Serious prophetic times are even now being fulfilled, before the uncomprehending eyes of a largely secular, deceived and ignorant public.
They will affect your life adversely, unless you become aware of what is in store for the very near future.
Don’t by-pass this warning, or take it lightly as if it were some fictional non-reality passing “entertainment” fad, because your life may very well depend on what you are about to learn...
An Ancient Prophecy Fulfilled!
The prophet everyone today “knows” as “Jonah” (actual name: Yavnah), who was swallowed by a great fish (generally assumed to be a whale), while trying to flee his calling to preach repentance to the ancient Assyrian capitol city of Nineveh, was told to say “Yet forty days...” until judgment was to fall on the people of that city.
According to the scriptural account, the king of Nineveh and its people humbled themselves, fasted and wore sackcloth, putting ashes on their heads in tearful repentance, and were therefore spared the prophesied judgment.
At least the immediate judgment!
Actually, the city of Nineveh did finally fall victim to just judgment a little more than a century later, after they had collectively forgotten the warning and the example of their leader who repentantly humbled himself, and set an example for those under his rule to follow.
Where this formally saved the city and its people from the prophesied judgment, those of the next several generations arrogantly forgot the mercy shown to their forebears, and suffered the final cataclysm that ended this once feared city and the ancient Assyrian empire.
This entire event with the reluctant prophet, and the warning against Nineveh, was to figure prophetically as a fore-type of something far more disastrous, as a warning to the Savior’s age and the ancient city of Yaravsalem, which was fulfilled within forty years!
Yet Another Forty Days
To His mostly unheeding generation, the Savior warned that: “A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Yavnah. For as Yavnah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation” (Luke 11:29; “Matthew” 12:39, 16:4; cf. Mark 8:12).
Marking the emphatic urgency of the Savior’s prophecy, He went on to say:
“For as Yavnah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Yavnah, and now one greater than Yavnah is here” (“Matthew” 12:40-41; Luke 11:30, 32).
Later, near the end of His ministry, while walking away from the Temple in Yaravsalem for the final time before His execution, the Messiah told His disciples, who were wondering at the marvelous structures:
“‘Do you see all these things?’ He asked. ‘I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down’” (“Matthew” 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 21:6).
Following His death, burial and resurrection, the Savior returned, comforting, teaching and visiting with His disciples for an additional forty days before returning back to heaven to await the time for His prophesied second coming (Acts 1:2-3, 9-11).
After Pentecost, ten days later, when the sacred Spirit descended upon the heads of the Apostles, most of the people assembled from far-flung regions to keep this observance witnessed the miracle of hearing them speak in his own foreign language. At Eben’s (the Apostle “Peter’s” actual name) urging, about three thousand were converted and baptized that day as a result (Acts 2:1-12, 38-41).
Prophecy Fulfilled Yet Again!
When the Apostles went on to teach in Yahvsave the Messiah’s true name, and healed many as He had also done, a great persecution arose against them, from the religious leaders and charlatans who feared losing control over the people (Acts 5:12-18).
Other opposition arose from different heretical sects, such as the one that resulted in the stoning of Stephen (Acts 6:8-15, 7:1-3, 51-60).
One of those present, Savel of Tarsis (Acts 7:58, 8:1), would later be converted on the road to Damascus seeking to persecute believers there, after dragging many into prison and further persecution against the converted followers of Yahvsave (Acts 9:1-19).
This resulted in the congregation of the elect becoming scattered (Acts 8:1), with Savel bent on destroying their religion, going from house to house seeking whom the adversary wished to devour (verse 3).
All of this began to take place, beginning with the trial, false condemnation, beating, death, and resurrection three days and three nights later, of the innocent Savior in 30 Common Era.
What none of those involved in these atrocities realized was that, in addition to the prophecy of Yavnah being three days and three nights dead in the belly of the great fish (possibly a whale), before being vomited out on dry land and returned to life to continue his commission to preach to the Ninevites, was his message to them: “Yet forty days...” (“Jonah” 3:4) remained before the city would be overturned.
While that judgment and prophecy was averted by the heartfelt repentance of the king of Nineveh and his people (verses 6-10), the utterly wicked and rebellious religious and secular leaders of Yaravsalem in the time of the Apostles refused to humble themselves or repent.
