Fourth Year of Returning (Darius)
7 April 2008 to 26 March 2009
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                    Yehuveh’s Date       Gregorian Date       Scripture          Significant Event

            
3rd month, 27th day         30 June 2008            Revelation 20:2-7:   Restraint on beast lifted

        A careful reading of
Revelation 20:1-7 shows that what has been so widely translated “bound him a thousand years,” should read, “bound this system a thousand days.”
        When tied to the previous phrase
“laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan” [which, because of its direct repetition of Revelation 12:9, establishes the beginning date of this thousand days as 5 October 2005], this identifies a firm, defined ending date.
       
Yehuveh’s 1260-days of special instruction and His preparation to make a forever-finishing war against this fire-breathing-dragon-socio-economic system began with the sign in the heavens on 5 October 2005. Following that day, for one thousand days, this dragon is bound, restrained, held in check, by Yehuveh Himself, though throughout this time it is indeed gearing-up for its final fierce fight against Yehuveh’s ways and people. [These are simple evening-morning days. See notes on uncounted days pertaining to the Hebrew text of Daniel 8:14, 26.]
       
Revelation 20 states that the message being given during this time restrained the power and confusion of the global socio-economic system for a thousand days, from 5 October 2005 to 30 June 2009.
        From the time that restraint was lifted, one crisis has followed another as local and international political scenes have change, financial structures have collapse, and various natural disasters have brought confusion, suffering, loss, and, hopefully, heart-searaching re-consideration of life’s true purposes and values.
        Among the thousands of events which occurred world-wide, consider these prominent tragidies which followed this lifting of Yehuveh’s restraint:


        On
30 June 2009, the Yemenia Flight 626 crashed off the coast of Moroni, Comoros, killing all but one of the 153 passengers and crew.
        On
5 July, over 150 were killed when a few thousand ethnic Uyghurs targeted local Han Chinese during major rioting in Ürümqi, Xinjiang.
        Ten days later, on
15 July, the Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed near Qazvin, Iran, killing all 168 on board.
        On
7 August, Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan, killing 500 and stranding more than 1,000 via the worst flooding on the island in half a century.
        Leaders of the G-20 countries, at the Pittsburgh Summit on
25 September, announced that the G-20 would assume greater leverage over the world economy, hoping to prevent another financial crisis like that in 2008.
         The next day, on
26 September, Typhoon Ketsana began to cause record amounts of rainfall in Manila, Philippines, ultimately leading to the declaration of a “state of calamity” in 25 provinces.
        At least
157 demonstrators were killed in a clash with the Guinean military on 28 September.
        The next day,
29 September, an 8.3-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami near the Samoan Islands. Communities and harbors in Samoa and American Samoa were destroyed, and at least 189 were killed.
        The following day
a 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of Sumatra, killing around 1,000 in Indonesia.
        On
23 November, in the Philippines, at least 58 people were abducted and killed in an election-related massacre in the province of Maguindanao. This appears to be the deadliest attack on journalists in recent history.
       
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in Haiti on 12 January 2010, devastating the nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death toll of over 230,000, it remains one of the deadliest quakes on record.
        Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport on
25 January. All 90 people on board were killed.
        On
27 February an 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the largest in recorded history, occurred in Chili, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific Ocean and killing 497 people.


Gael Bataman
Originally Written:           
19 May 2008
Latest Update:                  28 July 2011

    
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