It's all about love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:8

Greetings to you in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am glad to meet you all through another post on love. Of course, this post could be endless as the entire book of Bible is about God's love. But, I thought of sharing you some of the perspective that God put in my mind about love through the scriptures. Let's see about love and discipleship in this post.

Let's examine the following verses of Jesus on discipleship from Luke 14.

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Two Kingdoms

For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. Col 1:13 NLT

Greetings to the readers in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am writing this article on January 31, 2021. God has rescued us from all the evils that are happening around us in the world and keeping us safe. In the high priest prayer in John 17, our Lord prayed to the Father not to remove us from this world but instead save us from the evil. John 17:15. As per the prayer of Jesus, He is keeping us from the evil. One who carried us thus far, will carry us for rest of the time until He returns back. Praise Him.

As per the title, I got a hint from the Spirit of God to write about the two invisible kingdoms that are at work among us. The title which was taken from New Living Translation says there are two kingdoms. One is the Kingdom of darkness and another is the Kingdom of his dear Son, Jesus Christ and that refers to the Kingdom of light. Col 1:12. It was the first message of John the baptist calling, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" Matthew 3:2 and Jesus too started to preach with the same verses in Matthew 4:17. The first blessed one of the sermon of the mount starts with Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven and the last of the list says, Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3,10. So, the list starts with kingdom of heaven and ends with kingdom of heaven. Before going to the cross, Jesus told to Pilate that His kingdom is not of this world. John 18:36 and after resurrection, Jesus was teaching His disciples about Kingdom of heaven. Acts 1:3. So, if there is one thing that Jesus preached when starting His ministry, throughout His ministry, before His death and resurrection and after His resurrection, then it is about the Kingdom of Heaven.

Now, let's see why Jesus had to preach about the Kingdom all the time. To understand this, we need to understand why Jesus had to come to this world first. We all know the mission of Jesus is Restoration of all things as it was before the fall. If you have gone through the earlier articles, you would have been clear why God had to create humans? The answer is in Malachi 2:15, where God wants a Godly seed for Himself so that He can love them and receive back love from them. He wants a Godly generation, a people who think like God, speak like God, act like God. So, He created Adam and placed Him on the earth. The earth is not heaven but a separate place created for humans to live. He created them in a different form than Him where the spirit lies within flesh. We saw about these in my earlier posts, so not going in details. But, Adam and Eve created in flesh couldn't work through Spirit and yielded to temptations through the flesh by devil.

In other words, God created the earthly Kingdom and handed that over to Adam and Eve. He gave them all dominion over all creation. Gen 1:28. As they disobeyed the only one commandment, they were given, satan became the legal ruler of the earthly kingdom and he started to rule over humans and all creatures. It was not lie when devil said to Jesus that all the earthly power and glory was delivered to him as in Luke 4:6. But, he is not the ultimate authority and that authority is only for a time. Jesus came in to the world to restore that authority back to humans in a legal and rightful way. Jesus said that in Luke 19:10, For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. He legally paid for all the sins of all humans from Adam to last man of this world in cross and that's why the scriptures call Him second Adam or later Adam. This is the primary mission of Jesus, that is to restore what Adam has lost.

But, as the title says, there are two kingdoms at work in this world. In fact, God originally designed in such a way, when He created both light and darkness and day and night for this earth. That means, there are two things which will be present in this world, they are good and bad. The world we live in is a world of opposites or dual things exist, good and bad, happy and sad, life and death and many others. But, at the end, this will be separated permanently. Good and bad will be separated eternally in new heaven and earth as in Revelation 21. Back to the kingdoms, there are two kingdoms in this world. One is Kingdom of heaven and the other is Kingdom of this world. If there is a kingdom, then there has to be a king. So, Jesus says to Pilate that He is indeed king but His kingdom is not of this world. John 18:37,36. That means, Jesus is the King of Kingdom of heaven. So, who is the Kingdom of this world? Jesus identifies that devil is the King of this world. John 14:30, He says prince of this world is coming and he has nothing in me. Jesus has nothing to do with or nothing common with this prince and it clearly means he is the god of this age, satan.

