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The Stones Cry Out Part 1

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When I wrote Stones Cry Out, I wanted it to be one of our FREE books so everyone would have it. It is more of an encyclopedia than a book to read. It will be your quick resource book; you will have access to every question about any calendar, how it got started, and who started it. You will also learn the history of how the Mishnah was assembled, when it was assembled and why. Then, you will learn how that information was transferred into both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud until it reached its final stage in the Mishneh Torah. Along with this progression, the calendar also progressed and changed long after 358 C.E. when Rabbi Hillel first published it. But…what was before the Hillel calendar? What does the Mishnah record about those things?

The Stones Cry Out was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered, demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.

You can know; it is not a mystery.

As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in trying to send out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen, proved to be more and more dangerous over time. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.

Then as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period starting with the Hasmonaeans, up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led into the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, then the Babylonian Talmud and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added is compounded over time.

The Stones Cry Out, Part 1 explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. In understanding these facts, it is then possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were then mixed and later changed. By explaining all this history, I will be able to help you the reader understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, the Hillel calendar to have always been in use since Mount Sinai. Not understanding the history of the calendars is why most authorities dismiss the tombstones as too confusing to use. Once you understand The Stones Cry Out Part 1, Part 2 will be very easy to grasp.

Daniel 7:25 tells us he will change the appointed seasons and commandments. Many assume Constantine did this when he made Sunday the Sabbath. Few have considered the calendar’s many changes and how they relate to us today. Hidden in this proverbial swamp of confusion is the truth about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Sabbatical and Jubilee years reveal the truths about the calendar that have been hidden for almost 2000 years.

We are in the very last days and Yehshua warned us that during this time:

Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.

Mat 24:11 And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.

Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.

Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.

Paul also warned Timothy about these last days, warning that some would leave the truth and begin to follow demonic teachers:

1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

Paul again warned the Thessalonians that the Great Falling away would take place in the last days. How can you fall away if you have never come to know the truth? So who is Paul talking to? Those who are called and answer that calling begin to walk this road of restoration back to Yehovah, and then at some point along that walk, they change and leave this walk following the teachings of demons to false calendar.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

2Th 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.

2Th 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,

2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.

We must endure until the end. We must not let ourselves become offended by personalities and leave the faith once given.

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The National Religious Broadcasters

I want to take a moment to update you about our next major project. We have been accepted at the NRB convention in Dallas, Texas, this coming February. Our team is working on preparing for this event and our presentations.

It is my hope that with our message about the Jubilee cycles, we can share it and connect to some major Radio and TV programs who are willing to help share our message even further. It is also my belief that the 10 Virgins are to wake up in 2024, the first year of the 10 Days of Awe, and conclude with Satan being locked away in 2033.

I had been pleading with Yehovah that He could not destroy this world unless He first warned them. sightedmoon.com is the only group teaching about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years and how they reveal end-time prophecy. As I prayed this prayer, an invitation came to apply for the conference in Texas. We had applied before to the NRB in Nashville, Tennessee. I think it was back in 2019, but we were denied. This time, they have accepted our application and have been very hospitable to all our questions.

I want to invite you to examine our presence at the NRB site now and see what we are doing.

I am asking you to keep us in your prayers before Yehovah that He would open the doors for our message to be reached by those He is drawing and that Yehovah will connect us to the Radio and TV programs He wants us on. I am also asking that you pray for our team and that no one gets sick leading up to and during this event.

Our team has been working extra hard to prepare for this event in my absence as I tended to my mom’s needs. I am asking all of you to join our team with your prayers leading up to, during and then afterwards as the seeds we plant grow in those who hear us.

This is also going to be a costly event to put on. People have written to me asking why I charge for my books. They feel I should work and do all this research for free and just give it to them. That is the mindset of the foolish virgins. Yehovah says for them to go and buy the truth. My book sales do not come close to covering the cost of this event. If you are not a monthly donor, may I ask you to become one today? Start to give what ever amount you can to help us do this work.

