Welcome, and thanks for visiting Focus on the Prophecies Ministry.  My name is Kevin Swift. An award-winning author and staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, Malcolm Gladwell, wrote, "Do you know the difference between a mystery and a puzzle?"  According to Gladwell, mysteries do not have simple answers based solely on fact, since they "require judgments and the assessment of uncertainty."  Puzzles, on the other hand, can be solved because we have all the necessary information; we just need to put it all together for the solution.

The ancient Hebrew prophecies are mysteries, not puzzles.  Revelation 10:7 says, "In the days when the Seventh Angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished."  Not until the very end of the end-times will the mystery of God be unraveled as a completed picture.  However, the last generation of saints have the promise of a more complete understanding of final events that center around the prophetic time periods--the 1,290 days and 1,335 days of Daniel 12.

"Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand [the prophecies of Daniel], but those who are wise will understand,” Daniel 12:9-10.  That is a great promise to students of prophecy in these uncertain times when there seems to be more questions than answers. 

We can and should apply the ancient prophecies to the events of our day, but we will never know every single detail in advance.  Why?  First, we cannot comprehend the mind of God (Romans 11:34); and second, we cannot know the full extent of the struggle in the unseen world--the conflicts between the forces of good and evil, between Christ and Satan (Ephesians 6:12). 

US Lead War on Iran Begins the Appointed Time of the End

When the US lead war with Iran begins and Middle East turmoil erupts, and when oil prices spite to unprecedented levels and US and world economies collapse, we can know the end-time trial is upon us. This will lead to Russia's nuclear attack on Europe and other major conflicts, causing unimaginable chaos and the loss of millions of lives, and setting the state for Antichrist's cryptic resurrection out of the ashes of destruction to a position of power.  The man of sin will arrive on the world scene with global displays of Satanic signs and wonders (2 Thessalonians 2:9); thereby, winning the adoration and worship of the masses.

The Appointed Times & Seasons Calendar of End-time Events

The Appointed Times & Seasons Calendar shows how the timelines of prophecy align between God's Festivals (Moedim).  Since the discovery that God's Festivals and the prophetic timelines of Daniel and Revelation align to the day, we can now for the first time set anticipated fulfillment periods, such as years 2009-2012.  Still, we proceed with caution and prayerful consideration.  Winston Churchill once humorously quipped, "I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place." 

In spite of past disappointments and the long delay, we must keep on proclaiming the great promise of our soon-coming King.  To do so is to stand in the company of great prophets and saints... John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, James and the Apostle John; they all believed and proclaimed with confidence the end of the age.  Jesus energized the disciples and early church to accomplish great goals in view of the shortness of time.  Each year since those early proclamations brings us that much closer to the Great Day of the LORD.

God is faithful to His promises.  There is little doubt we are living on the precipice of World War III and world tragedies.  The normal means of supplies (food, water, etc) will likely be interrupted for extended periods of time.  It is my view you should move out of the larger cities to a rural setting or smaller community as soon as possible, to secure homes and garden spots in preparation for perilous times.  World news and international tensions confirm that momentous events are upon us, likely within months, and God's Hebrew Calendar is soon to be fulfilled. Daniel's timelines will have their historic beginning, and prophetic events will become front page news.

Keep looking up, and keep trusting in the LORD!

The world sits on the verge of worldwide disasters, war and nuclear holocaust beyond our comprehension. Years of talk about war with Iran and Middle East conflict culminated in the Annapolis Conference in late November 2007, and words of peace with Iran in response to the NIE report in early December.  President Bush traveled to the Middle East twice this year to promote stability, but also to remind the regional powers about Iran's continued threat to world peace. The Biblical warning is clear: "While people are saying 'Peace and safety,' destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape," 1 Thessalonians 5:3. Request your free copy of the Appointed Times & Seasons Calendar today. And just as important, you will want to order the corresponding book Appointed Times & Seasons Calendar: Divine Dates of End-time Disaster & Deliverance, which explains the Hebrew Calendar with insightful details about current world events and how the end of human history could unfold.

God's Word portrays final events with remarkable precision and wonderful details.  These events are worth your attention; after all, upon

their completion we will enter the gates into the Kingdom of God, the great hope of our spiritual journey. We are nearing the time when final events and the last days could begin, starting with the world-changing clash between the West and Iran--the second of twin wars foretold in the Hebrew prophecies (Daniel 8:1-8). The first Gulf War conflict with Iraq started at Shushan Purim, March 19, 2003, and continues to this day and now surpasses its fifth anniversary. The second Gulf War with neighboring Iran is the key prophetic conflict that initiates final events.   The escalation of a Middle East firestorm could begin this year--2008, the 60th anniversary year of Israel's birth as a nation, and the three and one-half (3 1/2) year final events showdown beginning in the spring of 2009, and ending in late 2012.

In February, 2008, Israelis were told to prepare 'rocket rooms' for war all across Israel. It was reported in early April that Israel will be redistributing gas masks, just as they did before the Iraq War, amid renewed fears of war with Iran. 