So, we identified the kingdoms and the kings. But, we may think the kingdom of the world is at present and the kingdom of heaven is coming during the return of Jesus. Though this is true, this is not fully correct. The Kingdom of God (heaven will be established by force when Jesus returns back. But, the Kingdom of God was already established and in force when Jesus came back 2000 years ago. John the baptist and Jesus preached the Kingdom of heaven is near. If you don't believe that, then just check the response of Jesus to Pharisees that Kingdom of God will not come apparently but Kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:20,21. So, when exactly it came? It came in when the King, Jesus was born and the Kingdom was in force from the time when Jesus started His ministry. There is another verse that confirms this work of Jesus brought Kingdom of God to them. But If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. Matthew 12:28. Same verse is mentioned in Luke as, But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. Luke 11:20. So, the Kingdom of heaven was at work from the time of Jesus ministry and it was strongly established from the time when Holy Spirit took over the disciples and the Church of Christ was in force from the day of Pentecost.

When Jesus returns back, the Kingdom of the heaven will take over the Kingdom of the world by force. Now, every person who is born and living in this world belong to one of these Kingdoms. When a man born, he is under the kingdom of darkness or this world's kingdom by default. But, when he recognizes the light and come to Jesus Christ, who is the true light of this world, then He is entering the Kingdom of light. This is the only choice we have. Either enter the Kingdom of the Son of God and receive the gift of eternal life or be in kingdom of darkness and perish. God is good that He provided a way for all of us to enter His kingdom through the death and resurrection of His only beloved son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He himself has to bring one to the light.

Jesus Christ, the king of the kingdom of heaven, operated in this world by attacking the opponent king. Though there are two kings, the one is far greater in power and glory than the other one. Jesus is far greater than devil in His power than the devil. The scriptures applies that to us as well. Greater is the one who is in you than the one who is in the world. 1 John 4:4. Wherever Jesus went, the demons ran away. Jesus manifested that power to resurrect the dead. He condemned the evil works of the world. If we carry Jesus with us, are we manifesting the power. We are also supposed to attack the powers of the devil. We should tell about the kingdom of light to the people who are under the power of darkness. That was the mission given to Paul. When Paul explains His mission to king Agrippa, he says Jesus gave him the following mission, "for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; Delivering thee from the people, and  from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee. To open their eyes,  and to turn  them from darkness to light, and  from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." Acts 26:16-18. Peter also says the gist of this in his epistle as "But ye  are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:" 1 Peter 2:9.

Are we able to display the works of the kingdom of heaven ? Are we in kingdom of heaven or kingdom of the world. We can easily identify that. We will do the works of the kingdom that we belong to. If we belong to the kingdom of heaven, we will do the works of the heavenly kingdom and heavenly mission. But, if we do works of darkness, then that means we are under the kingdom of darkness. Following verses talk a great detail about the works of kingdom of darkness. Ephesians 5:3-14. Let's meditate the above verses and about the two kingdoms and work to expand the kingdom of God in these last days.

All glory, honor and praise to God the Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May the Lord bless you and protect you, may the Lord shine your face upon you and provide you His abundant grace. May the Lord make His countenance upon you and provide with you His divine peace through out this year and for the time to come until His return. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of the Father and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Praise the LORD for carrying us through 2020

 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. Laments 3:22

Greetings to the readers in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ !!!. I am writing this on Dec 31, 2020. Less than 24 hours to enter the New year 2021, I believe it is the time to look back and reflect on the year 2020.

Let's thank God Almighty, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ as He brought us to the last day of this year. As we look back this year, we could think of the losses, pains and troubles we came through. Some of us might have lost our dear ones or had suffered health issues, business or job loss and might have experienced other difficulties. But, God is faithful and brought us thus far. He says, "Like a man carries His child, I have carried you." Deut 1:31. The one who brought us safe thus far will still lead us until we reach Him in glory. Psalm 48:14

Let's look forward and enter the year 2021 with unwavering faith. The birth pangs the world is going through will increase as per the scriptures. But, this is the time, we should look up as our Lord instructed in Luke 21:28, "Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near." Whatever the troubles of sufferings may be, greater is His promise, "Behold, I with you all the days until the end of this age." Matthew 28:20. Let's all put our burdens on His unfailing Word and go to Him.

He calls us saying, "Come unto me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30. Let's turn to Him and then our souls will get much needed rest. He said to His disciples that, "Peace I leave with you. I am giving my Peace to you and not like how the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid." John 14:26

Let our hearts and eyes fixed rock solid on Jesus Christ (Word of God) this new year. He says, "Be still and know that I am God." Psalms 46:10.

