole has shifted 480 times to the NE between 1931 and 1984 while the south magnetic pole is racing into the Indian Ocean. These opposite magnetic poles are getting less and less opposite. More and more rotational instability, wobble, sensitivity to stellar forces and increased Earthquakes and weather disturbances seems likely to me. In 1998, '99 & 2000 in the fall (Sept-Nov), we will pass through a meteorite field. No major ones but many small ones are expected to burn up in atmosphere. The Aquarius planetary straight line lineup that includes us, peaks May 10, 2000.The new moon will align with Earth, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn. Five planets are pulling away from us on the opposite side of the Sun. We do not yet know how this gravitational tug-of-war will affect the increased rotational wobble predicted for the Earth at that time. Solar activity is expected to increase 20 % from the near-exact alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, with the Earth and Sun. This could further aggravate drought conditions. The planet Uranus aligns with the Sun on a near right-angle to the alignment of Saturn, Jupiter, the sun and moon, pulling away from the earth. Dr. R. Tomaschek of Munich reported in the geophysics section of "Nature", on a 43 yr.-old study he had carried out on earthquakes. His research results indicated a remarkably consistent pattern in the position of Uranus at times when earthquakes occurred. Of the 134 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 3/4 or greater examined by Tomaschek, a significant number had occurred when Uranus was within 15 degrees of its upper or lower transit of the meridian of the epicentre.(Notice Fall and Spring "shake" more ?). In Tomascek's opinion Uranus is responsible for influencing three of the 20th century's most devastating earthquakes; Tokyo 1923, Honshu 1933 and Assam (India) in 1950. Uranus was at or near a perfect right angle to the earth's position for much of the latter-half of 1993 through January 1994. In that time India suffered one of it's worst killer quakes in decades, the Killari-Latur quake in Sept., 1993, and then western Los Angeles and the heavily populated San Fernando Valley were severely shaken by a quake on 17 January 1994, which toppled or severely damaged over 20,000 structures and buildings, made the huge L.A. Coliseum stadium unsafe, and crippled several freeways. When Uranus once again returns to a position 90 degrees from earth during the grand alignment of planets in May 2000, we may see the friction of Uranus give enough energy to the invisible gravity line of Saturn, Jupiter, the sun and moon to topple the earth off it's polar axis.Depending on the degree and suddenness of the shift, scientists say we can expect 1,000- foot waves travelling at 1,000 mph, or 1,000 mph winds atomizing cities. All this would be set to the rhythm of earthquakes off the Richter scale. In this scenario of biblical proportions, we may see any or all of the following phenomena : a--the sun or moon appearing to stand still and turning blood red in color ... b--the stars swinging out of position and the sky turning as "dark as sackcloth", as a result of dust and water condensation from atmospheric shock waves c--Arctic, temperate and tropical climate zones wandering across the planet. In at least 5 quatrains Nostradamus refers to sudden violent natural phenomena occurring in spring-particularly in the month of May. No allusion is made to the year of these events.
2000...2006 = Possibly Moslem conquest of North Africa, Spain, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Greece from 2 or 3 or 4 fronts.(((1=Retake Spain from across water, which they had stolen from them in 1400's when Mohamet said "we will take this back". Then into France . 2 =up through Turkey, Greece, Albania, Yogoslavia to Switzerland, Germany & Italy. 3= from water to southern Italy & up. 4 = from water to northern France & Netherlands.))))
(1999-2003 ? ) : Nostradamus 9:44 :
Migrez, migres de Geneve trestous, Leave, leave, go forth out of Geneva, all , Saturne d'or en fer se changera, Saturn of gold, shall be changed into iron, Le contre Raypoz exterminera tous, The contrary of the positive ray shall exterminate all, Avant l'advent le Ciel signes fera. Before it happens, the Heavens shall show signs.
Startling ! Nostradamus here foretells the advent of atomic power. He indicates clearly that this force can be useful or destructive. But with terrifying finality, he warns of possible devastation of our civilization by means of the release of atomic energy-holding out but one ray of hope, "the Heavens shall show signs," meaning that you will be given one final chance to determine your destiny. It is interesting that the verse number matches the year of WW2 completion and first atom bomb use of 1944. The heavens will give signs likely means more than a usual display of space lineups and events. A simple meteor shower wouldn't likely qualify. A meteor storm, or repeat of them, plus other things like comets and rare planetary lineups, might qualify.
(2000-2003?) : Nostradamus 9:69 :
Sur le mont de Bailly & la Bresse, Upon the mount of Bailly and the country at Bresse, Seront cachez de Grenoble les fiers, gresle, Shall be hidden the fierce ones of Grenoble, Outre Lyon, Vien, eulx si grand gresle, Beyond Lyons, Vienna, upon them shall fall such a hail, Langoult en terre n'en restera un tiers. That languishing on the ground, not even a third shall be left.
A fearful hail (bombardment) shall fall on parts of Italy and Austria, destroying 2/3's of the population.
Oct 3 , 2001 : Astrology claims this date to be similar to May 10 , 2000. Perhaps the Oct 3 date referred to by Nostradamus, in quatrains and King's epistle, in which he claims a great darkening revolution will make the earth seem to stop revolving.
(2002---June 21)--Nostradamus--6:24-- = likely last Pope Peter of Rome...(Stefan Paulus points out verse that suggests Pope John Paul is killed after Sept'99meteor hit quakes or Moslem attacks. Putting in 2nd last one then). Last one starts here. Who lasts a long time.
Mars & le Sceptre se trouvera conjont, Mars & the Sceptre being conjoined together,
Dessous Cancer calamiteuse guerre ; Under Cancer shall be a calamitous war,(July '99)
Un peu apres sera nouveau Roy oingt, A little while after a new King shall be anointed,
Qui par long temps pacifiera la terre. Who, for a long time, shall pacify the Earth.
The Sceptre stands for Jupiter and, according to Dr. Wollner who published "The Mystery of Nostradamus" in 1926, this conjunction with Mars & Jupiter under Cancer can only occur on June 21, 2002. Peace finally gains a foothold. This may be a promise of redemption for the world after terrible natural disaster & war that brings terror down from the skies in Sept., 1999 (calamitous war in cancer). The new King may be the 2nd coming of Jesus, or the Messiah of a half-dozen other religious traditions, who triggers Nostradamus' promised millennium of peace on earth. However, it seems it could represent the FALSE MESSIAH AND HIS CAUSING A FALSE PEACE for a year or so. The "ANOINTING"suggests to me also that it may be the false prophet, Pope ? The next 2nd last Pope, according to the famous Prophet Pope Malachi, after Pope John Paul 2, is represented with the phrase "gloria olivae", which is glory of the olive (branch ?) orpeacemaker. The next and last Pope after him, which I think is most likely this one, after reading Stefan Paulus' interpretations of Nostradamus, it looks like the current Pope dies and is replaced shortly after the possible meteor hit in September 1999 which will cause a massive shock wave and repeating waves, loosening the Italian area near the European/African fault. He's described by Malachi as "Petrus Romanus", meaning Peter of Rome. Malachi said more about him then any as follows : In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there shall sit Peter of Rome, who shall feed the sheep among great tribulations. (Cam : Keep in mind here the shortage of food likely to be caused by both May 10, 2000 further tilt of earth axis and war in 1999/2000 and meteor caused quakes and darkened atmosphere). "When these tribulations have passed the city of seven hills (Rome-Vatican) will be destroyed and the dreadful judge will judge the people. "(Messiah or false Messiah ? ).
