Lesson 80: PROPHECY (out of this world!)

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine: I am the LORD. And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites; Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs): and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: and Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses." Numbers 3:44-51

"And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan." Exodus 16:35

"As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught. Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken." John 21:9-11

Greetings, my dearly beloved! I bring you happy news from God Almighty, that there is Living Bread from heaven coming down in great abundance, and sufficient for the needs of all who will receive it! I am not talking merely about a spiritual or symbolic bread, but also about a factual "bread" sufficient for every man's need; that is, for all who have been delivered from the "Egypt" of this world through the Passover Lamb of God – even through that sacrifice by the very Son of God made on Calvary's Cross for you and me, and for all who will receive Him.

Today I want to pick up where I left off in my last message, and almost right away get around to the prophecy, which I did have in mind to give you in my previous message. Since there is quite a lot to this prophecy, I suggest you have paper and pencil convenient, that you may write down the many numbers I will give you; that will better enable you to understand more fully, when at your convenience later you look over the numbers and double check them. In the meanwhile you could also get your Bible, and look up the 16th chapter in the book of Exodus, and also have a marker for the 3rd chapter in the book of Numbers (which is the 4th book of the Old Testament). Our study in prophecy will be a heavy one, so have at least a full sheet of good paper and pencil convenient, for I want to prove to you beyond any shadow of doubt that the minutest detail of the episodes which befell God's Chosen People were prophetic for the time of their Messiah to appear and all the subsequent events of importance for Christendom, which is end-time Israel.

In my last talk I showed you how God had originally declared that all firstborn males of man as well as beast belonged to Him. But that after He took Israel out of Egypt, He decided that He would have the Levites instead of the firstborn. So, that neither side should get "gypped," God ordered Moses and Aaron to take a census of the people and also of the firstborn. I showed you how the firstborn amounted to 22,273, while the Levites an even 22,000, leaving an excess of 273 firstborn. That excess number of 273 among the firstborn God ordered redeemed; at 5 shekels per head, that counted up to a redemption price of 1,365 shekels of silver. Adding that number to the time of Israel's exodus from Egypt measured precisely to the time that our Lord entered the Temple at the Passover season and cleaned house: that was 3 years before the Cross of Calvary.

Now, with that as a backdrop, I want to show you a double-barreled prophecy; yes, even a threefold prophecy based on the 40 years in the wilderness, and on the precise number of days that Israel ate the manna which came down from God out of heaven. Now, in Exodus 16:35 we are told that Israel ate manna 40 years in the wilderness until they crossed the Jordan into Canaan. Precisely the same we are told in Numbers 14:33-34, at the time that the spies came back from Canaan and brought an evil report. That report discouraged the entire multitude, so that they refused to make an attempt at taking over the land. God was displeased with His people, and He passed a sentence upon them that they should wander in the wilderness a year for every day: that is, for 40 years should they wander in the wilderness and bear their iniquities, "...that ye may know My breach of promise," He said.

Now here come the factors of the prophecy: there were an even 22,000 of the Levites, whom God chose to be His Own; but we saw through the previous prophecy how the redemption price for the 273 excess number of firstborn measured into the time that Christ our Lord stood in the Temple of God and cleaned house. What is that number of 273? Although it may vary ever so little, and medical authorities having different theories, it has still been known for thousands of years to be the number of human gestation. Gestation follows as a consequence of marriage. In the Bible we find that the number of the bride, or marriage, is the number 7. We have seen how the number of the firstborn reached into the time of Jesus' ministry, when He commenced His High Priesthood. Therefore, of necessity we must link the 22,000 Levites whom God chose to be His Own, with the High Priesthood of Jesus Christ, until the consummation of our Christian dispensation.

Now write down that number of 22,000 and multiply by 7, and the result will be 154,000. Bear in mind that God's manifestation number to man is 100 to 1. But these 154,000 were a priesthood number; while the priesthood stands in a 10 relationship to the individual: therefore we get 100 times 10, or 1,000 – by which we must reduce the number of Christ's priesthood, in order to bring it to the plane for man. That means we move the decimal place over 3 spaces to the left, leaving us the even number of 154. Let me draw to your attention that after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, one morning after the disciples had been fishing all night, calling from shore He told them to cast over to the other side, and they drew ashore 153 great fish. But after landing, they found one fish baking on the live coals (Jn. 21:9). That made a total of 154 fish: exactly the same number as we have arrived at here through the 22,000 Levites multiplied by the number of His Church.

Now we have seen how there was an even count of 40 years they spent in the wilderness (which number you write down). When we study the account carefully, we find that Israel went a full month before the manna commenced to feed them: that means 30 days off the 40 years. Then at its conclusion, we find that they crossed the Jordan 5 days earlier than when they left Egypt: they left on the 15th but entered on the 10h. Having entered, they ate the fruit of the land, and no more manna came down for them. That means we add 5 to the 30 we already subtracted, making a total of 35, which we subtract from the number of days in 40 years. When you figure it out carefully, you will find that there are 14,609.68 days in 40 years.