In this New Year 2021, I speak the High Priest blessing on you,

The LORD bless you and protect you

The LORD make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

The LORD lift up His countenance on you and give you peace.  Numbers 6:24-26.

All glory, honor and praise to the Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

38 years

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalm 90:12

Do you know the Israelites who came out of Egypt wandered for extra 38 years than the originally planned 2 years? That makes a total 40 years in wilderness. During the second year, they struggled against God saying that He had brought them to die in war against Canaanites provoking God to give them a curse that for each day the 12 spies spied the land, they will spend one year making it a total of 40 years. But, it is actually 38 years from the time the spies were sent.

Following verse confirms this, And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. Deuteronomy 2:14

You might ask what's there in it. In New Testament, who is the person with longest illness but was healed by Jesus? The woman having a blood issue suffered for 12 years. The woman with her back bowed was affected for 18 years. But, it was the man at Bethesda pool who suffered for a maximum time of 38 years. John 5:5

So, what is the connection? The man represents the unbelieving Israel and it took 38 years for them to wander in wilderness before crossing Jordan. Same way, the man healed after 38 years. But, what is more interesting is the present connection of 38 with respect to Jerusalem. In July 1980, the Jerusalem law was passed by Israel declaring that Jerusalem is the Sovereign capital of Israel. The, then president Ronald Reagan supported Israel but never accepted Jerusalem as Sovereign capital of Israel. Then, Bill Clinton said that he will recognise Jerusalem as capital. All the presidents from Clinton to Obama waived off the decision which comes to their review once in 6 months.

But, the time came. God brought Donald Trump to the power in 2017 in a super natural way. Trump declared Jerusalem as the Sovereign capital of Israel in December 2017 and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem in 14, May 2018, which is also the 70th anniversary of the independence of Israel. This is exactly the 38th year from 1980.

We could see God's hands turning history to accomplish His prophecies. Now, we are at the 40th year from 1980. The number 40 represents divine appointment. As we map 38 years, our Lord is going to turn His attention to Israel to find the final remnant portion as per Romans 11:5,25 and Zeccharia 13:9. This will match the healing of man at Bethesda after 38 years of illness. God will bring His revival for Israel and complete all His prophecies in the forthcoming years as per Acts 3:18-19.

So, let's watch and pray as we don't know the hour the groom will come for His bride. We are also in the 73rd year of Israel independence and 73 is a significant number.

There is another interesting fact with the number 38. We all know the smallest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 117 that has just 2 verses. But, do you know there is only one book in the Bible that has 2 chapters. It is the book of Haggai which is the 37th book. But, what is more interesting is this book has exactly 38 verses in total !!! Amazing, isn't it? Number 2 represents Son of God and grace and truth.

All glory, honor and praise to the Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

2023/2024 Year of great significance and possible year of rapture?

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Titus 2:13  

Greetings to the readers in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I am writing the 51st article in christianlifeonline after a long time. The day of writing this is 14-November. I am going through plenty of troubles and please keep me and my family in your prayers that God delivers me out of all troubles and give me rest. 

In this chapter, we are going to see an important information about why 2023/2024 could be the year of our blessed hope. The title verse Titus 2:13 says the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ for us is that glorious hope and we are called to look for that. God gave me some revelations couple of years back regarding what could be the possible year of this blessed hope can be. You may well ask, our Lord said that no one knows the day or the hour. The Lord told only we cannot know the day, but still we should be able to know the year if we argue literally. But, I am not going to assert it will definitely happen in the year 2023 but I am just wondering based on the proofs. Again, it is my opinion but what I am sure is the year 2023 is going to be very significant based on the following revelations. Let's directly get into the evidences. 

To prove any matter in the Bible, we need minimum 2 or 3 testimonies as per 2 Cor 13:1, John 8:17 and Deuteronomy 19:15. Let's see how 2023 can be arrived based on the witnesses from the scriptures. 