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Heatwave to turn parts of Australia into ‘one of the hottest places in the world’ this week

Some of the east coast and the north will bake in a furnace of potentially life-threatening heat, the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts

Cait Kelly

01:39 EST Monday, 04 November 2024

People fish in the Darwin suburb of Nightcliff. Temperatures are set to soar in parts of the Northern Territory, Queensland and NSW this week as extremely hot weather sweeps through. Photograph: Darren England/AAP.

A heatwave is due to strike Australia’s east coast, with temperatures expected above 40C, making the country’s north “one of the hottest places in the world” this week, the Bureau of Meteorology has forecast.

Residents in northern New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory were warned to brace for unsettled weather through the week, as a mass of heat moves eastward from central Australia.

Temperatures across Queensland and NT were expected to hit over 40C, with a “severe heatwave” forecast for Central West, Channel Country, Maranoa and Warrego and Darling Downs and Granite Belt districts.

Those areas would have “maximum temperatures in the high 30s to low 40s”, the BoM said, with overnight temperatures in the low- to mid-20s.

The bureau said the heat – potentially life-threatening for vulnerable people – would likely peak on Wednesday and Thursday.

The pre-summer heat is forecast to hit some coastal areas. Brisbane is expected to see 31-34C every day this week, while Sydney was tipped to be in the low 30s on Thursday, as is Canberra on Wednesday.

Melbourne was forecast to reach 26C on a sunny Tuesday and temperatures could reach 33C on Wednesday. Further south, Hobart was forecast for a high of 28C on Wednesday and Adelaide should hit 30C on Tuesday.

Weatherzone said the heatwave will make parts of the country the “hottest in the world” this week.

“November is always a hot time of year in Australia as [the] increasing intensity of the sun enhances solar heating across the continent,” it said in a statement.

“This hot weather is most pronounced in central and northern Australia, where exposure to the sun is greater and seasonal monsoon cloud cover is yet to develop, allowing for uninterrupted heating.

“This makes the northern half of Australia home to some of the highest surface air temperatures in the world at this time of year.”

In a statement, the BoM warned severe heatwaves can be dangerous, especially for older people, babies, children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, people with medical conditions and people who are unwell.

“Seek a place to keep cool, such as your home, a library, community centre or shopping centre,” the bureau said.

“Close your windows and draw blinds, curtains or awnings early in the day to keep the heat out of your home.

“If available, use fans or air conditioners to keep cool.”

Nearly all US States are Facing Droughts, an Unprecedented Number

More than 150 million people and 318m acres of crops are affected by droughts after summer of record heat

Marina Dunbar

14:30 EST Tuesday, 05 November 2024

Lone Rock, surrounded by cracked earth where water once reached at the Lake Powell Wahweap Bay area in Utah on 2 September 2022. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images.

Every US state except Alaska and Kentucky is facing drought, an unprecedented number, according to the US Drought Monitor.

A little more than 45% of the US and Puerto Rico is in drought this week, according to the tracker. About 54% of land in the 48 contiguous US states is affected by droughts.

Even as the country experiences autumn and heads further away from a summer of record heat, the droughts continue to rise. More than 150 million people in the country – and 149.8 million in the 48 contiguous states – are in a drought this week. That is about a 34% increase since last week and an over 150% increase since last month.

The drought is also affecting more than 318m acres of crops, a 57% increase since last month, according to the tracker.

That reality is only the latest illustration of global warming and the climate crisis, spurred primarily by humans’ burning of fossil fuels.

Last month, it was reported that the world’s water cycle was out of balance “for the first time in human history”. Nearly 3 billion people face water scarcity.

Drought conditions are not simply caused by a decrease in rain – but are driven and exacerbated by abnormally high temperatures that can quickly suck moisture from the atmosphere and the earth.

The problem, however, is more complicated than simply counting rainy days. Droughts can occur even when there is slightly more rain than usual, depending on the frequency of rainfall. If there is a lot of rain all at once, it’s difficult for the water to be properly absorbed into the ground.

“Climate change can cause extremes in both directions,” Dr Lifeng Luo, a professor of environmental science at Michigan State University, said. “When it rains really hard, it’s not going to really penetrate into the soil. It becomes runoff, which produces floods.”

