Taken from "A Simpleton's Guide to Biblical Prophecy", pages 348-62;



It's taken me three and a half years ('a time, times and half a time' ;) to
realize the connection, but I've discovered that there is definitely a link
between Biblical prophecy and the attacks on New York and Washington on
9/11. Moreover, not only can we term the old WTC site as being 'Ground Zero',
but can now start calling that date 'Day One' of a brand new 'seven' or
'week', folks. And for that, we can thank the number "8".

The following excerpt is from
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/05-Worship/section-89.html

Question 11.9.12: Symbols: What is the significance of the number 8?

Answer:

8 is 7 plus 1. If 7 is completion, and the 7th is Shabbos, the

sanctity inherent in the world, 8 is "beyond nature" and going beyond

the world.

The following was inserted by Dr Isaac Levy to his translation of R'

Samson Refael Hirsch's commentary on the Pentatuech (Numbers 16:41):


The origin of this meaning is to be found in the work of the

Creation. The visible material world created in six days received

with the seventh day a day of remembrance of, and bond with its

invisible L-rd and Creator, and thereby its completed consummation.

Similarly the symbolism of the number seven in the Menora, in the

Temple, in the Mussaf offerings, in the sprinklings of the blood on

Yom Kippur, in the Festivals of Pessach and Succoth, in Sabbath,

Schmita, Tumma etc. etc. The symbolism of the number eight:

starting afresh on a higher level, an octave higher. The eighth day

for Mila, Schmini Atzereth and Israel as the eighth of G-d.s

Creations. With the creation of Israel G-d laid the groundwork for

a fresh, higher mankind and a fresh higher world, for that shamayim

chadashim [new heavens] and the aretz chadashah [new earth] for

which Israel and its mission is to be the beginning and instrument.

[The Hebrew is a reference to Isaiah 65:17.]


So that there are three elements in us. (a) our material sensuous

bodies, like the rest of the created visible world = 6; (b) the

breath of free will, invisible, coming from the Invisible One = 7;

(c) the calling of Jew, coming from the historical choice of Israel = 8.


The highest drive Rav Samson Rephael Hirsch calls the drive to be

beyond human. To go beyond the seven days of creation and into the

eighth day of the bris. This is the neshamah, which lives in a higher

realm, constantly seeking communion with Hashem. The idea that eight

represents "an octave higher" can be seen in the form of the letter

ches. Its shape as written in the Ashkenazi variant of Assyrian

Script, the script used in Sifrei Torah, is that of two zayin's

connected by a bridge. Zayin is seven in gematria. Ches is eight. Ches

shows the bridge between one seven, one complete world, and the next.

(End of excerpt)

Eight symbolizes a "bridge between one seven.and the next."

This coming October 4, 2005 (which will be 1 Tishri, the beginning of the
Jewish year 5766) will mark the tenth anniversary of my discovery of the
1,999-year link between the birth of Jesus Christ and the 'infamous'
handshake (see http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/fe2k/pres.jpg) between PLO
Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the White
House lawn, down to the very minute in fact.

Since that time, I've made countless other discoveries, mostly in the form
of links and coincidences between ancient Biblical end time prophecy and
current world events. This is merely one of the latest, yet definitely one
of the most important of them all.

Not counting the two leap-year days for 1996 and 2000, the time between the
signing of the 'Declaration of Principles', or Oslo II accords signed in
Washington on September 13, 1993 and the Al Qaeda attacks on America
constituted exactly eight years.

8 times 365 equals 2,920 days.

I believe the reason God doesn't take the two leap-year days into account is
that He is compromising between the ancient Jewish (or 'prophetic') and
modern Gentile calendars. Thus, instead of dealing with a cumbersome and
rather 'ugly' number such as 2,922, He is opting for the more prophetic and
rounded number 2,920, so it fits in snugly with other prophetic and rounded
time-span numbers such as 70, 490, 1,260, 2,520, etc.

You can find an excellent and simple date calculator engine at
http://cgi.cs.duke.edu/~des/datecalc/datecalc.cgi in order for you to
confirm this fact. (Note that for the lower engine that computes 'number of
days' from a given date, the user can enter a '-' minus immediately in front
of the number, I.e. -540, in order to compute backwards from given dates as
well. Be sure to add this site to your favorites list for easy access
later.)

I've suspected for a couple years now that God, as a contingency plan
perhaps, had a second 'seven' set up for the end days. I assumed,
incorrectly as it turned out, that the second seven began immediately when
the first one ended. Not so. There's apparently a 355-day 'lull before the
storm' or 'grace period' between the first and the second 'weeks'. BTW, so
far I've been unable to determine the significance behind the fact that 355
constitutes one full lunar year and how it impinges upon matters at all,
unless it's God 'mooning' us or something.