1. The first and primary evidence is derived from the age of Abraham. If you calculate the ages from genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11, we can derive that Abraham was born on year 1948 from the creation of Adam. It can be confirmed from the following link, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Genesis_patriarchs. So, the father of the nation of Israel was born on the year 1948. What is amazing was, the nation of Israel was reborn nearly after 2000 years in 1948 AD after their dispersal in 70 AD. Is it a coincidence? Definitely not, God has appointed in this way so that He can reveal more secrets for a later generation. We are that generation. You may ask what is the secret. The huge hidden clue is Abraham left to the land of Canaan at his age of 75 Gen 12:4 which is 2023rd year after creation of Adam. So, shall we move to our eternal Canaan in year 2023 AD? How amazing and how significant this evidence is? More to follow. Check this video about Abraham's timeline - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idWIsc-YBHI

2. The second evidence is from Daniel. The chapter 12 of the book of Daniel says this, And from the time  that the daily  sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. Daniel 12:11,12. The abomination of desolation could mean multiple things. One of the things could be the Al Aqsa (Dome of Rock) mosque standing on the Holy Temple mount site. This structure's basement was laid on 688 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock. One day can be considered as one year as per Ezekiel prophecy in Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34. So, if we add 1335 years to 688 we come to 2023 AD. The popular 1260 days addition from 688 leads to 1948. Check this video out for more details, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUy5s61S3ks

3. Hebrew year of 2017/18 is 5777. Lamech was aged 777 and 5 years after his death the great floods started. So, there are 5 years. In 2018, Billy Graham passed away and then in May 14, 2018, Donald Trump moved the embassy of US to Jerusalem signifying the 70 years of independence in 2018. This is on Hebrew year 5778. But, 5 year addition will reach 2023. Number 5 stands for grace.

4. When Joshua led the Israelites to Canaan, there are 5 years of war before rest. How can we be sure that there are only 5 years of war as it is not directly given in the scriptures. We have a clue in Caleb's age. By calculating it we can derive the number of years of war before rest is attained. Joshua 14 contains this important clue. The first 3 verses of Joshua ascertains that the sharing of the land happened which says that the war was over. The last verse of Joshua 14 says that the land had rest from war. Now, Caleb says that he was 40 years old when Moses sent him to spy on land in verse 7. In verse 10, Caleb says that he is 85 years old. Wow, that gives clear information. We all knew that the Lord pronounced judgement on the rebelling Israelites that they will not enter the promised land for 40 years which means Caleb crossed the Jordan river at his 80 years of age and then there were 5 years of spiritual war from 2018. So, now we are in the time of war, so don't run out of patience.

5. The last major war between Israel and a group of Arab nations was the Yom Kippur war and that happened on 1973. We will reach the jubilee year from this war in 2023.

6. Most popular chapter in the entire Bible could be easily Psalm 23.

7. Three 3 digit triangular  numbers are mentioned in new testament. They are 153 (John 21:11), 276 (Acts 27:37) and 666 (Revelation 13:18). Here, the first star number is T(17) = 153 and second one is T(23) = 276 and T(36) = 666. So, the initial tribulation started at 2017 and rapture might happen in 2023 and final tribulation could start at 2036. But, this is just a speculation. Search for triangular numbers in the google. That will be interesting.

8. The festivals of Israel that point to Jesus birth, crucifixion, resurrection and Holy Spirit's downpour on pentecost and same chapter also gives information about fall feasts about feast of trumpets, day of atonement and tabernacles. These festivals may correspond to rapture, armageddon war and 1000 year reign start of Christ. All of these festivals are mentioned in Leviticus chapter number 23.

9. There are 2300 days given in Daniel 8:14 and 23000 Israelites were dead in one day as given in 1 Cor 10:8. They have base number 23.

10. Psalm 90 was written by Moses hides very important information. In that Psalm, the God's man Moses prays to God to teach them the wisdom to count the number of days. In the same Psalm, there are two important numbers. One is verse 4 that says 1000 years is a day in the sight of the Lord and equal to a watch (People usually miss the 'watch' stuff here but it is very important as Jesus said he would return in 2nd or 3rd watch Luke 12:38,39. This is another point, but let's not go into that now.). The second important verse in Psalm 90 about numbers is verse 10 where Moses says the days of our years are 70 and by reason of strength 80 years. But, the age during the period of Moses is well more than 100. Moses himself lived for 120 years and Joshua for 110 years. But, why Moses is saying 70 or 80? The 'our' in that verse doesn't mean the individual but it means the nation of Israel itself and now we know Israel is 70 years and it is already moving to 80 by reason of strength. But, the midpoint would be 75 which would be 2023.

11. 23 is the last single digit prime number i.e. 9th prime number and addendum of the digits 2+0+2+3 gives 7, the number of perfection.

