http://www.mt.net/~watcher/signs

I urge you to read this entire article (not that I agree with all of it), not just the short excerpt I provide below. God did, in fact, devise the hevaens to demonstrate SIGNS of his handiwork, no matter how the unoriginal thinkers in the occult world have corrupted their proper use. (Accept the warning, though, and don't get into the folly of date setting, you "read-onlies" who may not know better.) ____________________________________________

"May 7, 2000 is the Jewish date Iyar 2, 5760. On this date the heavenly bodies Venus, Mercury, Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and the Moon, will all be in a straight line...Josephus says that those seven represent the menorah (lampstand) in the Temple (Antiquities..3, V11:700. This is the date when Solomon started to build the first Temple and Ezra started building the Second Temple. The Moon in the Talmudic traditon represents the Messiah, just as does the center lampstand of the menorah. The three branches on either side of the central stem (6 branches) represent man grafted into the Messiah. Similarly, the planets on either side of the moon represent a menorah in the Heavens. As the menorah in the Temple symbolizes the Church dwelling physically on earth, an alignment of the planetary Menorah in the heavens portends the Body of Christ dwelling in Heaven.

"Hosea 6:2 says: "let us return to the LORD, in two days he will revive us, in the third day he will raise us up, and we will be forever in his sight."

"The birth of Jesus was heralded by signs in the heavens (at least one year before the advent). Johanas Kepler calculated the conjunction which heralded his birht as occuring in the year 7-6 B.C. This conjunction occured several times and was interpreted by the Magi as THE COSMIC SIGN preceding the Messiah (the book of Daniel and other Jewish prophecy was known to the Magi due to the Babylonian captivity).

"According to the Talmud, the sacrifices of the Day of Atonement were not accepted by God for 40 years before the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. This nullification of animal sacrifices correspond to the time of Jesus' Atonement on the cross. The studies of Kepler and the account of Day of Atonement Sacrifices in the Talmud point to the year A.D. 28 as the date for Jesus' death and ressurrection.

"If one uses the formula of 'a day with the LORD is as a thousand years', then the first two days will end in the fall of the year 2000, EACH YEAR CONTAININING 360 DAYS FORM THE SPRING OF THE YEAR A.D. 28.

"As in the year preceding the first Advent, there will again be a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn beginning in May 2000. this time, however, it will begin in ARIES [Mars, war,-F4] and will move to Taurus. The constellation Taurus symbolizes the coming of the Messiah in judgement. Tarus is the 9th in the Zodiac narrative, which begins with Virgo. This conjunction also occurs exactly 2000 years from the triumphal entry into Jerusalem preceding Passover 28 A.D."

[Among MANY other interesting correlations,Watcher goes on to interpret Hale-Bopp as "Typhon" or the serpent proceeding from Saggitarius (anciently depicted as A CHERUB, like *Lucifer*) proceeding through Opheuchus the "serpent holder" (the one who restrains the Anti-Christ from appearing, II Thes. 2:6) Hale-Bopp continued across Orion's belt: according to Talmudic sages, a crossing in Orion means the destruction of the Earth.]

"POTENTIAL END TIME SCENARIO

"Russia and the Arab confederacy will launch an all-out offensive against Isarael...Perhaps an asterois will hit the earth, perhaps nukes will be involved in the war--earth changes will seem to occur at the climax of the war. God will decide this battle with swift destruction that will be felt world-wide. This war will occur ina ssociation with a Jewish holiday...The Anti-Christ will not appear on his own but with the revelation of the "ALIEN PRESENCE" on earth.

"The aliens will seem like the 'holy ones' who come to earth with the Messiah, when they are really the unholy ones coming to set up the kingdom of anti-Messiah"[Maitreya?-F4]"