Repetitive Patterns vs. Pre-Echoes

 

There should be NO DOUBT that The Bible is totally unique among all the books ever written! It is the only book that has reportedly ‘birthed’ multiple world religions—the initial two of which—Judaism and Christianity, are essentially ONE integrated religion, though the obvious integration is denied by those for, and about whom The Bible was originally written. The third religion is based on a totally different book that was written subsequently, based on a few key excerpts from The Bible. Uniquely, each of those religions is based on the recorded, unique relationship Jesus, The Lord God, had in the early 2nd (post-flood) age, with Abram, who demonstrated exceptional faith in the un-seen God a few centuries after the global flood judgment that ended the first age of our history. The Lord subsequently changed His name to Abraham. From him, all of the peoples of Jewish and Arab descent were derived. Moreover, The Bible predicted a unique, mixed group of peoples—bona fide Christians, would be ‘spiritually derived’ from Abraham’s seed—we who would, by Abraham’s kind of faith, be ‘grafted into spiritual Israel’—not into secular Jews. Spiritual Israel will be all Jews who will have eventually lived lives that demonstrated ‘Abraham’s kind of faith’.

 

Uniquely, The Bible does something no other book has ever been able to replicate. It UNIQUELY and ACCURATELY predicts/demonstrates:

 

1. The immaculate conception via a virgin birth of Jesus, The Lord God and Creator;

2. Key details of the rejection He would experience from His own kinfolk, and the cruel manner of His unjust death;

3. 6 ages of human history over several millennia, culminating in a 7th, eternal age;

4. How each age would begin, mature, decline, and end, spiritually, and then a transition.

5. A clear set of judgment patterns that will selectively repeat across the world, in response to persistent, unrepented sins during the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ages;

6. Selective ‘seeds’ in some ages, unique traceable events that ‘pre-echo’ much more substantial, related events that will unfold in one or more subsequent ages ¹, and

7. A MASSIVE, new, eternal Earth, in a universe with no suns or moons!

 

Key Repetitive Patterns 

 

The Bible indicates, and secular history confirms each age of our history unfolds according to a discernible pattern in which Godly spirituality begins small, grows to a peak, declines, then rapidly decays. Beginning in the 2nd age, The Lord iteratively promised, then activated a repetitive pattern of judgments against persistent, unrepentant sinfulness of any peoples. These judgments would apparently trigger cascading collateral effects, including across broader areas and impacting others as well as the world became more inter-connected. In our relative spiritual ignorance or denials, we have gotten pretty good at ‘explaining away’ His predicted judgments as ‘nothing cosmic’, and ‘having nothing to do about an all-loving God!’ With such, devils must be having a laughing fit!

 

Since we are only in the 3rd of 6 predicted ages on this current version of Earth (pending the unveiling of the promised, new, eternal Earth), secular history cannot yet confirm this pattern will repeat. BUT The Bible has uniquely predicted it will! 

 

There are other in-age patterns, the most stark one of which is that each age will end with some type of a global judgment from Heaven. The global flood ended the 1st age; Christ’s crucifixion ended the 2nd age. It was God’s global judgment of every past, present and future human sin of us who would, by faith, embrace His death as on our behalf, and would subsequently live lives that honor/glorify Him as Lord. I intuit the predicted 6th seal, global judgement event will likely end this current age, triggering the predicted rise of the first-ever truly global leader. The apocalypse will end the 4th age; and a universal collapse will end the 6th age. Based on history and human nature, we can intuit how the 5th age might end. ²

 

The Bible reveals, at the ends of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ages, The Lord pre-planned unique resurrection/rapture events for His ‘elect’ (i.e., bona fide saints) who will have successfully completed what I call His ‘Salvation Internship Program’. This will ensure all of His then immortal saints from the first 4 ages of our history (in Revelation 20:5-6, collectively called ‘the First Resurrection’), will return with Him to serve as kingdom administrators during His long-predicted reign as Earth’s Global King in the Millennial Reign age. 