12. Originally, the Old testament is written in Hebrew and New testament is written in Greek. There are total of 22 Hebrew letters that means completion and 23 is the next number. The greek language consists of 24 letters and the midpoint of 22 and 24 is 23.

13. The 22nd book of the Bible is Song of Songs that depicts the readiness of the bride. But, the 23rd book Isaiah is the first prophetic book that has 66 chapters corresponding to the 66 books of the Bible. So, 23 book represents the overall fulfillment of the entire scriptures.

14. We all know that the smallest chapter in the entire Bible is Psalm 117 and contains just 2 verses. But, we may not know that the only book that contains 2 chapters is the book of Haggai which is the 37th book of the Bible. Number 37 signifies Wisdom in Hebrew. This book contains 38 verses out of which the first chapter contains 15 verses and the second chapter contains 23 verses. This could mean 2015 to 2023 could be the initial tribulation times.

15. The first verse of the Bible Genesis 1:1 has a Hebrew gematria value of 2701. You may google search this one. But, the middle word of this verse is Aleph-Tav (first and last letter of Hebrew alphabets and this corresponds to Alpha Omega in Greek alphabets) that has numerical value of 401 (Aleph - 1, Tav-400). Jesus said that He is Alpha and Omega, the first and the last and the beginning and the end. If we subtract 401 from 2701, we get 2300.

16. In science, there are 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans.

17. One more coincidental factor I just observed is the number of articles I wrote in this blog. Surprisingly, I wrote 23 articles in 2017, may be a symbolization of 2017 - 2023. I wrote 5 articles in 2018. 2018 + 5 = 2023. I wrote 4 articles in 2019, 2019 + 4 = 2023. Just an interesting thought.

18. A personal revelation. I was given a triple sign about the number 390 in a span of 2 days in month of April 2019. I gave my watch for repair service on April 27th morning, then I bought a Bible and the price of the Bible is Rs. 390. Then, that evening I went to collect my watch and the repair cost is also Rs. 390. Ok, it can be a coincidence. But, the next day evening on April 28th, I went to near by computer shop to buy a samsung in ear headset and the rate mentioned in the box is Rs. 450. When I asked for the cost, the service boy told it is 500. Then, I asked the amount mentioned is just Rs. 450. For that, he told he will cross check and called other person and then to my surprise, he told the amount is Rs. 390. This is astonishing, right? 3 instances of Rs. 390 in just 2 days. 

Cannot be a coincidence and I believed God is communicating something to me through numbers and then I prayed to the Lord to reveal it. After some time, it suddenly struck me Ezekiel chapter 4. God commands Ezekiel to lie down on one side for 390 days for 390 years of Israel's sin and 40 days on another side to reflect 40 years of Judah's sin. Now, instantly another revelation came that Jerusalem was declared capital of Israel first on July 1980 and it has been 39 years until 2019. The Holy Spirit told to divide the numbers by 10 and took the base number. So, that means 39 years over and then same way dividing 40 by 10 will give 4. Adding 39 + 4 will give 43. So, the 43rd year from 1980 is going to be 2023. Pretty amazing, isn't it? It was mentioned that Israelites precisely spent 430 years in Egypt. Exodus 12:40,41. There are 39 books in OT followed by 4 gospels making it 43. There are only two verses that start with "In the beginning" in the entire Bible. The first one is Genesis 1:1, the first verse of the first book of the Bible. The second one is John 1:1 which is the first verse of the 43rd book of the Bible. So, if we add 43 to 1980, we land up in 2023.

19. The number 2 signifies Son of God. It also represents an extension of time. As per Hosea 6:2, after 2 days, He will revive us. On the third day, He will raise us. So, the 2 days is waiting time or extension. It represents resurrection of Jesus after 2 days on the third day. It also represents resurrection of Saints after 2000 years (For God, 1 day is like 1000 years. Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8). Same way, we can see many other examples. Herod killed male babies within 2 years of age in Matthew 2. The brothers of Joseph met him after 2 years of famine in Egypt. Gen 45:6. Esther waited for 2 days of fast and on the third day, she met the king. So, if we take the base 2 and first multiply with 1000, we get 2000 years. so, we are after 2000 years first. Then, multiplying 2 with next denomination of 100, gives 200. But, it is too much out of overall time. So, the next denomination of 10 multiplied by 2 gives 20 years and then simply 2 years. The total puts 2000 + 20 + 2 = 2022 years and then the successive year is 2023.