Consequently judgment against that city, called spiritual Sodom and Egypt (Revelation 11:8), fell exactly forty years later when, under Rome's new emperor Vespasian’s son Titus, the city of Yaravsalem was captured and the Temple utterly destroyed.
Approximately 11 years later Titus, who succeeded his father as Roman emperor only two years previously, died and was succeeded by his brother Domitian, who may have had a hand -- and certainly had the motive -- in his brother’s death.
Why Forty Days?
The number of years, in relation to days, of probationary winnowing of a rebellious populace began after the exodus from Egypt under Moses.
When Moses was in the mount to receive the law for forty days, and forty nights (Exodus 24:18; Deuteronomy 9:9), the Yasarelites sinned by building the golden calf idol and committing lewd acts, prompting Moses to break the first stone tablets containing the Law of Yahveh (Exodus 32:1-6; Deuteronomy 9:7-17).
Following their sin, Moses spent an additional forty days and forty nights fasting, and asking for forgiveness for the people and his brother Aaron, who had fearfully allowed their riotous and sinful conduct (Deuteronomy 9:18-21).
Later, after Moses’ sister Mariam and brother Aaron opposed him, with disastrous results (Numbers 12:1-15), when the twelve spies, a man from each Yasarelite tribe, returned from spying out the promised land after forty days, the Yasarelites again rebelled (Numbers 13:1-25, 14:1-4).
This was a result of ten of the spies instigating fear and rebellion in their brethren, who were summarily punished with a deadly plague, leaving alive only the two men who had not acted so wickedly, Yahvsave and Caleb (Numbers 14:36-38).
This further sin resulted in the judgment of forty years of wandering in the desert wilderness of what is present day Saudi Arabia (verses 34-35), until that entire generation was dead, except for the two spies who were later permitted to enter the promised land (Numbers 14:30, 38).
The ever-rebellious Yasarelites then decided to ignore Moses’ warning not to try entering Palestine immediately, only to be attacked, resulting in many killed by the Amalekites and Canaanites (Numbers 14:39-45).
Forty Year Periods
This period of forty years matched the time Moses had spent in Egypt as a boy and young man (Acts 7:23), until he was exiled, and the forty years he had spent thereafter in the wilderness of Midian (in present day western Saudi Arabia), until his calling at the burning bush (Acts 7:30), and was also the last forty years in the lifetime of Moses (Acts 13:18; Deuteronomy 34:7).
Prior to the start of His three and a half year ministry, the Savior was tempted by the adversary after fasting, as Moses had, forty days and forty nights (“Matthew” 4:1-11; Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1-13).
Also, the prophet Yazkiel (“Ezekiel”) symbolized the first siege against Yaravsalem by the Babylonians, a prophetic fore-type of what the Romans would centuries later visit upon the same city, by laying on his right side for forty days, according to Creator Yahveh’s just judgment:
“‘I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. Turn your face toward the siege of Yaravsalem and with bared arm prophesy against her’” (“Ezekiel” 4:6-8).
End Times Fulfillment?
In prophesying the time just before His return to earth, in these last days, the Savior spoke about sending another prophet to restore all things:
“Yahvsave replied, ‘To be sure, EliYahv will come and restore all things. But I tell you, EliYahv has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.’ Then the disciples understood that He was talking to them about Yahvhanan the Baptist” (“Matthew” 17:11-13; Mark 9:12-13).
So the Baptist, who was not literally EliYahv the prophet, was a prophetic type of somebody else to come in these last days, also not literally the prophet EliYahv but a prophet nonetheless, in fulfillment of another prophecy:
“See, I will send you the prophet EliYahv before that great and dreadful day of Yahveh arrives. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction” (Malachi 4:5-6; part of the text restored from the Septuagint translation and Luke 1:17).
This “wisdom of the righteous” is revealed a few verses earlier:
“‘Remember the Law of my servant Moses, the decrees and Laws I gave him at Horeb for all Yasarel” (Malachi 4:4).
Further Significance Of Forty Days
Like Moses, the prophet EliYahv also spent forty days and forty nights traveling to mount Horeb without any other food or nourishment, when he fled from the murderous Yezebel, after he killed all her false prophets with the sword, in retaliation for her putting so many of Yahveh’s true prophets to death (I Kings 19:1-10).
