March 9, 2006

Shalom Dan,

Sorry, I know your busy and don't want to keep you away from your family too much but I have some questions and observations. Please take your time in answering as I feel the desperate need to disappear into prayer for a little while after having read your book. I must confess that I am awestruck, sad, delighted and also extremely concerned all at the same time. I honestly tried to poke holes in your discovery because it seems almost to good to be true. I never expected that any-one person would be given the direction, insight and revelation to spell out the "last days" events in specific dates on the calendar. I have always taken the position that such an important prophetic revelation would be "given" to a number of appointed messengers simultaneously thereby allowing for confirmation. You seem to be standing all alone as the recipient of this discovery. Honestly, that concerns me.

It seemed important to include in your calculations, the missing 40 minutes of time (10 degrees on the Sundial of Ahaz) as found in the story of Hezekiah but why did you not also consider the all important "missing day" found in the book of Joshua 10:12-14?
If a mere 40 minutes were important to your calculations it would seem that a whole day missing off the timeline in Joshua's day would definitely need to be considered. The next question is related to the start of Creation, the anniversary date given for the creation of Adam and also the start date of Noah's flood. Did you at any point make any "assumptions" in order to arrive at those conclusions you made? If you did not make prior assumptions to work the math, did you make any post assumptions based on the math you were working? The reason I ask is that you offer no other evidence or further explanation to prove the dates you have given as probable dates for Adam's creation, Noah's flood etc. Am I missing something here? Foot note number 57 on page 71 also seems to be a bothersome result in numbers. Have you made any new discoveries since the last writing of your book?

Lastly, your understanding of apostasia is similar to mine but my understanding differs slightly from yours. In fact, my understanding of apostasia is in part what led to the strong rebuke (warnings) delivered to the contemporary churches of man in my book Apostasy Revealed. Here is how I understand the use of the word #646 Apostasia; from aphistemi (868), which is from apo (575), from, and histemi (2476), to place, stand. Occurs in Acts 21:21 translated forsake and in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 falling away. In the majority of occasions the verb is intran. Meaning that a person does not depart from where he is to go somewhere else, but stays away having chosen from the beginning to stay away, not to believe instead of believing, in which case the verb, histemi (2476) is to be interpreted not as departing but as standing away, placing oneself away; with the prep. Apo (575), to stay away from. In Acts 21:21, the new Christian believers among the Jews decided to stand apart from the Jewish practices of Moses for they were in a new dispensation. They were not Judaizing Christians but Christians standing apart from Moses. Having departed from Moses and coming to Jesus Christ, they decided that they should stay apart from Moses, that is, his Judaistic practices. Therefore, in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 the word apostasia does not refer to the Christians who would depart from the faith, but those who would reject Christ.
Referring back to my analogy that the Christians have done no better with the laws of grace and faith than the Jews did with following the letter of the Law... If we were to accept the above definition of apostasy just as it is, it helps to shed light on why the churches of man are in such a state of deception, treachery, delusion and division. It is because they as a whole never really have been one in Spirit and Truth with Christ. They're may well be individuals within these religious institutions of man that are true disciples of Christ who will likely be raptured before the tribulation but the modern Church as a whole and in it's present state... is in a terrible condition and affliction. The sheep have been corraled by many wolves. After so many rejections from mainstream clergy and their quaint little religious circles mirroring the same degree of rejection that Christ experienced... I finally had to admit that Jesus was right and there was nothing I will ever do to change that. The Spirit in me has uttered more than once, "You will know them by their word and deeds."

If what you have presented is true then you should be getting nothing less than front page press around the world. Before I can give it my two thumbs up I have to really test out every possible angle to to see what might be right or wrong. I believe that's how the Bereans handled the Word too.

Working out my salvation with fear and trembling...

NAS

Dear Nicholas,

Yes, this concerns me too and has others. A man in Texas said this put him at 2% doubt because he has not heard of these conclusions before. Your range of emotions seem appropriate and similar to mine. Every day I anaylze my conclusions for verification, because it does concern me as well.

The Long Day of Joshua is important, but I did not see a connection--yet. I had understood that the calendar shifted from 360 day years to 365.2422 day years around 700 BC. What caught my attention was that the 10 degrees on the sundial occured at roughly this time. So I dug deeper and was amazed how everything went together with what I had written to this point (this chapter was added a year later). The difference I believe is that the Long Day of Joshua did not seem to alter the calendar year in length. This also seems to solve the reasoning why God still uses 360 days in the Bible, but also that our current year is used as well.

The assumptions were that I needed to stay within a biblical (using the Bible and not wavering from its information) chronology and not shift dates as is apparent in some other works. I had a firm chronology and then did the mathematical comparisions. This is what blew me away is when I would stick with biblical preciseness and allow no creative wiggle room to then see if it would work against all odds of it doing so. The 2521 year issue is because to make it work to 2520 one would have to apparently fudge the numbers somewhere else and I don't want to do that. There is probably a solution, but the problem is probably my lack of understanding at this point. My biggest concern is the modern dates since we know when they occured (very accurately) and how they seem to point very accurately to the near future. My chronology is on pages 163 and 164. The only jump is from Shem to Abraham since I didn't have room to list those patriarches.

Any new discoveries? I am working on an article and diagrams concerning the Great Pyramid. I resisted because of the baggage to this subject, but I believe there is biblical support to the study. I am going to write a short as possible article to show how I believe the Great Pyramid points to the time of the return of the Lord at the Second Coming. I will post it soon on the website, I was hoping to last weekend. I realize there have been many attempts with this subject, but this is a different approach and something I started thinking on about 10 years ago, but after the book, it narrowed my focus to enable to find out a solid conclusion with some surprises.

Regarding your explanation of apostasia, For me Paul is pointing to an identifiable event before the man of sin can be revealed, though I agree that the condition of the church and world will get worse.

Keep testing it because I don't want to be wrong either!

Thanks for all of this, Dan.