S.P. : Nostradamus C5 Q46 :
By hats red quarrels and new schisms, Par chapeaux rouges querelles et nouveaux schismes, When the elected one will be the Sabine: Quand on aura elu le Sabinois: People will produce against him great sophisms, On produira contre lui grands sophismes, And will Rome be harmed by Albania. Et sera Rome lesee par Albanois.
The "Sabine" is an area just to the northeast of Rome. An Italian Pope ("the elected one") from this area will be chosen. Pope Malachi's prophecies describe the 2nd last Pope of ROME as "glory of the olive." His reign will be marked by"quarrels"amongst the cardinals of the Church ("hats red") , and by "schisms" and heresies. Many will tell"great"lies("sophisms") about him, and it will be during his reign that "Rome" itself will be attacked ("harmed") by troops originating from"Albania".(Albania is across water, close to east side of Italy's "boot bottom", and between Greece and Yogoslavia, Yogoslavia meets northeastland border of Italy.) Apparently, Italy will be attacked not only from the African coast, via Spain, Sicily, and Eastern Europe, but across the Adriatic Sea from Albania as well. The shortest distance across the Adriatic is from Albania to south east Italy, a little over 50 miles.
Camelot : This would seem to fit the picture prophesied by Pope Malachi that the last Pope, appointed in Rome at least, will be "Peter the Roman". The Vatican cathedral is St. Peter's square. Thus it may cause "schisms" to consider having a Pope with the same name, who has been prophesied by their own honoured Pope Malachi, to be "the last Pope".
(2003?) Rev.15:1---Seven Angels with 7 plagues---Another wonder (sign, token, symbol) in heaven, great and marvellous [warning of events of ominous significance]. Then I saw what appeared to be a glassy sea blended with fire, and those who had come off victorious from the beast and from his statue and from the number corresponding to his name were standing beside the glassy sea, with harps of God in their hands. (Another meteor striking an ice covered sea ? ).
(2003-2007?)Rev.16:1---The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath--- 1st bowl = foul painful ulcers (sores) came on (only)those with the beast's mark. (In only the area occupied by them).This suggests to me the rapture has not yet occurred and only specific areas suffer effects of increased ultra-violet & infrared light which still penetrates cloud cover, causing skin problems.)(Or is it intense rays reacting with skin implant mark ?).
(2003-2007?)--2nd bowl = sea turned ill-smelling, thick, corrupt, blood, all life dies.(Increasing pollution from meteor , volcano & war).
(2003-2007?)--3rd bowl = all rivers & springs (lakes) (fresh water above and below poisoned by further salt rain?).
(2003-2007?)--4th bowl = sun scorches & sears people as fire.(Ozone damage from seasalts thrown to stratosphere by meteor?).
(2003-2007?)--5th bowl = beast's throne and kingdom put in darkness (further volcanism in Beast's area of rule increases stratosphere dust)
(2003 ---?---): Nostradamus :8:62 : = Abomination (of Temple) and desolation (of Jerusalem / Judea) (or Islamic reconquest of Spain and Vatican , Italy ?).
Lors qu'on verra expiler le sainct temple, When one shall see SPOILED the HOLY TEMPLE, Plus grand du Rhosne & sacres prophaner The greatest of the Rhone, and sacred things profaned Par eux naistra pestilence si ample, From them shall come so great a pestilence, Roy faict injuste ne fera con damner. That the King being unjust shall not condem them.
When the city of Lyons, the greatest on the Rhone River, is invaded and pillaged, a pestilence will descend upon the city, destroying both inhabitants and invaders.
(2003- Spring? )-(day 1290 = 3 yr. 7mth abomination time point) = the 1335 days mentioned in Daniel 12:12, begin passing to end of Tribulation . When added to the 1290 days (Daniel 12:11)(Jerusalem & Temple abomination to Trib end), 1335+1290 = 2625 days/365 = 7.1 years 2625/360 days (Hebrew years) = 7.29 yrs. So possibly the verse means blessed (lucky) are they that live to see things definitely (unquestionably) unfolding as final years of Tribulation. I'm not sure where exactly this 1335 day period is of the 7 year Trib. But I do lean towards the extra definitions from multi-meaning Greek & Hebrew word definitions found in the Amplified Bible : "Blessed, happy, fortunate, spiritually prosperous, and to be envied is he who waits expectantly and earnestly [ who endures without wavering beyond the period of tribulation ] and comes to the (end of the) 1,335 days !". (1290 days plus 1335 days = 7 yrs, 3 mths, 15 days total ? ).
Luke 21:1-36 "When you see armies approaching Jerusalem...signs in the sun, moon and stars...flee to mountains...time of punishment...fall by the sword...abomination and desolation..."
(2003---July ?) : Nostradamus : 9: 72 : ( " The abomination that causes desolation ? )
Encor sermont les saincts temples pollus, Once more shall the Holy Temple be polluted, Et expillez par Senat Tholosain, And depredated by the Senate of Toulouse, Saturne deux trois siecles revollus, Saturn two, three cycles revolving Dans Avril, May, gens de nouveau levain . In April, May, people of a new leaven.
According to this prophecy, there will be a complete revision of the basic concepts of religion with a new world order arising ( possibly one religion for all ). (UFO "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" deception? Telling the world lies to unite and follow thefalse Messiah and false Prophet[Pope? Prophet Pope Malachi predicted only two more Popes after present current John Paul 2(then Pope ? = "gloria olivea"then Pope Peter of Rome).
See Luke 21:20-36 "When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you know that it's desolation is near..."
Matt.24:15-21 "So when you see standing...the abomination...flee to the mountains...those days (years) will be dreadful...".
Mark 13:14-19 "When you see abomination...let no one on roof go inside...or in field return to house...flee to mountains..days of distress unequalled since creation".
Luke 17:25-37 "suffer many things...no one on roof go inside...whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it ( denying or admitting belief in Christ to marauders ) ... on that night, 2 people in bed...one seized and one left...2 in field working...one apprehended and one left ". (Muslims invading Israel ?)
(July 2003?) Rev.11:1---The Two Witnesses---count worshippers in Jerusalem's Hebrew Temple---exclude the outer court as it has been given to the Gentiles (Moslem Temple of the Rock)---They will trample on the Holy city ( Jerusalem) for 42 months (42 Hebrew months of 30 each = 1,260 days)---God gives two witnesses some of his powers---they will prophesy for 1,260 days clothed in sackcloth[[Daniel 12:11 says Antichrist gentile takes over Temple 1,290 days (43 months)(3yrs 7mths) into the Great 7 year Tribulation."And blessed are they that keep their faith and life for the 1,335 days"following this to the end of this 7 year Great Tribulation.This suggests that persecution of believers at least in Israel, is underway 44.5 mths from Trib-end, so suffering or attack starts 1.5 mths before Temple desolation, that is, 3.27 yrs = 3 yrs 3 mths 7 days from start of Great Tribulation.)---people of the Antichrist will kill the 2 witnesses---all nations see them lying dead in street for 3 ½ days---then they stand up resurrected---they are seen standing and going up to heaven---then great earthquake at that hour, collapses 1/10 of city and 7,000 die
(2006-2007?) ---6th bowl---Euphrates River dried up to let Kings through (200 million)to battle at Armageddon (Hebrew name for Megeddo, Israel). (After years, U.S. is finally able to cross Atlantic, and helps push Moslem forces out of Europe back down to Israel's plains of Megeddo. Perhaps this is when China sends 200 million to assist Moslems.Jesus : "Behold, I am going to come like a thief ! Blessed (happy, to be envied) is he who stays awake (alert)and who guards his clothes, so that he may not be naked and [have the shame of being] seen exposed !" (Rev.16:15).