20. I was reading the gospel of John first few chapters. When I was reading chapter 2, the Holy Spirit sparked me to observe the numbers. First on the third day, Jesus went to Cana. The number 3 represents the beginning of 3000th year after Jesus crucifixion and the wine represents the life. New life will be brought forth. Same is confirmed again in verse night where Jesus said destroy this temple, I will raise it up in three days. Initially, it applies to Jesus bodily resurrection on the third day. But, a closer look of verse 21 says, He spoke about His body which is a temple. So, we are His church as per 1 Cor 3:16,17 and 2 Cor 6:16.  This actually means the church will be resurrected after 2000 years on the beginning of the 3000th year. This is confirmed by Hosea 6:2 prophecy. The dead in Christ will resurrect first with glorious bodies and those who are alive will be transformed during the last trumpet. 1 Cor 15:51-13 and 1 Thess 4:17.

But, a sudden revelation came when I read John 2 verse 20 that says Jews responded to Jesus saying it took 46 years to build this. A connection is made with US presidential election that concluded recently. Joe Biden is elected as 46th president of US. If we apply Hosea prophecy to 2021 when Biden, the 46th president will rule, then the three days will reduce to simply 3 years. First year will be 2021, second will be 2022 and the third year will be 2023. It's a disconnect thing but still makes sense that it is precisely 46 years to build second temple and that number is quoted in Bible and the president of US at this time is the 46th president.It is worth noting that on the 47th day of Noah's 600th year, the great floods started and that might be correlating to the great tribulation starting with 47th president whereas the translation of saints could occur during 46th president.

Also, note down that 46 is a double of 23. (23 x 2 = 46).

21. Many of us know the smallest chapter of the Bible is 117 having just 2 verses. But, does anyone know the significance of Psalm 123 ? Psalm 123 is another unique chapter in the entire Bible just like Psalm 117. How? It is the only chapter in the entire Bible having just 4 verses. If I am right, no other chapter in the Bible has 4 verses alone. Please check and comment if you find any other chapter.with just 4 verses. There are 4 chapters with just 3 verses (Psalm 131, 133, 134 and Esther 10) in the Bible to my knowledge. The 4 verses represent the Tetragrammaton name of God (YHWH).

I already wrote about 117 in this blog. But, a new revelation is 117 can be written as (100 + 17) and 100 could map to 2000 and adding 17 will bring to 2017. The year 2017 could be the beginning of end times with Rev 12 sign happened on 23/09/2017. I wrote a separate article about 2017 - the beginning of end times. If we split 123 in the same way, it will 100 + 23 and it will map to 2023.

22. Psalm 22 is the 500th chapter of the Bible. The number 500 can be considered as total of 10 jubilees (10x50). Psalm 22 is a special chapter as it prophesied the suffering of the Messiah in a great detail. But, the next chapter after completion of this, i.e. the 501st chapter is Psalm 23 and this marks the new beginning.

23. Aleph-Tav is the unpronounced central word of Genesis 1:1 in Hebrew. There are total 7 words and this is the middle word and there are 3 words to the left of it and 3 words to the right of it. Aleph-Tav is equivalent to Alpha-Omega of Revelation where Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of Greek where as Aleph and Tav are the first and last letters of Hebrew. There are total 22 letters in Hebrew. If we add the ordinal positional values of Aleph (1) and Tav (22), we get 1 + 22 = 23. Jesus is the Alpha-Omega and we can say in Hebrew, that He is the Aleph-Tav (23).

24. The year number 2023 is not a prime number. If we factorize it, we get an interesting combination. 2023 = 17 x 17 x 7. We get the number of Victory = 17 squared up and multiplied by the number of perfection which is 7. How unique is this ?

25. The great floods happened in year 1656 from creation of Adam. This year number is significant. We saw there were 276 people saved along with Paul in Acts 27. 276 x 6 = 1656 and not only that, 1656 is also divided by 23, 1656 = 23 x 72 and 23 is the largest prime number among the factors. Can be split as 23x12x6 and further broke down into 23x2x2x3x2x3. So, it is 23 and then just 2s and 3s. 
1656 = 23 x 72 = 23 x 12 x 6 = 276 x 6
276 = 23 x 12

26. Jesus is 77th from God as per Luke 3 genealogy. The difference between the 100 (10 x 10) and 77 is 23. Number 10 stands for governance and 10 square (10 x 10) just a double stress.

