Ron Reese's latest newsletter

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THE FINAL BATTLE OVER JERUSALEM HAS BEGUN!!

by Ron Reese
Maranatha Ministries, October, 2000

Are we now standing at the door of World War III and the long awaited Rapture of the Church? It is my very strong conviction that we are. I'm writing this letter on the evening of October 1, 2000, as I am watching the news reports of the escalating violence in Israel. The death toll is rapidly rising and the number of injured is now over 1,000 in just three days.

I am writing this letter to encourage all of you who are disappointed that the Rapture did not happen on Feast of Pentecost or Feast of Trumpets, September 29-30, 2000. I believe there is still a very good possibility that the Rapture and World War III will happen in the next 6 weeks, with October 13-14 the best possibility.

Messianic Rabbi Michael Rood, who has written many prophecy books, of Israel, believes the only correct biblical method of calculating when to start the Jewish New Year is the first new moon after the first barley harvest in Jerusalem. This was not in early April, as the Jewish calendar shows, but May 5, 2000. This would mean that Feast of Trumpets, Roshashana, would be around October 29, 2000, rather than September 29-30, 2000. It is his belief that May 5, 2000 ended the 6000 years since Adam. Other scholars believe that the 6000 years ended in the autumn of 1999. It is very interesting that May 5, 2000, was also the day of the rare alignment of the planets.

For many years, I've held the belief that the most likely day of the Rapture would be on Feast of Trumpets. Maybe, in light of current developments in Israel, October 28-30, 2000, will be that time.

However, this year, for reasons I'm about to disclose, I am leaning towards October 13-14, which will be Feast of Tabernacles, according to the Jewish calendar. Every year, after the Rapture doesn't happen on Feast of Trumpets, expectations quickly turn to Feast of Tabernacles, for various biblical reasons.

Here's what prophecy scholar Gwynn Williams of England says: "Check out the tenth chapter of Numbers. A first trumpet is blown to assemble the people. Then a final trump is blown 'to move out.' In Psalms 91, we have a command to blow the first trump at the time of the New Moon. Then the final trump is blown at the time of the Full Moon."

The New Moon was on September 29-30, 2000, Roshashana, Feast of Trumpets, the beginning of the High Holy Days in Israel. Jews around the world literally sounded the first trumpet. From what Gwynn Williams is saying it sounds like the first trumpet is a warning trumpet (the assembling of the people). Noah was warned to "assemble his family." Lot was warned to "assemble his family." In both cases "sudden destruction" soon followed. "As in the days of Noah" and "As in the days of Lot" (Luke 21), even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man (Jesus) is revealed. Luke 21 and I Thessalonians 5 both strongly imply that the Rapture of the Church and the "sudden destruction" of World War III will be at the same time. THAT TIME MAY ONLY BE DAYS AWAY!!!

Could the sounding of the first trumpet on the New Moon of Roshashana, Jewish New Year, September 29-30, 2000, be our WARNING TRUMPET?!!! Is it just a coincidence that the escalating violence, the worst in 4 years, began on the VERY SAME DAY of the first trumpet? Is this the beginning of World War III? Will the last trump, on the day of the Full Moon of October 13-14, 2000, Feast of Pentecost, be our signal "to move out," as in Numbers, Chapter 10? Is this "last trumpet," on the full moon, our rapture trumpet? According to Scripture, Jesus is coming at the sound of the "last trump." If there is a one-month discrepancy from God's calendar and the Jewish calendar, Feast of Tabernacles, the Full Moon, last trumpet "to move out" may be on November 12, 2000. The last day of Feast of Tabernacles, a 7-day feast would then be November 18-19, 2000.