Different city and state leaders across the US have acknowledged the drought issue and have tried various ways of beginning to address it. In New York City, the mayor, Eric Adams, encouraged residents to water their lawns less frequently and to “only flush when necessary”.

“Taking shorter showers means more water could be allocated for other purposes, which is good,” Luo said. “But its impacts in terms of reversing a drought is very small.”

According to the National Integrated Drought Information System, droughts will increase an area’s reliance on groundwater. Groundwater provides more than 40% of the water used for US agriculture and domestic water supplies. Increased pumping during droughts can reduce the future availability of those supplies.

California, which relies heavily on the agricultural industry to support its economy, lost $1.7bn in crop revenue in 2022 due to the ongoing drought.

Dry conditions can also result in low water levels on rivers and other waterways. Ports and other water-borne transportation may become limited due to a reduction in available routes and cargo-carrying capacity, which increases transportation costs.

That cost increase is ultimately transferred to consumers, who see it in the form of higher-priced products, groceries and other commodities.

“Droughts affect water resources, agriculture, transportation, which can overall impact the economy,” Luo said. “To have a broad relief, we need regular precipitation, and there’s no simple answer to getting that.”

Climate Warning as World’s Rivers Dry Up at Fastest Rate for 30 Years

World Meteorological Organization says water is ‘canary in the coalmine of climate change’ and calls for urgent action

Helena Horton

04:00 EDT Monday, 07 October 2024

A tugboat navigates around sandbars amid low water levels on the Mississippi River. Water levels on the river hit a record low in 2023. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP.

Rivers dried up at the highest rate in three decades in 2023, putting global water supply at risk, data has shown.

Over the past five years, there have been lower-than-average river levels across the globe and reservoirs have also been low, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) State of Global Water Resources report.

In 2023, more than 50% of global river catchment areas showed abnormal conditions, with most being in deficit. This was similar in 2022 and 2021. Areas facing severe drought and low river discharge conditions included large territories of North, Central and South America; for instance, the Amazon and Mississippi rivers had record low water levels. On the other side of the globe, in Asia and Oceania, the large Ganges, Brahmaputra and Mekong river basins experienced lower-than-normal conditions almost over the entire basin territories.

Climate breakdown appears to be changing where water goes, and helping to cause extreme floods and droughts. 2023 was the hottest year on record, with rivers running low and countries facing droughts, but it also brought devastating floods across the globe.

The extremes were also influenced, according to the WMO, by the transition from La Niña to El Niño in mid-2023. These are naturally occurring weather patterns; El Niño refers to the above-average sea-surface temperatures that periodically develop across the east-central equatorial Pacific, while La Niña refers to the periodic cooling in those areas. However, scientists say climate breakdown is exacerbating the impacts of these weather phenomena and making them more difficult to predict.

Areas that faced flooding included the east coast of Africa, the North Island of New Zealand, and the Philippines.

In the UK, Ireland, Finland and Sweden, there was above-normal discharge, which is the volume of water flowing through a river at a given point in time.

“Water is the canary in the coalmine of climate change,” said the WMO secretary general, Celeste Saulo. “We receive distress signals in the form of increasingly extreme rainfall, floods and droughts which wreak a heavy toll on lives, ecosystems and economies. Melting ice and glaciers threaten long-term water security for many millions of people. And yet we are not taking the necessary urgent action.

“As a result of rising temperatures, the hydrological cycle has accelerated. It has also become more erratic and unpredictable, and we are facing growing problems of either too much or too little water. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture which is conducive to heavy rainfall. More rapid evaporation and drying of soils worsen drought conditions,” she added.

These extreme water conditions put supply at risk. Currently, 3.6 billion people face inadequate access to water for at least one month a year, and this is expected to increase to more than 5 billion by 2050, according to UN Water.

Glaciers also fared badly last year, losing more than 600 gigatonnes of water, the highest figure in 50 years of observations, according to the WMO’s preliminary data for September 2022 to August 2023. Mountains in western North America and the European Alps faced extreme melting. Switzerland’s Alps lost about 10% of their remaining volume over the past two years.

