IN 1996
Benjamin Baruch was managing money
on Wall Street and spent over a year in prayer seeking guidance from God on when
to exit the stock market. Shortly after Benjamin's fortieth birthday, God
answered. In a series of visions and audible revelations from God, Benjamin was
shown the future of America.
Many of Benjamin Baruch's prophetic revelations have be
documented by eye witnesses including his prophecy in the Summer of 2001 that
the United States was about to be attacked with planes from United and American
airlines, an attack which would mark the beginning of what would become World
War III. Benjamin's book presents a clear understanding into the sealed
prophecies of the Bible including a detailed analysis of the future events which
will shake our nation including a stock market collapse, nuclear
attack on america, martial law and concentration camps for "enemy combatants"
a.k.a. Christians, Jews and Patriots
Eight years have passed since the fall of 1996 when the Lord revealed unto me that The Day of the Lord was at hand; I witnessed the soon and certain judgment which is coming upon America. Writing this book has been a great blessing, and this second edition offers me the opportunity to share some of the things, which the Lord has revealed in the years which have followed. My prayer is that the Lord will be gracious and once again anoint my words to share with you for the time for the fulfillment of all things is now at hand.
I Have Dreamed a Dream
In the summer of 2001 I had a dream. I was driving in my truck along the coast of northern California. I stopped in front of house on the beach, and as I got out I heard the roar of jet above me. The sound was louder than any jet I had ever heard before and it startled me. Looking up a United Airlines 767 raced overhead at low altitude and at a very high rate of speed. The sound of the engines scared me. I had never heard a jet fly at such high speed while at low altitude before.
Its engines were screaming as if on full throttle. The jet crossed the sky in a few moments of time, and was gone. Suddenly, another jet appeared, this time, an American 767 roaring across the sky and I wondered if the second plane was chasing the first. It too disappeared over the horizon as I stood and watched. Suddenly two more jets, another American and United plane came screaming back from the opposite direction. I hurried inside the house where a group of people were gathered; a brother who was on the Internet looked up and said, “Benjamin, I am so glad you are here.
I have a question I need to ask you.” I said “Wait, I need to show you something first, come outside.” Then I thought to myself, this is apriori knowledge, he is going to ask me when the war is going to start, and I am going to show him the answer for these four jets are the beginning of the war. We walked outside and the jets were gone. The sky had turned dark gray, and in the distance large white clouds touched the ground. I wondered why were the clouds on the ground, and then I looked up, and saw six or seven mushroom clouds hundreds of miles wide. Ashes began to then fall from the sky. I held my hands out and began to catch them. They were large, thick and appeared as if they were chips of paint, whitish with yellow colors mixed in. I awoke in the middle of the night knowing I had just been shown a prophetic dream. I couldn’t go back to sleep so got on the Internet and found a friend online who was a military analyst. I shared with him the dream, and he said to me ‘have you ever seen fallout before?’ “No.” “Well, that is exactly what fallout looks like.” I asked him, do you think planes that look like commercial aircraft could bomb us? He said, “No, I don’t think so.” “Well” I told him, “I don’t know how, but we were attacked with planes from United and American Airlines.” He responded by telling me “Benjamin, that sounds crazy, how could we be attacked by United Airlines?”
Over the next few weeks that passed, I shared this dream with many of my friends. Then, on September 11th, 2001, my phone ran off the hook all morning. The events of that morning are the beginning of World War III, and they will culminate in the battle of Ezekiel 38 and global thermonuclear exchange.
THE FIRST FOUR JUDGMENTS ARE READY TO BEGIN,
THEY ARE READY TO BREAK FORTH UPON YOU
EVEN NOW
In late 1999 I was speaking to a small group of believers who had gathered after service at a small church, Rock Harbor, to hear me share the message of my book. I began to tell them a summary of the word the Lord had revealed and as I shared I was aware that I was fumbling with the message, struggling to make sense of this incredible revelation in a few brief sentences. I mentioned the coming terrorism, the financial collapse, the martyrdom of the church in America in the death camps of the prince, and the ultimate nuclear war which would come as judgments upon America. As I spoke, I could discern the group, mostly young people in their early 20’s were filled with disbelief as they smirked at my message, and laughed at me under their breath. I understood the message I was brining surely seemed, in their eyes, to be insane.