 

Key Pre-Echoes

 

The most apparent pre-echoes include:

 

1.  At the end of the 1st age, the global flood, Heaven’s first planetary scale judgment, pre-echoed its next TWO predicted, planetary scale judgments—

 

   o The predicted global earthquake at the end of the 4th age that will totally reshape and ‘move Earth out of her place’, and

   o The predicted universal collapse at the end of the 6th age, before the new, eternal Earth in a new, eternal universe are revealed. (2 Peter 3:10-12, Revelation 20:11, 21:1, Isaiah 65:17 and 66:22)

 

2.  In the early-2nd age, The Lord’s testing of Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mt. Moriah--which became Jerusalem (Genesis 22), pre-echoed God’s sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, The Lord God, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on the cusp of the 3rd age.

 

3.  In the mid-2nd age, the extremely pompous acts of Antiochus IV Epiphanes’ (a late leader of the divided Grecian empire) against The Lord Almighty, Jews, and the 2nd Jewish temple, pre-echoed predicted similar and worse acts of the final anti-Christ global leader during the 4th age. (Click here for a short summary of Antiochus IV.)

 

4.  On the cusp of the 3rd age, the resurrection of all 1st and 2nd ages saints with Jesus, pre-echoed predicted bodily resurrections of all 3rd and 4th ages saints, as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and Matthew 24:29-31. ³ 

 

5.  In the early-2nd age, the manner in which Joseph (Jacob’s favorite son, who had risen from a slave, to become the #2 authority in ancient Egypt), revealed himself to his brothers from Canaan, (Genesis 45), pre-echoed The Lord’s predicted revealing of Himself as The Messiah to the GLOBAL Jewish remnant of the apocalypse! (Zechariah 12:10). Zechariah 13:8-9 predict only a third of that remnant will embrace Him as such, and the rest will be destroyed. ⁴

 

6.  In the late-3rd age, Donald Trump’s shocking, sudden rise to substantial global influence and power in 2025—as the most powerful U.S. president, ever, may well pre-echo the predicted, similar rise of:

 

  o  The final anti-Christ man, who The Bible predicts will GLOBALLY dominate the 7-year, 4th age—the age of tribulation ⁵, and 

  o  Jesus, The Lord God, Who The Bible predicts will GLOBALLY dominate the thousand-year, 5th age—The Millennial Reign age, as Earth’s Global King.

 

7.  In the late-3rd age, Trump’s sudden, shocking abandonment of many of his strongest campaign promises, might pre-echo Biblical predictions that the final anti-Christ global leader will break a negotiated agreement with Israel midway through the 4th age, and will then commit acts much worse than those committed by Antiochus IV (see above), acts that will trigger the ~42 month-long apocalypse. (Daniel 9:27)

 

Conclusion

 

As you study The Bible and history, perhaps you may perceive many more repetitive Bible patterns and pre-echoes. As you ponder the above insights, consider these possible, key distinctions:

 

    •  Biblical repetitive patterns are usually PRINCIPLE-driven—perhaps driven by the extent to which we abuse Heaven’s Grace, and its priority principles for peace and prosperity on Earth. 

 

    •  Biblical pre-echoes are usually EVENT-driven—perhaps driven by Heaven’s Grace to plant markers of major events across history for its attentive and intuitive saints to perceive and study, and use as tools to build our faith that Jesus is ALL that He declares HE IS and …WILL DO! 

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¹ Pre-echo, pre-figure, foreshadow, pre-signify.

² See: Mid-ages Musings (Series), and Age-ending Stock-taking (Series).

³ See: Missed Insights from Matthew 27 (Series), and Bible Raptures – Types and Timings (Series).

⁴ See: Pre-entry Purging Patterns (Series), and Salvation in the Millennium (Part 3).

⁵ See: anti-Christ (Series), Heads-up, World! Power Concentration), and Power and Wealth, Consolidating (Part 1). In Revelation, the final anti-Christ man is called ‘the beast’, possibly for the beastly manner in which he will govern the world, and behead many saints. Revelation 19:19-21 reveals he and his so-called ‘prophet’, may be the first humans who will be cast into The Lord’s brimstone-lit, eternal lake of fire, well over a thousand years before all future occupants that are listed in Revelation 20:11-15. 

Make sure YOU won’t be among them!