Evidently that was the exact date of the opening of the First Seal (Revelation 6:1), according to Ronald Weinland, author of “2008 – God’s Final Witness“. Proclaiming himself revealed as one of the two end-times witnesses (Revelation 11:3-13), Weinland summarizes his most recent book:
Although the Church of God has not been accustomed to having a prophet for nearly 1900 years, God made [Weinland] a prophet in 1997. His first book, The Prophesied End-Time (published in mid-2004), is the product of what God has given him concerning prophetic end-time events that have already begun to be fulfilled, events that are occurring exactly as he has written in the book. His latest book, 2008-God’s Final Witness, pinpoints the timing of these end-time events and adds additional information beyond what the first book covered.
2008-God’s Final Witness is a revelation of the Book of Revelation. As Ronald Weinland explains, the apostle John was given the task of recording prophetic events reserved for revelation at this end-time, and he states that he has been given the task of revealing the truth about those things John wrote. As John wrote, God explained to him that the meaning of what he was writing would not be revealed until the time came to unseal the Seven Seals of Revelation, six of which have already been opened.
Unlike The Da Vinci Code or the Left Behind series, which are fiction, 2008-God’s Final Witness is true and reveals hidden secrets that man has not been able to uncover for thousands of years. Of the three major religions of the world who claim belief in the God of Abraham (Islam, Judaism and Christianity), no one has ever known the prophecies that are revealed in this book, which are beginning to unfold even now.
2008-God’s Final Witness reveals the Seven Thunders of the Book of Revelation, which the apostle John was not allowed to record! It also gives more specific end-time prophecies that will sharply increase during the next year and one-half when the final tribulation of this world strikes. That destructive power will quickly cripple world governments and destroy the world economy over a six-month period. The year 2008 is prophesied as pivotal for the end-time.
Ronald Weinland says that 2008 will mark the beginning of the final events that will thrust the world into the great tribulation (last three and one-half years of the end-time), which will usher in World War III, the death of billions, and on the last day of this great tribulation, the return of Jesus Christ.
Are you ready?
As for the title question, I was a few months into my first permanent job after graduating from college earlier that year. My mom was in the last stages of her battle with cancer. I was attending my former girlfriend’s church at the time (she was in Japan, teaching English) and probably rehearsing a brass ensemble piece for Christmas Eve services. Beyond that, it’s all a little fuzzy…
P.S. For those curious, according to Weinland, the Sixth Seal was opened on September 11, 2001.
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on december 12 of 2008 there will be a harvest moon(356567km). January 11th 2009 is a hunters moon(357500km). Be prepared for tsunami’s earthquakes and storms, this will also relate to human stress causing social problems.
I thank God I did not pay money for this book. While September 11, 2001, will remain ever fresh in the minds of all AMERICAN’S (supposedley the opening of the sixth seal), I could find no event of significance that happened on December 17, 1994. (supposedly the opening of the first seal).
I found Mr. Weinland’s book to be unconstructed, full of rambling and gibberish. I would hope his readers do NOT take this book to heart, and treat it as GOSPEL. Live your lives as God would want, and be happy.
It would appear that just two seals have been opened.
Christ is the rider of the white horse.
Satan is the rider of the red horse.
I believe the black horse will usher in the era of the anti-christ, the time may be near
PRETRIB RAPTURE – HIDDEN FACTS !
How can the “rapture” be “imminent”? Acts 3:21 says that Jesus “must” stay in heaven (He is now there with the Father) “until the times of restitution of all things” which includes, says Scofield, “the restoration of the theocracy under David’s Son” which obviously can’t begin before or during Antichrist’s reign. Since Jesus must personally participate in the rapture, and since He can’t even leave heaven before the tribulation ends, the rapture therefore cannot take place before the end of the trib! Paul explains the “times and the seasons” (I Thess. 5:1) of the catching up (I Thess. 4:17) as the “day of the Lord” (5:2) (which FOLLOWS the posttrib sun/moon darkening – Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20) WHEN “sudden destruction” (5:3) of the wicked occurs! (If the wicked are destroyed before or during the trib, who would be left alive to serve the Antichrist?) Paul also ties the change-into-immortality “rapture” (I Cor. 15:52) to the posttrib end of “death” (15:54)! (Will death be ended before or during the trib?) If anyone wonders how long pretrib rapturism has been taught, he or she can Google “Pretrib Rapture Diehards.” Many are unaware that before 1830 all Christians had always viewed I Thess. 4’s “catching up” as an integral part of the final second coming to earth. In 1830 it was stretched forward and turned into a separate coming of Christ. To further strengthen their novel view, which the mass of evangelical scholars rejected throughout the 1800s, pretrib teachers in the early 1900s began to stretch forward the “day of the Lord” (what Darby and Scofield never dared to do) and hook it up with their already-stretched-forward “rapture.” Many leading evangelical scholars still weren’t convinced of pretrib, so pretrib teachers then began teaching that the “falling away” of II Thess. 2:3 is really a pretrib rapture (the same as saying that the “rapture” in 2:3 must happen before the “rapture” ["gathering"] in 2:1 can happen – the height of desperation!). Other Google articles throwing light on long-covered-up facts about the 178-year-old pretrib rapture view include “Famous Rapture Watchers,” “X-Raying Margaret,” “Revisers of Pretrib Rapture History,” “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “Wily Jeffrey,” “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology),” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” “Scholars Weigh My Research,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” “Pretrib Rapture Desperados” and “Deceiving and Being Deceived” – all by the author of the bestselling book “The Rapture Plot” which is available at Armageddon Books online. Just my two cents’ worth. Todd
Posted on this 9th of January 2009 by Jonah Immanu
And another false prophet and his wife (the 2 self-appointed end-time prophets of Revelation) bite the dust.
