A Modern-Day Prophetic Experience & Witness of Jesus in History, Movies, Music and Sports

The Great Invitation is a unique witness of Jesus. This is also a modern-day prophetic experience that honors the true spirit of Bible prophecy - not to predict the future but to speak boldly into the present.

Since I’m claiming angelic intervention, this book is written from the viewpoint of angels, specifically, an army of angels. So WE, OUR or US in the narrative is the voice of this angel army.

While we can’t prove we (an army of angels) exist, our facts are very real! This witness is centered around the historical Jesus - the consensus among biblical scholars about what Jesus really said and did.

The human religious or spiritual quest usually begins with something gone terribly wrong. A tragic experience evokes a deep sense of separation from a natural yearning for what’s good and right. Surely, the first followers of Jesus who witnessed or heard about his crucifixion knew this feeling. Then came news of resurrection! The divine finds a way to break through your pain and show you something sacred.

Early Jewish Jesus followers found the divine in the Old Testament Christ prophecies. The descriptions of a suffering messiah were the fuel that created a new religious movement that changed the world.

This is what we do. We help you see God. We are an army of angels, remember? But you have to open your eyes. So take a look at this.

In 👑2 Thessalonians 2👑, the Apostle Paul spoke to early Jesus followers who were losing faith because of false prophets in their community. They were preaching that the Day of the Lord was at hand. Paul told the followers of this new religious movement not to believe it. He intuitively knew the Day of the Lord had not arrived but he didn’t know how to convince the Thessalonian believers. We (an army of angels) planted a prophetic thought in Paul’s mind:

There has to be a great falling away from the Church before the Day of the Lord can happen. There has to be a rebellion against God. A man of lawlessness has to be revealed before Jesus can return. This lawless man of sin will occupy God’s Temple and proclaim himself to be God. His followers will believe that he is the “chosen one.”

That man arrived on planet earth June 14, 1946 in New York City. He hosted a reality TV show for 12 years starting in 2004 called “The Apprentice.” The show was a contest to hire apprentices for a famous real estate business. If you look at 👑2 Thessalonians 2👑, it will tell you who this so-called “chosen one” works for.

This “Apprentice” likes to make up derogatory names for his enemies. We don’t have to make up his name. The Apostle Paul did this over 1,973 years ago: the “Lawless Man of Sin.” We also call him the “Apprentice” because of who he works for.

Jesus goes by many names. Our favorite is Christ. The word Christ comes from the Greek word Christos meaning the anointed one. When you hear the “Lawless Man of Sin” referred to as the “chosen one” by anyone including himself, know that this is the same as “The Christ.” Anyone who makes this claim about a human being is elevating that person to God-like status.

The Apostle Paul prophesied that this “Lawless Man of Sin” would even sit in the temple of God and proclaim himself to be God.

On May 14, 2018, the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel, this lawless “Apprentice” made the United States the first country to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. At the same time, the U.S. embassy was moved to Jerusalem where it resides on 14 David Flusser Street.

After a brief truce in the Israel war with the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on February 5, 2025 the lawless “Apprentice” proposed that the United States would acquire the Gaza Strip. This would require the forced exile of 1.8 million Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan. The goal of this project is to turn the area into a fantastic beach-front resort town complete with casinos just like his bankrupted Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

If this “Apprentice” isn’t sitting in the temple of God in Jerusalem yet, he clearly intends to in the near future!

For Christians of course, Jesus replaced the temple in Jerusalem with his sacrifice and resurrection that you celebrate every Easter. Expect the “Apprentice” to invite Mel Gibson and Jim Caviezel to a private screening of The Passion of The Christ sequel due out in 2026. Gibson was appointed as a private ambassador to Hollywood by the newly inaugurated President of the United States, our one and only “Lawless Man of Sin.” Caviezel, who played Jesus in The Passion, screened his film The Sound of Freedom for the “Apprentice” in 2023.

Is this “Apprentice” lawless?

Yes he is! This is not debatable because there is a Supreme Court case brief to prove it. The “Lawless Man of Sin” argued before the United States Supreme Court that he should be immune from prosecution for crimes committed as President. The majority of the 9 justices ruled the President cannot be held accountable to the law for official duties. He is in effect lawless!

On February 15, 2025, the “Apprentice” confirmed his lawless intent when he announced to the world on social media:

"He who saves his Country violates no Law”

Is this lawless “Apprentice” sinful?

You are all sinners! It’s usually wise to look at your own sin and not judge others. But public servants are the exception. So here are the infamous seven deadly sins: pride, envy, wrath, gluttony, lust, sloth and greed. Observe what this “Apprentice” says and does. You be the judge!

If you set aside political bias, you know our derogatory name fits perfectly and so does Paul’s prophecy about the Day of the Lord in 👑2 Thessalonians 2👑.

Nice work listening to us (an army of angels) Paul!

So now what? We bring the real Jesus back to destroy the “Lawless Man of Sin” with the splendor of His coming. That’s what Paul said would happen. Want to help us? We can only do this with your help! Please share our free e-book with as many people as you can. We will take care of the rest.

This is a draft (chapters 1 through 9) of our e-book. The completed version will be available later in 2025. This is OUR (an army of angels) Project 2025! It will always be free! But we encourage you to use the link at the end and make a donation to the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement. Please be sure to tell them the A-Team (an army of angels) sent you via the Great Invitation.

If you think our witness of Jesus is aligned with the political left, think again. This is not a red Jesus or a blue Jesus. He is a bonafide purple Jesus! At the center of our witness is the blockbuster movie The Passion of the Christ. The Passion was released in America the same year that the Lawless Man of Sin started his hit show The Apprentice - 2004.

We know conservative evangelical Christians loved The Passion. So if you are on the political right, please don’t leave us!

Our prophetic experience was fulfilled on a tragic day Americans will not forget: The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.

The intention here, through our prophetic experience and corroborating evidence, is to prove that evil on December 14, 2012 did not have the last word. Our redemptive message is that good wins over evil in the end. So choose love now!

The Great Invitation will show “fingerprints” of our prophetic experience on historical events since the Bible was written and on your popular culture (movies, music and sports). This makes our Great Invitation more relatable for non-believers.

For believers, we will show you that our witness of Jesus works with what He said about His return in the Gospels (👑Mark 13👑, 👑Matt 24👑 and 👑Luke 21👑).

This is NOT a new position associated with the return of Jesus. The Great Invitation provides modern evidence that supports the Preterist theory. Preterists hold that the prophecies about the return of Jesus were mostly fulfilled with the destruction of the Second Temple and the holy city of Jerusalem in 70AD.

The Great Invitation adds a giant, modern-day EXCLAMATION POINT to the Preterist theory.

Are we saying The Great Invitation is THE big event? The second coming of Jesus? Maybe. There are many possibilities here. At a minimum, this is a remarkable witness of Jesus. But we believe all things are possible with God!

We can say definitively that the Great Invitation is THE FIRST DETAILED, POSSIBLE SCENARIO for the return of Jesus.

The second coming of Jesus is the great hope for Christians! It is associated with the end of the world. But you are all going to die someday. Is it possible that Jesus returns when YOU meet him in the afterlife? And the best He can do in the meantime is give you a sneak preview of this experience with surround sound and in IMAX 3D? We (an army of angels) HOPE this e-book leads to that experience at a theater near you!

The original Greek New Testament uses the word parousia to refer to the second coming of Jesus. It’s defined as an appearance or presence that consists of several comings that are stages of a continuous process. The Great Invitation certainly fits this description since it is a prelude to our epic movie.

If you find our speculation about the second coming of Jesus crazy or offensive, think of this prophetic experience as God’s response to the Sandy Hook mass shooting tragedy. Do you think that horrible day is acceptable to the God described in the New Testament? We think NOT!

This is a common sense approach to Christian “end times” prophecy. We make no fantastic predictions about the future. No seven year tribulation. And no Christians conveniently disappearing (before the seven year tribulation) so they can watch non-believers suffer on earth.

If you are looking for the Jesus who comes back to physically “catch you up” and take you out of your world, you won’t find him here. The Jesus witnessed in The Great Invitation will try to “rapture” your heart spiritually in the here and now!

The book in the Bible most associated with fantastic predictions is Revelation.

We will show you how the Great Invitation works with the second coming of Jesus as described in the Book of Revelation!

If you don’t get Revelation, you aren’t alone. It’s the only book in the Bible that cannot be understood at the intuitive level just by reading the text. We hope to clarify Revelation for you.

After you read our book, we want you to think of two words when you think of Revelation:

WEDDING INVITATION

The Great Invitation!

We want you to believe that when your time comes, you are the guest of honor at a great wedding party in eternity!

The groom is Jesus. The bride is all the people on the earth. EVERYONE ALL IN! At least that’s our mission. Remember, WE are angels so we believe in miracles! Our orders from God are to accomplish our mission BEFORE the end of the world. Jesus wants NO ONE “left behind.”

We intend to provide enough evidence for non-believers to accept our Great Invitation. If you are already a believer, we hope our Great Invitation helps your faith grow even more.

The Great Invitation is a prophecy that originated in America, born as a nation of laws not men. So we will present our witness of Jesus in the loose format of a court case brief. There will be an opening statement, presentation of facts and closing summary.

Our case brief format also works with our wedding theme since, in America, marriage is a legal contract.

Wedding receptions are parties where family and friends celebrate love! So we will end our book with a special, symbolic wedding party. It is an epic event you probably already attended, at least remotely, on earth.

The God of the Bible is relational! That’s why in 👑Revelation 19👑 Jesus returns in the context of a great wedding invitation. We call it The Great Invitation!

The Book of Revelation used people and current events from the Roman culture of its day to communicate its prophetic message. We are doing something similar here with people and current events from American culture.

In that spirit, we will end The Great Invitation with a special musical message from the groom - Jesus himself! Any guesses who Jesus used to deliver his musical message?

Spoiler alert! Here is a sneak peek at our message from Jesus:

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Dear people on our virtual jury (#12),

You have read our evidence and heard from our witnesses. The heir to David’s throne (#14) has given you confirmation of his gift of salvation. The great I AM is tired of waiting (#20) for your verdict on earth!

In heaven, The Great Invitation is NOT a jury trial. I Jesus (#8) AM the judge (#9) in this case so you don’t have to guess the verdict here. God rules from the bench in heaven.

This case was always predetermined in heaven. So there is a victory celebration. It’s a wedding party!

The only question in the unseen world is how many souls will celebrate with me at my great wedding party in eternity! Oh yes, there is music and dancing at my party!

If you aren’t hearing my marriage proposal through my American Evangelical Christian flock, please forgive them. I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to remove the big giant log from their collective eyes. Most evangelicals have no clue how to reach unbelievers. Pronouncements of hellfire damnation might feel good but they don’t work! The Great Commission requires a more invitational approach.

So I recruited someone to deliver a special musical message. She was born in Pennsylvania where she lived on a Christmas tree farm then moved with her family to Nashville in 2004 at age 14.

Imagine now that I AM speaking to you through Miss Americana herself!

🎸IT’S A LOVE STORY, BABY, JUST SAY, "YES"🎸

Touch or click our 🎸Links🎸to listen, watch and sing along!

Our message is simple:

Choose Love! Choose me!

Because after all, in the end, 🎸YOU BELONG WITH ME!🎸

Love Always, Jesus (via the author’s keypad)

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You may not appreciate everything our musical messenger represents. The truth is there is only one human we know who is or was a perfect messenger! We assure you that this prophecy is centered on that guy! We will use everyone else in our witness as signs pointing to Jesus and his message through us to choose love now!

What’s up with the #numbers in Jesus’ final message above? Answer: They are our evidence!

You will need to read our entire book though to appreciate this modern-day prophetic experience and the importance of our sacred numbers 9-8, 12-14 and 20.

Remember the evidence in the O.J. Simpson murder case? There were no witnesses to the murders but there was plenty of circumstantial evidence. Primarily, it was blood DNA that linked Simpson to the crime scene. Think of our numbers as the circumstantial evidence for our case.

The Great Invitation is part murder mystery, part wedding invitation. Those may seem like polar opposites. Not in our case though. The Roman government crucified an innocent man - Jesus. But this tragedy became the greatest love story ever told! In fact, God’s story ends (in Revelation) with His people described as a bride about to be married to Jesus. A wedding invitation is even sent!

Jesus loves his bride (His people) and God loves His children. The Great Invitation will prove it!

On 12/14/2012, America was shocked when 20 of God’s children were murdered along with six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

You all know that 20 year old Adam Lanza committed the Sandy Hook murders. But we are prosecuting his unseen accomplices. They are legion in the hearts and minds of too many people.

By proving our case, we aim to replace negative, hateful or toxic human thoughts with positive ones on a massive scale never seen before!

The Great Invitation, in the end, is about getting people to choose love!

Can God turn the Sandy Hook tragedy into another love story for the ages?

The answer to that question is now in your hands reader.

Sharing (The Great Invitation) is caring!

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If you are short on time, we offer a speed reading experience: Chapter Summaries at the beginning of each chapter.

If you just read the Chapter Summaries, you will be invited again to our epic wedding party in eternity! We sent this invitation once in the Book of Revelation. We are sending it again in the Great Invitation!

Chapter Summary

Since this book is framed like a court case brief, we will start by giving you the who, when, why and how of our case. We are the prosecution.

This case is unique because the defendant is not of flesh and blood. He is invisible. That’s why he literally gets away with murder every day. And he has unlimited accomplices. In fact, some of these evil doers may be hiding inside you right now! From time to time these entities inhabit the heart of every human - some more than others. If you have ever had a negative, hateful or harmful thought about another human being, you have probably met the defendant in our case.

Our goal is to get you to see these agents of chaos clearly in yourself and others, especially your leaders! If we succeed in our prosecution, we hope to save souls and lives.

We will end this chapter with our interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Our discussion of Revelation will lead into a brief introduction to our prophetic experience. It involves a tragedy, the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. We intend to turn that tragedy into a love story. That’s God’s sweet spot! How do you know? It’s what your Easter story has done! In fact, the story of Christ’s passion is the greatest love story ever told!

Our prophetic experience is centered on Jesus. We validate it with significant events that have happened since the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. You will also find out why our prophetic experience is a wedding invitation. That’s something the Great Invitation has in common with the Book of Revelation.

Who Are the Parties

This is a case of good versus evil.

Every day, these two opposing forces slug it out inside hearts and minds of people. Choices are made. Consequences can be personal or affect many people. Many times, good choices spread love, happiness and positive things. Sometimes, evil choices lead to the suffering and death of individuals or tens of people. Occasionally, dark ideas spread like a virus and kill hundreds, thousands and even millions of people!

Of course, good ideas can “go viral” to. Thank God for that!

If you don’t believe this battle of good vs. evil is happening, watch the movie Schindler’s List. The tears you shed at the end of the movie show your soul knows it’s happening. Your tears celebrate when light breaks through the utter darkness of the Nazi holocaust.

Like Oscar Schindler, people are no doubt capable of heroic acts, self sacrifice and love. Unfortunately, people also choose hate, violence, murder and war. The dark choices of humanity are well documented in history books.

When, Where and How the Dispute Takes Place

The evil inside too many human hearts and minds can be witnessed, not only in your history books, but also on your nightly news. Why does evil appear to be winning over good on earth? The Bible has an answer in its last book. 👑The Book of Revelation, Chapter 12👑, tells the story of a spiritual war in the unseen world. This war, like the wars covered in history books, has leaders. The leader of the evil “dark side” is referred to as the devil or Satan who commands legions of demons. Satan and his minions are opposed by God and his Son Jesus Christ. They command an army of angels fighting for good. That’s us! We are messengers who try to intervene in human events.

According to 👑Revelation 12👑, there was a war in heaven (the unseen world). An angelic being named Michael with his messengers defeated the dragon, known as the devil or Satan. The weapon used to defeat the dragon was “the blood of the lamb and his witnesses.” In other words, it’s the story of the suffering, sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus as told in the four Gospels that defeated the dragon in heaven.

This war was won in heaven but not on earth. The dragon was thrown down to earth and is now enraged at his loss in heaven. Therefore, the dragon (the devil or Satan) now wages spiritual war by influencing choices of humans in your seen, physical world.

Maybe this explains why too many of your world leaders throughout history have chosen war over peace.

As the grieved families of gun violence and mass shootings all know, far too many people with access to military style weapons of war choose extreme hate and darkness over love.

Why We Should Win

Good wins in the end because God exists and He is love. If God’s story in the Bible has not convinced you that good and love win, know that our angel army leaves no human heart and mind behind without a fight. We intend to provide you with scientific evidence that God’s love is sovereign over evil.

Our presentation of facts will start with, and be centered around, the story of Jesus Christ.

Remember that Jesus, like Satan, also came to earth. Unlike Satan, who has never physically shown himself, Jesus did enter your world in the flesh. He was seen! His suffering, sacrificial death and resurrection were witnessed!

In terms of impact on human history, the story of Jesus is the greatest ever told. You can read about it in the four Gospel accounts but we intend to make this love story more current. Just ask yourself: What if?

What if WE now have a unique, modern-day prophetic message that can help people chose love over darkness and evil?

What if WE have scientific proof that our modern-day, prophetic message is supernatural?

What if this modern-day prophetic message aligns with key scriptures about the return of Jesus such as 👑Revelation 19👑?

👑Revelation 19👑 proclaims that a great invitation will be sent to a wedding in eternity between Jesus and all his people! Remember, the war between good and evil is over in heaven so there is a victory celebration happening. Think of it as an “out of this world,” epic wedding party (for Jesus & His people)!

You are invited!

This book is your wedding invitation!

Why You Should Care

You should care about our case because the spiritual war between good and evil affects you and your family every day.

Have you wondered why there needs to be mass shooter drills at schools? It’s because we can’t totally control bad, sometimes even evil human thoughts. Oh, we try! But the human mind is a battlefield!

If mass shooter drills in schools are not enough proof for you that a spiritual war exists, the Great Invitation will provide more evidence that this war is real.

Our book will also make a compelling case for life after death.

Do mass shooters who kill tens of people before killing themselves believe in life after death? No! They are betting the ranch that the lights go out and there is nothing after death.

The Great Invitation aims to convince people there is life after death and what you do on earth matters in the afterlife!

That’s how we win battles (in human minds) and save lives!

How You Can Help Us Win

The Great Invitation is a witness of Jesus. In the Bible, a witness requires at least two people. So we need your help to “spread the word!”

We don’t want your friends and family to miss out on our big wedding party (for Jesus & His people) in eternity! But there’s more at stake with our case.

In addition to the wedding in👑Revelation 19👑, another important event happens. Heaven opens for the seer John and the wedding party suddenly changes to a war. There appears to be a breakthrough in the spiritual war on earth. It’s an event that’s like the end of The Lord of the Rings when the ring of power is destroyed!

Jesus appears in the clouds on a white horse with an army of angels. Jesus is armed to the teeth, so to speak! He comes with a sword in his mouth, wearing a robe dripped in blood. Does that mean you will physically look in the sky someday and see Jesus on a white horse, dressed in a bloody robe with a sword in his mouth? No! We know this because his title is The Word of God. This tells you to think symbolically. The sword in Jesus’ mouth is the STORY of His suffering, death and resurrection. It’s the story you know as The Passion story or The Easter story!

The symbolism here confirms what you learned in 👑Revelation 12👑: God used The Passion story in heaven to defeat evil.

The Great Invitation intends to bring The Passion story back in a BIG, NEW and completely UNEXPECTED way to earth!

In our modern-day prophetic experience, The Passion of The Christ (the 2004 movie) IS the sword coming out of Jesus’ mouth!

If you are not a fan of Mel Gibson or his controversial film, please don’t bail on us now! We will address problems with Gibson and his Passion movie later in the book.

Are you a fan of Titanic? Are you a country music fan? Are you a Swiftie? Are you a baseball, basketball hockey or football fan? Are you a “woke” liberal? Are you a maga conservative?

We KNOW you aren’t all the above! So can we make you ALL happy with ALL of our book?

To borrow from the late-great rockstar Meatloaf:

We will do anything for love but we can’t do that!

There will be something for everyone though. And that’s ALL we can do.

We (an army of angels), ride with Jesus and his white horse to bring you The Great Invitation! For now, this vision is in the form of words. Our plan is to make it more real though. Think IMAX 3D!

Could our big angelic project someday become that Lord of the Rings: Return of the King moment on earth when evil is finally defeated? If not defeated for good, how about we just knock Satan flat on his ass with a UFC roundhouse kick to his face!

Our goal is option one. We are angels so we dream big!

You can help us with our big dream.

If you like what you read and experience here, tell your friends and family about our Great Invitation!

Revelation Roadmap

Before we move on to the presentation of facts in our case, for transparency sake, we will shard our approach to navigating Revelation.

First, we will be humble. The truth is that our interpretation of Revelation, like any, is based on human thoughts and opinions.

We are suppose to be angels in the author’s mind. But he could be wrong! We (an army of angels) could just be a figment of the author’s creative imagination. Trust us! He is fully aware that this is probably the case!

Despite our imperfect human messenger, we will do our best to support our claims with knowable facts. And, most important, our interpretation of Revelation will reflect Jesus’ love for his followers and for those who don’t know Him yet.

We admit that we will “cherry pick” messages and themes in Revelation that fit our case for a witness of Jesus. But if you think about it, this is exactly what early Christians did with the Old Testament prophetic books. They “cherry picked” scriptures that matched the description of a suffering messiah who died for your sins. They happened to find a lot of cherries! There are over 300 Christ prophecies in the Old Testament. The best example is 👑Isaiah 53👑:

5 …But he was pierced for our rebellion,
    crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
    He was whipped so we could be healed.
6  All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
    We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
    the sins of us all.

There are four commonly accepted but very different approaches to the interpretation of the prophecies in Revelation: Futurist, Historicist, Preterist and Idealist.

• Futurist: Every event in Revelation is going to happen in the future.

• Historicist: Some events in Revelation have happened while others are going to happen.

• Preterist: Every event in Revelation already happened in the past.

• Idealist: No events from Revelation ever happen. Everything is symbolic.

The Great Invitation aligns mostly with the Preterist view. It also uses some Idealist views as well.

We believe that Revelation IS NOT a blueprint for the literal course of future events. Instead, its message should be interpreted in the context of its original first century audience.

Regardless of its ancient context, Revelation is very relevant to current events and your personal choices. For example, the scary judgements in Revelation are meant to warn of eternal consequences for taking the wrong side in the great spiritual battle between good and evil on earth.

The core message of Revelation is that your beliefs and choices matter! There will be a day of rewards and judgement for you all when you die. So choose love now!

This message must have spoken clearly to those who decided to include the Book of Revelation as the last of the biblical cannon of books.

The end of any story is the most important part!

👑Link to outline of John’s visions here👑

We will not step through the text of Revelation sequentially. We will approach John’s visions from the perspective of our modern-day prophetic experience that we refer to as The Great Invitation.

The Great Invitation started on April 10th, 2009. It was the author’s 10th wedding anniversary and Good Friday as well in 2009. The author predicted, at that time, by documented words and actions, that a personal experience was supernatural. Like all prophetic experiences, it was documented first, then fulfilled on a later date: Friday, December 14, 2012. This was 1343 days after the author’s initial Good Friday prophetic experience (see 👑Daniel 12👑 about a specific prophetic waiting period)!

On that date, the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School shocked the nation. The Great Invitation intends to turn this tragedy into a love story.

A tragedy turned into a love story. That’s God’s sweet spot! Isn’t that exactly what The Passion story (God’s story) is?

After December of 2012, thanks to the internet, the author discovered that historic events, starting in 70AD and going forward to the year 2020, share the prophetic dates that created the Great Invitation. These are the events we will use as starting points, from which we will explore John’s prophetic visions in Revelation.

While you witness the historic events and date connections from the Great Invitation, know that you are witnessing evidence in our trial of good vs. evil. We hope that as we tie these events to themes and messages from Revelation, you will see God’s fingerprints and footprints clearly!

John’s prophetic visions became the last book in the Bible because they address the problem of evil and the nature of hope. That is the essence of the Book of Revelation we intend to explore.

Chapter Summary

We start our premise with speculation about the second coming of Jesus. Given what happened with the first coming, shouldn’t you expect the unexpected?

Is it possible that Jesus could return in a movie? Could the return of Jesus have something to do with the blockbuster film about the last 12 hours of his life The Passion of The Christ (2004)?

What did Jesus say about his second coming? If you take a look at 👑Matthew 24👑, you can eliminate the idea that He will return in the physical form.

Will Jesus come back as an apparition in the sky? That doesn’t work either! We tell you why.

The truth is that belief in a second coming will require sufficient evidence and a remarkable experience. We present the evidence in this book. The experience could be in two movies: The Passion of The Christ (2004) and a movie yet to be made.

The movie we have in mind may or may not meet the expectation of the second coming of Jesus. But it will be a powerful deterrent to future mass shootings!

Next, we move into a discussion about the nature of our evidence. It involves symbolic numbers. We tell you what they are and why they are symbolic. Those facts also make them prophetic!

Finally, we tell you how to “connect the dots” between our symbolic, prophetic numbers and significant events since biblical times.

We finish with a challenge to a “rocket boy” by the name of Elon Musk: Pick five numbers and use your AI resources to identify events that tell a coherent story like we will do with our numbers. If Elon or anyone else can’t reproduce our remarkable number synchronicities, then the Great Invitation is supernatural. In fact, it’s a miracle!

WWJD: What Would Jesus Do… If He Returned

WWJD - What Would Jesus Do if he returned to earth? Would he give a great speech at a “huge” rally? How big would the crowd size be?

Where would Jesus give his second coming speech? Your biggest stadiums? The U.S. Capital? The British House of Commons? Would it be on YouTube? Instagram? Tik Tok?

What would Jesus say? Would his speech include any of his red letter quotes from the New Testament?

Would the speech be political? If so, would it be more liberal or conservative?

What would Jesus wear? A robe? A business suit? Maybe Jesus would dress like a 1970s hippie to honor his appearance in the hit Broadway play and movie Jesus Christ Superstar.

How would you know this Jesus guy isn’t a good actor playing Jesus? How many people would believe this guy giving a speech, who looks and dresses like Jesus, IS the real Jesus who has finally returned?

Most important, what could Jesus possibly do or say on earth that would be a better story than the last 12 hours of his life, death and resurrection? It’s kind of like trying to write a sequel to Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster movie hit The Passion of The Christ. Tough act to follow!

What If

What if the return of Jesus is something totally unexpected?

The Jews living in Roman occupied Jerusalem, while Jesus was alive, expected a “ruling messiah” who would free them and judge their Roman occupiers. They thought they had seen evidence of this ruling messiah in their holy scriptures. The messiah, for these Jews who became believers in Christ, turned out to be a “suffering messiah,” something completely different!

Given the wrong predictions about the first coming of the messiah, shouldn’t you question commonly held predictions about the second coming?

When thinking about the return of Jesus, shouldn’t you expect the unexpected?

What if Jesus returned at a theater near you? Of course, you would also be able to see this Jesus on your home theater screen or personal phone screen as well.

This would be unexpected, wouldn’t it?

Two Jesus Dreamers

You wouldn’t expect the 1985 sexiest man alive (according to People Magazine) to have problems. But actor Mel Gibson wasn’t comfortable with his sudden fame and fortune. He said at the time, “it’s all happening too fast!”

From an outsiders perspective, Gibson had it all. But he realized that “it all” left him feeling empty. In the early 90s, Mel Gibson had a spiritual awaking. Being Catholic, he ran across The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to the Meditations of Anne Catherine Emmerich. Ann Catherine was an early 19th century Catholic Saint who experienced visions of Christ’s passion - The Easter story.

Ann Catherine’s Jesus dream became the box office hit The Passion of The Christ in 2004. Mel Gibson co-wrote the screenplay and directed the film. The Passion covers the final 12 hours before Jesus Christ's death. It begins with the Garden of Gethsemane, continues with the betrayal of Judas, the brutal scourging by Roman solders and the crucifixion and death of Jesus. All are seen through the eyes of his Mother Mary. The movie ends with a brief depiction of the resurrection of Jesus.

Gibson felt so strongly about his Jesus film that, when Hollywood studios wouldn’t finance it, he gambled 30 million dollars of his own money to get The Passion of The Christ made.

Prior to the release of his Jesus movie, Mel Gibson interviewed Diane Sawyer of ABCs Primetime. Sawyer was dismissive of Gibson’s bold claim that God ordained his Jesus film and helped him make it.

But what if there is evidence that Mel Gibson’s claim is true?

What if you found out, for a fact, that God wanted The Passion of The Christ to be made for some big reason?

What if we can show that God put his “signature” on this film through a prophetic experience?

What if this prophetic experience shows evidence of angelic intervention in human events since the Bible was written?

Want to hear our evidence? Are you interested in being on our jury? If so, welcome to our virtual jury box!

Second Coming? No! Well, at Least for Now…

Since we brought up the great, glorious hope of Christians - the return of Jesus, we will clarify our views on this important topic. Let us be clear that our goal with the Great Invitation is NOT to create the second coming of Jesus with this book.

However, we will speculate about “possibilities” that could happen after this book.

How many books have made you cry? How many movies have made you cry? If the God who created the universe and life on earth has an urgent, prophetic message for humans today, would He want this message limited to words on a page? Or would God like to see it on the BIG SCREEN in IMAX 3D with digital surround sound?

God’s dream is our dream: We want The Great Invitation to become a movie.

Will our movie, if it happens, be the second coming?

The best we can say now about this or any claim made about the return of Jesus is:

You will know it only when you see “IT!”

Whether or not people in the future believe the Great Invitation is the second coming of Jesus will depend on the experience and the evidence.

The evidence is in this book. We will describe HOW the Great Invitation works with key scriptures about the return of Jesus in the New Testament. If you volunteered for our virtual jury box and read on, you will have the opportunity to evaluate all our evidence. This is how we win your mind.

To win your heart, we will need you to experience two movies: The Passion of The Christ (2004) and The Great Invitation (Release Date TBD). You can watch one movie today. The other is OUR possible dream that WE are trying to inspire.

The truth is, our commander has NOT told us that the second coming of Jesus is the goal for this project. Although, He did tell us that He wants a very very big crowd to attend His epic wedding party (between Jesus & his people) in eternity!

Let us remind you who WE are. WE are an army of angels. WE believe in miracles!

Our mission is to pursue big miracles whenever possible. But we love small miracles to.

Sometimes a small miracle is the seed for a big miracle. Our mustard seed here is another Jesus movie that gets more people to accept this Great Invitation to our epic wedding party in eternity! Think of this book as the planting of our (Jesus movie) mustard seed.

If our mustard seed sprouts and grows, our little miracle will be accomplished. Then we are looking for more witnesses to see our Jesus movie. If more is everyone on your planet, big miracle accomplished.

Our big miracle has to start with each reader of this book though. So for now, think of the Great Invitation as a good read that will hopefully increase your faith in Jesus. Or even better, bring a few more souls onboard with Jesus.

The Great Invitation is doing what every Christian should do according to the great commission, sharing a witness of Jesus.

What Jesus Said About “IT”

Our “what if” scenario isn’t that crazy if you look at the most credible source for predictions about the second coming, Jesus himself. Those who believed false messiahs like David Koresh, didn’t pay attention to what Jesus said about his return in 👑Matthew 24👑.

23 “Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah,’ or ‘There he is,’ don’t believe it. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones. 25 See, I have warned you about this ahead of time.

26 “So if someone tells you, ‘Look, the Messiah is out in the desert,’ don’t bother to go and look. Or, ‘Look, he is hiding here,’ don’t believe it! 27 For as the lightning flashes in the east and shines to the west, so it will be when the Son of Man comes. 28 Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.

Jesus is telling you not to believe anyone who says:

• Here is the Messiah!

• There is the Messiah!

• The Messiah is in a physical place - the desert.

• He is hiding here or there!

He is saying, don’t bother looking for me in any physical place! You won’t find me.

Look for an appearance that can be seen simultaneously in multiple places - like lightning in the sky. Such an appearance happened when The Passion of The Christ was released in theaters on February 25, 2004. And, hopefully, when The Great Invitation makes its big screen debut.