(Easter 2007 ?) Rev.10:1---the Angel and the little scroll---voices of the 7 thunders speak (7 spirits at the Lord's throne) spoke in distinct words---author John was about to write these down here but was told to"seal up these words"--in the days (years ? ) when the 7th trumpet is about to sound, the mystery of God will be revealed, as he told his prophets."There will be no more delay !"(Rev.10:6)
(Easter 2007?)--wheat harvest--Jesus's Apostles received Holy Spirit--Rev.7:1---144,000 sealed---12,000 from each of 12 tribes of Israel...In Israel...toconvert as many Jews as possible to believers in Jesus ?(Rapture)
(Easter 2007?) Rev.14:14---The Harvest of the Earth---One like a son of man reaps (harvests grain [saints? This may be the rapture of pre-trib dead believers and living believers, verses say great patience required of saints]) the ripened harvest of the Earth."The hour has arrived"Parables have referred to believing Saints as like grain , unbelievers like wine which can be good or poisonous."Let there be no more delay". Another gathers the ripened grapes (unbelievers?). They are thrown and trampled in "the wine-press" of God's indignation and wrath outside the city. Blood reached horse's bridles for a distance of 200 miles. Geographically, the valley of Jordan is the only one with that length there, I think. "Their eyes will be consumed in their sockets and their mouths consumed in their mouths." The former is generally interpreted as the result of atomic bombs. But the Lord inspired the writer to write "consumed" as in eaten, or burned, which the language clearly had more distinct words for describing. So I am thinking there is still a socket to be consumed in, a mouth in which the tongue is consumed in. No other body part is mentioned, suggesting it is an indication to realize what specifically is referred to here. Thus, it is something introduced most often to the eyes and mouth. This means bacteria, you rub your eyes and insert food to your mouth. The lungs were not mentioned so I'm guessing the bacteria or virus is not transferred by air. The influenza virus which killed millions in 1918 after World War 1 was airborn. As is the anthrax in biological weapons of all countries. A growing number of people throughout the world have died and lost body parts to a new strain of the common strep-throat virus, streptococcus, it is known as strep-a, or the flesh-eating bacteria. There are no antibiotics or means to fight any of the former bacterium mentioned. Government cutbacks have caused us to lag farther and farther behind in the race to keep up to date with antibiotics for the ever changing bacteria and viruses in our world. As wars in the past have often started following unemployment and overpopulation problems, reducing populations and problems, I am sceptical of Governments that seem to look for reasons to war or make big reductions in it's budgets.
(Easter 2007?)--Rev.11:15---7th trumpet---"time for judging the dead" (?)---rewarding servants, prophets, saints, small and great---destruction of those that have been destroying the Earth---God's Temple in Heaven opened---light flashes, rumblings, peals of thunder, earthquake, great hail storm (seems like more atomic detonations)[[extensive cross-referencing leaves me undecided on whether this is the time of resurrection of pre-trib dead saints, then living saints, {trib saint martyrs already up according to former verses}, as this verse certainly seems to imply, (others do not), or not until the end-day of 7 years]]
(2007--Easter?)--7th bowl = flashes of "lightening", loud rumblings, peals of thunder, tremendous earthquake, like never before. The mighty city(Babylon?) was broken into 3 parts.And the cities of all nations collapse. Lord says " It is done !"( See Isaiah 66:6)(666=1999?). Every island and mountain also collapses. Great (excessively oppressive)hailstones, heavy as a talent [50-60 pounds], of immense size, fell from the sky on the people.(Atomic explosions cause this to happen. Also, perhaps he causes meteorites of frozen flammable gas ). or ?
or...
(2007--Av9--) 7th bowl= flashes of "lightening", loud rumblings, peals of thunder, tremendous earthquake, like never before. The mighty city (Babylon?) was broken into 3 parts. And the cities of all nations collapse. Lord says " It is done !"( See Isaiah 66:6). Every island and mountain also collapses. Great (excessively oppressive) hailstones, heavy as a talent [50-60 pounds], of immense size, fell from the sky on the people.(Atomic explosions cause this to happen. Also, perhaps he causes meteorites of frozen flammable gas ).
or...
(2427 ?--- Easter---Passover---) -----RAPTURE -----Nostradamus 10:74 : Great Tribulation end/resurrection of "sleeping" elect and transforming of living elect. That night (Matt.24:27 "as lightning in west is visible in east"). At midnight Israel time ( Matt.25:6 "At midnight the cry rang out").
2247---(Easter---Passover---) ---RAPTURE------Nostradamus : 10:74
Au revolu du grand nombre septiesme, The year seven of the great number being past, Apparoistra au temps ieux d'Hecatombe, There shall be seen the sports of the ghostly sacrifice, Non esloingne du grand age milliesme, Not far from the great age of the millennium, Que les entrez sortiront dee leur tombe. That the buried shall come out of their graves.
The "great number" refers to 10:72 & 10:74 (above) (or 73 which supposedly is lost), and here he indicates that in the year 2247 the dead will rise up. :-) Fear not, peace be with you, look forward to it. As a believer in Jesus, dying and resurrecting so that we may be forgiven if asked in prayer, you will enjoy both Heaven and Earth as it is written about in the beginning. They had the ability to be seen, heard, felt...but be alert of your thinking that you don't become "fallen angels". Half of the world's 6 billion survive by my calculations. They will be non-believers in need of our help of course. Be mindful how you treat all strangers because one may be an angel testing you. See Hebrews 13:2 and Genesis 18:1-8 , 19:1-3. More often than not they would likely seem homeless.
or...
"year seven of the great number being past" could mean the 7th year of the 7 year Great Tribulation of Revelations (Daniel's 70 th week of 7 years). So the dead rise up "sometime in the future" in the 7th year, at it's end or just after it. Not necessarily 2007. This quatrain is not addressed in S.P.'s book.
or ... best of all ...
2242 A.D. = Jewish 6000 yrs = Nostradamus 7th millenium :
Author Edgar Leoni has a book using the oldest transcripts of Nostradamus available. It also has multiple word search indexes for finding all quatrains with almost any word used. He has footnotes, map, and much much more. He notes that Roberts appears to have changed the french spelling of the older more reliable text to suit his perception of what should be translated. Leoni more properly translates the mentioned quatrain as follows :
C10 Q 74 :
Au revolu du grand nombre septieme, The year of the great seventh number accomplished, Apparaitra au temps jeux d'Hecatombe: It will appear at the time of the games of slaughter: Non eloigne du grand age millieme, Not far from the great millennial age, Que les entre sortiront de leur tombe. When the buried will go out from their tombs.