Suddenly the Holy Spirit fell upon me, and I heard the Lord say unto me, “I will take this conversation from here.” I thought to myself, that’s good, for I really don’t know what to say anyway. The topic immediately changed, and I now spoke loudly and with authority as I declared:
“The first four judgments are ready to begin, and they are ready to break forth upon you even now!”
Then I walked into the crowd and got right into the face of one of the young men, and grabbing him by the arm, I said:
“And it is going to be just like on your arm brother. The first four judgments are ready to begin, just like on your arm!”
He turned and ran and a friend chased after him. I continued speaking to the crowd and five minutes later, the friend came back and interrupted me saying: “How did you know about his arm?” I didn’t recall doing this so I answered, “Excuse me, I don’t know what you are talking about?” “You said the first four judgments were ready to begin and they would be just like on his arm. How did you know?” At that point I could remember doing this. I responded: “Oh yes, I did say that, but I don’t know anything about his arm.” “Well, he is sitting in his car so scared he cannot drive, and he asked me; how did this guy know about my arm, I have never seen this guy before?” I answered him: “Look, I don’t know anything about his arm.” “Well, he has a tattoo of the four horsemen of the book of Revelation on his arm.” At that point the smirking faces in the crowd grew long. In the back of the audience, a young man raised his hand and began to speak saying “I am a navy seal, and I have been in the military for eight years.” Then he began to break down and weep as he shouted: “Everything this man said is true!”
It is Time for the Light of the Morning to Breakthrough
As I began to write these new chapters for the second edition of this book, in March of 2003, the Lord sent word to me in the morning. As I awoke, I heard two angels speaking audibly in my room. Their voices sounded like musical instruments; in perfect and beautiful harmonic tones. I have never heard anything like these voices before and could never have imagined anything like the sound of these two angels.
The first angel stood on my left side asked the question which is on many of our hearts: “Do you know what time it is?” Then another angel standing on my right answered in a loud voice: “It is time for the light of the morning to breakthrough!” We should all be Bereans and study these words carefully for they have truly come from the Lord.
Do you know what time it is? It is time. It is now. The judgment is come and is ready to begin. The night of unbelief is almost over. The bright and shining morning star is about to break out upon the earth. The phrase ‘the light of the morning’ appears in scripture in one place, speaking of the authority of God. “The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.” 1
The Lord Himself is the light of the morning. “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.” 2 Now is the time for the Day Star to arise in the hearts of the chosen ones who are called faithful and true. The church today stands at the threshold of a new day, a day which will witness the outpouring of the power of God in ways unimaginable. The night is almost over, and the blessed day is about to dawn. This is the third day following the resurrection of our Lord and the beginning of the seventh day of creation. The long awaited Sabbath is about to begin in which no man can work. For the world, a time of great darkness is coming; for the body of true believers, the light of God’s glory is about to break forth as the light in the morning. Jesus prophesied of this hour in which darkness will fall upon the planet in which no man can work: “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” 3 Yet in this night which is coming, God can and will work, and those of us who are walking in the Spirit at that time will do the greater works which were prophesied to come.
In the Hebrew calendar, the day begins at sundown. We read in Genesis that the evening and the morning were the measure of the day. In an earlier chapter of this book, I discussed the Jubilee count, which concluded that the seventh day began on Nissan one, in the year 1999 following the seventieth Jubilee. Many questioned the accuracy of that word when the years passed and nothing seemed to occur in the natural. Yet we know, a new day begins in a time of darkness or evening. Now the morning light is about to break through, with judgment falling upon the nations. Yet the Day of the Lord has already begun not with thunder, nor with lighting, but with a gentle rain of sound doctrine. God speaks to His people in the time of darkness through the sure word of prophecy, and then when the light of day breaks, he speaks to the nations through His judgments. We often approach the scripture with so many preconceptions and assumptions that many times the true meaning is missed. The beginning of the Day of the Lord is no exception. The average student of Bible prophecy has been taught and assumes the day begins with a massive event which will change the planet. But nowhere in scripture does it say anything of the sort. Actually the word declares that the Lord first comes as thief in the night, breaking in while we all sleep. And a night intruder comes silently, not making a sound in order to avoid waking anyone. The first coming of the Messiah is another example of this. When Jesus was born into the world, scarcely no one noticed. Yet the understanding of that time was that as soon as the Messiah appeared, he would deliver them from the Romans. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Today in these last days, the end time believers have made many similar errors in their thinking, overlaying their understanding of the scriptures with their own opinions and ideas.
