Welcome to the sixth day of our annual Jericho March and the last 'silence' day before Yahweh's people are commanded to shout loudly. These six days were, and are, and shall be days in which to cultivate courage, endurance and faithfulness, for there are many whose faith was built upon sand, or rocky soil, whose testimonies have perished already, are perishing, and will perish. Your fate and mine is deterined by the kind of soil we have planted the Davar (Word) in.

I had planned to give today's message yesterday but was restrained. I am glad I was because I was required to spend time listening. Too often we allow the zeal of immaturity and presumption to leap into the dark without feet on which to land. Like a good wine, the Davar (Word) must be given time to mature. Indeed I was prepared to be silent today too to avoid writing and speaking 'padding' of no use to anyone.

Before I share the vision I was shown yesterday I need to prep you somewhat, just as I was prepped early this morning. I have to say from the outset that if you are a captive to Pentecostal-type 'tongues', rapturism, King James Onlyism, the Prosperity (Health-and-Wealth) Movement, Calvinism, Popery, cessationism, monogamy-onlyism, or anti-Torahism, to mention some of the most important heresies and false practices, you are never going to properly understand the events currently unfolding or be able to participate proactively and victoriously in the latter-day 'Army of Joshua (Yah'shua). I realise that is going to offend a lot of my listeners but the time for soft-pedaling the truth is over.

If you're still listening to me then let me invite you to open your Bibles to the Book of Revelation, chapter 13. The chapter (12) before it is all about the Woman-with-Child conveyed to the wilderness to protect her and her offspring from the rage of the Dragon (Satan). The chapter after it (14) is all about the 144,000, to give you some overall context, though remember that prophetic books aren't necessarily written in chronological order. I am going to be reading from the New International Version (NIV) because it flows well and doesn't blunt the edges of anything important which paraphrase versions are wont to:

"1 And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.

"And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast. 4 Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?

"5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months (3½ years, the latter half of the Great Tribulation). 6 He opened his mouth to blaspheme Elohim (God), and to slander His Name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 He was given power to make war against the qodeshimc (saints, set-apart ones) and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast - all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.

"9 He who has an ear, let him hear. 10 If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed.

"This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the qodeshim (saints, set-apart ones).

"11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12 He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honour of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

"18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666" (Rev.13:1-18, NIV).

As you will discover when we get around to resuming our study of the Book of Daniel (Yah willing), the giant image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar commanded built (Daniel 3) not only had a giant plinth or pedestal, not only was it located in the desert land of Dura just outside Babylon, but was not deliberately constructed to cause Daniel and his fellow Hebrews in exile a crisis of faith (even though, of course, it did) - that was incidental. It was built to convene the satraps or rulers of the various provinces and subject territories to extract an oath of allegiance after a time of great political instability when there was the possibility of insurrectiion and civil war. None of this is recorded in the Bible but in the secular records of Babylonia which completely vindicate the biblical record. We now know, for instance, which Babylonian god the image was of. Knowledge of this background historical information not only resolves a number of hostile queries raised by the sceptics (such as the height of the image) but shows us how Yahweh works in the affairs of men to achieve an end that was likely never in the awareness of the secular (in this case, pagan) rulers. Nebuchadnezzar didn't care what religion his subjects followed so long as they subjected themselves to himself and his pagan god, Marduk. All the Beast demands is worship of himself. It isn't only Christians and Messianics who are going to be rounded up when they refuse.

Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation is famously known because of the '666' (or '616') number and the 'mark of the beast' on the forehead and right hand. Most believers tend to pass over, or relegate to an item of secondary interest, the matter of the talking image. One of the first connections Yahweh led me to make this morning was between Nebuchadnezzar's giant 90 feet high image of gold and the image of the Beast. Now as much as I know most of you would like to hear my complete interpretation of this passage, which I would be delighted to give some other time, I have cited it now only to give some context to the vision I was shown on Day #5 of the March and which I will now share with you. I will, however, give you one marker, which I think most of you know already, and it's this: the first Beast arising from the sea was the Roman Empire and its latter Ecclesiastical 'reincarnation'.

Yesterday morning, around 9 a.m, I was lying quietly on my bed after a terrible night of physical pain and just resting as best I could. I wasn't thinking about anything in particular. As I did so, an intense vision suddenly burst upon me, a drawing of which I have made, as best I could, minus details, in the leader picture of the website article. I saw a stone structure, three tiered, the top tier being about three or four times larger than the lower two tiers which, step-fashion, were of a greater floor area than the top part. This structure stood in the midle of an red, arid desert. The sky looked yellow from the intense heat and the enlarged orange sun was half visible on the horizon, looking like a sunrise. There was no sign of life anywhere. At first I thought the stone structure was a house but it had no windows, which confounded me somewhat at first, and my mind was led in multiple directions trying to make sense of it. Indeed my first thoughts were of the contents of Revelation 12, the chapter before the one I read out to you. As the day wore on and I received no certain interpretation, toying around as I was with as many as four different possible meanings, I removed it from my planned talk given yesterday and did what I typically do when I don't understand a vision and decided to put it to one side and sit on it for 24 hours.

When I awoke early this morning I knew beyond any shadow of a doubt which of the four possible interpetations was the correct one. What I was being shown in the vision was the base, plinth or pedestal of the future Image of the Beast which has already been 'constructed'. Now don't go and load Google Maps and start searching for a large plinth in a desert in Iraq or somewhere else. The imagery is symbolic of a system. All that we need to know, for the purposes of this current Year of Penultimate Judgment and Jericho March, is that the foundations for the 'New World Order' (for wont of a better term) are fully in place and all that remains to be done is the erection of the "image" which Satan and his earthly minions are keen to set up as quickly as possible - this year, in fact - because they are consumed with blood-lust and an insatiable desire for absolute, global power so that they can create their 'paradise' which for the rest of us would be a living hell.

One of the major purposes of the Penultimate Judgment is to prevent this from happening now and so delay the fulfilment of Revelation 13 at this time, not because we want to save our own skins but because the satanic plan is out of alignment with the Sovereign Will of Yahweh-Elohim and His timetable of events. Indeed the Remnant must yet receive considerable instruction and spiritual impartation, and be equipped fully with a whole swathe of Elijah Prophets, before this image can be erected. Additionally, the extra time gained from their present defeat is to give humanity one last chance to repent. Understanding exactly what this 'Beast Image' is in our time will require careful unpacking by authenic prophet-teachers - we know exactly what it meant when John penned his Apocalypse in the 90's of the first century AD.

That is all I wish or am able to share with you today. Tomorrow is the 'big day', as it were, so I look forward to seeing you again then. May Yahweh show you many good and important things today as you spend time with Him in His Davar (Word) and in prayer in the following hours. Amen.

The funeral of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, consort to Queen Elizabeth II of England, who died on 9 April aged 99, six days after the last day of Chag haMatzah, took place at Windsor Castle today. I watched the ceremony and wept because I sensed that he represented not only my own parents' generation, where decency still had the upper hand and where Christian values still held a good deal of sway, but also the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland too, my ancestral homeland. I wept because I sensed that this was the funeral of Britain too, and that when the Queen dies, which won't be too long in the future, nearly all that was once noble about it will be gone barring a small remnant. Prince Philip represented a stoic comportment coupled with honesty, courage, dedication to service, family loyalty and sense of patriotic duty, and a great sense of humour which I came to greatly admire, no doubt the result of his unique combination of the Danish, Greek and German mingled with an Anglican sang froid that was his hereditary and cultural line. We shall miss his kind.

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