“Far too little is known about the true state of the world’s freshwater resources. We cannot manage what we do not measure. This report seeks to contribute to improved monitoring, data-sharing, cross-border collaboration and assessments,” said Saulo. “This is urgently needed.”

Rolling dunes, typically golden and sunbaked, lie transformed by snow and balls of ice – this is what a desert in Saudi Arabia looks like right now.

It is the first time in history that the region of Al-Jawf, which lies at the northern edge of the Al-Nafūd desert, has experienced a snowfall.

Footage shows the arid desert turned into an unexpected winter landscape, with the flakes still settling.

A caravan of camels are seen treading cautiously on the layer of ice that covers the sand.

People are shown getting out of their cars to capture the unprecedented weather.

Temperatures in the Al-Nafūd desert could reach as high as 55°C  in places, so the sudden drop comes is a phenomenon.

State media reported that heavy rainfall and hailstorms swept through parts of the Al-Jawf region on Monday.

The United Arab Emirates National Centre of Meteorology attributed the unusual weather event to a low-pressure system moving from the Arabian Sea to Oman.

This weather pattern has brought moisture-laden air into an area known for its arid conditions, leading to thunderstorms, hail, and rainfall across Saudi Arabia and the neighbouring UAE.

The Saudi Weather Department has issued warnings of ongoing severe weather in the coming days.

Thunderstorms, additional heavy rainfall, hail, and strong winds are expected to continue across the region, affecting visibility and disrupting travel.

Officials have advised residents to take precautions due to the unusual weather conditions

Trump’s Landslide Win-Is He Jehu?

With President Trump’s landslide victory on November 5, 2024, some Messianic brethren are promoting the idea that Trump is the reincarnation of King Jehu and Cyrus. One promoter is Johnathan Cahn. I want to caution you against jumping on this bandwagon teaching.

Also, by the end of President Trump’s first term, he was publicly quoting Alex Jones verbatim, and we have shown this a few times over the years. Trump mentioned his praise for Robert Kennedy and indicated that he would appoint him to a “health czar” role, circumventing the Senate confirmation that he would need to lead a government agency.

Kennedy ran for president as an independent, launching his campaign in April 2023 and ending it in August, endorsing Trump. Throughout his campaign, Kennedy based a variety of his views on conspiracy theories—including bizarre claims that WiFi causes cancer, antidepressants can be linked to school shootings and chemicals found in water supply could cause children to become transgender. He has regularly derided fact-checks to these claims as censorship. He similarly blamed the end of his long-shot presidential bid on “systematic censorship and media control.”

I would like you all to read the following article published on November 5 in the Atlantic about Trump being Jehu. It gives the history of this prophecy created by Johnathan Cahn.

The Atlantic

WHY EVANGELICALS ARE COMPARING TRUMP TO THIS BIBLICAL MONARCH

Analogizing the former president to Jehu may carry some disturbing implications.

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

NOVEMBER 05, 2024

This article was originally published by Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Donald Trump’s fans and critics alike have compared him to some of history’s most famous rulers: Cyrus the Great, Adolf Hitler, King David, and more.

But on the eve of the election, a celebrity pastor named Jonathan Cahn wants his evangelical followers to think of the Republican candidate as a present-day manifestation of a far more obscure leader: the biblical king Jehu, who vanquished the morally corrupt house of Ahab to become the tenth ruler of the Kingdom of Israel.

“President Trump, you were born into the world to be a trumpet of God, a vessel of the Lord in the hands of God. God called you to walk according to the template; he called you according to the template of Jehu, the warrior king,” Cahn told the hundreds of Christian leaders who gathered last week for the National Faith Summit outside Atlanta. He also shared a clip of his prophecy about Trump on his YouTube channel, which has more than a million followers.

What Cahn means—and why at least one scholar of the Christian right says he is worried—requires some background. Cahn, 65, is the son of a Holocaust refugee and grew up in a Jewish household in New Jersey. When he was 20, he says he had a personal revelation that led him to Jesus, and he eventually became the head of a Messianic congregation, blending Jewish rituals with Christian worship and a focus on doomsday prophecies.

