July 2006.........................................................................................S & J Publications
THE SABBATH MILLENNIUM
NEWSLETTER
Just for the record, the author of this newsletter, Lois Hoover, is an apocalyptic writer who has written three books covering the subject of The Apocalypse. She also has been publishing a periodic newsletter for twenty years, which was called "The Apocalypse Newsletter." However, with the turn of the New Millennium, she started calling her newsletter, "The Sabbath Millennium Newsletter." Many Christians view this Millennium as being the New World that John envisioned in his Revelation, including this author. World events have shown that humanity is moving toward the pinnacle of this preordained destiny; but in connecting the dots and her understanding of recent revelations, the perfected world envisioned in Revelation 21 is a step-by-step progression, and it would be highly inappropriate to make any dramatic prediction other than "Thy Word is Truth!" The year 2000 did not bring in a new world of peace, nor did the last six years but, consciously or unconsciously, we are progressing towards it, and it will happen, according to the author's firm belief and understanding of global events. Nevertheless, Scripture stands for Truth; and promises of a New World cannot happen until after The Apocalypse has been accomplished. With this in mind, it seems appropriate to analyze today's events in a spiritual context and articulate the observations in apocalyptic terms which has been the custom of this newsletter.
Well, here we are, well into the new year 2006, and there seems to be no end to the terrible catastrophes and the dark side of the human race, or as has been said repeatedly in these writings, 'the iniquities of the people and the corruption of the leaders'. Throughout these last years, this newsletter has been focused on the destruction of Babylon, that is the seventh vial judgment as prophesied in Rev. 16:19 and the forecast as to when it will happen. The nature of predictions is that no prophet is ever 100% correct, and the prophets of the Old Testament were continually predicting the fall of Babylon, but history will show it continued to prosper even after the fall of Jerusalem. The official destruction of ancient Babylon occurred posthumously after the writings of John, some historians say around the fourth century; but the exact date when age-end Babylon will be destroyed is a portent still on the charts. Apocalyptically, Babylon is an image of a fallen and corrupt existence, which is the opposite of the heavenly Jerusalem of Revelation 21.
According to the chronology of the account in John's Revelation, the fall of symbolical Babylon is a precondition to bringing in the New World. However, most apocalyptic writers have said that events in the Middle East are specific signposts that serve as indications of God's end-time program for the world — and the developments happening in the Middle East right now, where Israel is reported to be on the brink of war with Lebanon, are portentous of this very same divine time-clock that coincides with the fall of Babylon. Incredibly, both the war in Iraq and the battle of Armageddon are revealed in this same chapter of John's Apocalypse. (Rev. 16:12-16.)
Many prophecy commentators have said that Israel will be the epicenter of the earth's shuddering travails in the last days, and all pivotal events will center around the Holy Land and the people of Abraham. How true in these final days with Israel on the brink of war! The issue in the calculations of a prophecy, however, require a beginning date, a length of time of progression, and an ending date. Prophets of the Bible looked to signs of verifications to a beginning date and the completion or fulfillment of a fixed time, as with the birth of a child. As with "When her days to be delivered were fulfilled,"(Gen. 25:24; cf. Luke 2:6) so also is this a necessary prerequisite to make conclusions about a prophecy. In other words, the fixed time for deliverance has to be fulfilled.
John's apocalyptic prophecies are intertwined with other end-time prophecies in the Bible, (as revealed throughout these writings) not the least of which is the present struggle in Israel and the messianic expectation coinciding with those events. However, as illustrated over and over again in these writings, this expectation does not occur in Israel, nor is there a so-called Rapture, as promoted by fundamentalist Christian churches.
In order to make sense of this material, you would have had to been following the Apocalypse for as many years as this author has, and pulled back the curtain to flashbacks of her history. These flashbacks are recorded in the author's three books and subsequent newsletters, and covers a period of 46 years, as depicted below and stated in previous newsletters:
For many years, the author of this newsletter, Lois Hoover, has been studying and writing about the Book of Revelation, aka, John's Apocalypse, which is the last book in the Bible. Her first book, "Clothed With The Sun," was published in 1979, her second book, "The Final Unveiling," was published in 1984, and her third book, "The Bride's Letters to the Churches" was published in 1992. (All books are available on the Internet.) (http://www.geocities.com/selajuneau/index.html) Interestingly enough, "The Final Unveiling," reveals the dramatic end-time events as to how they would occur; and the events did transpire exactly as revealed in her book, that is, up until the final battle and the final earthquake. This would indicate that the final apocalyptic event, as portrayed in the Seventh Vial Outpouring, Rev. 16:18-19, is about to occur. This event is the "end of the world as we know it now." This is the Great Earthquake that will destroy Great Babylon. As Lois Hoover has said many times, this is the event that will begin "The Sabbath Millennium," that is, the seventh millennium from the time of biblical chronology.