In Yeshua’s Name, 2 false prophets have bitten the dust,
Jonah Immanu
Christian Eschatological Author
If Weinland knows when Jesus Christ is going to return to this earth why doesn’t he come clean and tell us? This in itself should tell us what kind of a false prophet he is!
Want to know what I was doing on December 17th 1994? I was coming out of my mother’s womb.
hey thats way cool we were born on the same day
Hmmm, I am only a few pages into this book and already I see flaws within in it. For instance, according to the author we are already in the Tribulation and have been since Dec. 17, 1994. There are many disagreements about the interpretations of Revelation and Daniel, but one thing I have very few scholars DO agree on is the length of the Tribulation/Great Tribulation. This is 7 years. The first half (3.5 years) is much more tame than the last half. It is funny that the auth0r states specifically the length of the last half but ignores the first half even though the Bible (Revelation in particular) is clear the length of each is same.
Also do not take my word for it read Revelation for yourself, but you will clearly see that the Church IS NOT on the earth during this time. Again read this for yourself with a couple of things I will point out to you to look for and judge for yourself. As Revelation begins God (through John) is adressing the church. The church is unquestionably referred to as a Lampstand. Then John gives a “history” (when it was recorded much of this hadn’t happened yet, though now most is in fact history) of church history. Then notice after the retelling of the church history John hears a voice that says “Come up here”, and he is caught up into heaven. Now notice as you read further you will see the Lampstand (the church) is also in heaven after the voice calls John saying “Come up here”.
Now I would like to point out a flaw in at least one of Ronald Weinland’s statements. He states that the rapture period (no matter the timing) is wrong. He points out scripture states Christ will remain in heaven until the second comming, therefore the Rapture especially a pre or mid Tribulation one, must therefore be wrong. His error here is that the “Rapture theory”, so to speak, does not state that Jesus Christ comes down to earth. Rather it is Christ calling believers up to heaven to be with him. Again, refer to revelation, John hears a voice saying “Come up here”. No one came down from heaven “to pick him up and take him to heaven”, nor did Christ or an angel of any kind need to.
Also have read an earlier posting where someone compared this book to one written by Hal Lindsey. There is a HUGE difference. Hal Lindsey so far as I am aware in any of his books I have read has ever claimed to be a prophet, let alone one of God’s two end times prophets. Rather he provides a view (an interpretation) of what he believes to be an accurate translation of end times prophecy. Many times in reading his books you will see statements such as “I believe…such and such….will happen”. In saying this Hal Lindsey is making it clear that this is only something he thinks will happen based on his interpretation of the prophecies, and he is not saying “God told me such and such will happen”. There is a huge difference. Also (again I have not read every book or heard every word Hal Lindsey has ever written/spoken) but not once have I ever heard him proclaim that God told me in such and such year, that such and such will happen. I have never once heard him give any time frame in which he was told anything was going to happen…..except for following the timeline set forth in the Bible for the judgements of God to take place after they have begun. One thing I wold like to point out which actually gives Hal Lindsey much credence. “The Late Great Planet Earth” was first published in the late sixties, I first read it 15 to 20 years ago. One of the things he stated he believed was going to happen based on his interpretation of the prophecies was Russia would help Iran launch a nuclear attack on Isreal. While this hasn’t happened in complete totality yet, amazing is it not that 40 some years after he wrote it, the news headlines of today are about Iran trying to acquire nuclear weapons and Russia is helping them?
Beyond this, the post was quite some time ago, but I would like to state that I have been a backslidden, lukewarm Christian for quite some time. A couple of weeks ago, seemingly out of nowhere, when I woke up one morning one thing was pressed strongly upon me……SOON! I have always believed that we are indeed living near the time of the end, and I have always thought of it as being years off, and perhaps it is…..let’s face it SOON in the span of 1,000′s of could be 10 or 20 years. I do not know I was giving nothing no timeframe or reference of time, just SOON. I have been repenting and praying continually since this time as this feeling has not left me. For anyone who does not believe in the Rapture, please please please consider the words of Paul when he spoke of it and referred to it as a MYSTERY. Though it may not have been thought out by him to use this word the Holy Spirit purposely used it, because it is just that to most Christians a MYSTERY, something that is not believed or understood. Christ is soon going to call all those who have prepared and waited for the bridegroom to be with Him for the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. I pray any who reads this will be there with me not just to escpape God’s judgement and wrath during the Tribulation, but because truly what greater pleasure could any of us ever have but to be counted as bride of the God of all that is, was, and ever will be.
We have two choices we will be slaves to sin and death now and for all eternity, or we will accept God grace and live as slaves to righteousness for all eternity. I assure each of you sin and death offers nothing but bondage, whereas God offers freedom. Our flesh rebels in every way against our Creator, I know because I struggle with it daily, but there truly is an unspeakable joy and an ineffable peace in finally surrendering to God and choosing to belong to Him. He who gains his life will lose it, but he who loses his life will gain it. If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and you have not yet believed that He has paid the price for your sins you truly have no idea what your missing. I truly have found myself and gained my life in surrending all I am and ever want to be to Him. I am not worthy, none of us are, but we can be redeemed and saved through are Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He paid the price for your sins but it is your choice as whether or not you want to be reconciled to God the Father our Creator. The consequences of sin is death, but Christ has given us all a get out of jail free card, it is your choice whether or not to accept it. I pray to God that you will and I look forward to the day when we shall be together at the feet and in the arms of our RISEN Savior, Jesus Christ.
Maranatha and LOOK UP! SOON HE WILL BE CALLING US TO BE WITH HIM.
What was I doing December 17, 1994…that’s my birthday…but I’m not sure about all this
I was only eight years old! I imagine I was riding a push bike around somewhere, causing trouble! LOL!
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