If you find it unbelievable that the glorious appearance of Jesus could happen with a couple movies, consider this: The first coming of Jesus would not have had a global impact if it wasn’t a great STORY. There is disagreement, even among biblical scholars, about what parts of Jesus’ passion STORY are fact versus fiction. But there is no debate about this STORY’s impact on human history.

If you think Jesus will return through some sort of apparition in the sky, is there a STORY behind this kind of event? Just google “Jesus in the clouds” and see what you find. It turns out Jesus has made many appearances in the clouds. Yet nobody has made claims that these amazing images are the “second coming” of Jesus! Why is that? Answer: There is no STORY!

Well, unlike an apparition of Jesus, there is a STORY behind the Great Invitation!

The Final Exam

If our Jesus movie happens, the author has one more idea in mind for the Great Invitation. He will propose a new law. To own a gun in America, you have to see our movie and pass the final written exam after the movie.

If you are a gun enthusiast, don’t worry! This new gun law is a win win for you. Our movie will be entertaining and the government will pick up the tab for your movie ticket! Uncle Sam will even buy you a large tub of popcorn and two beers (if your movie theater serves alcohol). Also, this law will eliminate the need to restrict military style weapons. Because our movie will scare the bejesus out of anyone thinking of shooting another innocent human being!

The questions on our exam will be multiple choice and easy. There will be 12 questions. If you don’t pass the test the first time, you have to see our movie again and the test will be 14 questions. The third test will be 20 questions. If you fail all three tests, no gun for you! Well, at least for a year. Then you can start the process over.

Why 12, 14 and 20 questions? Because these three numbers are big parts of our prophetic experience.

How God Uses Numbers

Numbers are one big thing Christianity and science have in common.

In science, math is used to describe the universe. Ever heard of E=MC squared? If you want to major in astrophysics in college, you better be good at solving mathematical equations!

Numbers in the Bible are not used in such a precise manner as in science. However, they are used symbolically.

You don’t believe us? What’s up with the number seven in the Bible? In 👑Revelation 1👑 Jesus unravels the mystery of the seven stars in his hand and the seven golden lamp stands:

The seven stars are the Angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are the seven Churches.

When you see numbers repeatedly used throughout the Bible in certain ways, they take on a significance above and beyond their numerical value. For example, God’s story starts with the seven days of creation. Coincidentally, the number seven is used 52 times in Revelation. God’s story begins and ends with the number seven. Therefore, seven represents completion or spiritual perfection.

If you think biblical numerology is “new age” religion, think about this. In 👑Acts 1👑, the first thing the disciples did after Jesus ascended to heaven was they met to make a big decision. Who was going to replace Judas, the betrayer of Jesus, as a disciple to carry on Christ’s mission to spread his story throughout the world?

Why not just go with the original 11 disciples minus Judas? The answer is that there were 12 tribes of Israel in the Old Testament, their sacred scriptures at the time. Therefore, the number 12 represented the People of God. It was a symbolic number. Apparently, there had to be 12 disciples because some numbers matter to God!

Our Symbolic/Prophetic Numbers

Our prophetic experience happened with five numbers. Here they are individually in a nice basket of Easter eggs with some questions and answers.

8: Our number representing Jesus and his mission on earth

• What is the 📜number of Jesus📜 according to biblical numerology?

• On what day after he was born was Jesus given his name? See 👑Luke 2👑.

• 📜Biblical meaning of 8📜

9: Our number representing judgment and finality

• At what hour (sunrise was approximately 6am) did Jesus die on the cross? See 👑Mark 15👑.

• 📜What is the Jewish day of fasting to commemorate the destruction of the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem (655 years apart)📜? Remember that the death and resurrection of Jesus replaced the need for Temple sacrifices. It’s why one name for Jesus in the New Testament is the “Lamb of God.”

• 📜How many concentric circles are in Dante’s Inferno📜? Note that Dante’s Inferno is a vision of hell. We know Dante’s Inferno is not in the Bible but the book has influenced your perception of hell more than the Bible.

• 📜Biblical meaning of 9📜

12: Our number representing all God’s people

• What number represents God’s People? See 👑Genesis 49👑.

• 📜 Biblical meaning of 12📜

14: Our number representing the gift of salvation. Also, Jesus’ connection to the Jewish Passover and the story of God’s people - Israel - in the Old Testament

• What day of the month was the lamb sacrificed on the first Passover? See 👑Exodus 12👑.

• How does the New Testament start? See 👑Matthew 1👑.

• 📜Biblical meaning of 14📜

20: Our number representing expectation and a sacred waiting period of time

• Jacob was named Israel after he wrestled with God. Rebekah was Jacob’s mother and Isaac his father. Rebekah was barren and could not bear a child for Isaac. But miraculously, she became pregnant. How many years did Rebekah and Isaac have to wait, after they were married, before their child Jacob was born? Remember, Jacob became the nation of Israel - the biblical “Children of God.” Hint: See 👑Genesis 25👑.

• 📜Biblical meaning of 20📜

Here are some chocolate Easter bunnies to go with your eggs:

• The Book of Revelation multiplies symbolic numbers for meaning so in 👑Revelation 7👑, the 12 tribes of Israel each have 12,000 people. So 12 X12,000 = 144,000 is a symbol for All of God’s People.

• In The Great Invitation, we will use 9 X 8 = 72 to symbolize Finality/Judgement(9) and Jesus(8). Jesus judges evil. But Jesus judges because he loves. In other words, Jesus judges because He wants you to choose love!

• Since 8 is the number of Jesus, you can also think of our wedding invitation as the GR8 INVITATION!

• 📜The number 72📜 is significant in many religions. We like how it brings all religions together!

• 12-14-20 = These three numbers together represent the choice of love and light (through a wedding invitation) or the choice of darkness and evil resulting in unnecessary human tragedy, pain and loss.

• Here is the meaning of 12, 14 and 20 individually based on biblical numerology.

  12 - All of God’s People…

  📜 Biblical meaning of 12📜

  14 - Will receive complete confirmation of the gift of salvation by the heir to David’s throne…

  📜Biblical meaning of 14📜

  20 - The confirmation will be a perfect waiting period (See 👑Daniel 12👑: 1335 days + 8).

  📜Biblical meaning of 20📜

Connect the Dots!

So far in our prophetic experience we have five numbers. We will reveal the story behind these numbers a piece at a time. Ever work a good jigsaw puzzle?

One piece of the puzzle is that our numbers were picked by dates: September 8th, December 14th and December 20th. You all know months translate to numbers so we have 9/8, 12/14 and 12/20.

Primarily, it is 9/8 and 12/14 that will connect most of the dots for you. The 20 will come into play by itself as you will see.

Another useful hint to know about our prophetic experience is that our numbers were first picked using birth and marriage dates. They were then validated as prophetic on 12/14/2012 - the date of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. So our numbers represent the three sacred experiences in a human life: birth, marriage and death.

We have been working on the numbers 9-8, 12-14 and 20 for longer than you can imagine! Our orders have been to influence human decisions so that our prophetic numbers show up in noticeable ways. Our goal has been to allow our commander Jesus’ story to be retold around our prophetic numbers.

For you, the reader, The Great Invitation will be an exercise in pattern matching or you could say “connecting the dots.”

Many times the “dots” we use to make our prophetic connections will involve birth dates and death dates.

Mostly, we will match by day and month. But sometimes you will see one of our five sacred numbers show up in a year as well.

On occasion, our numbers may appear in other ways besides birth, marriage and death dates. Event dates are the most common. Or anywhere numbers are used and human decisions are required.

Of course, we can’t control human decisions. Oh, we try! And our commander does have an army of angels at his command! Our best chances for success are when there is not strong intention in the decision maker(s) mind.

To make it easier for you to connect our “dots,” we will highlight in bold font and underline the big hits. The small hits, we will just bold.

When you see bold or bold and underlined text, it means we were involved in making “it” happen.

Our goal is to prove non-randomness with our date & number/event synchronicities and prophetic experience.

If our reappearing dates and numbers don’t get your attention, ask yourself this: Why do you, your loved ones and friends celebrate your birthday? It’s just a date, right?

Please keep reading if you still don’t care about our prophetic numbers! We guarantee you will learn interesting things about history, movies, music and sports. You will also get a nice introduction to the Book of Revelation.

A Challenge For Rocket Boy

Our number synchronicities and their meanings represent a unique prophetic experience. The test of whether or not this statement is true comes down to repeatability. If, in the future, no person or artificial intelligence can replicate what we have done with the Bible, or any other book for that matter, then this experience must be supernatural!

Hey Musk, we’re taking to you. You still haven’t come close to what our 12 MEN did starting in 1969! The smartphone in your pocket is millions of times more powerful than Apollo 11’s guidance computers! And you are stuck in near earth orbit for how many years? WE are NOT impressed with your toy rockets! Come on little space BOY! Don’t you have brilliant rocket and computer scientists working for you?

If you get bored with your toy rockets, let us know. We have a new project in mind for you.

Does God exist and, if so, does He intervene in human events to help you evolve morally and spiritually? That’s an important question for an atheist, isn’t it? A smart man like you should be able to replicate our number synchronicities, right? Aren’t you trying to hook up computers to brains with your Neorolink company? Our project should be a “no brainer” for you!

We can get you started:

1. Pick five two digit numbers that match up with two or three dates.

2. Whip up a little search engine to look for events on these dates.

3. Find a book that uses those numbers symbolically. You can’t use the Bible though. We took all the good numbers in it!

4. Weave all your events together to help tell the story of your chosen book.

Want to give it a whirl sometime mate?

If you or nobody else can replicate this, then the Great Invitation is a scientifically verified miracle!

As sportscaster Al Michaels says at the end of the movie Miracle about the 1980 USA Olympic Hockey Team’s “Miracle on Ice:”

Do you believe in miracles?

Chapter Summary

Now that you know the basic premise of the Great Invitation and the nature of our evidence - five symbolic numbers, we will establish a critical connection between two of our numbers (9 & 8) and our witness of Jesus.

First, recall that our symbolic numbers exist only because the author’s 10th wedding anniversary fell on Good Friday in 2009. The five numbers picked were significant dates in the relationship between the author and his wife - their first date, second date and a strange birthday coincidence with their first born brother and sister. Their names are Mary and David and they share the same birthday - September 8th! That’s where the two numbers 9 and 8 originated.

This is a nice personal discovery but we admit this means nothing to you the reader. This date gets interesting only when you learn about the remarkable coincidences with the date 9/8 and our four witnesses of Jesus.

Remember that 📜9 in biblical numerology represents finality or judgement📜 while 📜8 represents a new beginning or Jesus📜.

The 📜Nicene Creed📜 is the defining statement of belief for Orthodox Christianity. The original Nicene Creed started with the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and then was forwarded to the Council of Chalcedon of 451. Regarding our topic at hand - the death, resurrection and return of Jesus, it states the following:

He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered, and was buried, and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead: From thence he shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead.

Jesus will come again in Judgement: Christ = 8 and Judgement =9. The biblical meaning of our numbers 9/8 work perfectly here do they not?

Now we will show you what the date 9/8 has in common with our four unique witnesses of Jesus. Notice how each fulfills a different and important aspect of witnessing a return of Jesus (since his death and resurrection between 30AD and 33AD).

1. The Passion of The Christ (2004).

   At the core of our witness is an epic film that depicts the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life - the Easter story.

   Mel Gibson’s blockbuster hit The Passion of The Christ (2004) was inspired by a Jesus dream. The dreamer was an early 19th Century Catholic Saint - Anne Catherine Emmerich. You will learn about this godly woman who had visions of Jesus’ passion week through the eyes of Mother Mary. And we will tell you what role September 8th had in documenting her Jesus dream as well as how it inspired The Passion of The Christ (2004).

   Speaking of Mother Mary, September 8th happens to be celebrated as a feast day in the Catholic Church. It’s Marymas - the day Mary’s birthday is commemorated!

2. The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70AD.

   Recall that Preterism is the belief that prophecies about the return of Jesus were at least partially fulfilled with the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70AD by the Roman Army. Our goal is to make Preterism great again!

   The reason 70AD is such a critical year for Preterists as that Jesus predicted the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in a speech He gave to his followers just days before He was crucified (30 to 33AD). He said this was would happen within a generation (40 years). This speech is referred to as the “Olivette Discourse” because Jesus gave it on the Mount of Olives overlooking the Temple Complex in Jerusalem. We will review why this speech is so important to the interpretation of “End Times” in the Bible.

   What does September 8th have to do with the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70AD? You will find out!

3. The Story of Mother Ann Lee - founder of the Shakers (United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing).

   If you believe that Jesus has to re-appear physically as a person (regardless of what Matthew 24 says), our third witness of Jesus might be of interest to you. What if Jesus returned in the female form? That’s what the followers of Mother Ann Lee believed about her. Mother Ann was the founder of the Shakers, a religious movement and community that spread in America starting around the time of the American Revolution. You will learn about Mother Ann Lee’s remarkable story - how she lived and how she died.

   What does September 8th have to do with Mother Ann Lee’s story? Read on and discover!

4. The Legacy of King David and the definitive work of the Renaissance age - the Statue of David.

   The New Testament starts with the genealogy of Jesus. It establishes that Jesus is related to the legendary King David and to Abraham, the father of Israel - God’s chosen people. There are 14 generations between each of these key people in the Bible - Abraham, David and Jesus. This makes it clear to New Testament readers that God’s story starts with Genesis and goes through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

   Jesus’ relation to King David is important in God’s story because it establishes that Jesus meets the kingly requirement of the Old Testament messianic prophecies.

   What makes King David a biblical superstar? We will explore his remarkable story as documented in the Old Testament.

   There are no specific dates cited in the stories about King David (like birth or death dates) in the Old Testament. That’s due to the age of these stories. But we do have dates for the next best thing - art depicting David. Not just any piece of art. We will tell you about the work of art that defined the renaissance era - the Statue of David. Can you guess on what date in 1504 it was officially unveiled?

The Main Event

We will start with the main event: The Jesus dream that became a movie.

The dreamer was the Catholic mystic, Marian visionary and stigmatic Anne Catherine Emmerich. Anne Catherine grew up in a small farming village in Germany. She was born in 1774 and lived for 49 years. Anne Catherine was beatified by the Catholic Church as a saint on October 3, 2004. She is most famous for her detailed visions of the events leading to and brief aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, what Christians refer to as "The Passion Week." Her fame increased when Mel Gibson used her vision, documented in the book, The Delorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ as the primary source material for The Passion of The Christ. The Gospels leave out many details of the passion event so Gibson, instead of filling in these details himself, took them directly from Anne Catherine’s Jesus dream.

As we shared, Gibson meditated on The Delorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ during a time of personal crisis in his life. That experience inspired the idea for a movie about the events of Christ’s Passion leading up to what Christians celebrate as Easter Sunday.

After The Passion opened in theaters in February of 2004, stories were told about strange, miraculous happenings. For example, criminals turned themselves in to the police after seeing the film. It was also revealed in the media that Jim Caviezel, the actor who played Jesus, was struck by lightning on the movie set in Rome. This incident, in particular, increased the author’s curiosity about Gibson’s Passion and the controversy surrounding it. He noticed in 👑Matthew 24👑, when Jesus spoke about his return after warning his followers not to believe people claiming to be the messiah, said:

As lightning flashes in the East and shines in to the West, so it will be when the Son of Man comes!

This caught the author’s attention. So he bought several books that delved deep into The Passion of the Christ, its artistry as well as its biblical and theological backdrop. One was an academic book from Purdue University Press: Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy and Its Implications. In an essay from Penny Wheeler, Gibson at the Crossroads, she details the inspiration for The Passion, the visions of Saint Anne Catherine Emmerich and how they were documented in writing.

A German romantic poet, Clemons Brentano, had heard reports from the Catholic Church about a woman who bore the wounds of Christ, called the stigmata. He also heard she had visions of life in first century Jerusalem through the eyes of the Virgin Mary. Over time, Brentano believed Emmerich to be a "chosen Bride of Christ".

📜❤️When Brentano met Anna Catherine they connected on a deep, spiritual level. It turns out they shared the same birthday - September 8th (9/8)❤️📜!

Have you ever met someone and found out you shared the same birthday? Would that put a huge smile on your face? Would you both feel connected in a special way? Would you think, “what a strange coincidence?” 

Clemons Brentano went on to document and publish Ann Catherine Emmerich’s visions of Christ’s passion story as The Delorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ in 1833. Did Ann Catherine’s Jesus dream get published by Brentano only because of this September 8th birthday coincidence?

Or maybe Brentano was inspired by the fact that September 8th is Marymas - traditionally celebrated as a Catholic liturgical feast day to recognize the Virgin Mary’s birthday!

September 8th means something to the author. That’s because his firstborn brother David and his wife’s firstborn sister Mary share the same birthday - September 8th (9/8)!

Mary and David are the two best biblical names one could pick to tie this 9/8 coincidence to The Passion of The Christ.

Did WE (an army of angels) help pick those names for a special reason: To help you see Jesus clearly through this prophetic experience?

We are sharing some personal experiences of the author because they are THE REASON he found the date coincidences in the Great Invitation. Even if you take the personal experiences out, the date matching synchronicities are still remarkable. But the truth is, they would have never been FOUND unless this started out as a personal, prophetic experience. And, they do add significant symbolic value and meaning that will help you understand why the Great Invitation is a prophecy.

👑Matthew 7👑 supports what we are saying:

Seek, and you will find;

Knock, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

All of the prophetic books in the Bible document divine personal experiences of biblical prophets. Of course, our author has NO “prophecy” credibility now. So we ask you to evaluate our evidence on its own merits.

The evidence starts here. The door we open next reveals our most important fact.

The Open Door to Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the most holy city on your planet. It’s the place on earth where God communicates with man. It is the only city on your planet that exists on earth and in heaven (ie. New Jerusalem). And it is the place where a Day of Judgement is to happen at the end of time. Or is that “final” Judgement a “date” that will start the beginning of something new?

All three monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam have their roots in Jerusalem. For Christians, it is the city where Christ died on the cross and was resurrected. But before Jesus died, he gave his most famous speech in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives. It’s referred to by theologians as the Olivet Discourse. In it, Jesus predicts that the second temple in Jerusalem, as well as the city, will be destroyed in a generation!

Jesus was crucified between 30 and 33AD. The Olivette Discourse was delivered as Jesus arrived in Jerusalem just prior to his passion week. In fact, the Gospel accounts indicate this speech probably angered the Jewish high priests who conspired with Roman authorities to arrest Jesus.

This apocalyptic prophecy by Jesus was fulfilled, amazingly, 40 years later (one generation) in 70AD when the Roman army led by General Titus destroyed the holy temple.

📜❤️According to Josephus, the Jewish historian who documented this event in detail, the holy city of Jerusalem fell on September 8th (9/8), 70AD❤️📜.

The Olivette Discourse is in 👑Matthew 24👑, 👑Mark 13👑 and 👑Luke 21👑. The earliest Gospel, Mark, is dated prior to 70AD. So we know that this apocalyptic prophecy was written down before Jerusalem was destroyed.

It’s important to note that one view of end times prophecy and the return of Jesus called the Preterist view, holds that Jesus returned spiritually with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD. While this view was more popular in the early church, we expect our miraculous date coincidences might “resurrect” it!

According to the Preterist view, the spiritual Jesus and the New Jerusalem arrived in 70AD and is here now, as the Gospel message of Jesus continues to spread throughout the world. The New Jerusalem is described in 👑Revelation 21👑 and 👑Revelation 22👑. The number 12 is used to describe this New Jerusalem: 12 gates guarded by 12 angels with the names of the 12 tribes of Israel written on the gates. There were 12 foundation stones and on them written the 12 apostles of Jesus. The walls around the New Jerusalem are 144 cubits thick. Since we don’t measure in cubits any more this translates to 72 yards!

If you visit Rome today, you can see the Arch of Titus dedicated to the sacking of Jerusalem in 70AD. On it, there is a picture of Roman soldiers carrying a large minora from the temple. Actually, the gold taken from the second temple in Jerusalem financed the building of the Roman Colosseum that started construction in 72AD.

Today in the Colosseum, there is a giant cross to honor the Christian martyrs who died in the late first century AD to “entertain” the Roman citizens of that time.

Martyrdom of a Shaker

In 👑Revelation 6👑, after the infamous four horsemen of the apocalypse are unleashed by the first four seals, the fifth seal is opened with a haunting question to God from Christian martyrs: How long before you judge those responsible for our deaths and avenge our blood for what they have done?

The answer is not what they wanted to hear. They are given a white robe and told to wait longer.

Brides wear white because it’s a symbol of purity. Nobody was more pure than the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing also known as the Shakers. The founder of the Shakers was another Ann - Mother Ann Lee.

Mother Ann was born in 1736 in Manchester England. In her younger years she worked in a cotton mill during the early industrial revolution. As Ann reached child bearing years, she became uncomfortable with the idea of sexual relations. But after repeated attempts to avoid men, her father forced her to marry a local blacksmith named Abraham in 1761.

Ann’s attempt at starting a family with Abraham ended in tragedy four times. She lost all four children during infancy. These were traumatic experiences for Ann that made her quadruple down on her dislike of sexual relations. Ann Lee, soon after, developed radical religious convictions about sexual purity.

The Shakers were different than the religious sect they grew out of, the Quakers, in their pursuit of celibacy both inside and outside marriage. It’s a belief that eventually resulted in their extinction.

In England, Mother Ann Lee became well known for preaching her belief in the immanent second coming of Christ. Like Anne Catherine Emmerich, she also had many visionary experiences of Christ and received messages from God.

What landed her in trouble though was the way in which Ann and her followers would purify themselves from sin with a unique confession. It involved dancing, shouting and shaking uncontrollably. This is how the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing became the “Shakers.”

Other religious people witnessing this dancing, shouting and shaking found it blasphemous though. Mother Ann and her early followers were repeatedly persecuted by angry mobs, sometimes violently. Ann and her followers were also imprisoned multiple times in Manchester.

This didn’t hurt her religious zeal though. Actually, it was while in prison that Mother Ann formulated her belief that Christ would return in female form.

At some point, when Mother Ann shared this belief with her followers, they formed the belief that SHE was Christ returned in female form! When followers witnessed Mother Ann miraculously healing people, her spiritual gifts reinforced this messianic belief.

She had other spiritual gifts as well. Once Mother Ann escaped persecution of the Established Church by speaking for four hours in 72 tongues while being interrogated by four clergymen.

The persecution Mother Ann and her followers experienced in England along with a new vision from God, led her and her followers to seek a new life in the new world - America. So she headed west across the Atlantic in a leaky old ship with 8 followers including her husband Abraham. After miraculously surviving a near ship wreck, they arrived in New York in 1774.

Abraham didn’t last long in America. He soon disappeared. We couldn’t find out why he disappeared. But our guess is that it had something to do with the celibacy thing.

So the Shaker community in America, like Noah’s family after the flood, started with 8 people.

Mother Ann and her seven Shaker followers would eventually grow a unique religious movement in America that would spread west as far as Kentucky. At it’s peak in the mid 1800s there were up to 4,000 Shaker believers living in 18 different communities. Despite their celibacy, they were able to grow their communities westward due to the Second Great Awakening of the early 1800s. In addition to celibacy, they practiced a kind of religious communism. They are known today for their simple living, architecture, technical innovation, music and furniture design.

Mother Ann was not able to escape persecution in America. The Shakers became targets of mob violence, not only because of their strange religious beliefs. In Revolutionary America, their belief in pacifism was interpreted as treason by many colonial Americans who were in the middle of a war for independence. Mother Ann suffered violence more than once at the hands of angry mobs. As a result, she become very frail at an early age and died prematurely due to serious injuries suffered in these violent attacks.

We have a woman who was spiritually gifted like Jesus, radically followed Jesus’ teachings, spread the Gospel message to thousands of followers and suffered and died prematurely because of it. This is a case of extreme Christian martyrdom!

Who influenced Mother Ann Lee’s choices? Did Jesus intervene in her thoughts? Maybe WE, the army of angels, who fight for Jesus did this. What about Mother Ann’s followers? Maybe Jesus or WE, the army of angels, gave them the idea to believe Mother Ann was Jesus in female form?

These are mysteries you will never know. But God exists outside of time and space. Maybe sometimes God finds a way to show you that, behind the veil of your perception, there is some order that breaks through the everyday chaos you observe in your physical world.

📜❤️Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, who WAS “the appearing” to her followers; died at the age of 48 on September 8 (9/8), 1784❤️📜.

Jesus as the Root of David

Our prophecy started with the author’s brother whose name is David and the birthday coincidence with his sister-in law Mary (9/8). David is a big piece of our puzzle because, according to the Bible, Jesus is the root of David! Not the author’s brother, the biblical King David!

Genealogy is important to God! The New Testament starts in 👑Matthew 1 👑with the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah:

• 14 generations from Abraham to David

• 14 generations from David to the Babylonian exile

• 14 generations from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah

King David is in the middle of our series of 14 generations because of the messianic expectation of first century Jews. They expected a conquering king like King David. So it’s no accident that the Jewish author of Matthew starts his witness of Jesus telling his readers that Jesus is directly related to King David.

The Book of Revelation’s author is also Jewish. He twice refers to Jesus’ family connection with King David, both at critical points in the book.

In 👑Revelation 5👑, an angel asks who is worthy to open a mysterious scroll held by the one sitting on a throne. No one is worthy so John weeps bitterly. But one of the twenty four elders in the vision tells him to stop weeping because the heir to David’s throne has won the victory already (in heaven of course)! He alone is worthy to open the mysterious scroll! John looks again and sees a Lamb who has been slaughtered now standing on the throne. The Lamb is of course Jesus. Specifically, the crucified and risen Jesus. The Jesus you can witness in The Passion of The Christ!

👑Revelation 22👑 is about the return of Jesus. Twice in the chapter, the voice of Jesus (in John’s vision) tells us, “Look! I am coming soon!”

Then, the next thing Jesus says is that he is both the source of David and the heir to his throne. And,

I am the bright morning star!

David the Biblical Superstar

The flag of the nation of Israel is white with a large, blue six sided star. It is the Star of David.

King David is certainly a biblical superstar for the Jewish people! In fact, before the holy city became Jerusalem, it was the City of David. That’s because King David and his men captured Jerusalem from the Jebusites and made it the capital of a united Israel that previously was made up of the Northern Kingdom Israel and Southern Kingdom Judah. David then brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.

Do you remember the Ark from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark staring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones? The Ark that, at the end of the film, electrocuted the evil Nazis who tried to possess it? Yeah, that Ark!

David took the Ark of the Covenant back from the Philistines and brought it to Jerusalem. After the exodus from Egypt, the Jews placed the Ark inside the Tabernacle - a traveling, tent-like temple in which they worshiped God. David wanted to build a permanent temple in Jerusalem to replace the Tabernacle.

David is best known for owning the most famous underdog story in human history: The story of David vs. Goliath in 👑1 Samuel 17👑.

The youngest of 8 sons, before David was a king, he was a meager shepherd boy. Goliath was a 9 foot tall giant warrior from Israel’s rival nation Philistine.

After being introduced to the first Monarch of Israel, King Saul, David found himself in proximity to an epic battle between the Israelites, led by King Saul, and the Philistines. David’s brothers were in the army and his Dad Jesse sent him to the battlefield to give them a basket of bread before the battle. After Goliath challenged the Israelites to pick one man to take him on one-on-one, David stepped forward and said, “choose me!” David’s brothers laughed out loud! King Saul did to! But David persisted.

The stakes were high because Goliath proclaimed that if we was killed, the Philistines would become the Israelite’s slaves. King Saul caved and told David to fight Goliath. God would be with him!

Do we need to tell you what happened next? You already know how it ends. It’s legend!

Strangely, prior to David’s miraculous defeat of Goliath, the prophet Samuel had told Jesse that David would be the next king of Israel. After David killed Goliath, King Saul knew David’s epic victory would give him massive credibility as a leader and grew jealous of him. He tried to have David killed but he escaped with help from Saul’s son Jonathan.

David in exile had an army of 600 men outside of Israel and led a kind of virtual kingship. When Saul and Jonathan both died in battle, David became King of Israel, as prophesied by Samuel.

Men in power are popular with women. David had 8 wives. His last wife was Bathsheba who he spotted bathing naked on her roof. David added the sexy Bathsheba to his concubine and had her husband killed by sending him to war. But as God often does, He turns a lemon into lemonade. Bathsheba gave David a son named Solomon who become the next King of Israel. It was Solomon who built the first temple in Jerusalem that David envisioned.

Despite some serious moral problems in his story, David was a man of destiny in ancient Israel!

It’s not surprising that Old Testament prophets predicted that the Messiah had to come from the lineage of David. 👑Isaiah 4👑, 👑Isaiah 11👑 and 👑Isaiah 53👑 all refer to a branch that will grow out from the stem of Jesse. This branch would be righteous and accomplish what David and all his successors failed. Even when the nation of Israel was cut down, this holy branch would still find a way to grow and flourish from seemingly dead roots.

This prophecy of Jesus as the branch to sprout from Jesse and David is also mentioned in 👑Jeremiah 23👑 and 👑Jeremiah 33👑 as well as 👑Zechariah 3👑 and 👑Zechariah 6👑.

Witness of David

Michelangelo’s Statue of David is THE masterpiece of the Renaissance era. The marble sculpture is seventeen feet tall. You can see David today at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy.

Originally, the Statue of David was commissioned to be one of several prophets to be displayed on the roof of the Florence Cathedral. However, David represented the underdog from the David and Goliath story to the people of Florence. And in the early 16th century, Florence was a Republic threatened on all sides by rival states including the Medici family in Rome.

📜❤️It was “decided” that Michelangelo’s David should be at the seat of civic government in Florence, in the Piazza della Signoria, where it was unveiled on September 8th (9/8), 1504❤️📜.

The eyes of David are staring East at Rome with a warning glare at the “Goliath-like” powers that threatened the smaller Florence Republic.

We now add with our 9/8 Easter egg (Jesus dream that became a movie) coincidence: David stares down the Roman Empire, the destroyers of the holy city Jerusalem in 70AD as Jesus said would happen. It did happen prophetically, and doubly so on September 8th (9/8).

So more important, David glares at the executioners and torturers of Jesus in The Passion of The Christ!

Are you seeing any “order” yet in these prophetic events? We are just getting started here!

Remember watching that group dance scene in the movie Saturday Night Fever? That’s the feeling we are going for inside your brain as your synopses fire every time you witness another Great Invitation synchronicity.

So it’s time to get your dancing shoes! Let’s rock now!

Chapter Summary

We have established what our prophetic numbers have to do with a potential return of Jesus. Now we will show their connection to something all people love - Music.

Music is God’s gift to humanity! We show you why and provide numerical evidence that God is behind the tunes you know and love.

Did you know both King David and Jesus were rock stars?

What is the most musical book in the Bible and why?

What makes music magical to people?

What do the notes on the musical scale have to do with the people of God?

Country music is uniquely American. Why is this so? And what do our prophetic numbers have to do with the history of country music?

We answer these questions and more!

Taylor Swift started as a country music star in 2004 - the year of The Passion of The Christ. Since then, Taylor has become a pop music sensation. In 2023 she became Time’s Person of the Year because of her record breaking Eras Tour. It turns out our prophetic numbers are all over Taylor’s story! What makes Taylor so special? We explore the cultural phenomenon that is Taylor Swift.

We end our music chapter by revisiting how Taylor Swift brought music and sports together in what is now the most watched event in television history.

David and Jesus: Biblical Rock Stars

Beside their family lineage in the Bible, Jesus and King David have another thing in common. They are both rock stars!

According to the story in 👑1 Samuel 16👑, David never would have sleighed Goliath if he had not been a biblical rock star. 

Of course, there were no electric guitars in ancient Israel. But David had a reputation as a talented harp player in Bethlehem. 

Prior to the epic battle between David and Goliath, King Saul was told by his servants that music would help heal his troubled soul. One of his servants must have attended a David harp concert because he told Saul that one of Jesse’s sons rocked on the harp. Saul asked Jesse if David would come play for him. So David played his harp for Saul and healed his soul with his harp tunes. If not for his harp skills, David would have tended to his sheep instead of becoming a war hero. 