Cahn helped popularize the interpretation of 9/11 as an apocalyptic biblical allegory. In his telling, the terrorist attacks were akin to God’s rebuke of the biblical nation of Israel, and they happened because God wanted the United States to revert to a time before legalized abortion and gay rights when religion held a more central place in society—or else. His book on the topic, The Harbinger, came out in 2011 and spent months on the New York Times best-seller list.

Cahn continued to release commercially successful books, and combined with his social-media activity, he established a growing and enthusiastic audience for his prophetic warnings.

Then Trump came along. During Trump’s first term, many evangelical-Christian supporters explained his lack of religiosity by comparing him to Cyrus, the pagan ruler of ancient Persia, who served as God’s agent by, according to the Bible, helping the Israelites return home from exile. In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, amid an effort to build stronger ties with the evangelical movement, praised Trump as a modern-day Cyrus.

But Cahn had spun a different prophetic narrative about the new American president. He released a book called The Paradigm the year after the 2016 election, which cast Trump as Jehu, the biblical king who took control of and restored the Kingdom of Israel, whose territory largely overlapped with parts of present-day Israel and Lebanon. Just as Jehu killed the idol-worshippers who had taken over the kingdom, Trump would “drain the swamp” of Washington and “make America great again.” In this contemporary rendition, Hillary and Bill Clinton play the role of Ahab and Jezebel, the evil rulers who had led the kingdom astray. Jezebel is also seen as wicked in the Jewish tradition, but she is far more prominent as a symbol in evangelical discourse today, representing feminism, sexual promiscuity, and moral decay.

In the 2024 election, Joe Biden’s replacement with Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate challenging Trump allowed the template of Jehu versus Jezebel to get updated and become salient again.

Two weeks before Cahn spoke at the National Faith Summit, an ally of his named Ché Ahn evoked the comparison at another mass religious event. Ahn heads Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California, as well as a network of thousands of ministries all over the world. He is a leader of a spiritual movement known as New Apostolic Reformation, which aims for Christians to dominate society and government. Major Republican figures such as Mike Pompeo, Sarah Palin, and Josh Hawley have visited Ahn’s church, reflecting the growing influence of Christian nationalism on the Republican Party.

On October 12, Yom Kippur, Ahn appeared at the “Million Women March” event on the National Mall, speaking before a crowd of tens of thousands, with many wearing prayer shawls or blowing shofars—traditionally Jewish symbols highlighting the movement’s overlap with Messianic Judaism.

“Jehu will cast down Jezebel,” Ahn said, and prophesized a victory by Trump over Harris.

The social-media user who brought the recent Jehu comparisons to wider notice through posts on X is Matthew Taylor, a scholar of the Christian right at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, a Baltimore-based interfaith research and advocacy group, dedicated to “[dismantling] religious bias and bigotry.”

“Since Harris became the candidate this summer, we’ve seen the Jehu image really rise to the surface much more,” Taylor said in an interview. “This is the story [Cahn and Ahn] want running through their followers’ heads, their lens for interpreting the election and its aftermath.”

In the grim biblical story, recounted in the book of 2 Kings, as Jehu ascends the throne, he kills Jezebel by ordering her thrown out of a palace window, after which he stomps on her body, which is then eaten by dogs. The new warrior king then goes on a killing spree, slaying the families of Ahab and Jezebel and other Baal-worshipping pagans who had despoiled the kingdom.

“Jehu came to the capital city with an agenda to drain the swamp,” Cahn said in his speech, addressing Trump, who also spoke at the National Faith Summit. “Jehu formed an alliance with the religious conservatives of the land. So, it was your destiny to do the same. Jehu overturned the cult of Baal by which children were sacrificed. So, God chose you to overturn America’s cult of Baal, Roe v. Wade.”

Cahn and Ahn did not respond to my request to their ministries to discuss the theology of their recent statements.

Neither pastor elaborated on the analogy they were drawing, and neither made an explicit call for violence. But Trump has generated widespread concern by speaking of retribution, calling his political opponents “the enemy from within,” and talking about using the military against political enemies if he wins.