But bear in mind that the Jews went by the new moon, which changes the number of days slightly. Checking carefully into 40-year periods according to the new moon, we find that although they vary slightly, they usually run 10 days over the 40 solar years. So add 10 days to that number you have and you will get 14,619.68 days. Subtract the 35. That leaves a net count of 14,584.68 days: that is, 14,584 and about 2/3 days when we count the fraction: that was the exact time that the miraculous manna sustained them in the wilderness.

Now, multiply 14,584.68 by pi, and also by 154, and then divide by 10, and the result will be 705,614 days. That, added to the day of Pentecost in the year 35 A.D. (which was the time according to my Pyramid Chronology), reaches evenly into our Easter season in 1967 A.D., but again according to my Pyramid Chronology – which is 1 year different – it measured to early April 1968 according to our calendar. It was at that time that events were set in motion which led to the 1967 Israeli war and the capture of the old part of the city of Jerusalem....

Now I want to show you one more prophecy. If your mind is at all open you will see how it constitutes added proof that these events and numbers were prearranged by God and intended for our enlightenment. We read in Exodus 16 that the manna from heaven never settled down on the Sabbath morning, but only 6 days every week. From our previous figures you have seen how the manna sustained Israel 14,584 days. I say sustained them, but during that time it was missing 1 day out of 7. So, divide 7 into the 14,584 and you will get 2,083.5 days. That is, the manna was withheld 2,083½ days – according to our calculation on paper, but in real life there could be no fractional Sabbath, therefore either 2,083 or 2,084 days. Now give it the same treatment as we did our other numbers: that is, multiply by pi, and again by 154, and divide by 10. It will net a period of 100,000 and about 800 days, or just a little short of 276 years. So again write down that number for the first Pentecost, which was 4,034.67, to which you add 276 years scant, and the result will be 4,310.6 years after Adam. That measured into the summer of the year 311 A.D.

Does that time mean anything to you? Look up the record of history and you will find that it was at that precise time the Roman emperor Galerius decreed that Christianity was not merely to be tolerated, but to become the state religion. How utterly amazing! So amazing that it is absolutely dumbfounding. Again I ask: what were those 2,083 Sabbaths during which no manna was found? It was that period of withholding the Bread from heaven from those people. And when we treat that to the same rule of numbers as we did our other equations, we find that it measures precisely the period of God's withholding the Living Bread from heaven unto the Gentiles; or keeping it back from them until this measure of the manna's withholding had run its precision course unto the year in 311 A.D. when Christ was declared by official decree unto the Roman people. Rome's being the mistress of the world meant that the glad tidings of Christ's sacrifice immediately commenced flowing out to the rest of the world. You need not be a Solomon to clearly see the connection between God's withholding the manna to Israel on the Sabbaths throughout those 40 years, and His holding back the Living Bread from the Gentiles throughout that precision period which the equation yields us.

God does not ask us to believe through "blind faith" as we call it: He supplies the proof. And that proof I have just demonstrated to you in this instance. The multiplication by pi to give the circumference of the circle in this instance becomes the natural thing to do. For we are clearly told that the manna was found on the ground in the mornings, "around about the camp of Israel." Therefore, the 40 years, or the equivalent in days, becomes naturally the diameter for a circle: that circumference we computed in every instance. Secondly, we used the number of 154, which we found to be the total of 22 times 7, or the 22,000 Levites as His Bride. That this is not an arbitrary number I demonstrated to you through the fact that, by the power of God Almighty, His disciples on that morning (sometime following the Resurrection), at the bidding of the Lord, caught exactly 153 great fish, to which was added one more when they came ashore, thus making that sacred number of 154.

Although the years I use for the time of our Lord's Crucifixion is not precisely the same used by modern chronologers, nevertheless it is close to it, and is precisely that which I published in 1950, being my computations at that time according to the chronograph of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh. Yet these equations, based on the number of days that the manna fell in the wilderness and sustained the children of Israel, were not revealed to me and calculated until the fall of 1965: that is, more than 15 years after I published and copyrighted the Pyramid Chronology I had calculated. With those complete facts before you it becomes difficult to deny that the number of days when the manna did not appear on the ground for Israel in the wilderness, measures precisely according to the formula into the very year and month that Rome first accepted Christianity as its state religion. How utterly amazing that God should reveal through prophetic drama 13 to almost 17 centuries beforehand, the time when the Jewish priesthood would come to its end and the priesthood of His Messiah would commence, and how long that priesthood would rule before the Gentile world would accept it.

I repeat: God does not ask you to blindly believe, but when He gives you absolute and undeniable proof, then He expects you to do something about it....

Are you a son or daughter of Jesus Christ? Have you been born anew into His Kingdom? If you have, then shout and sing, for blessed indeed is your lot. But if not, you have little time to lose to get yourself prepared for the titanic and world-rocking events which are now on the world horizon.