There is also some biblical evidence that David was a song writer. His tunes can be found in the Book of Psalms. Many of the 146 chapters in Psalms could be interpreted as “for David,” “dedicated to David,” “concerning David,” or written “by David.”

We will admit that there is no biblical evidence of Jesus rocking out while was alive, but he certainly rocked after he died!  

Jesus Christ Superstar was a hit rock opera in the 1970s. By 1980, the musical had grossed more than $237 million worldwide. The play ran for 8 years in London starting in 1972. It was the longest running play on London’s West End until Cats in 1989. The popularity of Jesus Christ Superstar resulted in a Hollywood film released in 1973.  

The music in Jesus Christ Superstar was written by famous composer Andrew Loyd Weber. The most well known song is thought provoking given our Great Invitation project. Here is a sample of the lyrics from Superstar performed by the Judas character in the play:

Every time I look at you, I don't understand

Why you let the things you did get so out of hand

You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned

Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?

If you'd come today, you would have reached a whole nation

Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication

Jesus Christ, Superstar 

Do you think you're what they say you are? 

🎸Touch or click here to sing it with us! 🎸

Jesus Christ Superstar still runs today in playhouses across the world. We think it could come back even stronger very soon! 

Revelation Rocks!

Jesus may not have performed any songs in the Gospel accounts of his life, but he is the main character in a biblical musical - the last book in the Bible - the Book of Revelation. John’s apocalypse is teeming with songs. It is by far the most musical book in the New Testament. 

A musical play, like Jesus Christ Superstar, moves the plot forward with songs. That’s exactly what the Book of Revelation does. Two songs are explicitly labeled as such in the text: 👑the “new song” in 5:9-10👑, and 👑the “song of Moses and of the Lamb” in 15:3-4👑. Others are clearly songs even if they aren’t labeled in the text.

• The “Holy, Holy, Holy” hymn of the living creatures and the song of the elders 👑Revelation 4👑.

• The praises of the angelic hosts and every living creature in 👑Revelation 5👑.

• Another song of the elders in 👑Revelation 7👑.

• Proclamation that the Accuser has been thrown down in 👑Revelation 12👑.

• Just are you, O Holy one refrain In 👑Revelation 15👑.

• The final Hallelujahs of heaven from 👑Revelation 19👑.

These songs hold the main narrative portion of Revelation (chapters 4-21) together and they show up at key turning points throughout the story as John’s visions unfold.

We doubt a play based on the strange visions in the Book of Revelation will ever become a hit on Broadway. But there is something about music that’s magical. Something that God can’t let go. 

Musical Magic

Do you have a favorite rock concert? Was there a moment when the crowd all knew the words to a song and the lead singer urged everyone to sing it together?

🎸Touch or click here to sing it with us! 🎸

This is exactly what makes God happy! It’s one big reason why God loves music so much! Music brings people together!

Don’t forget, the number that represents God’s People is 12. 

In the 2019 movie A Star is Born, the main character Jack is a rock star past his prime who kill’s himself after battling alcohol addiction. In one of the final scenes, his brother Bobby talks about a memory of Jack with his grieving lover Ally:

Jack talked about how music is essentially 12 notes between any octave. Twelve notes and the octave repeats. It’s the same story told over and over. Forever. All any artist can offer the world is how they see those 12 notes. That's it.

In music theory, the 12 notes are organized in sequence illustrated in the form of a circle. It’s called the circle of fifths. 

The famous Carter family, pioneers in country music, weren’t referring to the circle of fifths when they wrote their hit Will the Circle be Unbroken. But with our number 12 “People of God” coincidence, the chorus seems to have a greater meaning doesn’t it?  

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by, Lord, by and by

There's a better home a-waiting

In the sky, Lord, in the sky

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Will the Circle Be Unbroken is featured throughout the classic 8 part documentary on Country Music by Ken Burns. The last episode ends with our song playing in the background while still pictures of country music stars, performing their magic, flash by. The last words from blue grass legend Marty Stuart perfectly summarize how we feel about country music:

Country music has something for everybody.

It’s inside the songs.

It’s inside the lives of the characters.

It’s really colorful in here.

I invite you in.

Music City Miracles

Country music is uniquely American. If you go to music city, Nashville, Tennessee, you can visit the Country Music Hall of Fame. One of the original four inductees was Jimmy Rodgers, the father of country music. He is known for his rhythmic yodeling. His nickname was the “Singing Brakeman” because of his work as a railroad train brakeman. In addition to his huge country music impact, Rodgers was a contributor to the growth of blues music in its early 1900s infancy. The blues eventually evolved into rock n roll. 

Jimmy Rodgers, father of country music, died in 1933. We love his birthday - September 8th (9/8)!

The first female inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame was Patsy Cline. Patsy even has her own museum in Nashville! 

Cline was famous for popularizing country music. In her 8 year recording career she had several hits. Among them was I Fall to Pieces. Eerily, she suffered a serious car accident right after its release. She retuned though with her hit song Crazy.

Patsy Cline, mother of popular country music, died tragically in 1962 in a plane crash. Her birthday is also September 8th (9/8)!

On 1 October 2017, the county music world was grieving a mass shooting at the Harvest music festival in Las Vegas. A man armed with automatic rifles opened fire on country music fans from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. Jason Alden was onstage at the time. Fifty eight people dead that day. Two more died of their injuries later. It remains the most deadly mass shooting in American history. 

In November of 2017 the Country Music Awards (CMA) show featured a tribute to the victims by showing their pictures while Carrie Underwood performed a song by Alan Jackson, Softly and Tenderly. She was able to get through it until the end when she seemed overcome with emotion as her voice started to crack a bit. With the pictures of the lives cut short flashing on the big screen and these words you can understand why. 

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling

Calling for you and for me

See on the portals He's waiting and watching

Watching for you and for me

🎸Touch or click here to sing it with us! 🎸

It was an emotional show that night. Eddie Montgomery from Montgomery Gentry was joined by Rascal Flats and Dierks Bentley to perform the Montgomery Gentry hit My Town. Eddie needed help because he had lost his band mate Troy Gentry in a tragic helicopter crash on September 8th (9/8), 2017. 

The chorus of My Town speaks to music’s power to heal a community:

This is my town

Nah na nah nah nah

Yea this is my town

Nah na nah nah nah

My town

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It reminds us of “Our Town,” the New Jerusalem and the 60 souls from Sin City partying there. The wedding party entertainment features two special guest stars: Jesus Christ Superstar on lead vocals and David on electric guitar with lightning to help amplify his power chords! 

By the way, our epic wedding party in eternity keeps getting bigger and better as more believers join us! 

Are you ready to help us invite more souls? Sharing is caring!

Taylor the Dragon Slayer

Speaking of weddings and love, OUR (not just Time’s) 2023 Person of the Year showed the power of music to bring LOVE to the masses! Taylor Alison Swift took up the guitar at age 12 and by 14 started writing songs. Taylor’s family witnessed her magical musical gift first! Her father moved the original Swifties to Music City in 2004 where Taylor starting making connections, building (song) bridges and crashing through walls.

What is it about Taylor Swift (2006) that SO MANY people loved SO MUCH in 2023?

Is it that she is Fearless (2008) to Speak Now (2010) and tell the story of us, even our highs and lows?

Is it the way Taylor shares her big Red (2012) heart with you through her songs and performances?

Is it her romance with the handsome NFL Chief, Travis Kelce who was also born in 1989 (2014)?

Is it Taylor’s Reputation (2017) for fiercely defending women’s rights or her willingness to take on big corporations on behalf of fellow artists?

Or are you are a Lover (2019) of Taylor’s Miss Americana (2020) vibe?

Maybe you love the Folklore (2020) of fairy tales like the Disney classic Beaty and the Beast with the hit song Evermore (2020). Do you love when Taylor dresses like Cinderella in her performances? In Cinderella, the Fairy Godmother warns that her magic will end at the last stroke of midnight.

Is it that Taylor, her songs and her concerts make you feel like you are ALL IN her fairytale? A fairy tale that goes on forever! And the magic never ends - after many many Midnights (2022)!

If you are a Swiftie, WE (an army of angels) know it’s all the above! We know this because of the name of Taylor’s 2023 tour. The Era’s tour concluded in Vancouver, British Columbia, on December 8, 2024. It spanned 5 continents and lasted 149 shows. It’s now the highest grossing music concert tour in history.

What would an army of angels do with a girl who was born 12 days before Christmas and grew up on a Christmas tree farm?

What would our unseen army do with this talented musician and story teller who has millions of loyal followers who are members of a kind of cult. Not a bad cult. A good cult that oozes love and positivity.

Our plan is to use the Queen of country and pop music to slay great beasts and dragons that lurk within people who walk among you. It’s never the people we fight. We fight against the negative, toxic thoughts that can spread like viruses in your world, sometimes materializing into violence and death.

It’s why we call our Queen:

Taylor the Dragon Slayer!

Now she has a message from our CHIEF JESUS:

Karma is a guy on the screen (Jesus returned) coming straight home to me!

🎸Touch or click here to sing it with us🎸

Taylor Swift was born on 12/13/1989. We missed our target date by one day! Out of respect for Taylor’s parents, we won’t get into details about their romantic life. But Taylor’s parents were married on February 20, 1988. Their baby girl was named after singer songwriter James Taylor (born March 12, 1948).

Kudos to our angel army! We hit the 12, 14, 20, 8 and 9 in Taylors story! All five of our sacred numbers are covered!

Music Marries Sports

There is something else “sacred” about Taylor’s story. In the 2023-24 NFL season we used Miss Americana, Taylor Swift and the NFL Chief, Travis Kelce to arrange a marriage between music and sports at the perfect time in America!

The Kansas City Chiefs started the season badly. In September, Taylor Swift started attending Chiefs games and received lots of attention from the TV cameras. Many people in Kansas City loved their new football fan. Some did not. Hardcore Chiefs football fans noticed that the sure handed Kelce was dropping too many passes. When the Chiefs lost to the Raiders at home on Christmas Day, many Chiefs fans blamed the team’s struggles on the “Taylor curse.”

Great sports stories usually involve a comeback. The Chiefs played just well enough to win the AFC West division. And in the playoffs, Travis and his Chiefs, with Taylor watching, were focused and fired up! They defeated the Dolphins at home then upset the Bills and Ravens on the road to make it to Super Bowl LVIII.

As you know, we (an army of angels) love numerology just like Swifties! Taylor’s lucky number is 13 because her birthday is the 13th of December. So for Taylor, that number has never been unlucky! When the Chief and 49ers Superbowl date was secured, Swifties noticed strange coincidences that went viral on Social Media:

• Superbowl 58: 5+8=13

• 49ers = 4+9=13

• Game played on 2/11: 2+11=13

• Brock Purdy, 49ers QB was #13

• Superbowl 58 was Taylor Swift’s 13th appearance at an NFL since dating Travis Kelce

Einstein used E=MC squared to describe his theory of relativity. Well, God is using Superbowl LVIII to describe his “relativity.” It’s all about LOVE!

LoVe=Travis+Taylor+Swifties=III

You see, we have been working on this Super Bowl LVIII fairy tale for a long time. We can prove it!

After the fifth Super Bowl, the NFL decided not to use the year to name the annual big event and instead use Roman numerals. We made that call! Football is the closest thing you all have to the Gladiator games in ancient Rome. Well, not that violent. But it is a spectacle is it not?

Remember what built the Colosseum in Rome (in 72AD)? The spoils of victory when Rome conquered Jerusalem and looted all the gold from the Second Temple in Jerusalem!

Who again did the Chiefs lose to on Christmas Day? Those bad boys of the NFL the Las Vegas Raiders. They moved to “Sin City” a few years ago and now play in a new stadium nicknamed the Death Star for it’s similar look to that Star Wars home of the villain Darth Vader. The Raider’s Death Star hosted Super Bowl LVIII. Is this not the perfect modern-day “colosseum” to stage The Great Invitation? Remember that in Revelation 19 a wedding invitation goes out then a great spiritual war happens. Darth Vader doesn’t end up victorious!

Are you not entertained?

Did you notice the victory celebration t-shirt worn by Travis Kelce after the Chiefs made it to the Super Bowl? It said: AFC Champion Chiefs are All In! The 49ers had the same shirt with their NFL logo. Yep, we designed both those shirts. Because we want you ALL IN with Jesus!

Millions of Americans thought there was something strange, maybe even conspiratorial, about the Chiefs making it to the Super Bowl in the year of the Travis ❤️ Taylor whirlwind romance. Well, it is a conspiracy! You see, we (an army of angels) were the ones who played matchmaker!

What is it that wakes Taylor up in the middle of the night with a thought about a song? That would be us! She gets out of bed, sits down at the piano and hammers out those magical songs that become part of her story. And because Taylor’s songs are about real things her fans experience in life - all the highs and lows - and how to be an overcomer, her fans become part of her story.

Travis Kelce reached out to Taylor via his podcast in the Summer of 2023 after her show at Arrowhead stadium in KC on 8 July. Travis wanted to give Taylor a friendship bracelet with #87 on it. The first sign they were dating was on 9/8 in New York City when Taylor was spotted with an opal pendant neckless. That’s Travis’s birthstone.

Have you seen Taylor’s video of her song YOU BELONG WITH ME? It won the 2009 MTV Video Award for Best Video on September 13. That night, rapper Kanye West took the microphone from Taylor and proclaimed that Beyoncé had the best video. The crowd booed loudly and Taylor thought, incorrectly, they were boing at her. This was the insecure high school version of Taylor. She was still only 19 at the time.

YOU BELONG WITH ME is about seeing someone for who they really are on the inside. Taylor was an “outsider” in high school. And she plays one in the video. She ends up at the prom in a white dress with guy of her dreams - a handsome football player who wins the game for his team.

Do you think maybe Taylor had this video in the back of her mind when Travis reached out to her? Who do you think helped create this video? Remember, we (an army of angels) communicate best with artistic types in your world.

How about Taylor’s 2012 album Red matching the Chiefs team color? Think that’s an accident?

Do you see now how we are the real matchmakers for TnT?

Now through her timely NFL romance, Taylor Alison Swift has “invited” you into her own football fairy tale!

Go back and read our sub-chapter Musical Magic. Our goal is to get Swifties to put a new number on your friendship bracelets. Hint: Have you heard the Christmas carol 12 Days of Christmas? Well, start with Taylor’s birthday and count forward one day at a time. Merry Christmas Swifties!

Chapter Summary

So far in our presentation of facts, we have focussed on mostly positive things - our prophetic numbers, our four witnesses of Jesus and why music is God’s gift to humanity. In this chapter we start to explore the human relationship with power. Spoiler alert: It’s not good!

We start this chapter looking at why the Great Invitation is a wedding invitation. Then we introduce you to King George III. We tell you why he was unusually lucky in love just like the author.

King George III is mocked in the Broadway hit production Hamilton. That’s because he was the villain in America’s founding story. America’s revolutionary war kicks off our exploration of the “dark side” in human history. We borrow a supernatural phenomenon from the movie Star Wars to describe the consequences of wars in human history. Killing on a massive scale tends to create disturbances in “the force” that echo for decades or sometimes centuries.

We will take you through a brief tour of American, British and French history during the disruptive enlightenment period of the 18th and early 19th centuries. If you have seen the violent HBO Series Game of Thrones, it’s a lot like that!

In addition to King George III, you will meet the serious candidate for that biblical villain referred to as the Antichrist - Napoleon Bonaparte. You will also meet English King Henry the VIII who famously beheaded two of his wifes and burned a famous Christian martyr - William Tyndale - at the stake. What did Tyndale do to deserve this fate? He translated the Bible into the language a plow boy could understand! It didn’t help that Tyndale refused to annul Henry’s divorce with his first wife Catherine of Aragorn. Henry the 8th ended up beheading his second wife Anne Bolyne. So Tyndale was burned at the stake for making two wise decisions that went against earthy power.

Kingdoms on earth function completely differently than God’s Kingdom in heaven. 👑Revelation 4👑 presents just how different God’s throne room is to a human throne room. Humans in positions of power would be wise to read this chapter of Revelation. If they do, they will realize their earthly power is very temporary. The lowly and last are first in heaven. The most powerful on earth are last in eternity.

We finish this chapter on a positive note with a human leader who acted as if he understood God’s power structure in 👑Revelation 4👑. His name is George Washington - America’s first President and original “founding father.” Washington could have been a king but instead gave up his crown to an idea bigger than himself - the American Democratic Republic.

Be sure to notice how our prophetic numbers keep showing up throughout our stories of Royal Weddings and Throne Games!

Your_Prince

At this point in our presentation of facts, it’s important that we establish why our Great Invitation is a wedding invitation. We have given you one proof point so far. It’s the 9/8 family birthday coincidence with the author’s brother David and in his sister-in-law Mary. This birthday coincidence only exists because of the author’s marriage.

How did the author meet his wife? They met “in the cloud” on the original internet dating service Match.com.

We gave the author a brilliant idea to make his profile name Your_Prince. It worked like magic! He could have had a date every night if he wanted. Of course, he had to get through a year of bad dates to meet Becky!

The author and his future wife had their first “real” dinner date on December 14th (12/14), 1997.

So we have 12/14 and 9/8. Together they represent a relationship that later became a marriage.

Note that the author’s wedding date is not in our prophetic numbers. Therefore, our two dates symbolically represent a wedding to take place in the future.

What happens before a wedding? You send out the invitations!

King George III: Lucky in Love but not in War

Your_Prince found love on Match.com after many bad dates. England’s King George III got lucky in love also! Actually, George hit the jackpot because he met his wife on his wedding day, September 8th (9/8), 1761 at the age of 22. It was an arranged marriage that lasted. King George III and his wife Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz had a fruitful union. Unlike many men in royal, arranged marriages, George was faithful and never took a mistress. George and Charlotte had 15 children. They were a happy couple until King George III succumbed to mental illness later in life.

Theater fans have been treated to the “Mad King George” in the hit Broadway show Hamilton. This performance is also available at a much lower cost on Disney Plus.

The solo singing performance of King George III is one of the most memorable in the play. Here’s a sample:

You'll be back,

soon, you'll see

You'll remember you belong to me

You'll be back, time will tell

You'll remember that I served you well

Oceans rise, empires fall

We have seen each other through it all

And when push comes to shove

I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!

Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da

Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da

Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da

Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya

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England’s King George III was certainly no stranger to war in his long reign between 1738 and 1820. His most significant military victory as King of England was the French and Indian War, also referred to as the Seven Years War (1754-1763).

Victories in wars though are never without unintended consequences. Killing on a massive scale tends to create waves of disturbances in “The Force,” to borrow from the movie Star Wars.

The war debt racked up by Great Britain during the French and Indian War created a financial problem for King George III. Where to get the money to pay for it? He thought, “Hey, I think I’ll raise taxes on the American Colonies! What are they going to do about it? Fight me? Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da!”

Oops! They did! And the French Monarchy, led by King Louis XVI, saw an opportunity for revenge against King George III and the British Empire. The French provided critical military and financial help to the American Colonies during the American Revolution. Advantage France and King Louis XVI.

King Louis’ Headache

But wait, the disturbance in “The Force” was not over yet. France racked up massive war debt of their own helping the American Colonies defeat King George III and Great Britain. Where to get the money to pay for it? King Louis thought, “Hey, maybe I’ll raise taxes on the common people of France! What are they going to do about it? Fight me?”

Oops! The “common people” in France stormed the Bastille Prison, a symbol of the injustice of the French Monarchy. The commoners were also after the GUNPOWDER to use with GELETINE, stored at the Bastille, for their muskets. The French Revolution began on the July 14th, 1789.

Unlike the American Revolution that resulted in a constitution that has lasted for at least a couple centuries so far, Revolutionary France kept tossing out its constitutions and starting over. You think partisanship was bad during the Trump “reign” in America? That looks like a tea party, the non-political kind, compared to what the French people experienced in the late 18th century!

In fact, the terms “left” and “right” in American politics came from the French Revolutionary era. The left-wing Jacobins sat high up in the assembly where they shouted down at their political enemies on the right side of the meeting hall. They were called “the mountain!”

The left and right couldn’t agree peacefully how to distribute power and wealth in the post Monarchy, early Republic of France. It turned into a horror show of violent score settling in 1794 and 1795. The violence was brought to the French people by the “Committee of Public Safety.” It was a state-run attempt to keep order in a democratic republic that went badly off the rails. The tool to keep order was the guillotine.

Some of the first heads to role were those of King Louis XVI and his wife. MARIE ANTIONETTE was WELL VERSED IN the ETTIQUET of opulent palace life. The queen, according to legend, told the poor LET EM EAT CAKE! Very politically incorrect thing to say, even though it was merely a believable conspiracy theory at the time.

The “dark side” was on a roll now! The French people grew tired of counting heads. The numbers are estimated at up to 17,000 total. Most of the headless were common people who said the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time.

By 1799 the French people were ready to try different leadership. The French Republic was in taters after “the terror.” And the people had also lost their representation when several elections were overturned in the late 1790s. The French people didn’t want a monarchy again. But they were willing turn power over to a no-nonsense military leader who, maybe just maybe, could bring some stability.

Enter Napoleon Bonaparte.

Napoleon’s Apocalypse

Napoleon had just returned to Paris after leaving much of his army stranded in Egypt. But Napoleon, using the Egyptian Pyramids as a backdrop, marketed his Egypt “expedition” as a cultural and military victory “the likes of which has never been seen!”

In November of 1799, Napoleon took power in a non-violent coup. Bonaparte gave the French people some stability for a while. He created the fourth constitution for Revolutionary France. It gave the appearance of a republic but, in practice, was a dictatorship with guess who in charge. It worked for a few years. And Napoleon’s Code of Laws, developed during this period, is still used in much of Europe as a legal foundation.

But the Darth Vader in Napoleon eventually revealed itself in a fatal way.

Tolstoy, in his classic War and Peace, wrote about what’s now referred to as Napoleon’s Comet:

It’s pure white light and long uplift of it’s tail, shone the comet, the huge, brilliant comet of 1812 that popular harbinger of untold horrors and the end of the world

Napoleon, in June of 1812, created his own personal apocalypse by invading Russia. He wanted revenge against Tzar Alexander of Russia who backed out of his Continental System, a European trade war to punish Great Britain.

Napoleon’s Grand Arm’ee was a multi-national coalition of roughly a half million men, the largest standing army in world history at the time. Napoleon’s Russia invasion is a case study on the importance of supply logistics in warfare because the Russian army refused to fight with arms until the Grand Arm’ee was close to Moscow. Geographic distance, disease, drought and starvation did the fighting for Russia.

After fighting two key battles close to Moscow, Smolensk and Borodeno, the Russian army still kept retreating. Napoleon figured when he occupied Moscow, Tsar Alexander would surrender. But the Russians burned Moscow to the ground as Napoleon watched the flaming apocalypse he had unleased by his Darth Vader-like decision.

By mid-October, Napoleon realized he did not have enough supplies in the smoking Moscow to get his army through the long, cold Russian winter. So he headed back to France. Napoleon’s army froze in temperatures as low as 35 below zero in November. Russian peasants, mostly Christian Orthodox, saw what was left of Napoleon’s Grand Arm’ee as a legion of demons led by the Antichrist himself. They attacked the Grand Arm’ee relentlessly as they froze.

On December 14th (12/14), 1812, Napoleon and his Grand Arm’ee crossed the border of Russia and never returned. The Grand Arm’ee was no longer “grand” though. They only had 10,000 troops remaining.

Is this a rebuke of all the Darth Vader-like powers throughout history by our Grand Angel Arm’ee and the real Christ?

Soon after Napoleon’s Russia disaster, the Russian army was in Paris and Napoleon left France for the Island of Elba. He returned to power briefly because the newly installed monarch, King Louis XVIII (brother of Louis XVI), wasn’t fit to lead.

The French people were tired of Napoleon’s military adventures by then. But the Darth Vader inside Napoleon’s head had one more move left. It was the famous Battle of Waterloo where NAPOLEON DID SURRENDER!

King George III of Great Britain with Prussia’s help dealt the finishing blow to Napoleon’s death star!

The words from the 1970s disco band ABBA in their hit Waterloo say it all!

My, my, at Waterloo NAPOLEON DID SURRENDER
Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself

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Napoleon ended up dying unhappily ever after on the remote island of St. Helena.

Does this drama with “Mad King” George III, “headless” King Louise XVI and the little general with a big ego who became a king sound familiar? Isn’t it a little like The Game of Thrones hit HBO series?

Well, let’s see what God has to say about that in 👑Revelation 4👑. In the next chapter, we will visit the heavenly throne room in John’s vision. It’s a commentary on your human “Game of Thrones” as opposed to God’s throne.

No Games in God’s Throne

If you travel just outside Paris, you can visit a human throne room at the Palace of Versailles.

At Versailles, you can see the painting 🖼 Napoleon I as Emperor by French artist François Gérard, produced in 1805🖼. Napoleon I is depicted at his coronation on 2 December, 1804.

Napoleon was a showman, so had no problem immersing himself in symbols of royal power when the moment called for it. In this picture, the bright, shiny royal symbols are everywhere:

• Blue cushioned gilt throne

• 80 pounds of gold thread on his white robe

• Long red coronation cloak trimmed with ermine and white

• Staff held in his right hand

• Crown with golden laurels on his head

• Golden collar of the Legion d’honneur around his neck

• Staff topped by an eagle in his right hand

• Stool bearing an orb and cross and ivory headed scepter

Now, let’s compare and contrast God’s throne with your human throne. A description of God’s throne room is in 👑Revelation 4👑. John’s spirit enters this place through an open door to heaven. Someone is on the throne but He is not identified. John can’t see Him because there is what could be mistaken today as a laser light show at a Kiss concert.

Bright lights from precious jewels are shining on this mysterious One on the throne. And light from a rainbow encircles His throne.

In both the painting of Napoleon’s throne and John’s word picture, attention is focused on the one in power on the throne. However, the first difference between your “showman’s” throne and God’s throne is that your guy wants to be SEEN. The One in John’s throne vision wants to remain mysterious, at least for a while.

There is another more important difference between John’s throne in heaven and your human throne.

🖼Use the internet now to teleport yourself to Louvre Museum of Art in Paris. There, you can witness the emperor Napoleon again, this time at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It’s a massive painting, 20 ft tall and 33 ft wide, completed in 1807 by French artist Jacques-Louis David🖼. Napoleon is dressed in the same coronation robe we describe above. It’s similar to the one worn by emperors of Rome.

The years after Napoleon took power, he survived several assassination attempts. As a result, he used those events to consolidate his power. Napoleon I then based his new dictatorship of France on the Roman emperor model.

In Jacques-Louis David’s large painting, the bold and brash military leader, now emperor of France, is placing the crown of jewels ON HIS OWN HEAD!

Also in the painting, you see Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) surrounded by dignitary clerics. Napoleon was not a man of faith. He saw religion as a tool to help him maintain power. For example, during his Egypt “expedition,” Napoleon tried to win over the people in Egypt with his vast knowledge of the Koran. After the Egypt campaign, Napoleon reminisced how he envisioned himself riding on an elephant throughout the Middle East, spreading his unique version of Islam that fit his needs to maintain power in the region.

Bonaparte saw the Catholic Church the same way. So in the name of earthly power, he made efforts to heal the breakup between church and state that left wing Jacobins initiated in Revolutionary France. The Pope only attended Napoleon’s coronation at Notre Dame Cathedral so not to jeopardize Napoleon’s fragile new church and state alliance.

From this perspective, Napoleon should earn some Antichrist votes. In the winter of 1812 when the Russian Orthodox Christian peasants attacked the retreating Napoleon and his demonic troops, there was a grain of truth in their extra motivation.

Now let’s go back and visit John’s heavenly throne vision in 👑Revelation 4👑. Around the throne there are three concentric circles. The first is the rainbow we described lighting it up. John borrowed this from Noah in 👑Genesis 9👑 where it is the sign of the covenant God confirms with all creatures on earth after the flood. The next circle is four mysterious creatures with six wings and eyes all over their wings. The last outside circle is made up of 24 “elders” who sit on thrones. These are most likely meant to be angelic beings who are leaders of the spiritual church. The 24 represents the 12 tribes of Israel plus 12 disciples of Jesus.

The elders do something remarkable that speaks to the nature of the heavenly One on the throne and the ordered power structure in heaven. The 24 elders cast down THEIR CROWNS AT HIS FEET!

They freely give up their thrones to the One in power who they can’t see. 👑Revelation 4👑 doesn’t reveal who the One in power is. Spoiler alert! He wears a crown of thorns symbolizing how He gained his power on earth!

This whole power structure is completely the opposite of your human “Game of Thrones!”

Human history is littered with abuses of power! In upcoming chapters, including the next, you will read about the body count left in the wake of the human pursuit of earthly crowns.

The British monarchy Breaks our Heavenly Circle

In 👑Revelation 4👑, after the 24 elders cast down their crowns, they sing out in a heavenly chorus:

 “You are worthy, O Lord our God,
  to receive glory and honor and power.
For you created all things,
  and they exist because you created what you pleased.”

Remember our 12 note Circle of Fifths diagram celebrating the musical People of God?

In honor of our 24 elders, who know the One really in charge on the throne, it’s time to listen to Will the Circle Be Unbroken again!

This time, a Carter girl, June sings it with her husband Johnny Cash!

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by, Lord, by and by

There's a better home a-waiting

In the sky, Lord, in the sky

🎸Touch or click here to sing it with us🎸

In your human Game of Thrones, we left off with England’s King George III blowing up Napoleon’s death star at Waterloo. But as in Star Wars, the battle of good vs. evil is never so cut and dry. Remember, Darth Vader started out as a good guy before he went to the “dark side.”

Good or evil is always a choice. And absolute power in your world usually ends with bad, sometimes evil choices.

About three centuries before England’s monarchy finished off Napoleon, they tried to blow up our “unbroken circle” and everything inside it!

In 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the steak. Tyndale’s last words before he burned were:

Lord! Please open the King of England’s eyes!

What did Tyndale do to deserve the wrath of the King and his inner “circle” who had him imprisoned, interrogated and executed on charges of heresy? Here are his famous words about this “heretical” mission:

I defy the pope and his laws! If God spares my life, in a few years a plow boy shall know more of the Scriptures than you do.

William Tyndale translated the New Testament into modern English for the first time. He still was working on the Old Testament before his death. Tyndale’s efforts eventually evolved, after his death, into the King James Bible.

A Bible that common people could read was a threat to the pope of the Catholic Church and his VIP orbit that included, at the time, the King of England. This is because the clergy acted as the translator of scripture for the King’s realm of common people. Since church and state were aligned to protect wealth and privilege within their “circle,” they didn’t want commoners focusing on the inconvenient truths Jesus said about the rich and powerful.

In the 1470s, an upsurge of wars created the need for more castle building by the papal states. The Gordon Gecko inside the minds of church leaders responded to this financial problem like Jerry McGuire:

Show me the money!

Remarkably, it was the grim reaper who showed the Catholic Church the money.

The plague and wars had taken an emotional tole on the population. Death was on everyone’s mind. The church had the perfect product to roll out to this “market.” The invention of the printing press in 1455 allowed mass production of tickets to salvation called indulgences. They were a cross between a school hall pass (to heaven) and a bank note. These heavenly hall passes were a huge success! In fact, indulgences financed the building of the magnificent St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome (starting in 1506).

Indulgences were a bridge too far for Martin Luther, a German priest who decided the Catholic Church had gone way off the Jesus rails in the Middle Ages. He nailed his 95 grievances to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany. The Protestant Church was born!

Our King of England revealed his real “faith” in the Catholic Church when it refused to grant his divorce to Catherine of Aragon. The King wanted to assure that his divine rule continued into eternity with a male heir to his throne. Catherine’s inability to conceive a child prompted the King to look for a younger wife.

Tyndale opposed the King’s divorce in writing and that was added to his list of crimes against the state.

Later, the King opted for the Protestant Jesus so he could get his divorce. But the King was closer to Sauron from Lord of the Rings than Jesus at that time! He ended up beheading his next wife, Ann Boleyn.

Who is our mysterious King of England? The King who lit a “ring of fire” around the first English Translation of the Bible, beheaded two of his wives, and murdered William Tyndale? Who is this other candidate for the Antichrist? His name is King Henry VIII also known as Henry the 8th. We call him H8!