Margaret McDonald’s vision addressed the secret beginning of the day of the Lord with the Lord breaking in upon us all as a thief in the night: “It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and the infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of Liberty to be just the hiss of the Serpent, to drown them in perdition…. The people of God think they are waiting, but they know not what it is they wait for…. Suddenly it burst upon the scene with a glorious light… I saw the LORD himself descending from heaven.. I saw the error of men who think this will be something seen by the natural eye. Oh the glorious in breaking of God which is now about to burst on this earth… Oh what a holy, holy bride she must be… now shall the glorious mystery of God in our nature be known. The Revelation of Jesus Christ has yet to be opened up. It is not knowledge about God that it contains, it is an entering into God which only those filled with the Spirit can see, those who have not the Spirit could see nothing… I saw people of God in an awfully dangerous situation, and many about to be deceived and fall. Now will the wicked one be revealed, Oh it will be a fiery trial, and every soul will be shaken. Now shall the awful sight of a false Christ be seen on the earth… the trial of the church is from the anti-Christ. It is being filled with the Spirit that we shall be kept. What had hindered the real life of God from being received by His people, was they’re turning away from Jesus… they were all passing by the cross… I saw on that night, there will be such an outpouring of the Spirit such as has never been, a baptism of fire… the servants of God sealed in their foreheads, and His holy image seen in His people.”
Another misconception is that the Day of the Lord begins with the great tribulation. Again, this is a misconception, and based solely upon the opinions of men and not the word of God. No, the Day of the Lord begins in ways unseen by the natural eye. For a new day under God's calendar begins at twilight and in the gathering darkness, and only when the morning light comes, can the world begin to see. Let me explain this clearly. The seventieth Jubilee ended in 1999. The seven weeks of years following the second command to rebuild Jerusalem have now ended and we have passed over into the eighth week following the command to rebuild Jerusalem. And the Lord who is referred to as Messiah the Prince in Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy must now come after the seventh week or during the eighth week. The seventh week ended in 1998 and was followed by the seventieth Jubilee of Israel and the hundred and twentieth Jubilee of creation. What has followed has been the eighth week, at time of new beginnings, which will end in March of 2006. Based upon a literal fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy, the Messiah the Prince must therefore come before the end of the eighth week in order to fulfill the scripture perfectly for He comes after seven weeks (and therefore during the eighth week) and not after eight weeks. Please understand, this is the in-breaking of the Lord, the coming of Messiah to complete the second half of his seven year ministry upon the earth and it is not the literal second coming, for that will await the conclusion of the great tribulation. Rather, the coming of the Messiah in the ministry of the annointed messengers of God, will occur before March of 2006. This coming is the revealing of the man-child of revelation. In order to alleviate any misunderstanding, let me clarify the timing of these events. Daniel writes “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times and after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off.” 4
The coming of Messiah the Prince occurs after seven weeks following the command to rebuild Jerusalem. This is the Messiah coming as a ruling Monarch, not as a suffering servant. The sixty-two weeks is the time period of the first coming. Sir Isaac Newton understood this difference and accurately tied the sixty-two weeks to the date of the order to rebuild Jerusalem and the birth of the Messiah in 2 BC. The seven weeks is the compass of time for the second coming, this time the Messiah comes as a ruling Monarch, as the Lion from the Tribe of Judah and this appearance occurs seven weeks or forty-nine years following a second command to rebuild Jerusalem. Issac Newton spent his life studying this prophecy, and possessed a far greater mind than the majority of the biblical scholars of today. He was also 300 years closer to the actual events, and personally learned ten ancient lost languages in order to read the historical texts to confirm these dates. I was given this revelation directly by the Lord before I read Newton's account. I thought to myself, Issac Newton got it right, I can only wonder if he reasoned the conclusion or if he was shown this by the Lord as was I. The command to rebuild Jerusalem was given in May of 1948, following the declaration of independence of the state of Israel. The seven weeks of years then concluded with the 70th Jubilee of Israel in 1999. We are now in the eighth week which will not end until March of 2006, and by then, Messiah the Prince will have begun his second half ministry upon the earth, this time through his people. The first coming of the Lord was in the natural and began with a supernatural birth. A virgin was with child. The second coming begins in the same mysterious way, with a birth, not in the natural but in the spirit.
