BREAKING PROPHECY ALERT: EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NEW JERSEY – TWO KEY NUMBERS SURFACE AS AMERICAN ECLIPSE APPROACHES

As of this writing today, on April 5, 2024, a moderate earthquake registering 4.8 on the measuring scale has struck the state of New Jersey in the United States of America. While the magnitude of this quake would not really be sufficient reason to label this as a news item worth considering a title of “major breaking news,” the rather peculiar prophetic clues hidden within the quake itself are worthy of this title and cause to sit up and take notice.

In a previous article here, the Taiwan earthquake was covered – occurring just three days prior to the New Jersey quake today. What appeared to be some rather peculiar prophetic numbers were associated with the quake. As we approach what many, including myself, consider to be a highly prophetic American eclipse for various reasons already covered in previous articles and reported by various other watchmen, there is sufficient reason to consider that God is sending the world a message of warning through this event.

THE RAPTURE “TRUMP” OF GOD AND THE NUMBER 45

Today’s quake took place “45” miles west of New York City in the month of April on the 5th day (45). Peculiarly, Donald “Trump’s last name is a word associated with the biblical description of the Rapture at the end of the age in its use of the word “trump” …

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).

Donald Trump is president number “45” and is currently running for president of the United States. Donald Trump’s trial is/was taking place in New York state.

It would appear that God is directing our attention to the 45th president and letting us know that the “Trump” of the Rapture is about to sound at some point in the very near future.

THE NUMBER 48 AND REESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL IN 1948

The magnitude reading of the quake was 4.8, reminding us that the year 1948 and the reestablishment of Israel was a necessary fulfillment of prophecy in order to conclude that the world had truly entered the end times of the Church Age.

• Amos 9:14-15
• Ezekiel 37:10-14
• Isaiah 66:7-8
• Ezekiel 37:21-22
• Jeremiah 16:14-15
• Ezekiel 4:3-6
• Ezekiel 34:13
• Jeremiah 31:10
• Leviticus 26:3, 7-8
• Deuteronomy 30:3-5

The 2nd of the two Great American eclipses will occur on April 8, 2024 in a few more days (4th month on the 8th day = 1948). The Jersey quake has occurred just “3” days before the eclipse.

Furthermore, in 2 Timothy 4:8 (48), we are told that watchers for Christ’s return that love His appearing have a reward waiting for them in Heaven once the Rapture takes place and the Judgment Seat of Christ occurs …

“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing” (2 Timothy 4:8).

THE NUMBER 7 AND GOD’S PERFECT NUMBER

Very notably, the epicenter of the earthquake occurred in Whitehouse Station, Hunterdon County, at 10:23 a.m. about “7” kilometers from Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. The earthquake was “4.77” kilometers and, also very notably, the quake was North Northeast of White House Station New Jersey and the depth was five kilometers (source) (source). In the Bible, the number 7 is God’s perfect number – the number of completion and perfection. The number 4 in Hebrew represents the numerical value of the dalet letter, which is the number for a door. The Apostle John ascended into Heaven in Revelation chapter 4 – giving us a prophetic typology of the “Trump” of the Rapture at the end of the Church Age …

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter” (Revelation 4:1).

It would appear that God is taking our attention to the White House and president “45” – the “Trump” president. The upcoming American eclipse not only form the letters aleph and tav in conjunction with the August 21, 2017 American eclipse and the October 23, 2023 annular eclipse, thus pointing us directly to Jesus as He stated He is the aleph and tav, but also will form the letter dalet (numerical value of 4 and representing the door).

Tellingly, a “4.0” aftershock occurred from the Lebanon quake.

THE NUMBER 50 AND THE PHILADELPHIA EFFECT

Today’s quake was felt in Philadelphia. Interestingly, the quake epicenter in Lebanon occurred “50” miles north of Philadelphia. In scripture, the number 50 is the number of Jubilee. America can be considered the prophetic jubilee nation connected to the prophecy of the Vineyard in Matthew 21 as it has 50 states in its union. Philadelphia has a rich spiritual history. The Church of Philadelphia in the book of Revelation, which represents the end times body of believers is presented an open “door” and is promised escape from the coming judgment of the Tribulation period via the Rapture …

“I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name” (Revelation 3:8)

“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown” (verses 10-11).

THE CITY OF LEBANON AND THE RAPTURE

The epicenter of the quake took place in Lebanon, New Jersey.

In biblical prophecy, Lebanon is mentioned in sequence with Damascus, Syria. We are told that Damascus will be leveled in one night and be no more before the morning – indicating modern warfare. Israel currently is embroiled in conflict with Lebanon and Syria. Accordingly, and for various reasons, the Rapture likely occurs before the destruction of Damascus and the conflict with Lebanon results in the required criteria that the Bible gives to us. For more details concerning this prophecy, see here and here.

Furthermore, if we look at Song of Solomon chapter 4 verse 8 (48), we find a rather interesting connection to a known Rapture typology/picture of the future Rapture of the Church and the mention of Lebanon …

“Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards” (Song of Solomon 4:8).