Is there any hope for the good guys in your human Game of Thrones?

We take you back to the Broadway hit Hamilton to introduce our hero who turns the tide!

Ladies and gentlemen!

Here comes the General!

The moment you’ve been waiting for!

Here comes the General!

The pride of Mount Vernon!

Here comes the general!

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The King Who Cast his Crown

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson didn’t agree on anything politically. Hamilton, from New York, was for policies that helped the industrializing Northeast. Jefferson, from Virginia, backed the interests of the agrarian South. It was an economic disagreement that eventually became apocalyptic in the American Civil War 65 years later. But, before then, the new American Republic almost imploded from the same boiling sectionalism during George Washington’s first term as president.

Revolutionary War debt created a need for the new government to raise more revenue. Hamilton’s idea was a tax on whiskey. Washington passed the Whiskey Tax Bill in 1791.

Whiskey was produced primarily in the Western Frontier states. Many of these frontiersmen were Revolutionary War veterans who just fought a war over unfair taxes. So the farmers in the western states started a violent tax protest known as the Whiskey Rebellion (or Whiskey Insurrection) that lasted from 1791 to 1794.

It was just one of many crises facing George Washington during his second term as president.

In 1796, George Washington informed Alexander Hamilton, in writing, that he would not seek a third term as president. His words were, “Nothing under heaven can make me stay!”

Hamilton responded, “How can you retreat!”

Jefferson and Hamilton did agree on one thing: That Washington was the perfect leader at the perfect time!

Washington was elected as the first American President in the election of 1788-1789.

Both Jefferson and Hamilton convinced Washington that the United States could not remain united if he retired after his first term ended in 1792. But George grew even more weary from being the domestic peacekeeper in his second term. So, despite all the American voices that wanted him to remain King, George Washington became the first American president to CAST HIS CROWN and voluntarily give up power.

At that time, there were no presidential term limits in the United States Constitution (ratified in 1789).

Hamilton caved on his objection to Washington’s retirement in 1796 and helped him draft his famous farewell speech with some help from James Madison. It was printed in a newspaper first, then distributed widely in pamphlet form. Today, it is still a profound statement on American values and a clear warning of future threats to the American experiment.

Our Broadway musical Hamilton honored the “cast crown” of George Washington and his farewell address with the song One Last Time.

🎸Touch or click here to sing it with us!🎸

Here is George Washington’s “farewell” list of American values to keep along with the future threats to the republic:

• Importance of national unity

• Value of the Constitution and it’s rule of law

• Evils of political parties and bitter partisanship

• Foreign influence on domestic politics (ie. elections)

• Warning against meddling in foreign countries affairs

• Importance of international relationships and trade that benefits commerce

• Warning against unnecessary foreign wars

📜Washington’s Farewell speech📜 was recited orally once a year in the Senate starting in 1888 then in the House of Representatives starting in 1889.

George Washington: The Chosen One

Hamilton and Jefferson weren’t alone in their opinion of GW as a “chosen one.” Another person with the same opinion was an Indian chief who fought against Washington on July 9, 1755 at the Battle of Monongahela during the French and Indian War.

In October 1770, Washington went to Ohio Country with a group of soldiers. Along on the trip was Washington’s personal physician Dr. James Craik. Dr. Craik later testified about a remarkable meeting that happened on this trip with an indigenous sachem (local chief). The records do not mention the chief's nation, but he may have been Shawnee, Mingo, or Delaware since they were allied with the French in the area of the battle. The chief and his fellow warriors intended to kill Washington, who took over command of the British army, after General James Braddock was injured. Multiple shots were fired directly at Washington, but none touched him. Washington himself told his mother Mary Ball Washington a few days after the battle that “I luckily escap'd with't a wound, tho' I had four Bullets through my Coat, and two Horses shot under me.”

The chief was convinced that the Great Spirit had preserved Washington! He prophesized that “Washington will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn, will hail him as the father of a mighty empire!”

Dr. Craik’s account of this incredible meeting was recorded in early biographies of Washington. In 1827, Washington’s adopted son George Washington Parke Custis even told this amazing story in a play called The Indian Prophecy.

(📜Source is from the Mt. Vernon library📜)

Eighty years after the Battle of Monongahela, a gold seal with the initials GW was found among bullets in the area where Washington was riding back and forth on the battlefield. It was dented by a bullet that probably would have killed our hero of the Revolutionary War and first American President.

Late on a cold, snowy December night at his Mount Vernon, Virginia home, George Washington lie in bed close to death. Family and doctors attended to him.

Washington’s last words spoken to his doctor in bed were:

I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put in a vault in less than 3 days after I am dead. Do you understand me?

The doctor nodded his head yes.

George Washington’s last two words were:

TIS WELL

George Washington, General who miraculously survived the Battle of Monongahela in the French and Indian War, hero of the American Revolution and first President of the United States, died just before midnight on December 14th (12/14), 1799.

Why did Washington speak his last words about not being buried for at least three days? Was he thinking he might resurrect then ascend to heaven like Jesus?

On January 6, 2021, one of the “tourists” walking through the United States Capitol Rotunda could have looked up to the heavens and seen the “resurrected” George Washington!

The 🖼Apotheosis of George Washington🖼 is a gigantic fresco on the ceiling of the U.S. Capitol dome. It was painted by Italian artist Constantino Brumidi between 1863 and 1865, at the end of the American Civil War. The figures are painted up to 180 feet high above the floor and are up to 15 feet tall.

The Apotheosis of George Washington looks like it borrowed some visions from our throne room scene in 👑Revelation 4👑! Washington sits amongst the heavens in an exalted manner with a RAINBOW arch at his feet. He is among an INNER CIRCLE of goddesses. By his side are goddesses of Liberty and Victory. They are joined in the INNER CIRCLE by 13 maidens representing the original 13 colonies.

The OUTER CIRCLE is made up of scenes representing "War," "Science," "Marine," "Commerce," "Mechanics," and "Agriculture.”

It appears our heroic general has repaired our unbroken circle and brought back some hope for the good guys in your human Game of Thrones!

Let’s celebrate with one of our favorite tunes! This one is from a movie that was also a Broadway play. Song composed by Elton John. Here is the chorus.

In the circle of life

It's the wheel of fortune

It's the leap of faith

It's the band of hope

Till we find our place

On the path unwinding

In the circle, the circle of life

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Chapter Summary

In this chapter we prepare you to participate in the spiritual war on earth. To help you engage, we recruited some Kings and Queens to our side in this great struggle between good and evil that escalates in the 20th century!

👑Revelation 5👑 refers to Jesus as the Lion of the tribe of Judah on God’s throne. This Lion is the heir to David’s throne and has already won the victory in heaven! But when the author John looks again, he sees a Lamb who has been slaughtered on the throne. So Jesus is both a Lion and slain Lamb.

We explore this contradiction then we entertain you with stories about the British Crown. It turns out our prophetic numbers are all over these English Kings and Queens!

In British Lion Kings, we will tell you about the symbolic nature of lions in British culture. You will see lions in the United Kingdom’s Royal Coat of Arms. Then you will meet singer and songwriter Elton John and experience his Grammy winning song that became famous because of the hit Disney movie The Lion King. We will briefly introduce you to King Richard the Lionheart, the king who gave the image of the Royal Family a boost with his courage and chivalry. We finish this section with a look at the Christian author CS Lewis and his fictional Narnia world. One of his stories called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a metaphor for the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The Christ figure is a Lion by the name of Aslan. Can you guess where Lewis got the idea to portray Christ as a Lion?

Where did John (the author of Revelation) get the idea to call Jesus the Lion of the Tribe of Judah? Go to 👑Genesis 49👑 to discover the lion connection with Judah. We encourage you to use our link and find out for yourself. If you do, you will hear this Lion roar!

Lions are known as the kings of the jungle and “man-eaters.” Famous author Earnest Hemingway, who hunted lions in Africa, respected the danger they pose to humans. In his epic story The Old Man and the Sea, he uses lions to symbolize the consequences of disrespecting nature. Then we share the real story of the man-eating Lions of Tsavo in 1898. Surprise! Our prophetic numbers are all over this story. It’s a warning to humans intent on disrespecting nature in the name of economic growth and “progress.”

The reign of British Queen Victoria was so enduring and remarkable that the dawn of the human industrial age was named for her: The Victorian Age. It’s an age of contradictions. For example, the industrial revolution brought Harry Potter-like magical inventions but they materialized not through magic but by factory commands from the Ebenezer Scrooge’s of the era: The pre-Christmas ghost version!

Queen Victoria was ironically not a contradiction!

We tell you about the remarkable life of this British “Teen Queen” and her handsome Prince Albert. Her long, roller coaster reign as Queen was equaled on September 8, 2015 by Queen Elizabeth II and then surpassed the day after and more! The “Teen Queen” Victoria’s legacy was to turn the British Monarchy into the pop culture phenomenon of pomp and circumstance it is today.

If you have watched The Crown on Netflix, you know the story of our “Killer Queen” Elizabeth II. We finish this chapter with a brief tour through her legendary reign.

When you are in a great spiritual battle for the lives and souls of mankind, who better to have on your side than a “Killer Queen?” How do you know she is on our side? Our prophetic numbers are all over her family’s story! It’s why we celebrate with lyrics from the classic rock band Queen song with the same name!

British Lion Kings

The 🖼royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom🖼 is the symbol used to represent the British monarch, currently King Charles III.

Be sure to touch or click our Wiki picture link above before you read on!

In the royal coat of arms, Lions are everywhere! There are 9 total. Two of the lions are wearing crowns. One crowned lion sits on top of the crowned royal seal.

British rock star Elton John also loves lions. Elton composed the music for the Circle of Life, the opening song in the hit 1994 animated film The Lion King. The song was released on 8/9/1994. The lyrics were written first by Tim Rice who gave them to John at 2pm when they met for a creative session. By 3:30pm that day, the song was complete.

Did Elton John get supernatural assistance with this tune? Yes, he is a gifted song writer. But an hour and a half to write a Grammy winning song? Maybe Elton was helped by the ghost of a legendary Lion King of England’s past.

King Richard the Lionheart is the only King of England to be known for his nickname and not his regnal number, the first. Our Lionheart King earned his name through his reputation as a great warrior and military leader. By the age of 16, Richard was given command of his own army and put down a rebellion against his father, King Henry II. King Richard the Lionheart later led the Third Crusade against the Muslim leader Saladin. We aren’t fans of religious wars so we give Lionheart big kudos for signing the Peace Treaty of Jaffa (1192 AD 20th of Sha'ban). This treaty ceded control of Jerusalem to the Muslims but gave pilgrimage rights to Christians, ending the Third Crusade.

It’s true that our Lionheart king was a crusader who depleted men and money in foreign military adventures, mostly for his personal glory. It’s also true that he didn’t take a hard enough stand against a violent persecution of Jews in his kingdom.

But the Middle Ages were a brutal time period. Despite his flaws, King Richard the Lionheart still stands as a legend and chivalrous example for all future princes in the monarchy to follow! Anyways, God knows King Richard the Lionheart is now on our side of a spiritual crusade!

King Richard the Lionheart, fierce teen warrior and leader of an army at age 16, Jerusalem peace treaty maker and King with the coolest regnal name (Lionheart) was born on September 8th (9/8), 1157.

Another English lion fan was CS Lewis (born 1898), the famous Christian apologist. His best work is a series of seven illustrated children’s fantasy novels in the The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956). They are set in the fantasy world of Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures.

Lewis found the name ‘Narnia’ as a teenager studying the classics during WWI (1914). He was looking at Murray’s Small Classical Atlas (G.B. Grundy) and noticed on plate 8 a map of ancient Italy. There was a little town called ‘Narni’ halfway between Rome and Assisi. It stuck in his mind and became Narnia.

Our favorite story of the Narnia series was made into a hit movie in 2005, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The book opens:

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away to the heart of the country from London during World War II because of the German air raids…

The children are sent to a very large house in the country and discover a magical wardrobe that’s a portal to the wintery world of Narnia. It’s a perpetual winter but without Christmas. Narnia is cursed by the White Witch.

After many adventures with talking animals and mythic creatures of Narnia, the children become kings and queens who help Aslan the lion save Narnia. Together, they bring about a Golden Age and legacy that’s explored deeper in later books.

The adventure of Aslan the lion and the four children is a creative analogy to the story of Jesus. The children fulfill an old prophecy and find themselves in a great battle to save Narnia and themselves. Aslan gives his life to save one of the children but he later rises from the dead and defeats the White Witch. At the end of the story, Aslan crowns the four children Kings and Queens of Narnia.

Aslan, his animal friends and the four children (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy) saved Narnia in a moment of crisis.

It’s notable that C.S. Lewis fought in World War One and survived to create this magical adventure that honors the life and death of Jesus. Lucky? From your perspective maybe. But not from ours!

In the next chapter, we will see Jesus, the Lion King rescue John of Patmos from a crisis in 👑Revelation 5👑!

Jesus as the Lion King

Like the four children in the Narnia tale, John of Revelation has a crises in the heavenly throne room. Let’s revisit 👑Revelation 4👑 and 👑Revelation 5👑 and have a look again.

The crisis starts when an angel issues a challenge in a thunderous voice:

Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?

First, what is the significance of this scroll held in the right hand of the One on the throne?

The scroll has writing on both sides so it is complete. It’s rolled so nobody can open it. There is reason to believe John meant to portray a last will and testament. You can also think of this rolled up, sealed scroll as a kind of movie script in development. In both cases, the scroll contains something very very important that must be revealed.

The crisis deepens when nobody can open and read the mysterious scroll, not on earth, in heaven or the underworld. John is crushed and cries like a baby!

An angel saves the day! Of course! It’s what WE do!

The One who can open the scroll is the Root of David and the Lion of the Tribe of Judah! We have covered the biblical significance of the family connection between King David and Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus as a lion from Judah we have not. This imagery also ties Jesus to King David since David was from Judah.

We have to go all the way back to 👑Genesis 49👑 to discover the lion connection with Judah.

In the biblical stories, important people sometimes change their names and become symbols of something greater than themselves. In your modern world, Mohammed Ali did this (with Islam) when he changed his name from Caseous Clay.

In the story of the twelve tribes of Israel, Jacob wrestles with God and takes the name Israel. Jacob’s 12 sons become the 12 tribes of Israel. Judah was the fourth of Jacob’s 12 sons.

👑Genesis 49👑 details how Jacob first addresses each leader of his 12 tribes. He gives kind of a pre-game speech and uses motivational words to encourage each leader. Jacob tells Judah he is like a lion who will grab his enemies by the neck! After he eats his prey, the young lion of Judah will crouch down. Relatives will bow before Judah the Lion King!

The imagery would have appealed to Jews living in Jerusalem, the City of David. Remember, they were under Roman occupation when Revelation was written. They hoped for a fierce messiah who would pounce on their Roman enemies and free them. But something remarkable happens in the throne room scene in 👑Revelation 5👑. John looks again at the only One worthy to open this scroll, this will and testimony, this script for an epic drama to unfold: He’s not a lion anymore! He’s slaughtered lamb. That, of course, is Jesus who died on a Roman cross as THE self-sacrificing hero in our epic movie script!

Jesus Roars

Don’t get locked into the symbol of Jesus as a lamb. Yes, he suffered and died a sacrificial death. But the key to Christ’s passion story is his Easter Sunday moment! Remember, Jesus conquered death!

From the perspective of the resurrection, Jesus reigns at the center of all creation!

👑Revelation 5👑 makes this crystal clear! First, when the sacrificial lamb takes the scroll from the One on the throne, John notices the lamb has seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out to all the earth! This means the lamb is not dead but instead, alive and all powerful! The four living creatures and 24 elders encircling the throne agree. They play harps and sing a new song:

You are worthy to take the scroll
and break its seals and open it.
For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.
And you have caused them to become
a Kingdom of priests for our God.
And they will reign on the earth.

Then John hears the voices of over 100 million angels. They form an outer circle around this throne party. Finally, every creature in heaven and on earth joins the celebration of the lamb on the throne who sounds more like a roaring lion at this point!

Let’s celebrate with the chorus of Roar by Katy Perry. Listen to him roar!

I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter
Dancing through the fire
'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You're gonna hear me roar

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Deadly Lions

Just because the resurrected Jesus in heaven reigns over all creation, that doesn’t entitle humans to disregard nature and all its living creatures on 🌎 earth!

Remember, EVERY CREATURE in heaven AND ON EARTH joined in the heavenly chorus to celebrate the lion who became the victorious lamb on the throne! That includes animals who share your planet with you! This little fact in the conclusion of 👑Revelation 5👑 is a hint to mankind NOT to disrespect the environment. The alternative, as you are witnessing every day, is not pretty!

We have more to say later about “judgements” mother nature has in store if she continues to be used and abused.

Even the killer of animals, Earnest Hemingway, agreed with us! Hemingway famously hunted lions in Africa and bragged about it. Earnest was the apex predator on his African hunting trips. But Hemingway also understood that sometimes nature fights back. In his classic novella, The Old Man and the Sea, lions represent an ominous sign that nature will win the upcoming fight between Santiago, the old fisherman, and giant fish lurking in the depths of the Gulf Stream. The old man has repeated dreams of lions on the beach.

In Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber tough, armed men looking for adventure on African safaris instead find disaster.

A few decades before Hemingway’s African adventure, in March of 1898, a British Lieutenant-Colonel, John Henry Patterson, along with several hundred Indian and local African workers started construction on a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Workers stayed in several camp sites spreading 8 miles. Over the next 9 months, two maneless male lions stalked the campsite, dragging workers from their tents at night. The workers built campfires and thorned fences around their camps to no avail. The lions just leaped over or crawled through them. Patterson noted that at first the lions attacked alone. But later, the attacks intensified and both lions entered the camps at the same time, each dragging out a victim.

After repeated unsuccessful attempts, Patterson shot and killed the first lion on 9 December 1898. It measured 9 ft 8 in from nose to tip of tail. It took 8 men to carry the dead lion back to camp. Twenty days later, the second lion was killed.

The two Lions of Tsavo are on display today at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.

Patterson first reported that the Tsavo Lions killed over 135 Indian and local workers. However, recent research suggests the actual number of victims was 35. In any case, this horrifying story about real lions makes the movie Jaws look like Beach Blanket Bingo!

In 1996, the movie The Ghost in the Darkness, staring Val Kilmer as Colonel Patterson, dramatized the 1898 Tsavo Lions story.

You have to admit, our sacred numbers showing up all over this story are a bit “ghostly,” aren’t they? Is the Holy Ghost along with a couple of His friends sending humans a subtle message about disrespecting the animal “Kingdom” here?

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phillip must not have heard about the Lions of Tsavo. They both visited Kenya in February of 1952. In the hit Netflix series The Crown, season 1, the royal couple’s experience staying in a Kenya jungle tree hut is portrayed. Prince Phillip showed his princely chops by fending off an enraged male elephant while Elizabeth scurried up into the tree house. Elizabeth was not a queen yet. She became one that night in the African jungle when her father and King, George VI, passed away at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England.

It was the damn CIGARETTES!

Remember the 9 lions in the 🖼royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom🖼? In our next chapter, you will discover how the British royal family, like Aslan, roared back and resurrected itself to become a pop culture phenomenon in England.

The Lion Teen Queen

The year Colonel Patterson sleighed the Tsavo Lions, 1898, was the height the Victorian era in England. The era is named after Queen Victoria who reigned on the British throne starting in 1837 for 63 years, 7 months and 2 days (until 1901). Victoria held the record until it was equaled on September 8th, 2015 by Elizabeth II who broke it the next day and then some!

The Victorian era was rife with contradictions.

The British Empire developed the first railway network in the world. It connected everything and enabled commerce, mass marketing, personal travel, political campaigns and even the first sports teams! The Indians and Africans who worked on the railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya probably thought differently about the “greatness” of the British Empire’s railway network.

Cotton textiles started the Industrial Revolution in England. But much of the cotton imports came from the blood, sweat and tears of African American slaves.

James Watt invented the steam engine and British “titans” of industry built gigantic steamships with impressive names like Mauritania, Olympia and Titanic. These huge ships finally made commerce and travel across the Atlantic safe. Well, at least most did for a while!

Fire from coal lit the steam powered Industrial Revolution but it blackened buildings, streets and even plant life in England. It darkened London in blankets of unrelenting, sometimes deadly fog.

The Industrial Revolution brought Harry Potter-like magical inventions. But they materialized not through magic but by factory commands from the Ebenezer Scrooge’s of the era: The pre-Christmas ghost version!

In this changing world of contradictions, Victoria, the future “Teen Queen,” was refreshingly not that! Previous male monarchs had hurt the royal family’s reputation. George III went mad (at the end of his life), George IV made the throne unpopular and William IV was popular but a moral failure. The British people were ready for something different.

In March of 1830, with King George IV close to death, it started to become clear that the ten-year-old Princess Victoria could very well become Queen of England. As a result, Victoria was sheltered in her early adolescent years and complained of loneliness. Her father though, Edward, Duke of Kent, saw the spark in the tiny little princess and dubbed her “pocket Hercules.”

When Victoria reached 17, she was still under 5ft tall, but was next in line for the throne. Her Mother and her late father’s equerry, Sir John Conroy, schemed to withhold the throne from Victoria if the King passed before Victoria turned 18. But fate had it that the King held on just long enough! On June 20, 1837 at 12 minutes after 2am, King George IV died and Victoria became Queen of England as an 8-teen year old girl!

We now have a single, attractive young Queen. What about a handsome prince? He came along at Victoria’s 17th birthday party before she was Queen. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was Victoria’s cousin. After their second meeting on 14 October, 1839, she was smitten. Victoria wrote in her journal:

Albert’s beauty was most striking!

He is full of goodness & Sweetness, & very clever and intelligent!

Victoria proposed to Albert four days after their second meeting. They were married on February 10, 1840. Within days of their wedding, Victoria was pregnant.

From the standpoint of heirs and spares, their marriage was extremely fruitful. Vicky, was her first born on 21 November, 1840. The Queen hated being pregnant and suffered from severe post-partum depression. But over the next seventeen years, she and Albert had eight more children: Albert Edward (Bertie) (b. 1841), Alice (b. 1843), Alfred (b. 1844), Helena (b. 1846), Louis (b. 1848), Arthur (b. 1850), Leopold (b. 1853) and Beatrice (b. 1857).

When they first married, Queen Victoria was not open to giving Albert any authority. But the burden of so many children changed their royal arrangement. And Albert was an alpha male at heart. So over time, the Prince assumed more and more responsibilities and power.

Raising so many kids, even with significant staff help, was a challenge! Their first born heir to the throne was a big problem! Prince Albert Edward (Bertie) took after his grandfather William IV. He was a party boy who went his own way. Bertie was to marry Princess Alexandra of Denmark but temporarily blew up the arrangement by having an affair with actress Nellie Clifden before he turned twenty. His parents were horrified by the Prince’s behavior!

That same year, 1861, Victoria’s world started to cave in. In March, the Queen’s mother died. Victoria had grown closer to her mom after marrying Albert. She was grief stricken and even suffered a nervous breakdown. Then the Queen’s world crashed and burned. Albert had been sick with severe stomach pains in October. Victoria was still grieving from her mother’s death and frustrated with the timing of Albert’s illness. But on 9 December, Albert was diagnosed with typhoid fever and died a few days later.

The day Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary:

All, all was over.

Victoria mourned like no other Queen or King in British history. The perpetual “woman in black” became the royal recluse of Windsor. For years, she refused to participate in the public duties of a Queen. At first, the British people were understanding. But after a year of Victoria’s seclusion, they turned critical. The Queen of England did not seem capable of executing her basic duties as the symbolic head of state!

In contrast, the future King, the Prince of Wales (Bertie) was still busy sowing is wild oats. His marriage to Alexandra of Denmark was failing as Bertie had another scandalous affair with the wife of a British member of Parliament. The Liberal British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, stated the current situation in 1868:

The Queen is invisible and the Prince of Wales is not respected.

It took another family health crisis to save the situation. In November of 1871, almost exactly 10 years since his father’s death, the Prince of Wales fell ill with the same disease - typhoid fever. The nation held it’s breath as the future King was close to death. When Bertie recovered, there was a great national relief. Prime Minister Gladstone took advantage by organizing a spectacular thanksgiving celebration on 27 February, 1872 at St. Paul’s Cathedral. It turned out to be a “coming out” party for Queen Victoria and a turning point for the monarchy!

Queen Victoria served the longest reign on the British throne, at the time, and rose to great popularity. But she took a hard fall, personally and publicly, because of Prince Albert’s unexpected death. The premature death of her son - the Prince of Wales - from the same illness that robbed her of her beloved husband would have finished the Queen. But fate had a different plan. Because of a lucky turn turn of chance, Queen Victoria’s legacy is the evolution of the monarchy to become the focus of pomp and pageantry that still lives on today. Victoria, the “Teen Queen,” turned the monarchy into a pop culture phenomenon!

We like to call Victoria the Lion Teen Queen!

Fireworks in the Throne Room!

Four days after his accession to the throne, England’s new king - George VI - celebrated his birthday on December 14th (12/14), 1936.

It was also the anniversary of his great-grandfather Prince Albert’s death on December 14th (12/14), 1861.

At Queen Victoria’s suggestion, George VI had been named after Prince Albert - Bertie. You see, December 14th (12/14) was also the date that Queen Victoria lost her second daughter Princess Alice at the young age of 35 in 1878. So Bertie’s birthday, “coincidentally” falling on December 14th, represented a kind of “resurrection” for the royal family line!

Can you see “order” here in your British Game of Thrones? We haven’t hit you with our best shot just yet, so stay tuned! We’ve got more fireworks in store for your British throne story.

We are hoping you find some comfort in our number and date synchronicities. It’s rare in your physical, earthly reality now. But it’s just a small taste of the “order” you will experience in heaven!

In that spirit, it’s time to go back to God’s throne in 👑Revelation 5👑. Let us remind you of the new song (in a prayer) performed by the four living creatures and 24 elders especially for our King Jesus, thanking him for what he did for YOU - ALL OF GOD’s PEOPLE!

The song is also about YOU, flesh and blood humans, despite your constant Throne Games, reigning as kings!

You are worthy to take the scroll
and break its seals and open it.
For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.
And you have caused them to become
a Kingdom of priests for our God.
And they will reign on the earth.

The Kingdom of Priests speaks of your heavenly destiny! This, our friends, is a song about the gift 🎁 of eternal life offered to you by the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus!

The purpose of PART 4: ROYAL WEDDINGS & THRONE GAMES as well as PART 5: LIONS ON THRONES & A KILLER QUEEN, is to show you AN INVITATION YOU CAN’T DECLINE to your Kingly destiny on earth if you follow our King Jesus. And, of course, the Great Invitation to our epic royal wedding party awaiting you in heaven!

But, it’s always a choice for living, breathing humans. Just know that WE, the army of angels (the A-Team), have worked our angelic asses off to make this “choice” a little bit easier just for you!

We admit that sometimes it’s hard to relate to a Revelation song like the one above, no matter how important the lyrics. You are probably thinking: “But dudes, where is the catchy tune to go with the lyrics?”

For the same effect as our Revelation song above, imagine Jesus singing the tune below just to you!

In honor of our Lion Teen Queen, Victoria, it’s performed by our special teen performers from the hit TV show Glee Season 2:

You don't have to feel like a waste of space

You're original, cannot be replaced

If you only knew what the future holds

After a hurricane comes a rainbow

Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed

So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road

Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow

And when it's time, you'll know

You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine

Just own the night like the 4th of July

'Cause baby you're a firework

Come on, show 'em what you're worth

Make 'em go, oh

As you shoot across the sky

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In the next chapter, we’re going to give you one more firework to look up at. It’s the story of an unlikely king who steadied a rocking throne while making way for OUR Killer Queen!

A Rock n’ Roll Throne and a Killer Queen

If you can’t give a coherent speech, that’s a big problem for a king! In the winter of 1936, the British Crown landed unexpectedly on the head of the stuttering Prince Albert (Bertie), our December 14th birthday boy.

When King George V died on January 20, 1936, Prince Albert’s older brother, Prince Edward ascended to the throne as Edward VIII (the 8th). But in 1934, Prince Edward had met an American socialite Wallis Simpson while she was still in her second marriage. The affair was still going on when Edward VIII took the throne.

Mrs. Simpson reportedly declared that she would soon become Queen of England! The Church of England though, would not perform a remarriage of divorced people. Edward, nevertheless, was still determined to marry Wallis. The new king appealed to the British prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, to make it happen. He wouldn’t. So on December 10, 1936 the King signed the Instrument of Abdication, thereby making Prince Albert (the stuttering Bertie) King George VI.

Six months later, Edward and Wallis married on what would have been his dad’s (King George V) 72nd birthday - Jun 3, 1937. This was not a coincidence, but one of many snipes at the royal family for snubbing his future wife.

Later that year, the couple toured Nazi Germany and spent time with Hitler. That fueled rumors that Edward and Wallis were Nazi sympathizers.

Despite their controversies, the couple remained married though until 1972 when Edward died.

When his big brother dropped the crown in his head, our stuttering King George VI must have thought to himself, “thanks bro!”

The new King’s public speaking challenge was brilliantly brought to the big screen with the Academy Award winning performance of Colin Firth in the 2010 film The King’s Speech. On the evening of his coronation, King George VI exceeded all expectations when he gave an inspiring, nationally broadcast speech without a hint of a stutter or stammer!

King George VI had a quiet and unassuming personality. But he definitely had an air of confidence that helped his leadership qualities. The King had honed his “court” presence as a younger man when he made the men’s doubles draw at the Wimbledon All England Tennis Club - The Championships in 1926. Bertie’s quiet confidence turned out to be the perfect remedy to steady the monarchy after it was “rocked” by Edward’s abdication crisis.

George VI needed all the leadership skill he could muster because when he took the crown in 1937, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, in the form of Hitler and Nazi Germany, were about to storm his kingdom and trample his loyal subjects from the air!

The King’s World War II reign started out rough when he was criticized for supporting prime minister Neville Champerlain’s policy of appeasement toward Hitler in 1938. But the King and Queen toured the United States the following year and met publicly with President Roosevelt and the First Lady Eleanor. The families established a bond of friendship that was a huge public relations win as well as a diplomatic success. Great Britain was going to need big help from America to survive the Nazi bombing onslaught to come!

Two months after the King and Queen’s return from North America, Britain was forced to declare war on Nazi Germany after its attack on Poland, September 3, 1939. The Nazi blitz came to the King’s backyard when Buckingham Palace was bombed on the night of September 9. The King and Queen were staying there but were unhurt. One bomb destroyed the King’s study room.

The war became even more personal for the King when his younger brother George, Duke of Kent (born December 20, 1902) was killed during active service in 1942. King George VI was undeterred and continued has morale boosting efforts both at home and abroad during the war. In fact, both the King and Winston Churchill volunteered to travel with British troops across the English Chanel on D-Day for the historic invasion of France. Their request was declined for obvious reasons.

The royal resistance against the Nazi blitz was a family effort.

On an October night in 1940, the fourteen year old Princess Elizabeth delivered her fist radio broadcast from Windsor Castle, as part of BBC’s Children’s Hour, offering these assuring words:

We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well.

Somewhere in heaven, Alsan the Lion King, was roaring!

In 1952 on the last Christmas the future Queen Elizabeth would spend with her father, King George VI, he gave her a special Christmas gift. It was a movie camera. Was the King hoping the future Queen of England could film the Lion King on her upcoming trip to Kenya?

Eighty years later, with her country in shock and from the onset of the deadly COVID 19 pandemic, Queen Elizabeth at age 93, ended her national address with these hopeful words to a quarantined nation:

We should take comfort that while we may have more to still endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.

You got that right Killer Queen!

The longest reigning King or Queen in British history, WELL VERSED IN ETIQUETTE, EXTROARDINARILY NICE, Queen Elizabeth II exited her legendary stage peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with family by her side on the evening of September 8th (9/8), 2022.

It appears our Killer Queen left you AT ANY TIME AN INVITATION YOU CAN’T DECLINE!

Freddie Mercury and his band Queen agree.