At any rate, the following chronology gives a good snapshot of the main
relevant data. (Feel free to skip over all the technical stuff and go
straight to the punch line, especially if you're a typical
superficially-minded newsgroup troll whose only intent is to crap all over
other people's theories out of the sheer fun of it ;)

To begin with, we have to deal with the 'Star of David', and how it was
formed.

http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/fe2k/JupSat.gif shows graphically how Jupiter
and Saturn's conjunctions occur 117 degrees apart from each other, so in the
course of four successive conjunctions, a rather rough but ready equilateral
triangle is formed. To ancient Jews, any conjunction, or joining together of
the two giant and slow-moving Jovian planets signified the 'star of David'
formation. You can confirm this fact for yourself by entering the relevant
keywords into Google. One such site can be found at
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/bethlehem.html

http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/fe2k/Apocal2.TIF similarly describes the 6th
Century BCE events. This is the downward pointing triangle, culminating in
the all-important triple-conjunction's acronychal rising (at 17:46 Jerusalem
time) of March 21st, 522 BCE, the same day recognized as Darius I's
ascension date. Also the same year the prophet Daniel, who served under
Darius I in Babylon, was given the Bible's most intriguing and vital end
time prophecy involving the seventy 'sevens'. See Daniel 9.

http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/fe2k/Apocal3.TIF describes the First Century
BCE events involving Jupiter and Saturn, forming the upward equilateral
triangle, culminating in the most-important triple conjunction's acronychal
rising (at 17:46 Jerusalem time) on September 15th, 7 BCE, when the
Persian/Zoroastrian/Babylonian magi, or stargazers from the Iranian/Iraqi
region (then Persia and Mesopotamia) who obviously knew of their historical
'compatriot' Daniel's Messianic prophecies and beliefs, traveled to the
capital of Israel, Jerusalem, to inquire as to the whereabouts of a newborn
'king of the Jews'.

So, now we have the Star of David
http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/fe2k/Apocal6.TIF

The Star of Bethlehem, in essence, was basically the final culmination of
the Star of David, which explains much behind God's words in the Old
Testament concerning the promised Messiah and His relationship to His
forbearer, not to mention His standing in the eyes of God.

Whatever else we might speculate about who the Magi were, or where they came
from, we can determine at least this much, based upon the Gospels of Matthew
and Luke. They probably came from the east of Israel. They definitely saw a
'rising star' in the east that provoked them to travel a long way to
Jerusalem. To ancient stargazers, all lights in the sky were 'stars', except
for the Sun and Moon. And planets were part of them, albeit 'traveling stars',
which the word 'planete' means in the Greek language, for instance.

And planets are the heart and soul of astrology, as painful as it may sound
to you. Real stars, and the constellations in which they reside are merely
the backdrop to the drama performed by our solar systems' brothers and
sisters. You'd have to be God Himself, or at least 50,000 years old to
appreciate the movement of true stars to our earthly perspective. The
ancients, after all, were only ancient from our timely perspective as well,
and most probably (more or less) shared at least our 'general' human sense
of impatience. If you find yourself grabbing your mouse in order to scroll
down right about now, then you've proven my point.

Somehow the 1st Century BCE Magi (a small league in which Daniel was a
Master himself some five centuries beforehand), made famous by the entire
Christmas story developed over the centuries since, knew all about the
celestial events occurring in the 6th Century, and simply waited until its
counterpart played itself out, when the triple annular conjunction of the
planets Jupiter and Saturn would fulfill itself in the constellation Pisces
(forming the apex of the Star of David), which was the sign of the Jews and
Israel would occur, some 515 years after its nadir opposite number on March
21, 522 BCE, also a triple-conjunction of those two planets that year, a
truly auspicious event for anyone attuned to the art of astrology, if not
for those waiting for other celestial phenomena, like a supernova, comet,
the Moon blowing up, etc. that could possibly be worthy enough to herald the
incoming Avatar of the Age of Pisces, one Jesus of Nazareth.

That done with, of sorts, we can deal with the rest of the chronology;

17:46 Jerusalem time, March 21, 522 B.C. - Acronychal rising of the planet
Jupiter, the planet of the world's kings, then in a triple-conjunction that
year with Saturn, the planet of the 'Father' God. Acronychal rising means it
rose in the east, opposite the descending western sun, in the sign of Virgo.
Daniel receives 70 'Sevens' prophecy from Gabriel.

17:46 Jerusalem time, September 15, 7 B.C. - Acronychal rising of the planet
Jupiter, then in a triple-conjunction that year with Saturn, in the sign of
Pisces. Jesus of Nazareth is born two days earlier, on Sunday, September 13,
7 B.C.

(Again, the infamous two days difference between what we'd perceive as being
'perfect', and what God fudges to suit His own needs, perhaps.)

17:46 Jerusalem time, September 13, 1993 A.D. - Exact time of handshake
between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat with a beaming Bill Clinton forcing
them together behind them. See

http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/fe2k/VanSun1.gif and in case you missed the
connection within that article, see;


http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/fe2k/news_excerpt.jpg

You can blame me for the missing minute or less, but over the course of some
two thousand years or so, try suing me.

Part One of Two; BTW, Comet Machholz is conjuncting the variable star Algol
right about now, as we speak. As to the significance of that, stay tuned.

Subject: Number Eight
From: "Dan Millar"

Subject: Number Eight
From: "Dan Millar"

Taken from "A Simpleton's Guide to Biblical Prophecy", pages 348-62;