Given the riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, after Trump challenged the election results, and his ongoing promotion of election-fraud narratives, independent experts and government agencies are warning of increased political violence. Many Jewish leaders are particularly concerned because Trump recently blamed Jews for his potential defeat.

Taylor says the pastors’ followers would be familiar with the biblical story of Jehu, and he believes that they are priming their audience to accept violence during the election or afterward.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, that surfaced the Jehu prophecies, Taylor voiced his alarm.

“If Trump wins in this election, the Jehu ‘template’ tells Trump’s Christian supporters: some real-world violence may be needed to purge America of her demons,” Taylor wrote. “If Trump loses this election, particularly to Kamala Harris their ‘Jezebel,’ the Jehu template prescribes vengeance.”

I have two concerns. One is the coming wave of conspiracy-false information that many brethren will believe and become involved in spreading and promoting. The second is the pushback war coming to the Christian community and the martyrdom of the Saints.

We must not forget the Jubilee cycle we are now in. You and I have proven that there are only 120 Jubilee cycles and we should all have proven that we are in the final one. We should al have proven that the days of Noah and the Days of Lot are judgment years and show us the final judgment in this final 120th Jubilee cycle is the Day of Atonement in 2033, just 9 years from now.

This means that no matter what happens on the world stage, all end-time prophecies must be completed by 2033, with the 7th millennium beginning at Aviv in 2045.

President Trump’s term begins in January 2025 and ends in January 2029. Is he the Messiah, Jehu, or Cyrus these people claim he is? Does what they say fit with what Yehshua said on the Mount of Olives?

Signs of the End of the Age

Mat 24:3 And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world?

Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

This verse means there will be those in authority who can and will deceive you in these last days through false or lying information. Do not neglect what you have been told in Revelation about how Satan would deceive the whole world. This includes those who think they are following Yehovah. Paul warned us about the great falling away. We have written on this many times. You cannot fall away unless you first begin to obey and then fall away. If possible, even the elect will be deceived.

Mat 24:5 For many will come in My name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many.

There are many today, and many of you, who continue to mix your Torah with conspiracy teachings about everything. The list of subjects is endless, and you believe them to be Torah-centered. They are not.

Mat 24:6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must occur; but the end is not yet.

The Russia-Ukraine war has the potential to blow up into WW III. Russia is threatening to use nuclear weapons. They have just brought Korean troops to fight in Ukraine. Should NATO join the fight on behalf of Ukraine, you would have NATO against two nuclear powers in Russia and North Korea.

You also have Israel fighting Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Iran. Russia and China have allied with Iran. What will the Trump presidency bring to this complexity of fighting?

Mat 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places.

We have posted a number of articles in this week’s Newsletter about the drought that is gripping the world and how temperatures continue to rise around the world. 2024 will be hotter than the hottest year on record, last year, 2023. You have seen how hurricanes Helen and Milton devastated the southeastern USA last month. You have also seen how Spain’s Valencia province was destroyed by Atmospheric rivers, which got a year’s worth of rain in just 8 hours. With each typhoon passing, you have also seen how the Philippines is repeatedly flooded this fall.

Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

This word sorrows is:

G5604   (Mounce) ὠδίν ōdin

4x: the spasms or pains, of a woman in travail, a birth pang, 1Th 5:3; pl. met. birth throes, preliminary troubles to the development of a catastrophe, Mat 24:8; Mrk 13:8; from the Hebrew, a stringent band, a snare, noose, Act 2:24.

Akin to G3601; a pang or throe, especially of childbirth: – pain, sorrow, travail.

G3601 is From G1416; grief (as dejecting): – sorrow.

G1416 is Prolonged forms of an obsolete primary word δύω duō (to sink); to go “down”: – set.

We read in Revelation about the three woes. The Greek word for woe is:

G3759   (Strong) οὐαί  ouai  oo-ah’ee

A primary excamation of grief; “woe”: – alas, woe.

So, the beginning of sorrows is related to the woes. They both mean grief. This first “WOE” comes after the 5th Trumpet plague when a star falls, opening the bottomless pit in Revelation 9, and Appolyon begins to rule.