She keeps Moët et Chandon

In her pretty cabinet

"Let them eat cake," she says

Just like Marie Antoinette

A built-in remedy

For Khrushchev and Kennedy (Ooh, ooh)

AT ANY TIME AN INVIATION

YOU CAN’T DECLINE (Ooh, ooh)

Caviar and cigarettes

WELL VERSED IN ETIQUETTE

EXTROARDINARILY NICE

SHE’S A KILLER QUEEN

Gunpowder, gelatin

Dynamite with a laser beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

(Pa-pa-pa-pa) Anytime

Ooh

Recommended at the price

Insatiable an appetite

Wanna try?

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Let’s review who we have joining forces with the Army of Angels now:

• The teen warrior and Jerusalem peacemaker, King Richard the Lionheart

• King George III and his unlikely, pure marriage to Queen Charlotte

• The Exalted George Washington, miraculous survivor of the French and Indian War, hero of the Revolutionary War, Founding Father and First President of the United States of America

• The Lion Teen Queen Victoria and her handsome Prince Albert

• The Quiet Strength and WWII leadership of King George VI

• Our own KILLER QUEEN - Elizabeth II

We have Kings and Queens, now in God’s throne room, ready for a fight!

This is a spiritual war with spiritual weapons.

We have a man with a sword in his mouth. Remember, that man is Jesus armed to the teeth with his Passion of The Christ story!

And Jesus also has a loaded six string on his back!

And I walk these streets, a loaded six-string on my back

I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back be coming back

I've been everywhere, and still I'm standing tall

I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all

'Cause I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride

I'm wanted dead or alive

'Cause I'm a cowboy, I got the night on my side

I'm wanted dead or alive

And I ride dead or alive

I still drive, dead or alive

Dead or alive

Dead or alive

Dead or alive

Dead or alive

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As Braveheart said at the Battle of Falkirk on 22 July 1298, in the First War of Scottish Independence, before he and his warriors took on King Edward I “Longshanks” and the English:

Are you ready for a war!

Chapter Summary

Before you are immersed in the epic world wars of the 20th century, we prepare you with some wisdom from the book of Revelation. 👑Revelation 6👑 is where the last book in the Bible gets very very scary. But contrary to popular belief, the scary judgements are not the point of God’s last book. The last two verses in 👑Revelation 9👑tell the story. The people who survive the scary judgements don’t change their sinful ways! God is telling you fear is not a useful evangelism strategy. He prefers a more invitational approach - like our Great Invitation!

In fact, the book of Revelation has a long history of misuse by leaders in the Christian Church. It’s by far the most difficult book to read in the Bible. Proper reading of Revelation means interpreting it first from the point of view of its original ancient audience. Be wary of interpretations telling you Revelation has predicted some specific current event.

Revelation has always been fertile ground for way-out theories about “end-times. So don’t let the apocalypse fear-monger crowd scare you away from Revelation’s core message: Evil is a problem in your world. The HOPE of Jesus is the solution!

Choose Jesus! Choose Love Now!

Now you are ready for a real apocalypse that happened in the 20th century.

One of the most powerful lessons in Revelation is the infamous four horsemen of the apocalypse. They are powerful because they are a metaphor for patterns of human behavior (especially in evil leaders) that have unleashed unimaginable death and destruction again and again throughout human history. The most recent, extreme examples are WWI and WWII.

Here are the four horsemen for your reference:

• White horse = Lust for power and conquest

• Red horse = Bloody violence, slaughter, civic upheavals and ethnic/religious cleansing on earth

• Black horse = Economic imbalance and social dysfunction

• Pale green horse = Death and the tragedies of earthly existence

Next we tell you about someone who lived through the apocalypse that was the First World War, famous author J.R.R Tolkien. Tolkien’s war-time experience and Christian faith inspired him to create the mythical fantasy world of Middle Earth. In Christmas Season of 2001, movie goers were able to experience Middle Earth on the big screen - part one of Tolkien’s three volume masterpiece: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

The movie starts with a black screen and a haunting female voice:

The world is changed.

I feel it in the water.

I feel it in the Earth.

I smell it in the air.

In December of 2001, the world had changed, especially in America! It changed on September 11, 2001.

The timing of Tolkien’s classic books making their big screen debut is prophetic!  Could there be a connection with the 9/11 tragedy in the name of the second Lord of the Rings film, “The Two Towers?”

We speculate whether the battle of Armageddon prophesied in 👑Revelation 16👑 has already happened in September of 1918 when T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the defeat of the Ottoman 8th Army. This victory led to the conquest of Palestine and ultimate surrender of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. This battle happened in the Valley of Megeddo. The word Armageddon was derived from that physical place.

Coincidences like this are interesting but a close look at 👑Revelation 16👑 in its ancient context reveals that the infamous battle of Armageddon was won spiritually at the cross before it ever begins on earth. Its purpose is to prevent wars like WWI!

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Hold your horses! We are not quite ready to fight this epic battle in your spiritual war yet. It’s time for some strategery first.

We want to prepare you mentally for what you will witness when you emerge from our throne room into 👑Revelation 6👑. This is where the last book in the Bible gets very very scary.

Fear not! Remember, it’s the crucified and resurrected Jesus (the lamb) on the throne who breaks open the seven seals. Jesus is telling you right now through his army of angels, don’t be scared. And, when the book of Revelation continues it’s scary judgements all the way through chapter 20, don’t be scared then either. Why?

Contrary to popular belief, the scary judgements are not the point of God’s last book. The last two verses in 👑Revelation 9👑tell the story. The people who survive the scary judgements don’t change their sinful ways! God is telling you fear is not useful evangelism strategy. He prefers a more invitational approach - like our Great Invitation!

What’s God’s dream? Everyone ALL IN. That’s His “end-game.” God knows fear can’t get you ALL IN! And He will settle for nothing less until the story of human life on planet earth ends. That’s why God is trying the Great Invitation with you now. He knows a “great intimidation” will fail in the end.

We advise common sense when interpreting scripture. So let’s think about your earthly reality before diving into the ominous visions of judgement in Revelation.

People understand that death is inevitable. It’s not something you want to think about. That’s just natural. But you all know, deep down, it’s unavoidable.

Question: What if you are diagnosed with terminal brain cancer tomorrow? And what if your doctor tells you that you have one month to live? Then, what if tomorrow on the news, NASA announces that a planet killing asteroid will hit the earth in exactly one month?

Given your health situation, how would you feel about the asteroid?

The end-of-the-world apocalypse fear mongering you sometimes hear from prophecy-obsessed Christians is all relative, isn’t it?

Stop listening to these so-called Revelation “experts” spreading fantastic theories about seven years of “tribulation” and horrible things on earth that are supposedly unavoidable.

There are two kinds of disasters in your world: Natural disasters and human disasters. Today, with climate change, there is some overlap between them. So let us be clear, God DOES NOT WANT ANY MORE AVOIDABLE HUMAN CREATED DISASTERS, WARS OR MURDERS! And yes, inconvenient as it is, that includes the human created, deadly impacts of climate change.

How can humans (who can do something) help? Here’s an example. If there is ever a candidate for President who fits the description of “The” Antichrist, don’t vote for him/her! As long as you, collectively, who live under liberal democratic governments, have the power to reject dictators, it’s a choice not a prophecy!

The book of Revelation has always been fertile ground for way-out theories about “end-times.” It’s a difficult book written for an ancient audience. Don’t let these scary theories about a horrible future scare you away from Revelation’s core message.

Its message is simple: Evil is a problem in your world. The HOPE of Jesus is the solution!

God wants everyone right now to CHOOSE JESUS! CHOOSE LOVE!

Now you are ready for your spiritual war! Below is a quick bullet point list that covers the meaning of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. They aren’t mysterious to any student of human history:

1. White horse = Lust for power and conquest

2. Red horse = Bloody violence, slaughter, civic upheavals and ethnic/religious cleansing on earth

3. Black horse = Economic imbalance and social dysfunction

4. Pale green horse = Death and the tragedies of earthly existence

You will feel the hoofbeats of these four horsemen in the next chapter.

A Hobbit in the Trenches

Flashback to Christmas season of 2001. You sit down at a movie theater with family or friends. The lights go down and the big screen turns black. A haunting female voice starts with these prophetic words:

The world is changed.

I feel it in the water.

I feel it in the Earth.

I smell it in the air.

Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.

It began with the forging of the great rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Dwarf lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else, desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race. But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made.

In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring, to control all others. And into this Ring, he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.

"One Ring to rule them all."

In the unforgettable, dark shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, your real world had changed!

The famous author of The Lord of The Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, knew first hand about the terror of war. He miraculously survived deadly German artillery shells, machine gun bullets and trench fever in The Great War, also known as the First World War (that started in the 8th month of 1914).

The Lord of The Rings trilogy, was a direct product of Tolkien’s horrific WWI experience! It compelled him to turn his imagined fantasy world into a literary masterpiece. The Lord of the Rings, which took four decades to complete, is among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.  

If you watch The Lord of The Rings next Christmas season, like our author does every year, know that you are witnessing a prophetic experience documented on film. This is true on two levels, each related to the infamous “Battle of Armageddon” from 👑Revelation 16👑.

In 👑Revelation 16👑, the sixth of seven “bowl” judgements is poured out on the earth. Demonic spirits gather the rulers of the world for a final battle against Jesus on what becomes a “great judgement day” of God the Almighty.

The place they gather is called Armageddon. It’s one of many names in Revelation to achieve pop culture fame.

Hollywood proved our point about Armageddon!

In the summer of 1998, Bruce Willis stared as third generation oil driller Harry Stamper in the blockbuster movie called Armageddon produced by Disney studios. Stamper, his oil drilling team and NASA astronauts train for 12 days to embark on two space shuttles to save the earth from a planet killing asteroid.

The screen writers and producers at Disney knew full well that the name “Armageddon” already occupied the American imagination as a cataclysmic event scenario. That is thanks to the Book of Revelation.

In 👑Revelation 16👑, Armageddon could be interpreted as either a literal or symbolic place.

Let’s assume you believe it’s a literal location where John prophesied a real battle would take place.

Hebrew translates Armageddon to Harmagedon. Har means hill and Meggedo was an ancient fort or city in Northern Israel. Meggedo is mentioned 12 times in the Old Testament and was a place of strategic importance where many ancient battles were fought prior to the writing of the Book of Revelation. The last real battle fought there was in September of 1918 when British Field Marshall Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby with T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the defeat of the Ottoman 8th Army. This victory led to the conquest of Palestine and ultimate surrender of the Ottoman Empire in World War I.

The Battle of Meggedo and subsequent dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, discovery of vast oil reserves in the Middle East (1908) and the Balfour Declaration of 1917, all together, created the social and political conditions that led directly to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks.

The Balfour Declaration was the idea to establish a permanent homeland for the Jewish people. That idea became a rock - solid commitment when Nazi Germany tried to exterminate the Jews.

The Lord of the Rings was inspired, not only by WWI, but also by Tolkien’s Christian upbringing and faith. He denied this, yet Christian lessons and themes bubble up throughout this story. In fact, you have to wonder how much time Tolkien spent digging around in the Book of Revelation, given the dragons, dark horses and other wild images in this fantasy adventure.

The Lord of the Rings is an epic struggle between good and evil. Surprisingly, it is the lowly hobbit Frodo, and not a powerful warrior or wizard, who is entrusted with the one ring of power. He and his fellowship of 8 heroic elves, dwarves and men, undertake a perilous quest to destroy the ring of power by casting it into the cracks of Mt. Doom before the forces of evil use it to control Middle Earth. Frodo and his Fellowship of the Ring choose heroic self-sacrifice over the temptation to use the ring for their own selfish purposes. Their bravery and sacrifice mirrors the greatest heroic rescue of all time – when Jesus humbled himself and became obedient to death on the cross. 

Is it a coincidence that Tolkien survived a world war to complete his masterpiece? If so, how about the impossible odds of filmmaker Peter Jackson bringing this complex literary classic to the big screen at seemingly just the right time? Isn’t it odd that the final movie of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, “The Return of the King,” was released during the Christmas season prior to the release of “The Passion of the Christ” during the Easter season? Could there be a prophetic connection with the 9/11 tragedy in the name of the second Lord of the Rings film, “The Two Towers?” 

If Armageddon in 👑Revelation 16👑 is interpreted as a real event, the actual Battle of Meggedo that happened in September of 1918 fits. In that case, The Lord of The Rings and it’s WWI origin (in Tolkien’s experience) point to the real-life fulfillment of this prophecy. However, a careful study of 👑Revelation 16👑 clearly shows an entirely different kind of battle.

Armageddon - The Battle that never Happens!

The sixth bowl judgement describes a symbolic event. Here is why.

In 👑Revelation 16👑, the voice of Jesus speaks for the first time since 👑Revelation 3👑. To paraphrase, Jesus says:

Watch for me because I will come like a thief!

After this statement, the reader is expecting the outbreak of an epic battle on that “great judgement day” of God Almighty. But instead, the seventh angel pours out the final bowl and a great voice comes out of the TEMPLE on the throne and announces:

It is finished!

The Battle of Armageddon was already won at the cross where Jesus replaced the Second Temple in Jerusalem with his own willing sacrifice! You can witnesses it today by reading the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ death on the cross or by watching The Passion of The Christ.

We know this because these are also Jesus’ final words on the cross before committing his spirit to his fathers hands then taking his last breath.

After the angelic voice, a series of natural disasters also echo what happened during the crucifixion - lightning, thunder and the entire city (not just the temple) split in three by a great earthquake. 👑Revelation 16👑 finishes with an announcement that the great city of Babylon has been judged by the wrath of God! John repeatedly uses Babylon as a symbolic reference to the oppressive Roman Empire.

Let’s go back to Jesus’ voice telling us:

Watch for me because I will come like a thief!

Are you watching and recalling the first two appearances of Jesus in the Great Invitation?

1. Our 9/8 signature on the Jesus dream that became The Passion of The Christ.

2. The fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy that the second TEMPLE in Jerusalem would be destroyed along with the city. This prophecy was fulfilled with the fall of Jerusalem on 9/8/70AD to General Titus and the Roman army.

Remember what the Roman Empire did with the riches they stole from the second temple in Jerusalem? They built the Roman Colosseum that started construction in 72AD!

It would appear that Jesus (with our 9/8 synchronicity) has caught our TEMPLE THIEF red handed!

Let us remind you that the individual number for judgment or finality is 9 while the 📜number of Jesus📜 is 8 in biblical numerology.

• 📜Biblical meaning of 9📜

• 📜Biblical meaning of 8📜

This big bad dragon in Revelation is looking more and more like the sneaky, skinny little creature Golum in The Lord of The Rings, who gets caught stealing “his precious” ring from around Frodo’s neck!

We hope you noticed signs of God’s presence in our analysis of the battle of Armageddon in 👑Revelation 16👑.

Revelation’s battle of Armageddon is symbolic because God’s hope is that humans, especially those in power, make choices to avoid disastrous wars.

Next we will unpack the tragic consequences that can happen when the human “ring of power” lands in the wrong hands

Chapter Summary

There is no human being in recent history that represents evil more than Adolph Hitler. It’s ironic that both Hitler and J.R.R. Tolkien fought on opposite sides in the famous WWI Battle of the Somme in France. Tolkien’s experience inspired his epic tale (The Lord of the Rings) about the trappings of power. Hitler used Germany’s tragic loss in WWI as means to grab power and control of his country for himself.

Adolph Hitler was a failed artist and nobody in his youth. But he found great purpose during WWI while serving as a messenger who survived many dangerous missions including a chemical attack. After the war, Hitler accidentally discovered a hidden talent - he could speak! That talent was Adolf’s ticket into the chaotic world of Germany’s post war politics.

The severe economic suffering in post-war Germany provided Hitler the “white horse” (lust for conquest) he and his Nazi party mounted to take power in Germany.

We have shared Napoleon’s downfall with you in a previous chapter. Your history books show that Hitler didn’t have the wisdom to glean the valuable lessons from Napoleon’s rise and fall. Recall that we put our signature on Napoleon’s Russian Apocalypse when he returned from Russia and crossed back into France with his decimated “Grand Arm’e” on 12/14/1812.

As you will see, our numerical signatures are all over Hitler’s tragic story, even more so than the Napoleon!

After the Nazi’s took France, Hitler visited Napoleon’s tomb in Paris. Nazi Germany was just coming off the conquest of the Western European front so Adolf was flush with hubris. In what became Hitler’s fatal decision of WWII, he decided to invade Russia on June 22, 1941. He named the invasion Operation Barbarossa, a name we prove was cursed by bad numerical omens!

Hitler’s generals wanted Operation Barbarossa to attack Moscow first but Hitler overruled them. Instead, Leningrad was targeted because of its symbolic value. The Siege of Leningrad, from a human cost, made the Siege of Jerusalem in 70AD look tiny. But the Romans and Nazis had a lot in common in terms of the horror and cruelty they inflicted on their trapped enemies. The people of Leningrad were blockaded in their city for 872 days. The Seige of Leningrad remains the most deadly in military history with a death toll of 1.5 million souls. Today, it is considered a genocide and war crime due to the intentional, systematic starvation of the people.

The Siege of Jerusalem ended prophetically on September 8, 70AD. The Siege of Leningrad began prophetically on September 8, 1941 when the German Army severed the last road into the city.

Like Napoleon’s Grand Arm’ee, the Nazi Wermacht stalled outside of Moscow for the same reasons: The huge Russian geographical area, severe cold winters and a determined Russian Red Army. In fact, while the Wermacht advanced to Moscow, Russians employed the same strategy that worked a century and half ago. They burned their harvested crops, drove their cattle away, and destroyed buildings in their villages to deny the Nazi war machine needed supplies and foodstuffs. Old man winter finished the job just as he did with Napoleon’s Grande Arm’ee!

The German casualties in Operation Barbarossa were a bridge too far for one military officer. Clause Schenk, Count von Stauffenberg, was a lieutenant colonel who was initially onboard with Naziism and enthused by early victories in Poland and France. But Von Stauffenberg became alarmed by Hitler’s recklessness on the Eastern front and decided to take action. He and a circle of military officers planned several assassination plots that never made it to the main event. Finally though, the Count gained physical access to the Fuhrer. Stauffenberg, at that point, decided he was going to kill Hitler himself. The plan was named Operation Valkyrie. On 20 July, 1944, armed with two bombs in a briefcase, Stauffenberg visited Hitler’s field headquarters at Rastenburg. Stauffenberg had lost two fingers and sight in one eye in the North Africa campaign. He struggled to arm the timer on one of the bombs as he prepared to place the briefcase where Hitler was about to attend a meeting. Only one bomb was armed. When the bomb exploded, Stauffenberg drove away from the scene thinking his mission was accomplished. The Fuhrer was dead!

Stauffenberg was wrong. Hitler survived the blast with minor injuries. A massive hunt began for all responsible for Operation Valkyrie. As a result, the Fuhrer’s henchman Himmler arrested as many as 5,000 people. Many were tortured until they outed others, a fear-based method to suppress dissent that the Nazis perfected. The first eight prisoners were tried in August of 1944.

We, the army of angels, selected the great 8! As our Chief Justice Jesus watched from above, the Nazi version of a “justice” system played out below in your world.

The president of the “Peoples Court” in Berlin, Roland Freisler, bullied and heckled the prisoners from the bench. The cowed defense lawyers made no attempt to plead any mitigation. Freisler was loyal to his Fuhrer not any constitution protecting the rights of accused so the prisoner’s fate was sealed. They were executed, at Hitler’s personal request, by hanging with a very thin rope so they died slowly. In a final act of humiliation, the 8 prisoner’s pants were pulled down as they hung dying.

Another brave soul who couldn’t stomach the evil of Hitler’s Nazi Germany was Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and later accused of participating in Operation Valkyrie.

Bonhoeffer died for our cause so we put our signature all over his life and sacrificial death.

On 8 April 1945, 12 days before HItler’s last birthday celebration, Bonhoeffer was sentenced to death at supposed “court-martial” without a defense attorney, without witnesses and without any evidence against him. Of course he was! Hitler knew the end was coming so he was out to maximize the “enemy” body count. What he didn’t know is that we (an army of angels) selected this trial date! And we also picked Bonhoeffer’s execution date 9 April 1945. Justice was served (9=Judgement, 8=Jesus) but in the only court that really matters.

In our chapter called Checkmate, we show how our sacred numbers, especially the great 8, pursued Hitler while he was surrounded by the Russian Army in his Berlin bunker, right into the grave and beyond!

We even planned Adolf’s wedding party to give the Fuhrer a special send off into the abyss. Hitler decided to marry Eva Braun, his long-time girlfriend on the eve of his suicide. Eva was dressed in black, fitting for the bride of our Anti-Christ Fuhrer! The bunker dining room was decorated for the festivities with a white tablecloth that had a giant H in the center.

Just after midnight, the 8 guests gathered at Eva and Adolf’s wedding party. They toasted the bride and groom while Soviet bombs exploded outside. All 8 guests knew full well the couple would not be going on a honeymoon. In fact, they both planned to kill themselves in hours.

At about 3pm, the same hour Jesus died on the cross, Eva Braun bit down on a cyanide capsule then slumped over on the couch next to Hitler. Then the man responsible for a cataclysmic world war and the near extermination of God’s people – the Jews, did the same while simultaneously firing a bullet into his head.

In another room, Traudl Junge, Hitler’s secretary entertained the Goebbels children. After the gunshot sounded off, we borrowed the voice of 9 year old Helmut Goebbels who shouted out, “Bullseye!”

Remember, 9 is our number of judgement and finality!

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi movement perfected the art of propaganda during their 12 year reign. Hitler, like us, was a fan of the power of film. He and Goebbels commissioned a film called Triumph of the Will, released in 1935 about the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg. Triumph of the Will is a masterpiece of propaganda. The film features real live footage of the spectacle featuring more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film opens on 5 September with a scene showing Hitler’s plane coming down through the clouds in Godlike fashion.   The fourth and last day is the climax where the most memorable imagery unfolds. Thousands of SS and SA crack troops stand at attention during the elaborate ceremony. A wreath is layed at the First World War memorial to pay respects. In his speech, Hitler justifies his “Night of the Long Knives,” where leaders of the SA were murdered for supposed disloyalty to the Reich. New Nazi flags are commissioned by touching the flag carried by Nazi’s in the failed Beer Hall Putsch on November 8 and 9 of 1923.

This fabulous Nazi event was elaborately planned by an army of angels. How do you know? The climax shown on film in Hitler’s Triumph of the Will took place on 9/8/1934!

Checkmate Mr. Fuhrer!  

If you don’t learn from your history, you are doomed to repeat it! So we helped produce a filmed version of our Checkmate chapter. The academy award winning film Downfall released in Germany on 9/8/2004!

That one is dedicated to Hitler’s ghost. His spirit wanted no part of meeting our dear leader in the afterlife!

Der Ring das Nibelungen

J.R.R Tolkien trained as a signals officer in WWI. In the summer of 1916, Tolkien spent five months in the trenches on the font line at the Battle of The Somme in France. The land between his and the German trench was burnt, barren and strewn with barbed wire. It was called “no man’s land.”

Tolkien had no idea that on the other side of “no man’s land,” a real-life Dark Lord Sauron ran messages back and forth from field officers to the front. His name was Adolf Hitler (born April 20, 1889).

Hitler, like Sauron, the villain from The Lord of The Rings, was not born evil. Nothing is evil in the beginning. Evil was a choice.

As a young man, at times, Adolf chose love. He certainly loved his mother Klara who was very good to him. Adolf was crushed in 1907 when Klara lost her fight with breast cancer. But he greatly appreciated the care his mother received from her Jewish family physician Dr. Blotch.

Hitler’s father Alois was a civil servant. Alois was a distant, harsh authoritarian who dished out beatings to his wife and children. Hitler feared his father so it’s no surprise that young Adolf rebelled. Art was the antithesis of his fathers world so Hitler gravitated toward it. After his father died in 1905, his mother encouraged Adolf’s interest in visual arts.

In 1907, Hitler convinced his friend August Kubizek, a talented young musician, to apply with him to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. The pair met up in Vienna in early 1908. Immediately upon August’s arrival by train, Adolf insisted his travel weary friend see the spectacular architecture of the Vienna Opera House that night.

Hitler loved the opera but he was obsessed with the German composer Richard Wagner.

Wagner’s operas are mythic German tales of Gods and humans engaged in titanic struggle, redemption, victory and tragic death. Wagner’s musical scores, like Star Wars and The Lord of The Rings, stick in your mind long after the performance ends.

Hitler’s favorite Wagner opera was Lohengrin. The most popular and recognizable part of the opera is the Bridal Chorus, also known in English-speaking countries as "Here Comes the Bride." Given the wedding theme of our Great Invitation, who do you think inspired this choice? That would be us. One of many checkmate moments against this real-life Sauron!

It turns out that Lohengrin led directly to another Wagner opera. King Ludwig II of Bavaria named his castle Neuschwanstein Castle after the Swan Knight in Lohengrin. It was King Ludwig's patronage that later gave Wagner the means and opportunity to complete, build a theatre for, and stage his epic cycle Der Ring das Nibelungen.

Der Ring das Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is about a magic ring that grants power to its owner to rule over the world. The ring was forged by a dwarf who stole gold from Rhine maidens in the river Rhine. It’s a four part opera but each part can be understood on its own since details of the big story are filled in. Hitler particularly loved the third drama called Siegfried.

The character Siegfried summons his dwarf foster father Mime to repair a magic sword that was broken to pieces in the second opera. Siegfried yearns for a shiny, sharp sword to dispatch his enemies. But the young hero shatters the repaired sword again and again. Finally, Siegfried realizes “he alone can fix it!” He grinds the pieces of the sword into powder and reforges the metal. Armed with the ultimate weapon that is old and new, he slays the dragon Fafnir and awakens the sleeping beauty Brünhilde from a prison of fire with a kiss.

Does The Ring of the Nibelung “ring a bell?” A ring of power whose owner rules over the world? Tolkien was asked this question and his answer was, “the only thing the ring from The Lord of The Rings has in common with The Ring of the Nibelung is the hole in the middle!” This answer was obviously defensive given the influence Wagner and his opera’s had on Adolf Hitler.

The fact is that Hitler and Tolkien were both fans of Germanic and Nordic myths and legends. But their WWI experience in the Battle of the Somme and their fanatical interest in the same ancient myths are the only thing these two famous men have in common.

As we have shared, Tolkien’s war experience inspired, The Lord of the Rings, one of the greatest literary masterpieces of all time and a blockbuster movie trilogy. Hitler told a different story to his followers. In his mind, Hitler became the hero of his own mythic tale, one where the hero leads his people from the ashes of defeat to ultimate victory.

Both Tolkien and Hitler were lucky to survive their experiences in The Great War. Hitler came even closer to death in The Great War. Those who question the existence of God certainly have a good argument as to why Hitler was allowed to survive The First World War.

We have no clue why! Maybe you can get an answer from God when you get here in our heavenly realm. Good luck with that!

At what point did Adolph Hitler turn to the dark side and start his journey toward the abyss of evil? Well, The Lord of The Rings provides some insight. Power is a dangerous drug for humans! In The Lord of The Rings, the powerful but good Wizard Gandolf must entrust the ring of power to the little hobbit Frodo. It is the meager Frodo who is tasked with the impossible journey to Mount Doom where the ring must be cast down into the inferno and destroyed before the evil Sauron gets it back to use it’s awesome power. Gandolf does not even trust himself to carry the ring. The powerful wizard knows he is fully capable of turning to the dark side under the spell of the ring of power!

Hitler was not weary of the ring of power. But he did not seek it either. Unluckily for your world again, circumstances dropped the ring of power right in Adolph Hitlers lap!

If you are looking for someone to blame for this unfortunate turn of chance, look to your four horsemen of the apocalypse. After they trampled on Germany once (in WWI), they rose again for another round of death and destruction. In the aftermath of the WWI cataclysm, the white horse (lust for conquest) rode right up to Hitler’s front door where Adolph was helped into the saddle.

Any guesses on who put Hitler in the saddle of the evil white “War Horse?”

Hint: He makes several appearances in The Passion of The Christ. It’s not Jesus or any of his friends!

The White War Horse Runs to Hitler

No one who knew Adolph Hitler as a young man could have predicted that Hitler would eventually start a world war and be responsible for the genocide of six million Jews. In his teens and twenties, Hitler was a drifter and failed art student. Young Adolph was a world class slacker. After being rejected by the Vienna Academy of Arts, he survived on his inheritance and money from his aunt. He was also able to make some money selling his paintings, ironically, with the help of Jewish art dealers.

Hitler and the Jewish holocaust are synonymous. However, he did not show any obvious signs of virulent antisemitism during his Vienna years (1908-1913). But in the aftermath of the catastrophic German loss in WWI (1914-1918), people were looking for scapegoats on which to blame the economic misery that followed. God’s people, the Jews, were the perfect foil for Hitler to feed to the grieved German people.

The Jews fell victim to a conspiracy theory that, like most, was based on a small, insignificant cornel of truth. It was an idea virus born out of the fog of war!

In Russia, the communist revolution had happened in the Fall of 1917. Vladimir Lenin, their new leader, knew that communism would need allies with the same centrally controlled economies to succeed in the long run. Germany, a geographic neighbor with a highly advanced economy, was a target.

The German people, especially middle-class property owners, wanted no part of the communism that 30 years later created the Soviet Union and split Germany into two countries, East and West with a giant wall between them.

The external threat of communism from the political left, radicalized post-war politics in Germany. Fear of a Communist Revolution in Germany made right wing radicals seem pragmatic. And both the left and right wings became more extreme with the pressure to fill a power vacuum created when Germany lost the First World War.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Germany began supporting the war when it began. However, the party split into pro-war and anti-war factions. Many of the leading anti-war politicians in the SDP happened to be Jewish. They eventually split off into the German Communist Party. But anti-war Jews did not surrender to Allied forces and loose the war. The real reason Germany surrendered was they were outgunned and outmanned when America entered WW1 in the Spring of 1917. German military leaders had made the decision to attack American ships bringing supplies to France and Great Britain. German submarines sunk many ships including the massive cruise ship Lusitania, killing hundreds of Americans. This naval provocation brought America, the biggest economy in the world, into the war on the side of it’s allies Great Britain and France.

By the Fall of 1918, the moral of the German Army had collapsed. Troops deserted or surrendered to the Allied forces in large numbers. Top military commanders informed the Kaiser and German government officials that defeat was inevitable.

To be clear, this is why Germany lost the war. But the German government had been censuring all the bad news and propping up the hopes of the people with “feel good” war propaganda. So when Germany surrendered to the Allies in November of 1918, it was a complete shock to the German people. They were primed to accept a tragic conspiracy theory, that the German Army was stabbed in the back by left wing, communist leaning Jews! It was the Jews who were responsible for the German loss and economic misery of the people, mostly brought about by the severe economic sanctions of the Versailles Peace Treaty. The labeling of Jews as “the November criminals” stuck. And when a handful of left wing Jews attempted to create a Soviet style communist regime in post war Germany, this dangerous conspiracy was reinforced.

As we have shared in our opening statement, occasionally dark ideas spread among humans like a virus and kill hundreds, thousands and even millions of people. How this happened in Nazi Germany is summed up best by Albert Speer, the architect and Hitler’s Minister of Armaments. Speer survived the war and lived long enough to write his memoirs titled “Inside the Third Reich.” Here are his timeless words describing how and why he and too many other average German people became a loyal followers of Adolph Hitler:

Both Goebbels and Hitler understood how to unleash mass instincts at their meetings, how to play on the passions that underlay the veneer of ordinary respectable life. Practiced demagogues, they succeeded in fusing the assembled workers, petits bourgeois, and students into a homogeneous mob whose opinions they could mold as they pleased. But as I see it today, these politicians in particular were in fact molded by the mob itself, guided by it’s yearnings and it’s daydreams. Of course Goebbels and Hitler knew how to penetrate through to the instincts of their audiences. Certainly the masses roared to the beat set by Hitler’s and Goebbels’s baton; yet they were not true conductors. The mob determined the theme. To compensate for misery, insecurity, unemployment, and hopelessness, this anonymous assemblage wallowed for hours at a time in obsessions, savagery, license. This was no ardent nationalism. Rather, for a few short hours the personal unhappiness caused by the breakdown of the economy was replaced by a frenzy that demanded victims. And Hitler and Goebbels threw them the victims. By lashing out at their opponents and vilifying the Jews they gave expression and direction to fierce, primal passions.

