I was reading your note about Trump recognizing Jerusalem in 2017.
I was probably thinking of this:
I remember it felt like it might mean something. But it wasn't like he made a decree to restore and to rebuild the city.
A decree to restore the cities position as capital?
Sounds like stretching the Word.
I was pretty sure something would begin in January this year, based on the two modern day decrees to restore Jerusalem and what Newton was saying about the compass of a Jubilee.
Something that would be global and be manifest in the "sight of men", or in "the full view of men".
So I think we're already into verse 13 of 13.
I don't think that the time of trouble will be seven years, but I do think there is a last heptad playing out. And we are in that last heptad which began with the "darkened sun" of January 2019.
So like how Jesus was gone in the middle of the primary heptad event, we may be gone from here in the middle of the secondary heptad, watching the vials from the air or from New Jerusalem.
The other question is if the fire from heaven, in the full view of men, is literal fire?
When Elijah called down fire from heaven to burn up the priests of Baal, it was literal fire. But it was also God's Wrath.
I'm not suggesting that the fire from Revelation 13 is symbolic for Covid-19, lest you smite me with an accusation of liar liar pants on fire, I'm just considering it as a possibility.
Because if it's not symbolic fire that falls from heaven, then something worse than a plague of disease is coming that will be the final catalyst for the dragon to cause all men to set up the image and we'll go directly into it's mark.
Real fire from heaven, a time of emergency which will become the catalyst sending us right into the final events.
Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
We might be getting pretty close.