Interestingly, Lebanon in the Strong’s number of the Bible is 4480. You will notice that the passage employs the same language as seen in the aforementioned Revelation 4:1 passage wherein the Apostle John is caught up into the heavens after the Church Age ends – a picture of the Rapture: “Come Up Here, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter” (Revelation 4:1).

THE NUMBER 3 AND THE DAY COUNT BETWEEN THE TAIWAN EARTHQUAKE AND THE NEW JERSEY EARTHQUAKE

In the previous article, the number 3 was highlighted and was a feature of the Taiwan earthquake. The number 3 is highly associated with Jesus. Today’s Lebanon, New Jersey earthquake took place “3” days after the Taiwan quake. The “4.8” New Jersey quake also takes place “3” days before the 2nd of the two Great American eclipses on April 8 (4/8). Notably, the Statue of Liberty, a well known and iconic symbol of America was struck by lightning on the 3rd – the same day as the Taiwan earthquake (photo below). While this is an interesting thing to consider as part of a sign from the Lord, it is not all that unusual for the statue to be hit by lightning as it has been struck numerous times before. Perhaps this time was different? I’ll leave that one for you to decide as with everything else that has occurred with the earthquake numbers.

As you consider this, keep this in mind: on the same day as the New Jersey quake with its 4.8 quake reading, on the very same day, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled New York City while an earthquake at a depth of precisely 4.8 miles shook the New Madrid fault zone. The New Madrid Seismic Zone started rocking early Friday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude 2.1 earthquake at 12:17 a.m. April 5. The tremor was centered along the Mississippi River in Lake County, Tennessee, about 3 miles northeast of Caruthersville and 26.5 miles northeast of Blytheville. The USGS said it had a depth of 7 kilometers (4.8 miles). Perhaps the lightning strike of the Liberty statue was not a coincidence after all.

Conclusion: It is my opinion based on the peculiar prophetic observances associated with the Taiwan quake, the New Jersey quake, the New York City quake and the New Madrid quake that the connection of the number 3 between these four quakes in time span between the four quake events and the American eclipse that these events were no mere coincidence. It is important to again emphasize that this is not a dogmatic statement to say that the Rapture will absolutely take place during this upcoming eclipse, but to point out that these are signs of the approach of the Rapture. Could it occur during the eclipse? Yes, absolutely. We just do not know whether it will occur before, during or sometime after the eclipse.

The Lord is coming for those who know Him personally and have received Him as Savior through faith while judgment awaits those who have rejected His grace and mercy – those that will be left behind. Want to know that you are right with Jesus and that you will go with Him when He comes? Here’s how:

THE RAPTURE AND YOUR ESCAPE FROM THE COMING JUDGMENT

The demonstrably divinely inspired text that we call the Bible promises a coming horrendous seven-year Tribulation period of judgment upon Earth for all of mankind, no matter what your religion, belief or creed is, and even to those who don’t believe anything spiritual at all.  We can now clearly see the signs of this approaching nightmare.  However, as we’ve already seen, this same divinely inspired text that we call the Bible promises a dramatic escape from off the face of the earth before this horrendous time of judgment only to a certain category of people.  

Put simply, an event is coming that will be so stupendous that it strains the mind to contemplate such an event happening.  It is an event that will see millions upon millions of people across the globe suddenly disappear without warning.  The millions of disappeared will have literally ascended into Heaven itself after instantaneously receiving a new glorified body fit for Heaven.  A body that will be able to withstand the atmosphere and glory of Heaven.  This event is known as the “Rapture.”  But the promise of escape is only to those who are “born again” in Christ.  This is why it is crucial to understand what Christ meant when he declared in no uncertain terms that only those who are “born again” in him will enter the Kingdom of God.  For the explanation of this, keep reading below.

In order to accept the offer of God’s grace and his salvation, you must take the crucial three steps of …

1. Agreeing – A belief and agreeing with God in all that he says in his word, the Bible, about the fact that you are separated from God, as every man and woman on the face of the earth are before accepting his salvation.  The Bible reveals that all are separated from him in a spiritual state of death, or said another way that the Bible reveals it, in a state of sin, that will result in damnation in the afterlife.  Agreeing with God in your heart that you are in need of his salvation.  The Bible reveals that God looks upon the heart of a man or woman, and thus, responds accordingly to the person who comes to him for salvation in recognition of his inability to save himself.  The Bible makes these facts very clear – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).  “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).  The Bible describes these three kinds of death:

• physical death (the state experienced when life leaves our bodies).
• spiritual death (spiritual separation from God caused by our state of spiritual death inherited from the first man Adam – the state of sin that results in our daily outward acts of sin, whether deliberate or not, whether omissive or not; and finally …
• the second death (the fixed state entered into by the individual who dies physically while he or she is dead spiritually). This state is entered into after the death of the body which results in punishment in the afterlife until the event of the Great White Throne Judgment occurs wherein the damned are resurrected from Hades, or Hell, and are judged according to their works and finally destroyed and cease to exist after being cast into the Lake of Fire. Revelation 14 refers to this tragic end of the unsaved as the “Second Death” (verse 14). It is this state of suffering entered into after physical death and then final destruction at the Great White Throne Judgment in particular which is the horrible result of receiving the wages of sin (unforgiven due to unbelief and rejection of Christ). The Lord Jesus Christ frequently described such a death as being irrevocable in a destiny which he called Hell.  He described Hell as a literal place of judgment (Matthew 13:42); a place of everlasting fire (Matthew 18:8); a place of torment (Luke 16:24,28); a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:50); a place of remorse (Mark 9:44-48); of bitter memory (Luke 16:25), and a place originally prepared for the Devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41).  In fact, Jesus more often warned about Hell than he spoke about Heaven.

It is not God’s will or desire that any person should be consigned to perish in Hell (2 Peter 3:9), but rather that all should come to repentance of unbelief toward him and believe on him for the salvation of the individual’s soul.  But God’s justice requires that the “soul who sins” (remains in it’s state of death or state of sin) is the one who will die a second time after a long period of torment (Ezekiel 18:4).  So, agree with God, admitting that you are unable to save yourself and in a state of sin under God’s just condemnation for that sin and that you are in need of his salvation.

2. Believing – Then, believe that God does not want you to perish eternally in the torment of Hell because of your sin.  Believe that God loves you so much that he provided a way whereby he could still be a just, holy and righteous God, and yet pardon you.  Believe that God did not just overlook sin, but that he sent his only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to provide salvation by personally paying the penalty for sin.  Believe that Jesus Christ, whose life, death, burial and resurrection is the best-attested fact of antiquity, did come to earth to live, die, rise again and ascend to Heaven in order to provide justification and salvation for all who trust him.  Believe that he, and he alone, can save you because he has fully satisfied the just demands of God.  Believe that you can’t become righteous in God’s sight by your own effort.  Believe that he wants to save you and that he will save you.  The Bible provides a solid basis for such belief …

“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:16-17). 

“But God demonstrates his love toward us in this:  while we were yet sinners,  Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). 

God presented him (Jesus Christ) as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in his blood.  He did this to demonstrate his justice because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished – he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies the man or woman who has faith in Jesus (Romans 3:25-26). 

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;  And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures … ” (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). 

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). 

“Jesus answered, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).  “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).

“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out [drive away]” (John 6:37).

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:20).

3. Calling – It is not enough to agree with God, admit your need, and believe that Christ can and will save you.  You must act upon those facts. God’s requirement is that you repent of your unbelief toward him and actively call upon him for the salvation of your soul based on the fact that you cannot save yourself. It is unbelief in particular that damns the soul to its horrible fate …

“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18).

You must be willing to completely turn from your own efforts to save yourself or from any other hope.  You must come to Christ, calling upon him for salvation and counting on the fact that he will do what he has promised.  This means simply taking the gift of pardon and eternal life which he offers.  Merely believing about Jesus Christ without coming to him makes as much sense and is as effective as believing that a medication can successfully treat a fatal disease, but failing to take it.  Yet again, the Bible emphatically and authoritatively provides the basis for such statements.

The word translated “believe” here means to “rest one’s entire weight and trust on the object or person in which the belief is placed.”  It requires action in keeping with the intellectual assent of that belief.

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13).

” … but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

The logical question you may be asking at this point is:  “how do I come to Christ and call upon him?”  The answer is that “calling upon the Lord” is just another term for praying, or talking to God.  To talk to God is not a complicated process, dependent upon some special rituals.  God has invited people to approach him through his Son in simple, straightforward terms.  In fact, Jesus approved of the dishonest, despised tax collector who simply prayed, “God be merciful to me, a sinner.”  While the exact words of your prayer to God are not of vital importance (since God sees and knows the attitude of your heart), the following is the kind of prayer that you could pray in calling upon God for salvation …

“Dear Lord Jesus:  I realize that I need you.  I admit that I have sinned and that I deserve your just, eternal punishment for that sin.  But I am sorry for my sin and I am turning to you and asking for forgiveness.  I believe that you died and rose again to pay sin’s penalty on my behalf.  I come to you and open my heart to you.  I ask you to come into my life, forgive me for all of my sin and make me your child.  I invite you to take control of my life and to cause me to be the kind of person you would have me to be.  I thank you for doing this because you have promised that whosoever calls upon you, as I am doing now, shall be saved.  I pray this in the name of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen.”

If this prayer expresses the desire of your heart, I urge you to sincerely and genuinely express it to God as your prayer.  The Bible makes clear that when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in our heart, God forgives our sins and counts us righteous, and that when we openly confess with our mouth what we have done in our heart,  God gives us assurance of that salvation (Romans 10:9-10).

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:3-7).

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