This one is clearly apocalyptic. Could some of Nostradamus' quatrains still be arranged according to the order of their intended fulfilment, it would come last or very close to the end. The seventh number is probably the seventh millennium, the source of much confusion in the Preface and the Epistle. Nostradamus ' alleged clairvoyance is to extend to the resurrection on Judgement Day.
John 5:25-30 "all believers in graves will rise...and living believers...non-believers condemned (non-believers whose bad book entries outweigh good doings)". After a further 1000 years of peace with Yeshua ruling in Jerusalem, everyone will be judged. Dead non-believers will be raised for judgment New living believers will be exempt from this through Jesus, as are the Great Tribulation raptured souls.
1 Cor.15:51-58 "we will not all sleep (physical death/spiritual sleep)...in a flash (atomic ? )...twinkling of an eye...at last trumpet (of God, not 7th trumpet)...the dead will be raised imperishable and we will be immediately changed ".
1 Thess.4:13-18 "lord comes down...with loud command...voice of archangel...trumpet call of God...dead in Christ rise...those living in Christ caught up in the clouds to meet them and the Lord".
Daniel 12:13 " As for you Daniel, go your way til the end. You will rest ( spiritually sleep in physical death), and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance".
Mark 16:16.
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Following are Edgar Leoni book "The Prophecies of Nostradamus" interpretations of Nostradamus possibly relating to the subject at indefinite dates. This book is amazing as it is the only one I've found with alphabetical lists of most words used in the quatrains, as well as area and time lists, making searches easy. The best interpretations I've seen are possibly in David Ovason's "The Secrets of Nostradamus". It decodes Nostradamus ' 1999 puzzle to show all other interpretations are likely wrong . For a free 10-use demo Nostradamus computer program with all quatrains and search engine, go to http://home.att.net/~estepapp :
Some excerpts from Nostradamus letter to his son Caesar , also the epistle to King :
Thy late coming, Caesar Nostradamus, my son, hath caused me to bestow much time in continual and nocturnal watchings, that I might leave a memorial of me after death, to the common benefit of mankind, concerning the things which the Divine Essence hath revealed to me by astronomical revolutions.
Although I have often foretold long before what hath afterwards come to pass, and in particular regions, acknowledging all to have been done by divine virtue and inspiration, I Was willing to hold me peace by reason of the injury-not only of the present time, but also of the future-because to put them in writing, the Kingdoms, Sects, and Regions shall be so diametrically opposed, that if I should relate what will happen hereafter, those of the present Reign, Sect, Religion and Faith, would find it so disagreeing with their fancies, that they would condemn that which future ages shall find and know to be true.
For this reason I have witheld my tongue from the vulgar, and my pen from paper.But,afterwards, I was willing for the common good to enlarge myself in dark and abstruse sentences, declaring the future events, chiefly the most urgent and those which I foresaw (whatever human mutation happened) would not offend the hearers, all under dark figures more than prophetical.
I have made books of Prophesies, each one containing 100 Astronomical Stanzas, which I have joined OBSCURELY, and are perpetual prophesies from this year (March, 1555) to the year 3797, at which some perhaps will frown, seeing so large an extension of time, and that I treat of everything under the Moon.
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But I must not wander too far, my son, from the capacity of thy sense. I find that learning shall be at a great loss, and that before the universal conflagration shall happen so many great inundations, that there shall scarce be any land that shall not be covered by water, and this shall last so long, that except for Ethnographies and Topographies(Ethnics = races, countries, religions. Topography = land elevation. So various people in threatened areas in high enough land, as well as areas not badly in danger. ) all shall perish. Before and after these inundations in many countries (he uses this "before and after inundations" phrase elsewhere in epistle, describing reversals of kingdoms{war?}{before?} and great earthquakes{after?} there shall be such scarcity of rain and such a great deal of fire, and burning STONES shall fall from Heaven, that nothing unconsumed shall be left. All this shall happen a little while before the great conflagration. Considering the supposed new, 7th millennium is to be a 1000 yrs of peace until the supposed "exodus" of all souls, living and not, to "go up" or stay "down, regarding heaven or space somewhere, an that this time of judgement may take some time, seems 2242 AD plus 1000 = 3242. leaves 555 yrs for judgement. Regardless of what to think of it all, seems to point to 23rd century for worst of things to get under way. Such as extreme heat and fires everywhere. Perhaps from decreased ozone and increased solar radiation hitting ground. Mention there of a lot of things falling from skies. Could be asteroids, comets, meteorites, missiles. Obviously great famine would occur wit increasing world population, decreasing ozone protection from sun. This would put great stress on countries that "have" from countries that "have not". If due to severe shortages of rich countries, aid is not possible, element for criminal warlike attitudes is set. Especially from hottest areas of world.
Although the planet Mars makes an end of his course, and is come to the end of his last period, nevertheless he shall begin it again. Some shall be gathered in Aquarius for many years, others in Cancer also for many years. Now (1555) we are governed by the Moon, under the power of Almighty God; which Moon before she has finished her circuit, the Sun shall come, and then Saturn. According to the celestial signs, the reign of Saturn shall come again, so that all being calculated, the world draws near to its anaragonic revolution (death-dealing ?).
Making an end here, my son, accept this gift of thy father, Michael Nostradamus, hoping to expound to thee every prophecy of these quatrains, praying to the Immortal God that he will grant thee a long life in felicity.
From Salon, this 1st of March, 1555.
Following is Nostradamus's June 27, 1558 Epistle (letter) to King Henry 2 of France , it was an introduction and request for blessing of Centuries (chapters) 7- 10 of his verses :
"To the most invincible, most high, and most Christian King of France, Henry the Second : Michael Nostradamus, his most obedient servant and subject, wishes victory and happiness.
By reason of that singular observation, O most Christian and victorious King, my face, which had been cloudy a great while, did present itself before your immeasurable Majesty. I have been ever since perpetually dazzled, continually honouring and worshipping that day, in which I presented myself before it, as before a singular and humane Majesty. Now seeking after some occasion whereby I might make appear the goodness and sincerity of my heart and extend my acquaintance toward your most excellent Majesty, and seeing that it was impossible for me to declare it by effects, as well as because of the darkness and obscurity of my mind, even for the enlightening it did receive from the face of the greatest Monarch in the world. It was a great while before I could resolve to whom I should dedicate these three last Centuries of my Prophesies, which make the complete thousand. After I had a long time considered, I have with a great temerity made my address to your Majesty, being no way daunted by it, as the great author Plutarch related in the Life of Lycurgus, that, seeing the offerings and gifts that were sacrificed in the temples of their heathen gods, many came no more, lest the people should wonder at the expense.
Notwithstanding, seeing your royal splendour joined with an incomparable humanity, I have made my address to it, not as to the Kings of Persia, of whom to come near it was forbidden, but as to a most prudent and wise prince. I have dedicated my nocturnal and prophetical calculations, written rather by a natural instinct and poetical furor than by any rules of poetry; and the most part of it written and agreeing with the years, months and weeks, of the regions, countries and most of the towns and cities in Europe; touching also something of Africa, and of a part of Asia, by the change of regions that come near to those climates, and compounded in a natural fashion. But some may answer (who hath need to blow his nose) that the rhyme is as easy to be understood, as the sense is hard to get at. Therefore, O most humane King, most of the prophetical stanzas are so difficult, that there is no way to be found for the interpretation of them. Nevertheless, being in hope of setting down the towns, cities, and regions, wherein most of those shall happen, especially in the year 1585, and in the year 1606, beginning from this present time, which is the 14th of March, 1557.