Before I give you two amazing calculations that both come out precisely to October 13-14, Feast of Tabernacles, the sounding of "the last trump," as the possible time of the Rapture, let me WARN YOU if you don't know Jesus as your personal Savior, GET SAVED NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!! If you are a Christian who is backslidden, or lukewarm, or worldly, REPENT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!! One fourth of the population of the earth will die as a result of WORLD WAR III. That is over one and a half billion people. You may die and go straight to Hell for all eternity. You may survive for a few short years of a literal "Hell on earth." Or you could go directly to Heaven in the Rapture if you repent of your sins and make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of your life. The choice is yours. Do it NOW BEFORE IT IS ETERNALLY TOO LATE! (For free sample tracts n salvation and end-time prophecy, write or call the address or phone number on this letter.)

(Note: Maranatha Ministries, 1201 Idle Hills rd., Brooklyn, Michigan 49230, 517-536-8354.)

It is still my strong belief that the one event that begins Daniel's 70th week, THE FINAL 7 YEARS (ask for our tract by this title) HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Daniel 9:27, the confirming, or strengthening, of a 7-year peace accord happened on October 23, 1998 when Bill Clinton, the probable Antichrist, confirmed or strengthened the Oslo Peace Accords, which lasted for 7 years (September 1993 to September 2000).

Therefore, I believe the 3½-year Great Tribulation will begin on Feast of Passover, 2002, which just "happens" to be exactly 3½ Jewish years from October 23, 1998. What a strange coincidence for all you skeptics! Jesus is supposed to return to earth at the Battle of Armageddon on a future Feast of Atonement. Guess what? 7 Jewish years or 2520 days after October 23, 1998, takes you to September 15, 2005 the correct biblical date for Feast of Atonement for that year!!! What a strange coincidence!

On the eve of October 23, 1998, Saturn, Satan's planet, made its closest approach to the earth for that year and was the brightest it had been in 20 years. This happened not just on the same day but at the EXACT SAME MINUTE THAT BILL CLINTON WAS CONFIRMING THE COVENANT. What a strange coincidence! I could go on and on but the evidence is overwhelming that THE FINAL 7 YEARS BEGAN ON OCTOBER 23, 1998!

So when is the Rapture??? I've been praying to the Lord and he may have given me the answer IN THE BIBLE! Joseph is the most complete type of Christ that we have. The 7 years of famine represent the FINAL 7 YEARS of human history. In Genesis 45:1, Joseph makes himself known unto his brethren (a type of the Rapture). In verse 7, Joseph was sent to "save your lives by a great deliverance" (a type of Rapture). In verse 9, Joseph says, "Haste ye, and go up to my Father" (a type of the Rapture). This chapter (vs. 1-11) in the life of Joseph, a type of the Rapture, happens after the 7 years of famine have already begun.

Genesis 45:6 is the key verse. "For these 2 YEARS hath the famine been in the land; and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest." 2 YEARS AFTER THE 7 YEARS OF FAMINE BEGAN JOSEPH (representing Jesus) makes himself known unto his brethren (the Church at the Rapture?) and he saves their lives by a "great deliverance" (Rapture?!!) Guess what? Two Jewish years from October 23, 1998 takes you to October 13-14, 2000, EXACTLY TO THE DAY! October 13-14, 2000, is Feast of Tabernacles, the FULL MOON LAST TRUMP!!

I have one more fascinating calculation. Many believe the modern-day Church age began when Martin Luther broke away from the false Catholic church and mailed his thesis to the church door. This was on October 31, 1517. In Daniel we read about a 490-year period in Jewish history before the 1st Coming of Christ. Could God also have given a similar 490-year period to the Church before his Second Coming? 490 Jewish years of 360 days takes you (ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?) EXACTLY TO OCTOBER 13-14, 2000!!!

It certainly is possible that these 2 amazing calculations both come out EXACTLY TO OCTOBER 13-14, 2000, by coincidence. We won't have long to find out. There certainly seems to be a great window of opportunity for the Rapture and World War III between now and November 19, 2000. The stage appears to be set. I don't know how many of the 5,200 people on my mailing list I will be able to reach in the next few days. If you would like to help me, please let me know.

Please feel free to make as many copies of this letter as you want.

"For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man (Jesus)." (Luke 21:35-36)