According to our Jubilee understanding, the fifth Trumpet will occur in 2029, at the end of the Trump presidency. The fifth god of Egypt, Hathor, whom we expect to be the plague simultaneously, is upon all cattle or something related. This is on top of the first four trumpet plagues before this fifth one.

Rev 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were cast on the earth. And the third part of trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

The first god was Apis, or the god of the Nile. This curse is already taking place with the worldwide drought and rivers drying up. See our articles in this week’s newsletter.

Rev 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood.

Rev 8:9 And the third part of the creatures in the sea, those having souls, died; and the third part of the ships was destroyed.

I continue to believe this great nation is the USA in war or civil war, falling and being taken over by the people who are the sea. And again, I see this beginning in 2025. It might not conclude in that year but I see it starting.

Rev 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and a great star burning like a lamp fell from the heaven, and it fell on the third part of the rivers and on the fountains of waters.

Rev 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and a third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

I see this as a major nuclear attack polluting the waters with radiation. In 2026, I am expecting, the two witnesses to begin to do their work, stopping the rain around the earth for 3 1/2 years. This means severe drought and famine will follow.

Rev 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was stricken, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened, and the day did not appear for a third part of it, and the night also.

1/3 of the sun-stricken area appears to me to be a nuclear winter-type event after the previous plague’s nuclear attack.

Rev 8:13 And I saw and I heard one angel flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels being about to sound!

If our understanding is correct, the rest of Yeshua’s prophecy, in which they attack and kill you, will take place during the Trump presidency. We were correct about 2020. We were then correct about the 1290 days concluding on October 7 and the 1335 days concluding on November 21, with the agreement of the hostage releases a couple of days later.

Mat 24:9 Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name’s sake.

Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.

Mat 24:11 And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.

Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.

Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.

Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come.

If all of these things are to take place in the order they are stated, and in this final Jubilee cycle, knowing the final day of judgment, the Day of Atonement, is 2033, should you spend all your time chasing endless conspiracies, or trying to figure out who is leading you to Torah and who is leading you away from it? Should we be rejoicing in the Trump presidency, or should we be diving deeper into the Bible to understand the birth pangs already happening and be ready for the times Yehovah told us are coming and are now here? Be wary of the Jehu Cyrus prophecies and those promoting them. Read your own Bible, study the Jubilee cycles, and pray to Yehovah for clarity of mind and of His words in these final days.

Even though Trump got the Popular vote and most of the country, including California, turned red on Nov 5, 2024, the Democrats are already planning and have been doing so for some time on litigating Trump once again. In other words, weaponizing the courtrooms to fight him. We continue to watch for signs of the 2nd trumpet plague of Revlation 8.

The anti-Trump resistance roars back — with California at the forefront

State Attorney General Rob Bonta has already prepared legal arguments against everything from a possible national abortion ban to Project 2025 targets.

SACRAMENTO, California — With Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House, California is poised to reprise a familiar role — beating heart of the resistance.

The state’s ruling Democrats, who for years have portrayed the president-elect as an existential threat, swiftly signaled a return to the pugilistic posture of the Trump 1.0-era, when California loudly cast itself as the political and cultural counterweight to Washington.

“Trump mentioned that his campaign was a campaign to protect America,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas told POLITICO on election night. “What you can expect is California will do everything we can to protect America from Donald Trump.”

The groundwork for a raft of court challenges has been in the works for more than two years, ever since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who instructed his team to draft a brief against a potential national abortion ban. Since then, his office has been preparing arguments on “almost every issue” that could possibly arise during a second Trump administration, from gun control to how federal agencies issue regulations.

“If he comes into office and follows the law … then there’s nothing for us to do,” Bonta said. “But if he violates the law, as he has said he would, as Project 2025 says he will, then we are ready. We have gone down to the detail of what court do we file in.”

The antagonism between the president-elect and California runs both ways. Trump has been persistently hostile to the country’s most populous state, threatening to withhold disaster aid, lobbing baseless accusations of voter fraud and issuing ominous threats to California luminaries such as former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator-elect Adam Schiff, whom he has branded “enemies from within.”