One online source writes, "The Western Wall (see presentation) is a remnant of Herod's grand temple, and is the most holiest site for Jews. It attracts thousands of Jewish worshippers daily around the clock, who come to pray and lay out their problems and seek for heavenly guidance. They feel the presence of God's spirit, who according to their belief resides for thousands of years in the holy temple."  According to prophecy, daily "tamid" worship at the Western Wall and Temple Mount could be taken away--by bomb, by earthquake, or some unforeseen calamity. Daniel 12:11 says, "From the time that the daily ("sacrifice" was not in the original Hebrew text)... is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days."

The Appointed Times & Seasons Calendar shows the taking away of the daily early in 2009, a great "shoah" (calamity) indeed, could be the Jerusalem event that ushers in the 1,290 days of the appointed times and the saints' treacherous march towards the Kingdom of God.   The fragile Middle East will soon be turned upside down and the flames of war will blaze.  This escalation of Middle East conflict ... (continue)

In Daniel 7, a governmental animal is described as a Bear with three ribs in its mouth. The Bear is told, "Get up and eat your fill of [human] flesh!"  A few verses later a monster creature is described as having ten horns, but "three of the first horns were uprooted."

For the last several years, Lesson 4 has taught that the Bear represents the Old Soviet Union, which re-emerges from its slumbering (political/military) hibernation to attack the Biblical creature with ten horns--Western Europe, destroying three European nations with its nuclear arsenal.  This prediction looks to be closer than ever.

Beginning in the summer of 2007, articles exposing Russia's (Magog) growing anger with the West, its military alliance with Iran (Persia) and Cush (Northern Nile & Africa regions: Libya; Sudan) as foretold in Ezekiel 38, and military maneuvering to increase the Bear's show of power in the Mediterranean/European theatre began to increase in frequency.  Some of these new articles are listed below: 

***Most Important Articles, Audios & Videos

Russian flights smack of Cold War: U.S. fighters ID bombers near Alaska, June 26, 2008

***Understanding the New Russian Threat, June 16, 2008

"The bear is once again set to rampage across the world."

Pentagon sees Russia strengthening nuclear arsenal, June 11, 2008

The Bear is Back, May 24, 2008

Russia's new president names Putin as PM, May 7, 2008

May 9 Parade of Russian Military Hardware on Moscow's Red Square, the First Since the Soviet Era, April 24, 2008

Russia Air Force to get new Tu-160 strategic bomber in April, April 24, 2008

Russia Mulls Stronger Strategic Deterrent, April 8, 2008

NATO Fighters Accompany Russian Bombers Near Alaska, March 26, 2008

Russian Bomber Approaches U.S. Aircraft During Training Off South Korea, March 7, 2008

RUSSIA THREATENS NUKE STRIKE, February 14, 2008

U.S. Assessing Russian Flyovers, Febrary 12, 2008

***Russia on the March: The Return of the Red Square Parades, February 11, 2008

Syria Acquiring Russian Rockets at 'Furious' Pace, February 6, 2008

***Russia Plans Buildup in the Mediterranean, February 5, 2008

Planes Join Russian Naval War Games, January 28, 2008

Russia Warns US, EU over Kosovo Independence, January 28, 2008

***Russia puts on Flashy Display of Military Might, January 23, 2008

Russian Bombers to Test-fire Missiles in Bay of Biscay, January 22, 2008

***"NATO Must Prepare to Launch Nuclear Attack", January 22, 2008

***Russian Army Chief: We'll use Nuclear Weapons if Threatened, January 20, 2008

More Russian Threat News Articles

There are two primary sources of information concerning end-of-the-world events: from God and from Satan. As end time events heat up, sources other than the Word of God will be turned to for answers to the overwhelming chaos in our world. I want to address these right up front. God's Word relays final events as the Hebrew prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit.  We can say that God's Word must be our only source of real truth; it is reliable and trustworthy, through and through.

Does the world end in the year 2012, as shown on the Appointed Times & Seasons Calendar?  If the Iran war begins in late 2008 or early 2009, and events of God's Calendar begin at Purim in March 2009, we can start to count the timelines of prophecy and know the year (not the day or hour) of the climax of human history.  After-all, this is the purpose of the time periods in Bible prophecy--that the last generation of saints may know the signs of the times and know where we are in relation to Christ's return. The saints will need to know God's final plan in order to counter the nearly overwhelming deceptions about to overtake our planet.

There are four converging lines of evidence that indicate we are sitting on the brink of the appointed time of the end.  First is the alignment of God's Festival Calendar to the timelines of Daniel & Revelation, as illustrated here on this website.  This "to the day" connection was made around 15 years ago, and the Appointed Times & Seasons Calendar represents the next alignment period, which starts in early 2009, and ends in the fall of 2012. 

Next, we are nearing the end of the 6,000 years of human history in its fallen condition. Dr. Franklin S. Fowler Jr has done a great job in making the case for God's 6,000 year fulfillment of time, followed by the seventh millennium.  He has determined that we are at the end of the 6,000 year period and the ushering of the 1,000 years...(continued)