Going further to the fulfilling of those things, which shall be in the beginning of the seventh millenary, according to my astronomical calculations and other learning which I could reach (at which time the adversaries of Christ and of His Church shall begin to multiply), all has been composed and calculated in days and hours of election, and well disposed, and all as accurately as was possible for me to do. And the whole "Minerva libera et non invita,"(when Minerva was free and favourable)calculating almost as much of the time that come, as of that which is past, comprehending it in the present time, and what by the course of the said time shall be known to happen in all regions punctually as it is here written, adding nothing superfluous, although it be said "Quod de futuris non est determinata omnino veritas" (There can be no truth entirely determined for certain which concerns the future) . It is very true , Sir, that by my natural instinct given me by my progenitors, I did think I could foretell anything; but having made an agreement between this said instinct of mine, and a long calculation of art, and by a great tranquillity and repose of mind, by emptying my soul of all care, I have foretold most part of these ex tripode ceneo (by the brass tripod) , though there be many who attribute to me some things that are no more mine than that which is nothing at all. Only the eternal God, who is the searcher of men's hearts, being pious, just, and merciful, is the true Judge of it;Him I beseech to defend me from the calumny of wicked men, who would as willingly question how all your ancient progenitors, the Kings of France, have healed the disease called the Kings-evil; how some other nations have cured the biting of venomous beasts; others have had a certain instinct to foretell things that are to come, and of others too tedious to be here inserted. Notwithstanding those in whom the malignancy of the wicked spirit shall be suppressed by length of time, I hope that after my decease my work shall be in more esteem than when I was alive.
However, if I should fail in the calculation of times, or should not please some, may it please your most imperial Majesty to forgive me, protesting before God and His Saints, that I do not intend to insert anything in writing in this present Epistle that may be contrary to the true Catholic faith, while consulting the astronomical calculations, according to my learning. For the space of times of our fathers that have been before us are such, submitting myself to the correction of the most learned, that the first man Adam was before Noah, about 1,242 years, not computing the time according to the Gentile records(our bc/ad calender), as Varro did, but only according to the Sacred Scriptures(Hebrew-Israeli calendar or Trimethius astrological calendar ?), taking them as a guide to my astronomical calculations, and to the best of my understanding. After Noah and the universal flood, about a thousand and four score [{score=20} x 4 = 80]= 1,080 years, came ABRAHAM, who was a supreme astrologer, according to most men's opinion, and did first invent the Chaldean letters; after that came Moses, some 515 or 516 years after. And between the time of David and Moses there passed about 570 years. After which, between the time of David and that of our Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, there passed (according to some chronographers) 1,350 years.
Adam + 1,242 yrs = Noah
Noah + 1,080 yrs = Abraham = 2,322 yrs total
Ab + 516 yrs = Moses = 2,838 yrs
Moses + 570 yrs = David = 3,408 yrs
David + 1,350 yrs = Jesus = 4,758 yrs
Jesus + 1999 yrs = now = 6,757
The above calculations of Nostradamus suggest we have 243 years to go to end the 7th millenary, millennium, 1,000 year period. Whether it is significant is uncertain. But he does say in his epistle (personal letter) to King Henry, that "the great universal conflagration will be about the start of the 7th millennium. I have calculated time periods according to the sacred calendar." If correct, it would be approximately our 2242 AD.
Also interesting is that the years he wrote prophecy for, 3797 AD. - 1555 AD., total 2242 years !!
The current Jewish (Hebrew, Israeli) calendar determines the current year to be 5,759. Becoming 5,760 as of September, 1999. 6000 as of September, 2239 AD.. (hmmm, looks like a possible 3 or 3 ½ year difference here between 2242 and 2239. The last half of "Daniel's 70 th week" ?).
Author Edgar Leoni commentary on epistle to King :
Paragraph 38 :
Again we have two northern kings and further references to their complete triumph over Islam.
39: The prophetic narrative is interrupted here. As we may judge by the few examples, it is just as well that Nostradamus did not date everything. He plainly tells us that the following chronology (2nd of 2 in epistle about our history) does not check with those of St. John in the Revelation (suggesting the 1st one is more in line with the Bible and the better to use). His remark that dating the prophesies would be agreeable "least os all to those interpreting them" has much point to it.
40: Hugh Allen (1943) is amazed that Nostradamus, a learned Jew, did not know that all Jewish calculations involved lunar months. McCann (1942) thinks this enough to prove he was not really of Jewish origin. Not only does the chronology not check with that of paragraph 10, but Nostradamus' addition is a bit off, unless Jacob was 212 years old when he went into Egypt. (Jacob's age at this point is the biggest obstacle in adding up the second group of figures.) However, allowing this age in order for it all to add up to Nostradamus' 4,174 years, we would have the following comparison between the two chronologies (to which wee have added a third column for some historical estimates) :
Para. 10 total Para 40 total Historians'
Adam created............4,758 B.C......................4,174 B.C.................... Noah born 2,668 B.C. 1,506 1 year flood over.......3,516 B.C....1,242.........2,067 B.C.......601 Abraham born 2,436 B.C. 1,080 1,772 B.C. 295 Isaac born.......................................................1,672 B.C........100 Jacob born 1,612 B.C. 60 Jacob into Egypt..............................................1,400 B.C........212 "Time of Moses" 1,920 B.C. 516 Exodus......................same ?...............................970 B.C........430........1,225 B.C. David born 1,350 B.C. 570 1,040 B.C. Solomon king 494 B.C. 276 970 B.C. Temple built 490 B.C. 4 7th Millenary begins 1,242 A.D. 2,592 1,826 A.D. 2,316 _______ ______ 6,000 5,800
The start of the 7th Millenary in 1826 would fit fairly well with mention of 1792 (paragraph 48) as being shortly before the beginning of the new millenary. It would, however, be in contradiction to the statement in the Preface (paragraph 27) that "we are now in the 7th millenary," although this statement would be supported by the 1st chronology (paragraph 10) by which the 7th Millenary had begun 3 centuries earlier (in 1242 AD.). One of many discrepancies in Nostradamus' outpourings, relatively minor in comparison to the totally different dynastic prophecies as between the Epistle and the quatrains or, one might add, between different groups of quatrains.
Cam : The first calculation matches the current Jewish calendar, which will become 6000 in our 2242 AD. Notice the 1242 AD. above as being 6000. Or is someone's math out, with 2242 being start of 7th millennium ?
But the Sacred Scripture monthly sequence started in our March or April. Thus it seems likely to end at that time =EASTER !! Every 3rd yr they added a 13th month to line their lunar calendar up with the solar calendar. They were as follows :
#...Hebrew name....ours..........Biblical references.........Agriculture...................Feasts
1...Abib;Nisan...March-April...Ex 12:2;13:4;23:15;...Spring(later rains);......Passover;
34:18;Dt 16:1;Ne 2:1...barley & flax harvest...Unleavened
Est 3:7.........................begins....................bread;1st fruits
2...Ziv(lyyar)...April-May...1 Ki 6:1,37................Barley harvest; ...............
dry season begins............