EliYahv thought he was the only prophet of Yahveh left, but it was revealed to him that, despite appearances, there were still 7,000 in Yasarel who had not bowed down to worship the false idol Baal (verses 11-18).
Forty years appears to be an important number in relation to the end-time prophet like EliYahv (prior to the return of the actual prophets EliYahv and Enoch as the final two witnesses to stand in opposition to the beast and false prophet, just before the first resurrection; Revelation 11:3-13).
Modern Prophecies Restored
Like the prophet EliYahv, this end-time prophet who would begin the work of restoring all things -- unlike so many false but clueless claimants to this honor, without realizing the necessity to restore anything -- has faced many false prophets, beginning in 1969 with his first attendance at a Worldwide Church of God meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, and as a freshman student that same year at Herbert and Garner Ted Armstrong’s headquarters ministerial training school, Ambassador College in Pasadena, California.
After one year the young man, who did not yet know of his calling to be a prophet, was rejected from continuing his education at A.C., as it was called, and within four years the Brickett Wood England campus of A.C. was permanently closed in 1974, followed by the Big Sandy, Texas campus in 1977, and finally the next year the Pasadena campus shut it doors for the first time in 1978.
In 1971, on October 1, the prophet was baptized in Olathe, Kansas by a Worldwide minister who four years later would also baptize the prophet’s future wife in Big Sandy Texas, three years before they would first meet in Pasadena, when she was a senior at Ambassador College.
The date they met, October 2, 1977, was the same day according to the restored sacred calendar not revealed for another three years, which was also the eve before the true fast of Atonement, according to that calendar.
The prophet-to-be had returned to Pasadena following two years of college in Kansas City and two years as a commercial-graphic artist in Denver Colorado, after a brief stint as a carpenter in Boulder, just prior to the opening of the ornate and costly Ambassador Auditorium in 1974, in Pasadena, California, months after numerous ministerial defections from Worldwide began in late 1973.
The prophet’s first prophecy was that he would attend the invitation-only, VIP opening night concert at the auditorium, much to the amusement and with heaps of abuse from his Worldwide acquaintances.
On April 7, 1974 the prophet did indeed attend the opening night concert, without an invitation, by showing up at the door dressed in a purchased rental tuxedo and inquiring if any empty seats needed to be filled. After the concert the prophet was introduced in the foyer alongside the auditorium’s builder, Herbert Armstrong, to members of the Japanese diet.
Not-So-Coincidental Events
A few months later, in a private conversation with Herbert Armstrong in that same auditorium, who was angry over the recent closure of Brickett Wood, the prophet told him that if there was nothing that could be done about it, this was obviously the Creator’s will.
Three years later, on the sixth anniversary of his baptism as a Worldwide Church member (on October 1, 1971) the prophet met his wife-to-be, who was then a graduating senior for the final year of Ambassador’s sole remaining campus, who had transferred to the Pasadena campus after attending three years at Big Sandy, when that campus closed.
She had been baptized in Big Sandy by the same minister who had three years earlier baptized her husband-to-be in Olathe, Kansas, following the minister’s transfer to Texas to teach religious courses at Big Sandy, including one about biblical prophecy, during her junior year.
Modern Prophecies Continue
By January 1979 the prophet prophesied about the future of the Worldwide Church to two men in particular, who were then protesting outside the Los Angeles County courthouse, Joseph Tkach, Sr. and Michael Feazell, who had been the man’s dorm and study room mate during his brief year at Ambassador.
Additionally, Tkach had been the man's next door neighbor three years previously, and had also led an unjust persecution campaign against the prophet, before he knew his calling, by jealous and drunken Worldwide bachelors living in the same Pasadena, California house on South Marengo Avenue.
Both Tkach and Feazell, exactly seven years later, after the death of Herbert Armstrong in January 1986, took control of the Worldwide Church and Ambassador College, and began fulfilling the man’s prophecy over the next nine years when, upon the death of Tkach in 1995, his namesake son, another freshman student and friend of Feazell’s during the man’s brief year at Ambassador, assumed leadership of Worldwide, to complete the destruction Joe Tkach Jr.'s father had begun.