The second coming of the Lord, when every eye shall see him, is preceded by a supernatural birth in the spirit in which the Lion of Judah is born again within a holy remnant who walk in the full power of His holy anointing during the time of tribulation. This is the second half of the ministry of the Messiah, for it is He who confirms and fulfills the covenant which His father made with Israel for seven years. Having finished the first half himself as a man, he now completes the second half of His ministry through the Holy Spirit through the lives of His anointed remnant as the Lion of Judah. Luke describes this in his account of the second coming, only the true meaning of his message was hidden from our eyes all of these years. This is the point of Margaret McDonald’s prophecy.
Luke writes of this revelation of the Lord: “Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.” 5
This is the same warning that Jesus mentioned in Matthew 24: “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes…. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” 6 The scripture is referring to the same day in both texts. The day that the Son of man is revealed is the same day that the abomination of desolation is revealed. Remember where sin abounds grace abounds more. The word of God is always true and the final hour of sin upon the earth, when sin will abound as never before will also be the hour of the greatest outpouring of grace in all of history, for the Lord himself shall first appear in His people. “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” 7 This is the beginning of the great tribulation in which Jesus Christ will fulfill the second half of His seven-year ministry upon the earth, not as a lamb anymore, but as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
Dear saints, this is the final day, the last hour of the history of man, and in this hour, the Son of man, Jesus Christ will be revealed. The tribulation doesn’t start with the disappearance of the saints in a pre-tribulation rapture, but rather with the revelation of Jesus Christ in the 144,000 witnesses which He himself shall appoint. Scripture also tells us where the Lord will begin His judgment of the earth: from the river Euphrates, which is in Iraq. “When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; women come and make a fire with them. For they are not a people of discernment, therefore their maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them. And it will come about in that day, that the LORD will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. (NAS)” 8 So now the stage has been set; the United States has been drawn into a land war in both the Middle East (Iraq) and Asia (Afghanistan). And from the scripture we know that from Iraq and banks of the Euphrates River, the judgment of the earth shall come. The war which is now waging in Iraq will not end with a US victory but rather, will become the spark which shall ignite the next world war and the great battle of Ezekiel 38.
THE COLUMBIA IS LOST
The Lord has continued to give his warnings to the people of America time and again over the years. The disaster of the Space shuttle Columbia is one such example. The Columbia is named after the capital of the United States – The District of Columbia. The crash of the shuttle contains a prophetic message to the people of America. The prophecies of the Book of Obadiah speak of this event.
“The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.”9
America has exalted itself more than any other nation; and with the advent of the international space station, which is a US project, she has literally built a nest among the starts. The Lord continues in Obadiah to explain why he is bringing His judgment upon America.
“For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.” 10
America has chosen to stand now on the other side of the Arab Israeli conflict; standing shoulder to shoulder with the enemies of God demanding a division of the Holy Land and the creation of a Palestinian state. In the day the foreign nations cast lots for the division of the land of Israel and the Holy City of Jerusalem, America stood among them.
The shuttle Columbia was destroyed attempting to reenter the atmosphere over the State of Texas and over the county of Palestine. Could anything be clearer? The Columbia disaster is a foreshadow of God casting down the capital of America, for when you lose your capital, you lose your country. The headlines read the Columbia is lost. The message: America is lost and your judgment has begun. The reason America is now being turned over to judgment? She has sided with the enemies of Israel and cast her lot for the division of the Holy Land and the creation of a Palestinian state. Lest anyone think these prophecies are not relevant to these last days, and that this text is not directly referring the shuttle disaster, look at the balance of the text in Obadiah 1:17-21. The events prophesied therein when Israel possesses the land of Edom have not yet occurred for the text describes the events at the end of the age.
HAVING LAID STUMBLIG BLOCKS ONE BEFORE ANOTHER
In February of 2003 I was attending a solemn assembly prayer meeting where a group of believers had gathered for a weekend of prayer and fasting. Late Saturday evening I returned to my room when the Lord spoke to me “Turn on your television”.
I thought, how odd, normally the Lord would want us to turn off the television. I walked over and turned on the tube. CNN came on and I began to watch the tragedy in Rhode Island where a fire had engulfed a night club killing over 100. The picture on the screen was of a human pile of people collapsed one upon the other in the doorway to the club, struggling with their faces in the outside cold air while their bodies remained trapped within the burning building.
As I watched in amazement, the Lord spoke again saying: “This is a picture of my people, who, have laid stumbling blocks, one before another, such that they have all fallen to the ground.” I stared in amazement at the pictures on TV not realizing the people in that picture all died that night, having never been freed from the pile of humanity, they had all exploded in flames. This is a picture of my people.