3...Sivan...May-June.........Est 8:9...................wheat harvest (1st fruit).......Pentecost(weeks)
50 days after
Passover
4...(Tammuz)...June-July... tending vines...
5...Av(Ab)...July-August... ripening grapes,figs,olives....9th of Av mourning
of losses
6...Elul...August-September...Ne 6:15......process grapes,figs,olives
7...Ethanim(Tishri)...Sept.-Oct......1 Ki 8:2...Autumn(early rains),plowing...Trumpets;
Atonement;
Tabernacles(Booths)
8...Bul(Marcheshvan)...Oct-Nov...1 Ki 6:38...sow wheat & barley...
9...Kislev...Nov-Dec...Ne 1:1;Zec 7:1...winter rains, some areas snow...Hanukkah
(dedication)
10...Tebeth...Dec-Jan...Est 2:16...
11...Shebat...Jan-Feb...Zec 1:7...
12...Adar...Feb-Mar...Ezr 6:15;Est 3:7,13;.......almond trees bloom........Purim
Est 8:12;9:1,15,17,19,21....citrus fruit harvest
Notice that the "7th month" ("sept month") which Nostradamus may refer to in his famous 1999 prophecy, is September. He could have meant this because of disguising the truth as he did and the fact that he was born a Jew, later taking the Catholic faith.
Some may object, that this calculation is not true;because it differs from that of Eusebius. And from the time of human redemption, to that of the execrable seduction of the Saracens, have passed 624 yrs or thereabouts. From that time hitherto, it is easy to gather what times are past. If my computations be not good among all nations, however, all has been calculated by the course of the celestial bodies joined with emotion infused in me at certain loose hours, the emotion which has been handed down to me by my ancient progenitors. But the danger at this time (most excellent King) requires that such secret events should not be manifested except by an enigmatical sentence, having but one sense and only one intelligence, without having mixed with it any ambiguous or amphibological calculation. But rather under a cloudy obscurity, through am natural infusion, coming near to the sentence of one of the 1,002 prophets, that have been since the Creation of the world, according to the calculation and Punic Chronicle of Joel:"Effundum spiritum meum super omnem carnem, et prophetabunt filii vestri, et filae vestrae."(see Joel 2:28). But such a prophecy did proceed FROM THE MOUTH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, who was the supreme and eternal power, which being come with that of the celestial bodies, has caused some of them to predict great and wonderful things.
For my part I challenge no such thing in this place, God forbid. I confess truly, that all comes from God, for which I give Him thanks, honour and praise, without having mixed anything of that divination which proceeds "a fato, but Deo, a natura" (which proceeds from fate, but from God, and nature). And most of it is h\joined with the motion and course of the celestial bodies, much as if seeing in a lens, and through a cloudy vision, the great and sad events, the prodigious and calamitous accidents that shall befall the worshippers. First upon the temples of God, and secondly upon those who draw their support from earth, this draws near, with a thousand other calamitous accidents, which shall be known in the course of time.
For God shall take notice of the long barrenness of the great Dame, who afterwards shall conceive 2 principal children. But, being in danger, she will give birth with risk at her age of death in the 18th year, and not able to go beyond 36, shall leave behind her 3 males and 1 female, and he will have 2 who never had any`of the same father. The differences between the 3 brothers shall be such, though united and agreed, that the 3 of 4 parts of Europe will tremble. By the lesser in years shall the Christian monarchy be upheld and augmented; sects shall rise and presently be put down again; the Arabians shall be put back; kingdoms shall be united and new laws made. Concerning the other children, the 1st shall possess the furious crowned Lions, holding their paws upon the escutcheons. The 2nd, well attended by the Latins, will go so deep among the Lions, that a 2nd trembling and furious descent will be made, to get upon the Pyrenees Mountains. The ancient monarchy shall not be transferred, and the 3rd inundation of human blood shall happen; also for a good while Mars shall not be in Lent.
The daughter shall be given for the preservation of the Church, the dominator of it falling into the pagan sect of the new unbelievers, and she will have 2 children, one from faithfulness, and the other from unfaithfulness, by the confirmation of the Catholic Church. The other, who to his confession and late repentance, shall go about to ruin her, shall have 3 regions over a wide extent of leagues, that is to say, the Roman, the German, and the Spanish, and it will take a military hand to adequately take care of the area stretching from the 50th to the 52nd degree of latitude.(Germany seems only country on my globe that fits those lines). And all those remote regions above the 48th degree, who by vain fright shall quake, and then those of the west, south and east shall tremble because of their power, and the power of that what shall be done cannot be undone by warlike power. They shall be equal in nature, but much different in faith.
After this the barren Dame, of a greater power than the 2nd, shall be admitted by 2 people, by the 1st made obstinate by him that had power over the others; by the 2nd, and by the 3rd that shall extend his circuit to the east of Europe; there his forces will stop and be overcome, but by sea he will make his excursions into Trinacria and the Adriatic with his myrmidons. Germany shall fall, and the Barbarian Sect shall be wholly driven from amomg the Latins. Then the great Empire of the Antichrist shall begin in the Attila, and Xerxes come down with an innumerable multitude of people,
Then from that stock that has been so long time barren, proceeding from the 50th degree (longitudinal = Yemen, Kuwait )(latitude = France, Germany, Mongolia) , one will issue who will renovate all the Christian Church. Then shall be great peace, union and concord, between some of the children of races long wandering and separated by diverse kingdoms; and such peace shall be made that the instigator and promoter of military function by diversity of religions, shall be tied to the bottom of the deep, and united to the kingdom of the furious who shall counterfeit the wise. The countries, towns, cities and provinces that had deserted their first ways to free themselves, captivating themselves more deeply, shall be secretly angry at their liberty and religion lost, and shall begin to strike from the left, to return once more to the right.
Then restoring the holiness, so long beaten down with their former writings, afterwards will come the great dog, the irresistible mastiff (war) who shall destroy all that was done before. Churches shall be built up again as before, the clergy shall be restored to its former state, until it falls back again into whoredom and luxury, and commits a thousand (years?) crimes. And being near to another desolation, when she shall be in her higher and more sublime dignity, there shall rise powers and military hands, who shall take away from her the 2 swords, and leave only the resemblance, after which, tired of the crookedness that is about them, the people will cause these things to straighten. Not willing to submit unto them by the end opposite to the sharp hand that touches the ground they shall provoke. To the branch long barren, will proceed one who shall deliver the people of the world from that meek and voluntary slavery; putting themselves under the protection of Mars, depriving Jupiter of all his honours and dignities, for the free city established and seated in another Mesopotamia. And the chief governor shall be thrust out of the middle, and set in the high place of the air,, being ignorant of the conspiracy of the conspirators, with the 2nd Thrasibulus, who long before did prepare for this thing. Then shall the impurities and abominations be objected with great shame, and made manifest to the darkness of the veiled light, and shall cease toward the end of the change of his kingdom, and the chief men of the Church shall be put back from the love of God and many of them shall apostatize from the true faith.
