This website is about an alternative interpretation of the Third Seal in Bible prophecy. It provides an understanding of absolutely terrifying events that are likely to occur in the next 5 to 10 years or from 2013 to 2018. It's not about famine or any kind of food shortages, it's about nuclear war in Israel and America. It's about death on such a massive scale that the world has never seen before.
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Here's an overview of events that I will cover in the website:
1. Israel destroys three-fourths of its neighbors in a nuclear war.
2. Retaliation against America comes within a couple of years.
The new meaning of the 3rd Seal in Bible prophecy:
You have been weighed by God and were found wanting. Three measures of death to you and one measure one of life. Do not hurt Israel.
a. You have been judged by God and were found lacking. Three fourths of you will be destroyed and one fourth will survive because you have tried to harm Israel.
The actual 3rd Seal:
[Rev 6:5-6]
"And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine."
Here's a quickie outline of understanding:
1. Weigh, Measure, Measure [See Count, Count, Weigh, Divide]
2. You have been weighed (balances)
3. You have been measured (measure of wheat)
4. You have been measured (three measures of barley)
5. You have been found lacking (small measures for a day’s pay).
6. There are four measures: three of the four will be destroyed and one of the four will survive [The story of the Exodus relates - "And the flax and the barley were smitten, because the barley was Abib and the flax was Giv'ol. And the wheat and the spelt were not smitten because they were dark (Afilot)."]
7. Do not harm Israel. (The chief exports from Israel in the biblical period were grain, oil and wine.)
Here is better understanding:
1. The black horse refers to the mourning over loved ones that have died. This is different from the pale horse which directly refers to the dead ones.
2. The scales refer to judgement from God. See Daniel 5 in order to get insight and understanding about this.
3. See God's judgement against Egypt in Exodus in order to understand the meaning of wheat and barley. The wheat survives and the barley is destroyed.
a. So three measures of barley and one measure of wheat means three measures of death and one measure of life. So 3/4 of Israel's hostile neighbors will die and 1/4 will survive.
4. The penny refers to lacking or wanting. You have been weighed/measured and were found lacking or wanting.
5. The oil and wine refers to Israel.
This particular judgement will come upon Damascus, Syria, because of the way that Damascus treats Israel. This will happen in the next (4th) war between Syria and Israel. Destruction will come upon all of Israel's hostile neighbors according to Amos 1.
Daniel 5
The Writing on the Wall
The symbolic important of WEIGH and MEASURE (or COUNT), and WHEAT and BARLEY are given by the stories below.
Count, Count, Weigh, Divide or Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
A mysterious riddle is written by a hand that appears out of thin air. It was at Belshazzar’s feast, where the hand wrote Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Daniel was brought in to interpret the meaning of the riddle. Daniel interpreted it to mean that the king’s deeds had been weighed and found deficient and that his kingdom would therefore be divided.
Belshazzar , according to the Bible, son of Nebuchadnezzar and last king of Babylon. The Book of Daniel relates that, at his feast, handwriting appeared on the wall. Daniel interpreted it as a prophecy of doom; that night Babylonia fell to the otherwise unknown Darius the Mede.
MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN
count, count, weigh, divide, equals, times, time, and, half-time
DANIEL:5 relates a story from the royal court of King Belshazzar (the lieutenant, second, or sub-king, or viceroy), the son of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabonidus in 'royalty-correct' scholarly works/DSS:Cave#4) who reigned over Babylon's realm ca. 554 B.C., until ca. 539 B.C., when Cyrus of Persia then stepped-in without a struggle from the surprised Babylonians:
King Belshazzar was holding a feast: And calling for the Jewish altar goblets, filling these with his wines and beers, and saluting himself and his kingdom, lauding his majesty and longevity, and protesting slur and slight - and, the indignation of the Jews was felt by God, DANIEL tells us, whose finger appeared to write these titular words in the plaster on the brick-stone walls inside the palatial feast hall: MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN (PERES).
The King was astonished at this apparition, and fitfully demanded to know what the words meant, blithely offering a reward of royal office of the highest rank (below himself, that is third, for King Nebuchadnezzar was more a senile king-father-figure around Babylon at that time). Four words in plain tongue, irrelevant in context, graven indelibly in stone in such incongruous manner, stymied everyone - as though superior in intellect. His wisest counselors, too, had had their fill of wine and beer, and they couldn't think to care to answer. So, at the queen-mother's suggestion they recalled Daniel in from retirement, who was formerly a royal thinker selected of the Jewish captives. Daniel, too, was astonished: He didn't recall ever hearing about this prank being arranged: The words must have been carved and plaster-filled on the brick-stone wall decades previous, and their meaning passed and forgotten: Perhap the wall plaster had dried excessively and crazed over the decades of neglect: And perhap a splash of wine or beer flung in a riotous moment had wetted the wall: loosening the plaster plugs, and exposing their covert phrase.
So, Daniel pondered what these words could mean. He told the king, the words meant: His kingdom was numbered (counted-up, countable, summarized), finished (count-checked, stopped, totalled), found wanting [adjustment] (balance-weighed, equallized, annulled), divided between the Medes and Persians (apportioned, subdivided, disunified, disloyal).
Wheat and Barley
Where is Abib Mentioned in the Hebrew Bible?
The story of the Exodus relates "This day you are going out in the the month of the Abib." (Ex 13,4).
To commemorate that we left Egypt in the month of the Abib, we are instructed to bring the Passover sacrifice and celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzot) at this time of year. In Dt 16,1 we are commanded:
"Keep the month of the Abib and make the Passover (sacrifice) to YHWH your God at night, because in the month of the Abib YHWH your God took you out of Egypt". [click here to hear the verse in Hebrew!]
Similarly, we are commanded in Ex 23,15:
"You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the time of the month of the Abib, because in it you went out of Egypt."
The same is commanded in Ex 34,18:
"You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as have I commanded you, at the time of the month of the Abib, because in the month of the Abib you went out of Egypt."
What is Abib?
Abib indicates a stage in the development of the barley crops. This is clear from Ex 9,31-32 which describes the devastation caused by the plague of hail:
"And the flax and the barley were smitten, because the barley was Abib and the flax was Giv'ol. And the wheat and the spelt were not smitten because they were dark (Afilot)."
The above passage relates that the barley crops were destroyed by the hail while the wheat and spelt were not damaged. To understand the reason for this we must look at how grain develops. When grains are early in their development they are flexible and have a dark green color. As they become ripe they take on a light yellowish hue and become more brittle. The reason that the barley was destroyed and the wheat was not is that the barley had reached the stage in its development called Abib and as a result had become brittle enough to be damaged by the hail. In contrast, the wheat and spelt were still early enough in their development, at a stage when they were flexible and not susceptible to being damaged by hail. The description of the wheat and spelt as "dark" (Afilot) indicates that they were still in the stage when they were deep green and had not yet begun to lighten into the light yellowish hue which characterizes ripe grains. In contrast, the barley had reached the stage of Abib at which time it was no longer "dark" and at this point it probably had begun to develop golden streaks.