Now, there are 26 distinct points in this post about the number 23 and year 2023. Awesome, isn't it?

There are overwhelming scriptural and mathematical evidences that point to 23 and 2023 as we saw and we could count on the year 2023 for rapture to happen. But, even if rapture doesn't happen in 2023, still it is going to hugely significant. If not rapture, then may be the Tribulation or World War 3 could begin. But, let's wait and watch. I believe the great pandemic started as a warning 3 years before 2023 to give the watchers an important sign. But, I believe there will be many tribulations of Luke 21 that will be occurring in the next 2 years, 2021 and 2022.

So, my guidance to the readers is to lift their heads up now as in the Luke's 21:28,36. All glory, honor and praise to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.

Jubilee - 50 years

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you. Leviticus 25:10

I wish all the readers grace and peace from our God the Father, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is my 50th article in the blog. I thank God in this special moment for His grace, that He enabled me to write this much as Paul says, "Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand." Galatians 6:11. I have dealt with various topics, end time articles, hidden meanings in Bible, about Biblical numbers and their meanings, about sin and temptation and a long series of New Creation which is the expectation of God for every believer. God graciously enabled me to complete that series. I praise the Lord for that.

As this is my 50th article, I would like to write about number 50. Bible holds a special meaning for 50. The word Jubilee derives out from Bible where God ask the Israelites to count every 7 times 7 years leading to 49th year and then 50th year is called Jubilee. Still we are naming the 50 year anniversaries as Golden Jubilee. Secondly, I am writing this on 27th of April which is the 118th day of this year and my last article was about 117. The specialty of 118 is that Psalm 118 which speak about an important prophecy of cornerstone. Not only that, it lies between the smallest and largest chapters of the Bible with 117 is the smallest having 2 verses and 119 becoming the largest with 176 verses.

The Jews were asked to observe the jubilee year on the 50th year and make it an year of deliverance where every slave is set free. The land is set free and returned to its original owner. The original owner of the earth is God Almighty as per Psalms 24:1, The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. He was the one who designed, created and filled it with life. So, after certain time, on a Jubilee, the whole earth will be of God and His children again. What a revelation, this is the expectation through out the Bible. The other way to view the jubilee is that, Christ is our Jubilee meaning He is the deliverer of us. He delivers us from temptation and evil. He redeems us from sickness and troubles. He Himself became our Judge and our defender. He Himself became a curse for us and hung on a tree in order to redeem us from the curse of the law and to bring us the blessings of Abraham. To Him be glory for ever.

Let us see some of the interesting facts about the numbers of jubilee.

1. God counts the jubilees from creation. Genesis 6:3 says "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also  is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.". Here God gives time of 120 years until the time floods come. Here, the hidden meaning is the time for the entire mankind in earth is 120 jubilees, which is 120 x 50 = 6000 years. At the end of 6000 years from Adam, Jesus Christ, the later Adam will start the millennium. This is the fore plan and the foreknowledge of God.

2. The above point is confirmed by the time when the great floods started. It started on the 600th year of Noah. Genesis 7:6,11. The base number 6 is about mankind and at the year of 600 of age of Noah, the floods started that means at the end of 6000 years the human government will be demolished.

3. Jonah warned people of Nineveh that there are 40 days to repent, otherwise Nineveh will be overthrown Jonah 3:4. People of Nineveh repented so the city was not toppled. Jesus gave the pharisees the sign of Jonah to Nineveh. They didn't understand that. Making a day converts to an year prophecy of Ezekiel 4:6, after 40 years of the crucifixion of Jesus, Jerusalem was overthrown. The siege of Jerusalem started in 67 AD and it went on to 7 years until 73 AD for the complete destruction of fall of Masada. Same way, now 40 days will map to 40 jubilees and that is 2000 years until the time of the return of Christ after His death and resurrection which is going to be in our times.

4. The last jubilee that Jews observed was in 2017-18. From that year on wards, there are more tribulations all over the world and this is confirming that the time of the return of Christ is at hand. We can feel that. The next jubilee cycle is going to be in 2067-68 in Jewish calendar. But, there are certain years missing in that calendar. Only God knows the exact number of missing years and in my opinion the resurrection of the saints and transfiguration will happen within next two decades, that is within 2040. This is the longest time range. But, there are many possibilities that this could occur within 2030 as we see the worldwide calamities.

