March 1st at sunset #SabbatShekalim #31 Sabbath of the shekels

Shabbat Shekalim / שבת שקלים

Shabbat Shekalim ("Sabbath [of] shekels" שבת שקלים) read in preparation for Purim, requests each adult male Jew contribute half of a Biblical shekel for the upkeep of the Tent of Meeting. The Torah portion Exodus 30:11-16 is read. This Shabbat takes place on the Shabbat before the 1st of the Hebrew calendar month of Adar, or on the 1st of Adar itself if it falls on Shabbat. In leap years on the Hebrew calendar, when there are two months of Adar, Shabbat Shekalim is on the Shabbat before the 1st of Adar II (or on the 1st of Adar II itself if it is Shabbat).
Shabbat Shekalim begins at sundown on Fri, 01 March 2019.
https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/shabbat-shekalim

"Sabbath of Shekel" = 134 (English Ordinal)
"House of cards" = 134 (English Ordinal)
"Shabbat Shekalim" = 131 (English Ordinal)
"assassinated" = 131 (English Ordinal)
"Shekalim" = 33 (Full Reduction)
"Shekalim" = 173 (Jewish)
"Sheol" = 173 (Jewish)
"Beltane" = 173 (Jewish)
"Shekalim" = 138 (Reverse Ordinal)
"Donald Trump" = 138 (English Ordinal)
"Shekalim" = 138 (Reverse Ordinal)

Sat, 2 March 2019 = 25th of Adar I, 5779
כ״ה בַּאֲדָר א׳ תשע״ט
"כ״ה בַּאֲדָר א׳ תשע״ט" = 40 (Hebrew Reduction)
Parashat Vayakhel (in Diaspora)
Shabbat Shekalim

Shabbat Shekalim begins at sundown on Fri, 01 March 2019.

Jehu and Jezebel.. Trump and Hillary ....Jonathan Cohn

Cohn says Trump and Hillary are playing the roles of Jehu and Jezebel

Starts at 27:00

2 Kings 9:30-37 New King James Version (NKJV)
Jezebel’s Violent Death
30 Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window. 31 Then, as Jehu entered at the gate, she said, “Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?”

32 And he looked up at the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” So two or three eunuchs looked out at him. 33 Then he said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot. 34 And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “Go now, see to this accursed woman, and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” 35 So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 36 Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, “Here lies Jezebel.” ’ ”

Fast of Esther 3/20 the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month. #320 #1313 #AdarII

Ta'anit Esther / תענית אסתר

The Fast of Esther (Ta'anit Ester, Hebrew: תַּעֲנִית אֶסְתֵּר) is a Jewish fast from dawn until dusk on Purim eve, commemorating the three-day fast observed by the Jewish people in the story of Purim. If the date of the Fast of Esther falls on Shabbat (Saturday), the fast is instead observed on the preceding Thursday. Like other minor fasts, Ta'anit Esther begins at dawn (first light) and ends at nightfall (full dark).

Ta'anit Esther begins at dawn on Wed, 20 March 2019. 

2019 is a leap year when an extra months is added. It's called Adar II and it's the 13th month!  

Daniel’s Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks

To fully comprehend what will happen to Israel at the end of the age, it is critically important to read and interpret an amazing prophecy from the book of Daniel. Without this one prophecy, God’s dealings with Israel as explained in the Bible could not be completely understood. In fact, if this prophecy was overlooked or ignored, many of the other prophecies dealing with the end times would become obscure or impossible to interpret. Although it is brief and pertinent, Daniel’s prophecy of the Seventy Weeks contains a tremendous amount of important information that actually helps make many other prophecies fit together to create a coherent picture of the last days. In just a few short verses found within the ninth chapter of Daniel’s book, the Lord gives us what is possibly the most significant prediction concerning Israel within the entire Bible. Not only does this prophecy give us an understanding of where Israel is headed in our day, but it also provides a framework into which the whole of end times prophecy can be placed.

In the opening verses of Daniel chapter 9, the prophet is portrayed as having read from the writings of his earlier but still contemporaneous prophet, Jeremiah (see Daniel 9:2Open in Logos Bible Software (if available) and Jeremiah 25:8-11Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). Daniel clearly knew of the importance of being aware of the other writings of the prophets. He also wanted to understand God’s plan for Israel, but he realized that he couldn’t possibly know everything on his own. For instance, even though Daniel lived through Israel’s destruction and scattering as the result of the Babylonian attacks, he didn’t realize until after he had read Jeremiah’s words that the Lord had promised that a remnant of believers would be allowed to return to Israel at the end of 70 years.

So fascinated was Daniel at discovering this information that he sought the Lord with great prayer and supplication in hope that God would reveal additional details of this prophecy. After Daniel had prayed and confessed his own sin and the sin of his people, the angel Gabriel came to him with a message directly from the Lord. This is what Gabriel said:

“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

“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, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolator.”

Daniel 9:24-27

https://endtimestruth.com/israel/daniels-prophecy-of-the-seventy-weeks/

The next Shemitah year is #2022 #TheParadigm

Is there an unseen force or a law of nature that God has designed into the world, which silently governs the rise and fall of economies and nations? Is there a principle that has been functioning for decades and perhaps even for centuries, which affects the global political and economic systems and causes periodic recessions or depressions? According to recent publications, some authors have claimed that there really is such a force at work in our world. Many economists and others who study the global financial systems have wondered why major downturns in the economy seem to happen in early fall, especially in the months of September and October. Is it possible that the Bible provides the reason for this phenomenon as well as details on its origin and properties? If this force really exists, it might actually impact the valuation of stock markets, investments, and currencies on a recurring basis. This type of downward pressure on the global financial system may also cause the rise and fall of empires and countries, as economic upheavals often cause major political power shifts. I call this proposition the Shemitah Effect, after a Biblical law and the Jewish name that is used to describe it.