Of the three sects, Lutheran, Catholic, and Mahometan, that which is middle-most, by the actions of its worshippers, shall be thrown into ruins(Catholics denounce their faith ?). The first, wholly in Europe, and the most part of Africa undone by the third, by means of the poor in spirit, who by madness elevated shall, through libidinous luxury, commit adultery(Muslims convert Christians of Europe and Africa, or ethnic cleansing similar to Ruwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo ? The last 4 by Slobodan Melosevic. Or a future ethnic cleansing ?). The people will rise and maintain it, and shall drive away those that did adhere to the legislators, and it shall seem, from the kingdoms spoiled by the Eastern men, that God the Creator has loosed Satan from his infernal prison, to cause to be born the great Dog and Dohan (Gog and Magog), who shall make so great and abominable a breach in the Churches, that neither the reds (Spain) nor the whites (French), who are without eyes and without arms, shall not judge of it, and their power shall be taken away from them. Then shall there be a greater persecution against the Church than ever was, and in the meantime shall be so great a plaque, that two parts in three in the world shall fail, so much so that no one shall be able to know the true owners of the fields and houses, and there shall happen a total desolation to the clergy, and martial men shall usurp what shall come from the City of the Sun, and from Malta, and from the Islands of Hieres, and the great chain of the port shall be open which takes its name from a sea ox (Bosphorous).
A new incursion shall be made from the sea coasts, willing to deliver the Castulan Leap from the 1st Mahometan taking, and the assaulting shall not altogether be in vain, and that place where the habitation of Abraham was, shall be assaulted by those who shall have reverence for the Jovials. The great eastern city of Achem shall be encompassed and assaulted on all sides by a great power of armed men. Their sea forces shall be weakened by the western men, and to that kingdom shall happen great desolation, and the great cities shall be depopulated, and those that shall come in shall be comprehended within the vengeance of the wrath of God. The Holy Sepulchre, held in great veneration for so long a time, shall remain a great while open to the universal aspect of the heavens, sun and moon. The sacred place shall be converted into a stable for cattle small and large, and put to profane uses. O what a calamitous time shall be then for women with child ! For then the principal Eastern Ruler, being for the most part moved by the Northern and Western men, shall be vanquished and put to death, beaten, and all the rest put to flight, and the children he had by many women put in prison. Then shall be fulfilled the prophecy of the Royal Prophet.
What great oppression shall be made then upon the princes and governors of kingdoms, and especially on those that shall live eastward and near the sea, their languages intermixed with all nations. The language of the Latin nations mixed with Arabic and North African communication. All the Eastern kings shall be driven away, beaten and brought to nothing, not altogether by means of the strength of the kings of the North, and the drawing near of our age, but by means of three secretly united, seeking for death by ambushes one against the other. The renewing of the TRIUMVIRATE ( a group of 3 leaders sharing office or supreme power) shall last SEVEN YEARS (70th week of Daniel which is Revelation), while the fame of such a sect shall be spread all the world over, and the sacrifice of the holy and immaculate host shall be upheld. And then shall the lords be 2 in number, victorious in the north against the Eastern ones, and there shall be great such a great noise and warlike tumult that all the East shall quake for fear of those 2 brothers of the North who are yet not brothers. And because , Sir, by this discourse, I put all things confusedly in these predictions as to the time concerning the event of them; for the account of the time which follows, very little is conformable, if at all, to that I have done before, being by astronomic rule and according to the SACRED SCRIPTURES, in which I cannot err.
I could have set down in every verse the exact time in which they shall happen, but it would not please everybody, and much less the interpretation of them, till, Sir, your Majesty has granted me full power so to do, that my calumniators may have nothing to say against me. Nevertheless, reckoning the years from the creation of the world to the birth of Noah there passes 1506 years, and from the birth of Noah to the building of the ark at the time of the universal flood, 600 years passed (whether solar years, or lunar, or mixed), for my part according to the Scriptures, I hold that they were solar. And at the end of those 600 years Noah entered into the ark to save himself from the flood, which flood was universal upon the earth and lasted 1 year and 2 months; and from the end pf the flood to the birth of Abraham did pass 295 years; and from the birth of Abraham to that of Issac did pass 100 years; from Issac to Jacob, 60 yrs; and from the time he went into Egypt until he came out of it, did pass 130 yrs; and from the time that Jacob went into Egypt until his posterity came out of it did pass 430 yrs; from the coming out of Egypt to the building of Solomon's Temple in the 40th yr of his reign did pass 480 yrs; and from the building of the Temple to Jesus Christ, according to the computations of the chronographers, did pass 490 yrs. And thus by this calculation, which I have gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, the whole comes to about 4173 years and 8 months more or less. But since the time of Jesus Christ hitherto, I leave it because of the diversity of opinion.
Earth creation (or recreation) to Noah birth = 1,506 yrs
Noah birth to ark & flood = 600 yrs + 1,506 = 2,106 yrs
start to end of flood = 1.16 yrs + 2,106 = 2,107.16
flood end to Abraham birth = 295 yrs + 2,107.16 = 2,402.16
Abraham birth to Issac birth = 100 yrs + 2,402.16 = 2,502.16
Issac to Jacob = 60 yrs + 2,502.16 = 2,562.16
Jacob into Egypt to out of = 130 = 2,692.16
Jacob into Egypt to his posterity came out of it = 430 yrs = 3,122.16
coming out of Egypt to building of Solomon's Temple = 480 yrs = 3,602.16
building Solomon's Temple to Jesus Christ = 490 yrs = 4,092.16
Jesus Christ to now = 1999 yrs = 6,091.16
I have no theory at this time as to the discrepancies of Nostradamus 's yearly totals. He quotes the above total to be 4,173. A difference of 80.16 to my arithmetic.
Having calculated these present prophesies in accordance to the order of the chain which contains the revolution, and all by astronomical rule, and according to my natural instinct; after some time, and including in it the time Saturn takes to turn to come in on the 7th of the month of April until the 25th of August; Jupiter from the 14th of June to the 7th of October; Mars from the 27th of April till the 22nd of June; Venus from the 9th of April to the 22nd of May; Mercury from the 3rd of February to the 24th of the same; afterwards from the 1st of June to the 24th of the same; and from the 25th of September to the 16th of October, Saturn in Capricorn, Jupiter in Aquarius, Mars in Scorpio, Venus in Pisces, Mercury within a month in Capricorn, Aquarius in Pisces, the moon in Aquarius, the Dragon's head in Libra,the tail opposite to her sign. Following a conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury, with a quadrin aspect of Mars to Mercury, and the head of the Dragon shall be with a conjunction of Sol and Jupiter; the year shall be peaceful without eclipse.
Then the beginning of that year shall see a greater persecution against the Christian Church than ever was in Africa, and it shall be in the year 1792 (date of French Revolution) , at which time everyone will think it a renovation of the age. After that the Roman people shall begin to stand upright again, and to put away the obscure darkness, receiving some of its former light, but now without great divisions and continual changes. Venice, after that, with great strength and power will lift up her wings so high that she will not be much inferior to the strength of ancient Rome. And at that time great Byzantine sails, joined with the Italians by the help and power of the North, shall hinder them so that those of Crete shall not keep their faith. The ships built by the ancient martial men will keep company with them under the waves of Neptune. In the Adriatic there shall be a great discord, what was united shall be put asunder, and what was before a great city shall become a house, including the Pampotan and Mesopatamia of Europe, in (19) 45, and others to 41, 42, and 47. And in that time and those countries the infernal power shall rise against the Church of Jesus Christ. This shall be the 2nd ANTICHRIST, which shall persecute the said church and its true vicar by the means of the power of temporal kings, who through their ignorance shall be seduced by tongues more sharp than any sword in the hands of a madman.