This environment of catastrophic military defeat, economic chaos and political revolution is the “white horse” from the four horsemen of the apocalypse we spoke of in our last chapter! It was this environment that Hitler and his Nazi party used to take power in Germany.

Hitler Mounts the White War Horse

Hitler was injured badly at the end of the First World War by mustard gas. He returned to Munich after his hospitalization with no plan for his future. Hitler had found great purpose as a soldier in the war. So he decided to try and stay in the Military. But when Hitler returned to the barracks in Munich, they were run by a soldiers council loyal to a Bavarian Government that was teetering on the edge of a Soviet style communist revolution. In fact, during the chaotic final months of 1918 and spring of 1919, a “Red Republic” revolution, led by mostly Jews, was put down violently during a mini-civil war.

Hitler conveniently skipped over this episode of his life in his autobiography Mein Kampf (My Struggle). That’s because his views about the communist Red Republic revolution were ambivalent. Hitler was waiting out the outcome of the revolution before he took sides. After the Red Republic revolution was put down, Hitler was elected to a counter revolutionary three-man committee to explore whether any members of his Reserve Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment had been actively involved in the Red Republic revolution on the side of the communists. This decision made it possible for Hitler to remain in the army after the war. It was in this time period that the future Fuhrer discovered his purpose in life.

Hitler’s investigative work into communist revolutionaries in the army got him noticed by Army Captain Karl Mayr. Captain Mayr was in charge of educating troops about “correct” anti-communist thinking. He was organizing ‘speaker courses’ for troops who would function as propaganda agents inside the army. Hitler had earlier been assigned to engage in propaganda efforts on behalf of the socialist government that had taken power immediately after the Kaiser ceded power after the war. Mayr recruited Hitler to his anti-communist mission.

In the summer of 1919, Hitler started his first ‘instruction course’ that would begin his political education on right wing politics. Most important, in the summer of 1919, Hitler discovered a gift. As he himself put it, he could ‘speak’. Hitler’s gift was the way in which he could connect with and amplify the emotions of his speaking audience. Nobody needed to teach Hitler this gift. He inherently knew how to mesmerize an audience with his voice, his body motions and fiery eyes. And he always knew the perfect words to fire up the emotions of his audience. In post war Germany, what fired up the people most was to assign a scapegoat for post war Germany’s collective pain. It was the Communist Jews who stabbed the Germany in the back!

In 1919 though, Adolph Hitler was just getting started in politics. Extremist movements on the far right and far left were restrained enough to make way for an attempt at representative democracy in post World War I Germany.

On January 8, 1919 American President Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to become famously known as ‘14 Points’ that outlined keys for peace in post WW1 Europe. It was influential in the formation of the Weimar Democratic Republic. However, as you witnessed in Revolutionary France, democracy in your world is always a fragile thing to build and maintain. The post war economic and social chaos in Germany was the worst possible environment for a new democracy.

In 1920, Hitler joined the German Workers Party. At that time, it was a small debating club that met in beer halls. But it was in these beer hall meetings that Hitler honed his speaking skills. He saw himself as a “drummer” who rallied against the “November criminals” responsible for Germany’s post war misery. But as Hitler gained notoriety, he realized he could be the leader who made Germany great again!   

By 1923, Germany could not afford anymore to pay the extreme financial reparations enforced against it by the Versailles Treaty. The government’s hand was forced to print money in response. The result was catastrophic hyperinflation. A loaf of bread that cost 160 Marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 Marks by Fall of 1923. This economic chaos was Hitler’s opportunity to end Germany’s failing democracy.

Hitler’s oxygen was crisis. That’s because evil hates order and loves chaos! As the economic crisis deepened in 1923, the political environment became more extreme every day. Hitler felt if he didn’t act, left wing revolutionaries would. On November 7, Hitler pressured his fellow German Workers Party (Nazi) leaders to hastily plan a coup in Bavaria known in history as the “Beer Hall Putsch.” We put our numeric signature (Christ and Judgement) on the Beer Hall Putsch of November 8 and 9, 1923.

On November 8th, Hitler and his putschists surrounded the Burgerbraukeller Beer Hall where Bavarian government leaders were holding a meeting. A large caliber machine gun was positioned at the door with 3,000 people inside. Hitler ordered one of his men to fire his pistol into the ceiling to get the large crowd’s attention. With the WWI General Ludendorff and the future head of the Luftwaffe WWII Herman Goering by his side, Hitler announced that the building was surrounded. Then he assured the crowd if they stayed put, nobody would be hurt. He added, “enjoy your Beer.” Hitler took the Bavarian government leaders into a room and announced he was taking control of the Bavarian government and Ludendorff would take over the national army. Then Hitler returned to the meeting hall and gave in impassioned speech to the crowd, gaining their support to act against the “November criminals.” The Bavarian government leaders had no choice but to take the stage with Hitler and at least give an appearance of their support. When they left the building, they told a different story. The truth!

Hitler’s hastily planned putsch started to unravel from there. The putschists failed to control the police department, local army barracks and media. Hitler attempted to regroup with Ludendorff in the beer hall cellar. In the style of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, Hitler with 2,000 armed supporters, attempted to march on the Munich city center. On the 9th of November, Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch met its judgement day. When the marching column of armed Nazi thugs met a police barricade, the shooting started. Fourteen marchers were shot dead. Four policemen died as well. Goering was shot in the leg and Hitler dislocated his shoulder when he was pushed to the ground. A bullet had missed him by inches. Inches that could have changed history! Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch should have ended his political career if not his life.

Evil doesn’t die easy in your world.

Hitler was arrested and charged with treason. But his trial became a propaganda campaign when the judge allowed him to take the stand and ramble on for hours. Hitler turned the courtroom into one of his beer hall rallies, accepting totally responsibility for his ‘crime.’ In fact, he was proud of his failed putsch and proclaimed that the ‘eternal court of history’ will judge it as a noble act of patriotism.

The evidence though was irrefutable. Hitler was found guilty although the sentence was very light, only 5 years in a minimum-security prison. Hitler’s “prison cell” was more like a nice apartment with a beautiful mountain view. Visitors had free access to him. Hitler had over 500 visitors during his imprisonment which turned out to be only 13 months.

While in prison, Hitler kept himself busy writing his famous manifesto – Mein Kampf (My Struggle). The Nazi party with Hitler in jail floundered without his powerful voice. When Hitler was released from prison on December 20, 1925 he was poised to take full leadership reigns of the party. But with the economy stabilized, Hitler sought to build his Nazi party slowly and through elections instead of coups.

When the stock market in America crashed in 1929, banks had to recall their loans to Germany. Hitler once again took advantage of the economic chaos that followed. In January of 1933, Adolf Hitler had achieved his dream of taking power in Germany. The celebration of his appointment as Reich Chancellor would foreshadow the reign of the fascist Nazi party in Germany. Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels organized a torchlit parade of brownshirt Nazi thugs on the night of January 30, 1933 through the streets of Berlin. It went on well past midnight. The Nazi’s claimed they had 700,000 brownshirts that night. But some citizens watching the parade noticed that the faces of the same men reappearing again and again. They were marching in a circle to give the appearance of overwhelming numbers! It was the beginning of dangerous lies and propaganda that would characterize Hitler’s Nazi Germany. These lies would lead Hitler and Nazi Germany to a bunker 12 years later when the truth and justice eventually caught him in your world.

As you will see, while Adolf Hitler unleashed the four horsemen of the apocalypse on the world and especially the Jewish people, we (the army of angels) had his number to prove who is really in charge, at least in your spiritual realm!           

Napoleon’s Ghost

We have shared Napoleon’s downfall with you in a previous chapter. Your history books show that Hitler didn’t have the wisdom to glean the valuable lessons from Napoleon’s rise and fall.

Hitler started World War II with the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. We tried to make it happen on September 8th but missed our target date. Stay tuned, we still managed a hit that adds to our corroborating evidence.

Within a year, Hitler had also taken Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium. France surrendered to Nazi Germany in June of 1940. On June 23, Hitler along with his generals, staff toured Paris. Hitler also invited his architect Albert Speer.

Other than the Opera, the Fuhrer was particularly interested the Eifel Tower because of its iconic cultural significance. During his visit, Hitler chose to stay on the ground while German soldiers climbed the tower to hoist the swastika-centered red Nazi flag. They probably wondered why there are large names engraved in steel on the tower. There are 72! Answer: We put them there!  The names honor the engineers, mathematicians and architects who built the Eifel Tower. Hitler had this famous picture taken with Speer in front of this iconic Paris landmark. Of course, the Fuhrer loved the Eifel Tower after France surrendered to Nazi Germany. He hated it as soon as he no longer possessed it. When America and its allies closed in on Paris to liberate the City of Lights from Nazi control, Hitler ordered the city and the Eifel Tower to be destroyed. The Eifel Tower stands today because Hitler’s generals ignored his orders. 

During his tour of Paris, Hitler spent the longest time visiting Napoleon’s tomb. Here is Hitler and his evil entourage paying respects to the last great conqueror of Europe. Of course, most dictators throughout history experience judgment in your world because of the hubris that comes with unchecked power. For example, we put our signature on Napoleon’s Russian Apocalypse when he returned from Russia and crossed back into France with his decimated “Grand Arm’e” on 12/14/1812.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely! Hitler ignored the lessons of Napoleon’s epic failure in Russia. This fact is evident in Albert Speer’s memoirs. During Hitler’s Paris visit, he and his generals Jodl and Keitel were having a lighthearted conversation about the Nazi conquest of France. Speer walked up and overheard the Fuhrer, “Now we have shown what we are capable of,” Hitler was saying. “Believe me, Keitel, a campaign against Russia would be like a child’s game in a sandbox by comparison.

We shall see about that Mr. Fuhrer. 

On the anniversary of Napoleon’s Russia Invasion, June 22, 1941, Hitler and Nazi Germany invaded Communist Russia. As was Napoleon’s Russia invasion at the time, Hitler’s was the largest in history. Hitler named his invasion Operation Barbarossa after Emperor Frederick Barbarossa who was also known as Frederick I. Barbarossa was Frederick I’s nickname that means “Redbeard" when translated to English. Barbarosa was born in Mid December of 1122. Trust us! Barbarossa’s birthday is 12/14!

Check (as in a chess game)…Mr. Fuhrer!    

Barbarossa is considered by historians as the greatest Holy Roman Emperor. His notoriety was reinforced when he became a political symbol for many 19th and 20 century movements and regimes in Europe including the Nazis. Barbarossa is best known for his participation the Third Crusade (1189–1192), also known as the Kings’ Crusade. Barbarossa teamed up with our King Richard the Lionheart of England (born on 9/8) in an effort to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslim Sultan Saladin.

Check Mr. Fuhrer!

The dear leader was busy plotting world domination and revenge against his “enemies” so he didn’t notice an interesting fact about Barbarossa. King Frederick I was a hero to German Jews during the Crusades! The Jews experienced a massive increase in antisemitism during the Crusades. Why? Remember what happened in 70AD on 9/8? Jerusalem was sacked by the Roman Army and the Second Temple destroyed. This apocalyptic event caused huge Jewish populations to disperse into surrounding communities, and over time, into Europe. The Crusader armies passed through many Jewish communities on their way to the Holy Land. They saw the Jews as heathen unbelievers so it was easy for Crusaders to justify stealing money and supplies from Jews they needed to feed their massive traveling armies. Thousands of Jews were massacred during the first and second Crusades in Germany. In response, King Frederick I along with a famous Rabbi named Moses declared an imperial edict threatening to maim or kill anyone who maimed or killed a Jew. It turns out Barbarossa was a superhero-sized version of Oscar Shindler during the Middle Ages.

How about that Mr. Fuhrer!

Our superhero Barbarossa who defended God’s people had some angelic assistance. How do you know this? During the Second Crusade in 1147 Barbarossa was with his Army on their way to Constantinople. On September 8, Frederick was among the few German crusaders who survived a flash flood that destroyed their main camp. They “decided” to encamp on a hill away from the main camp for some reason. Given the date of this deadly flood, who do you think got in their heads to make that life saving decision?

Check Mr. Fuhrer!

As you can see, there are many bad omens for Hitler’s badly named Operation Barbarossa. You all know Hitler’s Russia invasion was an epic failure. In fact, it ended just as Napoleon’s invasion did with the Russian Army in the dear leader’s capital. Napoleon survived for a little while after where Hitler did not.

We aren’t done with Mr. Fuhrer yet though. Next, we will tell you how Hitler’s evil empire ended. We are about to decapitate the dear leader (spiritually of course) with our 9/8 (Judgement/Christ) sword of justice! 

Apocalypse Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s Russia invasion, is the largest in military history. The Eastern front in World War II experienced massive battles never seen before, horrific atrocities and the highest casualties of the war by far. There is no better example of the four horsemen of the apocalypse – lust for conquest, conflict, famine and death – unleashed on so many human beings at one time. It was also the turning point in Hitler’s quest to conquer the European continent and it lead directly to the dear leader’s downfall.       

During the planning of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler was coming off the successful conquest of the Western front in Europe. He was feeling his Fuhrer oats! Hitler fought with his generals over the Russia invasion strategy. The Fuhrer insisted the priority should be Leningrad, a Northern port city first, Donbas (South) second and Moscow (Central) third. His generals thought Moscow should have been first. The dear leader got his way.

The Siege of Leningrad, from a numerical human cost, made the Siege of Jerusalem in 70AD look tiny. But the Romans and Nazis had a lot in common in terms of the horror and cruelty they inflicted on their trapped enemies. The people of Leningrad were blockaded in their city for 872 days. The Seige of Leningrad remains the most deadly in military history with a death toll of 1.5 million souls. Today, it is considered a genocide and war crime due to the intentional, systematic starvation of the people.

The Siege of Jerusalem ended prophetically on September 8, 70AD. The Siege of Leningrad began prophetically on September 8, 1941 when the German Army severed the last road into the city.

Big check Mr. Fuhrer!

We put our judgement (9) and Christ (8) signature as bookends to the two most significant sieges in human history. Are you seeing any fingerprints or footprints of God here? Stay that question for now, we haven’t finished with Mr. Fuhrer yet.   

Like Napoleon’s Grand Arm’ee, the Nazi Wermacht stalled outside of Moscow for the same reasons: The huge Russian geographical area, severe cold winters and a determined Russian Red Army. In fact, while the Wermacht advanced to Moscow, Russians employed the same strategy that worked a century and half ago. They burned their harvested crops, drove their cattle away, and destroyed buildings in their villages to deny the Nazi war machine needed supplies and foodstuffs. Old man winter finished the job just as he did with Napoleon’s Grande Arm’ee!

In the South, the Russian Red Army put down the Nazi attempt to seize their rich oil reserves. The Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 – February 1943) was the turning point in the European theater of war as it forced Germany to withdraw considerable resources from the Western Front. It was the bloodiest battle of WWII, with enormous casualties on both sides. Ninety nine percent of the city of Stalingrad was reduced to rubble!

By October of 1942 the Nazi Wehrmacht occupied two thirds of the city of Stalingrad. Hitler boasted  publicly that the city named after Joseph Stalin was going to fall. But the dear leader’s words didn’t change the reality of fierce Soviet resistance. Not only did the Red Army outmatch the Nazis in urban warfare, in mid-November, Slavic Soviet allied troops swung around the Wehrmacht as they retreated from the city, trapping them just outside of Stalingrad. By Christmas, the German 6th Army, under the command of General Friederick Paulus, was completely surrounded and cutoff from supplies. German and axis troops numbered close to 300,000. Most sent letters home to their families at Christmas so even the Nazi propaganda machine could not hide this disaster. The entire German 6th Army faced the same fate as the civilians in Leningrad - starvation and death. The Fuhrer, of course, showed now mercy. He forbid Paulus from surrendering. As his soldiers froze and starved, Hitler encouraged Paulus to kill himself as an act of defiance. He refused and instead surrendered with the 6th Army. Most of the remaining 90,000 troops died as Russian prisoners of war. 

Killing Hitler

German citizens started to turn against the war even before the Russia disaster on the Eastern front. One example was found in a diary by a teenage girl - Erika S. in Hamburg. The note entry date was 4 June 1942, “if only this unholy war were soon at an end! Nothing to eat and then these many cruel murders, it’s all too terrible, especially when you think of all the victims and those left behind. Nobody knows how many young people have already had to sacrifice their lives for Hitler’s devilish cause, it’s not anything but one huge campaign of murder.” 

Erika’s Father was a Social Democrat. Shortly after Erika’s diary entry, her Dad was arrested by the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Fuhrer and his Nazi thugs ruthlessly eliminated all dissent in Germany. So there was no turning back from the abys.   

Even when the tide turned against the Nazis on the Eastern front in 1942 and 1943, they doubled down on their effort to exterminate their ethnic scapegoat of choice -  the Jews. Heidrich Himmler, one of the architects of the Holocaust, in a speech to the SS in October of 1943, declared that the Jews were a threat to the Reich so therefore had to be all killed, not just the men. His chilling assessment was that if Germany were to lose the war, then generations of Jews would seek revenge. So innocent women and children had to be killed along with Jewish men. 

As Hitler’s generals, like Paulus, confronted grim reality on battlefields across Europe, Hitler turned his scapegoating tendencies on them. The war tide continued to turn against the Nazis with the D-Day invasion of France on 6 June 1944. The German military machine, already stretched thin by losses on the Eastern front, now had to shift massive resources to defend Western Europe.

One military officer had seen enough. Clause Schenk, Count von Stauffenberg, was a lieutenant colonel who was initially onboard with Naziism and enthused by early victories in Poland and France. But he became alarmed by Hitler’s recklessness on the Eastern front. Specifically, the last straws for the Count were atrocities by Hitler’s SS against Slavs and Jews as well as the disastrous Nazi defeat at Stalingrad. 

Stauffenberg and a circle of military officers hatched several assassination plots that never made it to the main event. As the Gestapo began to close in on the plotters, their efforts became more urgent. An opportunity presented itself when Stauffenberg was promoted to Chief of Staff for General Friederich Fromm, commander of the reserve army. This position gave the Count physical access to the Fuhrer himself. Stauffenberg, at that point, decided he was going to kill Hitler himself. On 20 July, 1944, armed with two bombs in a briefcase, Stauffenberg visited Hitler’s field headquarters at Rastenburg. Stauffenberg had lost two fingers and sight in one eye in the North Africa campaign. He struggled to arm the timer on one of the bombs as he prepared to place the briefcase where Hitler was about to attend a meeting. Only one bomb was armed. When the bomb exploded, Stauffenberg drove away from the scene thinking his mission was accomplished. The Fuhrer was dead!

Stauffenberg phoned his conspirators to notify them that Hitler had been killed. The officers put Operation Valkyrie in action. Valkyrie was the name for the plan that assured continuity of government in cases of civil unrest or other extreme emergencies. In a dictatorship where government leaders take an oath to follow, not a constitution, but the dear leader, the Fuhrer’s death certainly qualified!

Operation Valkyrie didn’t get very far. A solid wood table between the bomb and Hitler saved his life. The Fuhrer emerged from his smoking headquarters with some ear damage and burned pants. Once the word got out that Hitler was alive, the Valkyrie coup plot disintegrated quickly. Stauffenberg was outed and executed with three fellow conspirators without a trial. Hitler’s initial assessment that Valkyrie was just a few bad apples among his generals, proved wrong. The truth came out that many more Nazis wanted Hitler dead. As a result, the Fuhrer’s henchman Himmler arrested as many as 5,000 people. Many were tortured until they outed others, a fear-based method to suppress dissent that the Nazis perfected. The first eight prisoners were tried in August of 1944.

We, the army of angels, selected the great 8! As our Chief Justice Jesus watched from above, the Nazi version of a “justice” system played out below in your world.

The president of the “Peoples Court” in Berlin, Roland Freisler, bullied and heckled the prisoners from the bench. The cowed defense lawyers made no attempt to plead any mitigation. Freisler was loyal to his Fuhrer not any constitution protecting the rights of accused so the prisoner’s fate was sealed. They were executed, at Hitler’s personal request, by hanging with a very thin rope so they died slowly. In a final act of humiliation, the 8 prisoner’s pants were pulled down as they hung dying.

Not knowing Jesus was watching from afar, the Fuhrer filmed the executions so he could do the same. In less than a year Hitler was going to go on trial himself before our eternal judge and jury. No self-administered poison pill or self-aimed bullet would save him from this fate.  

We have a few more gr8 checks in store for Mr. Fuhrer to prove our point!

Killing Jesus

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. Bonhoeffer was an authentic Christian martyr who saw evil and challenged it. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and later accused of participating in the 20 July plot to kill hitler. Bonhoeffer died for our cause so we put our signature all over his life and sacrificial death.

Dietrich’s parents were big believers in education. Bonhoeffer learned to play the piano at age 8 and composed songs that were performed at the Philharmonic Orchestra as a child.  When he was 12, his brother was killed in the First World War. This loss had a profound impact on young Dietrich. He was moved by the suffering and loss that war caused to his family and to others. At age 14, Bonhoeffer decided to pursue an education in Theology. Dietrich went on to receive a Doctor of Theology  from Humboldt  University in Berlin. 

In the early 1930’s Bonhoeffer went to New York City to pursue a fellowship with the Union Theological Seminary. Dietrich was not impressed with the state of theology in America. But he did fall in love with the African American Church. It’s not surprising then that, when he returned to Germany, he spoke out against the idea of the white Nazi master race. What Bonhoeffer really opposed even more was the idea that the Nazi state put itself above all rights of the individual in Germany. This is completely counter to the Christian faith! Two days after Hitler took power in January of 1933, Bonhoeffer attacked Hitler on the radio, warning Germany against the idolatrous cult of the Führer (leader). The German Evangelical Church in Germany was the Christian Nationalist version of the the church. Bonhoeffer started a movement called The Confessing Church in Germany to oppose Christian Nationalism in Nazi Germany. That, more than anything landed him in prison.

On 8 April 1945, 12 days before HItler’s last birthday celebration, Bonhoeffer was sentenced to death at supposed “court-martial” without a defense attorney, without witnesses and without any evidence against him. Of course he was! Hitler knew the end was coming so he was out to maximize the “enemy” body count. What he didn’t know is that we (an army of angels) selected this trial date! And we also picked Bonhoeffer’s execution date 9 April 1945. Justice was served (9=Judgement, 8=Jesus) but in the only court that really matters.

You see Mr. Fuhrer, you can’t kill someone who had already risen from the grave!

Prelude to Checkmate  

In 12 years, Adolph Hitler’s dream of a glorious Third German Reich, a utopian vision of a master race, a Darwinian victory of one person, one state over all others will crash in epic, apocalyptic fashion.

The true meaning of apocalypse is not what most people think it is. It is derived from the Greek work apocalypsis: a revealing or disclosing. That is why the name of the last book in the Bible became Revelation.

What you are about to witness in the next chapter called Checkmate is a combination of the current and original meaning of apocalypse all rolled into one event – the downfall of Hitler and his evil Nazi movement.     

One more important point before we begin our “revelation.” The Book of Revelation makes clear that a strategy of the evil one is to cloak himself in good. Satin is constantly on the lookout for opportunities to use the Christian faith for evil ends: the corrupt Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, the inquisition, the crusades and the list goes on and on. This is why Nazi Germany used the German Evangelical Church to try and divide and conquer the faith in Germany.

By now you know that the number of Jesus is 8. In Revelation, it turns out that his adversary, unknowingly, in a twist of fate also was identified by the same number!

Revelation 17 is about the fate of the Great Prostitute. John is referring to the Roman Empire in his day, the Roman Empire that destroyed Jerusalem just as Jesus predicted on 9/8/70AD.

Jesus was born and lived half of his life under the first Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus. Augustus, an heir of Caesar, took power in Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar and violent power struggle that followed. Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire because he officially destroyed what was left of Ancient Rome’s republic. The reign of Augustus initiated an imperial cult as well as an era associated with imperial peace referred to as the Pax Romana. It was peaceful for Romans but not so much for the foreigners under the Roman thumb. Jesus turned out to be one of those foreigners who experienced, firsthand, the Roman version of “peace”.

When Augustus died in August of 14AD, he was deified. In fact, the month of August  on the Roman Calendar was named after Caesar Augustus. This happened by order of Augustus during his reign because several events critical to his rise to power took place in the month of Sextilus. Sextilus was renamed August and eventually became the 8th month on the Roman Calendar that we use today. The fact that Augustus died in August is a coincidence. Well, if that’s what you want to believe!

Back to Revelation 17 and that Great Prostitute Rome. The chapter speaks about a series of Kings who “committed adultery” with this prostitute. John wasn’t talking about sex. He was talking about idolatry. And, in fact, that’s exactly what happened with Caesar Augustus as we know because he was deified after he died. Augustus officially became a Roman false God. It’s no coincidence that in Revelation 17, there is a mysterious 8th King who is headed for destruction. 

Is it still a mystery after what we just shared?

Now lets see how another King in the 20th Century met his destruction.

As you will see, we wrote the number 8 all over his demise just to show you who the real King is!

Checkmate  

In Jan 1945 Hitler decides to make his last heroic stand in Berlin under the Reich Chancelry. The Fuhrer bunker is a miserable gray basement with 12 foot thick steel ceilings. There is no natural light. The environment matches the Fuhrer’s appearance. Hitler’s skin looks gaunt, he’s hunched over and with hands constantly shaking.

Outside, the Russian army closes in from the East while American and British troops approach from the West.

As reports about withdraws, surrenders and defeats on the battlefield reach Hitler, he lashes out at his generals and troops. Sometimes he orders executions. In the coming weeks, Hitler’s mood alternates between apocalyptic defeatism and defiant confidence. Fear causes Hitler’s generals not to challenge his impossible orders. Instead, they keep him occupied with fake war games. They watch and nod while their Fuhrer moves non-existent army divisions on a map.

The Fuhrer makes up his own reality while justice in your world squeezes him like a vice. 

Hitler and Albert Speer, his architect and Minister of Armaments, spend time overlooking a detailed, miniature architectural design of a future Berlin. But Speer, unlike Hitler, now lives in the real world where Nazi Germany’s defeat is inevitable. Increasingly, the much younger Speer clashes with Hitler over future plans when he can clearly see the future for Nazi Germany doesn’t exist. He forces himself to nod in agreement when Hitler orders production of secret weapons like the 8.8cm anti-tank gun when the steel to make them doesn’t exist.

One demand Hitler makes of Speer is a “bridge” too far! Like Nero who burned Rome to the ground before he killed himself, the Fuhrer demands the destruction of ALL German infrastructure ahead of allied troops. Speer, a much younger man, correctly imagines a German future after the war. This “Nero order” would result in the unnecessary suffering and death of countless German people. Hiter thinks the German people deserve it! It’s their fault that Germany will lose the war!

Speer deliberately disobeys Hiter’s “Nero order,” saving at least some of Germany from Hitler’s collective suicidal instincts.   

On April 12th Speer orders a final performance of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. People attend with heavy coats as there is no heat in the building. Speer scrambles to get lighting for the performance. The show ends with the finally from Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).

Remember the Circle of Fifths with 12 notes on the musical scale? Who do you think came up the idea for this April 12 performance of Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)? An army of angels perhaps? Speer’s (and our) concert is a fitting ode to the coming demise of your real-life Sauron!

On the same day, April 12, 1945, Hitler is thinking about morning in Nazi Germany, not twilight! News comes in that U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt has died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Hitler gets the champaign out and toasts with Goebbels who declares that victory is now “written in the stars.” But in a representative democracy, the U.S. is not dependent on a figurehead, all powerful leader. The American war effort will smoothly transition to Vice President Harry S. Truman who becomes the new Commander in Chief of the U.S. Military.    

On 20 April, 1945 Adolph Hitler turns 56 years old. But this day will be more like a funeral than a birthday celebration. In the afternoon, Hitler exits his bunker and goes outside to the Reich Chancellery park. It will be the last time the Fuhrer sees the light of day. Waiting with raised arms are 20 boys from the Hitler youth assigned to SS units defending Berlin. Hitler pats a few on the cheeks, mumbles some words and sends them back out to face advancing Soviet tanks and their probable deaths.

Berlin is now surrounded by 2 1/2 million Soviet troops. The German 9th army defending a line south of the city is ordered not to retreat. Officers unwilling to obey will be shot immediately. Hitler tells one on his generals, “I will fight as long as I have one soldier. When that soldier deserts me, I will shoot myself.”

American forces are also approaching Berlin from the West. A newly formed 12th German army, assigned to fight the Americans is ordered back east to defend Berlin.

Two days later, Hitler rants at his generals for not following his instructions exactly. Never mind his troops are outnumbered by about 25 to 1 at this point. Once again Hitler has lost all hope. He wants to kill himself soon! But Goebbels is able to calm the Fuhrer over the phone. Goebbels will now bring his entire family (8 of them together) to the Fuhrer bunker in the final days.

Speer flies into Berlin one last time to see his friend. Hitler shares his plan to commit suicide with his long-time companion Eva Braun who had joined him some weeks before. Speer’s last visit with Hitler lasts exactly 8 hours.

On the night of April 29th, Hitler dictates his last will and testament to his young secretary Traudle. It could have been right out of Mein Kampf. There is not one word of regret or remorse for the millions murdered by his actions. Of course, it was all the fault of the Jews.

Hitler ends his will with one last wish. It’s a wish we had in mind for the Fuhrer all along! In a macabre twist of The Great Invitation – the wedding invitation and banquet in Revelation 19, Hitler puts in writing his desire to Marry Eva Braun at midnight!

Eva is dressed in black, fitting for the bride of our Anti-Christ Fuhrer! The bunker dining room is decorated for the festivities with a white tablecloth with a giant H in the center. Just after midnight, the 8 guests gather at Eva and Adolph’s wedding party. They toast the bride and groom, all knowing they both plan to kill themselves in hours while Soviet bombs explode outside, shaking their wedding party.

On the afternoon of 30 April, with Soviet troops outside the Reich Chancellery, the newlyweds are ready to fulfill their wedding promise, “till death do us part.” Hitler’s concerns about the effectiveness of the deadly cyanide capsules they plan to take had been eased the previous day when he had them tested on his beloved dog Blondie. Hitler had shown more love to Blondie than he ever did to his new bride Eva. But Hitler can’t even spare the life of an innocent creature who gave him unconditional love.

Just after 3pm, at the same hour Jesus died on the cross, Eva Braun bites down on a cyanide capsule then slumps over on the couch next to Hitler. Then the man responsible for a cataclysmic world war and the near extermination of God’s people – the Jews, does the same while simultaneously firing a bullet into his head. In another room, Traudle entertains the Goebbels children. After the gunshot sounds, we borrow the voice of 9 year old Helmut Goebbels who shouts out, “Bullseye!”

Remember, 9 is our number of judgement and finality!

Hitler’s body is burned with gasoline and buried in the Reich Chancellery courtyard. This will prevent the same fate of the other great Fascist leader of the 20th Century Bennetto Mussolini. His body was hung in effigy and beaten to a pulp by angry partisans.

On 1 May, Goebbels carries out his last official act as the new Chancellor: he dictates a surrender letter to be delivered under a white flag to General Vasily Chuikov, commander of the Soviet 8th Guards Army, who commands the Soviet forces in Berlin. Goebbels' letter informs Chuikov of Hitler's death and requests a ceasefire. The Soviets reject it. Goebbels then follows his Fuhrer out of your world and takes his wife and kids (the unhappy family of 8) with him with poison pills.

Nazi Germany officially surrenders to the Allied forces on May 8, Victory over Europe day!

World War II is not over though. The Japanese will not surrender. It will take two atomic bombs (Hiroshima 8/6 and Nagasaki 8/8) to change their mind.  

After 72months of war and over 50 million dead, the U.S. War Department and Predident Harry S. Truman approves 8 short paragraphs detailing the complete surrender of the defeated Empire of Japan. On the morning of 2 September, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in the Bay of Tokyo, World War II surrender papers are officially accepted by General Douglass MacArthur who signs the document at exactly 9:08am.