In 2012, the Christian Rabbi Jonathan Cahn published a book entitled The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America’s Future (Frontline Pub Inc). He described within it, as part of a series of harbingers to judgment affecting the United States and the world, a concept related to an old Jewish law often called the Shemitah (The Harbinger, p. 153). Cahn subsequently went on to publish a second book in 2014 that was exclusively related to the Shemitah Effect, entitled The Mystery of the Shemitah. His writings and talks about the Shemitah are very interesting, and at least they should be read and understood by every Christian. Cahn has postulated that this principle is actually affecting the course of world events and especially the future of the United States and Israel as we move forward in the End Times. With that assertion, it is imperative to learn about the Shemitah Effect as we study End Times prophecy. In particular, we should seriously consider whether such a force really exists and if it is affecting the unfolding of world events in the last days.

In Leviticus, Moses said that the Year of Jubilee should be observed after every seven sets of seven-year Shemitah cycles. Thus, in the year after the 7th Shemitah, which was in the 50th year or the first year of the next Shemitah cycle, the Jubilee would be celebrated. The beginning of the Jubilee year would be marked by the sounding of a ram’s horn on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). This important Jewish holiday occurs in the fall, usually in Late September or early October (it occurred on Sept. 23 in 2015), and it serves to usher in the start of the New Year of Jubilee. According to the statutes of this law, the 50th year would include another year like the Shemitah year of not planting or harvesting of crops; therefore the seventh Shemitah year of rest for the land was followed by another Jubilee year of rest, making two consecutive years of no planting and no harvesting every 49 years. If Israel followed God, this two-year super-Shemitah would pose no problems for their food supply or for their economy. As the Lord promised in Leviticus 25:20-22Open in Logos Bible Software (if available) (quoted previously), the sixth year before a Jubilee would provide enough food to supply the people for a full 3 years; therefore God anticipated the need for an increased food supply during the longer Shemitah/Jubilee cycle.

Days of Judgment
Despite these promised benefits that the Shemitah and Jubilee observances would bring to Israel, it was unfortunately rarely if ever followed during the years of the First Kingdom and the First Temple period. Perhaps it was followed early in Israel’s history, during the time of the Judges and maybe during King David’s reign, but as Israel fell away from God with successive kings, the Shemitah was one of the first rules that fell away and was not fulfilled. It can be a fearful thing to turn away from self-reliance in getting what you need and become completely reliant on God, especially if you have no faith. It was easier for Israel to simply overlook this law rather than to risk not having enough food for over a year at a time or risk losing money by having to forgive debt or give back land. Greed and the desire for money caused many in Israel to ignore the Shemitah and the Jubilee.

However, these laws were not ignored by God. As we learned in the four sections on Daniel’s Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks and the section on The Scattering of Judah and Jerusalem, Israel was taken captive into Babylon for exactly 70 years to make up for the 70×7 years (490 years) that the Jews didn’t follow the Shemitah for the land. Thus, the Lord kept them away from their land in judgment for a full 70 years to allow the land to rest for the 70 Shemitahs that Israel ignored. Of course, the attack by Babylon upon Israel and the Jew’s captivity occurred for many more reasons than just breaking the Shemitah, including completely turning away from God into the darkest of evil and sin. Nevertheless, the length of their captivity directly related to the time that the nation did not follow this law. Therefore, the principle of the Shemitah remained in effect even if Israel tried to eliminate it from their lives and culture. Though they tried to run from it, the Shemitah Effect eventually caught up to them and caused 70 years of banishment from their land!

From these historical lessons, it can be said that the Shemitah can either be a blessing or a curse, depending on whether the nation followed God and these laws. If the nation followed God in the Shemitah and Jubilee, they would be prosperous and at rest in their land; however, if the nation turned away from God and didn’t follow these laws, they would suffer the effects of the Shemitah as a judgment and with extremely negative consequences.

https://endtimestruth.com/the-shemitah-effect/

218 days from 2/18 Elul 24th

Hillary Clinton 2/18 "to kill a mockingbird"
May 31st 2019 Scottish Rite is 218 years old.
Formed on 5/31/1801

From and including: Monday, February 18, 2019
To, but not including Tuesday, September 24, 2019 (elul 24)
Result: 218 days

Tue, 24 September 2019 = 24th of Elul, 5779
כ״ד בֶּאֱלוּל תשע״ט
Parashat Nitzavim (in Diaspora)
"כ״ד בֶּאֱלוּל תשע״ט" = 44 (Hebrew Reduction)

Tue, 11 September 2001 = 23rd of Elul, 5761
כ״ג בֶּאֱלוּל תשס״א
Parashat Nitzavim (in Diaspora)
24th of Elul starts at sunset 9/11/2001
"כ״ג בֶּאֱלוּל תשס״א" = 34 (Hebrew Reduction)
"כ״ג בֶּאֱלוּל תשס״א" = 853 (Hebrew Gematria) 147th prime

Parashat Nitzavim is the 51st weekly Torah portion

basketball players kneeling #141 #227

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/ncaab/2019/02/23/ole-miss-basketball-players-kneel-national-anthem-day-confederate-rally/2963742002/