Each piece of writing brought the author closer to the end of her mission which began forty-six years ago in the Great Wilderness, the Last Frontier, God's Country:
This trilogy of books offers a new conception of the Apocalypse in a way no other apocalyptic writer has ever achieved; but because of her insignificance in the religious world, similar to Christ's insignificance during his time on earth, these books have not aroused public attention. Since the publishing of those books, subsequent newsletters brought further unfoldment of her work; and the December 2004 newsletter explained the signs of the Second Coming while the March 2005 newsletter explained the author's link to John's Revelation. Copies of these are available upon request.
The realization and actuality through her experience, based upon her relationship with Jesus Christ as the Bridegroom, and written through the power of the Holy Spirit, gives rise to the Christian hope for consummation and completion of the biblical Temple as represented in Revelation 21:22:
"And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it."
The building of the temple of the Lamb is the final realization of the consummation and provides the key to understanding the controversy of the statement. In John 2:19-20, when a sign was demanded of his messianic mission, Jesus said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." But he was referring to the temple of his body. The Jews were protesting this claim to rebuild the temple in only three days when it actually took them forty-six years to rebuild it. Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"
This architectural symbolism of the rebuilt temple is twofold in meaning. ¹In the first coming, the three days prophecy was the foreshadowing of the Crucifixion and Resurrection; and ²in the second coming, the forty-six years foreshadows the realization of the Consummation! For it took 46 years for the building of events, from the time the woman "Clothed With The Sun" (Revelation 12) progressed through her mission through the time she would reach the end of her mission! It is the ultimate all-in-one event envisioned by John and portrayed in the author's books, newsletters, and Internet forums. Unified, the ultimate years her writings cover are from 1960 to 2006, which coincides with the Jewish pattern of a rebuilt temple!
Even though the concept of Temple and Revelation are spiritual, the facts are real. Just as readers have read incredible things in the author's books and newsletters in terms of prophecy and fulfillment; and just as the world is living in a period of astonishing prophecy fulfillment, especially with the recent Middle East crisis that brings Nazareth and Jerusalem into center stage, advance warnings of apocalyptic judgment have gone unheeded. Jesus was well aware of this when he said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the son of man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the son of man [age-end messiah] is revealed." Luke 17:26:30.
Since the theological motif of Israel is like a red thread woven through the apocalyptic prophecies, it is fitting that the Jewish messiah, Jesus Christ, as the second Adam, would choose a Christian woman as his bride, the second Eve, and together they would build the eschatological temple! And the divine timeframe would become the culmination of human affairs as summarized in the Bible, and their consummation would give rise to a new world which is the message of the rebuilt temple!
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. (Rev. 19:7)
"Here Christ appears as the Bridegroom, and his wife hath made herself ready. She is not afraid because she is prepared for the wedding. She prepared, according to one commentator, like the church through all the storms and conflicts of her life. She prepared and grew into maturity during the betrothal period and now the eternal union is ready for consummation." (Quoted from "The Final Unveiling", pg. 188)
The wedding is the culmination of human affairs as summarized in the Apocalypse and narrated in the bride's books, and this is why she chose "The Bride's Letters to the Churches" as the title of her third book.
These special books foretell God's final judgment on earth and dramatically reveal the long foretold vision of a new heaven and earth. The manifestations of a hostile humanity is still a work in progress, and to see a great crowd of people whipped into an emotional and warring frenzy over some issue and then to go on a violent, destructive, and murderous rampage is frightening indeed. This is the evil that appears in every social system since the beginning of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and continues to the Cross and to the Consummation. Sin is a product of our unfinished past and incomplete future, but God's Word assures us of a greater humanity with higher virtues in the Millennium, when life is transformed. What other words can describe the transition of the world in a few short sentences than the following extract:
"We are not left in the darkness as to God's ongoing plan and purpose. After the long struggle and revolt portrayed in the earlier events of the Book of Revelation, John sees a beautiful new world. Civilization as we know it now will be "swept away."
"AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Rev. 21:1. (quoted from pg. 213, "The Final Unveiling",©1984)
When things come to an end, there is always a new beginning. And it is at this juncture that the apocalyptic mission of this author, too, comes to an end, for her life and health have not only left her weakened, heavy laden, barely able to walk, but also her work in the material presented has come to an end, waiting the final end. It is the same with the building of a Temple, whether spiritual or physical, the nature of this is that both eventually come to an end. And in looking over the entire forty-six years, all I can say is, "IT IS OVER! IT IS OVER! THANK GOD FOR CLOSURE!"
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