Adolph Hitler and his Nazi movement perfected the art of propaganda during their 12 year reign. Hitler, like us, was a fan of the power of film. He and Goebbels commissioned a film called Triumph of the Will, released in 1935 about the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg. Triumph of the Will is a masterpiece of propaganda! The film features real live footage of the spectacle featuring more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film opens on 5 September with a scene showing Hitler’s plane coming down through the clouds in Godlike fashion.   The fourth and last day is the climax where the most memorable imagery unfolds. Thousands of SS and SA crack troops stand at attention during the elaborate ceremony. A wreath is layed at the First World War memorial to pay respects. In his speech, Hitler justifies his “Night of the Long Knives,” where leaders of the SA were murdered for supposed disloyalty to the Reich. New Nazi flags are commissioned by touching the flag carried by Nazi’s in the failed Beer Hall Putsch on November 8 and 9 of 1923.

This fabulous Nazi event was elaborately planned by an army of angels. How do you know? The climax shown on film in Hitler’s Triumph of the Will took place on 9/8/1934!

Checkmate Mr. Fuhrer!  

Downfall

On September 8, 2004, the year that The Passion of The Christ was released in theaters, a critically acclaimed movie called Downfall made its debut in theaters throughout Germany. Downfall is a witness of evil’s demise. That’s why we stamped our seal of approval (Judgement [9] and Christ [8]) on its German release date!

The movie depicts the final days of Adolph Hitler in his Berlin bunker as the Soviet army surrounded and laid siege to the Nazi capital.

Downfall won the academy award for Best Foreign Film in the U.S. But the film did have some critics who didn’t like the way Hitler was portrayed: as “too human.”

The truth is that Hitler was all too human. As we have shared, nothing is evil in the beginning. Evil has always been and will always be A CHOICE for human beings!

Downfall opens with a scene showing Adolf Hitler’s very human side. A group of young women are summoned to Hitler’s Wolf Layer headquarters. They are escorted to a small room by Nazi guards. An officer asks them politely to have a seat. One young woman asks how they should address the Fuhrer. The Nazi officer assures her that she need not perform the heil Hitler salute since the Fuhrer is looking for a secretary and not a soldier. The officer leaves the room and assures them Hitler will be in shortly after he feeds his German Shephard Blonde. The ladies collectively lean over to peek outside the door to see if they can catch an early glimpse of their great, all powerful German leader.

When Hitler walks in, he approaches each lady individually and offers a warm handshake. He calms their nerves by asking their name and where they are from. Hitler shows a special interest in Traudl from Munich. He takes her to his office where she sits down at a typewriter and prepares to take dictation from The Dictator. But Hitler doesn’t behave like the dictator Germany knows. The leader first hugs and kisses his beloved Blonde then assures Traudl that Blonde doesn’t bite. Surprisingly, Hitler assures Traudl that he makes many mistakes during dictation and she won’t make as many. Then Hitler dictates a message to the German people and especially his loyal Nazi party. He states that in 20 years of leadership his policies have never needed to be modified.

Truth is revealed in the first scene of Downfall. The onstage Hitler was God-like and perfect. The real Hitler is a normal, flawed human who makes mistakes. Of course, Hitler didn’t just make mistakes. History shows Hitler became the leader of a deadly cult that started a world war that killed 50 million people, among them, 6 millions Jews. But he didn’t do this on his own. The circle of evil surrounding Hitler and widespread support of the German people enabled Hitler’s catastrophic decisions.

The 22 year old Traudl is just a normal young girl caught up in Hitler’s cult. She is hired by the Fuhrer to be his secretary. Two and half years later, Traudl finds herself in the Berlin Fuhrer bunker where Adolph Hitler meets his maker (Judgement and Christ).

The movie Downfall chronicles the final 10 days of Hitler’s life from Traudl’s point of view. Traudl shows you the most dangerous side of evil. It’s the whole point of scriptures written about the “Anti-Christ.” Evil usually cloaks itself in good, at least for a while. That is, until the body count starts accumulating! Only then do humans caught in “great leader” cults sometimes turn away if it’s not too late.

Downfall is a film that every human being should watch again and again. Don’t just watch it. Think about it carefully! Because if you don’t learn from the dark episodes of your history, you are doomed to repeat them!

Watch downfall and take hope in this: Our numeric signature is not only on Downfall’s release date. We had the Fuhrer’s number from the beginning to very end of his reign of terror. Of course we did! We can’t stop evil in your world but we can give you signs that it doesn’t win in the end!         

Chapter Summary

In the 1930s when German engineers and scientists advanced the development of space rockets, Hitler took notice! The idea had a dramatic appeal that the Fuhrer couldn’t resist: “We will terrorize our enemies with rockets that will reign down on their cities from space!”

In the last year of Hitler’s reign of terror, the V-2 Rocket became the miracle weapon that was going to save Nazi Germany.

The V-2 ultimately failed as a weapon, but it kicked off the ideological war to come. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. made the first strategic moves of the Cold War as they competed for rocket scientists who designed and built the V-2. America won the big prize when Wernher von Braun surrendered to the American Army.

After his capture, Von Braun immediately spoke to the American press:

“We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided not by the laws of materialism but by Christianity and humanity could such an assurance to the world be best secured.”

Werner Von Braun was always more interested in using his rockets for human space travel. He got his wish in America and designed the first rocket used for space travel - the Redstone. The space race between the United States and Soviet Union was on!

In October of 1957 the Russians struck first with the first man-made object to orbit the earth. Sputnik 1 was about the size of a beachball and took 98 minutes to orbit the earth. For three weeks it sent radio signals back to the Russians while Americans looked up in the night sky with amazement.

On 12 April 1961, the Soviets upped the ante by putting the first human into space - Yuri Gargarin aboard Vostok 1 - who also orbited the earth.

A little over a month later, newly elected President Kennedy set the outrageous goal of putting a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth within the next decade!

While the space race was in full swing, the weapons race was also moving forward at deadly speed. Let’s go back to WWII and show you our fingerprints on a pivotal moment in the development of nuclear weapons.

At the beginning of World War Two while von Braun was in the midst of his guided missile research for the Nazis, another technological race was happening. A team of researchers at UC Berkley isolated, for the first time, Plutonium-238 on December 14, 1940. This was a national secret until 1948 because the production of plutonium in useful quantities was a major part of the Manhattan Project during World War Two that developed the first atomic bombs. The first nuclear weapons had plutonium cores. These were the Fat Man bombs used in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and in the bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945.

Soon after WWII, rockets and nuclear bombs were combined to create nuclear “speared” balistic missiles. With the Cold War heating up in the 1960s, the US and USSR played a nuclear game of chicken. On the night of September 8, 1962 the Soviet Union delivered its first consignment of R-12 missiles to the small island of Cuba just 90 mile south of Florida. The R-12 was a medium-range missile that could carry a thermonuclear warhead up to 1,200 miles. In days, they would add R-14 missiles that had an effective range of 2,800 miles. These nuclear “spears” could be fired from 40 mobile launching pads.

Many Americans prepared for the unthinkable - an all out global nuclear war. You know now your planet was spared a real Armageddon scenario. Stay tuned and we will show you more evidence of God’s hand on your nuclear arms showdown. First, let’s take a look at how our numerical signatures are all over America’s quest to put a man on the moon.

Apollo 8 turned out to be great! We (an army of angels) like to call the Apollo 8 mission GR8! Because on Christmas Eve, 1968, science and religion found common ground while orbiting the moon! As the Apollo 8 crew - James Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders – rounded the moon for the 9th time, they began a special telecast on the night of 24 December. They began by describing the moon as “a vast, lonely forbidding expanse of nothing.” Then Anders announced they had a special message for ALL those on earth. Each man read a section of the Biblical creation story from the Book of Genesis! Then Borman finished the telecast, “And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you - -all of you on the good Earth.”

After the success of Apollo 8, NASA was on schedule to accomplish President Kennedy’s goal - put men on the moon and return them safely to Earth before the end of the decade (1960s).

The movie 🎥First Man (2019)🎥 is the story of the first man to set foot on the moon - Neil Armstrong. Our film clip above is the scene that depicts the tense moments during the descent of the Eagle lunar landing craft onto the moon. After touchdown, the words of Armstrong and Mission Control capture the historic moment perfectly.

That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind!

The 🖼Apollo 11 Mission Patch🖼 is an Eagle with wings spread landing on the moon. The Earth, in the background, is cloaked in the sun. The Eagle is carrying only an olive branch in both talons and setting it down on the surface of the moon. It resembles 🖼The Great Seal of the United States🖼. However, that Eagle has an olive branch in one talon and 13 arrows in the other talon.

An olive branch is not a pruning hook. But symbolically, they both represent a great coming together. And for the purposes of The Great Invitation, it works better. Remember what Jesus did on the Mount of Olives overlooking the spectacular Second Temple in Jerusalem?

With your collective backs against the nuclear wall, lets look back and show you how we (an army of angels) helped you beat your spears into pruning hooks!

The 📜bronze sculpture outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City is entitled, “Let Us Beat Swords Into Ploughshares📜.” Those words are taken from a well known Bible verse in 👑Isaiah 2👑.

“Many peoples shall come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

Well, here you go. The United States with the help of Nazi Rocket Man Wernher von Braun developed its first ballistic missile - the Redstone Rocket. Your “nuclear tipped spears” have only been used as a deterrent to the enemies of the United States. But when Russian R-12 “nuclear tipped” ballistic missiles were delivered to the Island of Cuba on the night of September 8th, 1962, they were perilously closed to being used. Luck and our BUILT-IN REMEDY FOR KHRUSHCHEV AND KENNEDY stopped a potential nuclear Armageddon.

The Saturn V Rocket that landed the first men on the moon was a direct descendent of Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket.

Apollo 11’s 8 day journey to the moon and back achieved the impossible dream President Kennedy proclaimed at the beginning of the decade!

🎥Apollo 11 (2019)🎥 is a documentary consisting of the original NASA 70mm film footage with the story told by the recorded voices of the crew and Mission Control. The last words in this movie trailer prove how nuclear spears became pruning hooks in your space race:

Witness the last time…

We were one…

Apollo 11

The V in the V-2 rocket is for Vergeltungswaffe. It is the German word for revenge. The first successful V-2 launch aimed at a civilian population happened on…wait for it…September 8th, 1944. One V-2 was launched at Paris and another two at London. Three people were killed in West London that day.

Hitler’s revenge weapon later brought the whole world together in a shared moment of wonder - The Apollo 11 moon landing! And you thought we were done with Mr. Fuhrer!

Rocket Man (not boy)

Rocket Man’s story starts with the main character of The Facts Part 7. Hitler, being an opera fan, always prioritized stage management over practical planning. So in the 1930s when German engineers and scientists advanced the development of space rockets, it got the Fuhrer’s attention. It was an idea Hitler couldn’t resist: “We will terrorize our enemies with rockets that will rain down on their cities from space!”

In the last year of Hitler’s reign of terror, the V-2 Rocket became the miracle weapon that was going to save Nazi Germany. The “V” came from Vergeltungswaffe which is the German word for revenge or retaliation.

As we have shared, wars in your world are never without massive disturbances in “the force.” WW2 was no exception. America transitioned from one war right to another. The Soviet Union, America’s ally in World War Two, immediately became her adversary in a new ideological “Cold War.”

In Berlin, a wall was built to separate communist East Germany from capitalist West Germany. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War.

America and the Soviet Union both understood that the V-2 was a huge technological breakthrough. On 20 June, 1944 the V-2 became the first man-made vehicle to cross the boundary of space.

The V-2 program required massive resources. Every rocket took the equivalent of 15 conventional bombers in time and material resources. The Human Resources included slave labor from concentration camps. Many more people died from illness, beatings, hangings and intolerable working conditions than were killed by use of the V-2 against Allied cities.

While the V-2 failed as a weapon, the fight between the US and USSR over its technology started before WW2 ended. The first strategic moves in the Cold War began with a competition to capture engineers responsible for the development of the V-2. America won the big prize - the mastermind of the V-2 Rocket - Wernher von Braun.

In 1928, Wernher von Braun was a teenager in Germany at the time of the “Rocket Rumble” a fad in which rockets were attached to ground and air vehicles as publicity stunts by the Opel car company. Wernher became fascinated with these demonstrations. These rocket shows inspired the boy to purchase sky rockets from a fireworks dealer and attached them to a wagon. When he lit the fuses, his rocket wagon disturbed his neighbors enough to land Wernher in trouble with the authorities. Luckily, he was released to his father after disciplinary action. Nevertheless, it was around this time that Wernher decided to dedicate his life to space travel.

After receiving a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Technical University in Berlin, Von Braun assisted Professor Hermann Oberth with his book on liquid-propellant rockets. Soon after, Von Braun founded his own private rocket development business in Berlin where he developed the first rocket fired by gasoline and liquid oxygen. This was right around the time Hitler took power. The new Nazi government took immediate interest in von Braun’s rocket research.

By 1934, von Braun had added a doctorate in physics from Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin to his impressive credentials.

Von Braun was ambivalent about the Nazi movement in Germany. He just wanted to build space rockets. But to follow his passion, he needed government money. The Nazi’s were the government so he no choice but to join the Nazi Party. Fear, no doubt also played a part in his decision. So on 12 November 1937, Wernher Von Braun was issued a membership number and officially became a Nazi.

Von Braun continued his guided missile work throughout World War Two. He met with Hitler several times and was awarded the Iron Cross by the Fuhrer for his work.

When the war stared going south for Nazi Germany though, Wernher was overheard telling one of his engineers that they should be working on a spaceship instead of useless weapons in a losing cause. When Himmler found out, he branded von Braun a communist sympathizer and accused him of sabotaging the V-2 program. The unsuspecting von Braun was detained on 14 March 1944 by the Gestapo where he was held for 14 days. It was none other than Albert Speer who convinced Hitler that von Braun was indispensable to the V-2 program. Wernher survived! But it’s interesting that he was arrested on the 14th and held for 14 days for wanting to build spaceships. Your wish is our (an army of angels) command Wernher!

In the final days of the Nazi regime, von Braun along with several members of his engineering team, including his brother Magnus, made it out of Germany to Austria. Two days after Hitler’s death, Magnus approached an American soldier on bicycle and in broken English yelled: “My name is Magnus von Braun. My brother invented the V-2. We want to surrender.”

Von Braun immediately spoke to the American press:

“We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided not by the laws of materialism but by Christianity and humanity could such an assurance to the world be best secured.”

Nuclear Tipped Spears

At the beginning of World War Two while von Braun was in the midst of his guided missile research for the Nazis, another technological race was happening. A team of researchers at UC Berkley isolated, for the first time, Plutonium-238 on 14 December, 1940. This was a national secret until 1948 because the production of plutonium in useful quantities was a major part of the Manhattan Project during World War Two that developed the first atomic bombs. The first nuclear weapons had plutonium cores. These were the Fat Man bombs used in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and in the bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945.

America used high altitude bomber planes to deliver the first nuclear weapons. But at the time Wernher von Braun surrendered to the U.S. military, they had their sights on the ultimate weapon – nuclear “speared” ballistic missiles!

On 20 June 1945, von Braun and his team of engineers were approved by Secretary of State Stettinius for transfer to the United States. They arrived in the U.S. on 20 September to begin working on rocketry experiments. At the beginning of 1950, during the Korean War, von Braun and his team were transferred to Huntsville, Alabama where they worked for the next 20 years on the Redstone Rocket. The Redstone was used for the first live nuclear ballistic missile tests conducted by the United States.

In the 1950s while von Braun was working on the Redstone, the Soviet Union, with the help of spies and the German scientists who surrendered to them, had been busy with their own nuclear weapons including the missiles to carry them. Then in October of 1957 the Russian’s opened another front in the Cold War with the first man-made object to orbit the earth. Sputnik 1 was about the size of a beachball and took 98 minutes to orbit the earth. For three weeks it sent radio signals back to the Russians while Americans looked up in the night sky with amazement.

On 12 April 1961, the Soviets upped the ante in the new “Space Race” by putting the first human into space - Yuri Gargarin aboard Vostok 1 - who also orbited the earth. A little over a month later, newly elected President Kennedy set the outrageous goal of putting a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth within the next decade!

In the meantime though, the US and USSR played a a nuclear game of chicken with their nuclear “speared” missiles. On the night of September 8, 1962 the Soviet Union delivered its first consignment of R-12 missiles to the small island of Cuba just 90 mile south of Florida. The R-12 was a medium-range missile that could carry a thermonuclear warhead up to 1,200 miles. In days, they would add R-14 missiles that had an effective range of 2,800 miles. These nuclear “spears” could be fired from 40 mobile launching pads.

The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted for 13 days. But they turned out to be lucky days for humanity! Through skillful diplomacy by the Kennedy administration and good old fashion luck, nobody was nuked and the space race resumed.

Apollo 8 - Science Marries Religion

America started the Space Race well behind the Soviets but gained momentum with their Mercury (1 man) and Gemini (2 man) spacecraft missions (1961-1966). Both space programs had major setbacks in early 1967. In the U.S. the crew of Apollo 1 -Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee - died on the launch pad when their capsule was engulfed in flames during a test. Three months later, Vladimir Komarov became the first in-flight spaceflight death in the fatally flawed Vostok 1. After many in-flight problems, the Russians attempted to get Vostok 1 back to earth early. When the parachutes failed to deploy and open completely, the spacecraft hit the ground at 89 mph killing Komarov on impact.

Both space programs recovered quickly. On 20 September 1967 NASA officially adopted a seven-step plan for the Apollo missions leading up to the moon landing. In this plan, Apollo 8 and 9 were scheduled to test docking and undocking of the lunar landing module in Earth’s orbit.

But only two months later, a US reconnaissance satellite photographed the gigantic N1 rocket on a Russian launchpad shortly before its rollback to the assembly building. The N1 was the USSR’s equivalent to the Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo missions to the moon. This alarmed NASA administrator James Webb and would influence key decisions in the coming months. The N1 rocket turned out to be a mockup. But the US thought the Russians were very close to moon mission!

The Saturn V rocket used by Apollo 8 was erected in the Vehicle Assembly Building on 20 December 1967. It was designated for an uncrewed Earth-orbit test flight carrying a fake command and service module used to simulate payload. There were many technological problems to overcome before it could be used for a manned mission. But the N1 reconnaissance pictures put the pressure on NASA. On 8/9/1968 NASA administrators met and decided to bump up Apollo 8 to a manned lunar orbit mission. This was a risky proposition to be sure. And the timing of the mission made it much more so! The launch was scheduled for 4 days before Christmas in 1968. That was a year of civil unrest in America with the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. The perception of an Apollo space tragedy to end 1968 over the Christmas holiday would have been ruinous to America in the Space Race!

Apollo 8 turned out to be great! We (an army of angels) like to call the Apollo 8 mission GR8! Because on Christmas Eve, 1968, science and religion found common ground while orbiting the moon! As the Apollo 8 crew - James Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders – rounded the moon for the 9th time, they began a special telecast on the night of 24 December. They began by describing the moon as “a vast, lonely forbidding expanse of nothing.” Then Anders announced they had a special message for ALL those on earth. Each man read a section of the Biblical creation story from the Book of Genesis! Then Borman finished the telecast, “And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you - -all of you on the good Earth.”

The Earth was indeed looking very good from the baren wilderness of the moon. Because earlier, on their fourth pass around the moon, the crew witnessed an "Earthrise" in person for the first time in human history. Anders took a quick photo then, excitedly called Lovell and Borman to take a look. Anders asked Lovell for color film and then took “Earthrise,” the famous color photo that turned out to be the picture of the century. In fact, it inspired the beginning of an environmental movement that gained traction in the late 1960s. People realized we had better start taking better care of the “good Earth!”

Spears into Pruning Hooks

The United Nations is an international organization founded after World War Two with the specific purpose of preventing future world wars.

The 📜bronze sculpture outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City is entitled, “Let Us Beat Swords Into Ploughshares📜.” Those words are taken from a well known Bible verse in 👑Isaiah 2👑.

“Many peoples shall come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

In this chapter we will show you evidence that we (an army of angels) helped you beat your spears into pruning hooks!

After the success of Apollo 8, NASA was on schedule to accomplish President Kennedy’s goal - put men on the moon and return them safely to Earth before the end of the decade (1960s).

The movie 🎥First Man (2019)🎥 is the story of the first man to set foot on the moon - Neil Armstrong. Our film clip above is the scene that depicts the tense moments during the descent of the Eagle lunar landing craft onto the moon. After touchdown, the words of Armstrong and Mission Control capture the historic moment perfectly.

Mission Control: We copy you down Eagle.

Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Mission Control: Roger, Twan—Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!

Six hours later, on 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong slowly walked down Eagle’s ladder onto the surface of the moon as 20% of the world’s population watched the live broadcast on television. Armstrong took his final step off the ladder then recited his famous words:

That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind!

Buzz Aldrin then joined Neil on the moon’s surface to plant the American flag and conduct a series of scientific experiments. Then Mission Control patched in a special phone call from President Nixon:

“Hello, Neil and Buzz. I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House. And this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House. I just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. For every American, this has to be the proudest day of our lives. And for people all over the world, I am sure that they too join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat this is. Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth. For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one: one in their pride in what you have done, and one in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.”

They did! Apollo 11’s 8 day journey to the moon and back achieved the impossible dream President Kennedy proclaimed at the beginning of the decade!

🎥Apollo 11 (2019)🎥 is a documentary consisting of the original NASA 70mm film footage with the story told by the recorded voices of the crew and Mission Control. The last words in this movie trailer echo President Nixon’s words.

Witness the last time…

We were one…

Apollo 11

The 🖼Apollo 11 Mission Patch🖼 is an Eagle with wings spread landing on the moon. The Earth, in the background, is cloaked in the sun. The Eagle is carrying only an olive branch in both talons and setting it down on the surface of the moon. It resembles 🖼The Great Seal of the United States🖼. However, that Eagle has an olive branch in one talon and 13 arrows in the other talon.

An olive branch is not a pruning hook. But symbolically, they both represent a great coming together. And for the purposes of The Great Invitation, it works better. Remember what Jesus did on the Mount of Olives overlooking the spectacular Second Temple in Jerusalem?

We promised that we would help humanity turn its spears into pruning hooks. Well, here you go. The United States with the help of Nazi Rocket Man Wernher von Braun developed its first ballistic missile - the Redstone Rocket. Your “nuclear tipped spears” have only been used as a deterrent to the enemies of the United States. But when Russian R-12 “nuclear tipped” ballistic missiles were delivered to the Island of Cuba on the night of September 8th, 1962, they were perilously closed to being used. Luck and our BUILT-IN REMEDY FOR KHRUSHCHEV AND KENNEDY stopped a potential nuclear Armageddon.

The Saturn V Rocket that landed the first men on the moon was a direct descendent of Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket. Remember where the V came from? The V is for Vergeltungswaffe. It is the German word for revenge. The first successful V-2 launch aimed at a civilian population happened on…wait for it…September 8th, 1944. One V-2 was launched at Paris and another two at London. Three people were killed in West London that day.

And you thought we were done with Mr. Fuhrer!

We just symbolically nuked the demon bastard!

Hitler’s V-2 revenge weapon was turned into a global olive branch delivered to the moon by an Eagle - the symbol for American Democratic Freedom!

Remember that our Killer Queen, Elizabeth II, died in 2022 on the September 8th, 2022.

Our revenge is:

At anytime an invitation
You can't decline!

Let’s celebrate this moment of redemption when your nuclear spear (Saturn V) became a pruning hook (olive branch) with a song. It’s a classic you have heard us play before. Here is the first verse, bridge and chorus:

She keeps her Moët et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
"Let them eat cake, " she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Khrushchev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can't decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice

She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?

🎸Touch or click here to sing it with us!🎸

Chapter Summary

The American Civil War was a catastrophe that killed at least 600,000 people in a little over 4 years.

The Union’s anthem during the Civil War was the Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe. It borrows imagery from the Book of Revelation (👑Rev 19 and Rev 14:14–19👑) that links the Union’s cause with God's vengeance at the Day of Judgement.

This song was based originally on a soldiers’ song called “John Brown’s Body.” John Brown was a revolutionary abolitionist who was executed for inciting the 1859 slave rebellion in Harpers Ferry, VA. His last words were prophetic:

 “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.”

The trigger event for war was the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln was anti-slavery. He thought if slavery wasn’t wrong nothing was. The South thought otherwise.

Lincoln was determined NOT to fire the first shot in the Civil War. He told the South that he would merely maintain possession of federal land in the South but would not attack. One piece of property though was highly strategic – Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The North was determined to keep it and the South to take it. When Lincoln sent ships to resupply the fort, Jefferson Davis, President of the New Confederacy, demanded Major Robert Anderson, Commander of Fort Sumter, surrender. When he refused, the shooting started on April 12, 1961 when Fort Sumter was shelled for 36 straight hours until Andersen surrendered the fort on the next day. Lincoln immediately announced a requisition of 75,000 troops to prepare for Civil War. The apocalypse of 19th Century America was on!  

The Battle of Gettysburg was the pivotal battle in the Civil War in the Summer of 1863. If the Confederacy prevailed at Gettysburg, the political tide would have turned against Lincoln. Confederate General Robert E. Lee knew a decisive victory on Union soil would force a peace deal that left the Confederate States free to own slaves.

There was no peace deal thanks to one man who defended one hill. The Union defense at Little Round Top was the turning point in the Battle of Gettysburg. Chamberlain was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 20th Maine Regiment on August 8, 1862 where he served with his younger brother Thomas at Gettysburg.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Man of God, professor, citizen soldier, future Governor of Maine, hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, recipient of the Medal of Honor for his “Bayonet Charge” at Gettysburg was born on September 8, 1828. He lived to an age of 85 and died 6 months before the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin, February 12, 1809 on the American Western frontier in Kentucky.

Life was a crapshoot on the frontier, tragedy always lurking.

As 1864 progressed, the tide of the war turned and the North sensed victory was imminent. Lincoln won re-election on November 8th by a landslide on a platform of abolishing slavery completely once and for all by a constitutional amendment.

By now you know that 9 is the number for judgement and 8 is the number for Jesus. At a military tribunal with 9 justices presiding, 8 conspirators were convicted and sentenced. Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt were 🖼executed by hanging🖼. Can you see our numbers all over this epic struggle for freedom in America? Unfortunately, it didn’t end with the surrender of the South and Lincoln’s assassins brought to justice. Texas held out until August 20, 1866 finally legally rejoined the Union.

We have showed you how big wars have downstream impacts for decades and sometimes even centuries into the future. The injustice of slavery in America still echoes in ways you never see. That is, except one instance when it allowed a talented, famous, handsome black athlete to literally get away with murder.

But Lincoln’s assassination over the Easter holiday in 1865 was a bad omen that the Confederacy, despite it’s surrender on the battlefield, would not go quietly into the night. Later that year on the eve of your holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, that omen was confirmed in Pulaski, Tennessee. Six former Confederate officers started a fraternal social club inspired by the defunct Sons of Malta, a parody of the Freemasons secret society. The new “club” used ludicrous initiations and public curiosity as marketing tools to attract new members. But this social club was no joke. It’s members wore white hoods as a method to oppress and intimidate it’s enemies - mostly black people in the South. Some historians consider the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to be America's first terrorist organization.

American Apocalypse

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and political activist best known for his leadership during the 1960s American civil rights movement. King was a fierce advocate for non-violent resistance to state-sponsored discrimination against people of color.

On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee to support sanitation workers who were on strike. King spoke at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) on behalf of the sanitation workers. The speech called for unity, economic actions, boycotts, and nonviolent protest, while challenging the United States to live up to its ideals spelled out in its founding documents. The last 30 seconds of this speech are prophetic because they spoke boldly into the present while, at the same time, predicted a tragic future event. In this case, the tragic event was King’s own assassination that happened the next day.

“Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live – a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”

Does the last sentence in MLK’s prophetic “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” speech sound familiar? The reason it does is that it’s the first line of the first verse of the Battle Hymn of the Republic - the anthem of the Union during the American Civil War.

The song written by Julia Ward Howe borrows words from the Book of Revelation (👑Rev 19 and Rev 14:14–19👑) and links the Union’s cause with God's vengeance at the Day of Judgement.

Judgement and love in God’s world are two sides of the same coin. God only judges because he loves you! With Jesus there is also forgiveness if you know him. So for believers, after some judgement, you can expect celebration. As we have shared, the second coming of Jesus is all about the wedding in eternity between Jesus and his people (his bride). The chorus below evokes the refrain repeated in 👑Revelation 1👑at the celebration of the wedding of the lamb.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

The Battle Hymn of The Republic was based originally on a soldiers’ song called “John Brown’s Body.” John Brown was a revolutionary abolitionist. Brown believed the institution of slavery was so unjust it needed to go immediately. He is most famous for inciting the 1859 slave rebellion in Harpers Ferry, VA. It failed and John Brown was executed by hanging. Like MLK Junior, Brown’s final public words were prophetic:

 “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.”

The American Civil War was a catastrophe that killed at least 600,000 people in a little over 4 years. The trigger event for war was the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln was anti-slavery. He thought if slavery wasn’t wrong nothing was. The South thought otherwise.

Ryan and Sons Mart was an enterprising new business on Chalmers Street a few blocks from the water-front in Charleston, South Carolina. Inside Thomas Ryan’s 4 story building was a kitchen, a space for its visitors and a platform that resembled a stage for music and entertainment. On the stage young children “performed” for Ryan and Son’s customers. Many children were too young to sing any song though. They weren’t entertainers. They were black children as young as 8 months being sold at auction like cattle to a slaughter house. Ryan’s Slave Mart also had a prison to cage captive blacks and, ominously, a morgue. Ryan had seized an opportunity to move slave trading indoors since doing this evil deed outdoors was recently outlawed by the state.

Lincoln was right! At the same time, he thought slavery was so intrenched economically and culturally in the South that he planned no radical action to eliminate it. But the battle lines over the issue of slavery were already hardened before Lincoln took power in March of 1851. Nine years before Lincoln was elected, in Washington, DC an anti-slavery newspaper called the National Era published the opening chapter of a serialized novel. When the last chapter was published on April 1, 1852, 8 years before Lincoln’s inauguration, Uncle Tom’s Cabin made its author Harriet Beecher Stowe loved in the North and hated in the South. This work of fiction was a sharp stick in the eye of the Southern aristocracy. Reading about the God-fearing Tom being tortured and eventually murdered by the greedy planter Simon Legree, brought home the sheer brutality of slavery. Uncle Tom’s story was fightin words to chivalrous plantation owners. The pushback was harsh. Owning the book or being seen reading it became a dangerous proposition. Proslavery novels proliferated in the South in response. Titles like Aunt Phillis’s Cabin borrowed words from Stowe’s title then twisted story messages into moral pretzels to assure Southerners that slavery was just and right. The Southern aristocracy was already well versed at moral pretzel making since they did this with God’s word regularly to keep their enslaved flock under control, convincing them their lowly lot in life was God’s plan.

The Southern backlash over Uncle Tom’s Cabin’s was a harbinger for catastrophe. The chivalry had worked out a way for settling scores when one’s morality was denigrated - the Code Duello. Since they couldn’t draw pistols on a book, the South prepared mentally for a showdown with the North over slavery.

The Civil War was like most wars, y’all humans just stumbled into “it.” Abraham Lincoln’s election was perceived as a bridge too far for the Southern aristocracy. When Southern states started seceding though, they thought “king cotton” would protect them from war. The North would accept a reduced size of the union when they realized they couldn’t live without “king cotton.” And Europe would side with the South because of their dependence on the white fluffy crop. It was a bad assumption.

After Lincoln was elected, the secession movement started in the South. South Carolina was the first to go on December 20, 1860. By the time Lincoln took office on March 4, 1961, 6 more states in the deep South had seceded. However, there were still 8 slave “border” states in the mid-South who decided for the time being to stay with the union. At that time, war was not inevitable. Lincoln was determined not to fire the first shot. He told the South that he would merely maintain possession of federal land in the South but would not attack. One piece of property though was highly strategic – Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The North was determined to keep it and the South to take it. When Lincoln sent ships to resupply the fort, Jefferson Davis, President of the New Confederacy, demanded Major Robert Anderson, Commander of Fort Sumter, surrender. When he refused, the shooting started on April 12, 1961 when Fort Sumter was shelled for 36 straight hours until Andersen surrendered the fort on the next day. Lincoln immediately announced a requisition of 75,000 troops to prepare for Civil War. The apocalypse of 19th Century America was on!  