The said reign of Antichrist shall not last but til the ending of him who was born of Age, and of the other in the city of Plancus (Lyon, France ), accompanied by the elect of Modena, Fulcy by Ferrara, maintained by the Adriatic, Liguriens, and the proximity of the great Trinacria (Sicily). Afterwards the Gallic Ogmion shall pass the Mount Jovis (Barcelona), followed with such a number that even from afar off the Empire shall be presented with its grand law, and then and for some time after, shall be profusely spilled the blood of the innocents by the guilty raised on high. Then by great floods the memory of those things contained in such instruments, shall receive incalculable loss, even to the letters themselves. This will happen to the Northerns. BY THE DIVINE WILL SATAN WILL BE BOUND ONCE MORE, and universal peace shall be among men, and the Church of Jesus Christ shall be free from all tribulation, although the Azostains (debauchees) would desire to mix with the honey their pestilent seduction. This shall happen about the 7th millenary, when the Sanctuary of Jesus Christ shall no more be trodden down by the unbelievers that shall come from the North (Russia). The world will then be near its great conflagration , although by the calculations of my prophesies, the course of time goes much further.
In the epistle that some years ago I dedicated to my son Caesar Nostradamus , I have openly enough declared some things without prognosticating. But here, Sir, are comprehended many great and wonderful events, which those that come after us shall see. And during the said astrological computations, in harmony with the Sacred Scriptures, the persecution of the clergy shall have it's beginning in the power of the Northern Kings joined by the Eastern ones. (Soviet control of China ? ). That persecution shall last 11 years, or less, at which time the chief Northern king shall fail, (breakup of RUSSIA ? ), which years being ended, shall come in his stead a united Southern one, who shall yet more violently persecute the clergy of the Church for the space of 3 years ( Moslem Mahdi and Messiah believed by them to appear following great fire and water (understood as gog & magog by them) punishment on false religion areas so that the Moslems may unite and "Islamisize" the world ? ) by the apostolic (religious doctrine) seduction of one that shall have absolute power over the Church of God. ( Cam-note : Last Pope & false Christ or false prophet ? Or the blue turban Mahdi and white turban Muslim Messiah expected by many Muslims after they see great sign in sky and fire and water which to them is gog and magog. They then are supposed to all unite and purify the world of its other false religions like Christianity). (Regardless of exactly when Revelations occur, weigh the possibilities, from which area and religion can you most easily imagine a great slaughtering of Christains and Jews ? Europe would not allow another Nazi Germany. Germany has a small military, unless they unite with a united Islam. Had we known about Auschwitz before the end of that war, we likely would have nuked those soul-less brainless heartless people. Beheadings and brutal slayings and torture are occurring in Moslem Arab and African areas, now, to Christians)The holy people of God and keepers of His law, and all order of religion, will be grievously persecuted and afflicted, so much that the blood of the true ecclesiastical men shall flow all over. One of these horrid kings shall commit incredible crimes against the Church; he shall be praised by his followers for having spilt more human blood of the innocent clergymen than anybody has done to wine. Human blood shall run through public streets and Churches as water coming from an impetuous rain. Next, rivers shall be red with blood. (Only years ago, African Christians , men, women and children, were hacked up with machetes and thrown in the river. It was shown on local TV here from a person who snuck out the private video.) (Apparently, governments don't want to add to world tensions and unrest, so try not to report atrocities as religious oriented, just territorial.). In a sea fight the sea shall be red, so that one king will say to another, "the sea is blushed red with the blood of naval fights". After that in the same year, and those following, shall happen the most horrible pestilence, caused by the famine preceding, and so great tribulations as ever did happen since the first foundation of the Christian Church throughout all the Latin regions, some marks remaining in some countries under Spain (South Africa or North America which is almost the other side of globe ?). Then the 3rd Northern king (Russia or China/Mongolia ? )hearing the complaint of the people of his principal title, shall rise up so great an army, shall go through the limits of his last ancestors and progenitors, that they will all be set up again in their first state. The great Vicor(no possible definition found...perhaps = victor ? ) of the Cope (red robe of bishop, saint, king, Pope, etc.) shall be restored in his former estate, but desolate and altogether forsaken, shall then go back to the sanctuary that was destroyed by Paganism, when the Old and New Testament will be thrust out and burnt. After that shall the Antichrist be the infernal prince. And in this last era, all the kingdoms(ethnic groups)of Christianity and also of the unbelievers shall quake for the space of years, and there shall be more grievous wars and battles; towns, cities, castles and other buildings shall be burnt, desolated and destroyed with a great effusion of vestal blood, married women and widows ravished ( raped ), sucking children dashed against the walls of towns, (Maybe in Israel and maybe other Christian countries when Muslims &/or Chinese invade. Vatican city ?) and so many evils shall be committed by the means of the infernal prince, Satan, that almost the entire world shall be undone and desolate. [[Perhaps the takeover of the Temple by false messiah and Israeli cities by Arabs who all still swear an oath of their religion to kill all Jews. How can they believe they honour God by breaking a commandment ?]] Also, who refers to their leaders as Prince or King ? Arabs ?
Before these events many unusual birds shall cry through the air, crying, "Huy, huy." ("now, now" ). (Ravens or Gulls ?). A little while after they shall vanish. After this shall have lasted a good while, there shall be renewed a reign of Saturn and a golden age. God the Creator shall say, hearing the affliction of His people, Satan shall be put and tied in the bottom of the deep, and there shall begin an age of universal peace between God and man. The ecclestial power shall return in force and Satan shall be bound for the space of 1000 years, and then shall be loosed again.
All these figures are justly fitted by the Sacred Scriptures to the celestial things, that is to say, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, and others joined with them, as maybe seen more at large in some of my quatrains. I would have calculated it more deeply, and coordinated one with the other, but seeing, O most excellent King, that some stand ready to censure me, I shall now withdraw my pen to it's nocturnal repose.""
So many things, O most potent King of all, of the most remarkable kind are to happen soon, that I neither would nor could incorporate them all into this epistle; but in order to intelligently comprehend certain facts, a few horrible fated events must be set down in extract, although your amplitude and humanity toward mankind is so great, as is your piety to God, that you alone seem worthy of the great title of the most Christian King, and to whom the highest authority in all religion should be deferred. But I shall only beseech you, O most merciful King, by your singular and prudent goodness, to understand rather the desire of my heart, and the earnest desire I have to obey your most excellent Majesty, ever since my eyes were so near to your royal splendour, than the greatness of my word can attain to or deserve.
From Salon this 27th June, 1558...................Michael Nostradame
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Sincerely,
open to all possible explanations,
the truth is out there Mulder, ;-)
"Camelot", in the Bay of Thunder, Ontario, Canada ;-)
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