Monday, September 19, 2016 by Kevin Swift

I can't express to you how much the forthcoming two week period is haunting me at this stage, particularly as we near the end of the current Jubilee Year on October 2, 2016.

History has set the pattern. The Jubilee Year of 1917-1918 brought about the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917, and General Allenby's conquer of the Ottoman Empire in Israel, when forty days later he entered Jerusalem on foot. These events opened the door for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland in larger numbers, and the birth of Israel thirty years later. 

The second Jubilee Year that ran from 1966-1967 brought the Six-Day War, the recapture of East Jerusalem, and with it the reunification of the city with the Western Wall clearly back in the possession of the Jewish people for the first time in nearly 2,000 years.

Now we are sitting at the end the current Jubilee cycle (2015-2016) with two weeks to go. All that remains in completing the full restoration of the land and "fortunes" back to Israel is the Temple Mount (currently under Jordanian and Islamic control), and possibly various other areas inside the state of Israel (West Bank; Gaza Strip). Yet, time is running out for the Jubilee event that will initiate the events, which will lead towards the building of the third Temple and subsequent setting up of the abomination by Antichrist, foretold by the prophecies. The process will  first start with destruction and war, followed by restoration (Daniel 9:26-27); therefore, at any given moment an earthquake could strike in Israel and Jerusalem with the Temple Mount structures falling in ruins. And, if/when this occurs, daily "tamid" worship would be taken away (Daniel 12:11) and global turmoil will escalate between nations and religions at a velocity we cannot even begin to fathom (Matthew 24).

It's my belief, based on the Scriptures, that the beloved city sits on the brink of natural calamity and war, which will forever change not only the landscape of the city, but the lives of precious souls in Jerusalem, Israel and the entire planet; and, forever alter the course of human history as we know it. At any moment, the end-time prophetic counting periods could begin on The Kingdom Calendar that will lead day by day to the end of civilization on Planet Earth, and the establishment of the Kingdom of God in the New Jerusalem.

Are you ready for what may come? I pray so. The prophet Joel warned long ago, "In those days [counting days of the end-times] and at that [appointed] time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to My inheritance, My people Israel, because they scattered My people among the nations and divided up My land," Joel 3:1-2.

September 3, 2016 was the beginning date for the sorrowful month known in Judaism as Elul, which runs through Sunday, October 2. The month began with an earthquake where I live in Kansas--a 5.6 quake that spread from Pawnee, Oklahoma to rock the Midwest region of the United States at 7:02 AM. This was the first quake I've experienced of my 60 years living in the center of the U.S., and possibly the strongest in recorded history for Oklahoma. How this month ends may be of prophetic significance.

According to Judaism, "It is taught that the month of Elul is a particularly important time of reflection. This mood of repentance builds through the month of Elul to the period of the High Holidays of Rosh Ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur" (during the first two weeks of October this year).

The end-times are nearer than we might currently believe, and events that initiate the counting periods could come at any moment. Jesus said, "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows," Matthew 24:7-8. Therefore, let's consider this a period to repent and lean all the more on Yeshua--Jesus, our Savior in a close and intimate relationship. We do not know when the earth, or our lives for that matter, will be shaken and turned up-side-down. We all need the Rock--a solid foundation on which to stand. Do not turn Him away today.

"See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from Him who warns us from heaven? At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens," Hebrews 12:25-26.

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