We have all laid stumbling blocks, one before another. And the time is nigh for us to remove the stumbling blocks and to seek reconciliation one with another. I encourage you, dear reader, to do so prayerfully while there is still time, lest we too, find ourselves trapped by the stumbling blocks which we have laid one before another.
THE PASSION OF JESUS CHRIST
The latest warning to our nation is the release of the film, The Passion of the Christ, produced by Mel Gibson in early 2004. The uproar and attacks from the media, the left and the so-called religious leaders has been relentless.
Opinions surrounding the film are numerous; one point is unmistakable; the film provides a vivid and powerful picture of the suffering endured by our Lord in paying the price of the sins of His people. In another sense, it is also a warning, to a world about to be overrun suddenly by the forces of the great tribulation, that the King who is coming has himself seen pain and anguish that exceeds the experiences we will witness in the coming hour of judgment.
I am struck by how many have commented that they view this movie as a last warning to America. A final wakeup call to the demands of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Lord forgave the Roman soldiers who crucified him, for they did not know what they were doing. In this hour, the Lord in has promised judgment upon a people who know His will, but refuse to obey him.
“Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.” Habakkuk 2:3
“I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.” Zephaniah 1:2-3
AMERICA’S WORST RECESSION
In looking back over the last few years, the warnings of impending judgment appear to have been misplaced. To judge the state of the nation today, many are tempted to assume we have weathered the storm and bright, sunny days lie immediately ahead.
The picture the spin masters have painted has indeed deceived the many, while the voices of truth and reason are drowned out by the constant propaganda found in the mass media. One particular show, which I call, Bubblevision, is a favorite of stock market investors. Daily, the faithful are treated to a steady diet of distortions, deceptions and disinformation, all designed to hide the truth of what is really going in America.
At this writing, in the month of March, 2004, the economy has recently witnessed a resounding recovery we are told. And the US stock market is rallying with newfound bullish fever. Lest you tempted to join in the revelry of the sodomites, and be swept away by the newfound faith in the temple of man, the Federal Reserve let us examine some of the facts of the present economic environment.
The last twelve months have witnessed the greatest debt growth in the history of our nation. Collectively, we have added $1.2 trillion in debt. As one of the nations successful investors said, "Give me a trillion dollars, and I will show you a good time." And what have we gained from the trillion in debt borrowed against the inflating asset base?
Consumer spending added $260 billion to GDP, while $500 billion leaked out of the country through the trade deficit. Another $400 billion was used to pay the debt service on all of the money we borrowed previously. America cannot build a perpetual wealth on a foundation of debt.
We are told that America is the wealthiest nation in the world, and that we are experiencing a productivity miracle. The great paradox of this miracle is the average American has no savings. If we are so wealthly as a nation, and in the midst of such a great productivity miracle, why has the national savings rate collapsed? The supposed wealth of America is built upon an ever growing pyramid of debt.
The trade deficit, the federal deficit, consumer debt, corporate debt, state budget deficits, the social security deficit.. they all point out the obvious fact. We are a nation of credit card junkies, and as a country we have mortgaged our future as if there is no tomorrow.
Compounding the problems is the fact that the spin masters on Wall Street have used deception and distortion to hide the true condition of the economy. Unemployment can remain low forever, as long as you stop counting people who have been hopelessly unemployed, and have now given up looking for a job.
The so called productivity miracle is nothing more than a statistical distortion, a cleverly disguised lie. In the mid 1990's, the nations economic statistics began to be adjusted for what was called hedonic deflation, a fancy term for quality improvements. These quality adjustments have grossly overstated the national income data, GDP data and are the statistical basis for the so called productivity miracle which in reality is a mirage built upon debt.
That too is a statistical distortion, a cleverly disguised lie. In the mid 1990's, the nations economic statistics began to be adjusted for what was called hedonic deflation, a fancy term for quality improvements. These quality adjustments have grossly overstated the national income data, GDP data and are the statistical basis for the so called productivity miracle which in reality is a mirage built upon debt.
When the waves of judgment begin to roll over the nation in the coming years, this house of credit cards will collapse bringing ruin to millions who never understood, unless you own your assets, you are merely renting them from the bank. And following the day of reckoning, the bankers will come and repossess virtually everything which was owned on credit.
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