Tkach Sr. died September 23, 1995, on the 16th anniversary of the prophet’s first dream vision in 1979, which also happened to be the true Feast of Reva (misnamed “Trumpets” by Worldwide ministers) both years, according to the restored sacred calendar, first revealed in 1980, fifteen years before.
Tkach Sr. had married in Chicago on March 31, 1951, forty days inclusive of both dates after the birth of the prophet in Kansas City, Missouri, five months prior to the first major midwest flood which struck Kansas City hard that July.
Five months after that flood Joe Tkach Jr. was born in Chicago, when the prophet was already ten months old.
Years later, in early 1993 -- after obtaining the first post office box address for his new The Pure Truth magazine publication, in Riverside, Missouri -- the prophet was telling friends and strangers that a second great flood would again strike Kansas City that same year.
At the age of 42, exactly 42 years to the very day after the flood the year of the prophet’s birth, in July 1993 a second flood hit the city just one month prior to publishing the first issue of his new magazine, destroying the post office in Riverside, indicative of the prophetic nature of this latter-day EliYahv and Baptist-like ministry.
Another Specific Prophecy Fulfilled
By 2009, fourteen years after Tkach Sr.’s death and his son took over control of Worldwide and what was then left of Ambassador College -- exactly forty years after the prophet first attended Worldwide and became a student of Ambassador College -- the man’s dream vision prophecy of thirty years previously was fulfilled by the corporate dissolution of the Worldwide Church and the sale of the final campus property in Pasadena to an evangelical religious sect opposed to everything Herbert Armstrong taught.
Thirty years prior to this, on September 23, 1979, the man’s first dream vision concerned the future destruction of the Worldwide Church, who told friends and acquaintances immediately afterward that Joseph Tkach Sr. would be “ordained” as a Worldwide evangelist, which he was four days later, a fact not announced to Worldwide members until several days after that.
The next year, on the anniversary of that announcement, the prophet had a second dream vision on October 1, 1980 -- the ninth anniversary of his baptism as a Worldwide member -- which picked up where the previous vision ended, revealing the still future death of Herbert Armstrong and all his former top level ministers, along with the eventual destruction of his and son Garner Ted’s then competing religions, after coming into contact with the prophet.
Then, five years later -- after the death of the prophet’s father on March 16, 1985, whose funeral was the only one performed by the then minister -- he took a nazarite vow on October 16, 1985, seven months to the day after his father's death and exactly 14 years and 14 days after he was baptised as a Worldwide member.
This would become a very propitious date, when exactly six weeks later the prophet was back in Pasadena the day before Thanksgiving, for the first time since leaving Worldwide by disfellowshipping himself (as quoted in the Pasadena Star News in early 1979), a fact later belied by Tkach, Sr., who “disfellowshipped” the already former member from the stage of Ambassador Auditorium a few weeks later.
An attempt to see Herbert Armstrong one final time was unsuccessful, due to his then deteriorating health, on a day when Halley's comet was closest to earth in its journey into the solar system for the first time since 1910.
Then, exactly seven weeks later, the prophet spent the entire night of January 15, 1986 in heartfelt prayer, asking for a sign to confirm his calling.
The next day, precisely 93 days inclusive from the date the prophet first took the nazarite vow, three months to the day after that, and ten months to the day after the prophet's father died, a phone call from Kansas City informed the prophet that Herbert Armstrong had died that same night at the age of 93, thereby confirming the second dream vision the prophet had received five years and 15 days before taking the nazarite vow, relating to Armstrong’s future death.
HWA's death came just after publication of an article in his "Plain Truth" magazine, in the February 1986 issue published in January, ridiculing the idea that comets were heavenly signs of disasters, or as Shakespheare's play Julius Caesar remarked: "When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
A week and a half after HWA's death, on January 28, 1986, comet Halley reached the midway point in its journey through our solar system.
More Startling, Stark Prophecies Fulfilled!
Two days later, after HWA's death, the prophet foretold that the next attempted shuttle launch would be an utter disaster. Ten days later, the shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after being launched, on January 28, 1986.
This prophecy also foreshadowed the future destruction of the space shuttle Columbia -- the only other space shuttle to be lost with all its crew -- seventeen years and 14 days later, on February 1, 2003, the very shuttle that preceded the Challenger launch, returning to earth the very same day this prophecy was spoken, on January 18, 1986!