Dear brethren, the day is fast approaching and we have to exhort one another and so much more as we the day draws near. Hebrews 10:25. I will meet you back with more information in my next article. I thank and praise God as He enabled me to write 50 blog posts. The articles that I wrote are very useful for me. If you find time, go through the new creation series. I bless you with Shalom Peace.

All glory, honor and praise, I give to Father through our Lord and Jesus Christ. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, love of the God and fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us, now and forever. Amen.

117

O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD  endures for ever. Praise ye the LORD. Psalm 117:1,2

Greetings to all the readers in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am very glad to update that I am writing my 49th article which is a special one because 49 itself is a very special number, 49 = 7x7. So, this article is also going to deal with a Biblical numerics and that's why the topic name is 117. This should be a certainly chapter.

I have written a lot about the number 17 in the past. But, here I am going to write about a special number 117. As the title verse have Psalm 117, you can thing about Psalm 117 which is the smallest chapter of the Bible that contains just 2 verses. But, today we will see few other special about 117. My grandfather, D. Paulraj was a visionary prophet who had many visions throughout his life and he interprets the dreams and they exactly fulfill as his interpretations. He died 12 years before on 1 March, 2008 at the age of 85. Before his death, when he lost his strength and bed ridden, he insisted me frequently to read the smallest chapter of the Bible which is 117. He used to say, "Oh, my grandson, I am not able to read as my eyes are not able to see. So, I just wanted to hear the smallest chapter." Then I used to read him Psalm 117.

It was 12 years since he passed away. But, what a man of God he was !. Just few months back, God revealed me why He insisted on Psalm 117 and He showed me the following amazing calculation. As we know, there are total 66 books in the Bible. When we split into OT and NT, there are 39 books in the old testament and 27 books in the New Testament. If we use 3, the number of trinity, to divide these we get the following calculation.

39/3 = 13  (Number that marks rebellion and judgement for rebellion)
27/3 =  9  (Number of love and the fruits and gifts of Holy Spirit)

When we multiply the results, we get 13 x 9 = 117. Psalm 117 is not only the smallest chapter but it is also the middle chapter of the Bible with 594 chapters before it and 594 chapters after it. The total number of chapters in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation is 1189. If we divide the total number of books by 3, we get 66/3 = 22. There are 22 alphabets in the Hebrew language. The book of Revelation has 22 chapters. Psalm 119 contains 22 divisions with each one associated with one Hebrew letter (Aleph to Tav) and each division contains 8 verses. The 22nd letter of Hebrew is Tav and this letter in Hebrew pictogram represents the cross. The 22nd book of the Bible is Song of Songs. The Song of Songs actually represents the Holy of Holies. It expresses the divine love between a male and female in their physical consummation to represent Jesus, the groom taking His Holy Bride with Him. It expresses the beauty of the Holy bride representing the true church. The real wonder is the Song of Songs too has 8 chapters (that represents Salvation) and the total number of verses in these 8 chapters is 117.

Not only that, but the total number of chapters in the first three books of the Bible is 50 (Genesis) + 40 (Exodus) + 27 (Leviticus) is 117. Amazing organization of the books and chapters, isn't it? The Holy Bible though written by various anointed people and arranged by different persons, we have the confirmation that it is written by Holy Spirit Himself. God has an amazing way of representing His handiwork.

Let's look into Psalm 117. There are just 2 verses. First verse says Praise the Lord. Second verse speaks about the grace and truth. The two verses simply spoke about Jesus Christ. John 1:17 (again see 1:17) says that the law was given through Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. In the entire Bible, only one person has two names together and that is our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the first name which means He will Save His people from their sins and the second name Christ is a title which means Messiah or the Anointed One. There are 2 verses just to represent that our Lord has two names Jesus Christ which in turn represents His Grace and His Truth. That's what the second verse says. His mercy and truth are forever. Praise the Lord.

I believe this is one of the lot many hidden gems in the scriptures to be discovered and whenever Lord reveals I will update in this blog. May God bless you all. I praise my Lord with rejoicing and heart full of thanks that He enabled me to write 49 articles in the blog which is one of the greatest achievement. God bless you with His richest blessings. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, love of the Father and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.