His relationship with Gov. Gavin Newsom, which saw moments of cooperation during his first term, has only grown more combative, with Trump now almost exclusively deriding the governor as “New-scum.”

Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher predicted the Democrats, who dominate Sacramento, “will try to establish themselves as the anti-Trump state” — a move he said would be “a major mistake.” “How they responded to the first Trump administration was about politics and not really about looking out for the best interest of California,” he said.

Back then, even some of the most ardent architects of California’s opposition reported a sense of “resistance fatigue” during Trump’s first term, lamenting that the cascade of lawsuits, laws and symbolic resolutions distracted at times from other pressing issues within the state’s borders, such as the high cost of living. But the political incentives were compelling in this deep blue state. A number of California politicians like Schiff, Rep. Eric Swalwell and impeachment instigator Tom Steyer gained national prominence — and the accompanying cable news appearances and fundraising jolts — by clashing with Trump.

Some of California’s loudest anti-Trump voices took a more muted tone as the election results rolled in.

Schiff, who parlayed his central role in Trump’s first impeachment and the hearings on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol into a U.S. Senate seat, did not mention Trump by name during his somber victory speech on election night. Trump, however, loomed large in the subtext of Schiff’s vow to take on “the big fights to protect our freedoms and protect our democracy.”

Newsom made no public comment on election night as Democrats in the state were reeling from Vice President Kamala Harris’ resounding defeat and a red wave that swept much of the country.

The governor will have a heavy hand in shaping the contours of California’s opposition. One of his party’s foremost national figures after Harris’ loss, he has enormous influence in deciding whether the agenda in Sacramento will be dominated by opposition to Trump or to tackling the state’s stubborn crises such as homelessness and housing affordability.

There has been informal talk of the governor calling a special session in response to Trump’s win, according to a top legislative aide who was granted anonymity to explain potential outcomes before the presidency was called for Trump. But, the person said, no plans have been confirmed by the governor. Newsom’s office did not comment.

For months, officials have sought to “Trump-proof” California’s climate policies and shore up its disaster preparedness in anticipation of an adversarial federal government — a stark contrast to Trump’s shock victory in 2016, which left state leaders scrambling for a response.

Rivas, the Assembly speaker, said the state would be ready to forcefully protect its immigrant population, which could face major upheaval under Trump’s proposed mass deportation program.

“We’ll do everything we can to ensure that people feel protected and they feel welcomed,” Rivas said, though he declined to discuss specific preparations.

Advance planning may only go so far. While Bonta will turn to the courts to try to stymie the president’s agenda, as his predecessor Xavier Becerra did dozens of times during Trump’s first term, he may find an icy reception from the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.

“One thing we had before were the courts, and the courts stopped a lot of the insanity and a lot of the most grotesque anti-civil rights moves were found to be in violation of the Constitution,” said David Campos, a progressive activist from San Francisco and vice chair of the state Democratic Party. “I’m not sure that we have that anymore.”

Nor is there unanimity among Democrats about whether they should follow the same resistance playbook they rolled out eight years ago.

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a Los Angeles Democrat who served in the Legislature during Trump’s first term, said she expected her state’s leaders to strike a similarly assertive pose against Trump, but this time “on steroids.”

“I want the state legislature here and the attorney general and the governor to go hard in the paint against him,” Kamlager-Dove said. “They will have the backing of the California delegation” in Congress.

But others said the party would be better off if it focused less on reacting to Trump and more on improving the quality of life for Californians.

“The best way to lead the resistance is to demonstrate that in addition to being the fourth largest economy in the world, we can reduce the poverty rate in a state which has the highest effective poverty rate,” said Antonio Villaraigosa, the Democratic former Los Angeles mayor who is running for governor in 2026. “The best way to lead the resistance is to say that our public schools are the best in the nation, or that we’re moving toward that goal,” he said.

Another gubernatorial hopeful, former state controller Betty Yee, said California officials should be wary of the dangers posed by an unfriendly Trump administration.

But, she cautioned, “We’ve got to be mindful of Californians and what they’re dealing with every day. I don’t know if they’re going to be all that patient with us putting up a resistance when they’re just trying to make things work in their lives.”