Suppose God wanted to send a message to the people of earth. How would He send it? Language barriers present a real problem and it took hundreds, even thousands of years to finally get the Bible translated into enough languages to be readable in every nation. But what if God wanted to deliver a dramatic message and there was only a very short time to deliver it?
The Bible says He uses the sun, moon, and stars for signs (Genesis 1:14). The Bible also promises that signs will appear in the sky before Christ's return (Luke 21:11, 25). The sky is shared by all people across all nations and the movements of the luminaries are built upon the unchanging physical laws that God made in the beginning. This August a message will appear in the sky for those paying attention.
We've discussed in depth how the August eclipse occurs exactly 40 days before Yom Kippur on the first day of the Jewish season of repentance and how the eclipse will form an 'X' over the chief Gentile nation because of another total solar eclipse seven years later. We were also the first to report how the path of the eclipse seems to form a message about Jerusalem, the book of Revelation, the magi, and the rapture. And of course, we reported the verifiable facts that the eclipse begins in the 33rd state (Oregon) and ends precisely at the 33rd parallel. A total solar eclipse traversing the entire United States hasn't happened in 3 x 33 years and even more - the eclipse occurs exactly 33 days before the Revelation 12 Sign.
Ezekiel 33 describes God establishing watchmen to warn of impending judgment. That in and of itself is an interesting correlation, but the biblical meaning of the number 33 is far more interesting:
Thirty-Three (lamed-gimel)
A Sign
The number thirty-three in Hebrew was written with the letters lamed (authority) and gimel (camel, or to lift up). Thirty-three is the number of a Sign—that is, the confirming evidence establishing a prophetic word. The prophetic word itself is authoritative (lamed) and the confirming sign upholds it (gimel), presents it, and establishes the prophetic word by the double witness.
The 33rd time Noah is mentioned is in Gen. 9:17, which speaks of the rainbow that was God's promise to Noah and to all flesh,
"17 And God said to Noah, 'This [rainbow] is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.' "
Ed Vallowe says that thirty-three means Promise. I find that this is close, but not fully accurate, because his perspective is not broad enough to encompass all of the biblical examples. For this reason he misunderstands Gen. 9:17, thinking it refers to the promise of God that He will not destroy the earth with a flood again. But he misses the point of the verse, which is that the rainbow was the SIGN of this covenant, or promise.
The 33rd time Abraham's name is mentioned is in Gen. 20:18,
"18 For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. 1 Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised. 2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age..."
Closing up the wombs of Abimelech's household was a sign that the prophecy was not to be fulfilled through the Philistine king, but through Abraham and Sarah.
The 33rd time that the name Isaac is mentioned is in Gen.26:1, where he too went to the land of Gerar, ruled by Abimelech (“Father-King,” the title of all the Philistine kings). In that passage (verse 4), God says that his seed would become like the stars of heaven. So in this case, the stars of heaven were the sign of Isaac's many children.
The 33rd time that the name Jacob is mentioned is in Gen. 28:20-22, where Jacob vowed a vow, promising as follows:
"20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear, 21 and I return to my father's house in safety, then the Lord will be my God. 22 And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God's house, and of all that Thou dost give me I will surely give a tenth to Thee.' "
In this case, the stone was the sign, a type of Christ in that it was anointed.
In the New Testament, the 33rd time that Peter's name is mentioned in the book of Acts is in Acts 10:18. Peter had just received the vision of the unclean animals being lowered from heaven in a sheet, and God had told him to “kill and eat.” Peter did not know the meaning of this vision until a moment later when the men sent by Cornelius knocked on the door. In this case the vision was the confirming sign by which Peter knew that he was to go with them to Caesarea.
The 33rd time Paul's name is mentioned is in Acts 17:2, where he is seen explaining the Old Testament signs that proved Jesus to be the Messiah.
So 33 days before The Great Sign is another sign that is a possible confirming witness to the legitimacy of The Great Sign. The eclipse occurs in conjunction with Regulus, which is a key part of the astronomical alignment in September - so the eclipse will actually be drawing the eyes of the world to the exact area in the sky where the Revelation 12 Sign will occur. That's amazing if you ask me.
What's more amazing still are all the connections between the eclipse and Egypt. The 'X' of the 2017 and 2024 eclipses is formed right over "Little Egypt" in Illinois and the precise point where the two eclipses meet is in Makanda, Illinois, which was called "The Star of Egypt". I mentioned before that seven of the Ten Plagues that befell ancient Egypt have a direct parallel in the book Revelation - a book that describes the future judgment of God upon the entire world. On top of that, Daniel Matson made a groundbreaking discovery that the Great Pyramid of Giza aligns with Regulus, Venus, Orion, and Israel on September 20th, three days before the Revelation 12 Sign and 30 days after the eclipse - yet another amazing connection to Egypt.
But why might God want to draw attention to Egypt and why would His message connect Egypt and the United States?
My first speculation is the rapture. The Exodus was a "type" of the future rapture. God's people who were in bondage were delivered out of Egypt with signs and wonders. God took them out and brought them into the Promised Land. Likewise, Believers are now in bondage, held captive in the present darkness of the world. Egypt is now the world and God will take His children out and deliver them to the spiritual Promised Land that His Son promised to them (John 14:2-3, Hebrews 13:14).
Consider the prophecy given in Hosea 11:1:
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
You might wonder, but isn't prophecy about the future? Wasn't this passage of Scripture written long after the Exodus?
This verse is certainly about the Exodus, for God likens Israel to a male child, but this is also a prophecy of the future. Matthew said it was also fulfilled when God's only begotten Son returned from Egypt after his family fled Herod (Matthew 2:15). As we have abundantly shown, the next male child to be delivered is the Church, so "out of Egypt I called my son" may apply to the Church, as well.
My second speculation is a Jewish exodus from the United States. After God's children leave, the antichrist will quickly ascend to power and the world will turn against the Jews just as it was during the Holocaust. The difference this time is that the Jews have a refuge - Israel. Roughly half of the world's Jews live in Israel and the other half reside in the United States. Sometime soon those Jews will need to travel back to their homeland for the fulfillment of prophecy. What better signal to the Jews in the United States that they need to flee for their safety, then for God to liken the United States to Egypt? Jews are taught the story of the Exodus from infancy. They know it well. And once the Tribulation commences, they will stumble upon some of these things Christians have been writing about and recognize the connections.
It should be noted that Micah 5:3 says that the rest of the Jews will return to Israel after a certain "woman" gives birth. We should all be well aware that a heavenly woman is giving birth this September and the Revelation 12 Sign occurs on the Sabbath of Return.