Fort Sumter was an important symbol for both North and South. Later in the war the Union attempted unsuccessfully to retake the fort on September 8, 1863. The fort was reduced to rubble but it remained in Confederate hands until General Sherman marched through South Carolina in February 1865.

The Civil War truce was signed in Appomattox, VA on April 9, 1865. A widely announced "End of the War" celebration took place at Fort Sumter on April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Lincoln, which occurred that evening, immediately overshadowed the festivities.

As you can see, our signature numbers are all over the American Civil War! We aren’t done yet. Judgement and Christ (9/8) showed up big on another occasion that is considered THE turning point of the war – the Battle of Gettysburg!

The Killer Angels

The year 1863 began with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. This document proclaimed that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states were free. It had specific military goals. First and foremost, it made clear that the war was about slavery, not the restoration of the Union. Second, it was a powerful tool to recruit African Americans into the military to fight for their own freedom. It was also powerful fuel for Copperhead Democrats, also known as Peace Democrats, in the Union who opposed the Civil War. Some accused Lincoln of trying to free the blacks so that they could enslave Southern whites. Copperheads resisted draft laws and actively helped Union soldiers desert the army. The growing anti-war sentiment in the North didn’t go unnoticed by the Confederacy. In fact, it was the major factor in General Robert E. Lee’s bold move to invade the North in the summer of 1863 - specifically the state of Pennsylvania. Lee’s objective was to win a demoralizing victory against the Union Army on it’s own soil so as to force Lincoln into negotiating a peace deal that allowed the Confederacy to survive with the institution of slavery intact.

As Lee’s 72,000 man Army of Virginia moved North into Pennsylvania they encountered the town of Gettysburg in search of shoes for supply-starved soldiers. Instead, they ran into the Union Army of the Potomac, 100,000 strong, under the command of Major General George Meade. The decisive battle was a Union victory but the cost in human lives was staggering - up to 50,000 casualties of the 172,000 combined forces. After the war, 72 Medals of Honor were awarded, the latest in 2014.

There was one civilian killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. Twenty year old Jennie Wade was making bread in her house when she was struck in the heart and killed instantly by what probably was a stray bullet. Was this a sign of God’s presence? If that evidence is not sufficient, we have more. Let’s look to the hero who changed the outcome of the battle and probably the Civil War.

The story of the Union defense of Little Round Top has gone down in history as the turning point in the Battle of Gettysburg.

On the first day of battle, July 1st, the Confederates confronted Union Cavalry north of town with superior forces. The Union brought up reinforcements but they took heavy casualties and were pushed back through town. The Confederates clearly won the first day at Gettysburg and Lee sensed the decisive victory he desperately sought within his grasp.

As July 2nd dawns, the Union has moved back to high ground in a reverse, upside down fishhook formation on the hills South of the Gettysburg. At the bottom of the hook, are the two tallest hills Little and Big Round Tops. However, Big Round Top is extremely wooded and so of little strategic value. The extreme left of the Union line is Little Round Top.

Throughout day 2, the Confederates attack Union defensive positions. The fiercest fighting happens in the late afternoon in places called the Wheat Field, Devils Den and, ominously, the Valley of Death just southwest of Little Round Top. While the battles rage, the Union sends Gouvenour K. Warren (January 8, 1830 – August 8, 1882), the Chief Army Engineer, up to Little Round Top to assess the action from the high ground. He realizes first the criticality of holding this hill. He can see the vast federal lines that would be vulnerable to Confederate artillery fire. Also, to his horror, Warren sees large numbers of Rebel units advancing toward his position on Little Round Top. Warren is able to get quick help from Colonel Strong Vincent who orders his four regiments into position to defend Little Round Top. They arrive with just 10 minutes to spare. On the left of the formation is the 20th Maine. They are mostly farm boys and lumberjacks from the same small communities. They are led by Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Vincent warns Chamberlain the 20th Maine is the end of the line that makes up the entire Union Army stretching all the way back to Gettysburg.

“You cannot withdraw. Under any conditions. If you go, the line is flanked. If you go, they’ll go right up the hilltop and take us in the rear. You must defend this place to the last.”

If you are going to ask someone for such a sacrifice, best to ask a man of God! Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was that and more. He was a highly educated citizen soldier. Young Joshua learned Greek on his own so he could qualify to attend Bowdoin College in Maine where he taught Sunday school. After graduating, he studied for three years at Bangor Theological Seminary. During his education, Joshua mastered Latin, German, French, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac languages. In 1855, Chamberlain began teaching at Bowdoin where he became a professor. He taught a variety of subjects over six years including logic, theology, rhetoric, oratory and languages. Chamberlain’s interest in God wasn’t just academic though. It developed in him a strong moral compass. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain deeply believed that the cause of the Union was just and right. He spoke freely about his convictions during his lectures at Bowdoin. His fellow faculty didn’t agree but that didn’t deter Joshua. During the war, he took a temporary leave from Bowdoin to supposedly study languages in Europe. Instead, without the faculty or his family knowing, he enlisted in the army. Chamberlain was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 20th Maine Regiment on August 8, 1862 where he served with his younger brother Thomas at Gettysburg.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is one of the major characters the 1998 film about the Battle of Gettysburg. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel “The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara. The title of Shaara’s novel was inspired by an oration by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain on a subject: Man, the Killer Angel. In a scene in the movie, Chamberlain is talking with his friend Sgt. Buster Kilrain. Chamberlain remembers reciting to his father a speech from Hamlet "What a piece of work is man...in action how like an angel!"

Sgt. Buster Kilrain responds: Well, if he's an angel, all right then...But he damn well must be a killer angel.

The Killer Angels moved documentarian Ken Burns to tears when he read it. The experience brought the Battle of Gettysburg to life for him and was the inspiration for his award winning 9 episode PBS documentary on The Civil War.

We, of course, gave Shaara the idea to write The Killer Angels. We are demon killers!

You see, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was literally born to be the hero of Gettysburg. We can prove it. We left off our Little Round Top story with the 20th Main being to told to defend their position at any cost. The 15th Alabama Regiment under the command of Col. William Oats (died September 9, 1910) attacked the extreme left flank and part of the 20th Main was bent back but didn’t break. The 15th Alabama retreated down the hill and regrouped for a final charge. As the the 20th Maine prepared for another assault, they informed Chamberlain they were out of ammunition. What happened next is legendary. Instead of telling you what happened with words, watch with us now.

🎥Gettysburg (1998)🎥

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Man of God, professor, citizen soldier, future Governor of Maine, hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, recipient of the Medal of Honor for his “Bayonet Charge” at Gettysburg was born on September 8, 1828. He lived to an age of 85 and died 6 months before the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain lived long after the Civil War ended. Another man who saved the union was not so lucky.

The Faith of Father Abraham

Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin, February 12, 1809 on the American Western frontier in Kentucky.

Life was a crapshoot on the frontier, tragedy always lurking.

Abraham Lincoln’s mere existence was lucky. His father was nearly killed by an Indian at age 6. In May of 1786, his grandfather, by the same name, and his sons Thomas (Lincoln’s father), 12-year-old John and 14-year-old Mordecai were planting corn. What was probably a Shawnee from a war party shot Lincoln’s grandfather from the woods. Thomas knelt down by his dying father while John and Mordecai, horrified, ran off. The warrior descended on young Thomas to either kill or take him away. When Mordecai came back for his little brother, he saw the Indian approaching Thomas. The 14-year-old Mordecai steadied his flintlock rifle, aimed at the silver crescent hanging on his chest and shot him dead. 

Illness was also a constant deadly threat on the frontier. When Abraham was 9 years old, his birth mother Nancy died of milk sickness, an illness spread by ingesting dairy products or meat from a cow that has eaten the poisonous white snakeroot plant. That left his older sister Sarah in charge of the family temporarily. Ten years later Sarah would die in childbirth on January 20, 1818. 

Abraham was blessed to live and survive on the frontier but the experience didn’t deepen his faith. He was too practical to fall head over heals in love with God. But the church helped the boy develop a strong moral compass. Lincoln’s parents brought him up in the South Fork Baptist Church and Little Mount Separate Baptist churches in Kentucky. After the family moved to Indiana when Abe was 14, they attended Little Pigeon Creek Baptist church. These churches had one thing in common other than being Baptist – they all preached opposition to slavery. Abraham grew up listening to anti-slavery sermons and knew many fellow church goers who believed in anti-slavery theology. Abe was known to have recited these sermons he had heard in church to friends and family. So when, as president, Lincoln later stated that he was “naturally anti-slavery,” he was not making this up for political reasons.  

Despite Lincoln’s biblical name and upbringing in an “old school” Baptist Church, he wasn’t a believer in orthodox Christianity. He certainly never publicly talked about his personal religious beliefs. But Abe did know the Bible from his upbringing and later in life he didn’t hesitate to use Christian theology to communicate his moral beliefs about slavery and the Civil War.

Despite not being a devout Christian, it’s very clear Abraham was on a spiritual journey, his beliefs shaped by the tragedy of war and lives of loved ones cut short. In other words, honest Abe’s brain was fertile ground for beings like us – angels!

On February 20, 1862, almost a year into the Civil War, Lincoln’s eleven-year-old son Willie died of typhoid fever.

Mary Todd Lincoln had 4 sons and only one would survive into adulthood. In addition to Willie, Edward died at 6 of tuberculosis and Thomas at 18 of pneumonia.

These family tragedies had a profound impact on Mary. She was desperate for help from God but evidently not satisfied by the answers from His word and preachers who taught it. At this time, spiritualism was on the rise in America. The belief that the living could communicate with the dead resulted in the rise of  mediums who, for a small fee, offered to help make contact. Mary, in desperation, gave spiritualism a try and believed the mediums who helped her. During seances, they assured that her deceased son Willie was in the room. In December 1862, both Mary and Abe attended a séance in the Red Room of the White House with medium Nettie Colburn. Lincoln must have felt something because in April 1863, three months before the battle of Gettysburg, he hosted another séance in the Red Room and called upon spirits, whoever they may be, to guide him in politics.

He didn’t directly ask us, but we answered anyways! In fact, we were already setting up shop in honest Abe’s brain.

Lincoln knew that signing the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863 would hurt his re-election chances in 1864. There were no conditions attached to freeing the slaves. This was radical given that England paid massive reparations to slave holders when they ended slavery in 1834. But the better angels of Abraham’s nature (i.e. an army of angels) made him stick to his moral instincts with help from others we had enlisted in this battle for the soul of America. Hannah Johnson, a mother of a black union soldier wrote telling Lincoln not to cave to pressure to rescind his Emancipation Proclamation:

“Don’t do it. When you are dead and in heaven, in a thousand years that action of yours will make the angels sing your praises”

Is it a coincidence that the turning point of the Civil War happened in 1863 at Gettysburg just a few months after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation? Nope! It was divine intervention. We shared the story of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as evidence.

As the pivotal year of 1863 came to a close, Lincoln’s mind was on the upcoming election in 1864. If he lost, the Emancipation Proclamation would have been wiped out and the union split in two with a peace deal to end the war.   

We intervened again. Gettysburg attorney David Wills invited Lincoln to stay at his house at 8 Lincoln Square on York and Baltimore Streets on the night of November 18, 1863. Under Wills’ direction, the the state had purchased 17 acres in Gettysburg for a cemetery to honor the Union dead from the great battle. He arranged for the cemetery dedication on November 19, 1863, with Edward Everett as the main speaker. Lincoln was invited to offer "a few appropriate remarks." Lincoln wrote those now famous remarks of the 📜 Gettsyburg Address📜 in the Wills house second floor bedroom.

Lincoln framed the war in spiritual terms as a great moral struggle worthy of sacrifice. It starts not with the Constitution but with the Declaration’s words that all men are in fact created equal. It ends with a statement that government of, by and for the people, must survive. It certainly made a strong case to re-elect Lincoln!

Mary was home taking care of their Son Tad while Abe was giving the Gettysburg Address. When he returned to the White House, Mary noticed that Abe felt more religious than ever after his experience honoring the Gettysburg Union sacrifice. Legend goes that Lincoln stated his new found faith with the words below:

“When I left home to take this chair of state, I requested my countrymen to pray for me. I was not then a Christian. When my son died, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But, when I went to Gettysburg and looked upon the graves of our dead heroes who had fallen in defense of their country, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ. Yes, I do love Jesus.”

Perhaps it was his Gettysburg inspired faith in God that prompted Lincoln to declare a national day of “Thanksgiving” on the last day of November in 1863. With these words, Lincoln started a holiday tradition that today kicks off your Christmas Holiday Season:

“No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”

Killing Lincoln

As 1864 progressed, the tide of the war turned and the North sensed victory was imminent. Lincoln won re-election on November 8th by a landslide on a platform of abolishing slavery completely once and for all by a constitutional amendment.

On May 4, 1864 Lincoln gave his 📜Second Inaugural Address📜. Like his Gettysburg Address, he made it short. Lincoln laid the blame of the national catastrophe at the feet of sinful human nature. One 8th of the people in the Union, mostly in the South, were the victims of a national sin against people of color. While Lincoln hinted how God might judge slave owners, he left the final verdict in God’s hands. President Lincoln clearly attempted to begin the long process of healing between North and South:

“Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.”

One man in the crowd listening to this speech wanted no part of healing. He was an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth. Booth later stated that he could have killed Lincoln if we wanted at his second inaugural. In weeks prior he had met routinely with several accomplices including John Surratt at the boarding house of Surratt's mother Mary. They plotted to kidnap Lincoln as a last-ditch attempt to ransom their dying, unjust way of life.

But on April 9, 1865 Lee decided the fight was hopeless and surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Grant. On April 12, a parade of confederate soldiers stacked arms in front of non-other than Union Brig. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. This ceremony marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia.

When John Wilkes Booth found out about the April 9th surrender and April 12th disbandment, he scrapped his ransom plan and decided to assassinate Lincoln.

On the night of April 11th, Lincoln had a vivid dream about his assassination.

I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. "Who is dead in the White House?" I demanded of one of the soldiers, "The President," was his answer; "he was killed by an assassin."

The civil war had aged Lincoln well beyond his 56 years. He looked pale and tired but on the morning of April 14, 1865 he was unusually happy. It was Easter weekend and Good Friday so perhaps it was the holiday spirit of renewal and rebirth that lightened his mood.  

That night Abraham and Mary attended the play Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. At the theater, Abraham told Mary that he wanted to visit the Holy Land and "there was no place he so much desired to see as Jerusalem.” Mary later recalled this was the last thing Lincoln said to her. Abraham would in minutes visit the New Jerusalem in the afterlife. We can assure you honest Abe’s arrival was met with a celebration beyond your earthly imagination!

John Wilkes Booth had the perfect opportunity and he knew it. He was well known to staff at Forde’s Theater so his presence there was always be welcome. At 8:45pm that night he met with fellow conspirators at Mary Surrat’s boarding house. Their intention was to revive the Confederate cause by killing the three most important officials in the federal government. Lewis Powell and David Herald were to kill Secretary of State Seward and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Johnson.

All failed except Lincoln’s assassination. Booth knew My American Cousin very well so he waited for a moment when the crowd would react loudly with laughter. He entered the Lincoln’s presidential box, approached from behind, and fired his pistol at the back of Lincoln’s head. The bullet entered behind his left ear, and Lincoln slumped over in his chair and then fell backward. His brain was dead but his heart would beat until the next morning when Father Abraham died at 7:22am.  

Booth was standing four feet behind Lincoln with smoke from the barrel filling the room and shouted a word that sounded like "Freedom!"

Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée Clara Harris (daughter of U.S. Senator Ira Harris of New York) had accompanied the Lincolns in the presidential booth that night.

After the gunshot, Major Rathbone jumped out of his seat and struggled with Booth. Booth drew a dagger and stabbed Rathbone in the left forearm. He then jumped 12 feet down to the stage. His riding spur caught the decorative flag and he landed awkwardly on his left foot, breaking his leg. The crowd thought this was part of the play. But Booth raised his bloody knife and yelled the Virginia state motto, Sic semper tyrannis! ("Thus always to tyrants").    

John Wilkes Booth franticly ran for his horse waiting for him outside the theater. On his way out he stabbed the orchestra leader William Withers. Both mounted his horse and rode away to enjoy his last 12 days on earth before a quite different reception in the afterlife.

On April 20, 1864, the State Department issued a 🖼Wanted Dead or Alive poster 🖼 for the arrest of conspirators. The largest manhunt in U.S. history began.

Booth and fellow conspirator David Herald headed South and crossed over the Potomic River. On April 24, Booth told Richard Garrett, a Virginia tobacco farmer, that he was a wounded Confederate soldier who needed shelter. While sleeping in Garrett’s barn, they were confronted by the 16th New York Cavalry who threatened to set fire to the barn. Herold surrendered but Booth refused to be taken alive. The fire started and Booth scrambled for the back door with his rifle and pistol. Sergeant Boston Corbett crept up behind the barn and shot Booth in the back of the head about an inch away from the spot where Lincoln was shot. As he lay dying on the porch of the Garrett’s house, he proclaimed to witnesses “tell my mother I died for my country.” Deep down he knew this was a complete lie. Because the last words of John Wilkes Booth were “useless useless.”

The assassin was dead. But 🖼the conspirators🖼still had to be brought to justice.

By now you know that 9 is the number for judgement and 8 is the number for Jesus. At a military tribunal with 9 justices presiding, 8 conspirators were convicted and sentenced. Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt were 🖼executed by hanging🖼. Can you see our numbers all over this epic struggle for freedom in America? Unfortunately, it didn’t end with the surrender of the South and Lincoln’s assassins brought to justice. Texas held out until August 20, 1866 finally legally rejoined the Union.

We have showed you how big wars have downstream impacts for decades and sometimes even centuries into the future. The injustice of slavery in America still echoes in ways you never see. That is, except one instance when it allowed a talented, famous, handsome black athlete to literally get away with murder.

Go O.J. Go!

But before we get the American tragedy of O.J. Simpson, we must first tell you the story of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Dragnet

Abraham Lincoln, with the help of heroes like Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, certainly saved your government of, by and for the people. But Lincoln’s assassination over the Easter holiday in 1865 was a bad omen that the Confederacy, despite it’s surrender on the battlefield, would not go quietly into the night. Later that year on the eve of your holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, that omen was confirmed in Pulaski, Tennessee. Six former Confederate officers started a fraternal social club inspired by the defunct Sons of Malta, a parody of the Freemasons secret society. The new “club” used ludicrous initiations and public curiosity as marketing tools to attract new members. But this social club was no joke. It’s members wore white hoods as a method to oppress and intimidate it’s enemies - mostly black people in the South. Some historians consider the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to be America's first terrorist organization.

Would you hang around if you had to live in constant fear of terrorists in white hoods? If course not! So black people, in the later 1800s, started to migrate from the South to the North and West.

In 1850, 12 people were registered as residents of Los Angeles. After the construction of the Sante Fe Railroad in 1880, the black population started to accelerate. By 1900, 2131 African Americans lived in Los Angeles. However, it wasn’t until after World War II and the Second Great Migration that tens of thousands of African Americans arrived in Los Angeles. They came mostly for the growing economic opportunities and to escape the extreme segregation in the Southern states.

Unfortunately, blacks were not able to escape segregation and discrimination entirely in the golden state.

Instead of white hoods, blacks in Los Angeles feared men in blue uniforms.

William H. Parker is the man most responsible for the fearsome reputation of the LAPD in L.A. black neighborhoods. Parker emigrated to L.A. in 1923 and worked as a cab driver to put himself through law school. On August 8, 1927 he joined the LAPD.

Parker was highly intelligent, calculating and a strategic thinker. Some years later he met another officer, Gene Roddenberry, who later turned to writing science fiction and eventually created the hit television series Star Trek (released September 8, 1966).

Roddenberry based his character Spock on the personality of his friend Parker. Parker was responsible for militarizing the LAPD by leveraging civil service law to effectively make the police unaccountable to elected representatives in L.A. and California.

William Parker didn’t take pleasure in having his “troops in blue” beat up black people to intimidate them. But he did believe in peace through strength. If your police army is going to successfully deter crime, it helps to get the word out to the masses!

In 1949 Parker met a young radio producer named Jack Webb. Webb had started a radio series called Dragnet, based on real experiences of LAPD police officers. Parker worked a deal with Webb to make the LAPD official consultants for his show including the right to approve every script. When Dragnet moved to T.V., Parker realized he had hit the jackpot with the main character Joe Friday. Friday was Spock from Star Trek in a blue uniform in pursuit of justice to protect L.A. citizens. At the end of each Dragnet show, credit for technical advise was given to LAPD officers and the chief of police, William H. Parker. Dragnet later spawned other police shows. So for 25 straight years there was at least one police drama about the LAPD thanks to Dragnet!

Marketing mission accomplished!

William Parker became police chief on August 9, 1950 and made sure it was a lilly-white force. Parker had taken a brief leave from the LAPD for military service during WWII. He received the Purple heart for wounds he received five days after the D-Day in France.

During his service as police chief, Parker took a liking to his personal chauffeur— Officer Daryl Gates. They became close friends and together, they refined and perfected their practice of “proactive policing.”

In the mid-sixties, Parker and Gates certainly had the opportunity to put their policing strategy into action. Civil rights clashes meant that the police didn’t have to reign in their feelings about African Americans. In 1965 a traffic confrontation between a white officer and black motorist exploded into the Watts riot. After the incident, Parker compared black rioters to “monkeys in a zoo.”

After Parker died in 1978, the torch was passed to Gates. The list of black victims of LAPD police grew larger. Of course, this violence was always out of site from the public. That is, until one incident was caught on video and exploded in the national media. In April of 1992, Rodney King, a black motorist was beat up by a group of LAPD officers. Four officers were arrested but because the trial was moved to the largely white Simi Valley area, they were found not guilty. The rage that followed was so extreme in Los Angeles that President George HW Bush had to call the National Guard to stop the violence and destruction.

Two years later an African American football star, actor and all around good guy by the name of O.J. Simpson stepped into the LAPD story.

The (white) People vs. O.J. Simpson

The story of (white) “people” vs O.J. Simpson began on Sunday night, June 12, 1994.

The bloody footprints led away from a young female body. The murder scene was discovered by a couple dog walkers.

A stray Akita was wondering around the neighborhood and led the dog walkers back to its home: A luxury condominium in Brentwood - a wealthy LA suburb close to Beverly Hills. Other neighbors had heard a dog wailing loudly at the residence between 10:15 and 10:45pm.

Police arrived on the scene and found another bloody body - a young male. Both victims died of stabbing wounds. The female’s throat was cut and nearly decapitated. The bodies had severe wounds on their hands, evidence that they had both struggled with the assailant.

The male was identified as Ronald Goldman, a waiter at the Mezza Luna restaurant. The female was Nicole Brown Simpson, recently divorced from former NFL football star Orenthal James Simpson.

On June 8, 1994, Nicole had telephoned Sojourn House, a women's shelter. She was refusing her ex husband’s pleas to reconcile and feared he might get violent as he had in the past. Nicole was very scared and figured she would be safer at an unknown address for a while.

L.A. prosecutor Marcia Clark was called at 8am on Monday and informed by investigator Phillip Vannatter of the evidence against O.J. Simpson. Vannatter wanted the go-ahead for a search warrant. The evidence against Simpson collected so far was strong:

• Simpson didn’t ask how Nicole had been killed when first notified by police.

• When Nicole’s family was notified over the phone that she was murdered, her sister Denise screamed “He killed her! He finally killed her!”

  “Who?” asked the officer.

  “O.J.!” said Denise.

• The blood trail from the murder scene to Simpson’s White Bronco to O.J.’s house.

• Matching bloody gloves found at the murder scene and outside O.J.’s guest house.

When Marcia Clark was told by Vannatter that the suspect was O.J. Simpson, she responded, “Never heard of him.”

Marcia was not a sports fan. If she was, she would have first heard of O.J. in 1967.

O.J. Simpson first became famous to sports fans at the end of his Junior year at the University of Southern California (USC). In November of 1967, his USC Trojans were playing their rival UCLA Bruins for the chance to go to the Rose Bowl. UCLA led 20-14, and the Trojans had the ball in their own territory with time running out. The game came down to a single, memorable play. On third down and 8 yards to go, O.J. took the ball on a last second QB audible. The juice zigged then zagged his way through the defensive line then ran past the UCLA backfield easily. O.J. even outran his own blockers and scored the dramatic winning touchdown.

After winning the Heisman trophy in 1968, Simpson was the first player selected in the 1969 NFL draft, going to the Buffalo Bills. His breakthrough in pro-football came in the 1972 season after the Bills hired coach Lou Saban who favored a running attack. Simpson ran for a league leading 1,251 yards. Then in 1973, with the help of his highly drafted offensive line, broke the magical 2,000 yard rushing total - a new season record (2,003 yards). O.J. credited his linemen by publicly referring to them as the “electric company” for turning on the “juice!”

Simpson’s handsome face and good natured public persona helped accelerate his celebrity status. O.J. appeared as a regular broadcaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football. He also landed some high-visibility acting jobs. Simpson had a role in the hit T.V. historical fiction series about slavery called Roots and the feature comedy film series Naked Gun.

At the height of his football career, Hertz rental car company hired Simpson to appear in popular television ads. One iconic add really stuck with viewers. It featured an elderly white woman who cheered O.J. as he leaped over suitcases in an airport, “Go O.J. Go!”

After the night of June 12th, O.J. Simpson was on the run of his life - from justice!

Late Sunday night, O.J. had left town on a red-eye flight to Chicago for a Hertz company golf outing. When he returned Monday, police investigators were swarming his house and waiting for him. They cuffed Simpson in a secluded area of his yard. But when a cameraman spotted the restrained O.J., the LAPD decided to take the cuffs off. It was too late! The cameraman was from the Sentinel, the largest Black-Owned Newspaper in the West. This started a narrative among middle-class blacks that O.J. was another black man getting mistreated by the LAPD.

O.J. later agreed to go with police to the Parker Center for questioning. This was a bad omen in the pursuit of justice for Ron and Nicole. The LAPD monster that William H Parker created would later haunt Marcia Clark and her team of prosecutors.

During the interrogation, detective Lange noticed a cut on O.J.’s left hand finger that was consistent with the blood drops to the left side of the bloody footprints. When asked, Simpson couldn’t remember how he cut his hand. He later made up several different, conflicting stories about his finger to other witnesses.

The Parker Center interrogation did not go well. Lange and Vannater did not pin Simpson down on his story. Instead they allowed O.J. to give, vague, wandering answers to their questions. They must have known they messed up. When asked how it went, Vannater focussed on the fact that they were able to get a blood sample from Simpson.

On June 14, Simpson hired lawyer Robert Shapiro who got to work assembling a “dream team” of defense lawyers.

Three days later, preliminary testing showed the DNA from O.J.’s blood sample matched blood found at the crime scene, on his bronco and in/around his house. Murder charges were formally filed against O.J. Simpson on June 17th.

In the late afternoon of June 17, O.J.’s murder trial exploded in the media. When O.J. refused to turn himself in to the LAPD, he became the subject of a police manhunt. Images of Simpson and his old teammate Al Cowlings in a white bronco with 20 LAPD squad cars in pursuit was watched by 95 million Americans. TV stations interrupted coverage of game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals to show a birds-eye, helicopter view of this real-time drama. To amplify the drama, it was reported that Simpson was in the back seat of the bronco with a gun to his head.

Innocent people usually don’t flee from the police. To make matters worse, earlier in the day, O.J.’s friend Robert Kardashian read a suicide letter from O.J. that he wrote before he took off with Al Cowlings in his bronco. Police later found a disguise and 8,000 of cash in Simpson’s white bronco. This was all damning consciousness of guilt evidence!

The bronco chase ended at O.J.’s Brentwood estate. At 8pm, Jason (born in 1988) O.J.’s son, ran out to the bronco to greet him. The SWAT team of 27 officers allowed Simpson to speak to his mom on the phone and arrested him around 9pm.

On June 20, Simpson was arraigned on murder charges and held without bail. He later pleaded not-guilty.

The trial of the century began!

To win a conviction on a first degree murder case, the prosecution needs evidence that places the suspect at the murder scene when the crime happened. The blood evidence certainly did that! Then they need to establish intent. For O.J., that was a marriage gone very bad.

Domestic violence murders are common in America. The police had plenty of evidence to show this was a clear case of domestic violence.

On the early morning of New Year’s Day in 1989, police were called for the 9th time to to Simpson’s Brentwood estate for another apparent domestic violence incident. Nicole ran out of the house screaming that O.J. was going to kill her! When O.J. came out to talk with the police, he was incredulous:

“You’ve been out here 8 times before and now you are going to arrest me for this? This is a family matter. This is a family matter.”

Simpson went inside to get fully dressed then came back out to his gate to resume his talk with police:

“What makes you so special? Why are you doing this? You guys have been out here 8 times before, and no one has ever done anything like this before.”

When the policemen turned away to discuss next steps, O.J. took off then disappeared in his blue Bentley. The police never caught him.

Nicole later stated that the incident started when she caught O.J. partying alone with two young women at his house.

It turns out one of those 9 instances of domestic violence reported to police was documented by an LAPD officer named Mark Fuhrman. Detective Fuhrman was one of the first police investigators at the murder scene. He was a tough LAPD cop who, lucky for O.J., was caught on tape saying racist things about black people.

The lead attorney on O.J.’s dream team was Johnny Cochran, a black trial lawyer whose specialty was defending the civil rights of African Americans. The trial was televised and lasted 8 months. It effectively became America’s first reality show! In the process, Cochran and his team turned the trial of the century into a mockery of justice.

The trial was held in Downtown Los Angeles so the jury pool was mostly African Americans - another break for Simpson. Cochran’s strategy was perfect for this particular jury. They were well aware of the reputation of LAPD cops. So Cochran decided to prosecute the LAPD in order to defend Simpson. He accused the racist cop Mark Fuhrman of framing O.J.

Marcia Clark thought the mostly female (10) jury would sympathise with a woman who was killed by a wife beater. But of the final 12 jurors, 9 were black. It turns out black women don’t much care for young, attractive white women, especially one like Nicole who was a trophy wife to a well-known black celebrity.

The case turned when Fuhrman, took the stand and assured Cochran he had never used the “N” word to describe a black person. Then the court played a tape from an interview with Fuhrman where he had done just that. When Fuhrman was accused of framing O.J. on the stand, he had to to take the fifth - that he has the right not to answer any question and testify against himself. Game over for the prosecution of O.J. Simpson for murder!

When the verdict was announced, one juror, 44-year-old Lionel Cryer, gave Simpson a Black Power Fist salute. It later came out that he was a former member of the revolutionary black nationalist group the Black Panthers.

The trial of O.J. Simpson divided America along racial lines. If you were white, you thought O.J. got away with murder. If you were black, you thought the justice system finally worked for a wrongly accused black man.

The trial of the century proves our theory that wars create disturbances in “the force” that echo for tens or even hundred of years. America is still dealing with the downstream impacts from the injustice of Slavery and the Civil War over 150 years later!

One moment in the trial captures perfectly this epic failure to bring O.J. Simpson to justice for murder. Christopher Darden, the assistant prosecutor, mistakenly asked O.J. to try on the extra large size bloody glove found at the murder scene. O.J. hadn’t taken his arthritis medication so his hands were swollen. It didn’t fit! And Simpson made a show of it in front of the jury. In Johnny Cochran’s closing summary, he came up with the ultimate one-liner to summarize his whole argument:

If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit!

We have showed you, throughout this story, how O.J. stepped all over our sacred numbers. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get through to Marcia. If we could have, we would have suggested this closing one-liner:

If the shoe fits, you must submit!

O.J. Simpson was shown broadcasting on Monday Night Football from the sidelines wearing his size 12 Bruno Magli shoes! These are the shoes that made the bloody footprints walking away from Nicole Brown Simpson’s body.