In a letter to Herbert Armstrong's once-chief editor of the "Plain Truth," Herman Hoeh, dated February 25, 1986, the prophet foretold "something astronomical" would take place when Halley's comet was again closest to earth on its departure from the solar system, on April 10th or 11th, 1986. In the paragraphs surrounding this prediction, the prophet gave details of his nazarite vow begun 19 weeks prior to that letter.
During the night of April 10th, the prophet's firstborn son -- that he and his wife dedicated as a lifelong nazarite six months previously, before they were aware of the pregnancy, when the prophet took the nazarite vow and, with two daughters since the stillbirth of their twin daughters, they prayed for a son -- was delivered by the prophet in a truck camper behind the prophet's mother's home, during a visit to Kansas City, at 1:30 AM; born as famous author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was, during the appearance of Halley's comet (Clemens, also died the same year the comet next returned, in 1910, when HWA who -- like Clemens, would later become an author, publisher and well-known public speaker who made trips to visit royalty and political leaders around the world -- was 18).
The prophet first started publishing a magazine of his scriptural research, The Apostle, Prophet and Teacher Manual, in April 1979, just five months prior to his first dream vision, when his bride since July 1978 delivered stillborn twin girls, much to the surprise of the attending childbirth physician.
The prophet saw this as prophetic of the coming future demise of Herbert and Ted Armstrong’s religions, along with their formerly popular radio and television preaching founders.
The next year, in 1980, the prophet began publishing the first of his newly discovered research on the restoration of all things. This was followed over the next 14 years by exposés of several false prophet ministers, including both Herbert and Garner Ted Armstrong.
Having contacted and spoken privately over the ensuing years with various Worldwide and ex-Worldwide (or soon to become so) ministers, including Garner Ted Armstrong, the prophet's vision was gradually fulfilled in the years and decades since this prophecy, by their deaths and the end of most of their religious works; a process that is still ongoing.
The Prophesied Restoration Work
In 1993 the prophet first began publishing a new magazine dedicated to revealing the vast extent of restored truths already discovered, and new revelations and prophecies, titled The Pure Truth magazine, which immediately went global in distribution.
Completing 28 issues and two special issues five years later in 1998, the next year the prophet began publishing the first email newsletter, the APT Updates, which continues today, 16 years later.
The same year, 1993, the prophet also started publishing an infrequent print newsletter The Ephesian Messenger, through March 2004, a total of 12 issues, and in 1996 another print newsletter, The Prophetic Notebook, was published through February 2001, for a total of 13 issues.
In 2002 a third print newsletter, The Plumb-Line Of Truth, was also published through 2003, for a total of ten issues.
Then, in February 2005, nine and a half years following Tkach Jr.'s takeover of Worldwide, and just four years prior to the final dissolution of that once popular global ministry, the prophet began publication of this online edition of The Pure Truth Restored magazine, now in its eleventh year of publication.
Another "Forty Days" Prophecy?
This issue marks the start of its 11th year of publication, and the next issue, scheduled for true Pentecost, which falls on May 29, 2015, will be the 40th issue of this ongoing effort in the present-day ministry of the restoration of all things.
If this is a prophetic sign, the end of this work, and the beginning of the final end-time great tribulation, could begin on the 40th anniversary of the start of this restoration work, by the Gregorian calendar year 2020, just five years from now. This would be the actual year 1990 A.R. (After Resurrection), according to the restored calendar.
Or perhaps the forty years might begin with the first publication of The Pure Truth magazine in 1993, by the year 2033. This would be just three to four years prior to the next Yavbel (“Jubilees”) celebration, first restored in the July 4, 1999 issue of The Ephesian Messenger newsletter, published sixteen years prior to the current year, which occurs in the year 2037-38 (spring-to-spring).
The actual year would be 2007-08 A.R., or well into the prophesied millennial reign of the returned Savior, which should take place sometime prior to the year 2000 A.R. (2030 by the Gregorian calendar).
We are truly living in propitious, albeit highly dangerous times, when many of the long-delayed prophecies will finally be fulfilled.
This could happen much sooner than most people presently believe, after yet forty days (or years), when the Creator’s patient forbearance finally comes to an abrupt end, as it did anciently for wicked Sodom and Gomorrah!